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Legislative Affairs Committee proposes summer education meeting to convene legislators, students

By Emily Hutt

Cavalier Daily Senior Writer

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Students gathered in Maury Hall yesterday evening to learn self-defense techniques as part of this week’s Take Back the Night events schedule.

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Student Council’s Legislative Affairs Committee yesterday evening proposed the creation of an education summit which would assemble state legislators and students during the summer to discuss the state’s role in higher education funding.

Legislative Affairs Committee Chair Jonathan Klaren, a thirdyear College student, , said he thought the summit was particularly important given the recent tuition increase which will affect University students in the next academic year.

He said he hoped Council would be able to bring legislators to the meeting to directly speak to students about the different processes involved in determining University funding.

Klaren also said maintaining the balance between tuition costs, enrollment and state appropriations is essential. “[The General] Assembly is working to keep

U.Va. adequately funded, while curbing tuition costs and making sure enrollment doesn’t run rampant.”

Klaren said the issues surrounding rising tuition and enrollment were pertinent to all of the state’s public institutions, not just the University. He added that Council hopes the education summit will engage students and legislators in a holistic discussion about these issues.

“I would love to have that round table at the University and open that opportunity for students,” Klaren said. “I need the students to understand how legislator funds are getting to the University.”

During the meeting, Council members proposed that the event should occur during the summer to accommodate legislator campaign schedules. Though the event is still in the early planning stages, Klaren said Council had already reached Please see Council, Page A3

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Senate rejects budget Exactly one month after the 60-day regular General Assembly session adjourned, Virginia Senators yesterday failed for the third time this year to pass the $85 million budget which would fund state operations for the next two fiscal years.

Though the House of Delegates yesterday approved the budget 77-19, Senate Democrats vetoed a budget conference report, in turn blocking the budget, because of concerns about the way it funded projects to take place in the Northern Virginia and Hampton Roads areas during the next two years.

The contention stemmed from partisan disagreement about a proposed extension to the metrorail to Dulles International Airport, which is expected to cost $300 million. Democrats support

the metrorail extension, whereas Republicans say the measure is too costly.

“I am voting no today because this budget does not include enough money for the most important project in the Commonwealth,” Senator Richard Saslaw, D-Fairfax, said in a press statement released yesterday by the Virginia Senate Democratic Caucus.

McDonnell issued a statement yesterday in response to the Senate Democrats’ budget rejection and said it was the “most fiscally reckless vote” he had ever witnessed.

“They have killed an $85 million state budget that benefits all Virginians, for one earmark regarding an 11.4 mile rail project in one district of the Commonwealth,”

McDonnell said of partisan disagreement about the metrorail.

The Senate, divided equally between the two parties, needs one swing vote to pass the budget if Senators continue to vote along partisan lines. Lt. Gov Bill Bolling typically steps in to cast tiebreaker votes in the Senate, but the state Constitution bars the lieutenant governor from making the deciding vote for budgetrelated legislation.

State funding for the current year is stable through July 1, according to the Virginia Senate Democratic Caucus press statement released Tuesday, but if the Assembly does not reach a fiscal decision before that deadline, it could push the state into a government shutdown.

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Student Council’s Legislative Affairs Committee yesterday evening proposed the creation of a summer education summit which would discuss tuition rates.

State revenue commissions rise 7.6 percent Sales, income tax receipts explain increase during March; trend mirrors Charlottesville economic growth; Virginia unemployment rate ebbs

By Viet VoPham

Cavalier Daily Associate Editor Gov. Bob McDonnell Monday announced state revenue commissions rose 7.6 percent in March from February’s revenue report, according to a press statement released by the governor’s office, which added that sales and income tax receipts can explain the increase.

“Sales tax receipts increased by 11.1 percent in the month,” according to Monday’s press release. “On a year to date basis, sales tax collections have risen 5.7 percent, compared to a projected annual growth of 1.8 percent, [and] compared to March 2011, corporate income tax receipts have grown 16.4 percent.”

Assoc. Economics Prof. Leora

Friedberg acknowledged the growth and said local revenues mirrored the state growth.

“State tax revenue does look like a pretty strong indicator of what’s happening with the economy, and local revenues are also up in Charlottesville and Albemarle County, and these are all indicators that people are spending and employers are hiring,” Fried-

berg said.

She added that a variety of factors, including the winter’s mild temperatures, could have contributed to the revenue commissions increase.

“There’s ... this idea that the winter was so mild, that the economic activity didn’t have it’s normal lull ,” Friedberg said. “Some of the winter growth would have been spring

growth.”

Virginia’s unemployment rate has also drastically decreased, which McDonnell called a “bipartisan accomplishment.”

“Unemployment is now at 5.7 percent, the lowest rate in over three years,” McDonnell said in the press release. “It is good news, but there is much work Please see Revenue, Page A3

Watkins talks entitlements Ayn Rand fellow says nation’s social programs unnecessary, harmful to liberty

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Ayn Rand Institute fellow Don Watkins spoke to the University community yesterday evening about his concerns regarding the nation’s entitlement programs.

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Ayn Rand Institute fellow Don Watkins spoke to the University community yesterday evening about his qualms with the nation’s entitlement programs, which include Social Security and Medicare.

In the two-hour long lecture, Watkins sought to answer the question, “What’s really wrong with entitlements?” and first explained how he believed the nation progressed from “limited government” to an “entitlement nation.”

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starve in the streets [before entitlement programs,]” Watkins said. “Even I was surprised by how much people thrived in the world without entitlements ... It’s not an accident Adam Smith published ‘Wealth of Nations’ in 1776 and that it was that unleashing of free human minds in markets that led to an explosion of innovation and creativity.”

Watkins said entitlement programs were introduced in the Depression-wracked 1930s , then expanded in the 1960s , and resulted in an entitlement state today which we don’t need.

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“There is no question that today people face hardships, but we live in an incredibly rich county,” Watkins said.

“The idea that you need an entitlement state for people’s needs to be met is not true.”

He added the current welfare system is “leading us off the financial cliff and [is] not doing a good job of what it’s supposed to be doing in the first place.”

Charlottesville resident Eileen Donovan said she is similarly concerned about the future stability of the U.S. government.

“The government has grown Please see Entitlements, Page A3

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@HoosForMemory will host its annual hot dog eating contest this Friday to raise money for Alzheimer’s research.

After a winless weekend, No. 25 @UVABaseball faces Richmond tonight at Davenport Field.

Judge Edward Hogshire ruled yesterday he will sentence former University student George Huguely Aug. 30.

Tom Tom Founders Festival celebrates Charlottesville's flourishing art scene from April 13 to May 13.

No. 7 Duke defeated No. 1 @UVAMensLacrosse 13-5 on Friday.

The Board of Visitors authorized a 3.7% and 4% tuition increase for instate and out-of-state students, respectively.

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Wednesday, April 18, 2012 | The Cavalier Daily

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TODAY High of 66˚

TONIGHT Low of 44˚

TOMORROW High of 72˚

TOMORROW NIGHT Low of 42˚

Cloudy with rain likely throughout the day. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.

Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain. Light and variable wind.

Mostly sunny skies with a calm wind becoming south around 5 mph.

Partly cloudy with a south wind between 5 to 10 mph.

A chance of some much needed rain comes today, as temperatures stay chilly in the low 60s. High pressure builds back up for the end of the week bringing sunny skies, and temperatures bounce back to the 70s.

FRIDAY High of 79˚ Mostly sunny with a south wind between 5 to 10 mph.

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Council | Members approve scholarship committee chair Continued from page A1 out to the office of Del. Rob Bell, R-Albemarle, about becoming involved in it.

At yesterday’s general body meeting Council also formally approved second-year College student Maggie Schwartz as the new Scholarship Committee

chair. The committee awards both need-based and merit-based scholarships using money allocated to the Council by outside organizations, such as the U.Va. Alumni Association, according to the committee’s website..

Council Vice President for Administration Ann Laurence Baumer, a second-year College

student, said these outside organizations allocate the funds to the Scholarship Committee, rather than awarding the scholarships themselves, to generate a non-biased decision about who merits scholarship money. She said non-Council organizations ask the Committee to conduct blind readings of applications

and select a qualified winner from the pool of applicants.

In the upcoming months, the committee will read several hundred applications for 20 Alumni-Student Cooperative Scholarships worth $2,000 each, which are contracted through the Alumni Association.

Schwartz said the committee

also awards scholarships from the Off-Grounds Housing Office, and added she hopes to see an increase in the number of these awards in the upcoming year.

“For off-Grounds housing, we only give out three or four $1,000 scholarships, so we’re hoping to secure more funding for offGrounds,” Schwartz said.

Revenue | Catlin says County job outlook “more promising” Continued from page A1 left to be done before all Virginians will have the good work they need and deserve.”

Albemarle County spokesperson Lee Catlin said the county’s unemployment levels have fol-

lowed the state trends.

“We have been seeing more jobs within the community in the last couple months,” Catlin said. “We do see that things seem to be looking more promising than in the past few years.”

The General Assembly was expected to pass a budget yesterday, which McDonnell said is vital to continue Virginia’s economic growth in the coming months.

“It is imperative that we pass a budget tomorrow in order

to ensure that this recovery is not hindered, and our state economy can continue to grow, creating good jobs for citizens in all areas of the Commonwealth,” McDonnell said in the press release.

The Senate, however, blocked

the budget yesterday evening for the third time this fiscal year.

The state government now faces a government shutdown in as few as 10 weeks unless the General Assembly can forge a consensus.

Entitlements | Students of Objectivism host second speaker Continued from page A1 exponentially and I am afraid for my grandchildren that things are going to implode,” Donovan said. “I’m a strong believer in a safety net, but I’d like to hear what he says about

how our entitlement situation got to be the way it is.”

Watkins said individuals are unwilling to make the leap to eradicate entitlement programs because they are bound by the nation’s morality. Morality is a powerful force, Watkins said,

and the nation’s moral view demands an entitlement state. “ W h a t ’s t h e d i f f e r e n c e between entitlement and stealing?” Watkins asked the audience, ultimately answering his own question with “One is mandated by morality and one

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He said the issue boiled down to a debate about individual liberty.

The University’s Students of Objectivism group sponsored the talk. Students of Objectivism President Will Fox , a

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third-year College student, said Watkins was the club’s second speaker this semester.

Watkins has written economic policy issue pieces for the Ayn Rand Institute for the past six years . He currently blogs on Forbes.com.

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The Cavalier Daily “For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.”

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Tire tracks

A new smartphone application for cyclists may prove more useful for Charlottesville area residents than for students It isn’t the greatest invention since the wheel, but a new application for smartphones, the “Cville Bike mApp,” could change the way we ride. Developed by the Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission (TJPDC), the free application uses GPS technology and tracks where cyclists travel, and then sends this data to the Charlottesville-Albemarle Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO), which will use these grids for planning. The MPO began collecting data Saturday and will continue to do so until May 18.

But students should question the project’s feasibility.

Charlottesville City Council passed a proclamation in March lending its support to the mApp project.

The list of advocates also includes the University, which will host an information session about the program tonight at 5 in Newcomb Hall Gallery.

Given our fossil-fuel dependence and the state of University parking, we are all in favor of on-Grounds biking. Last fall, the University applied for a grant for half-a-million dollars from the Virginia Department of Transportation to fund a bike sharing program called UBikes. The University could hear back

about this in May. This grant proposal came after the University had already received a previous grant for $35,000 to work out the UBikes idea. So far, there are no new bicycles. But there is the TJPDC bike app, if students should choose to use it.

The goal of the mApp project is to find out where cyclists are headed. This is an ambitious project in the community, covering trails, shops and suburbs.

At the University, however, there are only so many places to travel, and some of those the City would be hard-pressed to make more bicycle-friendly.

Moreover, the app requires a set-up before each expedition, and many trips are short distance and not worth the hassle. Other, longer trips may be worthwhile, and students will be left to determine when using the tracker is appropriate.

To be sure, the MPO will gain useful information during this month of data collecting. The University can take steps, such as adding more racks, which could improve the lives of student cyclists more than the MPO’s mApp. In addition to this project, other methods can be used to gather information on the habits of cyclists.

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In Tennessee, allowing the teaching of creationism as an alternative to evolution is a detriment to scientific education

A R L I E R t h i s y e a r , I the law in 1925, though, is not wrote an article titled even the saddest part of Tennes“ Sy l l a b u s by n a t u ra l see’s anti-evolution past. Tenselection” (Feb. 2) expressing nessee incredibly continued to discontent about how Indiana outlaw the teaching of evolution until 1967. Thus, was close to passALEX YAHANDA the upholding ing a bill which SENIOR ASSOCIATE EDITOR of science alone would enable the lasted for fewer teaching of intelligent design in public school than 50 years in Tennessee.

Not only that, by voting yes on science classes. That bill has luckily not yet passed. Unfortu- these bills, 75 percent of the Tennately, a similar bill just passed nessee state representatives are in Tennessee, where on April 10 supporting the notion that there House Bill 368/Senate Bill 893 can be alternatives to evolution which are pertinent to science became law.

As with the iterations proposed classes. And though he did not in Indiana and some other states, completely agree with it, Tenthis bill supports science teach- nessee Gov. Bill Haslam shockers in instructing and discussing ingly did not veto the bill.

Haslam does not believe that alternatives to evolution. Its passing, despite strong opposi- the bill “changes the scientific tion by scientists in Tennessee standards that are taught in our and around the nation, was by schools or the curriculum that is an alarmingly high margin of 3 used by our teachers.” Yet this to 1. That margin, as well as the will only hold true if a student governor’s inaction toward veto- has a worthy and respectable ing the bill, does not reflect well science teacher. Qualified teachers will continue to abstain from upon Tennessee.

In an unpleasant way, it is teaching creationism. The fact somewhat fitting such a bill was that the topic is now legal subpassed in Tennessee. The state ject material will not deter them has certainly set a historical from imparting knowledge of precedent for discrediting evo- solely real science.

On the other hand, the bill lution. There was, of course, the infamous Scopes Monkey Trial of allows for the dismantling of 1925, in which state law prohib- some of the scientific standards iting the teaching of evolution which are taught in Tennessee was affirmed. The upholding of schools. As teaching material,

Moreover, teachers who preach the idea of creationism is not at all similar to the reality of evo- creationism will be jeopardizing lution. By giving teachers free the futures of students who reign to teach an idea as a plausi- may want to enter scientific ble alternative to what has been professions later on. For example, modern empirically observed and “If science instructors teach b i o l o g y i s ompletely supported, creationism in their classes, cintertwined Haslam has legalized the then the bill has done more with evoludistortion of than change scientific stan- tion. Indeed, volutionscientific fact dards — it has negated them eary biologist in the classin favor of superstition.”

Theodosius room setting.

Dobzhansky If science said, “Nothinstructors ing in biology teach creationism in their classes, then makes sense except in the light the bill has done more than of evolution.” A teacher who change scientific standards — it uses his newfound freedom to has negated them in favor of omit the teaching of evolution in favor of creationism, then, superstition.

In Tennessee, where represen- denies students a fundamental tatives have overwhelmingly understanding of a major field of supported the teaching of alter- science. One cannot simply subnatives to evolution, it is not an stitute creationism for evolution extreme assumption that many and get the same conclusions, of their constituents who are either. No faith-based reasoning teachers will wholeheartedly can be verified scientifically like embrace their new freedom. evolution can.

As many people have This is a scary thought. The decision about whether major expressed, the stronger proscientific theories and data are creationism stance taken by worthy of instruction will be up Tennessee no doubt will affect the state’s appearance in the to the teachers personally.

That is unacceptable, and scientific and academic commuteachers who start to teach cre- nities. To be sure, proclaiming ationism in school will be doing that one of the most important their students a great disservice. scientific realizations of all time

is up for “debate and disputation” does make the state appear backward. What is surprising is that the bill was passed so fervently despite the strong objections of scientists and science professionals. It is regrettable that the state’s legislative body would ignore these protests and go on to enact a law which will not be beneficial to its residents.

Haslam should be criticized too for failing to be a voice of reason when given the opportunity, even though he was apprehensive about the bill.

As I stated in my prior article, theological holdings such as creationism would be apt subject material for theology or literature classes, where religious tenets are not portrayed as truth so much as a part of human history, culture and philosophy.

In those settings, differing opinions and varying perspectives may well result in constructive discussion and intellectual growth. Tennessee’s validation of creationism, though, will only retard the proper teaching, embracing and pursuit of scientific truth.

Alex Yahanda is a senior associate editor for The Cavalier Daily.

He can be reached at a.yahanda@cavalierdaily.com.

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A policy of paying homemakers would match our rhetoric about the job of parenting

HE GENERAL election millionaire. Cooks, nannies and season may have provided maids are all possibilities for i t s f i r s t e x a g g e ra t e d her, and her 2010 IRS forms controversy when Democratic show that more than $20,000 strategist Hillary Rosen criticized was spent on four women’s services. Knowing Ann Romney, wife of the Romneys’ probable Republican SAM CARRIGAN past hiring candidate Mitt, for OPINION COLUMNIST undocumented being out-of-touch by saying Ann “has never worked workers, it is not too absurd to a day in her life.” Mrs. Romney, imagine she may have accidena stay-at-home mother of five, tally had additional tax-free retorted that “My career choice help in tidying up her three was to be a mother ... we need houses.

I am sure Ann Romney is a perto respect choices that women make.” Many have attacked fectly lovely mother who puts in Rosen, saying she suggested plenty of time with her children. that being a mother is not work, That does not mean she knows and fellow Democrats have the daily trials of middle-class, distanced themselves from her working-class or single mothers.

Millions of single mothers worry remarks.

This is a typical instance of about balancing home life and election season point-scoring. work, paying for bills, saving for On one side, we have the self- college and avoiding a misforserving hypocrisy in these con- tune which would leave them servative attacks which argue unable to feed their children. how important mothers are, but Ann Romney does not have conveniently continue to ignore these worries, and odds are, the harsh realities facing poorer she never will. She may know or single mothers. On the other, hard work, but she has thus far Democrats are backing down refused to acknowledge the diffrom a battle they lack the will ficulties faced by mothers who to fight: Raising children is defi- are less privileged than she.

This “controversy” aside, the nitely work, and women ought Romney campaign does not to be compensated as such.

First, it helps to acknowledge seem so concerned with respectthat Ann Romney is very out of ing all of the choices women touch. There is no doubt that make, especially adoptive lesraising five children is a chal- bians such as Rosen and her lenge. That said, she is a multi- wife. Searching Mitt’s campaign

While not everyone can be Ann website, the only place in his platform where I found some Romney, there is the just solumention of women was where tion of offering greater benefits Mitt boldly declared marriage to stay-at-home parents, be they as being between one man and mothers or fathers, single or not. If raisone woman .

In contrast, “Democrats may have stepped i n g c h i l B a r a c k away from Rosen’s remarks, dren is so important, Obama’s but they are still more recep- then why website has an entire sec- tive to the struggles of women would we keep ridiction devoted in this country than their ulous polito women’s Republican rivals.” cies which health disf o r c e parities and eager parmentions efforts to end gender-based pay ents to reluctantly leave the discrimination in a section titled home? Research shows that “equal rights.” Democrats may increased parental involvement have stepped away from Rosen’s benefits a child’s education, remarks, but they are still more self-esteem and behavior. When receptive to the struggles of both parents must work outwomen in this country than side the home for financial reasons, it is easy to see this their Republican rivals.

Furthermore, Mitt Romney involvement becomes more difdoes not seem to care much ficult. Why not build on what about poor women or their chil- we know and encourage this dren on a personal level, either. involvement which produces Romney has recently said that so many positive effects? With mothers with children as young such compensation, divorces as two ought to be in the work- between spouses when both force if they want benefits such have received benefits or pay as federal spending on day care. will be more equitable. Living Are mothers not contributing to conditions for working class society enough by raising their families will be more secure and children? If raising children is children will have their basic just as valid work as any other needs for education and health job, why are mothers told to go care met.

The ultimate end of a program and find another job before they which supports families would can receive benefits?

be a federal living wage for the parent, mother or father, who stays at home to raise children.

Such a proposition is highly controversial, and though even Democrats are unlikely to embrace it any time soon, it is worth discussing. If parents wish to continue their careers, then perhaps they should still be offered assistance with wellfunded day care programs like those found in Sweden and Denmark. This way, we can ensure that any man or woman’s choice to work or stay in the home — rich or poor — is fully supported. Such extensive social support is a far-off goal, but its realization would help make the United States a freer, more educated country. Until a time when such a liberating policy is within our reach, those who believe in the dignity of women must continue to support the choice women make to leave or enter the workforce, all the while advocating greater support for less advantaged mothers.

In this century, a woman’s place is where she wants to be.

Conservatives better get used to it. The rest of us better fight to make it possible.

Sam Carrigan’s column appears Wednesdays in The Cavalier Daily. He can be reached at s.carrigan@cavalierdaily.com.

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Salary freezes have meant purchasing power has decreased for educators, while the workload has grown

he Cavalier Daily reported ring, among other things, to the M o n d a y t h a t t h e fact that faculty salaries were University “ h a s completely frozen in December mitigated tuition price increases 2007, and in recent years, just in recent years by limiting salary enough money was allocated to cover certain adjustments [and] RICHARD PADRON essential “salary managing workadjustments,” such force size through GUEST VIEWPOINT as the raise which attrition” (“BOV approves tuition hikes,” Apr. a professor receives when he 16). The article attributed this gets tenure. He is referring, in information to Michael Strine, other words, to the fact that the University executive vice presi- vast majority of the faculty, at dent and chief operative officer, least in the College, have not albeit without any indication received a raise of any kind, not that this was a direct quotation. even a cost of living adjustment, Still, the diction sounds to me for the past five years.

I think readers of The Cavalier like that of a trained professional administrator rather than Daily should understand exactly an undergraduate student, so what this means. If we use the I thought a brief translation inflation calculator available on might be in order, for the ben- the website of the U.S. Bureau of efit of those readers unfamiliar Labor Statistics to explore how the buying power of a dollar with the code in question.

I am particularly keen to trans- has changed during the past five late the expression “limiting years, we find that if a professor salary adjustments.” I must made $70,000 in 2008 and has assume that Strine is refer- had no raise since, his salary is

now worth $65,700. In short, the bly continues to shirk its responbuying power has gone down by sibility to adequately fund public almost 7 percent. Keep in mind, education. What was once a stopthe amount of work has actu- gap measure in a time of crisis, ally grown, because during that the salary freeze seems to have congealed same time the U n i v e r s i t y “The effect? You lose faith in into a fiscal t r a t e g y. has graduyour employer, who seems sDespite your ally accepted quite happy to sacrifice hard work, more students, and basic equity on the altar of despite your years of grada d m i n i s t ra efficiency.” u a t e t ra i n tive responsiing, despite bilities have also expanded in the inexpli- your national and international cable way they tend to do here reputation as a scholar, despite your excellent teaching evaluaat the University.

It is not hard to imagine the tions, your effective salary will effect this has on a faculty continue to decline. The effect? member. You work just as hard, You lose faith in your employer, if not more, and the buying who seems quite happy to sacripower of your salary actually fice basic equity on the altar of declines. You see no prospect efficiency. You become demoralof things changing, because the ized, deeply and profoundly.

On the same day this article University cannot — and perhaps should not — raise tuition came out I had the opportunity more than it does, and more to speak with a colleague of importantly, the General Assem- mine who has recently resigned

her position at the University in order to accept a job at a wealthy private university. Did I point out to her that she was leaving a great group of colleagues and a highly ranked department?

I did not need to, because she knew quite well she was doing so. Instead, I told her I envied her. I joked about going with her, and I confessed to her that I was hoping my own ship would come in soon, so that I could leave as well. How many of my colleagues, I wonder, harbor similar feelings?

This is the reality behind “limiting salary adjustments,” a devastating devaluation of the very people who do the teaching and the research at the heart of the University’s mission. If this is efficiency, then it is not without its cost.

Richard Padron is an Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese.

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Modified 747 carries NASA spacecraft to final resting place; event draws Washingtonians’ attention

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repeatedly brought the mammoth pair into restricted air space.

An FAA official rode shotgun on NASA’s modified 747 and granted the flight team real-time permission for three zippy laps over the Mall — two more than originally planned.

After the first pass, a crowd near the Smithsonian Castle chanted for an encore: This was a rock concert for space fans.

“I wanted everyone to put down their cell phones and cameras and just look at the thing with their own eyes,” said Meghan Gordon, who ran out of her office just in time. “It gave me chills.”

There were costumes, there were cheers and of course there were tears.

At the National Air and Space Museum and Steven F. UdvarHazy Center in Chantilly, Va. — Discovery’s new home — 8-yearold Alex Corica wandered the parking lot wearing an orange shuttle flight suit and a helmet too large to fit his head. He was ready not just to witness, but to fly.

With no more moon shots, no more shuttle missions and no human space launches of any kind from American soil these days, some parents still found a way to give their children a special space moment.

Clear skies along the East Coast put NASA’s pilots 10 minutes ahead of schedule after an early morning lift-off from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center, leaving some spectators scrambling for a view.

Before heading downtown, Discovery buzzed runway 1R at Dulles, cruising above a wellplaced and flapping American flag.

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Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli, shown with President Barack Obama at the White House in 2011, says unemployment in his country is so low that “firms are stealing workers from each other.”

Nominees court Latinos Hispanic voters alienated from GOP; candidates seek demographic’s support

By Karen Tumulty The Washington Post

With the GOP presidential nomination no longer in doubt, President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney this week are urgently turning their focus to Hispanic voters — a group whose alienation from Republicans threatens GOP prospects for winning the White House and has given the Obama campaign an early opportunity to lock in the support of a key constituency.

Sensing a chance to exploit the disconnect, the Obama re-election campaign is accelerating its efforts to reignite the intensity that brought out Latino voters in record numbers four years ago.

The Republican nominee-to-be and his party are looking to repair relations by dispatching organizers to critical states and

by reminding Hispanics that the administration has not lived up to its promises on immigration reform.

A t a p r i v a t e f u n d ra i s e r Sunday night in Palm Beach, Fla., Romney told supporters that “we have to get Hispanic voters to vote for our party” and warned that a big win of that group by Obama “spells doom for us.”

His comments were overheard and reported by journalists for NBC News and the Wall Street Journal.

For the Obama team, the new push begins today, when the campaign announces its first round of Spanish-language television and radio ads. The initial spots — to be aired in Colorado, Nevada and Florida — will feature Latino Obama volunteers promoting the president’s education policies.

In one, Daniella Urbina, a Harvard University graduate raised by her mother and grandmother, says: “Financial aid is very important to the Latino community. I was the first in the family that was going to go to college. I think President Obama understands us.”

In coming weeks, Obama’s campaign will intensify its Latino phone-banking operation and send canvassers door to door to find even relatively small pockets of Hispanic voters in states such as New Hampshire.

Its Web site features a Spanishlanguage calculator on which voters can compare their tax rate with Romney’s. And the president has become a regular presence on Spanish-language media, having done 15 interviews since his inauguration on the Univision Network alone.

An aerial art show pulled thousands of Washingtonians out of their offices, vehicles and homes yesterday morning as NASA’s space shuttle Discovery blew into town atop a modified 747, the battered space veteran taking a final victory jaunt before landing at Dulles International Airport just before 11 a.m.

A quiet retirement awaits Discovery, which blasted into space 39 times — more than any other NASA spacecraft — and is transitioning from rumbling launchpad hero to silent museum piece.

Before rolling to a stop, the visibly singed and scarred craft provided a final bit of space theater: A 45-minute fly-around that sent an icon of American exceptionalism soaring over other iconic sights: the dome of the Capitol, the White House rose garden, the tip of the Washington Monument and the Smithsonian’s original Air and Space Museum.

It was a photo op to remember for the tens of thousands of viewers gathered on the Mall, atop parking garages and office buildings, on bridges and bike paths and hundreds of other locations.

Tourists outside the Smithsonian museums pointed and gawked.

At Dulles, 400 people gathered on a parking garage roof from as far as Pittsburgh and North Carolina.

It was a neck-craning spectacle brought to you by NASA, which lobbied for — and received — permission from the Federal Aviation Administration, the Department of Homeland Security, the Secret Service and other agencies for the flyover, which

U.S. soldiers chase Kony, LRA U.S. Special Forces, regional militaries pursue Ugandan warlord; search continues unsuccessfully

By Sudarsan Raghavan The Washington Post

Behind razor wire and bamboo walls topped with security cameras sits one of the newest U.S. military outposts in Africa. U.S. Special Forces soldiers with tattooed forearms and sunglasses emerge daily in pickup trucks. They carry weapons, supplies and translators — as well as the expectations of a vast region living in fear of a man and his brutal militia.

“The Americans have captured Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein,” said Bassiri Moke, a tribal chief. “Surely they can catch Joseph Kony.”

In this far-flung nook of Central Africa, the United States has assumed a small but vital role in one of Africa’s most vexing military challenges: to capture Kony and dismantle his Lord’s Resistance Army. For nearly three decades, Kony’s forces have eluded the region’s militaries, abducting tens of thousands of children, turning them into killers and sex slaves, and operating brazenly across a swath of territory the size of Texas.

But in the four months since the United States set up the outposts for the 100 soldiers dispatched to assist regional militaries, frustration has mounted, particularly in this sprawling, densely forested country, where Kony is thought to be hiding.

Local and regional military officials had hoped that the United States would swiftly deploy its satellites, surveillance drones and other sophisticated technology to track Kony’s whereabouts. But that hasn’t happened, the officials said.

Instead, the LRA has contin-

ued to commit abuses. Although thought to be severely fractured, the militia has staged 11 attacks near Obo and 13 in neighboring Congo after a nearly year-long lull in violence.

“The LRA has reappeared,” said Martin Modove, the head of the Catholic diocese in Obo. “The presence of the Americans has not changed anything. We just see the Americans driving or walking in town. We don’t see what they are doing to catch Kony.”

The several dozen U.S. soldiers deployed to Obo are providing support not only to troops from the Central African Republic, but also to a contingent from neighboring Uganda, whose continued pursuit of the Ugandan warlord has spilled into the Central African Republic and other neighboring countries since the militia leader was driven out of Uganda several years ago.

In addition to those posted in Obo, the U.S. soldiers dispatched to the Central African Republic include some in the town of Djema, to the north. Others in the region include small groups sent to Uganda, Congo and South Sudan.

Hilary Renner, a State Department spokeswoman, said that the American forces were serving only as advisers and that obstacles to finding Kony remain significant despite the capabilities of the U.S. military. Since being pushed out of Uganda several years ago, the LRA has terrorized villages in the Central African Republic, South Sudan and Congo. The militia is now moving in small groups in dense jungle terrain in one of Africa’s least developed regions, with no basic road and telecommunications infrastructure.

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Nearly one-fourth of the 36 seahorse species assessed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature are threatened with extinction.

Egypt bars candidates Board affirms previous rulings, permanently disqualifies 10 presidential hopefuls

By Leila Fadel

The Washington Post Egypt’s presidential electoral commission permanently disqualified 10 presidential hopefuls, including three front-runners yesterday, upending the election just weeks before next month’s vote.

The commission announced Saturday that it had disqualified the candidates from the election, the first since the ouster last year of President Hosni Mubarak. With its decision yesterday, the commission rejected appeals filed by ultraconservative preacher Hazem Abu Ismail, who is popular among followers of a puritanical form of Islam known as Salafism, as well as appeals from the Muslim Brotherhood’s top strategist, multimillionaire Khairat el-Shater; Hosni Mubarak’s controversial

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former spy chief and vice president Omar Suleiman; and seven other candidates, according to state television.

The move by the commission of Mubarak-era judges could draw destabilizing protests, especially from ultraconservative voters who feel the law was manipulated to disqualify their preferred candidate. Outside the commission yesterday, rowdy supporters of Abu Ismail staged a sit-in in protest and chanted “God is great.”

“The committee started rigging the elections today,” Abdel Moneim Abdel Maksoud, a lawyer for the Muslim Brotherhood, told al-Jazeera after the announcement.

El-Shater was disqualified because he had been a political prisoner during Mubarak’s rule.

But the lawyer said the country’s military rulers pardoned

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el-Shater after his release from prison last year and there was no reason to remove him from the race. “The committee is choosing what serves its interests, and this is an apparent and daring forgery of the coming election before it even starts.”

With several top contenders out of the race, the front-runners for the vote are Amr Moussa, the former Arab League chief who has consistently polled on top; Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, a progressive Islamist; and Mohammed Mursi, the Brotherhood’s backup candidate.

The commission said Abu Ismail was disqualified because his late mother held dual Egyptian and American citizenship, a violation of Egyptian law.

Abu Ismail has denied that his mother was a U.S. citizen and has cast the disqualification as a conspiracy against him.

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Cavs rally back against Spiders Virginia manufactures two seventh inning runs with pair of bunts to cap comeback after early 3-0 deficit

By Daniel Weltz

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Freshman catcher Nate Irving added punch to the bottom of the Cavalier batting order against Richmond, driving in three runs while hitting seventh.

Two days after suffering a historic three-game sweep at the hands of No. 8 North Carolina, the No. 25 Virginia baseball team yesterday evening returned to its winning ways against Richmond.

The Cavaliers (24-13-1, 9-9 ACC) earned a 7-5 win with their 12th come-from-behind victory in their last 16 home wins.

At a seemingly retro night at Davenport Field , junior starter Joel Effertz gave Virginia an unpleasant throwback performance against the Spiders (18-16, 5-4 A-10). Making his first start since lasting just 2.2 innings in the home season opener against William & Mary, Effertz retired only one batter yesterday evening .

After the junior dealt back-toback walks, coach Brian O’Connor made the slow walk to the mound to signal another long night for the Cavalier bullpen. Effertz became

the eighth starter in 11 midweek games to last fewer than 5 innings and the second straight to fail to get out of the first.

“You just can’t walk batters like that, especially in the first inning, and it just didn’t look like he had control of the game,” O’Connor said. “I just thought it was the right move to bring Austin Young in at that time.”

Young — a sophomore who surrendered the game-winning home run in the 10th inning Saturday — was called upon to face senior designated hitter Chris Cowell. On the third pitch from Young, the Spiders’ cleanup hitter launched his 14th home run of the season, which moved him into a tie for third in the nation. The homer Wednesday night made the fourth straight midweek game in which Virginia allowed a first inning run. This time, the CavaPlease see Baseball, Page B3

TRACK & FIELD

Virginia hosts ACC Meet Rising program seeks to top fourth-place finishes at Indoor Championship

By Peter Nance

Cavalier Daily Staff Writer The Virginia track and field team won’t have to travel far to compete in the 2012 ACC Outdoor Track & Field Championships which begin Thursday.

For the first time since 2002, the Cavaliers will host the conference meet, courtesy of this year’s state-of-the-art renovation of Lannigan Field.

After unveiling the site at the U.Va. Team Swashbuckle March 24, the team expressed excitement about competing in one of its biggest meets of the year without leaving the comforts of home.

“The next time we step on this track is ACCs, and we’re going to have some fun there,” coach Bryan Fetzer said. “We did well at indoor ACCs, and we’re rolling into outdoors too.”

The runners have said the track surface is ideal for big performances. Former outdoor ACC 800-meter champion senior Lance Roller validated those claims last month, running his fastest 800 since 2010.

“It was awesome,” Roller said.

“This is much better than what it was before. It’s fast, and the atmosphere was great. I love it.”

In Fetzer’s first season as head coach, the men’s and women’s teams each finished fourth at this year’s ACC indoor meet. The team came away with wins in four events, two by each the men and the women.

Junior Pearl Bickersteth will be one of Virginia’s strongest contenders to capture gold. Earlier this month, Bickersteth nabbed a first place finish in the high jump at the Liberty Invitational.

She comes in as the reigning ACC champion in the event and would love nothing better than to repeat the feat.

“I want to go out there and do what I did indoors,” Bickersteth said. “Winning ACCs Indoors was the greatest feeling ever, and I really would like to continue that outdoors. Whether I win or not though, I want to go out there and compete hard for my team.”

Perhaps the biggest favorite in any event is another jumper, senior Marcus Robinson. Robinson leapt to the top step of the podium in the triple jump with a

mark of 16.32 meters to win his second career conference title last season. Robinson will make his outdoor debut after being ranked No. 1 in the country in the triple jump at one point during the indoor season.

Other athletes to keep an eye on include seniors Mark Amirault and Morgane Gay, Virginia’s other two winners at the ACC Indoor Championships.

Amirault could be a force in the 5000, an event the Cavalier men swept last season. Gay eked out a victory in the women’s mile by 0.40 seconds and could get a rematch with runner-up North Carolina freshman Lianne Farber in the 1500.

Freshman shot put phenom Nick Vena enters this week fresh off breaking the school record in the event last Saturday at the Patriot Open Invitational .

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Junior All-American Morgane Gay is a contender to win the women’s 1500 at the ACC Outdoor Championships.

SOFTBALL

Reeling Cavaliers eye turnaround Cavs enter midweek matchup with 2-8 record last 10 games; Patriots attempt to end nine-game skid

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A Lebron James Ghost Story

By Joe Liss

Cavalier Daily Staff Writer

Lebron James awoke one night from troubled dreams. Startled, he looked around his bedroom, scanning the familiar setting to make sure nothing was amiss.

He was overcome with the strange feeling he wasn’t alone.

Then he saw him. There was a man in his doorway. No, it couldn’t be a man; his skin was too pale — translucent even. The entity, hovering slightly above the ground, began to float ominously toward him.

But when the apparition reached far enough into the room, allowing the light from the bedside lamp to illuminate his face, Lebron immediately recognized the countenance.

“Vince! Is that you?” he asked.

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Sophomore second baseman Erica Cipolloni leads Virginia with six home runs and a .281 batting average.

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The Virginia softball team will look to regain its footing today when it hosts George Mason , another struggling team, for a doubleheader at The Park.

Maryland swept the Cavaliers (20-21, 5-10 ACC) last weekend, pushing Virginia to eight losses in its past 10 games. During that stretch, opponents have held the Cavaliers to two or fewer runs seven times and scored at least six runs on four occasions.

Junior outfielder Taylor Williams said the team has tried to take some positives from a mostly dismal series against the Terps.

“Obviously it was kind of a rough series, but whenever you have a series like that, you get an opportunity to grow,” Williams said.

Despite their recent slide, the Cavaliers do have reasons to be optimistic they can get back on

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track. Twelve of Virginia’s losses have come by only one or two runs.

“We’re so close, it’s just one thing here or there,” coach Eileen Schmidt said. “We just need a little boost of confidence, like a close win, and we’ll be right back where we need to be. We just need to know what we’re good at and focus on those sorts of things.”

The Cavaliers could receive the required boost from sophomore second baseman Erica Cipolloni.

Against Maryland, Cipolloni came off a leg injury to make her first start since March 25.

In her return to the lineup, she had only five at-bats during three games, but produced two hits, drew two walks and scored a run.

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By SARAH GOWON | CAVALIER DAILY STAFF WRITER Each spring semester the Indian Student Association puts on India Day, a cultural showcase where members of the organization perform songs and dances . Both competitive and noncompetitive South Asian dance teams, including the Sharaara, U.Va. Di Shaan and HooRaas , perform classical, folk, regional and contemporary Indian dances for the event.

The ISA is a student-run group which promotes Indian culture on Grounds and in Charlottesville by educating the community through service events, such as Gandhi Day, and social mixers and cultural events, such as Culturefest. But its most well-known cultural event — and certainly, its most planned event — is India Day. Unlike most other events student organizations host, India Day is held off-Grounds . This year’s event, which took nearly a year to plan, welcomed several hundred individuals to take part in the celebration last weekend.

Fourth-year College student Bharath Krishnamurthy, vice president of the ISA, was in charge of the event’s organization.

“As soon as the last year’s India Day is over we start [preparing],” Krishnamurthy said. “The hardest part is making sure we have enough money.

Then after that it’s just a lot of publicity: Facebook, Twitter.”

Other executive board members of the ISA played significant roles not only in planning the event but also in performing at it. Third-year College student Sai Adhye , international chair of the ISA, performed in one of the dances. During her term she has served as a liaison between the ISA and other organizations on Grounds. She has also worked to build a stronger relationship between international students like her and Indians who have grown up in the United States.

Third-year College student Gerald Coronado , a

dancer in the Bollywood dance group Aaja Nachle, also performed for India Day. He said he has previously been involved with other Southeast Asian cultural showcases: He performed in an Organization of Young Filipino Americans event last year.

Even though this most recent performance was not his first time on stage, it was the first time he had performed at India Day. “It was still nerve-racking,” Coronado said. “You want to represent your group well because all the work you’ve put in reflects on them.”

First-year College student Reem Hashim said she decided to attend India Day on a whim but is enthusiastic about attending it again next year. Her experience at India Day made her consider creating a showcase of her own culture.

“I am Sudanese,” Hashim said. “We don’t have cultural nights like this. It’s an inspiration.”

Sharaara dance team’s Peter Pan-themed dance was a favorite among those who attended the event.

“They started with a prelude by giving you Peter Pan clips and then took it another 10 steps,” Hashim said. “Even how they dressed, the dance.

And I think it was cool how they incorporated a step dance in the middle. It was very dynamic.”

Second-year College student Samantha Gaither attended India Day to support two of her roommates who were performing, and said she is already looking forward to next year’s event.

“I thought it was fantastic and really well run, and I thought all the acts were different and unique but interesting in their own ways,” Gaither said.

As many of the participants and attendees look forward to next year’s event, others reminisce about their last India Day as University students.

“I’m going to miss being a part of it,” Krishnamurthy said. “A lot of people enjoyed it, that’s what makes us happy to put on a show like this.”

s our generation continues to more frequently use credit cards to pay for most of our transactions, it has become increasingly important to protect our financial and identity security.

Global Payments Inc. (NYSE: GPN) reported March 30 a security breach which could affect 1.5 million credit card users in North America. The criminals who hacked the data system potentially left with “Track 2” information: account numbers and expiration dates. This information was not entirely useful for the hackers, as they did not come away with cardholder names or Social Security numbers.

Global Payments is a payment processor company which serves as an intermediary between retailers and banks, processing transactions for MasterCard (NYSE: MA) and Visa (NYSE:V).

When you swipe your card somewhere, your card number and other sensitive financial information is directed to firms such as Global Payments, which then send it to Visa or MasterCard before those firms finally send the information to the bank which issued the card.

Although computer hackers have been and will continue to prey on all financial service companies, these payment processor companies are the most vulnerable aspect of our credit card system. Banks have taken aggressive measures to protect themselves and their clients’ information, but these intermediary companies have remained vulnerable.

As a common countermeasure to these breaches, banks, credit card companies and payment processors such as Global Payments are encouraging credit card users to regularly check their transaction history online for unauthorized payments.

This is something which should be done routinely, not just because the media reports a potential security breach to your credit card provider. If you think you may be a victim of theft you should also inform all three credit bureaus (Equifax, Experian and TransUnion).

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his past weekend, my mom came to visit and, being the kind and saintly woman she is, took me and my roommate Tori out to lunch and for a shopping jaunt. We, eager as ever, knew this was an open invitation to share our stories from the last few months, and so we began to tell them to her. Or rather, I should say, we attempted to do so.

What started out as an innocent and well-intentioned plan to tell her one specific story turned into a confusing ramble which lasted about a century. My roomie and I disputed each detail of the story: the specific day in question, the precise location where the story took place, what we did afterwards, and on and on. Each detail seemed, at the time, absolutely crucial to our storytelling.

When we emerged on the other side of this detailed analysis, exhausted and bruised, with hair askew, we thought we had come to a consensus of the date and the general story line. But if our conclusion had been correct, the story in question would have taken place on three of our friends’ birthdays, which we knew to be two months apart, and obviously that couldn’t be right. Sighing, we dove back in.

Name: Elysia Griffiths-Randolph Year: Third School: Commerce What is your favorite item in your closet? “This new knit, relaxed sweater I had on today, it’s so comfy. But my favorite ever are my Tory Burch Reva flats.”

What are your favorite stores to shop at? “My favorite store is Bloomingdales , but ASOS and Nasty Gal are close seconds.”

Who is your style icon? “My style icons are Rihanna, Victoria Beckham and Marc Jacobs.

Sometimes I really like what Khloe Kardashian puts on too.”

How would you describe your style? “Edgy but classic, I like putting together outfit elements that don’t usually fit together.”

What are you wearing? “The shorts I am wearing in this picture are 7 For All Mankind, the shoes are from River Island [a UK-based store] , the sweater/cardigan is Free People, my t-shirt and orange coral ring are from H&M, my watch is Michael Kors and [my] necklace is from Aldo.”

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We tried to recreate the by weekends or phrases such event as best as we could. as, “That one day when we Tori, who has the fantastic went to the place because you habit of never deleting texts, had to get the thing before dredged up months-old mes- we left.”

In the end, we admitted sages to search for clues. This afforded not only countless defeat and my mother looked side stories and diversions, on in bemused apathy, tired but also showed the modern of listening to our endless, way of cataloging the passage “No, no, that happened this weekend, the one when we of time. were at the We searched guy’s apartthrough old Reality Check ment, right? phone calendars, No wait, grumbling about no, that how we were isn’t right, never rigorous that was enough in our the weekrecords — why end when didn’t we create we were an iCal event downtown, saying we went right?” to Barracks that In the end, one day? Why the most disdidn’t we record tinguishing when we got characterisdinner together tic of these at O-Hill? We EMILY CHURCHILL stories was texted friends they were for their own insight, but found this just indistinguishable from one muddled the process even another, blending together in a sort of jumbled, confused, more.

It seemed like the more we yet surprisingly satisfying talked, the more the details smoothie.

In this smoothie, events just mushed in on themselves, like a melting ice cream cone. stood out like big chunks The more we tried to pull it of tasty fruit, floating in a apart and extract any sense, homogenous soup of dates the more strongly it pulled against us. Days became Please see Churchill, Page B6 irrelevant, replaced instead

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Baseball | 10-1 midweek record bolsters NCAA résumé Continued from page B1 liers came up to bat for the first time already down 3-0.

“We wanted to try to go inside, and I missed the spot and got behind 2-0,” Young said. “I knew we shouldn’t have come in to the power guy low and in. That’s his power area. I brought the pitch back, and unfortunately, it came right into his wheel house. It was a mistake all-around for me.”

In between Effertz’s two poor starts, five different pitchers started in nine midweek games.

O’Connor is left continuing to search for an answer to the Cavaliers’ glaring weakness.

Only one candidate, junior ace Branden Kline, has made a quality midweek start, but Kline is counted on to pitch on the weekends. After allowing more than three runs during a midweek game just once in all of 2011 with then-junior righty Will Roberts taking the hill, the Cavaliers have allowed four or more runs in four straight.

Fortunately for Virginia, a

lights-out bullpen has kept games close. After Effertz departed early, Young, freshman Nick Howard, senior Shane Halley and senior closer Justin Thompson combined to limit the Spiders to three earned runs in 8.2 innings, giving the offense time to mount a comeback. The lineup needed just one inning.

Virginia erased the deficit in the bottom of the first with small ball and one big hit from freshman catcher Nate Irving.

The Cavaliers loaded the bases with one out against sophomore pitcher Andrew Blum before senior first baseman Jared King sent a sacrifice fly to center to put the Cavaliers on the board.

Blum then walked freshmen outfielders Mike Papi and Brandon Downes to force in a second run, trimming the deficit to one.

“We play our best when we’re behind,” junior third baseman Stephen Bruno said. “We’re a very competitive ball club, we have competitive hitters and we compete in every at-bat. It shows a lot about our ball-club that

our young players in the lineup everyday are confident.”

Irving became the third straight freshman to reach base with two outs when he laced a double to right field, tacking on two more runs and giving the Cavaliers a 4-3 lead. Irving’s third extra-base hit of the season came at the most opportune time for Virginia. The clutch hit helped restore the momentum lost during the weekend against North Carolina after the Tar Heels snapped Virginia’s 15-game home winning streak and became the first ACC team to sweep a three-game series at Davenport Field since O’Connor became coach in 2004.

“This team’s shown a lot of character all year long,” O’Connor said. “They’ve never hung their heads. They’ve continued to fight back every time.”

The teams traded runs in the third with Papi launching his first career home run off the top of the foul pole in right field to regain the lead 5-4 in the bottom of the inning. The Spiders evened the score once more in the sixth

with three singles off Howard, but Virginia took control on a pair of seventh inning runs.

With the score tied 5-5, and runners on the corners with one out in the seventh, O’Connor made an unconventional leftyrighty switch. He sent righthanded junior outfielder Colin Harrington to bat for Papi, facing right-handed sophomore reliever Andrew Brockett.

Though the matchup appeared to be a tough one for Virginia, Harrington laid down a sacrifice bunt attempt which took a hard bounce and rolled quickly towards the mound. Brockett hastily charged in the hopes of cutting off the potential go-ahead run at the plate, but the pitcher whiffed, and Bruno came home for what proved to be the gamewinning run.

“Colin’s a veteran and he knows situationally what we like to try to do,” O’Connor said. “He didn’t bunt the ball where we asked him to bunt the ball, but sometimes when you do things aggressively and you stick with

your plan, sometimes you’re rewarded. Fortunately it worked out for us.”

Irving notched his third RBI with another sacrifice bunt to score King, and Thompson locked down his seventh save of the year. Halley earned his fifth win and lowered his ERA to 1.95.

On the offensive side, Bruno continued his torrid hitting by going 3-for-5 to raise his average to .351 and surpass King for the team lead. King, meanwhile, returned to the five-hole behind Fisher after hitting clean-up in recent weeks and drove in a run to push his team-leading RBI total to 36.

The Cavaliers improved to 10-1 in midweek games with a weekend series at Duke up next.

“As you get towards the end of the year, all those midweek wins rather than losses add up, and they’re very important when it comes to the NCAA committee deciding whether you’re an NCAA team or not,” O’Connor said.

Track & Field | Vena breaks record, wins conference award Continued from page B1 yesterday in recognition of the accomplishment.

With the confidence they have

steadily gained throughout a largely successful season, the Cavaliers are eager to showcase the hard work they have put in as they pursue their first confer-

ence title since the men tied for first in 2009.

“It’ll be nice for people to come out and just watch us and see how much talent we have,”

Robinson said. “Everybody goes to the football games and basketball games, but some of the most talented people are out here [on the track] as well.”

Competition starts Thursday at noon with the heptathlon and women’s hammer throw.

The meet will continue through Saturday.

Baskin | Playoff memory unnerves nostalgic Miami Heat star Continued from page B1 through? Are you dead?”

“No, my friend,” the spirit replied. “I am not Vince Carter, nor is he dead. He still kind of plays for the Mavericks. Rather, I am The Ghost of Vince Carter’s Career. And, yes, I am dead.

Very much dead, indeed.”

This news, and the chilling voice from which it came, frightened Lebron. It terrified him even more than his most recent nightmare, in which Dwayne Wade organized a team-wide boycott of his birthday party.

Reluctantly, Lebron asked the phantom what it wanted.

“Lebron, I am here to help you,” it said. “Here to make sure that you don’t follow in my unfortunate path. You see, I too was once regarded as a superstar, the next Michael Jordan they said. People forget I scored 50 points in a playoff game. But what am I now? Sad and forgotten, known only for my laughinducing beard.”

Confused but intrigued, Lebron asked the ghoulish-looking Vince Carter how he could possibly help him.

Without warning, the specter

grabbed hold of James with one of his decaying hands and swept him out of the room. They reappeared somewhere Lebron recognized and were instantly met with familiar faces.

“Look, there’s Anderson Varejao!” Lebron exclaimed. “And Boobie Gibson! Oh, and he has the star shaved in his head again! And over there, Big Z, that big goof. Zydrunas! Iggy!”

Lebron, suddenly giddy, tried desperately to yell to his old friends, but The Ghost of Vince Carter’s Career told him they could not hear him. None of them could.

Lebron, watching his former teammates, could tell that they were anxious, waiting for someone. Then he saw a large, brooding figure enter. It was Lebron himself, visibly younger but definitely him. All his old friends were immediately entranced by the younger Lebron’s presence.

He was the one they were waiting for. Oh, how they believed in him and loved him.

Lebron now realized where he was. It was 2007. They were in Detroit for game five of the Eastern Conference Finals against the Pistons: his 48-point game.

He then watched as his former self put on one of the greatest individual performances in NBA history. He watched, somewhat mesmerized, as he scored 29 of the Cavaliers’ final 30 points and physically willed his far outclassed team to a remarkable double-overtime victory.

The scene unnerved him. It all seemed so foreign. Who was this man, he thought, who looked so confident in his demeanor, who demanded the ball and dominated at the end of the game?

What was that strange, steely look he had in his eyes? Was that really him, the same Lebron?

But before he could delve deeper into this tortuous nostalgia, the Ghost of Vince Carter’s Career slapped him in the face with one of his lucid, aging hands, and again they were off. This time, they went to the future, to Lebron’s very own Hall of Fame ceremony.

Instantly he saw himself standing on top of the stage, preparing to give a speech. He was older now, and what little hair he had left was going grey. He was not adorned with the jersey or hat of any particular team, nor did he have any ex-team-

mates or coaches at the podium with him.

The media members, though expansive in numbers, had a melancholic aura about them.

Lebron, unable to be seen, listened as a handful of them spoke in the back of the room.

“Whaddya think: greatest of all time?” a callow young journalist asked. “Eight MVPs, and just look at those career numbers.

He’s almost at the top of every single category.”

The statement elicited a hearty laugh from the others as they all shook their heads vigorously in unison.

“The greatest disappointment of all time, maybe,” one retorted sarcastically.

“Most talented player to ever enter the league, and he leaves with no championship to show for it,” another added. “That’s nothing to celebrate.”

They labeled his career “a waste” and “a shame.” They reminisced about how he was always happier being Robin than Batman and spoke of his storied 48-point night in 2007 as a fluke.

Some didn’t even remember the game had happened, while others said it now only served

as an unfortunate reminder of what could have been. Never again did the so-called Chosen One assert his dominance in such a way at such a critical playoff moment.

Indignant and deeply hurt, Lebron shouted at them, even though he knew they couldn’t hear. That game did happen!

He was just there and saw it happen. He was Batman once!

He could be again! This didn’t have to be his future. He assured himself he could still change.

There was still time.

He grabbed hold of the specter’s ghastly beard and demanded he be returned to the present day immediately. With a Twinkie in hand, the Ghost of Vince Carter’s Career gladly obliged.

When Lebron woke up the following morning, safe and sound in his bed, he had this burning feeling something was terribly wrong. He vaguely remembered something, a dream — yes, that’s all it was — but couldn’t remember what it was he needed to do.

Frantically, Lebron picked up his phone. He had to make sure Dwyane Wade was still coming to his birthday party.

Softball | Persistent defensive miscues compound pitching woes Continued from page B1 say she’s [at] full [health] with that hamstring. But still, even at 75 or 85 percent, she’s still a really good player ... She hasn’t seen a lot of practice time lately, so the more pitches [she faces], the better she’ll get.”

George Mason (10-33, 4-8 CAA) enters the doubleheader on a nine-game losing streak in which it has scored more than three runs only once and held opponents to four or fewer runs just twice.

Junior infielder and leadoff hitter Tori Dudley has scored a run in four of the Patriots’ last five games and has had at least one hit in seven of the team’s last nine games.

The rest of George Mason’s offense has hit well at times, but the team has had trouble driving in base runners. The Patriots have 36 hits in their past six games, but they have only scored 15 runs off of those hits. Virginia, by contrast, has only recorded 30 hits during the same number of games, but has

turned them into 20 runs.

The George Mason lineup will face an usually sturdy Virginia pitching staff which has just endured a rocky weekend at Maryland. Though junior pitcher Melanie Mitchell allowed six earned runs on 14 hits during 12.2 innings last weekend, Schmidt said she was happy with Mitchell’s performance. Freshman Rachel Gillen struggled, however, giving up six earned in only 3.1 innings Saturday.

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When it gets tough and runners get on, she starts to make a few mistakes here and there.”

The pitchers, however, have received little help on defense, so even small mistakes can be costly. The Cavaliers have had at least one error in each of their last eight games, committing 14 total during that span, compared to only five by their opponents.

“We know we have the physical capability to make all those plays,” Williams said. “It’s just

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Playing a reeling Patriot squad could be just the remedy the Cavaliers need.

“Midweeks are always a really great opportunity to come out and show what we’ve been working on after weekend series, and I think that’s exactly what we’re going to do,” Williams said.

The first pitch of the doubleheader is set for 5 p.m. today.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19). The boss returns, but this is no time to stiffen up. You’ll get more mileage from putting on a clown nose than you will from straightening your tie. Laughter is a radical and effective response to stress.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Someone validates you, and then, on the drop of a dime, they change, chameleon-esque. If you’re grounded in who you are, it’s only slightly annoying, but if you were seeking his or her approval, it’s a bigger deal.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Someone in your ancestral line told you to only draw inside the lines. This is no help at all. Keeping your imaginative impulses to a minimum only stifles your energy. Draw all over the place. It’s OK.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). You’re probably not thrilled with your current means of making money. If only someone would pay you for your fantastic stage presence and enthusiasm. Hmmm, keep it up, and you just might land a gig.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Questioning your place in the professional hierarchy? You don’t need a Ph.D. to be competent. You have life experience, and they should give degrees for that. For kicks, make one up and hang it on your office wall.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You’re getting better at reading the road map of life. No, not better at avoiding the twists and turns, mind you, but you’re chuckling a little louder, assimilating a little deeper.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). Avoidance tends to make things bigger than they are.

Meet money and relationship dramas with understanding -- you want it all, what’s the harm in that?

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Your spiritual wares are increasing at the same rate and value as your wackiness. Take some time away from your significant other to contemplate the theme.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You’re readjusting your gears, so it’s no wonder you feel a little creaky.

Hard work, healthy eating habits and exercise are the symbolic oils you need to slather all over yourself.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You’re the needle in the haystack of life. Just finding yourself is monumental. Take a nature walk, and you’ll discover that it’s not so bad being lost. For flickering moments, you’re one with the tree, the ground and the sun.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Mentally replaying a relationship conundrum can be food for thought. Or it can turn into a sanity-consuming monster. Leave the problem for now. Instead focus on the fun energy you’ll bring to an upcoming encounter.

RENAISSANCING BY TIM PRICE

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (April 18). Hey old friend. When people tell you you have an awesome singing voice, you should listen to them, because you do. The love you feel from others bolsters your nerve, even when you face the unknown this year. Next month, believing the best about human nature is your key to success. Your attention to detail is fantastic and your participation is most appreciated. Lucky numbers: 3,4, and 5.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Your inhibitions speak out. The backhanded way inhibitions keep their grip is by telling you that without them, you’d be worse off -- lies, all lies. Lose one fear now by declaring it gone. See, you’re better already.

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Robertson | New technology makes spending easier, safer Continued from page B2 net usage will surpass desktop computer Internet usage in the next two years, causing the number of online purchases made with mobile phone applications to jump as well.

This unfortunately gives hackers the upper hand: The small screen sizes allow illegitimate sites to trick viewers more easily than they would when viewed on a desktop computer. Even the touch screen feature of all smart phones poses serious risks for users as they may unknowingly touch a hidden link. Another huge problem is that mobile browsers and their operating systems do not get updated regularly with security fixes in

the same way laptop and desktop systems do, leaving mobile phones more vulnerable to malicious online activities.

There are several ways to protect yourself from theft. First, you should try making purchases on desktop computers, not your smartphone. The next time you pay for gas, use an ATM, or any stand-alone kiosk. And whenever possible, pay for goods and services with a credit card, not a debit card. Some hackers can set cameras nearby and record you entering the pin number of your debit card. They are also able to record the information on the magnetic strip of your card.

This gives hackers access to your financial information, so they can make withdrawals straight

from your bank account.

Though hackers have been increasingly successful stealing personal financial information, we may be on the cusp of a new technology which could potentially make credit cards extinct. This new technology is called Near Field Communication, more commonly referred to as NFC. This technology looks to take smartphones to an entirely new level. We currently enjoy using smart phones for emailing, texting, playing with countless apps and uploading Facebook photos.

NFC seeks to combine all of these smartphone features and our wallets together.

When two NFC-compatible devices are within a few inches

of one another, they will wirelessly transfer data. This would mean you can pay your bar tab, rent movies or pay for parking meters and vending machines by simply tapping your smartphone. The proximity of the wireless transfer of data significantly reduces the chances of theft.

To gain a head start on this new industry, credit card companies are partnering with firms such as Verizon (NYSE: VZ), AT&T (NYSE: T), and others to develop NFC-enabled devices.

Currently, smartphones are essential to many individuals’ daily lives. But in the future, smartphones will also contain a person’s life. This technology is expected to replace credit cards,

business cards, driver’s licenses, student IDs, fake IDs and even the actual keys to our cars and homes.

Until this technology is fully developed, I would recommend following the steps previously mentioned for protecting credit card usage and limiting online payments on mobile phones.

With an eye to the future, however, I would encourage investors to research tech companies and phone companies such as Verizon as they expand their research and development into NFC technologies.

Matthew’s column runs biweekly Wednesdays. He can be reached at m.robertson@cavalierdaily.

Churchill |Time, nostalgia blend University memories Continued from page B2 and average happenings hardly worth noting. The more time goes on, the more I realize this smoothie will be blended into a

milkshake of indistinguishably sweet memories.

I wonder, then, about the nature of the stories which I will tell in a few years. When asked about my first year at U.Va., will I tell tales

where each story inexplicably takes place on every friend’s birthday? Will each story take place in the same location? Will everyone I have ever known have been at the party? Will it

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Whatever the story ends up being in the end — a half-blended smoothie, a smooth-mixed milkshake, or perhaps eventually a

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deconstructed and clear-cut meal — I’m sure it will be delicious.

Emily’s column runs biweekly Wednesdays. She can be reached at e.churchill@cavalierdaily.com.