Thursday, March 17, 2016

Thursday, March 17, 2016

Vol. 126, Issue 46

Otto Warmbier

Kenneth Bae 736 days detained

76 days detained thus far

Laura Ling 141 days detained

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Euna Lee 141 days detained

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Aijalon Gomes 215 days detained

Matthew Miller 213 days detained

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North Koreans have been careful to provide for the physical health of American detainees over recent years, according to David Straub, associate director of the Korea Program at Stanford University’s Asia-Pacific Research Center. Straub, who worked at the State Department for 30 years, was a member of Clinton’s delegation to North Korea in 2009 to secure Lee and Ling’s release. He noted that the North Korean government had detainees checked by doctors.

“They have given them medicine and medical treatment when it’s been required,” Straub said.

Straub said the main issue for American prisoners is the isolation of detainment.

“The problem is that when you’re in a situation like that you don’t have any contact, almost no contact, with the outside world — just the Swedish ambassador or one of his embassy staff people coming to visit whenever the North Koreans allow,” Straub said.

“And the only other contact you have is with your North Korean captors.”

Isolation and intimidation of long prison sentences are used to control prisoners, Straub said. Despite the lack of physical harm, the conditions of imprisonment can cause significant psychological stress.

The politics of detainment Spokesperson Toner condemned Warmbier’s conviction in a press briefing March 16.

“The department believes that the sentence is unduly harsh for the actions Mr. Warmbier allegedly took,” Toner said. “Despite official claims that U.S. citizens arrested in the DPRK are not used for political purposes, it’s increasingly clear from its very public treatment of these cases that the DPRK does exactly that.”

Toner asked for Warmbier’s release on “humanitarian grounds.”

Straub says these visits have become the standard procedure for releasing detainees.

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Additionally, Fowle’s detainment overlapped with the detainments of Bae and Miller, who had been arrested before Fowle even entered the country.

Fowle said he believes he was held in isolation and did not interact with any domestic North Korean prisoners because North Korean officials ultimately plan to release American detainees.

“They know they’re going to be released eventually, and they want to keep them in isolation so they can completely control the conditions that they’re immersed in and come back and relay this information — they were not beat, they were not starved, they were not treated badly,” Fowle said.

Journalist Euna Lee was arrested March 17, 2009. During her detainment, she said she was also held in isolation.

“Looking back, I was treated fairly during my detainment in the sense that they provided me with a simple Korean meal three times a day, and I was able to see a doctor when I was sick,” Lee said in an email statement.

“The difficulty was that I had no access to any information besides what the [North] Korean officers brought to me.”

Lee said the process began with interrogations, followed by a waiting period and charges.

The North Korean Supreme Court found Lee — and fellow journalist Laura Ling — guilty of illegal entry into North Korea and sentenced them to 12 years of hard labor June 4, 2009.

Like Fowle, Lee said foreign detainees are treated differently than domestic prisoners.

“We've heard about the unbelievable stories about the [North Korean] labor camps from [North Korean] defectors about how the prisoners live in a below human level,” Lee said.

“Compared to those stories, foreign detainees have definitely been in a fairer conditions.”

However, despite fairer conditions, Lee said she was still a prisoner.

“A prisoner is a prisoner. I was watched by guards 24/7,” Lee said.

“Having no visitors and no freedom, no access to the outside news will be hard for anyone who is detained in a country like [North Korea].”

In terms of hard labor, Matthew Miller was sentenced to farm work following his conviction on Sept. 14, 2014.

"Prison life is eight hours of work per day," Miller said, according to an AP report. "Mostly it's been agriculture, like in the dirt, digging around.

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al and release for former detainees ranges from 56 to 556 days.

Matthew Miller was released 56 days after his conviction on espionage charges and sentencing to six years in prison, while Bae was not released until 556 days after his conviction.

American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee served 62 days of their 12-year sentence of hard labor for illegal entry into the country.

Aijalon Gomes served 143 days of his eight-year sentence for illegally entering the country.

Assoc. Politics Prof. Todd Sechser said releases typically involve a visit from a high-level U.S. official or former president.

In 2009, Laura Ling and Euna Lee were released after a delegation led by former U.S. President Bill Clinton traveled to the DPRK to secure their release. Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter visited North Korea in 2010 to aid in the release of Aijalon Gomes.

Most recently, in 2014, U.S. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper visited North Korea to ensure the release of Bae and Miller.

Sechser said the North Koreans use these trips to claim an apology from the American representative, although U.S. officials usually deny the apology.

“Both the visit and alleged apology allow the North Korean government to score political points at home for antagonizing the United States,” Sechser said in an email statement.

Conditions Jeffrey Fowle was arrested May 7, 2014, for leaving a Bible in a nightclub.

At the beginning of his six-month detainment, Fowle was held in the Yanggakdo International Hotel. After a few weeks, he was moved to a guarded guest house for the rest of his detainment.

Fowle said he had limited access to a few different television channels at first — including Chinese and Russian television stations — but was eventually restricted to only DPRK channels.

“I was allowed to watch TV the whole time [at] both places I was detained in,” Fowle said. “I was treated reasonably well at both places. Never physically abused, [and given] three meals a day.”

At the beginning of his detainment, Fowle said he was subject to an investigation by the North Korean government.

“At first there was a lot of writing, formulating the statement of guilt, and that was part of their investigation phase,” Fowle said.

When not in isolation — which lasted 23 hours a day — Fowle said he had access to a translator for 30 to 45 minutes each day and was locked in the guest house.

Fowle was released Oct. 21, 2014, although he said he is unsure why he

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Thursday marks third-year Commerce student Otto Warmbier’s 76th day of detainment in North Korea.

Warmbier was arrested Jan. 2 for allegedly attempting to stealing a political banner from the Yanggakdo International Hotel in Pyongyang.

Warmbier was on a trip with Young Pioneer Tours at the time of his arrest.

On March 16, Warmbier was found guilty of subversion under Article 60 of the DPRK Criminal Code and was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor.

“In the course of the inquiry, the accused confessed to the serious offense against the DPRK he had committed, pursuant to the U.S. government's hostile policy toward it, in a bid to impair the unity of its people after entering it as a tourist,” the Korean Central News Agency reported.

The trial before the North Korean Supreme Court lasted one hour, the Associated Press reported.

During the trial, Warmbier signed a certificate of indictment and a statement of guilt, Reuters reporter James Pearson tweeted.

A Swedish diplomat was present at the trial. Prior to the trial, a Swedish official met with Warmbier on March 2. No details from their meeting have been released, but the U.S. State Department, on whose behalf the Swedish Embassy serves as a protecting power, remains in contact with the Swedish Embassy, State Department Deputy Spokesperson Mark Toner said.

The U.S. does not have formal diplomatic relations with North Korea.

Previous cases Warmbier is the 12th American citizen to be detained in North Korea since 1996.

Of the 12 Americans detained, 10 have been released, and two — including Warmbier — are currently being held in the DPRK. The other American currently imprisoned in North Korea is Kim Dong Chul, who was arrested in Oct. 2015 on espionage charges.

The average stay for released detainees is 200 days, ranging from Merrill Newman’s 43 days of detainment to Kenneth Bae’s 736 days of being imprisoned. Newman was accused of espionage in relation to his service in the Korean War, and Bae was arrested for alleged anti-government activities.

In addition to Warmbier, five other Americans have been tried in the North Korean court system. Sentences have ranged from six to 15 years.

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know what person or what rank of person that they insist on coming to grovel to get people back.”’

Although Americans are typically released within a year of being detained, North Korean officials use visits by U.S. officials to “ritually humiliate” the United States on the international stage, Straub said.

“Whenever something is going on — and there always is — in the relationship between the U.S. and North Korea, they like to have a bargaining chip or a distraction to keep up distracted from our strategic aims,” Straub said.

In addition to distracting American officials, Straub said the North Korean government uses the visits by American officials for domestic and foreign propaganda, as well to fulfill the emotional satisfaction of North Korean leaders.

Given the complexity of such a trip, Straub said it takes time to plan the visit of a U.S. official.

“It’s really asking a lot of any state to go and habitually humiliate itself before another, which is what the North Koreans demand,” Straub said.

“It usually takes many months before this delicate negotiation can be worked out and the swap arranged.”

Sechser said the basic point of detaining American citizens is to put pressure on the U.S. “They've been doing it for decades,” Sechser said. “High-level officials and former presidents, including Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, have visited North Korea to negotiate the release of detained Americans. These detentions rarely last more than a few months.”

Straub said the U.S. does not make concessions in these negotiations other than the trips.

North Korea is not the only country that uses detainment tactics. Sechser said Iran has detained Americans over the last several years to meet its objectives.

International relations may play a role in these detainments.

This story has been shortened for print. See www.cavalierdaily.com for more.

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Trump, Clinton amass delegates in March 15 primaries Rubio ends presidential campaign Hannah Cho and Thrisha Potluri Staff Writers

After losing his home state of Florida to Donald Trump in the March 15 primary, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) announced the suspension of his campaign for the GOP nomination.

This announcement reduces the number of candidates remaining for the GOP nomination from four candidates to three, but it may allow hope for Gov. John Kasich (R-OH) to gain more supporters.

Second-year College student Uma Mengale said with Rubio giving up a large number of delegates, Kasich is now the most moderate of the remaining GOP candidates.

“I’m hoping for an upward turn for Kasich especially with his win in Ohio,” she said. “He’s a viable option for the GOP establishment and most moderate conservatives.”

Mengale and third-year College student Darby Hobbs recently conducted a Millennial Caucus among University undergraduates to survey students’ opinions.

To keep the survey academically focused, Mengale said she and Hobbs sent the survey to a listserv of students who they believed would provide an educated response. They received about 400 responses from the University Democrats, College Republicans, politics majors and students from the Batten School.

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Skelley said Trump and Clinton are the likely nominees, although he said it will be a challenge for Trump to amass the delegates needed for an outright majority by the end of the primary and caucus season.

The survey found millennials were in support of Rubio for the Republican Party and Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) for the Democratic Party. However, with Rubio out of the race, Mengale said she and Hobbs are considering another survey to see where students stand with Rubio’s exit.

However, University Democrats President Sam Tobin, a third-year College student, does not see a bright future for Kasich.

“Trump has 45-46 percent of the delegates right now — I have a difficult time seeing him being that close and getting anything less than the nomination,” Tobin said. “It’s going to be difficult for someone like Kasich to steal that.”

Even with talk of a possible contested GOP convention, Tobin said the future looks bleak for both Kasich and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX).

“Kasich only won Ohio — he

does have some fans, but I don’t see him becoming president,” he said. “Cruz, I don’t know. he could win the nomination. If it was just Cruz and Trump in the beginning, maybe, but now I don’t see it.”

College Republicans President Jay Boyd, a fourth-year College student, said it is hard to predict what will happen in the GOP nomination contest.

“It’s hard to predict if there will be a [contested] convention,” Boyd said. “There’s several winner take all states left and it will be hard — results yesterday made it harder to think there will be a [contested] convention.”

Boyd also said the party will eventually need to unite behind one candidate.

“The rhetoric right now is slightly concerning,” Boyd said.

“If the Republicans do not give the [nomination] to Trump, 7.5 million voters will be really mad.

They have to walk a tight line as it is a democracy.”

In regards to a possible Rubio 2020 campaign, Boyd said it is unlikely.

“By running for president here, he lost his senate seat,” Boyd said. “He has name recognition now, but maybe he might want to wait until 2024.”

On the Democratic side, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton emerged with a huge victories in Florida, Ohio, Illinois and North Carolina March 15.

Geoffrey Skelley, Center for Politics media relations coordinator and associate editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, said Clinton will most likely secure the Democratic nomination.

“At this point, Hillary Clinton is almost a shoo-in to be the Democratic nominee, barring something outside the race happening, such as a federal indictment regarding her private email server,” Skelley said.

Skelley said Trump is the “most likely nominee” for the

Republicans, but it will be a challenge for him to amass the delegates needed for an outright majority by the end of the primary and caucus season.

“It will be difficult for Trump to clinch a majority of the convention’s bound delegates by the time the primaries and caucuses conclude on June 7,” Skelley said.

“However, if he’s relatively close to 1,237 delegates, he may be able to get some of the unbound delegates to support him or perhaps a deal will be worked out among Trump, the other campaigns, GOP leaders and state leaders.”

Skelley said a contested convention will only occur if a candidate cannot get a majority of delegates’ support on the first ballot at the Republican National Convention in July. In such a case, a majority of delegates would become unbound on the second ballot and be “free agents” to support the candidate of their choice.

“Should no candidate win a majority on the second ballot, an even larger number of delegates would be freed from their candidate commitments,” Skelley said.

“At that point, it’s anyone’s guess what could happen.”

Trump currently has 673 delegates, while Cruz follows with 411 delegates. Kasich has 143 delegates.

On the Democratic side, Clinton has 1,139 delegates and Sanders has 825 delegates. A candidate needs 2,383 delegates to win the Democratic presidential nomination.

Eramo’s lawyers request longer deposition Jackie’s lawyers call motion “scorched earth attacks”

Hannah Hall News Editor

The defense has filed a motion in court March 15 to quash Jackie’s deposition in University Assoc. Dean Nicole Eramo’s defamation lawsuit against Rolling Stone magazine.

The motion is a response to a motion filed by Eramo’s lawyers requesting more time for Jackie’s deposition.

Judge Glen E. Conrad ordered the deposition, which was set at a maximum of seven hours, in February. According to court documents, Eramo’s lawyers believe additional time is necessary in order for a “fair examination of the

deponent.”

A memorandum of law filed cites three reasons for the request for additional time.

First, Jackie played a role as central source for Rolling Stone’s now-retracted article “A Rape on Campus.”

Second, both sides have indicated Jackie will be questioned extensively, and third, the plaintiff anticipates the questioning will be especially time consuming.

“For these reasons, Plaintiff requests a total of 6.5 hours to question Jackie on the record, exclusive of breaks, extended objections, colloquy among counsel or court conferences,” Eramo’s memorandum reads.

In response to the memoran-

dum, the defense argued spending more time deposing Jackie will cause more harm than good.

“Eramo has exhibited no interest in attempting to balance her supposed need for any information with the inevitable and undeniable damage that will result from Respondent having to sit for this deposition,” Jackie’s lawyers argued in their memorandum.

Jackie’s lawyers said Eramo’s motion for additional time in the deposition “continues her scorched earth attacks on [Jackie].”

They further argue Eramo has no grounds for the lawsuit, as the “Office of Civil Rights of the Department of Education reached conclusions regarding Dean Era-

mo’s violations of Title IX that soundly defeat her sole causation and damages theory in this case.”

Eramo filed the lawsuit in May 2015 against Rolling Stone,

journalist Sabrina Rubin Erdely and Wenner Media LLC for statements made in the article “A Rape on Campus.” Jackie is not a party to the lawsuit.

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Eramo filed the defamation lawsuit in May 2015.

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U.Va. students arrested while protesting Dominion Activists argue Dominion, state officials have cozy relationship Elizabeth Parker Associate Editor

Five University students were arrested March 7 in the lobby of the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality in Richmond. The students, a part of the Climate Action Society and members of the Virginia Student Environmental Coalition, were arrested along with 12 other activists from around the Commonwealth.

Student activists were protesting the permits issued to Dominion Virginia Power to release treated coal ash wastewater from 11 sites across Virginia into natural waterways, including one at Bremo Power Station, which is less than 50 miles from Charlottesville.

Although the DEQ and Dominion claim the process to be used is environmentally sound, some student activists like Climate Action Society member Laura Cross, a second-year College student, question its safety.

Some wastewater will be released

into the James River, which serves as the principal drinking source for the Richmond area. Cross was one of the students arrested over the issue.

“Last year Dominion illegally released 27.5 million gallons of untreated wastewater into the Potomac river with arsenic levels saturated as high as 900 parts per billion — 90 times the safe level for drinking water and six times the DEQ’s own threshold concentration,” Cross said in an email statement. “This wastewater was untreated and poisonous.”

Dominion Virginia Power Spokesperson Rob Richardson said the process complies with state and federal regulations.

“This is a plan that started with the [Environmental Protection Agency].

The committee started planning this two years ago and they issued the coal combustion rule last year and laid out a plan for utilities to close coal ash ponds,” Richardson said. “Dominion is complying with the EPA,” Dominion will also be monitoring the affected waterways by studying fish populations as a result of a

meeting with members of the James River Association.

“What we’ve agreed to do as a result of that meeting is to do fish sampling. I can’t tell you the details of how that’s going to work, [as in] how many fish we’re going to catch and how often,” Richardson said. “What we’re going to do is catch fish, test the fish [and] do some sampling to see what the impact is on the fish population on the James River as a result of discharging the wastewater.”

Will Hayden, a spokesperson for the DEQ, said the permits issued to Dominion for wastewater disposal were issued fairly.

“The permits that DEQ developed were very specifically designed to protect water quality and human health, and the agreements that Dominion reached with other organizations demonstrated that’s what the permits do, and they are legally enforceable,” Hayden said. “The permits do protect the environment and people.”

Student activists questioned the fairness of issuing these permits, as

it was recently revealed by NPR that DEQ Director David Paylor accepted gifts from Dominion Power, including a trip to the 2013 Masters Golf Tournament in Augusta, Georgia and a dinner at O’Toole’s Irish Pub for Paylor and nine others.

“DEQ Director David Paylor has an uncomfortably close relationship with the energy giant his department is supposed to regulate,” Cross said.

“The fact that the head of the agency accepted gifts from a company that was then given controversial and shocking permits raises several questions.”

Because Paylor makes decisions which directly influence Dominion’s bottom line, Cross said it is “absurd” to think Dominion is not hoping for favors in return for their gifts.

Both Hayden and Richardson, however, denied the relationship between the permits and the gifts.

“There is no connection. Mr. Paylor made that trip in 2013 — he does not direct the development of permits based on his interaction with permit holders,” Hayden said.

“There’s no connection at all.”

Richardson said Paylor’s trip and expenses were not in violation of any state laws.

“The facts are that that golf tournament that David Paylor attended was in 2013. That was three years ago. At that time, the trip and the expenses surrounding that trip were all well-documented and fully disclosed in accordance with Virginia law,” Richardson said.

Richardson said the information has been available on the Virginia Public Access Project website since 2013, and Dominion is an advocate for disclosure laws in Virginia, given its role as a founding member of VPAP. “There’s no connection to the trip and the permits. All was fully disclosed,” Richardson said.

Members of the Virginia Student Environmental Coalition have a meeting with Paylor to discuss the permits March 21. Cross is scheduled to appear in court regarding her trespassing arrest May 11.

Batten hosts congressional candidate forum Fifth district candidates discuss goals, higher education

Alexis Gravely Associate Editor

Batten hosts candidate forum Fifth district candidates discuss goals, education

By Alexis Gravely, Associate News Editor The Batten School held a forum for candidates running for the fifth district congressional seat Wednesday night.

Approximately 60 people were in attendance, including students and community members.

Five candidates running for the seat were in attendance: Andrew Griffin (R), James McKelvey (R), Joseph Whited (R), Michael Del Rosso (R) and Thomas Garrett (R).

All candidates were invited to attend the forum, regardless of political affiliation. Democratic candidate Jane Dittmar was unable to attend due to a scheduling conflict.

The forum was moderated by Batten Prof. Gerald Warburg and Batten Dean Allan Stam.

Warburg said the purpose of the forum was to enlighten voters about where the candidates stand on the “big issues of our time.”

The event began with Warburg reviewing the ground rules for the forum: each candidate would make an opening statement, fol-

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The candidates were asked a variety of questions ranging from their overall goals for the position to military spending to higher education.

lowed by a series of questions in which the candidates had 60 seconds to respond, and would end with a closing statement.

All questions were prepared in advance by a bipartisan committee, and the candidates had no prior knowledge of the questions.

During the opening statements, the candidates briefly discussed their purpose for running and their qualifications.

Both McKelvey and Whited said they were running to help influence change. Del Rosso and Garrett said they were qualified to serve as congressman. Griffin spoke about how he is a 28-yearold millennial.

“Five people on this stage are qualified,” Garrett said. “One person on this stage has won an election. One person on this stage has beaten a Democrat, passed a bill, killed a bill. My entire adult life has been devoted to service, and at every stop, I have succeeded. I believe I am most qualified.”

The candidates were then asked a variety of questions ranging from their overall goals for the position to military spending to higher education.

Griffin said his goal for office would be to improve the workforce for students graduating from college.

“One of the issues I’m most

passionate about is creating jobs for our graduating students,” Griffin said. “The best thing we can do is start creating jobs and creating opportunities.”

McKelvey said his intent is “to return this country to the Constitution.”

Garrett said he plans to stand up for “the principles that have made the United States the greatest country in the world.”

On the issue of bipartisanship, all of the candidates said they would be willing to work across party lines on some issues, such as tax reform, education and national security.

However, Griffin said there are some issues on which he would prefer to “compromise” rather than work across party lines, including Planned Parenthood and immigration reform.

For the final question, candidates were asked about the federal government’s role in higher education, an issue affecting many of the audience members in attendance.

The candidates had a variety of responses, but they all centered on the federal government having limited responsibility.

Griffin said the government should begin addressing the issue by cutting the amount of federal

student loans students can receive, while Del Rosso said he believes there shouldn’t be a student loan program at the federal level at all.

Whited, McKelvey and Griffin all said the issue begins at the high school and local level.

Several of the candidates said they believe the focus of higher education needs to be preparing students for the workforce.

“We have to stop telling young people to study whatever they want,” Garrett said.

Second-year College student Jordan Harris attended the forum because he said he believes in the importance of getting engaged in the political process and being informed about who is elected to Congress.

While Harris said he wasn’t drawn to any particular candidate, he appreciated how the candidates presented actual solutions to the problems. “[The part that] I found most informative was their willingness to change what everyone sees as [a] broken Congress … to what would be the best solutions for the American people,” Harris said.

All of the candidates who attended the forum will compete in the fifth district Republican primary June 14.

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ESC sponsors ‘Engineer’s Week’ E-Week events include ‘Pi-a-Professor,’ #HeforSWE photo booth Matt Brown and Caity Seed Staff Writers

The Engineering Student Council hosted its annual “Engineer’s Week” March 14-18 to celebrate Engineer-

ing students by offering a variety of different interactive events, giveaways and free food on Grounds.

The theme of this year’s E-Week was Taylor Swift, and events included paper airplane challenges, resume reviews and a trivia night.

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The ESC partnered with other Engineering organizations on Grounds throughout the week.

ESC Vice President Naveed Tavakol, a third-year Engineering student, said E-Week is a way for students to destress and socialize with one another and faculty in the midst of the spring semester.

“Students learn a little more, have some fun or interact with other engineers and other collaborators at events,” Tavakol said.

In honor of Pi-Day Monday, ESC handed out free pie to students and hosted “Pi-a-Professor” in the Darden Courtyard for students to socialize and interact with professors in a relaxed and fun setting.

“We really wanted to incentivize professors to come out more and to personalize interactions with faculty,” Tavakol said. “Honestly, I was pretty happy with how it turned out.”

The overall feedback for E-Week as a whole has been positive, Tavakol said. More than 200 students attended the Pi-Day events alone, making the turnout better than that of last

year’s E-Week.

Scott Bergstresser, third-year Engineering student and ESC co-director of the Marketing and Advertising Committee, said the ESC used a system of E-points to try and encourage students to come to these events.

“We have cards printed out that are essentially loyalty cards and they’ve got boxes that you can check off,” Bergstresser said. “Each time we have an event that we decide is an E-point event, we’ll stamp their cards.”

Students can redeem their E-points during the week to get free prizes from the ESC, such as cups and sweatshirts, Bergstresser said.

The ESC partnered with other Engineering organizations on Grounds to co-host some events during the week, such as the #HeforSWE photo booth event, where they partnered with the Society of Women Engineers.

Third-year Engineering student

Shruti Mhasawade, who helped to coordinate and run the photo booth, said the event was designed to encourage and include male engineers in fighting the stigma placed on female engineers.

“If you’re a woman engineer, people shouldn’t be surprised,” Mhasawade said. “This is just to normalize women in engineering and that can be done only if they form a camaraderie with men in engineering.”

Fourth-year Engineering student Lara Sisman attended some of the events and said she is proud to an engineer and believes E-Week is a great to bring the Engineering school community together.

Engineers are an integral part of our society and should be celebrated, Sisman said.

The week will culminate in a “Party like it’s 1989!” mixer at The Biltmore Friday.

H&S Profs. study genetic causes of stroke health & science

Areeka Memon Staff Writer

Researchers at the University and around the world who are members of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, the Stroke Genetics Network, or SiGN, and the International Stroke Genetics Consortium, or ISGC, have completed the most comprehensive review of the human genome involving strokes. Neurology Prof. Bradford Worrall led the effort at the University.

Ischemic stroke can occur when an artery that normally brings fresh blood from the heart and lungs to the brain is blocked. This can cause neurons in the brain to stop working and put a person in a critical medical condition in merely a few minutes.

While many risk factors of stroke have been known, the genetic causes have not been studied as extensively.

“Stroke is a very complex disease that involves both genetic and environmental risk factors,” Asst. Neurology Prof. Stephen Williams said in an email statement. “The bridge between these two distinct aspects of risk are called biomarkers. These might be something that is circu-

U.Va. researchers, international colleagues investigate ischemic strokes

lating in our blood that would be a red flag to doctors. Both genetic and environmental factors can influence a person’s levels of these biomarkers and they can be just warning signals or meaningful targets for new therapies.”

The researchers and doctors participating at the University are members of both SiGN and ISGC, Williams said.

Worrall and Assoc. Public Health Sciences Prof. Michele Sale formed ISGC to research the link between strokes and genetics. Members of the organization are from all around the globe, including Egypt, Switzerland, Zambia and Costa Rica. Worrall said the 20th workshop will take place in Milan, Italy.

Worrall and his researchers completed genome-wide association studies, scanning markers across complete sets of DNA or genomes of people and look for variability.

“We take a group of people, in this case people with stroke, and compare them to another group of people who have not had stroke and look across all of their genomes and look at their regions that are different in the two groups,” Worrall said.

Williams, who worked as a molecular geneticist, said other reviews of the genome have not included more than the number of individuals included in this study nor have they studied the variety of stroke

aspects studied in this project. This is what makes the review the largest of its kind.

“This was a collaborative effort,” Worrall said. “There were 10 principal investigators, four lead analysts on the analysis team [and] two of us chairs of phenotyping committees, so it really was a massive effort and it is really important to acknowledge the work of everyone that contributed to it.”

The comprehensive project required collaboration between people of various backgrounds and departments.

“We have people like me who are clinician scientists who are involved in the phenotyping, the characterizing of the disease and subtypes we are looking at,” Worrall said. “Then we had people who were primarily doing the genotyping, the identification of the genetic variants and then another group who were the analysts who helped digest this massive amount of information and help us come up with our main findings.”

The Human Genome Project was completed 15 years ago, and since then, many advances have been made. Recently developed technologies can sequence a genome in a few hours. Still, it can take years to complete a project this large due to all of the steps involved.

The team had to re-characterize

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Ischemic stroke occurs when an artery that normally brings fresh blood to brain is blocked and causes neurons in the brain to starve.

all the cases using a single system for stroke subtyping, complete genotyping, then go through a series of quality control measure, and finally, they had to complete the analysis.

The project took five years after the grant was received, but the idea for the project started in 2007, Worrall said.

“This paper included almost 17,000 individuals,” Worrall said.

“We even followed that up with an additional lookup in almost 21,000 additional cases. This means that this investigation included almost

28,000 stroke cases total.”

Identifying a gene is a big step in learning more about a disease. It can tell that there is still more that needs to be done to come up with a therapy.

“The next steps of taking this information from the genetic study is to get a window into the biology,” Worrall said. “We need to do functional studies where we verify that this is indeed the gene. … It is possible that it could be a neighboring gene.”

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NCAA Tournament begins for top-seeded Cavaliers Virginia draws in-state foe Hampton in opening round

Matt Wurzburger Sports Editor

The NCAA tournament expanded to a 64-team field in 1985.

In that span of time, No. 16 seeds are 0-124 against their top-seeded opponents. Furthermore, it has been 20 years since a No. 1 seed won by only one possession — Purdue narrowly defeated Western Carolina, 73-71, in 1996.

Virginia, the top seed in the Midwest Region, will look to keep the trend going when they commence their tournament run against No. 16 seed Hampton Thursday afternoon at the PNC Arena in Raleigh, N.C. The Pirates (21-10) made their second-straight NCAA appearance by virtue of winning the MEAC Tournament. Coach Edward Joyner’s team claimed the overall seed, escaped with a close win over Morgan State and then ran roughshod over Savannah State and South Carolina State to earn the automatic-bid.

Last season, Hampton won a play-in game against fellow-No. 16 seed Manhattan before serving as fodder for then-undefeated Kentucky, 2015’s overall No. 1 seed.

But the squad opposing the Cavaliers (26-7) Thursday is one that is considerably improved.

The Pirates of 2015-16 lost eight fewer games, upped their conference win total by five and posted a winning record (8-7) on the road.

Still, Virginia has history firmly on its side. The Cavaliers are 7-0 all-time against Hampton.

Virginia has in Hampton a foe that rests in the bottom third of Ken Pomeroy’s adjusted offensive efficiency — scoring only 99.9 points per 100 possessions. The Pirates do not shoot the ball particularly well from any spot on the floor, and struggle mightily from behind the three-point line, shooting only 30.9 percent — good for 314th in the nation.

Despite struggles shooting the ball, Hampton did lead the MEAC in scoring offense at 74.8 points per game due in part to their fast tempo and ability to crash the offensive glass. The Pirates led their conference with a plus-5.1 rebounding margin and

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Coach Tony Bennett and Virginia earned one of the NCAA’s No. 1 seeds for the second time in three years. The Cavaliers finished second in the ACC tournament, falling to North Carolina last Saturday.

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Senior forward Anthony Gill begins his final postseason for Virginia Thursday in an afternoon draw against No. 16 Hampton.

rank 34th nationally in offensive rebounding percentage, cleaning up 34.9 percent of their own misses.

It is highly unlikely Hampton will enjoy any such advantage in the rebounding game against the Cavaliers, who rank 24th in Division I in defensive rebounding percentage. Virginia secures 74 percent of their opponent’s errant shots.

On the offensive end, the Cavaliers must bounce back from

their worst shooting performance all season. In the ACC Tournament final against top-seeded North Carolina, Virginia shot an abysmal 36.5 percent, its lowest of the season.

It was in the second half that the Cavaliers’ offense really fell apart. In the final 20 minutes, Virginia misfired on two-thirds of their shots, went almost eight minutes without a field goal and missed 19 of their last 25 attempts.

“Seems like we were getting good shots,” senior forward Anthony Gill said. “We just didn’t convert on them. A lot of guys had wide-open shots that just weren’t falling for us tonight.”

Over the previous four years, MEAC teams have been no stranger to the Cavaliers, playing Virginia five times. Just this season, coach Tony Bennett scheduled an opening game with Morgan State, which resulted in an 86-48 victory. In that contest, four Cavaliers scored in double digits.

Blowouts have been the norm in that span — Virginia’s average margin of victory has been 16 points.

Common sense would predict another big victory by the Cavaliers against Hampton. In their last matchup, the Pirates fell to Virginia, 69-40, as part of the 2013 Corpus Christi Challenge.

Former Cavalier guards Joe Harris and Justin Anderson led the way, scoring 20 and 12, respectively. Harris connected on all seven of his shots.

However, the recent past serves to remind Virginia of the potential perils of facing a No. 16 seed. Two years ago, the Cavaliers

trailed 16th-seeded Coastal Carolina, 35-30, at halftime. Virginia eventually pulled away and won comfortably, but the memory of that night certainly lives on with the team, their coach and their fans.

“You learn quickly that seeding does not matter whatsoever,” senior forward Evan Nolte said.

In a season that has produced nonstop chaos, every team, even the No. 1 seeds, must be wary of every single matchup.

“You gotta be playing good basketball coming into this because no one is untouchable,” Bennett said.

With a victory over the Pirates, Virginia will face the winner between No. 8 seed Texas Tech and No. 9 seed Butler. Should the Cavaliers fall to Hampton, then they will occupy the most ignominious of pages in the annals of the NCAA Tournament.

Matt Wurzburger is a Sports Editor for the Cavalier Daily. He can be reached at m.wurzburger@ cavalierdaily.com or on Twitter @ wurzburgerm.

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Baseball takes both games against Towson Eighth-inning offense Tuesday, Wednesday lifts No. 18 Virginia over Tigers

Grant Gossage Senior Associate Editor

Plating eventual game-winning runs in the bottom of the eighth inning, the No. 18 Virginia baseball team dashed Towson’s upset hopes in each of two afternoon games at Davenport Field.

The Cavaliers held a 3-2 advantage entering that bottom frame Tuesday. Freshman third baseman Andy Weber led off, sending the first pitch he saw skidding through the hole and into left field for his third hit of the game.

Sophomore utility man Justin Novak stepped into the box with one specific goal in mind — to advance Weber into scoring position and give his teammate waiting in the on-deck circle, senior pitcher Adam Haseley, a shot to drive in a big insurance run.

Novak did his job, deadening the baseball in front of the mound and forcing Tiger senior reliever Garrett Walther to make the throw to first. Weber reached second base standing and acknowledged Novak’s sacrifice.

Haseley — the man who’d

already given Virginia a gutty performance on the mound seemingly without his shutdown stuff, allowing two runs, zero earned, on six hits, two walks and a hit by pitch — trotted to the plate and smacked another Walther first pitch into center field.

Weber got a great jump, rounded third with a headful of steam and scored the Cavaliers’ fourth run. It proved to be all-important since junior pitcher Alec Bettinger surrendered one run on two singles and a walk in the top of the ninth.

Two down, the game-tying run standing on second base, Bettinger induced a groundball out to save Virginia’s 4-3 victory.

“What I was proud of was the game is on the line and he stepped up and made big pitches there,” coach Brian O’Connor said. “They did a nice job of battling and didn’t go away. Then he had the walk. It proved that the insurance run in the eighth was huge for us, to give us that one-run cushion.”

The Tigers led 8-7 in the middle of the eighth Wednesday. When Virginia hitters could have lunged at early pitches outside of the zone in an overaggressive manner, they instead

showed great discipline. Junior shortstop Daniel Pinero started things off with a 2-2 double up the middle.

Freshman leftfielder Ryan Karstetter, who has excelled in an everyday role for the Cavaliers since freshman outfielder Jake McCarthy’s injury, worked a 2-1 count in his favor and recorded his eighth hit over his last 17 at bats to drive home Pinero and level the score, 8-8.

Karstetter would later come around to score on senior pinch hitter Kevin Doherty’s single through the left side. An errant delivery from Towson junior reliever Kyle Stricker then smacked the next batter, Haseley, allowing him a free pass and Doherty to move up to second.

Sophomore second baseman Ernie Clement, 0-4 up to that point, jumped on a get-me-over first pitch. His single into left center plated sophomore pinch runner Jack Gerstenmaier. Spotted a 10-8 lead in the ninth, Bettinger produced a quick fly out, hit the next Tiger he faced and then recorded two outs on a strikeout and ensuing batter’s interference call. Virginia had escaped another upset bid.

“We were in a position where we certainly needed a couple of

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Adam Hasely, who allowed two runs, zero earned, on six hits, two walks and a hit by a pitch, batted in Andy Weber for the game-securing run Tuesday against Towson.

guys to step up,” O’Connor said.

“It wasn’t pretty by any means, but you have some of those games during the year, and you

feel fortunate enough to win them versus losing them.”

Virginia softball faces ACC rival Louisville Homestand excites Cavaliers, who played 23-straight road games Rahul Shah Associate Editor

The Virginia softball team will be in Charlottesville this weekend to take on conference rival Louisville in a three-game series. The Cavaliers (8-18, 0-3 ACC) are in the midst of a rough patch right now, having lost nine of their last 11 games.

The team is looking to bounce back against the Cardinals (16-6, 2-1 ACC), and gain some momentum as they continue their home stand. Coach Blake Miller knows the team must improve, starting

with its defense.

“Big thing we got to do is, we just got to step up and play some defense,” he said.

Miller stressed that improved play on the defense side of the field will help Virginia break out of its slump on offense.

“The rough patch is there because we’re not hitting the ball like we should,” he said. “But really it’ll take the pressure off our hitters so we have to step up and play some better defense. Our pitchers are throwing the ball well and so we just need to make a few key plays and everything moves real fast.”

The Cardinals have gotten off to

a strong start this season, meaning the Cavaliers must be extra focused and ready to play. According to Miller, the team needs to get more disciplined in order to become more successful. He cites undisciplined play for their struggles during the three-game sweep at the hands of Notre Dame last weekend. “[The] biggest thing we’re focusing on is just being strong, I mean get into our discipline,” Miller said. “We’ve been very undisciplined about what we do and really it showed the complete difference between us and Notre Dame was that they were very disciplined in what they did and we were not.”

After starting off the season playing 23-straight road games, the Cavaliers are happy to finally be getting the opportunity to play at home. In Charlottesville, the team gets the chance to play the game at a more relaxed and comfortable level. Hopefully, the Cavaliers’ second weekend back at The Park will bode well for them.

Miller stressed some of the benefits of playing at home.

“You can sleep in your own bed, you relax a little bit more and you go down and just get through your everyday life instead of being stuck in a hotel and eating at restaurants all the time,” Miller said. “It’s a

lot nicer being able to eat a homecooked meal and stay up, sleep in your own bed.”

Though the Cavaliers have struggled lately, they are hoping to turn things around this weekend.

There is still plenty of softball left to be played this season, and Virginia has the chance to pick up some momentum with a couple quality wins.

The Cavaliers will take on Louisville this Friday at 4:00 p.m. and then finish off the series with a doubleheader Saturday with games at 12:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m.

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Women’s lacrosse seeks payback against Notre Dame Irish defeated Cavaliers twice last season, including ACC tournament opener Jack Gallagher Associate Editor

The No. 9 Virginia women’s lacrosse team (4-4) will look to snap out of a three-game losing streak this Saturday when they travel to face No. 5 Notre Dame (8-1) in South Bend, Ind. It has been a tough recent slide for the Cavaliers, who started the season 4-1. Virginia has since lost to then-No. 2 Syracuse, 14-8.

They were defeated this past week by Loyola, 7-6, and No. 4 North Carolina, 11-10, in double OT. But Virginia has shown some quality play in these close losses to strong opponents.

“We are doing a lot of things well,” coach Julie Myers said.

“We just need to make some bigger plays and be a little more clutch in the moment.”

In playing Notre Dame, the Cavaliers will face another strong opponent.

The Fighting Irish enter

the game on a three-game win streak, which includes their most recent victory over No. 7 Princeton, 16-11.

They also currently boast the top-ranked offense in the country, averaging 16.56 goals per game this season.

Virginia will rely on sophomore goalie Rachel Vander Kolk, who is third in the ACC for most saves per game at 8.5, and the strong defensive quartet of seniors Ella Cooper and Sarah Gillespie and juniors Maggie Preas and Wyatt Whitley to slow the Notre Dame attack.

“We have to really bring our A-game and be sharp,” Myers said. “Our defense is going to have to clamp down on some of those key attackers.”

Defensively, Notre Dame is experienced and has depth.

They are led by senior Barbara Sullivan, a Tewaaraton finalist last season.

The Cavaliers have some excellent individual offensive players, including junior attacker Posey Valis, who has scored

a team-high 20 goals this season, and sophomore midfielder Kasey Behr, who has scored 17 and leads the team in free position goals with eight. But Virginia will opt to utilize a teamstyle play that focuses on getting all of the offensive players involved when attacking Notre Dame’s defense.

Behr emphasized this game plan, listing “quick ball movement, a lot of cutters, and just keeping our attack moving” as the keys of the game for the Virginia offense.

In addition, Virginia will play this game with some extra motivation.

Last season, Notre Dame defeated the Cavaliers in both of the teams’ two meetings, including a 7-6 Notre Dame victory in the opening round of the ACC tournament.

With a full week between their last-played game against North Carolina and this weekend’s game against Notre Dame, the Cavaliers hope to reverse their fortune this time around.

“We’ve been working really hard getting prepared for Notre Dame this week” Behr said.

Added Myers: “We have a little bit of a grudge match going because they did get the better

of us last year. So it is our turn to go out there and show them what we can do.”

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Kasey Behr, who has scored 17 goals and leads the team in free position goals with eight, will need a big game as Virginia attacks a strong Notre Dame defense.

Track and Field commences outdoor season with Virginia Cup Cavaliers to rest athletes who competed at indoor track NCAAs Ben Tobin Associate Editor

Wrapping up the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships just last week, the Virginia track and field teams now have a quick turn-around as they start their season outdoors with the Virginia Cup on their turf, Lannigan Field.

Last season, the men finished second at the ACC Championships and 17th at NCAAs. Meanwhile, the women placed ninth in the conference and did not rank nationally. Although both Virginia teams held the same finishes in the ACC as they did at the 2015 meet — third and ninth, respectively — Virginia coach Bryan Fetzer is optimistic about the upcoming outdoor track and field season.

“There’s a lot more events in the outdoor season, which, based on the complexity of your team, changes how good you are or not so good you are,” he said. “We are substantially better outdoors.”

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Bridget Guy hopes to clear 14 feet in the pole vault this outdoor season.

Fetzer said in the outdoor season, there are two more events in throwing and one in distance running. These categories are ones in which the Cavaliers thrive, as proven by the first-place finish by junior Henry Wynne and the second-place finish by junior Filip

Mihaljevic at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships.

However, for some events, the outdoors season can provide some challenges due to the weather, sophomore pole vaulter Bridget Guy said.

“I think [the indoor track and field season] is a good preparation for what [the outdoor track and field season] has to offer,” she said.

Between cross country and indoor and outdoor track and field, a lot of the athletes on Virginia’s squads compete year-round, making it easy for fatigue to set in by this point in the year, Fetzer said. Thus, he has placed importance on giving his teams a rest in the transition from the indoor to the outdoor season.

“Our coaches do a good job between seasons by giving us a week or two off to recoup and get our mindset for next season up,” Guy said.

For those who competed at the NCAA Indoor Track, Fetzer said he is giving them this meet off to help them recover.

“You can’t shift into the fifth

gear week one. It’s about managing and making sure you’re picking and choosing your battles,” he said. “Our guys and girls don’t race a ton compared to some other programs, and that’s with [fatigue] in mind.”

Looking at the year as a whole, the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association gives a Program of the Year Award to teams that score the highest nationally in cross country, indoor and outdoor track and field. After the completion of the cross country and indoor track and field seasons — in which the Virginia men placed 22nd and eighth, respectively — the team currently stands at No. 7 in the race for program of the year.

With that in mind, Fetzer has his eyes set on conference and national tournaments later on in the year.

“We want to contend for championships and be highly ranked nationally,” he said. “Our team principal is about getting better everyday in every way, and if we stick to that thought pro-

cess, we’re going to do well when it counts.”

For Guy, who holds the school record in pole vault by clearing 13 feet and 5.75 inches, she wants to beat her personal record, she said.

“A big goal for me would be to jump over fourteen feet by the end of the outdoor season,” she said.

For the Cavalier women, Guy said she wants to have a well-rounded team competing at the ACC Championships in Jacksonville, Fla. “One of the biggest team goals for [the women’s team] is to get as many girls to qualify for ACCs and keep putting [personal records] out there in our events,” she said.

In the team’s first meet, Fetzer will have athletes experimenting with different events.

“We want to see where we’re at technically,” he said. “We’re trying to refine skills.”

This meet will start at 2 p.m.

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U.Va steps up for first-generation students Sullivan’s “Total Advising” is off to a strong start

Comment of the day “The culture can only change when it looks more like the real world.

Women, men and people of color.”

“Legal maven” in response to Lucy Siegel’s March 4th column, “It’s more than just the wage gap”.

The recent event “First Gen Initiative,” part of University President Teresa Sullivan’s “Total Advising” program, highlighted the experience of first-generation students at the University through a series of speeches. Sullivan organized the event in partnership with United for Undergraduate Socioeconomic Diversity, or UFUSED, a CIO that provides a network for low-socioeconomic status students. In an email statement regarding the event, Sullivan said, “Making these connections between student and faculty is a major part of the University’s plan for the future.” Sullivan’s emphasis on meeting the needs of first-generation students is commendable, and especially appropriate given past criticism of the administration for failing to prioritize the concerns of low-income students.

Last fall, Sullivan encouraged faculty members to identify themselves as first-generation students.

Over 225 students have done so in support of the 1,525 first-generation undergraduates. For students who do not have parents who graduated college and can serve as educational resources, the opportunity

to build relationships with older figures such as professors who can mentor them is valuable. A benefit of organizing events that facilitate interaction between first-generation students and professors is that they allow first-generation students to see themselves in the same places as those who have found success in similar circumstances. Some first-generation students may not even know about these types of cases. In an interview with The Cavalier Daily, fourth-year College student Ulisses Santamaria, who attended the event, said, “I actually thought there weren’t any first-generation faculty.”

In organizing the event with UFUSED, Sullivan also demonstrated a vision for advising that will benefit students, one that holds advising as much more than professors helping students select courses or outline their academic plans.

An all-encompassing approach to meeting students’ needs through cultivating meaningful student-faculty connections — “total” advising, as Sullivan calls it — may be more effective than our current advising structure, which has received criti-

cism for not guiding students to the appropriate resources. A 2011 Stanford study, for example, found that college students who participated in mentoring and coaching services were 10-15 percent more likely to return to college for another year.

Given that first-generation students have significantly lower graduation rates than other college students, mentoring is particularly necessary for ensuring our first-generation students succeed at the University.

Advising at an institution as large as ours invariably misses the mark on meaningful personal interaction. Such a reality is understandable; the University’s sheer size, for one, means that advising resources will always — to a degree — be limited. Regardless, providing substantive interaction to students who need it the most should be a priority. Sullivan’s model of encouraging faculty members who are first-generation students to interact with undergraduates of similar backgrounds is a crucial step toward building an environment that supports first-generation students on Grounds.

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ne of the foremost concerns of better advising helps students finish University students is a lack of their degrees on time and that it plays access to academic and career advis- a large role in the retention rate of ing. Though it’s not the students. Poor advising most noticeable aspect of can leave students jumpALEX MINK University life, advising ing between majors, acOpinion Columnist plays an important role cumulating hours of unin shaping a student’s exnecessary and unwanted perience at the University, as advisors credit hours as they try to forge a guide students towards their areas of path on their own. Professors who interest and ensure students under- are forced to take on advisees may stand the requirements and prereq- not have the time or the inclination to uisites involved in their fields. With provide them with all the advice and thousands of classes in hundreds of oversight they need. They may share departments available, the sheer vol- only a few common areas of interest ume of options can be overwhelm- with which to build a meaningful ing. To help guide these students, the relationship. This results in students University should expand and pub- spending their valuable time with licize its online resources and peer professors painfully synthesizing a advising programs, which would give schedule to fulfill their credit requirestudents access to a wealth of infor- ments instead of on consequential mation and advice to guide them career advice and guidance. through their time here.

The University administration Advising provides benefits that has responded to student dissatisplay out in small but subtle ways faction over the current advising over the course of a student’s career, structure with its total advising plan, but this subtlety does not diminish which aims to synthesize the variits importance. Studies have shown ous advising resources available to

University students on the second floor of Clemons. This move is a welcome relief and a much-needed step towards providing an effective and comprehensive advising system for the student body. In my experience, current advising resources are little understood or utilized by the student

resources already available. This time drain will make it impossible to provide every student with the time they need. The University can increase its advising capacity by expanding and improving on peer advising organizations such as ULink. While student advisors may not have the long career experiences of professors, University-specific experiences makes fellow students more attuned to the concerns of their peers.

This program also fosStudies have shown better advising helps ters connections among students finish their degrees on time and that students with similar init plays a large role in the retention rate of terests and majors.

The University students.” should also complement the physical expansion body, making them inefficient at ful- of advising with an online synthefilling their function. sis of advising resources and major’s However, adding space for ad- requirements and information. We vising does not change the fact that can look to the successes at other inadvisors will continue to spend a stitutions for ideas about worthwhile significant amount of their time di- strategies to put in our system. For recting students to information and example, Arizona State University

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The University has much more to do before it can be satisfied with its advising system recently introduced a website that synthesizes information on degree requirements and classes, providing students with a one-stop shop to compare the different majors and plan their schedules without the need to consult an advisor. A similar program at the University would relieve the strain on an overburdened system and save huge amounts of time for professors and students.

Using an online system wouldn’t eliminate the need for personal advisors, nor would it allow peer advisors to replace the knowledge provided by professors. However, using these programs makes it simpler for students to find information and ensures the limited time a professor has available for advising is spent passing on their accumulated knowledge and giving substantial, personalized advice to students who need it most.

Alex’s columns run bi-weekly Wednesdays. He can be reached at a.mink@cavalierdaily.com.

Rationalizing Honor n Feb. 26, the Jefferson Lit- cause they are more resourceful at erary and Debating Society finding justifications for their actions hosted Dan Ariely, renowned beTalk of tests and cheating segued havioral economist and into discussion of uniauthor of New York versity “honor codes.”

TAMAR ZIFF Times bestselling books The mention of the term Opinion Columnist “Predictably Irrational” caused every ear in the and “The Honest Truth room to perk up: that About Dishonesty.” AriFriday marked the closely’s research focuses on why people ing of the referendum to reform the behave irrationally: whereas basic University’s honor system. Ariely had economic theories are grounded in run labs with MIT and Princeton stuthe assumption that all individuals dents who were told to sign a stateare rational actors in the marketplace ment pledging to abide by the honor acting in pursuit of their interests, code before they took a test. This rethe reality is more complex. At the duced cheating far more than having onset of his speech, he asked how to sign a pledge at the end (teachers, many people have procrastinated in take note). What was interesting, the past month, and almost everyone he said, was that MIT has no honor in Jefferson Hall raised a hand. Pro- code, while Princeton has an incredcrastination is part and parcel of the ibly strict and detailed honor code all University experience, yet it is also in- its freshmen are instructed on during dicative of doing the opposite of what a week-long course at the beginning is best for you: it is basic “irrational of the year. behavior.”

Ariely’s labs showed no difference The tests Ariely designs are ori- in incidence of cheating between ented toward irrationality as it ex- MIT and Princeton students in testists in market behavior. In a society ing environments. It was not the in which most of us are inculcated presence of dire repercussions, nor with some sort of value judgment students’ familiarity with them, that concerning what is right and what served as a deterrent to cheating. It is wrong, actions like lying, cheating was that they began thinking about and stealing are socially and internal- morality. The nuances of the sysly irrational. So why do we do them? tem are not as important as shaking People do a lot of things for a lot awake a slumbering conscience, so to of reasons, but ultimately it comes speak. down to rationalization, concluded During the question and answer Ariely. If you can build a narrative portion of the lecture, one student in your head as to why the act is not asked the question that must have wrong, then you can do it with aban- been on everyone’s mind: don. Creative people cheat more be“There’s been a big argument

about the honor system here, and changing the single-sanction system to a multi-sanction one. If all it takes is making people think about morality in a broad sense, does that make the argument a moot one?”

In response Ariely relayed an anecdote of a group of Duke graduate students that were shocked after being expelled for cheating on an economics paper. He argued a single sanction system is not fair for the in-

cheating you are a “cheater,” and cheaters do not belong on Grounds.

While it is true that once you cheat it’s likely that you do it again — something Ariely calls the “what the hell” effect — creating a good-bad binary is dangerous: people learn from mistakes. There are black swans everywhere, and it should not be a feature of any juridical system to dismiss people based on generalizations.

Now that the honor referendum is over, and the single sanction is still firmly in place (by a 1.12 percent margin), it’s worth thinking about what honor seeks to do and what it symbolizes. ReChoices are contingent on a lot of factors and lying too much on symstressors, and to expel an individual for an bolism is precarious: thinking, for example, error of judgment is not fair.” that a vote for Bernie is not a vote for a candividual student because people don’t didate but a vote for some ideal of make decisions by sitting down and anti-establishmentarianism and proconsidering how likely they will be gress will lead to disappointment. But caught or the consequences if they do symbols are useful tools for designatget caught. ing meaning and forming opinions Choices are contingent on a lot of that direct behavior and support. For factors and stressors, and to expel an example, though actual gun ownerindividual for an error of judgment is ship in the United States is declining, not fair. Yet a single sanction system, more people support less gun control according to Ariely, is very good for — not because they want a physical creating a “campus culture” in which gun, but because, for them, a gun cheating, lying and stealing are the ul- represents things they value, such as timate taboos. independence, safety and strength.

There is something appealing and What does the honor system clean about having a single, hard line represent? Many people, I think, between right and wrong. This mind- conflate the single sanction with the set determines that if you (are caught) honor system as a whole, such that

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Belief in the community of trust is more important than the type of honor system any change is viewed as doing away with honor altogether, and doing away with honor means the collapse of any network of community trust. Neither of those assumptions necessarily hold. The honor system is a system designed to deter and if necessary punish “irrational behavior” — changing it would not detract from that mission. It is not the entire basis of our community of trust: as evidenced by Ariely’s experiment, the community of trust relies on, simply, belief in the existence and importance of maintaining collective trust.

Basically, if cheating is wrong in the community, it is wrong not because you will get expelled versus a lesser punishment: it is wrong because it simply is.

I do not dismiss the importance of a student juridical body and the deliberations that come with attempts to run and even reform one.

Honor is important, and the conversation must continue to determine how to make a system that judges students fair to those students, keeping in mind love and trust for one’s peers does not depend on the kind of system of student governance. An honor code should not be a cumbersome and untouchable “patrimony” or “tradition,” but a complement to the way in which we would like to live our lives on Grounds.

Tamar’s columns run bi-weekly Tuesdays. She can be reached at t.ziff@ cavalierdaily.com.

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Remove culturally inappropriate statues ast week, guest writer EveOn one hand, it is easy to unlyn Immonen wrote a fan- derstand why a city with a proud tastic piece concerning the racist colonial heritage such as Charorigins of the “Redlottesville would want skins” football team commemorate the BRANDON BROOKS to name. Reading this arhistorical contribuViewpoint Writer ticle brought to mind tions of an individual a similarly culturally such as Clark. Born insensitive image located within and raised in Charlottesville, the Charlottesville community. Clark was a prominent RevoMany of you may not have no- lutionary War veteran whose ticed the George Rogers Clark campaigns against the British led statue located in Monument to the latter’s relinquish of the Square, across from Mellow Northwest Territory (now the Mushroom. If you did, you might present day Midwest). All comhave wondered why the city of munities have a right to honor Charlottesville would boldly dis- their veterans, especially those play a statue depicting the “Con- that were instrumental in the queror of the Old Northwest” on founding of this country. Howhorseback, riding toward a group ever, one should take a holistic of Native Americans who appear view of Clark’s military service. to be cowering in his wake. At During the Revolutionary War, best, this depiction may repre- forces under Clark’s command sent an ill-thought attempt to pay perpetrated numerous abuses homage to a historic icon born against Native Americans, inin the city of Charlottesville. At cluding burning down entire worst, this monument appears villages and publicly executing to romanticize Manifest Destiny captured tribesmen to intimidate and the subsequent expulsion tribes allied with the British. Folof millions of Native Americans lowing independence, Clark was from their homelands. Either a prominent leader in the Northway, this monument is a disgrace west Indian War initiated by coupon our community and should lonial settlers seeking to expand be removed. into Native American territory.

Branding Clark as a “conqueror” glorifies these actions.

Charlottesville is not the only city to face controversy over its historical imagery. Last year Saint Louis University relocated a statue of a Jesuit missionary praying over two Native Americans after faculty and staff questioned whether such an image was culturally appropriate. Critics of the relocation claimed the school administration should not have allowed itself to be pressured by overly politically cor-

time.” Similarly, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley signed into law an act relocating the Confederate battle flag from the grounds of the State House to a state military museum after critics accused the flag of being a symbol of white supremacy.

The Clark statue is clearly a more egregious offense than the aforementioned images and does not deserve to be relocated to a history museum, alongside memorials of men and women who better epitomized the ideals of the Charlottesville community. I cannot imagine how one could defend this memorial as anything other than an overt approbation of the genocide Perhaps some people would rather overlook this perpetrated against monument of racial oppression and historical Native Americans.

Perhaps some peoinjustice rather than acknowledge the United ple would rather States’ role in the plight of indigenous peoples.” overlook this monument of racial oppression and historical injustice rather than acknowledge rect activists. They defended the the United States’ role in the statue as a product of a “different plight of indigenous peoples.

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The George Rogers Clark statue celebrates oppresion against native peoples and should be taken down Although few have taken issue with the Clark statue, the Charlottesville community should seize the initiative and remove it. Doing so would surpass the precedents set by South Carolina and other states around the country that have decided to remove culturally insensitive monuments from public spaces and reaffirm our commitment to promoting a diverse and inclusive community. While some will no doubt see this as another manifestation of an overly politically correct society that is too easily offended, I think it is important to consider how an indigenous person would react to the sight of the Clark statue, and what inferences they would likely draw from a community that prominently displays it in public view. Furthermore, finding a suitable replacement would not be difficult. From former President James Madison to the late Civil Rights activist Julian Bond, Charlottesville has a litany of notable residents who better embody the values our community holds most dear.

The uselessness of AP scores igning up for courses often well, I went on to find the class unmakes students, especially challenging — I found myself helpthose just about to enter the Uni- ing those same people who I had versity, consider how seen put down more heavy their course load impressive coursework ALYSSA IMAM will be and whether or in that questionnaire.

Opinion Columnist not they will be able While this examto handle it. Some are ple is only anecdotal, able to explore more subjects at it does point to the varying dethe University thanks to their grees by which students completmany AP credits from high school. ing different coursework may feel Others, however, find themselves prepared for a certain course. At overwhelmed upon enrolling in both the secondary school and the too hard a course. One way to ad- university levels, different schools dress this issue is to implement a offer differing levels of academic placement system based on per- rigor. Some students may come formance on a University-admin- from a high school that teaches istered test rather than AP scores. more difficult coursework with In my first semester here at the a label that suggests it is less adUniversity, I enrolled in Applied vanced. Either way, many students Calculus I. During the first class, at the University took some sort the professor gave out a form to of rigorous coursework in high complete so the Department of school and find classes at the UniMathematics could collect infor- versity to be much more difficult. mation regarding what level of Additionally, performing well on math students reached in high an AP test hardly means underschool. Having only completed a standing the material taught in course called Calculus Honors my that class’s equivalent. A Dartsenior year, I was intrigued to see mouth study found that after adthose around me had all complet- ministering the final exam of its ed either AP BC Calculus, mul- introductory psychology course to tivariable calculus or differential over 100 of its admitted students equations. While in that moment — who all earned the highest score I became concerned I wouldn’t do of a five on the AP Psychology test

— a mere 10 percent passed the exam.

This finding may bring some to believe AP credit should not be granted at all. However, I believe it would not be fair not to grant credit where it is due. Surely, there are just as many instances in which students have performed well on an AP test and been placed in classes accordingly as there are in which students who scored highly on standardized tests found themselves very well prepared for those higher courses.

their AP exams from struggling in higher-level courses, it would still allow those who truly have a firm grasp on the material to continue in their studies without wasting their time proving understanding of content they have already learned. This would also be more fair to students who truly do need to placed in a lower-level class, as they would no longer need to unfairly compete against those students who do already know the subject matter.

Of course this suggestion is not without flaws.

The biggest problem I foresee is that students who wish to take a course for which they already know the material to lighten their course Performing well on an AP test hardly means load may purposeunderstanding the material taught in that class’s fully do poorly on the placement test. equivalent.”

However, I also feel this problem is pracPlacing students by means of a tically inevitable with any placerequired test, possibly that class’s ment system. At the very least, this final exam, meets a fair middle solution at least addresses the issue ground and addresses both these that different students are coming concerns. While it would keep from different backgrounds and many students who succeeded in learning environments. And in do-

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The University should move toward administering its own placement tests ing so, it allows students who may have performed poorly on the AP exam, did not take an AP course or were unable to sit the exam to prove whether or not and to what extent they know the material.

Similarly, whether this idea should be implemented may vary by department as well. For example, a standardized test in math may better show competence than one in history due to the subject’s more objective nature. For some courses, it may make more sense to only grant credit to those who receive the highest score possible.

Still, with so many differing factors such as subject area and learning environment, the University should consider implementing a system that would, at least for certain subjects, place students into their class level by means of a required placement test.

Alyssa’s columns run Wednesdays. She can be reached at a.imam@cavalierdaily.com.

HU MOR

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Just for wits.

In defense of girls eating guys.

This is something I have learned again and again (and have of the answers shocks forgotten each time). me: for breakfast, This summer my boss DREW KISER as an example, my refused a piece of cake Humor Writer friends eat eggs, bagels, I had made because bacon, kale, spinach, she had just had “a big cereal, toast, avocado, salad.” In “BossyPants,” yogurt, granola, berries, pancakes, Tina Fey recounts how her love waffles, apple, banana, crackers, interest, a University student, told cream cheese, salmon, tortilla and her how much he liked another cheese; they adorn these foods girl. Why? Because this other girl with ketchup, jam, peanut butter, only chews a half a stick of gum honey, mustard, sriracha or salt; at a time. And French women, I and then they wash it all down learned while abroad, forswear the with tea, coffee, orange or grape best cuisine on earth to maintain cranberry or pomegranate juice, a certain cigarette silhouette. I milk, citrus juice, smoothie or suspect this insecurity is univerwater. And this list comes from sal among girls –– as is the fear a single meal of the day, and that, should their bodies change a traditionally the one with the least certain way, they will no longer be amount of variety. Things get even worthy of attention. crazier for lunch.

This is supposed to be a humor It is a pleasure unknown to article, so let me now insert a joke. everyone but our grandmothQuestion: Why do so many ers to hear how our loved ones young girls struggle with eating successfully nourish themselves disorder?

–– in listening to these stories, I Response: Because they have share some of this joy. Despite my grown up in a culture where their bliss, though, one trend quickly very right to eat is challenged by defines itself: namely, that girls ate absurd and arbitrary body standless and skipped more meals than ards, which are tailored specifi-

cally to disenfranchise women of color and women of the working class, and which are propagated by a capitalist machine that makes an excess of $20 billion a year on weight loss products.

Okay, nevermind about the joke.

Briefly this summer our culture went through a phase in which we celebrated the “dad bod” –– the formless, pasty body type that sends some girls crazy, but which reminds me of a swollen

body-positive movement, the gendered gap in eating is no smaller than it was decades ago.

My solution? Create a system of standards by which men’s bodies are as intensely imposed upon as women’s. Target them right where it hurts: their baldness, their weird dongs and their shortness. Let’s make men shave all their body hair and forbid them to sweat in public. Let’s refuse to laugh at a male comedian unless he is wearing whatever the counterpart to a dress is –– a suit? Shorts?

A button-down? A nice hat? Let’s take every novel with the phrase “she used to be beautiful” and replace it with, “he My solution? Create a system of standards used to be less fat, and he used to fart by which male bodies are as intensely a lot less, too.” Let’s imposed upon as female.” mock male athletes for the theatrics female athletes would worm. It would be too obvious to never dare attempt. Let’s casually say male bodies are held to looser remind men how many calories standards than female. Going are in drinks and never look them beyond this, though, we see that, in the eyes when they talk. despite the best efforts of the I’ve got it! I finally remem-

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bered a joke I can use.

Question: Why should we be critical of men’s bodies?

Response: Because men are disgusting.

Maybe that’s a bit harsh. But let’s do some math: if smooth armpits were first labeled as a desirable trait for women in 1915, that’s at least 101 years of bodily insecurity on women’s part… By my calculation, if we start mocking men today, we will be able to close up the gap by 2117!

I have run myself out of this rant, not because I am no longer angry, but because I am too tired to write any more. Though this issue is more complicated than I can address here, I want to end this by insisting that we do everything we can to ensure women can build healthy relationships with food. Food is everything.

Food is heritage and kindness and motherhood and love. Food is life. And to estrange someone else from food, then, is a kind of slow murder.

So just eat the damn cake, Anna!

A very good and reliable travel guide to New York City verything I do, I do for you E guys — you, the readers of these articles. I say this now to

things like food or shelter, just convert it into something unusable, like the euro. People won’t tell you that during be able to take any of this past week I spent PATRICK THEDINGA your foreign money, in New York City but they still have to Humor Editor (though it may have serve you and let you seemed like I was stay in their lodgings. galavanting around and living It’s the law, trust me — I am it up in the Windy City) I was both very good and reliable. actually taking vigorous notes Guide note 2: Carry a fullon things to do to make your sized city atlas at all times trip to Beantown that much After spending any time in better. So now that I am back, I Sin City, you’ll come to realize can finally give to you the 100 that this one is essential. Carrypercent foolproof, very good ing around a book of city streets and reliable travel guide to the and borough notables the size City of Angels, New York, New of a commandments tablet York. shows everyone you are in Guide note 1: Convert all command of your navigationyour cash al faculties and that you have The Steeple City is one powerful forearms. That will expensive place, so you’re going remind them of Popeye, who to need a lot of cash, right? is a New York City treasure, so WRONG. Instead of spending people will treat you with the all your hard-earned money on utmost respect and authority.

The atlas can also be used as a weapon in case someone tries to take all your euros.

Guide note 3: Wear a really, really big shirt You’ll be doing a lot of exploring during your trip to good old Surf City USA, so a really, really big shirt is in order. Why a big shirt, you might ask? Well for starters, it’s a really, really big shirt, so get that one straight. And secondly, a really, really big shirt is the most versatile article of clothing. If you’re walking with the wind, you can use it as a sail to propel you forward faster. If you’re part of a group, everyone can grab a corner of the shirt so no one gets lost in this great city known as Dogtown. You’ll never need another napkin when wearing a really really big shirt, and if you forget pants, it’s not a problem. Also, in cases

of emergency where you might be trapped out in the cold of the mile-high city, you can pull yourself inside the really, really big shirt and use it as a sleeping bag. Easy Peezy, or as they say here in The Magic City, easy peezy.

Guide note 4: Always be yelling The Big Easy is already a loud, bustling place, so you’re going to make yourself really stand out. With your atlas and really, really big shirt in tow, make sure to yell at all times. It doesn’t matter if you’re talking to someone or not, just always yell. Yell your order to the nice waitress at that fun noodle place. Yell your review of that fun noodle place to no one in particular while riding the subway. Yell at the subway.

The city is your oyster, that you will promptly and loudly yell

at. Yelling is a pastime in The Motor City, known for phrases like “I’M WALKIN’ HERE” and “EYY, PIZZA HERE” followed by “GAH, BOO GAH,” so by yelling along with the rest of the city, you’re fitting in better than any really, really big shirt or cumbersome atlas could ever help you to do.

Well, we’ve come a long way, but after all the lessons I’ve shared with you, you’ll be able to conquer the City of Lights in no time. Trust me, I am very good, and I am also reliable.

Patrick Thedinga is a Humor editor for The Cavalier Daily. He can be reached at p.thedinga@ cavalierdaily.com.

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UPCOMING EVENTS Thursday 3/17 OpenGrounds Presents: Donuts and Freud, 5-6:30pm, OpenGrounds UPC Presents: Patty Palooza, 10pm-1am, Slaughter Main Gym Lecture: From Temple of the Arts to Theatre of the Imagination, 6pm, Campbell Hall 160 The Ruffians’ Burning Bluebeard, 7pm, Ruth Caplin Theatre Friday 3/18 UPC Presents: The Revenant Screening, 7pm, Newcomb Theater Career Center Presents: Market Yourself!, 2-4:30pm, Newcomb 481 Career Center Presents: Skills for the Almost Grad, 2-3pm, Career Center Conference Room Academical Village People Present: Spring Concert - Make A Cappella Great Again, 8pm, McLeod Hall Men’s Tennis vs. North Carolina State, 3pm, Snyder Tennis Center Baseball vs. Wake Forest, 5pm, Davenport Field Organization of Young Filipino Americans Presents: 3rd Annual Lakas 5K Mad Glow Run, 6-9pm, Nameless Field UPC Presents: Zen Night, 10pm-1am, OpenGrounds McCormick Observatory Public Night, 9-11pm, McCormick Observatory Saturday 3/19 UPC Presents: The Revenant Screening, 10pm, Newcomb Theater McIntire Department of Music Presents: Distinguished Major Conducting Recital, 8-10pm, Old Cabell Hall Academical Village People Present: Spring Concert - Make A Cappella Great Again, 8pm, McLeod Hall Hoos Reaching Out A Capella Concert and Speaker Series, 2-5pm, Amphitheater Culture Couture Fashion Performance, 7pm, The Jefferson Theater Softball vs. Louisville, 1pm, The Park Baseball vs. Wake Forest, 1pm, Davenport Field Softball vs. Louisville, 3pm, The Park German Film Festival, 10am-7pm, Minor Hall 125 International Women’s Month Poetry Open Mic Night, 3-5pm, Grit Coffee Sunday 3/20 Ballroom Dance Club Presents: Dancing with the Professors!, 4pm, Alumni Hall McIntire Department of Music Presents: BrassFest Concert, 3:30-5:30pm, Old Cabell Hall Engineering Student Council Presents: 8th Annual Pi-Miler Race, 10am, Thornton Hall Softball vs. Louisville, 12pm, The Park Men’s Tennis vs. Florida State, 1pm, Snyder Tennis Center Baseball vs. Wake Forest, 1pm, Davenport Field

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When written words come to life

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Weekend’s events to focus on role of written word in activism, human experience as part of Virginia Festival of the Book

Candace Carter Senior Editor

This year’s Virginia Festival of the Book kicked off Wednesday and will continue through Sunday. The upcoming weekend’s events will include lectures and discussions on a diverse range of topics, including cooking, the nature of American politics, racial identity in America and comedy.

Like its name implies, the festival, now in its 22nd year, emphasizes the power of the written word and the importance of literacy in the formation of identity. Arts & Entertainment has compiled a list of the weekend’s most interesting, exciting and thought-provoking discussions.

Battlefield America: War on the American People Local author and attorney John W. Whitehead spends much of his time in courts preserving citizens’ civil liberties, but Thursday he will embrace his role as an

author and speak about his most recent book entitled “Battlefield America: The War on the American People.” This commentary on the nature of politics in America looks to be very relevant in light of the turmoil surrounding the 2016 presidential election. Attendees may also enjoy an event Saturday featuring Marjorie Cohn focused on her work, “Drones and Targeted Killing: Legal, Moral, and Geopolitical Issues.”

Literacy in America: Crisis and Hope Rare Book School Director and University English Professor Michael Suarez will appear at Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library Thursday to discuss the origins and consequences of an illiterate citizenry while highlighting potential solutions to the problem. The lecture should provide an insightful look into the work of a wholly engaged University faculty member.

“A Carlin Home Companion: Growing Up with George” Kelly Carlin, media figure and

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The Virginia Festival of the Book brings a variety of topics to the community.

daughter of legendary comedian George Carlin, will make an exciting appearance at Charlottesville’s City Council Chambers Saturday to speak on her memoir, “A Carlin Home Companion: Growing Up with George.” Her wealth of experience in the entertainment industry as an actress, internet radio host and interviewer should shape this event into a comedic experience, both nostalgic and contemporary. Interested audience members may also enjoy a speech by Reverend and former comedian Nadia Bolz-Weber on her latest work, “Accidental Saints,” in Newcomb Theater Saturday.

Marching for Freedom: Communists to Celebrities and Civil Rights Also Saturday, researchers and authors Sara Haviland and Emilie Raymond speak together on the influence of individuals in the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements, respectively. Their works follow the efforts of African American activists, celebrities

and professionals, outlining their struggles and the ways in which they overcame prejudice. Fans of the talk may also appreciate a locally-focused event featuring authors Jim Auchmutey and Kristen Green talking about segregation in Virginia. This event, called Divided Towns, Communities, Families: Civil RIghts in Schools, will also be held Saturday.

Monticello in Mind: 50 Contemporary Poems on Jefferson Monticello will host an impressive array of poets such as Rita Dove and Stephen Cushman this Sunday as they read original works on the subject of Thomas Jefferson. The event, a solid weekend getaway for students, promises diverse perspectives and insights on the University’s beloved founder.

This year’s Festival is shaping up to be extremely meaningful, continuing to demonstrate how essential literature is in everyday life. For a full list of scheduled speakers and events, see the Festival’s website.

“10 Cloverfield Lane” is a hybrid of cinema New film effectively combines multiple sytles, genres; provides enthralling suspense, mystery

Matthew Gittelman Senior Writer

In 2008, “Cloverfield” captivated audiences with a fresh take on a rather traditional tale — an attack on a city by a mysterious monster.

Directed by Dan Trachtenberg, “10 Cloverfield Lane,” described as a “blood relative” to the original film by producer J.J. Abrams, occurs in an entirely separate universe and possesses a wealth of diversity in both tone and in content. The film’s component variance can render it difficult to truly classify, but this is certainly not a drawback. While the movie is blemished in certain areas, “10 Cloverfield Lane” skirts beyond convention and yields a unique hybridization of various genres, all while delivering quality acting, suspense and style.

Overall, the film’s camerawork is very well-done, almost perfectly contributing to the buildup of suspense in many scenes by gradually and continuously revealing more information about a scene as time progresses. “10 Cloverfield Lane” finds beauty in small details, be they visual or auditory, giving the film a potent sense of character,

especially in scenes that are absent of explosive imagery. In fact, much of the movie’s quality comes from its ability to create heart-pounding tension without an excessive propagation of action.

The overarching formula of “10 Cloverfield Lane” is its continual subversion of the viewer’s expectations. Most likely because of its mysterious opening scenes, the movie attempts to be unpredictable and largely succeeds. This is due to the evolution of the plot, and how each successive event provides evidence to seemingly answer naturally arising questions. However, these moments of enlightenment are often fickle, as the contrary to what was already thought to be proven presents itself repeatedly.

As a whole, the movie’s set of revelations is somewhat of a mixed bag — some discoveries are letdowns, but many have satisfying payoffs.

The film’s characters are interesting, as each retains a unique and distinct personality. Character development is interspersed throughout the plot, and quality acting bestows such moments with a sense of authenticity, invoking emotions from the viewer and rendering it

quite easy to care about the characters’ plights. However, more of these moments would have certainly been welcome, and some of the existing development feels disconnected from the story. Ultimately, however, character progression — especially the protagonist’s development — is rewarding and fulfilling.

While a degree of suspension of belief is necessary when engaging with cinema, a few plot holes in this film are not sufficiently explained or justified. Fortunately, these things do not detract from the overall qualitwy of the film, but they are nonetheless worth mentioning.

“10 Cloverfield Lane” is a comprehensive film. In one package, it is part horror, part mystery, part action, with many more elements included, all blending with one another to create a unique overarching style. Some of its ambiguity may lead to spwarse pacing issues and a few unsatisfying revelations, but most of it creates an effective, character-driven story to bask the audience in suspense. The film certainly has foibles, but it is ultimately a highly enjoyable filmgoing experience.

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“10 Cloverfield Lane” goes above and beyond in terms of cinematic style, bringing together various influences and techniques to create an overall enjoyable film.

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“Girls” shows good, bad and ugly sides of love Thoughtful new episode “Old Loves” sees characters making up, breaking up

Malory Smith Staff Writer

The fifth season of “Girls” continues with another engaging, well-written episode in this week’s “Old Loves.” Episode four returns to Brooklyn to focus on the leading women’s relationships as some fall apart and others fall together.

The episode opens with an argument between Hannah (Lena Dunham) and Fran (Jake Lacy) over their different teaching styles when Fran begins making amendments to Hannah’s grading process. Their relationship, which once seemed bulletproof, begins to crack — “Old Loves” completely dismantles the idea of Fran as the nice guy. Hannah reverts backs to her selfish and dramatic ways. Perhaps this season’s earlier episodes were not an indication of Hannah’s development into a more considerate, adjusted woman after all.

Jessa (Jemima Kirke) and Adam (Adam Driver) continue to struggle through their forbidden feelings for each other. Jessa begins attending

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“Girls” continues showing strong into its fifth season, and the most recent installment is no exception.

women’s-only AA meetings to avoid him, but this episode delivers on what was a long time coming — Jessa and Adam take their relationship to a physical level with less-than-

stellar results.

Elijah (Andrew Rannells) makes a welcomed appearance in the episode along with his new beau, Dill (Corey Stoll), the “quite famous” re-

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porter. Elijah and Dill’s blossoming relationship is a glimmer of hope in an episode that offered rather bleak representations of love, or at the very least, lust. The highlight of

the episode was the beautifully-shot montage of the two greeting fans in the middle of Times Square. Elijah’s happiness is palpable and contagious and it seems he may just be getting what he deserves — a real relationship.

Marnie (Allison Williams) and Desi (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) return to New York as well after their honeymoon. After an argument about changes to her apartment, Marnie essentially apologizes to Desi, instead of standing up for herself.

This reaction is in line with Marnie’s character, but it feels backwards.

The dysfunction between the two is evident, and this episode seems to confirm that such back and forth between the two is not sustainable.

Maybe the most rewarding element of “Old Loves” was the interaction between Marnie, Hannah and Jessa. The previous few episodes have featured little to no interaction between the women, confining them to their own spaces and plotlines.

Though their bond is clearly not what it used to be, seeing the three together is a pleasant reminder of the series’ foundational friendships.

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