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Technique in
Moon
CCC students travel to
India with Dr. Allen
Richardson, page 6
Senior dancers dazzle the
audience with work they
have been preparing all
year, page 8
THURSDAY
APRIL 14, 2011
Poet and
Professor
From Allentown to India
Local poet, Javier
Avila,
shares
his
thoughts on literature
and life, page 9
THE CRESTIAD
ALLENTOWN, PA
VOLUME 95
ISSUE 9
Cedar Crest College
Glass proposes
new group, ALANA
Cherry
Blossom
Members of the Society of Asian Animation gather together
for a photo during the Cherry Blossom Festival.
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with a martial arts flair
STACEY STANGL
Staff Writer
Martial artist, Myko Wasko, entertains CCC students on
the President’s Lawn during Cherry Blossom Festival.
Again, Myko Wasko entertains an audience of CCC students during an intense martial arts demonstration.
All photos courtesy of Stacey Stangl, Staff Writer
Though the blossoms had hardly started blooming by the date
of April 7, the Society for Asian Animation still enjoyed a good
time at their annual Cherry Blossom Festival.
At the Cherry Blossom Festival each year, the Society for
Asian Animation (SAA) gathers to celebrate the Japanese tradition
of gathering in honor of the beginning of springtime, which is signified by the opening of the cherry blossoms. They also bring to
the event other aspects of Japanese culture, such as tea and delicious Japanese cookies.
This year, a new aspect was focused on for the festival. The
club reached out to Micah Sadigh, Associate Professor of Psychology, and asked him to give a small lecture on different ways to destress and feel more relaxed.
“It was unfortunate that the blossoms have not opened yet, but
we still had a wonderful time enjoying different aspects of Japanese culture,” Elizabeth Sterling, junior Art Therapy major, “and
Micah gave a great speech.”
Also new to the festival, a local martial artist gave a small
demonstration of a form of “warrior arts” called Sogobujutsu. The
martial artist, Myko Wasko appeared in a full judo gi, and showed
the attendees of the festival a few techniques that he has learned, including a few with a wooden daito practice katana.
“Coming to Cedar Crest events is always an enriching experience,” said martial artist Myko Wasko. “I very much enjoyed helping out with the festival.”
Art theft on Cedar Crest campus
VANESSA CHATELAIN
Assistant News Editor Elect
The painting is described as being roughly
four feet by four feet in dimension. It was an abstract painting of an orchard that gave viewers a
large scale with a somewhat zoomed look into
the center of the flower. The colors that were
used ranged from shades of black, red, and pink.
Unlike the other galleries, which have monitors,
awareness on how vulnerable students’ artwork
is in the hallway. Odegaard also discusses the
steps that her and other faculty members are takLast Saturday, a painting of an orchard creing to make students understand the risk of
ated by Deidre A. Mashack, senior Art Therapy
showing their art in public.
major, was stolen from Alumnae Hall.
“It will make us, the department, more acThe painting, along with other artwork, was
tive in terms of not setting up contracts but idenbeing installed for the senior students’ art
tifying a draft of exhibition protocol for
therapy program. It is believed that during
“...The painting was there on April 1 exhibiting in this gallery. [So] your name
the installation over that weekend the paintbe listed, your title of the work, and asand then one of the art therapy students will
ing was stolen. Jill Odegaard, Assistant Prosigned value to the work. It doesn’t mean
fessor of Art, recalled the last night that she that was hanging [the] labels said that that it’s not vulnerable and really anytime
saw the painting before it went missing.
when she was here Friday night it was you show your work, even if it’s in a gallery
“It was an ongoing installation maybe
that has a monitor, there’s a vulnerability
over [a] week’s time that they were in- gone...”
your putting out into a public place. [Y]ou
-Jill Odegaard, Assistant Professor of Art kind of always tak[e] that risk but when it
stalling so things were being moved around
and relocated, but I last saw the painting
turns out unfavorable. It’s really too bad,”
[when] I was here on Friday April 1. The paint- the artwork on display in Alumnae do not have Odegaard said.
ing was there on April 1 and then one of the art monitors other than faculty and students who are
Overall, Odegaard expressed her empathy
therapy students that was hanging [the] labels present in the building throughout the day.
for Mashack and that hopefully there will be a
said that when she was here Friday night it was
Once Mashack informed Odegaard that the positive outcome in the matter.
gone and...the painting and the label both were painting was missing, Odegaard notified Cam“It’s really too bad. I mean, what do you tell
taken. Pat Badt, Professor of Art, came in for an pus Police who came over and discussed the a student, “Sorry, your painting’s gone?” and
open house admissions event on Saturday morn- matter with Odegaard. Although, Odegaard has that’s really ultimately all we can do, but it’s reing and it was gone. So, sometime between 7:00 not heard much on the theft, she discusses how ally not what she wants to hear. Of course noat night and Saturday it had been removed,” secure the hallway gallery is with Chief Mark body wants to hear that, but I don’t know what
Odegaard said.
Vitalos and that the incident has created more else we can do,” Odegaard said.
ROXANNE ADDINO
Staff Writer
As a smaller campus community Cedar Crest College is
able to offer more opportunities
for students to really connect with
one another and get to know each
other on a deeper level than at
other larger colleges and universities.
ALANA stands for AfricanAmerican, Latino, Asian, and Native American, and has been
organized by the Director of the
Multicultural Center, Kenza
Glass. Glass wants Cedar Crest
students to gain a better understanding of what the group is really all about and all that ALANA
will bring to the campus.
ALANA is not a club, but a
group created to support students
from underrepresented groups.
Glass also stated that
ALANA is a working term until
the shape of the group is finally
determined. The group has met
three times this semester, but next
year they hope to set meeting
times each week, and plan on
hosting events that will occur
every month to represent all of the
different heritages, but this will
depend upon the students willing
to be a part of this new group.
The students will be important and every student on campus
is encouraged to take part in
ALANA, because the more students that are able to get involved
the more we can learn about one
another’s cultures and heritages.
Glass also wanted students to
know that the Multicultural Center, which is also new and still developing, will be taking on a
multifaceted approach to representing students of multiple cultures and heritages on campus,
and ALANA is one of the initiatives to doing so.
“It is important for the Multicultural Center to not only provide programs and support but
also to draw on experiences and
participation of ALANA students
themselves so that it is their voice
and not just the Multicultural
Center or Cedar Crest,” said
Glass.
As the Multicultural Center
grows it will hopefully gain more
support from the campus as it
gains an identity, but in order to
grow more students will be
needed to help get the word out
about both the Multicultural Center and its great groups such as
ALANA.
Cedar Crest College has the
ability to become an even closer
knit family, so let’s come together
and learn more about those
around us. For more information
about ALANA, contact Kenza
Glass in Academic Services.
2 NEWS
Morgan Keschl, Editor
CAMPUS NEWS
McDonough returns Project LEAD promotes
from Florida art alcohol awareness
presentations
SAMANTHA E. BUKER
Staff Writer
Over the last two weeks, Casey McDonough, Assistant Professor of Art,
traveled to Florida’s Tampa Bay area to
exhibit his work and to present a paper at
the 45th Annual Conference of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA).
McDonough’s paper, entitled “Rationale for the Inclusion of Subversive and
Non-commissioned Public Art Practices
in the Development and Expansion of a
Studio-based Teaching Pedagogy,” was
presented as a part of Alternative and Forbidden Spaces, a topical panel discussion
dealing with art created in and for public
or “alternative” spaces. The questions that
arise from the intersection between public
art and street art, which some consider a
great outlet for civic-expression, and others consider to be acts of vandalism.
McDonough’s stance on the topic is
“that students should, for their own benefit, be made aware of and engage with art
in the commons, the public space we inhabit together.” Furthermore, he believes
that “the benefit of making artwork to be
exhibited outside and without permission
boils down to the audience, which is
greatly expanded when working in this
way.”
Regarding the issue of vandalism,
McDonough asserts that while he would
never encourage a student to “deface
property or act irresponsibly, and in fact I
prohibit this type of behavior within [his]
own assignments,” he recognizes that
“this venue is becoming an extremely important place for artists to exert their creativity and ideas…a pedagogy that
doesn’t capitalize on this is in some way
incomplete.”
The panel was moderated by Frederick Bartolovic of SUNY Oswego, who
visited Cedar Crest earlier this year, along
with Shay Church of Virginia Commonwealth University and Brian Wiggins,
Gallery Coordinator and Adjunct Professor at Cedar Crest. McDonough said of
presenting his paper “this topic is considered controversial when framed in the
context of NCECA, and our panel elicited
several strongly opinionated questions. I
find the opportunity to present my own
research to be useful as I always return
with new information and points of view.”
During the last week of March, McDonough installed exhibits at the Museum of Science and Industry in Tampa,
FL, and at three locations in St. Petersburg, Fl: the Morean Arts Center, Eckerd
College and The St. Petersburg Clay
Company. He said he was most interested
in the work he shared at Eckerd College
and his exhibition at the Morean Arts
Center entitled Elastic Authenticity. The
exhibition process in this case begins with
McDonough shipping the small ceramic
objects previously crafted, and arriving on
site with “a duffel bag of additional materials” including pins, thread and adhesive
vinyl.
These installations also made use of
“electric sound elements.” McDonough
said he “approached each work with some
plan in mind, though ultimately [he] had
the opportunity to exert a great deal of intuitiveness in developing the compositions themselves.” He also expressed his
enjoyment in having the opportunity to
travel with his work, as when pieces are
shipped to be set up by curators, they need
to be easy to install.
To see more of McDonough’s work,
you can visit caseymcdonough.com.
Correcons
In the April 7 issue of The Crestiad, Stacy Williams compiled the
Healthy Foods list on page 9. On page 11, Stacy Williams submitted the
horoscopes, not Valayshia Brookins. Valayshia Brookins took the top two
photos on page 16.
VANESSA CHATELAIN
Assistant News Editor Elect
Leadership and Effective Alcohol Decisions (LEAD) is a project that centers on
alcohol usage from a global perspective and
ties into the strategic leadership initiatives
of Cedar Crest College as well as the Pennsylvania Liquor Board Control (PLCB).
The project examines the behavior,
perceptions, and consequences of drug and
alcohol use among college students 18-24
around the world. Cedar Crest College
fielded primary research in India, China,
Australia, Canada, and the U.S. An online
survey taken by undergraduate women and
men attending universities in those countries were then compared by country and
gender. The sample used to conduct the research consisted of 2,932 college age students ranging from 18-24 in those countries.
Marketing students Barbara Breisch,
Jen Decky, Danielle Gosha, Mary Hentz,
Xin Huang, and Jasmita Saini from Arlene
Peltola’s, Assistant Professor of Business
marketing courses 290 and 336, worked on
this two semester long project. The students
conducted secondary literature review and
creating a campaign to show students on
campus the importance of making the right
decisions concerning alcohol. The study
found that in today’s global society, we have
become interconnected by social media networks such as Facebook, YouTube, or Twitter that can also be accessed through smart
phones. The alcohol and drug consumption
decisions being made by our youth has become increasingly influenced by their
global peers. Using the information gathered from the literature and the role that
media plays, the students created a campaign that would encourage college women
18-24 to make mindful decisions. In an article written by Peltola and Dr. James
Scepansky, associate professor of Psychology, the professors identify the project’s
main objectives as building awareness, promoting reflection, and encouraging personal
responsibility.
Further, the students created the campaign, “What was I thinking,” which focused
on
individual
motivational
enhancement instead of choosing an accusatory standpoint. Peltola and the marketing
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students felt this approach was better suited
for the campus community, because they
felt it was appropriate for the educated
women on campus.
The campaign consisted of placing
posters around the campus that highlighted
the top four consequences women experience due to risky alcohol behavior. The students also utilized the media by creating a
Facebook page that highlighted the campaign, an eight minute YouTube video that
focused on the consequences of using simulated alcohol-impaired goggles while playing a game of “Perception Twister,” and a
website called WWIT. The students also
held events such as Perception Twister and
Bingo to educate women about alcohol consumption in a fun atmosphere. In addition,
party smart cards for women along with
merchandise were passed out.
The “What was I thinking” campaign
ran for 12 weeks from March 2009 to May
2009. Prior to the campaign a survey was
conducted on alcohol and drug use on campus. Before the campaign 17 percent of the
students thought their campus had drug and
alcohol policies and 66 percent believed
their campus was concerned about the prevention of drug and alcohol use. After the
campaign, the numbers increased with 77
percent believing the campus was concerned about the prevention of drug and alcohol use and 84 percent saw that their
campus had drug and alcohol policies. They
also saw a decrease in the amount of drinks
students had over the last two weeks in one
sitting from 9 to 5 percent.
Peltola encourages all students to take
the course regardless of their major interests
and enjoyed knowing that the students on
Project LEAD were able to walk away the
ability to apply what they learned a scholarly identification that she abides by.
“There was a phenomenal amount of
work that went into this project and what
makes me happy about it is the students
leave with a depthful and genuine knowledge of not just the project, but how marketing research is so critical to the quality
of the final presentation. It gave the students
practice in presenting to a real world annual
convention to a standing room only break
out session” Peltola said.
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CAMPUS NEWS
Frey presents nutrion research
on fiber-rich baking substitute
MORGAN KESCHL
Managing Editor Elect
Denise Frey, senior Nutrition
major, is presenting her paper on
substituting high fiber cereal for all
purpose flour in baked goods at the
Pennsylvania Dietetic Association
Conference on Friday, April 15 after
the cake was a success at last year’s
Health and Wellness Conference at
Cedar Crest.
Frey’s paper, entitled "Substitution of all-purpose flour with a
high fiber cereal in a cake recipe results in an acceptable high fiber, reduced calorie, reduced carbohydrate
baked product," began when she
took an Experimental Foods class
here at Cedar Crest, which required
her to come up with a healthful kind
of food. Her paper has been approved by the Institutional Review
Board and the cake she made was
tested for color of the crust surface,
moistness of the interior, the texture
and the cell size, the texture of the
crust, the flavor and “if you would
eat is again.” Her idea for substituting the cereal came from fiber being
a less recognized vitamin important
for health.
Frey focused her research on
substituting 3 1/2 cups of flour in a
cake recipe, about 75 percent of the
substituting the fiber-rich cereal into
the cake recipe. While she had to
balance the volume of the cake with
the density of the pumpkin, apples,
and cereal, it was a popular attraction at the Health and Wellness Conference at Cedar Crest in Spring
2010. Frey gave the recipe out to
“I just think if people can improve the fiber in
the diet, they can definitely contribute an important part of helping them maintain health or prevent some health issues.”
- Denise Frey
senior Nutrition major
flour measure, with 2/3 cups Fiber
One cereal to increase the nutrition.
Upon her success with the cake,
Frey realized that she increased the
initial two grams of fiber per serving into seven grams per serving by
those who taste-tested the cake.
Not only did Frey create a
more healthful recipe, but she also
produced a research paper with
more information about the importance of her health food topic. Frey
found that regular consumption of
fiber can lead to a reduced risk of
coronary heart disease, type II diabetes, metabolic syndrome, hyperlipidemia, obesity, and general
inflammation, as well as helping to
combat high cholesterol, atherosclerosis, and obesity.
In one source in her research,
Frey observed a relationship between the amount of fiber and presence of disease that came from a
lack of another vitamin associated
with fiber, magnesium. Likewise, in
another study cited in Frey’s research, nurses who were traced over
eight years ended up having better
health outcomes.
“These women were followed
for eight years and the women who
consumed a high fiber diet were less
likely to develop diabetes mellitus
and these people were also less
likely to smoke, and they reported
less family history of diabetes, less
hypertension, they were leaner, and
they were more physically active,”
Frey said.
Frey feels that incorporating
fiber into one’s diet can be beneficial in many ways, which she has
learned through her research.
“I just think that if people can
improve the fiber in their diet,
they can definitely contribute an
important part of helping them
maintain health or prevent some
health issues,” Frey said.
Frey received a Bachelor’s
Degree in Journalism from Temple University in 1992 and hopes
to combine her background in
journalism and nutrition in the future.
Patti Reinhardt, senior Nutriton major, is also presenting her
paper, “Use of tofu as a cream
cheese replacement at two levels
in a cheesecake bar," at the Pennsylvania Dietetic Association
Conference on Friday.
PRESS RELEASE
Textbook Rental Program Coming to the Campus Bookstore
Beginning in August 2011,
Cedar Crest College will give students a new lease on their sometimes budget-focused, hectic lives
by offering a new, multi-channel
textbook rental program designed
to deliver maximum savings and
convenience.
This innovative textbook
rental program will allow students
to rent their textbooks for less
than 50 percent of the cost of purchasing a new printed textbook.
Plus, as an added convenience,
students will be able to rent their
books either in the store or from
the store’s website: http://cedarcrest.bncollege.com .
This decision to offer a textbook rental program was a joint
decision made by the Cedar Crest
College and Barnes & Noble College Booksellers.
“We are committed to pro-
viding students with the widest
range of content options and price
points available,” said Hil Estock,
Vice President at Barnes & Noble
College Booksellers. “Whether
students are interested in new
books, used, digital, unbundled,
or now rentals, they know they
can find what they want at the
Cedar Crest College bookstore.”
Other program features include:
- Students can pay the rental
fees using any form of tender currently accepted by the bookstore
(excluding PayPal) – including
student financial aid and campus
debit cards. (Note: For security
purposes, a valid credit card must
also be provided regardless of the
tender used for the rental fee.)
- Students can highlight or
mark the rented books just as they
would if they purchased a book
and planned to sell it back to the
bookstore.
- Students can convert their
rental to a purchase during the
first two weeks of class.
- The rental period is for the
duration of the term/semester.
Books are due back by the last
day of finals. Students can return
books in person or mail them to
the bookstore.
- Courtesy emails will go out
as the end of the term/semester
approaches reminding students to
return their books. Books not returned (or returned in unusable
condition) will be subject to replacement and processing fees.
Beginning in Fall 2010 more
than 300 college and university
bookstores began offering textbook rental programs through the
campus bookstore. In a follow up
survey more than 90% of the stu-
dents said they would rent from
the bookstore again.
Watch for more details about
the rental program in the coming
weeks. For more information
about Cedar Crest College Bookstore, visit http://cedarcrest.bncollege.com .
About Barnes & Noble, Inc.
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(NYSE: BKS), the world’s largest
bookseller and a Fortune 500
company, operates 775 bookstores in 50 states. Barnes &
Noble College Booksellers, LLC,
a wholly-owned subsidiary of
Barnes & Noble, also operates
639 college bookstores serving
nearly 4 million students and over
250,000 faculty members at colleges and universities across the
United States. For more information, please visit www.bncollege.com.
In the News
Nicole Magloire
Chicago public school
bans school lunches
The Chicago Tribune reports
that the Little Village Academy, a
public school, has banned lunches
brought from home. They say that
the new rule is all in the name of
good health. The principal of the
school created the rule after she
observed students bringing chips
and sodas to school in their
lunches. Unless the students have
a medical excuse, they have to eat
the cafeteria food and that is the
only food options available.
Source: Today.com
Boy named honorary NJ
governor
A New Jersey boy who cried
after he realized that he was too
young to be governor was named
honorary governor chief executive of the state. Gov. Chris
Christie signed a proclamation
making 5-year-old Jesse Koczon
honorary governor of the day and
his fraternal twin brother was
made honorary lieutenant governor. The video that featured Koczon crying was made in 2009 and
won an award on the television
show America’s Funniest Home
videos. The video resurfaced recently and after going viral was
brought to the attention of Gov.
C h r i s t i e .
Source: msnbc.com
Maine legalizing switchblades for one armed people
Maine lawmakers recently
approved legalizing the use of
switchblades for people with one
arm. Voters behind the law say
that it would avoid the hassle and
danger behind someone with one
arm trying to open a blade with
their mouth. Until this law was
passed Maine banned the use of
switchblades by anyone. In many
states, carrying a switchblade is
illegal though owning the knives
is allowed in many places. The
bill restrictions include that the
blade on the knife must be three
inches
or
shorter.
Source: msnbc.com
New bacon scented
cologne
A Chicago man has created a
new cologne that features a bacon
scented fragrance. The cologne
which is pronounce “Bay-cone”
sells for $36 and can be ordered
on the products website fargginay.com. Though it is marketed as
being cologne it is actually a unisex scent and the creator bottled it
in a Gold and white casing to
make it more appealing to
women. The creator of the scent
John Leydon hopes that the scent
will one day be sold in department
stores.
Source: aolnews.com
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OPINIONS
Sarajane Sein, Editor
A person is a person - unless they do drugs?
SARAJANE SEIN
Opinions Editor
I remember being at a party at the house
of a friend this summer, when some sobering
news cut through the celebration. The body
of 23 year old Jenna Lord had been found in
a vacant lot in Camden, NJ. Jenna had come
from Collingdale, PA., our small town outside of Philadelphia, even though I never
knew her personally, and she had been missing for several days.
She had traveled to Collingswood, NJ,
to visit family, and had attempted to return
home through the Walter Rand Transportation Center in Camden, after which she was
never seen alive again.
Despite the fact that her disappearance
had many indications of being an abduction,
the local media chose to fill its pages with
tales of Jenna’s past drug use and a short stint
in juvenile hall. People left online comments
declaring that Jenna had simply run off in
order to get out of upcoming court dates, or
ran off in order to get drugs. They neglected
to remember that she had a three year old son
who was left behind.
Even after her death, comments still
drew upon nasty assumptions. “I guess she
went looking for drugs in all the wrong
places, she took chances each time you do
drugs DRUGS KILL HELLO [sic]?” reads
one comment on an ABC news report, which
relayed that her autopsy was inconclusive.
Her past drug use and “reputation” may have
also influenced police to treat her disappear-
ance less seriously and to assume that she had
“run off”; thus wasting precious days that
could have been spent finding her, potentially
alive.
Why is it that knowledge of a person’s
past or current drug use allows many to view
that person as unworthy of sympathy or compassion? There appears to be a cultural tendency towards assuming that a person who
does drugs and suffers a tragic death, whether
an overdose or even murder, “deserves what
they got”.
Perhaps it is reflective of certain people’s tendencies to subscribe to a “Belief in a
Just World”, a concept often explored in Psychology. A person who highly believes that
the world is just may be more likely to blame
a victim of a crime for what has happened to
them; if a victim was undeserving of the
tragedy that befell them, the belief that the
world is just is therefore threatened.
Another factor that seems to come into
play in an case such as Jenna’s is an off-shoot
of the phenomenon of “Missing White
Woman Syndrome”.
As Dennis Romero points out in an article for LA Weekly, “Good looking women of
a certain educational attainment and class get
more attention -- certainly more than, say, a
missing, working-class black man, which you
almost never hear about.” By the same token,
if Jenna had been an honor student instead of
a working-class young woman with a former
drug problem, there would have been oftcovered vigils and very favorable coverage.
It appears that society only seems to care
about those with drug addictions when they
provide entertainment to the masses. Consider the recent coverage of Charlie Sheen
and Lindsay Lohan – both of whom are not
only people with drug addictions but, seemingly, walking train wrecks who are constantly reported on for the crazy antics that
they tend to engage in. But where are the ordinary people who are struggling with addictions in this coverage? Why are they mocked
by online comments instead of being told to
rest in peace?
“Jenna was a human being. Yet
when she went missing, no one
besides her family and friends
looked for her.”
- Frances Caruso
The fact that people jump to conclusions
and label people without knowing them can
not only affect commentary about the missing
or deceased; it can sometimes even influence
whether justice is served in a case.
Frances Caruso, one of Jenna Lord’s relatives, wrote in to the Philadelphia Inquirer
shortly after her autopsy report was released.
“The coroner's report did not emphatically
state that the cause of death was an overdose,
but the report implies such a conclusion, and
so have the media reports. But the family's
photo supports another conclusion: The body
seems to have been deliberately arranged
there.”
Caruso goes on to point out that the
Camden Police Department may not have
performed their duties effectively at all, mentioning the fact that Jenna’s body was located
only after her family members and friends
searched the streets and vacant lots of Camden for her. “Throughout this entire ordeal,
there has been a gross misrepresentation of
Jenna by the media, under the shadow of drug
usage. Jenna was a human being. Yet when
she went missing, no one besides her family
and friends looked for her.”
In this country, people feel that they can
rely on being treated equally, no matter what
their past mistakes may have been. This does
not seem to be the case, and it is a sad reflection of how biases can affect values that are
held to a high esteem.
No one is perfect. By the same account,
no one deserves to be treated less fairly because of what they may have done or not
done in the past. It can only be hoped that
when Jenna Lord’s son grows up, he can
know that people did care about his mother,
including many who didn’t know her, despite
the fact that the local media completely
turned their back on an innocent person in
need of as much attention as any other missing person.
Celeb fodder endangers current events’ visability
MORGAN KESCHL
Managing Editor Elect
What was once hot off the presses is now what’s hot in
fashion for spring.
With the onset of tabloid journalism since the 1980s
and news organizations’ focus on “infotainment” rather than
current events, it seems that the legitimate news media of
the past is fading. This demise is also accelerated by recent
government talk on cutting funding to National Public
Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).
While criticism of tabloid journalism is not new, it has been
accelerated by the advent of media technology, from an increase in TV channels to the Web. However, those who follow tabloid journalism on celebrities’ lives rather than
current events may have little awareness or care for the decline of unbiased, relevant news.
According to Erin Meyer, the author of “‘Can You
Handle My Truth?’: Authenticity and the Celebrity Star
Image,” the tabloids “serve up a mixture of celebrity gossip,
human-interest features, usually with a 'sensational' twist,
stories about occult and psychic phenomena, UFOs and so
on, and large doses of advice, self-help tips, and medical
news." Meyers also explains that a celebrity’s image is created from multiple outlets reporting different views of the
celebrity, from interviews directly from the source to
fanzines and blogs, which eerily reflect how hard news is
currently distributed and littered with opinions rather than
with neutral facts. These images can be seen anywhere from
the supermarket to virtual space.
An article entitled “Learning to Love the (Shallow, Divisive, Unreliable) New Media” written by James Fallow,
an Atlantic Monthly national correspondent, expresses the
demise of traditional journalism and current event exposure.
In this article, Fallow includes an interview with Nick Denton, founder, owner, and CEO of Gawker Media. Denton
emphasizes this type of apathy when he gives an explanation for the content on his website. The content on Gawker,
according to Fallow, involves topics on “gossip, technology, and sex talk,” and as Denton explains, "But not the
worthy topics. Nobody wants to eat the boring vegetables.
Nor does anyone want to pay [via advertising] to encourage people to eat their vegetables," Denton said, as well as
that, "Just good, juicy, scurrilous gossip stories about nepotism and corruption and mistresses and Swiss bank accounts
[and] [p]ictures of their houses!” are also popular topics the
site thrives on.
Instead of publishing on current events, as some blogs
have opinionated content on current events, which is excusable in this case, Denton makes a point to say that there
are more important topics to focus attention on: "I just try to
figure out, if I were to go to a party, what would everyone
want to talk about? And that is what I'd want to write about."
However, whether the public wants to know about certain
topics is separate from the fact that providing what the audience needs, despite what they want to hear, is important to
news media. Still, "The job of journalism is to provide surprise," in Denton’s world.
Not only is Denton a media owner who focuses on
profits, as his writers get bonuses for the more new people
they lead to Gawker, but media focus in general is on tabloid
journalism with celebrities and soft news topics comprising
most of media attention, and celebrities bring in the dough
in new ways separate from advertising. Media focus on
celebrities also diverts attention away from current events,
and as Meyer asserts, “The celebrity is not a real person,
but merely a commodity, an image without substance, used
to control the consciousnesses of a malleable public.”
“The idea that so much energy is taken
up to report on celebrities and their private life is not only public voyeurism, but
also a waste of useful resources.”
On Friday, Apr. 8, I went to my MSN homepage and
saw the photos of three women’s stomachs with the title
“Who Owns This Baby Bump?” The idea of celebrity
women “owning” a baby bump seems to be a twisted product endorsement rather than a characteristic of motherhood.
Then again, celebrities put the “industry” in “industry culture.” This is only one example of how the focus on celebrities manifests on webpages and magazines in the same
realm of breaking news on the government’s possible shutdown. While motherhood should be more than a spectacle,
so should news about our own government.
The idea that so much energy is taken up to report on
celebrities and their private life is not only public
voyeurism, but also a waste of useful resources. The PBS
documentary, What’s Happening to the News, as well as
Fallow both relay that there are few U.S. news organizations stationed in other countries to report on international
news, which may reflect a lack of demand for current
events. If the American public can’t even focus on their own
national news, the idea that they would have interests in
Japan, Egypt, and Israel is even more minimal. Instead,
there are stories of “Officer Pepper Sprays Squirrel” and
“10 Tips for Calming Your Inner Worrywart” that are more
popular.
As mentioned in What’s Happening to the News?, with
Wall Street’s aversion for newspapers as revenue providers
(the Los Angeles Times’ billion dollar profit isn’t enough
for its owner, The Tribune Company), there may be even
less quality reporting in general, let alone with hard news
stories. Since websites like Google and MSN rely on newspaper reporting for their news, the budget cuts in print
media will trickle down effect to other “news” media. It
could possibly be the end of news as we know it if newspapers are belittled further.
With the decline of legitimate stories and reporting due
to the increase in profit-driven and celeb-based media, the
attention on current events also declines with the lack of demand. While sites such as Gawker.com focus on odd stories to attract shock and profits, and newspapers are being
progressively pushed into the shadows by Wall Street, it
seems that the celebrities are winning most people’s focus.
Our country’s reputation as the world’s spectacle is an increasing truth as the respectable aspects of our news are ever
more overshadowed by trash. However, there are a mass of
people who can reverse the news’ endangerment in the
media. While it can be a treat to relax with a blog and see
what your favorite celebrity is doing, it is key not to forget
the main attractions of the news.
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OPINIONS
April 14, 2011 | 5
“BTW ILY”: The texts of modern fairy tales
JESS BOLLUYT
Assistant Arts Editor Elect
If Cinderella were powdering her nose,
tucked away in a corner of the ballroom, during the last fifteen minutes of the ball, would
the prince ever have danced with her? Would
he have ever fallen in love with her? Would
the magic have gone to waste?
Fortunately for Cinderella, the fairygodmother's magic worked. Cinderella and
Prince Charming shared a single dance and
enough time to exchange a few words before
the clock struck midnight and she had to run
home, leaving the glass slipper behind. An alliance of magic and luck led to that single
dance, but something else entirely led to the
love story that followed the untimely approach of midnight.
This love story was a direct result of the
decree where Prince Charming ordered every
girl to try on the glass slipper. Having penned
that royal declaration and searched the countryside, the prince found his princess and
everyone lived happily ever after. Though a
large measure of romance then and now may
originate in sheer dumb luck, those romances
depend on the texts of our relationships, like
the prince's royal word. Unlike that decree,
however, these modern texts – scribbled
notes and IM messages – attest to the very
un-magical ways that those of us lacking
fairy godmothers and midsummer balls manage to fall in love.
The first time I talked to Ryan was when
he approached me in the cafeteria asking to
share my table. Twin grilled cheese sandwiches and a week later, we were chatting on
Facebook. Text messages followed, and before the month was out we were dating. We
would continue to date for almost two years.
Though it was a different breed of romance
than those packaged with fairy dust and glass
slippers, it did come with one traditional,
fairy tale touch: love letters.
Love letters? Don't let the phrase deceive you - the texts of our relationships are
no longer stacks of artistically handwritten
messages. And increasingly often, they also
aren’t the small white cards embossed with a
florist’s name, or Hallmark cards in candycolored envelopes. Our love letters are brief
sequences of words stored untouchably on morning Prince Charming would have left a
tiny memory cards in our phones. They are post on the Missed Connections section of the
the exchanged slips of paper from inside the Craigslist page for “A Land Far, Far Away.”
fortune cookies from a corner
Chinese restaurant. Love in 140 Cinderella and her Prince Charming as they may appear in today’s
characters and adoration in- tech savvy world.
scribed in chat abbreviations.
“Tell me a story,” I would
ask Ryan, a few months into our
relationship when we sat studying at a table in the library or
reading in the corner of a noisy
Starbucks. He'd recount shared
memories – a date with the zebras and pigeons at the Philadelphia Zoo, an excursion to the
ballet, obligatory misadventures
running to catch a train. With
each month that passed I
archived emails, saved text messages, kept the notes scribbled
on random pages of class notes
or concert programs. Though as
an English student, I regret that
we've lost the exact breed of eloquence of Shakespearean sonnets and articulate love letters,
I've found that there is an enig- Illustraon | Skye Bolluyt, Cresad Special
matic poeticism in our minimalistic notes.
(Two people meet and don't exchange contact
As in the conversations I had with my information, and one sends a brief post out
boyfriend, love, interest, and attraction are re- into cyberspace, hoping that the other will
membered as a series of vignettes. I remem- find it and respond). The entire act is a prober Ryan through a series of pictures:places, fession of faith in the ethereal power of
gestures, and faces set to each of the mes- Craigslist.
sages I've saved. And interestingly enough,
The dubious matter of the might of cypictures are the way I remember not just my berspace aside, Missed Connections posts
own relationships, but also those of others. form another text that influence our relationThere was something particularly memorable ships. Some of these posts have an uncanny
about the dark hair of a girl in a New York eloquence and cryptic beauty, and the records
City coffee shop window as she rose on her of first meetings and aspirations to second
toes for a kiss. The soft spaces between the first meetings are engaging because they are
fingers of a university student as he gently an intimate record of the small experiences
embraced his boyfriend on a Princeton street and finite moments that define modern relacorner. The quiet holding of hands beneath tionships and love. The texts we create everythe yellow leaves falling in a Philadelphia day form a record of the way that we look for
public garden.
love or stumble into it, find it or fall out of it.
We participate in each other's love sto- The impermanence of these texts underscores
ries in strange ways. Someone at the ball may the idea that permanence is impossible, not
have seen Cinderella and Prince Charming because love cannot last, but because love
and known they were falling in love. No one and our idea of it is always changing. The insaid anything about it. If the ball were held visible fingerprints of the possibility of love
tonight, then by three o'clock tomorrow are all over our lives, and love itself is color-
less, weightless, evidently waiting to materialize at any moment. Fortune favors the bold.
When I would call Ryan's house from
mine, the miles of telephone wires would
warm and hum with the sound of our voices.
You could have followed them, walking beneath them, watching them vibrate like the
proverbial string between two tin cans. Those
conversations are untraceable, the words lost.
And now, a year after I stopped dating Ryan,
I still have a few handwritten notes, a book
he bought me, an archive of email messages
that I have never reread. I remember the blue
light of his name on my cellphone: “Hahaha,
i love you very much.”
Would Cinderella have saved a text message as lovingly as she kept the memory of
her second meeting with Prince Charming,
the words he spoke as he returned the glass
slipper? The texts we create are as much fiction as fact, equal parts minimalistic poetry
and disposable sequences of simple words. In
a real love story, we can only hope that the
permanence of the sentiment will outweigh
the impermanence of the medium.
1 New Message: “BTW, I love you.”
You don’t have to be one to support one
ALYSSA SLINGER
Study Break Editor
For the past few years now, the gay
community has endured a lot of scrutiny,
even at times being physically harmed for
their lifestyle; however more recent reports
of hate crimes are surfacing. The difference
between these newer hate crimes and previous ones are that gay supporters are also
being targeted. These people are being attacked for their beliefs and for whom they
support, even if they are not gay themselves.
I am an active supporter of same sex
couple’s rights and for equality for gays.
While I may not have been physically attacked, I know that I have had people question my “loyalty” to the gay community. I
have a few shirts that I have bought from
websites which donate to anti-bullying foundations with every purchase. The sayings on
each shirt vary, but my two favorite say
“Some kids are gay. That’s ok.” and “Don’t B
H8ing on the Homos.” I get the weirdest
looks from people when I’m walking in a
public venue, such as the mall, in one of these
shirts.
The looks are even greater when I’m
walking hand in hand with my boyfriend.
I’ve been placed in an awkward situation
now and then when people decide to confront
me regarding my shirt. One person that I see
on a pretty regular basis noticed that I wear
my “gay” shirts out in public and flat out
asked me, “Why do you wear those shirts?
Are you gay?” Meanwhile, my boyfriend was
sitting right next to me. Typically, I will make
a joke about it, and be like, “Oh yeah, he’s
my cover-up.” In all reality, it makes me
wonder why people think I can’t just support
the gay community openly.
In more recent headlines has been the attack of a straight George Washington University student in early March. There was
also the report of a straight 18 year old that
was beat to death because he was hanging out
with a group of gay men. Both of these cases
bear the question: is it worse that they were
beat to death because they support gay rights,
or because it was a “straight on straight”
crime? Charlie Watson, on the Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance (GLAA) website,
stated that “While anti-gay violence is run of
the mill, mistaken attacks on straight people
are often considered newsworthy because of
the 'man bites dog' aspect of the crime."
“While I may not have been
physically attacked, I know
that I have had people question
my “loyalty” to the gay community.”
There may be some good that can come
out of these attacks on straight people who
support gay rights. The attacks on straight
people help to illustrate that gender and sexuality can be condemned in a variety of ways.
These crimes reveal a culture of homophobia
where it's not enough that a person be notgay. He must be not-anything-like-gay. Ideally, he must be anti-gay. This kind of
mindset will set the gay community back
decades, especially if the attacks such as the
one on the George Washington University
student keep occurring.
So what can straight people who want to
support gay people do to help join in the fight
for equality? Well, one of the misconceptions
first off is the wearing of “gay paraphernalia.” This can include shirts like the ones I
wear, or basically anything with a rainbow on
it. There are also other outlets where straights
can support. One big uniting group for gays
and straights is a Gay Straight Alliance
(GSA). Our school’s GSA is known as OutThere. Their meetings are open to everyone,
not just those who identify themselves as gay,
lesbian, bisexual, or transgender.
Many schools have a GSA of some sort.
The benefits of these groups are evident
through research and studies that have been
compiled. According to research done by the
Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, the presence of a GSA at schools help
to make schools safer by sending a message
that biased language and harassment will not
be tolerated. 57 percent of schools with
GSAs will deal with homophobic remarks on
a daily basis, as compared to 75 percent at a
school with no support system.
It boils down to the fact that you do not
have to be gay to support gay rights and
equality for all. If wearing an article of clothing with a rainbow on it makes you gay, and
vulnerable to attack, then there is something
really wrong in this world. Hopefully we can
move forward and support the gay community, regardless of sexual orientation, without
fear of being abused or physically harmed.
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LIFESTYLES
Dannah Hartman, Editor
A journey to the east
Dr. Allen Richardson
reflects on trip to New Delhi
Devan Turcotte, Dr. Alan Hale, Ananda Weaver, Dr. Allen Richardson and Katherine
Ogletree, stand in front of the Taj Mahal during their trip.
Courtesy | Allen Richardson
India changes
you. Most persons who
take the 13 to 15 hour
journey to South Asia and
spend time there find this out.
On March 5, five persons
left the Cedar Crest College campus bound for New Delhi. We took
a direct flight from Newark in the latter stages of winter. Thirteen hours
later we landed in India where it was the
beginning of summer.
On our first day, we found ourselves
in the ancient section of Delhi, home to the
Red Fort built by the great Mughals in the
Seventeenth Century. But, it was not the
tourist sites that caught our attention as
much as it was the people. Moving through
the jam packed streets of Old Delhi is like
being in Times Square on New Year’s Eve.
There are people everywhere and the only
way to get anyplace is to look for holes in
the phalanx of shoppers and dive for
them.
But, unlike American crowds,
where people are often irritable as they
try to stay immune from physical
contact, in India there is more acceptance. Gentle nudging is the
order of the day but unlike the
U.S. there is no assumption of
malevolence when you do
bump into another person.
I noticed our guide
stopping to talk to
people – he
looked as if
he had
Courtesy | Allen Richardson
known them for years. But, in fact, they
had just met.
We tried it too and it changed the way
that we interact with other people. In Agra
at the old fort in the heart of the city we
stopped to talk with Indian tourists. The
conversations became so warm that they
posed for pictures with us, and we with
them.
We learned that India is a land of over
a billion people. But within that incredible
population the majority of persons frequently assume trust before mistrust. Most
people are glad to take the time to talk with
you. We also learned that despite the
poverty and disease, people seem content.
Ananda Weaver noticed this and wrote,
The thing that most captured me about
India was the sense of happiness and peace
in a place that has such a wide range of
lifestyle. From the poorest to the richest
there is a happiness and unity among the
parts s of the country we visited.
The sense of tranquility that we felt
was not the result of a starry eyed view of
South Asia or denial of the sights and
sounds of poverty. But it was an acknowledgement that this incredibly diverse society of 1.2 billion people often exhibits a
level of gentleness and contentment that has
so often eluded us in the West.
We also learned how welcoming India
could be. I found that out while checking
out of our hotel in New Delhi. Business
transactions for foreigners are always tense.
India inherited an incredible bureaucracy
from the British and, as a result, any transaction can take a long time. There is paperwork for everything. Even a simple
thing like ordering a soda with dinner (that
is not covered by the tour) resulted in
our room numbers being taken
and a visit from a
hotel employee to obtain a signature. All of
that paper from all of those sodas is compiled when checking out.
In the middle of the check out and
these bureaucratic concerns I looked at the
young woman who was totaling my bill and
initiated a conversation in Hindi. Instantly,
her entire demeanor changed – she came
alive and from that point on was welcoming and warm. A week later when we
checked into the same hotel again she remembered me and smiled warmly.
We discovered that in India religion is
personal and public, and occupies a mainstream position in society. The presence of
a Hindu holy man dressed in bright saffron
dhoti is ubiquitous. We saw them in Old
Delhi, in shops in New Delhi along with Tibetan monks and in the middle of a bird
sanctuary in Bharatpur near a small temple.
Two years ago when taking business
students to a school in New Delhi we experienced much the same thing when, engaged in a tour of a business school, we
found ourselves in a conversation with the
Principal about Hinduism. Religion was the
priority – business came later.
Similarly, when we visited a call center, with four clocks on the wall corresponding to the for U.S. mainland time zones,
there was a large relief of Ganesh, the elephant headed god of auspicious beginnings.
Inside one worker’s carrel there was a picture of her god and the implements of
Hindu worship.
Religion is everywhere and so are the
pressing questions of life and death. Dr.
Alan Hale summed it up this way,
“The streets tell it all: cars, oxen,
camels, rickshaws, beggars, polio, leprosy,
and women in beautiful saris riding sidesaddle on the backs of serving
motorcycles. So much
diversity, so much
poverty; something an
individual could not possibly experience within the
classroom.”
There is a rhythm to life in
India – a cadence that every Indian
fully participates in and understands. Maybe it stems from the belief in reincarnation. Perhaps it is a
product of the perception of gods who
regularly appear within human society
and speak to us on multiple occasions.
But it is there.
It is a rhythm not unlike that of life itself. But in India people are aware of it.
When five of us took our journey to the
East over spring break we found ourselves
acknowledging this rhythm. It appeared in
many places. It was the twinkle in the eye
of a holy man. It was the bright eyes of a
girl hoping to sell wary foreigners 20
necklaces for 250 rupees (about $5) in
New Delhi. Her name was Bindia –
much like the Bindu that women wear
at the center of their foreheads which
has roots in the Hindu/Buddhist understanding of the third eye. Bindia
captivated us all. We all bought
necklaces from her. She posed
for photographs with us. She
danced! Bindia did not just
understand the rhythm of
life - she participated in
it. And in India,
with her, so did
we!
Courtesy | Allen Richardson
Courtesy | Katherine Ogletree
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LIFESTYLES
April 14, 2011 | 7
Fair Trade event brings awareness to campus
Live long
and prosper
Stacey Stangl | Staff Writer
Being frugal
On Tuesday, April 12 Residence Life Diversity
Programs teamed up with College Dining Services to
draw attention to Fair Trade products. The event,
which was held in the TCC Cyber Coffee Cafe, focused on educating participants about Fair Trade
products via a variety of displays that included teas,
chocolate bars, and honey. Each display noted the
benefits of the featured Fair Trade items and how they
impacted world-wide agriculture, attendees even received a raffle ticket to win some of these items on
display. In addition to the raffle ticket, everyone who
stopped by the Fair Trade event enjoyed a free small
hot coffee. Though there were tea and honey displays,
the Fair Trade Coffee was the emphasis of the event
due to Dining Services’ use of Sun Coffee Roasters,
which is a Fair Trade coffee supplier. Fair Trade coffee is available for $7.99 per bag in the Falcon’s Nest.
All photos by Meghan Cronrath, Photo Editor
The Culinary
Classmate
English Muffin Pizza
Ingredients:
English muffins
Tomato Sauce
Shredded Cheese
Pepperoni
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Spread desired amount of pizza sauce on muffins,
sprinkle cheese over sauce.
3. Add oregano or any other desired spices.
4. Put muffins into oven after it’s done preheating and
bake for 3 minutes or until cheese has melted.
Recipe and photo submitted by Dannah Hartman,
Editor-in-Chief
What’s cooking in your kitchen?
Submit your recipes to Assistant Lifestyles Editor Amy
Palmisano at [email protected]
Teen birth rate
drops in the U.S.
ROXANNE ADDINO
Staff Writer
Teens nowadays are getting
pregnant at a much younger age than
before, which brings with it the responsibility of taking care of another
life while still trying to be a teenager
and/or high school student. Everywhere teenagers turn, they see pregnancy depicted as praiseworthy. From
television shows, to the internet, to
practically every other source of
media, teen pregnancy is constantly
publicized. Although teen pregnancy
is glamorized by the media, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention has put out a new report stating
that the teen birthrate has decreased
by 40 percent in the past two decades.
Even with the decrease, there are still
400,000 female teens getting pregnant
every year. This number is still very
large even though is it 40 percent less
than the previous decades. Still, the
United States teenage birth rates are,
in many cases, up to nine times higher
when compared to other well developed countries in the world.
Every year there are 4 million
babies born in the United States and
10 percent of those babies are the result of a teenage pregnancy. So four
percent of all teenage girls in the U.S.
are getting pregnant and having a
baby each and every year. Teenage
girls all over the world are having
children at such a young age. When
Medical News Today compared
African-American and Hispanic teens
to Caucasian teens, they found that
the African-American and Hispanic
teens had double the chance over the
Caucasian female of getting pregnant,
and this all goes back to the fact that
more African-American teens, both
male and female, were found to be
more sexually active than Hispanics
and Caucasians.
With so many teen girls getting
pregnant every year, it’s no wonder so
many girls that are from a mother
who had a teen pregnancy end up getting pregnant as a teenager as well.
The Center for Disease Control and
Prevention found that 33 percent of
all female babies resulting from a teen
pregnancy become teen moms themselves. The CDC describes this repeated trend as “continuing the cycle
of teen pregnancy.” Once a female
teen is pregnant, life becomes so
much more difficult and only 50 percent of female teens who have a baby
end up receiving their high school
diploma by the time they reach the
age of 22 years old.
Apart from a new responsibility
of caring for a baby, teen pregnancies
cost the average American taxpayer
$9 billion every single year. Although
teen pregnancies will not be stopped
entirely, there some things that can be
done to help prevent teen pregnancies
from occurring, such as parents talking to their children about abstinence
and birth control. Only around 27 percent of teenage boys and 44 percent
of teenage girls have talked with their
parents about waiting to have sex or
being on birth control. Teens need to
be aware of the responsibilities of
having a child in order to prevent
teens from making the decision that
could possibly change their lives forever.
For more information about the
teen birth rate, visit the Medical News
Today website at: medicalnewstoday.com
Oftentimes, it is the stereotype that college students are
poor, and that all we live off of is
Ramen noodles, Easy Mac, and
soda. Sometimes, this is true –
but it doesn’t have to be!
Creating a budget may not
be at the top of your priority list
with all of the exams, homework,
and extra-curriculars already on
your plate. However, saving
money is really easy when you
learn the ins-and-outs of doing it.
The major cost a college student needs to worry about is their
textbooks. You can easily buy
books from a college book store
for the full list price, and sometimes score a great deal if you
can find used books. But there
are also wonderful websites out
there like half.com where you
can buy used textbooks, as well
as chegg.com where you can rent
textbooks.
I also created a Facebook
group a few semesters ago in
order to help students at Cedar
Crest save money on their textbooks – a group called “Cedar
Crest Book Swap.” Here students
can post what books they are
looking to buy or sell, and they
may negotiate with other Facebook users from Cedar Crest on
a fair price that they would like
to sell their books for, then meet
in person to complete the transaction.
With all the money you’ll be
saving on textbooks, you can
treat yourself to steak dinner! I’m
not done yet, though. The next
thing I want to tackle: coupons.
Your grandma uses them, your
mom uses them, and it’s about
time you use them too.
Some treat the line at the
grocery store like it’s a walk of
shame – that is, if you’re holding
coupons in your hand. Coupons,
however, are a great way to save
money! Typically every Spring
semester, a representative from
the Morning Call visits Cedar
Crest and allows them a subscription to the Sunday paper
(containing 100+ valuable
coupons for great items) for only
a penny. I watched one woman at
the grocery store take her bill
down from over $300, down to
about $200 because of the
amount of coupons she had.
Hopefully this column will
help you save some money in the
future. Don’t forget to look up
“Cedar Crest Book Swap” when
you’ve finished reading to save
on your next textbook purchase
and possibly help out a fellow
classmate at the same time!
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Allie Sco, Editor
In the spotlight: Senior Dance Concert shines
Meghan Cronrath | Photo Editor
Lilac Fairy Variaon
Titleless Immortality - Timeless Identy
Graduang seniors Carole Ann Danner, Kaitlin Swisher, Cinthia Marino, Leigh
Anne Ehnot, and Meegan Schuckers.
Absence of Light
Then and Now
Wandering the Path
Choreographers prepare for Student DanceWorks
JESS BOLLUYT
Assistant Arts Editor Elect
On April 7, Cedar Crest dancers and choreographers rehearsed original choreography for an upcoming performance,
Student DanceWorks. The production, which will run April
15-17, has been months in the making, and as they neared the
end of the process, the choreographers reflected on the inspiration in which their pieces originated.
Kimberly McCormick explained the idea behind her
piece, Dance Macabre. “I’ve been really afraid of getting
older lately, like I’m deathly afraid to turn twenty.” Exploring
the idea, she created choreography to express the sentiment
that “everybody’s afraid of death.” Like many of the other
choreographers, McCormick took inspiration from the movement of modern dance, but describes the style of her piece as
unique and personal in nature. “It’s modern-ish, but it’s more
my style of dance than anything else,” McCormick said.
Nicole Magloire also began her piece with an idea to express. “My piece is inspired by friendship and the idea that
friendships don't always last,” Magloire said. “I think the
beauty of friendship is that you allow someone to come into
your life, and there is no guarantee that they will always be
around, and that's okay.” The piece, called Broken Promises,
is Magloire’s first piece of choreography, and the process of
creating the movement held many challenges. “It's modern in
the way that I pulled very heavily from that style, but there are
so many quirky gestures and movements that aren't modern,
so I can't really define it. I didn't use any music, so the movement had to be strong enough to stand on its own, and I think
it is.”
Personal experience influenced the way that many students approached their choreography. Hannah Walters created
Nicole Magloire’s piece, Broken Promises.
a piece called Pearls in honor of her grandfather, who passed
away a year and a half ago. Walters said that pearls represent
lung cancer awareness. “It’s very pedestrian, with a modern
feel to it. It’s in silence, and the only thing you hear is the one
dancer breathing. It’s kind of like a story, kind of the relationship between me and my grandfather before he passed
away.” The piece required a depth of emotional investment
of each dancer involved. “I kept telling them think of something – an emotional experience that you had, a tragic experience. Because you can’t experience what I’m going through,
you can only do it for yourself.”
Collaboration supported the creation of each piece. In
working on Courage, Coleen Spease wanted to express the
emotions she felt during important life experiences. “Last
year I went through pretty rough times and dealt with a lot of
different emotions, so I kind of took those emotions and put
them into dance, and kind of told the story of what I went
through, through the dance.” The support of her dancers has
been integral to the process of putting the piece together. “It’s
been really amazing. I have four amazing dancers who come
in, and not only will do whatever I tell them to do, but will
also help me out, and work through the stuff along with me if
I’m stuck.”
The process of choreography and rehearsal has been different for every student. Carly Wolfe, choreographer of Creation, began with the idea of the four elements of nature. The
idea evolved into a piece featuring sixteen dancers. “It has
been a very crazy process. I have sixteen dancers that I’m
working with, so they’re all in small groups – they’re in four
groups of four – but at the end of rehearsals when they all
come together, it’s been very crazy to get them
all in one studio and
just get through
everything.” Wolfe explained that she personally gravitates
toward modern and lyrical dancing, so Creation was an opportunity to challenge herself to create a piece without an underlying storyline.
Kaitlin Swisher also created her piece with more of an
aesthetic idea than a specific storyline. Swisher wanted to
choreograph a piece that was “pretty much a horror movie.”
The result is Evil Wakes in Vengeance. Swisher said, “I really
like horror movies, so it was cool to just make a really creepy
dance.” Speaking of the relationship between technique and
emotion which is inherent in every piece of choreography,
Swisher explained her own view of the balance between the
two. “I really wanted to make an impact. My dancers have
great technique, and they do the choreography very well, but
overall it’s about the emotion.”
During the long process of preparation for Student
DanceWorks, Cedar Crest student choreographers have created eight original pieces. The complexity of
preparations behind the scenes is evidence of
the deep thought and hard work that has
gone in to each piece. The production is
directed by Michelle Munno Jacobs, and
will be presented in the Samuels Theatre
on April 15 and 16 at 8 p.m. and April
17 at 2 p.m. For more information or to
reserve tickets, contact the Performing Arts
Department.
All photos by Jess Bolluyt, Assistant Arts Editor Elect
H a n n a h Wa l t e r s ’s p i e c e , Pe a r l s .
T h e g r o u p o f d a n c e r s a n d c h o r e o g r a p h e r s w a t c h e s a s K i m b e r l y M c C o r m i c k ’s p i e c e , D a n c e M a c a b r e , i s r e h e a r s e d .
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Celebrating The 3rd Birthday
STACEY STANGL
Staff Writer
The 3rd Birthday is the third
release in the Parasite Eve game series. Since the initial game in 1997,
long pauses have elapsed between
sequels, and The 3rd Birthday was
released for the Playstation Portable
gaming system (PSP) on March 29.
The game continues the plot
established by its predecessors, and
brings the setting back to Manhattan. The gameplay of The 3rd Birthday is similar to that of earlier
games in the series in that it is an
action role-playing game, in which
players acquire new weapons and
level up. One big difference is that
The 3rd Birthday is a full-fledged
action game. Battles occur in real
time and require quick responses.
The game is played entirely
with guns but is not reminiscent of
a “shooter” type game. Instead, it
plays somewhat like the game Crisis Core for the PSP, or Dirge of
Cerberus for the Playstation 2. At
times the controls feel clunky, and
targeting the enemy is frustrating,
even with a “lock on” feature. This
is the first game in the series to introduce selectable difficulty levels.
New players can get through the
game with ease while veteran players can be challenged.
The game also presents a challenge with the new ability to transfer between characters. This is
necessary because of how difficult
it is to dodge enemy attacks. While
one character heals, a quick transfer to another party member allows
players to continue attacking and
redirecting damage. To take down
enemies’ rapid attacks, players need
to be highly focused and constantly
planning ahead.
The 3rd Birthday also brings
back the integration of a sciencebased plot through abilities that utilize the main character, Aya Brea’s,
unique malleable genetic makeup.
The plot once again centers around
creatures that have taken over Manhattan, this time called the
“Twisted.” Aya is recruited by the
“Counter Twister Investigation
Team” to take down these creatures,
through a new system called the
“Overdrive” system.
In this system, Aya’s psyche is
sent into the past, where she can
change what happens, recreating
the future. While the concept is interesting, the plot once again takes
its audience to a place of confusion.
To those who played through
the first two games of the series, it
would seem that the creatures being
manipulated by their rampant mitochondrial makeup (i.e. Eve) had
been destroyed and that the plot
would be laid to rest. However, Eve
reappears in the game in confusing
scenes and flashbacks that make
this subplot of the game entirely too
complex to understand.
The rest of the plot is engaging
and draws from interesting subjects
such as philosophy, existentialism,
and genetics. The details may not
be medically accurate, but the plot
introduces the thought-provoking
concept of humanity’s ability to
adapt and evolve in the future.
The most redeeming feature of
the game is its graphics. The 3rd
Birthday has spectacular cutscenes
that do not disappoint, and could be
counted among the best seen on the
PSP in general.
The 3rd Birthday is a great
title. Though it is unfortunate that a
series which was seen in the
“Greatest Hits” of the Playstation
console has released the sequel
only for its handheld counterpart,
the amazing graphics and sci-fi storyline will leave both its long-devoted fans, as well as newcomers of
the series, in awe.
W E E K LY W E B
WONDER
ROXANNE ADDINO
Staff Writer
2011 has been a great year for music lovers everywhere. Many new
artists have come to fame this year, and one in particular has sung her
way into the hearts of many in the UK, and will soon be dropping her
latest album in the U.S. Tove Styrke is a Swedish born superstar! After
Styrke placed within the top 4 on Sweden’s “X Factor,” Sony wasted no
time in snatching her off the market. Her latest single “White Light Moment” is without a doubt a huge success and has dominated European
radio. Her fun, upbeat sound could make any dance party come to life!
By 2012 we will be welcoming this young artist into our lives and America will be hooked! What makes Styrke’s sound so different is that she
draws inspiration from a broad range of artists such as The Rolling
Stones, Elvis, and even Johnny Cash. Check her out on YouTube now
and see for yourself why so many are in love with your unique sound.
Join Student Faculty Rock Band
CCC Radio & CAB for
Another Great Dance Party
Lees Hall April 16 8 p.m.
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Ávila
translates
truth
into
poetry
Courtesy |Javier Ávila
JESS BOLLUYT
Assistant Arts Editor Elect
Large photographs of grand architecture and a blue sky
fill a white wall of the windowless office of Dr. Javier Ávila,
associate professor of English at Northampton Community
College. “Let's pretend that we're in a train station. Waiting
for a train on the way to Madrid.”
Though the small room on the comfortable English suite
sees far less traffic than a Spanish train station, the stories told
there carry a similar tone of motion and migration. A poet,
novelist, and a native of Puerto Rico, Ávila has made a career
of writing books and teaching English. Growing up in Puerto
Rico, he was taught the English language from a young age.
Ávila explains that it has been a journey to define himself as
a writer familiar with two languages, two cultures, and two
literary traditions.
“I'm not writing on typical Puerto Rican or Puerto RicanAmerican themes – someone looking back on the homeland
with nostalgia, even though they were never there, a Puerto
Rican writing about a plate of rice and beans.” The complexity of the Puerto Rican cultural identity, a product of the island's turbulent history as a colony and territory of other
countries, makes it difficult to articulate exactly how that cultural identity defines a Puerto Rican writer. Ávila chooses to
describe his writing in terms of language. Puerto Rican poetry
written in Spanish uses ornate expressions, and that tradition
contrasts strongly with the directness characteristic of American poetry. Ávila's own poetry draws deeply from American
poetry in its use of language, and with another nod toward the
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canon of American literature, Ávila crafts his poems from the
things that he observes and the experiences that he has collected
Tracing the origin of his career back to his childhood,
Ávila cites the influence of his family upon what he has chosen to do. “My mother was a teacher in the public school in a
very tough part of town – the ghetto – it was a very difficult
job.” He attributes his affinity for teaching to what he learned
from her each day of his childhood. “Teachers aren't made,
they're born. I didn't want to become a teacher. I tried to be an
architect, to become a man of the sciences, but I ended up in
a classroom. It was inevitable.”
At the same time, he fell naturally into a career as a
writer. Despite the success of early publications, Ávila says
that he did not take his writing seriously until the year that
his father died. “I realized the urgency of life, the need to put
full effort into what you are doing.” He explains that he began
to re-evaluate his work and the motivation behind it. Driven
by that insight and experience, Ávila developed the disciplined approach to fiction and poetry that has helped him create books which have won awards such as the Olga Nolla
Poetry Award and the Outstanding Latino Cultural Arts, Literary Arts, and Publications Award. “Because of my mother
I am a teacher, because of my father I am a writer.”
“In a poem, if you lose that truth for a
moment, you’ve lost the poem.”
-Javier Ávila, Poet
The influence of family extends throughout Ávila's
work. “Write the book you want to read, not the book you
want to write,” he told the students in a creative writing class
at Northampton. When he met the woman who would become
his wife, he wrote poems about their long-distance relationship. When they married, he wrote about marriage.
Ávila has recently taken on another role: father. On his
desk is a photograph of his wife and son. Though his son is
still very young, Ávila has already been affected immeasurably by the change of lifestyle and perspective. Joking about
the long hours of the new job, he says that before his son was
born, he made the choice to work late into the night to complete his writing. “It was self-imposed insomnia, and now it's
self-imposed and the boy,” he says. Ávila also observes that
he has become more empathetic, and says that his priorities in
the classroom have shifted. Teaching has always been a performance, and the birth of his son has only further reinforced
the division between home and classroom.
Ávila is known at Northampton as a professor who
teaches enjoyable classes, conducts humorous discussions,
and tells the occasional insightfully irreverent story. “Half of
the stories that I tell aren't true, but I believe that they're true
when I'm telling them. Teaching is a mask, a performance.”
Though the character that Ávila creates at the front of
his classroom is understandably different from the person that
he is in quieter moments, his daily consciousness of his origin in Puerto Rico has made his teaching career an act in another way. Through his life in the classroom, Avila still thinks
of speaking English as a mask. He describes the feeling as
one that he is “getting away” with the disguise. “When I get
agitated, an accent creeps in. If I hurt myself, I curse in Spanish, even if I haven't spoken any Spanish all day. It's more
natural.”
The sentiment extends to his writing as well. He has written his fiction in English, but all of his poetry in Spanish. He
cites the intimacy of the Spanish language, and his ability to
use it to capture truth more faithfully than with English, as
the necessity behind the choice. “In a poem if you lose that
truth for a moment, you've lost the poem. A novel is more
about a story – you have two or three hundred pages to do
that.”
For Ávila, truth is, ultimately, essential to good writing.
Returning to the idea of writing from personal experience, he
points to the element of reality or insight that underscores
each of his works, even those which bear little resemblance to
his personal life. “It is easiest to plagiarize from yourself. I
don't write fantastical stories.” Ávila's own view of the world
and of how he will present that world to his son seems to play
a part in his estimation of his own work. Speaking of the novels that he has written, he says, “Why do they kill? Why is
there so much violence? I have to fix that.” The statement
seems a wish less for his writing and more for the reality
which it reflects.
Ávila's explanation of his career is an interesting study in
progress, and in the direction that a few good, bold choices is
able to lend to a life. Change is the only constant. “Should I
take them down?” he asks, looking at the rows of photographs
on the wall in a quiet moment. The corner of a photograph is
peeling from the pale wall. “Should I put up something different?”
At the suggestion that he hang up a photograph of his
son, Ávila jokes that it would humanize him too much. His
ability to carefully curate the truth that he presents to the
world seems a product of both experience and insight. Ávila
on paper and Ávila in person displays an acute awareness of
the world and of his own life in it, which seems the most
human and the most poetic quality of all.
10 STUDY BREAK
Pisces
(Feb. 19 – March 20)
Social invitations or opportunities to participate in group activities should come your way
for a few weeks. Relations with
others should be war.m
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tango
macarena
limbo
foxtrot
electric slide
hockey
Dances
golf
football
basketball
Selena
Raul
Javier
Jaden
Anastasia
curling
Sports
First Names
8:30 a.m.
12:30 p.m.
Times
Aries
(March 21 – April 19)
You're thinking about your future
career development and you aren't
happy with your current situation.
Advancement is on your mind.
Perhaps you want a promotion,
another job, or to change careers
entirely.
Taurus
(April 20 – May 20)
Today is a good day to take time
out for the small, sensual pleasures. Perhaps this is a day for
dessert. Don't forget about the
pleasures that nature can bring.
Gemini
(May 21 – June 20)
Some time alone with a special
person is definitely called for
today. The social whirl of recent
weeks has put you in touch with a
lot of old friends and enabled you
to make new ones. Now it's time
to relax at home.
Cancer
(June 21 – July 22)
The possibility of moving out of
your neighborhood may have occurred to you before, but events
today might have you finally
making up your mind to do it. Perhaps too many good neighbors
have moved away.
Leo
(July 23 – Aug. 22)
Today you might be pleasantly
surprised to realize that you're in
far better financial shape than you
thought. You could discover a hidden talent for money management
that you didn't think you had.
Virgo
(Aug. 23 – Sep. 22)
Today you might decide to sequester yourself at home, catch
your breath, get your thoughts together, and recall the events of the
past several days.
Libra
(Sep. 23 – Oct. 22)
Taking care of chores around the
house might bring some home
matters to your attention that need
to be taken care of. Maybe you
need a new piece of equipment or
furniture.
Scorpio
(Oct. 23 – Nov. 21)
A group you're associated with
may be on your mind today. You
might want to fulfill your obligations to it. You could also consider
completing a long-term project
that was put on hold over the past
week or so.
Sagittarius
(Nov. 22 – Dec. 21)
Money may be coming your way
through a contract of some kind.
This is a good time to ask for a
loan or fill out paperwork regarding scholarships, grants, or other
forms of financial support.
Capricorn
(Dec. 22 – Jan. 19)
Are you sometimes afraid of appearing silly in front of people?
The fear of failing in the eyes of
others might be holding you back
from real progress. The celestial
energies are asking you to think
about this carefully today.
Aquarius
(Jan. 20 – Feb. 18)
You usually like to think of yourself as being a scientific, logical
person, but today you may think
more like a mystic.
Logic Puzzle
3:30 p.m.
7:30 p.m.
10:30 p.m.
Clues
electric slide
1. The person who arrived at 8:30 a.m.
doesn't know how to do the tango.
2. The person who dances the electric
slide is not Jaden.
3. The person who dances the tango is
the basketball star.
4. The person who arrived at 10:30 p.m.
loves to dance the electric slide.
5. The person who dances the foxtrot is
not the golf star.
foxtrot
Dances
Submied by: Alyssa Slinger
limbo
macarena
tango
basketball
6. The person who dances the macarena is Anastasia.
7. Anastasia arrived earlier than Javier.
8. The person who dances the macarena is not the football star.
9. The football star arrived earlier than Selena.
10. Jaden arrived later than the hockey star.
11. The person who dances the limbo is not the golf star.
12. The person who dances the limbo is not Javier.
13. The 5 people were the person who dances the macarena, the person
who arrived at 10:30 p.m., the basketball star, Selena, and the person who
dances the limbo.
14. The person who arrived at 3:30 p.m. is the golf star.
curling
Sports
Horoscopes
Alyssa Slinger, Editor
football
golf
hockey
Sudoku
Submied by: Alyssa Slinger
Spring Scramble
Submied by: Alyssa Slinger
Unscramble the following words and use
the bolded letters to unscramble a spring
phase.
mlosbos
rsteae
belramlu
nair otsob
cpohno
nrdgea
dudmy
psyrlpie
gfsro
mwsro
etw
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BASKET BINGO!!!
Sunday, April 17, 2011 in HBB Rooms 6-9
Doors open at noon; games begin at 1 p.m.
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April 14, 2011 | 11
ATHLETICS
Website encourages diversity of
gives LGBT community a place
athletes and fans Outsports.com
to give commentary and support
JESS BOLLUYT
Assistant Arts Editor Elect
In November of 2000, Jim
Buzinski and Cyd Zeigler, Jr. founded
Outsports, a website they created with
the mission to provide a forum and a
community for gay and lesbian athletes and their fans in the LGBT community.
At the time of its founding, nothing like Outsports existed. There is
still no other site that features broad
coverage, insightful commentary, and
engaging features for the members of
the gay sports community. In the
years since they founded the website,
Buzinski and Zeigler have become
recognized as trusted sources in the
athletics community and have been
featured countless times in mainstream media.
One of the recent stories featured
by Outsports is an essay by Mari
Burningham, head volleyball coach at
the University of Redlands in Southern California, on the difficult choices
she made to leave the Mormon
church and Mormon-affiliated university where she studied and
coached. In finding an environment
where her ability mattered more than
her sexual orientation, Burningham
has been empowered to face the challenges inherent in being a gay coach.
Other stories speak to the challenges that gay athletes still face. An
article on a Brazilian pro volleyball
player “Michael” focuses on a recent
incident when the athlete was taunted
by 3,000 fans for his sexuality following a match. An article profiling
athlete Greg Congdon tells the story
of how his entire high school found
out he was gay before he had publicly
come out. He was antagonized and
harassed by the entire student body
and forced to stop wrestling and playing football. Though the profile focuses on how Congdon recovered
from the difficult spiral of events that
followed, the story is an important reminder that gay athletes very often
still face the ignorance, homophobia,
and discrimination that challenge homosexuals in every walk of life.
The site's mission is to support
gay athletes, and over the years has
been the forum for athletes to speak
out about both struggles and triumphs. The blog posts, discussion
boards, athlete profiles, personal essays, and sport-specific news coverage at Outsports attracts hundreds of
thousands of visitors each month.
“We’re a small niche,” Buzinski said
in a recent interview with The New
April ZUMBA!
MONDAY
SUNDAY
WEDNESDAY
TUESDAY
THURSDAY
SATURDAY
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York Times. “But we’re a niche with
a megaphone.”
Buzinski and Zeigler founded
the site simply because they were two
gay men who loved sports and found
no existing athletics website that engaged their interest. Buzinski's skills
in journalism and Zeigler's experience
in organization and entertainment
helped them put the site together. The
audience for what began as a small
project turned out to be much larger
than either of them could have
guessed. Outsports has proved important to a large number of athletes, and
a major benefit of the site is the hope
that it gives to thousands of young,
homosexual athletes who have not yet
come out.
Outsports monitors the slow but
constant progress of tolerance toward
homosexuality, and will continue to
report on that progress in the future.
Buzinski, speaking of the changes
that he has seen in the decade since he
and Zeigler founded the site, told The
New York Times that the progress of
gay athletes in sports has been “two
steps forward, one and a half steps
back. It’s like a zigzag, but it’s going
forward.” The growing recognition
and appreciation of homosexual athletes is a sign that the next step may
be in the right direction.
Soball on four
game streak
9:30 a.m. 10:00 a.m.
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DANIELLE FREEMAN
Athlecs Editor Elect
The Cedar Crest softball team (75) picked up four wins in their last
two days of play against Philadelphia Biblical University and Keystone College. Both teams they
faced are members of the Colonial
States Athletic
Conference
Courtesy|Alyson Mason
(CSAC). These four wins place
the Falcons in 7th place out of 12
teams within their conference. In
the last four games, Cedar Crest
has scored a total of 38 runs, more
than they have scored in their previous games combined. If the Falcons continue on this path they
will find themselves in a playoff
position.
Meghan Cronrath|Photo Editor
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Top Le: Natalia Dial, one of the
Falcon pitchers, throws a strike.
Top Right: Alyson Mason, Cedar
Crest ouielder runs from third
base to home.
Below: The Falcons huddle for an
inspiraonal cheer.
Meghan Cronrath|Photo Editor
12 ATHLETICS
Cut m
e out!
Cedar Crest
Athlecs
Upcoming
Games
Michelle Palmisano, Editor
Superson: noun
1. A belief or noon, not based on reason or knowledge, in or of the ominous significance of a parcular thing, circumstance, occurrence, proceeding, or the like.
Most athletes parcipate
in supersons in addion
to athlecs. Cedar Crest
athletes are no different...
find out what they do and why they do it
Michelle Palmisano|Athletic Editor
LACROSSE
4/16 vs.
Immaculata
University
1:00 p.m.
`
Michelle Palmisano|Athletic Editor
“The only one I have is the bounce before I
serve in volleyball. I do the same ritual
every time: a spin bounce, then six bounces
close to the ground. I do that twice.”
- Danielle Niles, Volleyball & Lacrosse
“The softball team likes to run a pen
along the fence. We named it our "rally
pen" and it comes out when we're up to
bat. We believe that when that pen is
making noise we'll start a batting rally.
Also, we don't step on the white lines
anytime during our warm-up; we think
it'll cause us bad luck. Not stepping on
the newly painted lines has always just
been for softball players, many teams
also do this. The rally pen started one
day when I picked up the pen and
started making noise with it and we
ended up hitting really well and it just
sort of stuck.”
- Alyson Mason, Softball
“So, I know this is super weird, but I'm almost convinced that the color belly button
ring I have in affects the kind of game I
have. The two worst games that I have
played, I've had my black one in. That little
guy is bad news. But other than that little
sneaking suspicion, I can't say that I place
my game performance too much in the hands
of luck.”
- Kimberly Katsigianis , Lacrosse
“I eat a cheeseburger on game
day. Have for four years while
here. Well I love cheeseburgers
and ate them a lot freshmen
year, and whenever I ate them
on game days I seemed to play
better so I stuck with it.”
- Leann Wallower, Basketball
Michelle Palmisano|Athletic Editor
be the judge, do these things really maer?
All information compiled by Vanessa Chatelain, Assistant News Editor Elect
4/21 vs.
Wilson
College
4:30 p.m.
SOFTBALL
4/15 vs.
Neumann
University
3:00 p.m.
4/16 Bapst Bible
College
TBA
Michelle Palmisano|Athletic Editor
4/19 @
Cabrini College
4:00 p.m.
Michelle Palmisano|Athletic Editor
Michelle Palmisano|Athletic Editor
2011
HALL OLYMPICS
Above: The Butz Bears flag
football team poses for a picture.
Left: A heated floor hockey
battle ensues in Lees Gym.
Current Standings:
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1st Place: Butz Bears
2nd Place: Moortis Tortis
3rd Place: Steinbright Stallions
You can participate, help out, or just be a fan! The next Hall
olympics events are
Thursday: WACKY GAMES @ 12 noon on the Soccer Field &
BADMINTON @ 7 p.m. in Lees Hall Gym
Friday: TUG OF WAR AND RELAY GAMES @ 12 noon on the
Soccer Field
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SOFTBALL
runs: Gruzdis 1, Swanhall 1, Wenner 1,
Salge 1, Mason 1. / Gruzdis 2, Swanhall 2,
Palmisano 1, Touhsaent 1, Wenner 1, Dial
1, Salge 1, Mason 1.
4/11 vs. Keystone -- W 15-14/ W 8-7
runs: Touhsaent 4, Wenner 4, Gruzdis 3,
Dial 2, Palmisano 1, Salge 1./ Wenner 3, Touhsaent 2,
Dial 1, Palmisano 1, Nasinka 1.
Below: Members
of the Butz Bears
flag football team
get ready to receive from quarterback Lauren
Salge.
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4/9 vs. Philadelphia Biblical -- W 5-3/ W 10-2
4/25 Marywood
University
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Right: Kelly Oakes
tries to scramble
past Cassie Bejar
during flag football
on Monday afternoon on the soccer
field
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R
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LAX
4/7 vs. Lancaster Bible: L -- 16-6
goals: Fikes, 3; Manning, 1; Epstein, 1; Malysza, 1.
4/9 vs. Neumann U: L -- 21-4
goals: Fikes, 2; Manning, 1; Malysza, 1.