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New director Administration responds to Faculty Senate’s concerns of Student Faculty Senate approves of progress made during administrative meeting cerns about the way the

By Lacey Nemergut Activities Administration eliminated acaN E demic staff positions without During the Faculty Senate’s what they considered sufficient assumes role routine meeting on October 19, Faculty Senate input.

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Nicole Chabot-Wieferich, Bentley’s new director of Student Activities, started her role this week. As part of this position, she will serve as the advisor to the Association of Bentley Activities (ABA).

“I will be involved in the student organization management and recognition process,” said ChabotWieferich. “I look forward in this role to be an advocate for student organizations as well as a source of information for them and their work.”

Chabot-Wieferich said she is is excited to be able to connect with students on a regular basis and believes that it is important to gather student feedback from all types of organizations on campus.

“I look forward to networking with students

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throughout the ABA organizations to assess what resources they utilize and appreciate, what resources they would like to have, and how Student Activities can help them achieve their goals,” said ChabotWieferich.

Upon assuming the position, Chabot-Wieferich’s primary goals are to market and brand the Department of Student Activities as well as increase its visibility on campus. She wants to learn more about the Bentley community before beginning See DIRECTOR, Page 6

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Administrative departments will soon be moving to LaCava.

President Larson addressed the Faculty Senate’s concerns at Wednesday’s meeting.

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President Gloria Larson and the Bentley Administration formally delivered a verbal response to the Faculty Senate’s written complaint concerning their lack of input in academic decisions.

Andrew Aylesworth, chair of the Faculty Senate, was pleased with the Administration’s response.

Aylesworth said, “[I] saw a president who cares deeply about the administration and the students. [We’re] not at the bottom line yet. [We’re] still struggling with what this shared government should be.”

The Faculty Senate sent a letter last month to the Administration stating its con-

Larson sent an e-mail to Senate leaders on Monday and met with them Wednesday to discuss the response to the letter.

On the topic of communication and transparency discrepancies, Larson wrote, “I will also be holding office hours once a month, during which any faculty member will be able to bring issues to my attention. It is also my intention to have more frequent electronic communication regarding administrative decisions and decision processes.”

Additionally, she welcomed the leadership of the Faculty See SENATE, Page 3

Occupy Wall Street: The voice of the 99 percent

By Japser Huang VANGUARD STAff

On September 17, a little more than a month ago, the movement that is now known as Occupy Wall Street began. The roots of the protest stemmed from the activist magazine Adbusters. In July, the magazine hatched the idea of occupying Wall Street and sent out a call for participants.

Two months later, a few hundred people answered that call, speaking out about corporate greed and inequality, and how the “corporate state” that is Wall Street must be “extinguished.”

They painted signs, discussed demands and practiced Tai Chi in a park near Wall Street.

The Movement has evolved, however. What began as a small and harmless speaking out against corporate America has

evolved into a much larger, coordinated and formidable demonstration.

Individuals numbering in the hundreds have been arrested, and large labor unions, including the AFL-CIO (American Federation of Labor and Congress Industrial Organizations) and the SEIU (Service Employees International Union) have declared their support. When

new individuals turn out to “occupy Wall Street,” volunteers provide them with donated sleeping bags and food.

Occupy Wall Street is no longer a small, disorganized group gathering to create chaos and discord. It has become a coordinated, full-fledged demonstration spanning not only major U.S. cities such as Los See OCCUPY, Page 7

McCallum School of Business gives new life to MBA programs

By Ali Farooqi VANGUARD STAff

The McCallum School of Business at Bentley University plans to launch the new Bentley Master of Business Administration (MBA) in August 2012. The new MBA is an 11-month program, and it departs from more traditional MBAs in its intensive course study and its effective integration of business, the arts and the sciences. The Bentley MBA was created for mid-career individuals with prior man-

agerial/leadership experience.

The MBA program will join two other MBA programs offered at Bentley University in catering to an array of individuals with varying needs: The Emerging Leaders MBA for individuals with no prior experience in business, the Professional MBA for those with some experience and now the Bentley MBA for individuals with at least five years of managerial/leaderSee MBA, Page 6

The new MBA program takes a non-traditional approach in its course study.

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SHOW 14 GOLF 5 COMEDY Men’s golf crowned Glover and Greeenbaum steal the show.

9 ELIZABETH OLSEN The third Olsen takes the spotlight.

New England Champions on Tuesday.

Police Log 2 JAS 2 Cartoon 4 Voices 8 & 9 Horoscopes 12 Falcon of The Week 16

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Police log The Real 99 Percent Friday evening two weeks ago, Campus Police was notified of a foul smell coming from a sink in the Student Center. The caller was utterly flabbergasted at the stench emanating from around the Seasons Dining Hall area. What a brilliant strategy here, folks. Those days of simply whining about Seasons food are in the past. Now, we’re just going to start calling the cops on Sodexo.

“THIS LONDON BROIL WITH ASSORTED VEGETABLES IS A LEGITMATE CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY, AND I WILL NOT STAND FOR IT!!” Give it two weeks, and Anderson Cooper will be doing a special on us. We love it. Fight the good fight, Bentley!

Dairy Air at Mad Falcon At 11:33 p.m. on October 5, the Student Center building manager reported that the milkshake machine was leaking. Not so coincidentally, this was also the peak time of male purchases at Mad Falcon. Indeed, the leaked milkshakes brought all of the boys to the Yella’s, where they can feed you, but they have to charge.

F’real. They do. This frozen fiasco is nothing to fear, as our favorite calorie bombs have returned to their rightful place between the soda and the sushi.

Faint Impressions On October 3, officers responded to the front benches of the Student

Center where a woman had fainted on the benches. After a short time, the woman was assisted across the walkway to the Health and Wellness Center in Rhodes Hall. Thankfully, she made a complete recovery. There is only one reasonable explanation for why this could have happened: Justin Bieber himself made an appearance.

These reporters suspect that he used his dark, Canadian, magical powers to apparate himself onto our little campus and attacked this unsuspecting woman with his prepubescent falsetto. The kid is a downright fugitive.

Keep Tabs on Yourself On September 30 at 8:44 p.m., officers responded to Slade Hall, where a freshwoman had cut her finger.

Reportedly, this agonizing laceration was created as the student attempted to pull a soda can tab out of her shoe.

For now, we’ll ignore the insightful question of “why would one place a soda can tab in a shoe?” in order to focus on some poignant social commentary.

Now, it has been said that females get a lot of attention at this predominantly male institution, and there are arguments to be made on both sides of that coin. Should this be true, however, does a female really have to pull the “cutting the finger on a misplaced soda can tab” trick in order to get some attention around here? Honestly, even if you love attention as much as Kel

loves orange soda, there are better ways to get it than by bleeding profusely through your extremities. Instead, try having an engaging personality or getting your nails done. That will give you just as much attention without the unnecessary loss of hemoglobin!

Farely Illegal On October 2, two dudes thought it would be funny to evade a $170 cab fare by bolting from Miller Hall to the Collins Lot, and out of sight from there.

Sure, they may have gotten away with it, but there is a serious lack of both ethics and intelligence here. First off, never evade a cab fare. That’s just not nice. This guy had the decency to drive you from Boston back to Waltham, so the least you can do is pay the man.

More importantly, however, is the lack of negotiating skills. 170 bucks for a cab ride from Boston!? What, did you take the scenic route through Worcester? Did you lose a bet with your driver that resulted in your paying five times the regular fare? There’s a negotiating class here at Bentley that you can take later on in your academic career. Take it. You need it.

Bud Buddies Two Sundays ago, a room in Kresge Hall was reported to be smelling a bit funky. A University officer lit up his lights and rolled on over to weed out the culprits. Upon the officer’s arrival, the room’s door took a couple of blunt hits before the residents came out to

open it. The officer reported that the room reeked of a lot of burnt marijuana, as well as even more air freshener. A judicial board will hash out these students’ punishments soon. So much for living the high life!

Powerless President On October 3 at 1:10 a.m., officers reported that lights at the President’s House were mysteriously out.

Obviously, they were not privy to the fact that October is, in fact, Blackout Challenge month. Our President, the lovely and talented Gloria Larsen, is not about to lose to a bunch of undergraduates. The lights were off for a reason, the President’s House is going off the power grid. For the entire month. Did you even see the President’s House on the Blackout Challenge Rankings? No. Want to know why? Because Gloria has not used any electricity. None. Touché, Gloria, your competitive spirit and social conscience never cease to amaze these two reporters.

FRESHMAN PUKE COUNT Five more freshmen joined the ranks of our Vernal Vomiteers over these past two weeks, bringing our cumulative count to 25. Quarter century mark, and we’re only five weeks in!

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Bentley shakes up locations of Administrative departments

By Ali Farooqi Vanguard Staff

On September 26, Undergraduate Career Services relocated from LaCava 270 to LaCava 225 as part of a larger series of moves facilitated by Bentley officials in order to create better flow between the various departments.

The departments directly affected by the moves include Undergraduate Career Services, Graduate Career Services, Development, Academic Services, Client Services, Alumni Family and Friends, Marketing, Public Relations, Human Resources, Admissions, Center of Women in Business and Information MIS. The project to relocate offices kicked off in April 2011 and is expected to be completed by December 2012.

According to Tom Kane, director of Facilities, Bentley hired an architectural firm to perform a “space planning exercise.”

“Basically they came up with a footprint of how the campus should look in the future,” said Kane. “The campus has grown over the last 10 to 15 years and different departments were located all over the campus. The architectural firm came up with [a plan to manage adjacencies] of where certain departments should be and then how we

get there in the future.”

“Some of the [departments moving] are temporarily inconvenienced, but so far we have been able to work with their schedules,” he said.

“The biggest push [for the transition] was giving the people the space they needed and more improvements,” said Debra Burbank, manager of Construction Planning.

“Getting the adjacencies of those departments closer together [allows them to] work more efficiently.”

Upon relocating, Career Services now has a much larger operating space and nine recruiting interview rooms for the use of both Undergraduate and Graduate Career Services.

Susan Brennan, managing director of University Career Services, was very proactive in making the case for Career Services to have a new space.

“We host hundreds of employees every year and the space that we had was very tight,” said Brennan. “We were borrowing offices and sometimes I’d ask staff to work from home because we didn’t have enough interview rooms [and it was] not a great reflection of all that Bentley had to offer.”

“For the students, when you come and you put on your suit for an interview, you are going to feel that you’re really in a professional environment it’s going to feel much more

like an office environment that you could potentially work in,” she said. “You must feel a lot better when you get dressed up and go to an interview and you are in a space that matches the experience and it will benefit the students ultimately because we have a better process.”

Students had mixed views upon learning of the recent relocation of offices.

“I know that [Undergraduate Career Services] moved from rooms in LaCava because I went there and the sign on the original door read that it was just down the hall so it wasn’t that big of a change,” said Mohamed Nathani, a freshman.

“I thought it was hard enough finding these places before,” said Ben Gutwetter, also a freshman.

James Germain, a junior, praises the change. “The move has shifted the energy of the office, and the overall new feel is much more welcoming,” said Germain.

Human Resources was moved into a temporary location as a result of these moves, and will ultimately move into Rauch along with other administrative departments, whereas external-facing departments dealing with employers and incoming students will be housed in LaCava.

According to Ann Dexter,

the tone of the meeting and of President Larson’s receptiveness to our ideas and her motivation to do what’s right,” he said.

“The Administration has an idea of what’s right, the Faculty Senate has an idea of what’s right, and the Board of Trustees has an idea of what’s right but they are all different ideas.”

An e-mail response was requested from J. Terence Carleton, the Chair of the Bentley Board of Trustees, but it was not returned.

Larson sounded positive after the meeting.

“I am pleased about what I believe was a healthy and productive dialogue with the Senate. The conversation was collegial and candid grounded in mutual respect as well as a shared love for the institution and for the education we deliver to our students,” said Larson. “I’m grateful to the members of Faculty Senate for their openness, and I personally learned a lot about ways we can, as an administration, communicate more openly and gain input from faculty wherever appropriate.”

Regarding the issue of faculty input into Administration decisions on

staff reductions, which prompted Faculty Senate actions, Larson assured members that the level of transparency when dealing with academic figures would improve.

“As one such mechanism, the 2010 Bentley University Bylaws make provision for Faculty membership on four of the Standing Committees of the Board of Trustees: the Academic Affairs Committee; the Information and Services Operations Committee; the Physical Facilities

Many administrative departments are set to move to LaCava soon.

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executive director of Human Resources, HR operations have not been disrupted.

Dexter said that it is only “a little bit different because we are in three different spots, but we are very close,” and the larger series of moves “helps to make the university run more efficiently, so it’s a good thing.“ Management Information Systems relocated from LaCava to Lindsay Hall and the location of its offices in LaCava was to be used as a temporary space for HR. Undergraduate Career Services moved from LaCava 270 to LaCava 225, formerly the location of HR, and Graduate Career Services is scheduled to move into the former Undergraduate Career Services location.

Development is expected to move from Louis Hall to where the offices of Academic Services are currently located in LaCava. Academic Services

is expected to move into Lindsay Hall to where Client Services is currently residing, and Client Services is expected to move into the bottom floor of the Library at the completion of the renovation project.

The Center of Women in Business is expected to move from Adamian to the second floor of LaCava.

Louis Hall is to act as a swing space for departments moving between LaCava and Rauch; those include the offices on the first floor of LaCava, Marketing, Public Relations and some of HR. It is worth noting that Bentley considered building a new administrative building across from Morison Hall to reshuffle departments and align the various adjacencies.

However, the proposal to construct an additional building was scrapped in favor of reusing and renovating existing space.

Committee; and the Student Affairs Committee,” said Larson. “Together with the divisional heads, I will work with Senate to find appropriate ways of increasing faculty representative engagement in planning, presenting and discussing the above areas of activity prior to and during the respective standing committee discussions.”

As far as the future of the Administration’s decisions regarding academic processes, Larson was optimistic.

“We are taking action on

several fronts as outlined in my written response and we’re moving forward in a positive way to develop a renewed sense of community and shared commitment to our faculty, staff and students,” said Larson.

Aylesworth said that despite apparent progress, this is a simple progression throughout a lengthy struggle. “[This has] been going on for years. Even if everyone’s happy, we are always adjusting,” said Aylesworth.

SENATE Continued from Page 1 Senate to attend Cabinet meetings.

“As you may already be aware, I am happy to welcome the Senate Chair to my Monday Cabinet meetings, and, in fact, Andy Aylesworth has already attended three such meetings,” said Larson. “The Senate Chair is welcome to participate fully in those meetings and to voice his or her opinion along with all administrative colleagues.

Indeed, such has already been the case.”

Larson also asserted her authority and administrative responsibility.

“However, I must make clear that the Administration remains responsible for managerial decision-making and for the consequences of these decisions,” she said. “Line authority in all organizations requires that certain individuals be tasked with the authority to make resource allocation decisions within their sphere of activities and to be held accountable for the decisions they make.”

Aylesworth responded positively to the ideas outlined at the meeting.

“The faculty is pleased at

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Quotes of the Week “You have a problem letting other people continue speaking.”

-Mitt Romney, Former Massachusetts Governor, lecturing his rival Rick Perry during a campaign debate. *The Vanguard’s editorial as well as the editorial cartoon are proposed at each Editorial Board meeting. They are represented as being the opinions of the Board as a whole, although drawn by individuals, and not the Bentley community.

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CollegiateLink finally leaves campus Student Life has regularly struggled with managing student organizations on campus in terms of verifying the number of active members and helping students find organizations that they are interested in.

They thought they had found the perfect solution with CollegiateLink, which, from their website, looked like it would be the perfect cure to all of Student Life’s problems.

With the system already in use at schools like Tulane, Villanova and University of Michigan, it seemed like the perfect solution.

Student Life began i m p l e m e n t i n g Collegiatelink two years ago, after spending an unknown amount of money on the system.

(Framingham State’s newspaper says that their school spends $8,000 a year on CollegiateLink.) Requiring all student organizations to create and update their pages on CollegiateLink, Student Life wanted it to become the hub for student organizations at Bentley.

After two years in use and almost no adoption by any campus organization other than CAB,

CollegiateLink became a repository for reimbursement slips and locating the organization constitution.

Although there was a promised upgrade to the website at an unknown cost, ultimately CollegiateLink went the way of MySpace and became obselete.

While CollegiateLink didn’t really take off at Bentley, it seems that many other schools are struggling with its adoption, as well. Framingham State’s campus newspaper The Gatepost wrote an article on CollegiateLink, saying that their campus leaders were criticizing the tool as being ineffective and inconvenient. The article further explained that Fitchburg State’s campus was also struggling with the adoption of CollegiateLink.

Unfortunately for CollegiateLink, it is a web service that is just too little, too late. On campus, most people use Facebook to publicize their events because it’s where many people are already signed up and accessing on a regular basis. Forcing Bentley students to also visit a sec-

ondary website was just redundant, and we’re glad that Bentley finally eliminated the system.

Further complicating the issue with CollegiateLink this semester were the mixed messages which were given out by ABA and Student Life regarding the website’s use. While Adam Payne, assistant director of Student Activities, emailed the student leaders announcing the arrival of CollegiateLink, apparently he jumped the gun a little bit by announcing the service’s demise.

It wasn’t until last week that Ryan O’Keeffe, president of ABA, finally a n n o u n c e d CollegiateLink’s demise, providing instructions for student leaders on how to successfully transition away from CollegiateLink.

This transition is long overdue and should never have been necessary in the first place. Student Life should have solicited feedback from students and student leaders before making this transition. If they had done so, they wouldn’t have wasted the school’s money on an unnecessary service.

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-Wolfgang Schaeuble, German finance minister, dampening expectations of an upcoming E.U. summit, saying that it would not provide a comprehensive solution to the eurozone debt crisis that threatens to cause another global recession.

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CAB’s annual Fall Comedy Show features Donald Glover

By Matt Somma VANGUARD STAff

It’s that time of year again for the annual Campus Activities Board Fall Comedy Show. Funded by your Student Activity Fee is a night of side-splitting comedy that will leave you in stitches from laughing so hard.

The CAB Fall Comedy Show is set for Saturday, October 22, in Koumantzelis Auditorium. Doors will be opening at 7 p.m. sharp and students are advised to grab their spots in line early.

Campus Activities Board has lined up a great set of acts for the night and is expecting to sellout the full capacity of Koumantzelis at 480 students. After the room is full, the night you won’t want to miss will begin.

Bentley senior Brandon Schug and Bentley sophomore Josh Seiden will be kicking off the night around 7:20 p.m. with some original stand-up comedy, then hand it over to our opening act: Harrison Greenbaum.

In addition to headlining at comedy clubs across the nation, Greenbaum is also a Harvard grad who co-founded the Harvard College Stand-Up Comic Society (Harvard College SUCS as they are named).

Since his graduation,

Greenbaum has received several awards for his comedy, including being named one of this year’s Comics to Watch

by Comedy Central.

Some of you might have seen the hints that Campus Activities Board was dropping for months now about who would be headlining this semester’s show.

Sophomore Matt Schick, the CAB Comedy co-chair (the other co-chair Pat Maguire is abroad in Ireland) began passing out puzzle pieces at the Fall Activities Fair in September that said: “Our fall comedian is a TV actor, a writer, a rapper, and a comedian. Can you find the missing piece of the puzzle?”

In addition to this tricky word of mouth campaign, Schick created a large poster on September 22 that would hang in the Student Center.

It started off blank, but he would put one puzzle piece up every day for a week until the act was revealed!

And now, introducing our headliner for the night: Donald Glover. Glover has an impressive track record of past performances that ensure he will be a show you won’t want to miss.

He is a main character on the NBC sitcom Community in addition to being a hit YouTube sensation with the viral show Derrick Comedy.

Also, he was a staff writer on

the show 30 Rock while still in college and appeared on the Late Night with Conan O’Brien several times.

In regards to stand up, Donald has performed on many different shows, including his first Comedy Central Stand-Up Special that aired in March 2010. In July of the same year, Glover received the first-ever Rising Comedy Star of the Year award at the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal.

But wait, that’s not all!

The hints that CAB was dropping stated that Glover was a rapper, as well.

Many students know Donald Glover better by his rapper alter ego “Childish Gambino,” with hit songs like Freaks and Geeks.

Gambino most recently released I Am Just A Rapper, I Am Just A Rapper 2 and Culdesac. He is set to release his new CD Camp on November 15. Make sure to look out for it.

How did we catch the multifaceted entertainer for this year’s show? When interviewing Schick about the process of searching and obtaining the comedian, it was astounding at how early Campus Activities Board started planning this event.

Schick said that they started looking for new artists as early as April of

Professor Profile: Karen Osterheld I had the opportunity to sit down with Professor Karen Osterheld this week to learn more about her and her time here at Bentley.

Tell us about yourself.

“I have a husband who is a CPA and an artist daughter. She made this ring, and this necklace!” she said, pointing excitedly at what appeared to be a professionally made pendant around her neck. “I like to travel –

Osterheld will celebrate 20 years of service at Bentley this month.

the last place I went to was Florida, to see my dad. The last international trip I took was to Buenos Aires.” After pushing her about accolades from Bentley, she pointed to a Falcon Award on her desk, which she received when she was named Faculty Member of the Year. Prior to this, she was also named Advisor of the Year.

Where were you before Bentley?

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“I came out of graduate school and went into public accounting at Arthur Young, before moving to Analog Devices, where I basically worked on their accounting policy manual, and then I went to The Ohio State University for a doctoral program because I wanted to become a professor – but after a year I went back to the corporate world,” she said. Osterheld had worked in the financial services industry right before making the switch to Bentley.

How long have you been here at this school?

“Well, I’m going to my 20th anniversary service dinner next week,” she said.

Osterheld came here originally as a full-time lecturer after working in corporate America. Over time, she took on the accounting internship program, now serving as a key link between students and different recruiters at major name companies in the country. “It entails spending a lot of time building relationships with companies, and being aware of their needs and the students’ abilities. I love helping students think about specific

Donald Glover, one of Comedy Central’s “Comics to Watch,” will perform this Saturday, October 22.

last semester! After a discussion between himself and the rest of the executive board by e-mail, a decision was made sometime in June to book Greenbaum and Glover.

Maguire, while preparing to go abroad, assisted with his past expertise after booking Bo Burnham last semester. The deal was sealed sometime in August, meaning CAB had this event planned for you before you had even arrived at school, Falcons!

Schick and CAB are excit-

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ed to be providing what they believe will be a night students won’t forget.

“We work incredibly hard to try and bring the best talent to campus that we can and this semester, we really lucked out, since Glover is blowing up,” Schick said.

Falcons, if you aren’t lined up outside Koumantzelis on the 22nd, you’re going to be missing out.

Disclaimer: Matt Somma, the author of this article, is a member of the Campus Activity Board.

By Sindhu Palaniappan

areas to work in, making calls and finding out more about firms for the students,” she said. She also recently became the coordinator of the GB 112 course. She jokes about working “ten times as much” now, as opposed to her earlier years at Bentley.

Why Bentley over another school?

“I was talking to a colleague from Ernst & Young who knew a department chair at Bentley 20 years ago. I had taught as an adjunct, and he made the connection, and I never needed to go any further,” said Osterheld.

What’s your favorite course to teach?

“I can’t tell you my favorite – but I can tell you what I teach,” she said with a laugh.

GB 112, Tools and Concepts in Accounting and Finance, is taught to freshmen, and as the course coordinator it’s easy to say that Osterheld has put a lot of hard work into this course. The switch from 201 and 202 to 112 and 212 includes two big changes – moving it to the freshman year and adding finance to an originally purely account-

ing class. Freshmen at business schools around the country aren’t getting the advantage that 112 and 212 provide the freshmen with here.

“They’re a strong class of students that can handle this material early on, and I think it’s been a great change,” said Osterheld. “It will help students secure internships and take major classes early on.”

The other course she teaches is ID 306, The Role of Community Service in a For-Profit Organization. In this course, students come back to school one week early in the fall for an externship with various companies in order to learn about corporate social responsibility. They then engage in a Service Learning project and teach ethics and responsibility at a local high school.

What are your best and worst parts of teaching?

“My favorite part is the interaction with the students – I just really like teaching and I like helping them shape their career paths. Worst? Oh, that’s easy: Grading,” she said.

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MBA Continued from Page 1 ship experience.

The MBA is composed of four themes: Innovation, value, environments and leadership. These themes are made up of modules, courses of study two weeks in length, which are “designed to fit together to give you a view of the environments businesses are operating in, and the themes are designed to tie together and focus on leadership and you as a leader, and very focused on the individual.”

“The first three of the four themes will feature a travel experience, work in the field for a couple of weeks, with two international locations and one domestic location,” said Roy “Chip” Wiggins, dean of McCallum School of Business. “This program will collaborate with hosts at these sites and the hosts, we hope, will cut across corporation, NGO’s government agencies, so that we can have the students look at an issue that’s of concern at the host’s site, and not come in trying to solve it, because that’s rather presumptuous, but to work with the hosts to better understand the issue and see things through their eyes.”

The prerequisites for this program are five years of work experience, a GMAT score of at least 600, proficiency in English (this program will recruit abroad) and academic performance and path of undergraduate study.

“The material in the program itself will be taught in a managerial perspective,” said Professor David Schwarzkopf, MBA program director. “For example, accounting is not how to put together a set of financial statements, but rather how to interpret financial statements, and what to do when you have interpreted them.”

Students will meet four times a week for two weeks per module. The MBA program will initially cater to a class size of 15-20 students and will hopefully reach full capacity in three to four years at 35 students. The location for this studio-based learning will be the Graduate Commons in Adamian Academic Center.

“Students will meet in a flexible space where [they] can meet in groups with technology support – but then they can also come back together, either in a more traditional class format and/or discussion group for-

mat for lectures, discussions, case analysis,” said Wiggins.

“The classes will be in this space during the morning, and the studio time, which is a little more reflective, allows them to integrate the things, and to talk about it and discuss, and delve deeper into the things they learned about in class, and will be done each evening during the same four days they have class.”

Wiggins said that this type of travel experience is a “hands-on project experience where you now get to articulate to a potential employer how you would identify a problem, how you would approach solving the problem, how you measure the various solution choices and picking what would hopefully be an optimal solution.”

Wiggins and Schwarzkopf were very happy with the integration of the faculties in the business and the arts and sciences departments – an achievement characteristic of Bentley University, and the final complement to a host of collaborative programs offered at Bentley.

Moreover, Schwarzkopf was proud that people in the administration and faculty realize that students appreciate business in society, not

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“I want to ensure that there is a vibrant social life on campus, many opportunities for leadership development, and a strong spirit about what it means to be a Bentley student and a Bentley leader,”she said.

As a result of these changes, ABA has decided to temporarily hold off on recognizing organizations on campus. Ryan O’Keeffe, president of ABA said that ABA wants to give Chabot-Wieferich time to adjust to her new position.

Once she feels comfortable and can attend ABA meetings to get a better idea of how the organization works, ABA will begin to hear presentations from new organizations, which could potentially begin before the end of the semester.

O’Keeffe recently met with Chabot-Wieferich to give her just business disciplines.

Wiggins concluded by saying that a lot of energy and enthusiasm has gone into producing this program, and if that transitions into the delivery of the program, then people will be excited to take it, and the faculty will be excited to teach it.

an idea of where ABA stands in terms of student organizations on campus as well as what ABA is trying to accomplish this semester.

“I am very excited for Nicole to be our advisor,” said O’Keeffe. “She has a great background working with student organizations and I think she will be a great asset to the Bentley campus.”

O’Keeffe admits it was difficult not having someone to serve as a source of reference for answering questions at the beginning of the school year.

He said the key to the organization’s success during this period was maintaining communication with his board, organizations that are trying to achieve recognition and organizations that are already recognized. Adam Payne also helped by serving as ABA’s interim advisor during this time.

“After speaking with her, I felt very comfortable with how the future of organizations on campus will be and the future of ABA,” said O’Keeffe. “I anticipate that Nicole and I will have strong relationship and I am excited to hear her input as to what she thinks of the organizational culture here compared to the other schools she has worked at.

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One single monetary policy might not be right in Europe

By James Pini Vanguard Staff

This past week’s Wall Street Journal’s Review and Outlook article was called “Europe and Its Money.” It put the European debt crisis in its historical context, and for me it was a good reminder. I’d like to give my understanding of the historical context and then conclude with what I believe is the fundamental choice going forward.

Originally, the goal of a common European currency was to reduce the economic costs of doing business as separate countries. In M&A terms, the idea was synergy; Europe would be a better economy under a single business environment than under many different ones.

But adoption of a single currency had its problems. The main objection was that the European economies were too

dissimilar to have a single monetary policy; a certain interest rate might be right for Germany, but too low for Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Italy, or Spain. This would lead to artificially high debt in those countries, which would lead to bubbles, then busts, then bailouts.

However, the rules of the game were supposed to prevent this outcome. Specifically, there were universal limits to countries’ debt to GDP ratios, annual budget deficits, long-term government bond yields and inflation rates.

If members of the monetary union all kept within these limits, it would allow for a single monetary policy because the side effects of low interest rates would be prevented–by definition. But clearly, these “definitions” were not enforced.

Given this context, there are

a couple different takes people have on the current situation.

One is that it shows the common currency idea was doomed from the start - despite whatever fiscal requirements the Euro had, nothing could compensate for the need for different countries to have different monetary policies.

Another view might be that the Euro is where it is because the fiscal limits were never actually enforced, and that if they were, the Euro could still be a sustainable model.

The WSJ’s view didn’t exactly address the same question, but it pointed out that the Euro is a kind of “hard-money” fiat standard. Unlike in previous centuries, where gold was supposed to restrict the amount of money and debt that could be created, the Euro is supposed to be a paper equivalent.

If a country couldn’t print its

own currency, just like it couldn’t print its own gold, it would limit the country’s ability to buy its own debt, expand the money supply, and encourage artificial bubbles. Unfortunately, the corresponding necessary limits to debt and budget deficits were not enforced, so countries like Greece were still able to borrow themselves into a debt bubble due to the fact that the interest rates they were paying were artificially low.

The WSJ’s view is that despite it being unfortunate that countries were allowed to rack up too much debt, the EU should allow the “hard-money” Euro standard to be the ultimate enforcer of fiscal constraint that gold used to be. In other words, Greece should be allowed to default.

“The Greek crisis hasn’t proved that the Euro was a mistake. But the political reaction

to it has placed the experiment in serious danger by abandoning the no-bailout principle and replacing it with a doctrine that sovereign default in a currency zone is unthinkable,” said the article.

If everyone believes default is impossible, this is just going to encourage more of the recklessness that creates the need for bailouts - it’s called moral hazard.

Stated differently, more bailouts, regardless of whether they help in the short term, will do more harm in the long run.

The Euro was only ever going to work if fiscal discipline was enforced, because the “hardmoney” nature of the common currency requires it. Now that we’ve reached the current crisis, a decision needs to be made: Either enforce the rules of the game, or the game can’t be played at all.

one of the firms that took on excessive mortgage risk, and wasn’t in dire need of federal TARP funds. The protestors also marched on the home of John Paulson, who recently became tremendously wealthy betting against the housing bubble, not helping to inflate it.

Misdirected protests such as these only serve to discredit the validity of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Though protests that started in New York’s Zucotti Park have now become a global phenomenon, this attention comes mostly from the media. If Occupy Wall Street or any “occupy” movement wants to make a difference in the “corporate state,” they must align themselves with individuals that actually have a say in how these big financial firms are run: The shareholders.

Occupy Wall Street prides itself on the fact that it is the voice of the 99 percent, the voice of those against obscene bonuses and compensation packages; it prides itself on supporting the goals of the 99 percent in its entirety, and not having a concrete agenda. But without a true plan, and without articulation of group goals, nothing will be achieved apart from media and

public attention.

In a blog last week, Mark Cuban, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks and chairman of HDnet, said, “If Occupy Wall Street really wants to change corporate structure and impact the economy, [they must] talk to

shareholders.”

Companies are not totalitarian governments; public companies must cater to the demands of their shareholders. If more investors voiced skepticism towards the income gap between CEOs and employees,

as well as skepticism towards a system where public companies focus more on the short-term and reward executives for mediocrity and sometimes failure, it would be far more difficult for corporate boards to justify the current status quo.

OCCUPY Angeles, Boston, San Francisco, Denver and Chicago, but across the globe, as well.

It is difficult not to dismiss Occupy Wall Street as trivial, and perhaps even comical. Halfnaked protestors, anti-Semites, and even an appearance of Kanye West do nothing but help to make Occupy Wall Street a target for laughter and derision.

However, many young Occupy Wall Street protestors have a valid reason for protest.

College students will be attempting to work their way into an economy where there is one job for ever five applicants, and where unemployment of new job seekers reaches above 18 percent.

Thus, youth frustration at the current economic condition is well justified, but are they directing this frustration at the correct people? Occupy Wall Street recently marched on CEO of J.P. Morgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon’s home last Tuesday, and then the company’s headquarters on Wednesday.

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The Beat

What do you lie about?

eMiLy fineMore CLASS of 2015 MArkeTinG “Who I’m texting.”

STeve BenfAnTe CLASS of 2014 UnDeCiDeD “My age.”

John MArCeL CLASS of 2013 CfA “The amount of time I study.”

So most people were wondering what all the hype was about the GrooveBoston WILDFIRE tour. CAB certainly stepped up their advertising about it through Facebook – I assume people involved on the Board and Class Cabinet were told to change their profile picture to the WILDFIRE logo. Honestly, I even got curious at the time before the reveal. Now that all of you know that our annual Halloween Dance on campus is going to be invaded by this WILDFIRE show, why not see if this goes beyond the raving and glow sticks and is worth a musical discussion.

From what I can gather from the Facebook pages and the GrooveBoston website, they are basically a portable club that brings the dance party to your front door. Not a bad concept, right? They bring everything from the lights, stage, special effects and, of course, the audio.

According to their website, “The experience is centered around the music.” Is it now?

Well, their music is definitely promoting the electronic dance vibe, and why wouldn’t they? They are a nightclub on wheels, after all. Now, I would personally never listen to Ke$ha on my iPod walking to class. I will only rock out to her and all that other mainstream electronic dance music when I am on the floor with the rest of the students rocking out. Does that mean I like the music? No. Does that mean I like to dance to the beat of said music? Yes. Where am I getting at, exactly? Watching the GrooveBoston experience on YouTube, I, as well as many others, can continue to hype about all of this madness about the WILDFIRE tour. At the same time, it is definitely more than the music. It is a performance. Do not underestimate the talent of the DJs because while they have the flashing lights and sound equipment, it is all about how they

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GrooveBoston is like a mobile dance club, bringing the party to campus.

bring the Beat (oh look, a pun).

From what I heard about GrooveBoston and one their pro-DJs “Face Rocker,” they know what the audience wants.

They understand that it takes a lot more than the right music tracks to create an awesome party. When I first heard about GrooveBoston, my belief was that they were just another DJ. Now, with all of my research about them under my belt, I see differently.

Hearing some of their mixes from their videos, they take DJing to another level, syncing the right tracks with the light show and using more than just prerecorded music to set the tone.

The DJs use all of the tools in their sound system to not only create the mixes and set the transitions, but also to control where the night goes from beginning to end. The single bass line to the echoes of the reverb can do wonders to get the crowd screaming and anticipating more.

Conclusion? The mainstream music may be something to skip on your mp3 player, yet in the ultimate dance party set-

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ting and with the right DJs and performance experts, the mainstream can be tolerated so long it is manipulated right. And all the haters can say it is not music, but honestly, anything with a beat is music. I applaud the DJs that have the ability to get me to rock out to songs that I hate. Now, here’s the real question – is Bentley ready for this?

Keep in mind that although I haven’t gone to this legendary show yet, I think it is best that the whole student body should experience it for themselves.

As many of you already know, the GrooveBoston WILDFIRE tour will be coming to Bentley University on October 29 for the Halloween Dance on campus. Apparently you have to reserve your spot on my.bentley.edu, so if you haven’t done that, good luck getting in.

For more information on GrooveBoston and the WILDFIRE tour, go to their website at grooveboston.com for further details and whatnot. You can even hire them if you want they are mobile.

ShonDeLL BUTLer CLASS of 2014 ACCoUnTAnCy “How well I manage my time.”

ChriS rABy CLASS of 2015 eConoMiCS “What I do in my free time.”

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VoiCeS Which celebrity would you like to have as a professor?

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Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen have been household names since the late 80s as they began their dual role as Michelle Tanner in Full House. Since then, they have grown to build a huge business empire, which includes a clothing line, TV shows and movies.

What would it be like being the sister of two of the most beloved child stars of our generation? And how do you step out of the shadows of your older siblings when they have been so successful? Starring in a critically acclaimed new movie is a great start to success.

Twenty-two year old Elizabeth “Lizzie” Olsen, the relatively unknown sister of actresses, fashion designers and businesswomen MaryKate and Ashley Olsen, has made her starring debut in the new film Martha Marcy May Marlene.

Although this is her first movie role, Lizzie is not new to film set. She grew up around film sets with the twins.

“When I was younger, because there are four kids in my family and we’re all five years apart, afterschool care just ended up being on set because it was easier for my parents, and there are so many people on set to watch us,” she said.

Though she made cameo appearances at the age of five in several of the twins’ straight-to-video and TV movies, her role as Martha marks her introduction to the big screen, as well as her first non-theater role.

Lizzie is no stranger to acting, having graduated from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and the Atlantic Theater Company Acting School in NYC. She hesitated entering the world of film after witnessing

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ryAn ADAMS CLASS of 2015 eConoMiCS finAnCe “Morgan Freeman because I would love listening to his voice all day and he seems very wise.”

elizabeth olsen is the sister of the famous olsen twins.

the difficulties her sisters suffered in the spotlight. The ruthless paparazzi attention on Mary-Kate’s eating disorder was nearly enough to send her running from a career that would lead to that sort of scrutiny.

“I think that’s why I focused so much on theater,” she said.

“I thought theater was a safer place because it’s more free of media. Being in front of a camera was really the most frightening thing.”

However, she apparently found a role worth the trouble in the new thriller by playing a woman struggling to reenter real life with her family after escaping a dangerous cult.

What drew her to the script? “Sean Durkin really wrote a complex character that really hasn’t been written, and that’s challenging. It’s such a smart way of writing, you totally understand the characters and I was just completely obsessed and in love with Martha and the script,” she said.

The film, which will be

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released in theaters on October 21, debuted at the Cannes Film Festival, earning rave reviews for Lizzie.

And this isn’t the last we’ll see of her in the spotlight.

Soon she can be seen in the yet-to-be-released titles Silent House, Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding, Red Lights, Liberal Arts and Very Good Girls.

Her reputation in the business is growing more impressive, as she is set to have intimidatingly talented costars in the future. Red Lights, a paranormal thriller, boasts Robert De Niro and Sigourney Weaver as cast members, and Very Good Girls, a drama about two friends in a love triangle, is set to include Dakota Fanning, Dustin Hoffman and Peter Sarsgaard.

Liberal Arts, a film written, directed and starring Josh Radnor of How I Met Your Mother, boasts a cast list of Zac Efron, Allison Janney and Elizabeth Reaser.

Pick up the latest copy of Nylon for a cover story on the actress.

JonA kokA CLASS of 2015 MAnAGeriAL eConoMiCS “Matt Damon because he seems to know politics and is up on current events - he’s not just an actor.”

CArL forziATi CLASS of 2012 MAnAGeriAL eConoMiCS “Bill O'Reilly because he is willing to stand up for what he believes in, he is educated yet idealistic, a great speaker and he welcomes others to challenge his opinions. I don’t agree with most of the stuff he says but I respect him as a person.”

AnThony ChArTer CLASS of 2015 CiS “Beyoncé because if she was lecturing I’d never get bored.”

ALySSA WAGner CLASS of 2015 CfA “Eminem because he has seen a lot in life and has a lot of real life experiences that would be interesting to hear about.

He’s also wicked talented and he’d be a chill teacher.”

olsen hesitated entering the entertainment industry after witnessing her sisters’ troubles.

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A new season of programming for Bentley Television

By Meghan Ryan Vanguard Staff

This fall marks the start of many new programs on the small screen, some of the most notable being Pan Am, Last Man Standing, Whitney and 2 Broke Girls. However, some of the top programming won’t be available on the major network channels, or even on the pricy cable channels. The top shows will be on Bentley’s very own Channel 45, Bentley Television.

Throughout the past five years, Bentley Television has brought us campus classics such as the sketch comedy BSTV and the dramedy 301.

With the new school year upon us, producers in the group continue the legacy of satirizing the college experience with an all-new miniseries entitled Intro to College.

The Intro script is about a group of first-year students who run into a variety of hijinks as they adjust to the college lifestyle. The students learn valuable lessons about the importance of setting goals and school spirit while engaging in a cutthroat com-

petition organized by their odd peer mentor.

Personalities collide when five complete strangers are expected to tolerate one another for an entire hour under the tutelage of a peer mentor with a very dark secret.

The idea for this program was developed in 2010 by my own experiences as a firstyear college student. After talking to students at a variety of different colleges, I found that many freshmen were experiencing similar emotions, if not similar experiences, upon entering college.

While the script for Intro to College is fictional, I sought to capture situations many experience coming to college, such as feeling disorientation, adapting to different personalities and environments and participating in first-year classes that appear to have no point.

In its present form, the show is expected to be about 10 minutes per episode, each portraying a mini adventure involving freshmen at the fictional Castle Hill University.

The show does not seek to

reflect the practices or values of Bentley University or any other higher education institute.

However, for this production to become reality, Intro to College is currently in need of performers as well as a production crew. The cast requires at least six performers, preferably three male and three female. We also require students with skills in editing, taping, sound production and lighting.

If you are interested in joining the Intro to College gang, e-mail GA_BSTV@bentley.edu with your name, the position you are interested in and the times you are available for shooting.

Bentley Television is also bringing a host of other programs to Channel 45 this semester. BSTV, the channel’s flagship show, will be returning for another season of action, adventure and above all else, comedy.

Furthermore, the Bentley Tech Apprentice is allowing Bentley Television the chance to shoot some of its activities.

You can look forward to both of these programs coming

BSTV is planning to create a new miniseries, Intro to College.

soon to Bentley Television.

We are also seeking new student-made productions. If you’ve made videos for classes or just for fun, BTV would like to see them! This is a chance to share your work with the rest of the Bentley community and to put programming that matters on the air.

To watch any of the group’s

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programs, set the television to Channel 45 or go online to bentleytelevision.com. Like Bentley Television on Facebook or follow @BentleyTV45 on Twitter for updates and more information.

If you have questions, comments or would like more information, please e-mail GA_BSTV@bentley.edu.

A look at contemporary art in the Museum of Fine Arts

By Eric Sibiga Vanguard Staff

The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston recently opened the Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art. Although I’m not an art connoisseur, I’ll reveal my take on the contemporary art, as well as some of the more classic art on display in the MFA. I began my art adventure with the more standard art, marveling at John Singleton Copley’s portraits of famous figures, Winslow Homer’s and Thomas Eakin’s works and finally some beautiful landscape paintings by Claude Monet. It was very easy to appreciate the beauty of these pieces, as they are very classic pieces based on real subjects.

As I made my way to the Linde Family Wing, I discovered that the contemporary art was not as easy to appreciate as the pieces I had just admired. Having said that, I’ll admit, I can be the type of person that looks at some art and sees nothing.

Felix Gonzalez-Torres’ piece Untitled (Beginning) was definitely one of the oddest pieces of artwork in the wing. For me, all I saw was 30-feet of beads hanging from the ceiling, not art. It looked like a glorified version of hippie doorways in the 1970s.

Although many of the contemporary pieces seemed ridiculous to me, there were a small handful that were very intriguing. Kara Walker’s The Rich Soil Down There, a large piece made of cut-paper sil-

Whether you like classic or more modern art, the MFA offers a variety of both.

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houettes of black and white images, was amazing. The themes of race and gender and the stereotypes between these themes were explored.

Bockscar by Matthew Day Jackson was also a very intriguing piece. Based on the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Japan and the chaos that ensued, the piece is beautiful yet haunting.

From the perspective of the cockpit, bright colors appear outside the plane’s windows and the juxtaposition of the burning cockpit and the cartoonish bright colors outside the windows creates a poignant effect.

After exploring the contemporary art, I made my way to Christian Marclay’s The Clock; a 24-hour film.

Although it is 24 hours long,

it is a must see, whether you watch for two minutes or two hours.

The unique film is made up of thousands of movie clips, with each scene including some sort of clock, whether it is an alarm clock, a watch or Big Ben. The scenes are compiled to corresponding with real-life time; if you’re watching at 6:13 p.m., then the film shows a movie clip at 6:13 p.m.

The film takes scenes from a wide range of movies including Diehard 2, Napoleon Dynamite and Citizen Kane, just to name a few. Through the editing and chosen clips, a narrative of sort that creates a story is formed.

As you watch the movie, you are also watching the time pass by which is an odd

feeling because it is hard to tell if time is moving fast or slow, that is until you realize you’ve been watching the film for over an hour.

It is entertaining to see what clips will be like for various times. At 6:00 p.m., various clips of people leaving work and commuting home are shown. It was fun guessing what would be shown for different parts of the day; it was like a guessing game.

If you’ve never been to the MFA, I highly suggest going, and if you’ve been before, definitely revisit and take a gander through the new contemporary art wing. Whether you like classic or more modern art, you will find a piece that truly speaks to you.

For more information about the museum, visit mfa.org.

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Notes from Abroad Question: “Describe the typical daily routine for someone from your host country. at what times does everything happen?”

By Patrick Maguire Dublin, irelanD

Overall, the everyday habits of the Irish are not so very different from our own in the States. The economic boom of the past 20 years has given the country a lot of the same institutions and products we enjoy and it has taught them to move at our high speed. The Irish shop in supermarkets, eat at Subway and McDonald’s and buy computers at the Apple Store, very much synchronized with a typical American day.

Generally, the Irish rise early and eat breakfast at home - there aren’t many bagel shops or pancake houses around, even in the heart of Dublin. Almost every store is open by 10 a.m., though some have lengthy lunch breaks around 1 p.m. Between 4 and 6 p.m. most schools and offices let out, filling the city streets with people in either business suits or Catholic school uniforms.

One of the biggest differences is in shopping. Even in Dublin’s city center, shops open later and close earlier than they do at home. On the weekends, particularly Sundays, when one would find stores and malls packed to the gills at home, the streets here are relatively quiet. Instead, Thursday is the big shopping day. Most stores and restaurants are open much later than usual, and navigating the throngs of people on Grafton Street is a lot like finding your way through a crowded party in Falcone.

Night life in Dublin is pretty similar to that in Boston, fueled by the combined 34,000 students from UCD and Trinity College. Since most students go home to the countryside on the weekends, the big nights are Monday and Wednesday. In fact, many bars and clubs will prohibit students under 21 on the weekend, so working adults dominate the scene. A typical night

By Julie Fischer SemeSter at Sea

My study abroad experience is a bit more unique than other abroad programs offered at Bentley. Instead of living with and adjusting to one culture, I am traveling the world, sampling several cultures throughout the course of my voyage.

There are two different types of typical days for me - one is at sea, and the other is in port.

My campus is a huge ship (similar to a small cruise ship) called the MV Explorer. It is about 590-feet long and 84-feet wide. It has eight floors and is large enough to hold 836 passengers and over 200 crew members. The ship has two dining will start at the pub around 10 p.m. and head to the club around 11:30 or 12 p.m., ending at either 2 or 3 a.m.

Pub culture shows the biggest difference between our two cultures’ everyday habits.

The pub is still the center of Irish culture, and there is much more mixing of different types of people than you’d see in an American bar. For example, on any given night at O’Neill’s, which is my favorite neighborhood pub, we American college students could be mixing with a group of businessmen after a day at work, other Irish students or even an elderly couple out after dinner. Pubs are where the Irish come together to mix, where time slows down and the real charm of the island’s people comes through.

OCtOber 20, 2011 rooms, a gym, a swimming pool, three outside decks, a piano lounge, an auditorium, a computer lab, several very small cabins (dorms), a library and nine classrooms.

My voyage actually has a lot less people than most voyages for Semester at Sea. We have 450 students, 31 staff members, 36 professors and faculty, 54 family members of the faculty and staff (including 24 young children) and 61 Life Long Learners (older people who wanted to be on this trip to learn, just like us students) and of course the 200+ crew members of the ship.

I really don’t know what day it is anymore because while traveling between ports, we have A days and B days. I take four different classes, two on each day.

It doesn’t matter what day of the week it is, if A day falls on a Saturday, it’s just a normal class schedule for us. Days we are in port are considered our weekends. Weekends back home are a time to catch up on work and sleep, but here they are even more hectic and busy than weekdays, so the whole semester is pretty exhausting - I’ll just sleep when I get back home.

For me, a typical class day on the ship is similar to how I would spend it back at Bentley. It starts with an early morning workout, followed by a combination of meals, club meetings, classes, homework and work (I have a work-study job). I also spend some time lounging on the deck, gazing at the water and trying to spot sea creatures (which I usually fail at doing).

Scratching the Surface: Hard Working and Poor In all of the discourses we’ve heard since the economic crash of 2008, none have been more frustrating than the horrible misconceptions of the American people.

As the Occupy Wall Street movement gains ground, and conservative politics has been dominated by the Tea Party.

Evading the discussion becomes paramount to ignorance; here we go.

On both sides, there is clear frustration with the actions of our government. The Tea Party sees government going too far by breaking its wallet.

To them, smaller government is the solution to most of our problems.

On the nascent Occupy movement’s side, government isn’t going too far; rather, it’s going in the wrong direction.

Unlike Tea Party frustration with the “bailouts,” these protesters want government to take more action to help struggling families by spurring economic development through investment.

Since the latter movement has begun, there has been much criticism of the message (similar to that of the Tea Party), and when pundits have tried to generate humor, themes of lazy, purposefully

unemployed “mobs” have resounded.

Regardless of your opinion of either grassroots movement, the humor has brought to light one of the most prevalent misconceptions about our society: If you work hard, you get rich.

Tied into this horribly inaccurate assumption, is that those who are rich have worked hard for their comfort while those who are at the bottom of the ladder, never bothered to make the climb (those lazy, weed-smoking bums!).

The reality for those who don’t have a summer vacation home is that they have been working hard their entire lives.

Families with one or two parents working two and three jobs just to get by have put more work in a year than some of the wealthiest people in this country have their entire lives.

Don’t blame the poor for their own troubles. Blame the unethical practices of banks for not acting responsibly, then faltering so bad they have no choice but to take it out on their employees and cut tens of thousands of jobs.

Blame it on the government for not prosecuting enough of those responsible for the actions that led to the crash of the market. The inability of a

single mother to climb the economic ladder is caused by issues far greater than her resume.

Ultimately, this is a question of economic mobility, one in which the United States ranks low among developed nations.

According to the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), we fall behind France, Sweden, Finland, Canada and Norway, among others.

Yes, there is no doubt that we can all name many high profile success stories, but the larger societal statistics show otherwise. As Warren Buffet has said, too many people make money from having money.

Being born in wealth almost guarantees your financial success as we’ve seen the income of the highest percentile of Americans increase while the middle class has been squeezed.

This isn’t to say that the wealthy don’t own their wealth or that they don’t work hard.

However, we must eradicate the lie that the poor are unemployed or reliant on the government because they are bums.

This theme is more recurrent at this conservative business school than many other

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Meals are the best times to socialize with friends, professors and life-long learners - you can learn so much from casual conversations with these people.

One of the life-long learners gives me an hour-long Mandarin tutoring session every A day, and one of my classmates teaches me guitar every B day. Since everyone is stuck on the ship together, it’s a great opportunity to learn from each other.

After dinnertime, there are usually different student activities, such as trivia night, dances, pub nights, etc. There are also several educational seminars offered each night on a variety of topics, lead by professors, staff, life-long learners and even students.

Throughout my voyage, I am lucky enough to have the opportunity to visit several different countries. While in port, we are free to do what we want within the country. Some of the students travel independently, and there are also several trips offered by Semester at Sea, some which are overnights and others which are just small day trips.

I particularly like the service visits and projects offered because I am able to give something back to the world and it’s a great way to get a sense of the culture that you couldn’t get as just a tourist. I also like hikes and extreme sports, although it technically isn’t allowed. Shark cage diving, abseiling and bungee jumping are a few of my favorite things I’ve done so far.

While in port, everyone is easily exhausted by the end of the day, but it’s well worth it.

By Moussa Hassoun

places in the state. Many students have their parents pay their bills and work stress-less summer jobs through their own connections.

Meanwhile, the “lazy bums” in community colleges work 365 days a year on several jobs just to pay for college with the hope of almost - but never - getting a decent job upon graduation. These assumptions are distasteful in the least but more intentionally misleading in most cases.

So please, excuse these bums for going to the streets to

voice their frustrations to a political system that drools over the money of Super PACs, and an economic system where those responsible aren’t punished and those hardworking are laid off.

The hardworking poor are the same poor that rely on government aid to make it through college, to cover costs of family, and despite all of their work, barely get by. Stop blaming them and let’s concentrate on the real problem: The Land that Lacks Upward Mobility.

The poor should not be blamed for the difficulties they face.

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COLuMNS

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HorosCopes

By Franziska & Johanna Griecci

Aries (March 21-April 19)

A queasy stomach could mean you’re in love…or it could be plain old indigestion.

Taurus (April 20-May 20)

If sadness hits you like a tsunami today, your friends are the relief workers that will make it better.

Gemini (May 21-June 21)

Don’t let jealously rear its ugly head… Smack it back down with a hammer!

Cancer (June 22-July 22)

It’s time to admit you might “like like” that special person.

You know who I’m talking about.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)

Envy will turn you green…but that’s your favorite color, so you’re cool with that.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

You’re feeling indifferent today, so no matter what I predict you’re not going to care much…darn.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

You could be paranoid…or maybe that squirrel building a nest outside your window really is insidious.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

Telling your teacher that his/her class bores you does not count as class participation.

April’s Advice

Your Questions Answered!

tHe Vanguard

By April Gammal

Question: Bentley seems to encourage its accounting students to work for one of the Big Four, presumably because these firms are the best public accounting firms to work for. What do you think about the other public accounting firms, and do you think I’d be doing myself a disservice by working for a firm outside of the Big Four?

I think what is important to realize is that all firms have their strengths and weaknesses, and it’s important to realize what is important to you. Also, what is considered “the best”? The Big Four are great firms with many opportunities, but they may not be “the best” for you.

There are many factors that should be considered before picking a job, such as the culture of the firm, expected working hours, attitude of co-workers, promotion options and job flexibility. Does the firm you are looking at satisfy these criteria, or does it fall short?

Just because a firm is the biggest does not mean it is the best for you or will give you as good an experience as a smaller firm.

For example, a large firm will probably have you work on a thin slice of an extremely large audit engagement, whereas you might have more exposure to a wider range of components of a smaller audit at a smaller

The Big Four may not be the right fit for everyone.

firm. This wider variety of job components will likely translate into greater job satisfaction.

It is important to keep in mind that on a day-to-day basis, you will be spending a lot of time working with a small number of co-workers.

You will not be working with the firm’s “prestige.” If these few co-workers are not pleasant to be around, you will not enjoy your job, no matter how “prestigious” your employer is. So try hard to zero in on a prospective employer’s interpersonal culture.

Vault.com recently came out with the results of a survey which ranks the 10 best

public accounting firms to work for. The survey took into account the firm’s prestige, firm culture, overall satisfaction of its employees, compensation, hours and business outlook.

Interestingly enough, none of the Big Four came in first place! Grant Thornton came in first, and the article said, “Although the Big Four still reign when it comes to prestige, they no longer rank on top when it comes to important workplace issues such as culture, hours and manager/junior relations.”

This article points out some important factors and notes that choosing a firm to work for is a dynamic deci-

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sion.

I encourage you to evaluate the criteria that are important to you and to make your own decisions based upon what is best for you.

The columns found in this newspaper are written by individual authors and do not reflect the opinion of The Vanguard, its Editorial Board members, or Bentley University.

Comments resulting from the columns may be directed to the author and/or The Vanguard.

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Frustrated? Tired? That’s what you get when you take six courses in one semester.

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If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands. Drawing attention to yourself makes you extra happy!

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Healthy Hart: A Helpful Guide to Eating Out

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Panera Bread is a great healthy alternative to Seasons.

At some point, everyone on campus eventually gets tired of eating the same pre-made food at Seasons, so they venture off campus to get a quick bite to eat. There are quite a few places to go in Waltham, such as Panera Bread right down the street in the Shaw’s plaza and a Bertucci’s Restaurant located just minutes away at 475

Winter Street.

Bertucci’s offers a variety of different healthy entrees, such as Venetian Spinach Salad with Salmon, Salad Vivaldi con Pollo & Bello (grilled chicken and roasted Portobello mushrooms), Baked Cod and many more.

They even have a Gluten Free Menu.

However, beware of the

rolls, because each one is roughly three hundred calories! While it’s fine to have one or two, try not to eat the entire basket that is placed in front of you while waiting for your main meal.

I’m not telling you to avoid eating any bread; just use moderation. Multiple studies have shown that eating a roll (carbohydrates) while wait-

Tech Talk

Spending time away from our Blackberrys may not be a bad thing with midterms rolling in.

Last week, millions of Blackberries around the world ceased to function, causing many to stress, and others to take the time to enjoy the beauty of silence.

Many senators took advantage of the blackout to avoid their congressional work. For a few days, e-mails were not received, texts were not sent and BBMs were left unread for millions of users.

Research in Motion, the company behind Blackberry, announced that this was “caused by a core switch failure within RIM’s infrastructure” and the data backlog that was caused created the massive delays and suspension of service. Unfortunately for RIM, the incident coincid-

ed with Apple’s release of their iPhone 4S, causing many to jump ship in search of more reliability. Some call it a conspiracy, I call it poor timing.

This isn’t the first time an outage has occurred for RIM, however. Heck, it isn’t the first outage for any cell phone company. Things happen and life goes on despite people’s impression that time stops when they can’t connect with their friends instantly. But in an age designed around being in the now, to have technology just stop working is more than an inconvenience - it is a real pain in the ass (maybe reverse the order).

It is easy to argue that

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By Angela Hart ing for your meal begins the process of your stomach signaling your brain that you’re beginning to feel full. It usually takes about 20 minutes for this to happen, which is why it’s so easy to continue eating more bread until your stomach expands and sends another signal to your brain that you are satisfied with your meal. As soon as you begin to eat your first roll, your body is aware that it is taking food in; so, if you can train yourself to eat slowly, you will not overindulge.

Allow yourself to have one roll, but please don’t eat three of them; otherwise, that’s your meal (your quota) for the night!

If a restaurant offers you bread, ask for olive oil instead of butter. Olive oil is a healthier choice because it has fewer calories, contains ingredients that are good for your skin and provides some key nutrients, such as antioxidants. In general, butter is not the healthiest choice because it is rich in saturated fat, which increases the risk of heart disease by increasing blood cholesterol levels.

So, even at home, try to use

olive oil or I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter!

Many take-out restaurants tend to give you more food than you can eat. At Panera Bread, they offer sandwiches that are healthy and made-to-order, which means that you’re getting fresh ingredients and a meal made just for you. The sandwiches can actually be divided into two separate meals.

The Tomato and Mozzarella Panini, for example, is 770 calories; by only eating half of the order, you consume your proper intake of carbohydrates, dairy and vegetables in one sitting. Save the other half of your sandwich for later on or even the next day. The staff will always give you a to-go box as long as you ask for one, which I highly recommend that you do the next time you order a meal.

There are many ways to make sure that you don’t over-eat. One way is to order a lunch-size portion, which is usually smaller and less expensive. Go off campus and have fun with friends, and good luck with your dining experience.

By Zack Hoffmann

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technology makes our lives easier. From saving time by researching via the interwebs to flying across oceans in a matter of hours, technology gives us access to so much more. Many in turn argue that we are far too reliant on these electronic blessings and they have a point - everyone has that one friend who is attached to their phone, glued to their Facebook and can’t be separated from their iPod. Now social etiquette aside, technology, when wielded correctly, is brilliant for everyone. And while at times it carries a high price, technology delivers the promise of giving us what we want faster. And when it doesn’t live up to that promise, there

is uproar.

There is a risk when using technology. Cellphones usually aren’t waterproof, can’t sustain being dropped from large heights and are prone to a limited battery life.

However, the emotional response triggered by uncooperative devices can be extreme, to say the least.

There is nothing more inciting than when my mouse changes into the hourglass wait icon. Partially I feel that it is designed to make me contemplate the time I have slowing draining away and because it always appears when it is the most inconvenient. Patience, while a virtue, is something that technology should not possess.

Maybe my expectations are too high, and I am unsympathetic when my computer has a bad day. But realistically, computers, phones and mp3s aren’t designed to perform better when they choose to. A system of circuits and electronic impulses, they are supposed to operate at maximum efficiency to make my life easier. And when they inopportunely fail, life does stop for a short second. But what would life be without some challenges?

That being said, here are a couple of tricks that will (hopefully) speed your computer up. As a general note, make sure to back up really

important files to another drive - it is easy to hit delete but to revive a file takes a miracle.

Delete old files. It is too obvious, but people think that they have unlimited space of memory. Anything less than 10 GB makes your computer hazardously slow.

Empty your Recyle Bin/Trash Can. Just because you deleted files, they have a tendency to want to hang around. Right click the icon and empty it. But once it has been emptied, the file is gone so make sure you really don’t need it.

Run a “Disk Clean Up.” This shows you temporary or unwanted files you may have on your computer that you can get rid of. Click the boxes you want to cleanup and hit OK. Disk Defragmenter. When files are fragmented, it takes longer to search for them when opening. Search “Disk Degfragment” in the start up, analyze and then run the Disk Defragger. For Mac users, in the application folder under the Utilities folder select Disk Utility. Verify the disk permissions and then repair them.

Go to the Help Desk. If you are having a real problem with speed, then maybe a spyware or other malicious data has corrupted your system.

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Bentley golf takes Regional Championship crown

By Louis Sherman Vanguard Staff

The 2011 Bentley University golf team has completed something this week that no other golf program at Bentley has been able to do in the past. As day two of the New England Championships closed out on Tuesday, Bentley sat atop

Senior Richie Powers finished one stroke behind Michel.

the leaderboard, the first time that Bentley golf has taken the Regional Championship.

The Falcons started off strong on Monday, as all five of the teams’ golfers shot a score of 77 or better on the par-72 Captains Golf Course in Brewster, MA. After day one, the Falcons were in third place among Division

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II teams with a cumulative score of 305. This put Bentley four strokes behind Bryant University and Holy Cross, and one stroke ahead of fourth-place UMass Lowell.

On the first day of Regionals, senior Richie Powers shot a 75, which was tied for the eighth best score among the 169 competitors.

Junior Matt Michel shot a 76, which was good for a tie for 15th. The other three golfers (senior Nick Clarke, junior Dan McQueen and freshman Quincy Coulter) each shot 77s, which was good for a tie for 24th place on the day.

Day two brought an even better result for the Falcons, who combined for a score of 301, to bring their stroke total to 606 for the onestroke victory over Bryant.

Another day in which Bentley golfers shot 77s or better was led my Michel.

Michel led day two golfers with a score of 73, to place him in sixth place individually for the tournament at 5over. Powers stayed consistent with his second day 75, to finish one stroke behind Michel. Clarke finished in 17th with his 76. McQueen and Coulter both shot 77s on

Junior Matt Michel placed sixth place individually.

day two to finish in a tie for 22nd individually.

This was the first time that Bentley has won the New England Championship. They won the 77th annual holding of the event, beating out the other 33 teams, and completing the fall golf season for the Falcons.

Bentley recently captured the NE-10 Conference

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Championship earlier this month, which in turn gives the team an automatic bid to the Division II Super Regional tournament next May. With the way the Falcons closed out this season, it looks promising that the team could finish in the top ten in the Super Regional, something that the team has not done since 1998.

Hockey opens season against four tough opponents

By Matt Gustus Vanguard Staff

Thus far this season, the Bentley ice hockey team has faced off against national power Michigan twice and UMass Amherst. Despite being within a goal or closer in the third period of each game, the team has dropped the first three games of the season.

Bentley opened up the season with a two-game road trip to Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Coming into the weekend, the Wolverines, ranked sixth in the nation, had already played three games. In game one, Bentley came out of the gates fast with a power play goal seven minutes into the first period. Freshman Alex Grieve scored just seven seconds after Michigan’s penalty, with assists from Brett Switzer and Justin Breton.

The score remained in Bentley’s favor until the second period, when Michigan scored two goals. Greg Pateryn put Michigan on the board two minutes into the period. Seven minutes later, Michigan scored on a power play to take the lead 2-1.

The game remained at the same score through the end of the second period. It wasn’t until 4:22 left in the game that Michigan put the game out of

reach, scoring three more goals.

The next day, Bentley and Michigan laced up their skates once again. In this game, it was Michigan who scored first, with a goal coming 10:24 into the first period.

Bentley tied the score 9 minutes into the second period, with a goal coming from sophomore Jared Rickord. Minutes later, Bentley came back strong again, knocking in another goal to apparently take the lead. However, the goal was waved off due to goaltender interference.

Similar to the night before, the tie was broken by a Michigan power play late in the second period. Wolverine Phil Di Giuseppe took his team’s one man advantage and scored his second goal of the game. With Bentley pushing forward hard, Michigan was able to put home two goals late in the third period to finish the game with the score of 4-1.

Bentley’s third game of the season took place against the Minutemen of UMass Amherst. Two first period goals from Bentley players Aaron Stonacek and Alex Grieve were matched by UMass goals in both the first and second period, setting the stage for a thrilling third period.

UMass came out fast, scoring two goals less than a minute apart within the first four minutes of the period.

Bentley would fight back,

eventually pulling within one with a power play goal from junior Joe Capanelli.

However, a UMass power play goal in the last seconds of the

game put the Minutemen up for good.

Bentley remains on the road again Tuesday, with a game against Quinnipiac.

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Did the Major League Baseball season even happen this year?

By Robbie LaBrie SportS Editor

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody’s there to hear it, does it make any noise?

While the Milwaukee Brewers fought for the life of their season and the St. Louis Cardinals fought to reach the World Series on Sunday, week six was going on in the NFL. It was a midseason slate of games for the NFL, not a playoff week or an end-ofthe-season battle teams locked in a battle for playoff positioning or the first game of the year with new players on new teams.

Regular season games versus teams trying to reach the championship of their sport.

Which one were you watching? Unless you’re a Cardinals, Brewers or passionate baseball fan, the answer is probably football.

And the numbers don’t lie.

According to ESPN, the ratings for the NLCS were down 43 percent from last year, while ALCS ratings were down 20 percent.

There are many possible reasons for the overall shift.

It could be media-driven.

The networks may just prefer football over baseball.

But it goes deeper than just a media problem. There’s really no more buzz around baseball games anymore.

The media gives plenty of coverage to baseball’s offseason because people get truly interested in seeing where players are going. It’s more like a show than a sport, but when the season gets going and April turns into May and June, that interest fades.

The fact that there is fan interest surrounding the drama of baseball (trades, free agent pickups, coaches being fired, players drinking in the locker room) indicates that fans care about baseball, just not so much about watching the games.

Maybe it’s the slow pace and frequent commercial breaks? But at the same time, football has more commercial breaks than ever with the introductions of things like instant replay that allow for extra breaks.

It’s also not a sport where there is constant action.

There’s a play that lasts 5-10 seconds followed by 30-40 seconds of no action. Where is football’s decline?

Maybe fans just prefer a sport with more violence and physical contact like football, hockey and golf. Although golf, where there is literally no contact, didn’t see any sort of decline in popularity, at least until Tiger Woods was no longer relevant.

Maybe it’s the fact that there is no Tiger Woods or

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rECEnt rESultS Results from 10/11-10/18

Field Hockey (8-7, 5-3 NE-10) Franklin Pierce (10/12)* At Assumption (10/15)* At Saint Michael’s (10/18)*

Result L 4-2 W 5-0 W 2-0

Football (4-3, 3-2 NE-10) Southern Conn (10/15)*

L 31-29

Golf New Englands (10/17-10/18)

Baseball ratings are way down this year.

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Phil Mickelson in baseball.

There aren’t really stars that average non-baseball fans know. How many baseball players now are truly relevant in American culture?

Maybe A-Rod and Derek Jeter, but that’s only because of their past achievements rather than their play now.

You could make the case for Albert Pujols and certainly within baseball people there are stars. Anyone who follows baseball knows that Justin Verlander and Clayton Kershaw are ridiculous, but does our copy editor Alyson, who I really don’t think is an avid baseball fan, even know who Justin Verlander and Clayton Kershaw are? (No offense, Alyson.)

Of course, locally there are stars as well. Dustin Pedroia and Jacoby Ellsbury fit that bill in Boston, but how many national TV commercials have you seen them in?

Believe it or not, once upon a time, baseball players actually had a significant role in American culture.

Just in my lifetime, you had the great home run race of 1998 where Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa lit up ball parks everywhere.

Ken Griffey Jr. was a household name and the big three shortstops, Jeter, Nomar and A-Rod received constant attention.

When guys like Clemens, Pedro or Randy Johnson were on the mound, it seemed like the whole world took notice.

Even a bit later, everybody hated Barry Bonds, but when he was chasing 70 home runs in 2001 or hunting down Hank Aaron’s record, ESPN would show every at-bat he had regardless of whether the Giants game or something else was on.

Recently Jim Thome became only the eighth player in history to hit 600 home runs and it barely reached the ticker scrolling across the bottom of the TV screen.

Just look at the Jim Thome situation. He hits 600 home runs and most people probably don’t even know it happened. This was the same guy who was a bona fide superstar in the 1990s.

He was part of those Cleveland Indians teams that were absolutely stacked with guys like Thome, Manny Ramirez, Albert Belle, Omar Vizquel, Kenny Lofton and so many more.

They were all stars and Thome shined the brightest out of all of them.

It’s the same guy. People used to love him and now they’re just disinterested.

Did Jim Thome do something wrong? Did he offend the wrong person? Did he endorse Herman Cain’s 9-99 tax plan or something? No, people just don’t care about baseball anymore.

We’ve heard more about a few Red Sox pitchers drinking beer in the clubhouse than any other baseball related story all postseason.

Is it just the media’s fault or is it just that people care more about gossip than actual baseball?

Baseball certainly has many issues it needs to correct if it wants to keep up with football and the NHL which has been gaining ratings over the past few years (RIP NBA). MLB needs to start looking at ways to attract fans and get people invested in the actual games again. Until then there’s only one question to ask: If the Cardinals reach the World Series and everybody’s watching football, can baseball just be over already?

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Hockey (0-4) At UMass (10/14) At Quinnipiac (10/18)

L 5-3 L 6-1

Men’s Soccer (8-4-1, 6-3 NE-10) At So. New Hampshire (10/11) At Saint Rose (10/15)*

L 3-0 W 2-1

Men’s Tennis (4-0, 4-0 NE-10) Pace (10/16)*

W 9-0

Women’s Soccer (5-9-1, 4-7-1 NE-10) At Saint Anselm (10/12)* Pace (10/15)* Assumption (10/18)*

L 2-1 L 3-2 W 2-1

Women’s Tennis (3-0, 3-0 NE-10) Le Moyne (10/15)* Pace (10/16)*

W 8-1 W 8-1

Volleyball (11-10, 6-3 NE-10) At Saint Rose (10/14)* At Le Moyne (10/15)* At Merrimack (10/18)*

W 3-2 W 3-1 W 3-1

*Northeast-10 Game

upComing SChEdulE October 22 Field Hockey vs. Southern Conn* Volleyball vs. Adelphi*

1:00 p.m.

2:00 p.m.

October 25 Men’s Soccer vs. Franklin Pierce*

3:30 p.m.

October 26 Women’s Soccer vs. Southern NH

3:30 p.m.

October 28 Men’s Soccer vs. Southern Conn Hockey vs. Clarkson

3:30 p.m.

7:05 p.m.

October 29 Women’s Soccer vs. Saint Rose Hockey vs. Clarkson

1:00 p.m.

7:05 p.m.

Did you know Jim Thome reached the 600 home run mark? Probably not.

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Play of the Year not enough in Homecoming loss Southern Connecticut State University hands Bentley second straight defeat; Falcons now tied for fourth in NE-10

By Ben Klein VanGUaRD StaFF

After three straight wins, the Bentley Falcons had two challenges facing them and lost both by a combined six points. Last weekend the Falcons traveled to Merrimack who was 3-1 at the time. The Falcons had a 29-18 lead at halftime but Merrimack shut out the Falcons in the second half and scored 15 points of their own for a 33-29 victory. The loss made their homecoming game against Southern Connecticut State University a must win from a conference standpoint.

With both teams at 4-2 going into this Saturday’s game, it was destined to be an exciting game and it sure was. The Falcons were up 17-7 at halftime but SCSU didn’t go down quietly, taking a 31-17 lead late the in the game. QB Bryant Johnson led two amazing drives down the field, both ending with hail marry touchdowns. The only problem was a missed extra point which gave the Owls an eight point lead instead of seven.

Bentley was forced to go for a 2-point conversion to try and tie the game but Johnson’s pass failed and SCSU took home the 31-29 victory.

Bentley opened the game with a 10 play, 86-yard drive that was ignited by two big SCSU penalties. A 15-yard run by RB Bobby Tarr setup a 4-yard touchdown run by Mike Sumrell. The touchdown was the fifth time this season that the Falcons scored on their opening drive. The Bentley defense only allowed 11 total yards against the Owls in the first quarter and led the game 100.

Southern CT fought back at the start of the second

The Falcons faced off against Southern Connecticut State during the Homecoming celebration this past weekend.

quarter with a touchdown of their own. RB Rashaad Slowley led the 94-yard drive with 7 carries for 25 yards and a touchdown to cut the lead to 10-7.

Bentley wanted to end the first half with a big drive but an incomplete pass from Johnson to WR Bill Kiley on third and 5 forced what looked to be a 49-yard field goal attempt by Will Lockwood. Lockwood’s career long was only 44 yards so it seemed unlikely that head coach Thom Boerman would attempt such a long kick.

Holder Matt Welch took the snap and stood up for a fake field goal pass attempt. He connected with WR Sean Cross who ran the ball into the end zone for a 32 yard touchdown. The amazing play was good enough to be No. 9 on ESPN’s Top 10 Plays list.

Southern CT was given great field position following an unsportsmanlike conduct

penalty after the touchdown but Don Hopkins intercepted a Kevin Lynch pass with under a minute remaining in the half. Bryant Johnson was then intercepted to end the half with the score 17-7 in favor of the Falcons.

The Owls came out of the half strong with a drive to pull them within striking distance of Bentley. Rashaad Slowley was involved on every play including a 20yard reception and then a 28yard touchdown catch. Their defense also improved in the third quarter, forcing three Bentley punts and keeping the score at 17-14.

Just a minute into the fourth quarter SCSU took the lead after a Slowley 13yard run and then a deep pass to Willie Epps for a 46yard touchdown. Another touchdown for the Owls came after a great punt return by Andre Privott which started the drive at the Bentley 16 yard line.

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On Tuesday, Bentley Golf captured their first ever New England Intercollegiate Golf Association Championship at the Captains Golf Course in Brewster, MA. The Falcons’ depth lead them to the victory, with all five scorers finishing in the top 22 individually in the tournament.

Matt Michel (76-73) led the way followed by Richie Powers (75-75), Nick Clarke (77-76), Dan McQueen (77-77) and Quincy Coulter (77-77). This was the final tournament of 2011 as Bentley finished the fall portion of their season with three tournament victories. Congratulations, Falcons!

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Slowley ran in his second rushing touchdown from 2 yards out and gave Southern CT a 28-14 lead. A field goal on their next drive nearly put Bentley away, being down 14 points with only two minutes remaining in the game, but the Falcons fought back.

In the hurry-up offense Johnson completed 6 total passes to WR Wade Critides and Mike Sumrell before launching a 37-yard hail marry pass to Jeff Hill for a touchdown. A missed extra point put Bentley down 8 points with thirty seconds to play.

The special teams pulled off an amazing onside kick recovery to give Bentley one last shot at tying the game.

Three completions for 23 yards gave Johnson a chance for another miracle play. He heaved up a 39-yard pass down the field to the end zone which Jeff Hill pulled in for another hail marry touch-

down. All Bentley would need to tie the game would be a two-point conversion.

Johnson dropped back into the pocket and threw the ball which landed incomplete, ending Bentley’s hopes.

SCSU RB Rashaad Slowley proved to be the player of the game with 30 carries for 102 yards and two touchdowns and also 4 receptions for 73 yards and a touchdown. Bentley WR Wade Critides caught 14 passes of his own for 102 yards but was left without a touchdown. Bryant Johnson finished the game with 275 passing yards, two touchdowns and an interception.

Bentley is now 3-2 in NE10 conference play and 4-3 overall. They play at the University of New Haven and Pace University before returning home to play Assumption College in the season finale. Bentley is really going to need some help to be in contention for a NE-10 Championship.

They are currently tied for fourth place in the division behind New Haven (4-0), Southern CT (4-1) and Merrimack (3-1). Next week’s game against New Haven is a must win even though QB Ryan Osiecki is the lead candidate for this year’s NE-10 MVP award, leading the conference in touchdowns with 18 passing touchdown while in second place with 245.9 passing yards per game.

Assumption is 2-3 and Pace is 0-4 in the conference so a win over New Haven would be huge for their championship hopes, considering their final two games shouldn’t be as difficult. All three remaining games are extremely important to end the 2011 season with a strong record in the conference. Bentley will play at New Haven at 1 PM next Saturday, October 22.

Junior Field Hockey player Nicole Dion Junior Nicole Dion of the field hockey team is the Falcon of the Week. Dion had four goals in two games last week, giving her a team leading eight for the season.

Her first career hat trick led the Falcons to a 5-0 win at Assumption on Saturday. Her first goal of the game gave them a 1-0 lead, and she scored her next two less than two minutes apart early in the second half to increase Bentley’s lead to 5-0. Earlier in the week, she scored in a 4-2 loss to Franklin Pierce.

Dion and the Falcons are currently 7-7 overall and 4-3 in the Northeast-10.