Convocation kicks off

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Campus Times
FEATURES Volume 136, Number 1
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH COMEDIAN MIKE HENRY
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downloading and to delete
the illegally acquired songs
and programs which enable
illegal activity. If a student
did not do so, a second email of warning was sent,
as well as a letter from the
dean of students. The third
notice was disconnection
from ResNet and an e-mail
informing the student of a
reconnection fee of $150.
It is important to note that
disciplinary action from UR
does not exempt any students from lawsuits. Even
if a student has ceased all illegal activity and/or paid the
fee, the RIAA can still take
legal action if it so chooses.
In the last three to four
years, 54 students received
pre-litigation notices. UR
lawyers receive the prelitigation letters and forward
them to the students. At
this stage, UR still does not
give the RIAA the student’s
name. If a student does not
respond to the pre-litigation
letter, the RIAA can send a
subpoena letter. Once a student is subpoenaed, UR can
no longer keep the student’s
See COPYRIGHT, Page 5
sarah cummings • Photography Editor
The Campus Diversity Roundtable distributed the survey
last spring and plans to analyze its findings next month.
Survey evaluates
campus diversity
BY Dana Hilfinger
Sports Editor
Last spring, the Campus
Diversity Roundtable announced preliminary results
for the campus climate assessment it administered
in March 2008. This past
month, the CDR sent a report
to UR President Joel Seligman that included the full
findings of the survey and
bulleted points of interest.
“We were taking a snapshot of what students feel
campus climate to be,” Assistant Dean for Diversity
Initiatives Beth Olivares said
of the survey’s purpose.
The evaluation received
1,251 responses from college
students, which equates to
just over 30 percent of the
undergraduate population.
This group reflected the
diversity of the student body
at UR with respect to gender,
class and ethnicity.
Approximately 60 percent
of the survey responders
were female while 40 percent were male. Students
could identify themselves
as either White, Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian/Middle
Eastern/Pacific Islander,
Native American, multiracial
or other.
The questions on the survey were divided into two
sets — one set focused on
experiences with friends and
the community prior to UR,
and the other set addressed
student experiences in the
classroom and elsewhere
around campus.
The results brought to the
surface a number of issues
See DIVERSE, Page 5
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Thursday, September 11, 2008
Green
energy
powers
dorms
Illegal downloads
spur legal trouble
by marley schneier
News Editor
UR is changing its policies
on disciplinary action regarding copyright infringement. In a three-to four-year
period, 21 UR students
have been subpoenaed for
copyright infringement. The
majority of these subpoenas
were by the Recording Industry Association of America.
The RIAA has been investigating copyright infringement on college campuses
across the United States due
to the large amount of music
file sharing among those
who use such programs as
BitTorrent and LimeWire.
The RIAA is able to detect
illegal music trafficking.
While they cannot know the
name of the individual, they
can find an IP address, and
then contact the school and
ask them to take disciplinary
action. Prior to this year, the
Office of the Dean of Students took informal action on
the first notice by contacting
students via e-mail. This first
e-mail asked the student
in question to cease all illegal music trafficking and
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daniel green • Photography Editor
UR President Joel Seligman offers welcoming remarks at the College Convocation.
The ceremony included a presentation of the Goergen Awards to faculty members.
Convocation kicks off
Celebrated faculty address students and University
by Michelle Handis
Staff Writer
This year’s Yellowjacket
Weekend began with the Convocation ceremony on Friday,
Sept. 5 at noon in Dandelion
Square. Since its inception in
1997, a total of 78 Goergen
Awards that commemorate
UR faculty and staff have
been handed out.
The first type of award,
given out for Distinguished
Achievement and Artistry
in Undergraduate Teaching,
was presented to three professors representing the natural
sciences, social sciences and
humanities. Other awards
included the Goergen Award
for Curricular Achievement
in Undergraduate Education
and the Goergen Award for
Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate
Learning.
The event began with
opening remarks from UR
President Joel Seligman,
followed by Chairman of the
Board of Trustees Edmund
Hajim. Hajim discussed Yellowjacket Weekend and the
history of the awards and
their recipients.
“It’s fun,” Hajim said. “It’s
a way to learn and it contributes to the involvement and
vitality of campus.”
Dean of the College of Arts
and Sciences Richard Feldman introduced each award
recipient.
Professor of Mathematics
Fred Cohen received the
Goergen Award for Distinguished Achievement and
Artistry in Undergraduate
Teaching. Cohen is involved
in research pertaining mainly
to topology, but also including subjects such as classical homotopy theory, brain
groups and cohomology of
groups. Cohen thanked his
students when he received
the award.
“Having good students is
interesting, fun and a real
privilege,” he said.
Professor of Anthropology
Robert Foster is the Mercer Brugler Distinguished
Teaching Professor. He has
written four books and has
published numerous articles.
Foster is currently working
on research in several topics,
including globalization, nationalism and mass media. In
his acceptance speech, Foster
expressed his gratitude to his
students, as well.
“This is not something I
can do myself,” Foster said.
“Gifts require active recipients.”
Professor of English James
Longenbach received the
praise and admiration of
his students. Longenbach
teaches courses in American
poetry, British and American
modernism, James Joyce,
Shakespeare and creative
writing. Longenbach is the
Joseph Henry Gilmore Professor of English. He has been
the Students’ Association
See WEEKEND, Page 4
dan panzarella • Contributing Photographer
Get involved!
Hundreds of students attended the Activities Fair outside Wilson Commons
on Friday. Over 100 student clubs and groups were represented at the fair.
By Conor WilLis
Contributing Writer
UR recently announced a
new clean energy policy for
all residential life buildings
on the River campus. All
of the electricity powering
the residence halls is now
offset with wind energy
credits. The move is aligned
with the principles set
forth by the University
Council on Environmental
Sustainability, which was
created by UR President Joel
Seligman in the fall of 2007.
The wind power plan, first
discussed in late spring and
finalized in June, involved
the purchase of 11.6 million
kilowatt hours of renewable
energy credits, which should
cover the residential life
utility bill for the next
two years. The University
purchased the energy
credits from Community
Energy, a company devoted
to developing wind farm
technology.
In the University’s
agreement with the company,
five percent of the wind
energy will originate in
N.Y. wind farms, while the
remaining 95 percent will
come from states across the
nation.
Wind energy is a relatively
new phenomenon. Wind
turbines have the ability
to replace the fossil fuel
combustion process as the
power generator for electrical
grids, reducing greenhouse
gas emissions in the process.
The purchase of kilowatt
hours was a purchase of clean,
renewable energy put into the
power grid.
“I think it’s really good
that the school is using
wind power and that they
did it without a push from
the students,” Grassroots
member and sophomore
Elizabeth Baker said. “It’s
great that the school is taking
a step to be energy conscious
and that they are willing
to be. It’s a progressive
approach. With student input
and collaboration, we could
do even more.”
University administrators
view the wind credit project as
part of a larger sustainability
initiative.
“We view this as a step
moving us toward more green
energy for the University,”
Vice President R onald
Paprocki, a co-chairman of
the University Council on
Sustainability said. “We will
evaluate this against other
green options for moving
forward. But we think that
it is a good step.”
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This Week on Campus
Campus Briefs
Laser lab reopens
after worker injured
by david cutshall
Staff Writer
The Laboratory for Laser Energetics will return to normal
operations this week following a
three-week hiatus. The temporary
shut-down was initiated to perform safety checks on laboratory
equipment following an incident
in which a laboratory employee
was injured.
On Aug. 6, Senior Lab Engineer
Sam Roberts was struck by a piece
of equipment when its mounting
bracket broke loose and it fell from
above him. It was the most serious
injury experienced by an employee
in the 38 years of the laboratory’s
operation.
The following day, Laboratory
Director Robert McCrory called
for a “safety stand down,” during
which time an inspection of all
laboratory equipment took place
— utilizing approximately 35,000
staff hours — and employees were
able to review safety policies.
After three weeks, McCrory
made a recommendation to
UR President Joel Seligman to
resume operations, saying that
the equipment in question had
been removed and the safety of
all other equipment with respect
to that type of failure had been
confirmed. This decision was
supported by the University’s
Office of Environmental Health
and Safety, which separately
audited the inspections, as well
as former Acting Associate Director for Engineering at Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory
Jeffrey Williams.
Cutshall is a member of
the class of 2009.
Grant awarded for
UR cancer research
Kyle Sabo • Staff Photographer
Dancers from Celtic, an Irish dancing, music and culture club,
perform at Friday’s Activities Fair outside Wilson Commons.
Announcements
•ROC Around the Clock,
a fundraiser for charity, will be
held on Friday, Sept. 12, starting
at 8 a.m.
Head to the front porch of Wilson Commons where students will
“rock” in rocking chairs to raise
money for philanthropies.
In case of rain, the event will be
held in the May Room in Wilson
Commons.
Sign up for raffles! You can
also enjoy performances from the
Midnight Ramblers all male a cappella group and Radiance Dance
Theatre.
The event is open to all. It is hosted by Sigma Beta Rho Fraternity
and Gamma Phi Beta Sorority.
To submit, please e-mail
[email protected].
Deadline is Tuesday at 5 p.m.
by BEN WROBEL
Editor-In-Chief
The UR School of Medicine and
Dentistry was awarded an $11.5
million, five-year Specialized
Programs of Research Excellence
(SPORE) grant from the National
Cancer Institute for the expansion
of lymphoma research and clinical
trials at the James P. Wilmot Cancer
Center.
The SPORE grant focuses on
funding translational research
projects that advance scientific findings from the laboratory to clinic
settings, according to the Wilmot
Cancer Center’s Web site.
Offered since 2000, it is a very
selective award, and the Wilmot
Cancer Center is only the fifth
institution to receive a lymphoma
SPORE grant.
“Only a small number of institutions have been awarded a SPORE
grant,” UR President Joel Seligman
said. “It is a major accomplishment
for the Wilmot Cancer Center to
earn this grant. It’s a testament to
the cooperation that exists between
clinical and basic scientists within
the program and the collaborative
environment that exists at the
University of Rochester Medical
Center.”
The Wilmot Cancer Center recently opened up a new $65 million
facility that brings its employees
together under one roof. Dean of
the School of Medicine and Dentistry David Guzick believes that
this grant will further help unite
researchers.
“The SPORE grant pushes
Wilmot’s already strong translational research efforts in lymphoma to a new level, bringing
together teams of scientists and
physicians to study the disease
from fresh angles,” he said.
Medical Center CEO Bradford
Berk hopes that the Center’s success will continue.
“This SPORE grant represents
the first of what we hope to be
several SPORE grants in the years
to come,” he said. “It confirms
the caliber of our science and our
ability to perform research that
translates into life-extending
cures.”
Wrobel is a member of
the class of 2010.
Security Update
Gun shots heard outside Riverview Complex
BY marley schneier
News Editor
According to UR Security
Investigator Daniel Lafferty, on
separate incidents on Aug. 31 and
Sept. 1, a UR security officer and
a student reported while outside
Buildings C and D in the Riverview
Complex that they heard a gun being fired from the area of Luther
Circle. Additionally, they both
heard BBs striking the building.
In the Aug. 31 case, the officer actually located BBs on the
ground. Neither the student nor
the officer were struck by the BBs,
and there was no damage to the
buildings found. Police were called
for the Aug. 31 occurrence and
apparently located a resident who
contended he was firing a CO2style BB pistol at a paper cup.
The resident denied firing it
toward the officer or Riverview.
He was evidently warned and advised by the police. Police were not
notified of the Sept. 1 incident, as
it was not reported until Sept. 3.
The student said he realized UR
Security was busy and just waited
to report it. Police were eventually
made aware of both incidents.
Student falls
out of window
On Aug. 31 around 5:25 a.m., a
student residing in Munro House
called Security after hearing a
female outside calling for help
according to Lafferty. Officers
responded to the rear of Munro
and found the student lying on the
ground. The student told officers
she had fallen from a window.
Medical Emergency Response
Team and Rural/Metro Medical
Services were notified to respond.
The victim was transported to
Strong Memorial Hospital for
further evaluation and care.
Subsequent on-scene follow
up identified that the room from
which the victim fell was on the
third floor.
Initial information indicates
alcohol may have been a contributing factor. There were no signs
of foul play identified during the
on-scene follow up. The student remains hospitalized at this time.
Eastman student accosted
and robbed
On Sept. 10 at 1:35 p.m., an
Eastman School female undergraduate student was about to
enter her apartment building
on Grove St. when a lone male
suspect approached from the rear
and robbed her.
According to Lafferty, the suspect displayed a box knife type
cutting device. He broke the strap
on her shoulder bag as he pulled
it from her. The suspect immediately fled west towards Chestnut
St. The student proceeded to a
friend’s residence in the building.
They called an Eastman resident
adviser, who then notified UR
Security and 9-1-1.
Several Rochester police officers
responded, as did UR Security.
The police conducted a thorough
check of the surrounding neighborhood, at one point using a K-9
tracking dog. The suspect was not
located. However, the police found
the student’s bag and most of its
contents between Franklin St. and
Chestnut St.
Recovered at the robbery scene
was an aqua-colored men’s mountain bike with white lettering. It
is believed the suspect may have
been riding the bike just before
accosting the student.
Information provided by UR
Security, compiled between
Aug. 25 and Sept. 9.
Schneier is a member of
the class of 2011.
Calendar
Thursday
september 11
take 5 info session
Come to Wilson Commons Conference Room
122 from 4 to 5 p.m. and learn about the Take
5 program, the Review Board’s guidelines
and how you may want to proceed with your
application. The deadline for submission of applications this semester is Nov. 3. All applicants
need to attend a group information meeting
before meeting individually with an academic
adviser. If you cannot attend an information
session, you may watch the DVD that will
be on reserve in the Multimedia Center in
Rush Rhees Library through Oct. 7. For more
information, contact the College Center for
Academic Support at (585) 275-2354 or at
[email protected].
friday
september 12
international open house
There will be an Institute for the International
Education of Students Open House from 2 to 4
p.m. in the Wilson Commons Hirst Lounge. The
Open House will have details on study abroad
programs and how to apply. For more information, visit http://www.rochester.edu/College/
abroad.
speaker: mike henry
Mike Henry, writer and supervising producer of
“Family Guy” and co-creator and executive producer of the upcoming “The Cleveland Show,”
will give a talk and behind-the-scenes look at
the comedy series. Henry will speak from 7:30
to 9:30 p.m. in Strong Auditorium. Tickets are
$5 for UR undergraduates and $10 for all others.
Tickets are on sale at the Common Market
in Wilson Commons or online at http://www.
choiceticketing.com/rochester.
saturday
September 13
Chinese festival
The fifth-annual Rochester Chinese MidAutumn Festival will be starting at 7 p.m.
in Strong Auditorium. Programs will cover
Chinese folk dances, children dances, hip-hop
dances, modern dances, singing, music drama,
instruments, chinese opera ensembles and many
more. In addition, they are working hard to
make them understandable to all language audiences. A reception will follow. Tickets are $8 for
adults, $5 for students and $4 for children under
12. This event is sponsored by the Chinese
Students’ and Scholars’ Association at UR, the
Chinese Students’ Association and the Chinese
Federation of Greater Rochester.
monday
september 15
study abroad
A general information meeting will be held on
Monday, Sept. 15 at 11 a.m. in Wilson Commons Stackel Conference Room for students
considering studying abroad. Those considering
studying abroad are required to attend at least
one meeting.
business minor
Learn all about the new minor at UR. The
event starts at 4 p.m. in Lattimore Hall 312. For
more information, contact the College Center
for Academic Support at (585) 275-2354 or at
[email protected].
Tuesday
september 16
conversation series
Have a conversation with Dubravka Ugresic
and Damion Searls from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in the
Hawkins-Carlson Room in Rush Rhees Library.
Ugresic is the author of several novels, including
“The Museum of Unconditional Surrender,”
“The Ministry of Pain” and several collections
of essays. Her most recent book is “Nobody’s
Home,” a collection of essays about life in exile.
This event is free and open to the public. It is
part of the Reading the World Conversation
Series, which is supported by the Open Letter, a
literary press at UR; the College of Arts, Sciences
and Engineering; the Humanities Project and the
Friends of the Library. For information, call (585)
319-0823 or visit http://www.openletterbooks.org.
Please e-mail calendar submissions to
[email protected]
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New advising system Gmail service now available for UR
extends premajor rules
Rules designed to provide additional structure
by Kashika Sahay
Staff Writer
The Center for Academic Services
has revised its curriculum policies
so that all pre-major students, regardless of class year, are subject to
similar registration holds and meetings with advisers. In doing this, the
CAS hopes to increase the amount
of support available to sophomores
in order to facilitate their decisionmaking processes.
The policy drops the freshman
and sophomore advising as individual programs and groups both
years together as pre-major advising. Dean of Freshmen Marcy Kraus
and Dean of Sophomores Vicki Roth
will design workshops to help premajor advisers better guide their
students.
“We were in effect dropping students prematurely when they are
about to make one of their decisions
— what they’re going to major in,”
Associate Dean of Undergraduate
Studies Suzanne O’Brien said.
For sophomores, the policy
changes mean required meetings
with their pre-major advisers in
both their fall and spring semesters.
The extended program is designed
to help students talk to their advisers about policy changes, discuss
their curriculum and their plans
as they finalize their majors. Previously, sophomores in the College of
Arts and Sciences did not have any
holds on their accounts during the
spring semester. Once students have
declared their major, they will meet
with their departmental adviser. Additional policy changes affect all UR
undergraduate students interested
in the pass/fail grading option or
repeating a course.
Students were previously able to
withdraw from a class up until the
last day of classes. However, students must now declare the option
by the semester’s 11th week, leaving
two-and-a-half weeks before classes
end. The S/F option used to be available only until the fourth week of
classes but has been extended to
the 11th week of classes.
“In tandem with that change,
which may be viewed as restrictive, [withdrawal] is one with the
S/F system that is less restrictive,”
O’Brien said.
The S/F option is only available
for elective courses that do not count
toward clusters, minors or majors.
The option can be removed by
petition at a later date if a student
decides to have it count toward one
of these areas.
Procedures surrounding the repeating of a course have also been
changed so that students have to
meet with an adviser and receive
approval from the College before
repeating the course. Both grades
will now appear on the transcript
with the letter “R,” but only the
second grade will count toward the
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by Rebecca Leber
News Editor
This summer, UR modernized
its e-mail system with a universitywide migration to Google’s Gmail.
The upgrade came after IT began
to address common student complaints about the previous service,
WebMail.
“I never actually used my WebMail. I forwarded it to my e-mail.
I just didn’t like the interface of
WebMail,” ResNet employee and
sophomore Vlad Tatulescu said.
IT collaborated with students
to discern what could better serve
the University population. This
included a presentation to the
Students’ Association to ascertain
the popularity of several e-mail
vendors.
From this feedback, IT learned
that students wished for a service
allowing for a calendar and organizational utilities, which resembled
what Gmail had to offer.
“By and large what it was was
students asking us for a more
modern service,” Director of IT
staff Kate Crowley said.
When IT surveyed students, it
found that they were already using the Google service, forwarding
all incoming e-mails to a second
e-mail address.
Once settling on Gmail, IT
made a recommendation to the
University.
Other competitors, including
popular programs such as Microsoft, Yahoo and Zimbra, provide
similar functions but are not as
widely used by undergraduate
students.
Courtesy
of
Google.com
In addition to a calendar and chat option, Gmail offers Google Docs,
which allows collaborators to edit and save documents online.
IT staff learned many other their e-mail accounts for sevstudents were already using the eral days. During this period,
Gmail server’s calendar function, IT worked to transfer students’
along with Gmail’s automatic inboxes and filed e-mails to the
compilation of address lists, Gchat Gmail account.
and label features.
“What we did was make it easier
“You have a calendar and the for students when they got into the
calendar is shareable,” Tatulescu new service,” Crowley said. “They
said. “I can add my friends’ classes didn’t have to decide where those
and see how [the calendars] cor- messages were. You knew they
respond. The calendar is really were all in your Google box.”
cool.”
According to Crowley, student
Around midsummer, students feedback has been overwhelmingly
learned of the finalized plans positive.
from Dean of the College Richard
“The old e-mail system was
Feldman. Google’s Gmail and UR slow, cumbersome and terrible in
had signed a renewable contract, its ability to filter spam,” junior
which included an agreement for Matt Kinzler said. “Gmail is great
no advertising through the e-mail because it is simple, uncluttered,
server.
easy to use, comes with massive
The transition consisted of a amounts of space and has great
staggered migration period for spam filtering capability.”
each class year. Though new e-mail
Crowley said students who have
addresses have been assigned to called the IT Center concerning
every student, all mail addressed Gmail were unfamiliar with the
to old accounts will be automati- program. Trained technicians are
cally forwarded.
available to assist these students.
The staggered migration meant
Leber is a member of
students were unable to access
the class of 2011.
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Thursday, September 20,
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Advising: New policy adopted
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students’ GPA. Previously, the
second grade completely replaced
the first grade without any record
on the transcript.
Any student who wants to repeat
a course will need to meet with an
adviser in academic support, review
policy and receive approval at the
time of the visit, thereby eliminating
a form.
Seniors also must now fill out
an “intent to graduate” form. This
form is a degree audit that records
all the courses a senior has taken.
It is designed to help students commit to all major, minor and cluster
requirements needed to graduate.
The program assures that students are notified earlier if there
are problems so that they can be
Daniel Green • Photography Editor
resolved by the end of their senior
year. Previously, these forms were
not reviewed until mid-February of
the senior year, by which point it
might have been too late for seniors
to fix the problems.
“We believe it adds focus to the
final year and encourages students
to complete their degrees in a timely
fashion,” Assistant Dean of the
College Nancy Speck said. “The
Eastman School [of Music] and
many other institutions have had
this in place for a long time.”
The new policies represent
changes for both faculty and staff.
“It will be an ongoing evaluation,”
O’Brien said. “Any new policy takes
awhile to catch on.”
Sahay is a member of
the class of 2010.
Students gathered on Dandelion Square on Friday for Convocation, which kicked off Yellowjacket
Weekend. The weekend included carnival rides and a performance by comedian Zach Galifianakis.
Weekend: Yellowjacket traditions continue
Professor of the Year twice and has
written several books of poetry,
his most recent being “Draft of a
Letter.”
Artistic Director of the International Theatre Program Nigel Maister was awarded for his curricular
achievement since he became a
director in 2002. The program includes courses in acting, directing,
stage management, technical theater and playwriting. In addition,
international theater professionals often come to UR to help train
students in the program.
The Goergen Award for Distinguished Contributions went to
Associate Director of Athletics and
Recreation Jane Possee, whom
Feldman noted for her 33 years
on staff. She has served as coach
for many women’s varsity teams,
including basketball, field hockey
and lacrosse. Possee is in charge
of running the Robert B. Goergen
Athletic Center and all of the programs sponsored by the Department
of Athletics and Recreation.
Finally, Students’ Association
President Eric Sansky spoke, encouraging students to become more
involved on campus, to fill Fauver
Stadium, to pack the Palestra and
to explore the Eastman School of
Music.
Robert B. Goergen also received
the Charles Force and Marjorie
Force Hutchison Medal, the University’s highest alumni award,
on Friday, in recognition of his
outstanding career achievements
and his service to the University.
Other Yellowjacket Weekend
events included live music by Spill
Canvas, sports events, movies, carnival games and a performance by
Zach Galifianakis. Comedian B.J.
Novak was the planned entertainment for Saturday night but had
to be replaced at the last minute
due to illness.
“Zach has actually been on our
list of comedians for a few years,
so we already had his contact information and knew a little about
him,” Campus Activities Board
Administrative Chairperson and
junior Theresa Roberts said. “We
were very fortunate, however,
that he wasn’t already booked and
was willing to come on such short
notice.”
Wilson Quad was filled with excitement on Saturday as students
swarmed toward the games, rides
and free T-shirts and gathered to
listen to Spill Canvas.
“CAB definitely considers this
Yellowjacket Weekend to be a success,” Roberts said. “We had what
seemed like an endless line for
people wanting T-shirts, people riding the rides... and people watching
the band for the full show. It was a
great turnout.”
Handis is a member of
the class of 2009.
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NEWS
11, 2007
2008
Thursday, September 20,
Page 5
Diversity: Results of survey show racial tension
on campus. For the CDR, one of
the most staggering results was
the topic of harassment.
When asked if they have been
the victim of harassment while
attending UR, 12.6 percent of
those polled reported that they
had. These instances primarily
occurred in the students’ residence
or in the classroom.
Students also reported that
upon being harassed, they had
trouble finding help and support
following the incident.
“It is not about if there are
resources,” graduate student
and assistant to the McNear
Program Carlo Fusco said. “It’s
about getting students to these
resources.”
Another area of interest for the
CDR was the idea of self-segregation among students on campus.
While 63 percent of students
claimed that there was a high level
of respect for people of different
ethnicity or background at UR,
the results varied considerably
depending on race and ethnicity.
Only 38 percent of Black students and 47 percent of Hispanic
students cited that they agreed
with this statement.
Olivares, who co-chairs the
Roundtable with Director of Minority Student Affairs Norman
Burnett, noted one of the key findings of the study. The study found
that a number of answers varied
based on race and that the idea of
self-segregation among groups on
campus was a big concern for the
committee.
The results also identified that
one of the main concerns voiced
by students in the open-ended
response section of the survey was
the misperception of Admissions
initiatives geared toward minorities such as Affirmative Action.
Another issue was the “perceived overrepresentation of undereducated minority employees
in food and building service worker
positions.”
Generally, there was concern
about the number of minority
workers in lower-level positions
around campus and the vast under
representation of minorities in the
faculty and administration.
The University purchased the
survey from a company called
Educational Benchmarking Incorporated, who has supplied other
departments of UR with surveys
in the past.
Because of this, the survey in
some ways does not quite satisfy
everything that the Roundtable
hoped to.
“There are certain areas of the
survey that were flawed,” Olivares
noted.
More specifically, the Roundtable commented on how the harassment question was ambiguous
because it did not give a definition
of harassment and that some of the
results were inaccurate because
they didn’t give students the option of choosing more than one
type of harassment.
Additionally, the report noted
that the survey never gave a
definition of diversity. The CDR
hopes to work with the company
in the future to deal with these
problems.
Based on the results of the
survey, the CDR hopes to make
recommendations in future meetings based on the survey and also
administer the assessment to the
University every two years.
By 2010, their goal is to increase the participation rate by
50 percent.
Hilfinger is a member of
the class of 2010.
The Sustainability Council led to the
subsequent creation of the University Council on Sustainability,
co-chaired by Paprocki and Provost
Ralph Kuncl.
The decision to use renewable
energy is aligned with the principles
of this committee.
For now, the wind power effort
will be limited to residential life
buildings, but Paprocki did not rule
out extending the effort to academic
buildings and facilities across the
River Campus.
“The costs of supplying the
residence halls are quite modest in
comparison with our overall utility
bill,” Paprocki said. “As wind energy
becomes more available, prices will
decrease.”
Although UR has just begun
powering buildings with wind energy,
several other schools have already
begun utilizing wind technology.
At the University of Vermont,
school officials have set up a wind
turbine on campus for educational
and energy purposes. The move
is expected to cut the school’s
carbon emissions by 3,500 to 5,900
pounds.
The University’s sustainability
initiative is one of many plans across
campus, some of which are helping
to offset the costs of the new wind
credit system.
For example, the replacement
of incandescent light bulbs with
fluorescent ones in the dorms
is saving money, while the new
University Health Services building’s
motion-censored lights are saving
energy. UR has also joined the Pride
of New York program, which is
designed to encourage colleges to
use locally produced food in their
dining halls. Now, 11 percent of
food purchased by Dining Services
is locally grown.
If the Wind Power project is
deemed a success, more sustainabile
plans could be in the works. A pilot
program in solar power is currently
under consideration.
Willis is a member of
the class of 2011.
Wind: UR uses wind power in Residence Halls
Courtesy of www.BitTorrent.com
The Recording Industry Association of America has been suing
students over using programs such as BitTorrent, pictured above.
Copyright: UR policies change
contact information private and
is obligated by law to reveal the
student’s name. Each property
infringement, typically in the form
of a single song, costs $750.
More than one student has
been sued in six-digit figures. A
majority of students have taken
settlements, which usually amount
to $3,000-$4,000. The costliness of
the suits prompted the disciplinary
changes.
To avoid these results, the Office of the Dean of Students has
implemented a new policy. This
year, the first notice is both an
e-mail and a letter. The second notice contains the reconnection fee.
The policy change is also
credited to another factor.
“The Industry has ratcheted
up their game,” Dean of Students
Matthew Burns said. “Numbers
are definitely rising for students
that are being litigated against.”
On Sept. 5 alone, Burns received
six notices of copyright infringement. Recently, he has been receiving anywhere from six to 12 a week.
The RIAA used to catch students
in the actual process of trafficking
music, but the development of new
software has enabled the RIAA to
identify the presence of transferable music by itself.
In other words, illegal music
doesn’t need to go anywhere in
order to be found on individual’s
computers.
“We don’t want to punish students,” Burns said. “We just want
to get the news out there that this
is happening.”
Schneier is a member of
the class of 2011.
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BEN WROBEL • LEAH SQUIRES • MARC EPSTEIN
DANA HILFINGER • REBECCA LEBER
Breaking barriers
This fall, the College Diversity Roundtable released the results
of the Campus Climate Survey conducted last spring. The survey assessed students’ perceptions of diversity at UR, and one
finding of the survey described a general concern of the level
of segregation by racial groups. These findings add weight to
the challenges that face the University community. They need
to be addressed innovatively in order to remove the stubborn
barriers currently dividing students.
CDR has worked for almost a decade to address the same
concerns cited in the survey. One area of CDR’s focus is to bring
speakers and workshops to UR; however, the survey re-emphasizes the need for CDR to think outside an agenda of lectures.
Such methodology only serves as filler for a lack of ideas that
actually solve the diversity and segregation issues facing UR.
A community service day with diversity in mind, on the
other hand, promises an original way for students of different
backgrounds to join together in a good cause. Wilson Day and
Be The Change Day have demonstrated that working toward a
common goal builds connections in ways that lectures cannot
accomplish.
Student groups can co-sponsor, in tandem with CDR, such a day,
which would serve to unite the diverse University community.
This day would require legitimacy by tying it in with existing
campus traditions, such as Winterfest, in order to jumpstart the
success of the event. A tradition of this sort, on par with Wilson
Day, can work to transcend racial boundaries each year.
In the last year, CDR’s participation and accomplishments
have waned and it is therefore in the midst of realigning its
mission and image of accessibility. Instead of spending time all
year on bringing in speakers, CDR should concentrate on making this day a success and spreading its influence through other
creative events. Such endeavors are the best way to forge new
connections within UR.
A greener bar
Last winter’s sustainability report detailed the various ways
that UR is developing sustainable and cost-efficient practices. One
of the report’s goals was the establishment of a Sustainability
Council with a five-year mandate that began with preliminary
meetings over the summer, and it is this council’s responsibility
to make sure that the sustainable developments are continued
and that more are pursued.
The past year has seen a number of achievements that have
made the campus more sustainable, notably the cogeneration
project. An improved cogeneration system will harness steam
energy in a permanent process that will save the school money
in future years. UR needs to make sure it follows up on such
successes. It is imperative that the sustainability movement
maintains momentum and does not fizzle out like some ambitious goals of the past.
An example of a project that dissolves every year is Recyclemania. For ten weeks, students put their efforts into recycling, and
after, the energy gone into the program dissipates. It is important
for students and UR Facilities to uphold a heightened awareness
and sense of responsibility about recycling, as it is a simple and
important way to affect change on the environment.
One area that has seen improvement but still has room for
growth is in Dining Services. Some initiatives from the report
have already been implemented, including buying locally grown
foods (sold at Hillside Café and Connections Café), composting
trash and recycling glass, plastic and metal containers. The
report also previews a program that would convert fry oil into
bio-diesel fuel.
This is a great start, and Dining Services should continue to
try out such sustainable measures. Dishes at Connections are
not only local but also refreshingly unique, and the café has enjoyed popularity in its first semester on River Campus; a second
location with local foods would be a welcome addition.
Sustainability efforts are crucial to UR’s long- and short-term
plans. Students cannot be expected to be environmentally conscientious if the Sustainability Council is not setting its own
standards high enough.
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Editorial Observer
Keeping Fauver full
The sea of gold and navy melted
away as face-painted students
— many shirtless — exited the
crammed football stadium, sweating profusely from the combination
of a hot sun and tightly packed
bodies. Fans had to cover their ears
to soften the screaming coming
from some of the more enthusiastic Yellowjackets, but even those
with quickly developing headaches
shared in the school spirit.
Doesn’t sound like UR? I disagree (besides the sun part).
Last week, as the UR men’s soccer team defeated St. Lawrence,
3-0, in front of the largest crowd
Fauver Stadium has seen in eight
years, it was almost possible to
think this research institution was
in an intense battle for first place
in a Division I tournament. Such
school spirit does much more than
make sports games more enjoyable.
It trickles down through the students and faculty so that it’s felt
throughout the school both within
and outside of class.
Although this seems like a
stretch, there’s a large amount of
research in psychology that suggests that people not only enjoy
work more when they take pride
in it, but that people work harder
when in such an environment.
Marc
Epstein
•
Opinions
Editor
And school pride most definitely
contributes to happiness.
If it continues to be effective,
“Fill Fauver,” a central initiative
to Students’ Association President
and senior Eric Sansky’s and SA
Vice President and senior Tyler
Socash’s platform in April, will
directly contribute to the pleasure
of being an athlete at UR by increasing turnout at home games. More
importantly, this agenda, designed
to increase turnout at one game for
every varsity sports team, has the
potential to increase student pride
in the school’s athletics and in the
school as a whole.
Such programs place a large
burden on the students — it’s up
to them to actually show up at the
events. That’s why much of the
credit for the success last week goes
to the freshman RAs, who pumped
up their halls in preparation for the
soccer game. Additional credit goes
to the freshman class for bringing
renewed spirit to the school.
But if “Fill Fauver” is to continue its success, other upperclass
leaders must saddle some of the
weight. Greek life, one of the most
important institutions on campus,
should especially make an effort
to make “Fill Fauver” successful
and prove their school spirit to the
administration. Such an example
would seriously increase turnout.
There is, however, room for improvement in the plan itself. Hand
out goodies that make the event
last past the game itself. Give out
colorful player profiles. Auction off
the players to the crowd and give
the proceeds to charity. In other
words, add something original that
makes “Fill Fauver” more than students attending a game, but rather
students participating in it.
Time will tell if the same number
of students that showed up for
the men’s soccer game will show
up for traditionally less popular
sports. It could even be that this
past soccer game was a unique
UR experience. Sansky and Socash
should keep working hard to ensure
the program’s success and use the
goodwill generated from it to enact
new programs that will give us
more pride in our school.
Epstein is a member of
the class of 2010.
Editorial Observer
Grading the curve
In the spring of my freshman
year, I walked into Honors Microeconomics thinking my A in
ECO 108, the pre-requisite, would
guarantee me an easy semester.
I was very wrong, and when the
professor handed me my midterm
with a big red 32/100 on it, I was
sure my GPA and graduate school
ambitions were doomed. As I composed myself and raised my head, I
noticed the professor had written
a grade distribution on the board
and assigned letter grades to each
range. My 32 was a B-. This was my
first introduction to the curve.
The concept of the curve is
simple: the highest grades are
assigned the highest scores; the
lowest scores receive the lowest
grades. This happens regardless of
what the high and low scores are.
In Honors Microeconomics, a few
students scored in the 80s and 90s
out of the 100 point scale on that
midterm but the rest of us were
far below. The professor decided
to ignore the high performing
students and grade us on a curve.
I called my parents to share my
excitement but was careful to avoid
telling them that even with a B- I
had answered fewer than a third
of the problems correctly.
Grading on a curve has its
Daniel
Green
•
Photography
Editor
advantages. Mainly, there is no
guarantee that a test or assignment is designed to carefully match
the objectives and expectations of
a course. In fact, some tests are
designed to be too hard in order
to allow students to demonstrate
conceptual understanding without
getting every answer exactly correct. In those cases, the curve is
not a generosity. It is just.
But economics taught me to
think about the long run, and in
the long run, the curve may hold
us back. The biggest problem with
the curve is that it prevents objective evaluations. Without objective
performance comparisons, we have
no way to identify problems with
specific courses, teachers or even
students. For example, a bad professor who does a poor job teaching
a course can hide his incompetence
by lowering the grading standards.
Once a reasonable number of students receive grades that indicate
they did well in the class, no one
will be able to guess that they did
not actually learn. The same can
be true of us students. If we as a
whole do not take a course seriously, we will march toward our
diplomas without a good measure
of what we really know.
And let’s not forget why we try
to get good grades in the first place.
Employers and graduate schools
would like to make decisions based
on what we have learned, and
the easiest way for them to see
that is on a transcript. Without
objective grading, a transcript
only compares us to our peers at
UR and says nothing about our
individual merits.
I propose that the University
adopt a policy in which grades are
not based on curves but rather objective performance benchmarks
established at the beginning of the
semester. These benchmarks must
be consistent between courses of
similar complexity. Determining
complexity might seem difficult,
but isn’t that what that first digit
in the course number is supposed
to mean? If we continue with the
curve, our grades become inflated
and, like inflated currency, will be
less useful in the real world.
Green is a member of
the class of 2010.
Josh Hatcher
Staff Illustrator
OPINIONS
Page 7
“When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.” — Mark Twain
Palin adds weakness to a crippled elephant ticket
BY Willie clark
It seems with Election Day creeping ever
closer that all talk has turned to Sarah Palin.
Who is she? What has she done in and out of
office? What does she bring to the Republican
ticket? Her family has fallen under attack,
but let’s face it: the only thing that should
matter is platform. And while Palin stood
up recently and outlined her platform at
the Republican National Convention, she
seems to have forgotten to mention some
of the more extreme positions she has held
over the years.
First off, while Iraq is a real war and the
lives of American soldiers and Iraqi soldiers
taken were real lives, to Palin, the Iraq War
is simply “God’s task.”
Now, I thought that the Crusades were
over, but apparently Palin still sees America
as some entity divinely appointed to dispatch
justice all over the world. I’m not sure what
god she prays to, but after years of going to
Church and eight years of Catholic school,
I have never heard a Biblical passage praising oil-driven war with your neighbor — I
must have forgotten to read the “Gospel
According to Cheney.”
She has even admitted that she hasn’t
Palin sees no connection between global
thought about the war much — just last
year she was quoted in an interview with warming and humans. Speaking about cliAlaska Business Monthly saying, “I’ve been mate change, she said, “I’m not one though
so focused on state government, I haven’t who would attribute it to being manmade.”
really focused much on the war in Iraq.” So, if it’s not manmade, then how do we acShe did, however, mention the war briefly in count for global warming? I can’t say I saw
Bambi building a chemical
her speech, claiming that
production plant the last
“victory in Iraq is in sight.”
time I was in the forest or
Must be the same victory
Apparently,
Bullwinkle driving a car
that Bush declared years
around, but according to
ago. Palin clearly adds
Palin still sees
Palin, who seems to be
little in terms of foreign
America as some an expert on at least the
policy experience to the
hunting aspect of moose,
McCain camp.
entity divinely
I must be wrong. Poor
Oh, and for those of you
appointed to
Bullwinkle.
who were worried that the
dispatch justice all
And, near and dear to
connection between the
my own journalistic heart,
vice presidency and big
over the world.
I found that, as mayor,
oil would end with our
Palin tried to ban books
current VP, there is good
from libraries because of
news to be heard. Palin
herself has the same ties to big oil that inappropriate language. This action shocked
all of us Americans love to see — her very Mary Ellen Baker, the librarian whom Palin
inauguration was sponsored by the energy later threatened to fire for her lack of supgiant, Beyond Petroleum. Good thing, too, port in banning the books. I mean, hell, a
because I was afraid that we would see a little bad language and Palin is ready to
Republican ticket with pockets that aren’t ban books?
The other interesting fact is that McCain,
lined with oil.
who has repeatedly used Obama’s lack of
experience against him, picked Palin to be
his running mate — she didn’t even have a
passport until 2007.
Her foreign policy experience: a trip to
Kuwait and Germany to visit Alaskan troops
and then another trip to the documented
war-torn area and likely world hot spot that
we know as Canada. Good thing she has the
foreign policy credentials that Obama lacks
— I would hate to have a vice president who
has never been to Canada.
Again, it might just be me, but these seem
to be several important points that Palin
somehow forgot to include in her speech.
Did I mention the speech was written by one
of President Bush’s own speech writers? I
think that says it all loud and clear.
Choosing Palin is simply McCain’s way of
trying to make friends with the ultra right
of the Republican Party — but do even the
strong conservatives dance this far right on
the political spectrum?
It seems like Sarah Palin must have accidentally left some minor topics out of her
speech. What a shame indeed.
Clark is a member of
the class of 2012.
BY david cutshall
A lot of emphasis has been placed on the
quality of experience in this year’s presidential campaigns. It has been used to judge both
parties’ tickets in ways that often conflate
the characteristic with attributes such as
judgment, leadership and so on. However,
what one rarely hears is a substantive discussion about what the word “experience”
actually represents and why this concept is
important with respect to the selection of a
candidate for president.
John McCain’s campaign says he’s more
experienced, specifically in terms of years of
service and the type of experience he’s gained
(foreign policy). Barack Obama’s camp
makes the argument that his better judgment on key issues makes up for his perceived
weakness in the experience column. And of
course the vice presidential candidates add
to the discussion, with Joe Biden matching
McCain’s amount of experience in the Senate
and Sarah Palin representing some amount
of executive experience.
The first obvious question that this debate raises is how much and what kind of
experience is required to be qualified to be
president of the United States?
If Obama had served as many years in the
Senate as McCain before choosing to run for
president, would he only then be experienced
enough to hold the office? Is the type of
service critical, be it legislative, executive,
military or community? How about years
of experience as an “average American” in
terms of demography or wealth — in order to
understand the needs of the electorate — or
time spent getting to know such people?
All of these types of experience can be
important considerations and should be
debated on their merits, rather than reducing the word itself to a vague and simple
meaning.
And this leads us to consider a similar
question: what does the president actually
do that requires specific kinds of experience?
He, along with his cabinet, sets policies to
be carried out by the various arms of the
executive branch — and both candidates
are currently running on a platform of
policy positions. He represents our nation
in meetings in other countries and with
foreign leaders, something both candidates
have shown their ability to do, but which
McCain has done more often. He works with
the legislature to get laws close to his optimal
policy passed, which both candidates — as
legislators — have done, but McCain has
also done more often. However, Obama may
fare better as president in terms of working
with the Democratic Congress (assuming
it maintains majorities in both chambers,
which is currently projected) than would
McCain.
There are many other duties associated
with the office of president, and if we are
going to make experience a central criterion
for election to this office, we must make
clear exactly why the experience that a given
candidate has makes him the better man or
woman for the job.
The similar qualities of judgment and
leadership have frequently been espoused in
the same breath as experience during this
campaign season, so their relationships with
one another should also be briefly examined
in the context of the election.
Certainly a person’s judgment is heavily informed by the experiences he’s had
throughout his life — from infancy to adulthood and from education to profession. We
can only predict the judgment each candidate
will use based upon what we know of the
man himself, his past and his proposals for
the future.
But it is important to note that experience
in a given field is not a prerequisite for — nor
does it necessarily entail — good judgment.
Abraham Lincoln, now considered one of
our greatest presidents, could only boast
of a few terms as state legislator and one
term as U.S. representative when he ran in
1860. Conversely, when he was selected as
George W. Bush’s first secretary of defense,
Donald Rumsfeld — who would later step
down in disgrace and controversy — was
one of the most experienced men in the
executive branch.
And then there is leadership, a quality
marked by one’s ability to communicate
effectively and bring people together. All
leaders make decisions — which recalls
the importance of judgment — but great
leaders are those, like John F. Kennedy and
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who can move
people in the right direction and bring everyone along. Great leaders are supposed to
be inspirational. That’s why it’s confusing
when Obama is referred to as a “celebrity”
for displaying the very abilities a great leader
should possess.
The purpose of this article is not to endorse either candidate for president. If it
were, it would focus primarily on the policy
differences between them, which should be
the foundation for such a decision. Perhaps
Bill Clinton got it right — despite briefly
earning the ire of his party — when he said
that no one is really ready to be president
based on his or her past experience. The
qualifications to hold the office are set by
the Constitution, and from there it is left
to the people to decide who they think will
be the better president.
But if experience and the important
qualities of judgment and leadership are
to be included in this vetting process, they
must be accompanied by an understanding
of what we’re actually saying and why we’re
saying it.
Cutshall is a member of
the class of 2009.
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UR crosses generational lines in
its gifts to a family
I read with interest Charlie Fountaine’s
article titled “College Life Failed to Live
Up to the Adults’ Hype” in last year’s final
issue of the Campus Times. Fountaine concludes that, despite parents who say their
college years were the best times of their
lives, “most of college was either horrible
or miserable” and “those wretched aspects
of college life... couldn’t help but define our
four years here.”
Like virtually all UR students, I was
an academic overachiever — senior class
president, a fairly gifted athlete, etc., in high
school. I had lots of options, but in 1968 I
chose to attend UR. It is a decision I have
never regretted, not once, not ever.
The University is where I learned what really goes on among other races and cultures,
in Washington, in inner cities, in corporate
America, in politics, in the military, in the
drug culture and in academia. I learned how
to think critically, to socialize, to play football
for fun, to respect opposing viewpoints and
how to make lifelong friends. In fact, at the
height of the Vietnam War, being in an aca-
demic environment populated by incredibly
talented professors (e.g., Regenstreif, Fenno,
Niemi and Powell, all of whom are still at
UR) and self-motivated scholar-athletes
was a breathtaking experience I will never
forget.
UR has blessed me in other ways as well.
My oldest daughter graduated in 2007, and
watching her grow and mature at UR was
a grand experience. Mentors like Gerald
Gamm, Celia Applegate, Kathleen Parthe
and others taught her far more than I or
her mother ever could, particularly since,
unlike her father, she embraced everything
from Boar’s Head dinners, to track parties,
to suite living, to study abroad (in Russia).
And in March, 2008, she married her classmate and best friend, himself now a Ph.D.
candidate in mathematics and physics at
Johns Hopkins University.
Did I wish the mailboxes back then were
located somewhere other than Todd Union?
Yes, indeed. But did that detract in the
slightest from the quality, value and overall
enjoyment of my undergraduate experience
at UR? No way.
—Michael allen
Class of 1972
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2012SENATE
PLATFORMS
C
Fourwillbechosenfrom:
I
OrkanAbdullayev
am Orkhan Abdullayev. I am sure
youhavealotofquestionsandyou
reallywanttoknowwhyyoushould
voteforme.WhileIspentmy4yearsin
High School had an opportunity to exͲ
periencealotofthingsandworkedwith
alotofpeople.MymostimportantposiͲ
tion was on team of Peer Mediators. It
was one of the best things that hapͲ
penedtomeinHighSchool.Itwasgreat
to resolve people's conflicts and mainͲ
tain good and healthy environment in
school,soeveryonecouldfocusmoreon
their studies and contributions to the
school community. My graduating class
consistedof840peopleinNewYorkCity
High School. My work, however, didn't
end there. I was an active member of
Neighborhood Alliance Program, which
was designed to bring people from difͲ
ferentbackgroundstogether.Iamaware
ofwhatpeople'sneedsareandIamvery
dedicated to my work. My goalis to enͲ
richyourexperienceatUofR.Everything
hereisforyouanditisuptoyoutodeͲ
cide who should be responsible for imͲ
provingqualityoflifeatUofRwhileyou
arehere.MygoalistotakeintoconsidͲ
eration all your needs and requests, as
part of Senate of Class of 2012. My enͲ
ergy and positive is what the Senate
needs.Justaskthosearoundme.
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HarryBrookstein
ey Class of 2012! My name is
Harry Brookstein, and I'm runͲ
ning for Senate. I live in GanͲ
nett 6, in Sue B., but originally I'm from
Westchester,NY.
Although we've only been in college
forafewweeks,Ihavealreadygrownto
loveourschool.TheUniversityofRochͲ
esterwillbeourhomeforthe nextfour
years, and I want to be involved in our
school by serving you, my fellow classͲ
mates, in the SA Senate. The Class of
2012isthebiggestclassthattheUniverͲ
sityofRochesterhaseverhadandIwant
tohelpensurethateveryoneinithasthe
bestpossibleexperiencetheycan.
I could list the reasons why you
should vote for me, but all I feel that
really needs to be said is that I want to
improveourschoolandifIwereelected
Senator I will work as hard as I possibly
cantodothat.Ifyouapproachmewith
a concern, I will do my best to make
something happen in response. As the
biggest class in the University, we deͲ
serve a loud voice, and for you, Class of
2012,I'llscreamatthetopofmylungs.
TheUniversityofRochesterisacomͲ
munity, and the Class of 2012, although
new, is now a big part of that commuͲ
nity. I want to not only preserve the
sense of community that is already felt,
but make it stronger. Feel free to come
find me on Gannett 6 or friend me on
Facebook, I'd be more than happy to
meetyou.Pleasehelpmeserveyouand
work for an awesome experience at
Rochester,andvoteformeforSASenaͲ
torfortheClassof2012.
DanCohn
hoosingtovoteamongaseriesof
perspective class senators can be
a difficult decision. Chances are,
you want an enthusiastic senator with
experience as a leader, someone who is
asgoodattakingchargeasheisatbeing
ateamplayer.YouwantacreativesenaͲ
torwith a diverse set of interests, someͲ
onewhocanrepresentthemajoritywithͲ
out forgetting about the minority. You
wantahardͲworkingsenatorwhoiswellͲ
roundedandapproachable,someoneyou
cancometowithquestionsorconcerns.
Iamthatperson.
I have had experience as class presiͲ
dent and as president of several other
clubsthroughoutmyhighschoolcareer.I
have learned how to be a team player
through my participation in sports and
other extraͲcurricular activities. I am orͲ
ganized, energetic, reliable, and openͲ
minded, and I am always accepting of
suggestions.
As your senator, I will maintain close
tieswiththestudentsattheUniversityof
Rochester,andIwillworkonyourbehalf
toimplementpositivechange.
No, I don't promise to revolutionize
the government. Nor will I veto every
piece of pork barrel legislation that
crosses my desk. (That's not part of the
job description.) Instead, I will hear your
concernsandbeyourvoiceinourstudent
government.
I have already heard many of your
concerns about the lack of paper towels
inourrestrooms.WhileIcannotpromise
to make paper towels available, I can
promise to relay your concerns to the
studentgovernment.
Asyourclasssenator,IwouldbehonͲ
oredtoworkonyourbehalftomakethe
University of Rochester the place you
wantittobe.
I only ask that you make the right
choice.Pleasevoteforme,DanCohn,to
represent you in the freshman class senͲ
ate.
H
MeganDewitt
ey, I'm Megan DeWitt and I'm
wouldlovetobeyourrepresenͲ
tativefortheStudent'sAssociaͲ
tion Senate. I want our memories of
these next four years to be great, and I
know I can help make that happen. I alͲ
readyhavesomeideasͲmoreconvenient
transportation, hand dryers in the bathͲ
room, more varied (and better) dining,
etc. I am also open to your suggestions,
and if I am a Senator I will make it my
prioritytoputyourideasintoaction.
Ihadmanyleadershipexperiencesin
high school. I was voted captain of my
high school's swim team for junior and
senioryear,andIhelpedleadmyteamto
two undefeated seasons and a state
championship title. I also participated in
myhighschool'sSenatewhereIwashead
of the Environmental Committee. With
the help of others, I started a new recyͲ
clingprogramatmyschoolthatisstill in
place today. Last fall, I began working
with nine students from three different
high schools in my city to form an enviͲ
ronmental activism group. We put toͲ
gether many successful events and had
overonehundredmembersinthegroup
bytheendoftheschoolyear.Ithinkthat
these experiences have helped make me
qualifiedtorepresentyouandyourinterͲ
ests,andIhopeyoufeelthesameway.
Thanks for taking the time to read
this, and I hope you will consider me as
youareplacingyourvotes.Iwanttohear
yoursuggestionssofeelfreetocometalk
to me or find me on Facebook or whatͲ
everͲ I promise I'm usually pretty apͲ
proachable. Remember, just DeWitt and
voteforMeg!
M
BenFeinberg
y Message to my class Mates
Must be a Mere 300 words.
This parameter prevents my
platform from providing a plurality of
planks or points. Further few freshman
fullyfathomthefunctionofsenator.Thus
my platform possibly provides a paucity
of proposals. Despite this I deliver these
declarations: Every erg of energy I enjoy
willbeexhaustedtowardthisenterprise.
AdditionallyIassureyouthatanyandall
apprehensions articulated to me will be
additionally articulated to the assembly.
My cause for this campaign is common:
constructive change to the community.
Also I admit another aim of this attempt
is an addition to my résumé. I predict
that any portion of the public who has
perused my platform to this point has
noticed the alliteration. On this predicͲ
tionIpinmyfinalpromise.Iwillconsider
all issues that come before the congress
withcomparablecreativity.Inconclusion,
selectBenFeinbergforsenator.
M
BradleyHalpern
ost students have passion for
anactivity,sport,art,orstudy
that interests them. While
areas in these fields are certainly imporͲ
tanttome,studentleadershiphasalways
been my largest passion. As a 4th grade
writing assignment, my class was reͲ
quired to write persuasive letters to our
principal, demanding change in our
school.Irequestedthatastudentcouncil
be instated for our “upperclassmen.”
Ever since that idea became a reality, I
have proudly served my peers on the
student council. As officer positions beͲ
came available in high school, I was
elected president of my class for 9th
through11thgrades,andpresidentofmy
schoolin12thgrade.AttendingandmodͲ
erating leadership conferences around
the country has provided me with the
many tools needed to effectively lead
alongsidethoseIworkwith.IhopethatI
can have the opportunity to bring the
skills and lessons I have gathered from
these endeavors to the UofR SA. IpromͲ
isethatifgiventhischance,IwillpersonͲ
allyreachouttoyou,toensurethatyour
voice is heard. I intend to be active in
most clubs and departments in the
school, to better assess their needs myͲ
selfaswell.HavingonlybeenatURfora
few short weeks, most of us do not yet
know all of the changes we will want
made this year. Regardless of what you
wantaccomplished,mygoalistobeyour
SAadvocateinallwayspossible.
I i n v i t e y o u t o v i s i t
www.bradleyhalpern.comformoreinforͲ
mation about my background and goals.
PleasealsofeelfreetoemailmeatbradͲ
[email protected] with quesͲ
tions,comments,orsuggestions.Itwould
beaprivilegeandanhonortoserveyou
ontheClassof2012StudentSenate,and
Itrulythankyouforyoursupport.
W
KindredHarris
hat could you do with
$200,000. Could you make it
last for a lifetime? Probably
so, if you are intelligent enough to be a
University of Rochester student. But you
havedecidedtoinvestthatmoneyinyour
educationattheUofR.Butyoudidn'tjust
pay for tuition, you paid for the place
whereyouwillspendthegreatestyearsof
yourlife.
My name is Kindred Harris and I am
here to make you one less person who
leaves an institution feeling unfulfilled. I
have prior experience involving SGA inͲ
cluding: two years as a class representaͲ
tive and a year as a senator. I also have
experience and awards from Debate and
MockTrial,andIamcurrentlymajoringin
International Relations. I am a person of
the people, so, I hate to see the people
suffer.
So, I think to myself. We should not
havetopayforprintingorcopyingatour
school. We should not have to sweat in
our dorms. And washing should be made
cheaper.Butmoreimportantly,Ithinkthe
changes that you want should be considͲ
eredandfoughtfor.
Last, I am Kindred Harris and I am
asking for your vote as a 2012 Senate
member. I am not promising getting any
ofthesethingsdone,oranythingthatyou
mayaskofme,butIampromisingtotry,
try,try.Youcanalwayscountonmetobe
onyourside,becauseIamastudent,just
like you. Thanks in advance. And also,
please go out and vote (preferably for
me:).
SnethaRath
J
ohn F. Kennedy once said "Leadership
and learning are indispensible to each
other". This philosophy has always
encouraged me to assume leadership
rolesasastudentmyself.NotonlyamIa
leader by nature, but a unique blend of
sincere character, enthusiasm, creativity
andwillingnesstoreachout.Ihaveclosely
experiencedthemechanismsofgoverning
bodies through several leadership posiͲ
tionsinhighschoolwhichwouldbeavital
asset to our senate. At the same time, I
amjustoneamongyouwhichgivesmea
sound understanding of your problems at
a personal level. And this is what truly
makesmeyouridealrepresentative!!
It is therefore my calling to take the
initiative, voice your concerns and enͲ
hance student life on campus. Ranging
fromthesmallestinconveniences(suchas
the need for paper towels in restrooms!)
to major issues, it is your right to be
heard.Letitbemydutytoresolvethem.I
acknowledge that the class of 2012 has
great expectations from its senate and I
promise to live up to those, implement
your suggestions and always be there for
you.
Words can only express so much, but
there is much more to my personality.
Hopefully, your support will grant me the
opportunity to offer you my best. I will
certainly be your voice as a senator, but
todayImusthearitfromYOU–makethat
decision,castyourvoteandallowmethe
pleasuretoservethestudentbody.
Youhaveenvisioneda"Classof2012"
… let me be its architect! VOTE and keep
theflameofdemocracyburning!
MilesVaughn
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Scale model
There’s plenty to fear about being on stage. But first you have to make it there.
Article and design by Ross Brenneman
To observe any given dance floor when Flo Rida starts belting out through the stereo is to observe one of the
great wonders of our culture — the ability of music to tap the emotions of its listeners.
Symphonies have moved royal courts to tears — and still do, as the New York Philharmonic’s visit to North
Korea proved. “American Idol” consistently crushes any shows competing in its time slot, not because we want to see
the up-and-comers fail (after the first couple of weeks, anyway), but because we cherish the unparalleled performances.
Stadium crowds will cry over a beautiful rendition of our national anthem, not because of the inherent patriotism, but
for the power behind Francis Scott Key’s score and words.
But woe to the singer that butchers it — each of us understands the horror of a poorly delivered song and,
indeed, while culture teaches us that anyone can cook (“Ratatouille”) or that anyone can love (“A Christmas Carol”) or
be loved (“Hitch”), the same culture sends a very acute message that no, not everyone can sing.
I myself have some singing experience. I performed in a choir in my elementary school years, and it became a
staple of life in the fourth grade (partly out of my own desire to go further with it and partly out of the fact that my
older brother had done it, so I should do it also). The rest of my musical experience comes down to the obligatory piano
lessons (thanks again, Dad) and realizing in sixth grade, upon pursuing the trumpet, that it’s hard to earn the same
respect as Louis Armstrong when relegated to last chair for years in a row. In high school, despite my Thespian roots, I
shied away from musicals in favor of, oh, let’s pretend, studying. Arguably, my musical life demonstrates that experience
doesn’t matter nearly as much as ability.
Reminiscing on this over the past few weeks, I believed that, despite my absence from music for a while, I would
put my years of singing in the shower to better use. In such a spirit, this past Friday, I sought to reclaim some of my
former semi-glory.
UR, the musical capital of northwestern New York (as proclaimed by me), has dozens of musical groups — glee
clubs, orchestras, jazz ensembles, a cappella troupes and the like. I sought out one that would oblige me even for just a
few minutes, and then here we’d go — the audition of a lifetime! And I luckily found one willing brigade last Friday, a
group of people with exceptional talent and class, to whom I will always be grateful.
Most lives are not lacking for awkward or terrifying moments, but mine is rich in them, and waiting outside an
audition room alone really helped to bring all of them surging forward — the fifth-grade spelling bee, the SAT, that
first date — oh the humanity! What was I doing? I’m not a singer! The wait — the unbearable wait of five minutes! —
eviscerating my poor heart. If anything, I was prepared to crawl onto the floor, curl up into the fetal position and bawl
my eyes out.
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Get to Know Me: Jon Junig
by Kaz Sakamoto
Senior Staff Writer
Jon Junig is a junior political science
and French major with a cluster in
Earth and environmental sciences. He
is also the president of Alpha Delta Phi
Fraternity, a Meridian and a 2010 class
senator. He is a friendly and sociable
Aquarius who likes the color red.
What Facebook status defines you?
Running around again.
What is your favorite childhood
memory?
I was in a kid’s movie called “Hollywood Wisconsin” and was Carl, an AV
nerd. Though the movie sucked, I was
able to star alongside one of the girls
from WWE, Ho Train.
What did you dream last night?
I have really boring dreams where I
have everyday conversations with peo-
or coe
o p
ple I know. Or it may be a trip to the store
and other day-to-day activities. I claim
to be able to have lucid dreams, but they
continue to be boring.
By DIVA POLyNeSIA
Gretchen Weiner’s Cousin
Aries (March 21–April 19) — Trying to
decide what to wear tonight? Latex is the
new black.
What is your most embarassing moment?
A haphazard Macarena routine during
the Mr. U of R competition, ’nuff said.
“I am secretly infatuated with...”
Anne-Marie Algier.
What is your favorite pair of underwear?
They are green boxers with lawn
gnomes on it. They catch my eye whenever they are in my dresser.
Any fashion tips?
Everyone should take it down a notch
towards the casual. My sense of style is a
Taurus (April 20–May 20) — Your friends
will make some plastic surgeons very rich
one day... but you know that.
tie-dye T-shirt and a pair of jeans with
a possible hoodie.
What is your UR must-do?
I have three things for you all to follow: 1) Lighten up; 2) Do a better job
listening to the concerns of students; 3)
Don’t treat fraternities like second-rate
organizations.
Sakamoto is a member of
the class of 2009.
A guide to reconciling college and virginity
by Alyssa Waddill
Senior Staff Writer
It’s the beginning of the school
year, and all the freshmen are walking
around with their lanyards again. Ah,
the memories of hall dinners and unfortunate nights on the Frat Quad.
It’s so endearing how friendly
they are and how open to new people
and new experiences. So, of course,
I thought I’d write about the most
hyped-up of new experiences: virgin
sex.
Now, I wouldn’t want to impugn the
sexual prowess of any freshman. I’m
sure that many of you are tigers in the
sack. You’ve got more notches in your
belt than Casanova, bully for you! That
doesn’t mean you won’t be sleeping
with a virgin or two, eh? This applies.
Seriously, though, there’s a lot of
emphasis placed on sexual intercourse
(you know, the penis-in-vagina kind) in
our culture — especially in college. Everybody’s been a virgin, and it feels like
a big deal to experience the old in-out
for the first time.
It’s important to keep in mind that
intercourse isn’t everything. I know,
shocking coming from a sex columnist.
What I mean, though, is that the penis
or vagina will not be the be-all and endall of your sexual experiences.
There are a lot of fun things to do in
bed. If you’re thinking about “going all
the way,” you’ve probably done some
of them already. We place vaginal pen-
etration on a pretty big pedestal, and it’s
are trying to abstain from intercourse
really just one component of good sex.
until marriage. Desire is a powerful
That said, if you’re thinking about
thing, but let your virgin friends make
having intercourse for the first time, you
the choice themselves. No pressuring
might be a little nervous. Nerves or guilt
people to do things they don’t want.
can actually do a lot to inhibit sexual plea- It won’t be fun anyway if they’re not
sure. Sometimes, you’ve just got to get it
into it.
over with and then you’ll feel less tense
If your virgin lover does want to play
the second time around.
“find the sausage” with you, just be
Alternately, you can
attentive. Try to commuwait until you do feel renicate clearly with them
ally comfortable with your
about how they feel and
partner and you know
what they want.
each other’s bodies pretty Let Sex & the CT help you
Talk with them beforewell, and the nerves might through your most awkhand about what’s going
wardly sexual years.
not be as bad. Do whatto happen and be preever you have to do to feel
pared for them to change
comfortable, and the experience is more
their mind. As with all sex, it’s imporlikely to be positive.
tant to ensure that you’ve got consent
One big thing to consider before you
for anything you’re going to do. Checkhave intercourse for the first time is proing in with your partner during the act
tection from both pregnancy and STDs.
can be really endearing. You can also
Use a condom. Just do it. It takes some
dirty talk your way through it, if the
practice and trial and error to find the
soon-to-be-non-virgin likes that. Just
best condoms and learn how to use them
communicate in some way.
properly. Try to have a good idea of how
As always, have fun with it. Try not
they work before you go into it.
to stress yourself out too much about
If that doesn’t feel safe enough for
virginity and its loss. I mean, is it reyou, go to University Health Services or
ally something you “have” in the first
Planned Parenthood or just your friendly
place?
neighborhood gynecologist (or send your
It’s not like you’ve got a necklace
girl to any of those places) to get birth
or a watch or something that you’re
control. Do this in addition to condom use. giving away or “losing” in the grass.
Now, if you want to have sex with
You’re just adding one more new expesomeone who’s a virgin, the first rule is
rience to the intricate story of your life.
to respect them and their choices. Some
Waddill is a member of
people really value their virginity. Others
the class of 2009.
the
Sex
“ &CT”
UR Opinion
Gemini (May 21–June 21) — Facebook
stalking in the library, where everyone
sees what you’re really doing, will not
help you write your 20th-century pornography essay.
Cancer (June 22–July 22) — I see you
becoming mayor of a small town in Alaska
after college.
Leo (July 23–Aug. 22) — You and the rest
of the trust fund brigade should even out
your tan lines after brunch this Sunday.
Virgo (Aug. 23–Sept. 22) — The Freshman
15 is upon you; use protection.
Libra (Sept. 23–Oct. 22) — Sharpen up
your dance skills for impromtu dance-offs
that will win back your lover.
Scorpio (Oct. 23–Nov. 21) — If he prints
you the directions to the abortion clinic,
he’s a keeper.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22–Dec. 21) — Comic
book underwear provides the best opportunity to use clever pick-up lines.
Capricorn (Dec. 22–Jan. 19) — “Bromance” is in the air.... Load up the Natty
Ice and Axe.
Aquarius (Jan. 20–Feb. 18) — Your daily
walk from Riverview does not count as
daily exercise or cardio.
Pisces (Feb. 19–March 20) — It’s not
cheating if it’s the same sex.
(I f you actually believe this, then you are still
waiting for B.J. N ovak in S trong .)
by Kaz sakamoto
What did you miss most about the U of R?
Christina Kuriacose ’11
Ashley Haluck Kangas
’11 and Alexa Hirsch ’11
Aquella Robinson ’09
Sable Brandt ’11
“Dancing with the UR
Bhangra team.”
“Going to the library and
not studying.”
“Gleason — it was a nice
new addition on campus.”
“Living in Sue B.., because everyone told me it
wouldn’t be as good.”
Geri Yu ’09 and Diana
Psomiadis ’09
Ezrah Mechaber ’11
“Diana!”
“Geri!”
“The Frat Quad and Chi
Phriday.”
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Attention UR: intelligence is not an excuse for dressing poorly
by ezra mechaber
contributing writer
We are in a crisis. No, not
the new meal plan, not D-Day’s
complications. I am referring
to the lack of the well-dressed.
Rochester is one of the most
poorly dressed campuses I’ve
seen — I know we’re no NYU or
Columbia, but let’s at least give
it a shot, eh kids? Guys in mom
jeans? Come on, George Costan-
za. Girls in tie-dye sweatshirts
and worn-out sweatpants? Grow
up, Britney. The lack of the sartorially aware is, in my humble
opinion, why Rochester will
continue to be considered a geeky
(and “unattractive”) school. Unless we take action.
Do you want to be considered
another University of Chicago?
You might say, “But Ezra, the
school has a great rep!” If that’s
your response, then you are
blithely unaware of the fact that
its unofficial motto is “Where
Fun Goes to Die” and that it is
not exactly known for its attractive campus. How do we become
a university known for an attractive, well-dressed student body?
It involves a three-prong plan
and a basic set of fashion rules
that I’ve created with our campus in mind.
Let me be clear — I am not
asking for you to be runway
ready. What I am asking for is
a little class — something that
says, “I care marginally about
my appearance.” Why want a
better-dressed campus in the
first place? You’ll be doing your
part to create an aesthetically
pleasing campus, in two ways.
First, by being presentably
(dare I say attractively?) dressed,
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you increase your Hot-or-Not
rating by at least a point or two.
Even the most butter-faced of us
can adhere to this principle and
notice instant results. Beauty
may be on the inside, but really,
it’s kind of not.
Of slightly more consequence,
dressing fashionably ensures
generations of attractive young
Rochester scholars. When attractive high schoolers take a tour
at Rochester, what happens?
They look at the campus. If our
student body is well-dressed, and
the prospective students realize
it? That’s right — all those hot
prospies want to be here because
they feel they fit in here.
Ever been to a tour at NYU?
There are beautiful, well-dressed
people everywhere you turn.
Sadly, I did not go on a tour of
NYU when I was looking at colleges, and so I wound up here.
So now that you realize how
crucial it is to become a little
more shallow, how do we do it?
Using a multi-faceted plan, we
utilize the University’s resources
and make drastic changes to the
way things work around here:
give grants, replace the writing
course and overhaul the bookstore’s clothing selection.
1.) The Rush Rhees Grant of
Excellence in Dress.
The first step is to give grants
to those currently dressing
well, you know who you are. It
will require a basic application
process involving a week-long
analysis of wardrobe choice. The
grant is designed to reward those
who currently possess good taste
and to encourage them to set an
example for the rest of campus.
The Office of Admissions should
be willing to help out, considering all the good it does for the
school’s morale and reputation
— imagine that improved quality-of-life rating we would get
from the U.S. News Ranking!
2.) CAS 101.
Now that we’ve worked to preserve the currently good-looking,
we need to help those who could
use some improvement. Clearly
the opportunity for grants and
scholarships won’t be effective
unless they already have some
basics down. In order to teach
them, I propose we replace CAS
105 (Is it WRT now?) with CAS
101 — a primer on how to dress
well. Since we all know that CAS
105 is useless (only joking, dear
administrators), why don’t we do
some good for the school and the
student body. I’m even willing to
consider a CAS 101E (an alternative for those who need a little
“extra help”). The classes will
include history of fashion, basic
rules and a guide to shopping
without blowing all your tuition
money. But as long as we’re redoing CAS, why not also include
some basic etiquette lessons? It
will focus on how to properly maneuver handicap doors . Here’s
a preview: if the door open is not
on your side of the hall and it is
busy, don’t try to snake through.
Or use the other door. Of course,
those currently on the Rush
Rhees Grant of Excellence in
Dress (let’s be honest, he dressed
baller) are exempt from the class,
but they may be asked to TA.
3.) Bookstore Overhaul.
How do we ensure all of our
newly educated students continue to dress well? Simple. Since
many students cannot be bothered to head off campus, and so
much ugly clothing is found in
See FASHION, Page 16
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EcoHouse proves to be Russia on and off the playground
a positive development
By jeff levy
Staff Writer
At UR, a small group of students has taken an innovative
approach to sustainable living
by creating a cooperate living
environment with a focus on an
eco-friendly lifestyle. EcoHouse
is located at 1201 Genesee St.,
just across the Genesee River
from the University.
EcoHouse is owned and operated by current and former
students who consciously make
sustainable choices in their
daily lives to conserve natural
resources and offset global
warming.
Not only is EcoHouse a
way to live healthier, but it
also allows its residents to eat
healthier food options, such as
organic, local and homemade
foods as opposed to on-campus
dining options.
EcoHouse was started in
2003 by a group of six very
close friends: Nadia Alber ’04,
Audrey Stewart ’05 (T5),
Anna Barnes ’04, Jessica
Gale’04, Andrew McNamara ’05 and Andrew Hall ’07 (T5).
“We all wanted
to live off campus
and live as sustainably as possible,”
Alber said. “We were
sick and tired of not
being able to ‘really’
control our heat,
water and electricity usage. We wanted
to be able to garden,
compost food scraps and
recycle more efficiently. We
wanted to be able to buy food in
bulk from the Farmer’s Market
and cook it together in a wholesome family environment. We
wanted to walk a little lighter
on the Earth so to speak.”
The four female founding
members began discussing the
idea in the first semester of
their junior year, and they were
subsequently joined by the guys
when they put the idea of the
house into operation at the
beginning of the 2003-04 school
year.
EcoHouse is now part of the
Minowan Environmental Co-op,
which also includes its sister
property, EcoEstate, across the
street at 12 Arvine Heights.The
EcoHouse community attempts
to make environmentally
friendly decisions in as much
of daily life as possible. This is
evident in the way the group
shops, cooks, performs chores,
lives and gets around.
They buy local food in bulk,
taking weekly shopping trips
to Wegmans, the Public Market
and Abundance, a local co-op
food market. These shopping
trips translate into shared dinners and sometime potlucks,
where members of the community take turns preparing
meals.
EcoHouse members also
try to keep energy use to a
minimum by using compact
florescent light bulbs, hanging
clothes out to dry and keeping
the heat low in the winter.
In addition, members prefer
walking, biking, using public
transportation or carpooling to
get around the UR campus and Rochester.
One of the
largest advantages this
living style
provides the
group is an affordable living
arrangement.
For EcoHouse
Josh Hatcher residents,
Staff Illustrator total monthly
rent payments range from around $300
to $450. This includes rent,
utilities, wireless Internet, food
costs and co-op fees and allows
a 50-70 percent savings on
room and board while attending UR.
In 2005, EcoHouse was the
subject of an anthropology
study at UR.
In the past, they have created a hydroponic garden.
EcoHouse is also working with
another co-op, Ant Hill, nearby
in Brooks Landing in order to
share a variety of ideas about
their lifestyles, improving and
sustaining the cooperative way
of life.
Levy is a member of
the class of 2008.
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actually sad to say that alcoholism is a huge problem over
there.
However, since we are thousands of miles away, why not
joke about the fact that Russians have government-funded
programs to make sure that
pregnant mothers avoid getting
intoxicated on a regular basis,
programs that may occasionally
go unnoticed.
That said, Russia is also a
mixture of very hardy individuals, as is showcased at most
Olympic Games.
This past year, they took
third place in the medal count
behind the United States and
China. Not bad, considering
their national diet consists
only of vodka and potatoes
(this may or may not be some-
thing I made up).
One such sport
is artistic gymnastics, which ranks
below cheerleading on the “Official
Sports Scale” that I
just invented (don’t
worry, it’s credible).
First off, according to the
source of all things credible
— Wikipedia — under the category, “Dominant Nations,”
Russia is number one on the
list for the sport, and rightfully
so. They have won a medal in
gymnastics every single year
since its inception.
Even this year’s women’s
all-around winner, Nastia Liukin, an American, was born
in Russia. The gymnastics really brings us back full circle,
though; Russia is just a country
where people want to enjoy
themselves, maybe do a little
bit of hanging around either
on the bars on the playground,
hoping to one day earn money
doing this, or in the bars, hoping not to freeze to death.
In the end, they are savoring
life as they know it and making
their history work for them as
best they can.
Bierasinski is a member of
the class of 2010.
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As you may or may not know,
Russia occasionally becomes
cold as balls, more so than
Rochester is even capable of.
You may have heard of Siberia, where it becomes so cold
that absolute zero means you
can wear shorts.
Many people have many different ways of dealing with this
lovely weather. Some wear fur.
Others wear absurd amounts
of fur. And outside of that,
there is a lovely tonic known
as vodka, which you may have
even seen once or twice here in
America.
While vodka may have been
invented by the Polish, the
Russians drank it all and
helped refine the taste when
they sobered up in May and
started making their own.
Alcohol comprises a large
part of Russian culture and I’m
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that Russia may have been
ruled under a ridiculous social
experiment known as Stalinism, or some evolution of it, for
about 50 years.
A government developed by
a man who killed more people
than Hitler can’t possibly leave
anything worth wanting to talk
about behind.
The evolution out of that
mess of leadership is sort of
like waking up and realizing
that you have to carry every
single person to class that day,
all day. I guess what I’m really
trying to say here is that it’s a
huge pain in the ass.
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By christopher
bierasinski
Staff Writer
Do you remember when you
were a little kid on the playground?
Spending recess hanging
out with your friends, swinging from the monkey bars,
wearing your “Power Ranger”
sweatshirt? Good times… good
times… up until that one kid
in the class had to ask you
why you had the Pink Ranger
sweatshirt and not the Green
Ranger.
Quick aside: I am, of course,
referring to the original Power
Rangers, before any of the crazy spin-offs or the movie came
out. If you don’t know what I’m
talking about, well… welcome
to the UR class of 2012.
Back to the big picture;
maybe you like the Pink
Ranger, her can-doanything attitude
and the fact
that she
really is
the smart
one of all
of them for
using a bow
and arrow
for a weapon
instead of risking
getting punched in
the face.
Sure, you saw the
logic in this choice,
but not every kid on the playground does. This logic of
fitting in doesn’t stop at the
playground; it extends all the
way up to the highest levels
of international relations and
policy. At that level, the kid in
the Pink Ranger sweatshirt is
Russia, and boy, everyone sure
is giving them a weird look
these days.
Russia’s not exactly one
for “fitting in.” First off, the
country covers one-sixth of the
world’s surface. China has a
fifth of the population — big
deal, it’s nice and dense, while
Russia has to be able to govern and maintain its vast land
holdings.
The shear size of the nation
makes it difficult to fit into any
mold whatsoever. If they did
want to turn to anyone for advice, which they don’t, the only
country near them in size is
Canada, and we all know that
Canada is just America’s hat.
Let’s also examine the fact
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Fashion: Rock the hoodie Singing: Pursuing musical aspirations
the bookstore we should kill two
birds with one stone: replace
the collegiate wear with a smallscale couture store. We’ll stock
the bookstore full of designer
clothing, effectively replacing
everything except for those expensive-ass sweatshirts that say
Rochester on them and are basically a requirement for attending
UR. $60 for a zip-up? Obscenely
overpriced.
On second thought, I’m totally
okay replacing those too. We’ll
find some American Apparel ones
and screen print across the back.
I’m proposing that these items
of clothing be heavily subsidized
by Admissions to encourage ownership. After all, isn’t the student
body (and the students we will
attract) worth it?
Okay, so all of this might take
a little bit of work to achieve.
What are some provisions that
will create immediate results?
Here they are: the 8 Fashion
Rules UR Students Should
Adhere To.
1) Sweatpants
are not acceptable if you don’t
have a 9:40 class.
Trips to the gym
not included,
wearing sweatpants should
not be worn at
normal hours of
the day. And if
you must, please
– enough of the
worn-out, two
sizes too big, grey
Rochester sweatpants you’ve had
since you came to take a tour
during your junior year of high
school. Juicy Couture is equally
frowned upon – just because it’s
expensive doesn’t mean it isn’t
tacky.
2) Leggings and a long shirt?
That was cool 3 years ago. Find
something else to wear when
you’re going out to party. I’ll
probably catch flack for this
one, but please find a new trend.
Every once in a while it looks
great, the rest of the time I’m
not convinced.
3) Wayfarers looked great
because they were original and
timeless. Just because your rayban knockoffs (or, in light of
their recent re-issue) might glow
in the dark doesn’t mean you
should wear them. Get shutter
shades for that. Ray Ban Wayfarers are best in Black and Tortoise
Shell (think Blues Brothers or
Audrey Hepburn).
4) I know that if you have lots
of classes and labs and papers to
write it can be hard to find the
time to go shopping. But Marketplace Mall is so close that it’s
hard to believe you don’t have
the time to go shopping for jeans
that actually fit you. Please.
Clothing that actually fits you
will go so far. It doesn’t need
to be expensive, it just needs to
actually fit.
Not sure how to tell if it fits?
Bring a friend who has a clue.
They’ll be able to help you out.
No more tapered jeans or shirts
that just don’t hang right.
5) I’m not sure how many
Rochester has, but I’m sure
there are a few George Costanza
wallets out there. You know,
the things that are like 4 inches
thick, that might actually be
“assault with a deadly weapon” if
someone threw it at you.
Carry less. How much do you
need besides an ATM card, your
ID and a credit card? Maybe 40
bucks or so in cash? That does
not create a 4-inch wallet. What
the hell are you
even holding in
there, your girlfriend’s unborn
child? It just
looks awkward.
6) Just because it was
“really expensive” does not
mean it looks
good. However,
it does mean
you look like a
jackass every
time you mention to me how
much it costs.
It still looks like crap.
7) While not really worth restating, Crocs belong 3 places:
the bathroom, the garden, and
the mountain summit. Wilson
Commons is not included in that
list, neither is anywhere else
on campus. Danforth brunch is
pushing it, but close.
If you hike regularly or play
ultimate Frisbee, you’re enough
of a hippie to pull it off.
8) Speaking of Danforth
brunch, someone needs to tell
the freshmen living in Danforth
that arriving for breakfast in pajamas with Sesame Street characters on them is not acceptable,
and neither are those slippers
that look like a shoe or a dog. You
look like a total idiot.
Sweatpants are only acceptable
if you are hung over.
Yeah, you’re right, I’m just a
jealous upperclassman, but that
doesn’t make you look any less
like an idiot.
Mechaber is a member of
the class of 2011.
Just because
it was “really expensive” does
not mean it looks
good. However,
it does mean you
look like a jackass
every time you
mention to me
how much it costs.
The chance never came. A nice
gentleman ushered me in to
audition. I received a warm
welcome which I soon realized was
part of a carefully crafted, timetested plan to make someone feel
comfortable (and I’ll be damned if
it didn’t work).
I began with a short interview,
not only for their benefit, but
stunningly for my own, as I remembered who I was and what
at all qualified me to be there.
This progressed suddenly — too
suddenly! What, we’re starting
already? Can’t I answer more
questions? Please!? — to performing some basic scales. They
told me after the exercise that I
managed to hit a high A sharp (in
retrospect, that was the highest
note I could reach on the trum-
pet, mangled though it was). But,
it wasn’t actually so bad.
Then the hard part came. In
all of five minutes, like a missile you can’t dodge, it came: the
solo. Earlier in the week I envisioned singing something with a
little pep, but, inspired by “The
Wizard of Oz,” I switched last
minute to “Somewhere Over the
Rainbow.” If Judy Garland had
been alive to hear it, my performance wouldn’t have helped any
of her problems.
Yet they applauded me warmly
and, after one final exercise, sent
me on my way, sweating and
mentally exhausted, so that some
other possible star could have a
crack at the big time. The elation
at feeling the fresh air almost
made me double over. It was
finished.
Harboring illusions about my
chances at being a singer would
only hurt me, but I enjoyed the
ride, and as I walked back to my
room singing merrily to myself,
I felt I could handle anything.
The same music that wrenched
my gut also soothed me, as only
music can do.
The hardest part of singing
might be less about the act itself, but rather the performance
(stage fright is the second biggest
phobia in the world) — which
explains the plethora of shower
singers.
Can everyone sing? In the
greatest sense, perhaps not. But
everyone should. Music is too
good to deny yourself a solo every
once in a while.
Brenneman is a member of
the class of 2009.
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Galifianakis jokes and
teases to low heights
by ariee jung
Staff Writer
What is the best thing you
have ever spent $5 on?
According to several people
on campus, it is certainly not
the comedy show featuring Zach
Galifianakis last Saturday during
Yellowjacket Weekend. In an impromptu survey that was taken,
four out of five students that
attended the show found Zach
Galifianakis to be a resounding
disappointment or “not as funny
as expected.”
“[He was] awkward, slovenly
and plain and not funny,” sophomore Ben Willinsky said. “The
laughs he was able to entice were
out of pity and nervousness. A
complete waste of $5.”
Statements such as this seem
a shame, since for weeks the
campus was abuzz with news
of the scheduled appearance of
B.J. Novak, star of “The Office.”
When he cancelled a few days before his scheduled performance
due to an illness, UR was easy to
forgive and willing to give this
new replacement comedian a try.
Saturday came, and Strong
Auditorium was filled with a
number of people who did not
sell their tickets — keeping in
mind it was notably packed for a
last-minute exhibition.
Galifianakis strolled up on
stage with a beard of intimidating size and was welcomed with
a raucous cheer. He grabbed the
microphone and started with a
string of decent one-liners that
were crass in the way that they
shocked you into a chuckle and
left you with a grin on your face.
Impressions such as the “Pretentious Illiterate” had audiences going for a while. However,
maybe it was in between the
piano playing and the Altoid
box dropping (part of one of his
jokes) when the show turned into
something akin to a presentation
that you would see during Orientation.
Galifianakis then jumped off
the stage and began interacting
with the crowd, walking amongst
the students and asking questions about their names, majors
and hobbies. The audience
played along in good humor until
they realized that this was the
extent of his joke — there was no
punch line.
“I thought Zach was funny,
but he re-used a lot of old material and seemed to struggle with
the time, killing it with unnecessary crowd interaction,” sophomore Matt Neems said.
Galifianakis even managed to
drag an extremely shy girl up
on stage and make her sit on a
piano bench while continuing the
droll line of orientation-esque
questions that even touched
upon what she aspires to be in
the future.
Heartwarming, I’m sure, but
I’m pretty sure I came here to
laugh, not to sit in on a session
of Icebreakers 101.
“It appeared as though he only
had about 10 minutes of actual
written material and the rest of
the time he just made up stuff as
he went,” sophomore Ben Cohen said. “That strategy might
work for some comedians, but
I thought that after a while it
started to get old fast.”
When it was nearing the end
of the show, even Galifianakis
remarked, “What time is it? It
feels like it’s been an eternity.” It
does for us too Zach.
The verdict? Sure, Galifianakis
put on a good show, if you had
nothing better to do. But considering the humor was sub-par, he
did manage to get a respectable
amount of laughs out of an audience that was expecting much
more. Although we are thankful
that Zach was able to fill in for
B.J. Novak at the last minute,
I think we all agree that Zach
should stick to what he does
best… Red Light, Green Light
2009, anyone?
Jung is a member of
the class of 2011.
Kyle sabo • Staff Photographer
Comedian Zach Galifianakis plays the piano while making jokes
during his performance in Strong Auditorium last Saturday.
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Mike Henry will come to Strong Auditorium on Friday to talk about his experiences with “Family Guy.”
Mike Henry of “Family Guy”
talks voices, gags, and instinct
by leah kraus and nandini
venkateswaran
A & E Editors
When it comes to dream jobs,
Mike Henry may just be the master of that field. He gets paid to
write jokes and do voices for the
television series “Family Guy.”
Starting with the first Season
5 production episode of “Family Guy,” “Prick Up Your Ears,”
Henry has become a main cast
member alongside Seth MacFarlane, Alex Borstein, Seth Green
Patrick Warburton and Mila
Kunis.
A native of Richmond, Virginia, Mike Henry graduated from
Washington and Lee University
in 1988. Henry has written the
“Family Guy” episodes “Death
Lives,” “A Fish out of Water”
along with Alex Borstein, “The
Cleveland-Loretta Quagmire”
along with his brother Patrick
Henry, “Patriot Games,” and “No
Meals On Wheels.”
He has also done voiceover
work for his “Family Guy” costar Seth MacFarlane on “Robot
Chicken.” Henry and his brother
Patrick also created “Kicked in
the Nuts,” a popular and wellreceived entry in 2003 for Channel101.com, a short film-oriented
Web site.
His own show, “The Cleveland
Show,” based off of his characters
of Cleveland and Cleveland Jr.
from “Family Guy,” will air in
the fall.
Henry will make a special
appearance Friday night at 7:30
p.m. in Strong Auditorium to
talk about his experiences with
“Family Guy” and “The Cleveland Show.” He found a free
moment in his packed schedule
to talk about his career and his
exciting day-to-day lifestyle.
when you’re assigned a character, you just start pitching ideas.
How did you get into television?
I was actually doing some
stand-up, acting and directing short films, when I met
Seth McFarland at the Rhode
Island School of Design and hit
it off with him. I was acting in
my brother’s films and kept in
touch with Seth, and when he
sold “Family Guy” and asked if
I wanted to be a part of it I said
yes. That’s how I came to write
for the show.
What’s your favorite character that you voice on “Family
Guy”?
Cleveland. He’s got some soul
and is a big-hearted fellow.
Were you first hired on “Family Guy” as a writer or a
voice actor?
Seth brought me on specifically for TV gags. I was hired as
a writer and then after a few
episodes I created Cleveland.
How do decide on how your
characters’ (Cleveland,
Greased-Up Deaf Guy and
Herbert) voices should
sound?
I based Cleveland off of a guy
I met playing basketball who
pronounced Maryland like “Merlin.” He had a funny voice, and I
started mimicing him. The voices
are generally based on people
I’ve met. Herbert is based on an
old man I used to see at a grocery
store. I turned him into a pedophile and tried to get Chris into
his basement. Greased-Up Deaf
Guy was always a nerdy character. We had to come up with
a funny picnic gag and “how
about catch the Greased-Up Deaf
Guy” came from that. You have
your bank of life experiences and
Do you ever talk like Cleveland even when you’re not
doing “Family Guy”?
Sometimes. My son loves it. I
make jokes occasionally as Cleveland. You don’t get stopped on
the street as a voice actor. Celebrities get stopped everywhere, I
can just lay low.
Do you ever hear fans imitate the voices from “Family
Guy”?
One time in Virginia I was in
a restaurant and saw a bunch of
college guys getting their pregame on. One of them did the
voice of Greased-Up Deaf Guy
saying “See ya next year” before
he did a shot.
What’s the best and worst
part about your job?
The best part is everything
and the worst part is nothing.
It took a very long time for me
to get to this position, though.
“Family Guy” was my first big
break. Between the ages of 2432, I did a lot of different things
and was trying to find my creative voice. I was following the
blind instinct that I wanted to be
funny for a living. I started doing
stand-up, taking acting classes
and waiting tables in Virginia,
and it was eight years until I
made a living.
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Clothesline Fest celebrates Rochester’s artistic community
by Dawn Ryan
Staff Writer
Painter Joe Guy Allard of
Rochester sat in his tent at the
Clothesline Festival on Sunday
amidst his futuristic, neon paintings, bouncing his tie-dye clad
toddler on his knee.
“Rochester’s artist community
is quiet and can go unnoticed
sometimes,”Allard said, wiping
drool from his son’s face. “But
when you start looking for it, it’s
surprisingly there.”
The festival ran Saturday,
Sept. 6 through Sunday, Sept. 7.
Tents (and not literal clotheslines) were scattered across the
17-acre M&T Bank parking lot in
front of the Memorial Art Gallery on University Ave. Artists at
the festival hailed predominantly
from the Rochester-Buffalo area,
but there were also artists from
other areas as well.
Allard was one of the 400-plus
artists to display his work at
this past weekend’s festival. As
a first-year exhibitor, Allard did
not know what to expect, but he
thought the Clothesline Festival
was a positive experience. “I’d
come back next year,” he said.
In fact, many artists do come
back to the Clothesline Festival.
Jane Stoddard, a watercolor
painter from East Amherst, N.Y.,
has been coming to the Clothesline Festival for 15 years now.
“I do exhibitions up and down
the East Coast, but I always
come back to the Clothesline
Festival and Rochester,” Stoddard said.
Artwork appeared at every
turn and in many different
forms, including oil paintings,
hand-blown glass sculptures,
wood carvings, leather work and
sterling silver.
The festival also featured live
marauding musicians and food
stands serving local Rochester
favorites ranging from local coffee drinks to the region’s famous
white hots. Belly dancers even
made an appearance in between
the artist tents.
The turnout for the event was
a testament to the artist community in Rochester. Families,
individuals, friends, youth and
seniors alike all made an appearance to celebrate Rochester’s
artists.
“My husband and I have been
coming to the Clothesline Festival for 10 years,” Rochester resident Amber Spack said. “[Some]
of the best parts of the city are
the summer festivals and arts.”
Despite good numbers, there
seemed to be fewer people buying
artwork. The pieces bought were
generally smaller prints and
several inexpensive items.
“The economy and the weather
are impacting sales at these festivals,” Stoddard said. “But the
turnout and interest in the work
is still there.”
And even as the rain started
coming down late Sunday afternoon, festival-goers held their
ground, staying under the shelter
of artists’ tents or simply pulling
out their umbrellas.
Rochester art advocates might
be buying less, but it would take
more than a little rain to keep
them away for good.
Rochester artist Adrien Tucker
echoed Stoddard.
“It seems like every festival
we’ve had this summer has hit a
rainy day. But I guess the people
of Rochester have learned to cope
with that, and they come anyway,” Tucker said.
Tucker, a modern impressionist painter, hopes that the weather will improve for the next event
on the artists’ festival agenda,
rounding up the season.
This weekend, ARTWalk Alive!
will be held on Sunday, Sept. 14
between noon and 4 p.m. on the
intersection of University Ave.
and Goodman St.
ARTWalk Alive! is a performance-based festival, where
Andrew Slominski • Staff Photographer
Belly dancers gyrate in exquisite outfits during their appearance
at the Clothesline Festival alongside the wide arrays of artwork.
visual art is made on the spot.
Tucker, for instance, will be
painting an exhausting 10 works
in four hours.
Rain or shine, the Rochester
artist community continues to
wholeheartedly support their
festivals, in whatever form the
summer months might take.
For more information about
the artists, vendors, and exhibits
at the Clothesline Festival, visit
http://mag.rochester.edu/clothesline. For more information on
ARTWalk Alive! visit http://www.
rochesterartwalk.org.
Ryan is a member of
the class of 2009.
Petit straddles man-made tightrope in “Man on Wire”
by SAM MILLER
Staff Writer
The exhilarating 2008 documentary entitled “Man on Wire,”
directed by James Marsh takes
the meaning of the word “passion” to an entirely new, breathtaking level. As students trickle
back to school after various
summers filled with dusty alarm
clocks and 3 p.m. breakfasts, this
film is key in the active mindsets
of goal setting, precision and
hard work.
Unlike most of us who strive
toward accomplishing goals of
becoming doctors, lawyers, teachers and writers, among other
admirable careers, Philippe Petit
lives for the thrill of tightrope
walking, as he dedicates his life
to enhancing and perfecting this
skill.
Born in Paris, Petit started
living on the edge at a very early
age. From even the very beginning stages of life, he challenged
himself to walk across dangerous
surfaces. Petit is most known for
his illegal walk between the Twin
Towers in New York City on Aug.
7, 1974. The documentary’s main
focus is both the planning and
execution of the aforementioned
act.
Petit was first inspired to pursue this ambition in 1968, as he
sat in his dentist's office in Paris.
Here, he discovered an article on
the not-yet-constructed Towers,
along with an illustration of the
proposed model. From this point
forward, he grew obsessed with
the Towers, collecting articles,
taking measurements and contemplating various methods of
slyly yet carefully accomplishing
the act he had in mind.
Petit ensured perfection and
unquestionable accuracy by
traveling to New York on many
occasions to make first-hand observations of the construction of
the towers. Petit and N.Y.-based
photographer Jim Moore went
up in a helicopter to take aerial
photographs of the World Trade
Center.
Petit used a 450-pound cable
and a custom-made 26-foot- long,
55-pound balancing pole to
achieve his goal. He stepped off
the South Tower and onto his
three-quarter inch, 6 by 19 IWRC
steel cable, and then made eight
crossings between the Towers,
which were still in construction,
a quarter mile above the sidewalks of Manhattan, in an event
that lasted about 45 minutes. In
addition to walking, he sat on
the wire, gave knee salutes, laid
on the wire and spoke with a
gull circling above his head. The
beauty and peace that 24-yearold Petit encompasses are visuals
to which words do no descriptive
justice. It’s as if the world is so
simple and so golden for the few
moments as one looks to the
sky and sees this divine being
stretched on a wire, experiencing
complete peace and harmony.
Sgt. Charles Daniels, who
worked for the Port Authority
Police Department, was dispatched to the roof to bring Petit
down and later reported what he
experienced.
“I observed the tightrope
'dancer'— because you couldn't
call him a 'walker' — approximately halfway between the two
towers. And upon seeing us he
started to smile and laugh and
he started going into a dancing
routine on the high wire.
“And when he got to the building we asked him to get off the
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Phillipe Petit fearlessly inches down his self-made tightrope between the Twin Towers in the film “Man on Wire.”
high wire, but instead he turned
she said. “The guy had a sort of
around and ran out into the
deep maniacal seriousness that
middle. He was bouncing up
we generally find only in children
and down. His feet were actuand lunatics, and it was very
ally leaving the wire and then he
moving to see the way that his
would resettle back on the wire
basically ordinary friends and
again... Unbelievable. Everybody
co-conspirators accommodated
was spellbound in the watching
themselves to that seriousness of
of it.”
his, even at great cost to themGraduate Head Resident of
selves. The film did a good job of
Southside Katie Van Wert comstaring and didn't try to explain
mented on the film.
what didn't need explaining.”
“I thought it was amazing—
Miller is a member of
very lovely and also very funny,”
the class of 2011.
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NeoCollage blends classical and pop fusion at Starbucks
by erin sanehira
Staff Writer
Violin, viola, harp, bass, percussion. To the naïve, this ensemble of classical instruments
may seem reserved for weddings
and naptime. NeoCollage, however, is no ordinary ensemble.
With musical training from the
Eastman School of Music, Cody
Yakimow (bass), Nick Revel (viola), Curtis Stewart (violin), Rick
Williams (percussion) and Megan
Bledsoe (harp) have formed a
new breed of music that blurs
the lines between genres.
While they generally don the
label “classical pop fusion,” the
resulting sound includes snapshots of their individual backgrounds, their training in the
classics from ESM, and their new
influences, ranging from rock to
world music and even hip-hop.
In an interview, they revealed
their beginning, evolution and
ambition as a band.
How did you form as a band?
Cody Yakimow: It was very
separate at first. Like me and
Curtis [were] playing with each
other because we were friends.
Some of us weren’t even friends
until we actually decided, “Oh, I
have this person and we can all
get together.”
Megan Bledsoe: At first it
was just for fun, kind of just
hanging out.
What are your ambitions as
a band? How did it go from
just jamming to actually
playing at different venues?
Nick Revel: It very slowly
evolved, actually. We realized
with every show that something
was kind of leading us on, and we
would follow it a lot. Eventually
a gig would lead us to this person
and then we’d play another gig.
At the beginning of the summer we had our set at the International Jazz Festival and that
was a lot of fun. Now that we’ve
graduated, we’re separated.
Curtis, Rick and I are down in
New York City. And Megan and
Cody are in Rochester. Right
now, [Curtis, Rick and I] are
trying to live on our own in New
York City and once that is more
established, we [NeoCollage] will
be playing a lot more together.
Curtis Stewart: Originally,
our main concept of playing was
as recitals because we’re all classically trained. We were writing
songs and then we played our
first recital with our first CD.
[But] then eventually we relaxed
a bit and thought, “You know,
let’s just play for people.”
Rick Williams: A lot of it
came too as our style changed
and as we got new instruments.
We started out acoustic, like I
was playing acoustic marimba,
[Cody] was playing double bass
and [Megan] was playing [acoustic] harp. And then we started
getting a more electric sound,
and since we were branching
away from the traditional classic,
we also branched away from the
traditional classic recital format.
Time-wise, how did you manage being Eastman students
and having a band on the
side?
M.B.: We met up every Friday
and Saturday night and had no
lives.
C.S.: It was actually a release.
As a classical musician, you’re
always playing somebody else’s
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NeoCollage combines their classical Eastman training with their love for hip-hop, rock, and fusion.
music and you have to really
work to feel what the composer
is trying to get across. Once [I’m]
composing [my] own stuff, I feel
a lot freer and I feel like I’m actually saying what I want to say.
Are there any people or musicians who serve as an inspiration to you?
C.Y.: Curtis.
M.B.: He inspires you?
C.Y.: He writes in his journal
every day of musical ideas.
C.S.: There are plenty of musicians out there that are so amazing.
M.B.: I think we could all list
50 names.
C.S.: We could list so many dif-
ferent styles. We have sat down
and analyzed Michael Jackson.
R.W.: [And] songs from James
Brown.
C.S.: We actually analyzed hiphop and what can we do with our
instruments to emulate.
M.B.: But not to say that hiphop is a greater influence than
the classical musicians or the
jazz musicians.
Any highlights?
R.W.: Unpredictability.
M.B: I thought the International Jazz Festival was a highlight
C.S.: The flexibility.
C.Y.: I think that after all the
hard times of putting things
together and getting a chance to
play in front of a crowd – a good
crowd – and play really well.
N.R.: Eastman has taught us
about playing our instruments
and being musical. But for our
major classical performance,
there is no emphasis on writing
or arranging. So for us it is really special for us to have our concerts with our music that we’ve
written. No one can tell us how
to play it. Nobody else can play it
the way we play it except for us.
And for me, that’s the best part.
For more information about
NeoCollage, check out their Web
site: http:// www.NeoCollage.net.
Sanehira is a member of
the class of 2011.
Comedian: Henry reveals his inspirations for many hilarious voiceovers.
What’s a typical day like for
you?
I get to work, go into the
writer’s room, work on scripts,
re-write stuff to make it funnier,
record my own stuff and look at
story boards just to make sure
everything looks right. I work
from about 10-6 and wear whatever I want. A lot of celebrities
come in. It’s a conducive and
creative environment. It’s different hard work but it’s the only
thing I would care so much about
to do, which is a good indicator of
what I should be doing.
Do any celebrities ever come
in that you don’t like?
Not usually. Most of them are
pretty cool. I’ve met celebrities
like David Lynch who come in
and out of the office. We got to
go to his house, meet him and
record him. You get a pretty good
vibe of whether different celebrities are cool or not. When you
get the chance to talk to them
as professionals you also get to
know them as individuals. They
are awesome as both celebrities
and people.
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What’s “The Cleveland
Show” about?
It’s very similar to “Family
Guy” with its same style of drawing and animation. It takes place
in the same universe as “Family
Guy,” but it moves to Cleveland’s
hometown in Virginia. Cleveland
reconnects with his high school
sweetheart and what you get
is a version of the black Brady
Bunch. The show is filled with a
ton of flashbacks, cutaways and
gags. It is “Family Guy” with a
big heart and not as vicious with
celebrities. It’s a family show
with siblings adjusting, step
children fighting and families
making up. At the end of the day,
they all share a meaningful bond.
The show also has a lot of soul
music, as opposed to gay showtunes.
I heard a rumor that in “The
Cleveland Show,” Cleveland’s family will have neighbors that are bears?
Yes, there is Tim the Bear and
Seth does his voice. We initially
were thinking of using ghosts as
the characters but we just decided on a family of bears. Arianna
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Cleveland from “Family Guy” leaves and starts his own family in Mike Henry’s “The Cleveland Show.”
crazy. Across the street there is a
Huffington from The Huffington
and lives with his parents.
family of red necks and a friend
Post is doing the voice of Mama
Kraus is a member of
of Cleveland Jr.’s, Holt, aspires
Bear. Tim and Mama have a 15
the class of 2009.
to be in Maxim magazine even
year-old stoner bear son that
Venkateswaran is a member of
though he’s 32 years old, 5’2”
drives the religious bear family
the class of 2011.
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2. Conor Oberst
7. Jessica Lea Mayfield
3. Hold Steady
8. Hello Sequence
4. Beck
9. Stereolab
5. Fink
10. Coldplay
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Volleyball: Ithaca no match for UR team Defense: Shutouts galore
On Friday, at the Victory Promotions Tournament at SUNY Potsdam, the sophomore star continued to shine. Bender totaled 67 assists in two victories, the first over
St. Lawrence University and the
second over SUNY Plattsburgh.
Kauper again added to the mix by
collecting eight kills and two block
assists against St. Lawrence and
seven kills and three block assists
against Plattsburgh.
Hamilton also made huge contributions in the winning efforts,
totaling 42 digs in the two matches.
Also stepping were fellow sophomores, middle hitter and right side
player Cat Kane and defensive
specialist Katie Drinkwater.
The ’Jackets finished the Victory Promotions Tournament 2-2
after dropping both games the
second day to Clarkson University
and SUNY Potsdam.
After UR’s most recent game, a
3-0 victory over Ithaca College, it
looks as if the ’Jackets are headed
in the right direction and that this
trend of sophomores stepping up
is going to continue.
The sophomore class came up
big again against Ithaca. Kauper
had seven kills and five blocks.
Bender led UR with 30 assists,
four kills, three blocks and two
aces. Schweigel continued her
solid play by chipping in 19 digs
and two service aces. The team
now turns its attention to the
Rochester Institute of Technology
tournament, where UR will again
face Ithaca.
And while the sophomore class
has certainly shown its potential to
excel on the court, the first couple
weeks of the season also show how
much UR relies a lot on the leadership of its upperclassmen, senior
outside hitter Jess Rasmussen,
senior setter Kate Lewis and junior
outside hitters Emily Hunter and
Katie Fenton.
Rasmussen has been especially
influential as a leader on the court.
At Potsdam this past weekend, she
JEff Levy • Staff Photographer
Sophomore libero Tayler Schweigel leads UR with 119 digs this year.
was named to the All-Tournament
Team for the second time in as
many years and currently leads
the team in kills and is second
in digs.
With the strong leadership of
Rasmussen, along with the youthful enthusiasm of the many sophomores and freshmen on the team,
the ’Jackets appear poised and
ready to make a run this year.
Couple that with continued
excellence from Schweigel and her
classmates, and the ingredients
are in place for a strong season.
Following the RIT tournament
this weekend, the ’Jackets return
to the Palestra on Tuesday to play
RIT. The game is the first event in
the “Pack the Palestra” initiative
drafted by the Students’ Association to get students to support UR
athletics.
The ’Jackets begin UAA competition in the beginning of October,
when they travel to Pittsburgh,
Pa. to take part in the first round
of conference play.
Gillenson is a member of
the class of 2010.
Proud was tipped at the last
second by Cortland’s senior
goalkeeper Jack Carillo, hit
the crossbar and was safely
cleared by the Dragon defenders.
Perhaps UR’s best chance to score
came in the first overtime, when
freshman forward Josh Biegel
crossed a ball into the box for
junior forward J.J. Dennstedt,
whose shot was blocked out
of bounds by a diving Carillo.
On the defensive side of the
ball, the ’Jackets were particularly sharp. The defense did a
good job of containing Dragon’s
senior forward Bryan Patterson,
who scored 14 goals last season
to lead Cortland’s offense and
who, at 6-foot-6-inches, had a
significant size advantage over
UR’s defenders.
Peacock played well in net,
although he saw few shots, as
the Yellowjackets were able to
control play for most of the day.
He finished the game with three
saves.
Last Friday night, the UR
defense was again staunch in
a match-up against the 2007
Liberty League Champion St.
Lawrence University Saints, and
the ’Jackets were able to dominate the Saints up and down the
field on their way to a 3-0 victory.
Peacock had five saves, broke up
a number of scoring chances and
got help from the goal post twice
in 90 minutes of play to preserve
the shutout for the ’Jackets. He
was recognized for his efforts with
University Athletic Association
Athlete of the Week honors.
On the offensive side of the ball,
it was all about execution, beginning with Dennstedt, who scored
two goals to lead UR in the win.
The junior has been a leader up
top this season — especially with
junior forward Scott Cady out for
at least the non-conference schedule — and nowhere was that more
obvious than in front of the 1,518
people in the stands at Fauver
Stadium on Friday night.
The game was the first event in
a new initiative by the Students’
Association called “Fill Fauver,”
which hopes to increase student
involvement in supporting UR
athletics.
The crowd was the largest crowd
the stadium has seen in eight years
and Apple said that this was a huge
factor in UR’s play.
“I want to say a huge thank
you to the student body for your
amazing support on Friday night,”
Apple said. “The energy that was
brought to Fauver Stadium inspired our squad to play our best
soccer of the season so far.”
Dennstedt kicked off the scoring
early in the game when he received
a feed from Beigel and was able to
lob the ball over St. Lawrence’s
senior keeper Emilio Coletta and
into the net. UR’s second came
early in the second period, when
Dennstedt finished off senior
midfielder Sean Hante’s cross into
the box. Junior Cliff White added
extra insurance of a ’Jacket victory with 10 minutes remaining
in the game, netting the ball into
the top corner of the goal off of a
rebounded shot.
It was the first game in which
UR’s offense ran efficiently and
really capitalized on its opportunities. On the following day, the
’Jackets battled Clarkson University to a 0-0 decision to notch
another tie for the season. Again,
UR controlled possession and
played well as a unit defensively,
but was unable to effectively work
the ball up the field and finish on
any of its 23 shots.
“We need to continue to improve
in terms of our ball movement
and we have been working on
polishing our restarts,” Apple said.
“Overall though, the attitude and
work ethic has been great, and we
are playing attacking soccer. If we
focus on quality performances,
the results will take care of themselves.”
UR put up two more goals
against St. John Fisher College en
route to a 2-1 victory last night.
This time, it was Hantes for the
’Jackets offensively. The senior
scored both goals — the first one
coming midway through the first
and the second score putting the
game out of reach in the 86th
minute. Hantes has three goals
on the season and has offered
leadership both offensively and
defensively for UR.
The ’Jackets lone game next
week is on Tuesday, when they take
on the Golden Flyers of Nazareth
College in Fauver at 7 p.m.
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Daniel Green • Photography Editor
Junior forward J.J. Dennstedt scored twice for UR last Friday night.
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Victory: Goico named MVP Sticks: Field hockey’s record now 3-2
before — great defense and lots
of scoring. But unlike the first
game, UR did not put a goal past
the Wolverines until late into the
first half. The goal came after 10
shots by UR at 43:31 by junior
midfielder Mae Butler. Butler’s
goal came off of a pass from the
20-yard line from junior midfielder
Lindsay Rood.
The goal from Butler got the
scoring started for the ’Jackets,
who scored goal number two
56 seconds into the second half
thanks to a strong shot from
Bojko.
The assist was awarded to freshman forward Ellen Coleman. The
next two goals were scored a little
over three minutes apart, with
the first coming unassisted from
junior forward Erin Carballo. The
second was the result of a pass
from Varin to Coleman to make
the score 4-1.
The last goal of the game came
with only a few minutes left when
Ross dribbled into the box and
scored unassisted.
Alderfer, who played all 90 minutes, recorded the shutout and,
thanks to another great show by
the defense, was not even required
to make a save. UR again outshot
their opponents, this time 26-2,
and allowed the Wolverines only
one corner kick while taking nine
of its own.
Goico was named the tournament’s Most Valuable Player and
was also named to the tournament’s All-Tournament Team.
Other UR players on the team
included Coleman, Bojko and
Rood. The two wins over the
weekend bring the team’s record
to 2-1-1.
Prior to the tournament, the
’Jackets played matches against
Messiah College and Gettysburg
College. Against Messiah — who,
according to d3kicks.com poll, is
ranked No. 2 in the nation — UR
scored the first goal, but then
gave up five straight en route to
a 1-5 loss. Two days later versus
Gettysburg, Bojko scored the
Yellowjackets’ lone goal in a 1-1
tie.
The team’s next game will be
this Sunday against the Union
College Dutchwomen, who are
currently 3-0.
Belonga is a member of
the class of 2010.
with a goal from freshman forward
Anna Dobrzynski just over three
minutes into the game.
This trend continued, and the
Yellowjackets held a shutout for
over 50 minutes of the game. The
Blue Knights responded with a
goal midway through the second
half, but their attempt was not
enough.
In the game against the Elmira
Soaring Eagles, Bottcher scored
early on a penalty corner. Elmira
responded, but was only able to
muster one goal, and UR went on
to score two more, easily winning,
4-1. Goals came from Bottcher,
Case, Beardsley and freshman
defender Shayna McKie.
Last night, the ’Jackets looked
to improve their record to four
wins when they faced the Nazareth College Golden Flyers, but
were unable to gain ground.
Nazareth picked up its first win
of the season in a 1-0 victory over
the ’Jackets.
The game turned out to be a
defensive battle. Neither team
scored throughout the entire first
half, and UR had no shots on goal
through the first half.
The Golden Flyers’ defense
was at its best, as UR was only
able to make two shots on goal
as opposed to its opponents four.
Midway through the second half,
Naz finally broke the deadlock,
when a goal made it through the
pipes.
This win brought Yellowjackets
to 3-2 overall, with their other
defeat coming in the form of a
shutout from SUNY Cortland
on Wednesday, Sept. 3. They will
face Utica College at 7 p.m. in
Fauver Stadium for the second
“Fill Fauver” event of the year.
On Wednesday, they will take on
Haughton College at 7 p.m., also
at home.
Philbrick is a member of
the class of 2009.
Jeff Levy • Staff Photographer
STUDENTs join to “FILL FAUVER”
At the men’s soccer game on Saturday night, Fauver Stadium held its largest crowd in eight years.
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Iya brings fresh outlook to court Golf finishes fourth
By Dana Hilfinger
Sports Editor
First-year volleyball head coach
Ladi Iya tries to keep her coaching
philosophy pretty simple.
“Our players need to work hard
and, most importantly, compete,”
Iya said. “I think there is this idea
that women don’t compete or that
it is not acceptable. We’re trying
to get past that idea.”
Iya’s own competitive nature
stems from her long history playing sports. Growing up in both
Nigeria and England, Iya played
soccer and volleyball. She eventually was recruited by Evansville
University for volleyball. Upon
graduating in 2001, Iya had a brief
stint playing in the United States
Professional Volleyball League.
In 2003, she returned to Nigeria,
where she trained for the Nigerian
national team.
And with such an impressive
playing career, Iya brings a lot to
the table as a coach.
“I think it is really important in
coaching that there is consistency
and also execution,” Iya said. “The
ability to know what you want and
get your players to buy into that
and then execute your system are
very key.”
One of the things that is so striking about Iya is how much she buys
into her system. It quickly became
clear within minutes of talking
to her that she was thoughtful,
sincere and, most importantly,
very passionate about her job
and what she is trying to instill
here at UR.
“They have to endure, and they
have to persevere,” Iya said of
what she expects of her players.
“In the end, whoever you come
to play came to play the best you,
so you should come into a game
ready to play your best.”
And while Iya expects a lot out
of her players, she also seems to
expect a lot out of herself in her
role as coach.
“One of the most challenging
parts is that you have so many
different personalities on a team,”
Iya said. “Communicating to the
players how to achieve our goals
when everyone learns in differ-
Coaches Corner — Ladi Iya
HOMetown: Jos, Nigeria
Alma Mater: University of Evansville (graduated with
baccalaureate degree in business administration)
Career Record: 5-4 (.555); 1st year
Fast Facts:
•She holds the single-season record for blocks at
Evansville with 202.
•In 2004, she competed for Nigeria in an Olympic
Qualifier.
•She is a member of the American Volleyball Coaches
Association (AVCA).
ent ways is something I have to
adapt to.”
Iya’s transition to the realm of
coaching began after she graduated from Evansville with a degree
in business.
“I wasn’t too passionate about
business,” Iya said. “But I always
knew I wanted to teach, and coaching seemed to fit into that.”
After her training with the
Nigerian national team, Iya returned to the U.S. and worked
as an assistant at Nicholls State
University in Louisiana and then
at University of Buffalo before
accepting the position at UR this
past spring.
Throughout her career as both
a player and coach, Iya has been
enormously influenced by the
coaches she has played for and
served under. In high school, it
was the volleyball coach that made
her fall in love with the sport. As
an assistant at Nicholls State, Iya
learned the importance of recruiting in collegiate athletics from the
head coach.
Now in her first capacity as a
head coach, Iya’s lessons will be
vital as she looks to take UR volleyball to the next level in the University Athletic Association and on
a national scale. But in terms of
what Iya hopes to accomplish as
a coach, she takes a much more
all-encompassing approach.
“Obviously, we want a better
record and to win the UAA —
it’s what we are working toward
every day,” Iya said. “But we also
want to get better individually. We
want to be able to learn, change
and adapt.”
It is this individualistic approach for growth, coupled with
a focus on team play, that makes
Iya’s goals special. In terms of her
own role, she already commented
on a key element of coaching — you
have to know what you want out of
your players and have a vision for
your team. And while the season
is still young and very unpredictable, Iya’s passion in that sense
has already proven that she is up
to the challenge.
the class of 2010.
By Dana HIlfinger
Sports Editor
Consistency. It is a word that
is vital when defining a quality
sports team, and it is what every
athlete strives to be, whether it
involves maintaining a level of
excellence or simply being able
to hit a ball the same way every
time.
More so than in other sports,
this characteristic is pivotal in the
game of golf. And this past weekend, the UR golf team was able to
find that level of consistency and
place fourth in a field of 12 teams
in the St. Lawrence University
Invitational in Canton, N.Y.
The Invite included both American and Canadian teams, however,
in terms of NCAA qualification,
only UR’s place among teams from
the U.S. is relevant.
Leading the ’Jackets was the
team’s lone senior and captain,
Jon Pecor, who finished the weekend at a 7-over 151. The score
was good enough for 12th overall
individually in a field of over 70
golfers.
“I was pleased with the leadership we got from captain Jon
Pecor and with the contribution
of freshman David Wien,” head
coach Dan Wesley said.
Pecor will lead a young team
this year with a wealth of talent.
Returning for the ’Jackets are a
number of sophomores who got
valuable experience playing last
year, most notably Ryan Williams,
who won the University Athletic
Association Championship’s individual title as a freshmen last
spring. He was also named Rookie
of the Year in the UAA because of
his performance in the conference
tournament.
Williams shot a solid 78 in both
rounds over the weekend and
finished in a tie for 25th.
Wien was a great indication of
the amount of potential the ’Jackets have in their line-up. The freshman shot a 10-over 154 through
two rounds and finished 17th individually in his first-ever collegiate
competition. Sophomores Chris
Driscoll and Kevin Gay rounded
off the weekend with scores of 163
and 164, respectively.
“This past weekend’s tournament was a decent start to the
season,” Wesley said. “We were
hoping for better results, but we
made up some ground on day two,
and we fought hard.”
Last year, UR placed third out of
10 teams in the Invitational.
The ’Jackets next competition
is on Sept. 20, when they travel
to Meadville, Pa. to compete in
the Allegheney Invitational. The
tournament is the last competition before the Liberty League
Championships at Saratoga State
Park on Sept. 29.
Last year, the conference tournament produced mixed results.
UR finished in third in a field of
six teams. Stephen Goodridge ’08
led the ’Jackets with an individual
second-place finish.
Goodridge was perhaps UR’s
most prolific golfer, winning the
Division III NCAA Championship
as a sophomore, and it will be a
true test for the ’Jackets this year
to see if they can replace him on
course.
the class of 2010.
Sophomores give UR a boost
By JOn GIllenson
Staff Writer
The UR volleyball team is off to
a 6-4 start, and their early success
has been due in large part to the
excellent play of the sophomore
class, particularly libero Tayler
Schweigel. Schweigel’s all-around
ability as a defensive specialist
and an outside hitter is quietly
becoming one of the best sports
stories of the year.
Last year she was on the team
but saw limited action until the
end of the season. This year, however, Schweigel’s playing time has
been significantly increased, and
she has responded with solid play
in the back row. The first week of
the season, Schweigel earned CoPlayer of the Week honors from
the University Athletic Association. She was awarded specifically
because of her excellent play at
the SUNY Cortland Red Dragon
Classic. Schweigel was named to
the All-Tournament Team after
amassing 84 digs through four
matches, including a career-high
30 digs in a match against Nazareth College.
Her solid play continued against
D’Youville College. In a hard
fought victory, Schweigel led the
’Jackets with 20 digs.
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By Jerome Nathaniel
While watching Sylvester Stallone’s “wrinklerific” performance
in “Rocky Balboa,” my roommate
said to me, “I wonder why boxing
isn’t an Olympic sport.” I was
somewhat taken aback, but I later
came to find out that the majority
of my Rochester peers were in the
same boat. More than half of the
residents of Crosby Hall had no
idea that boxing was an Olympic
sport. As an advent fan and participant of the sport, it was a shame to
see how a sport that has historical
significance — and even biblical
reference — could shadowbox its
own self into a dark corner.
Olympic-style boxing involves
a unique scoring system. The two
boxers have white circles on the
ends of their boxing gloves. To
score a point, the white portion
of the glove has to land cleanly
on the opponent. Five world-class
judges are situated around the ring
so that they can see the punches
from different angles. When a
judge sees that the white portion
of the glove has landed cleanly, he
must press a button within three
seconds of the punch. The punch
isn’t recorded unless three out of
five of the judges press the button
for the same punch within three
seconds. Under those regulations,
it doesn’t take a boxing expert to
realize that combos and many
other punches go unrecorded. It
is simply unlikely for five guys,
sitting at five different spots, to hit
a button three times for a threepunch combo within three seconds
of each other. My tongue is tied
just by imagining the odds.
But Olympic-style boxing surely
wasn’t always this way. Otherwise,
the great gold-medal achievements of Muhammad Ali, George
Foreman and Sugar Ray Leonard
may have been undermined. Those
great champions fought under a
completely different set of rules.
As opposed to scoring points with
a button, the match was scored by
rounds. The fighter that won the
round would get 10 points, while
the loser would get nine points.
In the event that a fighter was
knocked down or overly dominated, the round would be scored,
10-8, in favor of the winner. This
system was intended to score in
favor of quality as opposed to
quantity.
If the greatest fighters of all
time fought under this system,
what triggered the changes? It all
changed when one of the greatest
fighters of our time was robbed of
a gold medal in the 1988 Olympic
Games. Roy Jones Jr., of Pensacola, Fla., dominated North Korean
fighter Park Si-Hun. The 18-yearold Jones Jr. Ali-shuffled around
the ring as he landed punches at
will. But the fight ended in a scandal and was given to Si-Hun. The
results were considered such an
atrocity that the judges had their
licenses permanently suspended.
The Olympic Games’ scoring has
been different ever since.
In the post-1988 era, the television viewership and media attention of Olympic boxing has plummeted. After the Atlanta Games of
1996, NBC decided to pull it off of
its primetime slot and threw it on
its less popular network, CNBC.
The combo-less, one-punch-at-atime style is aesthetically pleasing
to the Olympic judges, while the
professional style is often overlooked. As a result, there has been
a depression in the American gold
medal count in boxing. Thus, we
have forgotten that a sport that
was once rich with American
gold is even an Olympic sport at
all. The casual fan may not even
realize that talents like Jermaine
Taylor and Floyd Mayweather Jr.
have competed in the Olympics.
And under the new rules, not even
those pound-for-pound fighters
are able to win gold. In fact, only
one American fighter has won a
gold medal since 2000.
UR is only a college campus:
it’s a mini world that reflects
the general knowledge and pop
culture of our time. If the American in the grocery store doesn’t
know, then the student in the Pit
doesn’t know. It only makes sense
for my roommate to be oblivious
of Olympic boxing. Who watches
CNBC, anyway?
Nathaniel is a member of
the class of 2011.
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View from a Starr ...
Last year, I walked into the
PalaLottomattica Roma to watch
my hometown Boston Celtics
take on the Toronto Raptors in
the first exhibition game of the
2007-08 NBA season. Italy — the
winners of soccer’s most recent
World Cup — was the last place
I ever imagined to be watching
the Boston Celtics play basketball. For the Celtics, the trip to
Rome marked the first step in an
eventual championship run and
the first time Kevin Garnett and
Ray Allen donned the green and
white. However, that was not what
11,000 people had come to see.
Sure there were some Americans
in the stands, but the majority of
the crowd was of Italian descent,
and they were there to see one
man: Andrea Bargnani. Born in
Rome, Bargnani was drafted first
overall by the Raptors in 2006
straight out of Italy. That night,
I saw more No. 7 Toronto jerseys
than I knew existed.
Before the game I was unsure
of what the atmosphere would be
like — a basketball game in Italy?
As the game began, I found my
answer. If it had not been for the
hot dog Panini I was eating (I’m
a firm believer of only serving
hot dogs in buns) I could have
been in any basketball stadium in
America. The crowd was going wild
and not just for Bargnani. They
were completely attuned to the
game and cheering as if it were the
playoffs. It got me thinking. With
the number of European players
already playing in the NBA, not to
mention the number of NBA players leaving the league for Europe,
I thought that maybe there needs
to be even more of a crossover. The
NBA and its fan base are no longer
purely American, as evidenced by
with
Matt Starr
the star treatment Kobe, Lebron
and co. received at last month’s
Beijing Olympics. The world is
shrinking; Europe and Asia are
not far away lands, but merely
long plane flights away. So what
am I trying to say? Should the
NBA’s Eastern Conference have
the Atlantic, the Central and the
Europe divisions? That might be
extreme (at least for now), but the
fact of the matter is the NBA is no
longer the only game in what has
become a very big town.
This phenomenon is not only
true in basketball. This year’s
baseball season began when the
Boston Red Sox played the Oakland Athletics halfway across the
world in Tokyo.
“Opening our regular season in
Japan for the third time is another
example of Major League Baseball’s commitment to continue the
global growth of the game,” MLB
commissioner Bud Selig said in a
statement.
And perhaps even more meaningful is that the New York Giants
played the Miami Dolphins in
the middle of the NFL season at
London’s Wembley stadium. It is
no longer just the players that are
crossing continental barriers, but
the games themselves, finding new
markets around the globe.
“There is great interest in the
NFL around the world,” NFL
commissioner Roger Goodell said.
“Playing a limited number of
regular-season games outside the
United States is the next step for
us in serving that interest.”
For years, the NBA finals were
referred to as the NBA World
Championship Series, thus making the winner “World Champion.”
That changed in 1986 when the
winning team became the NBA
Champion. For many, this was
merely a technicality, but it’s hard
to argue that in 2004 the NBA’s
champion should have been the
World Champion when Team USA
(an NBA all-star team) won bronze
at the Athens Olympics. This year,
an exception has been made so that
the Celtics banner can read World
Champions in order to match the
16 banners it will hang next to,
but what does this really mean?
In Rome, the Bargnani-loving
basketball-crazed fans might not
understand why the NBA’s winner
should be the World Champion
when a player from their own
Italian league gets selected first
in the NBA draft.
So is it finally time to expand
our professional sports? With
advances in technology and transportation, the once-implausible
road trip through Europe is starting to seem increasingly possible.
It’s fair to say that the reason
European players come to the
NBA is because it is the superior
league, but it should not have to
be like that. When Lebron and
Kobe announced that they would
consider going to Europe, many
people dismissed it as a joke, but
I saw it as a potential first step.
Although the names are not as
hyped, impact players like Josh
Childress left the Atlanta Hawks to
play for the Olympiacos in Greece
and Argentine Carlos Delfino (a
2004 gold medalist) left the NBA
for Khimki BC in Russia.
So I conclude with a question,
not an answer: are American
sports leagues ready to expand
overseas? Maybe yes, maybe no.
But regardless, it is a possibility
too promising to ignore.
Starr is a member of
the class of 2009.
This Week in Sports
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11
•Women’s Tennis at SUNY Brockport, 4 p.m.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12
•Volleyball vs. SUNY Cortland at Rochester Institute of Technology
Tournament, 4 p.m.
•Volleyball vs. Ithaca College at RIT Tournament, 6 p.m.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13
•Men’s Tennis in Flower City Tournament, 9 a.m.*
•Men’s and Women’s Cross Country at SUNY Brockport for
Brockport Invitational, 11 a.m.
•Volleyball at RIT Tournament, noon.
•Football at Case Western Reserve University, 1 p.m.
•Women’s Soccer vs. Union College, 1 p.m.*
•Field Hockey vs. Utica College, 7 p.m.**
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14
•Men’s Tennis in Flower City Tournament, TBA.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16
•Men’s Soccer vs. Nazareth College, 7 p.m.*
•Volleyball vs. RIT, 7 p.m.**
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17
•Field Hockey vs. Houghton College, 7 p.m.*
* indicates home games
** indicates a “Fill Fauver” or “Pack the Palestra” event
Athlete of the Week — Sara Goico
Class: 2009
Sport: Soccer
High School: Conard High School, West Hartford, Conn.
MAJOR: American Sign Language, Spanish and Linguistic Anthropology.
WHAT DO YOU MISS MOST ABOUT HOME: My mom’s cooking.
PLANS AFTER COLLEGE: I’m applying for an English Teaching Assistantship to Argentina and to Ph.D. programs in anthropology (in
the future I want to study Deaf Communities in Latin America).
FAVORITE OTHER SPORT: Basketball.
FAVORITE FOOD: Chocolate Chip Banana Bread.
FAVORITE MOVIE: “The Boondock Saints”
FAVORITE BOOK: “The Little Engine that Could”
Favorite Athletic Memory: Winning my conference for the first time in my high
school’s history for Varsity Women’s Soccer.
Who you’D most like to meet: The Buddha.
FAVORITE UR TRADITION: Going to the top of the library on Halloween.
WEIRDEST THING YOU’VE SEEN ON CAMPUS: Freshmen.
EXPECTATIONS FOR THE SEASON: To not make it home for Thanksgiving because
I’m winning a national title!
Why Sara is the Athlete of the Week: Sara was named Most Valuable Player
of the Fredonia Tournament after scoring two goals in the game against Penn State
Behrend.
S p o rt s
Campus Times
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Women’s soccer outscores opponents 10-1 over weekend
by Katie Belonga
Staff Writer
The UR women’s soccer
team couldn’t have done
any better this past weekend
at the Fredonia Days Inn
Soccer Tournament. Windy
conditions and a chance of
rain could not stop the ’Jackets as they added their first
two wins of the season and
outscored their opponents
10-1 in only two games.
The team’s first game on
Saturday resulted in a 5-1
victory against the Penn
State Behrend College Lions. On Sunday, UR faced
off against the Grove City
College Wolverines, who
were coming off of a loss to
host SUNY Fredonia. The
’Jackets beat the Wolverines
quite handedly, with a final
score of 5-0.
In their first match of
the tournament against the
Lions, the ’Jackets started
the scoring off early with a
goal in the first six minutes
from senior midfielder Sara
Goico. The goal was scored
off an assist from teammate
senior midfielder Laura
Bojko. The second goal for
UR came only nine minutes
later with an unassisted goal
from sophomore forward
Bridgette Varin. Sophomore
midfielder Kristen Ross
scored brought the score to
3-0 when she scored an unassisted goal at 29:42.
The Lions tried to come
back, scoring a goal late in
the half, but UR responded
by scoring a goal with only
two seconds left in the half.
The goal was a result of a
penalty against the Lions
and was scored by junior
forward Emma Moran. The
final score at the half was
4-1.
The ’Jackets finished the
game strong in the second
half; they held the Lions to
no goals and Goico notched
her second goal of the day to
bring the final score to 5-1.
The UR defense also
played a huge part in the
game, allowing only four
shots to be taken on goalies
junior Celeste Hornbach
and sophomore Shannon
Alderfer. Hornbach only had
to make one save in her time
on the field. UR dominated
every aspect of the match
— they outshot the Lions
25-4 and had a 5-2 edge in
corners.
Coming off their win, the
’Jackets finished up the tournament by doing the same
thing they had done the day
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’Jackets’ OT win
brings excitement
JEFF LEVY • Staff Photographer
Sophomore Misha Carrel-Thomas has been a valuable newcomer to UR’s defensive starting line up. The rightside defender played in just two games last fall, but has proven to be a good addition of speed this season.
Soccer starts out season undefeated
by Dana Hilfinger
Sports Editor
On any given night, when
the men’s soccer team faces
off against an opposing
school, it isn’t the noise of
the loud speaker that first
catches the crowd’s attention. Instead, it is junior
goalie Michael Peacock’s
voice. The Pittsford native’s
impressive shouts instructing his team on what to do
when the ball is at the other
end of the pitch, coupled
with his solid performance
between the pipes, has been
key to UR’s 3-0-2 start thus
far this season.
But Peacock is not the only
reason the ’Jackets have
given up only one goal in five
games. With All-American
Nick Mikolenko ’08 and fouryear starter Eric Meister ’08
both bidding UR farewell last
spring, there were serious
questions about where the
leadership would come from
defensively. UR’s back line of
defense, however, has been
superb thus far — most notably, senior Jeremy Gaden,
junior Phil Proud and sophomore Misha Carrel-Thomas
— and the team as a whole
has really embraced the idea
of defense first.
“I believe the main reason
that we have been successful
defensively is because we
all play very well together,
and we all trust each other,”
Peacock said. “All three guys
in the back offer great leadership to the rest of the team
through example and how
they carry themselves.”
The ’Jackets kicked off
their season two weekends
ago, hosting SUNY Oswego
in the opening round of the
Flower City Tournament.
While Oswego posed little
threat to UR — the ’Jackets
held a 21-3 shot advantage en
route to a 2-0 victory — the
game was a good warm-up
for a second-round match
against SUNY Cortland two
days later. The Red Dragons
of Cortland have proved to
consistently be among the
region’s best teams. Last
year, Cortland handed UR
its only home loss of the
season.
This season, however, the
two teams battled for 110
minutes, but neither was
able to execute offensively,
and the game finished in a
scoreless tie.
“We talked about the
mentality you need to have
around [your opponent’s]
goal, and we have worked
on it in training,” head coach
Chris Apple said. “This is one
of the most challenging and
elusive parts of our sport.”
The Yellowjackets had a
number of chances against
the Dragons and controlled
the field for most of the
game. Sophomore midfielder
Steve Welles had a number
of crosses into the box that
UR was unable to capitalize on. Welles has looked
particularly dominant this
season on the right side of
the midfield and was named
Best Offensive Player for
the tournament due to his
goal and assist in the match
against Oswego.
A number of other scoring
opportunities fell just short
for the ’Jackets throughout
the game. Midway through
the first period, a long
ball played into the box by
See DEFENSE, Page 20
bY Erin Philbrick
Sports Editor
It has often been said
(perhaps too often) that “it
ain’t over until the fat lady
sings.” Such was the case
for the women’s field hockey
team on Saturday, when the
’Jackets defeated the College
of Wooster Fighting Scots in
sudden death overtime. After
an exciting series of ups and
downs, the Yellowjackets
pulled away with a 4-3 win.
Coming off a dominating
defeat of Elmira College, the
’Jackets entered the game
ready to take control. They
took an early lead with a goal
from junior forward Amanda
Case approximately sevenand-a-half minutes into the
game, and yet another by
freshman forward Allison
Beardsley just three minutes
later, bringing the score to
2-0. Unfortunately for UR,
this marked the end of scoring for quite a while.
Over the next 12 minutes,
the Scots scored three times
to pull ahead, 3-2. Despite
the fact that UR controlled
the ball for most of the game,
the score remained at this
mark throughout nearly the
rest of the regulation.
It seemed as though the
College of Wooster was going to take the win when,
with only a little over nine
minutes remaining in the
second half, Case scored her
second goal of the game off
an assist from junior forward
Lara Bucarey to notch the
score at 3-3.
Once into sudden-death
overtime, the Scots once
again seemed as though they
were going to take home the
win, as there was a clear
chance inside the circle after a penalty corner on the
’Jackets, but the shot went
just wide, once again giving
UR a chance to come back.
About halfway through the
extra period, Case went for
the hat trick. Her shot was
deflected, but junior defender Christi Bottcher was
there to pick up the rebound
and sent the ball into the top
of the net for the win.
Bottcher’s game-winning
goal brought her a total of
three overall in four games,
and Case has scored three,
as well. Bucarey has assisted
three goals and scored two.
In the season opener, the
SUNY Geneseo Blue Knights
were no contest for UR,
as the team pulled ahead
See STICKS, Page 21
JEFF LEVY • Staff Photographer
Junior Amanda Case has scored three goals this season.
Volleyball
Golf
UR kicks off its season with two tournament splits and
an undefeated record in individual matches, thanks in
large part to the play of its sophomore class and the
leadership of senior outside hitter Jess Rasmussen.
Senior Jon Pecor led UR to a fourth-place finish at
the St. Lawrence University Invitational this past
weekend. The ’Jackets look ahead to the remainder
of the fall season, including the Liberty League
Championships at the end of September.
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