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Holcad
The
Westminster College’s student newspaper
In this
edition...
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Wednesday
November 28,
2007
New Wilmington, Pa.
12 pages
Volume CXXIX
Number 11
since 1884
Beaded jewelry saves lives
BeadforLife representative speaks at Peace Studies Coffee House
By Eilis McCulloh
Staff Writer
Unique art gallery
pieces are displayed
See Page B-2
Winter sports begin seasons
See Page B-1
Mini Scrawl edition
See Pages A-4, 5
Titan Traverse to offer two
spring break trips
See Page A-6
Campus Statistic
of the Week
9
The total number
of class days left in
the semester!
Heather Ditillo spoke to students during the Thursday, Nov. 15
Peace Studies Coffee House.
Ditillo is from Belleview, Penn.
and is a representative from BeadforLife, an organization that aims
to eradicate “extreme poverty by
creating bridges of understanding
between impoverished Africans
and concerned world citizens.”
In her presentation, Ditillo explained the organization and situation in Uganda. She also showed a
video that had testimonials of
members from the organization.
BeadforLife was created by
Devin Hibbird, Ginny Jordan and
Torkin Wakefield in 2004. According to Ditillo, the three women
wanted to “find a way for people to
generate money.” It is located in
Kabala, Uganda.
Ditillo became involved with
the organization after a recent trip
to Uganda with her sister. She explained that the trip was life
changing.
During her presentation, Ditillo
continually reminded everyone
that the Ugandan people working
in the program are poor in money
only and that they are richer in
community and family than the
United States.
BeadforLife membership lasts
for 27 months. There are 350
members. Of the 350 members,
only five are men. They represent
sixteen tribes and multiple faiths.
Using discarded newspaper and
magazine, the members create
gorgeous beads. They use the
brightly colored beads to make
necklaces, bracelets, and other jewelry.
Following the presentation,
those in attendance were able to
purchase jewelry made by BeadforLife workers in Uganda.
Working for BeadforLife improves the living conditions of the
members. Many members go
from earning less that $1 per day
to $4 per day.
However, the increase in salary
is not the only improvement in the
women’s lives. From the money
they earn making beads, the
women are able to send their children to school, place money in the
bank, and increase food intake.
Additionally, over half of the
BeadforLife members started business from the money they earned.
With their newfound successes,
the members have an increased
sense of pride and accomplishment.
“It was inspiring to see how
dedicated these women are to improving the lives of their families,”
senior Marissa Shetler said.
BeadforLife also helps members with health services and education, vocational and educational
Green Party hosts speakers
at campus conference
YPS program to hold
Alternative Gift Market
Five speakers present ecological issues
based on their organizations’ values
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Five speakers presented at the recent conference held on
campus by the Green Pary on Saturday, Nov. 17.
By Allyson Koerner
Staff Writer
Inside
The Green Party hosted speakers here on campus, Saturday, Nov.
A & E - B-2,4,5 17, presenting issues about their
Calendar - B-3 values as an organization.
Campus News - A-6
Starting at noon the conferCrossword - B-3 ences were held until 3:00 p.m. in
Features - B-6 Hoyt Science Center, including a
Opinion - A-2 time where refreshments were
Outside the Bubble - A-3 provided along with a discussion
Sports - B-1 period.
The Holcad is provided free-of“It’s pretty exciting to have all of
charge to students, faculty, staff,
these great speakers here on camand visitors of Westminster College. pus,” senior Ben Knauff said. “This
Please take one. If you would like
is the type of event that the whole
additional copies, please contact
campus should attend, regardless
the editorial staff.
training and sustainable life skills.
BeadforLife is currently building a village outside of Kampala
for 120 impoverished Ugandan
families. The organization is teaming with Habitat for Humanity to
build the village.
The village is also an experiment because it is the first time
that many of the tribes will live together.
Ditillo explained many ways
that we can help the people in
Uganda. Some ways include: educating people about AIDS, sponsoring a student, buying Fair Trade,
voting, empowering women,
working to improve the quality of
international aid and making
generic drugs available to the poor.
Anyone can help through the
BeadforLife program by hosting a
bead party or purchasing beads.
Beads are available for purchase
on the organization’s website.
“All they need is opportunity,”
Ditillo told the people gathered.
She also relayed a request given
to her by one of the young children
she met while in Uganda.
“Do not forget,” she urged.
Anyone interested in learning
more about BeadforLife can visit
their
website
at
Photo by Kirsten Dize
http://www.beadforlife.org. The
Students and other attendees browse through the items
video that Ditillo showed is available on youtube.com by searching made by BeadforLife workers in Uganda. Heather Ditillo, representative for the organization, spoke at the recent Peace
for beadforlife.
Studies Coffee House.
of your opinions.”
The featured speakers were Ed
Bortz, Tom Bailey and Tom Ljungman, Skip Mendler, and Rebecca
Rotzler.
Bortz focused on the topic of
“Conscientious Objection and Selective Service”; Bailey and Ljungman spoke on “Burning Waste
Vegetable Oil in Diesel Autos”’;
Mendler discussed “Ballots, Bullets,
and Bagatelles”; and Rotzler presented on her position as co-chair
of the Green Party.
Roztler was the main featured
speaker at the conference. She is a
co-chair of the Green Party of the
United States (GPUS) and served
as Deputy Mayor of the Village of
New Paltz, NY from June 2003 to
June 2007. Roztler held the position of the government representative to the New Paltz Central
Schools District-wide Committee.
She is also a GPUS National Committee representative for New York
and even served as one of the cochairs of the GPUS Peace Action
Committee.
“It is great to have such a
speaker here on campus, I was fortunate enough to have the help of
other Green Party contacts to get
these speakers for our conference,”
Marissa Danney, president of the
Green Party, said.
The Green Party originally
formed here on campus in the
spring semester of 2002 and follows the ten key values of the
Green Party of the United States.
These values are grassroots
democracy, social justice, ecological wisdom, nonviolence, decentralization, community-based economics, feminism and gender
equity, respect for diversity, personal and global responsibility and future focus.
All of the speakers incorporated
these ten values into their speeches
educating the campus community
further on the Green Party and its
ideals.
“I think that it's a wonderful
way for the campus to become
aware about issues that are being
discussed in America and the
world,” senior Ann Ebhojiaye said.
“Westminster students will have to
face these issues when they leave
college, and this is a way for them
to be prepared to discuss and act
on these issues, because they have
a responsibility as American citizens.”
For further questions and interest contact the president of the
Green Party, Marissa Danney.
By Staci McGill
Every year an Alternative Gift
Market is sponsored by the YPS as
an outreach and educational project. The Market represents existing projects serving the global
community; these projects are researched by the Alternative Gifts
International (AGI) as to their feasibility.
The Market is held in the Atrium of McKelvey Campus Center
and has been expanded over two
days. It will be open on Wednesday, December 5 from 4:00 p.m. to
9:00 p.m. and on Thursday, December 6 from 9:00 a.m. to 7:00
p.m.
“There are so many interesting
gifts that it is hard for me to choose
what to buy,” sophomore Sammi
Jo Youkers said. “Although the
Market doesn’t support my spending habits, it does support other
countries.”
This year the Sierra Student
Coalition, The Newman Club,
Habitat for Humanity, Amnesty International, Shoulder-to-Shoulder
Pittsburgh and the Kenya Chil-
dren's Project will join YPS in offering such life-giving gifts as alternatives to material gifts for those
of us who can afford what they
need and want. Students will staff
the entire two-day Market.
The Market also welcomes
Wendy Farmerie, and her products
from The Silk Road, a store in New
Wilmington that offers global
items that support businesses dedicated to fair trade.
“This is a great chance for students to show that they care about
the environment and globalization,” said sophomore Gary
Hanssen.
Some of the projects students
will be "selling" will be Solar Entrepeneurs (Kenya), Children with
Cancer (Tanzania & East Africa),
Green Justice (Haiti), and Soothe
Their Hunger Pangs (USA).
AGI is a nonprofit, interfaith
agency, which provides education
about global needs and raises
funds through its Markets. Designated grants are then sent to establish international projects for relief
and development. The mission of
AGI is to send authentic, life-giving
gifts to a needy world.
Photo by Mandie Zoller
Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity participates in
philanthropic events
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The Holcad — Westminster College, New Wilmington, Pa.
Opinion
RANT Let’s Talk
& RAVE About:
Thanksgiving was delicious!
Go...catch a chicken.
Monopoly can turn vicious.
Campus tree lighting tonight!!
Yes - I HAVE seen The Matrix.
We are not a codfish.
He's my friend even though he
likes the Cowboys.
Pocket Starbursts are my favorite.
My poor Spanish dancing
squatter.
This just in: the TUB workers
are still amazing!
I lost a good friend. His name
is Motivation.
Did you know that "si" is a
French word too?
Well she didn't have a
boyfriend, but now she does.
I miss the luces de Sevilla.
You know what? Political correctness offends me.
Son of a NUTCRACKER!!
Responsibility
What usually happens when
someone doesn’t show up for
work a few times in a row? They
lose their job. Apparently, though,
this is not the case for all Westminster work study employees.
One of my friends and I get up
early most mornings to utilize the
Marge Walker Fitness Center’s new
hours. Unfortunately, though, on
many mornings there is not a desk
sitter present, making it impossible to work out. Sometimes the
door is unlocked and we workout
anyways.
Since there isn’t a supervisor
there, though, the desk sitters still
get paid. This doesn’t make sense
to me.
I am ineligible for work study,
so in addition to my job at the Holcad, I work at the Grove City Outlets. If I don’t come to work on
time everyday, I will get fired.
And understandably so.
I know it stinks to have to wake
up early; I’m not a huge fan of it,
myself. But at least the desk sitters
are getting paid to do it.
They’re also getting paid to sit
there and do their homework or
watch TV. How many people
would kill to have a job that easy?
I’m not sure about the rest of
work study jobs, but I’m pretty
Everyone I know is getting
sure students who don’t show up
married.
don’t get paid. For example, those
who work at the information desk
Creepy faces in the mirror - dun in McKelvey fill out time sheets.
dun dunnn...
Library workers and office assis-
The Weekly Glop:
Academics
I have stated in past columns
that I believe Westminster needs to
make academia its primary focus.
As a liberal arts college we pride
ourselves on giving a well rounded
education that will help students to
excel in the workplace due to their
eclectic academic background.
I do think however that it will
be difficult for students to receive
this well-rounded education when
Allison Houser
Discussion Leader teachers are retiring and then subsequently not being replaced by
tants have supervisors who know the administration of the college.
if the worker is not there. Work for
To my knowledge there are
the Holcad? If you don’t turn in
four
professors that are retiring
your articles on time, you don’t get
this
year;
I however only wish to
paid for them.
focus on two of them. These two
Our professors hold up their professors are Dr. McCarthy of the
end of the deal for their jobs, too. If biology department and Dr. Hickthey don’t come to class multiple man of the mathematics and comtimes, they’ll probably get fired as puter science department.
soon as the Dean finds out. At the
These professors that are retirvery least, they won’t get tenure
ing
have worked years to make
when they’re up for it.
sure that their students have reIt’s all about accountability vs. ceived the education needed to exresponsibility. If no one is holding cel in their fields. They are also
you accountable to do your job, it’s very well liked in their departyour responsibility to yourself and ments for exemplifying what it
everyone else to do it anyways.
means for a professor to have a
So do the responsible thing and personal relationship with stugo to work when you’re supposed dents. They have earned their reto. You get paid to be there, not to tirement.
sleep in your room.
Since they are both retiring
then there are obviously job openings in the departments, but these
positions are not being filled. With
the current professors already
teaching the maximum classes alAllison Houser is a PR major lowed on their workload and prowith minors in Spanish and
fessors retiring, how is it that the
communication studies. She school is getting away with not hircan connect any moment in ing replacements?
life to an episode of Friends.
I have been informed that the
reason that Dr. Hickman’s position
Anthony Colwell
Weekly Glopper
is not being filled is because the incoming freshmen class in the
math department is not very large.
This almost seems reasonable, but
there are two reasons that this argument seems like a cop out to
me.
First of all, with the amount of
classes that are required for a math
major to graduate, it is already
tight even without the freshmen
class thrown into the equation.
Some classes are only able to be
offered once every two years already, even with Dr. Hickman’s
presence in the department.
Those administrators who used
this reasoning obviously didn’t
take into account that the mathematics and CS professors also
have to teach all of the QR IP’s in
the department as well. So the
amount of incoming math majors
is irrelevant.
The second reason why this explanation doesn’t make sense is
because if this were true, then the
contrapositive would have to be
true. So if they are not replacing
him because the incoming class is
not very large, then if the freshmen
class is large, they would replace
him. Well they are not fulfilling
this rule either.
The incoming freshmen class in
the biology department is the
largest incoming freshmen class
this year with 45 students. They
actually have more incoming majors than elementary education at
43, which is unheard of.
So the logic follows that the position left open by Dr. McCarthy retiring should be filled, but this is
not the case.
There are many departments
that suffer because there are not
enough professors to teach the
classes that they need to ensure the
students learn all that they need to
graduate, and are given the opportunity to take certain classes more
than once every two years.
Students are being forced to
take classes that they may not be
ready for as sophomores. The next
time it is offered is when they will
be student teaching as seniors.
This isn’t the professors’ or departments’ fault; they simply don’t
have the resources to offer it more
because of the lack of professors
on staff. Not filling positions of retiring professors will only amplify
this problem.
I guess another reason that the
administrators who decided not to
hire new professors could have
had finances in mind as well. Perhaps the school cannot afford to
hire new professors.
I guess I should have taken this
into account earlier, but for some
reason the 1.5 million dollar football field keeps coming to mind.
Anthony Colwell is a mathematics and philosophy double major. He is also
constantly in search for the
secret of the ooze.
Apparently there's a WC Umbrella Cult.
My boyfriend likes to break his
head.
Let's waterski over this poem,
shall we?
I'm a Newman Club Jeopardy
Champ. Yesss.
I am never sacked. Neither am
I a Maypole.
Wehadababyit'saboy.
Wait for it............FOPWOP.
Who will the next WC president be? Hmm...
Almighty Fork of Doooooom!
How many days 'til Christmas
break??
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Letters must be free from offensive language, personal attacks and
libelous or potentially libelous statements. The Holcad reserves the right
to reject any letter. No letter will be edited when factually incorrect or in
need of contexual clarification. Rather, an editor’s note will be included.
Grammar and spelling errors will also not be corrected. Opinions
expressed are those of the author. The Holcad will not print anonymous
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The Holcad
Westminster College’s student newspaper since 1884
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Editor-in-Chief
Jenn Corkadel
Layout Editors
Christine Line, Lindsey Nuzzo, Jenna Retort
Operations Manager
Bill Shondelmyer
News Editor
Leanna Stitt
Photography Editor
Laura DellAntonio
OTB Editor
Katie West
Sports Editor
Brandon Phillian
Sports Writers
Tom Campana, Corey Kendall,
Melissa Kramer, Bob Long, Staci McGill
A & E Editor
Chris Lehberger
A & E Writers
Erik Chesney, Danielle McCullough,
Amanda Miller, Max Muska, Ben Portz
Features Editor
Lurene McDonald
Features Writers
Shannon Bobbert, Lynn Elliott,
Andrew Kubincanek, Shannon Richter , Barry Unis
Copy Editors
Rachel Burkot, Sarah Byerly, Kerry Flaherty,
Aimee Gerber, Allyson Koerner, Ashlee Nealer,
Nicole Piszczor, Sarah Simon
Staff Writers
Jessica Davis, Laura Henry, Megan Hoffman,
Allison Houser, Allyson Koerner, Jared McConkey,
Eilis McCulloh, Stefan Schneider, Kathryn Zetzer
Photographer
Kirsten Dize, Ben Jarrett, Nicky Piszczor,
Sarah Yaple, Mandie Zoller
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Mandie Zoller
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Ripped from the wire
REGIONAL
Baited traps fail to catch pit bulls in Cumru Township
READING, Pa. (AP) - Authorities say baited traps in Cumru
Township have failed to snare four
pit bulls who confronted police
and a resident.
Township police say that the
dogs chased a teenage boy into his
family's house on Saturday
evening. They say one of the animals lunged at Sergeant David
Hain, who shot the animal in the
shoulder. The dogs then ran off
into the woods.
Police say they didn't get any
calls about the dogs on Sunday.
Harry Brown III of the Animal
Rescue League of Berks County
says the animals are extremely ag-
gressive and should not be approached. But he says they may all
belong to the same owner and
may have been retrieved -- which
would explain why there has been
no sign of them.
Truckers & Local Lawmakers
Protest I-80 Toll Plan
Dozens of people attended a
PennDOT informational meeting
for people who were opposed to in Grove City on Monday night
slavery." Raab says it's "truly a re- where plans for placing toll plazas
markable document."
on I-80 were revealed to the public.
The document unveiling will However, most people who attendtake place on Thursday at The ed the meeting held at Grove City
Raab Collection offices in Philadel- College were there to protest the
phia.
tolls. Governor Rendell pushed
the move to lease I-80 to the PA
Turnpike Commission as a way to
Kysor is described as a white generate revenue for transportaman- 5-foot-8 and 160 pounds. He tion and mass transit in th state.
has brown hair and eyes and sev- Truck drivers say making I-80 a
eral tattoos, including a devil, heart toll road is an unfair and unecessary tax on them which will hurt
and snake on his chest.
consumers and local residents.
Lawmakers from our area say
they were disappointed this meet500 volunteers erected the struc- ing was held without them as they
ture's walls and roof in about three are currently in Harrisburg for the
days in 2002. They plan was to
look for a temporary location for
meetings until the church can be
rebuilt.
Historic letters, documents to be unveiled
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Several
important letters and papers are to
be unveiled at an open house in
Philadelphia.
Among the documents is a personal letter from Benjamin
Franklin, written from Philadel-
phia in July 1776. Other letters are
from George Washington and John
Adams.
But Nathan Raab of the Raab
Collection says the most important
document is from John Brown,
who crossed the Mason Dixon line
before the Civil War and forcibly
freed slaves.
It's his last will and testament,
signed the morning that he was
hanged.
Raab says Brown's "name and
his cause became a rallying point
Police search for murderer who escaped from SCI-Albion
ALBION, Pa. (AP) - State police
Authorities say 53-year-old Maland prison officials are searching colm Kysor of Erie was discovered
for a convicted murderer who has missing Sunday when guards did
escaped from the State Correction- a routine count of inmates.
al Institution at Albion.
Kysor is serving a life sentence
for an April 1988 murder in Erie
County. He was moved to the
prison in Albion in April.
Authorities say the prison was
locked down after the escape.
Fire believed accidental destroys Jehovah's Witnesses church
RED LION, Pa. (AP) -Authorities say a fire that destroyed the
Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses in Red Lion appears to have
been accidental.
Church elder Ray Strong says a
member reported the fire just after
8:30 a.m. Sunday, about an hour
before the morning service was to
begin.
Dave Stump, chief of Leo Independent Fire Engine Company,
says no one was injured, but the
five-year-old building is probably a
complete loss. State police fire
marshal Patrick McKenna estimates damage at about $500,000.
McKenna says overheating of a
ceiling canister light probably
started the blaze.
Members say that more than
INTERNATIONAL
NATIONAL
Malibu residents return to communities after fire burns 53 homes
MALIBU, Calif. (AP) - Favorable
weather and an aerial assault
helped firefighters make progress
against a blaze that destroyed
dozens of homes along winding
canyon roads, the second major
fire here in as many months.
A cool breeze blowing in from
the Pacific Ocean kept temperatures low and moisture levels high
Sunday, while 30 aircraft repeatedly dropped fire retardant and water
that snuffed out most of the
flames.
The fire was 70 percent contained after burning more than
4,720 acres. Fire officials said they
hope to have the blaze under control by Monday.
Residents made their way back
Sunday to see if their homes were
among the 53 that were burned to
the ground. Several homes along
Corral Canyon Road, which bore
the brunt of the blaze, were reduced to blackened wrecks, while
many others were virtually unscathed.
"There's no rhyme or reason to
it," said Frank Churchill, who returned home with his wife and
four children to find his white stucco home largely undamaged,
while three neighboring homes
were leveled. "It doesn't make
sense."
Thirty-four other homes were
damaged and as many as 14,000
people were evacuated from the
blaze, which was whipped up by
hot, dry Santa Ana winds.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger
surveyed the damage and hugged
Jennifer Grossman who returned
from a trip to find her home destroyed.
"This is very, very sad,"
Schwarzenegger said to Grossman.
"We're going to help you."
Malibu was still recovering
from last month's 4,565-acre
Canyon Fire that destroyed six
homes, two businesses and a
church when the winds began
whipping up again.
"You think it's over for the year,
and then, it's here we go again,"
Montebello City Fire Capt. Fernando Peliaz said as his crew soaked
down the still-smoldering remains
of a home.
Hundreds of firefighters and
equipment from throughout the
state had been positioned in
Southern California for most of the
week because of the predicted
Santa Ana winds.
Investigators said the fire, which
broke out along a dirt road off a
paved highway, was caused by humans, but they had not determined if it was started intentionally, county fire Inspector Rick
Dominguez said.
Sheriff's deputies with bloodhounds were seen headed into the
area that residents said is a popular spot for outdoor partying by
young people. Several locals were
convinced the fire was started by
late-night revelers who may have
lit a campfire.
"I've been up there and seen
howling groups of teenagers
drinking," Corral Canyon Road
resident Ricardo Means, 57, said of
the rugged spot near the far end of
the winding road where blackened
beer bottles could be seen littering
the ground.
Malibu, with homes tucked into
deep and narrow canyons along 27
miles of coast on the southern foot
of the Santa Monica Mountains, is
prone to Santa Ana-driven wildfires. Among them was a 1993
blaze that destroyed 388 structures, including 268 homes, and
killed three people.
Saturday's fire was west of the
areas of Malibu that burned in October. Despite the constant threat
of wildfires and other natural hazards, residents seem to love living
here. A sense of community, quietness compared to Los Angeles and
proximity to nature are all cited by
locals.
"It's just tranquility after madness of the city," said stem-cell researcher Denis Rodgerson, whose
house survived. "It's a nice place."
Stores usher in holiday shopping season with big
discounts, expanded hours in tough economy
NEW YORK (AP) - Shoppers —
shrugging off a spate of lead-tainted toy recalls and higher prices for
food and gas — jammed stores before dawn Friday to grab discounted TVs, toys and the hard-to-find
Nintendo Wii, for the official start
of the holiday season, expected to
be the weakest retail showing in
five years.
Stores, including Toys "R'' Us
and Macy's Inc. said more people
were showing up this year for predawn specials but merchants need
them to keep coming throughout
the holiday season to make their
sales goals.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's
largest retailer, threw open its
doors at 5 a.m., offering such specials as a Polaroid 42-inch LCD
HDTV for $798 and a $79.87 Sony
digital camera. From 5 a.m. to
noon, Toys "R'' Us Inc. offered 101
early morning specials on such
toys as Mattel Inc.'s Barbie styling
set and Hasbro Inc.'s FurReal interactive jungle cat toy. That's four
times the number it offered last
year.
J.C. Penney Co., which opened
at 4 a.m., an hour earlier than last
year, served up such deals as a
leather massage recliner for
$298.88, after a $50 mail in rebate.
The original price was $799. Other
deals include 50 percent off toys
and board games.
In a scene replayed again and
again at stores nationwide, about
200 people stood in line outside a
Target in Columbia, S.C., at 5 a.m.,
an hour before the store was to
open.
Tracy Jenkinson, 34, arrived just
after 3 a.m. to take the first spot in
line.
He planned to buy a $199, 19-
inch LCD television for his daughters.
"It's kind of crazy if you're not
here to get a particular thing,"
Jenkinson said.
Best Buy Co. Inc. drew more
than a thousand shoppers to West
Paterson, N.J. and to its Manhattan
store for early morning bargains
on Sony laptop computers, cut to
$399.99 from $749.99, and GPS
devices from TomTom for $119.99,
from the normal $249.99, according to store managers.
"If they were selling it, we were
buying it," Tom Shea, 23, said as
he surveyed his purchases at a
Manhattan Best Buy store. He said
he, some friends and a cousin were
the first through the doors when
the store opened at 4 a.m.
Shea, of Brooklyn, and two
friends spent a total of about
$2,500 on two laptop computers,
an Xbox game console, a vacuum
and several other items. They estimated they had saved about
$1,500 — after waiting for 35 hours
outside the Fifth Avenue store to
make sure they were first in line,
he said.
Shoppers from overseas were
reveling in exchange rates that
made discounts even deeper.
The dollar hit record lows
against the euro Friday and
reached their lowest point in 12
years against the yen.
"Everything is half price for us,"
Ashlee Clifford said, smiling, as she
shopped at a Circuit City in Manhattan. Clifford lives in Northern
Ireland.
She was unaware of the postThanksgiving shopping frenzy
,known in retail circles as Black
Friday, until coming to New York.
"It's absolutely madness," said
Clifford, 26.
Many prepared in advance to
snap up their most coveted items,
though some were not happy with
what they found.
Amber Hanson, 23, of Madison,
Wisc., and her mother, Heather
Ludwig, 51, of Stoughton, Wisc.,
mapped out a game plan using ad
fliers Thursday. Hanson went to
bed at midnight and was up again
at 2:30 a.m. to get to Kohl's 4 a.m.
opening, where she bought
sweaters and candles.
Ludwig said the best deal the
store offered was $10 cash to
spend on Saturday for every $50
spent on Black Friday, calling the
lines "ridiculous," after an hourand-a-half wait to check out.
Both mother and daughter, who
hit other stores including Old
Navy, said they weren't too impressed with the "deals."
"The stores are giving away a
lot less free things," Ludwig said.
Recognizing a potentially tough
shopping season ahead, stores began discounting weeks ago, with
such gimmicks as expanded hours.
While top luxury stores like Saks
Fifth Avenue continue to do well,
merchants that cater to middle and
lower income shoppers have suffered as consumers struggle with
higher gas and food prices as well
as a slumping housing market.
There are no new, must-have
holiday items like Apple Inc.'s
iPod, though certain products are
doing well. At toy stores, Smart Cycle, from Mattel's Fisher-Price, and
Jakks Pacific's EyeClops, a handheld device that magnifies objects,
are among the early hits, though
sales have been stymied by concerns over Chinese-made toys. At
clothing stores, dresses have been
current legislative session. Reps,
Dick Stevenson (R-Grove City),
Michele Brooks (R-Jamestown)
and Mark Longietti, (D-Farrell),
along with Sen. Bob Robbins (RGreenville) - will be unable to attend a public meeting on Nov. 19
in Grove City due to legislative voting session in Harrisburg that day.
"From the very beginning, the
public needed to have been included in the initial process before the
legislation was advanced; however,
we appreciate the Turnpike Commission following up on our request to hold public meetings to
address the challenges that we are
hearing local residents and businesses express if this tolling is approved," Brooks said. "This potential tolling not only affects
commuters and residents who use
this highway on a daily basis.
a strong seller, according to Dana
Telsey, CEO of Telsey Advisory
Group, an independent research
firm.
In electronics, there are no new
game consoles, though shortages
of Nintendo's Wii, which made its
debut a year ago, have kept shoppers alert to whatever has dribbled
in.
Pam Batts, of Raleigh, N.C., arrived at a Target in suburban
Knightdale at 3:30 a.m. Friday,
ready to buy a Wii for her 8 year
old son but left empty handed.
About 30 minutes before the
doors opened, Target staff announced the store had been sold
out of the consoles since Sunday.
"Now what do I do?" Batts
asked. "I've got just a month to
find one."
While Black Friday is expected
by some analysts to be the busiest
day of the season, it's not a predictor of how retailers will fare in the
season overall. In fact, the weekend
only accounts for about 10 percent
of overall holiday sales. But it does
set the tone since what consumers
see that day influences where they
will shop for the rest of the year.
Last year, retailers had a good
start during the Thanksgiving
weekend, but many stores struggled in December and a shopping
surge just before and after Christmas wasn't enough to make up for
lost sales.
This year, analysts expect sales
gains to be the weakest in five
years. Washington-based National
Retail Federation predicted that total holiday sales will be up 4 percent for the combined November
and December period, the slowest
growth since a 1.3 percent rise in
2002.
Bush lends heft to Mideast peace
talks, efforts to broker IsraeliPalestinian declaration
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush will lend his clout Monday to help broker an elusive
agreement between Israel and the
Palestinians on the contours of
long-stalled peace talks the two
sides expect to relaunch this week
at a high-stakes international conference.
Resolving the Palestinian-Israeli
conflict has been a priority of a
succession of U.S. presidents, and
late in his two-term tenure, President Bush has made that long-coveted diplomatic victory his goal,
too.
Bush invited the Israeli and
Palestinian leaders to separate
meetings at the White House on
Monday to prepare for the centerpiece of his Mideast gathering — an
all-day session Tuesday in Annapolis, Md.
"I remain personally committed to implementing my vision of
two democratic states, Israel and
Palestine, living side by side in
peace and security," Bush said
Sunday in a statement on the international gathering that begins
Monday night with a dinner.
"The Israelis and Palestinians
have waited a long time for this vision to be realized, and I call upon
all those gathering in Annapolis
this week to redouble their efforts
to turn dreams of peace into reality," he said.
Bush will open the Annapolis
conference with a speech. He'll
make clear that Mideast peace is a
top priority for the rest of his time
in office through January 2009, but
he is not expected to advance any
of his own ideas on how to achieve
that, Bush national security adviser
Stephen Hadley said Sunday.
"It is now time for the parties to
get into this process by way of negotiation," Hadley told reporters.
"And I don't think the president
will conclude that the time is right
to start offering ideas on outcomes
on specific issues. ... This is not a
negotiation session. It is to launch
a negotiation, and for the parties
then to take a lead."
Hadley also said the joint statement was not as important as it
had initially appeared. The two
sides had taken the unexpected
step of agreeing to negotiations, so
the document was no longer a vehicle necessary to bring them to
that point, he said.
"If we get something, if they
can agree on some things as an input to the negotiations, that would
be fine," Hadley said. "But I think
it is really no longer on the critical
path to a successful conference."
The run-up to the meeting has
been fraught with disputes, skepticism and suspicion about the opposing parties' good faith. And expectations remain low.
But Bush has been buoyed by
Arab endorsement of the meeting
and the possibilities for broader
peacemaking. He will be asked to
use his presidential heft to promote a joint blueprint for talks that
are to follow, Israeli and Palestin-
ian officials said Sunday.
Clinching a joint statement of
objectives from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert
might prove to be an impossibly
tall order because of the charged
issues that divide the two sides. On
more than one occasion, negotiations have splintered over the key
questions of Palestinian statehood
— final borders, sovereignty over
disputed Jerusalem and the fate of
Palestinian refugees who lost
homes in Israel following its 1948
creation.
The Palestinians want the statement to address those issues in
general terms. But Israel wants to
leave them for post-conference
talks, and has pressed for a broader, vaguer statement of commitment to two states living side-byside in peace.
Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice wasn't able to bridge the gaps,
even after eight missions to the region this year.
If the two sides can't even manage to come up with a shared
statement of objectives, that could
augur ill for the future of peace
talks, which are to be renewed after seven years of still-simmering
violence.
Israeli and Palestinian negotiators met late Sunday with Rice in a
last-ditch effort to wrap up the
task.
"We're confident there will be a
document and we'll get to Annapolis in good shape on that," but
bargaining may continue behind
the scenes on Tuesday, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said.
Still, whatever joint agreement
the Israelis and Palestinians present at Annapolis will be a starting
point and is likely to sketch only
vague bargaining terms. The big
questions that have doomed previous peace efforts would come later.
Palestinian negotiator Yasser
Abed Rabbo said Palestinians
hope to work out a joint document, but that an agreement is not
essential because of assurances received in the U.S. invitation to the
conference.
That invitation, he said, "includes all the terms of reference
for the future negotiation" and
"confirms that both sides are committed" to putting in place the
peace process. "This is enough to
launch negotiations after the conference."
Olmert made it clear that Annapolis is but a start.
"I hope Annapolis will allow
the launching of serious negotiations on all the core issues that will
lead to a solution of two states for
two peoples," Olmert said Sunday.
The Arab League endorsement
of the conference, while reluctant,
is considered crucial because Abbas needs to be shored up, especially after Islamic Hamas militants routed his loyalists in the
Gaza Strip in June and now rule
there.
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How From a Dream spent?
mid-afternoon jazz
by Leanna Stitt
for Mallory
by J. Kelly
she looks through telescopes
for music
(hazy mornings perfect clarity).
exposure to colors of
carefully chaotic vignettes,
or the improvised
eruption
of mid-afternoon jazz
seduce her into
preparing recipes of
shrimp jambalaya
for breakfast.
without knowing,
she moves her hips to the
beat of dripping faucets
in southern suburbia snapshots of
romance and rhapsody
linger in her sink,
absorbing the microscopic
life she once knew.
Paradox
How from a dream spent
body? How wavering as I must?
How fall into winter after
barely a half touch
empties my chest?
How all flickers, wandering
that breach, curving:
forms your lips take
on each word.
How a syllable
more opened than light
the eye of this world.
Nothing I carry
knows how you hold me, or
asks how nearly
close, how far inside
so clearly this
how answers.
Samuel
by Julie Tvaruzek
I
by Rachael Hoffman
The scientists have their
So-called logical explanations
For the glitter in the sky.
But perhaps the supposed galaxies
Are just light fixtures
On the marbled ceiling of our world.
A world that exists
In a not-so-infinite space
A world led by those
Whose minds are limited
By infinity.
On the 20th of July
he went to Vienna,
three years ago
marked by a blue pen circle.
She sent him privacy
in an envelope.
He kept it in a drawer.
"Te quiero, guapo
Buenas noches"
Vienna, 2004.
Inside I find a man
I almost know
pressed to a woman
whose pale blue eyes
tell me more about him
than the flamenco guitar,
than the worn ballcap
hung from a peg.
II
Intrusion doesn´t seem
so much a crime
as memory left stale.
Untitled
By Sky Yaple
dots running around the page dizzily... lost from the tops of i's and j's and dropped off the ends of declarative sentences,
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Submission deadlines:
Art - February 20
Writing - March 7
Scrawl Poetry & Arts Festival
Drop off art submissions in the
Scrawl Office (McKelvey 356)
Hours TBA
Scrawl Student Art Show
February 29, 2008
10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Berlin Lounge
walls
To a Goddess
by Julia Barker
by Britain Rousch
our empty phrases scatter 'round us
like the autumn leaves that fall
with all the nothings that we say
i wonder why we even talk at all
we build our walls so high, so deep, so far
beyond the clawing reach of prying eyes
that one day even we forget
the secrets that we try so hard to hide
and then one day they crumble
stone by stone by stone
the bricks we laid in pain and desperation
by hands other than our own
so whether those stones are cast
in anger, fear, bitterness, or hate
or used to build a new foundation
in your hands i leave my fragile fate
nightmare bait
by Shinae
Karli Champ
a voice says something’s wrong.
but look: charming air, country curtains.
a misjudgment..?
in the normal house a man awaits.
dark glasses, middle aged,
unshaven but friendly.
in the man’s house a patio is kept.
greenery, white flowers,
menacing iron gate.
through the gate a living room stays.
neatly organized, mother’s magazines,
near the kitchen.
in the kitchen a pot screeches.
boiling over, smelling foul,
leaking toward the hallway.
in the hallway a silence settles.
depressing, floor creaking,
stairs to the left.
up the flight of stairs a lit room lives.
oddly bright, oddly squashed,
two king beds and a crib.
in the long, lit room a crib sits.
not rocking, emitting something,
fit for a precious doll.
in the gray blue crib a baby sleeps.
not crying, not fussing,
possibly not breathing.
but it could be.
in a normal house a nightmare awaits.
lying in wait, watching constantly,
wondering who will come
to save the innocent bait.
Email written submissions
to [email protected]
Lemon-Lime
by Lizz Ward
Lemon lime and the blue-sky autumn
Wipe the slate clean with our unity and orange
In a citrus vitality, but not quite sour
For all the sweetness within
There goes the shining sphere
Through the springtime sky, again
Goodbye again
Ricocheting back and far, far away
Fiery red, guided to my open hand
Catch it quick! For it won’t last
The beat, beat, beat of the pounding on
The door, on the floor, reverberate
Green on green on grassless green of winter
Shout and sing and laugh and…
That priceless moment
Quiet, then erupts with triumph
Our sacrifice repaid
And the greatest trophy, enclosed in my heart.
Work as one for the show
The grandeur of the song and light,
Number one.
Even in the wiping clean, be ever true to us and pride.
Will you not remember?
White winter wonders
Sculpt the cold into a fun escape
Children run and play,
And we are they.
And in every way I miss it…
Can you remember?
The string, whap-whap-whapping,
And words inviting a timid me
begins something beautiful and forever.
Tonight we’ll all gather and sleep,
Or not. Either works, but better is the latter.
When the new day rises we will too.
A monotonous repeat of work, work, words
Yet it remains the highlight.
The worst of each day
Fades in the summer twilight.
With it goes our days.
Every picture freezes a moment
That no longer exists
To anything but our memory
BittersweetLike sugar and coffee
But coffee is a thing of age
What became of our lemon lime?
Replaced by growthErased by time…
I want it back,
‘cause it was mine
and ours
then…
Birthday cake and softly fading winter
Never let go
Never wipe it clean
O Goddess, divine
Beauty not seen in mortals
Tempts this poor human.
What can a man do
To please you, heavenly one?
What lack you, Goddess?
How can I make known
To you how deeply I long
For your affection?
Goddess, your perfect
Form, not possible on Earth,
Hurts this lovelorn wretch.
Your love is reserved
For warlike men who flatter
You for their conquest,
As if the plunder,
Acquired through great heroism,
From some epic war.
Must it be this way?
Can there be no hope for me?
May I not love you?
Goddess, show mercy!
Climb down from your mountain home;
Relinquish your pride!
You, modern Venus,
Slay me with each luring gaze;
I must have your love!
Though your appearance
Is visually pleasing,
Seeing you wounds me;
Because I cannot
Ever have you for myself,
I wish you were gone.
It is most unfair
That one so fair, within reach,
Can never be mine.
Fruit Salad
by Lizz Ward
An apricot sunset begins every day,
in the blueberry sky the clouds drift away.
The cherry flowers, the lemon-lime trees,
all sway in the summery apple crisp breeze.
Then it rains little raisin rain drops,
over the raspberry sea til it stops.
A big peach sun, high in the air,
banana yellow buttercups blooming everywhere.
Tropical pineapple islands, with mango beaches,
a coconut flake snowfall covers everything it reaches.
A strawberry sunset to finish it all,
as the day begins to fall.
And star fruit stars dot the plum purple night,
the huge melon moon casts a glowing light.
Wish such a colorful, bittersweet earth,
how can we question what life is worth?
It all blends together into a rainbow above.
A living fruit salad, a garden of love.
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Geeks come out during Geek Week
State-of-the-art shelving in McGill
library allows for space to grow
By Jessica Davis
Staff Writer
Compact shelving has recently
been added in the McGill Library
as part of the renovation project.
dug up and the rails that support
the shelves were positioned beneath the floor. With a number of
safety features, the shelving system
is equipped with an overhead heat
detector, toe guard laser, and an
emergency stop. Inquiry students
were taught how to properly use
the system. A blinking red light indicates that the shelves are locked
in place. By pushing the reset button and using the arrows to find
the desired shelf, students and faculty may easily find material.
Moveable compact shelving has
been installed in the basement of
McGill allowing more space for
the growing collection of books
and easy access for students and
faculty. This state of the art shelving plays an important role in the
library’s renovation which is sched“I think it's obvious that Westuled to be complete sometime in
minster has made a commitment
Fall 2008.
“The compact shelving is very to preserving their library collecuser friendly and it makes finding tion and whether it's print or makbooks easy and fun,” junior Sarah ing electronics I think that's going
Sporrer said. “I feel like it was a to keep it alive,” head librarian,
good choice for the library because Molly P. Spinney said.
According to Spinney, the shelving
cost an approximate $450,000
Located in McGill’s basement,
of
the
renovation budget.
the new mobile shelving permits
The renovation project in
enough space for the library’s collection to grow while avoiding off- McGill consists of two phassite storage or discarding books. es..While the first phase focused on
The library buys an estimated function, the second phase is
three thousand new books per geared toward aesthetics. The inyear. For every three thousand new stallation of an elevator will allow
books, more than one hundred handicapped students easy mobiliand twenty shelves are needed to ty to every floor. New furniture will
house them. Compact shelving in- include a variety of seating options
creases the amount of space and and the entrance will also be
will allow 35 years of growth. To moved. The former computer lab
accommodate the new shelves, the will be replaced by a children’s lientire floor of the basement was brary and Ferguson room on the
of how it utilizes the space.”
Photos by Mandie Zoller
Students work together to compete during Geek Week.
Kappa Delta sisters
adopt girl scout troop
By Gretchen Fatula
Campus Writer
The sisters of Kappa Delta
adopted Girl Scout Troop 317 of
Lawrence County to further their
philanthropic efforts.
Kappa Delta became involved
with Troop 317 when Merrianne
McGill contacted junior Sarah Petcovic, Kappa Delta’s philanthropy
chair. Merrianne McGill needed
help with leading the meetings.
Junior Sarah Filson agreed to act
as the assistant troop leader. Filson
attends their meetings on Fridays,
and even leads some of the meetings.
Kappa Delta aims to help Troop
317 achieve the Bronze Award,
which is the highest honor a Junior
Girl Scout can achieve. The girls
work hard achieving several
badges a week. The badges range
from learning about different cultures to protecting the environment.
“Not only do we teach the girl
Photo by Sky
scouts,; they teach us some things
Moveable compact shelving allows for more space for the
too,” junior Melissa Murphy said.
college’s collection to grow and provides easy access for
The troop had a meeting on
users.
world diversity and some of the
sisters volunteered to teach the
second floor will include more the public during Summer 2008.
troop several different languages.
study space.
If any of the Kappa Deltas studied
McGill Library will be closed to
abroad or traveled to foreign countries, they shared their experiences
and pictures from their trip.
“Kappa Delta tries to contribute
by sharing some of our own personal experiences and knowledge
to add to the activities,” Filson said.
Fraternity cleans up creek
Recently Kappa Delta helped
the troop with its Healing Hands
project, in which the sisters and
other members of the community
helped to collect medical supplies
to create medical kits to send to
people in Iraq who do not have the
necessary items to take care of
themselves. Some things the girls
were looking to collect were bandages, antibacterial creams or
wipes, and other items of that nature. The sisters sat in the TUB the
week of November 12 to advertise
the mission and collect the medical items that members from the
campus community were willing
to donate. Sisters of Kappa Delta
also sat outside of Rite Aid with
the troop to collect items from the
New Wilmington community.
“We received more items than
we expected, but we still need
more,” Petcovic said.
The sisters of Kappa Delta are
still willing to receive more supplies for the Healing Hands Project. If anyone has any supplies to
donate, contact Sarah Petcovic or
give them to any Kappa Delta sister.
“The girl scouts mean a lot to
Kappa Delta and we enjoy helping
them in whatever way we can,”
Filson said.
Last year, the sisters of Kappa
Delta took the girl scouts to the
Soldiers and Sailors Museum in
Pittsburgh and spent the day with
them. This year, the sisters are
joining the girl scouts on a trip to
see the Alice in Wonderland ballet.
Titan Traverse to offer
two spring break trips
By Timothy Malone
Campus Writer
Photo by Mandie Zoller
Members of Sigma Phi Epsilon spent a day cleaning up McClure’s Creek and participated in other philanthropic efforts.
By Allison Houser
Staff Writer
The brothers of Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity have spent this semester completing philanthropic
projects throughout the community.
On Saturday, Nov. 10, eighteen
brothers participated in the cleanup of McClure’s Creek, the stream
that runs through campus, from
the college football field to Dutch
Isle. Junior Jake Shaffer was excited for the brotherhood to give back
to the New Wilmington population.
“It felt good to have people see
us providing a service to the community,” Shaffer said. “All the
brothers felt really good that we
were doing this, and everyone had
a great time while we were all together.”
In addition to cleaning the
creek, the Sig Eps have contributed
to the annual New Wilmington
Firemen’s Auction.
On Halloween, brothers took
turns jumping on a trampoline on
the quad for their first Jump for
Hope. Through donations and
sponsorships, the brothers raised
much needed funds for Youth
AIDS, the fraternity’s philanthropy.
“I think that all of the brothers
have done a great job with working towards their philanthropy as
well as with their work on the
creek,” Ashley Carnahan said.
“They spent a lot of time on this
kind of work this semester, and I
think it really has an effect on the
community.
Junior Jordan Flaim, another
member of Sigma Phi Epsilon,
agrees and adds that the community gives a lot, too.
“It was nice to be able to get the
brotherhood together and give
back to the community because
they do so much for the college,”
Flaim said.
Before the semester is over, the
brotherhood plans to help their
neighbors rake leaves. They also
have plans for philanthropic events
for next semester.
For students faced with the
problem of a boring spring break,
a Titan Traverse trip may be the
answer.
One possible destination this
year is Florida, where students
would have the opportunity to canoe through the Everglades. Another possible place is Joshua Tree,
Ca., where rock climbing will be
the main activity.
“The Joshua Tree trip will probably be for 10 to 12 people, although we aren’t sure yet,” Titan
Traverse director Laura Nystrom
said. “The Everglades trip would
be bigger and would probably involve 15 to 20 people.”
The Everglades trip will likely
cost around $250, while the Joshua
Tree expedition could be as much
as $600.
“It would be from March 14 to
21, with students back on campus
by Good Friday, so they can spend
Easter weekend with their families,” Nystrom said.
Last year Titan Traverse offered
a trip to Mexico. Junior Dave Mills
described the activities that were
involved with the experience.
“We did five days of backpacking. We started at the top of a
ravine and went down toward a
river,” Mills said. “We did horseback riding and rock climbing too.
We also talked to a guide about the
indigenous people.”
There was also a backpacking
trip to Cumberland Island, Ga.
Sophomore Derrick Trump was
one of the students that participated.
“We did some hiking and some
service projects, picking up trash
and cleaning up dumps,” Trump
said. “One day we got up at 5:30 in
the morning to see the sunrise and
swim. It was a laid-back kind of
trip.”
The spring break trips are available for all students. Those interested should contact the Titan Traverse office. For those still
uncertain, Mills offers advice.
“It was impressive to see a totally different side of the world, because you were literally in the middle of nowhere,” Mills said. “I
would definitely encourage anyone to go on the spring break trips.
It’s a chance you won’t have outside of college with everything that
goes into it.”
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762 or 762*?
Men advance to 2-1, while while women have yet to pick up first win
By Staci McGill
Sports Writer
winning 200-medley relay team
(1:41.42).
The men's and women's swimming teams hosted Washington &
Jefferson in their first PAC meet of
the season. The Titan men (2-0, 1-0
PAC) won 167-90, while the Titan
women (0-2, 0-1 PAC) lost 142.5114.5. The Titan men posted top
times in 11 events, while the Titan
women finished first in five events.
Against Wooster, Gerthoffer
won the 200 freestyle with a finishing time of 1:48.93. Placing first in
the 100 butterfly was Simpson
with a time of 53.73, while posting
the fast time in the 500 freestyle
was Lehberger with a time of
4:58.26. Also placing first in the
100 breaststroke was sophomore
Ben Gutmann at 1:01.92.
Then the swimming teams
hosted Wooster in a non-conference meet on Saturday, November
17. The Titan men (2-1) lost 105100, while the Titan women (0-3)
lost 142-63. The Titan men posted
top times in four events, while the
Titan women finished first in two
events.
On the men's side against
Washington & Jefferson, junior
Cody Robson placed first in the
100-yard butterfly with a time of
55.29, while junior, Conor Simpson
captured the 200 yard butterfly
(2:04.43). Freshman Devin Gannon
also won the 200 backstroke
(2:04.19).
Three Titan men won multiple
individual events, including junior
Zac Gebhardt winning the 500
freestyle (5:05.22) and the 1000
freestyle (10:21.97). Junior Chris
Lehberger taking the 200 breaststroke (2:16.71) and the 100 breast-
On the women's side against
Wooster, senior Becky Giles won
the 400 IM with a time of 4:51.60,
while sophomore Emily Dressler
won the 200 freestyle with a finishing time of 2:00.76.
Against Washington & Jefferson, Giles was the only Westminster swimmer to win two events.
She placed first in the 200 IM
(2:15.73) and in the 200 breaststroke (2:33.60). Giles also placed
second in the 100 butterfly
(1:02.96).
Other individual winners for
the women were junior Megan
By Laura DellAntonio Mier, who placed first in the 100
freestyle (11:31.58) and freshman
Taking the lead
Courtney Herdt who won the 100
Sophomore Brett Gerthoffer sails past his competition in the 100 backstroke during the breaststroke (1:12.74).
meet against Washington and Jefferson. The men went on to win the meet 167-90.
The Westminster swim teams
will
next travel to the Wooster Invistroke (1:02.11) and sophomore the 100 backstroke at 56.61.
touched first at 3:23.39, while Gantational
held November 29 - DeBrett Gerthoffer capturing the 50
non, Lehberger, Simpson and juGerthoffer
also
swam
on
the
cember
1.
freestyle with a time of 22.62 and
nior Stephen Burns comprised the
400 freestyle relay team that
Titan’s and Lady Titan’s
basketball start seasons with
opposing records
Men’s basketball still
looking for first win
By Melissa Kramer
Sports Writer
The men’s basketball team suffered their fifth straight loss this
week at Juniata. The final score of
the non-conference match up was
80-63.
The Titans also fell to non-conference Penn State Behrend, 80-65.
The Titans’ 0-5 record on the
season is their worst start since the
1985-1986 season.
The Titans traveled to Juniata
where the Eagles led by only one
point at halftime and trailed Westminster by one point with 14:33 remaining in the game.
The Eagles then took the lead
after a 15-0 run and held on to the
lead defeating the Titans by 17
points.
Senior Craig Hannon led the Titans with 22 points followed by
classmate Chauncey Whitlow with
15 points.
Sophomore Ryne Murray
added 13 points and a team-high
ten rebounds. Murray’s “doubledouble” is his first this season and
fifth of his career.
Juniata’s Brian Cannon led the
team with a game-high 33 points,
followed by Kyle Opitz with 15.
The Eagles out shot the Titans
from the field with a 52.4 percent
(33-63) success rate. The Titans
shot just 35.9 percent (23-64). The
Eagles also out-rebounded the Titans, 45-32.
The Titans played host to Penn
State Behrend and trailed for all
but three minutes of the game.
Murray scored a game- and career-high 27 points in his first start
of the season. The sophomore forward made 11 of 20 shots from the
field and three of nine from 3-point
range.
Whitlow contributed seven
points as Westminster’s next highest scorer.
Behrend’s Dan Zeigler led the
Lions with 17 points followed by
teammates Kevin Buczynski and
Tom Newman with 14 and 12, respectively.
The Lions shot 60.8 percent
from the field, while Westminster
shot 44.1 percent. Behrend also
out-rebounded the Titans, 35-24.
Westminster hosts Saint Vincent Saturday, December 1st.
Lady Titans basketball
team wins home opener
By Thomas Campana
Sports Writer
The womens basketball team
opened their 2007-2008 home
opener on Tuesday, November
20th as they hosted non-confrence
opponent Pitt-Bradford.
bundle of points. The Titans took a
28 point lead about half way
through the second half as the
scoreboard read 73-45. The largest
lead the Titans piled up on PittBradford was 29 points at the 10
minute mark of the second half. As
the final buzzer sounded the Lady
Titans had posted their first home
win of the season 96-74 in route to
a 3-0 over all record.
The Lady Titans who began
their night with in a point scoring
frenzy rallied a led by as many as
Emily Ackerman senior
15 points in the first half, before
hearing the half time buzzer guard/forward was one of three Tisound, as they went in with a 44- tans who set a new career high,
Ackerman scored 30 points on 1133 lead.
19 from the field and 8-8 at the
The second half the Lady Titans foul line, while she posted her secbegan where they left off, with a ond "double-double" of the season.
Sophomore center Rachel Martinko also posted a personal best
with 26 points on her 8 of 10 from
the field and 10 for 11 at the line.
Junior guard Gina Brunetti was
the third Titans to post a career
high as she posted 7 assist and 9
points in the Lady Titans victory
over Pitt-Bradford.
"It feels really good starting 3-0,
but we know we still have a lot of
things that we can get better at,"
Brunetti said.
Photo by Laura DellAntonio
Taking it to the hoop
Brandon Phillian
Sports Editor
An indictment is not a conviction. However, in the case of Barry
Bonds, it seems as if prior to even
the indictment he is considered
guilty until proven innocent.
Whether or not Barry Bonds
took steroids does not change the
fact that he still has hit more
home-runs than anybody else in
the game of baseball. People who
say you can just abolish Bonds’
home-run record are completely illuminating their lack of knowledge of the game of baseball.
Never, and I repeat, never has
baseball changed any number or
record of any sort. If you were to
change Barry Bonds home-run
record, think of all the numbers
that would have to change with it.
Let’s start with wins. There
were a number of times the Giants, or even the Pirates, won by
one run because Bonds went yard.
Changing Barry Bonds home-run
record would alter the wins and
losses of teams from the entire era
in which Bonds played. Changing
these wins and losses ultimately
would change the outcomes of
seasons if Bonds home-run record
were to be changed.
Let’s look now on an individual
record. Every pitcher that Bonds
hit a home-run off of would have a
lower ERA if Bonds’ record were
to be changed. Every teammate
that Bonds batted in would have
scored less career runs if Bonds’
record were to be changed. These
are just a couple of reasons why
Major League Baseball does not
alter or change any of its statistics.
Changing the slightest number
or stat in baseball would greatly alter the game we know as Major
League Baseball. Can be Barry
Bonds’ record be tainted? Yes.
Can Barry Bonds’ record ever be
changed? No.
Certainly, I would be remiss if
did not mention the asterisk. To
preface this whole idea of the asterisk, in the future, baseball historians will look back and remember this as baseball’s “steroid era.”
With this in mind, George Mitchell
will soon be revealing the findings
and names of the Mitchell Investigation of steroid use in baseball.
If Barry Bonds gets an asterisk
by the most coveted record in all
of sports, Major League Baseball
will set a dubious precedence for
all of those players involved in the
Mitchell report as well as those
players who will later be found
guilty of steroid use.
Should an asterisk be tagged
onto Bonds’ home-run record,
every record of every player ever
to have been found guilty of using
steroids would have to be accompanied by that murky mark. In
my estimation, baseball would be
better off to omit the asterisk and
not delay the inevitable reality that
this point in time will known as
the “steroid era.”
Although the way baseball handles the most highly touted record
in sports is a big deal, perhaps the
more pressing issue to Bonds is
how his defense attorneys handle
his trial. With a disgruntled former girlfriend and longtime
friends turned foes as the prosecutions’ key witnesses, not to mention the obtainment of Bonds’ personal trainer Greg Anderson, it
will be interesting to see what
kind of case the prosecution can
present.
Whether or not Bonds is convicted on the charges of perjury,
history tells us a reduction of Barry
Bonds’ years as a free man will not
lead to a reduction of 762 or 762*,
the greatest number in all of
sports.
Brandon is a junior mathematics major and an education minor. He is also the
voice of Titan Basketball and
Greyhound Football on Titan
Radio.
The next women's basketball
Freshman guard Max Spinner goes in for a lay-up against
game will be at Wooster College an Eastern player during their third place game of the Buzz Agree or disagree, let us
on Wednesday, November 28 at Ridl Classic. The Titans went on to lose 90-87, finishing know what you think. E-mail
7:30 p.m.
The Holcad and you might
fourth in the tournament.
make Brandon’s column.
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Arts & Entertainment
Rettinger produces unique artifacts
Gallery displays world perspective
By Danielle McCullough
A&E Writer
Many people who have walked
through the art gallery the past
couple of weeks have been
shocked at what they have seen.
The last exhibit featured rugs
and other woven tapestries, but the
current art display includes paintings and sculptures that are little
more than unique.
James Rettinger is “not interested in making something pretty or
ugly, just something contemplative.” At a recent art dedication,
Rettinger quoted Picasso, “I don’t
seek. I find.”
As you walk through the
gallery you may not like what you
see, but if you take time and really
look at each piece and notice how
they all flow together, you get a
whole different feeling about this
collection.
At first, I stood in Orr Lobby
and slowly walked towards his
first piece, noticing how the compartments changed as I walked
closer. I noticed more how each
piece holds a face; my favorite is
the magic eight-ball with glasses
on top of it.
In order to get a grasp of most
of Rettinger’s pieces, you need to
step back and look at the whole
structure, then take steps forward
looking at all the detail. He likes to
make his projects in a way so that
someone can see how he put it together.
Rettinger does use some interesting things to hold his projects
together; he has a great use of saw
dust and car putty. Also, arrows
and rocks (sometimes slag) appear
in a couple of his pieces.
Rettinger’s sculpted pieces can
be looked at from different angles
to capture completely different
feelings.
Strength Through Vulnerability
is a piece that has three heads (six
different faces) to represent the different sides of his father, along
with the compartment belly which
represents his father’s mathematical personality.
Quite a few people walking
through the gallery have mentioned the fact that the clocks are
all set at different times. The clocks
came from his father’s house after
he died; every room had four or
five clocks, but the point is that
time does not matter.
My favorite piece, Flight, reminded me of Constantin Brancusi’s Bird in Space. The way it is
put together is much simpler than
some other pieces, but it conveys
more emotion to me than the other pieces.
Another great piece is Triggering Device; it holds a lot of emotion. Rettinger said that it was inspired by a “family going through
a hard time.” However, the painting is about how a lot of things in
life are left up to chance.
The “X” on the back of one of
the hands is from a student he had,
even though the painting is on a
trigger devise and could be taken
as a bull’s eye.
His work has a bit of anger in it
because he does not approve of
some of the things in this world.
Many of his pieces contain the
color black because of this. Black
holds subtractive qualities, and it
usually simplifies things, but in
most of his pieces, the black amplifies the piece.
Rettinger’s pieces will be in the
art gallery through Dec. 15.
Photo by Danielle McCullough
Speaker takes critical approach
New Criticism is still practical today
By Max Muska
A&E Writer
New Criticism was a critical approach to literature created in the
1920s. Dr. Charlotte Beck aims to
prove that this criticism is still relevant today.
Dr. Beck spoke to a crowd of 33
students, faculty members, and
guests in Mueller Theater on
Thursday, Nov. 15 of her extensive
research of the history and practicality of New Criticism.
“It was interesting to hear her
opinion because she was there,”
Ryan Sargent, a Sophomore English major, said.
Dr. James Perkins introduced
the guest speaker. Dr. Perkins said
that she has three degrees from
the University of Tennessee and is
Professor Emerita of English at
Maryville College in Tennessee.
Dr. Beck also teaches at the University of South Carolina at Beaufort. She is a founder of the Robert
Penn Warren Circle and is currentPhotos by Laura DellAntonio
ly working on a two-volume set of
Members of the Piscataway Indian Nation Singers and Dancers from Port Tobacco, MD his work.
dance for a crowd in the Berlin Lounge and the event was sponsored by the office of Diver“My goal is to prove that New
sity Services.
Criticism is still useful after all
They performed dressed in tradtional head dress and dance regalia and performed several these years,” Dr. Beck said.
Dr. Beck spoke first spoke of
traditional dances.
the beginnings of New Criticism. It
began in Nashville as a by-product
of the Fugitive movement.
The Fugitives, led by John
Crowe Ransom, were a group of
poets at Vanderbilt University in
the 1920s who became tired of
classical approaches to literary criticism. The group would bring poetry to submit to the members for
critique.
The Fugitives began to critique
literature by closely reading it line
by line and thinking deeply about
the meaning of the words, the diction (word choice), and the form
used.
This new approach was given
the name New Criticism by Robert
Penn Warren when he published a
collection of essays in 1941 with
the phrase “new criticism” in its title.
This critical approach focused
solely on the text. Any biographical information about the author is
irrelevant, as is anything other
than the text itself.
New Criticism has often been
criticized for attempting to understand a text without viewing that
text in its original context.
The critics started writing textbooks with their new method be-
cause Biographical Criticism texts
were all that was available at the
time.
New Criticism is often painstaking and time consuming. New Critics often choose shorter works to
critique for this reason. But some
have taken on large, famous works
like the plays of William Shakespeare.
A New Critic who critiqued
Macbeth compared the play to a
well wrought urn because it was
crafted carefully in regards to its
structure and diction.
A critique is seen as successful
when all metaphors used can be
joined together to create one reading of the text.
Over the years, New Criticism
became a practical way of learning
and teaching literature. Though it
has been criticized often, its methods are still used today.
“People still use close-reading,”
Dr. Beck said. “It stuck around because it worked.”
Dr. Beck responded to a question from English Professor
Bethany Hicok concerning the fact
that teachers do not teach students
how to read anymore by saying
that it is impossible to argue a
valid point without first extensive-
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Memorial Chapel)
8:00 PM
Movie
in
Mueller: Rush Hour 3 (MCC
Mueller Theater)
10:00 PM
Night
Owl
Bowling -- Van Leaves from Shaw
Side of MCC
10:30 PM
Movie
in
Mueller: The Invasion (MCC
Mueller Theater
Sunday, December 2, 2007
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Climbing Wall Open (Memorial
Field House)
3:00 PM
Movie
in
Mueller Theater)
3:00 PM
Orchestra Concert (Orr Auditorium)
3:00 PM
Soccer Banquet (MCC Witherspoon Lakeview)
7:00 PM
Vespers -Communion (Wallace Memorial
Chapel)
8:15 PM
Alpha
Phi
Omega Meeting (Patterson
311/312)
9:00 PM
Movie
in
Mueller Theater)
Monday, December 3, 2007
11:40 AM Chapel (Wallace
Memorial Chapel)
7:00 PM Allies Meeting
(Thompson-Clark 314)
7:30 PM Men's Basketball @
Allegheny
7:30 PM Praise Team Rehearsal
(Wallace Memorial Chapel)
9:00 PM Fellowship of Christian
Athletes (MCC Witherspoon
Maple)
9:00 PM - 1:00 AM Late Night
in The Club (MCC Club/Lounge)
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
12:40 PM
Faculty Meeting (Phillips Lecture Hall)
12:45 PM
BC 251 MiniMovie Showcase (Open to the Public) (MCC Mueller Theater)
12:45 PM
Future Media
Professionals Meeting (ThompsonClark 210)
5:00 PM
Chapel Staff
Meeting (Old Main 210)
5:00 PM
S.W.A.T. Christmas Party (MCC Witherspoon
Lakeview)
5:15 PM
Pa n h e l l e n i c
Council Meeting (111 Ferguson)
5:30 PM
Alpha
Phi
Omega Exec. Board (MCC Weisel
Room 255)
5:30 PM
College Democrats Meeting (MCC Mueller
Theater)
5:30 PM
CPU (Coalition
for the Protection of the Unborn)
Meeting (Patterson 311)
6:30 PM
Japanese Ani-
7:00 PM
Gospel Choir
(Wallace Memorial Chapel)
7:00 PM
Kappa Delta Pi
Fall Colloquium (MCC Mueller
Theater)
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Field House)
8:00 PM
Circle K Meeting (Patterson 112)
9:00 PM - 1:00 AM
Late
Night in The Club (MCC
Club/Lounge)
9:00 PM
Off-Campus
Lottery for Women (MCC Witherspoon Maple)
9:45 PM
Off-Campus
Lottery for Men (MCC Witherspoon Maple)
9:45 PM
Tri Beta Meeting (Hoyt 228)
Friday, November 30, 2007
TBA Men's Swimming @
Wooster Invitational
TBA Women's Swimming @
8:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Pennsylvania District V Honors
Band in Rehearsals (Orr Auditorium)
11:35 AM
Biology Seminar (Phillips Lecture Hall in Hoyt)
11:40 AM
Chapel
-Hanging of the Greens (Wallace
Memorial Chapel)
1:00 PM
Campus Ministry Team Meeting (MCC Wile
Room 352)
6:00 PM
Phi Sigma Tau
Meeting
8:00 PM
Movie
in
Mueller Theater)
10:30 PM
Movie
in
Mueller Theater)
Saturday, December 1, 2007
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
College Bowl (MCC Berlin Student
Lounge)
12:00 PM
Honors Band
Banquet (MCC Witherspoon
Maple)
2:00 PM
WOMEN'S
BASKETBALL v. Saint Vincent
2:00 PM
Pennsylvania
District V Honors Band Concert
(Orr Auditorium)
3:00 PM
Senior Voice
Recital: David Timm (Wallace
Memorial Chapel)
4:00 PM
MEN'S BASKETBALL v. Saint Vincent
4:00 PM
Guitar Hero
Tournament for Charity (MCC
Witherspoon Maple)
7:00 PM
Mass (Wallace
crowd. Do not hesitate to put your
best foot forward and be unique in
your presentation.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 - Feb.
18):
Several powerful and important messages are struggling to
come through to your conscious
awareness. Get quiet and listen to
your inner voice.
PISCES (Feb. 19 - March
20):
Your popularity among your
associates grows by leaps and
bounds. Do not be surprised when
an unlikely group of individuals
reaches out to you for guidance.
If your birthday is this week:
You are granted a new lease on
life as you enter an exciting life cycle. Do not hesitate to cut your losses, turn the corner and proceed to
the nearest launching pad for new
ideas and concepts. Embrace with
enthusiasm and optimism the opportunities that will come your
way. Expect some ups and downs
in relationships or personal affairs,
and work to establish a safe emotional haven in which you can
thrive and grow.
Also born this week:
Nicolas Cage, Ami Dolenz,
Dave Matthews, Pat Benatar,
Amanda Peet, Rush Limbaugh and
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
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C ROSSWORD
HOROSCOPE
ARIES (March 21 - April 19):
A supportive partnership could
make a difference. Work in unison
with an individual who is willing
to contribute to your business or
professional success.
TAURUS (April 20 - May 20):
An incident with friends concerning money or values will test
your patience. Stay calm and strive
to maintain a positive outlook.
GEMINI (May 21 - June 21):
It pays to do your homework in
the fiscal arena. Investigate the
long-term value or potential success of an investment before sinking your savings into it.
CANCER (June 22 - July 22):
Do your best to avoid worrying
about feelings or circumstances in
a relationship that are out of your
control. Take a positive stance and
be more accepting.
LEO (July 23 - Aug. 22):
A productive work ethic is rewarded. Make every effort to ensure smooth sailing on the job and
to make sure that everyone is involved in the solution or process.
VIRGO (Aug. 23 - Sept. 22):
With the new moon in your
sector for socializing, there will be
few lonely or dull moments this
week. Surround yourself with
loved ones and friends.
LIBRA (Sept. 23 - Oct. 23):
Your domestic situation can be
stabilized with loving and harmonious relationships. Make an effort
to cooperate with family members
and to live in peace.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24 - Nov.
21):
This is an ideal period for comparing notes or exchanging information with associates. Speak up
and keep the conversations interesting and lively.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 Dec. 21):
You stand to come out on top financially. Look forward to a raise
or expect a timely payment of
money owed to you.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 - Jan.
19):
A fresh, new look or hairstyle is
certain to set you apart from the
CYAN
November 28, 2007
C ALENDAR
Wednesday, November 28,
2007
6:00 AM
Titan Traverse
Morning Meeting (MCC Berlin
Student Lounge)
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Bookstore Ring Days (MCC TUB)
11:40 AM
Faculty Forum: Faculty Roundtables
11:40 AM
Faculty Round
Tables (MCC WItherspoon Lakeview)
12:00 PM
Holcad Staff
Meeting (MCC Weisel Room 255)
4:10 PM
Academic
Standards Committee (MCC Wile
Conference Room 352)
5:15 PM
Campus Programming Council Meeting (MCC
Club Room)
6:30 PM
Newman Club
Exec. Meeting (MCC Weisel Room
255)
6:30 PM
SIG
Career
Night (MCC Berlin Student
Lounge)
7:00 PM
College Feminists Meeting (Mugsies)
7:00 PM
SGA Meeting
(MCC Mueller Theater)
7:30 PM
Women's Basketball @ Wooster
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Field House)
7:30 PM
Faculty String
Quartet Concert (Wallace Memorial Chapel)
7:30 PM
Habitat for Humanity Chapter Meeting (MCC
Witherspoon Lakeview)
8:00 PM
Christmas Tree
Light Up (Quad)
9:00 PM
Kappa Delta
Recruitment Party (Ferguson Hall
Lobby)
9:30 PM
Seekers Fellowship (MCC Club/Lounge)
Thursday, November 29,
2007
8:00 AM - 3:00 PM P
ennsylvania District V Honors Band in
Rehearsals (Orr Auditorium)
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Bookstore Ring Days (MCC TUB)
12:50 PM
Interfraternity
Council Meeting (MCC Weisel
Room 255)
5:00 PM
College Republicans Meeting (Patterson 231)
5:00 PM
Seekers Exec.
Staff Meeting (MCC Wile Conference Room 352)
6:00 PM
Psychology
Club Meeting (Hoyt 152)
6:30 PM
BSU Meeting
(MCC Weisel Room 255)
MAGENTA
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me Club Meeting (ThompsonClark 314)
7:00 PM
SGA Meeting
8:00 PM
SGA Christmas Party (MCC Berlin Student
Lounge)
9:00 PM - 1:00 AM
Late
Night in The Club (MCC
Club/Lounge)
9:30 PM
Newman Club
(MCC Witherspoon Maple)
9:30 PM
Sierra Student
Coalition Meeting (ThompsonClark 314)
Wednesday, December 5,
2007
HANUKKAH BEGINS
11:35 AM
Pre-Law Association Meeting (Patterson 215)
11:40 AM
Faculty Forum:
David Cushman, "Government
Debt, International Debt, and the
U.S./Canada Exchange Rate"
ACROSS
11:45 AM
RA Cafe (Info
1 Treaty
Session) (MCC Club)
5 Permanent result?
12:00 PM
Holcad Staff
10 Rind
Meeting (MCC Weisel Room 255)
14 Reverberate
4:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Alter15 Chips in
native Gift Market (MCC Carlson
16 Play opener
Atrium (Level 3))
17 2000 George Clooney movie
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Cele20 Director’s milieu
bration! An International Festival
21 Type of fund?
(MCC Student Lounge and Club)
22 Cloth made from flax
5:00 PM
Christmas Ves23 Take ___ leave it
pers Decorating (Orr Auditorium)
24 Hoodwink
6:00 PM
Women's Bas25 1999 Cate Blanchett movie
ketball @ Grove City*
32 Contemporary
7:00 PM
College Femi33 Police blotter initials
nists Meeting (Mugsies)
34 DDE opponent
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
36 City on the Rhone
River delta
Field House)
37 Golf ball position
8:00 PM
Men's Basket38 Canine offspring
ball @ Grove City*
40 Ascot, e.g.
9:30 PM
Kappa Delta
41 Playboy founder, casually
Shamrock '07 (MCC Witherspoon
42 Large game fish
Rooms)
43 1997 Jack Nicholson movie
9:30 PM
Seekers Fel47 High mountain
lowship (MCC Club/Lounge)
48 Head: Fr.
49 Old marketplace, in Athens
52 Longest river in France
54 Garden spot
57 1943 Lucille Ball movie
60 Other
61 Chide
62 Soprano Gluck
63 Peter or Paul, e.g.
64 Waters down
65 Ali, once
DOWN
1 Favorites
2 Throb
3 Guitarist Atkins
CROSSWORD ANSWER
4 Apex
5 Bank offering
6 Open, in a way
7 AAA advice
8 Walesa, of
Solidarity
9 Mach+ plane
10 Sheen produced by age
11 MBA course
12 Raison d’___
13 Describe
18 Organic compounds
19 Messy person
23 Nice concept
24 Lee’s org.
25 Latin I word
26 Water wheel
27 Runs in neutral
28 Major Israeli port
29 Oahu instrument, briefly
30 Water over the dam
31 Military warehouse
35 Roget’s specialty: abbr.
37 Showed the way
38 Meaningless talk
39 Yen
41 Leap
42 Steering system connectors
44 Harmless snake
45 Norwegian saint
46 Quash
49 Aid an arsonist, e.g.
50 Salon supply
51 Greek peak
52 Nuts
53 Early Nebraska residents
54 Chain’s partner
55 Humorist Bombeck
56 June 6, 1944
58 City of southern Kyrgyzstan
59 WWII acronym
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CD reviews
"Much like Ire Works"
Dillinger explodes with newest release
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire
Works
Release Date: November, 13,
2007
Label: Relapse Records
“Whew.”
After listening to The Dillinger
Escape Plan’s newest release Ire
Works, you may say the same
thing too.
The band, comprised of vocalist
Greg Puciato, drummer Gil
Sharone, bassist Liam Wilson and
guitarists Ben Weinman and Jeff
Tuttle, have always been known as
a band who pushes the limits their 2004 LP Miss Machine was
met with acclaim due to their brutal fusion of hardcore and mathrock.
Ire Works, on the other hand,
finds the band amplifying their
punch-you-in-the-face style of hardcore and exploring their experimental blend of electronics.
The album does not waste any
time in introductions, but instead
throttles you with finger-breaking
guitar riffs and back-breaking blast
beats on “Fix Your Face,” a song
that evokes immediate Converge
comparisons.
The album then moves directly
into “Lurch,” that switches between off-kilter, The Fall of Troy
like rhythms and powerful drumdriven breakdowns. However, not
every song is a punch-you-in-theface speed thrashing.
Instead, “Black Bubblegum”
takes advantage of vastly different
elements from falsetto vocals to a
beat-box and even includes a
southern-tinged pre-chorus featur-
Chris Lehberger
A&E Editor
ing the first hint of singing from
Puciato’s vocal chords.
What surprised me most, however, was when the chorus hit and
Puciato abandoned the southern
charm, but instead switched to
(gasp!) radio-ready vocals that
seemed to be stolen straight from
a Saliva record.
Be that as it may, the band
delves deeper into the progressive
realm with “Sick On Sunday” and
soon maneuvers back with viciousness on “Nong Eye Gong,” and
“82558.”
These two songs alternate between “When Acting As A Particle”
and “When Acting As A Wave,”
two linked and brief-but-pleasing
Nine Inch Nails infused instrumental tracks, featuring a plethora of
electronics.
“Milk Lizard,” however, is the
album’s finest track, complete with
slithering guitar riffs accented by
horns and hints of piano. The song
displays suitable vocal diversity, rotating between screaming and Puciato’s impressive ability to sing
and sing well.
“Party Smasher” and “Horse
Hunter” continue the excitement
with more blast-beats and rhythmic guitar lines overtop of the
searing shrieking of Puciato.
“Dead As History” and “Mouth Of
Photo from myspace.com
AFI Live…
The Lineup
Davey Havok - Vocals
Jade Puget - Guitar, Backing vocals, Keyboard,
Hunter Burgan - Bass, Backing vocals, Keyboard
Adam Carson - Drums, Backing vocals
By Max Muska
A&E Writer
Cover art from amazon.com
Tracklisting:
1. Fix Your Face
2. Lurch
3. Black Bubblegum
4. Sick On A Sunday
6. Nong Eye Gong
7. When Acting As A
Wave
8. 82558
9. Milk Lizard
10. Party Smasher
11. Dead As History
12. Horse Hunter
13. Mouth of Ghosts
Ghosts,” which are by far the albums longest songs, clocking in at
5:27 and 6:47, both feature traces of
Spanish guitar the band’s tradition
of using electronics.
“Mouth Of Ghosts,” however, is
the better of the two, featuring elegant piano arrangements and exemplifying the record’s atmospheric side with its mix of electronics
and vocal styles. The song is lovely
and acts as a perfect, epic closing
for the album.
The Dillinger Escape Plan’s Ire
Works is a spectacular industrial
escapade into the world of math
rock, hardcore, metal and ambience. The band succeeds in every
department, creating a record that
is brutal, torturous, angular, off-kilter, fascinating and exciting all at
once.
The instrumentation is impressive, with Weinman and Tuttle
shredding the mere strings off
their guitars and Sharone disassembling his drum kit through his
incessant pounding.
This record is a much needed
break from today’s rehashed metal
and hardcore, and it continues to
amaze me that a band as talented
as The Dillinger Escape Plan can
fly so far under the radar and still
release records that are this good.
A crowd of 13,000 attended
AFI’s headlining concert at the
Long Beach Arena in California.
A recording of the concert,
which is the band’s biggest to
date, was released as a DVD last
December and as a live CD on
November 13.
As far as live albums go, I
Heard A Voice is an exceptional
recording. The mix is nearly
perfect. All instruments and vocals are heard clearly. No one
aspect stands out above the others, making the band sound like
a unit rather than just solitary
musicians playing together on
the same stage.
My favorite part of the album
is the active crowd participation
in almost every song. The crowd
sings along during most of the
choruses and any time the music gets soft, their screaming
voices are heard.
The band played a variety of
songs spanning their 16 year ca-
the opening track of the 2006 album. This song is a departure
from the band’s typical rock
sound, drawing influence from
electronic goth-rock using synthesizers and a drum machine.
The song works very well as a
show opener.
Photo from livedirect.com
reer, including six of the 12
songs from their latest studio album, 2006’s Decemberunderground.
The concert started with the
song “Prelude 12/21,” which is
Chris is a junior public relations major who’s addicted
to LOST and the Office, and
despite being a writing minor, can't finish books. Or
sing. At all.
Sounds like: Converge, Nine Inch Nails, Muse
Recommended Tracks: Lurch, Milk Lizard. Party Smasher
Photo from spin.com
Cover art from amazon.com
The three songs that follow
are "Girl's Not Grey," "The
Leaving Song Pt. 2" and "Summer Shudder," which are singles
on AFI’s studio albums. “Girl’s
Not Grey” sounds very similar
to the album version, but near
the end of the song, Havok’s
voice, as well as the audience’s
voices, goes horribly out of key.
The following two songs, as
well as the majority of the concert’s songs, are played almost
flawlessly. If the crowd’s
screams were removed from the
mix, it would be hard to distinguish between these live songs
and their studio versions.
After the opening tracks and
a greeting to the audience, the
band played a variety of songs
from their albums. Nick 13 of
the band Tiger Army has a
guest appearance on “A Single
Second.”
This song is much more
punk orientated than the rest of
the show, and the guest appearance adds to the angst-ridden
song.
Near the end of the show, Havok’s voice goes off key more often. This happened a few times
during the beginning of the
show, but it was not very noticeable.
But due to the yelling and
high-pitched singing, his voice
began to strain. This, to me,
makes the overall album better
because it means that the audio
heard on the album is the actual
concert recording without studio
enhancement.
The band ended strongly
with their biggest hit, “Miss
Murder.” The song was performed extremely well. Havok
was able to keep his voice in
tune the whole time and gave
the crowd plenty of opportunities to sing along.
If this recording is anything
like a typical AFI show, I will
want to see them whenever they
are in the area. This is a great
album of an outstanding live
show.
Live albums never compare
to seeing a show in person,
though. If you are just now getting into AFI, listen to their studio work first, but any long-time
fan will definitely want to add
this album to his collection.
Max’s Rating:
Chris’ Rating:
Killers bring B-sides to life on Sawdust
By Ben Portz
A&E Writer
After only about four years of
being a band, The Killers already
decided to put together an album
that contains songs that have been
written but never heard.
The new album, entitled Sawdust, which came out on November 13, has some original songs,
covers, unreleased tracks and Bsides. This brings up the question,
“Why would a very young band
have a record such as this so early?”
Normally, artists such as The
Rolling Stones, Beatles and other
prolific greats come out with a Bsides album 30 years after they hit
the “big time.”
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Ben’s Rating:
Furthermore, their compilations
are mostly aimed toward their loyal fans who would appreciate the
tracks. Regardless, The Killers’ new
album Sawdust is still a compilation of songs never experienced
before by their fans.
This band from Las Vegas contains four members: Brandon
Flowers on synthesizer and vocals,
David Keuning on guitar, Mark
Storemer on bass and Ronnie Vannucci on drums.
Within the past couple of years,
these four have been extremely
busy men. Their debut album, entitled Hot Fuss, did extremely well
and sold more than five million
copies.
This record features the top two
singles, “Mr. Brightside” and
“Somebody Told Me,” which have
been widely known in the rock
and pop genres.
Along with the album, they
played over 400 shows throughout
the world. When they came back
from touring, they did not stop. At
that point, they began to put together their second album called
Sam’s Town.
According to the band, Sam’s
Town was very experimental and
purposely different from their first
album. “When You Were Young”
was their top hit from that album.
And, of course, most recently, The
Killers came out with Sawdust.
So why were they in such a
hurry? According to islandrecords.com, lead vocalist
Brandon Flowers said, “I grew up
reading about bands that put out,
10 albums a year. And I have this
fascination with being prolific, and
it just sucks because the music
business is so different now. So we
recorded as fast as we could.”
Unfortunately I feel like it will
take some time for The Killers to
become prolific, and their knack
for creating a different feel to their
songs may be the exact thing they
need.
In Sawdust they do everything
from featuring former Velvet Underground singer/songwriter Lou
Reed, adding their own twist to
covers, and to cap it off, they have
an eight-minute techno version of
“Mr. Brightside.”
The first track on the album entitled “Tranquilize” features Lou
Reed. To me, this track is quite
awkward due to Reed’s vocals
mixed with the synth. It took me a
couple listens until I finally began
to enjoy it. “Show You How” is one
of my favorite tracks on the record.
It begins with Flowers singing a
message on an answering machine which eventually segues into
the full band. This song definitely
highlights Flowers’ voice, because I
got to hear it without any distortion.
In many songs done by The
Killers, they play with his voice
causing him to sound haunting; although if that is what they are
looking for, that is fine.
In my eyes, too much of a good
thing can turn bad. “Romeo and
Juliet” is a nice change from their
normal sound. This song, previously recorded by Dire Straits, is simply done which allows the lyrics to
come out more than ever.
Overall, for a B-sides album, I
am extremely impressed. Ok, so
The Killers may not be anywhere
close to gaining prolific status;
however, this album is a quality effort that should not be overlooked.
If you listen to this record, you
will find that The Killers have a lot
of musical expression that probably has not been heard on their
other albums. This album is worth
buying.
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The Lineup
Brandon Flowers - Vocals, Synth
David Keuning - Guitar
Mark Storemer - Bass
Ronnie Vannucci - Drums
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American Gangster impresses viewers as a crime drama
By Erik Chesney
A&E Writer
I know it may seem like I have
been giving a lot of my recently reviewed movies bad reviews, and
well, that’s because they weren’t
that good. Thankfully, I got lucky
with my latest movie, American
Gangster. Starring Denzel Washington and Russel Crowe, this
crime drama about real life drug
lord Frank Lucas is easily one of
the greatest films I’ve seen so far
this year.
Lucas (Denzel Washington),
who is the lackey of a black crime
boss, sees an opening for himself
to enter the drug business when
his boss dies. Smuggling pure
heroin direct from Southeast Asia
in dead soldiers’ coffins, he is able
to undercut the prices of other
dealers while selling a better product. He recruits his extended family and friends from his home in
North Carolina to help him with
his drug business. Through strict
business practices learned from his
old boss, he outgrows the other
crime syndicates, becoming the
largest heroin dealer in the United
States until his conviction in 1976.
Meanwhile, undercover Detective Richie Roberts (Russel Crowe)
becomes an outcast to his fellow
policemen after he turns in a large
sum of unmarked bills. Assured
of his integrity, his superiors assign
him to the Bureau of Narcotics special task force. Determined to stop
the flow of drugs Roberts sets out
trying to find where the heroin is
coming from. Roberts is stymied
until Lucas uncharacteristically exposes himself by attending a high
profile boxing match. Finally with
a promising lead, Roberts begins
to find the evidence necessary to
convict Lucas, even though his superiors find it unbelievable that a
black man was able to top white
crime syndicates in the drug business.
What is most interesting about
this movie is that the story is true,
and the two enemies eventually
became friends. Lucas bargained
his way to a more lenient sentence
by offering his assistance prosecuting corrupt police and other drug
dealers. One of the best scenes in
the film is when Roberts is interviewing Lucas and Lucas realizes
he has lost and decides to cooperate with Roberts.
If anything was well chosen for
the production of this film, it was
the cast. As Roberts and Lucas,
Crowe and Washington gave great
performances. Although it is unusual to see Denzel Washington
play a villain, he played Frank Lucas with an icy cold stare that is
hard to doubt on screen. Lucas
was a strict businessman, and Roberts, Crowe also gave a very
Washington played the role with convincing performance. Another
ease.
As the uncorruptable role worth mentioning is the
snake-like corrupt NYPD Det.
Trupo played marvelously by Josh
Brolin.
One might say that the film is
rather long at two hours and forty
Alicia Keys isn’t no one
By Danielle McCullough
A&E Writer
Alicia Keys’ third album recently came out in it she proved she
was not “No One” with her first released hit from the album. Key’s
delivers the exact R&B/soul music
that you would expect her to.
It does not matter if you’re a fan
or not if you have ears you’ll love
this album. It seriously is one of
the best I’ve listened to, the music
flows from one song to the next
extremely well.
She really starts it off with “Go
Ahead” which has a really good
beat to get the album started.
Showing off her amazing piano
skills
Most of you have heard either
on TV or on the radio her most recent release from the album “No
One”. She really shows her true talent using the wide range of her
voice throughout the song and
makes you really believe that no
one “can get in the way of how”
she feels.
Even John Mayer comforts her
in “Lesson Learned” telling her “it’s
alright, it’s alright.” Not only does
he make an appearance in the album but so does Linda Perry.
Her beautiful strong voice
comes through carrying emotion
throughout especially in “Wreckless Love” which is my favorite
song in the album. It really makes
you feel the same emotion as she
is describing.
She takes us back to the moments of our first love in “Teenage
Love Affair.” Any of us can visualize and feel the excitement
through the lyrics “want you to be
my first my last my end my beginning/ write your name in my book
TV recaps
Tracks:
1. As I Am (intro)
2. Go Ahead
3. Superwoman
4. No One
5. Lesson Learned
6. Wreckless Love
7. That’s the Thing About Love
8. Teenage Love Affair
9. I Need You
10. Where Do We Go From
By Brett Gerthoffer
Here
A&E Writer
11. Prelude to a Kiss
13. Tell You Something (Nana’s
reprise)
This episode of Grey’s is filled
14. Sure Looks Good To Me
with high school drama, with both
patients and doctors. Izzy and
your last name my first I’m your
George are acting childish and unmisses.”
comfortable together and not
Keys definitely has a S on her
speaking.
chest throughout the album. If you
Dr. Bailey gets distracted from
like her sound I recommend you
also check out the sounds of Es- her workload on her first day back
thero, Emiliana Torrino, Kate as Chief Resident when a high
school sweetheart is
Voegele and Schuyler Fisk.
admitted to the hospital and nearly gets
in a lot of trouble.
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minutes, but I did not find any part
of the film to be particularly dull.
This certainly was not a “shoot-emup” action movie, as there was
only one real “shootout” in the entire film. The length of the film
was definitely necessary to tell the
complete story and director Ridley
Scott did a fine job telling this tale
of crime and corruption. I’d definitely recommend seeing American Gangster if you are interested
because it is one of the best films
in theaters at the moment. Four
out of five stars.
Grey’s Anatomy doctors relate
to high schoolers involved in a
bus crash, salute band geeks
“Pom Pom” squad (described as,
like cheerleaders but also dancers),
and the other a kid who is considered as one of the gothic-type
“freaks” of the school who is regarded as “weird”.
These two “odd” kids showed
us the true meaning of friendship
and the compassion for each other
that the Pom Pom girls could not,
considering that they were only
concerned about their materialistic
The girl received a major cut on thoughts instead of the fear of losher face and a broken leg and bad- ing a best friend.
ly injured butt. The whole episode
The pencil kid’s operation goes
she and her snooty popular friends terribly wrong when a major vein
are freaking out because she in his brain bursts and he is sent
might not recover properly and be into a lifelong coma. Dr. Sheperd
able to cheer again; also, that she has to break the news to his best
Christina is a told
by Torrez that she is
brown-nosing Dr.
Hahn and needs to
step back if she
wants the respect she
craves. This is a
tough task for
Christina as she realizing it isn’t in her
nature to “step back”.
She pulls it off
and finally begins to
gain a morsel of respect from Dr. Hahn.
Their relationship is
starting to look better.
Also, Meredith and
Lexi get in a fight over their father
who showed up to the hospital
drunk. Meredith thinks he is
changing because he was being so
nice to her, but Lexi says it was
only because he was drunk and he
just says things.
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won’t be beautiful anymore after
her plastic surgery and her homecoming dance date might decide
not to take her to the dance anymore. High school girls…
The “weird” kid got a pencil
lodged right through his eye into
Two high school kids are sent to his brain. He was accompanied by
the hospital after a deadly school his best friend Marissa who stood
bus crash. One is a captain of the by his side the whole episode.
friend and she breaks down and
cries as the Pom Pom girls continue with their materialistic problems.
At the end of the episode we
also find out that most of the Doctors were not prom queens, “band
geeks”, or did not have dates to the
prom.
Family Guy’s Peter expresses
views on illegal immigrants
By Brett Gerthoffer
A&E Writer
This week on Family Guy, Peter becomes quite patriotic during a “honor the veterans” parade.
He comes to the
conclusion that he is sick of illegal immigrants in the US and
wants to get them out.
He starts by suggesting to his
boss that they should do a background check on all their employees and fire them if they are
illegally living in the US.
Peter then visits his mother
to get his birth certificate to
prove that he is a valid citizen.
But we find out that Peter himself is an illegal immigrant.
His mom tells him that she
got when she got pregnant with
him she tried to get an abortion
in Mexico. This story leads to a
cut scene that shows Mrs. Griffin going into a Mexican abortion clinic.
The method of abortion for
the clinic has her hung up like a
pinata while a group of young
Mexican kids hit her with bats,
but as they are doing this Peter
pops out of her and is therefore
born in Mexico.
Mrs. Griffin didn’t want people in her town to look down on
her so she never filled out the
papers to gain Peter’s citizenship
in the US.
So Peter gets fired and is
forced to find work that stereotypical illegal immigrants do,
which involves Peter becoming
a Nanny. This job becomes unfit for Peter when he accidentally kills the kids he is babysitting.
Peter then tries to take a citizenship test but completely fails
when he doesn’t know the answer to simple questions like
“who discovered America”, andfill in the blank- “Land of the
Free, Home of the_____” (his
answer was Whopper).
So Lois finds Peter a job
working at her dad’s mansion
where he has a whole slew of illegal immigrants already employed.
Peter’s first job is to show
Lois’s dad his loyalty by drinking a vial of his diabetic blood.
There is a Cinco de Mayo
party that all the workers are
participating is, but Lois’ dad
shuts it down and tells them
that it isn’t an American holiday
and they don’t get a day off during the week.
Peter becomes enraged and
rallies up the immigrants to
charge the mansion and take it
over.
Lois’s dad bargains with Peter by telling him he has a
friend at the White House that
can push a few papers and get
Peter his citizenship. Peter
takes up his offer and gets the
citizenship he thought he always had.
Tune in this Sunday at 9 on
Fox for another new episode.
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The blessings in disguise Titan Traverse
Wanting what you never wanted to happen
This past week was obviously
Thanksgiving. I, like many others,
went home and spent the holiday
with my family.
My three nieces were running
around in circles with my younger
brother and sister. My cousins’ kids
were in on the game as well. My
uncles and aunts and grandma sat
talking over pie. My mom and I
cooked and served up the food,
making us everyone’s favorite people of the day.
All in all, despite the dysfunctions that happen at any family
function, the day gave me that
warm, fuzzy feeling inside. The
kind of feeling you would get if
you were a peach in a microwave.
Not to get all Hallmark on
everyone, but I am blessed. Do I
have the ideal life? I do not in any
way, shape, or form. However, that
does not mean that I should not
count the positives in my life. They
far out number the negatives.
I have family members that sincerely love me. They want the best
for me. They may not always
know how to express this love, but
underneath all the barriers you
can see it shine through.
I have the greatest friends. I do
not think I would survive college
school career I swore I wanted to
go Duquesne University. It was
“perfect” for me. It was not until I
came here that I realized how not
perfect it was. Honestly, if I had not
come here, I would have missed
out on so much including, but not
limited to, my boyfriend, my
Lurene McDonald
Features Editor roomie, my sorority sisters, my
jobs, and all my organizations.
life if I did not have them. Whether
Granted this is just a surface
it is laying on a sorority sister’s level example. However, think past
dorm room floor exasperated with this. Do you remember that boy or
life at the moment, a friend who is girl you swore was meant for you
willing to take me on Friday night and you were dying for them to
dates while my boyfriend is in go out with you? But of course it
Italy, or just a friend I can call to go did not work out and you were
out on Saturday nights, I have mad. Then, down the road you met
them waiting in line. They are al- someone so much better that you
ways there for me.
did not know what you were
My sister and my boyfriend are thinking back then.
my best friends. While this seems
Or do you remember party in
like no big deal to me, I realize not high school that your parents did
everyone can say the same.
not let you go to because the
No matter what way I look at weather was bad? You were furimy life. I come out looking blessed. ous at them and told them you
The above things are just a few for would not talk to them ever again.
which I am extremely grateful.
Then, the car you were supposed
However, the funny part is that to be in was in an accident. Where
a lot of the happiness in my life would you be now if you were in
has stemmed from unexpected sit- that car?
uations and dreams that “have not
There are numerous examples I
worked out.”
could give of things I am extremeFor a large portion of my high ly glad did not work out because
either something greater came
along or my life benefited from it.
It is like Garth Brooks sings in
his song “Unanswered Prayers,”
“Sometimes I thank God for
unanswered prayers
Remember when you're talkin'
to the man upstairs
That just because he doesn't answer doesn't mean he don't care
Some of God's greatest gifts are
unanswered prayers”
Sometimes not everything
works out the way we want at the
time. However, your life can
change forever, and for the better,
by just one thing not going the
way you choose. Be grateful for the
things that do not go right. They
make the ones that do seem so
much more special. More than
that, maybe you will be led to
something to something ten times
greater just because you did not
get what you wanted. Just remember the future is yet to come. Give
thanks for that.
to host Ladies
Night climbing
By Laurel Sprague
Campus Writer
Westminster’s Titan Traverse is
having a Ladies Night at the climbing wall on Nov. 28 in the field
house.
Starting at 7:30 p.m., female students will have the opportunity to
climb the rock wall and learn the
skills for proper rock climbing.
“The point of Ladies Night is to
offer a time that women can come
and climb and not feel intimidated,” said Laura Nystrom, director
of Titan Traverse.
The event is strictly for ladies
only. Both supervisors that night
will be female as well. Veronica
Geretz, one of the supervisors that
night, believes that students
should take advantage of the
climbing wall.
“It’s a really nice thing to take
Lurene is a sophomore public advantage of,” said Geretz, “It’s a
relations major who enjoys a rare thing to have on small campuses.”
mug of hot chocolate and
The rock climbing wall opened
cozy afternoon naps. She
last year through funding by Titan
loves being a member of
Kappa Delta Sorority and the Traverse. After being approved, the
parts for the wall sat in storage for
Admissions Office Staff.
five years before being assembled
in the field house.
“We just didn’t have the man
A Christmas treat you can eat or hang on the tree
By Shannon Bobbert
Features Writer
With Thanksgiving behind us,
we’ve again experienced and remembered all of the family food
traditions that will probably follow us into the winter holiday
season. The family atmosphere
(whether you have a few visitors
or a family tree full of cousins),
the food, the seating chart
(whether you end up at the
“adult table” or the “kiddy
table”), and of course, the dangerous day of the year known as
Black Friday.
The time between Thanksgiving and Christmas is its own
holiday of mass hysteria. Black
Friday, aptly named for its description of both the time of day
shoppers leave for bargains and
the emotion of the Grove City
Outlet Mall employees, is (in my
opinion) more frightening than
Halloween. Nobody is wearing
a mask, but the greedy glint in
the eye of any hardcore middleaged shopper is enough to scare
any inexperienced bargain
hunter away from the clearance
rack. In my case, it was the
cookie mix shelf. Among the
veteran Black Friday shoppers, I
found myself squeezing down
the aisles of Wal-Mart in search
of this week’s ingredients. I was
blocked, shunted, and nearly
stepped on a few times. It wasn’t until I reached the canned icing that I was in the middle of
the full-contact sport of bargain
shopping. I did manage to collect all of my ingredients without sustaining any long-term
physical damage, though.
These Holiday Cookie Ornaments are the perfect gifts for
someone who really has everything, even if you’ve ventured
out on Black Friday to find the
perfect gift.
Holiday Cookie Ornaments:
Difficulty Level: Easier than resolving to wake up at five in the
morning to go shopping.
Ingredients:
1 pouch sugar cookie mix
1/3 cup butter or margarine
2 Tablespoons flour
36 small candy canes
1 can white icing
Food coloring
Plastic sandwich baggies (optional)
Follow the mixing directions
on the package of sugar cookies,
using the egg, butter, and flour
(the amount of these ingredients
may change depending on the
kind of cookie mix you use).
Use cookie cutters to create
Christmas trees, ornaments,
stars, snowflakes, or any kind of
holiday shapes. Line a cookie
sheet with cooking parchment
paper and place your holiday
cookies on top. Cook them for
five minutes at the appropriate
temperature. While these cook,
cut off the tops of the candy
canes—these will be the hook for
each of the cookies, allowing
them to be hung from a Christmas tree. After the five minutes
of cooking are up, take your
cookies out of the oven and
press one candy cane hook onto
the front of each cookie. Bake
these for one to two more minutes, allowing the cookie to
harden around it. Carefully remove the cookies from the oven
and allow them to cool for
about 20 minutes.
Now you can get creative
with the cookies using the icing
and food coloring. Use plastic
food baggies with a tiny cut at
the tip to squeeze colored icing
out of. After you’ve exhausted
your decorating skills on all 36
cookies, let the icing harden so
you can create an edible Christ- night snack after a long day of
Helpful Tip: If you happen to
mas theme on your dorm room holiday shopping.
make these at home, keep them
tree.
Cost: about $5.50
off the lower branches of your
Makes about 36 cookies, or
tree. This will keep pets and
enough for one person’s mid-
power,” said Geretz.
Although funding for the wall
came from Titan Traverse, the
money was technically given from
the students themselves through
various payments towards activities at the college.
“It’s something everyone technically paid for,” said Geretz.
Some students have become
regular climbers at the rock wall.
Brad Adams, a sophomore Business major, climbs the wall almost
on a regular basis.
“The quickest I’ve done it is 14
seconds,” said Adams.
Adam’s regular participation at
the rock climbing wall earned him
the privilege of training to be a belay for Titan Traverse. A belay is a
person who protects the climber
from falling using a rope.
“After three sessions of doing it I
was certified,” said Adams. “Now
I’m training to be a supervisor because they need more.
The climbing wall is open
weekly on Wednesday and Thursday from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
and Sundays from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Titan Traverse plans on having a
Beginners Night on December 6th
to teach students the basics of rock
climbing.
Contributed Photo
younger siblings from eating
your creations and guarantee
you a fair share of the holiday
snacks.
Students without borders:A Scotish adventure
By Amanda Miller
Features Writer
Haggis Adventures guided
tours offers an amazing three-day,
sight-packed excursion to Northern Scotland, which is truly unforgettable. From ruined castles and
hairy coos, amazing mountains
and cliff edges, to legends from a
local Scotsman about faeries and
Robert the Bruce, this tour gives a
great taste of Scotland for travelers
of any interest.
Haggis tours offer cheap guided
tours of different areas of England,
Scotland, and Ireland. The tours
range from a day trip to an eightday journey. The one I partook in
this past weekend, called Skye
High, was a three-day tour of
northern Scotland, beginning in
Edinburgh and traveling as far
north as the Isle of Skye and the
city of Inverness. Along the way,
we stopped at many amazing
sights, several of which are tucked
away spots, not normally seen by
the average tourist.
On our first day, our tour guide
Tom, a local from Edinburgh, told
us facts and stories about his beautiful hometown. We first stopped
at the Wallace Monument in Stirling, a nearby city. This monument is a large structure dedicated
to William Wallace. Tom corrected
many of the mistaken facts about
this Scottish icon presented in
Braveheart and also proudly told
us stories about different Scottish
battles against the English during
Contributed Photo
Amanda Miller walks around the ruins of an old Scotish home.
Wallace’s time.
We then drove through the picturesque Glencoe, stopping occasionally to take in the beautiful
views, ranging from waterfalls to
mountains to lochs (the Scottish
equivalent of “lakes”). Along the
way, Tom told us stories about different Scottish clans that lived in
this area and some of their history.
That night, we saw a reconstructed early Scottish home and
heard about how a traditional family would have lived, dressed, and
eaten. Back at the hostel, a local
singer came and played some
Scottish music with his guitar and
mandolin.
On our second day, the weather
was rainy, but we pushed northward to the mysterious Isle of
Skye. Tome told us local superstitious stories, showed us where the
faeries live, and took us to a windy
cliff top called Kilt Rock. Even
though the weather was not ideal,
it created an atmosphere for Tom’s
mystical stories and added mystery to the island.
Our third day began with a drive along the giant Loch Ness, while
Tom told us about the various
strange animals that live in its
black waters, including 10 meter
long eels. He of course also talked
about the fondly named “Nessie”
monster and the many stories surrounding this much-sought-after
creature. We stopped for pictures
This tour proved to be informaand also saw the remains of tive, fun, and packed with more
contibuted photo
Amanda Miller takes a picture of The Northern Scotland
landscape.
Urqhat Castle which stands on the
shores of Loch Ness.
We then went to Culloden Battlefield, where Tom proudly told us
about the Jacobite battle which
took place there in 1746 between
Scotland and England. This was a
strange and almost reverent place,
knowing that we stood where so
many had died.
sights than I can recount. Haggis
tours are great for seeing large areas of the United Kingdom, getting
stories from local guides, and for
meeting people from all over the
world. They are perfect weekend
getaways and are a good deal for
any traveler.

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