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Bill to end texting and driving passes Senate MAX LUONG news staff writer
Students driving on and off campus will soon find more trouble if their fingers are caught on their phone and not the wheel. Yesterday, the Senate approved a House bill, formally known as HB 1907, by a 28-12 vote that would increase fines for texting while driving in the state of Virginia. The bill, proposed by Rich Anderson (R-Prince William.), was compromised to create first
offense fines of $250 and $500 fines for repeated offenses. This is a significant increase from the current law in place charging $20 for first offenses and $50 for following infractions. However, not everyone is in favor of the steep change in fine prices. “This should be the same as the harsher seatbelt laws,” said Brice Moon, senior marketing major. “Give the ticket, but not a ridiculous $200 fine.” HB 1907 will give Virginia police the ability to pull a driver over for using their phone. Four
years ago, secondary law stated that in order to charge a driver for a texting violation, it would have to be discovered after another traffic violation charge. With the Virginia Tech Police Department’s strong presence on campus streets, students would be especially subject to the stronger penalties if it proceeds further. “I definitely am going to start putting my phone out of reach when driving around, just to be safe,” said JP Theodorakos, sophomore international studies major.
The details of the legislation, however, are still in question. For example, determining the difference between text messaging versus other cell phone activities. Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell will scrutinize the bill’s nuances when it reaches his desk. “I’m not opposed to the law, because it’s less bad than in other states, where you can’t even take a call on the road,” said Becca Copeland, sophomore interior design major. As it stands, drivers under the age of 18 and school bus drivers
are prohibited from using cell phones. The Senate drafted a similar bill aimed at preventing texting and driving and has already been approved by both chambers this month. While less specific, the Senate bill will supplement the House bill as dual legislation. In addition, the two drafts incorporate a mass amount of proposed bills correcting existing cell phone laws. Existing Virginia texting laws were highly scorned by law officials and citizens after an increasing number of pre-
ventable accidents. In 2011, an Alexandria man hit and killed a college student while allegedly texting. He was released without a reckless driving charge as per the minor cell phone infraction. Students argue still, however, against the stringent law. “I’ll text without looking at the screen, and only when the roads are empty or when the light is red. I don’t think I should be charged $200 for that,” said senior Graham Millinder. Follow the writer on Twitter: @MaxLuongCT
Tech students win Building of the Year KEVIN LOHR news staff writer
The Clifton Forge Masonic Amphitheatre, designed by the Virginia Tech College of Architecture and Urban Studies design/buildLAB, was recently named AmericanArchitects Building of the Year 2012. The amphitheater was selected by popular vote from 50 featured buildings on american-architects.com throughout the entire year of 2012. What makes this achievement so impressive is the fact that design/buildLAB was comprised of a group of 16 third-year architecture students who, as the class title implies, designed and built the Clifton Forge Amphitheatre throughout the course of an entire school year. Design/buildLAB is the only class of its kind in the College of Architecture and Urban Studies. Award winning coCOURTESY OF UNIVERSITY RELATIONS founders Keith and Marie Zawistowski, husband and wife, head the studio, which is geared toward connecting the students with real-world projects. “Our pedagogical approach is that the students lead the project, and so it’s not our project, we didn’t design it, we just framed the opportunity for them to have a project,” said Keith Zawistowski. Design/buildLAB, officially listed as Architecture 3015 and 3016, is still a brand new option in the architectural curriculum. The Clifton Forge Amphitheatre was only © JEFF GOLDBERG / ESTO its second project, following Sixteen third-year architecture students designed and built the Clifton Forge Amphitheatre throughout the course of the entire school year the construction of a farmers (above). The amphitheater, located in the small Allegheny County town, was named American-Architects Building of the Year 2012 (below). market in Covington the prior
year; both were designed with the help of the community. The course spans an entire school year, and to the Zawistowskis, it is extremely important that the same students see the entire project all the way through. “The students see the pro-
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We were standing there, watching performances in our amphitheater and looking at each other saying ‘Are we really done?’” Emarie Skelton Design/buildLAB student
cess of making architecture in its entirety,” said Marie Zawistowski. “They start by interviewing communities, establishing needs, then they collaborate on design, and then fi nally translate those designs into a real project, and the community receives these project.” It is also the hope of the Zawistowskis that the students gain a sense of social consciousness by participation in the projects. The small Allegheny County town of Clifton Forge was chosen for a prospective site as a result of the project that the prior year’s Design/buildLAB class had completed in Covington. In order to build the aforementioned farmers market at Covington, construction supplies were taken from an old industrial see WIN/ page two
Helmet research aims at reducing football concussions MATTHEW JOHNSON news staff writer
Virginia Tech Athletics and Academics are teaming up to make football a safer sport. The Tech football team and the College of Engineering are working together to reduce the risk of concussion and brain damage in football. “This is a joint project with sports medicine out of (the Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine], led by Gunner Brolinson, the team physician and Mike Goforth, the head team trainer,” said Stefan Duma, professor in the college of engineering. “The three of us have worked together to instrument the football players.” According to Brolinson, they are the first team in the country to implement helmet research. Tech athletics rounds up 25 to 30 concussions per year. The football team makes up anywhere from three to five of those concussions, which coincides with the average number for collegiate football.
“The whole idea is to bring risk down,” Duma said. To achieve this, the team is working to make the game safer by helping clinicians more effectively diagnose concussions. The study will allow them to evaluate concussions clinically and quantitatively in order to assist sideline physicians. “It consists of a base station, which is a laptop and antenna set up that we bring out every game, that interacts wirelessly with each helmet,” Duma said. “Each helmet has a sensor array put in it called the HIT system, the Head Impact Telemetry System and that consists of six accelerometers, a wireless transmitter and a battery.” Before this wireless system, each football player wasn’t being monitored, but now the system can monitor the head impact of each player individually. “Now the physicians can understand, okay this player was hit 50 times and there’s five impacts above 80 G’s versus otherwise not having that information,” Duma said.
“That’s what the real value of this is that we’re actually quantifying the exposure.” The Tech football team uses various concussion testing systems including ImPACT, SCAT 2 (Sport Concussion Assessment Tool), and BESS (Balance Error Scoring System) to insure the health and safety of its players. Based on their research efforts, they’re trying to see which test is better to improve the baseline testing of Tech athletes. “We’ll be able to look back and say we were a part of that,” said Mike Goforth, lead trainer for the Tech football team. To categorize the helmets, Duma developed a Star ranking system, which ranks BEN WEIDLICH / SPPS helmets on a scale from one to five stars. Virginia Tech’s football team and the College of Engineering join in an effort to increase helmet safety. The results of the research now show that certain hel- better than others,” Duma ously used Ridell VSR4 hel- est possible environment,” mets, such as Ridell 360, said. met for higher-ranked hel- Duma said. Rawlings Quantum Plus and “About half the teams mets. The bioengineering partRidell Revolution Speed, are in college and NFL were The Star system takes the nership between Tech and better than others due to using these (the Ridell exposure a player sees and Wake Forest, which Duma is their five-star ranking. VSR4 helmet), including evaluates it in the laboratory involved in, is working with “Before our rating sys- us.” to determine which helmets three youth football teams tem came out there was no Since the release of the rat- work the best. near each university to also way to go anywhere and ings, football teams have “Exercise is important and determine a Star system for see which helmets were switched out of the previ- you want to do it in the saf- their helmets.
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Satellite launched into space with help of Tech professor MELISSA DRAUDT news staff writer
Randolph Wynne, professor of forest remote sensing at Virginia Tech’s College of Natural Resources and Environment, flew to California last week to witness his hard work, literally, take off. For the past six years, Wynne has been working with other scientists from around the country on the Landsat Science Team, preparing for the launch of NASA’s newest land-monitoring satellite, Landsat 8. The “Landsat 8,” previously known as the Landsat Data Continuity Mission, was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 10:02 a.m. PST on Feb. 11. James Campbell, professor of geography and member of VirginiaView, a consortium of universities or organizations that are active in remote sensing and advocates of the Landsat program, also attended the launch. “It was in many ways spectacular and a very exciting and moving event and particularly to be there with so many other participants in the program because they literally came from all over the world to be there,” Campbell said. Along with remote sensing scientists, there were numerous other groups in attendance at the launch including engineers, designers and scientists in water resources and forest resources. “It was a gathering of likeminded scientists,” Campbell said. “That was another reason that it was a very interesting place to be, because it’s not very
often that all of these groups are in one place at the same time.” Purpose of the Landsat This satellite is seventh in a series of land-monitoring satellites developed by NASA for the U.S. Geological Survey, a scientific agency of the government studying landscape, natural resources and natural hazards. The Landsat satellites have been in operation for the past 40 years, collecting images of Earth’s surface from space. “Probably one of the most important things about Landsat is the fact that it’s a 40-year continuous record of the earth surface at a scale at which humans manage it and that’s, from my perspective, extraordinarily important,” Wynne said. The Landsat missions have provided useful images for proRYAN SUTHERLAND / SPPS grams such as Google Earth and Tech professors Randolph Wynne (left) and James Campbell (right) have allowed scientists to monitor the health of our environ- infrastructure in the same way Landsat 5, launched in 1984, was ment from a bird’s-eye view. that weather satellites are… and just recognized by the Guinness “On the Forest Management we have a number of important Book of World Records as side, we routinely have people sectors that really truly rely upon the Longest Operating Earth that will use data from Landsat this data.” Observation Satellite after nearly to determine whether a forest 29 years of service. might need fertilization, for About the satellite In addition to structural example, (if) it’s nutrient limThe images provided by changes, the Landsat 8 design ited,” Wynne said. Landsat 8 will cover almost also includes an additional two The commonwealth of Virginia the entire surface of the earth, wavelength bands, which are also uses data from Landsat mis- excluding small areas of the meant to increase quality of sions to double-check that land- Polar Regions as it will orbit images used to monitor water owners keep a certain amount around the earth at approxi- quality and high-level cirrus of forest around their streams mately 88 degrees north to 88 clouds. to ensure water quality mainte- degrees south. According to Wynne, the nance. The official design life of launch of the Landsat 8 was “Because of the longevity of the Landsat 8 is five years; howev- about $100 million and upkeep data stream, it’s not just science er, both Wynne and Loveland of the satellite will cost about $15 that benefits,” Wynne said. “I expect it to be operational for a million per year. think it is important to realize minimum of 10 years. that it has become an anticiOutlasting design life is not The Landsat Team pated portion of our national unusual for Landsat satellites. The Landsat Science Team is
a joint effort of NASA and the USGS. While NASA works to build and launch the satellite, USGS is providing the ground data processing systems which will be located at the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science center. Following the launch the Landsat Science Team will be developing the plans for evaluating the imagery when it becomes available in May. “One of the things the team has a responsibility for is to evaluate the data quality and the new data characteristics … to make sure that they’re suitable for solving the problems that the mission was designed to address,” Loveland said. “Right now, we’re in planning mode as we get ready to start working with the images as soon as they become available.” Once the satellite is fully operational, after on-orbit verification by NASA, the Landsat Science Team’s job will change as the USGS will lead post-launch calibration activities, satellite operations, data product generation and data archiving. “Now that we actually have LDCM, (our job) shifts into demonstrating the actual benefits of the [satellite] and addressing the requirements of the next Landsat, which someday may be authorized,” Loveland said. The big picture “The overall goal of the mission is to monitor the changes in the land surface at a scale that allows us to distinguish between changes caused by human activity versus changes that are
the result of natural forces,” Loveland said. The Landsat satellites offer more than just pictures. Data collected by the satellites are particularly useful to scientists studying climate change. “(It will serve) a wide range of operational purposes… as we continue to try to understand what’s causing climate variability and change,” Loveland said. “Landsat provides a lot of the objective information on the condition of the land surface that may either be affected by climate change or is contributing to the changes in climate.” While data from the satellites is useful for scientists, the data is also useful for farmers, city planners, as well as the average person. “I would say one of the most important things is it helps humans understand and manage their environment,” Campbell said. “So we can think of the big picture as sustainability and understanding how we use the earth for agriculture, its water resources, urban areas, forests, range land.” Both Wynne and Loveland plan to continue working jointly with NASA and to contribute to a Landsat 9 project in the future. “As scientists, we like to think that what we do is important and what we’re finding has policy relevance,” Wynne said. “But in the end, if there’s a user community out there that finds the data fruitful, that’s really, in the end, what we we’re striving for all along.” Follow the writer on Twitter: @melissarapt0r
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building located in Clifton Forge. However, the residents and town planners of Clifton Forge didn’t see the remaining gutted out building fitting into their vision of how to revitalize the town. At that point, Tech architecture students seized the opportunity to become involved. In the beginning of the 2011 fall semester, the students received their client, the Historic Masonic Theatre Preservation Foundation. Members of the Design/buildLAB team proceeded to educate themselves about amphitheaters. On site, the team conducted surveys of the area, found out more information about local zoning codes and interviewed community members. Finally, it critiqued conceptual designs created by its peers. When spring semester started, the final design was approved by the residents and a licensed structural engineer and passed several other crucial inspections. In March 2012, the Design/
buildLAB students had their first on-site work days. The students also stayed with several residents of Clifton Forge, who were kind enough to open their homes during some of the construction phase. Many of the students involved in the project had almost no prior construction experience. “Once we got hands-on, our learning curve really shot up because most of us had never actually built anything”, said Design/buildLAB student Emarie Skelton. For several weeks, the students would take daily trips to the Clifton Forge site, spend a day working on construction of the amphitheater, and then travel back to campus for two evening classes. The group finished the Clifton Forge Amphitheatre several weeks after the spring semester ended in 2012. The grand opening for the amphitheater occurred on June 23, and for the first time, students were able to sit back and really appreciate their positive impact on the community. “We were standing there, watching performances in our amphitheatre and looking at each other and saying ‘Are
we really done?’ Skelton said. ‘There’s really nothing else to do?’” Winning Building of the Year 2012 has only drawn more attention to Tech’s already prestigious five-year architecture program. “We were starting to get a bunch of recognition over the summer and then we got Building of the Year,” said Design/buildLAB student Brent Sikora. “It’s just very rewarding to see us matched up against all the top architects in America.” There was even a documentary fi lm created about the construction process called “Reality Check,” of which a trailer can be seen on realitycheckfi lm.com and will premiere at Hancock on March 28. This year, the Zawistowskis and their students in Design/ buildLAB are working with the Shenandoah Autism Center. They are currently exploring the idea of what a new school might be like for them. They have plans for another construction project after Spring Break, but declined to make them public at this time.
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Penalties while texting and driving should go further While the Virginia Senate approving a bill increasing fines for texting while driving from $20 to $250 for first offenses and from $50 to $500 for following infractions is a good first step in curbing texting while driving, more action must be taken to resolve the problem. The increased fines are a good step forward, but the DMV point system should be amended to add points to violators’ licenses. The first offense should be a minimum point penalty, while recurring offenses should elicit a harsher response, similar to that of reckless driving offenses.
In addition, Virginia officials should implement policies to subdue texting-while-driving habits. The driver education program should emphasize the danger of texting while driving, such as a new curriculum or training course experiences that allow students to recognize how drastically texting affects driving. Texting while driving remains a major problem in traffic safety, but while the new bill is as step in the right direction, more is needed to preempt the dangers of texting while driving.
Drones serve practical purpose D rones. The name is enough to make me shudder. Between the drone strikes the United States military has been running in Pakistan and Yemen — which have killed almost 1,000 civilians, according to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism — and the Charlottesville City Council recently taking a far-reaching step in banning drones in the city because of privacy, this new technology of unmanned aerial vehicles has become a hot topic and certainly raises concerns for both its domestic and international future use. However, drones can provide some domestic benefits that have gone unnoticed. The U.S. has 63 registered domestic drone operators in the country receiving funds from the U.S. Defense Agency; one of these is Virginia Tech’s Unmanned Systems Laboratory. Kevin Kochersberger, the director of Tech’s Unmanned Systems Laboratory, explained how the idea of drones in the U.S. has been wrongly compared with international uses of drones, using his lab’s work as an example. “When people refer to drones,
they immediately think of weaponized, unmanned vehicles,” Kochersberger said. “That couldn’t be farther from what we do at the lab.” According to Kochersberger, his lab, as well as other labs throughout the country, is working on building drones for purposes such as search and rescue, tending to crops, monitoring wetlands for climate change and even delivering packages commercially. As Kochersberger cleared up my perceptions on drone operation in this country, it occurred to me that the current controversy on drone attacks in Pakistan and Yemen lies with the illegal war crimes of U.S. Defense rather than the technology itself. Kochersberger stated that while the agency might ask his lab to build an autonomous vehicle in exchange for grant money, what the U.S. makes the vehicle do is determined exclusively by the Department of Defense. Drones themselves are not a way to target civilians internationally; rather, they are a tactic susceptible to critique for targeting civilians, especially when depicted by the U.S. Defense’s
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any Americans want to believe the United States is the absolute center of the world. Our country and what it does seems to matter the most, and the actions that take place in this country will, in turn, affect every nation in the entire world. The United States’ foreign policy has been run, since World War II, on the sometimes-misidentified notion that we are superior to everyone else. I am in no way arguing the United States of America is not an amazing country, because that would be a completely absurd insinuation. However, in regard to foreign relations, the United States usually misses the mark in one way or another. Our country feels as though it is above the need to think about the consequences of its actions. We have the tendency to use our position as a “world power” to push some sort of action that usually ends up causing a worldwide headache. In an article released by The Guardian regarding the Israeli attack on Gaza, columnist Glenn Greenwald said, “Israeli aggression is possible only because of direct, affirmative, unstinting U.S. diplomatic, financial and military support for Israel and everything it does.” To further prove that the
United States’ current mindset on foreign policy is not where it should be, Huffington Post writer Conrad Black enumerated a number of issues the United States has sparked internationally without thinking about their implications. Ironically, the article is titled “Like Bad Wine, U.S. Foreign Policy Gets Worse with Time.” The column said, “The United States ditched its Egyptian ally, Mubarak, — as President Carter had ditched the much more progressive Shah of Iran — ditched the reasonably reliable Saleh of Yemen, — now a failed state — but effectively endorsed brutally rigged elections in Iran, as well as the mockery of Putin’s reelection in Russia, while Hillary Clinton described Syrian President Assad as ‘a reformer,’ and Obama declared that Qaddafi ‘must go’ but declined to do anything about it until France and Britain took the lead (and revealed their threadbare military capacities).” In all of these international situations, the United States has played a major role in pushing some sort of agenda. Most of the scenarios cost human lives, including Americans. It is time to recognize that we have our own problems to deal with. The United States is far from a perfect country, yet we
want other countries to look up to us as a sort of “big brother.” If we want to be the role model for other nations in the world, we need to fix our own problems first. We need to rein in the national debt and tackle the unemployment problems plaguing our economy. Once this happens, we can focus on assisting in international situations that do not directly involve our country. All these events directly lead back to the superiority complex the United States has adopted over the years. Foreign policy is an important function of our nation’s government, but noting the many scenarios we have inserted ourselves into over the past decade, foreign relations has become our biggest weakness. The world will never be perfect, and we need to remember that we cannot fix every problem that arises. No matter how hard the United States tries to control the multitude of international mayhem, there will always be conflict. There is only one thing the United States has complete control over: how we respond to it. RYAN TURK -regular columnist -business information technology -freshman
drone practices abroad. However, the question remains whether any legitimate concern of drone use exists domestically, as the Charlottesville City Council has clearly expressed in its legislation, if drones themselves are not the problem. Kochersberger said these concerns deal with extreme hypotheticals. “There are legitimate concerns of privacy if one conjures up the absolute worst-case extreme examples of how (drones) can be used,” Kochersberger said. However, there is only so much we can do to predict and prevent issues we might run into with drone use in the future. For now, though, the benefits drones can provide domestically outweigh any possible risks. Law enforcement should do their best to establish specific parameters of its drone use, especially when used to investigate crimes, but when used to minimize the harm of legal tasks performed by humans, drones can certainly work themselves into a critical role in our society. MUKUND KATTI -regular columnist -biochemistry -freshman
what you’re saying On Service unavailable: Students remain unhappy with access media 3 Anonymous: People need to complain to their leasing companies so they don’t renew the contracts when they’re up. Make it clear that you wouldn’t refer a friend to move there because of the obligation to work with a really crappy internet company. In the past two years I’ve called on 9 different occasions and left word to speak with a manager, they gave me a “ticket number” each time for my request, and every time I’ve followed up they couldn’t pull up the ticket number. Not a single call back. That service is unacceptable. Especially considering how outrageous their prices are. Anonymous: Problem is, when we signed our lease to Terrace View last winter, they told us that the AM3 contact was expiring in July and they were going to switch to Comcast. Come July, they tell us Comcast has to install special equipment and it will be a few more months. After a few months, they tell us that they renewed the AM3 contract instead. They had no problem lying to us to get the lease signed, so be careful to do your own research on the matter. Anonymous: The solution is easy, don’t sign a lease that makes you get NTC/Shentel/Media3. The apartments that require these are in the minority, so they would quickly get the message, and/or go bankrupt. Beauty of capitalism. The only issue I see here, is that this is a lot of people first lease, and simply don’t know the difference. When I signed a lease for my sophomore year I didn’t think much of it. After hearing my friends (in Shentel buildings) complain about it, and witnessing the slow speeds myself now I get it. Perhaps an awareness campaign to rising sophomores? haha, but seriously the offcampus housing organization should highlight in their marketing materials the importance of internet choice in your unit.
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Te’o, Barkley must prove themselves at combine Every February NFL scouts flock to Indianapolis for the NFL Scouting Combine, an event in which college football players have a chance to showcase their talents before entering the NFL Draft in April. The event, which lasts four days, begins today. One of the most interesting players to keep an eye on throughout the combine will be Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o. Despite the chaos surrounding Te’o and the fake girlfriend hoax, he was able to amass quite an impressive career, winning every major award for a linebacker as a senior. His draft stock certainly dropped after news broke that his late girlfriend, Lennay Kekua, never existed. He’ll either continue to fall down the draft boards, or he’ll remind all the scouts why he was the runner-up for this year’s Heisman trophy. One big name that won’t get much coverage at this year’s combine is USC quarterback Matt Barkley. At the
However, Fuller isn’t exceptionally big or fast for an NFL receiver. He’ll have to have an impressive combine if he wants a chance at a late-round selection. Davis was also another favorite target of Thomas and led the team in receiving yards this year. Davis has the size to have a successful career in the NFL, but will have to work on his pass catching and blocking. He’ll most likely find a spot in the mid-late rounds if he puts up good numbers at MCT CAMPUS the combine. Manti Te’o must prove he’s first-round material after poor BCS game. Taylor has been a valued member of Tech’s defense beginning of the season, There are five Hokies for three straight years as a Barkley was the frontrun- participating in this year’s linebacker, earning honorner to win the Heisman tro- NFL scouting combine able mention All-ACC honphy and his USC Trojans which include Corey Fuller, ors as a junior and senior. were the odds-on favorites Marcus Davis, Bruce Taylor, Possessing the size to play to win the national cham- Nick Becton and Vinston linebacker at an NFL level, pionship. Painter. Taylor will have to show However, USC was a disFuller seemed to come up scouts that he can cover in appointment all season, and with a catch whenever the the passing game and that Barkley had to sit out his Hokies needed it most this his past injury problems final two collegiate games year and was the man who won’t affect his play in the as a senior due to a shoulder led the team in receiving future. He should find a injury. That injury is going touchdowns. He consistent- home in the later rounds of to keep him from throwing ly proved to be a reliable the draft. any passes at the 2013 NFL target for Logan Thomas Becton was a solid conScouting Combine. over the course of the year. tributor on Tech’s offensive
line for three years, moving into his starting position at left tackle as a senior. Becton doesn’t have great size for a lineman, but he is able to make up for it with a quick burst off the line. NFL teams are always looking for good lineman, so Becton will most likely be drafted in the mid-late rounds. Painter played the opposite tackle position to Becton and is actually a very similar player. They are both 6’6”, weight about the same
and both play the tackle position. However, Painter was named to the honorable mention All-ACC coaches team this year. Painter should also find a home in the later rounds of the draft, as every NFL team needs a good offensive line to be successful. DANNY NOKES -sports staff writer -sophomore -English
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food & drink
february 20, 2013 COLLEGIATETIMES
CHELSEA GILES/COLLEGIATE TIMES
This semester has unveiled a new Sunday night tradition: import night at the Cellar Restaurant. Its collection of worldly brews is half off, which is a great opportunity to try new labels. After a friend recommended Crabbie’s Alcoholic Ginger Beer last week, at least half of our table ordered it for their first round. Though Crabbie’s is delicious on its own, the beer also makes for a refreshing mixer. I recommend this crisp and bubbling brew for this week’s drink recipe, the Beer Cup Punch. Since it is a punch recipe, it yields more than one serving. It could be a good excuse to host a group study break during the hectic week. Ingredients: 1 1/2 ounces gin 1 bottle lager 1 bottle ginger beer (Crabbie’s recommended) 1/2 ounce lemon juice 1 splash of soda water Directions: 1. Pour the ingredients in a bowl or pitcher with ice and stir them lightly. 2. Garnish with a sprig of mint and a slice of cucumber. 3. Serve and enjoy.
BRIAN CROMER | features staff writer This recipe is my take on a family favorite. Using fresh fish is the most important part; frozen or old fish will not produce the same result. Adding avocado and garlic confit gives the soup a rich, chowder-like consistency. Prep time: 30 minutes Cook time: 1 hour 15 minutes Ingredients: 1 1/2 pounds rockfish 3 medium carrots 2 stalks celery 1 yellow onion 1 Thai chili 1 ripe avocado 4 cloves garlic confit 6 cups chicken stock 2 cups heavy cream 1/4 cup butter 1/4 cup fresh dill 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour 2 tablespoons unsalted butter 2 teaspoons Tabasco sauce 2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce 1 bunch spring onions Directions: 1. Peel four cloves of garlic. In a small saucepan, over low heat, cook the garlic until it has browned and softened — about 30 minutes. The oil should not be sizzling or bubbling violently during cooking; it should not fry the garlic. 2. Small dice the carrot, celery and onion. On low to medium heat, saute the vegetables in oil until they are PAUL KURLAK / SPPS translucent — about 20 minutes. This should be done in a large saucepot to accommodate the entire chowder. Remove the vegetables. 3. Mince the chili, dice the avocado and smash the garlic confit. Melt the butter in the large saucepot over medium heat. Add the flour and garlic confit. Stir constantly until the mixture has darkened and formed a paste. Add the chicken stock, Thai chili, chopped spring onions and avocado. Bring the mixture to a simmer. 4. Cube the rockfish into 1/2-inch pieces. Add them to the soup and simmer the mixture for 20 minutes. Lower the heat and whisk in the cream, Tabasco and Worcestershire. Season the soup with salt and pepper. Garnish with dill and serve.
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Recipe: Rockfish soup
Drink of the week: Beer cup punch CHELSEA GILES | special sections editor
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