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Men’s basketball splits at Brandeis Tip-Off Tournament
by Ben Warnick
Sports Reporter
T
he Colby-Sawyer men’s basketball team
went 1-1 in the Brandeis Tip-Off Tourna
ment to open the season. The Chargers
fell in its first game to Springfield College by a
77-53 score. The Chargers were able to bounce
back in their second game and pick up their first
win of the season over Newbury College, 74-70.
The loss to Springfield College was a
struggle as the Chargers committed 24 team
turnovers and only shot 25.4 percent from the
field. “We were just careless with the basketball
against them (Springfield College),” said Tyler
“Big Shot” Fournier. The Chargers were able to
pick it up in the second half as they were only
outscored 38-36, while they were outscored 3917 in the first half. “In the second half we started
to run the offense and we were getting off good
shots. We became more comfortable which
made us more relaxed,” said Fournier.
Colby-Sawyer was led offensively by Andrew “He’s Not My” Cousins who netted 14
points for the Chargers. Andrew Tracy contributed six points and 10 rebounds in the loss.
The second game was a much stronger
performance for the Chargers as they picked up
a victory over Newbury College 74-70. The
team didn’t seem to be able to miss as they shot
a blazing 60 percent from the field in the first
half and continued the hot shooting while making 52 percent of its shots in the second half.
Fournier was the leading scorer for Colby-Sawyer as he went 9 for 11 from the field for 23 points.
Center Duncan “Grizzly Adams” Szeliga added
14 points for the Chargers in its first win of the
season.
Colby-Sawyer has six freshmen, many
of whom should make a large contribution to
the team. “Jon Chaloux has made a big impact
as he has made the starting lineup. We are also
waiting for Chrispatrick Cox to come back from
injury,” said Fournier. Other freshmen include
Justin Rouleau, Tracy, David Rosso, and Will
“Insane from Maine” Clemmer.
The team has shown that they have the
ability to score as they average over 63 points a
game. However the defense needs to step up as
they are currently giving up over 73 points a
game. “We have enough talented guys. We just
need to play tougher defense,” said Fournier.
The Chargers will need to improve their
defense as they take on conference opponent
Curry College on Friday in the UMass-Boston
tournament. Game time is scheduled for 5:30
PM.
Community Service Club collects food for Thanksgiving
by Jonathan Pappalardo
News Reporter
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Photo courtesy of Colby-Sawyer website
Tyler Fournier making his move.
Women’s basketball gets win at Plattsburgh Tournament
by Ben Warnick
Sports Reporter
T
he Colby-Sawyer women’s basketball
team started their season in strong fash
ion as they pulled off two victories on the
way to winning the Plattsburgh State Tip-Off
Tournament in New York. The four-team tournament included Castleton State College,
Plattsburgh
University,
Russel Sage,
as well as
Colby-Sawyer.
The Chargers took game
one of the
tournament as
they defeated
Castleton
State, Friday
night by a 6442 score. Center “Unstoppable” Emma
Pasquale led
Photo courtesy of Colby-Sawyer website
Colby-Sawyer with 15 points and 12 rebounds
and was named to the all tournament team. Forward Noelle “Nothing But Net” Surette tossed in
10 points and seven rebounds and was given the
honor of most valuable player for the tournament. The Chargers struggled in the first half
leading by a score of 23-15 at half time. ColbySawyer caught fire in the second half as they
shot 53.1 percent from the field which helped
them break open the game and cruise to a 22
point victory.
On Saturday the Chargers defeated the
tournament host, Plattsburgh State College 5848 to take home the championship. Surette and
Pasquale continued their tear scoring 19 and 12
points respectively. The two also combined for
18 rebounds in the championship contest. Amy
“Assist Assassin” Beaton dished out 10 assists in
the championship win. This game was a tale of
two halves again as the Chargers shot 50 percent in the first half to give them a 33-21 first
half lead. Colby-Sawyer was able to hang on
for the win even though they only shot under 29
percent in the second half.
The Chargers have started off on such a
good note with a relatively young team. The
team only sports four upperclassman with seniors Beaton and Shawn Kithcart and juniors in
Martiza Salema and Surette. “Even though we
Amy Beaton on the attack.
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are a young team, we work really hard and really well with one another. One of our biggest
challenges is being vocal and talking it up on
the bench. It may not seem like it, but encouragement on the bench is a huge help to the players on the court,” said Beaton.
By winning the Plattsburgh State Tip-Off
Tournament it should help back up the number
one preseason ranking the Chargers received in
the Commonwealth Coast Conference preseason
poll for the North Division. Colby-Sawyer received 10 first place votes, more than any other
team within the conference. “We were ranked
number one in the pre-season poll and in order
to keep that up we need to continue to play and
work hard. If we play how we played this weekend we are going to be unstoppable this season,”
said Beaton.
The preseason training that Head Coach
George Martin has prepared for the team has
helped get the Chargers ready for the season.
Martin has even set up scrimmages against the
Varsity Baseball team to get the women ready
for the season. “We have worked really hard
during pre-season and we were excited to finally
start playing games. We played tough defense
as a team and we were able to come out with
two good wins,” said Beaton.
or the past two months the
members of the Community
Service club have been extremely busy putting together baskets for Thanksgiving. They have
been working non-stop to get these
baskets done through meetings and
a table in the dining hall. Now that
Thanksgiving is upon us, the Community Service club can relax and
know that all their months of preparation and hard work are going to pay
off as needy families in Newport,
Claremont, Manchester, and
Danbury will each receive a basket
made just for them.
The coordinator for this
project is second floor Danforth Hall
Resident Assistant Aleshia Carlsen.
This is her second year working on Danielle Howard, Janine Deserres, Michelle Isner and Kim Elefante.
this project and her first year as coordinator. “Best Hall had the Thanksgiving Baskets as their Across the College pro- Ryall who is the faculty advisor to club and the
gram last year and I was a resident assistant in person who makes sure that all the baskets are
Best last year and I was involved in the commu- delivered on time to the right place. The baskets
nity service club. I was the treasurer last year of were delivered throughout the day on Tuesday
the club and now this year I have taken on a November 21.
new role of being the coordinator for the ThanksThe members of the Community Service
giving baskets.”
club have also been extremely busy helping out.
Aleshia isn’t doing all this work by her- “The planning of the event, between myself and
self. Besides the Community Service club she is LuAnne has been going on for abut two months.
also getting help from Janine DeSerres who has The club members have also been involved with
the job of president and making sure that every- volunteering at lunch and dinner, attending
thing runs smoothly. Another big help is LuAnne meetings, making hands, helping organize the
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event and giving suggestions of
what to do, making invitations,
making advertisements, distributing advertisements, and
many other various activities.”
This is the second year that the
Community Service club has
been making baskets to celebrate Thanksgiving. But why
are they making baskets? “We
say Thanksgiving baskets,
however people can be creative. I know the Biology Major Club is actually putting all
the nonperishable items in a
toy box. We like the families
to have more than just a box
of food. By placing the food in
a laundry basket or a toy box, it
shows the families that we
truly care and that we put our
hearts into the project” Aleshia
explains. As for the items inPhoto by abigail young
cluded in the baskets, “We have
Nonperishable food items, gift
certificates for gas, groceries, and pharmacies.”
Nov. 20 was the official ending of the
project as the basket ceremony took place from
3-5 in Wheeler Hall. “I have organized some
amazing speakers for the celebration. We will
be having President Tom Galligan, Tom Wilkins,
Judy Muyskens, and Mark from the Catholic
Charities organization all speaking at the event.”
With the delivery of the baskets another successful project will be complete. Hopefully, these
baskets will help the families to have a wonderful Thanksgiving.
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Health center helps control flu around campus
by Noah Richard
they wash their hands often to reduce the
risk of being infected. Minimizing the
amount of students that get sick is one of
aird Health and Counseling Center has
the most important things we can do at
been trying to make quite an effort on
this point.”
campus to bring health issues to the
There are other ways that Baird contribknowledge of students at Colby-Sawyer, and also
utes to teaching about health risks that
to help in lowering the concerns for health risks
go on all year long. “Cheers to the Toilet
through different programs on campus.
Paper”, the stall fliers in bathrooms
Jackie Webb, director of Baird Health
around campus help raise health awareand Counseling Center here on campus, tries to
ness, is one of these year-long initiatives
do everything that she can to help students. “We
as well as the center’s lasting fight against
put a lot of energy into the different health conalcohol risks.
cerns affecting college students with programs
“Two wellness coordinators we have are
like the Flu Clinic that happened this fall,” said
Meg Bostwick and Kristine Macagba,”
Webb.
said Webb. “They do well with the ‘Cheers
The Flu Clinic was held Nov. 8 and 15 to
to the Toilet Paper’ fliers, which is hopeprepare students for the upcoming flu season.
fully raising awareness about breast and
“We hope to minimize the number of students
testicular cancer that students may not
that get sick with the flu between the months of
know can affect their age group.”
November and March,” said Webb. “Students are
Events are another way that Baird raises
at home most of December and January, howawareness of health risks. “Natural Highs
ever, and so flu season here doesn’t really start
week’s point was to really provide alteruntil the end of January.”
natives for students to have fun on camWebb and her co-workers try to make an
pus in activities non-alcohol related,” said
effort of getting information of how students can
Webb. “We have also organized capture
avoid flu viruses out around campus.
the flag and an eating contest, as well as
“Students don’t realize that someone could have
Photo by Brian Campbell
having Michael Feldman come in to talk Student reieves flu shot.
sneezed before touching those doorknobs and
about
male
body
image.”
keyboards,” said Webb. “It’s really important that
survey can help us structure programs to teach
Baird tries to reduce the abuse
students about alcohol as well as its abuse.”
of alcohol on campus as well,
All college campuses see alcohol and binge drinkan issue prevalent throughout
ing as a major problem, that is why Baird puts
the United States. “For every
such an emphasis on reducing it. “We hang up
one alcohol ad that is seen that
posters and hand out factual brochures to show
mentions drinking responsibly,
that you can have fun without it, and when it’s
there are 226 ads that mention
used, bad things may happen,” said Webb, holdno such thing,” said Webb.
ing one such poster that showed two boys sit“There are studies across the US
ting on a couch smiling and having a good time
that finds these statistics of the
while sober. “It’s a real issue that needs to be
problems with alcohol abuse,
addressed.”
and we are beginning to bring
It is sometimes hard for Baird to get these difthese kinds of surveys to Colbyferent programs going. “In addition to these large
Sawyer.”
issues, we still take care of students’ day-to-day
The My Student Body web prohealth problems, and it is also hard to find times
gram helps students rate their
that work with staff hours and still be effective
own use of alcohol and become
for students,” said Webb. “We try to find the best
aware of their usage of it. “My
way to make a difference.”
Student Body provides myths
Baird also helps within the classrooms, working
and facts about alcohol,” said
with professors directly or indirectly on health
Webb. “It shows students
subjects, or even providing students with help
where they are when it comes
on health-related subjects.
to these alcohol issues.”
“We are a resource for students,” said Webb. “We
Baird is also working to use a
have plenty of information here for students to
mandatory survey about firstuse on health projects and for professors to use,
year students’ alcohol use and
which is another great opportunity in which to
beliefs about how they interact
reach students.”
with others or think of others’
Baird Health and Counseling Center uses all
behavior with alcohol. “We
these programs to help students, in the hopes
would allow the students all
that something important will be learned and
spring semester to complete the
retained for their own good. “We try our best to
survey and receive a certificate
aid the students,” said Webb. “With every sucof completion to make sure that
cessful program comes more support, and we
the students take it,” said Webb.
can really help out on campus even more.”
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Volleyball season ends with loss in ECAC Championship
by Jen Corneau
Sports Editor
T
he Colby-Sawyer volleyball team’s season
came to an end November 11, with a 3-0
loss to Brandeis in the ECAC Championship match. The Chargers conclude their season
with an overall record of 21-14.
Brandeis, No. 1 seed in the ECAC tournament, led the Chargers for most of the match,
as the Chargers only lead was at 6-2 of the second match.
“Against Brandeis, I think that we were
a little bit overwhelmed maybe and expected
them to be even a little bit better than they were.
They’re very solid, they’re a very good team, but
we really didn’t play in that championship
match. The semi-final match took a lot out of
us, and in some ways I think we were just happy
to be there, instead of thinking, ‘ok, we can still
be successful’,” stated head coach Chad
Braegelmann.
Against Brandeis, Colby-Sawyer Senior,
Jessica Niebuhr, became the only player in
Charger history to record 4000 career assists.
Niebuhr also had three kills, 17 assists and seven
digs in her last match as a Charger. Senior Suzie
Kaegi contributed four kills and two digs, and
Melissa Estabrook had a team high eight kills
and five service aces.
Earlier that day, the Chargers defeated
Johnson & Wales University 3-1 in the ECAC
semi-final match.
Despite dropping the first game of the
match, Colby-Sawyer came back strong, taking
each of the next three games. Megan White had
the team high 11 kills, and Kristen Romanko was
a close second, added 10 kills. Estabrook chipped
in nine kills and four blocks, and Jackie Burnett
recorded 18 kills on the defensive side of the
Chargers’ win.
According to Braegelmann, “They
(Johnson & Wales) had been kind of up and
down all year, where I felt like we were really
consistent—we didn’t beat any really great teams,
but we never lost to teams that I thought were
really weak either.” Braegelmann added, “We
were a little flat in the first game, we lost 25-30,
so we rotated our lineup just a little bit in the
second game and then we played really well. We
blocked everything, we shut ‘em down, we kind
of got in their heads a little bit. We really did a
nice job of just taking over and controlling that
match.”
Colby-Sawyer swept Western New England College 30-22, 30-24, 30-25, to get to the
semi-final match.
“This was a great match to come back
and play after having such a bad taste in our
mouth after the quarterfinal loss to Roger Williams. I really didn’t have to do much in that
match, they just played and took care of business. Our hitters for the most part played very
well, and we didn’t miss as many serves as we
had been and we passed really well,” asserted
Braegelmann.
The Chargers were led by Niebuhr, who
tallied 41 assists on the night. White played a big
role in the offense for Colby-Sawyer, putting up
12 kills, while Genny Moore added seven kills of
her own. Burnett had the match high 22 kills
against WNEC.
Looking ahead to next season,
Braegelmann said, “We have a strong returning
class, but we have to get in better shape and get
stronger. If we do that and work on our passing,
I think the sky’s the limit for us next season.”
Jessica Niebuhr named MVP in 20th annual New England
Women’s Volleyball Association Senior Classic volleyball game
by Jen Corneau
Sports Editor
Photo by Brian Campbell
Genny Moore going up for a spike.
Colby-Sawyer senior Jessica Niebuhr was selected to participate in this season’s annual New
England Women’s Volleyball Association Senior
Classic volleyball game, held at Clark University.
Niebuhr led the Red team to a 3-0 victory over the Blue team and was named most
valuable player of the Red team.
Niebuhr holds Colby-Sawyer’s record for
assists, tallying 4007 throughout her four-year
career. Niebuhr is also ranked second all-time
in digs with 1390 and is third in service aces with
224. In addition, she was named to three alltournament teams throughout the 2006 season.
Photo by Brian Campbell
Jessica Niebuhr passing.
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How can the college improve
the website?
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improved by making it
more student friendly and
have more distinct
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the web gateways are very confusing.”
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Colby-Sawyer College website is redesigned
with prospective students interest in mind
by Larissa Dillman
News Reporter
M
idterm elections were not the only
thing on people’s mind Tuesday, Nov.
7, as the Colby-Sawyer community became aware of a complete redesign of the
college’s web site. It has been five years since
the last major revision of the site and most
website updates are done every two to three
years.
According to Assistant Director of Web
Communications, Peter Walsh, the reason for
the redesign was that “we wanted to make it
friendlier for perspective students, and college
websites are important for this. The last design
didn’t have that in mind.” College websites are
the primary way perspective students look at
schools they are interested in. The new web site
design caters to this need, especially with enrollment being the school’s biggest priority this year.
The Communications Department started talking about an update to the site last spring and
had hoped to have it launched by Sept. 1, 2006.
They wanted to have it ready for the next student recruitment cycle. The site was still completed in a fairly short period of time and according to the Communications Department, it
was relatively inexpensive, costing below thirty
thousand dollars.
Earlier in the semester, a survey was sent
out to the college community looking for feedback on the new design and the majority of
people who responded were students. “Close to
90 percent of the feedback was positive,” stated
the Director of Communications, Kimberly
Slover. “The old look was out-dated. We wanted
to change the look and feel and make it more up
to date. We also wanted to improve the navigation of the site; there wasn’t enough depth before.”
Students’ in their senior year have seen
the old design for so long that it is hard for them
to accept the new layout. While it may be directed mainly toward individuals outside of campus, many current students agree with Christine Brassard ’07 who said “I think it’s hard to
follow. It takes a while to find what you need.”
The college logo is not as evident as before, but it
is located at the bottom of each page and appears briefly when switching between pages. “The
logo is more for people on campus, but it doesn’t
communicate to people off campus. A lot of
college’s have a similar logo,” said Walsh. “The
new design directly speaks to the off campus
audience and it was designed to draw new people
in.” Slover added, “We don’t want it to look like
every college website; we want it to be distinctive.”
The designer of the website is Leigh
Baker-Foley from NotLimited NYC, a web publishing company. The banner photographer is
17 year old Lateefa Ronco from Bangor, ME.
The Communications Department will be getting more photographs from her within the next
few weeks.
In the banner photographs “you don’t see
posed people smiling, you see real emotion,” observed Slover. “Eventually every section of the
site will have its own photographs for the rotating banner.” For instance, Academics will have
strictly academic pictures and Athletics will dis-
play images of the Chargers. The banner on the
main page will alternate and blend all of the different areas of the site.
Another new feature shines a spotlight
on individual members of the college community. It includes a photograph and quotation
from an article on the web site and includes a
direct link to the corresponding article. Slover
revealed that “our hope is to have hundreds of
stories of people from the college community”
which will be included in this feature.
Many aspects of the old version of the site were
mainly directed at people already associated with
the campus. Walsh pointed out that “the Mountain Day photo on the old site only spoke to the
college community- anyone off campus wouldn’t
know what it was about.”
Colby-Sawyer Currents, the online
source of campus news, will become the ‘town
square’ of the new design. In the future “it will
provide links to weekend events off campus, such
as where new movies are playing, live music and
other events not too far off campus. Students
are always looking for things to do on the weekends; this new feature will provide them with
ideas,” explains Walsh.
Student editors should be aware of the
new design when it comes to their specific pages.
The Communications Office wants to know
where there are broken links and information
that has yet to be updated. Any questions and
suggestions can be sent to Kimberly Slover, Peter Walsh, or Ed Germar.
“It is still a work in progress,” said Slover,
“but we’re glad that it has been launched.”
Student Nursing Association organize original book drive
by Christina Metcalf
News Editor
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“It is really hard to find things like
Blackboard, my E-mail, and
EBSCO.”
olby-Sawyer College is joining forces with
schools across the country to organize an
inter-collegiate book drive to gather used
books that will benefit Native American reservations around the United States.
Gregory Perchik, the co-vice president of
the Nursing Association, and Melissa Lewis, the
co-president have been working together to get
this book drive on the road. “It was something
that he (Perchik) really wanted to do, I am here
to support him and help him with decisions and
getting the work done,” said Lewis.
They are responsible for the up coming
book drive that will be taking place not only here
at Colby-Sawyer College, but also Penn State and
Fitchburg State College. “Schools like Penn State
have already agreed to do it and Fitchburg said
they would be more than happy to help out,”
said Perchik.
Perchik was looking for a non-profit organization that the Nursing Association would
be able to help. He came upon the Native American Reservations and that grabbed his interest.
The Nursing Association hopes to gain
the support from the New London community
as well. They have planned to set up drop off
boxes in the New London Shopping Center as
well as Kearsarge Regional Elementary School.
They hope that when parents pick their children
up from school they will also drop off books. “I
think is important for the community and college to work together, especially in a small town
like New London,” said Perchik.
Nov. 27 the Nursing Association will be
starting the book drive on campus. In the dining hall during lunch and dinner there will be a
place for donors to drop off any used books.
There will also be a drop off set up in the
Thornton Living Room located in Colgate Hall
between the hours of noon and 6 PM.
Dec. 8 and 9 the book drive will be expanded out into the New London Community
in hopes that the college community and towns
people can come together as one and support a
good cause. “So it’s very exciting and we are hoping for a good turn out to donate,” said Lewis.
Any type of book is welcome, except for
textbooks. Children’s books, adolescent and adult
level reading would be suitable. “We are looking
for everything. Picture books to Shakespeare,”
said Perchik.
After the book drive the books will be sent
to the Indian Health Service and the American
Indian Relief Fund. Both of these organizations
are dedicated to improving the lives of Native
Americans across the country. Once the organizations receive the books they will then decide
which reservations need the books the most.
Everyone is encouraged to donate an old
book to the cause. “A little bit from everyone can
really go a long way,” said Perchik.
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Colby-Sawyer singers sing international carols in concert
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T
he Colby-Sawyer College Singers’ 2006
Holiday Concert will feature carols from
around the world and children’s book author and artist Tomie dePaola as emcee. DePaola,
a New London, N.H., resident, will read from
his book, An Early American Christmas, with
musical accompaniment by the Singers.
The concert will be performed on Thursday, Dec. 7, at 7 p.m. in the Sawyer Center Theater. Community
members are welcome to attend
this festive event,
and admission is
free.
The ColbySawyer College
Singers are a choir
composed of college students, faculty and staff,
along with memCourtesy Photo
bers from the New
Tomie dePaola.
London area communities.
The
Singers are led by Director Michael Civiello, with
accompaniment by Jean Liepold.
This year’s Holiday Concert will feature
three distinctive parts. In part one, the Singers
will perform new and original carol arrangements from Germany, Dominican Republic,
Japan and the United States. Each carol has
national characteristics, including “Infant Joy,”
a Japanese carol with lyrics based on a William
Blake poem. Another piece, “Who is the Baby?,”
merges elements of gospel and spiritual traditions.
The concert’s part two will feature solos,
duets, trios and ensembles by various choir
members. Solo performances by students include
Jennifer Kiely in “Where are you Christmas?,”
TJ Coffrin in “O Holy Night” and Sarah Connor
in “Lullaby.” A group of students including Mary
Eid, Rebecca Spitz, Lauri Baudanza, Kyle Koch,
Kara Watts and Alicia Harris will perform “Nativity Carol.”
Community members Jay and Linda
Lambert will be featured in “Baby, it’s cold outside,” while a trio of community members, Alice
Field, Wally Borgen and Brenda Balenger, will
perform a Calypso carol, “Mary’s Little Baby.”
A quartet of community members, Nancee
Leach, Carol Foss, George West and Tom Maloof,
will perform an old favorite, “Deck the Halls.”
In the concert’s final part, Tomie dePaola
will read his book, An Early American Christmas, a tale of how the holiday came to be observed in New England. DePaola’s illustrations
from the book will be presented on a large screen
on stage during the reading, while the Singers
perform a variety of Christmas songs.
Best known for his children’s books,
dePaola has written and illustrated more than
200 books, including 26 Fairmount Avenue,
Strega Nona, and Meet the Barkers. DePaola and
his work have been recognized with the Caldecott
Honor Award, the Newbery Honor Award and
the New Hampshire Governor’s Arts Award of
Living Treasure.
The Colby-Sawyer College Singers includes the following sopranos: Cindy Benson,
Wally Borgen, Nancy Edwards-Cogswell, Sarah
Connor, Nicole Cormier, Mary Eid, Alice Field,
Marge Judge, Jennifer Kiely, Kyle Koch, Nancee
Leach, Molly Mullen, Ashley Leukart, Deborah
Reed, Magbé Savané and Priscilla Sargent.
Altos include Brenda Balenger, Lauri
Baudanza, Pat Clement, Alicia Harris, Linda A.
Lambert, Madeline Lenox, Katelin McNutt,
Amber Richardson, Nina Rogers, Jane Solomon,
Olivia Smith, Kathy Taylor and Kara Watts.
Tenors among the Singers include TJ
Coffrin, Tom Ferguson, Carol Foss, Ashley
Goulter, Pat McNamara and George West. Don
Coonley, Tom DeMille, Jay Lambert, Tom
Maloof, Herbert Spencer and Michael Warning
are the bass singers.
The Singers will be accompanied by percussionists Nicole Fenton and Jerry Putnam,
with Gary Robinson on guitar.
Osama is the third installment in Human Rights Film Festival by Cultural Events Committee
by Ryan Sherwood
T
Movie Reviewer
he Afghani film Osama was screened in
Clements Hall, Nov. 15, as the third install
ment in the Colby-Sawyer Human Rights
Film Festival. The festival was sponsored by the
school’s Cultural Events Committee, in conjunction with the League of Women Voters; all three
films chosen (the previous two were Kandahar
and Darfur Diaries) explored modern life in the
Middle East.
Osama was the first movie made in Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban; previously, all
moviemaking of any kind had been banned. Director Siddiq Barmak filmed on the actual streets
of Kabul, using only amateur actors. The film
was made for under $100,000, and went on to
dominate the 2003 Cannes Film Festival and win
the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language
Film.
The movie shows a time and a place where femininity is a curse; under Taliban rule, Afghani
women must always be clothed head-to-toe and
are not allowed in public without a male guardian. The family of twelve-year-old Osama is without financial support after the death of the girl’s
father. Osama’s grandmother suggests that the
girl cut her hair and find work disguised as a
boy. If she is discovered she will be killed, but
the old woman insists that “people always believe their own eyes.”
The power of Osama does not lie in its story,
which is simple, nor in its characters, which are
opaque. The film’s beauty is in its meshing of
image and sound – machine gun fire into a
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crowd of women in burqas; the footsteps of a
crippled boy fleeing from a hospital; scissors
through the hair of a sleeping girl. Osama is indeed a beautiful film, as beautiful as it is horrible, as it is borderline unwatchable.
This is a film intended for Western audiences (I
doubt it received a wide release in most Middle
Eastern nations), an audience to whom its subject is unthinkably alien. The brutal final scenes
depict a public stoning (a few women are spared
and married off). This is something we would
be okay with if we saw it in a movie taking place
some 2000 years ago. But there, among the condemned, is a British journalist in blue jeans, carrying a video camera. This is the 21st century.
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Colby-Sawyer Athletics
by Christine Francis
Athletics Department Intern
A
s a Business Administration major here
at Colby-Sawyer, I am required to com
plete an internship of 240 hours. I am
acting as a marketing intern for our athletics department here on campus, working with members of the staff to come up with creative ideas
and new ways to focus on bringing students, faculty, staff to the games to support our teams.
Because Colby-Sawyer is a Division III
school, our athletics department is relatively
small; meaning that no one is person assigned
to marketing. However, with the help of department members, work study students, and myself as an intern, a fair amount of time is spent
marketing our athletics events. The purpose of
this article is to inform the college community
of our marketing tactics that you might not know
about, and to explain our marketing goals.
The department has already developed
tactics that provide incentives for students, faculty, and staff in particular to attend athletic
events. For example, at the beginning of each
season, coaches choose a couple games that they
wish to receive special attention – these are the
games that the department and myself focus the
majority of our marketing tactics on. These are
the games where free t-shirts are thrown into
the crowd or gift certificates are raffled off.
Free t-shirts are usually thrown randomly into the crowd to cheering fans. We occasionally make an exception and hand out free
t-shirts to just about every student, faculty, and
staff member at the door instead of throwing
them into the crowd.
Those days that we make an exception,
we are trying to promote our “Wear you blue”
campaign. This means simply what it says – the
department would like you to “wear your blue”
t-shirts to events that you attend to show your
support for the team. Also this helps us see who
has a t-shirt and who doesn’t, in an attempt to
be fair to all fans.
The free raffle tickets that we have given
out during events this past fall season were given
to the department by Pizza Chef, the College
Café, and Peter Christian’s Tavern here in town.
The purpose of raffling off gift certificates from
local businesses is to thank them for their continued support of the college and athletics in particular.
If you were here last year, you may know
that there was a radio show which featured interviews with our coaches. This year, the radio
show is back on the air, Wednesday nights at
6:30pm and again Thursdays at 11:00am.
The host of the show this year is student, Sean
Gildea. New to the show this year, we are asking a trivia question each week. The topic is generally determined by which coach we interviewed that day. If you tune in to the show and
know the answer (if the question is about a team
and you are member of that team, you may not
participate), call in to the athletics department
(x3610). The first caller will win a free t-shirt.
If you are not on campus, around town,
in addition to the on-campus promotion, posters and schedule cards are distributed to allow
community members to see what is going on at
Colby-Sawyer.
If you are on-campus, check your e-mail
to receive information about upcoming sporting events. If you have any suggestions about
marketing, you can e-mail me at
[email protected]. I hope you have
found this article helpful and are now more aware
of what the department is trying to do. Featured
below are some “Did you know?” facts that you
may not know about the Colby-Sawyer athletics department.
As always, keep supporting your ColbySawyer teams. Go Chargers!
That if you receive a t-shirt at any athletic event on campus that is too big
or too small, you can bring it to the
Athletic department and exchange it
for the correct size
Five NCAA Women of the Year from
New Hampshire
Did you know ...
The Women’s Volleyball team has
made it to the CCC Championship
match 10 years in a row
Second year Colby-Sawyer ski coach
Danny Noyes was inducted into the
Kennett High School Sports Hall of
Fame on September 22 in Conway,
N.H
The Athletics Department has a radio show that airs Wednesday nights
and Thursday morning. And if you
correctly answer the trivia question
from the radio show, you can win a
free t-shirt?
That specifically highlighted events
during the season get special marketing attention – this is why sometimes
t-shirts are thrown into the crowd and
sometimes they’re not
Colby-Sawyer’s Equestrian teams
were National Champions in ’89 and
’94 • Equestrian Reserve National
Champions in ’98
Colby-Sawyer teams have won 15 CCC
Championships and 1 ECAC Tournament Championship
In Alpine Skiing there were 19 students named All-Americans
Eight CoSIDA (College Sports Information Directors of America) Academic All-Americans
23 CoSIDA (College Sports Information Directors of America) Academic
All-District honorees
Our athletes of the month for October were Jessica Niebuhr and Wil
McCarthy
Usually 100+ student-athletes are on
the academic honor roll with a GPA
of 3.0 or above
90% or more student-athletes that
played on a team in a previous year,
return to participate in athletics the
following year
That Colby-Sawyer student-athletes
received a national award for their
work in the t-shirt/short drive for the
village of Pokuase in Ghana. Soccer
uniforms were the hit of the day and
the village created teams with ColbySawyer uniforms and we sent them
soccer balls, and used equipment that
only made their experience more fun!
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Letters to the editor
To the Editor:
Re “SNAFU Redux leaves much to be
desired on stage” (Features article Nov. 10)
I am writing in regard to the recent edition of the Courier and its review of the student
production of “SNAFU Redux”. I was a cast
member of this production, and the opinion in
this response is all my own: I take full responsibility for the following letter.
Your reporter begins his article by commenting on the title of the play. It seems to me
as a reader that this reporter had not done his
journalism homework; the term SNAFU means,
Situation Normal All Fouled Up—I see no reason why the reporter had to censor himself while
writing for a college news paper, which is published at the very college where these controversial plays were written, taught, edited, practiced,
collaborated on, examined, re-edited, critiqued,
and ultimately performed. The title of the play
fits the content and even the sets; the situation
is not out of hand, these plays are not supposed
to be congruent, there is no timeline; this is how
everything is—normally “fouled up”. Get it? Do
you get how clever and self-explanatory that is?
In fact, what I have been taught here at ColbySawyer leads me to conclude that the only constant between the plays is that they all left the
audience with something to think about. There
was no closure for many of these plays; the catharsis was felt by the audience rather than expressed and discovered on the stage by the characters. This anxiety coupled with how short the
plays were, and how fast they preceded left the
To the Editor:
Re “SNAFU Redux leaves much to be
desired on stage” (Features article Nov. 10)
I was a cast member of SNAFU Redux
this fall, and would like to respond to the review
published in The Courier on November 10 th,
2006. When I read the article reviewing our
hard work throughout the semester, I was appalled for many reasons. The first thing that I
noticed was that the so called “facts” in the article were incorrect. I was in Jerry Bliss’ Catharsis: A Theatrical Journey Pathway when
many of these plays were written. I also wrote
a play, but it was not featured in the show. The
plays were not written by sophomores, but by
current juniors and seniors as well as one being
written by Jerry Bliss. If you weren’t here last
year, you wouldn’t know that our fall plays in
2005 has the titles of SNAFU and SNAFU TOO!
These were compiled of fourteen student written plays, split into two nights each. Jerry Bliss
named the production SNAFU because those
plays were exactly what the title describes. Carrying the name through to this year was to let
the viewers know that the show would be a continuation of the year before, as SNAFU Redux’s
plays were also student written. None of the
characters are supposed to carry from play to
audience questioning their process of thought,
opinion, and perception.
With that, your reporter states that these
plays were written “before SNAFU was dreamed
up”—and here is where a little research [I am
aware that the reporter is a first year student]
would have educated your man. “SNAFU and
SNAFU TOO!” were plays performed in the fall
of 2004, and I was part of that cast. This is where
Jerry Bliss explained to us as a cast the reason
behind the naming of the show (come to think
of it he encouraged us to try and figure it out
before he explained it). The plays written for
“SNAFU Redux” were written that spring 2005
semester in the second year of my pathway class
with Jerry Bliss. Professor David Elliot (ironically on this issue’s cover) taught the class as
Bliss was on sabbatical. In the course we went
through the creative and structural processes of
composing, writing, editing, and making plays.
Contrary to what your reporter claims, we as a
class were aware that these plays might be performed—as we performed scenes in class together. The only play in “SNAFU Redux” that
was not student written was “The Moon” written by Jerry Bliss [a fact your reporter neglects
to mention in any detail.]
The article takes a negative and bias view
after its unenthusiastic introduction. His [the
reporter] accusation that there was no attempt
at originality offended me completely. The plays
in question here, “1:28”, “Fallen from Grace” and
“Live Life As You Want It” were written by three
different people, directed by three different
play because they were all individually written.
As part of the cast, I understood Jerry’s selection of plays to want to give a message to our
audience. The themes of the plays were supposed to get the audience thinking. Things like
abortion, relationships, bullying, and striving for
personal gratification are all things that we know
about. We just wanted people to se them from
different angles. The comedies were meant to
get you laughing, and the dramas were meant
to get people thinking about tough situations.
The writer of this article, Ryan Sherwood, was a
former cast member of SNAFU Redux whom
apparently was under the impression that there
was a personal attack upon him. This clearly
shows considerable bias against all those who
worked so hard on writing, producing, and acting in these plays. Not surprisingly, the most
criticized play in his article was the one he was
supposed to be starring in. I know I do not speak
for only myself when I say that I found this article to be personally degrading, inappropriate,
and slanderous. I hope the appropriate actions
will be taken to ensure that the reputation of our
talented students, faculty, and college newspaper will no longer be threatened.
KERRI MORRISON
Class of 2008
people, and had completely [still going with our
SNAFU metaphor] different characters. I cannot see how there would be a lack of originality
in any of these plays given what the writers had
to go through to get their work onto the page, as
well as the responsibility of students to bring
these characters to life, and their manifestation
on the stage. The article continues to bash the
plays, mostly how they are written rather then
the way they were performed.
I find it funny that the reporter and writer
of this story was given the job of writing the
Courier’s review of the play, when it is quite obvious his work is a personal opinion piece. Given
the hugely positive and praiseful response we as
a cast have been getting from the faculty, staff,
students, and even the community—I was
stopped while dining at Peter Christian’s by a very
nice woman who told me she thought we did a
“top-notch job” and wanted to thank me for being in the play. I found it a little odd that the
Courier would mention the play in its Cheers
section, while giving it such a discerning review.
Had this article appeared under the Opinions section of the paper I would have been much
less offended and possibly just a little pissed at
the writer. The writer’s involvement in “SNAFU
Redux” [and surprisingly negative attitude toward the cast and crew] compromised his review, and created [in my opinion] an unprofessional, poorly written, jealous and selfish attempt
at revenge.
Please if this article is printed make sure
it goes under the appropriate section of the paper.
ZACHARY CRANOR
Class of 2007
An Evening of Dance captivates audience
by Ashley Goulter
Features Reporter
T
he Colby-Sawyer dance club produced ‘An
Evening of Dance’ this weekend and pre
sented a fun and energetic repertoire of
music and new and interesting dances choreographed.
The dances [songs] were varied, with hiphop songs such as ‘Never Gonna Get it’, ‘Buttons’, and the ever popular, ‘Sexyback’ were presented, other lesser known songs such as ‘Sing
Sing Sing’, ‘Cry’, and ‘I Can’t Stand the Rain’
were also presented.
There were two tap dances performed,
one of which was choreographed to Linkin Park
and Jay-Z’s ‘Numb Encore’ (the other was to
‘Sing Sing Sing’).
Most of the songs were either hip-hop or
jazz, but there were some songs that were dramatically different from the rest.
Those who saw the dance show are sure
to remember Marilyn Manson’s ‘Beautiful
People’. With dramatic red lights and costumes
with a modern ‘goth punk’ flare, the choreography and music combined with the lighting created a memorable dance.
In between the dances, songs like ‘Sweet
Caroline’ and ‘Build Me Up Buttercup’ kept the
high energy going in the audience. The audience
this year was especially tolerable—in years past
this has not always been the case.
All in all the dance show was a success.
All of the dancers and choreographers put in
hours and hours of work and it showed with the
dance show production.
Photo by Brian Campbell
Lauren Campigilo ‘10 in We’re Dancing.
From the Editor:
Just another reminder that if you ever have
any questions, comments, or concerns about
any issues within the college community or
with the quality of this newspaper, please feel
free to write a letter to myself or slide it under the office door (Colgate 305). You may
remain anonymous in the printing of the
paper, but please remember to sign and date
your original letter. We cannot print your
letter without your signature. Thanks again.
Nicole Iapicca
Editor-in-Chief
Dancers in Buttons.
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Photo by Brian Campbell
Megan Langevin ‘09 in Sugar.
Photo by Brian Campbell
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Pianist known for engaging audiences with story-telling
College Communications Office
Courtesy
C
olby-Sawyer College will host a solo con
cert by popular contemporary pianist
Robin Spielberg, a performer known for
engaging audiences with her story-telling and
accessible musical style.
Spielberg will perform on Wednesday, Nov. 29,
at 8 p.m. in the Sawyer Fine Arts Center Theatre. Tickets are $10/adults or $5/students/children and may be purchased through the college
box office at (603) 526-3670.
“Robin has such a personal and expressive way
Spielberg engages her audiences.
of playing, and her story-telling about the origins of the music makes the pieces come alive,”
wrote a critic for Wind & Wire Magazine. Sound
Mind Magazine described her music as “extremely moving…evocative, beautiful…These
pieces go straight for the heart and then stay
there.”
Spielberg began touring the United States in 1996
and made her Carnegie Hall debut in a sold-out
performance the following year. She has performed in the PBS television special, “The Soul
of Christmas: A Celtic Music Celebration with
Thomas Moore,” as well as on “CBS Saturday
Morning” and other television programs.
Spielberg has made 13 recordings, including four
albums of original piano solos and two recordings of American standards and film songs. Her
piano solo work includes “Heal of the Hand,”
“Songs of the Spirit,” “Dreaming of Summer”
and Memories of Utopia.” Her American standard albums are titled “With a Song in My Heart”
and “Unchained Melodies.”
In other recordings, Spielberg combined solo and
ensemble work, ballads and instrumentals, original pieces with the work of other artists. “In the
Arms of the Wind” includes her original pieces
for solo piano and piano/ensemble, while
“Mother” is a collaborative CD containing
instrumentals, sung ballads and songs celebrating mothers and motherhood. She has also produced four recordings of holiday music, “Spirit
of the Holidays,” “In the Heart of Winter,”
“American Chanukah” and “The Christmas Collection” and a recording of lullabies titled “Beautiful Dreamer. “
Spielberg’s interest in music and healing grew
when she witnessed first-hand, the positive ef-
The performance will be held November 29 in
Wheeler Hall.
fect music had on her premature daughter during her four-month stay in the neo-natal intensive care unit. Her “Beautiful Dreamer” was the
musical result of this experience, a recording of
lullabies and songs for the parent and child on
solo piano. The CD was hailed by Child Magazine as one of “The Best of 2000.”
Spielberg serves as celebrity spokesperson for The
American Music Therapy Association and donates $1 from the sale of each “Beautiful
Dreamer” CD to music therapy research. She
conducts workshops and seminars on the topic
of music and healing throughout the nation in
hospitals, schools, community centers, nursing
care facilities and performing arts centers.
Humanities seminar talks about Italian Imperialism
by Katina Caraganis
Features Editor
A
ward-winning University of New
Hampshire Professor Dr. Piero
Garofaloparticipated at the humanities
seminar Nov. 17, co-sponsored by the Humanities Department and Cultural Events Committee.
Garofalo, associate professor of Italian at UNH,
and winner of the 2004 Excellence in Teaching
award at the college, presented “Filming the Forum: The Cinematic Politics of Italian Imperialism,” that focused on two movies that drastically contrasted the way in which the Punic Wars
were seen.
One showed the way in which the wars
were seen through the eyes of the Italian people
and the other through the eyes of the government. Garofalo is known for bringing multiple
perspectives to his material, He is co-editor of
“Re-viewing Fascism: Italian Cinema, 19221943.”
Garofalo said when he first came to the
United States to teach, he was surprised at how
Americans perceived Italy. He said when thinking of Italy, Americans think of the Coliseum
and Rome, whereas Italians think of Italy as a
fairly young country. The fall of the Roman
Empire happened in 476 AD, but Italy was not
unified as one whole country until the late 19th
century, he said.
Italians were a very illiterate population,
and films brought the country together. It helped
in the unification problem in that you didn’t need
to know the same language or come from the
same cultural background to enjoy the movie
being shown.
“The theater was a central point for everyone.
Traditions were set, and it was able to help out
all sort of people,” Garofalo said.
Garofalo also stressed the importance of cinematic space. Because the idea of movies were
so participation based, they sprang up quickly
and were very profitable, he explained, emphasizing that they also didn’t want to discourage
people from taking in the movie, so they made
theaters to accommodate every person, even
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people who could not normally afford to see a
movie.
The first movie presented by Garofalo
was Cabiria, directed by Giovanni Pastrone. It
tells the story of the Punic Wars through the point
of view of the people. It also establishes film as
an art form. There is no dialogue in the movie,
but rather inter-titles set the scene. At the time,
it was the most expensive film made and is the
first movie credited with using the dolly shot.
The narrative follows the life of a young
girl, Cabiria, during the Punic War years in the
third century B.C. She is abducted during the
confusion of the eruption of Mt. Etna and is sold
into slavery in Carthage. She grows into womanhood there. Many years later, the war is over
and she is able to return home. It shows good
prevailing over evil.
The second movie, “Scipione l’africano,”
directed by Carmine Gallone, portrays the Punic Wars, but through Mussolini’s eyes. It opens
with a defeat that needs to be avenged. It is extremely Opera-like, but is portrayed in a very
symmetrical way.
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Editorial: SNAFU Redux
by Nicole Iapicca
Editor-in-Chief
I
n the previous November 10, 2006 issue of
The Courier we printed a review of the fall
play production SNAFU Redux. The article
titled “SNAFU Redux leaves much to be desired
on stage” can only be described as a SNAFU itself. (The term SNAFU is an acronym for “Situation Normal All Fouled Up.”)
Unfortunately our review contained
some misinformation leading to the question of
The Courier’s commitment to accuracy. I would
like this opportunity to clarify some confusion
that has derived from the article at hand.
The SNAFU article was assigned to a first
year student as a review of the play. Switching
gears from writing movie reviews to a play review this reporter should not have been given
this particular duty. Due to his previous affiliation with the play the article’s assignment was a
conflict of interest creating a bias. For opinion
pieces we aim to have a ratio of two-thirds fact
and one-third opinion; however, we do not excuse publishing inaccurate information. I apologize for all our shortcomings; we will be making
more of an effort to adhere to the policies in our
mission.
Please take note that on this page is The
Courier’s mission statement. Part of our editorial policy includes our expectation that we abide
by professional standards of journalism as set
by the Society of Professional Journalists’ “Code
of Ethics.”
In hopes to put this matter into some perspective I would like to acknowledge that we
cannot guarantee that every review of every
campus production will be favorable. We will
however monitor which articles are going in
which sections so that opinion pieces and reviews are properly and more effectively labeled.
To put things in the eloquent words of Benjamin
Franklin “If all printers were determined not to
print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.”
Letters to the editor
Re “SNAFU Redux leaves much to be
desired on stage” (Features article Nov. 10)
Any writer, good or bad, knows that they
have to be able to accept criticism about their
work. A good writer will value this criticism and
use it to hone their skills. However, the criticism
must be supported with fact and presented in a
clear, meaningful fashion.
We are not claiming to be good writers;
merely writers that would like an opportunity to
express their view on the Courier’s November
10th article SNAFU Redux leaves much to be
desired on stage. We aren’t trying to lash out at
the author for expressing his opinion; we are simply looking for a chance to do the same.
There are several points listed in this article that we would like to address. As good journalism starts with good research, we hope that
the author of the article in question can appreciate what we have to say. First of all, the plays
were written when Catharsis: A Theatrical Journey students took their sophomore year seminar. These students are now all in their junior
and senior years – not current sophomores.
The plays were not meant to have a common character or a connecting thread, as the
plays were written by independent students over
the course of two years. Their only collaboration was the review done on the plays during
class time.
“These plays were obviously written before SNAFU was dreamed up,” is an incorrect
assumption. They were penned during and after
the first performance of SNAFU in the fall of
2004.
Finally, we believe that the article should
have appeared in the editorial section rather than
as a feature. It is obviously an opinion piece, and
should not have been presented among news stories based in researched facts. A differing opinion on SNAFU’s success can be found in November 10th’s Cheers & Jeers section on page 11.
This article read more like a blogger’s
rant rather than hard news. An opinion such as
“nothing was brought to the clichés, there was
no attempt at originality or insight or humor”
comes across as an attack towards the students
and faculty involved, who put weeks of work into
producing this.
In conclusion, while we do appreciate
that the author shared his opinion on SNAFU
with campus, we hope that he will conduct more
in depth research before jumping to conclusions
in the future. While SNAFU understandably may
not have been everybody’s cup of tea, such a
poorly supported article feels like a slap in the
face to those involved rather than the criticism
we look for.
ASHLEY GOULTER
Class of 2008
AMANDA POWELL
Class of 2007
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Community-based research project Redirecting Our
Campus Toward Environmental Sustainability
by Kris Ramsay and Alexa Fitzgerald
Community and Environmental Studies
Majors
T
his year’s Third-Year Project students in
the Community and Environmental Stud
ies major, decided to take action and build
on the environmental issues here at Colby-Sawyer College.
While institutions such as Cornell University and Middlebury College have already established school wide environmental policies,
Colby-Sawyer’s newly established Green
ROUTES program looks to modify the school’s
culture and actions to become a leader in areas
such as energy conservation, waste reduction,
and sustainability practices for years to come.
Green ROUTES hopes that through this process
and hard work we will make Colby-Sawyer College a better place.
yer College President Tom Galligan.
Students in this year’s Third-Year Project
“Sustainability
is
important
in
all
created Green ROUTES and are completing an
times.
Sustainability
is
not
just
a
measure
of
assessment covering all aspect that make up
saving or conserving,
Colby-Sawyer’s envibut it is an approach to
ronmental footprint.
life which reflects our
These students are try“By making such positive culture
respect for ourselves,
ing to devise a long term
shifts, the college community will
what we use, and how
plan to reduce Colbybe strengthened economically and
we live,” said Vice
Sawyer’s impact on the
President for Student
environment and, in
our personal wellness will be
Development
and
turn, save money for
greatly enhanced. It’s a win-win
Dean of Students Dave
Colby-Sawyer each
scenario.”
Sauerwein.
year.
Jean
-Jean Goldsborough
By developing a
Goldsborough, a memsustainability program
ber of the Information
Colby-Sawyer would
Resources department
attract new students
states: “By making such
and would “have the reputation for responsible
positive culture shifts, the college community will
living and doing the right thing,” according to
be strengthened economically and our personal
Judy Muyskens, Interim Vice President of Enwellness will be greatly enhanced. It’s a winrollment & College
win scenario.”
Relations.
John
Green ROUTES has received
Callewaert,
the
direcmuch support and motivation
tor of the Institute for
from many of the faculty and
Community and Enstaff around the campus.
vironmental Studies,
“With
so
many other
believes that “this
colleges throughout the coungroup project has the
try leading the way in campotential to really
pus sustainability, I feel that
change how we think
it is definitely time for Colbyabout Colby-Sawyer
Sawyer College to develop a
and will have lasting
sustainability plan.,” said Adimpact in terms of
ventures in Learning Program
protecting the environment.”
Assistant and Recycling Program
Green ROUTES is very appreciative of
Coordinator Janet St. Laurent. In
all of the support and enthusiasm received so
developing a campus-wide
far. Green ROUTES would love to hear ideas,
sustainability assessment, it is imsuggestions or questions from students as well
perative to include all different deand anyone who may have something to add to
partments in the research.
the group’s work. Your ideas will make a differGreen ROUTES hopes to raise
ence. “Together, we can be successful!” Mike
awareness of environmental isHeffernan, General Manager: Dining Services.
sues on campus, and involve students as much as possible. Part of
If you have any questions or comments
what Green ROUTES is focusing
for the Green ROUTES campus
on, is an understanding of the efsustainability assessment project,
fects our institution is having on
please email us at:
the environment, from what is
purchased to how our waste is [email protected]
posed.
“All of us need to constantly be
aware of how our individual and
group decisions affect the environment today and how they will affect it in the years, and hopefully
centuries, ahead,” said Colby-Saw-
14 OPINION - COURIER - MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2006
#7
Black
Sub-G is a well-known face around the campus
by abigail young
Features Reporter
“I would classify myself as inspirational hip-hop, I
don’t think I’m a gangsta’ rapper… I just like rhyme
schemes,” Tom Reed aka Sub-G describes himself.
Before this year I had never heard of Thomas Reed,
known around campus as Tom, Sub-G, or John
Reed’s son. If you have been to one of the many
Open Mic Nights held in the lodge you probably
know who I am referring to, as open mic at ColbySawyer is the only place that Sub-G performs in
person. He is mainly a recorded artist and prefers
not to do live appearances as he feels that his craft
means more on album, since he spends numerous
hours perfecting the sounds of each track he lays
down and finds that live his music isn’t as “perfect.”
How does an inspirational hip-hop lyricist
become? Thomas Reed was born on August 25,
1984. Within days of being born, Reed was adopted
by his parents. He has never met his biological parents and doesn’t particularly care to, “unless they’re
rich,” Reed jokes. “I would only leave my parents
for Donald Trump! You would never see my a**
rapping again, I would be on an island enjoying
myself!” Even though Reed is not interested in actively searching for his biological parents, he did
express an interest in perhaps meeting his biological siblings, if any. “I would like to see how they
turned out,” he explained.
Reed remained an only child until he was
in the sixth grade, when his parents adopted another baby, Charlie. Charlie is now in the sixth
grade, which Reed finds fascinating as that is the
age when he and Charlie met for the first time. Reed
is proud that Charlie is growing into his own person, “he’s a really cool kid, I love him.” At first Reed
claims Charlie was too involved in Pokemon to really appreciate his
lyrics, however
now his younger
brother seems to
be enjoying the
music
more.
When Reed was a
little older than
Charlie and in the
seventh grade, he
and a group of
friends started
freestyling together, mainly as
a joke. “We didn’t
record anything,
but then I became
more interested in
hip-hop
and
started listening to
it more,” said
Photo by abigail young Reed, and eventually he moved on
Sub-G performing some of his
music at Open Mic Night at the
Lethbridge Lodge.
to making his own beats as well as lyrics. Not
long after, he started making his own albums.
Along with a younger brother, Reed has Heidi, a
dog that the family adopted from Hurricane
Katrina relief work. She’s a little crazy according to Reed, but he thinks she’s awesome.
At Colby-Sawyer, Reed is a history major but wishes he could major in philosophy,
however the college does not offer philosophy as
a major. Reed strongly believes that it should be
offered, “I would gladly contribute 10% of my
next album’s earnings towards the philosophy
major.” However his potentially sizable donation
comes with one stipulation: philosophy needs to
be a major by the time he graduates in spring
2008, so he can graduate with a degree in philosophy. He is active in the philosophy club, and
during the interview the faculty advisor, Professor Greenman, stopped by and chatted with Reed
for a moment about philosophy and how it relates to Reed and Sub-G’s lyrics.
Sub-G sees his lyrics as philosophical as
he integrates that mindset into his daily life and
rhymes. “I live off my life, I don’t like to lie in
my rhymes,” Sub-G explains how his lyrics come
to him. Sub-G can write a good song in about a
day, but it takes time to turn the rhymes into a
song. Many hours are put into revising the lyrics and recording the beats just right. He is a selfproclaimed perfectionist, which is part of the reason that his next album has been five years in
the making.
The name of Reed’s alter ego, Sub-G,
came surprisingly from a dictionary. “I just
opened it up and it landed on subgenius.” However the name was copyrighted by the Church
of the SubGenius (www.subgenius.com). So
Reed shorted the name to Sub-G, and a lyricist
was born. His first album, “OWM: Other White
Meat” was released when Sub-G was in the ninth
grade. He was giving it away for free but then
found that people wanted to buy it, so he started
accepting five bucks for it. With his profits he
bought newer, better equipment and prepared
for the recording of his second CD. “Racially
Confused” came out sophomore year of high
school, and improvements in sound included
Sub-G’s own base and drum beats. Sub-G’s third
album, appropriately named “Stuck on Third
Base,” came out in eleventh grade, and to date it
is his best selling album.
Currently Sub-G is working on his fourth
album. He has been working on it since the release of “Stuck on Third Base” on and off. The
reason that this album has had so many years
put into it is because Reed took a break from
music for about a year and a half in college. He
also is very picky about what makes it onto a
record and what does not, and this album will
be double disc and have about forty songs on it.
The CD, which is to be released sometime shortly
after Christmas break, is going to be “the perfect
Courtesy Photo
Sub-G at Open Mic Night.
CD, the best I can do,” explains Sub-G. “[The
past five years] I have been creating my persona as an artist.” Sub-G hopes that the public will be able to see his growth as an artist in
the new album, but at the same time he doesn’t
care if the public doesn’t like it or not. “I don’t
write for other people, I write for myself, and
if you don’t like me you can go f*** yourself…
I’m not going to change my lyrics for anyone.”
To make an album seems like a great
expense. However Reed saves money by printing the CDs himself instead of sending them
out to be printed professionally. His only expenses include the blank CDs, labeling materials, and print cartridges. The print cartridges
are the most expensive part of the process, as
one thirty dollar cartridge prints thirty CDs.
“And now you can buy CDs in packs of like a
hundred, at WalMart, for like a dollar. I’m real
pumped about that,” Reed jokes.
One of the most interesting aspects of
the Thomas Reed/Sub-G relationship is that
Reed considers the two almost two different
personas in Tom Reed’s body. According to
him, Reed is a quiet, almost shy guy whose
life experiences are expressed through Sub-G.
“I’m literally one person. Tom Reed was the
person I was until I found hip-hop… he is not
a great rapper, he’s not cocky. When he’s in
Sub-G persona, he’s the f****** man. I know
my s***’* tight, I know people like it… that’s
why I had to make Sub-G, because Tom Reed
is that corny white guy who grew up in New
Hampshire. But Sub-G would never become
something that Tom Reed is not,” Reed explains. It’s almost like Sub-G is Reed’s buried
confidence. “Without him I don’t think Tom
could do it,” Reed laughs.
7 FEATURES - COURIER - MONDAY NOVEMBER 27, 2006
#8
Black
#13
Music Pirates
Black
with Sean Ahern
My Chemical Romance just a cog in corporate America
by Sean Ahern
Music Reviewer
S
ome bands “evolve” with their musical
sound, others become a tool of corporate
America and change their sound to compete with new acts on the scene. The latter is
what My Chemical Romance has done. “The
Black Parade” is a mix of high school images of
death and deliberate attempts at mimicking
David Bowie and Queen.
With the help of Rob Cavallo, who worked
on Green Day’s “American Idiot,” MCR has cre-
ated a work of plastic rock genius.
Much like “American Idiot,” this album is overproduced and certain to
be hailed a masterpiece by freshmen
in high school.
Their style mimics
that of Queen and
David Bowie.
Nothing
new here folks, I
guess Gerard Way
considers himself
Mr. Fahrenheit. Guitar riffs sound as if they have
been forcefully taken from News of the World.
Songs like “Cancer” and “Mama” show us the
depth of MCR’s writing talents. Lyrics fall somewhere between talking about death and talking
about more death.
The band and the album are much like the four
horsemen of the apocalypse: both
torture people who hear them before they are allowed to die. The song
“Dead!” is a perfect example of how
deep their lyrics are, “Have you
heard the news that you’re dead?/
No one ever had much nice to say/
I think they never liked you anyway/You’re Dead.” Truer words
have not been spoken about this
band.
My Chemical Romance has created
an album out of prefabricated rock
guitar riffs and goth-rock undertones. The album is a far cry from
their 2004’s Three Cheers for Sweet
Revenge, although just as bad as their new release, it had a sound that was different from what
we were used to hearing on rock radio. It seems
that MCR is still working in the genre for sad
teens who cut themselves, rather than growing
up musically and branching out.
Rating: 1 out of 5
$75,451
55%
The increase in the number of bags of
recycling fr
om September to October
from
October..
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ost Secret community
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Hope Center
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80786.82 lbs
90%
The total amount of food collected by
Sodexho nationwide which was contributed to the world record of food collected
in a 24 hour time period.
The amount of positive feedback from
students in a survey (from earlier in the
semester) about the new design of the
college web site.
New Subject Bias CD breath of fresh air on music scene
by Seah Ahern
Music Reviewer
ubject Bias is a breath of fresh air in the
lungs of the Indie/Emo rock scene. For
fans of Bright Eyes, Cursive, and Dashboard Confessional, “This Is Why We Can’t Have
Good Things” is a venture back to the world of
thoughtful and poetic lyrics and strong guitar
driven sound.
Based out of Portland, Maine, singer
Kevin Ouellette creates a melodic and mellow
sound to deliver his own outlook on society. “This
S
album has a ton of stuff about my views
towards relationships, manipulation
within people, marriage, faith versus religion, and my short comings,” Ouellette
said on his website subjectbias.com.
His outlook on life is presented with the
help of his acoustic guitar as well as a
plethora of string and brass instruments,
piano, and drums sprinkled throughout
the tracks. On the song “More Like You,”
we find the blaring of the trombone as a
solo in the middle of the song while in
“Like Lovers Do,” the song sounds much
like Cursive’s new style of songwriting on
“Happy Hollow”. Lead vocals by Ouellette mix
well with backing vocals to create a beautiful
and calm landscape inside the sounds of violins
and cellos in songs like, “True Love ( I learned
from the best)” and “Slightest Twist.”
Although this is his third album, Ouellette’s doit-yourself style is apparent as the vocals often
come out less crisply than desired by the listener
and brass instruments sometimes sound out of
tune and unneeded on some tracks.
Dashboard Confessional fans will find this album reminiscent to The Places You Have Come
8 FEATURES - COURIER - MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2006
Cheers to the Thanksgiving
Bask
ets that “k
eep on giving!”
Baskets
“keep
to Fear the Most. As earlier noted, Cursive fans
still recovering from the loss of Gretta Cohn will
find this album much like the sound of the new
Happy Hollow released earlier this year. While
Bright Eyes fans will probably still be caught up
in the release of the “best of album,” “Noise Floor
(Rarities 1998-2005), Subject Bias’s new release
is a great album to pick up and remind yourself
of what Emo sounded like before whiny goth
kids started took over the scene.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Cheers to Thanksgiving
Recess!
Jeers to no major
snowfall as of Nov
Nov.. 20!
Jeers to no RResident
esident
Director in residence in the
Colby/P
age/McKean comple
x.
Colby/Page/McKean
complex.
Cheers to three weeks left
in the semester!
13 OPINION - COURIER - MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2006
#12
Black
#9
the broken bicycle
wheel
express yourself
Butterfly
WIN
$20!
By Alicia Rose Harris
September 28, 2005
She lives inside of a glass case
Dead, but alive with color
She flew but once before
I caught her
I keep this glass between us
A barrier for her protection
As my eyes tiptoe above her
Coffin, soaking in every
Black blue and purple hue
I feel my eyes swell as I
Take in every curve of her
Decorated torso; the lines on
Her skin form patterns that
Blur as my tears wet the glass
The Colby-Sawyer Literary
Magazine is looking for original
work (poetry, short stories,
essays, plays, photography,
artwork). Every week, submissions
received before Monday at 11 AM will be
considered to
win $20 CASH!
My heart stops as I think I’ve
Seen her tremble beneath my
Omnipresent gaze; my hands
Are ashen as they press the glass
But I want her blood to flow again
Send all submissions to:
[email protected]
Even if your work is not chosen,
it will still be considered for publication.
There has been a lack
of submissions this year - so please
consider submitting your work!
Full Cir
cle
Circle
By Ashley Wilkinson
The Broken Bicycle Wheel
features work done by students,
alumni, faculty and staff. It will
exhibit winning entries of
various contests held on
campus. Submission’s include
(but are not limited to) poetry,
short stories, photography, play
scripts and artwork.
The stench of feet overpowers the piercing wails of children.
Painful bruises overwhelm the human body.
Kicking and screaming, disgustingly beautiful, a new life emerges.
Black
with Jacob Marquis
Jak sie masz? Borat’s cross-country trip to find the secrets
of American success is a hit among college students
by Jacob Marquis
Movie Reviewer
I
T’s a nice! “Borat” takes no prisoners as he
takes on Jews, gypsies, feminists, retards,
blacks, wild life, and white America. This hilarious mocumentary will have you peeing in
your seats with in seconds, but it also looks at a
cross section of American life that is shocking.
Borat, aka Sacha Baron Cohen, has been
sent to find the secrets of the American ways.
He finds himself in
New York, fully
ready to make himself at home in the
elevator of the hotel
he is staying at
when he gets a message from the concierge telling him
that his wife had
died. With the death
of his wife, Borat
decides to travel the
country to meet the
woman that played
CJ on “Baywatch,” Pamela Anderson.
Borat struggles to get across the country. During his journey he ends up meeting with
members of high society in the south, getting
some tips from a comedian, and meets with a
group of young black men playing dice.
Cohen gets away with ridiculous moments with
Borat by maintaining his foreign ignorance. The
most astonishing part of the whole film is that
the only actors are Cohen and his producer,
Azamat played by American actor Ken Davitian.
Every other character in the film are real people
that “Borat” came in contact with.
A few of the meetings were arranged, and
some he just stumbled upon, one of the most
shocking in the film was a chance meeting. Borat
has lost his car on the home stretch to California and is picked up by an RV of tailgating Frat
boys. If we are the future, this movie shows
how bleak the future can be. The three drunks
enlightened Borat on the economic advantages
of slavery, the proper way to address women,
and the truth about Pamela’s virginity.
Cohen
gives us moments of hilarity and sheer
amazement
most of all it is
a real look into
a cross section
of American
society. This
film will entertain from start
to finish and deserves a look.
Till next week
that’s “What’s
Really Reel.”
Up coming movie releases for December 1st
National Lampoon’s
Van Wilder: The
Rise of The Taj
10 Items or Less
Roller-skates and knee socks replace bare feet and sandals,
traded in for kneepads and wrist guards, their status within society lowers.
Sports cars are traded in for mini-vans, while wild attitudes are checked at the door.
Babies taking care of babies in this wild circle of life.
Interested in submitting your work
to the Broken Bicycle Wheel? Send
your work to:
[email protected]
or drop it off at the Courier
office, room 305 on the third floor
of Colgate.
12 OPINION - COURIER - MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2006
The hustle and bustle at the skating rink,
the happiness and tears shed in the delivery room,
come full circle
as fun and life
collide.
Ashley Wilkinson is the
most recent winner of the
contest held by the ColbySawyer Literary Magazine.
Her winning entry entitled
“Full Circle” is displayed
above.
3 Needles
The Nativity Story
Turistas
9 FEATURES - COURIER - MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2006
#10
Black
#11
Books
Choose
Your
Medium
.
. .
.
.
Entertainment
Books
Movies
Video Games
Music
Billboard Top 10
compiled by Zach Ackles
Movies
Superman Returns
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Next
Treasure of
Kahn
The Secret
Clive Cussler
Rhonda Byrne
(Putnam Adult)
(Beyond Words)
Michael Crichton
(HarperCollins)
Comedy
Crime/TV
Crime/TV
Special/Comedy
TV/Classic
Clerks 2
Bones
The Complete
1st Season
Joan of Arcadia
The Second Season
Dane Cook
Vicious Circle
Little House
on the Prairie
11/28/06
Foriegn
Import
Import
Import
Rap
Incubus
Thom Yorke
Crowded House
Whitesnake
Jamiroqui
Tupac
Light Grenades
Spitting Feathers
Farewell to the World
Live: In the Shadow
of the Blues
High Times:
Singles 1992-2006
Pac’s Life
(Sony)
(WEA Japan)
(EMI Int’l)
(Steamhammer)
Alt
Video Games
11/28/06
11/28/06
Action/Sci-Fi
CD’s
Black
(SBME)
(Maverick)
11/28/06
Sims
Sim 2 Pets
(SONY PSP)
10 FEATURES - COURIER - MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2006
Sports
Backyard Basketball
2007
(Game Cube)
Action
Tom Clancy’s
Splinter Cell:
Double Agent
(Wii)
1 Ludacris Featuring T.I.
My Lover
6 Ludacris Featuring Pharrell
Money Maker
2 Akon Featuring Eminem
Smack That
7 The Fray
How to Save a Life
3 Fergie
Fergalicious
8 Jay-Z
Show Me What You Got
4 Beyonce
Irreplaceable
9 Snow Patrol
Chasing Cars
5 HInder
Lips Of An Angel
10 Justin Timberlake
SexyBack
11 FEATURES - COURIER - MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2006