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Bentley bests Harvard, takes Mochrie & Sherwood: first place at Fed Challenge from the TV to Koum

By Lacey Nemergut News editor

On Friday, November 9, the Bentley Fed Challenge team took first place out of 19 teams in the Fed Challenge regional competition featured at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. The team faced a stiff round of competition with Yale, Boston College and Boston University in the morning and emerged victorious to face and defeat Harvard, Dartmouth and Middlebury in the afternoon semifinal round.

“From a general standpoint… it was going to come down to us and Harvard,” said Fed Challenge team faculty advisor, Aaron Jackson.

“Bentley’s and Harvard’s team were by far the top consistently in this region. The difference is though that even The team began preparing about eight months before the first competition.

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CRAZE takes second at the Annual NE Cheer & Dance Competition

By Lacey Nemergut News editor

On Saturday, November 9, CRAZE, Bentley’s own hip hop dance group, took second at the 21st Annual New England Cheer & Dance Competition at the Reggie Lewis Track Center in Boston.

The competition, in a venue allowing for 4,000 spectators, is one of the largest in the northeast and features divisions for dance, step, all stars, cheer divisions, youth divisions and college divisions.

CRAZE competed in the college hip-hop category against over eight other universities, accepting defeat from only Emmanuel College Dance

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Alumna Steph Hubbard choreographed the team’s routine for this competition.

Team.

“CRAZE has been practicing for the competition since the very beginning of the semester. We practice 3-4

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times a week for two hours,” said senior President Katie Miller.

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The Whose Line stars have been touring as a two man improv group.

By Brenna O’Connell CAmPus LiFe editor

When you have a show as big and boisterous as last spring’s roast of Bentley University, it is difficult to up the ante. With a show that was both hilarious and controversial, Campus Activities Board (CAB) took last semester’s performance and will continue down the non-traditional route.

“Whose Line Is It Anyway?” stars Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood will grace the Koumantzelis stage and deliver a never before seen show that will be sure to have students laughing and reminiscing over the childhoods spent watching the show on TV. “The name of the game is to out-do ourselves. We didn’t want to put on a subpar comedy show; we want to put on a show that students will be talking about for years,” said comedy committee co-chair Matthew Schick. CAB is known for bringing the best talent to campus, carefully bal-

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ancing their budget against student interests and preferences. “[CAB’s] objective is to bring the best of the best…entertainment to our campus. We weren’t totally sold on doing just a normal standup show again,” said Schick. “[With the roast] we created this theme show. It gave students another [view] of comedy. It was not just stand up but it was two comedians making fun of our school. This semester, since that was so well-received, we wanted to continue making this a unique comedy experience for our students,” explains Schick. Comedy committee co-chair Jen Nhan said, “We worked on this over the summer…and we originally wanted somebody else, but [some constraints] came up and [Mochrie and Sherwood] popped up and it has turned out even better!”

And not only will the improv style be new to the Bentley community as far as See COMEDY , Page 6

7 WALL ST. AND OBAMA 14 FOOTBALL Financial institutions’ take on the election

10 JOHN MULANEY

saturday Night Live writer kills it on stage

the Falcons beat Assumption in the final game of the season

Police Logs 2 Editorial 4 Cartoon 4 Voices 8 Horoscopes 12 Falcon of The Week 16

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PoliCe log dexter’s laboratory Monday night, a student reported the garbage disposal in his dorm room is clogged. That same night, facilities was notified to clean up blood in a bathroom in Slade Hall.

So there was a student murdered in a Slade Hall bathroom and then the murderer tried to shove his body down the garbage disposal?

Case closed. Go ahead, find another “likely” scenario. Can I have my honorary badge now? What do you mean that would have gotten any type of news coverage if that was even close to true? sweet surveillance Tuesday morning, dispatch could not control any PTZ cameras. I’m just going to assume this was a typo and they meant to say “dispatch could not control any PEZ cameras.” And then I’m going to assume that there are candy-dispensing cameras on campus watching our every move. I have never been prouder to be a Bentley student. negative identification Tuesday afternoon, officers responded to the La Cava bus stop for a report from the shuttle bus driver of a student refusing to show his I.D. The benefit of the doubt goes to the student here. Who looks good in their I.D. picture? It’s no

wonder he wasn’t willing to show it.

office oval shaped.

Clear eyes, full hearts, oops Officers found pieces of glass in the roadway by Building C of North. upon arriving at the scene, the officers determined they were actually shards of Mitt romney’s

it got really hot in there Just after the clock struck midnight on November 9, facilities was notified of a heat issue in Alder Hall. Heat issue, huh? That’s what we’re calling it now? Alright, we’ll believe you... you crazy kids.

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hopes and dreams which had shattered so violently Tuesday night that they rained down over the Greater Boston area.

Four more years! Four more years!

On November 7, security officer unlocked the President’s House so Catering could clear an event that was cancelled. The event was cancelled because in the spirit of the election, Pres. Larson had cleared her day to celebrate her re-election.

She did not care that she was not technically up for re-election at the time, but she did make her first executive order of her “new term” by hiring a contractor to make her

Editor-in-ChiEF Sindhu Palaniappan Managing Editor gEnEral ManagEr Alyson Bisceglia Emily Silver CoPy Editor Nate Marchand nEws Editor Lacey Nemergut sPorts Editor Ben Klein CaMPus liFE Editor Brenna O’Connell FEaturEs Editor Mike Lovett BusinEss Editor Jasper Huang PhotograPhy Editor Tim Avrutik onlinE Editor Victoria Lin Editorial dirECtor Tomer Gat dirECtor oF ProduCtion Meagan Kalpokis dirECtor oF advErtising Brian Fuerst dirECtor oF MarkEting Dina Durutlic JournalisM advisor George Donnelly studEnt liFE advisor Nicole Chabot-Wieferich FOr GENErAL & CONTACT INFOrMATION ABOuT The Vanguard, PLEASE SEE PAGE 4.

a Bong Burial An officer destroyed drug paraphernalia that the AOD recovered from a room in the Cape House.

Afterwards, the paraphernalia was given a simple ceremony.

Attendance was low, but the thoughts and prayers to the paraphernalia’s loved ones were countless. rest in pieces. secret service Early in the morning on November 11, Bentley was finally tucked in for the night. Safety was guaranteed, danger could not be found and the well-being of Bentley had never been more secure as Bay Colony went off duty. As the sun rose, the legend faded into the distance. Thank you Bay Colony. We owe you one more. scary sedan At 2:13 a.m., a student reported a suspicious vehicle followed her into Lot 34. An officer reported he checked the area with no results. It

turns out at 2:13 a.m., every car seems suspicious so it was impossible to really narrow it down. larceny across the Pond A student reported his Bentley issued laptop was stolen overseas.

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Overseas? Well, jeez man, why didn’t you just say so? We’ll track that baby down halfway across the world no problem...

Pee Pals Men have grouped together to accomplish tasks for centuries.

Whether it was in the pre-historic era hunting for food, in present day on road trips to Vegas or on a Friday night exploring the vast wilderness outside of Copley North and urinating together. The more I think about it the more I realize that last one isn’t a thing and it is just really weird.

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Alpha Psi Omega puts on Title of Show this weekend

By Lacey Nemergut newS editor

Bentley’s production Title of Show will take the stage this weekend, offering business students a refreshing break from their numerically based lives with an invitation to the world of theater.

The four-person cast, supplemented consistently by four chairs, owned the stage, demanding the attention of the audience with a sassy script and nonchalant storyline.

An impressive incorporation of background music from a talented live keyboard augmented the performance, providing peppy and lively beats.

Though the secondary supporting females worked an angle as an unlikely duo, complete with glamour and sarcastic attitude, the male leads stole the show with their goofy antics and undeniable chemistry.

The character of Jeff was brought to life by Alex Aroyan with a delicate balance of captivating vocals and alluring stage pres-

ence while Henry supported the storyline with his versatile embodiment of both a carefree late twenties single male and an abrasively inspirational muse.

The cast, deviating greatly from a typical plot, bravely portrayed themselves as struggling actors, “nobodies in New York” fulfilling the Broadway dream.

Playing to each member’s strength, the crew integrated songs and witty modern references, catching the audience off guard and dragging them out of their comfort zones.

The performance displayed echoes of “Underemployed” and delivered spectators to an artistic oasis away from the fiscal cliff and weakening U.S. dollar. Steering clear of the Hipster appeal, the inquiry explores the fine line between striving for originality and conforming for popular success.

Though the lyrics lack the customary rhyme scheme, they capture the moment, offering witty

The show starts at 7:00 pm this Thursday, Friday and Saturday in the Koumantzelis Auditorium, and is free with a student I.D.

appeal and relatable emotion. Students preparing for corporate America can relate to the demand in “Die Vampires Die” with admiration for the transferable message.

Despite the energizing use of artistic license, the Bentley performance struggled to find a balance between vocals and stage presence.

All and all, I recommend

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breaking from the business bubble to explore the off Broadway world and welcome the entertainment that undoubtedly brings to life the few chairs and many phones.

Bentley Student Television returns to Bentley Cable

By Kristin Tomasi Vanguard Staff

Bentley Student TV will return to Bentley cable with new content on Monday, November 26, following Thanksgiving break.

“Students can look forward to all kinds of programming on the channel,” said BSTV President Ian Daigle, who is responsible for organizing meetings, facilitating brainstorming and making final production decisions.

“The club was founded on a core of sketch comedy, so we try to stick to that as often as possible,” Daigle said. “But we’ll also be airing some student events and other informational shows that members produce.”

BSTV was not running at the beginning of the semester due to Bentley’s switch to Campus Televideo cable services this school year.

“It took a little while to ensure compatibility and find the channel a new home in the new system and line up,” explained Daigle.

“But, thanks to great efforts by the folks in network services and residence life, we’ve been able to finally get the channel restored to the cable system.”

BSTV will be located on channel 5 in the new cable system. Students will have to re-program their televisions in order to add the channel using the same

process they completed upon moving in this semester.

The channel, which will contain classic BSTV content until its official launch on November 26, can be added now before the official launch.

The purpose of BSTV is to showcase student-produced media content.

“Everything that we air on the channel is either written by, starring, or directed and produced by Bentley stu-

dents,” said Daigle.

“A major change for the group comes with an expansion of their content. While they are maintaining the basic components of past years like mock news segments and timely sketches, they are trying to broaden out their approach to develop more material. The group sees this new approach as way to sustain itself moving forward,” said Creative Director Mike Lovett.

The organization will be holding two premiere events throughout the remainder of the semester.

“During the events we premiere and showcase a production that one of our members has done,” said Daigle.

“They usually occur on Thursday nights in the pub and we always have plenty of free food.”

“Anyone who has an idea for a production or is inter-

ested in learning more about the production process can get involved by coming to one of our meetings,” he said.

BSTV meetings are held on Thursdays at 6:30 p.m. in the production studio, found in Lindsay 10.

Interested students are encouraged to attend meetings, or can feel free to email Ian Daigle or GA_BSTV@bentley.edu for more information about programs and participation.

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Quotes of the Week “Our party needs to realize that it’s too old and too white and too male...”

-Al Cardenas head of the American Conservative Union *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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MyBentley crashes once again Registration is always a stressful event, especially for those who don’t receive early registration times.

Many spend hours planning their schedules, only to have to scramble last minute because they were closed out of certain courses. It certainly doesn’t help the situation when the system used for registering fails on the first day.

In the middle of the first day of course registration, students were no longer able to register for classes on MyBentley during their specified times. Students received an e-mail from the registrar explaining that they are experiencing problems and are attempting to fix them.

This crash came only weeks after MyBentley crashed during GrooveBoston ticket sales.

The first event is likely attributed to the large amount of students attempting to obtain tickets at the same time, but no reason has been disclosed for the registration issues.

Once registration issues arose, the registrar shut down registration for the remainder of the day and later decided to resume registration the following

day. There was no explanation as to what the problem was or how it had been fixed. The good news was that registration was not affected and students who were not able to sign up still got a chance to select their courses.

These two MyBentley problems point to a larger issue with MyBentley. The website is used for almost everything on campus, from course registration, to major declaration, to workstudy timesheets and even graduation petitions. It is a very vital part of Bentley’s logistics and we would hope that such an integral system would not run into so many issues.

Last semester, The Vanguard ran an editorial about the lack of usage of the available technology on campus, including MyBentley. To the registrar’s credit (as well as other groups and organizations), MyBentley was used more efficiently this semester.

The course listings page, which in the past has been found through a maze of links under the registrar’s section on Bentley.edu, was moved to MyBentley.

Not only is this page nicerlooking and more user-

friendly, but it is much easier to find. Moving the page there was a good idea.

However, in the past there have been problems with the large amount of students accessing the page on the registrar’s section of the site during registration. It is very likely that the same traffic would be seen on this relocated site, especially considering the stress that registration brings on. This problem should have been addressed before registration, knowing the problems that have risen in the past.

It’s now been proven over and over that MyBentley cannot handle the high-traffic that it receives during many crucial times throughout the year. As it is used more often and for an increasing number of uses, we hope that the infrastructure behind it can keep up. As we stated, MyBentley really is used a lot on campus, which we do think is a good thing. Bentley just needs to be a little more prepared for this kind of situation in the future.

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“Democracy in a nation of 300 million can be noisy and messy and complicated… That won't change after tonight, and it shouldn't.”

-President Obama during his victory speech on election night “In times like these you need a white president you can trust. And that white president is Barack Obama.”

-Chris Rock satirical polital message for white voters “This election is a total sham and a travesty. We are not a democracy!”

-Donald Trump Disclaimer: The opinions published in The Vanguard are submitted by readers of the newspaper, and do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of The Vanguard and its staff. We are not able to print any letters submitted anonymously.

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Culture Fest Day of Service: 150 Bentley students rake, paint, weed

Bentley studentsvolunteered at Prospect Hill, Chesterbrook and Dana Court.

By Sindhu Palaniappan Editor-in-ChiEf

Over 150 dedicated Bentley students spent this past Saturday taking part in Culture Fest’s Day of Service. Students represented a number of groups across the campus, including Greek Life, the Multicultural Center, the Service-Learning Center, Student Government Association, Class Cabinet and Resident Life.

Students were dispersed throughout Waltham at Chesterbrook, Dana Court and Prospect Hill. Over the course of four hours, they were able to spend time raking leaves, painting over worn down buildings and rooms, weeding and hedging gardens, cleaning up trash on site and entertaining the children and families at each site.

“This annual Day of

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Service has always been a part of Cultural Fest Activities. In the past we have gone to elementary schools in Waltham and have exposed children to the different cultures that Bentley has to offer,” said Claudette Blot, a program coordinator at the Bentley Multicultural Center. “A few years ago we hosted the children of Waltham on campus and had Cultural booths for them to participate in hands on learning.” In the last three years, the day has expanded into a physical project where representatives from the entire campus participate.

Each organization has different strengths and together, the day has been developed into something where students and families in the community alike can come together and see an array of different cultures within the same city. With the help of

captains from Greek Life, Service Learning, SGA, the Summer Transitional Education Program (or STEP), Residential Life, Athletics, Professor Evan’s psychology course and Waltham PD, Bentley’s multicultural center was able to put together a successful day of service.

Volunteers from this past Saturday’s event have put in requests to participate in a Day of Service this Spring.

“Although we are unsure if this is going to happen, we are very pleased to know that the Day of Service has such a strong following and support system from the Bentley student body,” said Katie Baker and Jacky Yen, two service-learning project managers.

Plans for the next day involve similar work – tidying up the three low income

Students raked leaves, painted buildings and weeded gardens.

housing developments in our community. All three of these sites are near and dear to the Bentley community.

“We would say the most

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outstanding moments from this day was seeing so many diverse students across the Bentley Community come together over one great cause. They put the residents first and did what was necessary to get the project done – even if that meant working with a team of Bentley students they weren’t former acquaintances with. There were no fights, arguments, or negative attitudes; just laughter, smiles and happiness to share. It really was a beautiful sight to witness,” said Baker and Yen. The community, the parents and the local police have all expressed what a difference Bentley students make in these neighborhoods. The children at Prospect Hill put it best however, when they said, “we can’t wait for our Bentley Buddies to come back to play!”

FED Continued from Page 1 though Harvard gave an exceptional presentation… the policy that they recommended did not go over well with the judges. There were a lot of problems with it that the judges didn’t like.”

“I couldn’t be more proud of Bentley’s Fed Challenge team,” said President Gloria Larson. “I was able to attend the final round of the regional competition and got to experience firsthand the sophisticated monetary policy presentation made by our students, as well as their deft handling of some very tough questions thrown at them by the judges.”

“I feel good to represent the school,” said Senior Cody Normyle on the topic of the regional Bentley victory.

The judges of the morning round included faculty advisors from Dartmouth and Quinnipiac while the afternoon panel consisted of

research economists from the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

The team has spent months preparing for the competition since last March when the applications for the class were due.

“We made them do a lot of readings and assignments over the summer, so there are some really intensive workshops that we have as well as debates that are associated with the class that they have to take during the semester,” said Jackson.

“They’ve been basically preparing for this for 8 months.”

The days leading up to the competition were marked by intense dedication and conc e n t r a t i o n .

“We were here, including myself, until 11 p.m., Wednesday, the night that it snowed… and I had been working with them from 5 to 11 and then all day Thursday [before the competition],”

said Jackson. “[It’s] one of the most rewarding experiences you can have,” said Senior Josh Kulak on the topic of the Fed Challenge competition.

The competition entailed pressing issues affecting the economy, including unemployment, the fiscal cliff, the overall condition of Europe, the housing market, inflation and other topics impacting the current state of the economy.

The Bentley team approached the presentation with a unique technique, utilizing a staged mock debate to demonstrate their comprehensive knowledge of the contentious contemporary economic issues.

“They appreciated the back and forth nature to it,” said Senior Alfonso Martinez.

“The way we did it was set up as a meeting. Then make a policy recommendation as an outcome of the back and forth discussions.”

The focal point of the team’s presentation included their devised strategy which closely aligned with current methodology being discussed in the Fed. The Harvard team chose to utilize a different approach, going in a direction that failed to satisfy the judges. “[Harvard’s] policy proposals really didn’t make a lot of sense,” said Jackson. A lot of what Bentley’s team proposed has really been discussed internally within the Federal Reserve… [the proposal] was a reflection of the thinking of the federal reserve system.”

In short, the team proposed a monetary policy which they felt could best address current economic shortfalls, which involved adjustments to the Fed’s QE3 program when “Operation Twist” expires at the end of the year.

The team will continue to nationals in Washington DC

at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve on Tuesday, November 27. “[We want to] bring Bentley to the national spotlight,” said Senior Spencer Tirella when asked about going for the National victory of the five regions.

“Economics Department professors Aaron Jackson and Dave Gulley have done an outstanding job coaching the team and I have every confidence that Bentley will do well in the national championship competition in Washington later this month,” said President Larson. “I expect to be there to cheer our team on!”

“There’s a lot more hard work that they have to do,” said Jackson. “They’re going to have to rewrite some of the script because… it’s going to be different because two weeks from now there’s going to be changes in the economy that they’ll have to deal with.”

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Professor Profile: Bentley’s David Carhart of the math department

By Olivia Regan VANGUARD STAff Algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, trigonometry, the game theory… the list goes on and on for different sections of math. Many fear this subject and students often have trouble with different aspects of these primarily number-based classes. Dave Carhart, a math professor here at Bentley University, would like to break this mold.

As I walked into his office on an early Tuesday morning, he greeted me with a smile and asked, “What can I do for ya, Liv?” I smiled back at him because I am a familiar, often dropping by to ask a question on a project, or talk about the homework. He had been just as full of energy earlier that morning at 8:30 a.m., when I had him for my first class of the day.

No one in that class is really quite sure how he manages to stay so positive and infused with energy that early in the morning.

Professor Carhart received his undergraduate degree in chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and after spending three years in the army, went back for more and became a graduate student of George Washington University as a mathematician.

He taught for one year at

George Washington and then moved to Bentley University in 1980, where he has since been teaching for 31 years.

What made you choose Bentley?

At first he came to Massachusetts in the hope of finding his place at Suffolk University, but had been discouraged by the campus as it was located right within a city.

His friend then made the suggestion of traveling up to Bentley University, at which Carhart scoffed, “Isn’t that an accounting school?” However, his friend persisted and Carhart finally came to see the campus.

He loved the feel of the university and especially singled out the amount of green that really appealed to him here. We laughingly both agreed how we like the hills.

Why did you want to teach?

He knew fairly early in grad school that he wanted to teach and began observing teachers to see what he thought they did well and what he thought they did not do so well. As he was talking about why he wanted to teach, he particularly stated, “I would like to think I have two primary goals. I need to instill a desire within you to learn and I need you to think.” In fact, if you look around his room there is a poster on the wall with the statement, “The purpose of

teaching is to make the agony of decision making so intense that one can escape only by thinking.”

Carhart believes that math is not a black and white subject; that it has grey areas. He mentioned how students in math classes always seem to ask the question, “What will I need this for?” Well he is prepared to give them an answer.

What makes your math class different from the others?

He looks at math very differently than many other teachers do and this thinking is what makes him prized among students. One of the main ideas of his math courses is application.

Carhart shows students and has them prove it to themselves, that math can be used in hundreds of real-world scenarios, especially in business.

In the class I have with him now, we all are in groups of three or four people and complete weekly projects that one group then presents to the class.

The project presentations have been the highlight of the semester and they focus on how aspects of calculus can be used in the business world. For example, our project this week is about the depreciation of cruise ships and we have to find out what would be the smartest way to depreciate in order to have the lowest taxes.

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As Carhart and I were talking, he expressed how he does not believe in made up data; all of the data for our projects is real and from actual sources.

This really helps students understand the real-world applications of the math.

What else do students find interesting?

Another aspect of Carhart’s math courses that set it apart from others would be the short essays that come with the projects: they usually focus on aspects of the environment and the world. For example, in last week’s project, the question focused on how India may be running out of space to grow food, so what should they do?

The original math question had to do with exponential popula-

tion growth in India. Its ways like this that he manages to incorporate integration between math and life and causes students to think. He is quite interested in the environment and even has a small tree in his office.

Professor Carhart is a teacher worth having and many students, including myself, are very willing to sacrifice getting up once again for an 8:30am class next semester in order to have him. As I was getting up to leave, we continued talking and Carhart said he would see me next class. I grinned and corrected him by saying I would probably stop by tomorrow for questions on the project. He chuckled and said, “No problem,” waving as I walked out.

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The Bentley team has competed in this event for the past six years. “Every year we do better and better!” said Miller.

“I’ve attended this competition since I was a freshman and I loved seeing how much we’ve improved over the years,” said Senior Lindsey Roeder.

Sporting matching long black pants, white shirts and black sleeves, the girls took the stage with unique choreography. The dance began to the opening words of Wiz Khalifa’s Work Hard Play Hard.

“We stood out over the

previous acts, but each performance by these guys is new. “Everything that is happening is taken from suggestions from the audience, pull cards out of a hat that say specific games that they’re going to play and they go at it,” said Schick.

Although the audience won’t get to see the continued growth of Bentley’s very own Josh Seiden as a student performer, attendants will be treated to a full, nonstop show

by Mochrie and Sherwood.

“There will be no student openers because it’s a one and a half to two hour show. They rely on the audience’s energy,” explains Schick, so instead of student openers and then a forty-five minute

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competition because of our energy, intricate choreography and overall look,” said

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Miller.

“All of our dances are choreographed by alumni student, Stephanie Hubbard.

She’s the absolute best!” said Miller. CRAZE used a few particular stunts that made us stand out amongst other teams and improved our overall score. We did a lot of partner work and a couple isolations.”

“It was a tough competition this year, but thanks to our choreographer, hard hours of practice and team bonding, we pulled through and clinched second place,” said Junior Vice President Lauren Tessier.

CRAZE performs at various Bentley men and women’s home games.

set by the main attraction, Mochrie and Sherwood will take full advantage of the audience’s attention. So from the very beginning to the mystery ending – which all we can say involves the two comedians and one hundred mouse traps – students will be shaping the improv show.

The Comedy Show doors open at 7:00 p.m. on November 30, but a word to the wise: get there early!

Each semester, the line starts forming earlier and earlier, with last semester’s starting just after 5:00 p.m. With a capacity capped at the first 480 students, lawn chairs have been seen before and umbrellas are suggested for inclement weather. It is well worth the wait, so don’t miss out!

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BuSiNeSS

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Wall Street’s relationship with President Barack Obama

By Alex Grotevant Vanguard Staff

Wall Street, the financial capital of the country, intently tuned-in to last week’s presidential election. It should come as no surprise that the majority of Wall Street’s key players supported the financially adept Mitt Romney, a former business executive himself. In fact, the top five contributors to Mr. Romney’s campaign fund included large banks such as Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase. However, this was not the case back in 2008.

Interestingly enough, President Obama was the favorite on Wall Street in the 2008 presidential race against John McCain. The president received approximately sixteen million dollars more in donations from Wall Street than Mr. McCain. Further, employees at Goldman Sachs were the number one source of campaign donations for Obama four years ago. Wall Street and the big banks viewed Mr. Obama as an

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intelligent leader that was wellsuited to tackle the financial crisis the United States had encountered. So what has changed in the past four years that has caused Wall Street to shift their support from the Democratic candidate to the Republican candidate?

After being elected in 2008, President Obama began working toward setting a number of financial regulations in place. In July of 2010, these changes in financial regulation were introduced into federal law under the Dodd-Frank Act. Essentially, the law was passed with the inten-

tion of preventing another serious financial crisis by encouraging increased accountability and transparency in business’s activities. However, a number of large corporations, especially those on Wall Street, have been in stark opposition to the new law and the president who is behind it.

Wall Street has made their opposition toward the Obama administration clear and it certainly showed in the recent election.

And so, many people may be wondering “what does President Obama’s victory at the polls mean for Wall Street for the next four years?”

Moving forward, Wall Street is going to have to accept the fact that the Democratic candidate will remain in office for another four years. They are going to have to take the initiative in working on building back their relationship with the administration in the White House. A senior Wall Street lawyer was even reported saying Wall Street “made a big mistake” in backing Mr. Romney to the extent that they did and that they are “going

to pay a price.” No one can be sure of what this means for Wall Street, but it is certainly in their best interest to work on relations with Washington officials.

Nevertheless, President Obama has always had creating a healthy private sector on his agenda. As a part of the private sector, Wall Street should not panic simply because their preferred candidate did not succeed.

Rather, they should focus on how they will mend relations with President Obama and other government officials in order to maximize productivity in improving America’s economy.

As business students, we must understand the significance of the relationship between the business world and our government. As the government becomes more involved in the practices of businesses, it is essential for businessmen and women to not only understand the dynamic relationship between the two, but to find a way to make it work successfully.

Electric innovation: first mass-market electric car designed by Nissan

By Lubo Svetiev Vanguard Staff

Once upon a time, specifically 1752, there was a man by the name of Benjamin Franklin.

One fateful day, Mr. Franklin was performing an experiment in the midst of a thunderstorm.

He was merrily flying his kite when all of a sudden it was struck by lightning. This led to the foundation of the discovery of electricity. Two-hundred and sixty years later, electricity is vital to the human society.

However, who knew that the power of electricity could be harnessed in a vehicle?

Nissan is arguably the top consumer company that stimulates the economy and is guaranteed future success. The company’s success lies in its innovative electric vehicle, the Leaf.

This is the first mass market electric car and Nissan is projected to reap the benefits. The secret behind the Leaf is its fuel

economy and the alternative energy to gasoline that it uses.

Currently, the Leaf utilizes an amount of electricity that is equivalent to 99 miles per gallon in terms of gasoline. With this type of efficiency it is inevitable that Nissan will profit. In fact, the company has sold almost 4.7 million vehicles this year and is projected to begin sales in other countries such as Japan & Norway in the near future.

The Washington Post reported that Nissan was able to raise its quarterly profit by nearly 8 percent. The company also experienced a net profit within the months of July through September of 1.3 billion dollars which topped their projected earnings of 1.2 billion. In addition, their quarterly sales experienced a 30 billion dollar rise.

Furthermore, the sales in the US, Indonesia and India for these months have been reported to have increased as opposed

to the year previous.

In terms of the Nissan Leaf, the company is bound to profit an expected 4 billion dollars by March 2013. This is extremely interesting especially because the sales forecast for the company has lowered from 5.35 million vehicle sales to 5.08 sales.

Nevertheless this is a tremendous rise (4.85 million sales) from the prior year.

Some of the features of the Nissan Leaf include a 90-mile range of a motor and improved battery which puts it ahead of the competitor electric cars in Ford (76-mile) and Honda (82mile). Another interesting feature is the “Carwings” technology which includes a built in radio service which resembles a cell phone; it tracks consumption, distance travelled and alerts you about nearby charging stations. Additionally, the Leaf was won a “Top Safety Pick” which was awarded by the Insurance Institute of Highway

Nissan’s innovative electric vehicle is called the Leaf.

Safety.

The New York Times interviewed a Nissan Leaf owner who had the car for six months and had driven two thousand miles with it. The owner is quoted saying “I’m extremely happy, it’s wonderful and I love it”. This serves as evidence that there are people out there that are satisfied with this innovative prod-

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uct. The price seems to be very enticing; for instance, an operating cost of three and a half cents per mile was reported in 2011.

The Nissan Leaf is a tremendous opportunity for Nissan to thrive in the auto industry and profit from the revenues the product will produce. The vehicle is starting as low as 27,700 dollars according to Nissan.

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“what cool class did you register for and why?” kARAn MAnwAni CLASS Of 2015 CfA “I’m taking GB 212 because I love accounting.”

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PeteR Sendzik CLASS Of 2016 UndeCided “I’m taking microeconomics because I am interested in understanding the economic world around me.”

AizhAn UzAkOvA CLASS Of 2016 finAnCe “Applied Physics, because I am really engaged with physics and interested to see how business students learn it.”

JOShUA BUCkLey CLASS Of 2013 MAnAgeRiAL eCOnOMiCS “I registered for Economics 351. It is a cool class because I’m going to be learning about the role of government in directing the economy.”

Surprisingly, I’m repeating an author for a book review. Christopher Moore’s newest novel, Sacre Bleu, caught my eye and it turned out to be so good and so utterly strange that I just had to share it.

Sacre Bleu takes place in Paris at the height of the Impressionism movement. It opens with Van Gogh’s death, and from there we’re introduced to all of the painters of our history textbooks—Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Toulouse-Lautrec, Renoir, Whistler, etc.

Moore brings these historic figures to life with his usual touch of irreverence, as well as a fictional main character, Lucien Lessard, who is an aspiring painter himself. He works in the family bakery in Montmartre, and paints in all of his free time.

What do painters need in order to create their art?

Paint, of course. In particular, they all strive for one shade of blue, the “sacre bleu,” which is a particularly vivid shade always found in paintings of the Virgin Mary.

It’s a very rare and expensive color to make and buy, but there’s one mysterious Colorman in Paris who always seems to have some.

He always manages to find the artists, even when they’re not looking for paint at all. Somehow, they all end up with The Colorman’s blue.

As you may have guessed, this is no ordinary blue. It does something to the painting and the artist that no one can quite explain. But of course, you’ll know all by the end of the story.

Sacre Bleu takes all the best Christopher Moore has to offer and combines it into one novel. Known for his abundance of lewd jokes and references, Moore always includes plenty of bawdiness in his stories.

What sets Sacre Bleu apart is its complex plot and air of mystery. It’s, dare I say, Moore’s most serious

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By Olivia LeClair point, when everything starts to make sense.

Throughout the novel, I found myself looking up different painters and their work. Each chapter contains one or more pieces of art and connects it into the story.

You may not have recognized all of the painters I listed in the beginning of this review, but you’ll most likely recognize some of their work once you see it.

Oh, and did I mention that this entire book is blue? The cover, the jacket art, even the type was transformed from the usual boring black typeface to a brilliant, shimmery blue. I found this very exciting; it really did add something to the story and was entirely appropriate for a book all about the color blue.

Irreverent and bizarre, this story is probably making the Impressionist painters roll in their graves,

Sacre Bleu features artists such as Manet, Monet and Renoir as characters in the novel.

novel yet, with more plot and substance than dirty jokes and laughs. What the story lacked in laughs, it made up for in pure Moore-ian weirdness. As a reader, you’ll have little idea of what is going on until about the halfway

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which is exactly what we should expect from Christopher Moore. Stick with the mystery and you won’t be disappointed by the end of Sacre Bleu.

Rating: 4.5 out of 5

BRAd ROSenfieLd CLASS Of 2016 finAnCe “I’m taking GB 212 because I want to be a finance major and I’m looking forward to expanding my business education at Bentley.”

By Melisa kocarslan PhOtOgraPhy Staff

Author Christopher Moore is known for the multitude of lewd jokes and references in his writing.

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John Mulaney is a small child and he looks terrible

By Mike Lovett Features editor

John Mulaney is a nice, 30 year old comedian, which is sometimes surprising to audiences because, as he puts it, he looks he has been “sitting in a chair eating saltines for 28 years.” We know that can’t be true, because for the last four years he has been dominating the world of stand-up comedy.

Mulaney has begun touring for his next stand-up special after releasing his critically acclaimed album New in Town in January. When he is not on the road, he is in Studio 8H of 30 Rockefeller Center writing for Saturday Night Live.

Mulaney has gained success by cleverly and surgically picking apart mundane situations and circumstances while making sure to layer on a hefty dose of light self-deprecation. He is a master storyteller that can change topics on a dime without compromising an ounce of rhythm.

Comedy was always Mulaney’s aspiration. He grew up in Lincoln Park , Chicago, ten minutes away from the famed Second City Theater which he thought was just a touristy place that had lost its luster. Turns out

it was training the likes of Steve Carrell, Stephen Colbert, and Amy Sedaris at the time.

He started early, performing in a sketch comedy group from the age of seven to nine.

When he got to high school he lost the motivation to perform but maintained the aspirations of a comedy future.

As a freshman at Georgetown, he got back to his roots. He was cast in the improv group by director Nick Kroll (The League). The two quickly formed a bond that was essential for Mulaney to gain an idea of what he needed to do to take comedy seriously.

Once he graduated, he moved to New York to live with Kroll holding a job as temp while performing standup at night. As his success grew, so did the possibilities.

He went on tour with Mike Birbiglia who provided him with plenty of stage time and a positive comedy influence.

In time he learned how to be a true comic. “I used to go to a show and if they said ‘Oh, the show is cancelled.’ I would be like ‘Thank God.’ But hoping a show gets cancelled doesn’t mean you’re not cut out for it.

That’s part of it.”

His first break came with the short lived Comedy

Central broadband channel, Motherload, an online medium for sketch videos.

Mulaney, Kroll, and some friends from Georgetown created a pilot called I Love the 30’s a spoof of the popular Vh1 program.

The show was developed for Channel 102 and purchased

by Comedy Central which allowed him to quit his temping gig and focus on various projects, including a recurring role on Best Week Ever, to pay the rent. “It was a very simple time in my life. It was a really good place.”

He considers Best Week Ever one of the best experiences he has had in his short career. It taught him how to work on a television show.

The show received mixed feedback as it was often seen as demeaning, something Mulaney brushes off.

“When you do jokes for a big audience or you do jokes on TV, there is a danger about making fun of people. I get it that someone would be sensitive about it. I personally like being made fun of, I find it really funny and if it is done in that real sense of making fun of them, if it is done within reason it’s just funny.”

He landed a writing job on The Important Things with Demetri Martin, but it was

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when he started performing monologues for ASSSSCAT that his career hit a new level.

There he met Seth Meyers and Amy Poehler who urged him to audition for SNL. He did without any anxiety because he didn’t think he would get it.

He did and has established himself as a fan favorite which is not always easy for a writer.

He and Bill Hader created the beloved character, Stefon. He has also performed in his own segments on “Weekend

Update,” something he hopes to continue.

If you are looking for a designated driver, pick one of your drunken friends over him. Take it from the man himself. “I am one of the worst drivers I have ever seen. If you’re ever on the highway behind me, I hear you honking and I also don’t want me to be doing what I’m doing.”

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Notes from Abroad Question: “What academic adjustments have you made while adapting to your host institution?”

ViennA, AuStriA

I have had to make a few major changes in my study habits and organization while studying at my school in Vienna.

The class structure here is very different compared to Bentley.

At Bentley, I am used to having the same five classes during the week at the same time each week. At my host institution, classes don’t run on a weekly schedule.

For example, my finance class will meet Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday for one week. Then the next week the class will only meet once on Thursday. In total, we would only have 12 classes.

Therefore, I have some days where I don’t have any class.

Due to this somewhat crazy schedule, I’ve learned to really manage my time. On days that I don’t have class, I try to still be productive.

Another difference I’ve noticed is that your grade in a class is usually based on one

GolD CoASt, AuStrAliA

As seems to be the case with most international institutions, there’s far less emphasis on week-to-week homework at Bond Uni. Since midterms passed in week seven, I’ve more or less been free to do as little or as much reading and preparation for finals as I want (I’ll keep quiet on which route I chose).

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test. This is also very different at Bentley because usually you have a few tests, class participation and a project to balance out the grade.

Being here I’ve learned to review a little bit from each class so I’m not overwhelmed when studying for a test that makes up my whole course grade.

However, when the work comes, it’s very challenging to actually get the grades I want. It’s definitely important to devote a few days to preparing for exams in some classes to get the best grade; Australian professors can be pretty brutal.

I recently had a paper returned that had literally one small comment in red pen on it, no other marks, and this translated into a 75 percent... By Bond standards

that’s pretty good, so I won’t sweat it too much, but I wouldn’t be lying if I said that students are bound to break down and cry from time to time when receiving their grades or worse, when they sit down for an exam and realize how underprepared they are.

Upon returning to Bentley I’ll have a newfound appreciation for the extreme grade inflation that our grading system offers.

Scratching the Surface: Revamping the Republican Party After the election, two things happened. First, Republicans all around played the blame game. It was Mitt Romney’s fault. No! It was the Tea Party’s fault. Hell no! It was the damn rape-ignorant candidates.

Unfortunately, it was a combination of them all.

Romney was awkward, elitist and had a hard time connecting to voters in the same way Obama was able to as a person. The President was reelected with high unemployment and low economic growth. Romney had to declare himself so conservative to win the nomination he was too far right to make it reasonably back to the middle.

The Tea Party started out as a good cause: Reign in the debt and control government taxation and spending.

However, at some point it was taken over by social conservatives that began dictating their own views on how women and gay people should be.

These social conservatives stained the legitimate call for balanced budgets with the call for the end of birth control.

Politicians saw the wave of conservatism reinvigorated and began making greater strides against women’s access

to care.

The second thing that happened was a larger introspection by the GOP about who they are and what they preach. Every pundit and commentator has made the case that Republicans need to have a “heart to heart” with themselves to adjust to a change in demographics and needs.

Parties can change their position on issues without abandoning their principles to make themselves more appealing to voters. Falling behind the mainstream makes a party irrelevant.

Of course I am not a conservative and never even considered joining the GOP, but I’ve studied conservative principles and think the party can still appeal more widely to those disenfranchised in this election and still promote their principles.

Community, faith, capitalism and family are core to conservative belief. This means that government must be restricted from aggressive involvement of any of these four prongs. Conservatives believe people build communities and better societies, not governments. A reduction in taxes ultimately means a reduction in government

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involvement in families and gives them more freedom to invest in the things they choose to in a capitalist economy. In addition, the success of faith in America is based on the market of religion constantly vying for new converts.

So, how can conservatives stay true to their principles and have greater appeal? The message of faith (of all kind and not just Christianity) appeals to Hispanics, African Americans, and many other minorities. Remember, immigrants tend to be more religious than their citizen brothers and sisters.

The strength and importance of family can be used to fight inner city crime through outreach programs by emphasizing churches and nonprofit organizations. They need only expand their idea of family to include LGBTQ people in order to appeal to younger voters who overwhelmingly support marriage equality.

Reduce government by removing it from the private decisions of families and their doctors. If a couple doesn’t want a child it has conceived, they should be able to make that choice. This makes government less meddlesome and decreases its influence on com-

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munities and families. A more conservative belief I can’t even imagine!

Of course, social conservatives won’t like this, but social conservatives contradict the principles of the conservative by demanding small government but big military. There is no government mandate on health insurance but government can mandate the embryos inside a woman.

Republicans can appeal to Hispanics and supporters of amnesty by putting undocumented workers on the path to citizenship because it strengthens families and communities instead of ripping them apart. It’s already very

difficult to get into the U.S. legally, and there is more border security than ever.

Amnesty awaits.

These changes in stance aren’t new. The Democratic Party today is nothing like the Democratic Party 80 years ago. What matters is the endurance of principles to shape policy decisions.

Demographics are shifting to the Democrat’s advantage since they’ve been appealing to minorities and women for longer. Republicans can hold dear to their principles of small government and strong families and still advocate different ends to avoid becoming politically irrelevant.

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The International Report: A Mexican Challenge

Aries (March 21-April 19)

Don’t let hardships get you down. Have them be your motivation. Give yourself permission to try something you thought you couldn’t do, like get out of this mess.

Taurus (April 20-May 20)

After the confrontation is over, you and your friends celebrate.

Go somewhere and do something you’ve never done before.

Gemini

(May 21-June 21)

Today you may be tempted to leave your mark on the world.

Don’t. University Police has cameras to prove it was you who wrote your name in the snow.

Cancer

(June 22-July 22)

Make plans for an outing. You and your loved ones need a fresh outlook on your project.

Don’t go back to something you had before; try something completely new.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)

Emotions may win the argument today over reason, take care. Don’t spend more than you can afford on something you don’t really need. Or if you do, don’t complain.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

You have a very creative friend who sometimes drives you crazy. Help this person with his or her latest scheme. It could be quite successful.

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Enrique Peña Nieto will become Mexican president on Dec. 1, 2012. Nieto’s PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) has regained presidential power for the first time in 12 years after a previous 71-year stranglehold on Mexico’s highest office. The PRI’s somewhat negative legacy caused by its autocratic tendencies, numerous corruption scandals and secret alliances with drug cartels has some thinking Mexico’s future could be less than rosy.

However, elections proved Mexicans are willing to give the PRI another chance after an underwhelming performance by the PAN’s (National Action Party) presidents, Vicente Fox and Felipe Calderon.

Allegations of secret deals between the PRI and Mexico’s biggest most influential media houses which aided the Peña Nieto’s election triumph seem to signal the old PRI will be the new PRI. Others believe that the PRI and Peña Nieto will rise to the occasion.

Mexico has sadly become synonymous with drugs. Six of the top 10 cities with the highest homicide rates are in Mexico, according to the think tank, Citizens’ Council for Public

Security and Criminal Justice.

Ciudad Juárez, Acapulco, Torreón, Chihuahua and Durango are the unfortunate cities.

The decision of voters in the U.S. states of Colorado and Washington to legalize marijuana will likely have drug policy implications in Mexico. Felipe Calderon (the outgoing Mexican president) began a drug war which was supposed to kill the drug trade. Unfortunately, it has killed about 60,000 Mexicans and displaced more than 200,000.

If the biggest market for drug cartels, the U.S., seems to be slowly moving towards marijuana legalization, should the source country, which bears the brunt of the horrible consequences of high marijuana demand, not consider a policy overhaul? Many think so, including governors of the most affected states some of which have called for marijuana legalization in Mexico.

Their argument is that the drug cartels would be significantly hampered if not devastated (cocaine generates the biggest profits for cartels) and that the economic benefits from marijuana exports and taxes would be

huge. It is not all doom and gloom though. 2012 is on track to be the first time in six years that the number of cartel related killings per year has seen a reduction.

Today’s Mexico is not defined solely by drugs. Mexico’s geographical position has always been economically advantageous. Very attractive labour prices have led to many transnational companies partially or fully moving production to Mexico. Both national and international manufacturing firms are providing employment to many Mexicans. All of this has led to net migration to the U.S. being zero percent for the first time in recent memory. The fact that the Mexican jobless rate fell to its lowest level in four years in September illustrates the health of the Mexican economy.

A labor bill approved by Mexico’s lower house of Congress and heading for the Senate should see a modernizing of Mexico’s antediluvian labour laws and formal business environment, increasing the potential for growth and development. The bill among other things will make hiring and firing processes much easier, increasing exponentially the

Alumni Experience

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

Don’t worry about the money, that will only inhibit your style. Pretend you don’t really need it, and then hold onto it once you get it.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

Comfort, solace and ideas you haven’t thought of are available, from a gentle, compassionate person you know. All you have to do is ask.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

A technical innovation you’ve been seeking for your home could come to you via a different route than you expected it would. Tell people what you need. Somebody may give you one.

Capricorn

(Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

Don’t even pretend you know more than you do. The opposite tactic’s suggested. Pretend you don’t know a darned thing, and get others to tell you what they know. You’ll score.

Aquarius

(Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

Stand firm for what you believe is right and fair, and have patience. The terms you want are very likely to be given to you.

Pisces

(Feb. 19-March 20)

You could be overcome by emotion today and/or tomorrow.

Knowing this ahead of time, you can surround yourself with the right people. Then, relax and enjoy.

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Alex Odin Class of 2009 What made you decide to attend Bentley?

Financial Aid, mostly. Also, I was really good at math in high school. My Alma Mater (people refer to high school’s as “alma maters,” right? is that weird?) prior to Bentley led me to believe that the purpose of tertiary education was to exploit one’s talents in the five basic subjects and expand those toward the maximum monetary or academic result.

Actually, Bentley kinda reinforced the former part of that, though obviously with much less regard for the A&S subjects. Essentially business seemed like the best way to monetize my math skills.

Who positively influenced you while you were at Bentley?

Above all else: HEIDE SOLBRIG. Heide got me into the MC program, challenged me intellectually (and I mean “challenged” literally, she has no problem telling me when she thinks I’m wrong,) convinced me to move to LA to pursue my career, and introduced me to Miguel Arteta, whom I’m currently assistant to. I still refer to her as “my mentor.”

The rest of the MC staff (“EMS,” now, I think?) were great, too. Jeff Stern and Liz Ledoux shaped me as a filmmaker the way that Pygmalion shaped the girl out of clay that Aphrodite brought to life. Mike Frank taught me how to digest film the way I do now. Gerald Speca made me realize I could screen write (and damn well, at that).

Oh, Davi and Dempsey, they were great, too!

ability of firms to conduct business efficiently. Another law increasing transparency in the use of state and municipality finances which passed in Congress on Nov. 6 will lead to better run states and regions and less economic loss from corruption. The recent opening of a $1.8 billion metro line in Mexico City, Mexico’s capital shows necessary infrastructure development which is necessary for sustainable economic growth is occurring. Finally the importance of energy to growth means Mexico’s status as the world’s most energy secure country amongst the world’s top twenty five energy consuming nations should be very pleasing to Mexican officials.

Enrique Peña Nieto has been given a mandate to end the deaths and chaos caused by Mexican drug cartels like Zetas and Sinaloa. He also has the chance to make sure Mexico fulfills or overshoots projections of becoming Latin America’s biggest economy in 10 years whilst improving the lives of the majority of Mexicans not only economically but in the realms of education, health and opportunity. It will not be easy, but nothing is.

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Do you have a favorite campus memory?

Senior year, my best friend at the time and I were called “the cutest gay couple on campus” by a member of PRIDE. We were both, in fact, straight, but it’s a superlative I still cling to very tightly.

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How has your career developed since graduation day?

I was in France at the Cannes Film Festival on graduation day (thanks, mainly to Liz Ledoux and Donna Kendal, for setting me up with the internship and helping me finance the experience respectively), and it was on that trip that I realized I needed to move to L.A. to get where I wanted to be (in the metaphoric sense, at the time) in the movie industry, so moving to L.A. was the big thing.

I spent about a year out of school trying to survive on the Boston film market, which I often imagined was similar to the settlers in the mid-1800s trying to survive off do-do meat.

I moved to L.A. last November courtesy of very generous show of faith from my fiance’s aunt and late uncle, Jacqui and Sullivan. In my first seven weeks here, I made a cumulate $200 working a shit gig out in the desert doing 15-hour days.

Eventually I wound up as an office PA (production assistant) at the Prettybird headquarters, spent some time doing assistant-coordinator work on commercial productions, and even-

tually landed with Miguel.

What is your current job title and who is your employer?

I’m currently a director for Hollow Skull Films, and director’s assistant to Miguel Arteta, who is probably the sweetest person of clout that I’ve met in Los Angeles in the year I’ve been out here.

What do you enjoy most about your work?

I love storytelling, I love working with storytellers, and I love working with artists, especially those (like Miguel) who are really freakin good at what they do.

What are your career goals?

Simply: I just wanna tell stories that people enjoy through moving pictures, and be able to survive comfortably doing it.

More specifically: I would like to make enough of a name for myself that Iron Chef invites me to be guest judge someday.

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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Inside the Press Box V.5: NFL 2012 season catch-up rank in the top ten of every offensive category just like old times, but Indianapolis comes in with a more stable defense which is not history repeating itself.

It’s not likely that Indy comes out with a win against a high scoring Patriot offense at home but it’s impossible to rule out. To avoid a slip up, New England cannot play at the defensive level they did last week because unlike Ryan Fitzpatrick, Luck will make them pay.

The Colts, 2011’s worst team, is now in a position to have a shot at making the 2012 playoffs.

By Mike Lovett Vanguard InsIder

As we enter Week 11 and the home stretch of the NFL season, the playoff picture begins to take shape. These are the biggest storylines of the 2012 NFL season heading into Week 11.

Biggest Surprise: Indianapolis Colts They are also the best story in football. Last year, they were the worst team in the NFL. They came into the season with a brand new coaching staff, front office, and, for the most part, team.

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Despite drafting Andrew Luck, they were not set up for this level of success.

Now they sit atop the AFC Wild Card standings at 6-3 with a very good shot at making the playoffs. They have one of the better offenses in the league and their new defense is at its most competitive level in years.

Meanwhile, head coach, Chuck Pagano, just finished his second round of leukemia chemotherapy.

This weekend they head to New England to bring competitiveness back to what was a few years ago, a great rivalry. Both teams

Biggest Disappointment: 2012 NFC Championship teams The Giants and 49ers were two of the best teams in the NFC last year. This year their grade would be “above average.” So what happened?

Well the Giants defense is all but nonexistent and the 49ers just tied the Rams.

Neither team needs to panic… yet. They are both leading divisions filled with teams under achieving but if they want to make a run in the playoffs they need to start playing at the elite level they are capable of.

In San Fran, a healthy Alex Smith remains a question mark at quarterback.

Now he has a concussion. A Frank Gore led can rushing attack and a sound defense

can pave the way to the playoffs. But a tie? Come on. If they want to make their way to the title game they will need to conjure up some sort of passing threat.

The biggest concern for New York is a bottom quartile defense. They are twenty-ninth in the NFL in sacks and as a result their secondary has been exposed for the weak unit that they are.

Maybe the defense will come alive in the winter months again but if it doesn’t, a shot at a repeat is going to be fired in the dark.

Other Musings The New York Jets could have very easily been the biggest disappointment.

There is enough drama behind center to ruin a team but that isn’t even the whole picture. They have been selfguaranteed a playoff spot, Rex Ryan at the helm is proving shaky, but more importantly can we start debating Mark Sanchez’s place among the biggest busts in history already?

Also, what Wild Cat? Denver’s historic comeback against San Diego was no fluke; they are a legitimate title contender. Peyton Manning is nearly back to MVP form. He has grown more accustomed to the

Briefcase Banter: Class (and how certain people ruin it)

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Although it might come as a shock to some, going to college is about a lot more than just trying to absorb useless information. There’s a whole world of possibilities which are uncovered when you attend an institution of higher education, many of which you might not have even known about beforehand.

Unfortunately, a lot of that possibility and wonder does get stifled, smothered and asphyxiated in the classroom. It’s not that all classes are bad, or that professors somehow aren’t doing their jobs well; it’s simply that, more often than not, students would just rather not be in class.

If you’re anything like me, you didn’t really choose to go

to college in the first place.

Heading to a university was merely the next logical progression in a series of events culminating, eventually, in your ultimate death.

Although college is often presented as a “choice,” given most graduates’ socioeconomic backgrounds and the kinds of expectations they were born into, college really feels like more of an obligation than an opportunity. Coupled with the clinically insane costs of tuition in the U.S., I’d be willing to bet that few undergrads feel truly privileged to be where they are.

As such, students’ mentalities about college are predominantly afterbirths of the painful and resentful emotions they’ve harbored since high school.

Naturally, these antiquated mindsets remain pervasive even into college. The quiet alliance between peers against professors and general academia is still unspoken and very real. In kindergarten, if the teacher cancels recess because one kid pooped in the block area during naptime, the rest of the pack doesn’t take that lightly. Rebuking a child’s

privilege comes at the cost of inciting a full scale riot in the classroom. You’d think that along with changes like maturity, an academic intensity of focus and more rigorous classes, students would change their tune about class. However, since nobody really grows up anyway, this outlook sticks.

Camaraderie amongst students is still a large part of one’s unspoken social responsibilities throughout various stages of academia.

That’s why it can be so frustrating when certain students find the need to deviate from the norm, muddy up their allegiances, or rebel against the pack.

Unfortunately, by the time you turn 20, beating up the teacher’s pet and severely wedgie-ing them isn’t a viable option anymore.

These treacherous suck-ups are finally granted the freedom to go about their merry way causing all of their colleagues to suffer brain aneurisms from hating them so acutely in total silence.

Reminding the professor what’s due at the start of class isn’t helpful or admirable; it’s treason. If this isn’t clear to you by the

offense and his weapons with each week and their defense has been solid all year. Roger Goodell has already begun dreaming of a Broncos vs. Colts playoff match-up.

The Minnesota Vikings are very close to being a top team in the NFC. Adrian Peterson is more dominant then he was before he had his knee surgically repaired which seems to defy logic and Christian Ponder has proved to be an answer at QB. However, they still lack the stability needed to win in the playoffs, especially in the secondary. They are close though.

It was only a matter of time before the magic run of the Atlanta Falcons came to an end. While they are a very good team, they are not a dominant team and they weren’t convincing as a potential 16-0 team.

They are 8-1 and they have three games against above .500 teams for the rest of the season. They will win their division maybe even the conference but standings mean nothing in the playoffs. Especially for a team that hasn’t won a playoff game since 2004. A late season visit from the Giants will be a test for them come January.

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There’s a loyalty and camaraderie among students that should never be violated.

time you’re an undergrad, Charles Darwin was unfortunately wrong, and you have beat the system. If you’ve ever been this person—even just one time— you are bad and nobody loves you. In fact, if I had just a little bit more cowboy in me, I’d have mind to turn to one of these roughnecks and let them know that they have a whole lot of misplaced gumption, and they’re liable to get shot. Cowboys know all about freedom and unspoken rules.

Ultimately, being a good student from a student-to-

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student perspective is about not sabotaging the kind of illegitimate brotherhood we’ve been born into. The kinds of people who favor their superiors instead of their contemporaries are the ones who get stitches in prison. Finding the need to spout tangential anecdotes during class is narcissistic and annoying, but deliberately backstabbing the people occupying the seats adjacent to you is unforgivable.

There’s a special circle reserved for people like that: The last one. Just kidding.

Probably.

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Seniors highlight Bentley’s season finale victory over Assumption

By Matt Gustus VANGUARD STAff

After trailing 13-0 with 15 seconds left in the third quarter, the Falcons football team scored 20 unanswered points to beat Assumption in their final game of the season. The game was the last in a Falcon uniform for 21 seniors who were recognized prior to kickoff. The win ended the team’s 2012 record at an impressive 8-2.

Senior running back Bobby Tarr ended off his Bentley career with a monster game, gaining a career-high 116

receiving yards while rushing for 91 yards. His longest play from scrimmage came early in the fourth quarter when he took a screen pass from junior q ua rt erb a ck Danny Guadagnoli 54 yards to the house. The score put the Falcons on top 14-13.

Much of the credit for the win should be given to the Falcons defense, which was able to keep the score within striking range. Similar to the first time the teams met back in September, the Falcons were down by two scores going into halftime. On both occasions, the defense buck-

The Falcons scored 20 points in the second half to claim victory over Assumption.

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led down and held Assumption scoreless in the second half, allowing the offense to battle back for the win.

Leading the way for the defense were freshman linebacker Quincy Giles and junior linebacker Blaine Hopwood, who had nine and eight tackles respectively.

Senior defensive end Andrew Skylar was getting after the quarterback all afternoon, recording seven tackles and two and a half sacks.

In the secondary, the unit accounted for two interceptions, including a game clincher by senior cornerback Stephen Stewart with two minutes remaining.

Offensively, the Falcons started the game very sloppy.

In the first half, the Falcons had seven possessions, resulting in three punts, two turnovers on downs, a fumble and an interception.

The only substantial drive of the half came midway through the first quarter, when Guadagnoli threw on eight of 10 plays, moving the ball 68 yards down to the Assumption eight-yard line.

However, the team was unable to convert a fourth and one, resulting in a turnover on downs.

Late in the third quarter,

21 Falcon seniors were recognized before kickoff, including QB Luke Zahradka.

the Falcons started to get into a rhythm. Guadagnoli found his two favorite targets, sophomore receiver Jeff Hill and senior receiver Bill Kiley for strikes of 38 and 11.

To finish off the drive, Hill beat his man at the line of scrimmage and caught a 28yard pass for the Falcons’ first score.

On the Falcons’ next possession, the team drove 78 yards for another score. On third and eleven from their own 46, Guadagnoli found Tarr for a 54-yard screen

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play to take the lead.

To extend the lead, Guadagnoli threw his third touchdown of the day two possessions later, this time hooking up with Kiley on a 42-yard play. The extra point attempt was missed, keeping the Bentley lead at seven.

Assumption had one last possession to tie the game, but Stewart picked off Assumption quarterback Bobby Jordan, sealing the win and ending 21 senior players’ careers on a successful note.

Falcons swim past Gordon and Brandeis; both teams improve to 3-0

By Ian Giancursio VANGUARD STAff

Bentley’s men’s and women’s swimming teams both enjoyed dominating performances last week, as they thoroughly outraced Gordon and Brandeis to win their third straight meet, improving to 3-0 on the year.

The men’s team faced Gordon College last Wednesday looking to win its second straight meet.

Led by sophomore Luke Mason, Bentley dominated throughout, easily defeating Gordon 134-76 thanks to an amazing team effort that saw eight different swimmers win individual events. Mason contributed to the win with a pair of victories in the 50- and 500-meter freestyle, posting times of 24.20 and 5:25.68, respectively. He also helped the Falcons to victory in the 200 medley relay, as he anchored the team to a time of 1:49.82.

Impressively, each of the other members of the relay team recorded individual wins as well.

Freshman Tim Connolly achieved a time of 59.98 in the 100 medley, the best time of the entire meet. Senior Tyler Champagne won the 100 free with a time of 53.38, and senior Mike Simoneau posted a time of 26.52 to win the 50 fly.

The men’s next meet against Brandeis resulted in similar dominance, with Bentley defeated the Judges 149-103 behind

strong individual and team efforts. Senior George Go led the charge, recording victories in the 100-yard backstroke and 100butterfly. He also teamed with sophomore Josh Witty, freshman Sebastian Bury and Simoneau to win the 400 medley relay in 3:52.16. The Falcons also achieved an impressive feat in the 500 freestyle with a 1-2-3 sweep. Champagne placed first in 5:09.01, and was followed by freshman Kevin Diefenbach and Mason.

The Bentley women’s team enjoyed success last week as well, also recording wins against Gordon and Brandeis. In its meet against Gordon, the Lady Falcons were led by senior AllAmerican Jessica Hodson. She won the 100-yard freestyle in a meet-best time of 58.64, and also won the 100 breaststroke and 100 individual medley. Hodson was also part of the 200-free relay team, swimming with senior Monika Drogosz and sophomore Nadine Edwards for a time of 1:51.75. Drogosz and Edwards were also winners of two individual events; Drogosz the 50 and 100 backstroke, and Edwards the 200 freestyle and 100 butterfly. Bentley also achieved three additional first place finishes for the meet.

The Falcons finished their week strong against Brandeis, improving to 3-0 thanks to double-wins from junior Amanda Le, Edwards and freshman

Melissa Clauss. Le and Clauss also teamed with junior Caroline Lewis and Drogosz to win the 400-medley relay in 4:16.69.

Bentley also achieved five additional individual wins for a total of 11. The story of the meet, however, was freshman Nicola Mancini. In the diving portion of the meet, Mancini broke the school-record for the three-meter board, qualifying for the NCAA Division II Championships.

Mancini’s score of 294.10 bested the previous record by 26 points.

She also scored 277.20 in the one-meter.

The Falcons look to improve to 4-0 this upcoming weekend against UMass Dartmouth.

Senior George Go won both the 100yard backstroke and 100-butterfly.

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Lady Falcons end season with loss

Co-captain middle blocker Grace Connor was the lone senior on the team.

By Benjamin Klein SpOrtS EdItOr

The Lady Falcons volleyball team finished their 2012 regular season with a loss at the hands of the New Haven this past Friday, closing the year out with an 11-19 record (6-9 NE-10). Bentley will not be heading into the Northeast-10 playoffs as Stonehill snuck in with seven wins, holding a tiebreaker advantage over Le Moyne who also finished with seven victories on the year.

Outside of a three-match win streak toward the end of September and beginning of

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October, Bentley could never get on much of a run.

Several losing streaks throughout the season plagued the Lady Falcons, and it may have something to do with how young this year’s squad was.

“With only one senior and starting all freshmen and sophomores, it was a challenging season,” said head coach Sandra Hoffman.

Co-captain middle blocker Grace Conner was that lone senior, and she did her best to try and get Bentley into the postseason, but it just wasn’t enough. She set new career-highs in kills and points during her final sea-

son as a Lady Falcon, and will likely hand the reigns of the team over to sophomore outside hitter Kelsey Buckner next season to complement the talents of classmate setter Alex Tator, who also was a captain in 2012.

Although Bentley’s season ended in disappointing fashion, Buckner was easily one of the bright spots. She ended the season leading the Lady Falcons in a variety of statistical categories and was recognized for her performances throughout the season on several occasions via the NE-10’s weekly honor roll.

Losing Conner’s abilities will definitely hurt Bentley in the near future, but with Buckner continuing to progress and the rest of the team gaining another year of experience, the Lady Falcons are on the right track.

“Basically our goal [for this season] was to make the playoffs, but we fell one win short,” said Hoffman.

One more win and the Lady Falcons would’ve at least made it interesting, but they’ll have to wait until next season to get their revenge on the NE-10 teams who finished higher than them in the standings. With the hunger of missing this year’s postseason, plenty of offseason training and strong practices at the start of next season, the Lady Falcons could easily earn one of the top seeds in the 2013 NE-10 playoffs.

Falcons drop to 3-4 after Holy Cross skates by them

Friday’s game was close, ending 4-3 to Holy Cross.

By Billy Fitzhenry VANGUArd StAff

The Bentley men’s hockey team has played relatively well through the first six games of the season, but lost a close Atlantic Hockey Association game to the Holy Cross on Friday, 4-3.

The Falcons got off to a fast start, scoring in the first minute of the game to jump out to a 1-0 lead. Bentley freshman defenseman Kyle O’Brien took a shot from the

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point that deflected to the stick of freshman forward Andrew Gladiuk, who then backhanded the puck past the Crusaders goaltender.

It took Holy Cross just two minutes to respond as forward Kyle Fletcher scored a powerplay goal to tie the game at 1-1. Holy Cross then took the lead at the eightminute mark of the first period as forward Rob Linsmayer fired a shot past junior goalie Branden Komm to give Holy Cross the 2-1

lead.

The score stood at 2-1 until the second period when Holy Cross left winger Brandon Nunn scooped up a Bentley turnover and blasted the puck by Komm to put the Crusaders ahead, 3-1.

With time running down in the second period, junior forward Brett Gensler got the puck in space and skated in on the Crusaders net. As Gensler barreled towards the net, he spotted Gladiuk positioned on the right post and dished a perfect pass to the freshman who beat the Crusaders goaltender to the top shelf of the net.

Gladiuk’s second goal of the night cut the deficit to one.

The Falcons tied the game up seven minutes into the third period when junior forward Justin Breton pushed the puck over the line and into the net.

Bentley was tagged with a hooking penalty moments after tying the game, giving the Crusaders a crucial powerplay. During the powerplay, the Falcons turned the puck over in their defensive zone and Holy Cross forward Erik Vos took advantage of

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Football (8-2, 6-2 NE-10) Assumption (11/10)

Result W 20-13

Hockey (3-4-0, 2-2-0 AHA) at Holy Cross (11/9)*

L 4-3

Men’s Basketball (1-1) Caldwell (Bentley Tip-Off Classic) (11/9) W 78-71 Dominican (Bentley Tip-Off Classic)(11/10) L 63-58 Men’s Swimming (3-0) at Gordon (11/7) at Brandeis (11/11)

W 134-76 W 149-103

Women’s Basketball (1-0) Holy Family (11/11)

W 78-64

Women’s Swimming (3-0) at Gordon (11/7) at Brandeis (11/11)

W 119-86 W 135-106

Volleyball (11-19, 6-9 NE-10) at So. New Hampshire (11/6)* at New Haven (11/9)*

W 3-1 L 3-0

*Conference Game

UpCOMING SCHEdUlE Nov. 17 Coed Swimming vs. UMass-Dartmouth 1:00 p.m.

Hockey vs. Connecticut* 7:05 p.m.

Nov. 20 Women’s Basketball vs. Merrimack* Men’s Basketball vs. Merrimack*

5:30 p.m.

7:30 p.m.

Nov. 23 Hockey vs. Mercyhurst*

7:05 p.m.

Nov. 24 Hockey vs. Mercyhurst*

4:05 p.m.

*Conference Game this critical error to score and give the Crusaders the 4-3 lead. Bentley was unable to score the rest of the way as the Holy Cross defense hunkered down and stopped all potential scoring opportunities.

The loss to the Crusaders drops the Falcons to 3-4 on the year and to 2-2 in AHA

The Falcons will play American Int’l on Friday and UConn on Saturday.

play. The Falcons travel to play American International on Friday in another important conference matchup.

On Saturday, Bentley comes back to their home ice to play an AHA game against the University of Connecticut in their first home game in almost a month.

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Falcons open season with Tip-Off Classic two-game split

By Matt Gustus VANGUARD STAFF

The Bentley men’s basketball team had an up and down weekend, defeating Caldwell College 78-71 before losing to Dominican (N.Y) College 63-58 in their first two games of the 2012-13 season.

In the Caldwell game, the Falcons came out strong, scoring almost at will. With just over five minutes left in the first half, the Falcons had built

a 41-20 lead. Heading into the half, their lead stood at 45-33.

However, with one and a half minutes left in the game, a Caldwell layup tightened the Falcon lead to just five points.

On Bentley’s next possession, junior guard Jasper Grassa nailed a three pointer, putting the game out of reach.

Leading the way for the Falcons offensively were freshman guard Alex Furness and freshman forward Tyler McFarland. Furness was red

Bentley claimed a victory over Caldwell but suffered a loss against Dominican.

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hot from the floor, shooting 1012 from the field, including 7-7 from inside the arc. McFarland also had a solid performance, finishing with 14 points on 613 shooting and six rebounds.

On night two, the Dominican Chargers proved to be a much tougher opponent.

The teams battled back and forth in the opening half, and went into halftime tied at 2929.

Dominican started the second half with a three pointer, and began to slowly pull away.

With just under eight minutes left in the game, a Dominican three pointer brought their lead to 10 points. The Falcons would not quit, battling back to within two just under the three-minute mark. In the final two minutes, back-to-back Falcon turnovers ended up being costly, as Dominican scored the next five points to put the game away.

Grassa had a much more productive performance offensively in the latter game, leading the Falcons with 18 points on 5-11 shooting. Defensively, the team was able to hold last

Freshman forward Tyler McFarland finished the game vs. Caldwell with 14 points.

year’s CACC Co-Player of the Year Cory Quimby to just two second half points.

With many of last season’s players leaving the program through graduation and transferring, the team is the youngest Bentley squad since head coach Jay Lawson took over in 1991. As shown in the first two games of the year, several freshmen will be asked to contribute from the start. So far, the freshmen have

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accounted for around 45 percent of the team’s minutes and 49 percent of the team’s scoring.

The Falcons will open their Northeast-10 schedule with a visit to UMass Lowell on Wednesday before heading down to Wilmington, Del. for a non-conference game against Goldey-Beacom College. The next home game for Bentley will be Tuesday Nov. 20 against Merrimack.

No. 2 Bentley survives No. 12 Holy Family in season opener

By Benjamin Klein SpoRTS EDiToR

The No. 2 nationally-ranked Lady Falcons basketball team started their 2012-13 campaign with a bang on Sunday, defeating No. 12 Holy Family 78-64 in the season opener.

Bentley and Holy Family may not play in the same conference, but they aren’t strangers either. The teams faced off against each other in the season opener last season and in the NCAA Division II East Region Championship Game, of which Bentley won both. Sunday saw the same result, as Bentley cruised to a 14-point victory.

Junior tri-captain forward Lauren Battista, last season’s Northeast-10 Player of the Year,

scored Bentley’s first points of the season with a layup underneath the basket two minutes after the opening tip. From there, however, neither team could get anything going on offense early, as there was an abundance of turnovers and shots that went awry.

“I think it was just shaking the dust off,” said Junior guard Christiana Bakolas. “We were all anxious and had some nerves to start out the game.”

Bentley would eventually start to catch fire from the floor as a trio of three pointers from senior tri-captain guards Courtney Finn and Kelsey Roberson, and freshman guard Jane White gave the Lady Falcons a seven-point lead with eight minutes left in the first half. The Lady Falcons would

head into halftime with a 39-23 advantage behind great team defense and nine points and five rebounds off the bench from senior forward Caleigh Crowell.

Roberson made sure that Bentley didn’t start the second half the same sluggish way that it opened the first, as she scored seven quick points to bring the Lady Falcons’ lead to 19 points.

A White three-pointer five minutes into the half gave Bentley a 22-point lead, its biggest of the afternoon.

Holy Family would not give up, though, and they continued to battle. Forward Erin Mann and guard Ana Cruz kept the Tigers in the game and eventually got the deficit to single digits. With just over two minutes remaining in regulation, Crowell drilled a three and then hit a

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Senior forward Caleigh Crowell started her season on the right foot this past Sunday in the No. 2 Lady Falcons’ season opener against No. 12 Holy Family.

Crowell set a new career-high with 10 rebounds in the 78-64 Bentley victory.

In addition to the 10 boards, Crowell scored 16 points to record a double-double. Crowell came close to a double-double last season against Adelphi when she had nine rebounds and a career-high 30 points in an 8775 Northeast-10 win.

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layup to give the Falcons a 12point lead that Bentley wouldn’t relinquish.

“We knew this game would have huge implications down the road, so a win was crucial,” said Bakolas. “We also knew that they were going to come in with guns blazing because of the last experience they had on our court in March. Winning the first game of the season is always a great way to start, but to be able to come out and get the win against this team was huge for us.”

Crowell, who emerged as one of the team’s best options last season, sparked the Lady Falcons to victory with a 16point, 10-rebound double-double. Battista tied her for the team lead in points with 16 of her own, while also grabbing

nine rebounds.

One of the surprises from the victory was the play of White, who logged 27 minutes in her first career game. She fit in nicely with the offense and did a great job defending Cruz, who’s one of the top guards in the nation. White finished with 11 points, five assists, and three steals in her Falcons debut.

“Jane couldn’t have had a better first game,” said Bakolas.

“She did everything we needed her to, and she helped us out a ton. She played a great game on both ends of the floor.”

Bentley will travel to take on UMass Lowell in its first NE-10 game of the season on Wednesday, and then the Lady Falcons return home a few days later on Nov. 20 to host Merrimack.

Mancini Named Falcon of the Week Freshman Nicola Mancini of the women’s swimming and diving team has been named the Falcon of the Week.

Mancini broke the program record in the threemeter dive last Wednesday with a score of 294.10 as Bentley defeated Brandeis University 135-106 last week. The score qualifies her for the NCAA Division II Championships in March and broke the previous school record by 26 points, which had been held by Jade Lee since 2002.

Mancini also qualified for the NCAAs in the onemeter dive with a score of 277.20 against Brandeis.

That score was just 8.75 points off the school record.

Bentley is back in the pool on Saturday against UMass-Dartmouth for a home meet at the Dana Center.