October 28, 2013

Monday, October 28, 2013

Vol. 124, Issue 19

A DECADE OF

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PANCAKES Pancakes for Parkinson’s celebrates national success — and serves breakfast

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Just 10 years ago, the idea for the annual Pancakes for Parkinson’s fundraiser emerged out of one University student’s admissions essay. Through an innumerable quantity of pancakes — chocolate chip and blueberry included — the organization has since been recognized as an official “Team Fox” fundraiser by the Michael J. Fox Foundation and has spread to dozens of other schools. Nationally, the fundraisers have collectively raised more than a million dollars for Parkinson’s research.

This past Saturday, University and Charlottesville community members gathered on the south Lawn to continue the tradition and celebrate a decade of pancake flipping.

When applying to the University, 2006 College graduate Mary McNaught Yonkman, wrote an essay about “pancakes” being her favorite word and promised to start a pancakes event on the Lawn for a worthy cause if accepted. She followed through with her promise in 2004 when she founded the first Pancakes for Parkinson’s event in honor of her aunt, who had been diagnosed with the disease.

In the past decade, Pancakes for Parkinson’s at the University has raised more than $250,000 and has served as a replicable model of an event that can rally people around a good cause, prompting the Michael J. Fox Foundation to recognize the CIO as an official fundraiser in 2007.

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Harding to step down at school year’s end

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Batten School’s founding dean to return to teaching, Asia research, will remain as University faculty member

this work for 15 years,” Harding said.

“For someone who is a scholar and a policy analyst at heart, I felt that it was time to get back to that activity.”

H a r d ing said that he hopes to spend more time in Asia, a region that has been the focus of his scholarship.

“I would like to get back to both teaching and Marshall Bronfin | The Cavalier Daily writing on Dean Harry Harding announced last week he will step down from his position at the head of the Batten School, above. Harding those subwill return to academic work and focus on Asia after a search committee finds his replacement. jects, which ate students. is my core Caelainn Carney A search committee is al- expertise,” Harding said. “I also Senior Writer ready in place to recruit a re- would like to do some writing and placement for Harding. maybe some teaching in leaderHarding said the approach- ship.”

Batten School Dean Harry Harding also spoke about the Harding announced Thursday that ing end of his five-year term gives he will step down from his posi- him a good opportunity to assess state of the Batten School and the tion at the end of his five-year his situation and make plans for strides it has made in the last five term, which expires in May. As the future. Though he has found his years, which he credited to the the founding dean of the Batten position as dean rewarding, Hard- school’s entire faculty and staff.

School, Harding has helped set the ing said he wants to move away Included among these accomplishfoundation for the school and de- from administrative work and get ments are the establishment of a set of dual degree programs and the velop the school’s degree programs back to teaching and writing.

“I realized that I’ve been doing recruitment of 14 full-time faculty for both graduate and undergradu-

members.

“The school here is in very good shape,” Harding said. “It’s a good time to bring in somebody with a fresh look.”

The new dean will likely be someone with a lot of public policy experience who can help bring the University’s newest school to the next level, University spokesperson McGregor McCance said in an email.

“Qualified candidates will have deep experience in areas including public policy development, leadership education, higher education generally, and proven administrative successes,” McCance said. “[The] right leader will be able to identify growth areas while ensuring continued excellence in our core competencies that include teaching public policy at the undergraduate and graduate levels while infusing leadership skills that position our students.”

The new dean will have to deal with space constraints in the new building, focus on fundraising and chart a path for curriculum growth, said Education Prof. David Breneman, the chair of the dean search committee.

“At some point the new dean will have to grapple with space — we don’t have any classrooms in [Garrett Hall],” Breneman said. “[And the] new dean will have to decide whether he or she wants to expand the school into international waters.”

Harding joins three other deans

who announced intentions to step down at the end of this academic year. The retiring deans include Kim Tanzer of the Architecture School, Meredith Woo of the College and Steven DeKosky of the Medical School.

McCance said that the recent string of resignations should not be seen as a cause for alarm, as all their terms began, and are now ending, at the same time.

“Deans and cabinet-level administrators typically work on a contract basis, often in five-year appointments,” McCance said. “Several dean appointments at U.Va. have occurred on roughly identical timeframes, and the decision by several deans to not seek reappointment has occurred at roughly the same time.”

McCance said the end of a dean’s term serves as a time for review of his or her work and as an opportunity to decide whether or not he or she wishes to seek reappointment.

McCance said the University has an organized process for reviewing a dean’s tenure and selecting a new dean when a dean decides to step down from his or her position.

“Each time a dean’s appointment approaches its contracted end date, the process includes establishment of a review committee and an invitation by that committee to receive input about the dean’s tenure, all of which is provided to the Provost for review,” McCance said.

City Council appoints Human Rights Commission Commission to contine Charlottesville race dialogue, research systematic discrimination, investigate housing, business discrimination complaints Lital Firestone Senior Writer

The Charlottesville City Council appointed 11 members to the newly formed Human Rights Commission last Monday. The Commission was formed by the Charlottesville City Council last May to facilitate community dialogue and engagement about eliminating discrimination.

Newly appointed commission member Ann Smith spoke of the importance of changing people’s perceptions on discrimination.

“I do believe that I have been discriminated against,” Smith said.

“It’s important to educate others that with such an economically and socially diverse community as Charlottesville, we need to be more conscious of the backgrounds people come from and why they think the way they do.”

Zan Tewksbury, manager of

the Office of Human Rights, will do preliminary research for and administer the work of the Commission. Tewksbury said the three main functions of the Commission would be to continue an ongoing dialogue on equity and diversity, research systematic discrimination in the Charlottesville community and investigate individual complaints received by community members.

“If I find there’s probable cause that the human rights ordinance was violated, I will send it on to the Commission to decide if it needs to go to a public hearing,” Tewksbury said.

Charlottesville Vice Mayor Kristin Szakos said Council found very strong members to serve on the Commission. Szakos said they were looking for members who were interested in the education piece of the Commission, brought different perspectives and could work well together in a group. “[We wanted people who] could

look at systemic and broad based issues of equity in the community,” Szakos said. “It’s sort of like a puzzle, finding complementary people who can work together.”

While the members of the Human Rights Commission are unpaid volunteers, the Human Rights Office will serve as the Commission’s backbone by collecting data and doing the hands-on work in the community.

“We’re like the workhorse and they’re the riders,” Tewksbury said of the relationship between her office and the Commission.

Tewksbury emphasized the need for the Commission to reach individuals in the Charlottesville community, unlike state and federal human rights enforcement agencies that typically have limited resources. “[The Human Rights Commission] is a really landmark thing— we’re very excited to see it moving forward,” Szakos said.

City Council appointed 11 members to its Human Rights Commission last week.

Vice Mayor Kristin Szakos said the council is “very excited to see it moving forward.”

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University stands by race-based admissions, Roberts says Fisher decision allows race-based admissions to continue for now; socioeconomics status serves as potential proxy measure, Ahmed says Michael Drash and Alia Sharif Senior Writers

Given recent legal trends across the United States, colleges and universities may soon be forced to conduct a race-neutral application process. The University currently uses race as one factor among many to make admissions decisions, but this may not be the case for long.

Supreme Court rulings have historically upheld a school's right to use race to create affirmative action policies for student admission, though the most recent challenge to the practice that reached the high court — Fisher v. The University of Texas — was sent back to a lower court for re-evaluation, signalling a possible forthcoming shift in the way these cases are decided.

Seven states have decided to eliminate race as a deciding factor in college and university applica-

tions, beginning with California in 1996. Other schools consider qualities besides race, such as income level, to obtain a diverse student population, but Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Gregory Roberts said that is not a perfect proxy for race.

At the University, applications do ask students for their race, though they are allowed to decline to answer. Roberts believes changing to a race-neutral applications would limit the University’s ability to create a diverse student body.

Third-year College student Hawa Ahmed, who has worked closely with the Admissions Outreach Office, said income could still be an effective measure to obtain diversity.

“If you recruit low income students, that takes care of race,” Ahmed said. “Socioeconomic class is something that a lot of people can learn from.”

If a race-neutral application process were adapted, the change would not affect the University’s graduate schools, as graduate applications are routed to faculty admission committees in specific departments and not to general admissions officers.

But recruitment might not be enough to create a diverse student body. The University has strong recruitment efforts with minorities, hosting recruitment weeks for Latino and African-American applicants each year, but ultimately many minority students reject admissions offers, Ahmed said. “[The admissions office] can try to recruit as many students as they want, but at the end of the day it is the student’s choice,” Ahmed said.

In the Fisher case, the justices ultimately decided the case was not ready for the Supreme Court. They ruled the Fifth Circuit Court, where the case was originally heard, had

not correctly applied strict scrutiny, a legal term relevant to how courts should weigh the government interest of diversity against the constitutional protection from racial discrimination, and ordered that Court to reexamine the case.

Politics Prof. David Klein said the decision did not present any new information, but said admissions officials worry the Court could soon require race-neutral admissions decisions. Four Supreme Court justices strongly oppose raceconscious admissions decisions, leaving Justice Anthony Kennedy as the swing vote in any decision, Klein said. Past court cases have already banned racial quotas, he added.

“You can take race into account, but you have to do it in a very openended way,” Klein said. “That’s part of what makes this so tricky.”

The Supreme Court has ruled that creating diversity is a legitimate

interest for universities, but that does not necessarily have to mean using race as a factor in admissions.

Klein said colleges and universities must show they have attempted to create diversity without using race as a factor before they are allowed to include race in the admissions process.

“If U.Va. were sued, they would have to explain what other ways they had tried [to assure diversity] without using race,” Klein said. “It’s not enough to say that [using race as a factor] the easiest way to [attain racial diversity].”

The discussion of race-neutral admissions policies is far from over, and will likely again emerge in the Supreme Court’s next batch of decisions. The Court has agreed to hear Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, which challenges a Michigan constitutional amendment banning the use of race in admissions decisions, in its next term.

FYJC elects chair, vice-chair; Kristek takes College rep slot

Connolly, Deshmukh praise broad FYJC member interests, seek growth, autonomy; Newest UJC committee member says previous work eases transition to judge role Joseph Liss

Senior Associate News Editor

The First Year Judiciary Committee elected first-year College students John Connolly and Sumedha Deshmukh as Chair and Vice-Chair of FYJC, the University Judiciary Committee announced Sunday.

Connolly said he hoped to learn about the UJC process from the Executive Committee, which includes the UJC Chair, Vice-Chairs and senior support staff, and improve FYJC’s work during the year.

“The goal is to learn from the example of the Executive Committee and senior leadership on UJC to try and become more autonomous as the year goes on and try and build

consensus [among FYJC members],” Connolly said.

Deshmukh spoke several times about the importance of considering each case and each student separately during trial.

“Whatever is best for the student in the specific case [is our focus],” Deshmukh said. “There are plenty of people who are exercising their best judgment.”

UJC fills vacancy: Last Sunday, the University Judiciary Council chose fourth-year College student Teddy Kristek to fill a vacant representative slot.

Kristek served for about two years as a counselor before assuming the representative role.

UJC representatives serve as judges and are responsible for run-

ning UJC trials and deciding sanctions.

UJC Chair David Ensey said he interviewed 15 candidates for the position and recommended Kristek for the job because of his ability to break down cases and explain the reasoning behind sanctions he decided on.

“Teddy’s interest in the position wasn’t driven by status but by the desire for service,” Ensey said.

“Teddy articulated very clearly that that service is both [to] the University community as a whole as well as to the student at the trial the UJC also needs to serve.”

Kristek said transitioning to his new role was easier because of his prior experience.

“It’s a lot easier because I know the logistics,” Kristek said. “I think

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The First-Year Judiciary Committee elected first-year College students John Connolly and Sumedha Deshmukh as Chair and Vice-Chair, the Judiciary Committee announced on Sunday.

that it’s easier for someone transitioning in house.”

UJC now has 24 of 25 representative slots filled — only one of

the two representative slots for the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences was filled through election last school year.

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The curious incident of the dog and the M.B.A. A dog’s success in earning an online business degree points to the potential for fraudulent practices in distance-learning programs

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London-based management consultant “Peter Smith” recently joined the ranks of the more than 110,000 alumni of the American University of London. He graduated from the for-profit online university with an M.B.A. It’s hard to say what consultants do, exactly. (A Google search for “What do consultants do?” yields 217 million hits.) But friends who know Pete say that his consulting knowledge is limited, at least for someone with a graduate business degree. Although Pete’s views on ball sports, meat texture and cuddling are finely nuanced, he lacks expertise in a host of other areas. This is because Pete is a dog.

To investigate the AUOL’s M.B.A. program, the BBC created a fake resume for Pete the pooch. BBC reporters gave the dog 15 years of made-up work experience and a degree from a UK university.

The AUOL requires that applicants submit photos of themselves. The BBC did not provide a photo, because the applicant was a dog.

The omission turned out to be no big hurdle for the clever canine. Four days after BBC reporters turned in Pete’s application, Pete received an email saying that his professional experience qualified him for an M.B.A. and that he did not have to complete any coursework. Once the AUOL

received his fee of 4,500 pounds (roughly $7,300), Pete would get his business degree.

This scandal is unlikely to send AUOL officials away with their tails between their legs. The online-learning institution is not accredited. It is not a British university, despite its name: to award British degrees, an institution must be recognized by Parliament. The AUOL is based in Saint Kitts and Nevis in the Caribbean.

The AUOL attests on its website that its students “work very hard” for their degrees. The school warns applicants: “If your intention is to “buy” a degree, beware! This university is not and has never been a degree mill.”

The BBC-sponsored canine’s success in earning a graduate degree makes for more than a piece of “weird news.” Amusing as the story is, it reminds us that online learning, like so many nascent higher-education movements, is a coin with (at least) two sides.

On the one hand, online learning — particularly massive open online courses — seems like a chance for universities, especially alreadyestablished ones, to extend their reach and rethink how they educate students. Proponents of online education, such as Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller, see the online-education world as a frontier rich with

possibility for improving pedagogical techniques and extending access to knowledge. Many higher-education leaders view forays into online learning as a 21st-century imperative. With such eminent schools as Stanford and MIT leading the charge, we can’t blame other institutions, such as the University, for wishing to join the grand experiment. In the University’s case, this has entailed putting forth blockbuster teachers like Politics Prof.

Larry Sabato to build the school’s MOOC brand.

On the other hand, online learning — as the curious incident of the dog and the M.B.A. shows — is more than a space for energy and innovation.

Online learning is also a territory ripe for corruption and fraudulent practices. The canine controversy reminds us that online courses and degree programs carry with them as many problems as they solve.

The main lesson we can take from Pete’s unexpected academic success is that a system of oversight is particularly crucial for distance-learning programs, if they are to attain legitimacy. If we accept that online learning is here to stay, the sooner we can develop sound accreditation models, the better. Yet we must not doggedly pursue online education without regard to the heightened potential for fraudulence that distance begets.

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The Cavalier Daily should refrain from releasing breaking news without adequate reporting Public Editor

While Virginia fans don’t have a lot of reasons to enjoy the current football season, I’ve been having a good time reading The Cavalier Daily’s coverage. Zack Bartee and Michael Eilbacher in particular are writing pieces that are both fun and informative. They’re also doing so in a way that doesn’t take it all too seriously. See for examples from this past weekend, “Watford, receivers let loose in loss” or “Georgia Tech rushes past Virginia, 35-25.” Both pieces have good flow and paint a good picture of the game and people involved in it.

Still missing some pieces In the article “Ecstasy encounters provoke questions in University community,” Allie Hardesty writes that “Discussion surrounding the drug Molly, a pure form of MDMA — an amphetamine often laced with unknown substances — have been front and center in the University community ever since the death of second-year College student Shelley Goldsmith.” If those discussions are taking place at the University, they’re not reflected in Cavalier Daily coverage. There hadn’t been an article in the Cavalier Daily that referred to either Goldsmith or ecstasy or molly in more than a month before Hardesty’s article in the Health & Science section. It seems like an issue that slipped off the radar.

While the article did contain helpful information about ecstasy, it would have been more effective with a more University-specific angle. As I wrote last week, there is a depth and breadth of knowledge across many domains at the University and the writing in The Cavalier Daily is often better when that knowledge is drawn upon. In this article the only U.Va.-specific information came via a video from Student Health Director Chris Holstege, who is also the medical director of toxicology for the University Hospital. This article doesn’t seem to have been timesensitive and could have been much more informative if there had been an actual interview with Holstege or someone else familiar with both the science and the realities at the University.

Digital vs. print I wonder whether the constant presence of the digital platform for publishing rushes pieces to press.

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For something like the article on ecstasy, there is no particular reason it needs to be published at a particular time. It was published online on Oct. 15 and in the newsmagazine on Oct. 21. There was plenty of time to talk to Holstege or someone else at the University who could speak to the issue of ecstasy use on the part of students.

It has only been a couple of months since the shift from daily print publication to twice weekly and it will certainly take time to find a new balance. Judging what needs to be published immediately versus what can wait until it is as thorough as it can be is difficult. That said, The Cavalier Daily should lean toward waiting, conducting interviews and providing as comprehensive a set of information as is possible to give before moving to publish a piece.

Reporting on a video instead of speaking with the person in question predefines the information that can be learned and doesn’t offer anything new to readers.

A simple link would provide the same information.

Sometimes breaking news or news that is time-sensitive will re-

That said, The Cavalier Daily should lean toward waiting, conducting interviews and providing as comprehensive a set of information as is possible to give before moving to publish a piece.

quire going to press with what is on hand in the moment. Then the charge is to build on that information and update the readers. When time allows, however, building the information should happen first.

Human Rights Commission A bit of disclosure by way of a personal note: Lital Firestone wrote about the Human Rights Commission newly appointed by the Charlottesville City Council.

I have been appointed to serve on that commission. I had no input on the article.

Christopher Broom is The Cavalier Daily’s public editor. He can be reached at publiceditor@cavalierdaily.com. or on Twitter @CDPublicEditor.

Placing out of learning

The University should not grant AP credit to incoming first years Ashley Spinks Opinion Columnist

It’s that time of year again — high school seniors are in the process of applying to college and/or panicking about the applications they have already submitted. A major concern that many high school students have is whether or not they have taken a sufficient number of Advanced Placement (AP) classes. Like most students at the University, I took a rigorous curriculum in high school, which included many AP classes. When I arrived at the University, I made the decision to retake most of my “APequivalent” classes, preferring the prospect of a repetitive or easy course to taking the credit and being overwhelmed by the upper-level classes. I quickly found, however, that my AP classes weren’t equivalent to their college-level counterparts at all. In my opinion, the Advanced Placement program is broken and somewhat corrupt, and the University should stop granting credits or exemption for AP tests altogether.

First, let me speak anecdotally, because my personal experience is largely to blame for my lack of faith in the AP system.

I think it is important to establish immediately that while I will criticize my AP classes for not accomplishing their purported goals, I certainly do not feel that my AP curriculum lacked value. I found many of my AP classes to be rigorous, challenging and taught by intelligent and inspiring teachers who had profound impacts on me both academically and personally. I do not regret my decision to enroll in the classes, because although they ultimately failed to prepare me for their college counterparts, they still imparted me with useful skills such as the ability to build student-teacher relationships, a strong work ethic and a certain tenacity.

There were marked differences between the expectations of my high school classes and my introductory college courses. Classes that have corresponding standardized tests such as AP classes are often criticized for merely “teaching to the test” or preferring breadth of information over true depth — meaning that students will often complete the class without having developed critical-thinking skills. If you had asked me upon graduation

whether I considered myself a critical thinker, I probably would have said that I did. Upon taking my first introductory chemistry exam, though, I realized that memorizing facts and diagrams wasn’t going to be enough to do well, which was shocking because it had been largely sufficient in high school. In my humanities classes the story was much the same. While in high school it had been enough to merely understand historical events,

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Classes that have corresponding standardized tests such as AP classes are often criticized for merely “teaching to the test” or preferring breadth of information over true depth — meaning that students will often complete the class without having developed critical-thinking skills.

political theories or important people independently of each other, in college the ability to synthesize many pieces of information into a greater storyline or historical context was mandatory — and I found that my skills were lacking.

Besides the fact that the skills necessary to succeed in AP classes differ from those necessary to succeed in introductory college classes, I found that the curriculums were not analogous. I covered a vast amount of material in AP Chemistry, but it simply was not the same as the information covered in general chemistry at the University. I have found time and time again that the understanding of historical events that I gathered from AP World History and AP Government is shallow or insufficient as well. My high school experience was not worthless — I obviously learned a lot and grew significantly as a person and a student. That said, I don’t think I learned the same information that introductory courses at the University have taught me.

Thus, to grant me (or anyone else) credits would be misleading and undeserved.

Of course, anecdotal evidence alone is not enough to

validate my argument. The AP program is problematic for a number of reasons. High schools often have an “opendoor” policy for the AP classes — meaning they allow anyone to enroll regardless of their academic qualifications — because their own reputation is based largely on the number of students enrolled in these classes, rather than their actual success or eventual test scores. Almost 40 percent of high school students are enrolled in at least one AP class, which makes the distinction of being an “AP student” virtually meaningless, anyway. Colleges should stop stressing the AP curriculum and look more deeply into students’ applications during admissions. Rather than valuing a large number of AP classes, admissions counselors should focus on the depth of a student’s curriculum, their grades, the clarity of their writing and the cohesiveness and dedication level of their extracurricular pursuits. These factors are already considered to some extent, of course. But ultimately, I would argue they are more important and tell you more about a student’s preparedness for college than standardized test scores from AP classes and SATs. In closing I will cite my favorite study that I’ve come across when arguing against the AP system. This year, Dartmouth College stopped issuing AP credit completely, even for students who had earned fives on their exams. They justified this decision with the following study: they administered the final exam of their introductory psychology class to the more than 100 admitted students who earned a score of 5 on the AP Psychology exam. Of those students, less than 10 percent passed Dartmouth’s exam.

The material simply wasn’t the same. It was abundantly clear that the ability to score highly on the AP exam did not translate to guaranteed success in a Dartmouth course.

Our University should follow Dartmouth’s lead and stop valuing AP test scores as well.

We should stop granting credit because it seems that doing so is an empty or even fraudulent gesture.

Ashley Spinks is an Opinion columnist for The Cavalier Daily. Her columns run Mondays.

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Debt valley The national debt is the most pressing issue facing young people today Guest Columnist

I can’t speak with certainty about all college students, but I think it’s safe to say that most of us are worried about what will happen after we graduate, since many will face crippling student loans and a dismal job market. Currently, student loan debt amounts to about $27,000 on average per person, and the unemployment rate for young people remains in the double digits, about 11 percent.

While students are concerned about their own debt and unemployment, but many don’t realize they should be even more concerned with the long-term national debt. The long-term national debt is the most important issue facing young people today because when combined with the economic challenges we already face, we are destined for a future more dire than our current situation.

The true national debt, which includes the present value of unfunded future obligations and liabilities of the federal government, as well as interest payments on the debt, is even worse. It stands at $200 trillion, 11 times greater than the reported national debt of $17 trillion. As these unfunded promises grow, investments in areas such as education, research and infrastructure will be negatively affected and are projected to hit their lowest relative level on record by 2023. Public investments drive economic growth and create jobs, which is what our generation needs.

But even if we are able to find jobs, the Economic Policy Institute reports that graduates who enter the workforce in poor economic times can expect to make lower wages for the next 10 to 15 years compared to those that finished school during good economic times. This will make it even more difficult for young people to pay

the tab we are being handed.

If Washington keeps kicking the can down the road by not addressing this problem, frankly, our generation will get screwed.

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Elizabeth Brightwell

If we don’t come together and demand a solution to these problems, we are set to become the first generation that will inherit a lower quality of life than previous generations.

Investments in our future (education, research, infrastructure, etc.) will hit their lowest relative level on record by 2023, as interest payments on the debt approach $1 tril-

lion a year. By 2031, every penny of federal revenue will just be enough to cover so-called mandatory spending (primarily entitlements), meaning spending on everything else must be borrowed –– such as the entire Department of Defense.

By 2033, the Social Security trust fund will run totally dry and the program will only be able to pay a fraction of its benefits. In sum, if we don’t address this problem soon, we’ll be left with more debt, higher taxes, fewer benefits and a lower standard of living.

In the Oct. 15 edition of The Cavalier Daily, a lead editorial titled “A teachable moment” stressed the importance of dialogue surrounding the national debt. The editorial discussed a letter released on Oct. 9 by a coalition of education groups. This letter stressed the importance of not accepting government dysfunction as normal. According to these six higher-education groups, the key to fighting today’s political envi-

ronment is encouraging dialogue and in turn, changing attitudes.

If we don’t come together and demand a solution to these problems we are set to become the first generation that will inherit a lower quality of life than previous generations. This is unacceptable, which is why I encourage you to attend the conversation between David Walker, former U.S. Comptroller General, and Darden Professor, Mary Margaret Frank, at Garrett Hall on Oct. 28. The event is part of the “Generational Equity Tour.”

The tour is organized by The Can Kicks Back campaign, a non-partisan group of young people that advocates for a fiscally sustainable and generationally equitable federal budget. Together we can make our voices heard and fight for our future.

Elizabeth Brightwell is a secondyear Batten student and a member of Up to Us.

Statistically speaking

Majors such as politics, neuroscience and global development studies — and others — should include a statistics requirement Viewpoint Columnist

Arthur Benjamin, a mathematics professor at Harvey Mudd College, delivered a TED talk in 2009 in which he challenged the educational approach to mathematics in high school.

Benjamin expressed his dissatisfaction with calculus as the culmination of high school mathematics. Benjamin suggested a new pedagogical paradigm for high schools. Probability and statistics, he contends, should receive more emphasis as they are more worthwhile and pragmatic to the average American.

Calculus is a beautiful branch of mathematics. A language through which we describe change, it’s had a profound effect on my understanding of the natural world. However, for the average person who works outside of economics, engineering or the sciences, calculus carries little relevance in life. “Few people actually use calculus in a conscious, meaningful way,” Benjamin argued.

Statistics — the discipline of risk, variation and drawing conclusions from data — permeates our lives to a much greater extent than calculus. Making data-driven decisions and inter-

preting uncertainty are essential skills for every American.

While calculus and statistics are not mutually exclusive, statistics deserves much more attention than it receives.

This is a change that must also be made in higher education. While several majors such as commerce, sociology and environmental thought and practice already require an introductory statistical analysis class, there are other majors that should mandate students to take at least one semester of statistics. Majors such as government, foreign affairs, neuroscience and global development studies should create a statistics requirement.

In addition to political sampling and polling, data-driven policymaking and policy analysis demand a solid understanding of statistics. Misleading or inaccurate statistics pervade political literature. For this reason, students in the University’s politics department must attain a certain level of statistical literacy.

Currently, an introductory statistical analysis class is not necessary for a neuroscience major. But in order to apply for and declare a major in neuroscience, one must complete one semester of single-variable calculus. I see the merits of taking

calculus before majoring in neuroscience; however, completing introduction to statistical analysis would be a much valuable for a neuroscience major. A study published in Nature earlier this year revealed that much of neuroscience research may be unreliable because of errors in statistical methodologies. Research depends heavily on statistical sampling and test validity. Completing coursework in statistics would complement one’s understanding of neuroscience to a greater degree than calculus would.

Add the global development studies major and global public health minor to the list of University degrees that should require an introduction to statistical analysis class. Statistical falsehoods exist in global development studies and global public health just as they exist in politics and neuroscience. Understanding statistics is critical to analyzing quantitative patterns in global development and public health; hence, any global development studies or global public health student should complete a course in statistical analysis.

Even students who plan to attend medical school should take a course in statistics. Because a greater number of medical schools are abandoning the two

semesters of calculus requirement in favor of the general two

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Nazar Aljassar

Statistics — the discipline of risk, variation and drawing conclusions from data — permeates our lives to a much greater extent than calculus. Making data-driven decisions and interpreting uncertainty are essential skills for every American. While calculus and statistics are not mutually exclusive, statistics deserves much mor attention than it receives.

semesters of mathematics requirement, students who hope to become medical doctors should consider taking statistics. Clinical research and epidemiology cannot be fully appreciated without a foundation in statistics.

Prospective law school students should also think about taking statistics. Courtroom statistics are powerful tools for prosecutors and defense attorneys. Legal subjects such as anti-discrimination law, mass

tort, and the death penalty can be approached using probability and statistics.

I’m sure you get the idea by now. An understanding of probability and statistics enhances the study and pursuit of nearly every academic discipline. Benjamin’s assertion that statistics are more valuable to high school graduates than calculus holds true for college students.

Certain departments, such as politics, should consider adding introductory statistical analysis to their major requirements. Programs that mandate single-variable calculus, such as neuroscience, should consider replacing calculus with introductory statistical analysis.

Even the student who does not know the major or career path he or she wishes to pursue should consider taking a statistics course. “If all of the American citizens knew about probability and statistics, we wouldn’t be in the economic mess that we’re in today,” said Benjamin toward the end of his TED Talk.

While I’m not as optimistic as Benjamin, I agree that the average citizen would greatly benefit from an understanding in probability and statistics.

Nazar Aljassar is a Viewpoint columnist for The Cavalier Daily.

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Betting on the game Buying a share of a professional athlete is a pointless pursuit

Sports fans, more often than not, are crazy. We spend hundreds upon hundreds of dollars on sports gear, autographs and tickets without batting an eye. We scream and yell at the television, and form fantasy leagues just so we can find new ways to root for specific players. So it would only seem logical that the company Fantex has recently started offering trading stock in Houston Texans running back Arian Foster.

For a mere $10, you can now own a piece of a professional athlete — a piece of his future income, that is.

At first, I questioned the ethical nature of this idea. To my knowledge, this is the first time that investors can invest in a person. A living, breathing human being. Some people may invest in a company because of an owner or CEO — e.g. Mark Zuckerberg — but at the end of the day, it is Facebook Inc. not Zuckerberg Inc. that they are investing in.

Fantex brokerage services made the decision that they would pay running back Arian Foster $10 mil-

lion in exchange for 20 percent of all future NFL-related earning including contracts and endorsements. It seems almost absurd. If I want to support a company I have stock in, I can buy its products. If I want to support Arian Foster, there’s no product to buy; I can only root for him and hope he cashes in a nice, expensive contract in a few years.

However, there’s something to this new trading stock plan that is being overlooked. Trading stock in a professional athlete opens up a whole new market of possibilities. If sports fans are willing to pay money for fantasy leagues, nose-bleed game tickets or silly memorabilia, why wouldn’t they be willing to buy stock in their favorite sports star?

Hell, I don’t care if Tom Brady is 36 years old; if Fantex offered stock in him today I’d snatch it up as fast as I could. The question is will other players be willing to follow in Arian Foster’s footsteps. Could there be RG3, Kevin Durant or Peyton Manning stock too? There certainly is a market waiting to be explored or exploited.

Many writers have already stated that buying Arian Foster stock may

be risky or flat-out dumb because of the numerous risks involved. I am going to have to agree with them.

Even though people invest in stupid things sometimes, it’s better, for now, to stay away from Arian Foster stock, simply because it is a bad investment. Arian Foster is 27 years old and in the second year of a five-year $43.5 million contract.

This means he won’t have any sort of lucrative contract for three more years, and by then he’ll be 30 years old. Unlike quarterbacks or kickers, running backs get too banged up to play till they’re 35 or 40, often retiring much sooner. So by no means is Arian Foster stock any type of blue chip or long-term investment.

The risks don’t end there. Arian Foster could, at any moment, go down with a serious injury, further jeopardizing his future income. It just so happens that Foster just got injured in his game this past week.

Another complication is that there simply may not be enough investors to accumulate the $10 million to pay Arian Foster, and the stock may be dropped altogether.

I recognize that there are risks to buying any sort of stock, especially

after the 2008 financial crisis. Yet the chances of Arian Foster getting injured or retiring in the next five years or so are much greater than the chances of a high-end company like Target or Proctor and Gamble going out of business in that same time pe-

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Even though people invest in stupid things sometimes, it’s better, for now, to stay away from Arian Foster stock, simply because it is a bad investment.

riod. A physical company’s stock is constantly changing whereas a professional athlete’s may only change a handful of times in his/her career based on new contracts or endorsements.

Despite injuries, retirement or possible intervention by the NFL, there are ways that professional athletes may be profitable. If Fantex

is smart, they will go after rookies for their next project. Rookies like Jadeveon Clowney and De’Anthony Thomas have endless potential for future contracts, and 20 percent of their future earnings would be worth much more than $10 million.

These stocks would probably cost more than $10 per share, but this would be countered by the potential for lucrative, long-term contract and endorsements.

As long as we’re staying on the prospect of investing in people, I think the most profitable alternative to professional athletes would be celebrities. No injuries, more longterm, and more chances to cash in big. My Leonardo DiCaprio stock wouldn’t stop growing. I can dream, but the reality is most celebrities are probably above selling their souls to the Fantex stock industry. For now, it’s only Arian Foster, and I can only hope that one day Tom Brady’s or other influential athletes’ stock will become available.

Jared Fogel is a Viewpoint columnist for The Cavalier Daily.

The truth hurts

The record must be set straight on the government shutdown and Charlottesville’s sitting congressman Guest Columnist

Last week second-year College student and Virginia Young Democrats Political Director Jarrod Nagurka authored an article published

by The Cavalier Daily rebuking Charlottesville’s sitting Congressman Robert Hurt for voting against the compromise measure which ended a 16-day government shutdown and blaming the shutdown entirely on Republicans. Jarrod’s opinion reflects the common narrative portrayed by the media and every card-carrying member of the Democratic party, but it is not at all an accurate depiction of recent events.

Both parties share responsibility for the government shutdown and for the decade of irresponsible deficit spending that precipitated it.

Since retaking the House of Representatives in 2010, however, Republicans have sought compromise after compromise to rein in government spending while keeping our safety net sustainable for current and future generations. After numerous attempts to defund the health care law which a sweeping Democratic majority passed without even listening to Republican concerns (President Obama had notably chastised McCain when he raised

a suggestion during the discussion, reminding him that the election was over and he lost), Republicans offered numerous compromises to reform the vastly unpopular law and make it more amenable to the American people. In the 10 days before the government shutdown, Republicans offered four separate proposals to fund the government and avert a shutdown. Only the first of these proposals would have actually defunded the unpopular law.

Rebuffed in this effort, Republicans subsequently returned to the drawing board and offered three consecutive compromises, each yielding a little more to the Democrats. The final proposal would have delayed the individual mandate for one year and cancelled the bill’s subsidies for lawmakers, but even though the White House had already offered waivers and delays to corporations and unions, they refused to give the same relief to the American people and would not even sacrifice the special subsidies they had voted to give to themselves and their staff.

Throughout the duration of the government shutdown, the Republican House of Representatives voted to minimize the consequences of the shutdown and give the American people relief by passing resolutions to restore funding to the National Institutes of Health, National Park Service, the government of

D.C., veterans benefits, the National Guard, FEMA, the Food and Drug Administration, the Federal Aviation Administration, border security and nuclear weapons management. Congressman Hurt voted for

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Peter Finocchio

Both parties share responsibility for the government shutdown and for the decade of irresponsible deficit spending that precipitated it.

each of these resolutions because he does not believe the American people deserve to be hurt by Congress’s failure to compromise. Harry Reid, however, refused to even bring these measures to a vote and President Obama vowed he would veto any piecemeal funding resolutions.

It is truly ironic, given the Democrats’ all-or-nothing strategy and refusal to pass even the most uncontroversial funding allocations until Republicans gave them their unconditional surrender, that they accused Republicans of holding the American people hostage.

It was in this context that Congressman Hurt voted against the final “compromise” that even the

New York Times affirms makes “virtually no concessions to the Republicans” after having supported every failed attempt by the House of Representatives to lighten the shutdown’s burden on millions of struggling Americans. Far from “playing politics with people’s paychecks,” as Mr. Nagurka accuses him, Congressman Hurt voted to restore the paychecks of federal workers and the millions of Americans who were waiting on money they had already been promised and were relying on. Nagurka accuses Hurt of “hyper-partisan gamesmanship designed to prevent a primary challenge from the right.” Congressman Hurt and his colleagues, however, were not the ones in front of the cameras every day telling Americans “we will not negotiate” and withholding funds for cancer patients and benefits for veterans. Mr. Nagurka’s recollection of the recent unpleasantness in Washington is fuzzy and distorted.

But it isn’t so much that he is ignorant. It’s just that he knows so many things that aren’t so.

Congressman Hurt was elected to Congress by a bitterly divided electorate to a government tainted by ideological vitriol. Yet he has consistently been one of the rare voices for bipartisanship and compromise. Throughout his two terms in the House of Representatives, his

legislative record has been one of bipartisan job creation. Each of his major initiatives has had a Democratic co-sponsor including a bill that critically reforms Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, another that reduces unnecessary mandates in the Dodd-Frank Act, a bill to provide relief for Fifth District farmers from stringent dust standards and a measure to allow farmers and foresters to preserve the natural resources they depend on. The first campaign I volunteered for in Virginia was Robert Hurt’s first race in 2010 against Democratic incumbent Tom Perriello. One thing I have always admired about Robert Hurt is how down-to-earth he is. While other politicians simply humor voters when they express concerns, Hurt genuinely listens. I was proud to support Hurt in his first race for Congress and in his reelection last year. Fifth District voters are fortunate to have a representative in Washington who always votes with their interests in mind and reaches across the aisle to get the job done.

Peter Finocchio is a fourth-year College student, vice chair of campaigns for the College Republicans and parliamentarian for the College Republican Federation of Virginia.

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U.Va. Medical Transport System receives accreditation Monika Fallon & John Pappas Staff Writers

For Charlottesville residents, the name Pegasus brings to mind something completely different than a mythical winged horse. Pegasus, the University Health System’s emergency transport helicopter, along with the Newborn Emergency Transport System and Medic V ambulances make up the UVA Medical Transport System, which serves 6500 patients per year. This medical communication network received a three-year national accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Systems this summer, an honor given to only 161 services in the country, as of October 19.

Pegasus, founded in 1984, is staffed at all times by a three-person crew, — one pilot, one medic and one nurse. The staff is made up of 17 medics and nurses and four pi-

lots who rotate through shifts in order to be on call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. What many people do not know, however, is that there is a ground transport equivalent, Pegasus Ground — an ambulance that has been specially designed for “critical care.” Pegasus Ground staffs one registered nurse and one critical care paramedic who are responsible for critical care patients from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily. “[Pegasus is] bringing critical care medicine to where it’s needed,” said Mike Wasilko, Pegasus supervisor. “we want to be the best clinicians out there [and] we will make sure we can do it safely and effectively.”

Tim Hodge, Pegasus clinical operations manager, said the Newborn Emergency Transport System handles at least one case a day and approximately 30 per month. NETS, constantly equipped with at least one neonatal transport container and enough space for two, transports infants in critical condition from Char-

lottesville and neighboring counties to the U.Va Newborn and Pediatric Intensive Care Units. NETS, Pegasus and Medic V, the ALS/BLS (advanced life support/basic life support) transport, together house around 80 employees — from nurses and medics to pilots and mechanics.

According to a Health System press release, the medical transport system was especially praised for its training protocols and GPS-assisted approaches to the University and seven other local hospitals. This accreditation not only allows the University to be recognized, but also allows the transport system to make necessary changes that will increase efficiency, said Sarah Ferrell, manager of emergency communications and special event medical management. “Obtaining accreditation was a huge milestone for us, but the progress that our departments made during the application process was also something to be extremely proud of”, Ferrell said.

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Pegasus, an emergency transport helicopter, is part of a fleet of University Hospital emergency transport vehicles recently accredited by the Commission of Accreditation of Medical Transport Systems.

Health system makes a quick recovery New post-op procedure allows patients to leave hospital in three days or fewer Megan Thornberry Staff Writer

The University Health System has introduced a new procedure that changes the way patients recover from certain surgeries. In the past, going into the hospital for colorectal surgery meant staying in the hospital for five or six days. But with a new procedure the University Health System has introduced, patients return home in three days

or fewer.

What does it take to get a patient who’s just had surgery on their colon up and out of the hospital in three days? An overhaul of the method used for the last 50 years and a bit of common sense.

Traditionally, colorectal surgery patients were put on morphine drips. And while morphine is a fairly standard painkiller in hospitals around the world, it poses some serious problems for patients recovering from colon surgery, as well as other surgeries that affect the gener-

ally sensitive digestive tract.

“Opioids [like morphine] are notorious for causing constipation," said Asst. Surgery Prof. Dr. Traci Hedrick, a colorectal surgeon.

"After surgery, this can result in an ileus, in which the bowels are basically paralyzed, and the person can’t eat or hydrate themselves for about five days.”

The new method replaces opioids with non-narcotic pain killers such as acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol and Midol.

In addition to allowing patients to

eat following the surgery, the new medications may actually be more effective at controlling pain.

Dr. Robert Thiele, assistant professor of anesthesiology and biomedical engineering, brought this new method from Duke University, where he was recently a fellow.

“When I came back, I talked to [Hedrick] about implementing [this method], because it mostly involves colorectal patients, and she’d been looking for a grant,” Thiele said.

“She didn’t get the grant, but we decided to go for it anyway.”

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The move away from opioids combined with the fact that patients are now allowed to have sports drinks up until two hours before and immediately after surgery, reduces the need for patients to be connected to an IV drip.

This tactic allows patients to be up and moving around much sooner. The day after surgery, they are now required to spend six hours

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Do rivalries affect us in a positive or negative manner?

Meghan Khosla Staff Writer

Do you ever find yourself contemplating the psychology of the U.Va.-Virginia Tech rivalry?

Just ask Arts & Sciences graduate student David Reinhard about it.

Working alongside Asst. Public Policy and Psychology Prof. Ben Converse, Reinhard conducts research on how rivalries shape and change our behavior.

Reinhard specifically looks at

how motivation and drive change as we compete against rival or non-rival competitors, and how this can affect our performance on tasks. Though there is ample research on competition generally, he said he was drawn to this topic by the general lack of rivalry research in psychological literature.

“Despite the prevalence of rivalries in a variety of domains (athletics, academics, business, art, etc.), there is little known about how rivalries differ from regular competitions and how

these differences can influence our behaviors,” Reinhard said in an email.

Through his experiment-based research, Reinhard has found that thinking of a rival can increase an individual's performance of simple tasks, but it can also decrease performance on tasks requiring deliberate thinking.

These results are based on the performance level of the subject when he is focused on a non-rival competitor. “We have found that rivalries trigger an action-oriented style of goal-pursuit,” Reinhard

said. “[For instance], when given the opportunity to complete a practice round before being tested, participants thinking about a rival competitor were more likely to skip the practice round and go directly to being tested.”

These findings have implications beyond that of task performance, Reinhard said, suggesting that the data indicates subjects are driven by the direct relational components of rivalry, rather than the pressure or aggressiveness of general competition.

Reinhard is also studying how

representation of rivals and nonrivals influence our actions — for instance, whether visual representations — mascots, logos and the like — change our motivations based on whether or not they represent rivals.

“Bringing to mind the mental representations of rivals may automatically activate the related relational components that in turn trigger competitive behaviors and motivational patterns, even when there is no direct competition present or even mentioned,” he said.

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POST-OP University status as teaching hospital allows flexibility, creativity Continued from page 9 out of bed the day after the procedure and eight hours the following day — with a great deal of assistance provided by hospital staff. By reducing the amount of time spent in bed, the new methods also reduce costs by around $2000.

“If a patient goes home sooner, it costs the hospital less, costs the patient less and they get back to work

sooner,” Thiele said.

Since the actual surgical procedures will remain the same, there should be no change in insurance coverage, Thiele said.

Thiele and Hedrick say the University's program is probably only the third institution in the country to implement this type of procedure, following the Duke University Hospital and the Mayo Clinic.

“It’s vastly different than the way we … have taken care of patients

for the last 50 some years,” Hedrick said.

New procedures typically take about 10 years to be adopted by the medical community at large, Hedrick said, because when lives are on the line, people tend to stick to “tried and true” methods.

Thiele credits the Health System’s ability to adopt and adapt to new methods to the fact that it is a school as well as a hospital, meaning it is constantly welcoming new peo-

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ple and new information so as not to teach its students outdated material.

“Most physicians don’t work at teaching hospitals,” Thiele said. “If you are an ER doctor in Culpeper, you don’t have residents, you don’t have medical students. If you work in private practice, you either have to spend your personal time looking new things up or wait for a younger colleague to be hired.”

Colorectal surgery is an increasingly necessary procedure across

the country, Hedrick said, with colon cancer coming in as the third leading type of cancer in the United States. Other colon conditions, such as irritable bowel syndrome and diverticulitis tend to affect younger people as well.

Although this method is still new, it is possible similar recovery methods could be used on patients recovering from other gastrointestinal and orthopedic surgeries in the future.

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Yellow Jackets sting Cavaliers 35-25 Despite stellar outings from Watford, receivers, missed opportunities doom squad to fifth consecutive defeat and score on some of those opportunities,” head coach Mike London said. “Some of the players had career days, but you Georgia Tech seemed willing would rather have the W. There to hand Virginia a win Saturday. were some good things that hapTurning over the ball five times, pened out there, but not enough the Yellow Jackets gave the Cav- good things that allowed us to aliers opportunities drive after win.” drive to capitalize, almost daring The passing game had been them to take the lead. Virginia, plagued by miscommunications however, turned those five turn- and missed passes throughout overs into zero points. the season, but it looked much An early touchdown gave the improved Saturday. Watford Yellow Jackets the lead, and Vir- looked as comfortable Saturday ginia was never able to mount as he has all year, throwing for enough of a comeback. De- 376 yards and two touchdowns spite record performances from on 43-for-61 passing. Both his sophomore quarterback David 43 completions and his 61 atWatford, senior wide receiver tempts were Virginia records.

Tim Smith and junior receiver Smith had 151 yards on 10 reDarius Jennings, the Cavaliers ceptions and Jennings had 119 were constantly playing yards and two touchdowns on from behind in a 35- 13 receptions. They were the 25 loss. first duo in Virginia history to “It is very disap- each have over 10 receptions in pointing to have a game. had five turnVirginia went into the game overs and not hoping to run a more balanced be able to capi- offense, but eventually the team talize found passing to be more effective. The Cavaliers had just 68 net rushing yards in the game, and had only two rushing attempts in the entire fourth quarter.

“I’ve never thrown 60 times,” Watford said. “The most I’ve thrown is maybe 40. I didn’t really know, I was just in the moment, in the flow of the game … That was not part of the plan. I was just going with it and just ready to win.”

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sudden, Virginia was down 7-0, but the defense eventually settled down, holding the Yellow Jackets off the scoreboard for the rest of the quarter.

“It’s definitely tough for the young guys,” senior defensive tackle Jake Snyder said. “You try to tell them in practice, the coaches try to tell them, but it is impossible to replicate that speed in practice … One little mistake can lead to a big play, like you saw. Once everyone gets a feel for it, it is a different ball game.”

Virginia drove into Georgia Tech’s red zone four times in the first half, but the Cavaliers were only able to come away with 10 points, three on a 28-yard field goal from junior Alec Vozenilek and seven from a six-yard run by junior tailback Kevin Parks.

After junior safety Anthony Harris intercepted redshirt freshman quarterback Justin Thomas with 43 seconds left in the half, Virginia looked to get a score, down 14-10.

The team drove to the Georgia Tech 14-yard line, and a penalty gave them possession on the two-yard line. Parks tried twice to punch it in, but he was stuffed on the goal line to end the half.

“I take that one on myself,” Parks said. “It was a short yardage situation and you have to plug it in. The opportunity was there and I have to get it in no matter what.”

Georgia Tech struck first after halftime, as junior tailback Zach Laskey found the end zone on a four-yard rush to grant the Yellow Jackets a 21-10 advantage. Laskey and senior tailbacks Robert Godhigh and David Sims each had more than 100 yards rushing on the day, and

the team overall had almost 400 yards on the ground. Virginia narrowed the lead to 21-17 as Watford found Jennings for a five-yard touchdown early in the fourth quarter, but Georgia Tech jumped out again on the next drive, as Godhigh broke off a 65yard touchdown run.

The two teams traded punts, but Virginia got the ball back down 28-17 with 6:34 on the clock. Watford used a barrage of short passes to drive into the Yellow Jackets’ red zone, and then found Jennings again for a 12yard touchdown. After a successful two-point conversion, Virginia trailed 28-25. The defense looked for a stop on the next drive, but Sims instead broke through for a 29-yard touchdown to seal the 35-25 win.

“At times, we played well defensively, and at times we didn’t,” London said. “It is easy to try to simulate the triple option and adjust to the speed of the game until you are up against a team that does it all the time and does it well. We were not up to game speed with that style of offense.”

The loss is Virginia’s fifth straight, but what is perhaps most frustrating for the players is the lack of any immediate pattern. Against Pittsburgh, it was a lack of offense. Against Ball State, it was turnovers and penalties. Against Maryland, it was red zone woes. Against Duke, it was a disastrous second half. Against Georgia Tech, it was missed opportunities and big plays.

“It’s incredibly frustrating, just because we know how good of a team we have,” Snyder said.

“We know the talent we have, we know the schemes we have are in place for us to win, and we just haven’t put it all together.”

Watford, receivers let loose in loss The story is played out. Every week Virginia football finds a different way to lose. It happened again Saturday against Georgia Tech, as the Cavaliers fell 35-25 in spite of a plus-4 turnover margin.

So we aren’t going to talk about that this week.

At Alumni Hall before the game, legendary former Virginia coach George Welsh, the winningest coach in program history, spoke about the game against the Yellow Jackets and what he believes are the root causes of Virginia’s many problems. One of the more interesting things he mentioned was how his teams had a rule on offense: going deep at least once per quarter.

I’m not sure if coach Mike London and offensive coordina-

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tor Steve Fairchild were also at Welsh’s talk before the game, but

if so, they seemed to take his message to heart.

Fairchild showed little hesitation in letting David Watford air the ball out against Georgia Tech.

Watford attempted 61 passes and completed 43 of them, shattering Matt Schaub's school records in each category.

“Some of it was just a function of playing from behind,” Watford said. “We needed points, we had to score, so whatever coach was calling I was going to do it.

I didn’t realize I threw so many passes, I was just going with the flow.”

So what? Watford is on track to become the next laughingstock quarterback of the Texans?

Damned to throw pick sixes for all eternity? Possibly, but I digress.

The Cavaliers tested Georgia Tech deep early and often. They may not have hit on all or even most of their attempts, but the important part was that they were trying, right?

It led to a career day for Watford’s wideouts. Darius Jennings and Tim Smith — both former starters relegated to second string roles — combined to become the first Cavalier receiver tandem to catch 10 or more passes in the same game, with 13 and 10, respectively.

Jennings, who hadn’t scored a touchdown since the season-

opener against Brigham Young, hauled in a pair of scores and 119 yards, while Smith finished with a career-best 151 yards.

“I had some success here early in my career — I played as a freshman, I led the team in yards last year,” Jennings said. “Just for me, to be put in that position, it forced me to go back to my roots — go back to working hard. And I haven’t been able to showcase that out on the field the past few weeks. But just for me to get that chance… it was definitely a great feeling.”

Watford also benefited from

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Overtime goal powers No. 1 Virginia past Florida State Steinlage’s 91st minute strike caps 1-0 victory against third-ranked nemesis; win secures school’s first ever regular season conference title Ryan Taylor Associate Editor

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Teammates celebrate with senior midfielder Annie Steinlage (number 10 above) after her first goal as a Cavalier clinched the team’s enthralling victory against Florida State.

In front of a record crowd of 3,894 at Klöckner Stadium on Sunday, a golden goal from senior Annie Steinlage lifted the No. 1 Virginia women’s soccer team to a victory against No. 3 Florida State and the team's first ever ACC regular-season title.

As expected, the Cavaliers (180-0, 12-0-0 ACC) and the Seminoles (14-1-3, 9-1-2 ACC) were locked in a defensive struggle for the entirety of the game. The two squads have combined for 22 shutouts this season, and Sunday’s match met expectations. Virginia was able to muster 14 shots but put just five on Florida State’s goal, while not allowing a single shot on their own.

“It was a different style of play today,” coach Steve Swanson said.

“We’re coming off of North Carolina who throws a lot of pressure at you, but this game was very tactical. They have some big center backs and a big back four and there wasn’t much space behind them because they’re good at closing it off.”

The two teams played much of the first half in the center of the field, fiercely battling for ball control and combining for seven hard fouls in the half. Virginia had the only legitimate scoring opportunity early, with sophomore forward Makenzy Doniak ringing a shot off the post in the ninth minute.

From there, both teams settled into their compact defenses, allowing no balls to come through the middle of the field. All of Virginia’s chances in the half came off crosses from the wings that did not truly threaten the Florida State keeper.

“It was one of those games where you have to be patient and

for our kids it can be tough to do that,” Swanson said. “They’re just a good team so they don’t give you too many chances.”

The game opened up significantly after the half and Virginia was consistently able to attack deep in Florida State’s defensive third. Several Cavaliers were able to get behind the stingy Seminole defense for quality chances but were turned away each time by senior goalkeeper Kelsey Wys. Virginia earned five corner kicks in the second half, but Wys and company were able to easily clear the ball on each of the attempts.

Florida State’s offense came to life in the second half as well, and the Seminoles had extended periods of possession in the attacking third. Despite that smart passing and efficient ball handling, the

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Cavs stun Fighting Irish, Volleyball nets conference victory extend unbeaten streak

With team alumnae in attendance, squad ousts Notre Dame 3-1 to reach .500 in ACC play Peter Nance

The No. 23 Virginia men’s soccer team traveled to South Bend, Ind. Saturday afternoon for its most daunting test of the year: a road game against unbeaten No. 2 Notre Dame. The Cavaliers decisively passed the examination, swashbuckling their way to a 2-0 upset of the Fighting Irish in the first game between the teams as ACC rivals.

Virginia (7-3-4, 3-2-4 ACC) extended its undefeated streak to 10 games to continue its slow and steady turnaround from a 1-3 start to the season. Sophomore forward Darius Madison scored twice in a five-minute stretch spanning the first and second halves, and redshirt sophomore goalkeeper Jeff Gal made two saves in the back-45 to seal the victory against the conference’s top-ranked team.

Virginia won a classic matchup of offense against defense. The Cavaliers, who entered the game 11th in the NCAA in goals per game, became the first team this year to tally more than one score against the Fighting Irish (8-1-5, 5-1-3 ACC), whose staunch defense ranked ninth in the country in goals allowed per game.

Madison’s two goals pushed Virginia’s season total to 30 in 14 games, eclipsing last year’s figure of 29 scores in 21 contests.

The Cavaliers improved to 4-0 all-time against Notre Dame

in the first game between the two on the Fighting Irish’s home field.

Virginia used just one reserve in the game, and the defense held senior forward Harrison Shipp, Notre Dame’s leading scorer, to one shot in 90 minutes.

Virginia will play UNC Greensboro Tuesday in the first of three home games to conclude the regular season.

—compiled by Matthew Morris

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Sophomore Darius Madison recorded his fourth and fifth goals of the season Saturday afternoon to help Virginia vanquish Notre Dame 2-0.

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With a number of past players in attendance for Homecomings weekend, the Virginia volleyball team defeated conference foe Notre Dame 3-1 Sunday afternoon in Charlottesville. The team celebrated getting a win for their former teammates by singing the Good Ol’ Song on the court with them after the match.

“It means a lot [to win in front of the former players],” freshman Haley Kole said. “We had a ton of alumni here today, and they were just so proud of what we’ve done and the work that we’ve done to get to this point now. We just want to keep working hard and make them happy.”

Virginia (12-10, 5-5 ACC) now has consecutive ACC wins for the first time since 2011. The first W came this past Wednesday, when the Cavaliers defeated Virginia Tech, 3-1, to notch their first victory in the series since 2009.

These victories come on the heels of two 3-0 losses last weekend, after which head coach Dennis Hohenshelt had some strong words on the team’s performance.

Sunday, he could hardly be happier.

“I’m pretty harsh with them from the get-go,” Hohenshelt said.

“By Sunday I’d forgotten about it.

We go to work and we work on the things we’re supposed to do. They

know how I felt about it, but I don’t hold it against them for the rest of the week. For them to bounce back like they did Wednesday and then for them to continue playing like that on Sunday says a lot about their character and a lot about where this team is heading.”

The match started less than ideally for Virginia. In a first set that featured numerous ties and lead changes, the Fighting Irish (8-13, 2-8 ACC) ultimately prevailed 2325. The Cavaliers bounced back, however, to win the final three sets 25-17, 25-15, and 25-23 At one point in the fourth set, with Virginia trailing 17-12, it seemed the game was headed for a fifth. But a 7-1 run vaulted the Cavaliers to the lead, and they won 13 of the final 19 points to earn the victory in four sets.

“I’m really proud of our team for being down one and coming back and winning, and being down in the last set and coming back and winning in four,” junior Tori Janowski said.

The Cavaliers saw great production from their front line.

Janowski led the team with 22 kills, while Kole, freshman Jasmine Burton, and junior Mallory Woolridge each had more than 10 kills.

None had more than four errors, as Virginia hit .363 for the match, the team’s best hitting percentage against an ACC foe this season.

The quartet’s production has been crucial to the team’s success this season.

“It’s good to finally get the ball rolling and all of us playing well at the same time,” Janowski said.

“When that happens, we normally win.”

Another important player for the Cavaliers has been their libero and lone senior, Emily Rottman. She finished the day with 15 digs, four assists and a service ace.

Thanks to her 15 digs against the Fighting Irish, she moved into a tie with Whitney Ashcroft for third on the Virginia career list with 1,603.

With half of the conference schedule yet to be played, the team has already shown marked improvement over last year’s performance. The Cavaliers have already exceeded last season’s overall and conference win totals of nine and three, respectively. Many times in 2012, the team would seem to give up when they fell behind, but Hohenshelt is making sure that trend is in the past.

“That’s part of the thing we’re figuring out — how do we maintain the good things a little bit longer and how do we push through,” Hohenshelt said. “I think we got real casual in how we play. We’re an aggressive group and we’ve got to keep being aggressive. That was my talk in the middle of set 4, it was ‘hey, keep the foot on the accelerator, let’s go.’”

Virginia plays on the road next weekend against Georgia Tech and Clemson, with a chance to move above .500 in the ACC for the first time in more than three years.

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No. 1 Terps shell Virginia 4-1 The No. 5 Virginia field hockey team ended its regular season with a 4-1 loss at No. 1 Maryland this weekend. The Cavaliers will get a week off before the ACC Tournament begins Nov. 7.

This marks the second time this season the Cavaliers (15-4, 3-3 ACC) have fallen to a No. 1 opponent — the team also lost to then-No. 1 North Carolina Sept. 20. Besides a loss to unranked William & Mary, all of Virginia’s defeats have come against the current top-3 teams in the country.

The Terrapins (17-1, 5-0 ACC) took the lead against Virginia just four minutes into the game and never gave it back.

Senior forward Jill Witmer put Maryland on the board for her 15th goal of the year, which is good for second in the conference behind Virginia senior forward Elly Buckley.

Maryland junior forward Maxine Fluharty scored at the 12-minute mark, and then again with just over a minute left in the first half to give the Terrapins a 3-0 lead going into the break. Junior goalkeeper Jenny Johnstone recorded six saves off 11 Maryland shots in the first half. Virginia recorded just one shot in the half.

The Cavaliers made adjustments during halftime and were able to put on a much better

second-half performance. Virginia scored off a penalty corner 13 minutes into the period, with the goal coming from senior back Katie Robinson. Buckley recorded an assist on the play.

Maryland then countered with one final goal from junior forward Welma Luus to seal the victory.

Virginia outshot the Terrapins 9-5 in the second half.

Though the Cavaliers are the only ACC team to have finished regular season play, Virginia will face Duke in the opening round of the ACC Tournament unless the Blue Devils can upset Maryland next weekend.

—compiled by Matt Comey

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Senior back Katie Robinson scored her first goal of the season Friday, but her team’s early defensive woes scuppered any chance of victory at vaunted conference rival Maryland.

BARTEE Cavaliers flash aerial prowess, aggression during defeat Continued from page 12 his receivers’ hard work in practice this week. Despite being late on throws and missing open receivers multiple times, Watford finished with 376 yards, two touchdowns and an interception.

His gaudy stats were largely due to his receivers’ ability to get open consistently, which had been absent for most of the season.

“They had a hell of a week in practice,” Watford said. “I saw it coming from last Sunday, coach Hagans talked to them in a group and told them, ‘This week com-

ing up, there are going to be some changes.’ And from the beginning of practice Tuesday to the end of practice Thursday I saw it coming. They were running 100 miles per hour, catching everything — no drops — very focused, very sharp. We knew it was going to happen, it was just a matter of time before they showed it.”

But Welsh’s point was largely that the Cavaliers should run the ball more. His point about testing defenses deep each quarter was to spread defenses out and keep them honest, preventing them from stacking the box against the run. For a team largely reliant

on its running game — particularly Kevin Parks, who has scored nine rushing touchdowns of the offense’s 21 total touchdowns — Saturday’s play distribution was nothing short of bizarre.

The Cavalier offense ran 93 plays, yet rushed on just 31 of those. Before Saturday, Virginia ran the ball five times more than it passed on average per game. The biggest differentials in each direction came against VMI, when the offense ran the ball 33 times more than it passed, and Oregon, when it passed the ball eight more times than it ran — largely due to falling behind early in the game.

It seemed strange that in the span of one week the offensive philosophy would shift from a balanced, power rushing attack, to the pass-happy offense we saw against the Ramblin’ Wreck. But I don’t expect that trend to continue, at least in such a pronounced manner. The coaching staff was aiming to use the pass to open up the run, as Welsh suggested, but stuck with what was working — working used loosely in this case, as the offense failed to capitalize on any of the five Georgia Tech turnovers.

“We thought that you could still run the ball effectively if you

spread them out,” London said.

"As the game went on obviously the thing that became positive for us was the ability to spread the ball by throwing it, and that became ... the game plan.”

So it was a frustrating loss, but we’re beyond that at this point in the season. It was encouraging to see progress from the receivers, which will hopefully persist and lighten Watford’s load as a firstyear starter. In today’s college football game, it is vital to have a potent aerial attack, and not one that depends solely on tight ends and running backs as Virginia’s did up until Saturday.

W SOCCER Squad survives cagey defensive affair against Seminoles Continued from page 13 Cavalier defense, led by outstanding performances from senior Shasta Fisher and sophomore Emily Sonnett, earned the ball back before the Seminoles could take aim at the net, meaning that 90 minutes would not be enough to decide the game.

But one more minute was all it took. Star junior forward Morgan Brian immediately made her

way to the top of the box at the beginning of the overtime period and sent a pass wide to senior defender Molly Menchel.

Menchel crossed the ball into the box, where it found Steinlage, who shook off a defender, turned and fired a bullet through traffic to the near post to clinch the ACC regular season title.

“Going into the overtime, we were just looking to get it over with quickly,” Steinlage said. “We wanted to bring some energy even

though we were tired. I got a perfect ball from Molly and I was just thinking that I wanted to put it in the back of the net and that’s what I did.”

Steinlage’s 91st minute goal was the first of her career in a Virginia uniform. The senior was a twotime All-Big Ten performer at Michigan State before transferring to Virginia for her final year.

“I’m definitely excited to score my first goal here, but I’m more happy that the team got the win

in such an amazing atmosphere,” Steinlage said. “It’s the kind of game you’re going to remember the rest of your life.”

Although elated about clinching the regular season title, the Cavaliers know that there is more work to be done. The team closes out the regular season with a showdown against No. 7 Virginia Tech Thursday at Klöckner Stadium and then must look forward to both the ACC and NCAA tournaments.

“In this day and age, and in this conference with the quality of teams it has, it says a lot,” Swanson said about the accolade his team earned Sunday. “But there’s still a lot left on the table and we know we have a big game coming up Thursday. I know we will be hungry for that game and the chance to make some more history.”

The match against the Hokies begins at 7 p.m. Thursday, with a pregame ceremony honoring the seniors on the Cavalier roster.

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When third-year College student Rachel Schwartz began her internship at the International Institute for CounterTerrorism, she had no idea her summer would lead to world-renowned terrorism experts reading her research.

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Schwartz’s work — ultimately publishing her final thesis, “Case Study: Syria’s Chemical and Biological Weapons Program and the Use of These Weapons in the Syrian Civil War Today.”

“I was just awestruck,” Schwartz said. “I still am. It’s crazy to think the research was good enough to use for [leading researchers] to use themselves. It [is] a huge compliment.”

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For Schwartz, however, this story has been long in the making.

Her interest in chemical weapons is nothing new — when a biosecurity speaker spoke to her high school’s Science Honor Society chapter, Schwartz realized the topic served as a perfect hybrid of her interests.

During her second year at the University, Schwartz began researching terrorism and chemical weapons on her own time.

Batten Prof. Fred Hitz’s course, Anti-Terrorism and the Role of Intelligence, provided a venue for Schwartz to analyze Syrian chemical weapons academically. “[Schwartz] was very interested in the subject matter, especially as it might apply to Israel,” said Hitz, who later recommended Schwartz for the internship program. “She sought a job that would take her to Israel and allow her to continue her work in the anti-terrorism field.”

She began emailing professors around the country who specialize in bioterrorism. Soon, she hit it off with a professor who worked at a private college in Israel.

Eventually, he referred her to the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism, which accepted her application for an internship. The job required interns to research a specific topic of interest, both to the intern as well as the institute.

Schwartz naturally formed her thesis around the use of chemical weapons in Syria.

“That was the amazing part about the institute,” Schwartz said. “They were willing to take someone who was a new intern and see the purpose within furthering their research for the Institute [itself ].”

While completing her research, the institute invited Schwartz to work at an executive masters program, which held a series of lectures about terrorism. It was while at the lecture series Schwartz submitted her final paper.

“Normally, you get plenty of feedback, which I was willing to work [with], because I poured my heart into this paper,” Schwartz said. “But all I get from my boss is, ‘Thanks! This is great!’ I was unsure of what that actually meant, and had a lot of questions.”

After her internship concluded, she received an email informing her that her research had been published on the institute’s website.

“It was crazy — I thought [my paper] was just going to be used by the institute for their own research,” Schwartz said.

Soon thereafter, Schwartz received another email from a group of leading researchers on the international situation in Syria, notifying her they wished to expand upon her research.

They went on to cite her research in a paper presented at an international counterterrorism conference.

“If I was flabbergasted before, I was speechless [then],” she said.

With school back in session, Schwartz continues to study the Syrian crisis through a research class on civil wars. Looking forward, she also hopes to delve further into the subject professionally.

“I would love to get proper training, whether that’s through a government job or private security or a think tank,” Schwartz said. “I just want to be somewhere where I can learn.”

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5. Tootsie Rolls Here’s the million-dollar question: can we actually consider Tootsie Rolls chocolate? (I’m not talking about the flavored Tootsie Rolls here — those are weird and don’t make sense and I think I’m a little bit scared of them.) The person who loves Tootsie Rolls is the person who has worn the same costume since the fifth grade. They’re practical, and have pretty neutral feelings about the holiday.

Just as Tootsie Rolls can be eaten year round, the costume this person will wear could probably pass as normal clothes somewhere. Tootsie Rolls aren’t really chocolate, and this costume isn’t really a costume.

6. Skittles ... and what they say about you Annie Mester Columnist

1. Candy Corn It’s impossible to think about Halloween without thinking about candy corn. I feel like it’s one of those things you can only buy in bulk — want a small bag? Sorry, here’s a gallon-sized container. Resignedly, you buy the container and put it on your counter, grabbing a few every time you walk by. Two days later, the container is empty, you’re three pounds heavier, and extremely confused. Who ate all the candy corn?

This candy symbolizes the traditional Halloween lover — one who believes that the holiday is for trick-or-treating and whose costume is most likely a sheet with two eye holes cut out.

2. Halloween “Screme” Eggs/Ghost Peeps First of all, Peeps are pretty weird to begin with. What are they made out of? Why are they all attached? Why is there fake sugar all over me? That’s not to say they’re bad — a well-placed Peep in some hot chocolate is pretty life-changing if you ask me.

But, Peeps and Screme Eggs are just Easter candy knock-offs. A person who swears by these probably loves pastels and bunnies, and dresses up as either a golfer (pastels!) or an Eskimo because they just hate the cold and want it to be Spring already.

3. King-Sized Anything This candy symbolizes the ambitious Halloween lover, the embodiment of the ‘go big or go home’ mentality. Why have a regular sized Twix when you could have double that? Twice the amount of chocolate, twice the enjoyment. The King-Sized candy fan has probably been planning for Halloween since November 1 — of last year. They’re the ones with the most elaborate costume (or costumes) and their enthusiasm for said costume/ensuing party will be unparalleled. Stick around this person if you want a good time.

4. Bite-Sized Anything Portion control? What’s that? To the people who lean towards candy’s mini versions, I salute you. Sometimes I try this approach, only taking a little of everything to satisfy myself, but then I end up eating twice as many mini things as I would have had I just ate one regular sized thing. Oops. Someone who eats Bite-Sized is a realist: they’ll dress up as something clever, but not anything that will make them stick out. One of those costumes that take you a second to understand but are definitely worth a giggle once you do.

This person is all about variety within a group. Skittles come in many different colors, but I think we can agree that each color pretty much tastes the same. You’ll find the Skittles lover as the spearhead to a group costume — maybe a trio of condiments, all twelve hundred Kardashians, the Instagram filters. There’s a unity to the costumes that can’t be overlooked, but when given the chance to fly solo, the costumes make sense on their own too. Committing to a group, but not overcommitting.

7. Candy Corn Flavored M&M’s Wait, what? They make these? (Spoiler alert: yes they do and they’re crucial to your continuing existence of this planet.) The person who claims these as their favorite Halloween candy is trendy — always finding things first and being pretty proud of it. Their costume will be clever and pop-culture related: think a Miley Cyrus wrecking ball or an embodiment of the government shutdown. The sky is the limit for this person: no amount of crafting is too much to achieve the perfectly unique and relevant costume.

8. That Bag of Pretzels The person who chooses the bag of pretzels is the ultimate Halloween hater.

There will be no dressing up involved, no costume or spirit or black or orange or fun. They hate Halloweentown, and their favorite activities involve never dressing up for themed parties and being really boring. Who could hate Halloween?

It’s an excuse to combine the neon shorts, leopard leotard and America trucker hat in your closet and call yourself an 80s American Gymnast without people judging you (that much). It’s also an excuse to prolong doing your laundry a little bit longer, as who needs regular clothes on Halloween anyway?

9. Lindt Chocolates This candy really embodies the ‘happy free confused and lonely at the same time’ spirit. Is it trying too hard? Is it really a Halloween candy? Are these really a step up from Hershey’s or do I just like them because they’re shaped like pumpkins?

The person who favors these will most likely wear a costume that can interpreted in about twenty different ways — a cat who is a leopard who is a tiger who is a lion who is a panther, all in one. They’re all about the effortless and slightlyclassy variety.

10. Gummy Fangs You know that the person that chooses this as their favorite candy is the one that picks it up, puts the set of fangs in their mouth, and loudly garbles ‘Look at me!

Look how funny these are!’ This person is definitely dramatic and not shy of the spotlight — sometimes a bit of an attention hog. They’ll probably choose a costume that requires a lot of fake blood everywhere, and probably some screaming. This person is most likely a vampire or something that requires an entire tube of four different colors of face paint, plus a big black cape.

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Two new local breweries, taphouse all come to town Charlottesville has never been Shopping Centre, with daily spea stranger to the libation scene. cials including a "steal the glass" Thomas Jefferson set the standard night every Tuesday. with his love for elaborate parties In January 2012, Champion and wine, and not Brewery opened much has changed its doors, bringing in the past 200 years. some of the best With an amazing bar beer in the area to selection, local brewour own backyard. ery Starr Hill and Located on 6th numerous wineries Street, about a fivewithin a stone’s throw minute drive from of Grounds, it is easy Grounds, Champito take for granted on offers a laid back the numerous alcovibe complemented hol options at our by some serious disposal. brews.

TYLER GURNEY Yet just when The Ghidorah Columnist you thought things Belgian Tripel was couldn’t get any betthe highlight of my ter for a small college town, they visit. A beer with 8.5 percent aldid. Within the past 20 months, cohol by volume could easily get Charlottesville has seen the intro- you in some serious trouble. It duction of two new breweries — is smooth, florally aromatic and one that is within walking distance has mellow fruity notes. Open of Grounds — as well as a new Wednesday through Sunday, taphouse behind Barracks Road Champion is a great place to start

off the evening or have a low-key night out.

Local food trucks often park outside, creating the perfect hometown vibe and allowing you to try some creative foods while enjoying some of the best beers in town.

Beers are all priced around $5 and range from seasonal brews to IPAs and lagers.

As if Champion wasn’t enough, another great craft brewery opened this past August. Three Notch’d Brewery, within a five-minute walk of the Corner, opened next to McGrady’s Irish Pub on Grady Avenue. Named after the historic three notch’d trail that went through colonial central Virginia, the brewery strives to make connections with the community not only historically, but also through their delicious beer.

Standouts include their 40 Mile IPA and No Veto English Brown Ale. The 40 Mile IPA is the Three Notch’s flagship beer — and for

good reason. Unlike many recent IPAs, which are aggressively hoppy, this is refreshing, with notes of tropical fruit, and has just the right amount of bitterness. The No Veto English Brown Ale is a mediumbodied brown ale with a hint of espresso and toffee.

Perhaps the best part of Three Notch’d Brewery is how well it caters to the indecisive. For $8 , visitors can try all seven brews on tap in generous tasters. Not only do you get to try all of the brewery’s selections, but trying different types of beer side by side also is a great way to learn the ins and outs of what exactly makes a great craft beer.

Last but not least, this summer brought Sedona Taphouse to Charlottesville. Located in the Millmont Shops behind Barracks Road, Sedona Taphouse brings both a massive beer selection an expert bartending staff. What makes Sedona truly special, however, is its weekly

specials. Every Monday night is $5 steak night, while Tuesdays — my personal favorite — is “Tap Takeover.” Every Tuesday, a different brewery takes control of the taps at Sedona, and by ordering their beer guests receive a free pint glass.

Visitors are likely to appreciate an event that combines a cool way to learn about different breweries around the country with a means to expand one’s collection of beer paraphernalia.

It seems the opportunities for good beer in Charlottesville are only growing. Between Champion's great laid-back vibe, Three Notch’d Brewery's proximity to Grounds, and Sedona Taphouse's massive beer menu and stellar weekly specials, any Charlottesville beer fan's quest for a great pint is only getting easier.

Tyler’s column runs biweekly Thursdays. He can be reached at t.gurney@cavalierdaily.com.

PANCAKES Ten years of flipping pays off for CIO, Parkinson’s research Continued from page 1 being so transformative, in being able to bring people together… it just says community,” Team Fox officer Liz Diemer said.

To raise money for the Michael J. Fox foundation, volunteers annually launch a letter writing campaign, asking friends and family to donate, said Henry Jamison, third-year College student and director of Pancakes for Parkinson’s.

Other large sources of revenue come from t-shirt sales, local sponsors and donations the day of the event. Pancakes for Parkinson’s also seeks sponsorship from corporations such as Whole Foods and Trader Joes, who donate foods

like cookie butter and orange juice to accompany the pancakes.

Leading up to the morning of the event, the organization engaged in intensive planning and administrative work. So-called “pancake coordinators” were responsible for tasks such as finding sources of water, gathering lighters, teaching volunteers how to flip pancakes and driving all over Virginia to load rented Pancake griddles into a U-Haul truck.

“So many hours of preparation go into it on everyone’s part ... but when you get to the day of and things are sort of flowing like they should, you get to focus on how much fun everyone’s having and the good you are doing,” Jamison said.

The organizers of the event arrive on the lawn at 4 a.m. the day of the event to prepare. This year, that included a table with party hats, balloons and sprinkles to put on your pancakes as a part of the “Pancakes Turns Ten” festivities.

“The Lawn goes from completely empty to just packed with people,” said Josh Myers, fourthyear College student and co-chair of the event. “It is very fulfilling for anyone on the organizational side and especially for people that haven’t been before. It is just amazing to see that sort of turnaround.”

From 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., the Lawn was filled with students enjoying their free pancakes in the crisp fall air and watching per-

formances from various groups around Grounds. There were also representatives from the Michael J. Fox Foundation.

“The fact that they are willing to send some representatives down and express a more personal support for the event really speaks to how much of an impact it has had here, and how much of a portable model Pancakes for Parkinson’s is as a fundraising event,” Myers said.

Myers said his involvement has very personal significance. His grandmother was diagnosed with Parkinsons before he was born, and after a long struggle with the disease, passed away this past spring.

“She had heard about Pancakes

and knew about it, but it wasn’t something that she had asked me to do or anything like that,” Myers said. “This is a way for me to personally honor her memory and also contribute to something that is just a huge tradition and community event.”

Now that the 10th annual Pancakes for Parkinson's has come and gone, the group’s executive board is hoping to carry the spirit of the event through the rest of the year by coming up with smaller fundraising opportunities. Myers said he wants to build a stronger alumni base for fundraising, and also for keeping in touch with the volunteers. Free pancakes may have to wait until next year, but philanthropy certainly won’t.

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