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City hosts first pride festival
Hundreds of Charlottesville residents gathered in Lee Park Saturday to celebrate LGBTQ communities. The City’s first ever gay pride festival was organized by Cville Pride, a community network that organizes events to promote equality in the area.
By Lavanya Yaleswarapu Cavalier Daily Staff Writer
The City of Charlottesville hosted its first ever gay pride festival Saturday afternoon in Lee Park to show support for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer communities. The festival, which was held at the site of last year’s Occupy Charlottesville protests , drew hundreds of individuals and featured live entertainment, food from local vendors and activities for children. Most significantly, however, the event allowed members of the LGBTQ communities to express themselves in a safe environment. “It’s about time,” said Amy Marshall, president of Cville Pride, a community network that organized the festival and other events to promote awareness of LGBTQ communities. “Charlottesville presents itself as the liberal capital of Virginia but it’s just not visible.”
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Cville Pride organized the event to allow members of the LGBTQ communities to celebrate their identities and to challenge social norms. “It’s an expression of who we are. It’s about time that people know that we are here and we are just like everyone else,” said Don Davenport, vice chair for outreach and membership for LGBT Democrats of Virginia Caucus, Even though Charlottesville has a vibrant gay community, there is still a stigma to declaring publicly your sexual or gender orientation, Marshall said. Samesex marriage is constitutionally banned in Virginia, and it is also legal for employers to terminate employees based on their orientation. “You don’t know the reaction you receive when you come out” Marshall said. “The community here was okay with being underground about their orientation which makes it harder for people to come out.”
IN BRIEF
Ga. Tech trounces Cavs
Fueled by the dazzling play of redshirt senior quarterback Tevin Washington and its vaunted triple-option offense, Georgia Tech throttled Virginia 56-20 Saturday to hand the Cavaliers their first defeat of the season. A week after surviving a 17-16 heart-thumping contest against Penn State, Virginia (2-1, 0-1 ACC) sputtered badly in its first game outside the friendly confines of Scott Stadium. The Cavaliers allowed 470 rushing yards on just 48 carries en route to surrendering the most points in a game since Illinois scored 63 in the 1999 MicronPC.com Bowl. Senior running back Orwin Smith led all rushers with 137 yards and a touchdown on six carries, and Washington finished with a team-high three rushing touchdowns for Georgia Tech. The Yellow Jackets’ first
offensive snap resulted in a 70-yard touchdown pass from Washington to sophomore fullback Zach Laskey on a wheel route. On Georgia Tech’s third play from scrimmage, Smith took an option pitch 77 yards to open up a 14-0 lead just 4:29 into the action. Virginia responded with one of its most impressive drives of the year, culminating in a 19-yard touchdown pass from junior quarterback Michael Rocco to emerging star sophomore tight end Jake McGee to cap an eight-play, 71-yard drive and pull the Cavaliers within seven at the 6:27 mark. Virginia would get no closer. Wa s h i n g t o n s p r i n t e d 6 0 yards up the middle on the first offensive play following the McGee touchdown before finishing the drive with a oneyard touchdown plunge on fourth-and-goal to make the
score 21-7 at the end of the first quarter. Two more rushing scores from Washington and backup redshirt freshman quarterback Vad Lee in the second quarter made it 35-7 at halftime. In a loss with little silver lining, the play of sophomore quarterback Phillip Sims in relief of Rocco offered one small bright spot. The highlytouted transfer looked sharp in the fourth quarter, going 6-for-8 for 56 yards and two touchdown passes. Next week may prove an even more arduous challenge as Virginia travels to Corpus Christi, Texas to face No. 16 Texas Christian. The Horned Frogs improved to 2-0 by defeating Kansas 20-6 Saturday in their Big-12 debut after leaving the Mountain West Conference this year. —compiled by Senior Associate Editor Fritz Metzinger
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Teammates help junior quarterback Michael Rocco up during U.Va.’s 56-20 loss.
BOV talks strategic plan Mead awards Sullivan’s forced resignation, reinstatement lead to committee’s creation By Anna Perina
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A desire for innovation lingered in the small auditorium of the Harrison Institute Friday as the Board of Visitors convened its inaugural meeting of the special committee on strategic planning. The 10-person strategic planning committee, crafted in the aftermath of University President Teresa Sullivan’s forced resignation and hasty reinstatement this summer, is charged with creating a plan to allow the University to keep abreast of changes in higher education. “In the spirit of leading rather than responding, the time is right to undertake a strategic plan that will examine our very purpose and reason for being,
Rector Helen Dragas joined the Board’s discussion of the University’s future Friday in the small auditorium of the Harrison Institute.
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faculty grants Endowment money funds 10 professors’ ‘dream ideas,’ aims to strengthen student, teacher relations By Jasmine Kang
Cavalier Daily Staff Writer The Mead Endowment Advisory Board recognized 10 professors’ commitment to honoring a tradition of mentorship and off-campus learning. At its 11th annual dinner Saturday evening in Alumni Hall the endowment reaffirmed its mission of ensuring that quality interactions between professors and their students are not lost. The nine College professors and lone Darden professor will receive honoree grants this fall to fund “Dream Ideas,” projects that will strengthen relationships between faculty and their students by facilitating their social interaction.
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Former students of Ernest “Boots” Mead, a former University music professor, founded the endowment to honor Mead’s legacy. Although Mead officially retired in 1996, he continues to lead a fourth-year seminar every spring. “He [Mead] touched so many students over so many years,” said Tom Darbyshire, the board’s chairman and a 1982 University graduate. “The purpose of the grants is to encourage more faculty to walk in the footsteps of Boots.” Mead fund recipient Assistant Arabic Prof. Hanadi Al-Samman said he wanted to use the grant to organize cultural nights and Please see Endowment, Page A3
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Afghan soldier kills US troops Four American combatants die during inside attack; civilian casualties strain local relations By Richard Leiby and Greg Jaffe The Washington Post
Pentagon to overhaul B61 nuclear bombs
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In this 2006 photo, technicians at the Pantex Plant in Amarillo, Texas, where nuclear bombs are disassembled for testing, prepare to start the evaluation process on a B61 nuclear bomb, the oldest in the arsenal. The B61 is about to undergo a major overhaul that the Pentagon estimates will cost up to $10 billion, or $25 million per bomb.
U.S. fails to deter hackers Federal government cybersecurity requires private sector partners, analyst says By Ellen Nakashima The Washington Post
The federal government has taken a “failed approach” to cybersecurity, with efforts that focus on reducing vulnerabilities rather than actively deterring attackers, according to one of the FBI’s former top officials on the subject. Steven Chabinsky, a 17-year bureau veteran who stepped down this month as the FBI’s top cybersecurity lawyer, argued that the movement to set security standards for companies — which has been a goal for the Obama administra-
tion and the focus of congressional debate — is useful only “in the margins.” More important is to enable companies whose computer networks are targeted by criminals and foreign intelligence services to detect who is penetrating their systems and to take more aggressive action to defend themselves, Chabinsky said in his first interview since leaving office. “The FBI needs stronger partners in the private sector who can figure out who the bad guys are, and there needs to be much stronger relationships between the private sector, law
enforcement and the courts to ensure that all the legal authorities that exist can be brought to bear against cyberattackers,” he said. The remarks by Chabinsky are the latest warning from former top cybersecurity officials. Earlier this year, Shawn Henry, who recently retired as the FBI’s top cyber-sleuth, said that the government and the private sector, which controls the country’s critical computer networks, should work together to take more assertive action against sophisticated foreign adversaries.
Four U.S. troops were killed Sunday at a remote checkpoint in southern Afghanistan when a member of the Afghan security forces opened fire on them, military officials said. The attack brought to 51 the number of international troops shot dead by their Afghan partners this year. The insider attack came on the same day that NATO warplanes killed nine women gathering firewood in the mountains outside their village in an eastern province, according to local officials, adding to long-festering outrage here over civilian casualties. Although the coalition said it regretted any civilian deaths, the incident was likely to further strain relations between Afghans and the international forces. The weekend’s events touched the core of the U.S.-led war’s problems. The escalating insider attacks and continuing civilian casualties both deepen mistrust and alienate NATO forces from the people they are supposed to be protecting, undermining an already fragile partnership. The Americans and their coalition partners are training Afghan forces to take over responsibility for the nation’s security and enable the United States to pull out its combat troops by the end of 2014. The American troops were killed Sunday near a NATO installation in Zabul province, at a checkpoint staffed by both foreign and Afghan forces. (The United States did not immediately release information on which service branch the troops belonged to.) On Saturday, an Afghan gunman
thought to belong to the local police killed two British soldiers in southern Helmand province. The weekend killings marked an escalation of insider attacks on international troops here that coincided with Muslim rage worldwide that was sparked by a film that defames the Islamic prophet Muhammad. It was unclear, however, whether the shootings were connected to the unreleased “Innocence of Muslims” movie, snippets of which can be seen on the Internet. Even so, the inflammatory movie, along with insider killings, have had a significant impact on U.S. military and Afghan Army operations in some areas during the past three days. Top NATO officers ordered their field commanders to conduct risk assessments and determine whether to postpone or scale back some missions in response to the recent Afghan anger. In Wardak Province, a restive area south of Kabul, some commanders appeared to misinterpret the guidance and postponed several major operations for three days. Because Afghan Army commanders in Wardak Province were reluctant to patrol without support from U.S. troops, they also chose to cancel the planned missions. The pause in Wardak Province had initially been planned for only two days, but U.S. commanders extended it in the immediate aftermath of a Friday night attack by the Taliban on Camp Bastion — a large British base in Helmand Province — so that U.S. troops could focus on internal-base security in case similar insider attacks were launched.
Arab anti-American protests dissipate Northern African turmoil, four U.S. citizens’ deaths in Libya challenge President Barack Obama’s support of Middle East revolutions By Glen Carey Bloomberg News
Protests against a film denigrating Islam eased Saturday after mobs stormed the American embassy compound in Tunisia and targeted diplomatic missions in Sudan and Yemen. Clashes in Cairo’s Tahrir Square stopped Saturday after Egypt’s main Islamist groups called for calm. Police secured the square and arrested 220 people, the country’s Interior
Ministry said in a statement. In Tunis, where smoke billowed from the U.S. embassy Friday, a high security presence deterred protesters from taking to the streets. The days of turmoil across the Arab and Muslim world put new Arab Spring leaders in nations such as Tunisia and Egypt on the defensive as Islamists showed their power to exploit popular discontent. The violence also kept President Barack Obama under pressure
over his support for the Arab revolutions and over questions about whether his administration was caught unprepared for the threats to U.S. personnel and property. The bodies of the four Americans killed in a Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, were returned to the United States Friday in a solemn ceremony at Andrews Air Force Base near Washington. Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton paid tribute to
the fallen Americans, including slain ambassador Christopher Stevens, who played a pivotal role in helping Libyan rebels topple the Moammar Gadhafi dictatorship. “Even as voices of suspicion and mistrust seek to divide countries and cultures from one another, the United States of America will never retreat from the world,” Obama told an audience of more than 200 in an open hangar. “We will never stop working for the dignity
and freedom that every person deserves, whatever their creed, whatever their faith. That’s the essence of American leadership.” Clinton said “reasonable people and responsible leaders” in Arab and Muslim nations need to restore security and hold accountable those who commit violence. “The people of Egypt, Libya, Yemen and Tunisia did not trade the tyranny of a dictator for the tyranny of a mob,” Clinton said.
Climate change worsens allergies Global warming effects, long, hot, dry summers likely cause increased illnesses, doctors contend By Darryl Fears The Washington Post
As one of the hottest summers ever recorded drew to a close, Jay Portnoy watched patients stream into Children’s Mercy Hospital and Clinics in Kansas City, Mo., coughing and wheezing with asthma, 20 admissions per day for the week that started with Labor Day, he said. They were coming in from what Portnoy, chief of the hospital’s allergy, asthma and immunology section, called a perfect storm — hot, dry air; low humidity; trees and plants that bloomed early; months of high pollen counts. An allergy bomb targeting the face and lungs. “This past spring, people were having really bad eye problems” that physicians in his part of the country do not see that early, Portnoy said. “Usually it’s nasal, but now it’s the eyes.” Asthma
cases normally show up at the end of September, he said. Allergists are seeing illnesses earlier in the season after the third warmest summer on record in the Lower 48. Several studies have shown that the allergy season has grown longer because of global warming. At the end of this summer, allergists say they expect to have data to prove it is having a severe impact on the public. Although emergency rooms are hopping and doctors are busy, they do not have hard data to show increased sickness from allergies is linked to the warming climate. No one has done a study to show that, said several state health officials and the directors of professional organizations. But Portnoy is convinced that something weird is happening. “It’s been a secular trend, gradually getting worse,” he said.
KOREAN GRADUATES FLOOD MARKET
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University students Eun-Hye Kwak, 23, left, and Yeon-Ji Kim, 23, look at employment information booklets at a job fair organized in 2010 by South Korea’s Ministry of Knowledge and Economy. Flooded with more college graduates than its economy needs, South Korea is now encouraging high school students to go directly into the workforce.
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BOV | Sullivan expects ‘strategic vision’ draft by June Continued from page A1 and then develop a roadmap for our future,” wrote committee co-chairs Frank Atkinson and Linwood Rose in a letter, distributed at the Board meeting. The pair urged Sullivan to create a steering committee charged with strategic planning that would incorporate a broad range of perspectives in setting University goals, not just the Board’s. Atkinson and Rose acknowledged the ultimate responsibility and framework for developing the strategic plan would be Sullivan’s.
“This is ideally a dynamic process,” Sullivan said. “[It’s] the beginning of a five-year period in which a planning office would implement the plan, monitor metrics, and perhaps identify modifications that need to be made to the plan rather than have an episodic one shot effort at planning.” Provost John Simon and J. Milton Adams, newly-appointed senior vice provost, head the committee working to address concerns about the University’s future national standing, faculty retention, affordability and use of technology. Simon and Adams discussed
the need to coordinate the strategic plans of the individual schools with that of the University as a whole. Simon emphasized the need for these goals to be “tangible ... rather than inspirational.” In the months since the June controversy the Board’s has attempted to address the issue facing the University and higher education by creating the committee — a committee that was, in turn, given another nine months to develop a strategic vision of the University. Sullivan has asked for a draft to be presented at the Board meeting next June.
The Finance Committee meeting also considered the difficulties of meeting the University’s current and future financial challenges. The University is currently aiming to implement the model by June 2014. But both the search for a chief financial officer and chief operating officer are yet to be completed. In an interview with The Cavalier Daily last week Sullivan said the search committee was close to finding a replacement for former Chief Operating Officer Michael Strine, who left the post last month after just 13 months in office. Former Chief Financial Officer Yoke San
Reynolds retired at the end of last semester. Colette Sheehy, vice president for management and budget, presented plans for a new internal financial model which is expected to provide the University with tools to operate more “efficiently in a future constrained by limited resources,” and will be phased-in during the next two budget cycles. Sheehy said once the system is fully implemented it will foster innovation among deans, administrators and faculty by following incentive- and revenue-based allocation models.
Endowment | Alumni introduce Mead Money, Kinnier award Continued from page A1 a trip to Washington D.C. to enhance students’ understanding of Middle Eastern culture and the Arab Spring. “I hope to show students that what we’re studying in class is not detached from what is currently going on in the Middle East,” he said. The alumni group also presented the first ever Kinnier
award to Assoc. Engineering Prof. Dana Elzey, who plans to use the funds to create a project that pairs Engineering School students with high-schoolers to encourage them to pursue engineering degrees. As part of Elzey’s proposed plan, third-year Engineering students would visit local high schools to present engineering concepts to students that attract them to future careers in the field.
“All students are looking for that one-on-one relationship with their professors and this is another opportunity to engage with them,” Engineering Dean Jim Aylor said. The board also announced an initiative Saturday to award $20 “Mead Money” vouchers to every faculty member in the College. Jennifer Erickson, a member of the endowment’s board and 1998 College alumna, said in an email
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ment included Assoc. Art History Prof. Matthew Affron , Assoc. Music Prof. Ted Coffey, Assoc. English Prof. Jennifer Greeson, Assistant Physics Prof. Craig Group, Assistant Biology Prof. Melissa A. Henriksen, East Asian Studies Lecturer Tomoko Marshall, Assistant Drama Prof. Caitlin McLeod, Assoc. Italian Prof. Adrienne Ward and Assistant Darden Prof. Yael Grushka-Cockayne.
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Opinion Monday, September 17, 2012
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.” —Thomas Jefferson
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Certain figures and groups have enjoyed the privilege of being both subject and editor of their news stories via the process of quote review. Quote review is the journalistic practice of allowing on-the-record sources — who may or may not be anonymous — to scrutinize and change what words of theirs could appear in a story. Other press institutions are beginning to dispel the practice, and we are not following fashion but principle in deciding to do likewise. The strikes against quote review are numerous and intuitive. The right to review quotes is often a stipulation an interviewee will attach before meeting a journalist. In some cases, sources may want to edit their phraseology to sound more apt or eloquent; in other instances, they may have minor concerns about context or change their points altogether. Whatever the result — whether some words are altered or simply approved — the mere fact of having to submit a news story to an intermediary before publication is a conflict of interest and example of censorship. Eliminating quote review is not so reporters can retain juicy “gotcha” moments, though this may be corollary, but to retain their independence regardless of what all is said. Upon entering an interview, journalists can work
out with sources whether material is on-the-record. Once this is made clear, removing quote review will encourage sources to conduct interviews with more self-awareness knowing that they cannot go back to make changes. Proponents of quote review say that, without it, reporting could become less accurate. In former days, quote review may have been necessary to verify what was actually said in a one-on-one interview, but now it is largely accessory thanks to the technology of digital recording. As the political season gains its momentum, more newspapers are deciding against quote review: not on some sudden realization, but to ensure that it’s not the sources who set journalistic policy. The New York Times reports that White House speakers and campaign strategists especially enjoy reviewing their quotes; these and other parties will continue to strong-arm the press so long as newspapers allow it. Thus, in following other organizations — including McClatchy’s Washington Bureau and The Harvard Crimson — we will no longer adhere to such methods. Such a deliberate step is taken in hopes that sources no longer take for granted having the final review on their quotes when meeting with press, and also to uphold our integrity.
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Featured online reader comment “Why haven’t the students demanded that Helen Dragas resign? This is an impossible situation for President Sullivan and UVa. Until Helen Dragas is gone it will remain untenable and an embarrassment for the University’s reputation. Helen Dragas and her incompetence is still the main national news. Students have the power to end this and my hope is they will soon.“
“UVa Parent,” responding to Krista Pedersen’s Sept. 13 article, “Community seeks closure”
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The life-time tenure of federal judges should be reconsidered
ONSTITUTION day last thirty years Republican is a time for celebrat and Democratic presidents ing our great found- have increasingly appointed ing document, but also for younger and younger jusconsidering possible amend- tices in order to ensure ments. An their policies DAVID M. O’BRIEN “oldie, but persist long after goodie” is they have left the GUEST VIEWPOINT amending Oval Office. By the Article III, Section 1 pro- contrast, the justices on the vision providing for basi- European Court of Justice cally life-time tenure for and the national constitufederal judges, subject to tional courts established in impeachment — in histori- Germany and other Westcal perspective, only twelve ern European countries federal judges have been after World War II all have impeached and eight con- fixed terms of service. And victed. During the Progres- there is no indication that sive era, term limits for fed- the fixed terms of European eral judges were proposed judges have compromised because the Supreme Court judicial independence. A was increasingly out of step fixed term of, say, fifteen with the constitutional poli- years for federal judges tics of the country. Much would also enhance the later a young attorney in democratic accountabilthe Reagan administration ity of the federal judiciary, — who is now Chief Jus- as well as perhaps dimintice John G. Roberts, Jr. — ish the partisan fights over in a 1983 memo lamented Senate confirmation of fedthe expansion of judicial eral judges. power, observing that “the Constitution is safe when David M. O’Brien is the the Court is out of session.” Leone Reaves and George W. The problem is that in the Spicer Professor of Politics.
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N OUR age,” George Orwell UVA administration, and has sevwrote, “there is no such eral times turned the journalistic thing as ‘keeping out of integrity button to the ‘off’ posipolitics.’ All issues are political tion when their (sic) interests issues, and politics itself is a mass are threatened. Missing person’s (sic) cases, students of lies, evasions, folly, dropping dead on hatred, and schizoTIM THORNTON campus, and so phrenia.” Nothing has OMBUDSMAN on. He occasionhappened in the 66 ally will correct an years since “Politics and the English Language” was error in content or sources, but published to diminish the truth all in all he is part of the team in Orwell’s words. Given the cur- that keeps honesty, transparency, rent state of discourse, perhaps or unbiased coverage/debates paranoia and cynicism should from causing too much trouble join Orwell’s list. People seem on Grounds. Like the rest of the too inclined to believe negative local media, the Cav Daily and Tim information — not the positive; Thornton will play along.” I do not work for the University’s that would make them seem naïve — and too ready to believe that administration, literally or figueveryone, particularly everyone in ratively. I am a hired gun, a freepolitics and the media, is working lancer — a term Sir Walter Scott their own angles, completely indif- apparently coined to describe a medieval mercenary. The Cavalier ferent to duty. Skepticism is healthy; cynicism Daily’s Managing Board employs is a cancer. It requires almost me, which could seem to be a connothing beyond a reptilian reflex flict of interest, but it is difficult to to dismiss inconvenient facts and see how that appearance can be irritating people, to avoid consid- avoided. Who else would pay the eration and thought. A natural paper’s ombudsman? How would outgrowth of cynicism that is also that paymaster prove its lack of part of its foundation is a habit of bias? How could The Cavalier presenting assertions as if they Daily be an independent newswere facts, without offering any paper if it were forced to publish evidence beyond a knowing shoul- a weekly critique of the paper’s der shrug. One thing that allows performance — a critique paid for cynical assertions to take the place by someone else? The only guarantee of the integof facts in public discussions is the failure to take them seriously, to rity of this process is the integrity dismiss them as so outrageous and of the Managing Board and the so clearly untrue that no one could integrity of the ombudsman. While believe them. Even the most ludi- I have sometimes disagreed with crous attacks require a response the board’s judgment, I have never because some people will inter- questioned the group’s integrity. pret silence as admission. Rep- My integrity is something you are etition and time give the color of free to criticize, of course, but I truth to lies and the appearance of have never hesitated to bite the substance to fevered fantasy. That hand that feeds me — gnaw on it, is why I am responding to some- even — when the situation called one writing as “Human Rights” for it. The idea that I help keep who posted this response to one of “honesty, transparency, or unbiased coverage/debates from causmy recent columns: “Tim Thornton works for the ing too much trouble on Grounds”
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A case that won’t close The Citizens United v. F.E.C. Supreme Court ruling could be challenged by an amendment
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Tale of two founders A remarkable achievement, the Constitution’s legacy has been debated since Madison and Jefferson
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ODAY, September 17, has the “temple of our history” as been officially desig President Hoover called it on nated “Constitution its dedication. One accesses Day” by a statute passed the Constitution by mounting by Congress in 2004. It a huge staircase to the mighty commemovault in which JAMES W. CEASER rates the Conit is encased. GUEST VIEWPOINT stitution of the There the parchUnited States of ment resides, America, which the delegates about midway between the to the Philadelphia conven- White House and the Capitol, tion signed on this day in its power radiating out over 1787, and, more broadly, the the institutions of our governentire tradition of constitu- ment. tionalism. The observance Should a constitution — is entirely appropriate. Not should the Constitution of the only is our Constitution still United States — have any elein effect after more than two ment of this emotional affect? centuries, but also — and This question was the subject here is a fact little known of one of the greatest debates and greatly underappreci- in American history, between ated — Americans of the late two of our founders and, as eighteenth century can be turns out, the two founders credited with originating the of this University: Thomas very practice of framing gov- Jefferson and James Madison. ernments under the authority Jefferson and Madison, who of a written constitution. This were usually in agreement, instrument, now very much in this case were at odds. Jeftaken for granted as the “nat- ferson thought of a constituural” way to establish govern- tion as higher law, but a law ments, stands as one of the that should only be in place most important contributions for a generation. Each gento modern political science. eration should write its own Our own Thomas Jefferson constitution. This plan would was among the earliest to ensure not only that each make this observation. In a generation actively consented letter penned in 1824, he told to the government and could his friend John Cartwright: accommodate innovations “Virginia, of which I am myself and improvements, but also a native and resident, was not that no generation should get only the first of the States, but, in the habit of respecting or I believe I may say, the first venerating that which came of the nations of the earth, before. His disdain for the which assembled its wise men mindset of veneration was peaceably together to form palpable: “Some men,” he a fundamental constitution, wrote, “look at constitutions to commit it to writing, and with sanctimonious reverplace it among their archives, ence, and deem them like where every one should be the ark of the covenant, too free to appeal to its text.” His- sacred to be touched. They torians of constitutionalism ascribe to the men of the may dispute whether South preceding age a wisdom more Carolina, rather than Vir- than human….” ginia, was actually first, but James Madison presented the claim about a written con- his views on this subject in stitution being devised here Federalist 49, one of the great seems sound. By this simple essays of American political mechanism, a number of new thought. It happens also to possibilities emerged: (1) the be my license plate. Madison government itself, includ- presents some of the practiing all of its officials, was cal reasons for keeping the now conceived to be under a same Constitution in effect, law higher than itself, a law with provision of course for that could be read, seen, and amendment. He notes, no understood by all citizens; doubt from his experience at (2) this higher law itself, as the Philadelphia convention, the practice developed, was the enormous difficulty of a product of a special pro- ever achieving agreement, cess responsive to the larger and he observes the problems public, not the act of any of that would come in dealthe ordinary institutions of ing with other nations, who the government; and (3) gov- would know that the whole ernment could be established, structure of government not metaphorically but actu- might soon be changed. But ally, by consent following a above all, he speaks of the reaperiod of public deliberation. sonableness of a public mind Yet if Americans as early as that can appreciate the merit 1776 discovered this idea of of respecting certain achievea written constitution, they ments of the past. Other than initially had only a vague “a nation of philosophers,” notion of what its general which cannot exist, “the most status and standing would rational government will not be in the minds and hearts of find it a superfluous advanthe citizens. Today, we tend to tage to have the prejudices of read back into the concept of the community on its side.” a constitution many notions James Madison is often conthat developed later and that sidered the father of the Conare by no means entailed by stitution for the central role the literal thing of a charter he played at the Philadelphia written on paper — or parch- convention. He also merits ment. Above all, most associ- the title of being the father of ate the Constitution — and the our idea of what the Constituideal of a constitution — with tion should be: an object not something that is enduring, of cult worship, but of a ratiopermanent and an object of nal reverence. respect and even reverence; Today, as you cross the it is something that, beyond street, between Jefferson’s its letter, represents a symbol Rotunda and Madison Hall, of the American nation. Just you can best commemorate consider how Americans Constitution Day by revisiting care for the original text. It the arguments of these two is housed in a solemn build- great American statesmen. ing in Washington, D.C., the James W. Ceaser is the Harry National Archives, which resembles a great temple, F. Byrd Professor of Politics.
N 2010 the Supreme Court Amendments to the Constituissued one of its most contro tion. A listing of the state, local, versial decisions in Citizens and federal proposals can be United v. F.E.C., which found that found at <http://www.pfaw.org/ corporations and labor unions issues/government-the-people/ citizens-united-vhave a liberty fec-constitutionalinterest in freeJAMES S. TODD remedies-list-ofdom of speech GUEST VIEWPOINT local-state-and-f> that is protected One example of by the First, Fifth, and 14th Amendments to the an amendment, introduced in Constitution that allows them the Senate by Vermont Senator to spend as much money as Bernie Sanders, provides, in they want in federal and state part, “The rights protected by the elections. The First Amendment Constitution of the United States provides, in relevant part, that are the rights of natural persons Congress shall make no law and do not extend to for-profit abridging the freedom of speech. corporations, limited liability The Fifth Amendment provides companies, or other private that no person shall be deprived entities established for business of life, liberty or property with- purposes or to promote business out due process of law. And the interests under the laws of any 14th amendment provides that state, the United States, or any no state shall deprive any person foreign state.” There are at least three main of life, liberty or property withproblems with such an amendout due process of law. As a result of the Court’s deci- ment. First, opponents argue sion, which partially overturned that since corporations or unions earlier decisions upholding cam- are in essence associations of paign finance laws, corpora- citizens they should have the tions and unions are allowed same constitutional rights as to spend unlimited amounts of citizens. Second, given that an money to advance positions for amendment would have to pass or against any candidate in an both houses of Congress with election as long as the expendi- a two-thirds vote and threetures are made independent of fourths of the state legislatures the candidate’s campaign. Most would have to approve it, the of the critics of the decision odds of ever getting it adopted decry the result: huge amounts are not good, especially in light of unregulated money flooding of the money that might be spent into elections. Now any member to ensure it was defeated. Third, of Congress or a state legislature the Bill of Rights has never been has to think carefully about any amended, and such an amendvote she or he casts, since if ment would represent the first that vote offends a corporation time that language had been or union that entity may spend added to the Constitution to limit unlimited amounts of money in the application of Bill of Rights the next election to try to ensure provisions. That was one of the major objections to an amendthat individual’s defeat. Since the decision was issued, ment to prohibit flag burning, there have been many calls, which never gained sufficient including a recent one from votes in the Senate. There are several arguments President Obama, for a constitutional amendment to limit the in favor of such an amendment. extent to which corporations or First, proponents contend that unions can be considered “per- it would not be violating the sons” under the Fifth and 14th spirit or the intention of the Bill
of Rights since the Bill of Rights was adopted to protect individual citizens from the newly powerful federal government, not to protect business entities. It is worth noting that the University’s founder, Thomas Jefferson, expressed concern about the potential political power of corporations. Second, allowing corporations or unions to spend as much as they like weakens the meaning of free speech for everyone else since the average individual, i.e. the great majority of citizens, could not hope to compete in the marketplace of ideas. Third, giving such an advantage to corporations and unions corrupts the very idea of representative democracy. The only interests that will be well represented are the interests of those with massive amounts of money. The Supreme Court could, of course, revisit the subject and reconsider Justice Kennedy’s conclusion in Citizens United that independent expenditures by corporations “do not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption.” No right is absolute, and the Court has held that government regulation of even the most fundamental rights can be upheld if the government can show a compelling interest for that regulation. Preventing the corruption of the political process would seem to provide that compelling interest. Whether a majority of the Supreme Court’s justices will eventually reach such a conclusion remains to be seen and will depend on the extent to which the huge amounts of money now flowing into elections increases the perception of corruption. It may also depend on who wins the presidential election and gets to appoint the next justices to the Supreme Court. James S. Todd is a lecturer in the Department of Politics.
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The issue of religious liberty in America can be understood as a dialectic between two interpretations of the First Amendment
The more important free exerE AT Mr. Jefferson’s University owe it to our cise issue in our time is the right f o u n d e r t o of people to practice their reliunderstand the basic principles gion in a pervasively regulated of religious liberty. His Virginia society. Can Native Americans continue their Statute for Religious ancient practice Freedom, enacted DOUGLAS LAYCOCK of using peyote in 1786, was one of GUEST VIEWPOINT in their worship his three proudest services? The accomplishments. Nearly everyone is for reli- Supreme Court said no, but Congious liberty in principle, but gress said yes. Can people under particular applications are often 21 receive communion wine? controversial. Religious liberty That’s illegal in most states, but has been caught up in the cul- the law is never enforced, and it ture wars. Too many Ameri- would likely violate protections cans think that religious liberty for religious liberty if it were. Exempting religious practices means whatever is good for conservative believers, and too from regulation becomes conmany others think it means troversial when an organized whatever limits or controls those interest group is pushing for regulation. The hot-button issue of believers. Each side emphasizes one of the moment is whether religious the two Religion Clauses, and institutions can be required to tries to minimize the other. The cooperate in providing medical Free Exercise Clause forbids any treatments they find morally law “prohibiting the free exer- reprehensible — contraception, cise” of religion. The Establish- sterilization and the morningment Clause prohibits any law after pill. Can caterers, pho“respecting an establishment of tographers and musicians be religion.” An established reli- required to personally assist gion is a religion supported by with same-sex wedding ceremothe government. So one clause nies, even if they believe that says that government cannot marriage is a religious relationrestrict the private exercise of ship and same-sex marriage religion, and the other says that a sacrilege? Can a church that government cannot itself sup- is new to a community build a place of worship in the face of port religion. These two clauses were not an not-in-my-backyard land use awkward compromise between regulations? The free exercise of religion religious and anti-religious factions. Religious minorities in the does not entitle anyone to inflict 1780s, mostly evangelical Prot- significant harm on others. But estants, successfully demanded the political forces seeking to both clauses. They believed that regulate religious believers government support for religion and religious institutions have was as dangerous as direct gov- shown a remarkable willingernment interference. Govern- ness to regulate for symbolic ment support for religion taxed reasons, without proof of actual people to support religions they harm. And they have denied that did not believe in. In recent anyone has a constitutional right memory, it had forced people to to actually practice his religion attend religious services they did — “exercise” it — as opposed to not believe in. And government merely believing it. Before you support corrupted true religion, argue for regulating someone by making religion dependent else’s religious practice, stop to on state support and subject to ask yourself whether they are majority opinion about what really inflicting harm. Or are they just declining to work affirkinds of religion to support. matively for your agenda? Or Free Exercise Nearly everyone understands do you just find them annoying? and agrees that government Only compelling reasons justify cannot ban a particular religion. interfering in someone else’s But even this principle is being religious exercise. Establishment tested in scattered disputes Americans agree that governaround the country, where cities are trying to prevent Muslims ment should not pay the salaries of ministers or the costs of buildfrom building mosques.
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ing and maintaining churches. We disagree much more about the terms on which government can pay for education or social services delivered by religious organizations. The Supreme Court’s answer is that government can pay religious providers for secular services, so long as the recipients of those services have a free choice between religious and secular providers. That has been controversial, but the hottest-button issue is government-sponsored prayers and religious displays in schools and public meetings, in courthouses and city parks. Here, the blinders are on the religious side. Those who wants prayers at every public event seem unable to understand why religious minorities — nonbelievers and believers of other faiths — do not want to attend someone else’s prayer service, however short, as a condition of participating in public events. Nor do they seem to understand how prayer in these circumstances becomes politicized, dependent on maintaining its local majority. As a community becomes more pluralistic, as a local super-majority becomes a mere majority, governmentsponsored prayers become more negotiated, more ecumenical, less satisfying to their original supporters. Do we pray in Jesus’ name, or not? There is no good answer to that question at a government-sponsored event. Leaving Jesus out seems incomplete to many Christians; putting Jesus in seems blasphemous to many Jews, and exclusionary to many other non-Christians. And any prayer at all will feel exclusionary to the roughly 50 million nonbelievers in America. The Two Clauses Working Together Religious liberty is for everybody, believers and nonbelievers alike. The two Religion Clauses are equally important. Protecting everyone’s belief and practice with respect to religion means that each of us must sometimes limit what we demand of our fellow citizens and limit what we impose on our fellow citizens.
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Douglas Laycock is the Robert E. Scott Distinguished Professor of Law.
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WOMEN’S SOCCER
Cavs tie UNC, extend streak
No. 5 Virginia continues nine-game unbeaten run, draws against ACC foe No. 6 North Carolina 2-2 By Michael Eilbacher Cavalier Daily Associate Editor
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Senior forward Caroline Miller scored two goals for the second straight game. The two-time ACC Player of the Week in 2011 matched teammate freshman forward Makenzy Doniak atop the ACC leaderboard with seven goals.
The No. 5 Virginia women’s soccer team saw its eight-game winning streak come to an end Sunday in a back-and-forth 2-2 tie against ACC rival No. 6 North Carolina. Despite two more goals from senior forward Caroline Miller, which put her in a tie atop the ACC goals leaderboard with teammate freshman forward Makenzy Doniak, the Tar Heels (4-2-2, 0-1-1 ACC) could not be defeated. North Carolina capitalized on its chances to become the first team to score multiple goals against the Cavaliers (8-1-1, 1-0-1 ACC) this season. Virginia had allowed just two goals in its previous eight games combined, but the Tar Heels matched that total with two breakaway goals in a span of 30
minutes. Virginia seemed poised to score first in the 42nd minute as Doniak fired a shot from the top of the box toward goal, but the ball just missed high over the crossbar. One minute after Doniaks’ near-miss, North Carolina junior forward Kealia Ohai took a through ball from freshman midfielder Reilly Parker and easily beat junior goalkeeper Danielle DeLisle to take a 1-0 lead into the break. “You never like to lose momentum like that in the first half,” coach Steve Swanson said of Ohai’s goal. “I felt we were a pass away ... from getting in behind and getting chances, and we emphasized that point [at halftime], that if we can just take care of the ball, and just make one better pass, it could Please see W Soccer, Page B3
FIELD HOCKEY
U.Va. dominates Miami for win No. 9 team rides Selenski’s hat trick; 6-1 victory against RedHawks improves home record to 4-0 By Matthew Comey
Cavalier Daily Associate Editor In its first home game in nearly two weeks, the No. 9 Virginia field hockey team improved to 4-0 in Charlottesville with a 6-1 victory against Miami of Ohio Saturday. The victory was powered by a strong overall team effort, but it was the play of redshirt senior forward Paige Selenski that sealed the win. Selenski scored three times for her third hat trick of the season and took eight of the Cavaliers’ (7-2) 14 shots. “[The game] went pretty well for the most part,” Selenski said. “We definitely have some things we need to improve on, but I thought we were able to move the ball around very well today.”
The Cavaliers broke through against the RedHawks (2-5) with a crafty goal off a broken penalty corner six minutes into the game. Redshirt senior Michelle Vittese found junior forward Elizabeth Hanks in a crowd near the goal, where Hanks then ripped her second goal of the season. “It was actually a messed up corner,” Vittese said. “It was supposed to come out and go to [junior back] Elly [Buckley], who hits it in. There was a miscommunication with the insert, so I ended up just pushing it in the air towards Elizabeth [Hanks], hoping she would get a touch on it, and she put it home.” Just two minutes later, the Cavaliers struck again when Please see Field Hockey, Page B3
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Redshirt senior forward Paige Selenski recorded her third hat trick of the season to pace the offense. Selenski returned to the team this season after redshirting in 2011 to play for the United States National Team.
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Volleyball
No. 24 Xavier’s free kick goal in 85th minute evens score for 1-1 tie
salvages weekend
Late goal spoils near win Virginia rallies,
Team overcomes two-set deficit against Liberty Saturday after Friday’s Virginia Tech sweep By Peter Nance
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Freshman midfielder Brian James scored his first career goal in the 67th minute to give the Cavaliers a short-lived 1-0 lead. James made a run down the sideline before sending a crossing ball off a Musketeer defender and into the net.
By Ben Baskin
Cavalier Daily Associate Editor The Virginia men’s soccer team came tantalizingly close to adding another signature victory to its early season résumé Friday night at home against No. 24 Xavier. Instead, a late goal by Musketeer junior midfielder Gino De Paoli forced the Cavaliers to settle for a 1-1 draw. Virginia (3-2-1, 1-0 ACC)
seemed poised to hold on for a 1-0 victory until Xavier’s (4-0-2) De Paoli scored on a breathtaking free kick from 30 yards out with just five minutes remaining. The late equalizer sent the game into a sudden death overtime period, which ended in a stalemate. The tie keeps the Musketeers unbeaten on the season while snapping their four-game winning streak. But their six-game unbeaten streak remains intact
and is the program’s longest since 1995. “I’m disappointed in that we were winning with five minutes left and weren’t able to see it through,” Virginia coach George Gelnovatch said. “But Xavier is a good, playoff caliber team. They are a tough, experienced team, with a handful of very good college soccer players.” Please see M Soccer, Page B3
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Playing in front of the largest crowd of the season — one that included University President Teresa Sullivan — in a game designated an Orange Passport event by the Hoo Crew, the Virginia volleyball team came out flat against the Hokies. The Cavaliers were swept 23-25, 15-25 and 17-25 in their first of two matches at the Marriott Cavalier Classic, falling apart after a hard-fought first game by hitting .000 in the second game, tallying 13 more hitting errors, eight fewer blocks and hitting 26 percent lower the rest of the match. “We were just not playing together as a team,” freshman Natalie Bausback said. “We weren’t prepared.” The defining moment may have come on the play that ended the first game. Virginia had inched closer after trailing much of the round to pull within one, 23-24. A strong hit from the Cavaliers forced Virginia Tech to respond with a sloppy, slowmoving over-pass. But no one
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from Virginia played the ball, and it fell in the middle of the Cavaliers’ side, giving the Hokies a first game win. “It just took a lot of wind out of our sails,” coach Dennis Hohenshelt said of the play. After that gaffe, the team was unable to regain the form that had kept them close in the first game. The Cavaliers’ last advantage in points came with a meager 2-1 lead in the second frame. As disappointing as the performance against Virginia Tech was, the team showed impressive grit by responding with a hard-fought win against Liberty. Through the first two games against the Flames (8-4, 0-0 Big South), it appeared the Cavaliers were on their way to being swept two nights in a row. The team dropped the first two rounds of the match and was within one game of being held without a win in the entire tournament. But the team rallied from an early 3-7 deficit to tie the third game at 8-8 before ultimately winning 25-19. Please see Volleyball, Page B3
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CALENDAR Events this week
getting Technical annual concert highlights integration of digital sound, technology by Madie MacDonald
MONDAY3 MONDAY Twisted Tea Bazaar: Buxton // $7 // 8:30 p.m.
TUESDAY Jefferson Theater: Galactic // $20-$25 // 7 p.m. // featuring Corey Glover of Living Colour, with Moon Taxi The Southern: UPC Presents: Purity Ring // $10-$14 // 7 p.m. // with Headaches and Evian Christ
WEDNESDAY The Southern: Matthew Perryman Jones // $10 // 7 p.m. // with Matthew Mayfield and Callaghan Paramount Theater: Don Williams // $42-$87 // 7:30 p.m.
Old Cabell auditorium Friday night played host to a concert of the most peculiar sort, titled “TechnoSonics XIII: Music & Politics.” Technosonics, a course started at the University in 2006 by Assoc. Music Prof. Matthew Burtner, teaches students a variety of tools and music composition techniques, analyzing digital music and sound art. Even as a student currently enrolled in the course, I had no idea what to expect walking into the Old Cabell auditorium. The title of the evening’s show alone seemed bizarre — I was curious to see and hear just how the program’s two divergent themes would intertwine in the technosonics setting. As I entered the hall, the unfamiliar sounds that filled my ears immediately dashed any remaining expectations I might have had. The solo act on stage — musician Christopher Adler and his khaen, a free-reed bamboo mouth instrument from Laos and Northeast Thailand — proved the next hour and a half or so would not be your typical orchestral concert. In the opening piece, “Epilogue for a Dark Day,” Adler, both the composer and performer of the piece, played two seemingly very simple notes repeatedly for about 15 minutes. As the noises continued — while students around the auditorium
mumbled “I think we’ve heard this one before” — the two alternating notes morphed ever so slightly into a set of different notes, drawing the piece to a close and giving the performance an amusing twist. What came next, however, somehow managed to take a totally different turn in the sound arena while simultaneously stretching our understanding of music in the same way Adler had. This act featured Burtner on the saxophone, violinist Mark Menzies, Adler on the piano, Morris Palter on percussion and Maxwell Tfirn on a computer. Together, the five men and their instruments used a variety of both short and longer sounds to create some abstract form of “music.” Thirdyear Engineering student Clint Boyer said the odd mélange of sounds at the beginning of the piece seemed as though the players were “transporting [the audience] to a strange dystopian universe.” After 15 minutes and seven movements of the piece titled “(dis)Sensus,” Burtner played the final note of his work by squeaking a rubber duck. The following act only furthered the confusion of the students in the audience of the auditorium. This act, titled “Where is My Voice?” involved the piece’s composer Mara
Helmuth, a microphone and a computer. Based on the poem “Vet’s Sangha: 2005” by Steve Sunderland, Helmuth used the computer to play samples of the poem while incorporating eerie melodies with her own voice. The poem, initially created to bring Vietnam veterans, protestors and refugees together, stems from the belief that writing has the power to bridge cultural gaps. The combination of ethereal sounds and haunting political memories in Helmuth’s performance proved both eerie and mesmerizing. After a brief intermission, the final two acts, “Lullabies & Protest Songs, Suite No. 3” by Ted Coffey and “Respecting the First” by Judith Shatin, proved equally dissimilar to the archetypal orchestral concert, despite the fact that both acts featured conventional orchestral instruments such as the violin, piano, viola, cello and percussion. The concert provided the musicians and attendees an opportunity to reflect on the dynamic interactions of music and politics, generating an abstract and unconventional experience. If you feel so intrigued, when the next Technosonics concert occurs, you ought to go and see for yourself; perhaps you will enjoy interpreting the confusion of sounds.
THURSDAY Jefferson Theater: Tycho // $15-$17 // 8 p.m. // with The Album Leaf Paramount Theater: Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival // $22-$65 // 8 p.m.
This Week in Arts History
FRIDAY Kaleidoscope Room, Newcomb Hall: Fred Moten Colloquium // free // 3:30 p.m. The Southern: BGF Battle of the Bands // $5 // 6 p.m.
SATURDAY The Bridge: Poetry Reading and Musical Performance // free // 8 p.m. The Southern: Heavy Burner // $5 // 8 p.m. // with Horsefang and Earthling
SUNDAY Paramount Theater: Food, Wine and Film: Sideways // $25 // 5 p.m. The Southern: The Bright Side Tour: Aer // $12-$14 // 7:30 p.m. // with Yonas and David Dallas
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[the paramount, wed. 19] Your cowboy boots will be tapping when country legend Don Williams visits The Paramount this Wednesday. The 73-year old Texan singer released his latest album just this summer, proving he’s not in any hurry to slow down. Who knows when his retirement will come, but thankfully his next stop is only a trolley ride away. Although the tickets are a little steep for the typical college student, there’s no doubt the show will be worth it.
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Simon and Garfunkel reunite in Central Park Like a bridge over troubled water , there’s something about the harmonies of Simon & Garfunkel that is inexplicably soothing. This Wednesday marks the 31st anniversary of Simon & Garfunkel’s legendary free benefit concert in New York City’s Central Park . After splitting in 1970, the duo reunited in 1981 to play to a crowd of more than 500,000 people , making it the seventh-highest attended concert in known history. Playing a majority of their hits, the artists raised more than $50,000 to benefit the New York park. Known as The Concert in Central Park, the event stands as an important collective memory both for New Yorkers and for the music industry at large. Take a moment out of your schedule this week to check out the fabled concert and appreciate the irreproducible artistry of Simon & Garfunkel in either its video or live album version. —compiled by Andrew Shachat
[the southern, fri. 21] This Friday, bands will compete for the winning title at the Building Goodness Foundation’s Battle of the Bands at the Southern. Located on the Downtown Mall, the Southern’s funky setting is the perfect place to root on your favorite band. BGF is a charity organization that works to raise money and supply volunteers to build structures for communities in need. Foundation volunteers get in free, but for only $5 you can grab a ticket and support a great cause.
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W Soccer | Tar Heels’ Ohai matches Miller’s two tallies Continued from page B1 make a difference.” In spite of Ohai’s late goal, the first-half star for the Cavaliers was DeLisle, who made two crucial saves to keep the score close. “ D a n i e l l e p l ay e d s u p e r b today,” coach Steven Swanson said. “I thought she was the difference maker.” After a relatively poor first half by Virginia’s normally potent offense, the halftime adjustments Swanson made translated into immediate success for the attack out of the break. Miller received the key
pass from senior forward Erica Hollenberg in the 49th minute and dodged freshman goalkeeper Bryane Heaberlin to tie the score at 1-1. Five minutes later, Miller was back at it, taking a pass from sophomore midfielder Morgan Brian — back on the field for the first time this season after playing with the U-20 World Cup team — and once again beating Heaberlin to give the Cavaliers the lead. Miller’s outburst gave her an eighth career and second consecutive multi-goal game, leaving her with four goals in just two ACC games so far.
“ACC time is really the time when you want to show off ... everyone knows they’re going to be 10 times harder than the pre-ACC games,” Miller said. The Cavaliers looked primed to earn their second win all-time against the Tar Heels, but Ohai matched Miller’s performance with a game-saving second goal. In the 73rd minute, Ohai scored another breakaway tally to tie the game at 2-2 and snap Virginia’s lengthy win streak. “[Ohai’s] dangerous, and she’s such a workhorse,” Swanson said. “I didn’t like some of the positions we put ourselves in against her. We learned a lot
from this game, especially our back line.” Both teams scrambled for the rest of regulation searching for a potential go-ahead goal to no avail. In the 87th minute, Brian launched a header off of a corner kick, but Heaberlin made the save. In the first period of overtime, the only shot came from Virginia junior defender Molly Menchel, who launched an ambitious strike from the top of the box only to see it sail just over the crossbar. “I thought they did a great job,” Swanson said. “We got the lead, and obviously we were in
a good position, but we didn’t handle the pressure well. I thought we just turned it over too easily at times, and that led to their second goal.” Even though the Cavaliers failed to win for the first time in almost a month, they were able to extend their unbeaten streak to nine games against their toughest opponent to date. “I think getting a point against this team, in the end, we’ll look back and feel good about it,” Swanson said. “Given the way the game went, we both can come away and say we [earned] a point.”
Field Hockey | Selenski scores two second-half goals Continued from page B1 Selenski and sophomore forward Rachel Sumfest broke away toward the goal for a two-on-one attack. Selenski challenged the defender into the circle and passed the ball out right to Sumfest, who then crossed it back to Selenski for a score. The Cavaliers outshot the RedHawks 7-1 in the first half and led 2-0 at the break. “The team followed the game plan, which is good,” coach Michele Madison said. “We overcomplicated it a little at the end of the first half, but we regrouped at halftime and were able to reestablish the momen-
tum.” In the second half, Selenski exploded with two more goals, both of which were unassisted. Miami sophomore midfielder Ali Froede scored the lone RedHawk goal. But that wasn’t to be the only RedHawk goal of the night. Minutes later, a RedHawk defender tipped a shot by Buckley into the net for an “own goal” to push the lead to 4-1. Senior back Phoebe Willis added Virginia’s fifth goal in the 64th minute, earning her first tally of the season. “The strength of our system is really dependent on using our depth,” Madison said. “The season is long, so we have to
develop everybody and see what everybody can do.” Despite the lopsided score, Miami junior goalkeeper Sarah Mueller proved to be a challenge for the Virginia offense throughout the game, stifling many promising offensive possessions and finishing the game with seven saves. “Their goalie played a solid game,” Madison said. “Our first shots weren’t going in, but I was happy we continued to get in scoring position to take advantage of some of the rebounds, because [Mueller] is such a solid goalkeeper.” In the Cavalier net, sophomore goalkeeper Jenny Johnstone
earned the win after a strong first half shutout performance. In the second half, freshman Rebecca Holden replaced Johnstone and allowed just one goal. Before the game, Madison was recognized for earning her 300th career victory in a 5-4 win against then-No. 3 Old Dominion Sept. 2. Madison is only the 26th coach in Division I history to reach that mark and ranks 10th among active coaches in wins. She recorded 56 victories during her time at Temple, 155 at Michigan State and currently has 91 victories with the Cavaliers. “It’s such a great achievement
for Michele Madison,” Vittese said. “She’s fabulous — she’s one of the best coaches I’ve ever had. Playing underneath her is such an honor, and I’m so glad that I got to spend four years here with her.” The Cavaliers do not play again until Friday, when they travel to Chestnut Hill, MA to open ACC play against Boston College. “It was really important for us to regroup, get this one game, and set us up for this full week of practice,” Vittese said. “Today I wanted us to focus on just playing our style of hockey and our system. We played for us and not for our opponent.”
M Soccer | Xavier’s De Paoli finishes free kick, forces overtime Continued from page B1 The Cavaliers got on the board first as freshman midfielder Brian James scored his first career goal off a fortuitous defensive deflection in the 67th minute. “It’s a great feeling,” James said. “It’ll boost my confidence a lot ... I was glad to be able to put my team up one.” James’ fielded a throw-in while holding off two Musketeers who were fighting for the ball behind him. Spinning quickly off his left shoulder, James was able to split the defenders and race past them down the sideline. As he neared the end line, James stopped, pivoted and fired a low, hard probing cross in front of the goal. Senior goalkeeper Justin Marshall came out to save it, but a sliding Musketeer defender got a foot on the ball and redirected it into
the back of the net to give the Cavaliers the lead with barely more than 20 minutes remaining. “I tried to get it across the goal,” James said. “I knew someone had to hit it in, I’m just happy that it went in the back of the net.” Xavier — the two-time defending Atlantic-10 champion — has a veteran roster that highlights Virginia’s comparative youth. The Musketeers started seven upperclassmen on Friday including four seniors, compared to a Virginia starting group that consists of only two upperclassman, senior forward and tri-captain Will Bates and junior defender Kevin McBride. The disparity in experience was evident early as Xavier opened with three shots in the first 15 minutes of the game. Although none hit net, Virginia’s young roster was soundly
overmatched against the Musketeers aggression and organization in the early minutes. “I don’t know if we started the game with the right mentality, knowing that these guys can play,” Gelnovatch said. “It seems like in the first half [some of the first-years’] heads were spinning a little bit to be honest with you.” The opening period finished with neither team able to find the go-ahead goal despite firing a combined 13 shots. Virginia’s best chance to score came in the 14th minute when Bates got his head on a corner kick and directed it toward goal, only to see Marshall make a leaping save. Xavier had chances to score in the first half as well. In the 38th minute, a pair of Musketeers launched consecutive shots to opposite sides of the goal posts within seconds of each other,
yet were somehow unable to capitalize. The Cavaliers found their footing after the break, however, regaining their composure and outplaying Xavier for long periods of the second half. After allowing seven shots in the first period, Virginia permitted just four in the second half and overtime. “There were a couple stretches during the [second half] that we had them on their heels a little bit,” Gelnovatch said. “I think the response was good.” On a night when even golden opportunities went for naught, James’ late goal seemed to give the Cavaliers complete control of the game. With just minutes remaining, however, that sense of security was wiped away by De Paoli’s heroics. In the 85th minute, De Paoli took everyone in Klöckner Stadium by surprise when he
curved his long free kick into the top corner of the far post. It may have either been a perfect strike or simply a luckily off target cross attempt, but the shot proved to be impossible for sophomore goalkeeper Spencer LaCivita to save. With the game still tied at the end of regulation, the Cavaliers entered overtime for the third time this season. In each of their previous overtime excursions — against No. 12 Georgetown and No. 13 UCLA — Virginia ended up losing, but this time Virginia showed resilience as the team held on through the two 10-minute overtime periods to earn the draw and one point in the standings. “It’s a good result in that the past two times we’ve gotten in this [overtime] situation we’ve ended up dropping 3 points,” Bates said. “So it’s a good way to at least take a point from it.”
Volleyball | Virginia’s clinching 4-0 fourth game run sparks victory Continued from page B1 “All of us just really wanted to win, and after we got on the same page you can’t really go wrong with that,” sophomore setter Tori Janowski said. “All of us had the same mentality. That’s what you need to win.” In the fourth game, with Virginia trailing 21-23, the Cavaliers came through with the most thrilling and important
stretch of the day. With Liberty within two points of winning the match, the Cavaliers scored four straight points to win the game 25-23 and force a decisive fifth game. In that final frame, Virginia never looked back after trailing 1-2 early, dominating Liberty en route to a 15-8 win. “The fact that we had given ourselves a chance to win that game, we didn’t want to let ourselves down after working
that hard and lose in the end,” Janowski said. Janowski and freshmen outside hitters Bausback and Kayla Sears powered the team to victory, combining for 55 kills and 61.5 points. Janowski’s 25 kills were the most posted by any player on the team this season. Freshman outside hitter Manon Greskovics-Fuller also shined while receiving her first significant playing time of the season.
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Greskovics-Fuller recorded six kills and six digs, along with a block assist. “She works really hard in practice, and from what I’ve seen, she’s gotten a lot better since the beginning,” Sears said. “For her to be able to play front row and back row and serve, and for her to be doing so well, it got everyone fired up when we weren’t expecting anything.” The 3-2 win against Liberty
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was Virginia’s first of the season that did not come in a sweep. “I thought this was an important match for us because [Liberty is] a good team,” Hohenshelt said. “I knew we were [going to] have to be good to beat them. They haven’t won a tough match like this in a while, and I’m extremely excited for them.” Virginia takes the court again next weekend as they host Miami and Florida State.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19). Something you wanted to do five years ago but never got around to is now a real option. Take steps to make it yours. Capricorn helps you get the funding you need for this.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You’re building rapport with new people. They may ask your advice, but they really want your corroboration. Find something you can agree upon, and then hit that point home enthusiastically.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You’ll be let past the velvet ropes into an exclusive situation. Enjoy your special privileges. You deserve individualized treatment, and you have no problem accepting it.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). There’s friction between you and a sibling or a person you are similarly tight with. These kinds of relationships are crucial to your development. You can fight, but you know down deep that you’ll always belong together.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You are dancing the mamba with an idea. You’re not ready to commit, but you are willing to move two steps forward, one step back -- cha, cha, cha. There’s still another week until you really must decide.
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). If you were unconsciously waiting for someone to anoint you -- to tell you that you are very special -- you now become conscious of it. The fact is, you are very special with or without the validation.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). You’re ready to accept a raise or promotion -- not because it’s about time but because you want to take on new responsibilities and challenges. It’s only right that your initiative be compensated.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). This is no time to be volunteering information. You don’t even have to answer all of the questions asked of you. Exercise your right to build a mystery. Clothe yourself in intrigue.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You’re seeing things in the way that only you can. Friends sense that they will get something honest from you, and that’s why you’ll be asked repeatedly for a response.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Surprising moments of self-realization will be included in today’s special gift from the stars. You could find yourself doing something alarming -- like quoting your mother.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). The only easy way out is not to go in in the first place. Consider this before you start a project or relationship -- and especially before you sign papers or enter into a deal.
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TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Sept. 17). You are an astute observer of life, and this year, your observations open the way for riches of all kinds. Knowing when to speak and when to be silent is a key to success through October. One fantastic relationship leads to 10 more by the year’s end. Family additions in the spring keep the legacy moving forward. Libra and Scorpio adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 9, 13, 29, 33 and 38.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You’re in the new and exciting phase of a personal relationship. Everything seems tinged with possibility. Move slowly, and make no assumptions. Something truly unique is emerging.
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