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Campus Times
Volume 131, Number 12
Inside
Rochesteropoly
Sure, UR is 154 years old
but a lot has changed since
Susan B. Anthony was here.
Find out what buildings once
had different names and
where the infamous Rat was
located.
See story, Page 9.
Greek review
The Committee to Review
Fraternities and Sororities
has made some initial decisions. Find out how this will
affect the years to come.
See story, Page 3.
You’ve got Pulitzer
UR graduate Steve Hahn
recently won a Pulitzer Prize
for his writings in history.
Read more about his amazing achievements.
See story, Page 3.
A taste of Texas
Spring brings flowers, sunshine and the annual porn
showing. Regarded as offensive by some, it is a treat
for others.
See story, Page 12.
Serving the University of Rochester community since 1873
Thursday, April 15, 2004
Nabozny
clinches
presidency
By Jeff Keesing
Campus Times Staff
In a landslide victory,
junior and Deputy Speaker
of the Senate Pete Nabozny
unofficially won the Students’ Association presidential election last night. This
election replaced the voided
election from last week.
“I want to thank everyone who supported me
throughout this extended
campaign,” Nabozny said. “I
appreciate all the help that I
got and the opportunity that
this campaign gave me to
reach out to students.”
This week’s election collected nearly 800 votes,
or about 22 percent of the
campus. Approximately one
third of the campus voted
in last week’s presidential
election. According to the
unofficial vote tally, Nabozny
won 418 votes, sophomore
and Senator Matt Goldblatt
collected 282 and sophomore
Dan Rudolph came in third
with 50 votes.
The Elections Committee
praised the efforts of the
candidates and voters for
making the effort to voice
their preferences twice.
Immediate reaction from
the two other candidates
was positive. “I feel that the
election overall went very
well,” Goldblatt said. “What
was important was that
somebody with experience
in student government who
is well qualified for the posi-
tion got it. I have full faith
that Pete will continue the
development of student government on campus which
can only lead to a positive
net effect.”
Rudolph expressed similar
sentiments. “I think that the
campaign went really well,”
he said. “[We all] maintained
a high level of integrity and
it was good to be part of such
a clean race.”
Nabozny also praised the
efforts of his competitors
and his hope that both will
play an active role in student government. “I will
definitely continue my deep
involvement with student
government,” Goldblatt
said. “The prospect of being
involved with next year’s
government administration
excites me.”
Upon hearing that his
Deputy won the election,
senior and Speaker of the
Senate Alex Voetsch said,
“I think he’ll do a tremendous job with the office and
continue the good work he’s
done this year.”
Outgoing senior and SA
President Chris Calo was
also pleased with the outcome. “I think we can all be
confident he’ll do an incredible job,” Calo said. “It is
evident he really cares about
continuing to improve the
student government.”
Nabozny stated that his
first priority, as he begins
See NABOZNY, Page 5
Jason freidman • Campus Times Staff
The Senate debates a possible constitution in the Gowen Room on April 12. Due to
issues that hadn’t come up in committee meetings, the constitution did not pass.
Senate stalls on constitution
By Jeff Keesing
Campus Times Staff
Following a divisive debate
in the Students’ Association
Senate that led to a showdown between executive
powers, the Government
Restructuring Committee
met on April 13.
The committee finalized
decisions, put the finishing
touches on the new constitution that it has written and
refined over the last several
weeks and began collecting
the approximately 1,200
signatures necessary for
ratification.
The GRC hoped to gather
signatures following Monday
night’s Senate meeting. That
attempt was temporarily
derailed after some senators
voiced concerns about the
method of selecting committee chairpersons and the addition of a vice president.
The Senate is not required
to endorse the proposed
constitution.
Senators and all students
were encouraged to attend
GRC’s meetings to add their
input.
“I’m a little annoyed,”
Deputy Speaker of the Senate and GRC Chairperson
Pete Nabozny said. “[The
senators] had plenty of time
to review the constitution.
We have limited time to
get this ratified. It is very
important that we resolve
these issues, but we also
need to start collecting signatures.”
After an extensive twohour debate, it was clear
that the GRC would need
to make some changes to
the document. The vote
was tied with nine senators
in favor of endorsing the
constitution then, before
seeing the final product, and
nine opposed.
Senior and Speaker of
the Senate Alex Voetsch
cast the tie-breaking vote.
“Every year for the past
three years there has been
an attempt to revise the
constitution or adopt a new
one,” Voetsch said. “Each
Balancing act
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what 1956 Heisman Trophy
winner Paul Hornung said
to raise eyebrows around
the world.
See story, Page 23.
Eastmanster
Students at the Eastman
School of Music now have
access to Napster. When will
Eastman start uploading
their own music?
See story, Page 17.
Ryan Watson • Campus Times Staff
skateboarding is not a crime
Freshman David Codrea perfoms radical skateboarding moves next to the Bausch and Lomb Hall. He and
fellow freshman Sarel Gaur are planning to start a skateboard club next academic year.
year those initiatives have
come too late, preventing
them from being approved.
“I trust the [GRC] to take
the Senate’s advice into account as they finalize this
constitution. The Senate
is not doing its job if we do
not get moving. I vote yes to
endorse the constitution.”
Senior and SA President
Chris Calo disagreed.
“I don’t think that this
is the best way to support
change [without having
seen the final document],”
Calo said. “I am exercising
my veto authority. It is not
that I do not want this new
constitution to be adopted,
but I want to make sure
that you see this constitution through to completion before supporting it.”
This is the first veto of
Calo’s administration and
the first veto used in recent
history.
The proposed constitution clarifies the roles of
the branches of government
See SENATE, Page 5
Debate
on health
care held
By Yosuke Aoyama
Campus Times Staff
The controversial issue
of the current health care
system in the United States
was debated by Provost of the
University Charles Phelps
and Professor and Chair of
the Department of History
Theodore Brown on April 6
in the Welles-Brown Room of
the Rush Rhees Library. Both
Brown and Phelps are also
professors of Community and
Preventive Medicine.
The topic of the debate,
“Resolved, the United States
Should Adopt a “Single-Payer (Canadian Style) National
Health Care System,” drew a
large crowd. The event was
sponsored by Delta Upsilon.
See HEALTH, Page 4
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Campus Briefs
Napster
survey to be
conducted
UR is planning to conduct an online survey in
an attempt to receive constructive feedback on
the usage of the peer-to-peer and server based
music-sharing program, Napster, on campus.
“The Napster implementation team is
planning to survey all students in the residence
halls on the River Campus and Eastman School
who were eligible to sign up for Napster about
their experience with the online music program,”
Associate Vice President for Public Relations
Robert Kraus said.
“The Web survey will ask those who registered
how it worked for them, or, if they chose not to
register, about the reasons why they did not do
so,” Kraus said.
Initial usage of Napster has reflected its
popularity among students. “Right now, 1,155
of the approximately 3,700 students eligible to
register have done so,” Kraus said.
Kraus also revealed details about the number
of downloads per day. “Those students have been
downloading or streaming songs at the rate of
7,000 to 10,000 per day.”
According to Kraus, the Napster server has
been functioning well in the first month of
practice. “Operationally, things have been very
smooth as I understand it,” he said.
Meanwhile, some students have still not been
able to access the program because of older
versions of the Windows Operating System.
Senior Gail Musson said “I don’t think I can
[use Napster] with my version of Windows.
Besides, I haven’t felt the urge to download
anything since it came out.”
Others still do not deem it necessary to use
the program. As freshman Anthony Catenaro
explained, “You need to pay, what, 99 cents per
song to burn them onto CD? No, thank you, I’m
just too cheap for that.”
Despite this, Kraus hopes the survey will help
students and facilitators. “It’s pretty early into
april showers
bring mid-april
flowers
A daffodil makes a joyful
appearance on a sunny
Wednesday evening.
Ryan watson • Campus Times Staff
this experiment — only one month — but we’re
hoping that this proves out to be a valuable
service for students,” he said. “In any case,
it’s extremely important to get feedback on
Napster from our students.”
Insufficient sexual assault
Web site revamped
After being alerted to problems with the
current Sexual Assault Response Team Web
site, University Health Services, the University
Counseling Center, the University Intercessor,
Men Against Sexual Assault and Women’s
Caucus have been working to redesign it, as
well as the “5-RAPE” stickers in bathrooms,
to better serve students.
The new Web site, at http://www.rochester.
edu/uhs/sa, now includes information about
legal rights and options and many resources for
students both on and off-campus. The layout
has also been modernized, and the information
provided is no longer limited to that found in
sexual assault pamphlets. The new sticker
design can also be found on the Web site.
Same-sex marriage dialogue
hosted by CAS course
The “Conflict Resolution” class hosted a
same-sex marriage dialogue, last night.
The dialogue was moderated by Office of
Minority Student Affairs Counselor Gladys
Pedraza-Burgos. Speakers included Town of
Brighton Supervisor Sandra Frankel, Rev.
Brian Cool and Associate Dean of Students in
charge of discipline Matt Burns.
The dialogue focused on the legality of
same-sex marriages and civil unions in various
states, the proposed constitutional amendment
banning same-sex marriages and the emotional
and spiritual issues involved in marriage.
Although organizers of the event were
generally pleased, they voiced disappointment at
the lack of a College Republicans representative,
who was scheduled to appear and was hoped to
provide a different take on the issue.
Reporting by Sandeep Madhur
and Jessica Stoll.
Security Update
Dodge vehicle stolen from Wilson North Lot
BY kim gorode
Campus Times Staff
A student’s vehicle was stolen
from the Wilson North Lot between
7 p.m. on April 7 and 4:45 p.m. on
April 9.
The vehicle was a Dodge Neon,
according to UR Security Investigator Dan Lafferty.
The student first learned her car
had been stolen when she received
a call from the Rochester Police
Department informing her that her
vehicle had been found on Flint St.
and Exchange Blvd.
The vehicle suffered steering and
ignition switch damage and was
towed to the police impound lot,
according to UR Security.
Car window smashed
in Park Lot
The passenger side window in a
student’s car parked in Park Lot
South was reported smashed.
The suspect also stole the car’s
stereo, according to Lafferty.
The incident occurred sometime
between 6:30 p.m. and 7:48 p.m.
A police report was to be filed at
a later time.
The window damages were
estimated at a value of $200.
Meanwhile, the stereo theft was
estimated at $270, according to
security.
Man arrested for
trespassing
Robert Johnson, 49, a resident
of Rochester, was arrested on trespassing charges before 10 p.m. on
April 7, according to Lafferty.
A UR Security Officer observed
Johnson cross over the pedestrian
footbridge and proceed up Fraternity Rd.
Johnson apparently then ap-
proached an unidentified female
behind the Delta Upsilon Fraternity House.
The female fled the area and it
is unknown what had been said
to her.
The suspect has been previously
warned and advised by UR security
to stay off university property.
Swastika etched in
Douglass bathroom
An unidentified suspect drew a
swastika in the Frederick Douglass
Building before 8:30 p.m. on April
8, according to UR Security.
The symbol was drawn in the
grout between the ceramic tiles in
the first floor men’s room.
The graffiti was noticed and
reported by one of the vendors
using the facilities, according to
security.
Facilities staff were notified by
UR security to initiate cleanup of
the graffiti.
Smoking device
confiscated at SC
An individual was observed by officers placing a baggie and a smoking device into his pocket while in
the first floor lounge of the Sigma
Chi Fraternity House.
He was identified as an undergraduate, but not a brother at the
fraternity.
The substance in the baggie was
believed to be marijuana and both
items in question were confiscated
for further evaluation.
The student was warned and
advised not to have possession of
the substance again.
Information provided
by UR security
Gorode can be reached at
[email protected].
CAMPUS TIMES
Alumnus wins Pulitzer Greek life review
By Nick Farrell
Campus Times Staff
Dr. Steven Hahn, a UR graduate
and professor at the University
of Pennsylvania, won the 2004
Pulitzer prize for history for his
work, “A Nation Under Our Feet:
Black Political Struggles in the
Rural South from Slavery to the
Great Migration,” and he did not
even know it.
“I found out when I got a call
from an AP reporter who asked
me if I was Steve Hahn and if I
had written this book, I said ‘yes,’
and then she asked me how I felt
about the Pulitzer,” Hahn said.
Hahn recalls being stunned when
he found out.
The book traces the struggles
and triumphs of black political
mobilization in the South after the
Civil War, showing how ex-slaves
worked from the grass roots to
achieve political success in the face
of extraordinary pressures.
His book beat out two other finalists for the award and $10,000
dollar prize — “They Marched Into
Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam
and America, October 1967” by David Maraniss and “Great Fortune:
The Epic of Rockefeller Center” by
Daniel Okrent.
committee reports
Courtesy of http://www.history.upenn.edu/faculty/hahn.htm
UR alumnus Steven Hahn was awarded the 2004 Pulitzer prize, one
of the most prestigious prizes for writing.
Hahn talked about what inspired
him to write the book. “I’m a student of southern history and I’m
also interested in popular politics,
and I was incredibly moved by
people practicing politics and doing
so in the face of tremendous threats
— when I read about people at grass
roots doing this I was inspired,”
Hahn said. He began research for
the book 15 years ago.
Hahn is currently teaching history at the University of Pennsylvania, focusing on the social and
political history of 19th-century
America, the history of the American South and the comparative history of slavery and emancipation.
He plans to participate in the
Huggins series of lectures at Harvard, as well as write a book in
See HAHN, Page 5
the future.”
Zupan gave an example of what
he meant. “Someone once asked
Wayne Gretzsky how he was so successful and Gretzsky replied, ‘you
have to skate to where the puck will
be, not where it is,’” he said.
The Simon School graduates
about 200 full-time students per
year, and at any given time has
70-100 part-time students.
It is also one of the top ten producers of doctoral students. Zupan
remarked that Simon’s small size
allows it to be such an effective
school.
“Our ability to personalize the
experience is our key asset,” he
said. “We are one of the smallest
high ranked schools in the world
and our faculty and staff are better
able to play off what they teach and
work together.”
He also credits the school’s
emphasis on economics as one of
its strengths. “We give a more economic background, which gives the
students an ability to see what is
driving a firm, and the market in a
particular situation,” he added.
In the U.S. News and World Report’s recently released rankings,
the Simon School is ranked 36th.
When considering what was one
of most important things to work
on to make the school even better
and to be ranked higher, Zupan
stressed the importance of having
a good relationship with alumni.
“The biggest driver of that ranking is [job] placement, and we’re
See DEAN, Page 14
Simon School Dean finally official
By Maggie Lindstrom
Campus Times Staff
Mark Zupan officially became
Dean of the William E. Simon
Graduate School of Business Administration during investiture
ceremonies at the Interfaith Chapel
on April 1. The sixth dean, Zupan
replaced Charles Plosser who had
stepped down on June 30.
Zupan already has a clear idea
of what he hopes to accomplish as
dean of the Simon School, emphasizing a commitment to constantly
improve. “Like the university
motto, ‘Meliora,’ we don’t want to
rest on our laurels — we can get
better,” Zupan said.
“We must do better not only
than ourselves but the competition also. We must look ahead to
Page 3
By Cyrus Levesque
Campus Times Staff
The Committee to Review Fraternities and Sororities decided on
its direction of action in the final
meeting on April 13.
The decision was that Greek
life needed to be preserved, but
the current system needed more
and clearer communication in
advance. “We want to move away
from judicial action and towards
setting some standards,” Dean of
Students Jody Asbury said.
Asbury was one of several representatives of the administration
on the committee. It also included
alumni and current students, both
from within the Greek community
and not affiliated with any Greek
group.
Dean of The College William
Green was also on the committee,
as was Associate Dean of Students
in charge of discipline Matt Burns,
Director of Fraternity and Sorority
Affairs Monica Miranda-Smalls,
chairman of the Board of Trustees
Robert Witmer, senior and Speaker
of the SA Senate Alex Voetsch,
senior Karen Taylor and several
others.
Green reassured the community
that, despite some fears, the adminstration supported the Greek
community. “Some people don’t
think we’re committed to supporting fraternities and sororities,” he
said. “[But] we are.”
“We would have not spent a
year working on this to decide to
get rid of a community,” MirandaSmalls said.
“Our goal was to create a college-centered Greek system that
recognizes the social role they play
and how strong social groups can
contribute to life of the college,”
Green said. “We’re not about the
elimination of Greek life, but we
do want to improve it.”
Miranda-Smalls continued,
“This should enhance fraternity
and sorority life on campus. A
strong, viable, college-centered
[system] will increase the strength
of chapters.”
“I think [the committee’s decision] is important,” Voetsch said.
“It shows the administration cares
about Greek societies on campus.
I really want to dispel rumors
that the administration wants to
See FRATERNITY, Page 5
Page 4
CAMPUS TIMES
SSJ protests college policy
By cyrus levesque
Campus Times Staff
The group Students for Social
Justice argues that UR should join
the Worker Rights Consortium or
a similar group. They tried to take
their message to President Thomas
Jackson with a rally on Friday. And
the Students’ Association Senate
discussed whether or not to endorse
joining the group on Monday.
The WRC is a non-profit group
that assists universities in enforcing manufacturing codes of conduct
adopted by over 100 universities
and colleges.
“These codes are designed to ensure that factories producing clothing and other goods bearing college
and university names respect the
basic rights of workers,” according
to the WRC Web site.
SSJ held a rally on the steps of
Rush Rhees at 2:30 p.m. on April
9. After about an hour at the rally
at the library, they walked to Wallis
Hall, hoping to deliver a list of their
demands to Jackson at his office.
However, Jackson was unavailable,
so they instead they met with Vice
President and General Secretary
Paul Burgett.
Despite the difficulty of reaching
Jackson, members of SSJ felt they
were successful at making their
voices heard. “I think overall, we
did send the right message,” sophomore Nathaniel Powell said.
“[We held the rally] to show students who didn’t know already why
it was important to join the WRJ,”
freshman and SSJ member Pearl
Shavzin said. “We also [wanted] to
show students how to stand up to
the administration.”
Current students were not the
only ones who noticed the rally. student body’s support for the
“Some Meridians had found out move to join the WRC. “This is new
about the rally and told their evidence because it is evidence that
tour groups,” Shavzin said. “So students support it,” sophomore,
prospective students also found Senator-at-Large, and SSJ member
David Ladon said. “We have 745
out about it.”
“Thomas Jackson has time and signatures. More people support
time again ignored our requests this than voted for Chris Calo [for
for a dialogue, and this will send SA President].” He felt that if
the message that the student body Calo’s presidency was legitimate,
then this must be, also.
supports [this],” Powell said.
The Senate heard a motion to apSSJ has been trying for several
prove a resolution
years to convince
to join the WRC,
the administrabut it was posttion to join WRC,
‘More people
poned until next
but has repeatsupport this
week in order that
edly been turned
comments could
down. In 2001,
than voted for
be heard from
the administraChris Calo for
Jackson.
tion’s University
“If we just give
Manufacturing
President.’
him the finger, it’s
Apparel Commit— David Ladon
not going to do
tee decided not
class of 2006 senator
anything,” junior
to endorse either
and Senator from
the WRC or the
Hill Court Steve
Fair Labor Association, which is a group with D’Amico said about the decision to
similar goals but is a watchdog postpone the vote for a week to give
Jackson a chance to respond.
group from within the industry.
“I [propose we] send a message to
In April 2001, Jackson wrote,
“The Committee did not find [No Jackson that if he doesn’t come, we
Sweat’s arguments] weighty rea- will approve this,” D’Amico said.
SSJ was successful overall at
sons in November, nor did I. Nothing fundamental has changed since making their case to the Senate.
then.” Later, he also said that in- Class of 2005 Senator Geoffrey
formation rather than arguments Bowser was convinced by their
based on emotion would be more arguments and their rebuttals to
persuasive. “Should legitimate new Jackson’s arguments. “I came in
information, not rhetoric, come here thinking what you’re proalong, the university can decide posing is controversial, but now I
how to respond to that new infor- don’t,” Bowser said. “I agree with
what you’re saying.”
mation once it is available.”
Additional reporting
However, the leaders of SSJ feel
by Alissa Miller.
that their movement is presenting
Levesque can be reached at
new information. SSJ presented
[email protected].
signatures demonstrating the
Health: Insurance discussed
Continued from Page 1
The debate also addressed the pros
and cons of the Single-Payer Health
Insurance system.
“A general definition [of the
Single-Payer System] would be the
financing of health care expenses
for a nation’s entire population
through a single source, with funds
collected through progressive taxation of citizens and businesses,”
an excerpt from “A Single Payer
Health Care System for the United
States” said.
In this excerpt, it also states
that the United States is the only
country in both NATO and the
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development that does
not provide health insurance to all
of its citizens.
Brown, debating the pro side,
said, “[The] health care system
in the U.S. is a mess and although
per capita health expenditure in
the U.S. is among the largest in
developed countries, we get less
compared to what we spend.”
“The number of uninsured is
growing and growing,” Brown
added. “The answer to this problem
is that moving to universal health
care will save money and [that
money] will help 44 percent of currently uninsured citizens.”
Though Phelps, debating the con
side, agreed with Brown that many
citizens do not now have health
insurance, he showed his concern
about the Single-Payer System,
asking, “Will this Canadian system
fix the current problem?”
Phelps argued that “universal”
is an arbitrary term when considering how many non-citizens live in
the U.S. Immigration issue must
be resolved,” Phelps said.
He then listed the top three
causes of death by U.S. citizens
— tobacco consumption, obesity
and alcohol problems. “Are we
going to cover up things like smoking?” Phelps asked. “Whether you
smoke or not, it has nothing to do
with health care. We have to fix the
lifestyle — it doesn’t matter if we
change the health care system.”
However, Phelps said that Canadians are not keeping up with the
Single-Payer System. The recent
result illustrates that despite
making appointments, patients in
Canada must wait very long time to
actually see the physicians. “Until
I find the comfortable answer, I am
against it,” Phelps said.
Also regarding the cost issue,
Phelps mentioned a program called
Medical Savings Account. In this
program, individuals spend their
own money carefully by choosing
what drugs they want and what
drugs they do not want. As a result,
the program will cut the cost and
there will be more money for the
research fund.
Sophomore Erik Rainey said, “I
support the Single-Payer System,
but the MSA program [would]
make sense too if I knew more about
economics side of the program.”
“However, I wish there were
more opposed arguments [from]
Provost Phelps instead of supporting some parts of Professor Brown’s
arguments,” Rainey added.
Towards the end of the debate,
Brown commented, “People asked
why Canadian system? So I said
because Canada is familiar and
close to us, and if they could adopt
it then we can adopt it too.”
Aoyama can be reached at
[email protected].
CAMPUS TIMES
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Senate: GRC seeks signers Fraternity:
Junior Pete Nabozny, right, shakes hands with junior Ethan McKenney, left, at a celebration party Wednesday night.
Nabozny: Landslide victory
serving the student body in this
new capacity, will be to ratify and
adopt the proposed constitution to
set the transition in motion.
“I want to get more people involved in government,” Nabozny
said. “Through added involvement,
the government will be more efficient and effective. The actions of
government need to be transparent
so that all students can see what
their government is doing.”
Calo also expressed that he
looked forward to working with
Nabozny. “I want to give him
the knowledge I have about the
presidency so that he can start
off in a better spot than where I
started.”
The presidential election was
rerun this week following the dis-
qualification of junior and Chief
of Staff Ilana Kaplan-Shain. “I
decided not to file an appeal with
the All Campus Judicial Council
because I did not want to delay
the valuable training process for
the winner,” Kaplan-Shain said.
“I have too much respect for the
presidency to be responsible for
limiting training time. A transition
period is essential to the success of
the administration.”
Even though this was the second
election, the turnout level was close
to where it was in recent years.
Last year’s presidential election
attracted less than 100 more voters
than this week’s election. Turnout
was however much lower than last
week’s roughly 1,100 voters.
Keesing can be reached at
[email protected].
the Penguin history of the United
States series from 1840-1900. “A
colleague of mine recently told me
that now that I’ve won, I don’t have
to do anything,” Hahn said.
Hahn remembers UR fondly.
“It was a wonderful place to learn
about history, when I was there the
department was very interesting,”
Hahn said. “They were attracting
very interesting students.”
Hahn’s other book, “The Roots of
Southern Populism: Yeoman Farmers and the Transformation of the
Georgia Upcountry, 1850-1890,”
received acclaim as well, garnering
both the Allan Nevins Prize of the
Society of American Historians
and the Frederick Jackson Turner
Award of the Organization of
American Historians
Hahn is currently working on
the Huggins lectures in African
American history at Harvard, to
be delivered in 2007.
He is also writing a book in the
Penguin History of the United
States series from 1840-1900. “A
collegue of mine recently told me
that now that I’ve won, I don’t have
to do anything,” Hahn said.
Farrell can be reached at
[email protected].
Hahn: Graduate wins award
disenfranchise potential candiContinued from Page 1
and provides the opportunity dates as they deal with the other
for more flexibility in shaping stressors of campaigning. Others
asserted that a vice president would
procedures.
Senate approval of committee encourage more people to become
chairpersons and the addition of active in the government.
“Efficiency and legitimacy, two
a vice president were the subjects
goals of government are not necesof greatest debate.
“Committee members should sarily mutually exclusive,” senior
chose who they want to have lead and Senator Steve D’Amico said.
them,” junior and Senator Jack “Having a vice president assists
Voorhees said. “Committees want in advocating ideas and it does not
someone who will lead them in the rule out the possibility for a Chief of
direction the committee wants. The Staff to assist with efficiency.”
The bylaws will detail the specifcommittee could wind up with a
ics of how a vice president will be
leader who they don’t want.”
In response to Voorhees’ caution, elected.
“The constitution’s role is to
Nabozny said, “If the committee
didn’t like the appointee I believe provide a broad framework of how
that the Senate would be sympa- the government will work,” ACJC
thetic. However, if the other mem- Chief Justice and co-author of the
bers of Senate like that nominee, constitution Erica Contini said.
“Once the constithen they get to
tution is in place,
set the agenda
bylaws will be
because that is This is the first veto
written. In the byhow democracy
of Chris Calo’s
laws, specifics are
works.”
administration
laid out which will
Calo echoed
Nabozny’s sentiand the first veto setup the means
of government
ments. He asked,
used in recent
action.”
“If the committee
history.
If the constituis ‘right’ with
tion is approved,
their concern
the 2004-2005
about a nominee,
and they can’t convince the Senate academic year will be one of transition. The new constitution will not
of that, are they really ‘right’?”
The language of the proposed be implemented until May 23, 2005
constitution was altered so that so the GRC has sufficient time to
the president will nominate com- write the bylaws pertinent to the
mittee chairpersons. Changing new government’s success.
The proposed constitution is
the terminology from “appoint” to
“nominate” allows the president available online at http://www.
to suggest multiple people for the sa.rochester.edu. Committee memcommittee chair positions. Beyond bers are circulating petitions for
this, the rules for selecting the students to sign supporting the
actual chairperson will be defined constitution. The Senate will reconsider endorsement next Monday.
in the bylaws.
If insufficient signatures are colA similar course of events followed for the discussion about lected by the end of this semester,
whether or not to have a vice presi- the signatures of enrolled students
dent. Some committee members, will still be valid next semester if
including Calo, expressed concern the GRC needs to collect more.
Keesing can be reached at
that having the additional burden
[email protected].
of selecting a running mate might
get rid of [Greeks]. This shows
they don’t.”
The largest problem the committee faced was the fact that the
current Greek system lacks organization. “Part of the problem is
the fragmented structure of Greek
organizations,” Green said.
Burns explained this hurdle further. “Think about the fraternity
and sorority community — you’ve
got me, Monica Miranda, alums,
the college, and [fraternities]
are getting different advice from
different sources, and that really
makes things unclear,” Burns said.
“They’re free to choose whoever to
listen to, and God help them if they
don’t get the right advice.”
Voetsch also felt that more
consistent messages would be
important. “The school expects
Greek societies to live up to certain
standards and punish them when
they don’t,” he said. “The problem
with this is that [the rules] are not
written down anywhere.”
The CRFS’s decision will be
implemented by a permanent
committee, the Fraternity and
Sorority Oversight Committee.
There will be two subcommittees
— the Standards subcommittee
and the Finance and Facilities
subcommittee.
The CRFS was only concerned
with long-term plans and the overall system, so current legal problems in certain fraternities were
not discussed. However, among
other things, the committee hopes
to make such incidents rarer. “If
[the FSOC] was in place, leadership
would have had a much better time
talking to their brothers,” Voetsch
said. “Situations would be much
less likely to arise. Situations such
as [ADF’s problems] could be prevented because it [the committee]
could have caught problems before
they escalated.”
Levesque can be reached at
[email protected].
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Serving the University of Rochester community since 1873.
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CHADWICK SCHNEE • LEWIS POWELL • GREGORY DUBINSKY
CYRUS LEVESQUE • JESSICA STOLL
The editor-in-chief and the editorial board make themselves available to the UR
community’s ideas and concerns. Appointments can be arranged by calling x5-5942
or by e-mail at [email protected].
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Informing UR
or several years now, the Students for Social Justice
have advocated that UR join either the Fair Labor Association or the Worker Rights Consortium. These groups
investigate manufacturers and provide reports to affiliated colleges and universities about working conditions at the specific
plants where their goods are manufactured. We strongly urge
the university to join one of these organizations or a similar
information-gathering organization.
In the intellectually open environment of a university, the
availability of information to students is a core need. This is
especially true when concerning the university’s own policies
and actions. This is why the university should take steps to
make information available on the working conditions in factories where our school apparel is produced.
Notably, the university is not required to stake out a political position on any issue related to the manufacturing by affiliating with these groups. The FLA and the WRC allow universities to make their own independent decisions based on their
own standards — the groups provide universities with the
information and universities choose what to do from there.
The code of conduct used to gauge the legitimacy of factory
practices in currently affiliated universities is decided on an
individual basis by each university. Indeed, by joining one of
these organizations, the university simply facilitates the flow
of information to students, who can then make choices as informed individuals.
Making the information available can do nothing harmful. It
will not hurt a manufacturer that is complying with local laws
and international standards.
On the other hand, it is only fair to students who wish to
purchase university apparel without supporting labor practices they may find objectionable to obtain a complete picture.
The most it would do would be to inform students of any
violations, allowing them to individually decide whether to
buy university apparel in full knowledge of the practices their
money is supporting. We are not asking the university to take
further steps, but simply to make the information available.
Make the information available to students before they decide whether or not to purchase university apparel. Students
have the right to be informed consumers.
From The Editor
Giving credit where credit is due
T
he free flow of information can be a double-edged
sword at times. While
technologies have granted unprecedented access to new ideas
and information, the world,
especially the educational community, faces the growing danger of plagiarism and academic
dishonesty from students with
the power of the World Wide
Web at their disposal.
One of the most fundamental
beliefs at UR and other academic
institutions is that credit should
be given when using outside
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pass off anyone else’s ideas as
their own. In the March 25 issue
of the Campus Times, an editorial observer titled “C-SPAN has
a place, too” regrettably borrowed much of its tone, language
and structure from one that
appeared the Baltimore Sun.
We at the CT are greatly saddened by this incident and view
it as an important learning experience in the continual development and redevelopment of the
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Rochester community for our
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did not confirm to the high standards of quality content that our
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Certainly the sources referenced in the article needed better
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questionable incident does not
happen again.
With this in mind, we intend
to use this as a valuable opportunity — one that will encourage our editors to ask for any
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in an editorial and to actively
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to the community we service.
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occurred gives us the opportunity to renew our commitment
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C
larity is essential to the effective functioning of any
student government. The Students’ Association recently
drafted a constitution that promises to make the student government work in a clearer manner.
Without a clear system of governance put forth in the constitution, the government may become bogged down in problems
resulting from vague definitions of the scope and powers of its
different branches. Adopting this new constitution will avoid
many potential pitfalls of obscurity in the current document.
One of the major differences in the two documents in terms
of the impact it could have on student government is the creation of the position of vice president. This is to be voted on by
the student body at the same time as SA Presidential elections.
This change will increase the number of directly elected
representatives in the executive branch. This is a direction in
which our government should move. We encourage students to
sign the petition and ratify this constitution.
Most of the other changes are geared toward increased clarification or designed to reflect already-implemented measures.
These are good — it is imperative that the laws of our student
government accurately reflect the reality of its functioning.
In the interest of actually seeing this constitution enacted,
we respectfully encourage the Senate to carry through this
process next semester in the event that they fail to get sufficient signatures by the end of this year.
This new constitution will not only streamline student government operations, but also provide an entirely new dimension of student representation, via the office of the vice president. These changes will only serve to help the government
operate more efficiently, and we wholeheartedly support them.
Chadwick
Schnee
Editorial Observer
F
A requiem for a fry machine
ortunately, I have never
had to write a eulogy for
anyone, so when it was
suggested that I write a eulogy
on the one year anniversary of
the disappearance of the McDonald’s french fry vending machine,
I was a little apprehensive.
But after thinking about it
for a while, I realized that there
was something special about this
machine that had nothing to do
with it’s timely and convenient
way of dispensing of fries.
Everyone remembers the first
time they saw the french fry machine. But even before the first
time they saw it, people remember the first time they smelled
it, and the five minutes earlier
when they first felt its heat radiating into Wilson Commons.
When the machine came to
campus, there was a lot of buzz
around its arrival.
Some people loved the concept
of fries from a machine. Others
hated the commercialism that it
brought to campus.
But all were curious.
I remember my first time. I
was with a person from out of
town.
Kim
Gorode
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Eastman
Editor
As we fought over whose
school was the best, I mentioned
the french fry machine. He told
me to prove it.
We drove over from Eastman
at two in the morning. I’ll admit
the fries weren’t anything like
McDonald’s fries.
Hell, they weren’t even good.
But there was something extremely satisfying about getting
french fries out of a machine
complete with a packet of salt,
ketchup and a plastic fork.
When I bring up the vending
machine, most people are willing
to share their memories of the
machine.
One friend remembers coming
here on her freshman orientation
and having her picture taken
next to it.
Some remember how horrible
the library smelled after it was
installed. Some people fondly
remember the option of adding
a coke to their order to make a
combo. I remember debates on
how the fries were actually made.
Around this time last year, the
french fry machine disappeared.
No one is sure where it went.
Even the people at McDonald’s
customer service hotline are not
sure of its whereabouts. It seems
that the fry machine left as
quickly as it arrived.
So, why is a french fry machine
worthy of a tribute? This isn’t
just about a vending machine.
It’s about the impact that this
vending machine had on campus.
In a campus where apathy is
more prevalent than Beirut at
a fraternity party, everyone had
an opinion on the McDonald’s
vending machine, and the great
majority of people voiced their
opinions.
If something as trivial as a
vending machine can make
people open up their eyes, ears
and mouths — no pun intended
— then there is hope for us when
more important issues arise.
Gorode can be reached at
[email protected].
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“Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease.” — Bill Maher
Republican bake sale spreads prejudice
by douglas battenhausen
Campus Times Staff
Everyone has an opinion about the affirmative action bake sale. The Republicans
claim their event was meant to inspire
discussion and debate over the topic and
based on what I’ve seen and heard regarding this issue, I do not want to doubt their
intentions.
I’d like to believe they wanted their
opinions on the subject to be known and
that they whole heartedly believe that
affirmative action is a sort of “reverse
discrimination” and they feel that they are
not bigots for holding this view. I’d like
to believe it. However, there is a problem
with this way of interpreting the bake
sale.
I’m placing too much emphasis on what
the Republicans “intended” for the event
and do not want to refer to viewpoints
with which I disagree as “bigoted.” From
what I have heard among friends and collogues, this stance is the norm.
However, by interpreting the affirmative
action used in education and employment
to the purchasing of baked goods, the
College Republicans have made a gross
mistranslation of how the system works in
reality.
We know what they intended the bake
sale to mean, but what does it actually
say? Via the bake sale, the Republicans
are suggesting that jobs and positions in
colleges are being given to minorities for
less than they are to white men.
This is not saying that these minorities
have the same credentials as whites and
are chosen above them — this is implying
that whites, who are qualified and deserv-
ing, are losing their positions to minorities
For the record, the bake sale had noththat are unqualified and undeserving. On
ing to do with free speech or the First
its simplest level, the Republicans are
Amendment. There is no one who will
saying that inferior blacks, Latinos and
advocate that certain people do not have
other minorities are stealing from supea right to express their opinions — that
rior white males. This is the definition of a is ridiculous. Discussing the bake sale
racist attitude. The Republicans are advowithin the context of free speech is a copcating racism and bigotry, even if it is not
out. This only allows President Jackson
intended.
to avoid the issues and
My concern is that
make no commitment to
words, statements, actions,
one side or the other. His
While the
etc. all have meanings and
stance is cowardly and
intention of the pathetic and we students
their value has little to do
with the intent with which
should recognize this.
bake sale may
they are used.
Leaving any discussion
not have been
In this regard, Profesof the bake sale within
sor Johnson is correct in
racist, the bake this context is wrong
his letter and explanation
it misses the
sale nonetheless because
printed in the Campus
point entirely. The ColTimes and arrives at the
promoted racism. lege Democrats, Amnesty
central issue of the bake
International and Stusale.
dents for Liberty are just
It matters little what
as guilty as Jackson, but
the Republicans intended this episode to
their reasons for making this an issue of
represent — we must look at the actual
free speech are quite different from his.
effects of the event and what their actions
Jackson has an agenda through changmean.
ing the topic to free speech — the others
Claiming or feigning ignorance can only are merely ignorant and imagine that the
carry someone so far and is not an applitopic is free speech.
cable excuse in a court of law. If Johnson
Essentially, the College Republicans
points out how the event could be interand the affirmative action bake sale have
preted as expressing bigotry and attempts
failed. If these students were attempting
to call them on their actions and methods,
to facilitate debate around affirmative acthe Republicans have an obligation, if the
tion, all they have managed to accomplish
bake sale was meant to be a starting point
is limiting discussion to nothing but the
for discussion, to defend themselves.
event itself.
However, they responded to this accusaBut this is the nature of the bake sale
tion by complaining of name-calling and
— to stifle discourse. The Republicans
discrimination. If you recall, “discriminacame into this believing they were victims
tion” is what started this whole “debate.”
of reverse discrimination — they leave
still believing they are victims, this time
from the oppression of the politically correct crowd. The bake sale did not create
debate. It polarized the campus into two
opposing sides, only one of which has
reacted. It seems the Republicans wanted
this to happen and feel vindicated because
it has. It allows them to carry the mantle
of “victim” and feel good about it because
they are proven “correct.”
The irony of all this is that the same
persons they believe are persecuting them
want to begin the debate on affirmative
action, not only with the “intent” of having a dialogue, but actually creating a
dialogue.
This depresses me. The only reason the
Republicans have been so “successful”
with their campaign is due to the number
of students and faculty that have reacted
to it. The only proper action would have
been inaction.
The community here should have ignored them, instead of getting caught up
in all this nonsense, which is where I now
find myself.
If there had been a debate over this
issue, questioning the legitimate concerns
regarding affirmative action, none of this
controversy would have occurred.
Instead, they decided to hold a bake
sale, an event which expressed nothing
but a racist attitude, deliberately or not.
I wish more students at this university
could recognize the tactics of the College
Republicans and make them accountable
for their actions, not their supposed intentions.
Battenhausen can be reached at
[email protected].
By nathaniel powell
I’d like to point out some of the potentially dangerous contradictions within
our society’s ideological setting. Within
the various operating dogmas, “left” or
“right,” one “knows” what is right and
wrong. Once you become stuck within a
particular worldview, it becomes difficult
to view things any other way.
For example, on some issues, the perspective of many seems to be that underprivileged classes deserve to get back
what the rich took from them.
The biblical “The meek shall inherit
the earth” evolves many ways. Its manifestations includes the Leninist “dictatorship of the proletariat,” to Satyagraha of
Gandhi, to totalitarianism.
All of these, regardless of their fundamental differences, aim to empower
the unempowered, or at least rationalize
themselves that way.
Today’s manifestation of that everevolving, sometimes dangerously branching chain of thought can be found in identity politics.
By falling into the societal discourse
that separates people not only by economic class, but by skin color and religion,
identity groups may serve to reinforce
these divisions.
By proclaiming an ethnicity, I am only
affirming to the “others” what they
“know” already — that I am not one of
them, I am different, I even say so myself. While affirming my singularity, my
uniqueness in relation to others, I am
respect African tribes and their traditions,
separating myself from others. To quote
yet this practice of “genital mutilation”
from history, “separate is not equal.”
goes too far for our sensibilities.
So what do we desire, separateness, or
They need our moral medicine — “Send
equality? The approach of many is equality out the missionaries,” they used to cry
through separateness.
— nowadays it’s Amnesty International
Somehow, by affirming my separateness, and UNICEF. We all love Islam — it’s a
my individuality, my rights, I will be equal. religion of peace and respect.
What is a “right” if
The minute the veil
not a right for or from
goes on, though, all of
something in relation to
disappears. “What
Diverse cultures that
others?
are you doing making
and viewpoints those poor women cover
This implies a relationship that is not equal. If
themselves!” we shout
must be
everyone were equal, we
indignantly.
considered in an
would have no rights.
If a culture considers
This affirmation and
killing
widows after the
open-minded
drive for equality in Westhusband’s death an acway — all are
ern rationalist tradition
ceptable practice, where
always runs up against
do we draw the line berelative.
its counterpart, the inditween “tolerating” their
vidual. After all, wouldn’t
culture and stopping this
it be silly to have blonde
“abominable” practice?
identity politics?
We respect all cultures, of course, but are
All of this raises another interesting
repulsed at what these cultures actually
contradiction, that of the basic moral foun- are.
dations upon which these various ideoloWe decaffeinate their cultural coffee.
gies are based, the idea of tolerance. One
Our good liberal tolerance simply becomes
must tolerate others.
a masked vehicle for a patronizing intolerOther cultures, institutions, religions
ance.
and philosophies must all be respected as
Perhaps again, this is a symptom of our
being of equal validity and importance to
drive to individualization, to separateness.
our own.
Our public discourse routinely differenThus, separate is equal. However, this
tiates between an “us” and a “them.”
tolerance has limits. In form, everything
This objectification of others is how we
is tolerated, in substance, nothing is. We
rationalize and give meaning to ourselves.
However, at the same time, it “thingifies”
and dehumanizes those who are not us.
We can, thus, talk about the Republicans
as “them,” the conservatives as “them,”
the Iraqis, Taliban, Al-Qaeda and everyone who we don’t — or do — like, as
“them.”
We can “themify” every one without
actually knowing who “they” are. This
article is just as culpable, in that I am
criticizing a set of ideological coordinates
that I have defined as an “it.”
Maybe I can’t escape that, maybe no
one can. However, it seems to me that at
the very least, we can perform “experiments in truth,” as Gandhi put it.
We can try to view the world from multiple perspectives, perhaps never fully
understanding, but at least becoming
aware of the inadequacy of our many and
varied explanatory philosophies, sciences
and religions.
Unfortunately, if some of these basic
dilemmas are not resolved, or even identified as dilemmas in our public discourse,
then we can only expect the symptoms of
these problems, such as racism and bigotry, to persist.
Instead of, or while, giving ourselves
aspirin for our malaise with “affirmative
action” programs and “diversity initiatives,” perhaps we should work towards
solving the more fundamental and important problems that afflict us as a society.
Powell can be reached at
[email protected].
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Current attitudes towards alcohol fail
By Michael Newmark
Campus Times Staff
In a couple of weeks, the new
and improved version of D-Day
will be celebrated at UR, which
will include more protection
for drunk students, such as increased emergency medical response and other additions.
I readily agree that providing
these services for students this
day is a good idea.
I believe that it was ridiculous
that the university came close to
cancelling it in the first place.
I firmly believe that the general American attitude — especially toward alcohol in particular — is very backward.
We are stuck firmly with the
Puritans in the 1620s in believing that alcohol is the source of
all of life’s problems, that it must
be restricted to the population
at large, and finally, that people
must be protected from it for
their own good!
tries, through such programs as
When will we finally join the
study abroad.
more enlightened countries
If they did, they would see how
— which is most of the Earth,
utterly backward current Ameriby the way — in recognizing
can society is.
that alcohol, like
The very idea
everything else
of preventing
in life, is simply
D-Day should
a public party
something else
simply because
to use in moderabe proudly
too many people
tion?
celebrated
might get
And the idea
of using society’s
— the American drunk and hurt
themselves is a
resources to proattitude towards bizarre concept
tect people from
to most of the
“demon rum” is
alcohol is
world.
simply absurd.
backwards.
People are
Most of the
supposed to take
world realized
responsibility
long ago that the
for their own actions and learn
more you restrict something, the
from their mistakes.
more popular it becomes.
For example, I am currently
Why not learn from their prestudying at the Jagiellonian
vious mistakes?
University in Krakow, Poland,
Unfortunately, not many or
a 640-year-old institution with
enough Americans — or UR stumany revered traditions and
dents — take advantage of the
opportunity to visit foreign coun- customs, one of which includes
the Juvenalia, a celebration in
mid-May which puts our D-Day
to shame.
For four straight days 150,000
students from over 20 different universities — other have
adopted it over the years — take
over Krakow and have a humongous party.
If some student group suggested that the party be shut
down because someone might
get hurt while drinking, they’d
be laughed out of the room.
In most of the world, what a
person does is their responsibility, and not of the society at large
— not so in the United States.
We are so concerned with preventing any sort of accident that
we’ve stopped teaching people
responsibility.
And we’ve become so preocTONY TERRADAS • Campus Times Staff
cupied in preserving our precious
ass, America, and have a drink.
morality that we’ve become a
Newmark can be reached at
bunch of Victorian prudes.
[email protected].
Go take your head out of your
By Michael He
Campus Times Staff
Welcome to President Bush’s
fairytale. You have a choice of
compliance or death. Which
would you democratically
choose?
Our emperor has called for the
nation to stay its course. “Look,
nobody likes to see dead people
on their television screens,” he
said. Fortunately, he has a plan.
His plan, however, is beyond
comprehension.
Only the smartest can understand his plan. Thankfully
his administration is filled with
such people.
The rest of us? Mere commoners, unworthy of knowledge. But
wait, what is this? A little kid
saying something? What is he
saying?
Emperor Bush does not really
have a plan? Shocking.
So, off to the woods we go.
Shall we dally in Afghanistan
and pick some flowers? Okay.
Along the way, should we tell
Muslim extremists our plans?
Who could possibly be hurt with
that information?
Ah, finally we arrived at Iraq.
Here, dear Iraq, have some milk
and cookies from the land of the
free.
My, Iraq, what big teeth you
have. Help. Where is the big lumberjack that will save us?
He is nowhere to be found.
It is all going according to plan,
of course. Bush had been sitting
on his hill watching his people
doing well. But he was bored. He
needed excitement, so he decided
to cause a commotion.
Bush went into Iraq crying,
“Weapons of Mass Destruction.”
Bush left Iraq crying “Weapons
of Mass Destruction.” But when
is really one of wanting. Sovereignty is not a tangible object.
You can not package it in a gift
box and ship it by UPS. Instead,
there needs to be a demonstration of actual control.
There needs to be a government with an ability to do
something. There needs to be
something there that does not
currently exist.
As our president said, “The
violence we have seen is a power
grab by these extreme and ruthless elements.” And yet, our
response has one of reciprocity.
Hardly surprising considering
Bush’s gung-ho attitude towards
violence.
Yet, every child in America has
learned the phrase, “Just because
they did something wrong to you
does not make it right for you to
do it to them.”
Bush has asked, “Is our chil-
Bush believes all of us will live happily ever after
Race views skewed
I’m really sick of this poor
little white boy crap. By some
biological fluke of chromosomes
and through nothing done to
merit it, you, as a white male,
were handed an advantage in
life. And you’re complaining because there’s affirmative action
for people who’ve been abused
and oppressed for centuries?
Interesting how it’s only a
problem when it’s happening
to you. No one’s asking for the
right to own you.
No one’s expecting to be able
to beat and rape you without
any consequences. You just have
a head start in the race, and it’s
time someone else got a turn.
I resent the implication that
the only reason I’m here is because I’m female. I didn’t pay
less than you did. In fact, I probably paid more for defying stereotypes and persevering despite
living in a world dominated by
men.
The majority of the people who
make the laws and run the country are white males.
You don’t have to worry about
them not letting you have control
over your own uterus.
You don’t have to worry that
their policies will take away any
of your rights — unless you’re a
homosexual, atheist, etc.
So, those of you who think be-
he calls it again, no coalition will
come to his aid. He will cry and
cry, but no aid will come.
This is the horror we must
comprehend — Bush may live in
a world of his own, but his actions endanger our very real one.
And frankly, I am scared. On
Tuesday he called for Americans
to be prepared to do what it
takes to win in Iraq.
He has basically given a blank
check to General Richard Abizaid
to take in as many troops as he
wants.
Recently, Senator Edward
Kennedy spoke of the similarities
of Vietnam and Iraq. If we continue on this rhetoric of staying
the course, this fear will become
reality.
Bush still wishes to hand back
sovereignty on June 30. But can
we really?
The coalition of the willing
dren learning?” Maybe he should
have asked, “Is I learned?”
Obviously fighting is not working. Throwing troops into the
situation is just wasteful. Many
Americans have begun to see
this viewpoint and opinions have
been shifting.
And still Bush lives in his
fairytale world. Maybe a direct
statement will help.
Dear President George W.
Bush, fighting is not working.
Grow up, wake up and try another tactic.
Diplomacy was invented to
prevent war. Bush invented preemption to prevent diplomacy.
Thankfully, democracy was invented to smack presidents back
into the real world.
Use your right to do the
smacking this November.
He can be reached at
[email protected].
Letters to the Editor
ing a white male has made your
life so incredibly difficult? Suck.
It. Up.
The politeness and factual
basis of what I just said are irrelevant. The fact remains that
I have a right to say it. And you
have a right to disagree with me.
That’s right.
After all that ranting, the
hardcore liberal, pro-choice,
anti-Republican female actually
supports the AA bake sale. Interestingly enough, the applicable
quote for this situation is often
misattributed to a white male
— “I disapprove of what you say,
but I will defend to the death
your right to say it.” — Evelyn
Hall
—nicole dobrowolski
Class of 2005
Current policy wrong
After reading Jim Johnson’s
letter/article “Republican bake
sale curtails our rights,” I sat
back and thought — what was
the point he was trying to get
across?
Did he want the administration to come down on the College
Republicans?
Was it a call to arms to have
the students rise up and oppose
the College Republicans, chasing
them out of town?
Well, what I realized is that it
was essentially an article saying,
the College Republicans hurt a
lot of people’s feelings and that
was wrong.
That the College Republicans
were insensitive and should be
looked down upon by the student
body, and please, readers, write
to say you agree with me.
Well, after reading the article, I
feel I cannot.
Johnson’s main point was that
the College Republicans forced
minority students to have to
justify their right to be here.
That they were relegated to
second class citizen status because the Republicans pointed
out that affirmative action exists.
Let’s look at what affirmative
action really says.
It says, you, you minority students, are too stupid to compete
with white people, you aren’t
smart enough so we need to give
you a leg up.
Now if you weren’t offended by
that last sentence you have serious racial tolerance issues.
But this is what affirmative action is, it’s a horribly racist policy
that further separates the races
rather than bring them together.
It is in direct opposition of the
values of togetherness and diversity that Johnson seems to hold
in such high esteem.
If you are a minority student
you are forced to have to deal
with questions of your ability,
because of affirmative action, no
matter how much we pretend
that minority students don’t
have to.
Essentially Johnson’s article
was a complaint, a complaint
that the College Republicans
pointed out the truth.
That the fantasy world that
many affirmative action supporters try to uphold, that affirmative action creates a level playing field, rather than the exact
opposite, was shattered by this
in-your-face bake sale.
Just because you pretend
something is true, doesn’t make
it true.
The truth is if you really support equality, fairness and diversity, you’d oppose something
as horribly racist as affirmative
action.
—Stephen goldberger
Class of 2006
Fellowships ample
I am glad to have an opportunity to reply to Mr. Madhur
and let readers know that there
are indeed a range of generous,
privately funded fellowships for
which many international students are eligible.
To name a few — Gates Cambridge, for 1-3 years of study at
Cambridge, Jack Kent Cooke,
up to $50,000 for up to six years
of study anywhere, Institute
for Humane Studies, $12,000
for study anywhere, Rotary International, up to $25,000 for
international study, Josephine de
Karman, $16,000 for study in the
United States, New York Women
in Communications, $10,000,
USA Today, $2,500, and even
the highly coveted Rhodes — for
both U.S. as well as certain nonU.S. citizens.
Like many national governments, the United States reserves certain kinds of educational funding for its own citizens
and permanent residents.
It would be hard to find a
program more open-minded
than the federally sponsored
Fulbright, which not only sends
approximately 1,000 U.S. citizens
annually to almost 150 countries
worldwide for advanced study,
research and cultural exchange,
but also funds international
scholars to come do the same at
institutions across the United
States.
Some of these scholars can
be found among UR’s graduate
students and faculty.
Anyone, including international students, wishing to learn
more about competitive fellowships can link to the programs’
Internet sites from the UR fellowships page — http://www.
rochester.edu/College/CCAS/fellowships.html.
—Belinda s. redden
Fellowships Coordinator
College Center
for Academic Support
Campus Times
Meliopoly
ARTICLE BY
Jamie Sokol
& Daniel Rowen
Campus Times Staff
Anyone who has walked the
tunnels of Phase has stumbled
upon the large “Meliora” board
that is painted in the basement of
Gale House.
A spoof on the traditional Monopoly board game, this board uses
different places on campus and in
the Rochester community as the
properties, utilities, railroads and
other various squares.
Although the exact year in which
the board was painted can only
be narrowed down to sometime
after Phase was constructed in
the late 1960s, the appearance of
certain places and names on the
board show that it is by no means
current.
So, if you have ever wondered
what “The Hill” was, or been
asked by an alumnus where “The
Rat” disappeared to, ponder no
more.
Described below are some of the
mysterious squares — and a little
bit of UR history.
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The Rathskeller
A local gathering place for students and faculty, the Rathskeller
was an on-campus bar that was
open daily. Better known as The
Rat, the bar was a popular hang
out for students, especially during
Happy Hour.
The Rat was originally located
downstairs in George W. Todd
Union, when the building was the
student center, occupying the area
that is now the Chase Manhattan
Bank. When Wilson Commons was
opened in 1976, the bar was moved
into the space where the Coffee
Shop is today.
According to the 1976 Wilson
Commons Policy Manual, The
Rat served beer, wine and liquor
to the university community and
was designed to be a place in which
MDC
Background Photo
Courtesy of Daniel Rowen
people could enjoy discussions,
programmed events and alcoholic
beverages. Drinks purchased at the
Rat could only be consumed within
the bar and adjacent food service
area, and the space was equally
divided between non-smoking and
smoking sections.
MDC
MDC, short for Men’s Dining Center, was the original name of the Frederick
Douglass Building. Opened in 1955, the dining hall initially served men, while
women ate at Danforth. When both MDC and Danforth became coed in the
1960s, President W. Allen Wallis officially announced the renaming of the
building. Not only was MDC now open to women, it was also home to many
offices, seminar rooms, and the bookstore, making the name inadequate. Although the official change was made in the summer of 1967, MDC remained
a popular nickname for the building, but eventually faded in the 1980s.
Serv-Rite
A Rochester-based food service company, Serv-Rite was contracted to
operate the entire Wilson Commons eating areas in the 1980s. Since the
contracted food service company was required to run the Rathskeller, ServRite operated the bar in addition to the snack bar. According to Assistant
Director of Wilson Commons George Morrison, the company also catered
student events on campus. After Serv-Rite, the contract was turned over to
the university food services.
DESIGN BY
KENNY LINSKY
Campus Times Staff
Other Photos Courtesy
of Interpres
The Hill
“The Hill” was the common nickname for the Susan B.
Anthony Residence Halls, and the university community
affectionately used this name to refer to the building since
its opening in 1955.
The term, developed by students, reflected the building’s
location atop a hill. This nickname was so common, that almost
nobody referred to the dorm as Susan B. Anthony. The use
of the term “The Hill” died out in recent years and today the
building is often called “Sue B.”
The Hill
Helen Wood Hall
Located on Crittenden Boulevard across from University
Health Service, Helen Wood
Hall is the current home of the
School of Nursing. However,
when the building was opened
in 1928, it was designed to be a
dormitory, and served as part
of undergraduate housing for
many years. Undergraduates
typically occupied the first two
floors of the building, which
was comprised of mostly single
rooms, and the School of Nursing utilized the top two floors.
Although Helen Wood was part
of the regular housing lottery,
it was often chosen last due to
its distance from campus and
thus the building was often
used for transfer housing.
Sokol can be reached at
[email protected].
Rowen can be reached at
[email protected]. Helen Wood Hall
The Rathskeller
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SA Profile:Declining Balance H S
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By Emily Josephson
Campus Times Staff
A cappella is a tradition deeply entrenched in the UR community. Throughout the school year, students attend the
continual concerts of the groups on campus, attending the typical Yellowjackets,
Midnight Ramblers, Vocal Point and After
Hours concerts. The UR community will
now be able to enjoy the new sounds of
the school’s newest all-female a cappella
group, “Declining Balance.”
The group was founded this spring by
freshmen Andrea Benvenuto and Ilana
Feldman who arrived at the university
with a wide background in music and
vocal performance. They were looking
for a cappella opportunities, but felt that
“As far as all-female opportunities go, it
is very limited,” Feldman said.
Declining Balance offers an alternative to Vocal Point, previously the only
all-female a cappella group. The founders, however, described how Declining
Balance in fact differs from the latter
organization. “We just wanted to be more
relaxed, very entertaining and focus more
to the entertaining aspect more towards
innovative musical style,” Benvenuto
explained.
The group hopes to present a more
relaxed and entertaining performance to
the UR audience, attempting to portray
in shows the fun element within the vocal
group. What sets Declining Balance apart
is the musical selection for their songs.
“We were trying to get the type of music
you listen to,” Benvenuto said, “like the
songs from the late 90s that a lot of people
in college can relate to because it is the
BY JON LAX
Mr. Cleo
yuting chuang • Campus Times Staff
Freshman and cofounder Ilana Feldman and sophomore Barbie Leung practice
on the Music Interest Floor.
songs we listened to growing up.”
The co-founders cited such groups as Oasis, REM, Billy Joel, the Cardigans and the
Spice Girls as examples of their pieces. This
comprises the unique repertoire Feldman
expressed as their musical set. “Our music
is a more eclectic blend of different types of
music,” Benvenuto said.
Benvenuto and Feldman established the
group on these principles, and selected a
group of nine members to carry out these
musical intentions.
“We were looking for people who were
enthusiastic and passionate about music,
and we felt had a lot to offer intellectually
and musically,” Feldman said.
The final group following auditions
practices four times a week, for nearly two
hours each time. “We do a lot of work on
vocal exercises and blending, because
that is the main basis for a cappella,”
Feldman said.
Although Declining Balance has not yet
performed, due to their recent inception,
they have high hopes for the future. The
group has set the goal of performing at this
fall’s orientation and Meliora Weekend,
with perhaps their own concert in the
spring of 2005. There has been progress,
as a result of the dedication of the group
and assistance from the Midnight Ramblers, who share a similar background.
With their help, Declining Balance hopes
to establish themselves.
Josephson can be reached at
[email protected].
Greeks shine on the eld and in service
By Mike Lisk
This past Monday marked the start of
a tradition that has existed within the
Greek Community for years, Greek Week.
Every year in the spring the school’s
fraternities and sororities face off in a
number of different events.
Greek Week is a time when one’s pride
in one’s fraternity or sorority is at its
peak. Each group gets to showcase its
athletic prowess — or lack thereof — in a
winner-take-all tournament style competition. The main events are football, basketball, soccer, floor hockey and volleyball.
While each organization strives to
come out on top in each sport and win the
coveted title of “Greek Week Champions,”
what’s more important is the unity that
this week inspires for all Greeks. Win,
lose or draw, each fraternity and sorority
throws aside any differences and enjoy
the games as compatriots
and not as rivals.
This year the Fraternity President’s Council
decided to bring back a
lost Greek Week tradition. Jay Kulesa, FPC
Programming and Greek
Week Chairman, has purchased a trophy that will
be awarded to the fraternity that places first
overall in Greek Week. The fraternity’s
name will be engraved on the trophy and
displayed in Wilson Commons, and every
subsequent year the Greek Week champions will have their fraternity placed on
the trophy. The trophy will be awarded to
the winner this Sunday during the Greek
ur opinion
Week BBQ on the Fraternity Quad, which
will include a stickball
tournament and keg toss.
Last night, Sigma
Delta Tau sorority and
Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity co-sponsored an
event to raise money
for Prevent Child Abuse
America. The event took
place at the Community
Living Center on the
Fraternity Quad, where
members of both groups served all-youcan-eat pancakes for a five-dollar donation. Through their combined efforts, SDT
and SAM were able to raise over $500 for
the laudable cause.
Got a question about Greek life? Send it
to [email protected].
Pisces (Feb. 19–March 20) — Members of
the opposite sex are going to try to knock
down your door. Remember that one at a
time is only fair. Try investing in one of
those deli ticket counters.
Aries (March 21–April 19) — An old friend
will bring you good news. Make sure to give
him a hug next time you see him — hugs
are way too underrated.
Taurus (April 20–May 20) — You will receive
an unexpected gift soon. Try not to get any
paper cuts while unwrapping it. If the gift
is a wooden cat, give it back. Always write
thank you notes.
Gemini (May 21–June 21) — You are going to make a difficult decision this week.
Remember that everyone makes mistakes,
so if you screw up this time you can redeem
yourself. Some advice — don’t make this
decision while drunk.
Cancer (June 22–July 22) — Feeling the
sense of impending doom, you will have to
brace yourself for a rough week. Take deep
breaths and try not to over think everything.
Look through the window for inspiration.
Leo (July 23–Aug. 22) — You are going to
meet someone who will change your life.
Buckle your seatbelt and prepare for a
wondrous journey. Try getting a pet fish and
naming him Buckles — it could be fun.
Virgo (Aug. 23–Sept. 22) — You are so
happy to finally see some sun and blue sky.
Run around outside and spread the cheer
— running around naked would spread the
cheer faster.
Libra (Sept. 23–Oct. 22) — You’ve been
working very hard and doing a great job this
year. Keep up the good work— it will all pay
off very soon. Also, stop being so sexy, give
someone else a chance.
Scorpio (Oct. 23–Nov. 21) — If someone
you know meets someone else who is going to change their life and gets a pet fish
named Buckles, don’t be jealous. Instead,
treat yourself to a little spa treatment for
being such a good sport.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22–Dec. 21) — Never
forget the big picture, but also try not to get
overwhelmed. Thinking too much can really
slow you down. Keep on truckin’.
Capricorn (Dec. 22–Jan. 19) — You have
a lot of great ideas, but don’t be too pushy.
Bite your tongue and give other people a
chance to voice their opinions. Credit will
be given where credit is due.
Aquarius (Jan. 20–Feb. 18) — Take your
time to get the job done. Rushing will always
reduce the quality of your work.
(If you actually believe this, you’ve been campaigning too hard for SA president. This is not
to be taken seriously.)
by Jason Freidman
Campus Times Staff
What would you change about UR?
Brian Macllvian ‘07
Allison Frisbee ‘05
Mike Lisk ‘05
Raquella Hess ‘06
Adam Fetzer ‘06
Carolyn Kenline ‘06
“I think soda should come
out of the water fountains.”
“More nudity. It’s good.”
“The god-forsaken
weather.”
“Smoking ban.”
“Better food.”
“Greek life.”
CAMPUS TIMES
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Gone ‘Mad’ over Don’t argue with Debate’s spirit
fresh material
years, a new batch of artists and
By Colin Brown
writers appeared, “Mad” cut its
Campus Times Staff
ties with movies and TV and
“Mad” is one of the greatest
brought in some fresh minds to
contributors, for better or worse,
the editorial ranks.
to my sense of humor today.
And behold, “Mad” was funny
Like many children of our
again. The last two or three
generation, I grew up reading
years have seen the return of huthe magazine, starting even
mor, and while a changed style
before I understood half of the
reflects the different generation
jokes it made. My father was
of “Mad” readers — who have
also a long-time reader, so we
always been either adolescent
had issues dating back 30 years
or been attempting to stay
out in the garage that I was able
that way. Nonetheless, those
to look back to. My best guess is
who turned away and have not
that I have read every issue we
rediscovered the magazine will
own — at least five times.
be surprised to see that, despite
So, like every fan of “Mad,”
its new tone, the magazine is
I started to get the feeling that
nearly as funny
the magazine
as in its heyday.
was headed
The magazine is Sarcasm and
downhill. This
irony are indeed
started when
nearly as funny
not dead.
I was pretty
as in its heyday.
Mad About the
young, and it
Oscars
Sarcasm and
wasn’t long
“Mad” rebefore I realirony are indeed cently released a
ized that the
not dead.
new book in its
magazine had
line of rehashdescended into
ing old material,
a collection of
as it has done, and made fun of
needlessly crude humor, without
itself for doing, since it was in its
the edge that it had possessed
infancy. “Mad About the Oscars”
before.
looks back at 50 years of movie
Also, around the time I was
parodies, the satiric device that
getting old enough to underhas been the cornerstone of the
stand it, a lot of the “usual gang
magazine since the early 60s. As
of idiots” was being replaced,
the magazine solidifies its return
and readers had to settle for
to the top of comic literature,
a quickly diminishing quality.
it’s a particularly good look back
Great artists like Don Martin
at what made the publication
and Mort Drucker were replaced
famous.
by merely good artists like
All 38 of the movies parodied
Duck Edwing and Sam Viviano.
in this collection were nomiPublisher Bill Gaines died and
nated for Best Picture at the
all in all the magazine was on a
Academy Awards, and many of
dead-end course.
them won. The satires have done
My father even cancelled our
a good job of pointing out is that
subscription when I was in the
even the best films don’t make
fifth or sixth grade.
sense half of the time, and that
But the call of “Mad” was
much of our enjoyment comes
strong, and we couldn’t resist
from noting the gaps in logic,
the temptation of picking up the
the contrasts between characters
occasional issue. Every couple
and the stars who play them and
of trips to Barnes & Noble or
so on.
Fred Meyer would end up with a
The collection was well chocopy being placed in our basket,
sen, and it does a good job of
in the hope that things would
picking not only the best movies,
get better. It was, unfortunately,
but the best parodies on them.
fruitless.
Among the highlights are Mad’s
At least, until about two years
See MAD, Page 14
ago. After those disappointing
By Jamie Sokol
Campus Times Staff
A forum for those who seek
an outlet for public speaking,
the UR Debate Union has been
in existence for a little over ten
years. The largest collegiate debate team in the United States,
the UR team typically travels to
approximately 18 tournaments
throughout the debate season,
which spans from September to
April. The team competes in the
Cross Examination Debate Association and this past year had
a remarkable season, finishing
fourth in the nation.
The team is particularly proud
to boast three All Americans,
debate team President and Take
Five scholar Karim Oussayef,
junior Cedric Logan and Vice
President and junior Liz Gaskell.
Oussayef and Logan were named
Academic All American, which is
based upon merit, such as grade
point average. Both students
were nominated for the honor
by Head Coach Sam Nelson.
Gaskell received the honor of
general All American. Oussayef,
Logan, and Gaskell all debate at
the varsity level.
“I debate at the varsity level
and am very privileged to be
able to attend national as well as
regional tournaments that help
me grow as a debater. I was very
andrew slominski • Campus Times Staff
UR Debate celebrates their fourth-place finish in the nation.
excited to receive the All American award this year,” Gaskell
said. A highlight of the 20032004 season is the success of the
team of Logan and junior Steve
D’Amico. Making UR debate
history, the duo became the first
team to qualify for the National
Debate Tournament. Only the
top 78 partnerships are invited
to the NDT, so qualifying for the
tournament is a monumental
achievement. The competition
at this level is fierce, as many
of the students at NDT are
outstanding high school debaters
who were recruited by colleges.
Logan and D’Amico, however,
both began competing in policy
debate in college, making their
triumph even more impressive.
Logan commented, “Debating at
the NDT was a great experience,
as we debated the top teams
from around the nation, many of
whom had been debating for 8 or
more years.”
Director of debate Ken
Johnson said, “It’s difficult to
explain, but Steve and Cedric
really climbed a mountain to
emerge on the national scene
this year. We’re really excited
because they have another season to show everybody what UR
See DEBATE, Page 14
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CAMPUS TIMES
Porn penetrates box office once again
By Doug Allard
Campus Times Staff
Janet Jackson’s wardrobe
malfunction and Bono’s f-word
barrage at the Grammy’s have
caused outcries by groups and
organizations seemingly hellbent on cleaning up Hollywood,
television, video and print
publication of its indecency. The
effect has not only been felt in
Hollywood and Capitol Hill, but
across the nation as well.
That’s what makes the atmosphere during the UR Cinema
Group’s annual spring porn
showing — this year, “Texas
Dildo Masquerade” — so unique.
There were no protesters in or
around Hubbell Auditorium,
the venue of the show, nor did
URCG receive a large amount of
negative feedback this year.
URCG has been showing an
on-campus porn nearly every
year for the past two decades.
Showings like “Cherry Pie” or
“Thighs Wide Open” have been
selected in past years. This annual tradition is one of the main
biggest showings of the year for
reasons URCG continues to put
the group. Last years showing of
the spring porn on its calendar
“Cherry Pie” was seen by an esof movies, according to Koda.
timated 600 to 800 UR students.
The overwhelming student sup‘This is why we use Hubport for the spring showing is
bell [instead of Hoyt Auditoalso built largely on this tradirium, where
tion.
most URCG
“I came
‘This movie was
movies are
because this is a
so out there, but shown], the
huge tradition,
porn
I’ve been here
no one is forcing spring
is easily one
for five years and
you to watch’
of the most
hadn’t made it
here yet so I had
— Pooja Rawal well attended
movie of the
too,” one UR
sophomore
year,” Koda
graduate stusaid of student
dent, who wished
involvement in the show. “Bend
to keep his name undisclosed,
It Like Beckman” sold approxisaid.
mately 100 more tickets than
Sophomore Allison Levin gave
this year’s porn, according to
a similar response after viewing
Koda.
the annual porn. “As a UR stuStudents saw no reason for
dent, there are some activities
banning such movies from being
you should come to, like D-Day
shown on campus, despite the
and [watching the spring porn]
depictions these movies portray.
is one of those things you should
“This movie was so out
experience,” Levin said.
there,” sophomore Pooja Rawal
Another reason URCG continsaid. “But no one is forcing
ues the annual showing is that
you to watch.” Rawal added
the spring porn is one of the
that URCG’s decision to skip
certain scenes was a good choice.
Including in these scenes were
images portraying rape and
other physically violent sexual
acts, according to Koda.
Grant Tremblay offered
another sophomore voice on the
subject — “the movie was tremendously unsexy, but nobody
forces you to go it.”
To many the movie was actually tame when compared to the
type of pornography students
have at their disposal free from
the Internet. Some students,
however, did not feel the need to
attend the traditional event.
“It’s degrading to society in
general to watch people having
sex,” sophomore Josh Yatskowitz explained, “I don’t get any
enjoyment out of it — that’s
why I’m not there.” Despite his
feelings against going to the
showing, Yatskowitz saw no
problem with the showing and
advised others who share his
thoughts to simply not attend.
Student sentiment against the
showing for any reason was not
very forthcoming at Hubbell.
In the past, administrators and
outside organizations have contributed this lack of opposition
to a more mature type of peer
pressure that makes opposers
feel they may be taking the idea
too seriously.
“I understand why it is very
difficult for people to speak out
against this, especially on a campus,” officer of the Rochester
chapter of the National Organization of Women and anti-porn
advocate Barbara Moore said,
in an interview with the City
Newspaper last year.
“When it’s young people, they
often don’t want to be any different than their peers. It’s very
difficult for people to speak out,
because you’re instantly labeled
as a prude, or ‘Oh, you’re one
of those ugly feminists who
couldn’t get a man if you wanted
Courtesy of adultdvdempire.com
The latest porn starred Tabitha
Stevens and Ron Jeremy.
to,’” Moore added.
With little sentiment against
pornography on campus, from
either on or off campus sources,
Koda sees no reason to stop the
showings, which students, like
Levin, view as a must see for
everyone, at least once.
“I probably will not be here
next year, but I am glad I made
it once, I think every student
should,” Levin added.
“The basic thing is we show
violence, drugs, alcohol and
other forms of sex on screen,
but no one comments on that,”
Koda said. “‘21 Grams’ and
‘Kill Bill: Volume 1’ were two
movies where such images were
included. Part of our mission
statement is to bring entertainment on campus through movies
and this fulfills our mission to
the community — I see no reason to discontinue the showing,”
Koda added.
Without more action taken
by the administration, more
outcries from outside sources or
a reversal in public sentiment,
URCG’s spring porn showing
will remain a staple in annual
campus activities.
Allard can be reached at
[email protected].
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Debate: Deserves success Dean: Mark Zupan formally inaugurated
only thing that UR debaters
take from their experience on
debate is about.” In addition,
the team. “A lot of my views
D’Amico won second speaker,
another remarkable award given have changed,” Oussayef said.
“Through debate, I have been
the difficult competition.
exposed to a wide variety of topThe team debates a resolution
ics that I might have not been
that remains constant throughexposed to.” The research that
out the season, and this past
the students engage in when
year the resolution focused on
preparing for tournaments
U.S.-European relations. This
often can lead to the developtopic is broad, and covers everyment of other interests. Many
thing from trade to the war in
of Oussayef’s teammates concur,
Iraq. A great deal of preparation
goes into each individual tourna- stressing that while success is a
primary focus, broadening one’s
ment — sometimes over 100
horizons and learning about difpages of research is necessary
before a debate. During prepara- ferent topics and policy issues is
a significant means of personal
tion, the students collect masgrowth.
sive amounts of evidence about
The team is extremely
the topics that could potentially
enthusiastic
be argued based
about their
upon the resolution. The debat‘Through debate fourth-place
finish, and
ers often utilize
I have been
many give a
online databases
large amount
in their research.
exposed to a
of credit to
The team often
wide variety of
Head Coach
focuses on both
Sam Nelson
sides of the issues topics that I might
and Johnson.
at hand, even if
not have been
In addition,
one finds onself
exposed to.’
they also
in agreement
with one particu— Karim Oussayef recognize the
strong support
lar view, which
ur debate president
of alumnus
helps students
Marty Mesdevelop strong
senger, who
argumentative
has consistently provided a large
skills.
amount of funding to the team.
The team is comprised of approximately 30 students, and the In addition to financial support,
Messenger visits the team on
group is diverse with members
occasion and offers good advice
of all four class years as well
to the students. “We could not
as Take Five scholars. There
have been as successful as we
are three levels of competition
have been this year without the
— novice, junior varsity and
financial support of Marty Mesvarsity. Novice debaters have
senger,” D’Amico said. “We are
absolutely no experience before
heavily indebted to him.”
joining the team, but play a very
In light of their overwhelmimportant role. In the CEDA
ing success, the debate team is
league, novice wins are equally
eagerly anticipating the 2004weighted in overall team score
2005 season. Two instrumental
as junior varsity and varsity vicmembers of the team, Oussayef
tories. Thus, the team is always
and senior J.R. Carter, are
welcoming new people who can
graduating this year and will
compete at the novice level.
be greatly missed. However,
Debaters can only remain at
the team is extremely confident
the novice level for one year,
that the younger members can
then move on to the junior
varsity level. Students who have continue to persevere. “We have
several promising freshmen,
competed at the high school
sophomores and juniors who will
level automatically enter the UR
fill Oussayef and Carter’s shoes
team at this level. The junior
next year,” Gaskell said. The
varsity level serves as a form of
preparation for students who are team is open to every student,
and no experience or tryouts are
working towards varsity, which
necessary. According to Johnson,
is where the most advanced dethe team has “always gotten its
baters compete. Varsity debaters
best debaters through serendiptypically spend approximately
ity — they just show up and
25 hours per week, sometimes
more, preparing for competitions decide to try debate.”
Sokol can be reached at
that occur on the weekends.
[email protected].
A winning record is not the
Mad: Remains humorous
The collection is a little dense
treatments of “The Godfafor non-readers of the magazine.
ther,” “The
For fans of any
Sting” and
level, however,
“M*A*S*H.”
from life-long
It’s also fun
readers to occato look back
sional newsstand
and read some
browsers familiar
of the treatwith “Mad’s”
ments that
style, it makes for
came out before
a great collection
movies became
that will certainly
such huge
be read over and
phenomena.
over every time a
“Star Wars,”
good but simple
for example, is
laugh is needed.
treated as the
The book is
forgettable sciavailable widely,
ence fiction that This special collection doesn’t and is a great
so many early
leave fans unfulfilled.
bargain at $12.95
viewers and
for 256 oversized,
critics thought it was, and not
illustrated pages.
with any of the legend or mythos
Brown can be reached at
that has followed its release.
[email protected].
focused on what we can do with
our alums to place our students,”
Zupan said. “If alumni, staff and
faculty say their affiliation with
the UR is the best investment
they made in their career, and the
general feeling that this was an
incredibly worthwhile experience,
[this is good]. More so than any
other ranking or number.”
He added that improving of the
incoming class was also important.
“A lot of basic fundamentals, the
metric universities get judged by,
[include] the classes you admit, the
teaching, the scholarship that your
faculty do and the level of service
your staff perform,” Zupan said.
Zupan was optimistic about
his success as a dean. “That’s
ultimately judged by faculty, students and alumni,” Zupan said.
“I’m just thrilled and honored to
be here. The bottom line is there’s
lot of great stuff to do and people
are interested in helping out for
a common cause.”
Lindstrom can be reached at
[email protected].
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The week of April 15, 2004
Life can be such a Drag Show
By Brian Goldner
Campus Times Staff
The Pride Network will be
holding their spring drag show
titled “Life Is A Drag Show”
on Saturday. Hidden behind a
masked purpose of providing
frivolous entertainment is a
much more sinister plot, to increase understanding of the gay,
lesbian, bisexual and transgender community.
“We’re trying to open up
people’s eyes to this form of art
that isn’t seen as art yet,” junior
and Co-Chairperson of the Pride
Newtork Kelly McNamee said.
“Drag performers have always
been at the forefront of gay
movement because of their visibility.”
Ever since the Stonewall Riots of 1969, which took place in
Greenwich Village, drag queens
have been forerunners for the
gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community, fighting
oppression and injustices and
looking great doing so. In fact,
it is their noticeability that has
been most effective in giving the
movement some much-needed
recognition.
Drag shows at UR turn out
huge crowds. Last semester’s
“UR A Drag” sold out the May
Room.
This year’s show may be even
more colorful. Crayola is sponsoring the return of a crowd
favorite, Ambrosia Salad. Ambrosia, who is seven feet tall,
was voted Best Drag Performer
of 2003 in the City Newspaper’s
Reader’s Choice Awards. Aysha
Black is back, bringing with her
an untamed diva-ness and soulful lip-synching.
Three drag kings will also be
performing including 2003 Pride
King of the Year Windz. This will
be Warren Peace’s second show
at UR and he will be joining LL
Cool A, who will be making his
first appearance.
McNamee stressed that the
show is all about having fun but
indicated the importance of attendees cultivating a sincerely
open-mindedness of gender and
gender roles.
“I hope [the audience] have
a lot of fun,” McNamee said.
“First and foremost it’s about
entertainment but secondly I
hope they leave with a more open
mind about what they are trying
to portray.”
The dual purposes of Gaypril
to provide entertainment and
raise awareness are clearly seen
when one looks at a rainbow
colored calendar of scheduled
events painted on the tunnels
By Michael He
Campus Times Staff
Spring is here, and with it, all
the sounds and sights of nature
reawakening. Flowers are blooming, trees are greening and the
birds are chirping the songs of
life.
UR’s own songbirds, the 50
members of Off-Broadway OnCampus, are gearing up for their
sixth annual spring revue titled
“You Can’t Stop the Beat.”
This year, rather than their
typical one song per musical
format, they are doing something
different.
“This time, we are having a
suite, which is two solos from
the same show that are placed
together to flow together,” Publicity Director and sophomore
Heather Good said.
“We did [have a suite] a few
years ago and it’s a different
technique we try. When people
have an interesting idea [about
putting together two songs],
then we have one,” President
and senior Kary Haddad said.
The revue will have 17 songs
lasting an estimated hour and
a half. Songs from such musicals as “Chicago,” “Hairspray,”
“Thoroughly Modern Millie,”
“Rent,” “Kiss Me Kate” and ‘The
Lion King” will be represented.
Last year’s attendance was 650
and Good expects more this year.
“Every year we’ve risen in
group size and attendance size,”
Good said.
The revue is on Friday at 8
p.m. in Upper Strong. Tickets
can be purchased at the Common
Market or at the door. It will be
John Annechino • Campus Times Staff
The luscious Aggy Dune, Aysha Black, Pandora Boxx and Ambrosia
Salad will be strutting their stuff in the May Room this Saturday.
of Solidarity and the Day of Sithat go under the Eastman
lence, scheduled to take place on
Quadrangle. The Big Gay Party
was held on April 9 in the Drama today and April 21 respectively.
The doors of the May Room
House and drew quite a large
will
be opening this Saturday
crowd of queers and straight supfor people interested in seeing
porters, all interested in dancing
what life is like in drag at 6 p.m.
and having a good time. McNaand the show will start at 7 p.m.
mee also encourages people to
Tickets can be purchased at the
attend Melissa Ferrick’s 1 p.m.
door or at the Common Market,
performance in Hirst Lounge on
$4 for undergrads, $6 for the UR
April 16, saying “she’s hot and
community and $8 for the genshe’ll be here,” reason enough
eral public. Patrons are encourfor me.
aged to bring singles.
The Pride Network also
Goldner can be reached at
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[email protected].
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“Musicals have a lot of emotion,” Good said. “The thing
about musical theater is that
the emotion, acting, dancing and
singing is all thrown into one.”
So, if you want to hear the
songbirds do more than sing,
show up on Friday.
He can be reached at
[email protected].
Radiance is brilliant
By Brian Goldner
Campus Times Staff
Radiance Dance Theater will
be performing their spring show
“Let Me See You Dance” this
Saturday in Strong Auditorium.
What they bring to the show is
great jazz, tap and lyrical dancing. Radiance has also sought to
experiment with new styles of
dancing.
“Radiance has been beginning
to incorporate a more diversified
selection of dances into our show,
including hip-hop and ballet,
while still preserving the formal
style of dance that Radiance
was founded upon,” President
of Radiance and senior Heather
Weisner said.
The musical selection reflects
upon the increased role of experimentation within the group.
“Our dance show will feature
these styles of dance and several
more that will be guaranteed to
offer something that will interest everyone, including dances to
songs by Britney Spears, Dolly
Parton, Tina Turner and more,”
Secretary of Radiance and sophomore Brittany Akins said.
Perhaps the group is able to
accomplish such radical changes
in their style due to their
dedicated work ethic and strong
sense of camaraderie amongst
the performers.
“It is the high motivation to
practice and the desire for perfection in dance that brings
See RADIANCE, Page 18
movie times
UR Cinema Group
Fri., Apr. 16
Big Fish
7, 9:15, 11:30
Sat, Mar. 27
House of Sand & Fog 7, 9:30, 12
All films will be shown in Hoyt Hall.
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George Eastman House
900 East Ave. • 271-4090
Thurs., Apr. 15
Arabian Nights
Fri., Apr. 16
Andrei Rublev
Sat., Apr. 17
The Maltese Falcon
Sun., Apr. 18
An American Werewolf
in London (5 p.m.)
Innocent Blood (7:15 p.m.)
Tues., Apr. 20
Sans Soleeil
Wed., Apr. 21
Animal House
All shows begin at 8 p.m. unless
otherwise noted.
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The Little
240 East Ave. • 258-0444
Big Animal: 7:20, 9:10; 3:10 Sat-Sun;
Eternal Sunshine: 7:10, 9:40; 1:10, 3:40
Sat-Sun only; Triplets of Belleville:
1:20 Sat-Sun; Touching the Void: 1:30
Sat-Sun; Intermission: 7:30, 9:50; 3:50
Sat-Sun only; Tibet: Cry of the Snow
Lion: 7; 1 Sat-Sun only; The Return:
9:20; 3:20 Sat-Sun.
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Movies 10
2611 W. Henrietta Rd. • 292-5840
Agent Cody Banks 2: 12:10, 2:30, 4:55,
7:20, 9:40; Along Came Polly: 9:35; Big
Fish: 12:20, 3:10, 7:10, 10:05; Cheaper
by the Dozen: 12:40, 3, 5:20, 7:40, 10;
Confessions of a Teenage Drama
Queen: 12:30, 2:45, 5, 7:15; Dirty Dancing:
Havana Nights: 12:25, 2:50, 5:15, 7:25;
Miracle: 12:05, 3:05, 6:50, 9:50; The
Last Samurai: 7:55; Monster: 12:05,
2:35, 5:05, 7:35, 10:10; My Baby’s Daddy:
9:30; Mystic River: 12:15, 3:15, 6:45, 9:45;
Never Die Alone: 12:35, 2:55, 5:10.
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Geneseo Theatres
Geneseo Square Mall•243-2691
Hellboy: 8:45; 1:15 Fri-Sun; Home on the
Range: 7; 12:45, 2:15, 3:45, 5:15 Fri-Sun;
Kill Bill Vol 2: 7:15, 9:15; 1:15, 3:15, 5:15
Fri-Sun; Ladykillers: 8:30; Scooby Doo
2: 1, 3 Fri-Sun; The Whole 10 Yards: 7:10,
9:10; 5 Fri-Sun; The Girl Next Door: 7:15,
9:15; 1:10, 3:10, 5:10 Fri-Sun; The Alamo:
7:15; 1:15, 4, 7, 9:25 Fri-Sat; 1:15, 4 Sun;
Walking Tall: 7:10; 3:15, 5:10 Fri-Sun.
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Cinemark Tinseltown USA
2291 Buffalo Rd•247-2180
The Alamo: 1, 4, 7, 10:05; Hellboy: 11:05
a.m., 1:10, 1:45, 4:05, 4:55, 7:10, 7:50, 10:05,
10:30; Home on the Range: 11:05 a.m.,
1, 3, 6, 7:05, 9:10; Walking Tall: 11:15
a.m., 1:15, 3:25, 5:30, 7:40, 10:15; Prince
and Me: 11:10 a.m., 1:35, 4:15, 7:25,
9:50; Scooby-Doo 2: 11 a.m., 11:35 a.m.,
1:10, 1:55, 3:35, 4:25, 6:55; Ladykillers:
1:35, 4:30, 7:45, 10:20; Jersey Girl: 1:15;
Dawn of the Dead: 7:40, 9:55; Eternal
Sunshine: 2:55, 5:10, 10:35; Taking
Lives: 3:55, 9:55; Passion of the Christ:
12:55, 4,7, 10; Starsky and Hutch: 9:40;
Hidalgo: 12, 7:35.
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Regal Henrietta 18
525 Marketplace Drive • 424-3090
The Prince and Me: 12:35, 3:40, 6:40,
9:25; Home on the Range: 12, 1:20, 2:30,
4:10, 5, 7:25, 9:40; Scooby Doo 2: 1:25,
4:35, 6:55; Ladykillers: 1:15, 4:20, 7:40,
10:15; Hellboy: 12:10, 3:25, 7:15, 10:25;
Walking Tall: 12:55, 3:10, 6:45, 9:15; 11:15
p.m. Fri-Sat; Passion of the Christ: 12:50,
4:05, 7:50, 11:05; Jersey Girl: 9:30, 11:50;
The Alamo: 1:05, 4:30, 7, 8:05, 10:05; 11:20
Fri-Sat; The Whole 10 Yards: 12:20, 3,
7:05, 9:45, 11:55; Ella Enchanted: 12:45,
3:35, 6:50, 9:20; Johnson Family: 12:25,
3:55, 7:35, 10:10; Girl Next Door: 12:30,
3:05, 7:20, 10:30; Kill Bill Vol 2: 12:05,
1:10, 3:50, 4:25, 7:10, 8, 10:20, 11:10; The
Punisher: 12:15, 1, 4, 7:55, 11; OC Walking
Tall: 3:30, 5:30, 7:45; Connie and Carla:
12:40, 3:45, 7:30, 10.
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Eastman students are using Napster CALENDAR
By Anna reguero
Campus Times Staff
With the newest laws against
peer-to-peer downloading,
the business of composing,
producing and listening to music
has gone through some harsh
times. Between the idea of intellectual property and liability issues, colleges have been indecisive
of what course of action to take.
What better place to be on the
cutting edge of music than the
Eastman School of Music?
The liability of colleges for the
infringement of music became
an issue when the popular rock
band Metallica filed suits against
Yale University, Indiana University, the University of Southern
California and five other unnamed
universities for the failure to block
access to Napster, an Internet
search software.
Metallica alleges that universities knowingly contribute to the
downloading by being the provider
of Internet and that they don’t
adequately take steps to prevent
the illegal use of music. Though
Metallica dropped a number of the
lawsuits once the schools blocked
Napster, universities are looking
for ways to protect themselves
and their students.
UR and Eastman recently
implemented a pilot study for
a campus wide subscription to
Napster, the largest digital library
thus far. The university is the first
private university to take part in
this groundbreaking program. It
provides any students living in
campus housing with the ability
to access 500,000 songs, radio
stations and other benefits off
of Napster at no additional cost
to them.
The relationship between Napster and Eastman will prove to be
the most important and exciting
benefits of Napster for students.
Students and faculty of Eastman
will be able to make their own
compositions and recordings available on Napster and the studentto-student option of downloading
will prove to be useful.
The ability to have their music and performances heard and
shared has the possibility of opening up many doors and career opportunities. “Concerning getting
my music distributed, I think
Napster is a good thing,” student
composer and sophomore Ethan
Borshansky said.
In fact, Napster was chosen, out
of a number of digital downloading
programs, in part because they
were open to getting Eastman recordings onto their library. Dean
of Eastman James Undercofler was
most concerned with how a digital
downloading program would benefit Eastman.
“The possibility of studentto-student downloading means
that Eastman recordings and
compositions can be shared and
distributed,” Undercoffler said.
Another concern was the amount
of classical music available in the
digital library. Napster said that
there would be classical music in
their library, though they did not
specify how much.
Napster is still in negotiation
with recording companies to make
more music available. The hope
is that with Eastman being a subscriber, they will push to make more
classical music available.
As of this semester, only music
will be available for download on
Napster. There are no plans to
date for movies and video files to be
available. Also, downloads will be
encrypted so that burning of MP3
files will be restricted. Personal
music libraries will only be available on the computer that it was
Friday, April 16
• 7 p.m.
Howard Hanson Hall
A student lecture presented by
Jeffrey Brown, piano.
• 8 p.m.
Eastman Theatre
A performance of the Eastman
Rochester Chorus and the
Eastman School Symphony Orchestra, conducted by William
Weinert, performing ‘Missa
Solemnis’ by Beethoven.
Kim gorode • Campus Times Staff
Sophomore Kellen Gray uses Napster in her dorm room at the Student
Living Center earlier this week.
downloaded on.
Funding for the program has
been an issue of concern for the
university. Money is being taken
out of current general funds to aid
the pilot study. If the College or
Eastman decides to continue with
Napster for next year, student fees
might be increased. Some students
are apprehensive about this.
“I believe that the introduction
of Napster as a student service
places an unnecessary burden on
the already cash-strapped budget.
Ultimately the students will feel
the strain as they find that funds for
other projects have disappeared,”
junior Lewis Wong said.
Napster is only available for
computers running Windows. This
poses some concern for Eastman
since Macs are the primary computers used.
This, along with the small percentage of Eastman students living
in campus housing may, impact
the future of Napster use. Less
than half of Eastman students live
in on-campus housing. Student
input will be the deciding factor
in whether Eastman will continue
with the subscription next year.
Undercofler believes that the
interactive benefits of Napster
will generally be an advantage to
students and hopes that Eastman
can continue to be a part of this
innovative service.
Reguero can be reached at
[email protected].
Extremely difficult works are a snap for Ossia
By alexandra fol
complexity are far different from
Campus Times Staff
operatic conventions. The story
Ossia New Music, Eastman’s
unfolds linearly in self-contained
student run music ensemble,
tableaux without subplots. The
hosted David Henderson’s
interaction between characters is
production of faculty member
stylized and symbolic, not “lifeRicardo Zohn-Muldoon’s scenic
like.”
cantata “Comala” for chamber
The music is really very deensemble, actors and three singmanding ‘concert’ music that
ers. On Monday and Tuesday,
requires careful listening, and
April 5 and 6. It was staged in
should not be over-choreoAnnex 804, an
graphed.”
easily adaptable
“Comala” is
black box, and
based on the
‘The piece is ex- novel “Pedro
the studio was
packed both
tremely difficult in Páramo,” by the
nights. The comgreat Mexican
terms of rhythm
poser himself
author Juan
and ensemble.’
was very content
Rulfo. However,
with the space.
— Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon it does not enDespite becompass the
ing called an
entire novel,
“opera” by evbut limits itself
eryone, Zohn-Muldoon prefers
to the character Juan Preciado’s
to use the genre specification
role in the narrative.
“scenic cantata.” According to
In the story, Preciado grudghim, “the work has operatic
ingly fulfills a promise made
elements in terms of drama,
to his mother Doloritas on her
and occasionally of vocal writdeathbed. He travels to Comala
ing. I feel that the type of plot,
to meet his father, Pedro Párathe flow of narration, the formal
mo, and to claim his rights as his
structure and the compositional
legitimate heir. Upon arriving to
Comala he learns that his father
is long dead and realizes that Comala had become an abandoned
and decaying village.
Preciado meets Eduviges Dyada, who assures him that she was
forewarned of his coming by the
dead Doloritas. Further events
reveal that Eduviges, like other
characters he meets, is only a
materialized memory, a ghost. A
vexing night, filled with encounters with the spirits, reveals to
Preciado the tragic history of the
city and drives him to the verge
of emotional collapse. Just before
dawn, he finally finds shelter
with a living couple.
However, he soon learns that
these survivors, living as man
and wife, are siblings. Juan
Preciado’s psyche worsens from
the physical and moral corruption of their household. During
the night, profiting from her
brother’s absence, the sister
invites Preciado to sleep with
her. In his delirious state of
mind, Preciado hallucinates that
the woman melts into a puddle
of mud. Horrified, he runs out of
the house, and wanders madly
in the dark streets of Comala,
pursued by swarms of murmurs
that fuel his terror at every step.
Upon arriving to the plaza, he
feels “his strings break,” and his
last breath leave him. In death,
Preciado finds peace, waking up
from the nightmare of his life,
to the reality of memory. In this
production, he gets murdered by
his own spirit.
Zohn-Muldoon admitted that
“the piece is extremely difficult
in terms of rhythm and ensemble
coordination” and that the general consensus was that the performers could have used “many
more rehearsals.”
“The entire production came
together rather suddenly and at
the last minute,” According to
soloist Scott Perkins. “The singers had very few opportunities
to work with the ensemble, and
some of the scenes were run for
the first time during the dress
rehearsal the afternoon before
the show opened. It’s fair to say
that there was a relatively large
amount of independent diligence, not to mention patience,
See OSSIA, Page 18
Saturday, April 17
• 8 p.m.
Kilbourn Hall
Virtuosi, featuring the works of
de Murai, Vivaldi and Gershwin.
• 8 p.m.
Eastman Theatre
A performance of the Rochester
Philharmonic, conducted by
Christopher Seaman, performing works by Mozart, Hindemith and Mahler.
• 2 p.m.
Howard Hanson Hall
A recital by violin students from
the studio of Zvi Zeitlin.
Sunday, April 18
• 8 p.m.
Eastman Theatre
Rochester Chorus and the
Eastman School Symphony Orchestra, conducted by William
Weinert, performing ‘Missa
Solemnis’ by Beethoven.
• 1:30 p.m.
Kilbourn Hall
A recital given by Michael Kelly,
voice, candidate for the degree
of Bachelor of Music.
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Tropicana gives UR flavor
By Brian Goldner
Campus Times Staff
The Spanish and Latino Students’ Association will be hosting
their 17th annual Tropicana celebration this week. SALSA has
members that hail from 21 different nations, most of which with
Spanish as the official language
Although the majority of
the students are in fact native
Spanish speakers, the group
emphasizes showcasing as many
cultures as possible.
“An effort is being undertaken
to show the appreciation of a
more diverse cultural base,” junior and vice president of SALSA
Jhovanny O. Germosen said.
In that regard the dinner
which normally accompanies the
Tropicana Dance will have Mexican food from Maria’s, as opposed to past years when Domincan food has been served.
Caterers from Maria’s will be
bringing food for both vegetarians and non-vegetarians alike,
including enchiladas with several
delicious salsas, burritos, rice
and some sweet flan for dessert.
A mariachi singer will be serenading those dining. The dinner
is near capacity but tickets are
still on sale at the Common Market, $9.50 for UR students and
$12 for everyone else.
Diners are encouraged to eat
lightly, so they can dance nimbly.
DJ La Moda will also be on the
steel wheels mixing together
some salsa, hip-hop, reggae and
bhangra.
Two live bands from the
Domincan Republic will also be
playing. Doors open at 10 p.m.
and the dance will continue until
3 a.m.
Tickets can be purchased at
the door or at the Common Market, $10 for UR students and $12
for the rest.
[email protected].
Radiance: Dancers aim to impress Saturday
the members of Radiance together. We are looking forward
to delivering an awesome show
that accentuates the drive of the
group in gaining appreciation for
dance and in piquing the interest
of those interested in dancing,”
Weisner said.
“Our group is very close and
we have all become great friends,
going clubbing together and
always spending time together
outside of our rehearsals and
performances,” Akins said.
The performers of Radiance
haven’t stopped short of excellence yet. This year they have
had the distinct pleasure of being
pivotal entities in such affairs as
Meliora Weekend, UR Performing, D’Motions’ “Club D’Mo” and
BPG’s “We’re Dancing.”
The show itself should be quite
intense for the people on the
stage, but for those in the seats
the experience should be relaxed
yet exciting. The show has a
way of putting everyone into the
dancing mood.
“My friends love coming to
the show because they feel re-
Andrew Slominski • Campus Times Staff
The girls of Radiance dance performing group rehearse some of their
moves before Saturday’s show “Let Me See You Dance.”
ally happy afterwards and want
to go out and dance,” Stephanie
Roberts, sophomore and choreographer for the group said.
Let Me See You Dance starts
this Saturday, at 8 p.m. in Strong
Auditorium. Better buy your
tickets now, because good news
travels fast. Buy them now at the
Common Market or at the door,
$4 for students and $5 for the
general public.
[email protected].
Ossia: Concert was excellent
are not vocal performance mabe certain that everything would
jors. Gardner, who will graduate
come together. Fortunately evwith a viola degree, is a prolific
eryone stepped up and contribviolinist and singer. She serves
uted, and had it been otherwise
on the Ossia New Music board
the performances would not have and is a Take Five scholar at UR.
gone nearly as smoothly as they
Perkins earned his BM in
did.”
composition and a voice minor
Despite the pressure for musiat Boston University, and is curcal and staging rehearsal time,
rently pursuing his MA in theory
the performances of “Comala”
at Eastman. Wadsworth is a
was excellent.
junior composiJess Mack’s set
tion major. The
design was very
acting parts
Music
Lovers
practical and
were executed
were fortunate to by Michael
easy to operate. It consisted
hear this ensem- O’Connor, Brian
of one piece
Adams, Cara
ble perform last
situated in the
Addington,
middle of the
Katherine Wahl
week.
stage, which
and Chelsea
served a double
Wahl. They
purpose. When turned with its
spoke in English, whereas the
wall facing the audience, the
singing parts were in the original
back was used for quick storing
Spanish.
of necessary equipment. If the
A work such as Zohn-Mulscene had to be set in a room,
doon’s “Comala” demands the
two assistants could easily turn
time and dedication of intelligent
the set on its wheels to reveal a
versatile performers, who are
bed and a chair. It was the opable to learn music quickly and
timum possible setting for the
well, and who can adapt well to
quick scene changes in Zohnunusual and challenging perforMuldoon’s work. The ensemble’s
mance circumstances.
coordination was very impresGreenberg, Gardner, Perkins
sive, especially since the dimmed
and Wadsworth are truly comlightening and the staging could
plete musicians, as they possess
not assure constant eye contact
various talants needed to apbetween the singers and conducproach any work, understand it
tor Clay Greenberg.
and give it justice. The composer
The two on-stage singers,
and music lovers were fortunate
Heather Gardner and Perkins,
to hear this ensemble perform
performed this very difficult
last week.
scenic cantata from memory.
As Zohn-Muldoon said, “[I]
The melodies and motives of
had the good fortune to work
“Comala” are very memorable,
with David Henderson, Clay
however the quickly changing
Greeneberg and a first rate group
harmonic language, sparse texof musicians and cast who were
ture and intricate singing lines
extremely talented, supportive
would frequently prevent most
and dedicated. So, what you
classically trained vocalists from
saw last night is really the final
performing the piece.
version of a long and arduous
A notable fact is that Gardner
process.”
and Perkins, as well as Zach
Fol can be reached at
Wadsworth, the off-stage tenor,
[email protected].
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Crew team is now
partially unbeaten
by Philip Brune
Campus Times Staff
All sports feature a winner and
a loser — it is just how they are by
definition. If everybody wins, you
are in a movie, and if everybody
loses then it is communism. For
us athletes that dwell between the
white lights and the Red Scare,
there exists the possibility of winning or losing in every competition.
I only mention this because the
crew team, for the first time this
season, experienced losing.
And I’m supposed to write about
the crew team. This
is a difficult article to
write because I, like
many of my teammates, enjoy losing
about as much as I
enjoy getting kicked
in the eye at that Rage
Against the Machine
concert three years
ago, where five minutes later I lost
a shoe and had to walk to the car
barefoot because I didn’t want my
hips to get misaligned and then I
got a very small pebble embedded
in my right foot that for all I know
is still there. It hurts every other
Thursday. I was again in the Men’s
Varsity 8, which saw both Ithaca
College and Colgate University
defeat us. The method we chose to
employ in losing made it especially
frustrating. After a promising start,
we were entrenched in a back-andforth battle with Ithaca and were
well up on Colgate. Unfortunately,
the battle was over much sooner
than we would have preferred.
Ithaca did not fire a decisive shot,
but rather our own cannon malfunctioned and exploded in our
faces, burning off several of our
eyebrows in the process.
Note — our boat does not actually
have a cannon. But it does have a
rudder, which chose that particular moment to malfunction. Our
course was suddenly directly into
a tree floating near the shore. We
were instantly entangled in a bivouac of the worst kind and wasted
precious seconds bushwhacking
our way back onto the course. We
were somewhat discouraged but
pressed on. In fact, we battled back
to again make a race of it, only to
engage our second
inanimate opponent
of the day — a pile of
rocks also inhabiting
the shore area. The
outcome was similar
— the rocks won.
End result, we lost
— our two opponents
were doing a race instead of an obstacle course. As was
thoroughly proven above, losing is
a part of sports. Unfortunately, we
were not the only boat on the team
that lost. The Women’s Varsity 4
deserves congratulations for being
the exception to the rule in what
was a good weekend for “moral”
victories.
The results, using the same format as last week — Men’s 8 placed
3rd, 13.0 seconds behind, Men’s
Novice 8 placed 2nd, 29.4 seconds
behind, Women’s 8 placed 3rd, 40.8
seconds, Women’s Novice 8 placed
3rd, 38.7 seconds behind, Women’s
Light 8 placed 2nd, 21.5 seconds
behind and Women’s varsity 4
placed 1st 5.5 seconds ahead.
Brune can be reached at
[email protected].
the remaining five to Robertson,
Simon, Dibello, Ryszkiewicz and
freshman Anna Pollock. Dial and
Simon had two RBIs and Roberston, Rossi and Ryszkiewicz each
had one RBI.
On the mound, Long gave up
two hits in the first inning but held
strong after that.
The Yellowjackets pushed for
another strong lead in the second
game with a two runs in the first
inning and an impressive 13 more
in the second. This game also ended
early due to the wide goal difference, but not before UR scored two
more runs in the third and fifth
innings. Mistakes by Keuka College, including six walks, six wild
pitches and four errors, helped to
push the Yellowjackets ahead in the
night game. Moshier only allowed
one hit to earn the win.
UR softball left these games with
a record of 9-11.
McLean can be reached at
[email protected].
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Women place third UR competes at Hershey Golf Club
by David Swidler
Campus Times Staff
Unable to get in much quality practice time outdoors in the
days leading up to Saturday’s UR
Alumni Invitational, the women’s
track and field team nevertheless
put on a heck of a show for the
home crowd, finishing in third
place with 116 points, behind only
SUNY Geneseo with 186 points
and Roberts Wesleyan College with
126 points.
“I was pleased to see that
[outcome]. I was excited that we
finished third, since our focus was
all about the events that I felt they
needed for our training — maybe
that’s a good sign,” Head Coach
Barbara Hartwig said.
The scoring started right off
the bat, as junior Effuah Alleyne
finished eighth in the 100-meter
dash with a time of 13.43 seconds,
contributing the first point of the
day for the women. They would add
up even more quickly starting in
the 200-meter dash, which junior
Katie O’Brien won with a time of
26.0 seconds as she qualified for
Eastern College Athletic Conference Championships in the event.
In the 400-meter dash, junior
Michelle Gabriele ran 1:03.75 to
finish third. O’Brien overshadowed
her victory in the 200-meter dash
with a dominating performance in
the 800-meter run. In that event,
she ran 2:15.52 to finish first once
again, this time meeting the NCAA
provisional qualifying standard.
“I felt that she ran strong from
start to finish,” Hartwig said. “She
was able to stay strong and finish
strong.” Also in the 800, senior
Elizabeth Canfield ran 2:23.16,
a personal record, to finish in
fourth place and sophomore Kate
Pohlman ran 2:26.67, finishing
eighth.
Sophomore Jessica VanBinsbergen ran a very solid 5,000-meter
run, completing the event in
19:15.37 to finish second.
“That’s the second week in a
row she set a personal record in
that event,” Hartwig said. “I’m
excited for her.”
In the 100-meter high hurdles,
freshman Whitney Silkworth ran
16.35 seconds to finish fourth and
qualify for ECACs. She topped
that performance in the 400-meter
intermediate hurdles, which she
finished in second place with a time
of 1:09.56, qualifying for States.
Also in the 400-meter hurdles,
senior Katrina Nowak ran 1:15.97
to finish seventh.
“I was very pleased with our
hurdlers,” Hartwig said. “Whitney
is quickly becoming one of the top
hurdlers in the conference.”
Senior Erika Wasserstein ran
the 3,000-meter steeplechase in
12:00.59, finishing fourth. The
4x100-meter relay team posted a
second-place finish, running 53.19
seconds. The 4x400-meter relay
team added to the scoring, running 4:17.65 to finish fourth. The
4x800-meter relay team closed out
the relays with a time of 10:29.06,
good for second place.
With marks of 1.49 meters, junior
Annie Barbi and freshman Melinda
Huang finished seventh and eighth
respectively. In the shot put, freshman Maraea Toomalatai marked
10.72 meters to finish in third place
and qualify for States. Also in the
shot put, sophomore Grace Kraay
marked 10.65 meters, finishing
fifth. She added a sixth-place finish
in the discus throw, as she marked
33.68 meters. Her best event of the
day, however, came in the javelin
throw, which she won with a mark
of 30.88 meters to become the only
competitor of the day to clear the
100-foot plateau.
“[The javelin throw] is a relatively new event for her,” Hartwig
said. “I think she’s making really
good progress in that. Overall, she’s
been the rock of consistency in our
throwing crew. She’s consistently
been a scorer for us, and has really
been a standout for the throwers.
She had an outstanding day.”
In the hammer throw, sophomore
Lorena Suarez-Delgado marked
36.52 meters, finishing fourth.
Sophomore Cynthia Gurecki added
a sixth-place finish, as she marked
33.94 meters.
“I’m extremely pleased with our
throws, especially given the fact
that they’ve had such poor training
conditions,” Hartwig said.
“The thing that has most pleased
me is that given the conditions of
our training facilities, people have
still stepped up and made the most
of meet days,” Hartwig said. “I’m
very pleased with the overall attitude of the team — I think this
is a good sign.”
Swidler can be reached at
[email protected].
by Doug Allard
Johnson said via e-mail before the
Campus Times Staff
tournament.
The golf team used a slightly
The results this weekend did
adjusted lineup to earn a third- little to change either the team’s or
place finish at the District II their coach’s high expectations.
Mid Atlantic Golf
After an openInvitational at
ing score of 317,
the Hershey Golf
found itself
‘Because of [the] UR
Club in Hershey,
fifth in the tourweather and
Pa. this weekend.
nament’s field of
It marked the
15 teams.
tight schedules
team’s second
The Yellowjackwe haven’t had ets used a second
straight top five
finish.
an opportunity to day total of 315,
Coach Richard
the second best
play for spots.’
Johnson used
score of the day
— Richard Johnson behind Alleghthe different
head coach
lineup to better
eny College —
gauge his playthe tournament
ers’ strengths for
champions — to
future tournafinish with an aggregate two-day
ments.
total of 632.
“Because of [the] weather and
UR’s total tied it with Gettysburg
tight schedules we haven’t had College in third place, only three
an opportunity to play for spots,” strokes behind the second-place
Diplomats of Franklin and Marshall College.
Individually, UR was led by freshman Robert Sherman and senior
Dave Masters. The duo finished in
a three-way tie for fifth place and
carded a total of 155, only five shots
behind the tournament’s medalist,
Ben Rathfon of Allegheny.
Freshman Colin Quillinan, inserted into the teams five-man rotation for this weekend, finished with
a 161. UR’s scoring was rounded
out by senior Jason Bronstein and
freshman Patrick Shanahan who
shot 162 and 164 respectfully.
The team is off for two weeks
before heading the UAA Championships held at Smoke Rise
Golf and Country Club in Stone
Mountain, Ga.
The event will be hosted by
Emory University.
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Davies propels lacrosse Softball takes four
by Rebecca Keller
Campus Times Staff
Women’s lacrosse advanced
their record this week to 2-2 in
the Upstate Collegiate Athletic
Association’s and 4-5 overall with
two wins and one loss this week.
UR’s best game last week was
their first against Alfred Univeristy
on April 6. The 9-1 lead by halftime
improved to 15-3, which was the
final score, as Alfred was unable
to catch up.
Twelve players for UR were
able to make shots and were led
by three goals from senior Sarah
Walker and two goals from junior
Katie Riegel, who also had an assist.
Also, senior Samantha Krawitzky
had two assists and one goal, and
freshman Heidi Davies had one
goal and one assist.
Senior Stephanie Bristol was
between the goalposts for the Yellowjackets and saved six shots.
Throughout the game, the Yellowjackets hammered the opposition with 16 draw controls and 38
total shots on goal. All of the team
members were able to rotate into
the game, so the win was a group
effort.
One player commented that
“there was a strong showing from
both ends of the field” and that
“offense effectively executed their
plays and the defense never let up
for the entire game.”
The lacrosse team lost to St.
Lawrence University 11-7 in a close
game on April 9. The Yellowjackets
and the Saints were evenly matched
in shots on goal, groundballs and
turnover statistics, but both continued a constant fight for the win
throughout the game. Each team
followed the other shot for shot in
the first 20 minutes of the game,
but at the end of the first half St.
Lawrence managed to get four goals
in a row that UR was unable to
match to take the lead 7-3.
Bristol played the entire game,
and had nine saves out of 26 shots
on goal. The leading goalscorer for
this game was Davies with two
goals. Riegel contributed to two
goals with one successful shot and
one assist.
The Yellowjacket’s second win
last week was against Clarkson
University. The women were able
to put in the first four goals within
six minutes of the start of the
game, scored by junior Elizabeth
Sack, Hawley, Riegel and Davies.
Clarkson was able to match all of
UR’s following goals to produce a
final score of 11-7.
Hawley played a phenomenal
game with three goals and two
assists. Sack and Davies followed
her with three goals and two goals,
respectively.
Bristol also played a full game
against Clarkson and improved
with ten saves out of 21 shots on
goal.
This week, women’s lacrosse
travels to Hamilton College and
William Smith College for weekend
games.
Keller can be reached at
[email protected].
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Senior Samantha Krawitzky is closely pursued by freshman Christina
Montano in practice.
by Alison McLean
Campus Times Staff
Women’s softball won four games
last week against Medaille College
and Keuka College. Out of the four
home games, three were shutouts,
and only two runs were scored
against UR.
The Yellowjackets defeated Medaille College with a final score
of 8-0 for the first game and 10-0
for the second. Both games ended
prematurely, after the fifth innings,
due to UR’s strong lead.
During the opening 3 p.m. game,
five runs were scored in the second
inning and three more in the third
inning. UR dominated with 11
hits, two walks, five stolen bases
and six RBIs.
Sophomore Laura Rubinchuk
had a strong game with two runs
and two runners batted in, as did
freshman Allison Rossi with one
run and two RBIs.
Freshman Nicole Dibello reached
home plate twice, and freshman
Becks Ryszkiewicz, senior Sara
Dial and freshman Rachel Askin
each had one run. Ryszkiewicz
and Askin also managed one RBI
each.
UR took an even quicker lead in
the night game, with three runs
scored in the first inning and seven
scored in the second. Medaille was
allowed six hits in this game but
couldn’t produce any runs.
Out of the ten scored by UR, Robertson and Ryszkiewicz had two,
while Rossi, senior Tracy Simon,
Dial, Dibello, sophomore Jennifer
Moshier and sophomore Bridget
Baran had one run apiece. RBIs
were taken by Rossi, Ryszkiewicz,
Dial, Dibello, Moshier and Baran.
UR pitcher freshman Kristina Long
took the win for the first game
and Moshier took the win for the
second game.
Against Keuka College, the Yellowjackets performed just as well
as they did in the previous games,
with final scores of 10-2 and 17-0.
In the first game Keuka took the
lead in the first inning 2-1, but were
unable to bring in any more runs
in subsequent innings. UR scored
four runs in the fourth inning, two
runs in the sixth and three final
runs in the seventh.
Of the ten runs scored, three are
attributed Rossi, two to Baran and
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Athlete of the week
Nate Black
Class: 2007
Sport: Baseball
MAJOR: Undecided
Where Nate went to high school: Rocky River High School,
Rocky River, Ohio
What is Nate’s ideal day off: Doing a lot of nothing.
Favorite athletic memory: I don’t have any worth remembering.
Favorite sport other than Baseball: Fishing
Favorite foods: Buffalo Wings
favorite movie: “Office Space”
Plans after college: Charter fishing
expectations for the season: Make the playoffs.
Why Nate is the athlete of the Week: Nate batted four for
eight and had an RBI in two tough games the Yellowjackets splits
against St. Lawrence University.
Athlete of the week
Jennifer Moshier
Class: 2006
Sport: Softball
MAJOR: Mechanical Engineering
Where Jennifer went to high school: FDR High School,
Hyde Park, NY.
What is Jennifer’s ideal day off: Sleeping and watching
reruns of “Real World”
Favorite athletic memory: Playing in the N.Y. state tournament.
Favorite sport other than Softball: Basketball
Favorite food: Pizza
favorite movie: “Remember the Titans”
Plans after college: Possibly graduate school for architectural
engineering.
expectations for the season: Stay undefeated for the remainder of the season.
Why Jennifer is the athlete of the Week: Jennifer pitched
two shutout wins last week. Her pitching led the UR women’s softball
team to a 10-0 win over Medaille College. She pitched five innings in
that game. She then pitched a shutout win against Keuka College,
pitching the first five innings of the Yellowjackets’ 17-0 win.
Sports Trivia of the Week
The Olympic Games are coming up this summer. Can you name the
hosts of the hosts of the 2004, 2006, 2008, and 2010 games?
The 2004 and 2006 games will be held on the same continent. The 2008 games go to a country
that has never hosted the summer games before and the 2010 games will be held in a country
that has already hosted both the summer Olympics and the winter Olympics one time each.
Answer: 2004 — Athens, Greece. 2006 — Torino, Italy. 2008 — Beijing, China. 2010 — Vancouver, Canada.
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Sports calendar
FRIDAY, APRIL 16
• Men’s Tennis at SUNY Binghampton,
3 p.m.
• Lacrosse at William Smith, 4 p.m.
• Softball at SUNY Geneseo, 3 p.m.
• Softball at SUNY Geneseo, 5 p.m.
SATURDAY, APRIL 17
• Women’s Tennis vs. College of New
Jersey, 11 a.m.
• Men’s Tennis vs. College of New Jersey,
2 p.m.
• Men’s Track at Hamilton College, TBA
• Women’s Track at Hamilton College,
TBA
• Softball at Skidmore, 3 p.m.
• Softball at Skidmore, TBA
• Baseball at Vassar, 1 p.m.
• Baseball at Vassar, TBA
• Women’s Lacrosse Hamilton, 2 p.m.
SUNDAY, APRIL 11
• Softball at Union, 1 p.m.
• Softball at Union, 3 p.m.
• Baseball at RIT, 12 p.m.
• Baseball at RIT, TBA
MONDAY, APRIL 12
• Softball at SUNY Buffalo, 3:30 p.m.
• Softball at SUNY Buffalo, 5 p.m.
• Baseball at Hartwick, 2 p.m.
• Baseball at Hartwick,TBA
Admission to all UR games is free with student ID.
vs. Clarkson University, Game 1
Hits
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By Richard Tipton
Notre Dame has a five-year,
$45 million contract with NBC to
broadcast its home football games,
more national championships and
Heisman Trophy winners than any
other college football program and
is the most popular program in all
of college sports. Although Notre
Dame, with 11 national titles and
seven Heisman Trophy winners,
has attained rarefied air in football,
the school has done so without
sacrificing its notoriously tough
admissions standards or any of its
well-earned academic cachet.
It is no surprise, then, that when
former Notre Dame great and
1956 Heisman Trophy winner Paul
Hornung suggested that the school
should lower their standards in
order to recruit top black athletes,
the entire sports world flinched at
the thought.
“We’re playing eight bowl teams
next year and it’s always year in
and year out one of the toughest
schedules,” Hornung said. “You
can’t play a schedule like that
unless you have the black athlete
today and it’s [still] very, very
tough to get into Notre Dame. [The
school] just doesn’t understand it,
yet they want to win.”
Hornung’s suggestion prompted
a media firestorm. The media coverage was so intense that Hornung
later backed down from his statement. He apologized for limiting
his comment to black athletes, but
reiterated his stance that Notre
Dame should still lower its academic standards to those of the
teams they are competing against.
He cited the Fighting Irish’s futility in recent years, having not
won a championship in 15 years
— the second longest futility streak
in program history — and Notre
Dame having losing records three
times in the past five years.
To drive the point home, Hornung said that former Notre Dame
coach Lou Holtz once showed him a
list of the top 50 football recruits in
the nation. After Holtz visited with
the office of admissions, he notified
Hornung that he could only recruit
three of the players on that list.
Furthermore, Hornung contends
that Notre Dame relaxed its stringent requirements to recruit the
top athletes in the mid-1980s. That
group produced the last national
championship for the Fighting
Irish in 1989, defeating West Virginia 31-24 in the Fiesta Bowl
However, Notre Dame spokesman Matthew Storin disagrees
with Hornung’s comments.
“Our records show that admission requirements for athletes have
remained constant over those years
in which we have had both great
success and occasional disappointments with our football teams,”
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Storin said.
Whether or not Notre Dame
returns to being the pinnacle
of college football will likely
be determined by its ability
or inability to recruit the best
athletes from around the nation.
This is no small feat anymore
for the school. After all, Notre
Dame just isn’t, well, Notre
Dame anymore. The program
has lost much of its mystique.
While top students are attracted
to the educational possibilities
at Notre Dame, the top football
players are attracted to the
prospect of winning championships at places like Florida
State University and Ohio State
University, where admissions
requirements are more lenient
and championship trophies are
still expected.
If Notre Dame continues to
balk at suggestions to lower its
standards, it does have other
hope to compete in major sports
without making exceptions to its
admissions policy.
Selective schools like Duke,
North Carolina, Stanford,
UCLA, Michigan and Texas continually enjoy success in athletics. Stanford, for example, has
captured the Sears Cup — which
crowns the best athletic department each year — for nine consecutive years. Texas and UCLA
have finished second each of the
past four years. This year, Michigan leads Stanford by a narrow
margin. These schools are both
pinnacles of academic excellence
and powerhouses in football and
basketball.
However, Michigan is the only
school that finished both in the
Top 25 on the gridiron and in
the Top 50 in the newest release
of the US News & World Report
rankings of national research
universities. Schools like Michigan and Texas do relax their
admissions standards for athletes. Stanford, despite its topnotch athletics department, does
not boast a football powerhouse
among its many elite athletics
programs, a direct result of the
school’s high academic standards that it rightfully holds
its student-athletes to. It is the
reality of big-time college sports
today. Notre Dame can no longer
rely on its name to attract the
major athletes. Football powers
relax standards while academic
powers remian true to them.
Alas, there was some kernel
of truth in Hornung’s comments. This is the unfortunate
Hobbson’s choice facing Notre
Dame.
Tipton can be reached at
[email protected].
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John Fanning
2
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Nate Black
3
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Ben Rathfon
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Jon Leonardo
2
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Will Fassett
1
1
Robert Sherman
77
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Mark Jackson
2
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Adam Braveman
2
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Dave Masters
76
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Dan Pfohl
2
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Chris Rosenbaum
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Chris Wuest
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SPORTS WEEK
Yellowjackets host meet, get second
by David Swidler
Campus Times Staff
The men’s track and field
team hosted the UR Alumni
Invitational at Fauver Stadium on Saturday. Although
it was cold, at least it was
sunny, which is more than
can be said for the previous week’s meet. With 163
points, the men finished solidly in second place, 50 points
behind SUNY Geneseo but
far ahead of Rochester Institute of Technology’s total of
74.50 points.
“I was pretty pleased,”
Head Coach John Izzo said.
“We didn’t set up to score
points.”
The day started out strong
for the men, as graduate
student Brian Strandberg
posted a victory in the 200meter dash. His time of 22.83
seconds earned the team
their first ten points of the
day and earned Strandberg
a spot in the State Championships. He would also be
an important part of one of
the most dominating events
of the day for the men, the
400-meter dash. In that
event, he finished in second
place with a time of 50.88
seconds, once again qualifying for States.
Finishing ahead of him
with a time of 49.37 seconds
was sophomore Matt Tierney, whose time qualified
him for Eastern College
Athletic Conference Championships. Also in the 400,
sophomore Kirk Bristol was
fourth with a time of 51.39
seconds, senior Greg Dusek
was fifth with a time of 51.78
seconds, and freshman Jacob
Pylman was seventh.
In the 800-meter run,
junior Matt Rodems was
second, finishing in 1:59.42,
just two-tenths of a second
ahead of teammate sophomore Chris Nolan, who was
fourth. Nolan posted another
fourth-place finish in the
1,500-meter run, as he ran
4:08.43. Finishing third in
the event was freshman
Andrew Whitbeck. As an
aside, Whitbeck qualified
for Junior Nationals in the
3,000-meter steeplechase,
and will compete in June as
he attempts to qualify for the
U.S. National team.
In the 10,000-meter run,
sophomore Andrew Dylag
ran 34:22.51 to finish eighth.
Freshman Brian MacIlvain
placed seventh in the 400meter intermediate hurdles,
finishing in 1:00.66.
The 4x400-meter relay
team of Tierney, Dusek,
Strandberg and sophomore
Chris Clark was reunited on
Saturday for the first time in
several weeks and immediately returned to dominant
form. They posted a time of
3:28.14, finishing first by
nearly five full seconds.
“Our dynamic 400 team
is back and firing on all cylinders — things are going
well,” Izzo said.
Also posting a solid day
was the 4x800-meter relay
team, which ran 8:18.21 to
finish first as well. For the
second consecutive week,
freshman Tom Felio set a
personal record in the high
jump. This time, he jumped
1.83 meters, finishing in
fifth place.
In the pole vault, senior
Adam Smith marked 4.11
meters to finish third and
meet the State qualifying
standard. The throwers continue to be the driving force
behind the men’s team, as
valuable points were racked
up in all four events.
And once again, it was
senior Andrew Wunder leading the way. In the shot put,
Wunder marked 14.62 meters to finish first and meet
the ECAC qualifying mark.
Finishing fourth was senior
Zach Opsitnick, who marked
12.97 meters. Just behind
him was senior Jacob Budny,
currently the nation’s top
ranked decathlete, finishing
fifth with a mark of 12.66
meters. Senior Brian Ecker
also marked 12.13 meters to
finish in seventh place.
Wunder followed up his
shot put victory with another victory in the discus
throw. His mark of 43.00
meters was more than two
full meters ahead of the
second-place finisher from
Geneseo, as he met the
ECAC qualifying standard.
Also in the discus, Budny
and Lange were third and
fourth, respectively.
There would be no stop-
ping Wunder on this day, as
he made it a clean sweep of
the events he entered with
a victory in the hammer
throw. His mark of 47.88
meters met the qualifying
standard for ECACs in yet
another event.
“He had a brilliant day,”
Izzo said.
Sophomore Chris Skeehan
marked 42.30 meters in the
event, finishing fourth. The
strong day continued right
to the end for the men, as
they combined for ten points
in the javelin throw to close
out the meet. Lange marked
46.77 meters to finish third.
Behind him, freshman Bryan
Huntley marked 45.38 meters and freshman Pete
Vern marked 43.99 meters
to finish sixth and eighth
respectively.
“We’re getting healthy.
We’re almost back to 100
percent and we’re peaking at
the right time,” Izzo said.
This weekend the men will
split up as they continue to
prepare for the postseason,
which is now just two weeks
away. Some members of the
team will travel to Hamilton
College, while others will
stay close by and attend the
meet hosted by Roberts Wesleyan College. In both cases,
they will look to continue to
qualify as many people in as
many postseason events as
possible.
Swidler can be
reached at dswidler@
campustimes.org.
Senior Jake Budny soars into the air as he practices
the pole vault.
by Doug Allard
Campus Times Staff
There is an old adage in
sports that a team learns
the most from winning or
losing close games. This
weekend the UR baseball
team underwent a learning
experience, splitting double
headers at Clarkson College
and St. Lawrence Universities, winning two games by
a combined two runs and
losing two by four runs
combined.
The first game was dominated by Clarkson pitcher
Dan Hojnacki. UR took an
early one-run lead in the
third inning, only to allow
Clarkson to tie it later. In the
fifth, UR responded, when junior Adam Braveman scored
on freshman Nate Black’s
sacrifice fly. Clarkson eventually tied the game in the
seventh and went on to win
on a single off senior Mark
Jakubowski with two outs in
the tenth inning.
In the nightcap the Yellowjackets managed to pull
off a one-run victory. Facing
an early three-run deficit, UR
rallied with one run in the
second off a Clarkson error
and three in the second off
RBI singles by Braveman and
freshman Jon Fanning.
Clarkson managed to tie
the game back up, but three
UR runs in the sixth inning
put the Yellowjackets ahead
for good. Fanning rapped
a two-run single driving in
sophomore Chris Rosenbaum and Black. Later in the
inning freshman Jon Lenardo singled home sophomore
Mark Jackson and UR went
on to win 7-6.
Sophomore Steve Foley
pitched six innings for the
win, striking out three Clarkson batters, while improving
to a 2-0 record. Freshman
Brady Noon pitched a perfect final inning to pick up
the save.
At St. Lawrence University, the Yellowjackets suffered a similar fate, losing
game one, while coming back
to win game two. In the first
game, UR lost 4-1 with its
only run, scored by Jackson,
coming in the second inning.
St. Lawrence was led by
Corey Swiniarski, who had
three hits and scored three
runs. In game two, UR took
another one run affair, 4-3.
A 2-2 tie was broken in the
Baseball splits games against Clarkson and SLU
Andrew Slominski • Campus Times Staff
Sophomore Chris Rosenbaum takes a ball in the loss to Utica. Rosenbaum had two
hits and four RBIs.
Softball
Yellowjackets sweep four games
The women’s softball team dominated their games
against Medaille College and Keuka College, achieving
victory in all four matchups. A total of only two runs
were scored against UR and three of the games were
shutouts.
See Page 22.
seventh inning after a Jackson sacrifice fly brought home
senior Mike Lesczinski, who
had tripled earlier in the inning. St. Lawrence rallied to
tie the game at three in the
bottom of the inning, only
to see UR rally again. Black
tripled home Braveman in
the eighth inning to seal the
Yellowjacket win.
P i t c h i n g i n r e l i e f,
Jakubowksi picked up the
victory, while Noon earned
his second save of the weekend by only giving up one hit
in the final two innings.
After the weekend road
trip, UR is 11-5 overall and
2-2 in University Athletic
Association league play. The
team is set for a long home
stand featuring six games at
Towers Field this week.
[email protected].
Track and Field
Women impress home crowd
In the UR Alumni Invitational, the women’s track and
field team demonstrated their prowess with a solid thirdplace finish. Katie O’Brien qualified for the Eastern College
Athletic Conference in the 200-meter dash and so did one
other athlete. Check out who the other was.
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