Best Sales Increase of a Special Section Basketball is the most popular sport at UNC Charlotte. Historically, the 49ers have ranked high in the Atlantic 10 conference. Each game brings flocks of students to the stands. With new coaches for both men’s and women’s teams, there has been a lot of hype for the current seasons. Each basketball season is kicked off with a huge campus event called Basketball Madness. Basketball Madness is students’ first look to each season. The event is a huge party in Halton Arena, used to introduce the players and showcase some of their talents. With the event comes a huge surge in school spirit. The Niner Times produces our Basketball Preview to coincide with the Madness event. The Basketball Preview is our primary fall special section. It is UNC Charlotte’s source for anything and everything basketball. Inside the issue we look at team dynamics, not only through statistics, but also through personality. This way the campus can get to know their players for more than just the number on a jersey. The issue is distributed to students through regular circulation, at the Basketball Madness event, and again at the first exhibition game of the season. Many returning alumni also receive the issue at the exhibition game. Though it is usually a popular issue among students, the sales for the issue are lower than our other special sections. The goal for the 2011 Basketball Preview was to blow past issues out of the water. We needed a fresh new approach. Since Basketball is a sport and sports represent action, we thought, why not bring more action to the issue? So, we made the issue in 3D! Inside each issue we placed a pair of 3D glasses that student could assemble and view the issue in. We made all graphics and photographs in 3D, yet chose to keep all advertisements the same so that they could be viewed with or without the glasses and none of their visuals would be compromised. Advertisers jumped at the new idea and the change to be in 3D newspaper. Our sales increased by almost 52%! We sold 5,006.34 in 2011 compared to 3,295.00 in 2010.
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Last season the 49ers men’s basketball team faced some depth issues right from the start of the 2010-2011 campaign, when they had only seven active players in their opening game against Gardner Webb.Charlotte welcomes back four starts in their leading scorer Derrio Green, Mr.double-double Chris Braswell. Head Coach Alan Major was forced to deal with adversity right from the get go, as the team managed to win just 10 games in 2011. The 49ers look to improve upon last year, as they did have some glimmers of hope in defeating then No.7 Tennessee at Time Warner Cable Arena and they also handed Xavier their only loss in the A-10 Conference. This year Charlotte is young, with only two seniors on the active roster, but they do have something they didn’t have a year ago: depth.
The Charlotte 49ers women’s basketball team comes into the 2011-2012 season with a lot of hope, after their successful run to the WNIT Final Four last March. Last season, the 27-10 Niners averaged 69.8 points a game, and were led by the scoring power of Shannon McCallum and Epiphany Woodson. In the Atlantic-10, the Niners went 9-5, winning several big games including Dayton (73-52) and Richmond (68-63). Against Dayton, Epiphany Woodson, dropped 22 points, sparking the Niners five game win streak. Charlotte graduated their leading scorers from a year ago in Shannon McCallum and Kendria Holmes. Coming back this season are seniors Epiphany Woodson, Jennifer Hailey, Amanda Dowe and Paige McCallum.
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men’s Top 5 Head Coach Bob McKillop’s Wildcats possess a very strong team who made an appearance in the College Basketball Invitational last season,where they fell to the Creighton Bluejays 102-92. The Wildcats are coming off an 18-15 season, with a 10-8 record in the SoCon. The 49ers and Wildcats look to cause a buzz around the city, as the Battle for the Hornets Nest Trophy resumes.
Charlotte fans better postpone their holiday plans as a Hurricane will be brewing inside Halton Arena, the 49ers host Miami for a little pre-holiday hoops action in the seventh overall meeting between the two schools. The 49ers hold a 4-2 edge in the series, with their last meeting occurring a decade ago in 2002.
Charlotte meets the Razorbacks for the first time, as the Southeast meets the Southwest in a late Dec. showdown. Charlotte and Arkansas look even when it comes to experience on their rosters as the 49ers, like the Razorbacks have just two seniors. Arkansas graduated their leading scorer Rotnei Clarke, who averaged 15.2 points-per-game.
Fresh off a disappointing 77-75 loss to the Arizona Wildcats last fall, the Tigers are primed and ready to make yet another postseason run in 2011-2012. Charlotte and Memphis are familiar opponents as the 49ers were a member of the C-USA from 1995-2005, where they met the Tigers thirteen times.
The Musketeers captured a share of the regular season title last year, finishing with a record of 24-8 overall and 8-1 in the Atlantic-10 conference with their only loss coming to Charlotte inside Halton Arena. In the series with Xavier, the Musketeers have the overwhelming edge the 49ers 2-9 overall.
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At the Courtyard LaGuardia Turkey Classic, the 49ers are set to play previous Charlotte head coach Amanda Butler’s Florida Gators. The 49ers will be tested against a team that returns five starters, who were ranked fourth in scoring in the SEC last year. The Gators defeated the Niners 76-70 at the beginning of the season, but fell to Charlotte 81-77 in the WNIT.
The Seminoles return a team that advanced to the second round of the NCAA tournament last year. Florida State posted a record of 24-8 last season and ended the year ranked No.15 in the nation, and are currently ranked No.20 going into the season. Charlotte is 1-1 all time against the Seminoles, their last meeting was back in the 2004-2006 season.
Playing at Ohio State, Charlotte will face a Buckeye team that finished 24-10 last year, including a NCAA run into the Sweet 16. The 49ers need to watch out for the lone Buckeye senior Samantha Prahalis, who scored 14.5 points a game, and is the Ohio State all-time assist leader with 707. This will be the first meeting between the two teams.
Taking on the Tigers, the 49ers will battle a team with two returning seniors, and who finished in the middle of the pack in the SEC last season. In the first meeting between the two schools, Charlotte will have to watch for junior Blanch Alverson, who as a sophomore was second on the team in scoring averaging 10.2 points per game.
Ranked No.11 in the nation, the Xavier Musketeers will be in the 49ers line of fire this season. Coming of the heels of a 29-3 season with seven letterwiners returning, the only returning starter is senior guard Tyeasha Moss, who averaged 10.4 points a game, and led the A-10 in threepointers. Charlotte possesses a 3-7 record against the Musketeers, falling 82-61 last
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Corey Conner Executive Editor Athletes don’t just exist on the court, but like other students must participate in academic life on top of their athletic commitments. In a recent interview with WFAE Chancellor Dubois said, “There are the NCAA standards and then there are the institutional standards. If students don’t meet on a regular basis both with respect to the credit hours they complete each semester and how much progress they’re making towards their major. If they don’t meet those bench-
marks, they don’t play.” Charlotte 49er athletes have the assistance of Athletic Academic Center in meeting those requirements. The center provides advising services, study hall, tutoring services, and more. Student athletes also participate in the 49er Life Skills program. Founded in 1999 the program is meant to provide “a balanced program, promoting a total person concept. There are five areas that make up the program, academic excellence, athletic excellence, personal development, career development, and service.
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coach alan major Ed Niser: How have things changed since bringing in your own recruiting class? Coach Major: “They got to be here in the summer, which was advantageous for us. I think the big thing, when you bring a guy into your program is that you want guys who will tackle things in a championship fashion. Whether it be academics, off the court, or handling themselves in the community and as a player.” EN: How do the new guys fit into your system? AM: “I think buying into how hard you have to play is the one thing you can demand and expect along with capturing the effort you need to succeed. The Number one thing is buying in and understanding defensively and understanding effort and hustle. Now that you have that as your baseline, you can work on the X’s and O’s later.” EN: What are you some of your hardest nonconference games this season? AM: “We will have that stretch there kind of like a BCS row right before NewYears with Miami here. We will go to Memphis and Arkansas right after Christmas, It doesn’t matter where you play whether it be at Davidson or Charlotte, or on Mars or Jupiter you have two teams that are going to go at each other.” EN: Would you say team chemistry has improved this season as opposed to last year? AM: “I think so, I think the guys see the importance
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in making sure it is good. We have our good days and our tough days, but I think they understand now that it is important to have good chemistry, because in this conference so many games are so close on the road. Good chemistry can get you a win or two when you’re not supposed to get one.”
EN: What is the difference between this year’s team and last years? AM: “I think this year we want to build around our defense and get up and down the floor a bit more quicker, we till like to get the ball inside and work from the inside out.”
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men’s schedule 11/3 BELMONT ABBEY (Exh.) 7:00
11/11 NC CENTRAL (DH w/ WBB) 7:30 11/15 at Central Michigan 7:00 11/19 at Lamar TBA 11/22 EAST TENNESSE STATE 7:30 11/26 at Wright State 7:00 12/3 at East Carolina 5:00 12/6 at Radford 7:00 12/10 DAVIDSON 7:00 12/19 COPPIN STATE 7:30 12/22 MIAMI 7:30 12/28 at Arkansas TBA 12/31 at Memphis 9:00 1/4 RICHMOND* 7:30 1/7 at Saint Joseph’s* 2:00 1/11 at Massachusetts* 7:00 1/14 SAINT LOUIS* 2:00 1/18 KENNESAW STATE 7:30 1/21 at George Washington TBA 1/25 TEMPLE* 7:30 1/28 XAVIER* 7:00 2/1 at La Salle* 7:00 2/4 at Fordham* 1:00 2/11 RHODE ISLAND* (HC) 2:00 2/15 at Dayton* TBA 2/18 at Richmond* 6:00 2/22 GEORGE WASHINGTON* 7:30 2/25 ST. BONAVENTURE* 7:00 2/29 DUQUESNE* 7:30 3/3 at Xavier* 2:00 3/6 A-10 Championship First Round 3/9-3/11 A-10 Championship Atlantic City, N.J.
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11/11 PRESBYTERIAN (DH w/ MBB) 5:00 11/13 ARKANSAS STATE 2:00 11/16 at Virginia Tech 7:00 11/19 ELON 7:00 11/22 at Virginia Commonwealth 7:00 Courtyard LaGuardia Turkey Classic 11/25 vs Long Island 2:00 11/26 vs Florida 2:00 12/4 at Florida State 2:00 12/7 UNC WILMINGTON 7:00 12/19 at Ohio State 2:00 12/21 NORTH CAROLINA AT&T 7:00 FIU Sun and Fun Classic 12/29 vs. Auburn 8:00 12/30 vs. Florida International/Albany 4:00/6:00 1/3 FURMAN 7:00 1/7 at Xavier* 4:00 1/11 SAINT LOUIS* 7:00 1/14 at George Washington* 2:00 1/18 LA SALLE (EDUCATION DAY)* 12:00 1/21 ST. BONAVENTURE* 7:00 1/25 at Fordham* 7:00 1/29 at Temple* 2:00 2/1 MASSACHUSETTS* 7:00 2/4 RHODE ISLAND* 7:00 2/8 at Dayton* 11:00 2/11 at Duquesne* 4:30 2/18 SAINT JOSEPH’S (WBCA PINK ZONE GAME)* 7:00 2/22 Saint Louis* 8:00 2/26 RICHMOND (SENIOR DAY)* 2:00 3/2-3/5 Atlantic 10 Tournament TBA
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Q&A coach cara consuegra Ed Niser: How do you follow up Charlotte’s run to the WNIT Final four and how has team chemistry evolved? Coach Consuegra: “You are limited in the contact you can have with the players, we encouraged them to stop by during the summer and spend time with the staff and hang out in our offices and that meant a lot to me knowing they wanted to get to know us, as we wanted to get to know them. Chemistry takes time, you have the first transistion of getting to know each other, it is another transition getting to know each other on the court as a coaching staff and as players.” EN: What brand of basketball do you want to play and how does it compare to that of former head coach Karen Aston? CC:“I think similarities we have are that we like to play man to man defense, create ball screens, what is important to me and my staff is that it takes time and we_ need to put time into it, they step a little bit towards us and we step a bit towards them.” EN: Non Conference games give you the chance to see what your made of, how tough is your non conference slate this year? CC: “We have pretty tough non conference schecdule, some of that was by design some was at the timing of being hired and nobody working on the schedule for a month and a half, we play on the road quite a bit we are playing at Virginia Tech,VCU,
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Florida State and neutral games against Aubrun and Florida, we will be tested but I feel this team can handle it, they’re not intimidated easily, theyre not the type to look at the schedule and be overwhelemed, we are working to prepare ourselves for the A-10 season.”
EN: How do you follow up the birth in the NIT Final Four? CC: ”I would say what I have seen based on film, we just need to be consistent and fnd the toughness to come out every night no matter where we are whether it be home or away, we need to come out with the attitude that we are there to win each night, the nontangible things are what we need to improve on, no matter who or where we are playing, we are here to win.” EN: What do your assistant bring to table when it comes to your coaching philosophy? CC: “I think at the end of the day it comes down to the core values of why we are coaching. It is about the student athleties, and it’s not about getting work done. I if we are working, then we put the work down and help the athletes. If we are in a meeting; we leave. I am thankful these assistants came to work with me and have a wealth of experience, we have come together very well and I am very thankful for my staff. EN: What do you expect from Basketball Madness? CC: “I have heard wonderful things from people in the business outside the program, how Charlotte does madness right, that date is about student athletes to go out infront of their peers and compete in the different things they are going to compete in, I want them to just have a good time.”
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1976 NIT Finals 1977 NCAA Final Four 1988 NCAA Southeast 1989 NIT 1992 NCAA East 1994 NIT 1995 NCAA East 1997 NCAA West 1998 NCAA East 1999 Midwest 2000 NIT 2001 NCAA Midwest 2002 NCAA South 2004 NCAA East Rutherford 2005 NCAA Syracuse 2006 NIT 2008 NIT
Harvey Murphy (1965-1970) 44-81 Bill Foster (1970-1975) 88-38 Lee Rose (1975-1978) 72-18 Mike Pratt (1978-1982) 56-52 Hal Wissel (1982-1985) 22-62 Jeff Mullins (1985-1996) 182-142 Melvin Watkins (1996-1998) 42-20 Bobby Lutz (1998-2010) 218-158 Alan Major (2010-Present) 10-20
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WOMEN’S COACHES Judy Rose (1975-1982) 93-65 Ann Payne (1982-1984) 35-21 Cindy Connelley (1984-1988) 56-51 Ed Baldwin (1988-2001) 175-191 Katie Meier (2001-2005) 67-45 Amanda Butler (2005-2007) 40-22 Karen Aston (2007-2011) 86-47 Cara Consuegra (2011)
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The rivalry between the two schools is genuinely fierce...the games are always sloppy, fun and frantic. Joel Hanel Asst. Sports Editor With the return of 49er Basketball this year, comes the 31st ‘Battle for the Hornet’s Nest.’ The decisive game for bragging rights in Mecklenburg County has taken place between the Charlotte 49ers and the Davidson Wildcats since the 1979-80 season, and has been one of the biggest 49er games each season. Continuing the tradition, the Niners will once again take the court against their county rivals in their fight to return the Hornet’s Nest Trophy to its true owners. To a Charlotte fan, the Davidson game is often the highlight of a season, especially as the Niners currently lead the rivalry 20-10. Sadly, the Davidson Wildcats took The Hornet’s Nest Trophy last season in Davidson’s Belk Gym, but with the game being played in Halton Arena, things might change. As previously stated, the Niners lead the “Battle for the Hornet’s Nest” 20-10, but also have led all games played 26-10. As journalist Scott Fowler said in 2007, “the rivalry between the two schools is genuinely fierce. I go to this game every year if I’m in town. You should too if you like basketball, for it is invariably a December gift that keeps on giving. The games are always sloppy, fun and frantic.” One big advantage that plays a part in the rivalry is that the Niners are undefeated (6-0) in Halton Arena against the Wildcats. Home court advantage helped the Niners win the last meeting on Charlotte’s home floor in 2007, as the Niners with the shooting skills of Leemire Goldwire defeated Stephen Curry’s Wildcats. What has been remarked as one of the greatest Niner victories, the two three-point shooters battled it out, Goldwire sinking nine three-pointers, and Curry making seven. In the end, a Charlie Coley dunk and reverse lay-up sealed the deal, and the Niners contin-
ued their unblemished home record in Halton. The rivalry between the Charlotte 49ers and the Davidson Wildcats was much anticipated after the 1977 Final Four appearance by the 49ers. Talk around the city of Charlotte grew to an all time high, when “The Rivalry That Isn’t” aired on local television, talking about the possibility for a matchup. Said 49er Coach Lee Rose in the show, “We think the people in Charlotte would like to see the game, and we have made certain proposals that haven’t been acted upon. One day, they would like to play us, but we are ready to play as soon as we can get together.” On December 10th, the Charlotte 49ers and Davidson Wildcats will once again meet on the paint of Halton Arena. Though it has been four years since the two teams have met on the campus of UNC Charlotte, the tradition continues. The Niners and Wildcats have played ever since the rivalry began but after the 2007 loss to Charlotte, both teams failed to take the court until last year, when the tradition continued at Davidson’s campus. For those who have been at UNC Charlotte for four years, and are graduating this spring, this will the one and only chance to witness a Davidson game as a student played in Halton Arena. Being able to quote accurate statistics about the Davidson rivalry is a highlight of being a Niner fan. This season prepare with quotes of knowledge such as, “Charlotte has won all three overtime games against Davidson,” and or flaunt your knowledge with “Did you know the Niners kept the Hornet’s Nest Trophy from 1986 until 1993, and that is three times longer than Davidson’s longest record?” Attending the Davidson game will be a highlight of your time at UNC Charlotte, and for freshmen or transfer students; it is not something to miss.
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Charlotte picked to finish 11th Kevin Tatum The Philidelphia Inquirer Oct. 14--NEW YORK -- With college basketball teams around the nation officially opening preseason practice Friday, coaches Fran Dunphy of Temple, John Giannini of La Salle, and Phil Martelli of St. Joseph’s were at the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge on Thursday to take care of one more bit of off-thecourt business. It was Atlantic Ten media day, which was held in the town where the league will begin holding its conference tournament in 2012-13 at the nearby Barclays Center. The event will return to Atlantic City for this season. Among other things, the A-10 released its preseason poll, which had Temple finishing second behind defending champ Xavier. St. Joseph’s was in the seventh slot, and La Salle was picked 13th in the 14-team league. For Temple to live up to that promise or better, Dunphy has to devise a way for the Owls to get along without forward Lavoy Allen’s presence around the basket to spearhead the team’s defensive play. The 6-foot-9 Allen, who was selected by the 76ers in the second round of the NBA draft last spring, led Temple to a 26-8 season that
ended with a 71-64 loss to San Diego State in the third round of the NCAA tournament. The Owls finished second in the A-10 with a 14-2 record. “It’s going to be interesting to not play with Lavoy,” said Dunphy, who under new NCAA rules has been able to work with his players two days a week in recent weeks. “We’re working on that. We’ve already had a number of different practices where we’re putting defensive philosophies together. “Losing Lavoy is a huge thing for us, but hopefully, we can make up for it by being a better team defensive group. We left a lot of the defensive philosophy and execution to Lavoy, and now we don’t have that. We’re going to have to reinvent ourselves a little bit.” For St. Joseph’s coach Phil Martelli, whose team finished 11-22 overall and 4-12 in the A-10, getting his players to show growth from last season is Job One. The Hawks do not have a senior on the roster. “We’re still young, but we’re no longer naive,” Martelli said. “Last year, we were young and naive. We have work to do, and I think the youthfulness of our team could be an advantage.” Contact staff writer Kevin Tatum at (215) 854-2583 or ktatum@phillynews.com.
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49ers get basketball started David Scott Charlotte Observer Oct. 14--Observations from the Charlotte 49ers’ first basketball practice, which tipped off today at 5 p.m. Charlotte is coming off a 1020 season in which the 49ers failed to qualify for the Atlantic 10 tournament. Four starters return, with seven new scholarship players also coming into the program. -- “Options.” That was the word coach Alan Major used to describe the 15 players he saw on the court. Last season -- due to suspension, eligibility issues and injuries -- Major often had just two scholarship players on the bench. Now, with freshmen Pierria Henry, E. Victor Nickerson, Mike Thorne and Terrence Williams, transfers DeMario Mayfield and Ilija Ivankovic and sophomore Luka Voncina (who sat out last year due to eligibility issues), Major has a lot from which to choose. -- Many of those options come from players like Mayfield, Nickerson and Williams, who can all play on the wing. The starting backcourt of Deuce Briscoe and Derrio Green is back. Both
guards played heavy minutes last year, which might be why they each averaged about three turnovers per game and shot less than 40 percent. Henry and Voncina will provide depth -- if not push for those starting spots. -- If there’s a spot where the 49ers are thin, it’s in the post. Starter Chris Braswell is back, as is K.J. Sherrill. The only other guys with any size are Ivankovic (6-10) and Thorne (6-10), but they’ll need to develop quickly to contribute. Senior Javarris Barnett (6-7) might be asked to play some power forward, but he’s more of a perimeter player. -- Green, the team’s leading returning scorer (13.0), worked on his shooting a lot over the summer. That’s good, because he made just 33.4 percent of his shots last season and is a 34.9 percent shooter for his career. -- The nonconference schedule, which opens at home against N.C. Central on Nov. 11, lacks pizazz. Most attractive home games are Dec. 10 against Davidson and Dec. 22 against Miami. The end of December brings two compelling games -- at Arkansas on Dec. 28 and at Memphis on Dec. 31.
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Deuces wild for Briscoe The red-shirt sophomore could be the wildcard for the 49ers Josh Carpenter Managing Editor jacarpe1@uncc.edu
Everyone knows Jamar Briscoe can score the basketball—after all, he was second nationally in freshman scoring in 2008 while at North Carolina Central. “If scoring is the job I have to do, I’m not afraid to do it,” Briscoe said. “People think all I can do is score—that’s not true. I can be a point guard, too. I’m not a one-dimensional player. I can do anything on any night.” Briscoe’s stats in the scoring column speak for themselves, scoring 34 against Duquesne, 28 against N.C. State and 24 against Arkansas, as he averaged 17.8 ppg during his freshman campaign. “If it’s a game where I need to pass, I’ll pass,” Briscoe said. “My role will still be the same—to be a point guard, leader on the court, floor general, playmaker or whatever.” Speaking of being a leader. Briscoe will have a void to fill when he steps on the floor as Charlotte’s starting point guard. DiJuan Harris left Charlotte for the professional ranks and took with him the exact opposite misconception that Briscoe now has. Harris was always seen as a ball distributor—with 143 assists compared to just 43 turnovers in 2009-10—but Briscoe notes that his biggest attribute wasn’t passing or scoring the ball, but being the team leader. “I always told DiJuan I was going to have big shoes to fill when he left,” Briscoe said. “From DiJuan watching me play, he knew I had talent, but one thing I took from him that I didn’t have when I got here was that leadership quality.” To succeed in the A-10, Briscoe will have to raise his game to the elite level, as he will face some of the most talented point guards in the country. Richmond returns A-10 Player of the Year Kevin Anderson, St. Louis guard Kwamain Mitchell will continue to be a thorn in Charlotte’s side and A-10 Tournament MVP Juan Fernandez returns for Temple. Briscoe says he respects their talent levels, but ensures that he’s not intimidated. “Those guys are good, they can really play and I’m not taking anything away from them, but I can play too” Briscoe said of the A-10’s depth at guard. “I’m looking forward to seeing them on the court. I want to win and they want to win so they’re going to do what they have to do and I’ll do the same.” The strength of Charlotte’s squad will undoubtedly be the frontcourt, led by leading scorer Shamari Spears and sophomore sensation Chris Braswell. “I’ve never played with big men that are as skilled as the one’s that we have,” Briscoe said. “When it comes down to it, those guys are just warriors, they never give up. It’s a pleasure to play with those guys and I let them know every day how much I appreciate it.” There will be a myriad of things for Briscoe to adjust to when he takes the floor for
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Briscoe (left) dropped 28 in this game against N.C. State in 2008 as a freshman.
the first time on Nov. 9 against Queens in Charlotte’s exhibition opener. Its been well over a year since Briscoe participated in live, game action and he hasn’t ever played in a high-capacity arena on a regular basis. Briscoe has played in front of large crowds before, but those crowds were normally rooting against him. “I’ve never played in a place like Halton Arena,” Briscoe said of his new home. “Just sitting out last year and watching—it gets crazy in there. I can’t describe what it’s going to be like the first time I step on the floor.” Not only will Briscoe be playing in a different environment, he’ll also be playing under the watchful eye of new Charlotte coach Alan Major. Briscoe transferred to Charlotte when Bobby Lutz was at the helm, and although he was disappointed when Lutz was let go, Briscoe sees some similarities in Lutz and Major. “They have different systems but my big thing is that they both have the same goal,
they want to win,” Briscoe said. “You can’t take that away from either one of them, they’re both winners. He (Major) might just use a different method to win. Everybody’s goal is to play in March.” That goal, Briscoe says, is what’s on everyone’s mind. Briscoe thinks this Charlotte team will bring something to the table on a game-to-game basis, and that 49er fans should expect nothing less. “We’ll have high energy and intensity. We’re just going to have a will to win,” Briscoe said. “This team and I will do whatever it takes to win. We all have a passion to play the game.” The top of the mountain for Charlotte would be a trip to the NCAA Tournament, and Briscoe said that’s well within the realm of possibility. He had this message for Charlotte fans. “Be ready because we will. I really think this is the year we make a lot of noise.”
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Charlotte forward has high expectations for final season Joel Hanel Staff Writer jhanel1@uncc.edu
Notable for being No. 1 on ESPN’s Top 10 Plays after he helped the Niners win against Wake Forest with an amazing 360 reverse lay-up in his freshman year, An’Juan Wilderness has been a flourishing part of Niner Nation since he arrived. Wilderness, the 6-6 senior from Dunwoody, Ga. has been of vital importance to the team, as he has gone grown as a player since his freshman year. Though Wilderness was out for several games last season due to a strained calf, he was able to average 5.5 points a game with a .602 average for the year. “I feel good being injury-free, hopefully nothing happens at all this year,” Wilderness said. “Things happen though and now I know how to live with it and get over it.” Wilderness’ freshman year brought about great success, as he was fourth on the team in scoring with 8.1 points a game. His highest scoring game was also in his freshman year against Wake Forest. His success was seen last year with an exciting last-second runner to beat La Salle 84-82. Similarly, there were six games in which he scored double figures, five of which the Niners won. He put up 15 points in the battle against Xavier last year, and started 17
out of the last 19 games. “I had done it before, just not at the college level,” said Wilderness on his game-winner against the Explorers. “When I made it, it felt like I was back in my old times. I was happy that I hit the shot to win the game because I didn’t want to go to overtime in that one.” In the 2008-2009 season, after beating Southern Illinois and scoring 17 points, their coach Chris Lowery said, “He was toughness. He’s a junkyard dog. He just went and got baskets.” This attests to Wilderness presence on the court, as he has been Wilderness a threat to every Niner opponent. After asking what he planned to bring this year he said, “This summer I worked on my jump shot.” Similarly, Wilderness stressed working on building off both the successes and mistakes from last year. The 2010-2011 season gives Wilderness and the rest of the Niners a new slate to write 49er history upon. Like the rest of Niner Nation, Wilderness hopes for wins this year, and hopefully with him and his teammates’ hard work, they will succeed.
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Season outlook New faces have Charlotte looking forward Josh Carpenter Managing Editor jacarpe1@uncc.edu
To say last season ended bitterly for the Charlotte 49ers would be an understatement. Charlotte was in prime position for a shot at the A-10 title and certain outlets started tabbing the Niners as a possible NCAA Tournament team. Things don’t always work out for the best though, and a seemingly magical season turned out to be one of the most disappointing in recent memory. The result: long-time head coach Bobby Lutz and his staff were let go and a new era of 49er basketball is about to get underway. New head coach Alan Major brings with him a new mentality and a slew of new faces. With four returning starters from a 19win team a year ago, the Niners could be in line for big things in March. Charlotte’s frontcourt of Shamari Spears, Chris Braswell and An’Juan Wilderness was one of the toughest in the A-10 a year ago. With another year under their belts, I would expect Charlotte to have one of, if not the best front line in the A-10. Sharpshooter Derrio Green returns to the shooting guard spot and newcomer Jamar Briscoe will provide another scoring threat at point guard.
The biggest obstacle for Charlotte in ‘10/11 might be the schedule. Major won’t have any cupcakes in his first year at the helm as the Niners play road games at Georgia Tech, Oregon State during Thanksgiving week, Richmond and A-10 Tournament Champion Temple. The Niners play a ‘home game’ against Tennessee at Time Warner Cable Arena on Dec. 17 and face a possible match-up with Georgetown and N.C. State in the Charleston Classic. The biggest question--pundants say-is the play from point guard Briscoe. If the Niners get good ball distribution and lowturnover play from him, they could be a viable contender for both the conference title and a berth in the big dance.
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Charlotte: 20-9; 10-6
All Conference Team • Chris Wright (Dayton)
• Kevin Anderson (Richmond) • Lavoy Allen (Temple) • Damian Saunders (Duquesne) • Tu Holloway (Xavier)
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The newly-appointed 49ers head coach sat down to talk about his time on the job and the upcoming season Josh Carpenter Managing Editor jacarpe1@uncc.edu
JC: There’s been a lot of talk about K.J. Sherrill and his improvements. How much has he grown since you’ve arrived?
JC: How do you feel about the non-conference schedule? Give me three games you guys really need to focus on.
Alan Major has been on the job for six months now as 49er head coach and is gearing up for his first campaign through the A-10. Major shed light on his current team.
AM: “To his credit, he’s had a tremendous summer. He trimmed his body and lost a little bit of weight. Not that it was bad weight but he just got more trim. By losing that weight, he’ll be able to increase his energy and I think he can be a guy that can be a threat to run the floor and outrun those opposing big guys. He’s got a great nose for the ball when it comes off the rim on both ends. I think the next step with him is just keeping people honest with that little 12-15 foot jump shot. He doesn’t have to be a guy that’s knocking down eight or nine of them a game, just those ones where if people leave him open, he can make them pay. To his credit, he really attacked the summer.”
AM: “I think the first game in Charleston would be one. It’s a three game tournament but I think setting the tone in that first game is very important. Obviously Tennessee is a big game. Being in December and it’s right before Christmas and you’re heading into those last non-conference games, I think we want to set the tone. Also to backtrack, I would say Oregon State. We’ll be traveling across the country and that’s a mental trip, that’s a toughness thing. After all that, it’s still a basketball game. They have five guys and we have five guys.”
JC: The biggest transition in most players is from their freshman to sophomore campaign. Talk about Chris Braswell and that transition.
AM: “As an assistant you have tunnel vision. I’m calling this kid then calling another kid and so on. You’re doing things for the head coach and just looking at your desk saying, ‘this is what I’ve got to do.’” Now you go from tunnel vision to what I call global vision because with global vision, you think about every single guy on the team every single day. That’s a given. Then you’re thinking about practice or whatever the things are you have to do coming up. You have to think about the staff and how you can help them get better. Everybody you think about, you want to find ways to make them better and give them confidence in what they’re doing. If all those people feel good and are passionate about their work, it’s going to help the program.”
JC: How have workouts been going and what are you looking at heading into the season? AM: “Since Sept. 15 we’ve been able to have the whole team in workouts but they’re called skill workouts, we only get two hours per week. As of Friday though, we’ll start getting 20 hours per week. Between the summer and the fall the guys have been doing a good job. They’ve been working on their skill sets, trying to build on defense a little bit and get mentality and identity going. Offensively just getting a feel for getting up and down the floor and what we want to do in the half court. It’s been very general because of the time.” JC: What kind of defensive mind-set do you want this team to have? AM: “Number one we want to pressure the ball and we want to be physical. I think we have a lot of size and length. We also want to be a team that doesn’t get driven on and give up easy baskets. Really just making people work. I think in general we want to just make people work as hard as possible to score.” JC: Talk about Luka Voncina a little bit and the impact he’ll have. AM: “Well I think between those three guys in Luka, Deuce (Jamar Briscoe) and Derrio (Green), I think we’ll have a threeheaded monster. I think each guy has his own strength. Being European, I think Luka has a certain feel. Those guys have been playing so long and they just have a way of knowing what’s going on and how to find people. I think he’ll play more point but he has that combo element so he can slide in at the two.” JC: I almost look at Briscoe as the wildcard to this team’s success. Talk about him a little bit. AM: “He’ll be very important. The good thing with him is that he won’t have to for us what he had to do for Central. He’s got guys around him. I think him just playing with an unbelievable amount of energy, being a pest on defense and just being a guy that if they leave him open, he can knock it in. We need him to keep being the same scoring threat that he’s been, but he may just have to be more efficient because he won’t have to be the shooter that he was at Central.”
AM: “Hopefully we’ll get a repeat of his freshman year. We want him to pick up right where he left off. He had a very good summer as well. He bulked up a little bit, his conditioning is better, and we just want him to have that same energy and nose for the ball. He has a gift of just finding a way to tip the ball in. I haven’t seen a guy like that in a long time. If you watch him, he’s always around the ball and always finds a way to knock it in. There were some games where he was the difference so we want him to continue to do that. We also want him to keep people honest with that little 15-foot jump shot.” JC: Talk about Charlotte’s front court and how it stacks up? AM: “I think the big thing with those guys is that we want them to play with unbelievable energy. If you have four guys that are playing at their max effort, you hope that it’s going to wear down the other front line at some point. It might result in foul trouble or easy baskets, whatever the case may be. I think having that ability and that rotation is great. Now, we just have to make sure that those four guys, at any given time are playing at their max effort.” JC: This team was very good at the foul line last year. How much emphasis do you put on free throws? AM: “We put a ton of emphasis on that. It can be the difference in a lot of games. Whether it’s an old-fashioned and-one and just completing that free throw, it can be the difference in being up four and being up five. The beauty of basketball is that you just have to win by one, sometimes that one can be by a free throw. We just want these guys to pick up right where they left off, they did a terrific job last year.”
JC: How was the transition from being an assistant to being the head man?
AM: “Early on it’s been quite a bit because it’s a little bit different terminology and how we want to pressure and guard and positioning and all that. As we get deeper into practice we’ll continue to put things in offensively. They have a general feel for what we want to do now but we haven’t had a chance to get specific yet.” JC: Will you talk about the Samaritan’s Feet game when you’ll coach barefoot? AM: “I think you always want to try and be a part of something that’s bigger than you. We can get so isolated in what we do. You think that once you walk off campus, you fall off the edge of the earth and there’s nothing else going on out there. But when you think about kids that would die just to have a pair of shoes, it puts things in perspective. To be a part of something like that is special.” JC: What’s your goal for this team? AM: “To understand how important it is—not every practice—but to play as hard as you can at every opportunity because if you can do that, regardless of outcomes, you’re going to have a piece of mind that we laid it on the line. Every good team has that quality and that’s what I want these guys to do; to get the most individually out of themselves but also as a club. Whether it’s home or on the road, against Oregon State, Tennessee or Mercer, wherever we go I want us to play as hard as we can every night. I think if you do that, you have a great chance to get the results you want.”
JC: Will you talk about the landscape of the A-10?
JC: Why should Niner Nation come out and watch this team play?
AM: “Obviously I think Dayton has a chance to be a very good team after the way they finished beating Carolina in the NIT. Temple I think will be really good, GW will be improved and obviously with Xavier, they are who they are. I think that’s kind of what everybody’s gunning for.”
AM: “We want our guys to play as hard as Niner Nation fans cheer. That Niner Nation, there’s not a group that cares about Charlotte more than that. We want to give it back to them as much as they give it back to us.”
JC: What kind of offensive schemes should people expect from this team? AM: “I think we’ll have a balance. If you want to be a good team, you have to be able to play at different tempos. We want to run with opportunity and attack when you have it. Some nights, because of the tempo of the game, it might be a little bit different. When you get to the postseason, a lot of games become half-court games, even going back to the NBA Finals, the Lakers and Celtics were in the 70s. I think having a balance of both is big because you don’t want to let people off the hook and not run on them and not attack them.” JC: how much focus do you put on defense in practice?
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A double-double might be the average for Chris Braswell this season.
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Charlotte senior looking to spearhead 49er’s offense in the upcoming season Ed Niser Asst. Sports Editor eniser@uncc.edu
Shamari Spears of the Charlotte 49ers men’s basketball team has had to endure the pressure of transitioning into three offensive systems in his four seasons in Division I college basketball. Spears spent his first two seasons in Chesnut Hill under the guidance of the well renowned Al Skinner for the Boston College Eagles. Following the closure of his sophomore season with the Eagles, the Concord, N.C. native decided to head back to the Queen City. Spears then bought into the Bobby Lutz system, learned the terminology and inner workings of the Lutz offense, but following the 1-6 skid at the end of the 2009-2010 season Lutz was let go. In came Alan Major, former assistant coach at Ohio State under Thad Matta and Spears was yet again forced to digest a whole new offensive and defensive system, with the emphasis being on defense for coach Major. “The terminology is different but everything is about the same, but the floor is more spread out to help create opportunities but the main thing is working on defense
and tighten up things that caused us to lose games last season.” said Spears. Major’s practice is heavily based on the defensive side of the ball according to Spears when asked about the typical Major practice session. “We have been kicking off practice, with a lot of defense slides and drills that translate scoring opportunities, the harder you play on defense the better you play on offense.” The mental aspect of having a new coach is the terminology and is a tough challenge. Major looks to keep things the same since Charlotte will have a lot of young players. Charlotte’s schedule this year includes the likes of Tennessee coming to Charlotte and playing Uptown in Time Warner Cable Arena. Spears commented on the strength of schedule this season and the big game against SEC foe Tennessee “The big teams never want to play us in Halton, they always want to play us at a neutral court, I think it says a lot about the atmosphere at Halton.” Spears has been working on his perimeter game this season by honing up the skills from beyond the arch. Not to worry, the trademark midrange jumper will be back this year ad better than ever. Last season, Spears led the team in scor-
ing with 16 points per game last season, the Niners competed in summer league play this year to keep their game skills sharp and tuned for when the season opens up against South Carolina State on Saturday Nov. 13th a 7:30 p.m. The Atlantic 10 conference looks to open some eyes on the national level especially the newly coached Charlotte 49ers that look to make amends for the disappointing loss to UMass in the A-10 championship first round last spring in a 59-56 disappointment. Spears spoke on the strength of the Atlantic 10 conference this season, “I think it is just like last year, a lot of people didn’t give the A-10 any respect until the regular season started they earned respect, you look at the magazines and people don’t talk about anyone except Dayton and Xavier, everything is solid in guard play, people aren’t familiar with the UMass and Richmond’s. The Atlantic 10 will have to earn their respect this season.” Look for the Niners to come out with a steadier base on the defensive side of the ball, but do not fear as Spears and the Niners will post their fair share of points. Spears and the Niners take to the floor for the first time tonight at Major Madness in Halton Arena at 9 p.m.
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Dayton
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Duquesne
Head coach Brian Gregory led the Flyers to the championship game of the National Invitational Tournament where they went on to defeat the UNC Tarheels 79-68 on April,1 in Madison Square Garden. Dayton’s leading scorer Chris Wright returns for his senior season after post 13.7 ppg last year. Last season, the 49ers headed up to Dayton Arena and lost by a large margin, 75-47. Dayton comes to Halton Arena on Feb. 16 primed and ready to make another run at the postseason after posting a strong overall record of 25-12 and 8-8 in A-10 play.
In 2009-10 George Washington and Charlotte played a home and away series with one another. The Niners took game one at Halton Arena and then later on in the season, the 49ers loaded up the bus and headed to Washington D.C where the Colonials dealt them a 75-70 loss. Expect the Colonials to have a strong campaign in 2010-2011 with some talented youth coming back. The Colonials and the 49ers will follow the same format as last season with George Washington slated to visit Halton Arena on Feb. 2nd.
The Rams return a veteran bunch in 2010-2011, with five seniors on the roster, the leading scorer from a year ago Delroy James returns for his senior season following a solid showing last year averaging 13.2 points per game. Rhode Island won 26 games, finishing with a regular season record of 26-10 and 9-7 in conference play, good enough for fifth place in the Atlantic 10 conference. The Rams were bounced by the UNC Tarheels in the semi finals of the NIT 68-67.
The Dukes are coming off the heels of a mediocre season going 16-16 overall, while placing eighth in the Atlantic 10 with a 7-9 record. Head coach Ron Everheart returns a squad that was forced to grow up quick; altogether they have five seniors and six juniors coming back this season. Damian Saunders highlights the returning seniors as the leading scorer from the 2009-2010 squad where he posted just over 15 points per game. Duquesne defeated the Niners in Halton last season 83-77,Charlotte will travel to Pittsburgh, P.A. for some much coveted revenge.
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The Rams are coming off an abysmal year of sorts where their only two wins of the season came against Sacred Heart and Stony Brook. Fordham went 0-16 in conference play which led to the dismissal of interim head coach Jarred Grasso. A-10 Rookie of the Year Chris Gaston returns to the Rams and looks to give them a spark. Charlotte was not the only A-10 school that appointed a new head coach as Fordham now looks to Tom Pecora to right the ship.
Richmond is coming off one of the most successful seasons in program history. Chris Mooney’s squad reached the NCAA Tournament and made the A-10 Tournament Championship game before losing to Temple. The Spiders fell in the NCAA Tournament to St. Mary’s. The Spiders lost guard David Gonzalvez to Europe but return A-10 Player of the Year Kevin Anderson. Check out today’s edition of the University Times for a look at the rest of the A-10.
UMass
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Anyone who remembers last season remembers what UMass did to the 49ers in the Atlantic 10 Tournament. The 49ers defeated the Minutemen in Amherst, M.A. on the back of a stellar performance by Derrio Green, who dropped 34 points to lead Charlotte to the 72-58 victory. However, the Minutemen stunned Charlotte 59-56 in the first round of the A-10 Tournament to end Charlotte’s season.
The Explorers notched a 12-18 overall record while finishing 4-12 in the Atlantic 10 conference. La Salle returns four seniors from last years squad, along with the team’s most skilled player from last year Aaric Murray, who received Atlantic 10 All rookie honors last season when he averaged 12.2 ppg and 6.6 rebounds.
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Coach Karen Aston will be looking for Holmes (#3) and McCallum (#5) to step up. Brian Chan Staff Writer bchan@uncc.edu
The Charlotte 49ers women’s basketball team enters the 2010 season with only five upperclassmen. With a relatively young team, the Niners will look primarily to the players with the most experience. Seniors Shannon McCallum and Kendria Holmes have taken different paths in their collegiate basketball careers, but as the team’s lone seniors, they aim to bring the Atlantic 10 title back to Charlotte. McCallum enters her final season after having posted a phenomenal line in 2009, leading the Niners in points, rebounds, blocks, and steals. Although McCallum excels in a number of different aspects of the game, she considers that her biggest strengths are in her shooting and rebounding abilities. Despite being a leading player, McCal-
lum benefited from conference play, averaging 17.3 points and 8.5 rebounds per game, and shot .453 from the field against the A-10 teams, whereas she averaged 11.6 points and 7.6 rebounds, and had a .385 field goal percentage in non-conference play. While the team had a sluggish 1-5 start, McCallum accounts the difference in play to her slow start to last season. “I just didn’t start off with a really good year in my junior year,” said McCallum. “I just didn’t start off good, and then, I picked it up and did real good in the conference.” Over the years at Charlotte, McCallum increasingly saw opportunities as she made her way into the starting lineup in her junior year, starting 24 of 31 games. Prior to that, she made just five starts in 62 appearances. Even as a bench player, she was productive in her rookie season with 7.3 points per game after scoring in double figures 10 times. As a sophomore, McCallum managed
12.2 points per game and was honored as the A-10 Sixth Player of the Year. In addition to helping the 23-9 squad advance to the NCAA Tournament, McCallum was named to the A-10 All-Tournament Team after having posted a game-high 22 points in the championship game against the Richmond Spiders. “It was a great experience,” said McCallum of making an NCAA Tournament appearance in 2009. While McCallum was content with making the tournament in the school’s second-ever appearance, she states that the goal is not just to make another appearance, but rather, the team hopes to advance further into the latter rounds. “This year, I want to make it further because we made it already,” said McCallum. “Now, I already know how it feels [to make the NCAA Tournament], but I want to go further and see what we can do.” McCallum, who as a younger player once sought advice from the more experienced players, is now seen as a mentor to the incoming players, including her younger sister Paige, a junior transfer from Gulf Coast Community College. McCallum stresses on playing hard and ensuring that nothing can go wrong when players give their fullest efforts on the court. McCallum hopes to continue File Photo playing basketball whether it be in the WNBA or overseas. In particular, McCallum’s ultimate dream would be to play for her favorite WNBA team, the Atlanta Dream. Kendria Holmes is an important asset to Charlotte’s backcourt as she led the Niners with 88 assists last year as the team’s floor general. Holmes also added 9.1 points per game and had a team-leading 33 3-pointers in her first year with Charlotte. Holmes, a Charlotte native, began her collegiate career with the Providence Friars, and over her freshman year, she served as an immediate impact, averaging 7.3 points per game and being named to the 2007 Big East All-Freshman Team. In her sophomore year, Holmes raised her scoring average to 11.3 points per game and dished out 117 assists, both being teamhighs. Holmes also became the first Providence player in 18 years to record back-toback 100-assist seasons. Despite being a key player on the Providence team, Holmes wanted the opportunity to return to her
hometown. “When I decided I wanted to leave Providence, coming back home was a great opportunity for me,” said Holmes. “Coach Aston gave me the opportunity, so I took advantage of it because my parents have not really missed too many games in my career.” Holmes acknowledges her twin brothers, both of whom were members of the Virginia Military Institute basketball team, as her biggest influences in basketball. “Just growing up, following behind them, I went everywhere they went, to the gym, with their friends,” said Holmes. “Basketball is no different. I wanted to be just like them.” Holmes, who regards herself as a proficient passer, idolizes professional basketball stars in Chris Paul and Rajon Rondo. “I’ve watched Chris Paul from his high school years until now, and I just think he’s a phenomenal player,” said Holmes. “As a point guard, he has everything that you need.” In Holmes’ first year with the Niners, the team excelled with a 13-2 home record, but on the road, the team went just 3-9. This season, the team hopes to overcome their road woes to reclaim the A-10 title. “Playing on the road, you create your own energy and your own fans,” said Holmes. “We just have to focus in a little bit more on the road to make sure we do everything right.” Holmes hopes to pursue a career in basketball, whether it be playing professionally in the WNBA or overseas or coaching. Holmes sees her past experience and her role this year as a team leader in being a keystone to a potential career in coaching. “Leadership is top priority,” said Holmes. “Once you step into the leadership role, it helps not only to prepare you for on the court, but for off the court, because from the program from the first time that you come here until the time you’re a senior, coach Aston helps you develop those leadership skills.” Holmes and McCallum look to establish a defensive stronghold this season. Being the only two seniors on this year’s team, the Niners look for their experience to play a pivotal role down the stretch. “I hope that we get that pressure defense down really good, so that no one can really come past us,” said McCallum. “I hope our defense is really good to the point that it’s bugging the offensive team.” Despite being new to the Charlotte squad, Holmes had met McCallum before college, when they played together on the junior Olympic team. “We clicked pretty well,” said Holmes. “I think we have pretty good chemistry. I know her game, and she knows my game. When the game is on the line, we understand each other for the most part.”
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Aston looking for another postseason appearance Josh Carpenter Managing Editor jacarpe1@uncc.edu
Charlotte 49ers women’s basketball coach Karen Aston led the team to another postseason berth last season. Now, with another stacked line-up, Aston looks to build upon last season’s success. She recently took the time to speak with the University Times about the upcoming season. JC: You said last year that you didn’t think the team was ready for the non-conference season, what are you or what have you done to get the team ready? KA: “To be honest I think so much of whether or not you’re prepared for nonconference play is not necessarily what we’ve done when school started but what they’ve done all summer. I think their approach to the summer conditioning, summer atmosphere and leadership responsibility was just different than it was last year.” JC: Talk about some of the new plays you’ve brought in and if any have really stood out? KA: “Well we have four freshmen, a junior college transfer and a transfer that had to sit out last year. So yeah, there’s definitely going to be some players that stand out. You have to start with Epiphany (Woodson), I think she’ll really catch everybody’s eye just because of the way she plays the game. You can tell that she’s been coached really well and is really used to winning.” JC: What kind of role will she play? KA: “She has a valuable role because she’s a combo guard. She has the ability to slide into one position and understands completely what we’re doing. Her biggest challenge will be that this is a new system and just getting comfortable with the way we play and with her teammates. When you sit out, you’re on the other side. You’re on the scout team and you’re not really “in it.” As soon as she gets acclimated I think she’ll make a huge impact.” JC: Any other newcomers we should watch out for? KA: “Paige (McCallum), Shannon’s sister will make an impact for us in the paint. She’s undersized but she’s really competitive, rebounds the ball really well and comes from a winning atmosphere at Gulf Coast (Community College) where they won a national championship last year. So she knows what it takes to win. The player you’ll notice most in the freshman class will be Gabby Tyler. A: because she’s acclimated a little bit faster than the other freshman and B: because we need a little help in the paint. So Gabby will make an immediate impact as far as post
presence.” JC: Talk about Kendria Holmes and her role running the offense? KA: “Kendria has evolved here at Charlotte. There’s no question about it. She started sitting out the first year she was here and I think I have probably grown with Kendria as a coach. She taught me that while you’re sitting out, you’re not really “in it” and that they don’t really learn a whole lot until they are in it. Last year was a growing experience for her. Just playing in a different system, for a different person and having different expectations was a definite learning experience for both her and I. Where I think she’s grown the most is in confidence, she’s carrying herself completely differently than she did last year. She has talent, everybody knows that, it was just being comfortable with me and our system.”
as we do. I know our players will be motivated to go to those two places and play and all that happens before the Duke game. So we’ll get to the Duke game and see where we’re at and if we think we can compete with them.” JC: How important is it to get off to a fast start and get ahead of the game? KA: “I think it’s important to be more competitive. I don’t think we’re going to win every non-conference game, I think there’s a reason why it’s as tough as it is. We need to try to steal some wins to try to help our RPI and put ourselves in a position where we don’t feel like we have to win the conference tournament. I think our players understand that now, I think it’s been a growing process of ‘How do you get into the NCAA Tournament?’ I don’t think our players understood
JC: You said you might need some help on the front line, what’s the situation there?
JC: Will you also talk about Shannon McCallum and her role as a senior leader?
KA: “It’s better than I thought. I was really worried that I might have to play Shannon at the forward spot. Gabby (Tyler) is a freshman and I think when you see us practice or play that she has an enormous amount of potential. But she’s a freshman and I just don’t think her conditioning level is where it needs to be, she’s just raw. I think Jennifer Hailey has been the most encouraging thing, she’s so much better than she was.”
KA: “Her game hasn’t changed, Shannon is going to produce a lot on the floor. She’s what I call a stat-filler. She does a lot in a lot of different areas. She has really been trying to grow as a leader, as far as being more vocal, more positive with the young kids. Shannon’s very hard on everybody because she expects them to play and work as hard as she does and I think you have to grow with the younger players. So I think her patience is growing.”
JC: You were very good at home last year but struggled on the road, what will it take for that to change?
JC: Talk a little bit about your non-conference schedule? KA: “We have to start one game at a time. I think the Duke game looks great to the fans and it will be fun to bring that kind of program in here with the kind of tradition that they have. We were very privileged to have been invited to the WNIT and I think anytime you’re invited to the WNIT I think there is an expectation of competing. There’s a reason why they invite you. I really want us to do well in that, I have some goals as far as what I want to do in that tournament. It’s first game first. I think what everyone is looking at in that tournament that we have to be very cautious of is the potential match-up with Florida, which is where Amanda Butler (former Charlotte coach) is at. The kids even seem excited about that, but we have to win and they have to win. Iona is a very good club, so you start with that and I don’t want to think about anything other than that. We’re trying to get some games under our belt at the WNIT. I think after you get past that as a coach you start thinking about the road trip to NC A&T and we go from there to Wilmington, which I think are no easy games. On paper I think they look like games you should win, but it’s a good environment for our kids to go to because those people are competitive and they expect to win as much
it will be glaring as opposed to last year. I felt, and I know our players felt very strapped last year. The starters felt like it was on them to stay clean and stay out of foul trouble. I think that’s an uncomfortable feeling for both your players and coaches. You will notice quickly that we have a bench. I think it’s going to allow us to play a different style of ball, we’ll be able to press more and play more up-tempo. The most exciting thing about our team is the growth of our sophomores. They were freshman last year and they looked like freshman for most of the year, but you saw glimpses of the potential of Jennifer Hailey, Forney, Johnson and Amanda Dowe. They look like totally different players, it is one of the most amazing transformations I’ve seen since I’ve been coaching. Mentally and physically, they add a different dimension. They will be significant factors on this team.”
KA: “It’s a comforting feeling to know that you are so good at home. I think it’s the evolution of our players understanding how to get a bid to the tournament. You have to win some road games, you have to steal some games on the road. I think it’s just been a learning experience for our players to not let their guard down. Two years ago we were better on the road than we were at home, I think it’s just a thing of mental toughness.”
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Aston and the Niners will be looking for another postseason appearance in 2010.
that when I came here about how it all works and how our conference has evolved. We’ll have two teams ranked in the preseason top 25 and in some polls, the top 10. I think when that happens, you’re in a league where you don’t have to win it to get in. Our league is very clearly one of those leagues.” JC: What are you looking to get from your bench? KA: “I think that will be where everybody sees the difference in this team. I think
JC: I’ll get you out of here on this one. How important is it for the fans and students to come out and support this team? KA: “It’s really important for us. I think this program deserves the support. We have a core group of people—and I can’t begin to explain how much I appreciate those guys that get out there every night when we play. I just want to grow that group. I just think the students here are so awesome and they have an ability to make a difference. Even though some places might have a bigger crowd, I don’t think they have the knowledge that our fans do. Our fans are really knowledgeable about how to intimidate opposing teams. I just want our kids to get a taste of that. My goal is to get the lower bowl filled. If we did that, other teams wouldn’t win.”
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Duke and Tennessee headline home schedule WOMEN’S SCHEDULE
MEN’S SCHEDULE Date Nov. 13 Nov. 18 Nov. 17 Nov. 24 Nov. 27 Dec. 1 Dec. 7 Dec. 11 Dec. 17 Dec. 22 Dec. 30 Jan. 2 Jan. 5 Jan. 8 Jan. 15 Jan 19 Jan. 22 Jan. 26 Jan. 29 Feb. 2 Feb. 5 Feb. 12 Feb. 16 Feb. 19 Feb. 23 Feb. 26 Mar. 2 Mar. 5
Opponent South Carolina State George Mason East Carolina/NC State Oregon State Radford East Carolina Winthrop Davidson Tennessee Wright State Mercer Georgia Tech Richmond* St. Bonaventure* Fordham* Massachusetts* Duquesne* Temple* La Salle* Xavier* George Washington* Rhode Island* Dayton* St Louis* George Washington* Richmond* Xavier* St. Joe’s*
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March 8-13- ATLANTIC 10 TOURNAMENT (Atlantic City, N.J.)
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Date Nov. 13 Nov. 15/17 Nov. 23 Nov. 27 Nov. 30 Dec. 2 Dec. 5 Dec. 8 Dec. 11 Dec. 19 Dec. 22 Dec. 28 Dec. 29 Jan. 2 Jan. 7 Jan. 12 Jan. 15 Jan. 19 Jan 22 Jan. 26 Jan. 30 Feb. 5 Feb. 9 Feb. 12 Feb. 16 Feb. 19 Feb. 23 Feb. 26
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Iona Preseason WNIT Savannah State Duke North Carolina A&T UNC Wilmington East Carolina Western Carolina VCU Arkansas State Maryland Eastern Shore Old Dominion Tulane/Nicholls State Virginia Tech Temple* Fordham* Saint Joseph’s* Rhode Island* Xavier* Richmond* Saint Louis* Massachusetts* George Washington* Dayton* La Salle* St. Louis* Duquesne* St. Bonaventure*
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March 4-7 ATLANTIC 10 TOURNAMENT (Lowell, MA)
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Braswell hoping to flourish under new system Josh Carpenter Managing Editor jacarpe1@uncc.edu
Chris Braswell was one of Charlotte’s most successful freshman ever in 2009-10, averaging 9.5 points and 8.6 rebounds per game. The 6-foot-9-inch, 235 pound sophomore isn’t looking back though, and seems focused on a new season that will include some new faces. “A new face, new coaches, new team, it will just be a new chapter,” Braswell said of the upcoming season. Those new faces include head coach Alan Major and assistants Orlando Vandross, Desmond Oliver and Ryan Odom. According to Braswell, it didn’t take very long for the players and coaches to form a
strong bond. “Since they came here I’ve started to build more bonds with them. Just talking to them and watching film,” Braswell said. “They’ve tried to build a real family atmosphere, stronger bonds and just being like family.” Braswell scored 10 points and grabbed 11 rebounds in his first collegiate game against UNC Asheville. Braswell nearly broke several freshman records in 2009-10, but he isn’t focusing on what happened last year. “Last year was nice but at the same time I’ve got to get back to playing ball,” Braswell said. “I’ve got to move on and try and break more records.” Braswell flourished in Lutz’s up-and-
down style of offense, so with Major now in place, the potential for Braswell is exponential. A polar-opposite to Lutz’s offensive, high-octane scheme, Major implements a more fundamental styled offense and defense, which could open up new doors for Braswell. “Coach Lutz I think let us play a little more freely, as far as coach Major, I think he’s going to draw up some more plays and less running up and down the court,” Braswell said. “Not necessarily strict, but a bit more specific—running half-court plays and things like that.” Braswell worked hard on his game over the summer. “Just working on my ball-handling skills and working with the team,” Braswell
said of his summer routine. “There wasn’t really anything that I really focused on that I needed to get better such as rebounding or scoring the ball.” Braswell won’t only have to adjust to a new coach and offensive system, but also to a new point guard. DiJuan Harris graduated from Charlotte and is now playing professionally in Finland, and to fill the void left by Harris, Braswell and the Niners will look to the services of Jamar Briscoe. With Charlotte’s struggles down the stretch in 2009-10, Braswell feels like the team grew closer, and expects big things in the upcoming season. “Just stick with us. We’ve been through ups and downs from last year but just stay positive and we’ll be fine.”
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Whitaker looks to unleash full bag of tricks Ed Niser Asst. Sports Editor eniser@uncc.edu
Lanie Whitaker brings more to the floor than just fancy youtube trick shots, those are just the gravy on the top of the mountain of skills she possesses, in conjunction with her great personality and desire to win. Whitaker is known for her crazy trick shots that amaze onlookers. In fact, one of her early highlights at Charlotte was beating sharpshooter Derrio Green in a game of H.O.R.S.E., but there’s more to Whitaker’s game than that. Whitaker is a freshman guard/forward out of Boiling Springs SC, where she had a stellar career averaging 14 points and 7.9 rebounds per game. She is also deadly from behind the charity stripe, sinking just over 71 percent of all free-throw attempts. Whitaker was pursued by the University of Miami but she turned them down due to her down home family roots. “I don’t like being far away from home, I am a family girl, Charlotte was a good choice for me,” said Whitaker. “I got offered by Miami but that’s way too far away for me.” The six-foot-tall Whitaker provides coach Karen Aston with a slew of versatility since she can play at forward or guard. Her style of play is that of a shooter, which
is where the versatility comes in. Whitaker mentioned that the part of her game that needs to be tuned up is her defensive skillset since she had to sit out her senior season at Boiling Springs High School due to an injury. Whitaker suffered a torn ACL in her senior season, but she is making a speedy recovery as far as stability goes. She is 100 percent but adjusting to the style of play in Division I may take her some time. Whitaker said not to worry, “I feel like my knee stability is 100 percent but me physically, I Whitaker was not able to play for 11 months but my knees are good to go.” Being sought after by Miami, Whitaker came to the Charlotte women’s basketball facilities her junior year in high school not expecting to be impressed and she came out of her visit being totally blown away. “To tell you the truth I was not expecting much, I committed my junior year and that’s when the underdog team Charlotte did
some damage in the NCAA tournament,” said Whitaker on her decision to come to Charlotte. When asked what the biggest difference between the high school game and college game is, she responded “it is a million times more physical, it takes a lot more work to do what I did in high school.” As far as classes go, Whitaker posted a 3.3 GPA in summer session courses, not too shabby considering she is only a freshman athlete.
Whitaker has yet to declare a major but she says she is leaning towards studying something that will keep her close to the game of basketball, be it athletic training or exercise science. Expect to see Whitaker seeing the hardwood off the bench in short spurts in order to adjust her to the demanding style of play in Division I women’s basketball Whitaker is a shooter by trade and that’s what she looks to continue in her career here at Charlotte.
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Best Sales Increase of a Special Section Washington University in St. Louis Student Life Newspaper As a newspaper that generates an average of $2,000 per issue on our regular issues, we rely on a few of our annual special sections to generate a little extra revenue. In 2008 we began doing a dining guide and considered it a moderate success. Our first time selling it, we generated $4,195 in sales. We looked forward to expanding on it and making it an even bigger success in the years to follow. However in 2009 & 2010, largely due to the economy, only around $2,500 in sales were generated. (Please see attached graph showing year-to-year dining guide sales from 2008-2011.) Shortly after, we began planning an overhaul of the dining guide. We decided to completely change the format of the issue. It went from our standard newsprint tab format to a magazine format with a glossy cover and higher quality newsprint with full color throughout the inside pages. We included full color in the cost and made minor adjustments to the pricing. We made the three open pages of the glossy cover (inside front, inside back and back) premium page options for customers to purchase. These pages were a hot commodity with the high quality magazine glossy finish and bleeds. (Please see attached sales sheets from both years for full rate comparison.) We also gave the magazine a new name. No longer is it just the Dining Guide, it is now the Dining & Entertainment Guide. We felt like the old name was deterring entertainment venues, bars and leisure activity businesses from participating. We knew selling the new format to customers without anything to show how the finished product would look would be a challenge. We were extremely pleased to find out it was one we would overcome with a 53% sales increase from 2010 to 2011. Not only did the $5,440.00 in sales beat 2010, it takes the record for the most sales generated for the dining guide!
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four unique tapas bars SASHA FINE SCENE editor Looking to get off campus to eat? If so, tapas is a great alternative to traditional course meals. “Tapas,” Spanish for “covers,” refers to the multiple appetizers or snacks that combine to make a meal at tapas bars. Though the culture of tapas strongly emphasizes the consumption of alcohol, especially sangria, with the meal, tapas can easily be enjoyed by those under 21.
Tapas constitutes a wide variety of foods, from vegetarian to meat, hot to cold, and many others. Tapas is one of the latest food crazes to hit St. Louis. Here are a few tapas bars to get you started.
BARcelona
BARcelona, located west of campus on 34 North Central Ave, is— regrettably—just out of walking distance.
It is, however, only five minutes in a car. Open Monday thorough Saturday from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. for lunch and dinner, BARcelona strives to create an “authentic tapas bar atmosphere.” The restaurant caters to specific dietary needs, with specific dishes made for vegans and those with lactose intolerance, gluten sensitivity and nut allergies. BARcelona has different lunch and dinner menus, though tapas are available throughout the day. Individual tapas plates are not too expensive,
though you will need more than one for a full meal. The wine and cocktail lists are extensive, ranging from both whites and reds to sangria to traditional—and untraditional—cocktails. Notably, however, the restaurant lacks a beer list. The atmosphere itself is warm, though it is a little dark inside—and it often gets loud. Reservations are recommended.
Momos
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experience—most importantly, it isn’t Spanish. Momo’s calls itself a tavern that serves Greek cuisine in the tapas style. The differences between Momo’s and BARcelona go beyond the cuisine, however. Momo’s appears to be more casual, with a lounge area complete with couches and pillows, and offers belly dancing performances on Monday through Saturday nights. Monday through Saturday the kitchen is open from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., and the bar keeps serving until 1 a.m. On Sundays, food is served from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m., and the bar closes at midnight. Instead of traditional breads with sliced meats and cheeses, Momos offers old-fashioned Greek food. Kabobs, tzatzikis, and a whole host of other dishes
are found on the menu. As with any bar, the alcohol list is substantial. Cocktails and martinis have stereotypically Greek names, such as “Hera,” “Aristotle” and “Pythagoras” The beer selection is standard, with both national and local beers represented. Momo’s is far from pricey—you can get dinner for $10 plus drinks if you try. Located northwest of campus, the restaurant is a short drive from Wash. U.
Mojo
If you want a more contemporary feel, go to Mojo, located on 3117 South Grand, a fifteen minute drive from campus. Boasting an impressive wine list, along with cocktails and beers, Mojo is
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definitely geared toward the 21+ crowd. The tapas plates range from about $7 to $10, though the portions are often small and you will need several for a full meal. Mojo is decidedly a dinner venue, open Monday through Saturday from 4 p.m. until 11 p.m., with the bar open until 1:30. In addition to tapas, Mojo offers a wide variety of soups, salads, sides and other entrees to choose from. The tapas menu, unsurprisingly, is the most extensive. Anything from shrimp and grits to pasta to hummus is fair game here. Reservations are recommended.
your time. Less crowded than Barcelona, the atmosphere is a little more mature, but still loud. Modesto has an extensive non-tapas menu, in addition to traditional tapas fare. For those of legal drinking age, there is a large wooden bar with local beer on tap, as well as a substantial Spanish wine list. Known for its intimate setting, Modesto is a great place to bring a date. The restuarant is 15 minutes from Wash. U. by car, south of Forest Park. Modesto is open Monday through Thursday from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m., and Friday until 11 p.m. Reservations are recommended.
Located in the Hill neighborhood of St. Louis, Modesto is definitely worth
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shayna makaron managing editor It goes without saying that college students are often tight on cash, but that doesn’t mean we have to resort to ramen and Natty Light. A bunch of great restaurants around St. Louis offer special deals on a regular basis; all you have to figure out is when and where, and you’ll be on your way to an affordable feast.
Bike Night at Local Harvest Café 3137 Morgan Ford Road St Louis, MO 63116 314-772-8815 Local Harvest Café is committed to sustainability, and that means more than just buying local. Every Tuesday from 5-9 p.m. is Bike Night; those who ride in get $2 Schlaflys, $3 domestics, and buy-one-get-onehalf-off sandwiches. Go for the house-smoked brisket or the veggie burger with their famous homemade hummus. Local Harvest is a bit over five miles from campus, so be prepared to work up an appetite during your ride.
Happy Hour at Chi Sushi Sake 4 N. Euclid Avenue St. Louis, MO 63108 314-367-2209 Voted best happy hour by the Riverfront Times in 2009, Chi offers buy-one-get-one-free nigiri as well as select sushi rolls and drinks at half price Monday-Saturday from 4-6 p.m.
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And since the sushi is already inexpensive by St. Louis standards, you can expect to pay a mere $2-4 for some good quality maki. Creative libations like the peach saki martini (Malibu coconut rum, peach schnapps, Absolut Mandarin and sake) will run you a tab of $4. Just don’t go too overboard—after all, you still have the whole night ahead of you. .
Blue Plate Special at Farmhaus
featuring buy-one-get-one free domestic bottles. But on Monday and Tuesday, the brews are accompanied by free chicken wings. If you can’t make it on these days, there are other specials throughout the rest of the week, like pizza and a pint for $10. But really, nothing tops the free wings.
FourSquare Check-Ins at Robust Wine Bar 227 West Lockwood Avenue
St Louis, MO 63119-2327 314-963-0033 That’s right, you finally found a legitimate reason to be on FourSquare. (And stop kidding yourself, you were never going to be mayor of anywhere.) Each month, Robust offers a deal to those who check in on FourSquare. For October, it’s buy-one-get-one-free O’Fallon Pumpkin Beer. Tis the season!
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3257 Ivanhoe Avenue St. Louis, MO 63139 314-647-3800 The combination of small portions and an insanely enticing drink menu means that a full dinner at Farmhaus can result in a pretty hefty tab. But don’t let that stop you from trying out this Southern and Midwestern-inspired, locallysourced eatery, voted Best New Restaurant of 2010 by the Riverfront Times. Instead, opt for the Blue Plate Lunch Special, which rotates daily but always costs $10, including salad and tea. Follow Farmhaus’ twitter (@farmhausstl) for their daily options, which include upscale takes on comfort foods such as roast beef, smashed taters and green bean casserole or fried fluke, red beans and rice, and hushpuppies.
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Behind the nametag: Confessions of a college waitress sophie adelman staff columnist After six years as a waitress, I’ve learned a lot about life. Being in the service industry has taught me a slew of important things—the fine art of creating a furtive meal out of cocktail garnishes and soup crackers, the jubilant feeling at the end of a week as you hand over a fat wad of $5 bills to your bank teller with a sly wink. However, my greatest achievement was not mastering the art of the ideal mojito or polishing the perfect dessert sales pitch. It was the art of understanding people. Most customers don’t give much thought to the person on the other side of the table, but they also don’t realize that they’re part of a case study in human behavior. Servers are experts in the subtle snap-judgment of their clients, and behind the pressed white tablecloths and the clinking of knives and forks, all sorts of interactions and factors come into play. Even before you’ve said a word, a good server knows exactly what you want, maybe even before you know you want it yourself.
The awkward couple on a blind date, for example, laughing a little too loudly at each other’s jokes, will want the cocktail menu as soon as possible (and a helpful suggestion of house whiskies can’t hurt).
The group of sulky teenagers will want bottomless Shirley Temples and fries—to split (no tip). The middle aged woman fastidiously examining the water spots on her silverware will want freshly sliced lemons, a clean napkin every five minutes, and broiled fish sent back, because a granule of black pepper has upset Madam’s delicate constitution. I know that the group of beer-guzzling college boys will offer to buy me a shot at the end of the night (carefully masked in a kiddiecup, of course). And I also happen to know from personal experience that Shaquille O’Neal likes to order two entrees and tip 100 percent. But most of the time, it was the people in uniform, slaving away in the fiery raucous kitchen behind the soft carpeted hush of the dining room, that were the most fun. In the course of my time as a waitress, I worked with aspiring rappers and DJs, former firefighters and marines, a drag queen hairstylist, a (selfprofessed) professional Jamaican soccer player and a group of friends from Eastern Europe trying to work their way through college. Part of this is the nature of the beast— restaurants are revolving doors for people in all phases and transitions of their life. Most people aren’t just working in a restaurant, and at the slightest inquiry, will be more than willing to let you know. I’ll readily admit that a guilty part of me felt a need to explain myself to
customers at times (“I’m in a really great college! I’m saving up for a year abroad! There’s more to me than meets the eye!”), but I still can’t help thinking about the social impetus that made me feel the need to justify a part-time summer job to complete strangers. Why was this? Maybe its a residual effect of years of turning an inadvertent blind eye to those people we interact with every day, those we take for granted as they gamely sing us off-key renditions of “Happy Birthday” or pour us endless mugs of steaming black coffee after a particularly brutal night out. Restaurant jobs have a funny way of bleeding into the rest of your life, and after you’ve been working a while, it’s only a matter of time before the dreams start—when you wake up in a cold sweat, thinking that you’ve forgotten to ring in someone’s well-done ribeye steak (bone on the side), and you’ve managed to
turn your bedsheets into a perfect bishop’s hat napkin fold. However, long after the last check has been signed, I’m still affected by the memories of refilling ketchup bottles at 8 a.m. (the smell haunts me to this day) and team-led crossword competitions during slow Sunday brunch shifts. Working in a restaurant has given me more than stellar vocabulary skills. It’s allowed me to understand and respect the people behind a perfectly prepared meal, though our race, religion, or socio-economic status couldn’t be more different. Though the job of a server doesn’t necessarily command respect, it’s certainly deserving of it. So the next time you’re at a restaurant, mind your manners and tip 20 percent. You never know who could be behind the nametag.
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Finding REAL pizza in St. Louis
josh goldman associate editor The non-greasy, mild-tasting atrocity affectionately known to St. Louisans as provel cheese disgusts me. Once upon a time, this faux-cheese, along with the cardboard crust it’s often served on, led this Northeasterner to conclude that St. Louis pizza wasn’t actually pizza. My hasty conclusion, however, was incorrect. Many restaurants within a few miles of campus sell some tasty pie, but only if you know where to look. 1. La Pizza. 8137 Delmar Blvd. I live in southern Connecticut, an area known for its pizza. Each town is littered with restaurants operated by New Yorkers who have made the move to suburbia, and I can find a delicious slice of greasy, thincrust pizza almost anywhere. In St. Louis, fuhgeddaboudit. At least that’s what I thought until I found this small eatery on the corner of Delmar and Old Bonhomme. La Pizza offers reasonably priced, New York style pizza made by real New Yorkers. The thin crust and greasy mozzarella cheese melt in the mouth and remind me of home, as does the rest of the menu. La Pizza also offers real calzones, stromboli and Italian heroes, staples in my diet. My deep conversations with the employees about the
New York Yankees, moreover, add to the New York connection. The lunch special of a one topping slice, a salad and a drink for $5.95 is also hard to pass up. Given that La Pizza delivers to much of the University City area and is offered at every CPC happy hour, I have one piece of advice for individuals inclined to eat somewhere else: fuhgeddaboudit. 2. Pi Pizzeria. 6144 Delmar Blvd. Okay, so sometimes I can get sick of perfection and must eat somewhere else. While pricey, Pi is second on my pizza list. The gourmet pizzeria stands apart from any pizzeria in town, and while initially hesitant to call a cornmeal-based pie pizza, I have been won over time and time again. The organic mozzarella cheese and fresh toppings make the pizza worth waiting for, as does the opportunity to see servers donning shirts that mock provel cheese. My one piece of advice for customers: Spend the extra bucks on the deep dish. I love Chicago pizza as well, and Pi is the place to get deep dish pizza in St. Louis. And if you want to avoid the lines on a weekend, call in an order to go. 3. Racanelli’s New York Style Pizzeria. 12 S. Euclid Ave. Sadly, Racanelli’s has closed its Delmar Loop location while it moves buildings and
expands from a take-out only to a full service restaurant, but luckily, the Central West End location delivers to all areas previously served in University City. The dough is a bit thicker than it is at La Pizza, but the NYC taste is there. Racanelli’s also provides the full red sauce experience with subs and calzones, heroes and sandwiches. With many lunch specials on the menu and the constant availability of pizza by the slice, Racanelli’s is a must-visit once it reopens on the Loop. 4. Dewey’s Pizza. 559 N. and South Road My friends from Ohio have praised this Cincinnati-based chain, and for good reason. The restaurant offers authentic red sauce pies that use fresh mozzarella cheese. The white pizzas don’t feature ricotta cheese, so purists should stick to the red. The doughy crust is more reminiscent of a pie from Boston’s North End than it is to New York style pizza, and this offers another delicious change of pace. The menu, furthermore, reminds one of a true pizzeria. The restaurant serves the coveted Bronx Bomber, Green Lantern and Hawaiian pies, a well as large calzones made with the traditional ricotta-mozzarella mix. Priced almost identically to La Pizza, there’s no reason why Dewey’s should be frequented by Wash. U. students. To make the experience even better, don’t order takeout. The restaurant features offers the perfect
atmosphere to enjoy a family meal or a date, and with local beers flowing from the tap, you can’t go wrong with a dinner at Dewey’s. 5. Dominos, Pizza Hut & Papa Johns For students looking to save a few dollars, turn to the national chains over the local fare. The new Dominos pie is pretty tasty thanks to a marginally improved sauce and dough loaded with garlic and oil. Pizza Hut and Papa John’s similarly produce consistent products. While the chains do not offer the best pizza in the world, they make pizza the right way: with soft dough and mozzarella cheese. Admittedly, this list is incomplete. Though I have heard good things, I have never eaten at Il Vicino. Another local option, Manhattan Express, charges extra for a pizza with mozzarella cheese, so I refuse to eat there on principle. One thing is certain though. A good pizza, no matter the style, is created with strong, greasy mozzarella cheese. Above left: La Mizza serves delicious, reasonably-priced pizza with a variety of toppings; Matt Mitgang | Student Life. Above right: Pi offers excellent deep-dish, Chicago-style pizza; Josh Goldman | Student Life.
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The Coffeehouse List:
Competing for the Wash. U. Crowd agnes trenche scene reporter As college students with a constant need for Wi-Fi and energizing beverages, we often place a great value on the number of unique coffeehouses at our service. Thankfully, the area surrounding Washington University has several such coffeshops—and who doesn’t want a change from good ol’ Whispers every once in a while? Kayak’s 276 N Skinker Blvd. The only place truly five minutes away from campus, Kayak’s often replaces Whispers as the coffeeshop of choice, with free Wi-Fi, strong coffee and a panoramic view. Plus, its log cabin decor—complete with a fireplace—caters to the inner hiker/ adventurer in its patrons. Its one drawback— with hours that go through 11 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 9 p.m. Sundays, Kayak’s closes early for the college crew. Meshuggah’s 6269 Delmar Blvd. The Loop, a ten minute walk from campus, boasts Meshuggah, with its small, softly lit, cozy atmosphere. The café’s simple dishes are popular among patrons, and its fleshed-out beverage menu is a caffeine lover’s dream. The service might take its time, but with free Wi-Fi and arguably some of the best coffee on the list, this little shop is ideal for an afternoon date with your senior thesis.
Starbucks 6621 Delmar Blvd. The obvious and well known-choice, there’s not much to say that isn’t already known. It’s close, it’s reliable, and the Loop workers are renowned for their coolness. St. Louis Bread Co. 6630 Delmar Ave It’s no Starbucks, but the St. Louis version of national chain Panera has a small capuccino that’s massive compared to any other coffeeshop, and its beverage menus boast a solid variety of brews, teas and espresso options. The Loop location has various nooks and crannies where you can spend hours upon hours of studying. And if grabbing food is within your schedule and budget, there are great bakery and café options to keep you happy from breakfast to supper. Coffee Cartel # 2 Maryland Plaza On a sunny autumn day, Coffee Cartel boasts outdoor seating that faces one of the most interesting intersections in the Central West End. Coffee Cartel has three distinct areas, one of them furnished with a pool table. The bean quality is not exquisite, but the shop is sandwiched in one of the more lively sectors in St. Louis, and in the vicinity of shops and other eateries. It’s open 24/7, a fact reflected by its less than loveable bathroom reflects. Still, it is frequently flocked to by students and twentysomethings alike, both on weekdays and weekends.
Blackberry Café 7351 Forsyth Blvd. Half a minute from the Forsyth Metrolink and the underdog of our list, Blackberry is quiet, small and boasts excellent service. It is often overlooked and is extraordinarily empty. Right beside Crazy Bowls and Wraps, it is well located for an
after-dinner coffee and pastry combination, though its food menu makes it into a potential CBW substitute. Above: Kayak’s is a popular coffee destination near the Wash. U. campus; Josh Goldman | Student Life.
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wining & dining An introduction to wine pairings hana schuster scene senior editor Most people who like good food aren’t going to say no to a good wine—but consuming and appreciating are two very different things. While plenty of diners may pair a rich steak with a Cabernet Sauvignon because that’s what they’re told to do, it’s a very different experience when you understand what you’re ordering and why—when you understand the intricacies of food and wine pairing. I’ve found that in many common food and wine pairings, the two exist nicely side-by-side and, at the very least, don’t clash. But once in a while, you discover a pairing that brings the flavors to life: the food and wine to accentuate and heighten the flavors of one another to create a truly memorable dining experience. Though there are too many wines and too many combinations to count, some of the more popular pairings, along with a few standout combinations, are listed below.
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Red wines generally pair better with richer foods. As a rule of thumb—the heavier the food, the heavier the wine. It’s best to avoid red wines with light seafood and pasta dishes. The more tannic a particular red wine, the better it will pair with heavier fattier dishes—like foie gras, confit or pork belly. Tannins, which help wines age and grow into the complexity of their flavors, cut through fats, while fatty foods can also help mellow out a particularly tannic red wine.
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Bordeaux A red Bordeaux is similar to a Merlot or a Cabernet—rich and earthy with an elegant black currant flavor. A fuller, more tannic Bordeaux like a St. Julien, would pair very nicely with a rich red meat, lamb or a strong cheese, while a smoother, softer Bordeaux, like France’s St. Emilion wines pair beautifully with milder red meats or dishes with rich sauces or black truffles. The 1996 St. Emilion Chateau Ausone is a personal favorite of mine.
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Cabernet Sauvingnon The wine of all wines, Cabernet Sauvignon is excellent for a formal dinner. It is known as the meat-lovers wine, as it goes well with any rich red meat (especially when prepared with bold flavors) like beef, lamb or wild game. A good Cabernet is high in Bob Fila | Chicago Tribune | MCT tannins but not too tannic-tasting, and is full-bodied with notes Tapestry, a blend of red of cedar, chocolate and black currants. As it is a much heavier grapes from the storied wine, avoid pairing it with lighter dishes like seafood, or foods Beaulieu Vineyard, is the with heavy citrus notes. If you want to splurge and are looking for producer’s second wine after the flagship Georges de a rich, smooth, sexy Cabernet, I would recommend the 1995 or Latour Cabernet Sauvignon. 1996 Pichon-Lalande Pauillac. But if you’re looking for something more affordable, the 2007 Groth Napa Valley Cabernet is a wonderful and flavorful alternative.
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Merlot
Similar in flavor to Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot wines actually have fewer tannins, making them a better match for more mildly-flavored foods. Merlot wines are also much softer, often featuring notes of plum, cherry, cedar and vanilla. It would compliment most simply prepared meat dishes and even tuna and salmon.
Pinot Noir
This is a lighter red wine than some of the others listed, but is still extremely elegant. These wines are fruity and flowery with notes of strawberry, violets, and smoke. As it is a medium-bodied wine, it pairs better with mildly prepared meats and leaner cuts—roasted quail, for instance, would be a delicious pairing with a good Pinot. There are some limitations when it comes to choosing vegetable dishes, however—sweet rich vegetables like pumpkin and sweet potato are not the best matches for Pinot Noir wines.
Zinfandel Zinfandel is a deep purple-hued wine with strong flavors of black pepper, blackberry, hints of dark chocolate and spices like anise and clove. It is a full-flavored, full-bodied wine high in alcohol and tannins—and one of my favorites. Zinfandel’s robust flavors pair nicely with spicier foods, Italian cooking and bold meats. Try it with a peppery beef dish or pork cooked in sauces with basil or oregano. But avoid Zinfandel with seafood, light meats like chicken or turkey, and butter or cream-based sauces. I would recommend a Dry Creek Zinfandel from California, especially the 2003 and 2005 vintages.
Burgundy Though lighter than the Bordeaux varieties, Burgundy wines are often similar with their elegant berry flavors. They are generally tarter than a full-bodied Bordeaux and commonly feature flavors of raspberries and black cherries. Burgundies go best with lighter meats such as duck, veal or pork, and can even pair nicely with heavier more flavorful seafood dishes like tuna or salmon. I would recommend a wine from the Cote de Nuits region of France, famous for their red Burgundies.
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Generally lighter and sweeter than reds, white wines are made from green, yellow and golden-colored grapes, and sometimes the juice of red grapes, as in Chardonnay and other fuller-flavored white wines. Whites are sometimes snubbed and considered inferior to their red counterparts; yet I believe a good white wine deserves a spot on any foodie’s table, especially if you know what to pair with it.
Sauvignon Blanc
This is a very crisp, acidic and sometimes sharp white wine with fruity flavors like grapefruit. fig and melon, and savory notes of lemongrass and green vegetables. As a light to medium-bodied wine, it goes best at the beginning of a meal alongside lighter appetizers like salad and cheese dishes. In fact, Sauvignon Blanc pairs especially well with goat cheese—I have yet to come across a better wine and cheese combination.
Gewurztraminer
This German white wine is rich and exotic with flavors like lychee, pineapple, rose and hints of spice. As a dessert wine, it pairs perfectly with fresh fruit or a nice crème brulee; in a dry or off-dry style, Gewurztraminer is an ideal match for spicier Asian dishes like Indian or Chinese cuisine made with lean pork or chicken. Because of its bold flavors and fruity sweetness, this is one white wine that generally shouldn’t be paired with light fish dishes, as it can easily overpower seafood’s simplicity.
Chardonnay
Because it is made with a mixture of white and red grapes, Chardonnay is an oakier, fullerflavored white wine than most. Featuring hints of butter, apple, oak and vanilla, Chardonnay goes well with up-scale dinners and full-flavored dishes—yet because it is still a white wine, it generally shouldn’t be paired with meats. Try Chardonnay with a rich seafood dish like lobster or sea bass for a winning combination. For a high quality, affordable bottle—go with the 2007 Chappellet from Napa Valley; it is fruity, crisp and delicious. John Walker | Fresno Bee | MCT
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Riesling This white wine is crisp with fruity notes of peach, pair, apricot and apple. A dry Riesling pairs nicely with lean fowl, chicken, simple fish dishes or flavorful shellfish like lobster. As a dessert wine, it is a heavenly match for apple pie, peach cobbler, or a dried fruit and hard cheese board. I would recommend the 2007 Ventana Monterey Arroyo Secco, a lively Riesling with flavors of apricot, orange peel and flowers— and winner of multiple regional and international wine competitions. Bill Hogan | Chicago Tribune | MCT
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A tour of St. Louis Indian food.
06 DOUGH TO DOOR
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20 ECLECTIC MUSIC LESSONS IN ST. LOUIS
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Savor the curry
A tour of St. Louis Indian cuisine
MATT MITGANG | STUDENT LIFE
Delectable curry dishes and naan can be found at Indian restaurants across St. Louis.
NETTA SADOVSKY | STEPPING OUT COLUMNIST St. Louis offers a surprisingly large number of choices when it comes to Indian cuisine. In fact, in less than 10 Google-map-minutes (calculated from One Brookings Dr.), you can drive to any of four great Indian food joints: Rasoi, Everest Cafe, House of India and the appropriately named Indian Food. Such a wide variety of choices can be daunting, but it would be a sin to let indecision hinder you
from trying some of the local Indian fare. With the 10-minute driving distance as the search criteria, I decided to do a survey of the Indian food options near Washington University. RASOI 25 N Euclid Ave.
$ Pros: thoughtful decor, rich and creamy
food, amazing lamb shank korma Cons: service can come off as indifferent, slightly higher prices Of the four restaurants, Rasoi sets itself apart with the startlingly chic décor expected of an establishment in the Central West End. The restaurant looks sophisticated and cozy, with the lunch buffet discreetly tucked away during dinner hours. A small flatscreen TV quietly plays Indian music videos for your entertainment during
lame dates or breaks in conversation. Rasoi is slightly more expensive with main courses averaging $15 to $20, which makes sense/correlates with/ given its upscale appearance and gourmet fusion-inspired entrées. The restaurant boasts an extensive menu, and certain specialties not available elsewhere. The lamb shank korma comes to mind—a big, steamy hunk of succulent lamb prepared in a creamy korma sauce (a mild curry often prepared with coconut milk and
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various spices, especially coriander) sets the dish apart from the traditional lamb korma that features small chunks of lamb. The dish is served with saffron rice and grilled vegetables. Avoid asking for dishes to be sent back or corrections to be made to your order, as it is easy to irk the staff. As with all the other restaurants, Rasoi offers a lunch buffet that provides an excellent value and a good variety of food, available every day at lower prices than its dinner offerings. EVEREST CAFE 4145 Manchester Ave or 711 Olive Street
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Pros: healthy, fresh, passionate and kind ownership Cons: food is occasionally dry or overcooked. Dinner menu is not the best value. Everest Café is a quaint little restaurant that actually offers Nepalese, Indian, Tibetan and Korean food. I hesitate to criticize Everest Café. The chef, Devi States, who holds a doctorate in public health, holds to a very respectable constitution: serve healthy food of high quality to help mitigate diseases that appear later in life, like heart disease, stroke and diabetes. States started a healthcare project in Nepal to help women and children in rural areas, a project helped by the success of Everest. The menu at Everest Café consists of predominately Nepalese and Indian options, but also includes Tibetan dumplings and Korean kimchi dishes. The use of cream and butter is extremely limited, instead States uses a base sauce made of 80 percent fresh tomato and 20 percent fresh yellow onion. Though the food is somewhat more expensive than I would expect based on the quality of the dishes, this is easily remedied by visiting Everest during lunch instead of dinner. The all-youcan-eat buffet at Everest is a great deal for under $10. HOUSE OF INDIA 8501 Delmar Blvd.
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Pros: authentic Indian food, great value (especially for the lunch buffet), good variety Cons: somewhat inconsistent from visit to visit House of India was my childhood. More weekends than not were spent competing with my brother to determine who could scarf down more chicken masala and fresh, fluffy naan, dark red tandoori chicken and sweet rice pudding. If it were not for the inconsistency in the quality of the food at House of India, I would give it the highest recommendation. Recently, House of India has been on an up-swing, with its fresh food and great variety. The chicken masala can’t be beat. With entrées around $10-15, the quality-toprice ratio is matched only by Indian Food on Olive Boulevard. INDIAN FOOD 8629 Olive Blvd.
$ Pros: healthy food, great service, good prices Cons: cheap interior A small, family-owned restaurant just south of 170 on Olive, Indian Food’s décor matches the distinctiveness of its name—in that it is minimal. The place has only the bare essentials, to the point where it looks a bit cheap. In return for tolerating the visual deficits, you get food that is really cheap but still authentic and delicious. Indian Food has Pakistani influences and serves Halal meat, or meat which is permissible to eat according to Islamic law. Like Everest, Indian Food avoids high cream content and instead veers towards heavily flavored foods with the help of a variety of Indian spices. The meat is tender and juicy; I especially recommend any of the lamb dishes. The service is very friendly, and though the place looks modest, it has a loyal fan base among locals.
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Dough to Door
MARIAM SHAHSAVARANI | STUDENT LIFE Dough to Door offers customers a variety of treats and candies to customize their cookies.
WEI-YIN KO| NEWS EDITOR Near the end of Melville Avenue lies a new bakery. Dough to Door, an innovative cookie delivery service which delivers baked-to-order cookies right to your door. According to their website, the store delivers to the 63130 zip code south of Olive, parts of Clayton and the Central West End, the East Loop, Washington University and Fontbonne campuses. “There’re three of us that owns [the store,]” said Jonathan Weinberg, one of the co-founders of Dough to Door. “We were brainstorming one night, we thought if you could deliver pizza like Pizza Hut, why can’t you deliver cookies?” Ernest Dixon and Tamika Moore are the two other co-owners of the cookie delivery shop. The trio first put their ideas to work back in February, looking at places where they could set up shop. The shop officially opened at 567A on Melville back on Aug. 5.
Currently the budding business employs six employees total, including three drivers for deliveries. Customers can choose from 10 pre-made cookies, or an infinite number of custom doughs and mix-ins. The doughs include plain, chocolate, oatmeal, peanut butter and sugar. The mix-ins include various candies, raisins, nuts, and chocolate chips. According to Weinberg, the cookie delivery business is doing well so far. “The deliveries pick up at night, about 3 hours before we close. During the day we rely mostly on foot traffic,” Weinberg said. The shop opens at noon seven days a week. The shop closes at 2 a.m. Thursday through Saturday and at midnight Sunday through Wednesday. The store owner is also hoping to attract more Wash. U. students to use their service.
“I think our Wash. U. customer [base] is still growing. The students just got back to school and more and more of them will hear about us. We have really good cookies,” he said. “We are currently working on getting Bear Bucks accepted here at the store.” In addition to getting the University’s approval to use student cards for purchases, Dough to Door have also offered free cookies during Thursday Happy Hour last week and plans to continue doing so. “We have free Wi-Fi and games in the store for the customers who are waiting. We want to turn the space into a sociable area for people to hang out.” The bakery currently only accepts phone or walk-in orders, but the store plans to make online orders through their website (www. doughtodoor.com) available in the near future. Special offers will also be announced on their Facebook page.
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Three Kings Public House DAVIS SARGEANT| SENIOR SCENE EDITOR Ordinary should not be an insult. To call a restaurant ordinary should not imply fetid food or rude service. One recent addition to the Loop is ordinary in the best possible way. Three Kings Public House, a bar and grill across the street from the Tivoli Theatre, offers filling fare served with smiles in a handsome space. However, the pub lacks any attribute that makes it noteworthy. Three Kings may not replace your favorite bar in St. Louis, but with the right friends, a night there could be fun. The bar at Three Kings offers a wide selection of beers, including local favorites like Schlafly’s and Urban Chestnut. The bar is up front and there are plenty of tables in the back to mingle with friends over drinks. Three Kings boasts strong drinks for the best prices. Wednesday through Sunday nights feature live music and often a lively crowd that ranges from the early 20s to the mid-40s. Student Life sampled the lunch menu, which consists mainly of sandwiches and burgers. Their
signature Three Kings Burger, a half-pound of beef topped by bacon, bleu cheese and balsamic relish on sourdough, proved delicious. While no one proclaimed it the world’s best burger, for eight dollars, it was well-priced and more than enough for lunch. Unfortunately, we did not sample the Captain Crunch Shrimp, our server’s suggestion, but when we return, we’ll order it immediately. The decor and ambience of Three Kings are its strongest features. The bar, paneling and furnishing are mahogany. Three Kings is smaller than competing bars on the Loop, like Cicero’s and Blueberry Hill, which gives the pub a more intimate atmosphere. Three Kings tries to evoke the look and feel of an English pub and for the most part, it succeeds. The pub’s best assets are large prints of photographs of University City from over 100 years ago. Despite being a new establishment, Three Kings succeeds in feeling like a part of University City and the culture of the Loop largely because of
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MATT MITGANG | STUDENT LIFE In the mood for some burgers and fries? Three Kings brings traditional American fare to the Loop for both lunch and dinner.
these photos. In older English, an ordinary was an inn that offered regular meals at fixed prices. While it does not let rooms, Three Kings Public House otherwise suits this definition. Whether a customer orders a draught or a sandwich, he can expect a good return on his dollar. However, besides the inexpensive drinks, nothing about Three Kings makes it particularly attractive to people looking for a new favorite bar. But with the right friends, this ordinary has the potential to be quite extraordinary.
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Cafe Napoli
MARIAM SHAHSAVARANI | STUDENT LIFE
Cafe Napoli in Clayton features upscale Italian dishes.
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DAVIS SARGEANT| SENIOR SCENE EDITOR Delizioso! Cafe Napoli is an excellent Italian restaurant a few minutes by car from campus. Perfect for a dinner with parents or a date you wish to impress, the restaurant is best for a casual evening and plenty of conversation. Most dishes are priced above chain Italian restaurants like Olive Garden or the Pasta House, but the difference is certainly worth it. Cafe Napoli offers a richer menu than its competitors. Unfortunately, none of the dishes we tried were especially innovative. They were all safe dishes, as though the chef avoided risk. All in all, a dinner at Cafe Napoli is an evening well spent. As good as the food and atmosphere may be, Cafe Napoli’s strongest feature during our visit was its service. For example, one member of our party was running late to dinner. He texted ahead and asked us to order him whatever the
waiter suggested. Our server, an exceedingly patient fellow, declared that if he could eat one last thing on the menu, it would be the linguine Bolognese. Our friend, again via text message, replied that would be fine, but ten minutes later, he texted again to remind us that he was a vegetarian. We frantically grabbed the waiter and asked him if anything could be done about the linguine. He assured us there would be no problem, and swapped the order with a meatless dish. Our dinners arrived as our tardy friend took his seat. Immediately, once his new dish was in front of him, he told the waiter, “I’m sorry, but I really can’t eat mushrooms.” Wordlessly and swiftly, the waiter removed the plate and returned shortly afterwards with a pasta sans mushrooms. At no point did he or any of the Cafe Napoli staff express frustration with our friend, restlessly ask when he would arrive, or charge for more than one order. We were impressed. Our favorite dish was the Bowtie alla Genovese. The pasta itself was smothered with a pesto cream, which had a citrus quality to it, a surprise, though a pleasant
one. Chicken was also in the dish, and it was juicy and complemented the savory sauce well. However, the dish lacked any texture, and was overall a pretty standard dish. While it was very good, nothing about it seemed original or innovative. We also sampled the linguine primavera. This dish included several vegetables, but we’re not sure why it was included on a menu well into the autumn. The dining room itself is lowly lit with high backed chairs. We were provided with sturdy stainless-steel cutlery and linen napkins. Waiters were dressed in black shirts with ties. Dress for clientele varied; some matched polo shirts with jeans, while other opted for an oxford, slacks and a blazer. Cafe Napoli recommends “elegant casual” attire. On the whole, Cafe Napoli provides Italian food of a better quality than competitors. It’s a good choice for insisting your family on paying for you. The food is good, but while it is far better than anything at Olive Garden or Bear’s Den, the menu is not adventurous. Still, Cafe Napoli has our recommendation, and we warmly remember the peerless service.
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City Diner at the Fox
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ANDONG CHENG | STUDENT LIFE City Diner at the Fox, best known for its breakfast food, is a coveted place to eat before or after seeing a musical at the Fabulous Fox Theatre.
541 N. Grand Blvd. St. Louis, MO 63103 314.533.7500
City Diner at the Fox is the most convenient and coveted place to eat before or after seeing a musical at the Fabulous Fox Theatre. This chic restaurant, best known for its breakfast food, is right next door to the Fox. You can come in, sit down and enjoy your experience out for a cheap price. The atmosphere is very cosmopolitan: The walls are decorated with bold colors and artistic shapes; there is a model of a bike resting above their entrance and every dining table has its own lava lamp. The waiters and waitresses were all friendly and helpful, making the experience much more relaxing. They started our meal with—you guessed it—dessert,
which was pleasantly surprising. The vanilla milkshake was very large; half of the milkshake was served in the glass and the other half in a tin cup—traditional diner style. I tried the biscuits and gravy described on the menu as “two freshly baked, inhouse smothered with sausage gravy.” The biscuits were, admittedly, similar to those at the South Forty House, but much softer in texture, while the gravy had more delicious bites of sausage. The French onion soup was served in a saucer covered in a thick layer of Gruyère cheese, and it came with a serving of crusty garlic bread. It is nothing like the standardized taste of Panera that we are all used to. The lunch entrées are huge. The turkey club sandwich was cut into one-too-many small triangles and came with an abundance of thick fries. The bread on the sandwich was very thin and delicate, held together by colored toothpicks. All I have to say is that you can’t go wrong with a turkey club. Could the Village make a similar meal to City Diner? I’m inclined to say yes, based on my experiences at both. What the Village or Bear’s Den can’t reproduce, however, is the culture of this diner and the vivacious atmosphere of Grand Street life, just beyond the diner’s walls. If you ever find yourself going to the Fox, I definitely recommend grabbing a bite at City Diner before starting the show. It’ll be an extra treat!
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DANIELLE WU| SCENE REPORTER Looking for inexpensive alternatives to the sweets at Cherry Tree Café? Consider these choices. The ingredients can all be bought at Schnuck’s for under $25, and the results are delectable.
FRUIT CREPES 4 servings 1 c. Flour 2 eggs ½ cup milk ½ cup water ¼ tsp salt 2 tbsp butter Heat skillet or frying pan on medium low, coat with butter or cooking spray. Fruit can become expensive, especially in colder months when they become out of season. Canned pie filling can be a cheap alternative, and eliminate work because much of the sugar and cooking has been done for you. Add fruit according to taste, top with a dollop of cool whip
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Fritanga
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Fritanga: A Taste of Nicaragua in St. Louis
NETTA SADOVSKY | STEPPING OUT COLUMNIST
Imagine biting into a lightly fried enchilada with layers of golden brown dough and a juicy pulled chicken filling. If you’re already hungry, then you can feed your imagination at Fritanga, a cozy one-room restaurant that provides authentic Nicaraguan food for decent prices. For those of you not familiar with Nicaraguan food, it revolves around staples such as fried plantains, rice and beans and cabbage salad. The food is comparable to Mexican and other Central American varieties, but has its own distinct flavor. If you’re on a diet though, beware: many Nicaraguan dishes are fried. Fritanga is one of the few restaurants in St. Louis that serves up authentic Nicaraguan food. With a bright outer décor and colorful paintings on the walls, Fritanga offers a lively
and unique atmosphere. It is uncompromisingly authentic and refreshingly unaffected by American impositions—there is no bread and butter served or optional mac n’ cheese sides for kids. In fact, in Nicaragua, the word “fritanga” actually designates restaurants that make authentic, homemade Nicaraguan food. It is hard to find a dish without plantains at Fritanga. Entrees come with a choice of them, sweet or savory, as well as gallo pinto, a typical Nicaraguan dish with rice and red beans, or white rice and Cuban black beans. Main courses also come with repollo salad, a cole slaw-like side dish. The rice and beans are hearty but not overpowering and provide a nice, palette-cleansing break from the main course. The repollo salad is light, with no mayo
and just a bit of vinegar over chopped cabbage and carrots. The salad adds a tanginess that complements the fried dishes. I had the savory fried plantains, which reminded me of potato latkes with a dash of banana. For my main dish, I tried the “canoa de maduro,” a whole ripe sweet plantain with shredded beef and a generous portion of melted mozzarella cheese on top. The different consistencies of the firm plantain, fibrous beef and fleshy cheese in this dish truly made for a unique eating experience. I also tried the “pollo al achiote,” a charbroiled chicken breast in “achiote base sauce,” a sauce made of several spices including cumin, oregano and cinnamon. The spices lend a curry-like undertone to the chicken breast, which was cooked only until
tender. For dessert I had the classic tres leches, a cake which literally means “three milks” and is made with cream, condensed milk and regular milk. The moist, rich tres leches cake was topped with icing and sprinkles, which added a little kickback to childhood. I also tried the banana flan, which sat in a very sweet caramel liquid. The gelatin-like substance itself had a bitter aftertaste, which could be mitigated by generously dipping it into the caramel. While the banana flan was good, I would probably stick to only the tres leches next time. With entrees for less than $10, Fritanga is definitely an affordable, cultural escape for Wash. U. students. Once you visit the restaurant, you’ll be wondering how you ever survived without plantains.
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Tour d’Tapas SASHA FINE | SCENE REPORTER Looking to get off campus to eat? If so, tapas is a great alternative to traditional course meals. “Tapas,” Spanish for “covers,” refers to the multiple appetizers or snacks that are served as the meal at tapas bars. Naturally, there is also a strong emphasis on the consumption alcohol—especially sangria— with the meal, although tapas can easily be enjoyed by those under 21. They constitute a wide variety of foods, from vegetarian to meat, hot to cold, and many others. In St. Louis, there are many tapas restaurants to choose from, but here are a few to get you started.
Barcelona, located west of campus on 34 North Central Ave, is— regrettably—just out of walking distance. It is, however, only five minutes in a car. Open Monday thorough Saturday from 11am to 11pm—closed Sundays—for lunch and dinner, the restaurant strives to create an “authentic tapas bar atmosphere.” The restaurant caters to specific dietary needs, with specific dishes made for vegans or those with lactose intolerance, gluten sensitivity or nut allergies. They have different lunch and dinner menus, though tapas, their speciality, are available throughout the day. Individual tapas plates are not too expensive, though you will need more than one for a full meal. The wine and cocktail lists are extensive, ranging from both whites and reds to sangria to traditional—and untraditional—cocktails. Notably, they lack a beer list, however. The atmosphere itself is warm, though it is a little dark inside—and it often gets loud—as bars often are. Reservations recommended.
Momos is truly a unique tapas restaurant. Most importantly, it isn’t Spanish. They call themselves a tavern that serves Greek cuisine in the tapas style. The differences from Barcelona go beyond the cuisine. It appears more casual, with a lounge area—complete with couches and numerous pillows. Its hours are more extensive, as well. Monday through Saturday the restaurant is open from 11am to 11pm, and the bar until 1am. On Sundays, Momos is open from 5pm to 10pm, and the bar closes at midnight. The menu is certainly worth looking at. Instead of the traditional breads with sliced meats and cheeses, Momos goes with old fashioned Greek dishes. Kabobs, tzatzikis, and a whole host of other dishes are found on the menu. As with any bar, the alcohol list is substantial, with a beer list this time as well. The restaurant chooses to give stereotypically “Greek” names— such as “Hera,” “Aristotle” and “Pythagoras”—to all its cocktails and martinis. The beer selection is standard, with both national and local beers represented. It’s not too expensive; you can get dinner for $10 plus drinks if you try. Located northwest of campus, the restaurant is again a little beyond walking range, but still a short drive.
If you want a more contemporary feel, go Mojo, located on 3117 South Grand, a fifteen minute drive from campus. Boasting an impressive wine list, along with cocktails and beers, Mojo is definitely geared for the 21+ crowd. The tapas plates are not expensive, ranging from about $7 to $10, though the portions are often small and you will need several for a full meal. it is decidedly a dinner venue, open Monday through Saturday from 4pm until 11pm, with the bar open until 1:30. In addition to tapas, there are a wide variety of soups, salads, sides and other entrees to choose from. The tapas menu, unsurprisingly, is the most extensive, however. Anything from shrimp and grits to pasta to hummus is fair game here; Mojo’s menu contains something for everyone. Reservation recommended.
Located in the Hill neighborhood of St. Louis, Modesto is definitely worth your time. Less crowded than Barcelona, the atmosphere is a little more mature, but still loud. Modesto has an extensive non-tapas menu, in addition to traditional tapas fare. The paia is recommended. For those of legal drinking age, there is a large wooden bar with local beer on tap, as well as a substntial Spanish wine list. Noted for its intimacy if going on a date, Modesto is 15 minutes by car, south of Forest Park. Like Mojo, the restaurant is open Monday through Thursday from 5pm until 10pm, and Friday until 11pm. Unlike Mojos, however, it does not appear to boast extra bar hours. Reservations recommended.
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of humor, he assured us that every staff member is a well-informed, welltrained wine connoisseur. The wine flights feature a perfectlypaired trio of wines with generously filled glasses. The glasses are served on a paper placemat with detailed descriptions of the wines ordered. The “Take Me To Bed Reds” place mat advised patrons to smell the hints of blackberry jam and black pepper in the 2007 Three Saints from Santa Ynez Valley, California. The aroma was delightful, and we ended up passing around the glass for the entire table to smell. These small details are absolutely perfect for people like us, who enjoy wine but may not know a whole lot about it. We were even more excited to find that for a little education and three almost-full glasses of wine, our wallets were only set back $12 each. Not bad for a high quality tasting series. If you’re not in the mood for the flight tasting, Robust’s extensive six-
page wine menu will most definitely have something to tickle your taste buds, and they serve a great variety of wines by the glass. If you absolutely love one in particular, there’s even a small shop in the back corner of the bar where you can purchase your favorite bottles to take home for later. Although food may not be their specialty, Robust has a nice selection of tapas to pair with your favorite drinks. The spinach and artichoke dip was extra creamy and cheesy and was a great sharing plate. Some of the other dishes, like the seared sea scallops atop a white risotto with ver jus butter sauce, were a bit on the small side (but nonetheless delicious). Try the smoked salmon flatbread with potato, browned-butter egg salad, and fennel fronds—it is a well portioned and truly gourmet plate. And don’t forget to try the bread pudding for dessert before you leave!
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Men’s and women’s guide to Dining in Style GINIKA AGBIM | SENIOR FASHION COLUMNIST Dinners, fetes and trips to the symphony with your floormates are all events that require different approaches to getting dressed. Wearing your jeans and Wash. U. sweatshirt for these occasions is unacceptable, even uncouth. Rather, these are times to debut your finer side. It’s ideal to research a location before choosing what you’ll wear. To help you get started, I’ve created a list of wardrobe basics to ensure you’re always looking your best, no matter how last- minute the invitation was.
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KHAKIS Khaki pants go by many names but they are a staple for a man’s wardrobe. The trick to finding a good pair, however, lies in the details. Typically men’s pants are flat front or pleated. Your choice should depend on which style flatters you more. In my opinion, flatfront pants are more suitable for slimmer physiques. You should certainly try things on for yourself and ask a friend. Also, when shopping for pants, bring along a pair of dress shoes to ensure that the length of your trousers suits your build. AN OXFORD The great thing about an oxford shirt is that it is not only thick and durable, but it is also extremely versatile. Depending on the formality of the occasion, you can pair an oxford with jeans to show that you’ve made some effort to look a bit more polished than usual for a more casual affair. Or you could throw a sweater over the oxford for a brisk night at the symphony.
AN EVENING CLUTCH, WITH A CHAIN The last thing you want is to lug around a bulky bag at a chic establishment. Clutches provide a great way to bring your lip-gloss, camera and other items along without looking inelegant. The au courant clutch, with a chain or arm cuff, will also allow your hands to be free. A BRA CLIP If you don’t invest in anything I’ve mentioned, take heed here. In the event that you lack the proper undergarments but decide to wear a dress with unusual sleeves, a bra clip can actually be your saving grace. At the symphony, no one really needs to know that hot pink is your favorite color. Fortunately, these clips can be found at inexpensive retailers nationwide.
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St. Louis Movie Theaters Worth More Than Just the Films They Show ANDIE HUTNER | SENIOR CADENZA EDITOR Going to the movies is supposed to be a fun, cultural experience where you get to escape into an often-fantastical world. Unfortunately, exorbitant ticket prices sometimes make seeing a film impossible. In my suburban New Jersey town, I can easily spend $11.50 for a regular old film, only to add three or four dollars for the added bonus of 3D, and I’m sure it’s the same for most readers. Imagine my surprise when I got to St. Louis and I found out that a local company, St. Louis Cinemas, offered a student ticket price of six dollars. I was happily amazed, and after living here for a few years, I found out that low ticket prices weren’t the only thing St. Louis movie theaters had to offer. Here are a few of the gems I’ve discovered in my years here.
MOOLAH 3821 Lindell Blvd. The Moolah is probably the most well known of the St. Louis movie theaters. It used to be a mosque, but when it turned into a theater, the owners decided to add couches instead of movie seats. Yes, that’s right. Couches. The theater offers two- and three-seaters, and almost all of the couches have a pretty good sightline. They are super comfy and the love seats make for an exciting date night. Combine that with the fact they are owned by St. Louis Cinemas (and you can thus get a ticket for $6.50), and it’s a great time. Just make sure not to go when you’re sleepy.
TIVOLI THEATER 6350 Delmar Blvd. The Tivoli is owned by a company called Landmark Theaters, and that pretty much says it all. It opened in 1924 and had a long period of glory, but closed in 1994. But obviously, the theater is still around, so a $2 million overhaul in 1995 brought it back to its current state. The three-screen theater is full of movie
memorabilia and the main screening room looks like a mini opera house. The Tivoli shows independent films instead of the average fare, and has midnight showings of old beloved films quite often. Going to the Tivoli brings on nostalgia for something impossible to have experienced: the star-studded studio era.
At over four stories tall, the Mega Screen is the largest movie theater in the St. Louis area and will bring movie lovers even more enjoyment than usual. That’s not all, though. The Five-Star Luxury Lounge promises about the best movie-watching experience ever. Not only can you press a button to get a waitress to bring you food or drink, but you get to sit in a heated recliner. For the cold winter nights, how can that not be your first choice?
CHASE PARK PLAZA CINEMAS 212 North Kingshighway Blvd. Feeling classy but still want to do something low-key? The Chase Park Plaza Cinemas is your solution. This five-plex features trompe l’eoil art in each theater, as well as stadium seating. There’s a full bar inside the theater, and it’s so easy to continue the night at the fancy Eau Bistro, making for a very romantic evening.
CHESTERFIELD GALAXY 14 CINE 450 THF Blvd., Chesterfield Though it’s a bit of a drive, the Chesterfield Galaxy has two theaters worth the extra miles.
HI-POINTE 1005 McCausland Ave. The Hi-Pointe, a single-screen theater that sits near the historic Amoco sign, opened in 1922. Its aquamarine seats and turquoise curtains give it an undeniable charm, and the cheap prices don’t hurt - $6 for students and only $5 on weekdays or matinees. The theater hosts a number of events, like last April’s LGBT Film Festival, and often shows indie films as well as the latest blockbusters. Plus, the Riverfront Times said the Hi-Pointe has some of the best urinals in the city. Guys, what more could you ask for?
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Off to the Library Annex AMANDA AARON & JACLYN BILD | SCENE NIGHTLIFE COLUMNISTS Washington University students are often heard complaining about the lack of variety in their nightlife—the places are always the same, the people never change and there is never enough energy. Although we all love the Wash. U. vibe, there must be something else out there to provide a change of scenery, right? Of course there is— and we have the perfect way to do it. Meet Saint Louis University, with 8,000 undergraduate students, Division I sports and, best of all, located less than fifteen minutes away. Situated on the other side of Forest Park, SLU is nestled in an urban setting with tons of restaurants, coffee shops and, you guessed it— bars. Last Saturday we decided to drop by SLU and give its scene a chance at their most favored bar, Library Annex. Located in the center of Midtown, Library Annex provides the perfect destination for any kind of night—literally. Inside the entrance, there are rows and rows of bookshelves—stacked with real books—leading the way to an expansive bar with well-priced drinks ($4 for a vodka soda). On one end of the bar is a club-like room featuring a strobe light that shines with the beat of the music and a well-sized dance floor. The music is loud and the DJ is prominently positioned, paying close attention to what the crowd is feeling. When we were there the DJ alternated between pop throwbacks like Britney Spears’ “I’m a Slave for You,” and Hanson’s “Mmm Bop,” to newer hits like Yolanda Be Cool’s “We No Speak Americano.” If the dancing is overwhelming, the other side of Library Annex is divided into two separate sections. One area features a more low-key sports bar, fitted with over twelve plasma screens and ample seating, especially for those girls strutting around in their high-heeled pumps. The other space resembles an arcade game room, equipped with darts, foosball, shuffleboard and of course, beer-pong tournaments. So next time you’re thinking of venturing out of the Wash. U. nightlife scene, take a chance and go party with our neighbors, the SLU Billikens! Location: 3693 Forest Park Avenue
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College is the time to branch out and learn new skills. And, there’s no better way to do that than to pick up a new instrument. The only question now is what to learn. Guitar is a bit stereotypical—you know you don’t want to be that guy playing on the field. Piano lessons were good in elementary school, but it’s too late to start that. So what other options are out there for college students? If you’re interested in getting in touch with you roots, just head south. Specifically, to Music Folk, located on 8015 Big Bend Blvd. in Webster Groves. As you might guess from the name, Music Folk offers lessons for various instruments in folk-style playing, but also includes blues, classical, rock and bluegrass styles. The instruments available for instruction include the obvious guitar (and bass guitar) but include some exciting options as well. A budding musician can learn banjo, flute, mandolin or fiddle. Several of the instruments merit special attention. The store offers lessons on how to play the auto-
harp, which is actually not a harp at all—it is played by pressing buttons to mute some strings and then strumming. You can also take lessons for two types of the dulcimer, either the hammer or the mountain. A hammer dulcimer looks like a mix between a xylophone and a harp, and you play it by hitting strings with mallets. The mountain dulcimer is played like a guitar, but the instrument lies across your lap. Lessons are available afternoons and evenings during the week, and sometimes Saturdays as well. Lessons last half an hour and are $20 each. Rentals are available from the store if you want to try out an instrument. If you’re in the mood for something more exotic, or just want to wear a skirt, look no further than the Saint Louis Caledonian Pipe Band. They are a group of 35 people in kilts, who play bagpipes and drums. Caledonia was the Roman name for Scotland, so this group has history. The group offers lessons in either bagpipes or drums, with the possibility of joining the group. They practice at 6 p.m. on Wednesdays, at First Congregational Church on 6501 Wydown Blvd., right next to the South 40. For more information, you can contact them at 314-239-5422. If you are looking for the more typical instrument fare, you can check out Fazio’s Frets and Friends, a guitar shop on 15440 Manchester Rd. in Ellisville, southwest of campus. They offer lessons in guitar, piano, voice, drums, songwriting, mandolin and ukulele. The lessons are available throughout the week, and they offer many styles of playing during lessons. If none of these are quite your taste, don’t give up hope! There are many other music stores across the city, so find your instrument (ease of transport makes the harmonica and kazoo good choices) and just start playing! Many famous musicians received no formal training, just be careful not to sell your soul.
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Does it get wilder than Wild Country? AMANDA AARON & JACLYN BILD | SCENE NIGHTLIFE COLUMNISTS Ever thought of road tripping to Collinsville, Ill. for a night out? A lot of you are probably asking what—and where—Collinsville, Ill. is. Well, if you’re down to try something new, take the 40-minute trip and check out Wild Country, one of the best country nightclubs in the world. Be prepared to walk into a massive 25,000 square foot warehouse equipped with five fullservice bars, a massive hardwood dance floor and a cozy eatery equipped with a menu featuring a steak for a whopping $3. Perhaps Wash. U. should find out where they raise their cattle! The ambiance is fairly simple and there’s a lot of wood and a lot of old posters. The crowd wears their finest Western garb, and the sound of stomping cowboy boots rivals the live band. If you make the trek, don’t expect your traditional Wash. U. bumpin’ and grindin’ dance floor culture. Club-goers at Wild Country are all about the line dancing—and they take it quite seriously. Traditionally, there are set dances that experienced line dancers are familiar with, and throughout the night one person dictates which dance to pair with each song. For our large group of newcomers, it was a challenge to keep up! By the end of the night, however, there were a few Wash. U. students that were fitting right in. Even though their dancing techniques may be a bit unusual—at least for college students— these line dancers have developed their own rituals and quirky night activities to make the Wild Country experience exciting. Take, for example, their underage drinking policy—anyone found drinking illegally is not only escorted off of the premises, but also chanted at (by the entire club) those familiar lyrics “na na na na, na na na na, hey, hey, hey goodbye” followed by some colorful cursing. It’s also hard to miss the stripper pole in the dead center of the dance floor, welcoming men and women alike with open arms to show their freaky side. The finale of our night at Wild Country was the infamous “thong-a-thon” (only offered on Fridays). Picture 10 volunteer women rising from the audience and getting on stage with numbers sloppily pasted onto their lower backs to “dance” for all in attendance. The dance begins as a strip tease, where said women slowly
unbuckle their belt and slip off their washed out cowgirl jeans. Some even ring their jeans above their head as if they were tossing a lasso at a rodeo. The audience chants and typically pressures Girl No.1 to kiss Girl No.2 for bonus points. Every Wash. U.-er had his or her mouth wide open in awe. Although our group left at 1:30 a.m., right as the thong-a-thon winner (#9) was announced, Wild Country is open until 3 a.m. so you can really make it worth your while. We suggest hiring a bus company with a large group of friends and chipping in for the price. Maybe for a special birthday? Overall, the Wild Country experience was certainly outside of our comfort zone, and certainly unlike anything we’d ever tried before. Nightclubs with such character are really a rarity, so make sure to head out there at least once—or more during your time at Wash. U.!
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For many Washington University in St. Louis students, the city beyond the Loop can feel like a great unknown. If you are curious and want to explore St. Louis and see some of its more unique areas, give Cherokee Street a try. The Cherokee Street neighborhood is an eclectic mix of old and new, claiming a unique cultural identity within St. Louis. Famous for its antique shops, Cherokee Street also hosts a growing graphic design and printing community, as well as a thriving Hispanic population and many young artists. Cherokee Street is part of the Benton Park West neighborhood, and is south and slightly west of Soulard. While best accessed from Wash. U. by car, Cherokee Street itself is an easily walkable area, with plenty of inviting shops to catch a passerby’s attention as they stroll through the neighborhood. Below are a few of the many shops that curious Wash. U. students should check out. STL-STYLE STL-Style is of the first stores you’ll come across on Cherokee Street, at the corner of South Compton Avenue. It is part of Cherokee Street’s up-and-coming graphic arts scene. Owned and founded by the Vines brothers, STL-Style’s specialty is custom St. Louis clothing designs, with each design attempting to capture the unique character of St. Louis and its many neighborhoods. Their clothing is intended to promote St. Louis pride and caters to natives of St. Louis, often featuring cheeky slogans and inventive logos. For more information—or to buy a t-shirt—visit stl-style.com.
LA VALLESANA La Vallesana, located on Cherokee Street right off of California Avenue, is crowded for a reason. The restaurant carries authentic and delicious Mexican food, with a menu printed in both Spanish and English, as well as homemade ice cream. If you order a Coke with your meal, take a moment to marvel that it not only comes in a glass bottle but was also made in Mexico with sugar instead of highfructose corn syrup. With a friendly staff, local clientele and affordable burritos that
leave you more than satisfied, La Vallesana is a must-eat when visiting Cherokee Street. However, since the guacamole and quesadillas are to die for, it might be a struggle to leave room for a scoop of ice cream (or two) after lunch. RETRO 101/CHERRY BOMB VINTAGE A joint venture between two lovers of vintage items, Retro 101/Cherry Bomb Vintage is located just east of Jefferson Avenue at the beginning of the antique shop area of Cherokee Street. Filled to the brim with apparel, furniture and jewelry, Retro 101/ Cherry Bomb Vintage puts all other vintage stores to shame. The store specializes in 1950s and 1960s furniture as well as apparel from most of the 20th century. It carries unique, beautiful and high-quality used clothing, all of which have been dry-cleaned before being placed on their racks. Their prices are affordable, and the staff is incredibly friendly and passionate about their work. RECORD STORES Cherokee Street houses two unique music stores, Phono-Mode and Apop Records. Apop Records is between Oregon and Nebraska Avenues, and features artists that are a little more hardcore or experimental than those usually found at Vintage Vinyl on the
Loop. It is two stories tall and sells cassettes, CDs, vinyl records, VHS tapes and books. The store also has pinball machines. The unique art on the walls makes Apop Records a sight to see, regardless of your musical taste. Phono-Mode, located east of Jefferson Avenue, is a new vinyl-only store on Cherokee Street. It is a must if you’re especially into old soul 45s, or simply want to see what a passion for vinyl records can bring about. The shop is two stories as well, with the basement made of cool cement and full of wooden pews holding albums. Prices start around $1.00 and vary accordingly. FOAM COFFEE AND BEER A quiet, easy-going café for those who like to take a break from the hustle of daily life. Sleek and trendy, Foam is the perfect place to sit down and study during the day or pop in for live music at night. Featuring a wide selection of coffee, tea, beer and wine, as well as food, Foam is a perfect place to meet for a drink, whatever your tastes. It is a newer addition to the Cherokee Street community and is quickly becoming a local favorite. Check out their website, foamstl.com, for a list of upcoming events.
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It’s free T-shirt season. Let the madness ensue. I am not kidding when I say this — brace yourselves for this next little piece of information. Fasten your seatbelts and hold on to your drawers because this is going to blow you away. FREE! Purple Out shirts on the Quad on Wednesday at 7 p.m. Scream! Let it all out — even if you’re in the middle of Carrier. Run around and let the whole world know you don’t have to do laundry for one more day. When you’re done, keep reading. It’s in your best interest, trust me. There’s something about free things. Simply by throwing the word “free” in front of any object makes it an absolute necessity. Free food when you’re not hungry — a must have; a free Starbucks espresso shot — an extra shot can’t hurt; free plastic shades — why shouldn’t you have every color under the sun? You get my point. But I have the sense that all those other things are mere marbles (free marbles?) when compared to the illustrious “I bleed purple” shirts. Throw the word free in front of T-shirts, add in about 18,000 college students and well, let’s be frank people, they should call out riot cops. It’s not like we don’t have enough purple shirts or even plain T-shirts for that matter. In fact, we probably have too many purple shirts. I would be willing to wager a fair amount that if we combine every purple shirt of every JMU student, I am fairly certain we could clothe every child in Africa. So any rational person reading this would begin to gather the notion that I am purposefully trying to discourage a pure gluttonous gathering of purple shirts. Well you’re right. I am a self-interested, self-promoting, self-deserving, self-(enter any loathsome descriptive word here) kind of guy. But lucky for you, I am, as my mom always put it, “husky,” therefore I wear the sizes you can always get even if you show up days late. And even luckier for you, I am an SGA drop-out. I rose through the ranks, was the sophomore class president, live with the guy in charge of Purple Out and have helped hand out that prized purple paraphernalia. And you must’ve had your Lucky Charms today because I am in a sharing kind of mood. Before I unleash my wealth of knowledge, we first must understand the facts. Purple Out: For you little ones, it happens every year during Homecoming week. The Student Government Association buys
an “undisclosed” number of “I bleed purple” shirts and passes them out for free on the Quad. Freshmen crave them because they finally will have something upperclassmen have and seniors are just greedy to get another one to complete their collection of four.
Simply by throwing the word “free” in front of any object makes it an absolute necessity. Free food when you’re not hungry — a must have; a free Starbucks espresso shot — an extra shot can’t hurt; free plastic shades — why shouldn’t you have every color under the sun? The SGA ordered 3,333 shirts this year. Strange number, but it’s the truth. Members won’t disclose how many of each small, medium, large and extra-large was ordered. SGA did, however, order more smalls this year than last year. Yes, my fellow husky brethren, that means they ordered fewer larges and extra larges. To make the whole event even more of an adventure, it’s going to be dark when they hand out the shirts. SGA might have forgotten that the sun sets earlier as we get closer to Christmas, or they just wanted more of an intimate setting, as Brock Wallace, vice president of student affairs, put it. You need my information because the lines get long, girls get sassy, and they run out of smalls faster than Kerby Long can return a punt. So here you go. Let’s call this your “mappy” of Purple Out. 1. Arrive early. They give out shirts when the clock strikes 7 p.m. It sounds simple and is probably not that much of an insider secret, but if you’re serious about getting a shirt, you should probably get there around 6 p.m. I would recommend grabbing your three best mates (who all wear the same size shirt as you), getting food (maybe the free food they will provide on the Quad that day) and popping a squat in front of the Quad where you want a shirt. Those who get there after 6:30 p.m. and want to try and get a small, well looks like you may have to start bribing some people. 2. Be flexible. If you don’t follow the first piece of advice, then at least follow this one. If they run out of smalls, then go for
mediums, and if they run out of mediums, go for larges. Remember it’s free, so you should be happy with whatever size you get. The shirts run smaller and do shrink a bit when you wash them. Or you could follow Wallace’s advice: “If we run out of smalls, girls should go get an extra large and make it a biddie dress.” There’s a stroke of genius. 3. Be mean. Yup, don’t be like the normal let-me-hold-the-door-open-for20-minutes kind of people we are. This is a competition. This is a battle. Ladies, if you want that shirt — and you know you do — make sure people don’t cut in front of you in line, don’t let one girl hold a spot for 20 of her friends, and kick out all of “those guys” who are just in the small line with puppies to get your number. 4. Know the map. The line for smalls will face the Quad-tunnel, the medium line will face Spotswood Hall, the large line will face Harrison Hall and the extra-large line will face Wilson Hall. You don’t want to get in the wrong line, wait an hour and then find out you’re getting an extra large when you really need a small. 5. Don’t fret, Fred. If you don’t follow 1-4 and you sadly can’t make your wardrobe even more purple, just relax. Don’t scream and yell. Don’t try and rip it off the Duke Dog. Keep your darts civil. It has been my experience that the SGA does not give out all of the extra larges or larges on the day of Purple Out. The next day, go to the SGA office in Taylor 203 and get your shirt. It may be too big, but I know you girls can get creative. As a final piece of knowledge, the SGA has all 3,333 shirts currently hidden in the basement of Warren Hall. What you will do with that information is up to you. contact John Sutter at sutterjj@dukes.jmu.edu.
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Senior promises to stay school-spirited, even when in mom jeans Dear Homecoming Weekend, Where can I get a Duke Dog face tattoo? I see people rocking them on game days and never once in my entire life have I found one available to purchase. I’m not saying it’s an underground cult similar to the likes of the Death Eaters and their dark marks in “Harry Potter.” I’m just saying I don’t have one, and I know I’m definitely a solid Hufflepuff. Until a tattoo appears to me in the form of good-natured school spirit item, I’ll keep my opinions to myself. (Cough, Slytherins, cough.) But in all seriousness, Homecoming is the time to show our school spirit, merrily sing the fight song beside James Madison herself, and for all practical purposes, get hammered drunk with alumni who are now having to pay for E-Hall’s dessert section. I’ve been thinking lately, what kind of grown Duke Dog
will I become? How long until I have to start wearing mom jeans? Do I have to actually be a mom or can I just rock them when I’ve decided I’ve let myself go? A fun game to play might be to try and match your friends now with their future alumni personalities. For example, at any given moment I can look out upon my bro-tastic corner of Fox Hills and see on average four to eight bros, shirtless, tossing around a football, drinking beer and tanning. Flash forward years, I bet they all turn into the equally shirtless, beerbellied, sunglasses-tanned, tailgating fathers whooping and hollering from their lawn chairs at the alumnae Dukettes. With any luck, these fine ladies will have turned into MILFS, cougars or both. Unfortunately, as I sit here poking fun at those who have streaked the Quad before us, I’m hit with the realization that I am a mere eight months away from becoming one of them. In eight months, I will have gone from enjoying the new stadium to paying for it myself. In eight months, my JACard, which proudly displays a beaming
-year-old version of myself, will become a souvenir. That’s a disgusting thought, and I’ve decided I won’t have it. You heard me. I will continue to do victory laps until they rip my parking pass from my bare hands. I’ll show off my charming, doelike eyes for at least five more years until I can’t pass for a student anymore and when that happens, I’m heading straight for the mom pants because I’ve got to commit to something. If it’s not the Dark Lord’s mark of Duke Dog mayhem, then I don’t want to be part of it at all. So this Homecoming, everybody go ahead and let their inner school spirit shine high and mighty. Those of you hoarding the tattoos, share the love or be banished to the Forbidden Forest. And football team: Try not to blow it, but know that no matter what, I’ll still date any of you, anytime, anywhere.
Jamie Jamie Lose is a senior media arts and design major and a humor columnist at The Breeze. Contact Jamie at losejl@ dukes.jmu.edu.
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Evan Balaber
Eric Hogan
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Why should you win Mr. Madison? In my own efforts to try and fully embody how I perceive JMU, I’ve always done my best to incorporate energy and enthusiasm into all of my involvements and further contribute to the already lively and positive spirit that never ceases to contagiously flow around all areas of this incredible campus.
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Kait Solomon
Kristen Espinosa
n nominated by Alpha Phi n communication studies major n Columbus, Ga.
n nominated by Zeta Tau Alpha n media arts and design major n Woodbridge, Va.
Why should you win Mr. Madison? When I found out I was nominated for Mr. Madison, I felt honored to even have the opportunity to stand next to some of the best people at JMU. It is a humbling experience, so instead of saying why I should win Mr. Madison, I will just say thank you for the consideration. It means a lot. A big congratulations to Chris, Jeff, Evan, Kristen, Aishah, Kathleen and Kait. I can’t wait to walk out with you all.
Why should you win Ms. Madison? I hope I am voted Ms. Madison because of my school spirit, involvement in a variety of campus organizations and my genuine love for our school. The entire court is deserving of the title and I am honored to be recognized with every one of them. We’re campaigning together because we all love JMU and want the student body to be involved with celebrating Homecoming.
Why should you win Ms. Madison? I would be a great Ms. Madison because I believe in everything JMU has to give and offer. I bleed purple, live for springtime on the Quad, love the fight song and the fact that no one can mess with our Duke Dog. No matter what, I truly love JMU and it would be an absolute honor to be Ms. Madison and give back everything this incredible university has given me.
Chris Meyers
Jeff Alexander
n nominated by Student Ambassadors n media arts and design major n Westminster, Md.
n nominated by SafeRides n kinesiology major n Chesapeake, Va.
Aishah McNeil
Kathleen Lee
n nominated by Alpha Kappa Alpha n communication studies major n Boyertown, Pa.
n nominated by Student
Sigma Alpha Lambda n business marketing and kinesiology double major n Vienna, Va.
Why should you win Mr. Madison? Simply being a part of this year’s Mr. Madison finalist group is an incredible honor, and I would be even more proud to represent our university in this new light. We’re campaigning together because we all love JMU and want the student body to be involved with celebrating Homecoming.
Government Association n psychology major n Virginia Beach, Va.
Why should you win Mr. Madison? I have had the opportunity to make an impact on this university through numerous involvements, but I think that at the end of the day, it is not my involvements that I will be remembered for. It is my positive, upbeat attitude and my desire to make a difference in the lives of others that will be my legacy. It is this that I think makes me a good candidate for Mr. Madison.
Why should you win Ms. Madison? I believe I am an excellent candidate for Ms. Madison each day I strive to emulate the characteristics of an “educated and enlightened citizen,” which I believe Ms. Madison should always uphold. Through creating opportunities both academically and organizationally, I have devoted my time at JMU to uplifting the Madison community.
Government Association
n health science major n Virginia Beach, Va.
Why should you win Ms. Madison? Through my involvement, dedication and spirit to to this university, I feel I represent all of the qualities of a JMU student and should represent the university as Ms. Madison. Vote for who you think should be crowned at halftime during Saturday’s Homecoming game at sga.jmu.edu.
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TOMORROW What Duke Club Scholarship Auction Where Bridgeforth Stadium Club Level When 6:30 p.m. The fourth annual Duke
Club Scholarship Auction is an auction open to all attendees. Benefits go toward athletic scholarships. Join alumni, friends and Duke Club members for heavy hors d’oeuvres and a silent and live auction.
What Pep Rally Where The Quad When 6 p.m. Time to put up your Dukes! The annual Pep Rally includes appearances by JMU celebrities, a cappella groups, dance teams and cheerleaders.
SATURDAY What Dukes’ 5K Run/Walk Where UREC When Registration opens at 8 a.m. Kick off gameday with a
healthy run/walk through campus. Proceeds benefit the UREC student employee professional development fund. Visit the UREC website for race details and registration information.
What Wayland Hall OpenHouse/ Residence Life Reunion Where Wayland Hall When 9-11 a.m. Were you a member of residence life? Would you like to see the newly renovated Wayland Hall? From 9-11 a.m. there will be tours running throughout Wayland Hall showing off “The Dorm of the Future.” This event will also serve as a reunion for residence life members.
What Book signing Where The Bookstore and Bridgeforth Stadium When 12 p.m. Sarah Marshall ’82 will be in the bookstore from noon to 1 p.m., signing copies of her new book, “Learning Football With Duke Dog.” She also will be inside Bridgeforth Stadium at 2 p.m. near the main team store. What Alumni tailgate Where Godwin Field When 1 p.m. Celebrate Homecoming and leave the cooking to us! Reconnect with all your friends in the ultimate gameday experience of a JMU tailgate. Familyfriendly entertainment includes music, food and a moonbounce for the kids. Adult ticket prices are $20
and child tickets (ages 3-10) are $10. All children under the age of three can attend for free. Price includes all you can eat and drink, kids activities and a DJ.
What Book signing Where Bookstore When 1 p.m. Kathleen Churchyard will be in the bookstore from 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., signing copies of her book, “Bye For Now: A Wishers Story.” What JMU football vs. University of Richmond Where Bridgeforth Stadium When 3:30 p.m. Cheer on the football team at the new Bridgeforth Stadium as they face rival UR in a Colonial Athletic Association battle.
What Centennial Celebration Where Festival When 7 p.m. Celebrate our centennial with a night of food, fun, music with the Skip Castro Band as we celebrate 100 years of alumni. What Step Show Where Wilson Hall When 8 p.m. The Center of Multicultural Student Services Intercultural Greek Council will present its historically Black/Latino/Asian/ National Service Greek organizations at JMU. Surrounding universities will compete in a Step Competition for first- and second-place trophies and a $1,000 grand prize to the winning fraternity and sorority.
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Notable alumni Inez Roop, ‘35 Majors: history and English While she was here: Business manager of the Glee Club After graduation: Board of Visitors member from 1974-78 and 1980-84; made the motion to change Madison College’s name to James Madison University Emily Lewis Lee, ‘43 While she was here: Tri-Sigma sister After graduation: First lieutenant and dietician for the U.S. Army during World War II, BOV member from 1980-83 Joseph Damico, ‘76, ‘77 After graduation: Rector of the BOV since 2006, chairman of the Presidential Search Committee Mark Warner, ‘79, ‘81M, ‘85Ed.S After graduation: Vice president of student affairs and university planning, psychology professor at JMU, winner of 1998 James Madison Distinguished Teaching Award
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By Jeff Wade and STEPHANY Holguin The Breeze
JMU is commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Alumni Association and 100 years of JMU graduates at this year’s Homecoming. The association, then known as the Alumnae Association, was founded when JMU, then known as the Normal and Industrial School for Women, held its first commencement ceremony in 1911, when 20 women received degrees, according to the website. The Alumnae Association was formed and held its first banquet in Harrison Hall in 1915, the first meal served in the building. In 1916, the association held a five-year reunion, with the intent of holding another one every five years. The Homecoming tradition dates back to March 17, 1933,
when the all-female State Teachers College, later known as JMU, in Harrisonburg commemorated its 25th anniversary with a twoday celebration built around Founders Day. On the first day of the celebration, more than 1,000 people attended Founders Day program, and on the second day the Alumnae Association hosted an official Homecoming program featuring the presentation of a portrait of the late Senator George B. Keezell, according to the Leelou Alumni Center Homecoming website. There were also speeches by college president Samuel Duke and former president Julian Buruss. “This was the first documented gathering of massive amounts of people and alums together to celebrate this idea of Homecoming,” said James Irwin, assistant director of communications and marketing for the Alumni Association.
“A student is here for four years, and an alum is for life.” James Irwin
Assistant director of communications and marketing, Alumni Association
Originally a small gathering held in the fall, official Homecoming celebrations began in March 1934 and featured a homecoming dance. In 1953, the Alumnae Association became the Alumni Association, according to the website. The first fall Homecoming was held Oct. 20 and 21, 1972, according to earlier editions of The Breeze, and featured a parade,
dance and concert. The first football game played on Homecoming weekend was in 1973 against Salisbury State on Harrisonburg High School’s field. The Dukes lost 42-7. Homecoming celebrations have evolved from a two-day event into weeklong festivities in which thousands of students and alumni gather to show JMU spirit. “A student is here for four years, and an alum is for life,” Irwin said. “You’re connected to the university for life, so we know that there are a lot of things students and alumni have in common.” To celebrate this milestone, the Alumni Center is hosting the Alumni Centennial Celebration after the football game. There will be live music from Charlottesville’s The Skip see HISTORY, page 7
Scott Norwood, ‘82 Major: business While he was here: Place kicker for the football team After graduation: Played for the Buffalo Bills, missed a field goal kick in Super Bowl XXV that could’ve won them the game Lawrence Jackson, ‘90 M a j o rs : journalism and photography After graduation: Official White House photographer cataloging Barack Obama’s presidency Kai Degner, ‘03, ‘05M Major: Integrated Science and Technology While he was here: Started the Orange Band initiative After graduation: Mayor of Harrisonburg, 2009-2011 Information gathered from the Alumni Association website and Montpelier magazine
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THE DUKES then & now Nate Carden / File Photo
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TOP LEFT Bernard Slayton, the leading rusher for the Dukes in 1973, escapes from a Salisbury State player. TOP MIDDLE Fans show their spirit at last year’s Homecoming game against New Hampshire. TOP RIGHT 1977 offensive linemen Rick Booth (left) and Warren Coleman “gaze in disbelief” as the Dukes experienced their worst defeat up to that season by Shippensberg, 59-20. BOTTOM LEFT Bridgeforth Stadium seated up to about 15,000 last year; this Homecoming, it holds up to about 25,000. BOTTOM RIGHT In 1984, alumni and students disliked the idea of building bleachers that blocked the view of the football field from the hill.
HISTORY | Alumni Center to host graduates’ work in photo gallery from page 7
Castro Band, food and other activities. Irwin said alumni must preregister and buy their ticket in advance. The center has also been counting down to Homecoming since June 23 with the “100
Days, 100 Dukes” feature on its website, which highlights JMU graduates and what they’ve done since graduation. A few featured include Dawn Evans, 2011 graduate and ambassador for the NephCure Foundation; Jim Acosta, a ’93 graduate and
CNN correspondent ; and Gary Clark, an ’84 graduate and National Football League player. “Highlighting a different alum every day that has a prominent standing in their respective field of study, I think that’s really cool,” said Kelly
Johnson, SGA public spokeswoman. It “lets the current JMU students see where they can end up.” The week of Homecoming, the Alumni Center will have a photography exhibit in the Board of Visitors hallway outside of Festival Ballroom.
Some of the showcased photographers include Lawrence Jackson, a ’90 graduate and White House photographer, and Casey Templeton, an ’06 graduate and 2005 College Photographer of the Year. Irwin said the Alumni Center is working with SGA on
“Purple Out” and the Pep Rally. “Purple Out” began in 20 0 4, Johns on said. SGA is also in charge of Mr. and Mrs. Madison. Contact Jeff Wade and Stephany Holguin at breezearts@gmail.com.
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Homecoming? The game
getting free stuff
Purple Out shirts
The Pep rally
Katie McLaughlin Freshman anthropology major
Vinny DiGilio Freshman finance major
Alex Kriss Freshman marketing major
Evan Scott Freshman hospitality tourism major
Seeing old alumni
School spirit
Late-night breakfast
purple out
Courtney Rowe Senior international affairs major
Ryan Walker Sophomore international affairs major
Stephanie Giba Sophomore interdisciplinary liberal studies major
Football to wear black in Homecoming game By David Barton The Breeze
In the Homecoming game on Oct. 1, the Dukes will don black jerseys instead of their traditional colors. The jerseys will not only look sharp; one of them will also be sold in an auction Friday night to raise money for the Duke Club Scholarship. Except for the one sold
Friday night, jerseys numbered 1-99 will go up for auction on the JMU Sports website immediately after Saturday’s game. Friday night’s auction winner can select which number jersey they want before the rest of the jerseys are put up on the website. The names will be taken off per National Collegiate Athletic Association rules, but any chosen name will be given to the
buyer to sew on. The winner of the jersey also gets to see a football player wear the chosen jersey in Saturday’s game. Tickets for the auction are $65 per couple and $35 per person. The revenue the jerseys bring in support the 435 student-athletes at JMU. “If you want to make sure you get a certain number,
the only guarantee is to get it at the Scholarship Auction,” Brian Powell, director of the annual fund for the Duke Club, said in a JMU Sports article. “Whatever number you purchase Friday night, you will be watching that jersey on the field on Saturday knowing that it is yours.” Contact David Barton at breezesports@gmail.com.
Nikki Madures Junior English major
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The black jerseys the football team will wear this weekend will be auctioned on jmusports.com after Saturday’s game. The Dukes have never worn black jerseys, according to JMU Sports. Courtesy of JMUsports.com
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Behind the scenes of Homecoming Committee By Beth Cole The Breeze
we just have our same events that we’re doing, kind of just stepping it up. Pep rally is going to be on the Quad this year. We had it in Festival last year. And there’s going to be a fun activity that we’re going to be doing after the pep rally.
This year is the 100th anniversary of the first JMU graduate. To celebrate, Homecoming is changing many of its annual events. The Breeze spoke with Jenn Wilcox, a fifth-year social work major, and Sailey Nimmagadda, a fifthyear health sciences major, both student spirit coordinators for the Homecoming Committee, about some of the events and how JMU is getting ready for the big game.
What kind of fun activity? Wilcox: DJ Ty Walker will be throwing a huge dance party on the Quad at the end.
What makes this year’s Homecoming different?
What other groups are you working with? Wilcox: [Student Government Association] is doing Purple Out and then “UPB presents ... Late-Night Breakfast” is going to be in E-Hall this year, and that’s the first year we have ever done that.
Wilcox: Last year was the first year that we got rid of a theme, so we’re continuing that. The theme of Homecoming is just purpling out and Madison pride. This year we’re specifically focusing on celebrating 100 years of alumni, so that’s one of our big focuses as well — just JMU pride. One thing that we do really want to emphasize is that there’s a rumor going around that we’re going to black out; we’re blacking out for the game. We’re not. We’re purpling out for the game. Purple, purple, purple, purple, purple.
What are you doing differently this year? Nimmagadda: It was done last year where we went downtown to local businesses, but this year we kind of pumped it up and we got more businesses to participate, so this year we can get not only the JMU campus but the whole entire city of Harrisonburg. Wilcox: [Duke Dog Dollars are] what we’re passing out
Nimaggadda: We’re also working with Student Ambassadors for the pep rally. Paul Jones / The Breeze
Sailey Nimmagadda (left) and Jenn Wilcox, both fifth-year students, are spirit coordinators on the Homecoming Committee. The nine-student committee has been planning Homecoming since January.
on the commons this week. It’s just a cute Duke Dog Dollar thing, and it’s a way to get people to hold on to the handbills, and they can bring them to the pep rally and use them to play games or get prizes and stuff like that.
Is there a reason you reached out to more people? It kind of started with marketing and how we could reach people off campus because a lot of it had to do with students who live off campus and go downtown,
so we kind of wanted to incorporate that. We kind of wanted to connect JMU and the Harrisonburg community together. We started it last year, but this year we got 11 businesses.
What was last year’s number? Wilcox: We only did six last year.
How many people do you expect at Homecoming this year as compared to other years?
Wilcox: We want everybody in the JMU community to come out. Probably ... have more alumni than typically, just because we are focusing on the 100 years of alumni.
What are you doing to prepare? Wlicox: We’re focusing more on the students and the Alumni Association is focusing more on the alumni. Nimaggadda: We kind of have a set agenda every year that we go through and so
How many people are on the Homecoming Committee? Wilcox: There’s nine students, and then each committee has two or three faculty advisers. Nimaggadda: The committees are ... marketing, and then we have a pep rally committee, we have a Commons Day committee, downtown spirit. Wilcox: There’s also the Homecoming step show that we don’t plan. [The Center of Multicultural Student Services] plans that. There’s an afterparty for that at 10 p.m. at Top Dog.
How long have you
guys been preparing for Homecoming? Wilcox: January of last year, we formed as a committee. During the second semester, Student Org Night is when we started recruiting our committee heads. Pretty much since January. It’s a long process.
How many hours go into it? Wilcox: Countless, especially this week. There’s a lot of time that our student chairs are putting in behind the scenes that people don’t realize.
What are other really interesting events? Nimaggadda: Honestly, it’s pep rally and Purple Out. And Commons Day. Wilcox: [President Linwood] Rose and Officer [David] Conley and other JMU celebrities will be on the commons passing out hot dogs and different snacks to the student body as they are going on. It’s going to be a tailgate-type thing with hot dogs and stuff. That’s something new we’re planning this year.
How are you getting people ready for the big game? Nimaggadda: We kind of build up toward the game. Wednesday is our Purple Out where we just give out shirts, and then Thursday, it gets more exciting with just having free food wherever you go ... And then we’re ending with the pep rally and then it’s the game the next day. Contact Beth Cole at breezearts@gmail.com.
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An easier way to Purple Out Distribution changes, idea of ‘Black Out’ T-shirts abandoned
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Tickets to receive Purple Out T-shirts were given out on Tuesday on the commons from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. By CAMERON AUSTIN contributing writer
Despite efforts to create “Black Out” T-shirts, purple will stay the color of choice for fans in Bridgeforth Stadium this Homecoming. The football team will be wearing black jerseys during their game, which prompted several students to create a Facebook group to promote making “black out” shirts in support of the team. The group disappeared off Facebook without explanation last week. “We don’t control what Athletics does,” said Emily Douillard, Student Government Association vice president. “We stuck with what we know and what we’ve always done. I ordered the [Purple Out] shirts in August, so there’s no way SGA would have been able to change it even if the students wanted to.” To accommodate more students, , shirts have been ordered. This is almost double the , available last year. They were paid for with the Homecoming Committee’s extra funding from the Alumni Association.
Douillard, the head of SGA’s Homecoming Committee, was able to implement a new ticket system in response to student frustration with long lines. Kelly Johnson, SGA’s public relations director, said they received several complaints of students skipping in line and having to wait in line for hours last year, only to reach an empty table. “We are trying our best to remedy all those situations and hope that the student body will cooperate with us as we try and find the most efficient and practical way to hold Purple Out,” Johnson said. Tickets were distributed Monday on the upper tables at Festival Lawn and Tuesday on the commons from a.m. to p.m. On Wednesday, shirts were passed out on the Quad at p.m. to any students with a ticket. To receive the shirt, students had to have their ticket and JACard with them. “I came in here with the idea of a ticket system to guarantee shirts,” Douillard said. “That way, students know they will get a shirt, which will hopefully limit the amount
of disappointment among students.” Brittany Aeschlimann, a senior biology major, recalled last year’s Purple Out distribution troubles. “I waited in a really long line last year and found out they had already [run] out of shirts,” Aeschlimann said. This year, she’s already RSVP’d to the Facebook group in hopes of getting a shirt for her final year. But as alumni come back to revisit the place they once called home, they’ll realize some things haven’t changed. “As a community, JMU is one that is proud to wear purple and gold — not just to athletic events, but everywhere they go,” Johnson said. “The Purple Out shirts serve as a daily reminder that JMU students love their school.” Lyndsey Walther-Thomas, a former SGA member, began the Purple Out tradition in to increase school spirit. Since then, the tradition has become one of the most popular on campus. CONTACT Cameron Austin at austinco@dukes.jmu.edu.
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Men behind the mascot Mascots share their experiences from eyes of Duke Dog By Christine Pomatto The Breeze
An icepack-lined cooling vest chills his body at contact. Wearing nothing but socks, boxers and an icepack, he slips into the warm body suit. Immediately he can feel his temperature rising, but continues to dress; first his shoes, then his gloves. Finally, he straps on his helmet, ignoring the stench of sweat he has grown accustomed to, and with some last-minute adjustments, emerges from the Godwin locker room. Within five steps he hears a student call. “Duke Dog! Can I get a Robert Boag / the breeze
picture?” He turns his head until h e ma k e s e y e c o nt a c t through the screen hole in the headpiece and nods enthusiastically. Underneath the Duke Dog suit, he smiles for the camera. JMU Athletics, JMU cheerleading and the six individual mascots asked that their names remain anonymous in order to maintain the novelty of Duke Dog. “The people underneath, we’re all just actors, really,” said the mascot captain, who will go by “Steve” and is a senior English major with a film studies minor. “Everything changes as soon as we see Duke Dog, page 15
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step into the suit. We act how Duke Dog would act: very royal, but not an egomaniac.” Steve has been a Duke Dog since the spring semester of his freshman year in . While not yet having any gameday experiences, new Duke Dog mascot and fifth-year double major who will go by “D.S.B.” enjoys roaming around campus, brightening people’s days with little acts of kindness. “It’s amazing how easy it is to cheer someone up and put a smile on their face, and all I have to do is give someone a highfive,” D.S.B. said. If you’ve ever noticed someone following Duke Dog around campus or during a game, chances are it’s not a crazy fan, but the Duke Dog’s safety escort. Because the only vision Duke Dog has is through a small screen in the mouth. The escort, who is one of the “off-duty” Duke Dogs, serves as his eyes, ears and voice. As the escort is responsible for Duke Dog’s safety and health, the job can sometimes be tougher than being Duke Dog. “We have to look out for anyone messing with Duke Dog, whether it be -year-olds pulling on the cape or drunk -yearolds trying to pull your head off,” Steve said. “We don’t put Duke Dog on a leash, though,” Steve said. “We’ll let him wander up in the stands a little bit. We know he can handle himself.” When it comes to interacting with fans, Duke Dog has to be cautious not to cross the line. “I’m always afraid of offending that one person,” said D.S.B. “If they come up and put an arm around me, then that signal gives me the OK to do the same.” Being the Duke Dog can be hot — literally.
“You’re sweating hard under that suit,” Steve said. Hence the “wet dog smell” of the headpiece. To keep cool inside the suit, the Duke Dog has a fan inside the headpiece, along with a cooling vest. Duke Dog also has mandatory water breaks every minutes and is required to switch places with another mascot at half time. One perk to being Duke Dog is the celebrity status. “Suddenly you’re the most popular person on campus,” D.S.B. said. “People are high-fiving me, giving me hugs — people who normally wouldn’t give me a second glance ... Sometimes I have to remember they’re talking to Duke Dog, not me.” Mascots abide by the same requirements as varsity cheerleaders in that they must be full-time students and maintain a . GPA. Varsity cheerleader Nicholas Keatts, a fifth-year communications studies major, considers Duke Dog as “part of the team.” “He does everything in the stands that we do on the field, and he sweats more than any of us,” Keatts said. Prospective mascots contact the cheerleading head coach, Kelly Moore, and go through an interview. The position is open to both men and women. “When it comes to Duke Dog, I look for somebody who is energetic, well-rounded and who embodies school spirit at JMU,” Moore said. But at the end of the day, attention is not what these Duke Dogs are seeking. “I realized that the memories I have with people as Duke Dog, people will never have with me,” D.S.B. said. “It’s like a quiet pride.”
Duke Dog dos & don’ts
No climbing balconies, trash cans, etc. No holding children Mandatory water breaks Must stay with escort at all times
Not allowed to wear the Duke Dog suit
unless going to an approved event
Suit must be returned
immediately after events to ensure that no parts get lost
CONTACT Christine Pomatto at breezedesign@gmail.com. NATE CARDEN / THE BREEZE
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