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Vol. 125, Issue 24

Marshall Bronfin | The Cavalier Daily Marshall Bronfin | The Cavalier Daily

Courtesy Kelly Carson

The Board of Visitors met last week to discuss issues of faculty hiring, affordability and diversity. A group of students (above) held a protest to call for a public comment period during the meetings.

Board hosts Nov. meeting, students protest

University struggles to balance affordability, access with faculty hiring, strategic initiatives

Board debates merits of recent state higher education report, hears student concerns

Student protesters demand public comment period at Board meetings

Samantha Josey-Borden and Matt Comey

Katie Grimesey and Reade Pickert

Clara Carlson

The Board of Visitors met in full Saturday morning in Garrett Hall to hear a report from the Financial Subcommittee to plan for long-term academic success, institutional affordability and the state of AccessUVa. The meeting, officially a session of the newly formed Affordable Excellence subcommittee, featured input from deans of nearly every school and several top University administrators, including University President Teresa Sullivan and Executive Vice Presidents John Simon and Patrick Hogan.

The four-hour meeting began with a discussion

The Board of Visitors convened in full sessions Friday morning and afternoon to hear University updates and discuss a recent report on higher education issued by the Virginia Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission.

JLARC was charged with studying the cost efficiency of 15 four-year institutions to identify opportunities to reduce the cost of higher education in the commonwealth. The report said the University lacked efficient spending in some capacities.

“The folks at the state level are saying to the institutions that have the means to do so ... [to] be more

University students and Charlottesville community members gathered Friday outside of the Board of Visitors meeting to hold a mock public commentary called #DearBOV to advocate for a public comment period during Board meetings.

Though the Board’s meetings are accessible to the public, they do not allow for public comment.

The protest was organized by U.Va. Students United, a student group which published an open letter in October to the Board calling for two 90 minute public comment periods.

During the proposed comment period, speakers would sign up in advance and address the Board directly in five minute time slots.

see FINANCE, page 33

see BOARD, page 33

see PROTEST, page 43

News Writers

University hosts sexual misconduct focus groups PAGE 2

Senior Writers

ADAPT launches Substance Abuse Prevention Week PAGE 4

Men’s basketball claims two weekend victories PAGE 5

Senior Writer

Lead Editorial: One dot at a time PAGE 9

Love Connection: Matt and Hannah PAGE 15

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U.Va. hosts sexual assault policy focus groups Office of the Dean of Students aims to gauge student knowledge of misconduct policies, develop implementation strategy Luc Cianfarani Senior Writer

Corrections In the Nov. 13 issue of The Cavalier Daily, an article on page 3, titled “Student Council discusses new safety initiatives,” incorrectly described the training programs for Student Watch.

Students will be trained by University police, rather than coordinating with the Charlottesville Police Department.

In the Nov. 13 issue of The Cavalier Daily, on page 8, the incorrect article was placed.

The story which ran, about the women’s basketball, can be read on the front page.

The women’s soccer article can be viewed online.

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As part of the University's ongoing efforts to combat sexual misconduct, the Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs recently created a handful of focus groups to gauge students’ knowledge of the University’s sexual misconduct policy.

The Office has conducted six focus groups to date — four for undergraduate students and two for graduate students. Facilitators put participants into scenarios to test their knowledge of the University’s policies.

Emily Renda, project coordinator for the student affairs office, said the focus groups will both allow officials to see what students understand about the University's policy and serve to educate students about the University's definition of consent, and the process of the University's sexual misconduct board.

The University recently decided to revise its sexual misconduct policy to comply with new federal recommendations.

In an email sent to focus group

participants, the office said it will use the collected data to “inform our education and outreach efforts when the revised policy is rolled out in January 2015.”

Associate Dean of Students Nicole Eramo said students can expect to see a new sexual misconduct policy with definitions that will be “more fleshed out.”

“We are in the process of revision based on changes in campus data,” Eramo said. “You’ll see some more defined terms, and in some other areas some more meat on the bones of the definitions.”

The new policy will also add language on intimate partner violence and provide examples for what constitutes consent.

“We are always trying to learn things when we implement policies,” Eramo said. “Obviously we are always trying to make revisions and improvements.”

The Office of the Dean of Students has also increased its focus on prevention efforts — launching the Not on our Grounds and Hoos Got Your Back campaigns this semester.

To further these efforts, Era-

Courtesy University of Virginia

Assistant Dean of Students Nicole Eramo (above) is leading a University initiative to amend sexual misconduct policy in response to a Department of Education investigation.

mo said, the University will institute a “Green Dot” sexual violence reduction program during the spring semester. The Green

Dot initiative is part of a national effort and involves intensive training on bystander intervention.

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FINANCE Faculty hiring initiative to cost $40 million-plus annually Continued from page 1

of the University's top priorities, and later transitioned into a discussion of institutional costs and finances.

“Our challenges are significant and well known: declining state support, rising need among the students, generational turnover of faculty and a comprehensive set of institutions goals,” Subcommittee Chair John Griffin said.

Griffin said Saturday’s session was intended to present challenges and findings, as well as to solicit feedback from Board members. No votes were cast.

“After today, our subcommittee will use the discussion to take your feedback and finalize recommendations for the right mix of these funding proposals,” Griffin said.

The discussion of the University’s challenges focused on the need to greatly expand faculty hiring, to both replace a wave of retirees and build a stronger reputation in science and engineering fields.

“If we don’t get this one set-

tled, nothing else matters,” Sullivan said. “We rely on the faculty to teach our students, treat our patients and conduct our research. If we don’t have a strong faculty, we don’t have a strong University.”

She said that through the next eight years, the University needs 467 replacement hires in addition to 105 new hires. Because most of the faculty need is in STEM fields, in addition to salary costs, hiring new faculty will include the start-up costs of labs and research. Hogan said the average start-up package in STEM fields is around $1 million but could be as high as $2 million.

“If we don’t have start-up packages, we’re not in the game for science and technology,” Sullivan said. “They need a certain amount of equipment.”

Board member L.D. Britt said he agreed with Sullivan.

“At the end of the day, you cannot sustain an academic institution without a start-up package,” he said. “Why are we even addressing this issue? I could not have done my career without a start-up package. It’s

like telling a farmer that he or she cannot use fertilizer.”

Board member Helen Dragas said the question is not whether to offer start-up packages, but how.

“The Board has never said we don’t want start-up packages,” Dragas said. “What the Board’s position has been, has been to find a plan to finance it.”

Board members then discussed funding the increase in faculty hiring and other institutional goals while still maintaining costs affordable for students.

Hogan’s office predicts that new hiring costs, including startup packages, will range from $40 million to $52 million annually in the next eight years, amounting to between 2.8 and 3.5 percent of the current academic division operating budget.

Dean of Admissions Greg Roberts emphasized the impact of any decisions which lead to an increase in tuition prices.

“Instituting a high tuition but not reinvesting in financial aid makes the cost of going to this University very difficult – espe-

cially for first-generation students — and doesn’t attract students in Virginia who are from middle and lower class families who essentially can’t afford to go here,” Dean of Admissions Greg Roberts said.

According to the subcommittee’s progress report, the Board will execute a philanthropic campaign, which will fundraise to increase the AccessUVa endowment. The Board’s goal is to raise $200 million by 2019, bringing the total endowment to $360 million.

“From the student perspective, while it is great to have [a] philanthropic campaign and utilize it to provide to students, having a AccessUVa endowment would attract a lot of attention from donors,” said Board student member Meg Gould, a fourth-year College student. “It does seem that we are taking the path that is not necessarily as aggressive as it could be in terms of providing affordability.”

Vice Rector William H. Goodwin said that though lowincome students may need assistance with the tuition prices, he said in addition to focusing

on low-income students, there are students from higher income brackets whose families are also struggling to pay University tuition prices, or whose parents are making them pay for school on their own.

“We are investing so much into [the students] with finances and time, but really we are limiting them and their choices and opportunities they could have after graduation day with debt,” Board member Allison Cryor DiNardo said.

To carry out various the objectives of the Cornerstone Plan, the University will need to increase spending from the endowment's unrestricted fund to $4.5 million annually.

“One of our objectives is to reach stability, and we know that we can’t continue our current state of performance without some type of correction,” Board member John G. Macfarlane said. “If we increase too much we may have to constrain spending in the future years.”

Sullivan and Hogan agreed that much of the required spending would need to be frontloaded in the next several years.

BOARD All docket items pass in final votes Continued from page 1

Marshall Bronfin | The Cavalier Daily

The Board of Visitors held a pair of full-Board sessions Friday to discuss student concerns and report recently released by the Virginia Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission that criticized University spending.

responsible for your long-term financial ability,” Board member Frank Atkinson said.

Board member Helen Dragas said the Board is focused on “how to deliver 120 percent of the quality [of education] at 80 percent of the cost.”

Board member Frank Genovese expressed concern that JLARC did not include institutional quality as a primary factor of evaluation.

“It’s time to call the fairness doctrine if they really want to go after us,” Genovese said. “It’s just not right.”

In response, Dragas said the Board needed to take the JLARC findings seriously.

“I think that sometimes we hurt ourselves by this sort of U.Va. exceptionalism argument, and it comes across to the rest of the world as if … maybe things don’t apply to us because our quality is higher,” Dragas said.

Board member Kevin Fay said there is “a fine line between con-

fidence and arrogance, and we need to be careful not to cross it, but we also don’t need to be apologetic for being confident.”

“We have to be on the offensive,” Fay said.

Atkinson agreed the JLARC report needed to be taken seriously, but had different ideas on how to proceed.

“We need to take this to heart, understand it,” Atkinson said. “We need to recognize that JLARC, although important, is not the only player in Richmond. … It was just as much a criticism of the general assembly and its choices and procedures for allocating capital investment as it is a criticism of the institution.”

Dragas highlighted a portion of the report which called for greater Board engagement.

“I really don’t think we want to get involved in such nitty gritty management issues,” Board member Barbara Fried said in response.

Dragas replied, “What I hear in very broad terms is that something isn’t working.”

Fourth-year College student Meg Gould, the student member

of the Board, also gave an update on recent student life at the University, outlining various initiatives to combat sexual assault and the launch of the Substance Abuse Prevention Week.

University President Teresa Sullivan updated the Board on the Cornerstone plan, including the Meriwether Lewis Leadership program, which will begin in Spring 2015.

“We’ve got a number of programs underway that are focused on career issues,” Sullivan said, “particularly in getting students engaged in their first and second year in thinking about careers.”

Sullivan also delivered the Gifts and Grants report. The University has matched the $4 million Challenge Grant for the Blue Ridge Scholarship Foundation from alumnus John Griffin. Sullivan said the grant was matched in nine months.

The Board passed each item on its docket, including the establishment of several new professorships and the acquisition of a new property.

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PROTEST Students call for increased diversity, affordability improvement Continued from page 1 Fourth-year College student Tina Mensa-Kwao said U.Va. Students United strives for a more inclusive and democratic university environment.

“Dear BOV, we need a public comment period,” Mensa-Kwao said.

“Dear BOV, students’ voices are important.”

At Friday’s meeting, Board Rector George Martin acknowledged the protesters’ concerns and said the Board would look into the issue.

“I’ve referred that issue to the Governance and Engagement Committee for study, with the idea that they will report back to us with a recommendation at our February meeting,” Martin said.

Even considering fourth-year College student Meg Gould’s position as student member of the Board, second-year College student Ibby Han said one non-voting Board member is not enough to represent the voices of University students.

“This event is our own public comment period because the Board hasn’t yet established one,” Han said.

“Students need to have input on the

issues that the Board is deciding on because these issues directly affect us.”

Protesters spoke out on a variety of issues on which they felt the Board should act. Third-year College student Kelly Carson said the University should invest more in strengthening diversity.

“We talk about diversity and inclusion here at this public university, but Virginia is 19 percent AfricanAmerican, Virginia is 8.6 percent Hispanic — U.Va is not,” she said. “I demand that we increase investment in the Office of Admissions so we can expand our student body.”

Carson also requested the University increase socioeconomic diversity.

“We also demand better funding for AccessUVa, a program that allows many low socioeconomic people and minority students to reach the University,” Carson said.

Fourth-year Education student Ryland Richardson said the University needs to re-evaluate its effect on the Charlottesville community.

“As one of my teachers told me one time: ‘What does it mean to tutor a child in the Charlottesville community programs who has to go home to

poverty because their parent works for the University of Virginia?’” Richardson said.

Second-year College student CJ Hillyard said though University students may be able to voice their concerns in demonstrations like the #DearBOV protest, University workers have no such outlet.

“While we students at least can communicate with Board members indirectly to express our concerns and do so without fear of retaliation, the workers here have no such avenues or protections,” Hillyard said.

“As a right-to-work state and with the ongoing assaults on collective bargaining, the workers here also lack a union to use as a voice to address common grievances.”

In their open letter to the Board, U.Va. Students United said a public comment period, much like the one they held Friday, would uphold the established value of student selfgovernance at the University.

After the protest, students carried signs reading “prioritize educational accessibility over prestige” and “U. Va. runs best when student voices are heard” into the Special Collections Library and observed the Board meeting.

Courtesy Kelly Carson

Student protesters held a mock public comment period outside of the Board meeting Friday, calling for various institutional changes.

Courtesy Gordie Center

ADAPT launches initiative to combat fourth year fifth

Monday marks the beginning of Substance Abuse Prevention Week, featuring events, give-aways, lectures aimed at fostering safe behavior Kathleen Smith Associate Editor

The Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention Team will sponsor Substance Abuse Prevention Week this week in an effort to prevent substance abuse and promote safe drinking during the last home football game.

ADAPT, a volunteer group of peer educators sponsored by the Gordie Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, works to minimize alcohol and drug abuse among University students. Members have planned various events leading up to Saturday’s football game to minimize risky drinking behaviors.

“We have Substance Abuse Prevention Week during the week of the last home football game because that is when some fourth-year students attempt the fourth-year fifth,”

ADAPT intern Lauren Bryant said.

The fourth-year fifth is a practice in which fourth-year students attempt to drink a fifth of liquor — 750 mL or 17 shots — before kickoff of the last home game.

“When we got word that kickoff was at 7 p.m., we were pretty worried,” said ADAPT Co-chair Hawa Ahmed, a fourth-year College student. “But we think by permeating through student leaders we can tell people that you have the power to decide what’s cool in your friend group.”

Bryant and fourth-year College student David Salomonsky are in charge of planning activities for the week, which will work to reward students for not attempting the fourth year fifth, Bryant said.

“David and I conducted focus groups to test our message for the Substance Abuse Prevention Week campaign,” Bryant said. “Using the

data, we decided to use the message ‘I’ll Remember My Last Home Game’ on stadium cups and make long sleeve shirts specific to the Class of 2015.”

The first 500 students to sign the “I’ll Remember My Last Home Game” pledge will receive a free stadium cup and long sleeve Tshirt. Flags representing each fourth year who signs the pledge will be displayed on the south end of the Lawn. Pledge forms will be available at various events throughout the week.

A Bodo’s Bagel Breakfast for fourth-year students will be held in Pavilion VI Monday as part of the week.

Aaron White, a program director for an alcohol research center, will give a speech Tuesday about the dangers of memory blackouts and alcohol abuse.

“Dr. White has done quite a bit

of research on the causes of alcohol blackouts and what’s going on in the brain, particularly in college students,” Gordie Center Director Susan Bruce said. “The speech also fulfills Fraternal Organization Agreement [FOA] requirements for fraternities and sororities.”

A group of University students will discuss their experiences with alcohol and drug addiction at a “Hoos in Recovery Panel” Wednesday.

This panel also meets FOA requirements.

“The panel will be a great chance to have an honest conversation about addiction and recovery on a college campus,” Bryant said.

The week will conclude with the Fourth Year 5K, an alternative practice to the fourth year fifth sponsored by University peer health educators and ADAPT members Saturday at 8 a.m. in the Amphitheatre. All proceeds from the race will

benefit the Leslie Baltz Foundation for Art History or Studio Art scholarships.

More than 1,000 students have signed up for the Fourth Year 5K. “I think we’ll get a lot of pledges at the 5K,” Ahmed said. “[Given] the energy it takes to get up early and run a race at 8 a.m — those type of people don’t usually partake in the fifth.”

The Fourth-Years Trustees will sponsor a fourth-year tailgate Saturday on the south end of the Lawn before kickoff. Trustee Christy Lee, a fourth-year College student, said she and other Trustees are looking forward to participating in the tailgate and the race.

“Running the Fourth Year 5K is on the list of 115 things to do [before you graduate], so a lot of Trustees are running it,” Lee said. “We are definitely looking forward to supporting the race and all it represents.”

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Cavs cruise in home-opener

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No. 9 Men’s basketball dispatches Norfolk State, 67-39, Anderson’s 11 points pace team Matthew Morris Senior Associate Editor

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Junior guard Justin Anderson scored a team-high 11 points Sunday night in the Cavaliers’ homeopener against Norfolk State. Anderson also tallied four assists, four rebounds and one steal.

Five and a half minutes into the Virginia men’s basketball team’s home opener Sunday night at John Paul Jones Arena, Norfolk State held a 6-5 lead.

The Spartans’ advantage did not last for long. The No. 9 Cavaliers scored the next eight points off a dunk by junior center Mike Tobey and two 3-pointers from junior guard Malcolm Brogdon.

By the 7:18 mark of the first half, Virginia led 29-13.

The Cavalier run held up as Virginia rolled to a 67-39 win to improve to 6-0 in home openers under coach Tony Bennett.

Virginia (2-0) has now won 18 consecutive home openers since a Dec. 7, 1996 loss to Clemson.

“We used the term in the pregame, ‘No prancing and dancing,’” Bennett said. “Just get straight to work and don’t try to be anything but who you have to be. That was the approach tonight, and I thought they responded to that pretty well.”

Back in John Paul Jones

Arena for the first time since last year’s ACC championship campaign, the Cavaliers had a new banner up in the rafters — though the team did not hold a banner-raising ceremony prior to tipoff.

“They put it up — they’re not taking it away — so that’s good enough for me,” Bennett said.

Junior guard Justin Anderson paced the Cavaliers with 11 points, as seven Cavaliers scored six points or more. Tobey and junior forward Anthony Gill controlled the paint, combining for 19 points and 15 rebounds. And sophomore point guard London Perrantes provided a steady hand in the backcourt with four assists and zero turnovers.

“We did a great job executing tonight,” Anderson said. “We are starting to get a feel for each other — knowing where each other are. I think this team is slowly coming together, but know we have a lot more improvement.”

Freshman guard Marial Shayok came off the bench aflame, sinking his first three jump shots, two from distance. Senior

forward Darion Atkins scored nine points — all in the second half — on 4-4 shooting.

“I feel like we have a lot of offensive weapons,” Perrantes said. “We said that a lot during the summer and now people can see it. We have a lot of freshmen stepping up and playing good minutes. We also have a lot of depth and experience from all the older guys. It’s good that we are all unselfish and capable of making that next pass and the open shot.”

The Cavaliers entered halftime up 42-22 after shooting 54.2 percent in the first half, including a red-hot 8-of-11 from 3-point range. Brogdon, Anderson and Shayok nailed two treys apiece in the opening stanza, when junior guard Jeff Short mustered the majority of Norfolk State’s offense with 15 points.

Bennett said the team moved the ball fluently against the Spartan defense.

see NORFOLK STATE, page 8

No. 9 Virginia crushes Dukes Cavaliers open season with 79-51 win in Harrisonburg, four freshmen make debuts Daniel Weltz Senior Writer

Men's basketball crushes JMU, 79-51The last time the Virginia basketball team played in Harrisonburg, Cavalier legend Ralph Sampson was in the building following a program-record 30-win season that propelled the Cavaliers to a top-10 ranking entering the season. Twenty-two years later, history repeated itself.

The legendary center was on hand to watch his former team decimate the Dukes, 79-51, in front of a rowdy crowd to take the first step toward validating lofty preseason expectations. Reigning ACC regular season and tournament champion Virginia opens the season ranked ninth in the nation, following its second 30-win campaign, for the first time since the Sampson-led team began the 1982-83 season at No. 1.

Eight months after their historic 2013-14 season ended with a wrenching Sweet 16 loss to Michigan State, the Cavaliers were unfazed by a hostile season-opening atmosphere. James Madison’s Con-

vocation Center hosted one of its largest audience in the past two decades, more than the arena’s stated capacity. Fans streamed into the stadium in droves, showered their opponent with boos early and often, and made their presence felt throughout.

They had reason to hope for just 16 seconds. Virginia led the other 39:44 during a dominant seasonopening effort.

“Early in the game being in this environment there had to be some composure,” coach Tony Bennett said after his team scored 51 firsthalf points. “We talked about not getting sped up, and I thought offensively we were moving the ball well, sharing the ball, getting into the lane, getting rhythm shots.”

The Cavaliers were without four key rotation players from last year's team. Joe Harris and Akil Mitchell graduated,and starting point guard sophomore London Perrantes and reserve swingman junior Evan Nolte were suspended for one game for a violation of team rules. In their absence, a trio of juniors grabbed the reins of the offense while four freshmen executed supporting roles.

Four juniors started alongside redshirt freshman Devon Hall, and the quartet combined for 52 of the team's 79 points. Anthony Gill took control early, scoring nine of his team's first 14 points. The bruising 6-foot-8 junior forward won the opening tip, then knocked down a short jumper, threw down a twohanded slam and converted an andone to push the lead to 11 just four minutes in, silencing the crowd.

“We knew it was going to be a tough environment: JMU, sold out game,” Gill said. “It's great to be able to come out of here with a win in a road game.”

The Dukes would cut the deficit to single digits just once more, when freshman forward Hari Hall scored two of his team-high 15 points to make the score 14-6. All-ACC junior guard Malcolm Brogdon helped his team take an 18-point lead into the break. He scored 10 points on just seven shots in the opening period and showcased smooth ball handling and improved court vision to guide the offense in Courtesy Virginia Athletics

see JMU, page 83

Freshman forward Isaiah Wilkins scored eight points in his collegiate debut, shooting 3-of-4 from the field. Wilkins’ stat line also featured five rebounds, three assists, two blocks and two steals.

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is senior year at Greater sive contributions were particuAtlanta Christian High larly impressive, considering he School, Virginia freshman for- played less than half the game. ward Isaiah Wilkins Wilkins has said averaged a cool 18.2 his mid-range jumper points, 10.3 rebounds, is the nicest part of 3.4 blocks, 2.6 assists his game, and he cerand 2.2 steals per tainly showed it off game. The stepson of against the Dukes, as NBA Hall of Famer driving teammates Dominique Wilkins, looked to set him Wilkins once blocked up with catch-andeight shots in a single shoots in the 15-tohigh school game.

18 foot range. He Many Division down two MATTHEW MORRIS knocked I basketball playsuch shots among his Senior Associate Editor ers dominate in high three field goals. school, so Wilkins’ The freshman forsuccess at Greater Atlanta Chris- ward showed he can do more tian may not be surprising. But than deliver from midrange: His not many superstar high school other field goal — a tip slam off athletes — in hoops and every of a miss by senior forward Darother sport — begin their col- ion Atkins — shows that he’s got legiate careers as Wilkins did ups. Coach Tony Bennett said Friday night in Virginia’s 79-51 Wilkins’ agility aided the Cavaseason-opening win at James liers in slowing James Madison Madison. freshman forward Hari Hall, a His totals — eight points, stretch four who gave Virginia five rebounds, three assists, two trouble by knocking down four blocks and two steals in 19 min- 3-pointers in seven attempts. utes — might not jump off the After the game, junior guards page, but they reflected the di- Malcolm Brogdon and Justin Anversity of his stat line as a high derson praised Wilkins’ basketschool senior. Wilkins’ defen- ball IQ and steadiness, respec-

tively.

“Isaiah’s not a guy that gets out of his character,” Brogdon said. “He knows where his spots are on the floor, he gets to them, [and] if he’s not in that spot, he’s not going to shoot it — he’s going to make the extra pass. And I think his unselfishness is really what makes him a key contributor on the team.”

Last year, point guard London Perrantes played big minutes as a reserve in Virginia’s first two games of the season before moving into the starting lineup against Davidson. The current sophomore ended up averaging 29.9 minutes per game, second on the team behind Brogdon.

Anderson, for his part, started and played 27 minutes in his collegiate debut two years ago.

Bennett is not opposed to playing freshmen if he thinks they can help his team win. In fact, he said as much at the team’s October media day, noting that both returners and newcomers would earn their playing time rather than “walk into spots” in the rotation.

Shayok scored six points, grabbed three boards and blocked

two shots in 21 minutes against James Madison. If Wilkins and freshman guard Marial Shayok continue to produce, we might see a whole lot of them this year.

Freshman guard B.J. Stith had two steals and a rebound in his eight minutes of court time, which came at the end of regulation with the game well in hand for the Cavaliers. Anderson said he was struck by the composure of Wilkins, Shayok and Stith.

“They were tremendous,” Anderson said. “Marial, B.J., Isaiah, those guys were so poised.

I remember my first game I got so sped up, and I didn’t see that in them. None of those guys got sped up, they played at their own pace and I think a lot of credit of that goes to us needing them in practice.”

Wilkins and Shayok helped Virginia offset the one-game suspensions of Perrantes and junior forward Evan Nolte for violating team rules this summer. Redshirt freshman guard Devon Hall, who started in Perrantes’ place, also contributed to the win with five steals and five points in 27 minutes of play.

Consistently solid play from

Wilkins, Shayok, Hall and Stith could make a significant difference for Virginia this year.

Though the Cavaliers return seven rotation players from last season’s Sweet 16 team, Bennett would likely agree you can never have too much depth. Injuries, matchup issues and uninspired play all prompt coaches to turn to bench players for a spark.

The stronger the Cavaliers’ role players are, the less Bennett will have to lean on his starters throughout the regular season.

The fewer minutes Brogdon, Anderson and Perrantes have to play for Virginia to win, the more they’ll have left in the tank come March, when Bennett may need his starters for longer stretches.

The freshman contributions to Friday’s victory were highly encouraging, yet Virginia’s season has just begun. Wilkins, Shayok, Hall and Stith will likely have ups and downs this year — especially in the gauntlet of ACC play.

Wilkins said he wouldn’t mind repeating Friday’s performance.

“It was one of the best experiences I’ve had in a while,” he said.

Cavaliers win season-opening pair Women’s basketball defeats Ohio State, Radford, Imovbioh notches school-record 24 boards Chanhong Luu Associate Editor

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Senior center Sarah Imovbioh recorded a school-record 24 rebounds Friday night in the Cavaliers’ season-opener against Ohio State. Imovbioh also added 18 points against the Buckeyes.

The Virginia women’s basketball team opened its 2014-15 season this weekend with two home wins against Ohio State and Radford.

In the first game of the season, senior center Sarah Imovbioh set a new school record, making 24 rebounds. Sophomore guard Breyana Mason scored a career-high 22 points to lead the Cavaliers to their second-ever win against Ohio State, 87-82.

“I think the experience I got last year helped me, and I felt more comfortable stepping into my role and playing with my teammates,” Mason said.

With the win, the Cavaliers moved to 9-1 in their last 10 season openers.

“It was an exciting game, and we are proud of the team,” coach Joanne Boyle said. “Obviously Ohio State is a good team, but I was proud of how we played on both sides of the floor — not every minute, but when it really counted. I thought we did a great job of getting stops, scoring and making free throws, which is what the game is about.”

Imovbioh knocked the opening tipoff out of bounds, but the Cavaliers took an early 24-10 lead as

Ohio State missed its first six shots, while Virginia hit four early threepointers. Freshman guard Mikayla Venson, making her first career start, drained one of those threes to record her first ever-collegiate points.

At the 24-10 mark, Ohio State took a 30-second timeout, which proved highly effective — the Cavaliers missed their next nine shots and allowed the Buckeyes to come back to take a 25-24 lead. The Cavaliers missed five consecutive shots later in the half, heading into the break trailing 39-43.

“We started missing shots and they got some easy transition baskets,” Boyle said. “We just had some breakdowns defensively, honestly.”

The second half was noticeably less streaky and more competitive — there were seven ties and 15 lead changes in comparison to the two ties and three lead changes during the first half. However, at 79-79, both teams remained scoreless for more than two minutes as the crowd was at its loudest, until a jumper by junior guard Faith Randolph gave Virginia the lead.

“I have never heard the fans that loud before,” Mason said. “I couldn't even hear us communicate on defense, but it was a great turning point for us.”

Randolph would finish with

a team-high 25 points and three steals. Venson sealed the deal for the Cavaliers by hitting two clutch free throws with four seconds to go, finishing with 11 points in her debut. “[Venson] didn’t hit her shots, but I think she controlled the tempo of the game,” Boyle said. “She didn’t seem nervous. She kind of knew what we were doing. You’ve got veterans that are taking over the scoring role, that’s great. She’ll find hers.”

Ohio State junior guard Ameryst Alston, who finished with a gamehigh 27 points on 8-16 shooting, including 5-8 from three-point range, followed Venson’s free throws with a three-pointer, but it was too late for the Buckeyes. Alston’s teammate, freshman guard Kelsey Mitchell, a McDonald’s All-American as a high school senior, finished closely behind with 26 points.

Imovbioh added 18 points to her 24 rebounds, and Mason hit five of her seven three-point attempts to reach her career-high.

“Before the game coach Boyle emphasized rebounding — saying she doesn't want rebounding to be a reason to lose games,” Imovbioh

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No. 4 Women’s soccer advances to NCAA second round Cavaliers drub High Point in opening round, 8-0, Brian sets program record, ties NCAA tournament single-game record with five assists Jacob Hochberger Assoicate Editor

No. 4 Women’s soccer advances to NCAA second roundFriday night — in what seemed like the blink of an eye — the fourth-ranked Virginia women’s soccer team alleviated worries that its chances in the national championship were in jeopardy, as the team demonstrated its readiness to make a deep run in this year’s NCAA tournament.

Playing in near-freezing temperatures, the Cavaliers (19-2) got hot early, tallying three goals in the first 12 minutes and two more in the span of 40 seconds in the 27th minute. The goals led to an 8-0 drubbing of unseeded High Point (12-5-4), a team that snuck into the tournament after beating Liberty in the Big South final on penalty kicks.

“Sometimes with teams like this in the NCAA tournament, the way they play you, it’s hard to score goals,” senior midfielder Morgan Brian said. “For us to get a lot of goals in the first half like we did, it’s a credit to our finishing, which is something I think we’re getting better at.”

Sophomore defender Kristen McNabb got on the board first in

the sixth minute, when she tapped in a goal in front of net, assisted by Brian off ACC Midfielder of the year Danielle Colaprico’s corner.

Four minutes later, one of Virginia’s top talents, junior forward Brittany Ratcliffe, knocked in a cross from 10 yards out off Brian’s second assist of the game. The dynamic offensive tandem of Ratcliffe and fellow junior forward Makenzy Doniak continued its dominance early on, as Doniak converted her team-leading 15th goal of the season, off yet another Brian assist.

“She’s been in great form for a while now,” coach Steve Swanson said. “I thought that even when she was away, she was playing awfully well for the national team, … [and] she’s playing some great soccer right now, and we couldn’t have asked for it at a better time.”

Fifteen minutes later, Virginia was still not finished scoring for the first half. After a chaotic passage of play in the box, the ball fell to sophomore forward Morgan Reuther, who calmly put away her sixth goal of the season, giving Virginia an even more commanding lead.

Just seconds later, the Cavaliers were bearing down on the Panther goal once again. Virginia’s all-time NCAA tournament scoring leader, Brian, found Reuther in front for

the sophomore’s second goal of the game and the senior’s fourth assist.

“I think we’ve gotten faster,” Reuther said. “We’re getting to know each other better; we’re making better runs, and I think each game we try to come out better than the last and I think tonight we did that.”

While the Cavaliers’ five goals marked the first time they had achieved such a feat in one half since 2011, the second-seeded ACC runner-ups were hungry for more. Brian, who set up her teammates throughout the first half, knocked in a weak clearance from the High Point defense for her ninth NCAA tournament goal, pushing the Cavalier advantage to six in the 33rd minute.

“Morgan Brian is the best college player I’ve seen play,” Panthers coach Marty Beall said. “She’s world class and that’s why she’s on the national team. She reads the game at such a high level and she reads the defenses and knows where to be around the ball and knows how to find her players. It’s hard to beat.”

Throughout the first half, and the game as a whole, Virginia did not look like the same team that dropped its ACC final matchup just a short five days earlier. Instead, the Cavaliers looked poised, calm and downright dominant in a tricky

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Sophomore forward Morgan Reuther scored a game-high three goals, completing her hat trick in the 34th minute against High Point.

NCAA tournament game played in adverse conditions that certainly affected play.

“Sometimes the cold weather is a good thing because you have

to move to stay warm,” Swanson said. “I think there are teams that

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No. 10 Wrestling topples No. 23 Bison, Runnin’ Bulldogs Cavaliers best North Dakota State, 20-15, Gardner-Webb, 33-3, Virginia wins 15 of 20 bouts to remain undefeated, move to 5-0 Matthew Wurzburger Associate Editor

No. 10 Wrestling topple No. 23 Bison, Runnin’ BulldogsThe No. 10 Virginia wrestling team welcomed No. 23 North Dakota State and Gardner-Webb to Memorial Gymnasium for a pair of Saturday afternoon duels. The short-handed Cavaliers beat the Bison, 2015, before cruising to a 33-3 victory against the Runnin’ Bulldogs.

“We wanted to have grimy, tough, hard matches,” coach Steve Garland said. “We needed a day like today, so we could feel, ‘Wow, that was tough.’ The only way to mimic NCAAs is to feel that heat.”

North Dakota State (1-2) put the first three points on the board with a 3-1 decision at 125 pounds, as Virginia sophomore Will Mason could not overcome No. 13 sophomore Josh Rodriguez.

Virginia (5-0) then rallied for two-straight victories. No. 10 sophomore George DiCamillo dismantled his opponent to the tune of a 12-2 major decision. No. 12 senior Joe Spisak then bested No. 20 redshirt freshman Mitch

Bengtson 7-4.

Bison redshirt freshman Clay Ream grabbed six huge points for his team at 149 pounds. Ream pinned redshirt freshman T.J. Miller with a crucifix late in the second period. But North Dakota State could not seize any momentum from the pinfall, and the Cavaliers won the next three bouts.

Redshirt freshman Andrew Atkinson trailed Bison sophomore Steven Keogh 5-2 with less than a minute remaining in regulation but managed to force overtime. To conclude the match, Atkinson took down Keogh in sudden-death for the win.

“This team finds a way to fight through adversity,” Garland said.

“When things are going south in a match we have to overcome it, and I think that was a good lesson for us today.”

No. 2 senior Nick Sulzer claimed a major decision at 165 pounds. Even when his opponent is not of his caliber, Sulzer works hard to push himself.

“It all comes from practice,” Sulzer said. “I’m building to make myself tired. I’m making an effort

to tire myself and still be able to put points on the board.”

No. 11 junior Blaise Butler went to sudden-death with No.14 senior Kurtis Julson. The match was short on scoring — tied 1-1 after three periods — but Butler stepped up in overtime to secure the victory.

Sophomore James Suvak took to the mat for the 197-pound contest with the entire match resting uneasily in the balance. Suvak was wrestling up a weight class due to an injury to junior Zach Nye, and the Bisons were within five points following a victory at 184 pounds. Suvak’s match was a must-win with North Dakota State 10th-ranked senior Evan Knutson lurking at heavyweight.

“Today was a tough day,” Garland said. “Last week was about as trying a week as far as injuries go, and I didn’t know how we were going to get through it.”

Suvak responded to the pressure and emerged with the 7-4 victory to seal the deal for Virginia. Senior Colin Campbell lost to Knutson 9-2, making Suvak’s triumph even more important.

Gardner-Webb (2-1) did not

test the Cavaliers as sternly. Virginia won nine out of 10 weight classes, the outcome never in question.

DiCamillo, Sulzer and Butler scored bonus points for the Cavaliers, and Mason, Spisak, Miller, Atkinson, sophomore Dusty Floyd and Campbell won by deci-

sion.

Virginia’s Memorial Gym winning streak now rests at 30, due in part to Saturday’s wins. The next home dual will be at John Paul Jones Arena, as fourth-ranked Ohio State will face the Cavaliers in prime time next Monday.

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No. 2 senior Nick Sulzer notched a pair of wins Saturday, taking home a 16-4 major decision against No. 23 North Dakota State and a 13-3 major decision against Gardner-Webb.

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NORFOLK STATE Spartans cannot counter Cavalier offense Continued from page 6 “You know, Norfolk State was switching between man-to-man and zone,” Bennett said. “Guys — when their feet are set, hands ready — we want them to shoot those with confidence, and especially if it touches the high post.”

Virginia’s cushion held in the first 10 minutes of the second half, when Anderson dialed up an early transition 3-pointer and Atkins poured in seven points, twice scoring off Shayok helpers.

The lead ballooned to 6132 with seven minutes to play when Tobey — who said he was happy to improve upon his per-

formance Friday night at James Madison, when he fouled out and played just 15 minutes — dropped in a jump hook after rattling home a baseline jump shot on Virginia’s previous possession. Gill followed with a putback off of a Brogdon miss.

The Spartans did not substantively counter, allowing Bennett

to insert walk-ons sophomore Jeff Jones, junior Caid Kirven and seniors Maleek Frazier and Rob Vozenilek at the end of regulation.

Though the Cavaliers finished 10-of-21 from long range, Bennett said his team must be careful not to adopt a bombsaway offensive mentality.

“It would be a mistake if we fell in love with the 3-point shot,” Bennett said. “With good basketball, the ball has to rotate — the ball has to touch the paint off the dribble, off the post up.”

Virginia plays South Carolina State at home Tuesday night at 7 p.m.

JMU Anderson drains game-high four 3-pointers in five attempts Continued from page 6 Perrantes' absence.

Justin Anderson was the beneficiary of Brogdon's playmaking ability twice in the final minute of the first half. The junior guard knocked down a pair of 3-point jumpers off assists from Brogdon for two of his game-high four made shots from beyond the arc. His marksmanship from distance will likely be pivotal with the team's best shooter from a last season now playing for the Cleveland Cavaliers.

“Not one guy can replace what Joe [Harris] did,” Anderson said.

“Joe was a really good shooter for us for four years and we have to [replace him] collectively, and that's guys getting open, getting their feet set and being ready to fire.”

Four different freshmen made their collegiate debut against James Madison and they did not disappoint. Hall, starting in place of the suspended Perrantes, finished with five steals and just two turnovers to go along with his first career 3-pointer. Freshman guard Marial Shayok shined with his polished inside-out game, registering a pair of blocks to go along with six points.

Fellow freshman guard B.J. Stith played just eight minutes but added two steals.

Freshman forward Isaiah Wilkins, the stepson of NBA legend Dominique, was the most impressive player. With the lead beginning to swell with seven minutes remaining in the first half, Wilkins eyed a short field goal attempt by senior forward Darion Atkins. As the shot went up, Wilkins broke for the basket, meeting the ball as it rolled off the rim and slamming it home to give the Cavaliers a 33-17 edge. He made eight points and five rebounds in 19 minutes of action.

“He has very good feel,” Bennett said. “He's a good high post player where he moves the ball, is a threat with his shot and is real active on the glass defensively. ... I thought that

was a real good performance.”

Virginia had little to prove to James Madison, a team that finished last season 11-20 and has never beaten the Cavaliers. But the composed performance in front of a packed crowd and against a team eager to knock off a burgeoning powerhouse may help prepare them for challenges down the road.

“I thought we started off our season with the right mindset tonight: focused, blocking out expectations and distractions and knowing what our job was,” Brogdon said. “That's what we have to do every night.”

The fact that Sampson was on hand to watch the Cavaliers' first game in his hometown of Harrison-

burg since 1982 made it just a little sweeter.

“He's a legend,” Brogdon said.

“We all look up to him because of what he did, what he established and the legacy that he left. It was cool to see him there in the stands.”

Virginia improved to 16-1 in its past 17 season-openers. The Cavaliers will host Norfolk State Sunday at John Paul Jones Arena for their home opener.

Game Notes: Center Jack Salt was the only freshman scholarship player not to appear in the game.

Bennett said that a redshirt is a possibility. “I think he's leaning that way,” Bennett said. “But [that's] not a final decision yet.”

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said. “Going into it I was saying, ‘I just want to clean the boards tonight,’ and the glass was open tonight. I didn't know I had that many rebounds until coach told me.”

Imovbioh and her team returned to John Paul Jones Arena Sunday afternoon, where they continued their six-game win streak against Radford with a 75-47 win.

“I’m glad to end the weekend 2-0 before we head out on the road,” Boyle said. “We started off slow, but I think we got strong in the second

half.”

Early in the game, Imovbioh picked up right where she left off in the previous game, recording nine points and seven rebounds in only 10 minutes of play to finish the half with a plus/minus of 12. With Imovbioh’s efforts, the Cavaliers once again got off to an early lead, 8-1.

The Highlanders attempted to mount a comeback, but the Cavaliers made four straight baskets to thwart their efforts. In that same span, the Highlanders missed four straight shots of their own, as the Cavaliers took a 31-21 advantage into halftime.

In the second half, Randolph started the Cavalier scoring with a three-pointer after neither team was able to hit one in the first half.

The Cavaliers ended up hitting just one more three-pointer, and relied on team offense and defense to secure the win. With 13 minutes left in the game, the Cavaliers opened up a 16-1 run to pull even farther away from the Highlanders.

The Cavaliers held Radford to a 29.6 percent shooting percentage and held the Highlanders’ best player, senior guard Ayana Avery to only three points.

“We were not planning on playing that much zone, but every post

player had two fouls in the first half,” Boyle said. “So we came out a little conservative in the second half, and we stuck with the zone.

Since it was working for us, we just stuck with it.”

In comparison, the Cavaliers were able to shoot 45.5 percent, as every player who played for the Cavaliers contributed points other than freshman forward Jae’Lisa Allen, who played for only four minutes.

The Cavaliers forced 20 Highlander turnovers and scored 21 points off of those turnovers.

But the Highlanders were able to out-rebound the Cavaliers, with

Imovbioh only recording nine rebounds following her recordbreaking night.

“Our deficiency in this game was definitely our rebounding, and that has to be a part of our identity and who we are because those key stats will cost you down the road,” Boyle said.

Helping Radford on the glass was freshman forward Janayla White, who posted 10 rebounds and 14 points to lead the Highlanders.

The Cavaliers will face their first road test of the season when they return to the court to face Xavier Thursday in Cincinnati, Ohio.

W SOCCER Virginia runs past Panthers, will host Rutgers Friday Continued from page 7 wouldn’t perform in a game like this and I thought it was a good sign that we performed well and we made it an easier game. It’s not always going to be like that but we’ve got make sure that we focus on what’s important for us for the next game.”

Just after Brian’s seventh goal of the season — in a passage of play that felt too good to be true — Brian found Reuther on a through ball

that the dynamic sophomore forward easily put away to complete her hat trick and push Brian’s assist total for the game to five — a Cavalier program record and a tie for the NCAA tournament singlegame record.

“I think it shows that our mentality is still there,” Reuther said.

“That the Florida State loss didn’t change that, if anything it made us play harder and stronger to try and win the whole thing.”

In addition to the goals, the Cavaliers filled up the stat sheet in numerous notable categories.

They tied a program record with 39 shots, tallied 16 corners, scored the most goals in an NCAA tournament game in school history and extended their home winning streak to 30, the longest active streak in the nation and the eighthlongest in NCAA history.

“My hat’s off to them,” Beall said. “They’re probably the best college team I’ve ever seen play. Their play on the ball is world class. Their pace, their movement off the ball is phenomenal. The biggest difference is their pace individually as players and their movement both on and

off the ball. A couple of those goals were unlucky goals on our part, poor clearances, but that doesn’t take anything away from how good they are.”

Many of the 601 fans in attendance left Klöckner Stadium by halftime, but there was still more game to be played. In the second half, Virginia’s depth was on full display. Redshirt freshman midfielder Tori Hanway intercepted a mis-hit clearance at the top of the box in the 64th minute and curled a shot into the far post for her first career goal and Virginia’s eighth of

the night, firmly putting to rest any lingering effects after last weekend’s loss against Florida State.

“We had a meeting a couple nights ago as a team just to reiterate our focus and revert back to that game,” Brian said. “It definitely motivated us, and that game was frustrating on our end, but if we do those things like we did tonight then we’ll be all right.”

Virginia will look to build on its impressive display this weekend, when the team hosts Rutgers Friday night in its second-round tournament matchup.

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LEAD EDITORIAL

One dot at a time

opinion

Green Dot training will contribute to a necessary cultural shift at the University

Comment of the day “[L]et’s not twist common sense laws that protect a community (such as the laws regarding preparation of food to avoid feeding poisonous food; such as laws that require restroom facilities or porta-johns, to protect public sanitation). This type of writing does not help the discussion, it only plays on people’s desire to “prove I care” without having to think things through, especially the law of unintended consequences.

Americans are getting taken to the cleaners by this type of ‘see how much I care’ approach, and they don’t even know it!”

“CommonSense8,” responding to Mary Russo’s Nov. 13 column, “Feeding the 600,000.”

In its effort to end sexual violence on Grounds, the University is partnering with Green Dot etc., a national organization dedicated to ending all forms of power-based violence by creating cultural shifts within communities.

Green Dot visualizes the current culture of violence as a metaphorical map blotted with multiple red dots, where every red dot is a moment in which a violent act occurs, or a moment in which someone witnesses a violent act or a potential violent act, but does nothing to stop it. In a college community, where one in four college women are victims of sexual violence, the map is filled with and overcome by these red dots. But every moment in which someone intervenes to prevent an act of violence, or tells someone to change one’s language so as not to perpetuate a culture of violence — every one of those moments is a green dot.

The objective of the Green Dot

training program is to encourage people in the community to plant more of those green dots, so the red will soon be overcome by the green, and the number of victims of violence in the community will decrease.

A study done on the implementation of Green Dot training in Kentucky high schools found a 50 percent reduction in self-reported incidents of sexual violence perpetrated by students at those schools which received the training. At high schools which did not receive the training, by comparison, the selfreported incidents of sexual violence slightly increased.

Bringing in professional trainers from Green Dot will be an effective way to start a cultural shift here at the University. Though a university is responsible for its students’ safety, it primarily specializes in education, so enlisting a third party which specializes in violence prevention would be

an effective partnership. University students also put strong emphasis on the interconnected nature of our community, so once good practices are instilled within the community members who attend these training sessions, those practices will proliferate.

The exact type of green dot you plant is not strictly defined. Planting a green dot could be an act of bystander intervention; it could be sharing information about sexual violence with peers; or it could be telling friends not to make jokes which condone violence. Green Dot training aims to identify the reasons people are not doing these things, assuming we all already know the difference between what is morally right and what is wrong. The majority of people in a community do not commit acts of violence, but merely being non-violent is not enough to counteract all of the acts of violence — all the red dots. We must be active

to achieve our goal of a completely non-violent community.

Barriers inhibiting our own action could include peer pressure and psychological factors like the bystander effect. The goal of Green Dot is to identify and overcome these obstacles so each of us increases the number of green dots we plant.

Green Dot training is a significant time commitment, but hopefully students and faculty will recognize that the time is worth the change they will produce in the community. The faculty training sessions are scheduled over four days while student training is scheduled over two days. The extended training for faculty is important as faculty will be at the University for longer periods of time, and can sustain the cultural change this partnership is meant to start. The partnership with Green Dot etc. is another significant step forward to ending sexual violence at our University.

The virtue of Model UN

his past weekend, many of University’s International Relations us were surprised to find our Organization, an umbrella group dining halls swamped with excep- which helps foster discussion on intionally well dressed high schoolers ternational issues. clogging the lines and However, many have gossiping about internaboldly suggested Model tional politics. Virginia UN is a useless — if Model United Nations not outright damag(VAMUN) XXXIV, the ing — activity. Critics University's 34th high say Model UN breeds school-oriented Model “pointless leadership” UN (MUN) conferwhich results in no real ence, attracted over a pragmatic solutions. thousand delegates this Many MUN conferencyear from across the es, especially in college, nation, with some high are more about netHASAN KHAN schoolers coming from working, winning and Opinion Columnist as far as Chicago and travelling than about Miami to attend. Toting substantive debate. bright orange VAMUN Some conferences even bags, delegates attended simulated host fictional committees, like this United Nations committee sessions VAMUN’s Chen Village (which simthroughout the weekend, starting ulated a fictitious village in 20th cenearly in the morning and discuss- tury China), while other committees ing the world’s pressing conflicts late focus on simulating war councils into the night. that favor rash military decisions Model UN has traditionally over real life diplomacy. Personally, I provided college and high school have heard many delegates decry the students with the opportunity to competitive attitudes of “gavel-huntdiscuss and debate global issues in ers,” competitors who are more cona professional setting. If you talk to cerned with winning top positions most delegates, they will immedi- than constructing feasible solutions ately list off the virtues of MUN — to the presented crises. And just like the excitement of debate, the heat of the real United Nations, directives diplomacy and the sheer fun of trav- and solution that “pass” through the eling to conferences in far-off places. MUN voting procedure do just that MUN obviously allows students — they pass in name only. Delegates to refine their speaking and diplo- rarely receive feedback on the realmacy skills, which is why it remains istic potential of their plans’ implean integral and popular part of the mentability, which leads many com-

petitors to simply pump out solution ing Operation Pillar Defense Criafter solution without analyzing sis committee, a simulation of the their practicality. The entire system Israeli Knesset during the days of of MUN, detractors argue, is broken. Operation Pillar of Defense (an IsOthers note that the core of the raeli military operation in Gaza). Let problem is not so much “Model” me first clarify — I have been proUN as the UN itself; they criticize Palestinian my whole life. Initially, I the organization as a useless body signed up to chair for Operation Pilthat functions only for the sake of lar of Defense naively assuming the banal international politeness. And committee would include elements to a certain extent, these criticisms of both the Palestinian and Israeli are true. The United Nations and ruling bodies. When I found out the its MUN counterpart have, to some simulation was solely based on the degree, turned pointless squabbling Israeli Knesset, I had a bit of a crisis. into a celebrated art form. From the How could I chair a committee so Rwandan genocide to the conflicts opposed to my values? in Darfur, the UN has failed time I decided to stick with the posiand time again to foster real action against international emergencies. For 25 years, a civil war raged in Sri Lanka displacing over 500,000 people, eliciting To throw oneself into a completely foreign role, to Ban Ki Moon to explore the other side, to walk in another man’s be “appalled” — and nothing else. shoes — this is the real virtue of Model UN. Meanwhile, the century-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict rages on, with tion. I immersed myself in researchno end in sight. ing the Knesset and all the Israeli All these issues beg the question: politicians, parties and policies I had is it worth a student’s time to partici- never bothered examining. I was pate in MUN? This year, I promised playing the ultimate devil’s advomyself that VAMUN XXXIV would cate, researching ideologies I didn't be my last year doing model UN. believe in and viewing issues with Over the weekend, I spent hours different lenses, all while repressing vice-chairing the deeply engag- the incessant thought that somehow

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Model UN allows students to thoroughly examine world conflicts I was being untrue to myself.

But then it dawned on me: this perspective-changing research was exactly what MUN was about. To throw oneself into a completely foreign role, to explore the other side, to walk in another man’s shoes — this is the real virtue of Model UN. Sure, MUN committees are sometimes childish. And yes, sometimes it seems as if the UN is just a weak facade made to ensure a fake semblance of peaceful friendship between our world’s nations. Yet despite all these flaws, Model UN provides a worthwhile experience that forces delegates to adapt to uncomfortable situations which may conflict with their opinions. When I finished chairing my committee, not only was I more knowledgeable about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but I had also gained new insights on the greater complexities of it.

Conferences like VAMUN inherit all the problems of the MUN system, but with improvement they can become a powerful way for University students to learn about pressing international issues while exploring controversial stances. Students should pursue MUN not to compete, but to expand their knowledge and perspectives on topical modern issues.

Hasan’s columns run Fridays. He can be reached at h.khan@cavalierdaily.com.

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Loving Life The Life section of The Cavalier Daily contributes important voices and perspectives Public Editor

I was impressed with the frontpage art in both print issues of The Cavalier Daily this past week.

The edition published Monday, November 10 had a focus on employment after graduation. The graphics were eye-catching and informative. It also struck me as the right use of graphics rather than an article. The information about salaries and most common industries is dry and repetitive; an article would have been boring.

Using the graphics made it quicker and more interesting to read. The front-page of the print issue on Thursday, November 13 was in one sense nothing special. Most of it was a photo graphic to go with articles previewing the women’s and men’s basketball team seasons.

It was, though, really well executed. Readers know exactly what’s coming when they see the page, the orange and blue looks vibrant

and the whole paper is inviting if you want to read about basketball. These are the kinds of graphics that make effective use of both print and online media, which are precisely what I’d like to see used more often. While I’m writing about sports and images, be sure

have learned of the value one can find in the middle of the paper. My personal gravitation is to news and news-related opinion columns. I put myself in something of a silo in terms of where I spent my time reading the paper and especially what I wrote about. I still looked through all parts of the paper but I definitely skimmed more in sections other than news and opinion. If you’re someone who does that, stop.

[T]he topics the [Life writers] choose to tackle are The Life secquite varied. There is struggle, insight, humor and tion has some repain in their writing. It’s a wonderful window on the ally great content. challenges, growth and fun of life at the University. I have been enjoying the writing in the columns to keep an eye on the multimedia published under the Life heading section of The Cavalier Daily web- on a couple of levels. First, it is site for some really good photogra- interesting reading young and (I phy of basketball games. presume) new writers. Even if one Digging into the issues them- has kept a journal or a blog, it is selves over the last many weeks, I a different level to work within a

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newspaper editorial structure and try to craft a column. The writers are finding and honing their voices. That process is fascinating and compelling and also offers more variety and creativity than I see in publications elsewhere. Second, the topics the writers choose to tackle are quite varied. There is struggle, insight, humor and pain in their writing. It’s a wonderful window to the challenges, growth and fun of life at the University.

Not every column or piece is great but there seems to be at least one each issue that I return to or keep thinking about. That’s fairly remarkable, really. For example, Julia Horowitz made me laugh and Victoria Moran made me pause and think.

The Life section is also where the paper places a lot of their focus-issue pieces. The recent issue devoted to employment after graduation, for instance, had helpful articles on resume and cover letter writing. In the following days, online, there were columns in which

the writers mused on writing those same letters. Go to the middle of the paper if you don’t already, there is interesting writing and good information.

One last, forward-looking note: toward the end of last week Emanuel Brown died. He was, according to a short news piece, 61 years old and a contracted University employee. I hope that in the coming days and weeks we may learn more about Mr. Brown. We rightly focus much of our attention when a student dies in part because of the tragedy of the loss of someone so young. We should, I hope, have similar empathy and sympathy for those affected most closely by Mr. Brown’s death and good reporting from The Cavalier Daily can be an important piece of that.

Christopher Broom is the public editor for The Cavalier Daily. He can be reached at publiceditor@ cavalierdaily.com, or on Twitter at @cdpubliceditor.

A checkbox for Arabs n 1999, former Kansas State and terrorists. Our parents have University professor Michael had to explain to us that we can exSuleiman published a book titled pect discrimination at school and “Arabs in America: Building a New in the workplace because of the Future,” in which he way we look. We are explores, among other not afforded the social topics, identity and the benefits of being white, Arab American experithe “invisible package ence. Suleiman writes: of unearned assets” “Today, the constituas described by Peggy ency known as Arab McIntosh, the activist American is situated who popularized the at an interesting social concept of white privicrossroads, where islege. sues of minority and Why, then, should majority affiliation dewe be absorbed by the mand more attention.”

NAZAR ALJASSAR white category? Our Salient to Suleiman’s current classification Opinion Columnist analysis of Arab Ameronly makes us invisible ican racial classificato the rest of the popution is the notion that we constant- lation. It is not unreasonable for ly “[straddle our] technical white Arab Americans to seek a unique identity with [our] practical affin- census category which better repity to ‘people of color.’” Though resents us. his book was penned before 9/11, Consider the profound politia tragedy that would alter the tra- cal effects of census data. Funding jectory of Arab American lives and for educational programs, voter identities, Suleiman’s ideas remain language assistance and health inivalid to this day. tiatives specific to individuals from Per the United States Census particular backgrounds is deterBureau, a person who is “white” mined in part by census data. The has “origins in any of the original Pew Charitable Trusts estimate peoples of Europe, the Middle East, that “census data directly impacts or North Africa.” As Arab Ameri- how more than $400 billion in fedcans, we are counted as whites eral funding is allocated across the without the privileges associated country.” with whiteness. We are subject Moreover, it is necessary to to profiling at airports as well as understand that whiteness in the other instances of public hostility. United States is an ever-evolving We have grown up in the shadow concept. It is a fluid social conof 9/11, implicated with militants struction tied to social status, as all

concepts of race are. Since its birth, Last year, the Arab American the United States has struggled to Institute sent a letter signed by 30 reconcile its northern European advocacy groups asking the Censettler identity with each influx of sus Bureau and Office of Manimmigrants, resulting in a constant agement and Budget (OMB) to adjustment of our Anglocentric establish a Middle East and North understanding of what it means to Africa (MENA) category. “The be an American. Irish immigrants Census Bureau is being extremely from the mid-19th century, mired open to discuss this issue,” said in poverty, faced significant barri- Hassan Jaber, executive director ers to acceptance as white Ameri- of the Arab Community Center cans. Jimmy Rabbitte, the central for Economic and Social Services figure in “The Commitments,” a (ACCESS) in Dearborn, Michigan.

1991 comedy-drama film, best “It is going to open up all kinds of captures early American attitudes possibilities for small populations towards Irish immigration when to have more reliable information he says, “Do you not get it, lads? on them.” Other countries such The Irish are the blacks of Europe.”

The racial status of other immigrants such as Italians and Greeks also remained a point of contention for As Arab-Americans, we are counted as whites much of Ameriwithout the privileges associated with whiteness. can history. They walked the line between black and white with their darker skin as the United Kingdom currently and low social status; like the Irish, classify Arabs as a racial group disthey were not quite white. In the tinct from whites.

1920s and 1930s, the United States At the University level, a look Census Bureau counted South at our student profile reveals 71.6 Asians as Hindus. By the 1970s, percent of undergraduate students they became white, and it was not are white, a statistic which enuntil 1980 that the Asian Indian compasses Arab students. Such a category was created. Notions category is problematic in that it of whiteness in America are not makes it harder for Arab students static. to be visible on Grounds. We are

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Arabs should not be classified as white able to identify issues with black and Hispanic underrepresentation because the data are publicly accessible. The number of black and Hispanic students here is astonishingly low given their state and national populations. We cannot easily access the data for Arab students, and as a result, we cannot target possible problems with Arab representation. Even if the Arab student population is consistent with state and national percentages, there are well less than two million Arabs in the United States, so an equally representative Arab student population is still a small population. Overrepresentation might be the answer, but we cannot begin to approach the issue unless the data are available.

“White” is a label to which many of us feel we cannot lay claim. National Arab American organizations are beginning to address the issue with the OMB and Census Bureau, and their efforts appear auspicious. On Grounds, however, the University must take greater steps to effectively report its Arab student population. Otherwise, we will remain a less visible minority.

Nazar’s columns run Fridays.

He can be reached at n.aljassar@ cavalierdaily.com.

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H&S Computer Science works to meet demand health & science

Ishaan Sachdeva Staff Writer

The computer science department is working to offer a greater number of bachelor’s degrees to students in keeping with increasing departmental popularity.

The major currently accommodates 85 students, said Computer Science Prof. Kevin Skadron.

The department currently offers three degree programs: a bachelor of science in computer science or computer rngineering — both offered through the Engineering School — or the com-

Department hopes to increase the number of applicants accepted, focusing first on increasing faculty hiring

puter science interdisciplinary major that leads to a bachelor of arts in the College.

“The B.A. has more flexibility to combine it with a second major or to take a wider range of courses, and do computer science in the context of a true liberal arts education,” Skadron said. “Engineering degrees have much more extensive requirements in terms of the major and also in terms of prerequisites, calculus, physics that significantly reduce students’ flexibility to do things such as double major.”

Skadron said the B.A. and B.S. degree programs offer students the same core foundation in software engineering.

“The B.A graduates seem to

be equally competitive in software engineering positions,” Skadron said. “The feedback we’re getting from our industrial advisory board is that they don’t differentiate the two degrees, [rather] they look more specifically at the students’ performance in their courses and to some extent what electives the student has taken.”

The challenge in raising the cap from 85 lies in the department’s ability to hire faculty, especially for the lab sections which allow students to practice and apply their computing skills.

The University is planning to implement a new activity-based budgeting model in the next fiscal year, which will allot money

to schools based on the number of students who enroll in courses through that school. Currently, schools receive tuition revenue based on the students housed by that school regardless of enrollment.

The new model could feasibly mean the Engineering School sees more revenue coming from the computer science courses, as College students enroll in the bachelors of arts courses, but Skadron said the numbers are not yet available.

“It’s unclear at this point what impact the change in the University’s financial model will have on resources, it might not have any impact in the short term to the extent that it makes it easier for us to staff more sec-

tions of core courses,” Skadron said.

The hiring process itself can be challenging, Skadron said, as there is a high demand for a small supply of qualified candidates.

“I think the reputation of U.Va. and our reputation for outstanding students and students who are interested in doing research are all attractions [to faculty candidates],” Skadron said. “The [Engineering School] has been really outstanding in offering top salary and start up packages in terms of setting up a lab and helping a faculty member get going with their initial graduate students before they have grants. I think we’re ultra competitive there.”

Run raises record amount for Breast Cancer Women’s Four Miler breaks $375,000 for the first time Megan Talej Staff Writer

For 22 years, the Charlottesville Women’s Four Miler has brought thousands of women together to raise both money for and awareness of breast cancer. This year, with the effort of 3,500 participants, donors and dedicated organizers, the Women’s Four Miler raised a record $375,000 for the University Breast Care Center.

Race director Audrey Lorenzoni credited this year’s success to enthusiastic support and donations from cancer survivors.

“There’s not one person that made this happen," Lorenzoni said. "It’s literally everyone that participated in the event and volunteers. There’s a whole entire field of women who helped out.”

The Women’s Four Miler raises money for the Breast Care Center, which provides services such as mammograms and genetic testing. The proceeds will expand access to procedures such as ductal lavage — a biopsy method for high risk patients — and breast cancer education resources.

“Our team at the Breast Care Center is so appreciative for everyone who donates their time, effort and money to support our programs at U.Va.,” Dr. Jennifer Harvey, co-director of the Breast Care Program, said in a UHS press release.

The University Breast Care Center works with the Women’s Four Miler to promote breast health for all women in the Charlottesville community.

The Women’s Four Miler has raised more than $2.8 million so far for the University.

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Oxfam America spreads hunger awareness University chapter of national group promotes action to solve global inequality, hunger

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Margaret Mason Feature Writer

The University chapter of Oxfam America hosted its first annual hunger banquet Wednesday to increase awareness of global hunger and poverty.

Attendees rolled dice to gamble for the “high stakes” of a Chipotle burrito. After drawing cards at random, students were placed in low, middle and high income groups, which determined their meal quality. Those in the highincome group received personal Chipotle burritos and chips to eat at a fully set table. Low-income groups shared a bowl of rice on the floor and ate with their hands.

The number of attendees as-

signed to each class corresponded to poverty rates around the globe.

Five people sat at the high-income table, while a slightly larger group represented the middle income in folding chairs. An even larger group took to the floor, representing those of low income.

“I thought it was an insightful and eye-opening way to raise awareness about not just hunger but the nature of poverty as well,” second-year College student Sam Needham said.

President Paige McDermott, a fourth-year College student who founded the club last year, said she was pleased with the turnout and hoped the event would have a lasting impact on participants.

“I always knew when I applied to U.Va. … that I wanted to make an impact that was bigger than just myself in the world,” McDermott said. “I attended [an Oxfam Amer-

ica ‘Change’ program] and coming back I wanted to find a way to bring it to U.Va.” Oxfam America is a national organization working to “right the wrongs of poverty, hunger, and injustice. Oxfam saves lives, develops long-term solutions to poverty, and campaigns for social change,” according to its website.

“With global hunger and poverty, there aren’t necessarily tangible things that you can do quickly to enact change tomorrow, but there are a lot of things as a student you can do to slowly make a change,” said Katie Carter, rising group president and a third-year College student. “Oxfam is a place people can come to if they want to change the world.”

Oxfam America at U.Va. raises awareness in part by drawing attention to global hunger-related statistics.

“Two thousand University students [would] be going to bed hungry every night if we were distributed the same way the world is,” McDermott said. “We wanted to raise awareness about that statistic since so many people here live in a [University] bubble.”

The organization also encourages students to make daily efforts in the fight against global hunger.

Through petitions, discussion and demonstrations, the group hopes to make an impact on the way students see the world and the problem of inequality.

“It’s very student-friendly; anyone can do it,” Carter said. “Meatless Mondays: you can do that.

Eating seasonally: you can do that.

Eating locally: you can do that.”

Though many other organizations on Grounds strive for similar goals, Oxfam America at U.Va.’s name recognition and passion sets

it apart.

“We have that name attached to our club already,” Carter said.

“Some people have heard of Oxfam America. It’s in the news. It’s doing actual things. There are actual people. We are presenting a cohesive look to the community, to U.Va.” Going forward from the hunger banquet, members of the University chapter said they hope to increase their presence at the University.

“I hope [students] realize how global poverty and hunger [are problems concerning distribution, not resources],” said Maddie Swartzwelder, environmental chair and fourth-year College student.

“It’s something really important that people aren’t aware of. I hope that it resonates with them and they go home and talk about it with their friends.”

Saturday’s Global Expo and International Tea Festival kicked off International Education Week, which aims to encourage students and faculty to explore the University’s place in an increasingly global context.

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International Education Week explores global themes National initiative hosts Global Expo Saturday to kick off series of culture events

Kelly Seegers Feature Writer

Saturday marked the start of International Education Week, a national initiative by the State Department and the Department of Education first implemented in 2000. The week was first recognized at the University approximately three years ago, and occurs annually to explore different aspects of the University as a global university.

The events kicked off Saturday at the Go Global Expo and International Tea Festival in Newcomb Ballroom. This year, the Global Expo was fused with the International Tea Festival to create a more comprehensive cultural experience.

The Global Expo provided students the opportunity to sample a “taste of cultures” in the University community. The International Tea Festival, hosted by Global Student Council, offered students the opportunity to sample teas from diverse parts of the world. “[Tasting the cultures is] a really weird phrase, but that’s how we like to think about it because you don’t really have access to that every day,” fourth-year College student Kevin Postigo said. “If you are eating dining hall food, most of the selection you have is pizza, burgers, salad, drink.”

In addition to providing catered food from various cultures, the Expo featured performances, interactive booths and presentations.

“I think students get so bogged down in the matters of U.Va. or [in] our CIOs and our work that we forget about how we are set in a more global context,” said Asian/Asian Pacific American Program Coordinator Marc Guzman, co-leader of the International Education Week planning committee. “Even within the Charlottesville context, we forget we have the international rescue committee just right here in Charlottesville…and then we forget we matter to the larger context of Virginia and the world and so this week allows us to preview the different sorts of things we can be involving ourselves in globally while staying on Grounds.”

Several events are sponsored per day with their own spin on the

week’s common theme. Key events throughout the week include the language fair, a travel photography workshop, panels about service opportunities abroad, language house open houses, and a global Grounds scavenger hunt.

“Becoming a global university is a huge priority now for President Sullivan and a number of people on Grounds,”said International Studies Office staff member Erica Goldfarb, co-leader of the International Education Week planning committee.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, representatives from the State Department will be present at a passport drive to accept the applications from students, faculty and staff who want to renew their pass-

port or get a new one.

A Thanksgiving Reception for international students who cannot go home for the holiday will round out the week.

“I think [the week] is important because the [cultural] diversity at U.Va. has declined each and every year since I have been here,” Postigo said. “There’s more international students, but at the same time the retention is a lot lower.”

Overall, the week aims to bring attention to the many ways the University is increasingly situated within a global context. The week is not only focused on study abroad, but also aims to celebrate a diversity of cultures and remind students of the ways they can participate in the global world from Charlottesville.

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Year: Fourth Major: Environmental Science

LOVE CONNECTION:

Hometown: Richmond Hobbies: Exercising, pickup basketball, hiking, fishing, music, cooking and grilling

MATT

What makes you a good catch? I can wine and dine like a classy gent and still sweep you up with spontaneity.

What's your favorite pickup line? You know, I don’t think we’ve met before. My name’s Matt.

HANNAH

Describe yourself in one sentence: I am the most easygoing guy you’ve met — trying something new every day and still only scratching the surface.

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Year: Second Major: Undeclared Hometown: Deerfield, Massachusetts

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Matt and Hannah met at 10:30 a.m. and went to Starbucks on the Corner.

Matt: I signed up for Love Connection last year because a friend of mine had done it, and it seemed like a lot of fun.

Hannah: I had a teammate on the hockey team who did [Love Connection] and said it was fun, so I decided to try it.

Matt: I was surprised when I found out I was selected because it was a year later, but I like meeting new people, so I was interested [in seeing] what would happen.

Hannah: The date happened kind of last-minute, but I was excited to see where it would go.

Matt: The Rotunda renovation project is a pain, but it made it easier to find each other. There were only 20 square feet of space available.

Hannah: He was sitting kind of tucked into the fence when I first got there, so I didn’t see him. I finally found him, though, and we shook hands and went on our merry way.

Matt: I hadn’t had my coffee for the day, so we headed over to Starbucks. It was really crowded, so we took our drinks and walked over to Para.

Hannah: We sat outside with our drinks, which was cold, but we both had warm drinks so it was pretty nice.

Matt: It was definitely an easy conversation — it was balanced with a natural kind of ebb and flow. I felt bad because I was coming down with something and

Hobbies: Volunteer firefighting What makes you a good catch? I do some pretty unique stuff. It’s not often you meet a firefighting, ice hockey-playing sorority girl.

What's your favorite pickup line? Are you a parking ticket? Because you’ve got fine written all over you.

Describe yourself in one sentence: I’m pretty easygoing, and I like spontaneity. I couldn’t imagine living the rest of my life doing the same thing.

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was a little out of it at times.

Hannah: It was a little tough at the beginning because we were trying not to be awkward, but once we got over that it was easy. We talked about everything — mostly U.Va., our majors, things like that.

Matt: She plays ice hockey, which I thought was pretty interesting; I hadn’t met anyone who plays ice hockey [before]. We also talked some about travel.

She’s been to some pretty cool places and shared stories about [them].

Hannah: [We both strongly believe] life always works out for the better and [we] have a go-with-the-flow mentality.

Matt: We were pretty similar personality-wise. She’s definitely mature for a

second year and has a good head on her shoulders, but we [are] in different life stages.

Hannah: It was a good conversation, but we both had some homework to get back to, so after an hour or so we agreed to leave. We parted at the Corner around Mincer’s and shook hands before heading back to our apartments.

Matt: I would be interested in chatting again if I ran into her — this is a cool program and it was a really interesting environment to get to know someone [in].

Hannah: I don’t know how to get in contact with him because I deleted my Facebook, but I’m going to reactivate [it] over Thanksgiving Break when I have

more time and may friend him then.

Matt: I would rate the date a 7. It was certainly an enjoyable experience and she was really nice. I had a good time chatting with her.

Hannah: I would give it a 7. He was really nice and it was a good conversation, but I don’t think either of us were looking for something more.

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The Spice Girls were prematurely on to something with their song “Spice Up Your Life.” Sure, maybe they were talking about adding some pep into their dance parties, but roll with my creative liberty here. Pretend they were talking about the ginger-nutmeg-cinnamon-allspice combo — almost as hot as Victoria Beckham herself — and shaking said combo to the left.

I should note that I had every intention of making this a regular Top 10 piece, but after exhausting research on Google, I discovered many of my pumpkin spice fantasies are already sweet, sweet realities. Read on for my five additions to the pumpkin culinary world.

1. Cereal

Top 5 things that haven’t been pumpkin spiced, but should be

First on the list of what hasn’t but should be pumpkin-spiced: cereal. Pumpkin Spice Toast Crunch: the taste you can see with a Valencia filter on Instagram! Pumpkin Spice Trix: Silly Rabbit, Pumpkin Spice Trix is for 16-year-old girls in Uggs! Pumpkin Spice Wheaties: (still) the breakfast of champions!

2. Dumplings My conception of this is some pumpkin and cream cheese covered in a dumpling wrap and then deep fried. I honestly can’t see how this could go wrong — I may or may not be ready to pitch this to the Dumpling Truck. Consider it a pocket-sized cheesecake.

I’m sensing such popularity from these that they’ll singlehandedly cause masses to cross the line between “people who have no idea what EMPSU is” to “people who looked up EMPSU and participated in it because of pumpkin spiced dumplings.” And considering pumpkin is a vegetable, I’d say these are verifiably healthy.

3. Salad It’s like you’re eating a Caesar salad, but with a few easy modifications. Instead of lettuce, use mint-flavored ice cream (still green!).

Instead of croutons, try sprinkles (fewer carbs!). Instead of parmesan cheese, add coconut flakes (omega-3’s!). Instead of Caesar dressing, try frosting (no oil!). Throw some Pumpkin Spice on that and you’ve got yourself the best tasting salad probably ever. While that may have gone from zero to sundae before you could say ‘venti skinny Pumpkin Spice latte with soy milk,’ at least it’ll taste better.

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4. Tacos It is a near-impossible task to make tacos any better than they already are, but let’s taco-bout it for a second. According to a really enlightening Google search of “do Pumpkin Spice tacos exist?” the verified @TacoBellCanada Twitter tweeted “Should Pumpkin Spice Tacos be a thing?” on September 9th. The taco revolutionists may have a few tricks up their sleeves. You heard it here first, and could I please have a job in the Taco Bell product development department?

5. Cookout Milkshake To perfectly answer this really important question, I turn to @TimMac117, who on September 10th replied, “anything is possi-bell.”

Your favorite fancy milkshakes just got a little bit fancier. There’s an Eggnog flavor, a Peanut Butter flavor and an ambiguously disparate Fresh Peanut Butter flavor, so why not add some Pumpkin Spice into the mix? Maybe even some Fresh Pumpkin Spice?

If anyone should be responsible for turning a hot drink cold, it has to be Cookout — but only after three in the morning. Imagine the added euphoria to the already life-changing post-almost-all-night-Clemons-study-session reward milkshake. Drive through the drive-thru straight into the fall dessert of your dreams.

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