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Volume 136, Number 5
Serving the University of Rochester community since 1873
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Native American
mascots a concern
By Sumya Hasan
Staff Writer
The role of racism in
American sports mascots
has long been a contentious
issue in the Native American
community. On Wednesday
Feb. 18, in the Welles-Brown
Room in Rush Rhees, Michael Taylor, a member of
the Wolf Clan of the Seneca
Nation in Western New York,
spoke on opposing views of
sports mascots in the Native
American community.
Taylor said Native Americans remain ambivalent
about the portrayal of their
culture as mascots and
logos for athletic teams.
Many believe that the way
the culture is represented
is inaccurate and therefore
offensive. Others do not see
much harm in representing
Native American culture in
such a light.
Taylor spent a substantial
amount of time discussing
the public perception of Native Americans: the current
logos and mascots depict
how much of the illustration
is pertinent to what Native
Americans look like.
“Public gaze and perception is what sets up power,”
Taylor said.
He added that Americans
have become so accustomed
to seeing Native American
chiefs with feathered hats
and elaborate costumes
that they believe this is
what their reservations
look like.
Taylor explained that on
a typical day, Native Americans do not dress at reservations elaborately.
“It has reached the point
that a non-native can put on
what Americans think is an
authentic Native American
costume and people will
actually believe that the person wearing the costume is
an actual native,” he said.
Taylor shared a story
about the former mascot of
the University of Illinois,
the Fighting Illini, to underscore his point about
society’s perception of Native Americans. The NCAA
started a policy in the fall of
2008, which prohibited collegiate teams from using Native American mascots. The
See MASCOT, Page 4
Bradley Halpern • Photography Editor
Following yesterday’s power outage, the University looks
to adjust the master electrical control for the data center.
UR experiences
power outage
by David Cutshall
Senior Staff Writer
UR experienced a temporary blackout Wednesday
afternoon, which affected all
buildings on the River Campus and UR Medical Center,
as well as some surrounding
properties.
A Rochester Gas & Electric transformer malfunctioned at approximately 4:10
p.m. at a substation near the
central utilities plant; it was
the primary electric connection to the University.
Electricity at the Med
Center and Strong Memorial
Hospital was immediately
supported by a backup generator, preventing complications with patient care and
other operations. Power
was restored at most River
Campus buildings within 35
minutes, though individual
systems came back online at
various times.
Director of Security Walter Mauldin explained that,
in some cases, this variability
was due to different safety
mechanisms, and some
systems had switches that
had to be manually reset. Inhouse Facilities technicians
were largely responsible
for performing such checks
before safely restoring power
to individual buildings.
One of the last buildings to
be brought back online was
Wilson Commons, most of
which was without electricity — excluding emergency
lights — for roughly two
hours. Assistant Director of Student Activities
Laura Ballou understood
See OUTAGE, Page 4
Seligman
discusses
stimulus
package
kira carlin • Photography Editor
UR has taken measures to save money and preserve energy on the River Campus.
Electrical power on the Eastman Quadrangle was largely shut off over winter break.
Energy costs cut
Drops in temperatures among efforts to economize
By Rebecca Leber
Managing Editor
University Facilities’ recent decrease of temperatures in academic and residence halls will save UR an
estimated $65,000 per degree
Fahrenheit per year on the
River Campus alone. Combined with similar measures
implemented at UR Medical
Center, the University is
aiming to save an additional
$100,000 per degree — one
part of a concerted effort to
slim budgets in a difficult
economy.
“For the most part, with
the economic times and with
global warming and the utility crisis being so volatile,
people are embracing this
and are ready to do their
part,” Assistant Director for
Central Utilities Lisa GloverHenderson said.
Glover-Henderson is
the project manager of Fa-
cilities’ energy conservation
campaign and is helping to
evaluate where UR can sustainably and permanently
reduce excess costs. By the
end of this week, academic
buildings’ temperatures
will have been reduced from
70-72 degrees Fahrenheit
to 68 degrees. According to
Senior Vice President for
Administration and Finance
Ronald Paprocki, the most
expensive buildings at UR
contain scientific equipment,
such as at URMC’s facilities. Hutchison Hall is the
River Campus’s most costly
building.
Even though residence
halls are also cooling down
slightly, Glover-Henderson
emphasized the greater
caution Facilities and Residential Life will take to
moderate these temperature
setbacks.
“We’re applying as much
common sense to these
setbacks as possible,” Henderson said. “We’re very
conscious that those are
people’s homes, and it’s not
a business that runs 8 [a.m.]
to 5 [p.m.]... The intention is
not to go any more than [a
half-degree to a degree]. That
will make a big difference —
we’ll see it on the meter.”
As of Tuesday, Feb. 17,
thermostats in four residential halls — Hoeing Hall,
Tiernan Hall, Lovejoy Hall
and Gilbert Hall — were
lowered by less than a degree. These changes in the
dormitories are subject to
further review, tailoring temperatures to fit exceptions in
older buildings.
The primary focus of
the policy change is on
the River Campus and
URMC. Director of Facilities at Eastman School
See ENERGY, Page 4
Kira Carlin • Photography Editor
No Jackets Required brings the rock
No Jackets Required and Off Broadway On Campus sponsored the rock opera
“Tommy,” performed in Upper Strong Auditorium on Friday night, Feb. 13.
by Conor willis
News Editor
UR President Joel Seligman feels that the recent
stimulus package signed by
President Barack Obama has
two objectives— to revitalize
the economy and address
unemployment— and is
hopeful that the package will
help with both.
Seligman added the package is a bold experiment and
feels that if the plan doesn't
work perfectly, it can be adjusted. He said we would have
to wait a few years to make a
judgment on its success.
Obama has said the stimulus package, which was
signed into law Tuesday
in Denver, includes record
investments in education,
new energy research and
new infrastructure. Obama
also said the plan signified
the beginning of what we
need to do to create jobs for
Americans.
The $787 billion stimulus
package allocates $53 billion
for education. Seligman was
pleased with the stimulus
package's allocation to education investment.
"Obama sees education as
a vehicle for opportunity,"
he said.
Seligman detailed three
parts of the stimulus package that were most relevant
to the University, including
an increase in Pell Grants
and scholarships available to
students, federally sponsored
research and federal support
for health care.
The stimulus package
directs $15 billion toward
federally sponsored research.
Professors, faculty and medical workers will have to apply
for research funding on a
case-by-case basis. Seligman
hoped the University would
continue to participate in
research.
In the medical field, UR
Medical Center faced a potential $31 million shortfall
in Medicaid funding when
New York Governor David
Paterson outlined his budget in December, which by
state law, is required to be
balanced. Seligman added
that the new federal stimulus
package allocates funds for
Medicaid and will narrow
the budget gap that URMC
is currently facing.
It is estimated that the
stimulus package would
create or save over 200,000
jobs in New York State.
Governor Paterson predicted New York would
receive $24 billion over the
See STIMULUS, Page 5
NEWS
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Security Update
Shooting near Riverview involves
suspect, victim not affiliated with UR
BY Jerome nathaniel
News Editor
The Rochester Police Department responded to an off-campus
domestic dispute in the 1100 block
of South Plymouth Avenue on
Monday.
At approximately 11:40 p.m.,
police officers discovered that a
female was shot in the arm by a
former male acquaintance. According to UR Security Investigator
Daniel Lafferty, the suspect fled
the scene of the crime in a greycolored vehicle before the Police
arrived.
Neither the victim nor the
suspect are affiliated with the
University.
The shooting took place just
north and across the street from
the Riverview Apartments.
According to an e-mail sent out
by Director of UR Security Walter
Mauldin, in an effort to assist the
Rochester Police Department, UR
Security is reviewing CCTV images
to see if the suspect returned to
the scene at anytime during the
night.
Rural Metro ambulance services transported the victim to
Strong Memorial Hospital for
treatment.
face by an unidentified brother
while he was being escorted out
of the house.
The brothers of the house contended that they found the student
lying on the bathroom floor. The
fraternity brothers reported that
the student was uncooperative
prior to being escorted to the
door.
According to Lafferty, alcohol
was determined to be a contributing factor to the incident.
No injuries were reported and
the student refused medical assistance. The student also decided
not to file a police report.
Suspect steals GPS unit from
unlocked vehicle
An undergraduate student’s
iPod connection cable, GPS unit
and 20 compact discs were stolen
from her vehicle last week. The
student reported the items were
stolen sometime between Feb. 10 at
10 p.m. and Feb. 12 at 10 a.m.
At the time of the break-in, the
vehicle was located in the Wilson
North lot, according to Lafferty.
The victim reported that a passenger accidently left the side door
of her car unlocked.
Autotheft in parking lot near
Mt. Hope Professional Building
An undergraduate student
returned to the Mt. Hope Professional Building parking lot to find
his car stolen.
According to Lafferty, the student reported that his car was
stolen by an unidentified suspect
sometime between Saturday at
10:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2:12
p.m.
Nathaniel is a member of
the class of 2011.
Information provided
by UR Security.
Southside Living Center
Student escorted from
Sigma Chi
UR Medical Center
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UR Security patrolling the Fraternity Quad spotted an altercation
at the entrance of the Sigma Chi
Fraternity house on Sunday at
12:57 a.m.
According to Lafferty, the incident was brought to Security’s
attention when an undergraduate
was being shoved out of the front
door of the Sigma Chi house by
fraternity brothers.
The student contended that he
fell to the floor in the basement
rest room and then was escorted
to the door by brothers of the
house. The student argued that
he was punched on the side of his
Riverview Complex
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This Week on Campus
Thursday
February 19
6:30 p.m.
Class of 2011 dinner with
president seligman
May Room, Wilson Commons
All sophomores who RSVP’d to have dinner
with UR President Joel Seligman will have a
chance to discuss issues and offer comments on
how the River Campus can improve.
8 - 9 p.m.
8 P.m.
Hipnotica
Learn to use the fitness
center
Goergen Athletic Center
Sihir belly dancing group will be performing its
spring show featuring traditional belly-dancing
moves with a hip-hop flare. The night will highlight numerous types of belly-dancing, including
fusion and tribal. Tickets are $4 in advance and
can be purchased at the Common Market in
Wilson Commons.
Come to the fitness center and learn how to
optimize your workout. Space is limited, so
register now by e-mailing
[email protected].
8 P.M.
UR Unplugged Finale
Concert
Friday
February 20
4 P.M.
Study abroad info session
Stackel Room, Wilson Commons
If you are considering studying abroad, you must
attend an information meeting. Come learn
about different programs around the world.
7:30 p.M.
University Night
at the Amerks
Off Campus
UR alumni, faculty and students will be gathering at Blue Cross Arena to cheer on the Rochester Amerks. The Midnight Ramblers will be
singing the national anthem and Rocky will drop
the ceremonial puck. Tickets are $5 and can be
purchased at the Common Market in Wilson
Commons. Don’t forget to wear yellow and blue.
Saturday
February 21
11 a.M. - 1 p.m.
Fitness and nutrition
health fair
MAC Room, Goergen Athletic Center
Come meet with athletic trainers, nutritionists
and a wellness coach to learn how you can set
goals that will meet your fitness needs. Set realistic goals that will get you back in shape. The fair
is part of Feel Fabulous in February.
2 P.M.
CAPTURE THE FLAG
Wilson Quad
Come stay active with your friends during the
cold winter months with a capture-the-flag
game on the Quad. Bring your friends for some
mid-winter excitement. You won’t want to miss
this event.
The end of the dorm energy saving contest is
here, and the May Room will feature many of
UR’s best musical groups. Midnight Ramblers,
No Jackets Required, In Between the Lines,
Raas, Sihir and Bhangra will all take the stage.
Tickets are $4 at the Common Market in Wilson
Commons.
Monday
February 23
7 - 8:30 P.M.
Healthy habits dinner
Meliora Restaurant
Enjoy a healthy meal while listening to guest
nutrition speakers. Gluten-free and vegan
options are available. Purchase your ticket for
$22.99 (either cash, Declining or Flex) at the
Common Market through Friday, Feb. 20.
Please e-mail calendar submissions to
[email protected].
dan wasserman• Publisher
The Onion’s features editor Joe Garden and staff writer Seth Reis
shared anecdotes with students in Strong Auditorium on Feb. 12.
Last Week on Campus
Senior awarded
Churchill scholarship
For the third time in three years, a
UR senior was awarded a Churchill
scholarship to further her studies
at Cambridge University.
Senior Kristen Beck, a double
major in mathematics and physics, is one of just 14 students
selected nationally to pursue a
higher education in engineering,
mathematics or the physical and
natural sciences.
Beck plans to study quantum
optics in the Cavendish Laboratory under the tutelage of Michael
Köhl.
“There is something special
about quantum optics that fits into
my unique set of skills,” she said.
She has worked on many scientific projects, and her resume includes working on the atomic clock
that sets the national time standard
with scientists in Colorado.
Beck has also traveled to Switzerland to work with the Large Hadron
Collider, the highest energy particle
accelerator in the world.
No stranger to awards, Beck has
garnered numerous accolades during her time at UR. These include
the Catherine Block Memorial
Prize for the most outstanding
woman science student in the
junior class and the Stoddard
Prize for the best sophomore math
student.
UR is one of a few universities
across the country that nominates
students for the scholarship.
Beck’s interests expand beyond
the natural sciences. Beck has
pursued an interest in the flute
and will graduate with a minor
in music.
Conor Willis is a member of
the class of 2011.
Former UR graduate
student pleads guilty
Former UR graduate student Gilbert Kirton pleaded guilty to child
pornography charges on Tuesday
Feb. 17. He faced allegations that
he owned 10,000 images of child
porn as well as 140 videos on his
computer. The former writing instructor taught both CAS 105 and
CAS 142. Kirton faces sentencing
on May 19.
Kirton appeared in federal court
on Oct. 16 and was charged with
two federal charges of possession
and receiving or distributing child
porn.
Kirton was originally informed
by former director of graduate
studies Thomas Hahn that he was
under investigation. He proceeded
to destroy his computer into six different parts and disposed of them
across campus.
Willis is a member of
the class of 2011.
URMC launches hightech response system
Due to a new emergency response
system developed by URMC involving video podcasts, emergency
responders will be prepared to treat
elderly community members.
“With a video podcast, [EMTs]
can sit in their ambulance or base
between calls and learn new skills,”
Chief of the Division of Pre-hospital
Medicine at URMC Manish Shah
said.
Shah led the development of the
program and Shah has a special
interest in geriatrics. The video sessions will address challenges that
include caring and communicating
with older adults.
the class of 2011.
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News Editors Jerome nathaniel
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PhotoGRAPHY kira carlin
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Staff illustrator josh hatcher
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NEWS
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Study finds new gene Eastman Alumnus dies in
leading to speciation Buffalo Flight 3407 plane crash
bY Kira Carlin
Photography Editor
A UR professor and a graduate
student have been working on a
study involving evolutionary genetics and fruit flies, concluding
that a rapidly evolving gene in a
fruit fly has caused the creation
of a new species.
UR Professor of Biology Daven
Presgraves, Grass Fellow at the
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced
Study at Harvard University,
along with UR graduate student
Shanwu Tang, recently published
a study, entitled “Evolution of the
Drosophila Nuclear Pore Complex
Results in Multiple Hybrid Incompatibilities,” in Science Magazine.
The paper describes a newly found
gene that leads to the formation
of a new species as a result of geographical or physiological boundaries between fruit flies.
The splitting of one species into
two genetically incompatible species is called speciation. Speciation
is shown by the fact that when the
two different species interbreed,
their offspring are born either
sterile or dead. For example, if
one were to try to mate dogs and
cats together, their offspring would
be inviable.
The study hopes to further the
advancement of evolutionary genetics and natural selection.
The significance of Presgraves
and Tang’s findings are twofold.
First, speciation happens by a
process of natural selection. Second, the gene that was discovered
to lead to speciation doesn’t have
a random function. This gene is
actually linked to a previously
found gene that leads to speciation
in fruit flies.
“The picture we have, then, is
that our two fruit fly species split
from one another a couple million
years ago,” Presgraves said.
The results of the research were
surprising to Presgraves, an evolutionary geneticist who has been
working on gene development since
his time as a graduate student
here at UR.
Several years ago, Presgraves
discovered a gene called Nup 96,
which leads to the speciation in
fruit flies. This recently published
study is about the new gene he and
Tang discovered, Nup 160, that
serves the same function.
The anomaly of his finding is
that the two genes are related.
Both genes encode for portions of
the same structure of the cell, a
nuclear pore complex.
This complex is an arrangement
of proteins that function as a “gateway” into and out of the nucleus of
the cell. The discovery that both
speciation genes are involved in
the same function underscores
the research.
If the genes aren’t randomly
assigned, then the next piece is to
look at why these two particular
genes are so rapidly evolving that
they cause genetic incompatibility
between fruit flies. Presgraves was
able to show both genes, Nup 160
and Nup 96, rapidly evolve at rates
much faster than any of the others
in the genome.
The rationale for why Nup 160
and Nup 96 evolve so fast is as
follows.
DNA is located inside the
nucleus of the cell. The nuclear
pore complex of the fruit fly acts
as a doorway into the nucleus of
the cell.
Adaptations in the nuclear pore
complex would be advantageous
to the fruit fly in preventing the
insertion of viruses into the DNA.
The two genes he discovered are
both involved in this process of
protecting the DNA of the fruit fly
and in this way would their rapid
evolution would increase chances
of survival.
Presgraves says that both genes
show signs of natural selection.
“Their nuclear pore genes
evolved different DNA sequences
very quickly, and now when we
make hybrids between the two,
some die because their different
nuclear pore genes don’t know how
to talk to each other anymore,”
Pergraves said. “The question for
us now is why has natural selection
caused the nuclear pore complex
genes to evolve so rapidly.”
Presgraves continues his studies
in related areas, combining genetic
mapping and genomics approaches
to determine why X chromosome
are a hot spot for speciation genes
in two species of Drosophila fruit
flies.
Carlin is a member of
the class of 2011.
bY Jerome Nathaniel
News Editor
Eastman School of Music alumnus and accomplished jazz saxophonist Gerry Niewood ’70, age
65, died in an airplane crash on
Thursday, Feb. 12. Niewood was
one of 49 passenger deaths aboard
Continental Connection Flight
3407 to Buffalo, N.Y. He and a close
friend, guitarist Coleman Mellett,
were on their way to perform with
close friend Chuck Mangione’s
band in Buffalo. There were no
survivors in the crash.
Niewood was an instrumentalist
who performed the soprano, alto,
tenor and baritone saxophones
as well as the flute, alto flute,
bass flute, piccolo and clarinet.
He graduated from the Eastman
School of Music in 1970 with a
bachelors in music education with
a concentration in saxophone.
During his time at Eastman,
Niewood began to grow closer to
his childhood friend and trumpeter,
Mangione. Niewood and Mangione
performed together at the beginning of their careers, but they
eventually ventured into different
career paths.
After graduating, Niewood spent
a portion of his career teaching
music at Penfield High School and
Denonville Middle School. One of
Niewood’s students and pupils
from the early 1970s, Terrance
Bruce, expressed his thoughts and
sorrows in a statement to MSNBC.
When he heard that his old teacher
was killed, he wanted to connect
Courtesy of www.Myspace.com/GerryNiewood
Eastman School of Music Alumnus and renowned saxophonist
Gerry Niewood had a career spanning for over four decades.
with him again.
built a fan base and has been able
“I didn’t know what to think,” to achieve success for the past four
Bruce said. “I was really sad. I went decades.
and picked up some of this music
Niewood had a diverse career
that he played in the past to kind including performances with an
of get in touch with him.”
array of artists such as Peggy Lee,
While Mangione was recording Simon and Garfunkel, Thad Jones,
his celebrated “Feel So Good” Sinead O’Connor, Anne Murray,
album, Niewood developed a Mel Lewis, Gil Evans, Judy Colsuccessful career as a freelancer lins, Frank Sinatra and Gerry
on several reed and woodwind Mulligan.
instruments. Years later, the two
On the big screen, Niewood
Rochester natives would reunite in performed as a tenor saxophonist
concerts and tours, recreating what on the soundtrack to Robert De
became known as their “Friends Niro’s “A Bronx Tale.” In addition,
and Love” music.
he played woodwinds in the orchesThe concert included the Roch- tra for the films “When Harry Met
ester Philharmonic Orchestra and Sally,” “Annie,” “King of Comedy”
was originally taped in 1970 at the and many others.
Eastman School of Music. The duo
See NIEWOOD, Page 5
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Stop by Wilson Commons room 102 for
an application.
9 Non-Greek Special Interest groups just waiting for YOU!
Special Interest Info Session
Monday, February 23, 8:30-9:30pm
Friel Lounge (SBAH)
Special Interest Housing Week
Monday, February 23-Sunday, March1
2/23
Special Interest Housing Council: Information Session
Friel Lounge, 8:30-9:30pm
2/24
Community Learning Center: Smores n’ More: Open House Night,
CLC House(Fraternity Quad), 7-11pm
Tiernan Project: Tiernan Project Game Night, Burton 1 Lounge, 9pm
2/25
Film Interest Floor: Open House Night, Kendrick 120/130, 7-9pm
Inter Class LivingCommunity: Banana Splits with ICLC,
Crosby 0 Lounge, 8pm
2/26
Music Interest Floor: Weekly Jam Session, Wilder 9th Floor, 10pm
2/27
International Living Center: The Melting Pot, Anderson 6th Floor, 11am-2pm
Media Living Center: MLC Pasta Dinner, Anderson 720, 6pm
Drama House: IBTL Improv / Midnight Ramblers Joint Show,
Drama House(Fraternity Quad), 10pm-12am
2/28
Tiernan Project: Annual Baby Shower, Burton 1 Lounge, 4:00pm
Computer Interest Floor: CIF Game Night, Anderson 3rd Floor, 8pm-1am
3/01
Music Interest Floor: MIF at the Movies, Wilder 9th Floor, 3:30pm
All events are alcohol free/applications available at all events
NEWS
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Outage: Lights out across UR
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that students would be inconvenienced by the outage in the main
student hub but was satisfied with
the eventual outcome. Ballou commented on the ordeal.
“I think, in general, the students
were confused but patient,” she
said. “It didn’t hurt any programs,
and we didn’t have to make any
cancellations. We were actually
able to get power back just before
the Tiernan Project spaghetti
dinner.”
According to Mauldin, there
were no reports of River Campus
injuries subsequent to the blackouts, though some individuals were
briefly stuck in elevators. They
were freed after using elevator
phones that connect directly to UR
Security, as these and all University
phones remained operational.
RG&E officials have said that
they do not yet know the cause of
the initial failure.
Cutshall is a member of
the class of 2009.
Mascot: Logos condemned
kira carlin • Photography Editor
Spurrier Gym is one of several River Campus buildings with motion sensor lights that will ultimately
save money. In the coming weeks, divisions of the University will review new sustainable measures.
Energy: UR adjusts energy usage to economize
Continued from Page 1
Kevin Gibson said that Eastman
will consider similar setbacks after
evaluating the appropriate conditions unique to its buildings and
instruments.
So far, what the administration
hopes to shave off of its annual
utility bill is only a fraction of its
$36 million expenses for energy.
UR will continue to pursue additional cost-reduction, sustainable
strategies while encouraging the
University community to make
an individualized effort to power
down laptops, shut off lights and
wear a sweater before raising the
thermostat.
“Every little bit that we’re doing
is going to add to the savings and
all of the things behind the scenes
that people don’t see we’re doing,”
Henderson said.
SA senator and junior Eric
Weissmann reacted to the University’s changes, and what remains
to be done.
“I know that I was personally
frustrated that while students
were being asked to ‘do their part’ by
wearing an extra layer to stay warm
when temperatures were decreased,
some buildings leave their lights on
all night long,” Weissmann said.
“Overall, though, I am happy to do
my part by being a little cooler if it
means saving money and energy in
this difficult economy. I just want to
make sure that students aren’t the
only ones doing their part.”
Over winter break, UR saved
$18,000 by shutting off all heating on the Eastman Quadrangle
and in residential halls. Currently,
Director of River Campus Facilities
Jeff Foster is conducting a lighting
survey that will identify UR’s opportunities to install light motion
sensors that will shut off unnecessary light in hallways and common
areas.
The Students’ Association Projects and Services committee is
simultaneously launching a review
of unnecessary lighting at night.
In addition, Facilities staff are
inspecting ventilation fans to ensure they are providing optimal air
flow to the space. Finally, staff are
reprogramming air systems using
“free-cooling techniques,” to take
advantage of outdoor air available
on days with milder temperatures,
a technique that further reduces
energy costs. According to Henderson, building occupants shouldn’t
feel any change.
Facilities first realized its potential to lower temperatures through
its cost reduction suggestion
program.
Paprocki explained the saved
money will benefit the utility budgets of University divisions, such
as Strong Memorial Hospital and
Residential Life, which are dealing
with rising energy costs in tighter
times.
“Like all colleges and universities, we are trying to realize savings
wherever we can while preserving
our core,” Paprocki said. “We will
not make cuts that degrade safety,
security or the quality of our programs.”
Leber is a member of
the class of 2011.
University of Illinois mascot was
mistaken for an actual Native
American chief and was asked to
perform weddings.
The University fought to keep
their mascot unchanged but eventually the mascot and logo were
retired.Taylor felt that the effect
of Native American mascots was
most apparent at the high-school
level.
Taylor pointed to Seneca High
School, which recently changed
its mascot from an aggressive
chief to what it viewed as a more
culturally relatable mascot. After
the switch, the school saw a subsequent increase in Native American
involvement in sports such as
football and lacrosse.
Before the change in mascot,
records showed that at Seneca, 25
percent of the student population
was Native Americans, two-thirds
of whom were expected to drop out
before graduation. Taylor added
that the change in the mascot has
shown significant differences in
test scores and retention rates of
Native Americans in the school.
Taylor is currently an assistant
professor at Colgate University and
teaches anthropology and NativeAmerican studies. His Native
American tribe, Seneca Nation, is
located in western Upstate New
York between the Genesee River
and Canandaigua Lake.
Recent archaeological evidence
shows that this tribe at one point
may have extended all the way to
the Allegheny River in Pennsylvania.
Hasan is a member of
the class of 2012.
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Major League Baseball Cleveland Indian mascot, Chief Wahoo is one
of the more controversial sports logos amongst Native Americans.
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Niewood:Fatal crash kills 50 Stimulus: Mixed reviews greet federal plan
Niewood was on his way to the
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
at the time of the flight. BPO is a
world-renowned orchestra founded
in 1935 that has toured across the
United States and Canada, including concerts at Lincoln Center,
Kennedy Center, Boston’s Symphony Hall and Montreal’s Place
des Arts as well as 22 appearances
at Carnegie Hall.
Colleagues remembered
Niewood’s creativity and determination.
In the Rochester City Newspaper, Niewood spoke about getting
musically inspired.
“I don’t start to play until I hear
something that I want to play,”
Niewood said. “I try to develop it
and have that thread of continuity.
I’m not big on the use of pyrotechnics. I’m a melodic player, a
rhythmic player, a harmonic player.
I’m not a flashy player.”
Soon after the crash, his close
friend, Fred Costello, made a statement to MSNBC. “Everyone lost
a great musician,” Costello said.
“Those of us who knew him as a
friend lost a tremendous friend, [a]
very warm person.”
Prior to takeoff, the flight crew
of the Continental Express flight
faced significant icing on the
plane’s wings. The icing on the
plane reshaped the wing and affected its aerodynamics.
The plane crash killed 50 people,
one of which casualties was on the
ground. The incident was the first
fatal plane crash in the United
States since 2006 and the deadliest
since American Airlines Flight 587
crashed in Belle Harbor Queens,
N.Y. in 2006, ultimately killing
265 people.
According to the New York
Times, an official from the National Transportation Safety Board
warned against jumping to the conclusion that ice was the direct cause
of the fatal crash of flight 3407. The
Board argued that it’s important
to consider other factors.
Board member Steven Chealander contends that another Continental Airlines flight using an
identical twin-engine turboprop,
a Bombardier Dash 8 Q400, flew
the same Newark-to-Buffalo route
just 27 minutes after flight 3407
took off. The plane faced the same
winter advisories but managed to
complete the trip safely.
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showing enough bipartisanship
in the package, even though the
bill included $280 billion in tax
cuts, a Republican platform. Only
three moderate Republican senators voted in favor of the bill. The
house vote was divided perfectly
along party lines.
Seligman remained neutral
when asked whether he thought
Obama did enough bipartisan
work. “The reality is the law was
passed,” he said. “We’ll judge the
quality of legislation in terms of
the consequences.”
Seligman emphasized that
recovery and reducing unemployment remained the top two priorities that the American economy
is facing.
President Obama hopes that
the stimulus package will save or
create close to 3.5 million jobs. The
stimulus package is not the only
way Obama is working to alleviate
economic woes.
On Wednesday, he announced a
plan to encourage homeownership,
including incentives for mortgage
lenders to provide more affordable
loans.
University faculty have expressed to media outlets their
views on the stimulus package.
Dean of the Simon School of Business Mark Zupan and Gleason
Professor of Business Administration James Brickley recently
wrote editorials in the Democrat
and Chronicle.
Zupan warned that the stimulus package would “significantly
hobble the entrepreneurial vitality of our economy over the long
run.”
He then added a litany of problems he had with the stimulus
package. The Congressional Bud-
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UR President Joel Seligman maintained that reduced unemployment
rates and recovery should be the nation’s economic priorities.
get Office determined the package
lacks any immediate effect.
He added that politicians have
added clauses to the bill that adhere to many special interests. His
central point was that government
involvement in the economy is hard
to reverse. He pointed to ongoing
federal support and negotiations
with the automobile industry as
something that would continue.
On the other hand, Brickley
argued that the current economic
situation demanded intervention.
“While the result is not perfect,
the reality is that our political
system is incapable of designing
an ideal stimulus,” he wrote in
his editorial.
Although he expressed doubts as
to whether the stimulus package
would work he added that failure
to act would be a bigger detriment
to the economy.
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Save on lighting
In this time of economic recession, the University and the
Students’ Assocation are appropriately reviewing current energy
usage. UR has been proactive in cutting back on expenditures
— for example, Facilities has dropped temperatures in academic
buildings. This is projected to save $65,000 annually. Another
area where the University can save money, however, is in reducing energy usage in unoccupied buildings overnight.
Facilities and student government are also surveying wasteful
light usage. Many buildings on the River Campus have lights on
long after the occupants have left. In the
Simon School of Business, lights and teleSee story on
visions are left on overnight. In Douglass
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Dining Center, all of the televisions are left
on 24/7, long after the building is usually vacant.
The University annually spends $36 million on energy, and
savings can be had by trimming energy use. These successful
attempts to reduce energy spending amid the current economic
recession can be continued by turning off lights in academic
buildings at night via sensors and timers.
According to Richard Pifer, Associate Vice President for University Facilities and Services, the University relies on building
occupants to turn off lights. Personal responsibility is important
in cutting back waste, and students and employees have taken
their own initiatives to limit waste, such as Grassroots’s UR
Unplugged. However, relying on personal responsiblity is not
enough.
Pifer himself acknowledged it is impractical for the few security
officers at night to turn off building lights; installing occupancy
sensors and timers is the next most feasible option to cut down
energy use. Sensors are an investment. Installing them incurs
an initial cost but saves money and electricity in the long run.
Because of the expense of installing them, they should be first
placed in areas such as academic hallways and dorm lounges.
It will take more than just an awareness campaign to ensure
that River Campus buildings do not waste energy. The University
tells us to put on a sweater when it drops dorm temperatures and
it should reciprocate the sacrifice. In this time of belt tightening,
any light or television turned off is a dollar saved.
Unjust rankings
This year, UR was not included in this year’s Princeton Review rankings.While this may appear to be a great error on the
part of Public Relations, it is a triumphant stand against biased
rankings.
In January 2007, UR critiqued the Review’s methods of obtaining
every student’s e-mail address in order to send a survey via e-mail.
The school recognized this as an invasion of student privacy and
found it too unreasonable for actual consideration.
Since UR refused to participate in these methods, the Review
dropped the University from its book. Despite this chide, UR’s
decision to protect the privacy of students and its condemnation
of inappropriate surveying is admirable.
The University has fallen in multiple rankings this year, and
this is not to be ignored. However, discrepancies in closely ranked
elite schools, such as UR and its peer University Athletic Association members, can cause a school to drop disproportionately in
the rankings. Simplifying these separate colleges into an ordered
list is nearly impossible to do without vast errors.
UR applications have even grown this year, in spite of the snub.
Princeton Review is not the only name in the game, and college
applicants are seeking other sources, such as the Web site College Confidential and the popular U.S. News and World Report.
Rankings are an important part of college admissions culture and
an opportunity for publicity. For this reason, but more importantly
because the Review has corrected its surveys to less intrusive
methods, UR will likely appear in the Review rankings this fall.
The University acted correctly in protecting students from
participating in a faulty survey that ignores these factors. In the
cutthroat chaos of college admissions, UR took a commendable
stand. The University stuck to its morals despite the intense pressure of the college admissions frenzy, and that is more important
than any number.
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Editorial Observer
Shut up and stop complaining
Last time I wrote one of these, I
told y’all to shut up and appreciate
your stupid lives. And I’m going to do
it again. Since my heart-wrenching
sentiments about starving children
were not effective, I am taking a
different approach.
Let’s go old school — take it back
to the playground. Little you is at
recess. You see that kid counting his
D&D trading cards (call him Carlton
— we’re going as ’90s as possible)
being approached by 225-lbs. Tony
(a true bro in the making), the kid
who breaks the popsicles with his
sausage hands at craft time and out
of futility eats the glue. Carlton’s
little glasses jolt with every rippling
footstep of Tony’s giant thighs, and
you know a smackdown approaches.
What are you thinking at that moment? You want to say you were
possessed by genuine sympathy. You
are a liar. You thought, “I’m so glad
it’s not me!”
You think it all the time. You
make it through the door just as the
magic handicap button energy runs
out and snicker at the sucker who
now has to *gasp* manually open
it. You take the last rainbow cookie
at Starbucks and pity the fool two
down the line who asks for one.
I have this idea. Perhaps if I point
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Schneier
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Editor
out the most unfortunate people in
the world, you will stop complaining about your tests and hangovers
and be appreciative. So, here are
the top five most pitiful people in
the world:
1. Hugh Hefner: Whining about
tuition bills? Well, the economic
crisis is hurting rich people too.
Even Hef filed for bankruptcy. Now
that the mansion is in jeopardy, his
silicon-o-licious babes will abandon
him. He will be forced to beg for
Viagra on the streets. Alone.
2. Gia: The girl from “Rock of
Love” who did that thing with her…
you know. That was the greatest
accomplishment of Gia’s life. She
could die tomorrow, and it wouldn’t
matter. At least you got to learn to
read.
3. Kim Jong-Il: Imagine you have
a birthday party. You order flowers, a bunch of missiles and some
scrumptious cake. You’re going to
party like it’s a demilitarized zone!
Oh yeah, baby! Except there’s one
problem: everyone at your party is
there because they don’t want you
to kill them. It sucks when Sig Chi
runs out of beer, but mandatory
dancing is a real buzz kill.
4. Barbie: You’ve been a doctor,
astronaut and Spice Girl. Worried
about picking the wrong major?
Suck it up, because for Barbie, nothing satisfies. In the end, she’s just
cold, shiny plastic.
5. Dinosaurs: You get to go traying
on the hill behind Sue B. and see how
many Genys you can shotgun in an
hour. Last time I checked, dinosaurs
were still extinct. Think about it.
Take that feeling you get when
your friend is ranting about the
lack of straws in the Pit, and you
get to happily sip your Coke because
you got there five minutes earlier.
Channel that gratitude all the time,
because if it happens to be you on
the other side, there’s some skank
on “Rock of Love” doing something
vulgar with a straw right now. She’s
going to lose all her dreams when
Bret proceeds to make out with her
and then kick her off the bus.
If nothing else, you’ve never made
out with Bret Michaels. I hope.
Schneier is a member of
the class of 2011.
Editorial Observer
A boxer without a ring
They say if you build it, they will
come. But they forgot to mention
that if you don’t build it, they’ll
incite a riot. Just imagine Muhammad Ali heading to the gym to train
for his fight in Zaire, “The Thrilla
in Manila,” and finding out that his
million-dollar gym hasn’t replaced a
heavy bag or speed bag that’s been
down for over a month. I would assume that a rational man such as
Ali would be pretty disappointed. In
that case, I believe that any rational
being has the right to be upset that
our gym is lacking in equipment.
Goergen Athletic Center has been
heavy and speed bag-less for quite
some time. Even when there was an
existing speed bag, the stand would
constantly slide down if you had a
decent skill level to work the lackluster bag. The gym also has the setup
for a double end ball (a ball that is
on the center of a long, springy rope
that is attached to the floor and
ceiling), but has never actually had
a double end ball since I’ve started
attending the University.
In light of the recession, one
may think the school is trying to
economize by refusing to replace the
heavy bag, speed bag and speed bag
stand. But I have a hard time buying
into that when we spend $47,220 in
annual fees, while a decent heavy
bag, speed bag and stand costs a
grand total of $280. If $47,220 isn’t
enough, I personally wouldn’t mind
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Nathaniel
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if 10 cents were added to our annual
fees next semester — then we’d be
able to afford boxing equipment in
four folds.
But is that even necessary? In
2000, $14 million were spent for
renovations of the 200-squarefoot Goergen Athletic Center. The
project was launched in recognition
of 1960 UR alumnus Robert B.
Goergen’s $5 million donation to
the school. If Goergen was willing
to donate that much money, I can’t
see why the University can’t follow
the new gym founder’s example and
spare $300 out of its billions.
I will admit, Athletics has made
somewhat of an effort to fix the
problem. The heavy bag, which
was already well worn-out, would
constantly fall off its chain. From
time to time, the feeble bag was
reattached to the stand only to fall
again a month later. Eventually, the
bag’s age began to scream death
when all of its insides began to spill
out on the gym floor. Since then, the
bag has been removed but has yet
to be replaced.
As for the speed bag, the stand
was never in a decent state since
I’ve started attending the University. If anything, it was designed to
diminish my skills every time it slid
down and failed to keep up with my
speed and precision. The bag itself
would constantly lose air every three
days or so because of a small hole
on its side. Bag users would pump
air into the ball so that it could
bounce back (essentially, that’s how
you use a speed bag). However, the
bag began to bulge and deform like
Oscar De La Hoya’s face after his
Manny Pacquiao fight. In response,
the ball was deflated, but clearly still
deformed. Now, there’s a sign next
to the speed bag stand that tells gym
goers that the ball was removed due
to over inflation. The fact that there
was a small hole in the speed bag
was completely ignored.
Now my workout buddies and
I have been struggling to get a
decent boxing workout. My hopes
of starting a Students’ Associationrecognized boxing group are inherently fruitless because of our gym.
Considering that the University
has recently started a new boxing
grant with the Hills family from
“Extreme Makeover: Home Edition,” I hope that the kids will have
something to punch that won’t get
them suspended.
the class of 2011.
Josh Hatcher
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“Why do you need to think? Can’t we just sit and go budumbudumbudum with our lips for a bit?” — Douglas Adams
How we’re still getting screwed by UR’s health care
BY William Sondey
In last week’s article, “How we’re getting
screwed with UR’s health care,” I discussed
how health insurance works here at UR.
The school requires all students to have it. I
didn’t have any, so I bought it from the school.
That was in the summer. Over winter break,
I learned a fun fact about the Excellus Blue
Cross Blue Shield plan the University offers to
students. Namely, that it only covers services
received in Monroe County, Rochester. On the
other hand, horrendous tragedies requiring
emergency attention are covered throughout
the United States. Well, that’s a nice perk.
But that makes a certain amount of sense,
right? For the year I have this plan, I’ll probably be spending two-thirds of my time in
Monroe County. So, potentially, it’s not a big
deal. That is, not a big deal if the University
told you this up front. Not only does it not tell
you, but for reasons elucidated in my article
last week, administrators make it very likely
that you won’t find out.
Now maybe there’s some fine print at the
bottom of the page saying something to the
effect of “restrictions may apply,” “while
supplies last” or some other McCrap. In fact,
there is. And, that would probably hold up in
court. However, what it is, is bad business.
If a salesman hides a “jk” clause in the fine
print of a contract, yanks the product out of
the customer’s hand as they are putting down
the pen, shows that customer the contract
and gives him the finger, it is only a matter
of time until the salesman goes out of business. He won’t get sued, but what he will
eventually end up with is a bunch of pissed-off
ex-customers, like me, who will publicly drag
his name through the dirt.
But, maybe UR doesn’t care. After all, it
almost has all of the $50K I owe from this
year (the last payment is just a month away)
as well as the $150K from the three years
before this one. If it isn’t broken…
Indeed, it seems that dollars trump ethics
for UR, which may explain why the Excellus
BCBS plan also doesn’t cover prescription
drugs (with the exception of insulin). Isn’t
that a good trick? UR covers its royal rear by
making you insure yourself. You buy this junk
plan that costs the University next to nothing
to offer, but is just sufficient enough to cover
the rare instances of extreme catastrophe
that have the potential to threaten its sweaty
white-knuckled grip around the piggybank
aptly named “endowment.” It doesn’t even
offer extra coverage at an additional charge.
How does the University rationalize this
egregious failure to ensure the health and
well-being of the student body? It is betting
on the fact that the majority of students will
be covered under a parent’s health plan obtained through an employer. But this leaves
some people out, like students 22-years of age
and older. What about the students who are
not fortunate enough to have a stable familial
foundation to rely upon when in need? I bet
it would be nice if the University stepped
up and displayed a genuine interest in their
well-being. And, what about students whose
families have been adversely affected by the
state of the economy (and those who will be)
and no longer have health care through an
employer? Suddenly, they’re faced with having
to pay into an expensive Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act program or to
go without insurance. Sure would be nice if
the University were to look out for its own
during these tough times.
I find these circumstances infuriating because they contradict numerous principles the
University prides itself in exemplifying. Take
the school’s motto, “Meliora,” for example.
Ever better? I thought Meliora expressed
the University’s commitment to progress
and diversity. Yet the Excellus BCBS plan is
representative of a calculated decision on the
University’s part to ignore the demographic
minority — students who don’t have health
insurance because their age disqualifies them
from their parents health plans.
The University is eager to draw attention
to the fact that, among its other accomplishments, the School of Medicine and Dentistry
is ranked 19th among “primary care” graduate schools in the country. The health care it
offers to its students, on the other hand, is a
step in the opposite direction.
Then there’s the Health Promotion Office
within University Health Services. On UHS’s
Web site, the purpose of this office is identified
as “to emphasize awareness of current health
issues, prevention of disease and illness, and
promotion of health and wellness.” I have a
suggestion: it involves medicine and giving it
to people who need it. Isn’t that what’s being
taught over at the Medical Center? Could
anything be more fundamental to promoting
health and preventing disease?
On the URMC Web site, the University
proudly boasts that “Rochester consistently
ranks among the top 30 institutions, both public and private, in federal funding for research
and development.” Oh, I get it. Promoting
health and wellness is important to UR when
it gets the school federal funding.
Don’t ever expect to see another dollar
from me after the last tuition payment in
March. But, the University doesn’t care. I’m
small potatoes. It’s sickening in more ways
than one.
I wrote to UHS over winter break expressing my dissatisfaction with the fact that the
Excellus BCBS plan offered to UR students
does not cover prescription drugs, nor is such
coverage available at extra cost. I was happy
to hear from the Associate Director of the
Health Promotion Office, Linda Dudman,
Monday of this week.
This is part two of a two-part series.
Sondey is a member of
the class of 2009.
BY Sylvia Guerra
Due to the recent controversy that has surrounded “The Problem of Reverse Segregation at the U of R,” an article published in the
fall 2008 issue of Messenger Magazine, the
Messenger family has deemed it appropriate
to state our position on the issue.
It is the policy of Messenger Magazine to
utilize a pseudonym in any instance when it
is requested by the author so as to protect his
or her identity, regardless of the content of
the article. Pseudonym use is not determined
by the nature of a particular issue, but rather
by whether or not it has been requested.
The use of pseudonyms in past articles has
not been an issue until this point.
We allow pseudonyms, first and foremost,
because we choose to respect the privacy
and personal preferences of authors. We
feel that allowing pseudonyms encourages
authors to submit personal literature when
they might otherwise be nervous to do so, be
that because of the content of the article or
for any personal reason. An editorial in the
Feb. 5 issue of the Campus Times states that
“the fact that a student felt that they had
to go anonymous in order to safely express
their opinion speaks ill of the River Campus
community,” and, we could not agree more opposed to our mission statement.
The first page of every Messenger issue
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are those of the authors and do not necessarlows the usage of pseudonyms.
Our goal is to promote conversation ily reflect the opinions of the Mess Family
and intellectual discussion. If the article’s or the University.” Saying that a statement
opinion had been stated in a truly accept- made in an article illustrates ignorance of a
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this is obviously not the case.
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It is because of this that we do
If the article’s
article misunderstands divernot believe that the usage of
opinion had been sity,” is therefore an invalid
pseudonyms takes away from
stated in a truly
statement. The relationship
the author’s argument or our
accepting,
diverse that we have shared and the
magazine’s mission statement. In fact, they do quite campus climate, its support we have received from
both the Office of Minority
the opposite. Pseudonyms
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and to assume that an opinion
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That being said, Messenger
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wound and would only delay, not further entirely unfounded claim. It is because
any kind of intelligent discussion. Publish- we have stayed true to our mission stateing hateful articles would indeed be quite ment that we would be happy to publish
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student body seem to want us to do this, the
Messenger family will never refuse to publish
an article simply because we disagree with
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As the editor-in-chief of Messenger Magazine, I am extremely proud of the fall 2008
issue. The Messenger family worked hard
to produce this outstanding issue of our
12-year-old magazine, and I think we did
a splendid job.
I encourage students, faculty and staff to
read through the entirety of the magazine
and to formulate their own opinions about
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them agreeable or not.
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In response to William Sondey’s letter of
Feb. 12, I write to offer a few facts about the
student health program at UR.
First, evidently unbeknownst to Mr.
Sondey, the vast majority of health insurance plans in the United States today limit
coverage for elective care to providers in a
local network, as does the UR-sponsored
BCBS plan.
The intent is to improve value to insured
persons by providing high-quality care at the
lowest possible cost. What is missing from
Mr. Sondey’s piece is the scope and quality of
coverage for unexpected accident, illness and
injury care for UR BCBS-insured students,
which is covered in full around the world
without co-pay or deductible. The intent of
the plan is to assure that routine primary
care happens where students are the majority
of the year and that excellent coverage for
urgent and emergency care then protects
them wherever they are the rest of the year.
As Mr. Sondey notes, the policy comes at a
very favorable price, which is less than half
the cost of a non-student single policy in the
Rochester community.
The insurance plan benefits are reviewed
at least annually and are regularly updated to
reflect all New York State mandates. Affordable benefits that are important to students
campustimes.org
are also considered, such as the addition of
the flu vaccination in 2008. When the last
insurance review was performed, UR students were included in the final evaluation.
Of five nationally known student health plan
providers, Rochester’s BCBS plan exceeded
expectations to a high degree at a significantly lower cost compared to the others.
The BCBS plan was the unanimous choice
of students and administration alike.
We are reviewing the BCBS Summary
of Benefits documents posted on our Web
site at http://www.rochester.edu/uhs to find
and correct any possible discrepancy in the
information. We invite Mr. Sondey to show
ing 17,000 more troops to
Afghanistan help solve the
nation’s troubles?
us specifically what he finds discrepant, so
that it can be corrected.
Finally, Mr. Sondey, or any student, should
absolutely bring any questions, concerns or
unexpected bills to the attention of UHS
staff. We are here to help students keep
healthy and learn about the processes of
health care. Part of that mission is to help
students understand health insurance. We
invite Mr. Sondey to consider joining the
UR Student Health Advisory Committee to
use his ideas to help continuously improve
health care for UR students.
—Ann McMican
UHS Associate Director for Administration
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OPINIONS
Love is all around… so is violence against women
BY caitlin smigelski
The roses are wilted and the chocolate
boxes are empty signs that we have all
survived through another Valentine’s Day.
However, there is another V-Day coming up
this month. This “V” stands not only for
valentine, but also for violence, vagina and
victory. V-Day is a global movement founded
by the author of “The Vagina Monologues,”
Eve Ensler, to end violence against women
and girls.
Each year, as part of V-Day, a spotlight
campaign is chosen to raise awareness and
help stop violence against women and girls in
a specific location or situation. Universities
and organizations throughout the world put
on benefit events to support both the V-Day
campaign and local organizations fighting
domestic violence. It is not a coincidence
that V-Day falls around the same time as
Valentine’s Day, as this movement is a reminder in the month of love that domestic
violence is all around us.
The spotlight campaign of V-Day 2009
focuses on the internal conflict in the
Congo that has resulted in the rape of tens
of thousands of women. The main cause of
the conflict is the Congo’s natural resource
of coltan ores. The element tantalum, present in coltan ores, is used in cell phones,
computers and PlayStations. The battle
for ownership of these mines has resulted
in an economic war that is also fought on
the bodies of women. Women and girls of
the Congo are victims of rape, gang rape,
torture and mutilation by armies and rebel
groups that can cause death, sterilization
and serious medical conditions. For more
information on this issue, visit http://www.
vday.org or http://www.democracynow.org to
view an interview conducted by journalist
Amy Goodman on Feb. 9 with Eve Ensler
and a Congolese gynecologist.
The situation in the Congo is an extreme
and disturbing case, but violence against
women does not happen solely in poor and far
away developing nations. It happens around
the world and in America. It happens to one
in every three women; women of all races,
creeds, ages and socio-economic status.
Take, for example, pop-star Rihanna. She
was recently a victim of domestic violence
by her 19 year-old boyfriend, an event that
has apparently happened more than once.
In New York State, 55 percent of female
homicide victims are murdered in domestic
violence incidents and, just a few weeks ago,
a Rochester woman was murdered by her
former boyfriend before he himself committed suicide. Violence against women is both a
local and a global issue. It is widespread and
crosses racial and socio-economic lines.
In Rochester, there are organizations, such
as Alternatives for Battered Women, that
provides counseling, support and preventive
and education programs to stop domestic
violence. The Sojourner House, located in
the 19th Ward, also provides alternative
and supportive housing for women and
children who are victims of violence. Local
organizations that provide education and
options to victims are crucial for stopping
the cycle of violence against women and
girls. But to do this, they need help from
the local community.
There are two events at UR this month
that will be raising funds to support ABW
and the Sojourner House while also raising
awareness about violence against women
and girls. On Thursday, Feb. 19, the Undergraduate Council for Women and Gender
Studies is showing the film, “What I Want
My Words to Do to You,” which depicts a
writing workshop of female inmates. Next
week, there will be a student presentation
of “The Vagina Monologues,” which addresses issues pertaining to sexuality and
abuse. Ninety percent of both events’ entrance fee revenue will be donated to these
local anti-violence organizations, and the
remaining ten percent will be donated to
V-Day’s spotlight campaign on the women
of the Congo.
Violence against women and girls is a part
of our community and society at large. This
cycle can only be stopped by numbers, by
people who speak out against violence and
raise awareness. Our campus needs to be a
part of this global movement. I encourage
you to show your support to end violence
against women by attending these events
on campus or volunteer at one of these
anti-violence organizations. Most importantly, however, raise your voice to spread
awareness. This is the key to create change.
Violence against women and children affects
everyone. Get involved and together we can
make the “V” in V-Day stand for victory,
not violence.
Smigelski is a member of
the class of 2010.
BY Anna Coughlan
Scientists and environmentalists rejoiced
on Jan. 20 when the U.S. Senate confirmed
physicist Dr. Steven Chu as Energy Secretary.
After eight years of climate change denial
and minimal efforts to provide incentives
for renewable energy development, the U.S.
government made a dramatic shift with Chu’s
confirmation. Chu has been a fierce advocate
for research in alternative sources of energy
as well as for action on the global warming
crisis. His work at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, such as the Helios project
to store solar energy, and his interest in creative solutions, such as tapping termite guts
for biomass energy, shows his dedication to
finding solutions to our dependence on fossil
fuels. However, Chu does not work for himself
anymore. Chu works for President Barack
Obama and is accountable to the American
people. One can only hope that Chu will
continue to be an outspoken advocate for
environmentally friendly energy, even as he
collides with politics.
In the past, Chu has been very candid about
global warming. “We’ll cook ourselves before
we run out of energy,” Chu was quoted by
the Campus Times during Meliora Weekend
2006. He has also been quoted saying, “Coal
is my worst nightmare.” Environmentalists
might nod their heads in agreement with
these two statements, but realistic Americans
who look at their ever-increasing energy bills
or workers who rely on gas for transportation
want one thing from an energy secretary:
cheap energy.
In the current economic climate, spending a
significant portion of one’s
paycheck on the heating
bill can be disastrous. As
gas prices steadily climbed
during the summer, more
Americans resorted to
public transportation.
Although the number of
cars on the road decreased, many large U.S.
cities are choosing to make cuts to their
subway and bus lines. How can one argue
with a single parent who relies on cheap gas
to drive to work in order to feed his or her
kids and provide heat for the home? Chu has
realized the conundrum alternative energy
faces with the downturn in the economy and
increasing demand from Americans. But he
should not take pleas to “drill, baby drill” to
heart because not only would offshore drilling
take years to produce fuel, the consequence
would be an increase in greenhouse gases
in the atmosphere, leading to Chu’s and the
Earth’s worst nightmare.
Some worry that Chu has already started to
make concessions to the oil and gas industry.
He has not opposed increased oil and gas
drilling. He supports “clean coal” research,
although there seem to
be more drawbacks than
benefits to carbon storage.
During the Senate hearing, Chu stated, “We need
all of the solutions.” The
hero of climate change
advocates just lost some
standing by revising his scientific and personal views to accept fossil fuels. Nobody
in Washington is immune to partisanship.
Welcome to politics, Dr. Chu.
In the next four years, the new energy
secretary will have to make some difficult
decisions. He will have to decide if shortterm economic stability is worth long-term
catastrophic changes. He will have to learn to
balance his beliefs with those of the desperate
average American. One must hope that Chu
was only trying to soften his image as a radical fossil-fuel hater during the confirmation
hearing to be accepted by the Senate. Now
that he has secured the position of Energy
Secretary, he has the freedom to take the U.S.
energy economy to a more sustainable future.
Yet Chu must also be careful not to fall into the
pit of unnecessary compromise that Obama
has started to dig. Chu must be an educator.
He must explain to the average American
that drilling now will not solve anything in
the immediate future. Instinctive, whimsical
and misinformed calls to “drill, baby drill”
will hopefully disappear under Obama’s administration. Politicians who support the oil
and gas industry will hopefully not make a
mark on future policy. Belief in science must
return to the White House, as well as trust to
those who have studied energy solutions as
careers. We have faith in you, Dr. Chu. Follow
your beliefs and lead the United States and
the world to a greener economy.
Written on behalf of Grassroots.
Coughlan is a member of
the class of 2011.
BY Evgeny Brud
A core tenet of anything worth calling
a democracy is the principle that a person
should have a say in decisions, proportionate to the degree that he or she is affected
by them. This should certainly apply to the
students, employees, faculty and alumni
having some control over the University’s
investments in objectionable corporations
if we are to take democracy seriously.
UR currently has a $1.3 billion endowment, putting it in the top 50 in the country.
The current investment policy, available for
viewing at http://www.rochester.edu/endowment/policy, sets some sensible investment
objectives to generate “investment returns
which provide for both the present and future needs of the University.” Regarding the
social impact of investments, the University
has a mechanism in place for dealing with
community inquiries: a student, faculty, staff
member or alumnus can submit an inquiry to
the Office of Institutional Resources regarding specific investment holdings and recieve
a response on a “yes or no” basis.
For example, one can inquire as to whether
the University is invested in Harris Corporation, which happens to profit immensely
from the criminal occupation of Iraq. After
receiving a confirmation (which one would
also receive if for Dyncorp, Tyco, General
Dynamics, Hill International, Stanley Inc.,
among others), the enquirer can then send
that request for a vote on the holding to the
Investment Committee of the University’s
Board of Trustees. This committee has the
ultimate decision-making power regarding
the University’s complicity in matters of war
and occupation and other unpleasant issues
to which students need not pay attention.
Sometimes popular pressure can’t help
but creep in and compel the University to
divest from holdings involved in particularly
horrendous political situations. Take the
apartheid in South Africa. In 1987, UR, under the presidency of Dennis O’Brien, began
investing more heavily in multinational corporations and decided to allow investments
in companies profitting from the apartheid
regime. The University
community was outraged,
and students held demonstrations denouncing the
policy, eventually compelling the administration
to divest.
The current administration has adopted a
policy that prohibits “direct investments in
companies identified as supporting the Sudanese government’s atrocities in Darfur.”
The adoption of such socially responsible
reforms to its investment policy is commendable.
Of course, these reforms aren’t “gifts”
from above. They were fought for with dedicated and persistent activism from students
and citizens, both here at UR and nationally.
Reforms were won, not given.
It seems like a call for democratizing
UR’s investment policy is long overdue.
While calls for divestment from corpora-
tions involved in egregious criminality are
currently necessary, a long-term vision for
democratizing investment policy should
be fought for as well. Objectionable investment holdings should be put to a vote by a
democratically elected committee composed
of representatives from the student body, the
faculty, employees and alumni. This socially
responsible investing committee would
have veto power over particular holdings in
corporations involved in, say, human rights
violations. To be clear, the University’s
portfolio would be managed by hired money
managers, as is currently
the practice. Veto power
UR
Students by this “SRI” committee
would be exercised with
for a
regard to corporations
Democratic that violate principles of
social responsibility, as
Society
laid out in a SRI Initiative.
This initiative would be grounded in a
principled stance, in contrast to the unprincipled policy currently in place. The decisions
that prohibited holdings in companies that
were involved in South African apartheid
and Darfur genocide, while praiseworthy,
lack an underlying principle. After all, why
oppose the atrocities in Darfur, though not
in Iraq or Palestine? Violations of human
rights conventions are violations regardless of the state committing them. In fact,
we should pay particular attention to the
crimes committed by our own state. As
citizens, we have a unique responsibility
and influence in stopping them. Self-serving
political expediency surely can’t be a serious
foundation for responsible citizenship by
the University. A principled policy would be
grounded in international law and already
existing conventions surrounding labor,
ecological and diversity standards.
A democratic committee for investments
would bring much-needed transparency
to a currently opaque, autocratic system.
There seems to be no sensible reason why
we shouldn’t have a say in the University’s
investments in war profiteers. The only reason seems to be a desire to maintain power
concentrated within the Board of Trustees
and the administration.
But students can disagree. Just recently,
students from Hampshire College, after
engaging in a campaign to divest from
companies profiting from the occupation
of Palestine, won a divestment victory.
Students from the New School in New York
City, after occupying an academic building,
compelled their administration to accept a
democratic student committee on socially
responsible investing. Such victories should
inspire us to take similar action here at
the UR. With the success of the recent UR
Gaza Solidarity sit-in, the administration
accepted the request to host a joint forum
with students on the University’s investment
policy. This will be an opportunity to let our
voices be heard.
Written on behalf of SDS.
Brud is a member of
the class of 2010.
Steven Chu brings science to the White House
Grassroots’s
A need to democratize UR’s investment policy
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Gospel singers wow crowd
with impressive singing and
spirited dance... Page 13
Crushing
cancer
one note at a time
With the crowd screaming, a row of bright
spotlights focused in on the vibrant yellow jackets worn
by the 13 current members of UR’s oldest all-male a
cappella group, the Yellowjackets. The spring semester’s
concert would be unlike any other Yellowjackets
performance. “It’s going to be a night of music for a
very important cause,” Yellowjacket business manager
and sophomore Aaron Sperber said.
The show was sold-out, and over 900 people
anxiously squirmed in their seats, awaiting what was
to come.
“People bought tickets even if they couldn’t come
in order to support the cause,” sophomore Yellowjacket
Daniel Rubenstein said. “Because of how moved we
were by Zander’s unfortunate news, we felt that all the
effort and time spent on Harmony for Hope was well
worth it.”
If you have never seen the Yellowjackets perform,
it is truly an indescribable experience. Each member
of the group brings a unique presence to the stage. “I
loved the fact that in addition to their incredible voices,
during a bunch of the songs they started to dance and
just have a great time up there,” sophomore Arielle
Hoffman said.
Saturday night was a special show and probably
the Yellowjackets’ most exciting one yet. Called
Harmony for Hope, the event was more than just a
concert; it was a night dedicated to spreading hope.
In honor of alumnus Zander Hunter ’08, a former
Yellowjacket, all of the night’s proceeds went toward
cancer research and treatment at the Wilmot Cancer
Center.
“In the fall, after one of our rehearsals, Zander
came in, sat down and told us about how he was
diagnosed with non-Hodgkins Lymphoma,” sophomore
Yellowjacket Christopher Young said. “Ever since then,
we were inspired to put on this show.”
“Tonight is all about a wonderful cause,”
Congressman Eric Massa said, who attended Harmony
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Staff Writer
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Presentation Editor
Photo by claire cohen
staff Photographer
for Hope with his family. “It’s an honor to be here
to carry this message of hope back to Washington.”
Massa was joined by several revered guests including
University Vice-President and General Secretary
Paul Burgett, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid
Jonathan Burdick and Dean of Eastman School of
Music Doug Lowry.
Being a part of the Yellowjackets is almost like
being a part of a second family, and these men wanted
to help their brother the best way they knew how
— singing. Leading the Harmony for Hope project,
Sperber teamed up with the current members of the
group to plan a successful night.
But it didn’t stop there.
Not only did all 13 current Yellowjackets take
part in this project, but former Yellowjackets members
wanted to get involved as well.
“I said I’d be glad to call and talk to my fellow,
original Yellowjackets,” Jerry Gardner, a former
Yellowjacket who is currently on the University’s
Board of Trustees, said. “I got 10 originals to sign a
letter encouraging all Yellowjackets to contribute, and
if they could, attend the concert.”
Founded in 1956, the Yellowjackets branched
off of the men’s glee club and began singing mainly
as a barber shop group until developing into a strictly
a cappella group. “Being a part of the Yellowjackets
means more than one would ever expect,” sophomore
Yellowjacket Daniel Rubenstein said. “What sets being
a Yellowjacket apart from any other group I’ve been a
part of is its rich tradition and history.”
Clearly, being a Yellowjacket means being part of
a lifelong group. Gifted with their musical talents and
stage presence, their dedication to one another certainly
cannot go unnoticed. Using these proceeds to help with
cancer research is the main goal; however, spreading
hope throughout the packed auditorium was a simple,
yet extremely significant, objective of the evening as
well.
See HOPE, Page 11
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H S
Teacher Feature: Joanna Scott
by Nandini Venkateswaran
Features Editor
Joanna Scott is an author and professor of English at UR. She has received
critical acclaim for her novels, including her recent book, “Liberation,” merited the Ambassador Book Award for
Fiction. Completing her undergraduate
studies at Trinity College and receiving
her masters from Brown University,
Scott has traveled around the world in
search of literary inspiration. With a
rich pool of experiences to draw from,
Scott has truly established herself as a
successful novelist.
a New York literary agency. And then I
went to graduate school and settled into
the work of writing, editing and teaching.
What did you do before you taught
at UR?
I spent some years growing up — a
never-ending process, I’m discovering!
I worked as an assistant in a bakery, as
an EMT on an ambulance, at the front
desk in a library, as a proofreader for a
news syndicate and as an assistant at
Who was your biggest influence to
pursue a career in writing?
I blame my obsession with imaginative writing on a confluence that includes
people —
my family, close friends, and
challenging teachers — favorite books
and writers — beginning with Faulker,
Chekhov, Dickens, Dinesen, Woolf, Beck-
What are your favorite classes to
teach?
I love to keep designing new classes,
each with a distinct focus. Some recent
examples include “The Literature of
Confusion.” It was especially fun, since
I’m pretty good at being confused. I also
liked “The Role of Voice in 20th Century
International Fiction” and, this semester,
“Creative Prose,” with a focus on “The
Representation of Place.”
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By Charley Chadwell
Aries (March 21–April 19) — What’s the
biggest party this weekend? Saddle up in
Gleason Studio C, you party animal!
Taurus (April 20–May 20) — Stick to
the five major food groups this weekend:
Easy Mac, Geny Lite, Starbucks, Pop
Tarts and drunken calls to Domino’s at
3 a.m.
ett, John Hawkes — and accidental
encounters with art, with different
places, with strangers and overheard
stories.
If you had a superpower, what
would it be?
A combination of expansive and
selective awareness.
Venkateswaran is a member of
the class of 2011.
I learned everything about sex from my TV
by Willie Clark
A&E Editor
There are some memories in life that
you always carry with you, no matter
how hard you try to forget them. Your
first kiss, your first major boyfriend or
girlfriend, the first time you boinked it.
And then there is that time, probably
way back for most of us now, that our
innocence was finally smashed, and we
somehow realized what sex was.
For some, I’m sure it was in health
class — that is, if you didn’t have an
older sibling or a creepy older student
on your bus who fed you lies about
what sex really was and what it was
really all about (Note: condoms are
not popsiclesticks and sucking on a
girl’s boob will not make her pregnant.
Thanks, bus kid.)
Going to a Catholic school from kindergarten until eighth grade, it was a
little different for me. There was no
older sibling to warn me of the lovely
lust to come, but there was one magical
device that managed to beat my dad to
the totally cliché “Birds and Bees and
everything between your knees” speech.
Well, my friends, my first encounters
with the until-then baffling world of
human instinct was through the television.
I’ll probably remember that very moment until the day I die. It was a night
just like any other, and I wasn’t expecting my eyes to see sights that would
make a prostitute scream (and not in
the way you slip them a five for).
old lady with the dildo show comes to
I don’t remember exactly how old I was,
mind. I mean, I’m sorry, but nobody
but let’s say I was 10. My poor 10-year-old
wants to listen to a wrinkly 90-yearself was flipping through the channels,
old talk about her giant new sex toy
and fate happened for me to flip past eigetting her off. Make it a 20-year-old
ther the Discovery Channel, the Nature
blonde in a bikini, and I have a feeling
Channel or something like that.
ratings would improve drastically.
Anyhow, my finger stopped as I saw
And then of course there is the bartwo beetles on screen, and slowly, as the
rage of sex we get from normal televiperson filming narrated,
sion shows or movies
the beetle on top inthat, when you are
serted his penis into the
little, seem tame. Try
bottom beetle’s vagina.
watching “Grease”
Now, why the hell
again.
Let Sex & the CT help you
beetle sex was on TV I’ll
I bet you didn’t know
through your most awknever know. But at that
that
Grease Lightning
wardly sexual years.
moment it all clicked,
could make girls cream
and I was no longer
their jeans when you
the little kid I was before picking up the
were watching the movie 10 years ago
remote.
either.
I now had the knowledge of good and
But really, for as much as televievil, I had taken a taste of the fruit, I
sion teaches us, it does get some stuff
knew how babies were made and, best of
wrong. For the record, I have been in
all, I finally knew what sex was.
college for almost seven months now,
It was not the best first memory of it,
and nowhere have I seen girls rununfortunately.
ning around topless willy nilly and
Maybe it’s a guy thing, but I think
making out with each other as they
everybody has had his or her sexual endo in, “Girls Gone Wild” commercials,
counters with the television. What 14- or
Thanks for the boner kill. Thanks for
15-year-old didn’t stay up late to watch
building up the dreams of every little
“The Man Show” or has memories of
boy in the nation, then crushing them
“Girls Gone Wild” commercials on Comin one giant corporate porn-fueled lie.
edy Central being his first introduction to
And remember folks: Dildos are
the wonderful world of the naked female
funny in movies, but scary in real life.
body?
Avoid them at all costs.
Truth be told, a lot of sexual educaClark is a member of
tion happens on television. That creepy
the class of 2012.
“Sex&the
CT”
UR Opinion
Gemini (May 21–June 21) — This week,
all your wildest dreams will come true!
Particularly if you manage to get your
hands on some ’shrooms.
Cancer (June 22–July 22) — Some
people were just born to wear leggings
and UGG boots. Since your middle school
nickname was Jumbo Jelly Legs, maybe
you should buy some sweatpants instead.
Leo (July 23–Aug. 22) — You’re a wizard, Harry.
Virgo (Aug. 23–Sept. 22) — Superglue
your suitemate’s favorite Manolos to the
floor. That’ll teach her to take your milk
out of the mini-fridge.
Libra (Sept. 23–Oct. 22) — Despite what
the posters say, National Eating Disorder
Week doesn’t give you an excuse to eat
that extra Boscoe stick.
Scorpio (Oct. 23–Nov. 21) — Back away
from the freshmen.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22–Dec. 21) — Valentine’s Day was so romantic. For people
with boyfriends. Or any semblance of
hope.
Capricorn (Dec. 22–Jan. 19) — Don’t
worry. No one saw what you did during
the black-out... except for God.
Aquarius (Jan. 20–Feb. 18) — Don’t fret
when you get a 12 on your bio exam. Due
to the 943,043 point curve, you actually
got an A! Isn’t our school neat!?
Pisces (Feb. 19–March 20) — Good news:
that embarrassing YouTube video you
thought everyone forgot about just got
put in High Definition. Hello week’s most
viewed!
(If you actually believe
“cookie diet” works.)
this, then you think the
by kaz Sakamoto
What would you do during a blackout?
Katelin Noble ’09
Joe Monahan ’12
Savannah Wentz ’11
Steffen Haider ’09
Eva Perelstein ’10
Le Doan ’10
“My response would not be
appropriate.”
“Sit in my Snuggie.”
“Take advantage of the
darkness in the old stacks.”
“I wouldn’t act like a 16year-old.”
“You mean who? James
Marsden.”
“Campus wide Hide-andseek.”
Josh Hatcher
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19th Ward Look no further for the perfect dating spots
Face-off!
by Daniel Ciszek
& Kishore PadmaRaju
Contributing Writers
Daniel Ciszek: I give you credit
for bravely living in the notorious 19th Ward, Kishore, but
what is there to do over there
besides thug?
Kishore Padmaraju: What is
thug? Is that what rich people
assume poor people do?
DC: No, rich people assume poor
people will get a job.
KP: Whoa, whoa. What do you
think this is? The 18th Ward?
DC: All I’m saying is that people
in the 19th Ward should do something productive, you know, in
between shooting people.
KP: Hey, shooting-free since Feb.
16 isn’t bad!
DC: By the time this gets out,
you know that won’t be true.
KP: We live week-to-week in the
Ward, you know that.
DC: In fear.
KP: Fear is just a word when
your homeboy Tyrone’s got your
back.
DC: You don’t know a Tyrone...
KP: True! But I could!
DC: Only if you owed him
money.
ariee jung
Staff Writer
As promised, here are two
more restaurants that will woo
any first date with delicious
food, exemplary service and a
romantic, loving atmosphere.
Piranha
Is like: California Rollin’ but
more fresh
Address: 682 Park Avenue
Located: Right across from the
CVS on Park Avenue.
Your clothing shouldn’t consist
of a hoodie and pajama pants,
but don’t choose to be very fancy,
either. Imagine that you are visiting a family member for dinner.
The restaurant is frequented by
yuppie types coming for lunch
or by an older crowd as a site for
a low-key date. If you like sushi
and sashimi, you have come to
the right place. The décor is nice,
and the restaurant is neat and
clean, although it is a bit on the
tiny side.
The food is expensive, as is the
case at most sushi places, but its
probably worth it, considering
the sushi looked fresh, as opposed to some of the other sushi
restaurants around the Rochester
area with sushi looking as if it
had been sitting out for a day too
long. With appetizers like seaweed salad ranging from $7 to a
standard of around $12 roll, you
shouldn’t expect to gorge yourself
or come out feeling full unless
you are willing to blow at least
$50 on a sushi extravaganza.
The restaurant itself serves a
variety of interesting rolls, which
is its main draw, such as the Mistletoe Roll, comprised of salmon,
cream cheese and cranberries.
If your date is a sushi lover,
this would probably be a good
choice.
Tony D’s
Is like: Carrabba’s but cheaper
Address: 288 Exchange Boulevard
Located: Inside the Corn Hill
Landing living complex.
The preferred clothing style at
this restaurant is casual, and it
is frequented by an older crowd
— groups of students from the
Med Center who come here for an
upscale meal.
The restaurant itself has a
bar downstairs where people can
drink and order anything on the
menu and a restaurant seating
upstairs where you can watch
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your food being cooked. A hot
Piranha features sushi and sashimi in a pleasant atmosphere.
bread basket equipped with oil
The food is pricey but worth it due to its high-quality freshness.
and vinegar is served to you while
you wait.
Tony D’s is famous for its gourmet coal-fired pizza that is made
right where you can see it. You
pick the toppings, and you can
order a personal pizza for around
$9 or a large one for under $15.
There is not a thing on the menu
that I have not found to be delicious, so if you are in the mood
for Italian food, then this is definitely the right place to take your
date.
The food is priced very reasonably, and the helpings are huge,
so expect to have leftovers to take
home. The most expensive dish
on the menu is around $22, and
you can choose from a variety of
fish, chicken and seafood dishes
that will satisfy any picky eaters
if the pizza is not to their liking.
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Jung is a member of
Famous for its gourmet coal-fired pizza, Tony D’s is a reasonably
the class of 2011.
priced pizza shop located inside the Corn Hill Landing living complex.
KP: Money has no value in the
19th Ward. That’s the beauty of
it. We live by our word and we
die by our word. A man’s greatest possession is his honor.
DC: Really? That’s funny, because I just traded a Twix for
a back massage the other day.
Turns out homeless people don’t
realize the value of dignity.
KP: You should see what they
would do for a Klondike bar.
DC: Dear Lord, this conversation
has gone off track. Besides the
low rent, can you really give me
any other reason to live in the
19th Ward?
KP: How about the culture,
Danny? We are the Harlem of
Rochester.
DC: I didn’t realize stabbing was
an art form. We have gelato on
Park Avenue.
KP: Wait, sir, we just got a Boulder Coffee. I think we just surpassed you in pretentiousness.
On Saturday, members of the Yellowjackets entertained the audience when two singers fought for the microphone while the rest of
the group danced in the background. The concert also featured a special guest, 4:2:Five, a professional five-part a cappella group.
DC: Yeah, there’s nothing more
pretentious than Boulder Coffee.
Harmony: Yellowjackets’ performance full of lively excitement
KP: You can talk down to me
with your smug grin and fullbody tan; I’ll take my low-income
housing any day.
DC: Well, at least it’s not the
South Wedge.
KP: So true...
Ciszek is a member of
the class of 2009.
Padmaraju is a member of
the class of 2009.
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“Time after time we ran
through the songs, adding style
ornaments here, ‘Shoo-be-dowahs’’ there, dynamic volume
swells and choreography,” junior
Yellowjacket Herbert Reilly
said. “It was a time-consuming
process, especially when I had
an upcoming physiology exam
in the back of my mind. But
when that one chord rings out
clear and true and the blended
harmony echoes back from the
ceiling in perfect silence, I got
goosebumps. As the day of the
show approached and those tight
choruses become second nature,
our excitement built up to show
the campus and community not
only what we sing, but why we’re
singing it.”
Doing everything it could
to make Harmony for Hope
an unforgettable event, the
Yellowjackets arranged for 4:2:
Five, the popular, five-part,
male a cappella group based in
Orlando, Fla. to perform several
songs at the concert. Half of the
group’s CD sales from the night
went toward the Wilmot Cancer
Center, as well.
Performing for a cause that
affects so many people must create a rush of emotions when up
on stage. Even as a member of
the audience, you could feel the
enthusiasm flowing down into
the crowd.
“It’s an incredible honor to be
in a room filled with such hope,”
Massa said. “We can find a cure
starting right now, and we will.”
The total sum raised is not
definite yet, as the group is still
accepting donations online at
http://www.jackets.org until
April when it will be performing
for the Wilmot Cancer Center
and displaying its check for the
Center.
Singing being the best way
they knew how, the Yellowjackets
were determined to make their
concert one that would make a
difference — and a night to remember.
Greenberg is a member of
the class of 2011.
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Senior Myra Mathis and local church members Debra Joseph-McEwen and Quiana Joseph wowed their audience at UR’s Interfaith Chapel on Sunday, Feb. 15.
The performance consisted of a three-part harmony a cappella of traditional African-American gospel songs, as part of a celebration of Black History Month.
UR Christian Fellowship presents night of gospel
harmonies to crisp unison notes
at the end of a phrase, but also
left the audience members with
goose bumps, longing for another
selection.
However, that was only the
beginning of many exceptional
performances. Following their
act was a liturgical dance by
Moses Smith. Inspired by Fred
Hammond’s “Running Back To
You,” Smith was fully engaged
in the Hammond classic, using
all of his body and spirit to teach
everyone that nothing could keep
them away from the Lord.
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BY Victoria Massie
Copy Editor
February, known as Black History Month, is a time dedicated
to celebrating the triumphs and
contributions African-Americans
have made to this country.
Notable figures such as Martin
Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and
Rosa Parks become increasingly
popular during these 28 days of
the year. Not to discredit the actions of these figures, but, when
discussing African-American
culture, one cannot forget to
mention music.
Whether it is jazz, blues or
rock ‘n’ roll, music has been
an integral part of the lives of
many African Americans. But
the genre that has, without question, been deeply rooted in the
African-American tradition is
gospel, and on Friday, Feb. 15,
UR Christian Fellowship showed
us just that during its second
annual Black History Month
Celebration Gospel Concert.
Now, before getting into the
actual festivities of the night,
you have to be aware of the history behind gospel music. Made
famous by figures such as Thomas Dorsey, known as “the father
of gospel music,” Sam Cooke,
before he was sitting at the dock
of a bay, and more contemporary
artists such as The Winans and
Fred Hammond, gospel music
began with the African slaves
on the Southern plantations.
Though held in captivity, these
slaves used song not only as a
form of relief from stress but also
as a way of communication.
One of the most famous
slave songs, “Swing Low, Sweet
Chariot,” was not simply a tune
for entertainment. It was a cryptic message passed from slave
to slave that their freedom was
well on its way. From slave songs
came jubilee songs, and in 1932,
with the Dorsey hit “Precious
Lord,” gospel music as we know
it today was born.
The gospel concert this past
Friday had a wide selection of
musical guests, including New
Beginnings Apostolic Faith
Church Incorporated in Rochester. The New Beginnings Worship Team sang a three-part
harmony a cappella.
Simple in form, the three
members of the worship team
not only sang beautifully, gracefully transitioning from soulful
By Becky Rosenberg
Staff Writer
My roommate came back to
Gilbert the other day and told
me she figured out that lifelong
question of “what do you want
to be when you grow up?” Her
answer was, potentially, a forensic anthropologist.
I would have been perplexed
over just what, exactly, that
means, except for the fact that
over winter vacation I took a
trip to Barnes & Noble and participated in a binge watching of
the television series, “Bones.”
Writer Hart Hanson’s show is a
cross between your typical doctor show, such as “House,” and
the police procedurals (“CSI,”
“NCIS”) that seem to be taking
over network TV more and more
each day.
“Bones” was created in 2005
as a show based on the life and
works of forensic anthropologist
Kathy Reichs. The best-selling
author is one of only 77 certified academics in her field by
the American Board of Forensic
Anthropology. The Fox show
follows Dr. Temperance Brennan
(Emily Deschanel), the heroine
of Reichs’ many novels, as she
works with Agent Seeley Booth
(David Boreanaz) of the FBI to
solve crimes working with the
skeletons of victims.
Like “House,” “Bones” often
uses what Booth would call
“techno-speak” in such vast
quantities that I really have no
clue what they are talking about.
But what is constantly fascinating is the way Brennan’s character is able to determine the traits
of a murder case solely through
the bones of a body.
Despite the fact that “Bones”
follows a basic formulaic format
(Booth finds some bones where
they shouldn’t be, he and Brennan work together to solve the
murder, case-closed), the chemistry between the characters,
and the interesting storylines
the writers have explored thus
far, keep me intrigued enough to
tune in every week.
Whether the squints are examining the remains of a serial
killer’s work or that of a cannibal, every episode is able to
bring a new angle to this branch
of science.
Even in a show primarily
about science — my weakness
when it comes to school subjects
— I find that I am constantly
drawn to watch every second of
the hour on Thursday nights.
What really pulls me in are the
characters.
The team would not be complete without Dr. Jack Hodgins
(T.J. Thyne) and his obsessive
love for all gross things: bugs,
dirt and even animal feces.
Nor would they get their job
done without Dr. Camille Saroyan (Tamara Taylor), who has the
uncanny ability to go between
“the man” (lawyers, bosses, etc.)
and the squints in a way that
makes all of the forensics of the
show relatable.
No show would be complete
without the best friend, and that
is exactly what Angela Montenegro (Michaela Conlin) is: An
artistic, beautiful, smart woman
who has the ability to bring
Brennan back to Earth when she
gets too lost in the afterlife of
skeletons and bones.
But the real heart of the show
is in its sweet, little moments,
like the one in Booth’s car as he
and Brennan drive to another
murder scene. Or the one in Dr.
Lance Sweets’ (John Francis
Daley) room as he desperately
attempts to divulge into the psychology of Booth and Brennan’s
relationship while they constantly keep him out of the loop.
Or the one in the diner after the
partners wrap up a day of work
and share a piece of pie.
The heart of the show lies in
the undeniable chemistry between Deschanel and Boreanaz
as they portray two professional
partners whose unresolved sexual tension could be cut with a
knife.
It may seem like an unlikely
pairing. Brennan is a scientist
who lives by the facts. Her unbelievably naïve lifestyle when it
comes to all things pop-culturerelated makes for hilarious
dialogue as well as the perfect
opposite of Booth.
But despite her complete
lack of people skills, Brennan’s
unique beauty and immense IQ
make up for her flaws — not
that they would be a problem for
Booth.
Boreanaz’s heartfelt portrayal
of the handsome FBI agent
makes him an immediate heartthrob. Whether they are bickering in the car about the use of
psychology-versus-scientific fact
or taking shots in Booth’s office
after hours, these two clearly
“Bones,” which airs on Fridays at 8 p.m. on Fox, explores science
in a way that is thrilling to even the least scientifically-minded.
and his new-found love, they
have more than a professional
make an interesting observation:
relationship beneath the surface.
“That’ll never work, they’re like,
But I have to say, any show
complete opposites.” I agree.
that can keep the tension up for
For all her faults, she’s a woman
three-and-a-half seasons without
ruining the integrity of the story- of science. Sweets bases his life
on the varieties of psychology
lines, or pissing off the audience
and emotion. There’s no comtoo much, gets two thumbs up
mon ground. You need common
from me.
ground, what else is there?”
In a recent episode, as BrenSee BONES, Page 16
nan and Booth spy on Dr. Sweets
FOX’s “Bones ” offers compelling characters
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Conspiracies and bloody action combine in Owen flick
By NANCY wENG
Copy Editor
You know those suspense
thrillers that have such complex plots that you have no idea
what’s going on in the movie, but
you don’t care because you just
want the good guys to kill the
bad guys? That’s exactly what
you can expect from“The International.”
The only way to completely
understand the plot of this movie
is to pay attention to every single
word and know the names of all
the characters.
I did that pretty well for the
first hour but gave up because
watching a movie shouldn’t feel
like a BCS lecture.
Basically, Interpol agent Louis
Salinger (Clive Owen) and Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Eleanor Whitman (Naomi
Watts) suspect the International
Bank of Business and Credit of
conducting illegal activities.
You don’t need to know the details of exactly what the bank is
doing, just that important people
are getting killed, and Owen and
Watts are tracking down the
bad guys — there are several
of them, but it’ll be clear who’s
a bad guy and who’s not — to
bring justice.
The very first clip reels you
into the story, but after that, the
beginning of the movie is a bit
slow because the plot is being
set up. The first half consists of
mostly conversations between
Salinger, Whitman and 15 other
people. The action doesn’t kick in
until the second half.
By following the money,
Salinger and Whitman are led
to Berlin, Milan, New York and
Istanbul. There’s some nice scenery of the locations, especially
during the Italian presidential
rally in Milan and the final chase
between Owen and the CEO of
the bank in Istanbul.
Owen looks pissed-off throughout the entire movie, usually
because nobody believes what
he says. Other times it’s because
the bad guy got away or someone
just shot his earlobe.
Watts’s character wasn’t really
necessary. She was probably cast
to make up for the movie’s lack
of female characters (besides the
nameless secretaries). Plus, every protagonist needs a sidekick.
You might expect Owen and
Watts to hook up at some point,
but Watts’s character is married
with kids.
That might not stop other
people from hooking up with
Owen, but I liked how the movie
focused on the central plot and
didn’t get sidetracked with some
kind of unnecessary romance like
many other action films.
The biggest disappointment
was that there wasn’t as much
action as I thought there would
be. There’s a lot of Owen following the bad guys with suspenseful music in the background, but
most of those scenes end with
poor conclusions.
However, there is one action
scene that is by far the best in
the entire movie. Despite a long
Photo
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Actor Clive Owen stars alongside Naomi Watts in the confusing action flick “The International,” pitting him up against the corrupt International Bank of Business and Credit.
out from someone’s neck, and
setup (with Owen following the
see this movie? If you have midOwen trying to stop the blood
bad guy first), the finish was
terms and papers coming up, I’d
with his bare hands.
more than satisfactory.
say skip “The International” and
There was also a moment
The scene takes place in the
watch it when it’s out on DVD
where Owen had to physically
Guggenheim Museum in New
this summer.
fight a bad guy who was shot in
York City. Though a replica was
If you’re in love with Clive
the shoulder but was not dead
built to film the shootout, the
Owen, then definitely catch it
yet, and Owen pushes the bullet
spiraling floors inside of the
while it’s still in theaters. He can
with his finger into the bad guy’s
building were perfect for the
be pretty hot when he’s pissedshoulder even more, causinggunfight and the chase. I enjoyed
off.
blood to gush out.
this scene the most, even though
Weng is a member of
So the question is, should you
I had to watch blood literally spill
the class of 2011.
“Dominion” entry brings deep thinking to RTS fans
By Dong han
Contributing Writer
How many times have we seen
games promising to revolutionize
strategy only to fall flat on their
faces? Are you getting bored with
“strategy” games that really
don’t require much thinking? Do
you want to try a deeply engaging strategy game, one so complex that you have never seen
the likes before? How would you
like to have fun playing a game
that actually requires some real
planning?
“Nah, too much work,” many
of us would say. However, for the
small, growing fraction of gamers
who are interested, please read
on.
Developed by a small indie
company, “Dominions III: the
Awakening” may be the one
game you’re looking for. Leading
one of over 50 unique nations
inspired by just about every
mythology currently in existence,
you play the role of a pretender
God, striving to ascend to Godhood with all your resourcefulness.
The game itself notes that
there is something like 1,500
unique units, 600-plus spells and
300-plus magical items that you
can use to your heart’s content.
(Yes, unique as in totally different, not merely a palette swap or
slight variation.)
The game is brutal, with a
level of artificial intelligence
never seen before in any other
turn-based game. The manual
alone is 300 pages, and I believe
that currently holds the world’s
record for thickest instruction
manual. Rest assured, there is no
way to play the game (or at least,
very difficult to do so) without
understanding what’s going on.
There’s a fair bit of math, a lot
of planning ahead and so much
thinking that it makes “Medieval
II: Total War” seem like Super
Mario World by comparison.
If I haven’t scared you off at
this point, please pat yourself on
the back and continue on, because you may find the one strategy game that you’ve been looking for all this time. “Dominions
III” is about world dominion, just
like all the other games.
Here, whether that’s achieved
through might, magic or deceit is
up to you, though quickly you’ll
find all three to be useful in
your quest. Then, after running
through a series of customization
options, ranging from picking
your avatar’s preferences for an
orderly realm or a chaotic nation
to the spells and physical forms
of your god, which can be anything from a stereotypical dragon
to some truly unique options,
such as the Mother of Tuatha,
or Feathered Serpent for unique
nations, such as Tir ra nog and
Mictan.
A typical turn will have you
scurrying around, trying to figure out what to do. You need to
scout out your opponents, raise
an army, find advantageous
magical sites, research additional
spells, spread your dominion
through preaching, build mighty
fortress — the list goes on. To
continue, you must coordinate
your generals and attack strategic provinces in the hopes of ultimately besieging your opponent’s
castles. Troops need to be quickly
supplied to the front ranks so
they can join battle; borders need
to be maintained, tax collected
and rebellious troublemakers
eliminated. Logistics are vital
in this game, as is morale. The
turns are resolved immediately,
so there’s very little room for
error. The battles, surprisingly,
are not in your control; thus, prebattle preparations become vital
as you try to figure out optimal
ways to set up your troops and
give them instructions. Managing an internal economy, along
with keeping supply routes open
and keeping up your opponents,
is paramount.
Despite the old school-looking
graphics, the game itself is dizzyingly fun. What I’ve said here
only begins to cover the game
and all the things you can do
with it. The game itself is highly
moddable, and just about any
image can be turned into a map
to be played on. With multiplayer
options up to 21 players at the
same time, the experience is simply epic — a feel not offered by
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Local baroque concert shows
off obscure instruments
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The latest installment of “Dominions” is a new strategy
game so entertaining that it is difficult to stop playing.
Game: Fun and addictive
any other game on the market.
The sheer amount of replayability makes this game a worthy investment, as each nation
is unique and there is no real
“strategy” to memorize or build
orders like other games. Each
game brings something new,
and there’s something attractive
about seeing hundreds and hundreds of your troops executing a
perfect pincer maneuver while
some rousing battle music is
playing in the background.
Still, such a complicated game
is not for everyone. If you’re
thinking about it, the demo of
this game is freely available. Trying it out would be recommended
before you decide to stick with
it, as the price tag of $50 isn’t
cheap.
Just be forewarned though, as
“Dominions III” is probably not
suitable for students, interns or
anyone else who is expected to
pass exams on a regular basis. It
is that addictive.
If you obtained a copy of the
game, please make sure to arrange for someone to check on
you once every six hours or so
to make sure you get adequate
amounts of food and water. This
reviewer would feel terrible for
introducing you to “Dominions
III” otherwise.
Han is a member of
the class of 2011.
by Leah Rankin
Contributing Writer
Nobody realizes how big a
theorbo is until they see one.
Its body is the size of a normal,
modern-day guitar, but its neck
stretches far beyond the outstretched arms of any musician,
making it about as tall as an
upright bass. And wound around
the pegs of this medieval-looking
instrument can be 16 strings, or
more.
This was one of the most
unique instruments showcased
during the Pegasus Early Music
concert entitled “The Lady and
Her Echo,” performed at the
Rochester Academy of Medicine
this past weekend.
Performances were given on
Feb. 6, 7 and 8, each time to
a sold-out audience. It was a
demonstration of Baroque music from the 17th century and
featured the musical collaboration of Julianne Baird(soprano),
Geoffrey Burgess(oboe),
Lisa Terry(cello), Deborah
Fox(theorbo) and James E. Bobb
(harpsichord).
The tiny stage was squeezed
into a cozy, warm salon with
bookcases, and red curtains obscured ceiling-high windows; one
welcoming room in an otherwise
dark and curious mansion on
East Avenue.
The title of this concert series
was derived from the idea that
in all music, especially Baroque,
instruments were instructed to
mimic the timbre and subtleties
of the human voice.
Baird explained that this idea
can also be applied to singers,
who must similarly attempt to
imitate the sounds of various
instruments. Consequently, this
implies that singers must perfect
their skills at ornamentation.
“Ornamentation could make
or break a singer’s career,” Baird
said of the Baroque period.
The most successful singer was
always the one who could tastefully add trills or little improvisations to their libretto.
But nobody would want to take
too many liberties with this music, for one of the most important
aspects of early music performance is authenticity.
In fact, some musicologists
spend the majority of their careers as detectives, trying to
attribute unclaimed manuscripts
to specific composers.
Sometimes, if a great composer
like, say, Frederick Handel, forgot to sign his music, lesser composers of the time would jump at
the chance to claim the piece as
their own. This understandably
creates a lot of confusion.
Authenticity was very important to cellist Terry. She specifically chose to play a Baroque
cello for this concert to preserve
the kind of sound that would
have been heard in the 1600s.
A Baroque cello is not only
narrower than a modern cello,
but also has no endpin, so she
had to support the cello by holding it between her legs.
She brought two bows with
her, an old Baroque bow that had
an unusually pronounced arc and
flexibility, and a later Baroque
bow that had less of an arc but
could produce a stronger tone.
Following the concert, Terry
explained that back in the 17th
century, every town in Italy had
a different tuning system.
So, whereas today, when it is
custom to tune to the standard
A 440, Baroque-era musicians
would have tuned to A 400 or
even A 465. At this concert,
however, all the instruments had
been tuned to A 415, almost an A
flat, to ensure authenticity.
Baird was the featured soloist
in this ensemble, and her “echo”
was played by the Baroque oboist
Burgess.
The oboe was very simply
constructed and more closely resembled a bagpipe chanter than
a modern oboe.Together they
created, as Burgess liked to call,
harmony “in dialogue.”
And while these two musicians
intertwined their melodies, they
were supported by the rest of the
ensemble grounding the piece
with their basso continuo.
Fox diligently strummed her
theorbo, or “bass lute,” as she
liked to call it, while the cello
and harpsichord weaved simple
duets.
Upon the lid of the harpsichord, there was an inscription
in Latin that seemed to surmise
the complete contentment of the
audience: “Music, like medicine,
cures the blues.”
The next performer was Valerie Scott-Chatman who, with a
voice that came from deep in her
soul, reminded the audience of
a grittier style of gospel music.
Reminiscent of a blues singer,
Scott Chatman sang “Just Jesus”
and “He Is Everything To Me.”
At the beginning of the performance, the accompanying guitarist warned the audience, “If you
like it, good. If you don’t like it,
you better act like you like it.”
Needless to say, Scott-Chatman
gave a performance that left the
audience with no option to fake
approval, for her singing ability
deserved, and received, nothing
but praise.
Other featured guests included
Serena Young and Brenden
Hobbs. Young, a Rochester native, has performed with Gospel
greats such as Shirley Ceasar
and Tye Tribbett. She serenaded
the audience with “Lift Jesus.”
At one point Young had the audience dancing and waving their
hands in praise to God. Hobbs
followed with an a capella rendition of the “O Come All Ye Faithful” refrain.
Though the night was filled
with performances from people
outside of the UR community,
the best were saved for last as
members of the University showcased their own unique musical
talents. ASL major and Senior
Nicolette Ferron — many of you
may remember her from her past
performances at UR Idol — yet
again showcased her remarkable
signing abilities to “The Blood
Still Has Miraculous Power.”
The final group of the night
was the UR Gospel Choir. Directed by Jason Holmes, the group
began their performance in the
pews singing “Lord Do It For
Me.” They then went on stage,
singing two songs including the
spiritual “Beautiful City.”
The second annual Black History Month Celebration Gospel
Concert was quite an event.
It was musically entertaining,
historically informative and a
spiritual blessing to those who
wanted it. URCF did an outstanding job and many of us will
be looking forward to next year’s
gospel concert.
Massie is a member of
the class of 2011.
Rankin is a member of
the class of 2010.
Gospel: Celebrating Black History Month
Courtesy of www.eastside-online.org
“Bones” seamlessly balances forensic “techno-speak”
with compelling and character-driven storylines.
Bones: Tune in Thursdays
Hart Hanson’s show explores
just this: the nature of opposing sciences — fact versus interpretation, forensics versus
psychology and life versus death.
Forensics is balanced seamlessly
with character-driven storylines
to create a compelling show in
which you not only learn about
all the bones of the body, but also
about the skeletons hidden in the
closets of each character.
Personally, I can’t wait to find
out about the stories hidden in
those bones.
Bones airs on Thursdays at 8
p.m. on Fox.
Rosenberg is a member of
the class of 2012.
kira Carlin• Photography Editor
UR’s Christian Fellowship sponsored a gospel concert on Sunday as a tribute to Black History Month.
SPORTS
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Hoops: Men prepare for short road trip, gear up for postseason
over 38 minutes, and his classmate
Chmielowiec played for 39 of the
game’s 40 minutes.
On Sunday, the Brandeis University Judges came to the Palestra
and left with an 80-63 victory over
the Yellowjackets.
For the second-straight game,
UR encountered a remarkable
shooting effort by the visiting
team, who turned a 53-51 halftime
lead into a 17-point victory.
Brandeis — 14-8 overall, 7-4
in the UAA — shot an incredible
52.9 percent from behind the arc
and converted on 54.4 percent of
all shots from the field.
Captain Steve DeLuca scored 17
points for the Judges and became
the seventh player in Brandeis
history to reach the 1,500-point
mark.
Chmielowiec led all scorers, tallying 18 points on Sunday. Junior
guard Colin Cubit — the newest
member of the ’Jackets’ starting
lineup — scored 13 points, including three 3-pointers. Novosel
scored nine points, shooting three
for four from the field and threefor-three from the line.
He added three blocks to his
team-high total of 21 this season.
Kaplan had seven assists on
Sunday, bringing his season total
to 157 (7.1 per game). He has had
an impressive 364 assists during
his career at UR.
The Yellowjackets will head
out for their final road trip of the
season this weekend, playing the
University of Chicago on Friday
night and then heading to Missouri
to take on Washington University
in St. Louis on Sunday.
Wash U clinched the UAA title
this past weekend with wins over
Emory University and Case Western Reserve University.
UR is eager for another shot at
Wash U — the defending national
champions — after the team lost to
the Bears, 73-42, on Jan. 20.
This time, the Yellowjackets will
have their top-scorer, Chmielowiec, on the court — he missed the
last matchup against Wash U due
to injury.
The ’Jackets were 10-2 following
a five-game win-streak in early
January but have gone 5-5 in their
last 10 games. The skid started
with a loss to St. John Fisher College in the semi-finals of the Chase
Tournament on Jan. 16.
“We just need to forget about the
past and play good basketball, one
game at a time,” Chmielowiec said
following Sunday’s loss. “We have
no control over anything other
than winning the three games we
have left.”
UR will return to the Palestra
for its final game of the regular
season next Saturday against
the Tartans of Carnegie Mellon
University.
Chmielowiec and Kaplan will
be playing in their final regular
season games. The ’Jackets last
played CMU in early December
and walked away with a 58-55
loss.
Starr is a member of
the class of 2009.
DAN WASSERMAN • Publisher
Junior Colin Cubit scored 13 points against Brandeis on Sunday.
Split: Yellowjackets look to take revenge against Chicago UAAs:
of the half, the ’Jackets’ tough
defense allowed only 10 points
from the Judges, while they
themselves scored 17 points with
contributions from seven different
players. Going into the break, UR
was up 30-19.
The Judges came out with intensity in the second half. After
five quick points from Alwardt,
Brandeis hit back-to-back threes.
At 15:11, they went on a 9-1 run to
chip the lead down to four.
UR pushed it back up to nine
with a three from Alwardt and a
The ’Jackets, ranked No. 2, have won six of their last seven games.
layup from Porter. After that layup
and for the next eight minutes,
however, the Yellowjacket offense
went cold.
The Judges rallied to go on a
nine-point run over a four-minute
time span to take a 47-46 lead —
their first of the game.
UR was held scoreless until
it reclaimed the lead with 3:12
remaining in the game, thanks
to a layup from Porter. Brandeis
then scored a basket, and Porter
came back to hit both ends of a
one-and-one.
With just one minute on the
clock, a Brandeis player hit a
jumper to take a one-point lead.
UR failed to score on its ensuing
play and the Judges gained possession of the ball.
The ’Jackets then fouled a Brandeis player, who made the first
of two foul shots and helped the
Judges clinch the win, 52-50.
The loss was UR’s second of the
season. Second-half shooting was
key for the Judges, as they shot 50
percent compared to the ’Jackets’
unusually low 25.9 percent.
“I think we absolutely struggled
offensively, especially in the second
half,” senior guard Rachel Stern
said. “You have to give Brandeis
credit, because we were up by 13
and they just kept plugging away.
At the same time, we have to just
try to refocus for Friday because
this weekend is huge.”
Just three games remain in the
regular season.
Next weekend, UR takes on two
formidable opponents.
The Yellowjackets travel to
University of Chicago on Friday.
Chicago handed UR its first loss of
the season in January, when they
came into the Palestra and beat
the ’Jackets by 20 points.
The Yellowjackets then battle
Wash U for the second time this
season on Sunday. The Bears
are ranked No. 12 in this week’s
d3hoops.com poll and will be looking for revenge after UR beat them
65-62 in January at the Palestra.
UR will host Carnegie Mellon
University the following weekend
for their last regular season game.
Six ’Jackets will be playing in
their final regular-season home
game — Marriott, Porter, senior
guards Johanna McNelis and
Rachel Stern, forward Marlena
Fisher and grad student center
Jessica Waddell.
Hilliard is a member of
the class of 2010.
behind in 12th place in the same
event with a time of 2:31.66.
The 100 freestyle had many UR
women in the top. Freshman Emily Scott was fifth, touching in at
an NCAA provisional time of 53.09.
In the same event, freshman Olivia
Ehmann was 11th, sophomore Cailee Caldwell 14th and sophomore
Rachel Boldt 16th.
In the 200 backstroke, freshman Val Atwood was ninth with
an NCAA provisional time of
2:07.03.
In the relays, the 400 free team
of Ehmann, Jacob, Caldwell and
Scott was sixth in 3:35.70.
As for the boards, senior Cheryl
Blechman was fourth on the 3-meter board with a score of 360.15
and freshman Rachel Delahunta
was fifth with 342.30 points in
the same event. On the 1-meter
board, Blechman placed sixth and
Delehunta placed eighth.
Overall, both the men’s and
women’s swimming and diving
teams came out strong at the UAA
meet this year. They hope to bring
this skill determination with them
to next season.
Rogers is a member of
the class of 2012.
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SPORTS
Runners place in top
16 at Valentine Invite
By Erin Philbrick
Senior Staff Writer
Participating in their third
invitational in a row hosted by a
Division I school, the men’s and
women’s track and field teams
produced some strong finishes
over ethe weekend. In addition
to a large field of Division I runners, the Valentine Invitational at
Boston University attracted Division II and III schools, as well as
unattached runners and runners
from elite athletic clubs.
“The top level competition
makes us push harder and achieve
at a higher level than we might
against easier competition,”
women’s head coach Barbara
Hartwig said. “It also makes us
mentally tougher. When you step
on the track [or field] against great
people, you learn to focus, control
your emotions and rise to the
level of competition. Then, when
we go back and compete against
our conference foes, who are no
slouches, we have a greater sense
of confidence.”
In addition to the strong competition, the tracks at BU and
Syracuse University, where the
teams ran two weekends ago,
provided opportunities for UR to
run fast.
“The BU track is banked, so it
is extremely fast for sprints like
the 200 and 400/500,” Hartwig
said. “The SU track is almost a
circle, and it’s also extremely fast
regardless of the event.”
The invitational was a nonscoring meet, but the ’Jackets’ talent
with two runners finishing in the
top 16 of their events. Sophomore
Jacqueline Cinella placed 14th
out of 60 runners in the 500 with
a time of 1:18.15. Junior Shanthi
Chodagiri finished 16th in a field of
122 in the 400, crossing the finish
line with a time of 58.62.
Freshman Lauren Norton
finished the 5000-meter run in
18:34.07 to place 41st out of 66
runners, and junior Heather
Graham finished 82nd out of 120
runners in the 3000 with a time
of 10:56.37.
Hartwig was pleased with the
results.
“I think the team more than
proved itself these last three
weekends,” she said.
The men’s team had athletes
qualify for the Eastern College
Athletic Conference championship
meet in four events. Senior Dan
Chebot ran the 5000 in 15:03.22 to
qualify for ECACs and placed 26th
out of 90 runners. Freshman Jamie Vavra placed 49th in the same
event, crossing the finish line in
15:24.45. In the 3000, both freshman Jason Zayac and sophomore
Dan Lane qualified with times of
8:51.26 and 8:52.88, respectively.
They placed 79th and 87th in a
field of 164.
“I think going to Boston was
great because with the large number of athletes and competition
that was there,” Zayac said. “It
was a good tune up for what States
and ECACs will be like.”
Two relay teams also qualified
for the upcoming ECAC meet. The
4-by-400 team finished in 3:21.77
to place 20th of 47, and the distance medley relay team finished
in a time of 10:29.72.
The Yellowjackets have only
one more invitational before their
sequence of championship meets.
This weekend, they will travel to
Cornell University for the Denault
Invitational.
“Leading up to States and
ECACs, I’m just going to listen to
[head] Coach [John] Izzo, because
he has our workouts mapped out
in a way that is going to make us
as well prepared as we can be for
those meets,” Zayac said. “When
championships roll around, I trust
that we will all be ready to run fast
and perform well.”
Philbrick is a member of
the class of 2009.
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Spring: Yellowjackets battle Ithaca next
over her opponent, Brittany
Recchia.
Senior Mel Beckmann followed
Polivy’s lead and allowed her opponent, Marielle Artessa, only two
games in her 6-1, 6-1 win.
Senior Kristen Shaw finished off
the sweep of the singles matches
in No. 6 singles with a 6-2, 6-0 win
against Molly Slifer to give the
Yellowjackets their sixth point.
UR’s only loss of the day came in
a very close match in the doubles
portion of the meet. Playing No. 1
doubles were Goodman and Polivy,
who worked hard but could not
get the win, losing 8-9 (4) in the
tie breaker.
The second two doubles matches
were both won with ease. Weiner
and Shreck combined together to
win, 8-1, at No. 2 doubles. Beckmann and Shaw followed Weiner
and Shreck’s lead and took No. 3
singles, 8-1.
The win pushes UR to 4-1 for a
combined fall and spring record.
The ’Jackets’ next match will
be this Sunday at home against
the Ithaca College Bombers. This
will be the first meet of the spring
season for the Bombers, who were
11-0 during the fall season.
Belonga is a member of
the class of 2010.
ELOISE ROGERS • Staff Photographer
Freshman Danielle Shreck won both her singles and doubles
set in the season opening match against Le Moyne on Sunday.
Final: UR will face foe in championship
make sure he breaks down before
you do.”
After a struggle for the first two
points, Bristow pulled away, taking
the first game en route to a 9-2,
9-2, 9-4 victory.
Freshmen Adam Perkiomaki
and Matt Domenick and sophomore Will Newnham also had
strong showings in the No. 8, No.
4 and No. 6 spots, respectively.
Perkiomaki topped Christopher
Thompson, 9-1, 9-2, 9-2. In the
final game, Perkiomaki scored
nine-straight points to take the
match.
At the No. 4 position, Domenick
allowed his opponent just three
points to come away victorious.
KYLE SABO • Senior Staff Photographer
At the No. 8 spot, Freshman Adam Perkiomaki won nine-straight
points in his third set to close out his Penn opponent, 9-1, 9-1, 9-2.
Newnham pulled out his match
after a contentious first game
against Penn’s Bobby Dickey.
Newnham won the first game, 9-4,
but the matchup was much closer
than the score reflected.
In the end, Dickey was unable
to keep his cool and Newnham
pulled away to seal the victory,
winning the second and third
games by scores of 9-5 and 9-2,
respectively.
The win was UR’s 10th of the
season and gives the Yellowjackets
momentum going into the CSA
Team Championship. The ’Jackets’ first-round opponent will be
Yale University, who UR lost to
4-5 in January.
Heath said UR’s convincing win
this past weekend gave the team
confidence.
“Both this match and last week’s
match against Trinity [College in
Connecticut] were expected results, though we have shown that
we are coming together as a team
at the right time,” he said.
In addition to Yale, UR could
face off against some other familiar
foes at the championships.
“This win puts in a great position for nationals, because we are
now in a group with Harvard, Yale
and Cornell [University] all competing for third place,” Bristow
said. “The advantage we have is
that we are the underdogs and
have no pressure to win, but will
fight to get that third place.”
Hilfinger is a member of
the class of 2010.
SPORTS
Page 18
Women drop second game of year
by Caitlin Hilliard
Staff Writer
This weekend took an unexpected turn for the UR women’s
basketball team.
After a convincing 62-43 win
against New York University on
Friday, UR fell to Brandeis University, 52-50 on Sunday.
The ’Jackets’ record drops to
20-2 overall and 9-2 in the University Athletic Association. With the
loss, the team also moves down to
second place in their conference
behind Washington University in
St. Louis, who sits atop the UAA
with a 10-1 conference record.
In Friday’s game against the
Violets, the ’Jackets started out
with hot shooting on a 10-3 run.
They weren’t able to keep the
large advantage for long, however.
NYU rallied to come within one
point of UR midway through the
first half.
The duration of the half was a
back-and-forth battle until a little
over two minutes left of play, when
sophomore guard Melissa Alwardt
pulled down an offensive board
and then finished the play with
a layup. The next time down the
floor, she hit a 3-pointer and the
Yellowjackets went into the break
leading 28-22.
In the second half, the ’Jackets
came out with a vengeance, going on a 13-2 run. Alwardt hit
two threes, junior guard Jessica
Mastronardi had a trey and hit a
jumpshot and senior forward Julie
Marriott had a layup to give the UR
a comfortable 17-point cushion.
About five minutes into the
game, the Violets put together
a 9-0 run to come within seven,
but with seven minutes left to
play, UR took control of the game
for good.
A balanced attack produced 14
Sports Snapshot
Men’s Basketball
• Lost to NYU, 72-86, on Friday
• Mike Chmielowiec scored 30 points
• Nate Novosel scored 11 points
• Lost to Brandeis, 63-80, on Sunday
• Chmielowiec scored 18 points
• Colin Cubit scored 13 points, on 3-4 shooting from behind the arc
• Max Kaplan had seven assists
• UAA standing: No. 4
Women’s Basketball
• Defeated NYU, 64-45, on Friday
• Melissa Alwardt had 19 points and six rebounds
• Jessica Mastronardi scored 11 points
• Julie Marriott had 10 points and six rebounds
• Ariel Evans had six points and nine rebounds
• Lost to Brandeis, 52-50, on Sunday
• Alwardt scored 17 points
• Alex Porter had a double-double, scoring 12
points and grabbing 14 rebounds
• UAA standing: No. 2
• d3hoops.com national poll: No. 5
Squash
• Defeated Penn, 9-0, on Saturday
• Eight of the nine Yellowjackets won their games
• CSA national poll: No. 6
Men’s Swimming and Diving
Senior Alex Porter scored 12 points and grabbed 14 rebounds
against NYU. She leads the ’Jackets with 10.3 rebounds per game.
The first half showed no signs of
points split between five players,
while tough defense held the Vio- what would be the final outcome
lets to just four points in the last of the game.
After a slow five minutes, Branseven minutes of play.
Alwardt had a solid game all deis went on a 7-0 run to take a
around, leading UR with 19 points, 9-6 lead.
UR answered back with a run
six rebounds and two blocks.
Mastronardi added 11 points, and of its own that started at 11:19.
Marriott tallied 10 points and six Senior forward Alex Porter and
rebounds. Sophomore guard Ariel Marriott hit a layup apiece, and
Evans also contributed six points Alwardt hit a three in just over
a minute.
and nine boards to the win.
For the remaining 10 minutes
Sunday’s game panned out in a
See SPLIT, Page 16
completely different way.
’Jackets slip to No. 4 in the UAA
By Matt Starr
Senior Staff Writer
The UR men’s basketball team
knew that it would be difficult to
reach the national tournament
this season, but things got even
harder this weekend after the
team dropped a pair of home
contests.
At 15-7 overall and 6-5 in the
University Athletic Association,
the ’Jackets are still in consideration to make the tournament
but will need strong play during
their final three games in order to
remain a viable candidate for an
at-large bid.
“It’s tough losing two at home,”
Freshman Nate Novosel has scored 20 points in the past two
home games. He averages 11 points and 5.6 rebounds per game.
senior point guard Max Kaplan
said. “But we need to look ahead to
these next three games, and forget
about last weekend if we want to
make the tournament.”
This past Friday in the Louis
Alexander Palestra, it was the Violets of New York University who
proved to be too much for UR.
Despite a solid performance by
senior swingman Mike Chmielowiec — who had 30 points, four
rebounds and three assists — NYU
built up a 10-point halftime lead
and never let go, winning by a final
score of 86-72.
The Violets had a strong shooting performance — they went 52.6
percent from the floor, 47.8 percent
from behind the arc and 88.2 percent from the charity stripe.
NYU captain center John Mish
scored a career-high 28 points
and pulled down 12 rebounds to
lead his team to its 14th win of
the season.
Sophomore forward Richie
Polan shot a perfect six-for-six
from the field, including three
3-pointers, adding 19 points to
the Violets’ total.
The ’Jackets pulled to within
five points of NYU on a Chmielowiec 3-pointer with 7:44 to play, but
67-62 was as close as they would
ever come.
Freshman center Nate Novosel
added 11 points for UR. Sophomore Marcus Roberson scored
nine to go with his team-high five
rebounds.
Even in the loss, UR’s strong
senior leadership was evident.
Kaplan dished out nine assists
See HOOPS, Page 16
• Placed seven of nine teams at the UAA championships on Saturday
• Kevin Howard placed sixth in the 200 backstroke
• David Mitsche placed sixth on the 1-meter board
• The 400 relay team of Howard, Wesley Hood, Vincent Ness and Patrick
Messmer placed sixth
Women’s Swimming and Diving
• Placed fifth of nine teams at the UAA championships on Saturday
• Jennifer Chung placed second in the 200 backstroke
and logged an NCAA provisional time
• Emily Scott placed fifth in the 100 freestyle
• Cheryl Blechman placed fourth on the 3-meter board
Women’s Tennis
• Defeated Le Moyne, 8-1, on Sunday
• Mel Beckmann, Kristen Shaw, Danielle Shreck and
Lia Weiner were double winners
Men’s Track and Field
• Competed at the Valentine’s Day Invitational last weekend
• Justin Lyttleton ran his fastest time in three years in the 55-meter dash
• A.J. Lee ran the second fastest time in school history in the 500
Women’s Track and Field
• Competed at the Valentine’s Day Invitational last weekend
• Jacqueline Cinella placed 14th in the 500
This Week in Sports
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20
• Women’s basketball at University of Chicago, 6 p.m.
• Men’s basketball at Chicago, 8 p.m.
• Squash at Collegiate Squash Association Team
Championships in Princeton, TBA
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21
• Men’s track and field at Denault Invitational in Ithaca, 10 a.m.
• Women’s track and field at Denault Invitational, 10 a.m.
• Men’s tennis vs. Ithaca College, 11 a.m.*
• Women’s tennis vs. Ithaca, 3 p.m.*
• Squash at CSA Team Championships in Princeton, TBA
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 22
• Women’s track and field at New York State Collegiate Track Conference
Multi-Event Meet in Ithaca, 10 a.m.
• Men’s track and field at NYSCTC Multi-Event Meet, 10 a.m.
• Men’s tennis vs. Le Moyne College, 11 a.m.
• Men’s basketball at Washington University in St. Louis, 11:30 a.m.
• Women’s basketball at Wash U, 1:30 p.m.
* indicates home game
Editor’s Pick
• Men’s tennis vs. Ithaca on Saturday
The men’s tennis team kicks off its spring season this weekend in Ithaca
against the Bombers. Newcomer Brian Schmeer, sophomore Bennett Peterson
and junior Brian Bowman led the team to a successful fall season. They, along
with the rest of the team, are eager to start the spring season on a good note.
SPORTS
View from a St rr By Matt Starr
Performance-enhancing drugs
are once again at the forefront of
Major League Baseball, and once
again, nobody seems to have a
clear solution.
Last semester, in HIS 265:
“Baseball in American Life,”
Professor Borus taught us that
what happens in America is always mirrored on the baseball
diamond. It seems only fitting
that the era — or should I say error — of performance-enhancing
drugs coincides with an era of
irresponsibility in America.
I remember the 1999 MLB season like it was yesterday:
Everyone was saying that the
McGwire-Sosa home-run race of
1998 saved baseball, so there was
a lot of anticipation for ’99.
Babe Ruth established the
single-season home-run record at
60. It stood until Roger Maris hit
61. Until 1998, Ruth and Maris
were the only players to ever hit at
least 60 home runs in a season, yet
from 1998 to 2001, Sammy Sosa
did it three times, Mark McGwire
twice and Barry Bonds once. No
player has done it since.
How lucky was I to be witnessing this? Or so 12-year-old Matt
thought. Oh, ignorance is bliss.
One of the best statistical seasons in baseball history was 1999,
especially for a Red Sox fan. Pedro
Martinez led the league in
wins (23), ERA (2.07)
and strikeouts (313)
en route to the A.L. Cy
Young Award. His teammate, shortstop Nomar
Garciaparra, won the
batting title with a .357
average. He would win
it again in 2000.
The Yankees won the
World Series that year, just as they
had the year before and just as they
did the year after. But such was
life for a Sox fan in 1999.
The discussion of performance-enhancing
drugs was virtually
non-existent in ’99,
especially compared to
the talk about the perils of Y2K.
Fast forward to the present:
The last great hope for a somewhat clean era goes down.
Although the revelation that A-
Rod used performance-enhancing
drugs completely denied the Yankees slugger his privacy rights, the
fact remains that this is the final
piece in the puzzle that proves
just how deep baseball’s steroid
problem runs.
’
Josh Hatcher
Staff Illustrator
Who would have thought that
out of the entire scandal, Jose
Canseco would emerge looking
F
the most forthright?
There is no clear step forward
for MLB. Certainly the league
should upgrade its testing program, but that doesn’t fix the
problems of the past.
Will baseball historians remember what happened on the
diamond or what happened off of it
in the turn of the 20th century?
Will we remember Andro, HGH,
the Cream and the Clear? What
about Radomski, McNamee, BALCO and the Mitchell Report?
How will the Hall of Fame treat
Bonds, Clemens, McGwire,
Sosa and now Rodriguez?
Will history remember
them as the great players
that they were or dismiss
them with a permanent “*”?
Baseball may be the American
pastime, but the game has lost a
lot of its allure.
I finally realized that it was
about much more than steroids
when I was reading an article
in the New York Times this past
Friday, entitled “Trying Not to
Root For the Yankees.” The article
was far away from the Sports
rom the
Courtesy of UR Athletics
athlete of the week
Chris Jensen
By ERIN Philbrick
Senior Staff Writer
Junior Chris
Jensen, a mechanical engineering major
from Nashville,
Tenn., was recently named
to the University Athletic
Association allacademic team.
He’s not only a good student,
though. Jensen also contributed
to the men’s swimming and diving
team at the UAA championships
last weekend, swimming the
second leg of the 200 free relay
and the 400 medley relay, both
of which earned points for the
Yellowjackets.
How do you balance your
time between academics and
swimming?
I got rid of my social life. Not
really, but it’s a tradeoff. I have to
work hard, but it’s doable.
Why did you start swimming?
I didn’t start swimming seriously until high school, but I never
really did year-round swimming
until I got here, so it was a big
step up for me. I didn’t even plan
on doing college swimming when
I got here. I just started out doing
it, and I forgot to quit.
So you just decided to join
the team when you got here
freshman year?
I swam in high school, and they
knew I was coming here. I decided
I’d at least start swimming, and
I could always quit if I got tired
of it. It turned out I liked it too
much to quit.
BY Josh HOrowitz
Senior Staff Writer
For football fans across the nation, the announcement of Brett
Favre’s retirement marks the end
of an era in the National Football
League. In his 18-season career,
Favre has been selected to the pro
bowl 10 times, named the NFL’s
MVP three times, won a super
bowl and broken many records.
Over the span of his 18 year career, Favre threw 442 touchdown
passes, 288 interceptions and is
the record holder in both categories. Some may think that this is
simply because he played more
games at quarterback than anyone
else, but that isn’t the case. The
fact that Favre has the record in
both categories is a true testament
to his style of play that earned him
the title of “gunslinger.”
Equipped with a cannonlike
arm, he would drop back in the
pocket and try to find an open
receiver. If nobody was open,
instead of throwing the ball away
like most well-trained quarterbacks, he would just heave the ball
downfield as far as he could and
hope that someone on his team
would come down with it. This
style of play for which Favre is so
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Section, written by metro columnist Clyde Haberman, a lifelong
Yankees fan.
Haberman writes, “The Yankees
have almost gone out of their way
to make it hard to root for them.”
Seeing this article in the Times
was at first a dream come true, but
after a second and a third look, I
realized that Haberman made it
hard to root for baseball, not just
the Yanks.
In this period of American
excessiveness, baseball has once
again mirrored the nation. The
overspending on players and stadiums, the abuse of performanceenhancing drugs: how can we
make anything of the mess we
have gotten into?
“You don’t have to be a wallower
in nostalgia to miss the days when
players resorted to performancehindering drugs, usually liquid,”
Haberman wrote. “One can only
guess at how many of [Mickey]
Mantle’s 536 career home runs
came while he nursed an epic
hangover.”
Starr is a member of
the class of 2009.
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well-known is what made him so
much fun to watch.
One of Favre’s most memorable
moments came during the 2003
season. His father passed away
on Sunday morning, the day
before the Packers were to face
the Oakland Raiders in a critical
Monday night matchup. Rather
than missing the game, Favre
played his heavy heart out. He
finished the game with a total of
399 passing yards and four touchdowns, leading his team to a 41-7
victory. This display of dedication
earned him the nickname “Iron
Man Brett Favre.”
Another record which Favre
holds that suits his character well
is his consecutive start streak.
As an NFL quarterback, the
risk of injury is extremely high,
and there is no way that anyone
can go an entire career without
getting hurt. However, injury
or a family death was not an
excuse for Favre, who started as
quarterback consecutively in 269
games. The closest quarterbacks
behind Favre are Peyton Manning
and Tom Brady. However, Brady
is now out of contention due to a
season-ending knee injury sustained during the 2008 season,
so the only quarterback left in the
hunt is Manning who still has a
long way to go.
Despite all of his career accomplishments, Favre’s final season in
the NFL didn’t work out quite as
well as he and New York Jets fans
had hoped. His controversial return to the NFL for one more season ended with his team collapsing
down the stretch and finishing up
9-7, short of a playoff spot.
In a press conference held last
week, Favre’s parting words to
fans were, “To me, it is. It’s been
a wonderful career, I couldn’t ask
for anything more. It was worth
a shot for me to go to New York.
I wish I could’ve played better
down the stretch. I didn’t. It’s
time to leave.”
Now that he is retired from the
NFL, he will have a lot more time
to go hunting and fishing in his
home state of Mississippi.
Whether or not you are a fan of
Brett, you have to admire what
he accomplished throughout his
career. His numerous records and
accolades are a testament to the
love and dedication that he had
for the game of football.
Horowitz is a member of
the class of 2009.
What’s unique about being on
a relay team?
Relays are the best, because
it’s the only time in swimming
that you actually have teammates
with whom you get to work to
do well.
I’m always more excited for the
relays. It’s easier to get pumped
up.
What was the best part about
being at the UAAs?
Swimming fast with my teammates. It’s the one chance a year
we’re working to really shave down
to our best times.
What’s your favorite dinosaur?
Well, I’m most scared of velociraptors. Their claws are huge,
and they’re really smart.
Philbrick is a member of
the class of 2009.
CHildren take the court at halftime
Several students from the Saint Jude Elementary School in Buffalo made the trip to Rochester on Friday.
During halftime of the men’s basketball game against NYU, they played a quick game of their own.
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Swimming achieves multiple personal bests at UAA meet
By Eloise Rogers
Staff Writer
The swimming and diving
teams faced strong competition this past weekend in the
’Jackets’ most successful
meet in recent history.
Both teams traveled to the
University of Chicago for the
University Athletic Association Championships, where
Yellowjacket athletes broke
18 school records, posted 12
NCAA provisional qualifying
times and had 233 lifetime
bests. The results proved
that UR put in all the necessary hard work and practice
throughout the season.
The men finished in seventh place — just three-anda-half points short of sixth.
They earned 751 points, just
behind Case at 754.5. Notably, the sprints were strong
for the men, as were the
diving competitions. In the
200 backstroke, sophomore
Kevin Howard came in sixth
with an NCAA provisional
time of 1:53.84. Freshman
Dmitry Petropavlovskiy
was 15th in the same event,
touching in at 1:56.60.
Sophomore Bobby McCue
also placed well, touching in
at 2:11.38 for 13th in the 200
breaststroke.
In the shorter distances,
the men’s 400 free relay
team of freshman Vincent
Ness, freshman Wesley
Hood, Howard and junior
Patrick Messmer was timed
in 3:11.90 and a sixth- place
finish.
On the men’s 1-meter
board, three divers were
in the top 10. Senior David
Mitsche finished sixth with
a score of 352.70. Freshman
Kenny Johnson was eighth
with a 308.80, and junior
Greg Buck was close behind
in ninth with a 276.85.
The women also had a
solid meet, coming in fifth
overall. On the women’s
scoreboard, UR had 1,006.5
points. Sophomore Dayna
Jacob summed up the general team’s consensus about
the day.
“I think everyone performed better than we an-
ticipated individually and as
a team,” Jacob said.
On Saturday alone,
the Yellowjackets had
two top- eight finishers.
The sprints were especially strong for the women. In
the 200 breaststroke, freshman Jennifer Chung placed
second, with an NCAA provisional time of 2:26.20. Freshman Bridget Festa was close
See UAAS, Page 16
8-1 win sets tone
for spring season
KYLE SABO • Senior Staff Photographer
Freshman Matt Domenick allowed three points in his win over Penn. Domenick has lost just three matches this season.
Squash scratches out Penn at home
by Dana Hilfinger
Editor-in-Chief
There’s no better time to
come into your own than in
the final match of the regular
season.
Such was the case for the
UR squash team this past
weekend, as it pulled out a
tough 9-0 victory over the
University of Pennsylvania
Quakers on Saturday afternoon.
The Quakers came into
the matchup ranked seventh
according to the Collegiate
Squash Association, while
UR sat at No. 6.
“We went into the game on
Saturday hoping to get a convincing win, not just to prove
to ourselves we deserve to be
ranked No. 6 but to prove to
the other teams that we are
still a major threat,” junior
co-captain Jim Bristow said.
“I think the 9-0 victory did
just that.”
Penn came into the game
with momentum — after
losing a close 4-5 matchup
to No. 5 Harvard University,
the Quakers bounced back
to beat Dartmouth College,
5-4.
But on Saturday, UR’s
depth — as it has for most
of the season — proved to be
the difference.
The Yellowjackets only
dropped one game on the day
at the No. 9 position, where
junior Yohay Wakabayashi
came back after losing the
first, 2-9, to beat his Penn
opponent in four.
Sophomore Fred Reid
clinched the win for the
Yellowjackets at the No. 5 position, ousting Penn’s Joseph
Raho, 9-3, 9-3, 9-0. Reid has
lost just three matches this
season, all of which were to
top-five opponents.
Freshman Joe Chapman
completed UR’s sweep at the
No. 7 spot, but the win didn’t
come easy. After letting his
opponent take an 8-0 lead
in the first game, Chapman
rattled off 10-straight points
to pull off the come-frombehind victory.
In the second game, Chapman again found himself
with his back up against the
wall. Penn’s Parker Justi had
opportunities to take the
game twice when he held a
9-8 advantage. Again, however, Chapman fought back
to take the victory.
In the third game, the
freshman proved to be too
much for Justi. With the
score knotted at three, Chapman finally found his footing,
winning six-straight points
to seal the victory.
“It’s a learning experience,” head coach Martin
Heath said of Chapman’s
match. “I look forward to
seeing Joe taking the initia-
tive and getting some tough
wins at Nationals.”
At the top spots, it didn’t
take long for Bristow, sophomore Hameed Ahmed and
freshman Beni Fischer to
top their respective opponents. Fischer allowed his
opponents just four points
in three games, while Ahmed
showed his prowess at the
No. 3 spot with a 9-1, 9-1,
9-3 win.
By the time Bristow got
on the court, UR’s victory
was already confirmed. But
knowing that only motivated
the junior to continue the
string of Yellowjacket victories.
“Going on court knowing
that nobody had lost yet
actually motivates me not to
be the first person to lose,”
Bristow said. “None of these
players like to lose and so
the hard thing is trying to
See FINAL, Page 17
By Katie Belonga
Staff Writer
The UR women’s tennis
team kicked off its spring
season last weekend with a
win over the Le Moyne College Dolphins on Sunday.
The Yellowjackets came
off of a 3-1 fall season during which they beat Rochester Institute of Technology, SUNY Brockport and
Nazareth College, but fell
to SUNY Geneseo in the last
meet of the season.
UR also had a strong showing in different championships during the fall.
Sophomore Lia Weiner
placed first in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association’s
Northeast Regional singles
competition. She then took
a trip to Mobile, Ala. for the
ITA National Small College
Championships.
While Weiner was in Alabama, freshman Alex Goodman stepped up and took
Weiner’s place in the No. 1
singles position at the New
York State Championships.
The newcomer got to the
semifinals of the championship.
Along with Goodman,
three other UR players
advanced to the quarterfinals and all three doubles
teams made it to the second
round.
The ’Jackets, who beat
the Dolphins last season,
9-0, came out strong in
the spring season’s opener.
They continued great play
when they did not give up
any singles matches during
the meet. UR took down the
Dolphins, 8-1.
The only close match of
the singles portion of the
matchup was at No. 1 singles,
where Weiner beat her opponent, Tirzah Walrath, with a
close 7-5 and 6-4 sets.
At No. 2 singles, Goodman
took out her opponent, Ali
Cohen, 6-4, 6-3. Fellow freshman Danielle Shreck beat
Caroline Tisdell, 6-2, 6-2, to
give UR a third singles win
and another point.
The final three singles
points and matches came
easy for the ’Jackets.
Sophomore Elana Polivy
showed her strength and
experience by only dropping
one set her entire match in
her impressive 6-0, 6-1 win
See SPRING, Page 17
ELOISE ROGERS • Staff Photographer
Sophomores Elana Polivy and Diane Samuels celebrated Sunday’s season-opener win over Le Moyne College.
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Women’s Basketball
Baseball is an all-American sport. What happens on
the baseball diamond is representative of what occurs
in our country. But, when All-Star players start to take
performance-enhancing drugs, we begin to doubt much
of the sport’s good.
The women’s basketball team split its weekend home
series, defeating New York University and falling to
Brandeis University. But how do the results of these
games affect the Yellowjackets’ future in the rapidly
approaching NCAA tournament?
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