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Studio-A-Rama brings local & national bands to campus for 32nd year On Saturday, Sept. 7, Case Western Reserve University’s radio station WRUW-FM 91.1 will be bringing 11 acts from Cleveland and beyond to the Mather Memorial courtyard for a day filled with good ol’ DIY punk.

For the past 32 years, WRUW-FM 91.1 has organized Studio-A-Rama, a free daylong music event, as a gift to all of the fans of the station in the Cleveland area.

This year, nine local acts will be taking the stage, and Merge Record’s artist Mikal Cronin is scheduled to headline the event, with legendary Cleveland punk band Mirrors performing directly before Cronin.

Several of the bands on the bill are regular performers at music venues in Cleveland such as the Beachland Ballroom, Mahall’s 20 Lanes and Now That’s Class.

“Some of the venues these acts usually

play at are venues that are farther away from campus and hard to get to without using the RTA,” said event organizer and CWRU alumnus Adam Spektor. “Studio-A-Rama gives students the chance to check out what the rest of the city has to offer in terms of music, without having to leave campus.”

Spektor was involved with WRUW-FM 91.1 during his undergraduate years and has been involved with the planning of the event for the past two. This year, Spektor took on the responsibility of coordinating the event.

“Finding a headliner is a bit of a challenge,” Spektor said. “Going through agencies to find someone can be really tough, but it’s relieving to finally find someone who you love. I was really excited when we were able to book Cronin and Mirrors for the event.”

From the San Francisco Bay area of California, Cronin’s music has a pop-rock sound that is nearly impossible to hate.

Cronin’s artistic style and approach to producing fresh rock ‘n’ roll tunes has garnered him a high amount of recognition this year. He performed at internationally renowned music festivals like SXSW and Pitchfork, and his sophomore album “MCII” has received positive reviews from music critics.

Spektor describes “MCII” as a “great power pop record with the sort of songwriting that sounds timeless.”

“This album is definitely a lot cleaner than his earlier stuff,” said Spektor. “Cronin is the type of artist who creates music that will still sound good years from now, and there aren’t a lot of artists you can say that about.”

Cleveland-based act Mirrors will also be taking the stage on Saturday evening.

Mirrors is well-known for being one of the bands that shaped the punk music scene in Cleveland in the 1970s.

“Before we started playing together as Mirrors, we used to do covers of the Velvet Undergound and Pink Floyd at shows,” said Mirrors frontman, Jamie Klimek, “I think our music is similar to the Trogs and earlier The Who.” This will be Mirror’s second performance on the Mather Memorial courtyard, their first being in 1975.

“One thing that will be challenging is trying to fit 80 minutes of material into a 60 minute setlist for Saturday,” said Klimek.

“We wanted to keep the setlist big for all our fans who will be attending the show and know all our music.”

Klimek continued, “I heard that if we do really well this time, they’ll invite us back in another 38 years!”

Studio-A-Rama kicks off on Saturday at 1 p.m. Coverage of the whole event will be broadcasted on WRUW-FM 91.1 and webcasted online through the station’s website.

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Blackstone Startup Weekend offers prospective entrepreneurs real world business advice Mike McKenna News Editor Third-year Case Western Reserve University student Amogha Srirangarajan’s dreams are among the stars.

And that’s not just in a figurative sense.

The mechanical, aerospace and computer engineering triple major is the founder of Suborbital Launch Services (SOLS), an upstart aerospace company whose goal is to “do for space exploration what personal computers did for computing” and offer a more accessible and technologically simpler alternative to sending items like scientific instrumentation into space.

SOLS is hoping to be commercial by 2017 and is currently investigating various techniques for rockets, flight computers and payload modules.

Srirangarajan’s company was one of several who participated in last weekend’s Blackstone LaunchPad Startup Weekend, an event designed to offer prospective entrepreneurs advice and real world experience. Space travel was not the only idea tossed around, as other student companies ranged from a zipper repair solution from undergraduate students Max Cormier and Tesia Thomas and an undergraduate and graduate student team made up of James Roberts, Shawn Li, Abby Xian and Adam Lerner working to create a tactile sensing glove.

The weekend began Friday Aug. 30 with participants pitching their ideas and forming teams. By Saturday, teams engaged in open training sessions, received mentoring from experts and worked with their teams to develop their ideas. Work continued through Sunday when the teams pitched their concepts to judges and competed for $500 in cash prizes.

The judges for the event included Melanie and Toby Maloney, who were among the original investors of Mental Floss, the popular magazine and novelty item company. Sue Marrone, designer of a visual organization program called Mosaic, and a technical liaison for APB and Associates, a project management company, also served as a judge, and lent her advice during the mentoring process.

Marrone lauded the efforts of Blackstone since it exposes students to the real world difficulties associated with creating a new business while still celebrating the triumphs. “[The weekend] is an eye-opening experience since you find out how difficult it is to launch a business,” Marrone noted.

“If you want to invent something new, this is what you want to have to address or you will go bankrupt.”

Rick Pollack, the founder of MakerGear, a 3D printing manufacturing company, also served as a mentor during the weekend. He emphasized that students should make sure they go into business with others they trust, and that just as much focus should be paid to building a cohesive team as to the company’s product.

Director of Blackstone LaunchPad Bob Sopko says that one of the event’s goals was to expose technological innovators to entrepreneurship.

“We wanted science and engineering folks to understand the marketplace and customers,” Sopko said. “We don’t want them to continue developing things in isolation. We want them to build something from a customer oriented perspective.”

The LaunchPad initiative is funded by a three-year, $3.2 million commitment from the Blackstone Charitable Foundation in partnership

Arianna Wage/Observer Business advisers including Sue Marrone, a technical liason for APB and Associates, a business management firm (above, far left) listen to presentations from prospective student entrepeneurs like Tesia Thomas (bottom, left) and Max Cormier (bottom, right). with the Burton D. Morgan Foundation.

Case Western Reserve joined four other Northeast Ohio institutions in the Blackstone LaunchPad network, which aims to foster entrepreneurship through both an inter- and intra-campus network.

“We’re introducing people across Euclid Avenue” Sopko said. “It doesn’t need to be the great divide. The School of Engineering should be talking to [the] Weatherhead [School of Management] and viceversa.”

—Additional reporting by Tyler Hoffman

KSL updates aging fleet with 34 new computers Jasmine Gallup Contributing Reporter

Arianna Wage/Observer A student utilizes one of Kelvin Smith Library’s 34 new Dell computers. The machines were upgraded this summer after a half decade of use.

In the typically subdued atmosphere of the Kelvin Smith Library, spontaneous cries of joy from students are, to say the least, unexpected. Yet in this second week of classes, that’s exactly what has been happening. Students from all across campus have been celebrating: fifth years letting out hastily muffled shouts of elation; humanities majors fist-pumping excitedly; computer programmers having silent paroxysms of delight behind their desks.

The cause? Thirty-four new Dell computers.

“It’s been six or seven years since the last computer refresh,” Roger Zender, digital learning and scholarship team leader at the KSL library, said. “[Buying new computers] is a part of our standard operating budget.”

Why now? The KSL staff knows it’s time to recycle old machines when they start getting complaints from students. By this time last year, Zender said, “We were getting a lot of complaints.”

The OptiPlex 9010 All-in-One computer comes equipped with all kinds of shiny new features: an Intel Pentium Dual

Core Processor, an up to 1000GB SATA hard drive and a new operating system— Windows 7 Pro. There’s no longer a separate CPU tower—it’s built into the 23-inch HD screen. But what are students probably most excited about? The speed.

The OptiPlex’s 4GB of RAM means that it’s not just fast—it’s faster.

Technologically literate or not, most can appreciate the functionality of these new computers. Updated browsers allow for non-glitchy usage of online programs, such as Google Apps for Education. Videos get shown on a high-definition screen that’s 6 inches bigger. And every computer now runs both Microsoft Office 2013 and Adobe Creative Suite.

Zender is looking forward to the possibilities the new computers will bring to students. The staff at KSL has recently been trying to bring more technological capacity for students onto the main floor of the library and out of the Freedman Center.

Will a more media rich library make for a better education? Who knows. Professors and students are still adapting to and exploring the capabilities of technology in the classroom. Regardless, one thing remains certain: students are going to enjoy these new computers while they last.

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RTA to build new northside Red Line spot $17.5 million project will replace East 120th station, expected complete by 2015 Julia Bianco Staff Reporter

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Many students’ first view of campus is when they ride the Red Line into the East 120th Rapid Station. Needless to say it isn’t a pleasant one.

The East 120th station is known for being dark, dank and wet. To get to the station, which is used by the majority of students who live on the north side of campus, travelers must cross under a dirty, and often dripping, bridge, and then into an ill-lit staircase and up onto a platform to catch the train.

The Regional Transit Authority (RTA) recognized this unwelcoming station as an obstacle to the growing neighborhoods of University Circle and Little Italy.

The two areas are quickly becoming hot tourism sites for Cleveland, but the lack of attractive public transit options between the neighborhoods and downtown has been deterring visitors.

Because of this, RTA has planned for a new station to take the place of the East 120th station. The new station, which will be located on Mayfield Road at East 119th Street, will be called the Little ItalyUniversity Circle Rapid Station.

Groundbreaking is set to begin later this fall, and it is expected to take between 18 to 24 months to be completed.

“I think we’re in a new stage where transit is valued by communities, neighborhoods, developers and employers,” Chris Ronayne, president of University Circle Inc., said. “[The station] gives us an opportunity to create a transit development that will accentuate this district for what it should be, which is a multi-modal community that is both transit and pedestrian friendly,” Ronayne said, adding, “Not every trip begins and ends in an automobile.”

Ronayne is extremely enthusiastic about the project and what it could do for University Circle.

“It’s access to a region, a port. It bridges Little Italy and University Circle,” he said.

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Rendering courtesy City Architecture via RTA Pictured above are the architectural renderings for the planned Little Italy Rapid station. The stop will replace the decrepid East 120th Rapid Station. Ground is expected to be broken for the project later this fall.

“It brings forth a transit and pedestrian friendly district. University Circle currently brings in 2.5 million visitors per year. This broadens their options, and I think it will attract even more people.”

The new station comes with a $17.5 million price tag and was made possible by a Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) Grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation.

The grant, which comes from a total TIGER fund of $527 million, will provide $12.5 million in funding for the RTA project.

Initial work on the station began in 2005, when the Cleveland Foundation

Mary Kate Macedonia/Observer The East 120th Street Rapid Station, which is the stop that primarily services the north side of campus, has fallen into disrepair in recent years.

gathered donations from major institutions in the area, including Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals, University Circle Inc., the Cleveland Clinic and the Holden Parks Trust. The $1.6 million dollar fund was intended to go towards early planning for development projects in the University Circle area.

After the decision was made to build a new Red Line station, the RTA hired City Architecture to work on the design. Paul Volpe, the lead principal on the project, intends to use the already existing concrete bunker, which was built in the 1930s, but to add his own modern touch. This includes stainless steel mesh ribbons on the outside of the station, which will be lit by LED lights at night, as well as a canopy to let in light and fresh air.

Various local artists also contributed to the project. Susie Frazier designed a flowing leaf-like pattern which will appear on the floor of the station, while Gabriela Mileti wrote a series of poems about travel in English and Italian, which will be painted on the walls of the station.

One of the main goals of the new station was to cut out the 200-foot long tunnel that serves as a barrier between Little Italy and University Circle. The tunnel, which is dark and foreboding, shows a clear separation between the two bustling neighborhoods, which prevents the area from becoming the large tourist destination that it could be.

The RTA has spent $880,000 to buy the easternmost of the five bridges that form the ceiling of the tunnel, and intend to tear it down in order to shorten the barrier. Volpe

also hopes to add lighting under the bridge in an effort to make it more accessible.

“We’re forging partnerships with neighboring Little Italy,” says Ronayne.

“Our fates are tied... For too long the railroad tracks have divided us. The new station will unite us.”

RTA spokeswoman Mary Shaffer was also excited about the new opportunities that the station will bring.

“The station in Little Italy is a great opportunity to connect with the new art museum and with CWRU’s campus,” she noted. “It will also make people from inside the city make a trip over to Little Italy, make a trip to Case Western, see what’s there. It will be more attractive and help open up the city.”

In addition to the new station, the RTA also plans to spend $1 million improving the sidewalk, curb and railing that would lead from the station into University Circle.

If possible, they also hope to renovate the sidewalk leading from the station into Little Italy.

Sergeant Jeffrey Daberko of the CWRU Police Department noted that the old East 120th Street bridge was “a safety concern”.

“We have not had a huge number of incidents in that area but there have been a couple over the years and it has always been a concern because of the station’s isolation and poor lighting,” he noted.

“A newer, better lit, and more convenient stop would be more of a welcoming gateway to the area for visitors, and certainly safer and more convenient for CWRU students,” said Daberko.

ITS adds wireless network exclusively for gaming consoles in university owned apartments Julia Bianco Staff Reporter Gamers in the Triangle Apartments and the university owned apartments on East 115th and East 117th Streets can rejoice. This August, Informational Technology Services (ITS) implemented a wireless network dedicated exclusively to supporting video game consoles, since the apartments, which were recently converted into university housing, did not have Ethernet connection capabilities.

While the new network, called CaseGaming, will run parallel with the CaseGuest and CaseWireless networks, it will offer bandwidth dedicated solely to support video games consoles.

Since the majority of systems can only connect to unprotected networks, gamers in those locales were previously forced to use CaseGuest, which is open to the entire public. The consoles faced slowed run times, since the systems had to compete with other users for a limited amount of bandwidth.

“We have only a few users at this point,

but the feedback has been favorable,” said Chet Ramey, assistant director of technology infrastructure services for ITS. “It’s still very early in deployment, so we are gauging the results as each new user registers. We expect to learn more as the number of users and variety of gaming consoles increase.”

To use the network, students must register their gaming devices by calling the ITS Service Desk at 216-368-HELP. According to ITS, the network may be added to other residence halls after it reviews feedback from users.

Arianna Wage/Observer Gamers in university owned apartments will now be able to connect to a new wireless network dedicated to video game consoles.

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1. Syrian refugee numbers climb to over 2 million The United Nations has released information stating that the refugees that have fled out of Syria have surpassed the two million mark, becoming one of the worst refugee crises the world has ever seen. This number has doubled in the past six months. Of this two million, over half are children ages 17 and

younger.

Along with these refugees, an estimated 4.5 million people in Syria have been forced to leave their homes due to the violence, destruction and carnage. That is more than one out of every four Syrians being forced to leave their homes due to the war.

2. Japanese tsunami-damaged nuclear power plant still leaking toxic water One of Japan’s huge storage tanks in the Fukushima power plant, which was damaged in a tsunami in 2011, has leaked 300 tons of toxic water, calling for Japan’s nuclear regulator to pronounce this as a Level 3 serious incident. It is speculated that more leaks from other containers are present.

Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority has released information stating that the radiation levels have spiked over 20 percent since the initial readings. The recorded values have risen as high as 2,200 millisieverts; enough to kill a person in hours.

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3. Ariel Castro commits suicide in prison Ariel Castro, convicted to life in prison and 1,000 years for kidnapping and sexually assaulting three Cleveland-area women, was pronounced dead at a hospital near his correctional facility in Orient, Ohio last Tuesday.

Nearly one month after the trial, Castro was found in his cell hanging from a bed sheet, according to the correctional facility spokesperson. Although previously on suicide watch, he was not under constant surveillance when this occurred.

Members of the neighborhood where Castro kept three women captive for over

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Tokyo Electric Power Co., where the radioactive water is leaking, is currently in the process of developing a plan to prevent even more damage. The Japanese government is urgently attempting to fix the issue, especially with the possibility of this impacting Tokyo’s bid to host the 2020 Olympics.

The current solution is to freeze the ground around the tanks; while this method has been previously utilized in the construction of tunnels, nothing has been done on a scale as large as these leaking tanks of toxic water.

4. 64-year-old becomes the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without shark cage

way— at any given time there could be 15,000 students, faculty, staff, visitors or resident squirrels on campus—can you think of a town that has 15,000 people and doesn’t have some type of police coverage?

With that having been said, we are a service-oriented department whose primary goal is to ensure your experience here is a safe and secure one, so please don’t hesitate to call us if there is something we can assist you with or something you think we need to know about. Calling the police department does not mean you are now Ratso Rizzo, police snitch, but instead it shows you care enough about the campus community to take action to help keep it safe. Most police departments are only as effective as the citizens the police enable them to be, and we are no exception.

It is also worth pointing out that this is the

time of year when incidents involving alcohol, usually being consumed by students under 21 and in hospital-visit-inducing amounts, tend to spike. While it remains illegal in Ohio to drink alcohol if you are under 21, if you become aware of someone who needs medical attention due to alcohol consumption please don’t hesitate to get them the help they need from somebody- Housing staff, police, etc. That is a case where the consequences of doing nothing absolutely outweigh the consequences of doing something.

Last Monday, long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad swam from Cuba to Key West, Florida, becoming the first person to do so without a protective shark cage.

All she had on her was a suit and special mask to protect against jellyfish stings.

Her last attempt failed after swelling from being stung in the tongue.

This attempt was her fifth since 1978 and her fourth since she turned 60. The

On the Beat A question CWRU Police Department officers often get asked (in addition to the foremost question, “How do I get to the Cleveland Clinic from here?”) is “Are you guys real”? When we’re asked this, we assume people want to know if we are real policemen, as opposed to holographic projections.

The short answer is yes. CWRU police officers are commissioned, meaning they are graduates of an Ohio-certified police academy (no, it isn’t like the movie, sorry) so they have the same training as any other police officer in the state. We have also been given the same authority any Cleveland police officer possesses within the boundaries set by the city. So we are as real as any other police department in the state.

If you are wondering why a place like CWRU needs a police force, think of it this

10 years felt both satisfaction and dismay from what happened. “[He] took the easy way out,” James King told Associated Press, who lives down the street from the now barren lot Castro’s house once stood.

Although regarded as suicide by officials, the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio called for a full investigation of the incident.

“As horrifying as Castro’s crimes may be,” stated executive director Christine Link, “the state has a responsibility to ensure his safety from himself and others.”

swim took 52 hours. Nyad seriously began swimming in seventh grade, when Jack Nelson, who was a famous Olympian and Hall of Fame coach, mentored her.

Nyad had high hopes of swimming for the Olympics, but was unable to when she got a heart infection known as endocarditis. This, however, did not stop her from accomplishing her dreams.

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On the Beat is a weekly safety column written by Sergeant Jeffrey Daberko & Officer Mark (The Crossing Guard) Chavis of CWRU PD. Send feedback to this or other columns at policecolumn@case.edu.

8/26/13 to 9/2/13 8/28- Felony theft- Unattended wallet taken, Veale Center.

8/28- Bicycle theft- Bike taken off front porch of home, E.118th Street 8/30- Motor vehicle theft- Car taken from parking lot between 8/28-8/30, Lot 47/Murray Hill Road.

9/2- Criminal damage- Car window smashed overnight, 11402 Bellflower Road.

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Big four “global accounting” firm donates archive collection to KSL Suneil Kamath Staff Reporter

Freda Li/Observer Pictured above is a sample of the Ernst and Young archives that were donated to the Kelvin Smith Library last month. Ersnt and Young is known as one of the “big four” professional services firms in the world.

In August 2013, Ernst and Young donated its valuable archives collection to Case Western Reserve University’s Kelvin Smith Library. The archives contain memorabilia, photos, early transaction documents, advertisements and more.

Ernst and Young is known as one of the “big four” professional services firms in the world. Founded in 1849, Ernst and Young has played an important role in developing the accounting, banking and investment industry. Ernst and Young has been a prominent business in Cleveland, and over the years has grown into a company with over 167,000 employees and billions of dollars in revenue.

Jill Tatem is a university archivist and the Interim Head of special collections at KSL. According to Tatem, CWRU was able to acquire the assets because of the efforts of Dr. Gary Previts, the E. Mandell de Windt Professor of Leadership and Enterprise Development at the Weatherhead School of Management, Lee Thomas, managing

partner of the Cleveland Ernst and Young office, and Hank Kohout, an Ernst and Young associate director.

“They recognized the scholarly and community value of the institutional memory of this storied Cleveland firm,” said Tatem.

The archives might have a tremendous influence on CWRU’s faculty and students’ research.

“The Ernst and Young Archive represent an untapped collection of primary sources.

We think faculty and students in a wide range of disciplines can use these materials to explore the kinds of issues faced by a business as it grew from a local to a global presence, how it responded and what the results were,” said Tatem.

The Ernst and Young archives are not the only special exhibit at KSL. “Right now we have an exhibit in Hatch called Observing the Natural World. It started with the realization that our Biology Department was founded 125 years ago. It moves back through the 16th century, exploring how broader developments in natural history were reflected locally,” said Tatem.

CCEL hosts service fair to encourage student involvement Sarah Groft Staff Reporter Friday, Sept. 13, the Center for Civic Engagement and Learning (CCEL) will be offering students a chance to learn more about volunteer opportunities at its community service fair in the Thwing ballroom. The event is held at both the beginning of the fall and spring semesters and invites local nonprofit organizations, campus student service groups and postgraduate programs to show students and faculty the different volunteer opportunities available in the Cleveland area.

Angela Lowery, the Student Service Coordinator at CCEL, recommends students attend the service fair because it is a good way to “explore different volunteer options and find the opportunity that fits best with the individuals’ interests and skills.”

This semester, University Hospitals, Peace Corps, Habitat for Humanity, Great Lakes Science Center and the Hunger Network of Greater Cleveland will be among the many groups represented.

The American Red Cross will also be oncampus on Sept. 13 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the 1914 Lounge running a blood drive.

CCEL offers much more than just the service fair. One of their projects, Project STEP-UP, is a tutor training program that will occur on Saturday, Sept. 7. By attending this training session, students will be able to tutor in local elementary and high schools. Program STEP-UP works closely with programs such as the Church of the Covenant, America Reads, America Counts and Ohio Reads. In some situations, students may use their work study awards to tutor in local schools.

Every semester, CCEL sponsors Saturday of Service, a day devoted to different volunteer activities. This year’s Saturday of Service should be announced soon for the fall semester.

Another opportunity that CCEL offers is Alternative Break. In place of spring break, students can take trips to different states or countries in order to complete service projects. This year, CCEL is offering trips to two different areas.

CCEL will be continuing its tradition of sending a group to New Orleans, as it has for the past ten years. The group, along with volunteers from across the nation, addresses issues such as education,

Courtesy Angela Lowery Students at last year’s Center for Civic Engagment and Learning’s service fair visit booths to learn about volunteer opportunities on campus and the local Cleveland area. The event, which occurs once every semester, will be held next Friday, Sept. 13, in Thwing’s ballroom. hunger, homelessness, environmental restoration and access to healthcare. In the past, the group has partnered with the Lower Ninth Ward Village, New Orleans City Park, HandsOn New Orleans, GROW DAT! Youth Farm and the Roots of Music after-school program.

The other CCEL trip will have students heading to Nicaragua to work with Waves of Hope, a nonprofit organization that aims to improve community infrastructure with construction projects and after-school projects with a local youth group. More information about these trips can be found on the CCEL website.

The CCEL office is also currently looking for students to be members of the Civic Engagement Scholars program. This program is open to all students. Members of the program are required to complete

at least 50 hours of service, attend the civic engagement scholars program kickoff training and mid-year training, attend three community-focused programs during the academic year, write a final reflection about their scholars experience and maintain good academic standing throughout the course of the program.

Applications for this program will be accepted until Sept. 17 and can be found at students.case.edu/civicengagement/ service/scholars.

Daniel Doherty, a member of the current CCEL Executive Board, said he feels he really benefitted from his time at CCEL. “CCEL really helped me to connect with Cleveland as a firstyear because the Scholars and Fellows opportunities brought me to areas I may not have visited.”

Students who are interested in getting involved can apply for the Civic Engagement Scholars program.

Additionally, CCEL has an Executive Council made of student leaders.

Members of this council are selected through a competitive process at the end of the spring semester. They are required to have been involved in at least one semester of CCEL programming. For students who are interested in service but not in joining one of these groups can find weekly service opportunities in the CCEL Serves schedule on the CCEL website. These weekly events consist of events such as helping children with homework, assisting refugee children during after-school programs, completing fun projects with seniors and helping at the local food bank.

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Cleveland Clinic and CWRU: Big break or callous snub?

On June 1, 2013, President Barbara R. Snyder delivered some big news to the Case Western Reserve University community when she unveiled a major plan to collaborate with the Cleveland Clinic to build an $80 million medical school facility on the Clinic’s campus.

The following day, the same news was reported in The Plain Dealer.

While both CWRU President Barbara Snyder and Cleveland Clinic President Toby M. Cosgrove gleefully expressed excitement over the project, no one seemed to wonder, at least publicly, what part CWRU’s primary affiliate, University Hospitals (UH), played in it.

It turns out, none.

UH leadership was under the impression that CWRU would build its new medical school facility on the old Mt. Sinai campus, located on East 105th St. The UH leaders only learned of the new project when it was already signed, sealed and delivered—in other words, on the same day as the rest of us.

Was this a cold move on CWRU’s part? Maybe. But there is no doubt that the university scored a great deal by partnering with one of the best-ranked medical institutions in the world. After all, the Clinic is located right next to CWRU’s campus—why not take advantage of its proximity and, perhaps more importantly, its brand?

The issue is not so much about changing the everyday routines of CWRU medical students; UH has yet to report any drastic changes in the way it will operate. UH continues to be considered the CWRU School of Medicine’s primary hospital affiliate, as it has been since 1992. In practice, this means that CWRU and UH combine their medical research operations.

Even after learning of the deal between the Clinic and CWRU, UH leadership did not express plans to discontinue or change the medical education of graduate and undergraduate students it has provided in the past. Both Snyder and Cosgrove assured that the partnership will only “complement” the relationships CWRU and the Clinic have with other institutions, including UH. The deal does not mean that UH will never recover from the apparent snub, either. UH has obviously established its position as a highly-ranked, widely respected institution and a significant

partner of CWRU. The real problem lies in the approach CWRU leverages with its associates. The way the university handled the collaboration deal with the Clinic could backfire in the future.

The school is taking ambitious steps towards significant and fast expansion while trying to establish a reputation as a high-level research institution, which admittedly is a position the university deserves. But what kind of message is the university sending to the community by making these moves? How many eggs does the university have to break in order to make an omelet?

As with housing, it seems that CWRU has an issue with long-term planning.

The university wants to expand and become a more significant part of the Cleveland community—this is very clear. It also is completely understandable and reasonable.

CWRU has the resources, and its faculty, staff and students alike have the willingness to help the university become the institution it wants to be.

But it’s not certain whether making bold moves without consulting other parties who will also be affected by the changes will bear fruit in the long term.

The bottom line is this: sidestepping UH isn’t just a courtesy issue. CWRU could possibly be in danger of becoming an institution that takes everything that makes it better and sucks the life out of it. The university should not make a habit out of making deals that at the end of the day snub community partners in favor of pursuing greener pastures.

The university’s administrators do not seem to worry about the negative image public deals, such as this one, create for the university; otherwise, they would not have left UH hanging like they did. If the university continues making moves like this, its days as the friendly neighborhood institution of University Circle may soon be over.

Its actions are starting to resemble those of a big corporation. It’s up to each of us to decide whether it is bothersome or whether the administration is in the right: risk-taking produces results and can eventually make CWRU the major player that in many aspects it deserves to be. Because there is no denying that when it comes to the deal with the Clinic, CWRU really came out as the real winner in the situation—arrogant or otherwise.

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Editor’s Note Bridging the great divide The synthetic divide that distinguishes the North and South Residential Villages, the Mather Quad and Case Quad, “soft science” and “hard science” is daunting. Euclid Avenue does more than divide the campus into separate halves; it drives the wedge that separates Case and Western Reserve in the namesake of the university.

After all, Case Western Reserve continues to fight an unrelenting battle with itself. As past editorials in The Observer explained, the university suffers an extreme case of major elitism, in which students engaging in engineering and natural science coursework are epitomized and separated from business, humanities and social science students.

But this divide has grown smaller in the last year, thanks in no small part to Blackstone LaunchPad. Funded by the Blackstone Charitable Foundation and The Burton D. Morgan Foundation, Blackstone LaunchPad arrived at Case Western Reserve in 2012 as the result of a three-year, $3.2 million commitment. The program—spearheaded at the university by Director Bob Sopko— offers tools and guidance to students of varying majors seeking to develop ideas into entrepreneurial success stories.

Blackstone LaunchPad has obtained a substantial foothold in Northeast Ohio, with peer programs existing at Baldwin Wallace University, Kent State University and Lorain County Community College. The network offers a valuable mechanism by which students with similar ideas, passion and expertise can be connected despite their enrollment at different institutions.

More importantly, the program is systematically tearing down the obstacles that exist within our own campus. Sopko and his passionate team of Blackstone LaunchPad Fellows host networking and competitive events for aspiring entrepreneurs, as well as promote dialogue between individuals who would otherwise not associate.

With prime real estate in the atrium of Thwing Center, Blackstone LaunchPad aims to foster relationships between students of diverse academic interests, from engineering and art design to science and marketing. With the expert guidance facilitated by Sopko and his team, Case Western Reserve is not only rectifying a problem at the school’s core, it is enabling students to create jobs rather than find them.

Blackstone LaunchPad is giving students and faculty members their first compelling reason to cross Euclid Avenue and collaborate with peers on the other side of this relatively small campus. One program alone cannot eliminate the historical divide between the Case Institute of Technology and Western Reserve College; however, it is an inspiring way to begin.

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What your tour guides don’t tell you about Case Western Andrew Breland The Elephant in the Room A couple of years ago, a professor told me that newly hired faculty at Case Western Reserve University is told “You can assign lots of work and reading. Students here don’t do anything but study.

They use all their time to study and read for class.”

Sadly, this image is not nearly that of the typical CWRU student. The people I have met here are some of the most involved and community-oriented students in the nation. But the workload put on students is enough to have us ranked in the top one percent of “Least Manageable Workloads” among 1,380 colleges in the country. We fall above such “easy” schools as Carnegie Mellon, Washington University in St. Louis, the University of Chicago and all but one of the Ivy League schools (sorry, Columbia).

Students applying to and visiting CWRU are promised years of class work balanced with plenty of time for extracurricular activities, a social life and a healthy lifestyle. Unfortunately, the truth is far from this. There’s an old college adage that seems to fit here “Good grades, a social life and sleep – you can only pick two.”

But this isn’t nearly the only false promise made to the prospective students of CWRU. Students touring the university and

thinking of applying to spend four years at the university are showered in the knowledge of our “library that is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week” and the “great food we have on campus run

by Bon Appétit.” We hear about the 500 pages of free printing per semester and the fantastic SAGES program that everyone enjoys and uses for the rest of their lives (in the interest of honesty, I must confess that I am a tour guide for the university and have said each of these things numerous times in the interest of keeping my job).

But what students do not hear is that the library is completely closed during university holidays (Labor Day, anyone?) and there are no 24/7 hours during breaks, both instances where students are more than likely to use the space.

Finding assistance in the library is nearly impossible, as librarians remain cloistered upstairs in a locked room, leaving students with the displeasing choice of asking fellow students or bona fide office assistants working the front desk.

Bon Appétit, our “fabulous” food provider, is one of the worst institutions on campus, preventing other (read: cheaper) food options from encroaching on their monopoly. While putting up a façade of “listening to students” Bon Appétit serves the same thing day after day. Students will complain by the second month of the semester that the food is terrible and boring. But the management never responds.

And who can forget the 500 pages of free printing, only accessible on printers that are broken about 80 percent of the time. And the SAGES program, the biggest joke of an institution on campus, which forces students to take uninteresting classes from largely unprepared individuals, simultaneously removing time that could otherwise be spent in a major or minor class that would actually prepare students for life after graduation. Proponents of the program claim that it teaches students to write and communicate. But sadly, all it has taught me is that engineers and humanities majors should never be taught writing techniques in the same class.

This is not to say, though, that all my experiences at CWRU have been bad.

I’ve met friends that will last a lifetime, been taught by professors who have challenged my thinking and forced me to become a more worldly thinker and gotten involved in organizations that have allowed me to travel nearly 10,000 miles in my first two years all the while maintaining a course load requiring approximately 1,000 pages of reading a week. And yes, I have even had a good SAGES class, although this was mostly in part due to the inventiveness and creativity of the professor and not the SAGES curriculum, which we wholly ignored (for the most part) in the course.

To supplement the dearth of assistance and experience provided by the university, I have reached out to profes-

sors and students alike. In a few professors, I have found mentors and friends I will keep for years. They have opened doors and suggested paths that have put me on the road to being a more successful person, and I’ve heard some great stories along the way. With friends, I have found some of the most reliable people imaginable – a second family, one could say. And despite the university’s efforts to inundate students to the point where none of this is a possibility, I have found success.

For the next few months, this column will focus on the parts of campus people do not want to talk about, from the unspoken truths among students to the insane and debilitating struggle to find something to do in Cleveland, Ohio. I love Case Western and I cannot imagine going to school anywhere else. Sometimes, I just imagine a better situation than the one we’re in right now. I look forward to further exploring, enjoying and critiquing the many sides of our lives at CWRU. Andrew Breland is a junior planning to triple major in political science, English and history. At CWRU, Andrew serves as the vice president of the Case College Republicans and the treasurer for the Case Western Mock Trial Team.

After graduation, Andrew plans to attend law school and pursue a career as a civil litigation attorney specializing in Tort defense.

Nothing in life is free, even during orientation Stephen Kolison Fresh Perspective I was never one to object to anything free. Since my arrival to Case Western Reserve University, the school has been making it rain free things. I have more buttons, lanyards, bags, pens, t-shirts, milkshake coupons and staplers than Leonardo DiCaprio has Oscars. During orientation my orientation leader said that as college students, we should start getting comfortable with taking advantage of free things. Joke’s on you, Justin, I’ve been taking free stuff since Halloween 2003 when neighbors would leave out the “Please Take One” signs in front of their candy bowl. Heck, just this last year I took the entire bowl. The entire week of orientation was about taking. I took away the fact that I could go to CCEL for volunteer opportunities. I also took three tumblers and a handful of magnets. Receiving free items equals instant gratification.With that gratification comes a belief that there are no consequences to taking whatever you want.

It’s not that you need it, but the fact that it’s there for you to take. However, I had an experience after which it became obvious that there are strings attached to free items.

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how much water I drank at home until I got to a place where Aquafina wasn’t in bulk and waiting for me in a Maytag refrigerator. The only time I chose to leave my dorm was when I was super thirsty. I needed a water bottle that could quench my thirst when needed. Seriously guys, I was peeing yellow for four days. So one Thursday morning the universe had decided to work in my favor; as I was walking to the dining hall, a school group approached me and asked, “Hey! You want a free water bottle?!” FREE?!

You bet your bottom dollar I want a free water bottle! All I had to do was fill out a little survey and I could get myself a bottle. After giving them the survey, I took my bottle, said my thanks and went my merry way. As I headed to my next destination, it dawned on me that I had checked yes on every question on that survey. I was so desperate for free stuff that I could have easily given up my left nut without thinking about it.Then I remembered the questions I was asked.

Turns out I joined a bible study in order to get a free water bottle.

When you do crazy stuff like I do, you hope that it doesn’t come back to bite you in the butt. Nine times out of ten, it does.

One night I was sent a text from some guy named David and he said “Hey Stephen!

You expressed some interest in joining our bible study after taking our survey

and bottle. Would you like to come to our meeting tomorrow?” Well darn. I took this man’s stuff, drank my cold beverages out of it, and even watered my plant with it and now I knew I had to pay for my actions. It would have been super ratchet if I had not replied. So I said that I would love to come (at 8 p.m. no less). Then he said eight words that he shouldn’t have said at all: “We have all you can eat ice cream!” FREE?!

So the next night I trudged my way up to their meeting place with the idea in my mind that I would stay for the entire meeting. Coming from liberal Madison, WI, I would have expected five people at that study. Nope. There were at least a good thirty people crammed in that room.

Which was kind of good because I would have felt even worse if their only incoming freshman never came back after eating all their free food. The only downside to the number of people in the room was that more than half of the people in the crowd were in line for the ice cream. I did an odd shuffle to the line in hopes of not being noticed. Once I made it to the front of the line, I noticed everyone before me got two scoops. Not me. I took advantage of the free food. I was able to fit least a good six scoops in that tiny styrofoam plate, and that’s when David approached me. The fact that he and the other members of the group were extremely kind,

warm and welcoming, made what I did next really hard.

I hate crowds. I never find anyone to talk to in them and I feel out of place.

So I did what any person from this century would do: I pulled out my phone and pretended to get a call from my mom. As I made my way across the room on the phone, I noticed two things. 1) I should have received a Golden Globe for my performance, and 2) David was watching me.

He knew. And once he turned his back for a split second, I ran. I’m not kidding. I ran like Usain Bolt. And not only did I run outside, I kept eating the ice cream while I ran. I looked like an idiot. Also the ice cream wasn’t even that good, but maybe it was because it was not very good ice cream. I’m glad I left that club if they couldn’t afford a decent bucket of Edy’s Slow Churned Vanilla Bean Ice Cream.

Or maybe it was bad because my guilt and shame of eating nice people’s food without the intention of joining their group had tarnished the flavor. But frankly, if I wanted to be that sloppy, I should have just gone to Costco and taken their samples instead.

Stephen Kolison is a first-year biology student. While confining himself to his dorm, he enjoys knitting while watching Game of Thrones and Downton Abbey.

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Letter to the Editor I found last week’s fashion rant, “Redefining the Spartan Look,” both rude and completely unnecessary. After reading it, I was disappointed that The Observer wasted an entire page on an article that contributed so little. Fashion can be an excellent outlet to express oneself and sometimes an awesome outfit might lead to new opportunities to make friends or strike up conversation. But fashion is bent on personal prerogatives. The list of “rules” to dress for success blatantly bashes the idea of freedom, the very cornerstone of fashion.

Who cares what logo is “emblazoned” across one’s chest, whether or not one is wearing sweatpants, or rocking tie-dye. Maybe the hideous zombie t-shirt was a gift from a loving grandma, a family emergency left no time to change out of the sweatpants from last night, or the athlete wearing gym clothes to class just finished a grueling practice because they are dedicated to both academic and athletic success.

Fashion can enhance life, but why should we so harshly judge each other on appearances? Tie-dye pants and tie-dye top? No problem; it might be on the runway in Paris next spring anyway.

“Walk a mile in their shoes” is cliché, but absolutely appropriate here. I agree only with the confidence message in the final paragraph, but I am afraid the lackluster attempt to hide the mostly arrogant nature of the article is too little too late.

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Graphic t-shirts for the graphic gamer

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Gamers and non-gamers unite! Pull out your t-shirts featuring Mario, Yoshi and your favorite superheroes. These highly recognizable characters have taken over graphic t-shirt designs in many stores.

Now geeks can proudly wear apparel with comic book and video game characters without worrying about fashion’s current do’s and do not’s.

Cheetah prints, British and American flags and slogans have lined retailers’ shelves for the last few years. However, graphic t-shirt designs within the last season have included elements of classic video games and comic books.

This shift in graphic t-shirt design could easily be a possible result of the recent stream of Marvel’s comic book movies that have been released within the last few years. As the popularity of video games and comic book figures grows, their influence on their marketability,

specifically through the fashion industry, grows with it. Along with this notion, Case Western Reserve University student and non-gamer, Elen Yeranosyan, also believes that the popularity of this trend in graphic t-shirts could be a result of the influence that Eastern Asian street fashion has had on American markets for the past few years.

It is not uncommon to walk into a CWRU dorm and hear or see people talking about or playing video games.

In fact, it is probably more unlikely for one to not have this experience. CWRU students are notorious gamers with collections that include the classics such as “Mario” and “Pokémon,” as well as modern favorites like “Modern Warfare,” “Grand Theft Auto” and “Halo.” Some of these characters can be seen on a classmates’ shirt, but some of the more obscure or modern games have not been as well received by the fashion industry.

“The easiest icons to find on graphic t-shirts are the ones that have the greatest mass appeal,” said Enio Chinca, CWRU student and gamer. “The market is saturated with the most recognizable

characters. When you’re looking to find a wider range of character or game related shirts, [you have to go to] gaming conventions or through those games’ websites,” Even non-gamer Elen Yeranosyan was able to identify all the major graphic novel and gaming characters she was shown as they were featured on t-shirts from various fashion conscious vendors. As a non-gamer, Yeranosyan admitted that even she would easily wear the t-shirts that display images of these characters on them; she finds graphic t-shirts quirky and a way to brighten up her day as well as the days of others.

Graphic t-shirts, no matter what they say or show, are designed to have an element of humor and fun in them. No, you do not have to be a gamer to wear a graphic t-shirt that has images of video games or superheroes, but does it make you want to know more about them? How much does wearing one of these graphic t-shirts influence your interest on the topic? It may be nothing but a cute shirt to some people, but in an environment like Case Western Reserve University it

could be a doorway into having a new experience in the gaming world.

If you are a big gamer and like some of the more obscure references to video games or graphic novels, do not let the limited inventory of fashion retailers stop you from showing off your “game swag.” Be unique; all you need is a t-shirt with your favorite reference and a pair of scissors to cut and make your own oneof-a-kind graphic t-shirt that is not only representative of your own individual style and personality, but is trending with modern fashion streetwear.

Although local retailers may not supply as much gaming merchandise as CWRU students might want, all should feel free to enthusiastically sport their favorite graphic t-shirt this upcoming fall season. If, however, one is in need of adding a new graphic t-shirt to their wardrobe this fall, take a look at Forever 21, Love Culture, Macy’s or Hot Topic.

Whether you play Xbox, PlayStation, Wii, Nintendo 64 or even none of the above, students should embrace the true CWRU persona; we are not just nerds, but we are also nerds with style.

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Courtesy jonlybrook.org The Beachland Ballroom and Tavern, pictured above, is a local hotspot that offers cheap concert tickets from bands local and national.

East Cleveland’s hip haven Anne Nickoloff Music Reporter East Cleveland is probably exactly what you think it would look like, if you’ve heard about it from someone who’s been there: dilapidated buildings, cracked roads, overgrown weeds.

And by ‘East Cleveland,’ I don’t mean Case Western Reserve University.

I mean, yes, CWRU’s campus is in the eastern part of Cleveland, but I’m talking about more east than that, past our campus and towards Windermere.

It can seem a little sketchy, being in a place that you’re unfamiliar with, where people don’t seem to care about the well-being of their neighborhoods.

But then, as you drive on, you begin to see the art.

Collinwood, a neighborhood of Cleveland, still has those signature dilapidated buildings and bumpy roads.

However, in a specific couple of blocks, a few of those buildings have been transformed into towering murals over the sidewalks. Nearby, a small yard

contains a zoo of sculptures made out of recycled materials. Instead of feeling sketched out, this area of Cleveland makes you feel welcomed with open mic nights, coffee shops, art studios, tattoo shops and... oh yes: The Beachland Ballroom and Tavern.

This brick building houses two venues inside: the Ballroom, and the Tavern.

The Ballroom offers a more classic concert floor with plenty of room for dancing, but the Tavern has a different feel to it altogether.

Outside, two sets of neon lights label the two different parts of the building. The Ballroom is under the main “Beachland” sign, while a small Tavern sign hangs out a different doorway. Eager music lovers step into the Beachland Tavern and are greeted by a bar that stretches along the entire right side of the room.

Directly ahead is the stage. The uplifted platform is just a small square protrusion from the left side of the wall, only a step above the floor in front.

What’s interesting about the stage is that it’s not squeezed into a corner or a frame; instead, it’s outlined by just one full wall and almost-empty floor space

on the remaining three sides.

Aside from the open front of the stage and the full wall on the left side, a short wall-styled railing (about chest-height) wraps around the remaining two sides.

This interesting setup allows a variety of viewings. You can stand in front and be with the crowd. You can stand next to the band, and lean your arms against the railing. If you really wanted to, you could stand behind the band too, and watch them from an angle that’s difficult to obtain without a backstage pass at most other venues.

Usually bigger names perform at the Beachland Ballroom and smaller acts play at the Tavern. That says nothing about the excitement of the shows, however. At Beachland Tavern, I’ve been to both chill indie performances where everyone’s sitting down with a drink, and also high energy shows that has the crowd leaping all around the room.

I’ve heard the food is delicious at Beachland, and their wide array of alcohol available would be great for a 21-and-over night out. You can tell that this is where they make their money,

seeing as some of their bottled beers climbed to the hefty price of six dollars a pop. I’m not there for the alcohol and I still can barely afford a cup of soda.

But if you’re not there to eat or drink, the actual concert-going is a pretty cheap experience. Almost every concert at Beachland Tavern costs around ten dollars or less. Beachland also has shows almost every day of the week, bringing in a plethora of music to please almost any taste.

Getting to Beachland is a little trickier than getting to other venues, but RTA buses do get within a couple of blocks from the building. It’s a good chance to use that bus pass we all received at the beginning of the semester.

SIDEBAR: “UPCOMING BEACHLAND SHOWS” Tuesday, Sept. 10: The Brothers Comatose/The Luckey Ones, folk— $8 Saturday, Sept. 14: Dessa/Sombear, electronic— $14 Tuesday, Sept. 17: The Technicolors/ Ragers/Jesse Smith & The Holy Ghost, rock—$10

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Hulu original series: Missing The Mark Lily Korte Staff Reporter Since the rise of the Internet, media executives have fretted about the sustainability of music, television, film and books as industries. Fears about sales lost to digital piracy are gradually being assuaged as more and more companies adopt low-cost or free digital distribution models in the hopes that audiences will follow their favorite shows to these officially sanctioned modes of digital distribution.

In February of this year, while I was observing comedian John Hodgman leading a roundtable discussion in a hot tub on a cruise ship (it’s a long story), the future of terrestrial television in the Internet era was a key topic of debate.

With the rising cost of cable and the general inconvenience of trying to keep up with currently-airing shows while networks inevitably shuttle them from one time slot to another, Netflix, Hulu and other digital distributors seem to be the way of the future, but one pitfall has always been their lack of original content.

Even though networks often commission dozens of new shows that they cancel

after only an episode or two has aired, they are the only ones with the financial freedom to throw that many darts at the wall in the hopes of one of them sticking.

Despite some initial skepticism towards the idea of television programs debuting online, Netflix has managed to prove itself by producing a generally well-received remake of “House of Cards,” the long-awaited fourth season of “Arrested Development” and the critically successful “Orange Is The New Black.” Amazon and Hulu have been less successful in the original development front so far, but they are both finally beginning to throw their hats into the ring in earnest.

Hulu-exclusive shows have mostly been American debuts of foreign programs, but it produced its first original, scripted show last year, and has debuted two original series this summer—“The Awesomes,” an animated superhero comedy produced by Saturday Night Live actor Seth Meyers, and “Quick Draw,” a mostly-improvised Western sitcom—with more to follow later in the year.

Unfortunately, things are not off to a promising start. Hulu seems to be aiming much lower than Netflix to begin with, and both shows largely miss the mark.

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“The Awesomes” appears to be trying to sell itself largely on its ties to voice actor Seth Meyers, but the show isn’t original enough or funny enough to be memorable at all—Cartoon Network’s “The Venture Brothers” tread largely similar ground much more effectively years ago. Even compared to Adult Swim’s infamously low-budget programming, the animation here looks cheap and shoddy, and unlike a number of other cheaply produced cartoons, it has no funny scripts or excellent voice acting to fall back on.

It might improve with time, but investing the time into watching the show in the first place seems like a waste of effort. Of the two shows, Hulu seems to be promoting this one much more aggressively, but money spent on advertising does little if the show itself can’t hold an audience’s interest.

“Quick Draw” is a little bit better than “The Awesomes,” but not by much.

Calling it a scripted show seems a bit at odds with other descriptions of it as being mostly improvised, but improvisation would at least excuse some of its awkwardness. For a live action show, it’s rather cheap-looking as well, but its cheapness is primarily relegated to the relatively small number of simple sets on

which the action takes place.

The concept of the show—Harvardeducated lawman goes out west to become a sheriff, to the incredulity of locals—is so thin as to scarcely be a concept at all, but fortunately the show dispenses with the constant “I went to Harvard” jokes pretty quickly. It isn’t terrible, but most of the humor is pretty pedestrian and largely unrelated to the setting itself, which seems like a waste of a setup, as there are plenty of tired “cowboy” tropes that could be subverted in amusing or unusual ways.

All in all, Netflix’s dominance in the world of original online programming still goes unchallenged. Based on the two new shows on Hulu, the biggest obstacle appears to be budget, but if intrusive corporate sponsorship still isn’t enough to get Hulu to produce a show that doesn’t look cheap, it’s unclear what would be able to finance it instead. Even the visible money problem pales in comparison to the real problem though: the comedies themselves just aren’t very funny. The world of online television is still a largely empty place, wide open to anybody who has the backing and the talent to create and fund a project. The problem now is simply how to fill it with quality shows from more than one website.

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Courtesy cia.edu Cinematheque at CIA (projection room pictured above) offers artfully chosen films just a quick walk from CWRU housing in University Circle.

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Cleveland Institute of Art’s Cinematheque Lily Korte Staff Reporter For a college student, getting to the movie theaters can be a hassle. Even nearby locations like the Cedar Lee Theatre may be intimidating to travel to for those unfamiliar with public transportation in Cleveland. However, University Circle residents are in luck, as a world-class movie theater sits in the middle of the Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA) campus.

Originally founded in 1986, the CIA Cinematheque at 11141 East Boulevard has spent the past 27 years bringing a wide variety of films from all eras and nations to the general public. The Cinematheque has also hosted a variety of special events, ranging from silent films accompanied by live music to Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne and actress Eva Marie Saint hosting a live discussion with the audience prior to a screening of “North

By Northwest.”

The theater offers discounted admission for those under the age of 25 and hosts a variety of different independent, classic and foreign films most days of the week, but it is also frequently host to longer film series focusing on the work of a single filmmaker. For most of September and October, the filmmaker in question is acclaimed Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki, the creator behind films such

as “My Neighbor Totoro” and “Spirited Away.”

Miyazaki specialized in animated films that have weathered the test of time. Although animation is frequently derided as an artistic medium by those who think it is only appropriate for children’s works or raunchy adult television shows, Miyazaki’s 50year animation career has continually transcended popular perceptions of the medium, leading many commentators to refer to him as Japan’s answer to Walt Disney. Miyazaki has been making films since the 1970s, beginning with “The Castle of Cagliostro,” a film based on the long-running, popular anime “Lupin III.” Miyazaki soon moved onto original films, and it is here that the traditional hallmarks of his films, as well as his own personal interests, first surfaced: a fascination with airplanes, concern over war and environmental issues, a tendency for the protagonists to be young women and a tendency for there to be few, if any, black-and-white morality issues at stake. The last two points are probably those that make his work stand out the most in contrast to the films of the Walt Disney company, for unlike the average Disney feature, there are very few Studio Ghibli films that feature any “evil” characters. Many like “My Neighbor Totoro” don’t have villains in them at all, while those that do often deal with the fact that even antagonists are motivated by something and might

simply be either misunderstood or are misunderstanding the situation themselves. To those who are only used to the noisy, bellicose good-guy-versusbad-guy nature of many American films, or even most other Japanese cartoons, it is an illuminating and welcome contrast.

The Cinematheque previously presented a slightly shorter series of Miyazaki films last fall in the original Japanese with English subtitles, but the nine films that will be shown this autumn are new 35 mm prints with the Walt Disney-directed English dubs.

Dubbing has progressed quite a lot since the days of “Godzilla” and other films being butchered in translation, but it is still controversial among film enthusiasts, similar to how the colorization of black-and-white films is opposed by many movie lovers. Englishlanguage dubs of Hayao Miyazaki’s films in particular have existed since the mid-1980s, but the director was not always happy with the end result.

In fact, the first time one of his films was released for an American audience (1984’s “Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind”, re-titled “Warriors of the Wind” for the English dub), over 21 minutes of the film were cut, supposedly to make it more marketable to children.

The remainder of the film was mangled so badly in translation that Miyazaki vowed at the time to never let any of his films be dubbed ever again.

He has had a change of heart since then, but only with the stipulation

that the films themselves not be cut or edited in any way. His studio even mailed a katana to Harvey Weinstein’s office after the Miramax executive had inquired about whether he could make cuts in “Princess Mononoke” to make it more marketable. Fortunately, attitudes have changed since the 1980s, and film studios generally treat foreign language material with a good deal more respect. Since Disney gained the rights to release English dubs of the Studio Ghibli catalogue, the reaction from audiences and critics has generally been very positive, though there have been a couple minor changes to the dialogue in some of the films that have attracted some controversy. Still, for anyone who has heard a lot about the films of Hayao Miyazaki and is looking for a good place to start, the new Disney dubs may be the most accessible way to go about introducing the movies to a wider audience.

For those who prefer subtitled foreign language films, or who are interested in the work of less famous international filmmakers, the Cinematheque has films in the coming months to suit those tastes too, including a four film run of obscure Japanese movies that will be covered more in-depth in a future issue of The Observer. For a complete listing of upcoming films and prices, autumn schedules for The Cinematheque can be found online, in Strosaker Auditorium’s atrium or various other venues around University Circle.

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Review: Islands ‘Ski Mask’ Jason Walsh Staff Reporter Artist: Islands Album: Ski Mask Rating: 3 / 5 Islands is a Canadian band fronted by Nicholas Thorburn, formerly of indierock touchstones The Unicorns and more recently bands like Islands and Mister Heavenly.

The last few years have seen so-called ‘indie’ artists becoming more and more comfortable with making flat out pop music. Bands like Tanlines, Chvrches and Purity Ring all make fairly straightforward pop and have all found at least a little bit of mainstream success.

Given that situation, in some ways

Islands sound like they are stuck in the past. For the first half of “Ski Mask,” Islands sound like an approximation of the pastiche, art and experimental pop that Thorburn did with The Unicorns a decade ago.

Second track “Death Drive” opens with dissonant piano chords, shifts tempo and melody halfway through, then slows back down for an outro all in less than three minutes.

Fourth track “Nil” sounds like a decent Man Man song (who Thorburn works with in Mister Heavenly). It’s full of close vocal harmonies and syncopated guitars and pianos, with Thorburn lilting “Are you impressed with how depressed I’ve become?”

Things change fairly dramatically with the centerpiece “Hushed Tones.” The middle and longest song of the album,

“Hushed Tones” is a slower tempo song that has a lot in common with Tanlines’ great song from last year, “Not The Same.”

“Hushed Tones” sets the (no pun intended) tone for the second half of the album. The second half puts away the restless experimentation of the first half and slows down, stretches out, and simplifies the songs. All but one of the last six songs are longer than every one of the first five.

“Here Here” is a soft ballad that invites us to “warm your weary heart / rest your troubled mind / the world is unkind.”

“Of Corpse” is a standout track. This simple, quiet track features some of Thorburn’s best singing on the album and just a little bit of guitar.

“Ski Mask” shines when Islands try to do less. There is nothing necessarily wrong with experimentation, shifting

tempos and changing song structures, but it needs to be compelling, something the first half of the album unfortunately fails at too much.

“Becoming the Gunship,” one of the best songs on the album, is certainly the best song on the first half and also the simplest. It starts with drum roll beat, adds a simple guitar line on top and has a catchy chorus reminiscent of Bruce Springsteen’s “I’m Goin’ Down.”

“Ski Mask” is the rare album with a stronger B side than its A side. For long-time Unicorns fans or people into Thorburn’s other projects, “Ski Mask” is definitely worth a listen. And there is certainly nothing wrong with “Ski Mask.”

There are no truly bad songs, and there are some quite good ones. But there are plenty of artists making more interesting, and more fun, pop music in 2013.

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South London folk stops by East Cleveland Anne Nickoloff Staff Reporter Stepping through the kitchen and down a set of stairs brought me to the warm basement of Beachland Tavern to meet The Melodic.

Their show on Aug. 31 was both quirky and intimate, catered to a small hovering cloud of people near the front of the stage.

The Melodic usually consists of five members, but on this night they performed without their drummer, instead doing a charmingly acoustic set. “We’re meeting up with him in New York and doing the rest of the show,” noted singer/guitarist Huw Williams.

Williams and bassist John Naldrett played the only two conventional instruments in the show. Band member Lydia Samuels assisted with singing, and also played the autoharp and melodica (melodicas are basically a keyboard with a tube sticking out of one end that you blow into). Rudi Schmidt also played a second melodica in a few quirky duels, but primarily plucked at a charango.

The tiny armadillo-shaped stringed instrument was fascinating and added a childlike flare to The Melodic’s sound. “A lot of the style I play on it is influenced by Andean music, and also South African,”

said Schmidt.

With all their different instruments, it could only be expected that The Melodic’s sound would be just as varied.

These South London natives have been touring in the United States for a while now. “We’re releasing the album at the start of November, and so we’re touring the U.S. until that’s released,” said Williams.

Effra Parade will be the first album The Melodic has created. Other than that, their EP, “On My Way” is available online.

The concert itself started late because of no-show opener Nick Zuber. Second opener Rebekah Jean took the stage with her calm, folky country sounds. All of her songs were slightly depressing, and at one point she even seemed surprised that the crowd responded to her music at all.

“Ya’ll are bein’ so nice for such sad songs,” admitted Jean.

Her music was nice and the simple show was relaxing.

But it was just that: a simple show.

Jean had musical talent for sure, and her crooning notes floated above the audience, bringing back memories of young heartbreak and sunny days.

However, her music never formed any interest that made you wonder how she did it. No crazy melodies, no complex lyrics, no off-the-wall dancing… nothing.

It was a girl with a guitar playing simple

songs to listen to while you’re having a conversation with someone else.

Then, The Melodic took the stage with “Hold On.” The music meshed well and never felt like it was missing anything (which is kind of interesting, considering they were actually missing their drummer).

Samuels, Williams and Schmidt all played together at the front of the stage, bobbing up and down with each other and communicating through their music. Oddly enough, Naldrett stayed in the back behind the stage lights, looming like some dark bass-playing ghost. He didn’t interact with the audience once throughout the show.

Later, they played an Irish-jig-like melody and it was during this song that I started to hear drum beats. I looked all around the Beachland Tavern and saw a man at the bar holding a djembe between his legs, quietly tapping at it with his fingers. Later, the band welcomed Chester, random audience djembist, to the stage to play their final song, “Piece Me Back Together.”

Of course, the night the band doesn’t have a drummer to perform with, there was a man with a djembe. How convenient!

Though The Melodic primarily played folk, Latin and roots music at this show, they reminisced about different kinds of music and venues.

Samuels talked about an experience

the band had in Los Angeles. “We went and played a show in a punk club in L.A., and we were a bit apprehensive because obviously we’re a folk band and we thought these punks wouldn’t be interested at all,” she said. “They started getting a bit into what we were playing… and they turned out to be the most receptive audience we had in L.A. “We started playing a song called ‘Piece Me Back Together,’ which is a love song. About four couples started kissing, winding and grinding. It was pretty sexy, kinda X-rated,” said Samuels. “So after that, we realized that maybe the fan base we should be aiming towards is more punks rather than folk lovers.”

Despite their experience with the song “Piece Me Back Together” in Los Angeles, the performance of it at Beachland Tavern instead led to some modest hand-holding and swaying to the melody.

It seems like The Melodic’s experience in the United States has been full of variety, as shown through the starkly different encounters with their love songs.

Regardless, it’s been a nice change of pace for the band. “Promoters are a bit dismissive in the U.K. They just don’t really give a fuck,” said Schmidt. “In America, it’s different. It’s like very supportive, which is very nice.”

Williams agreed. “They just look after you and show you some respect.”

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The Observer’s playlist of the week 09.06.13

Jason Walsh Staff Reporter

Danny Brown — “Old” “Old” is a single from Danny Brown’s upcoming debut album, “OLD,” which is due out Sept. 30.

Although Brown’s been on the mixtape circuit for a while, this will be his first proper album. The guest list includes, among others, A$AP Rocky, Purity Ring, Freddie Gibbs, Charli XCX, Schoolboy Q and Rustie, so it’s got that going for it.

Eminem — “Berzerk” It’s a new Eminem song. It kinda sounds like Beastie Boys. “The Marshall Mathers LP 2” is out Nov. 5th. That’s all.

DJ Rashad — “I Don’t Give A Fuck” This has been out since the middle of summer, but it’s still fantastic.

DJ Rashad, a veteran of Chicago’s footwork scene, sitsa somewhere between trap and techno, although way less aggressive than people

like TNGHT, who produced some of the beats for “Yeezus” and operate in similar trap and techno spaces. Keep your eyes and ears on DJ Rashad. His album “Double Cup” is out Oct. 22 on Hyperdub.

Arctic Monkeys — “Stop The World I Wanna Get Off With You” The Arctic Monkeys’ fifth album “AM” is due out next week. They’ve released three good singles so far; “Stop The World I Wanna Get Off With You” might be better than any of them, and it didn’t make the album so hopefully that is a good sign (and not a sign that they are terrible at editing).

Jacuzzi Boys — “Be My Prism” Jacuzzi Boys make the kind of fuzzy, melodic garage rock that I have a huge soft spot for. 2013 has been a banner year for garage rock and punk with great new albums from Mikal Cronin, FIDLAR, Diarrhea Planet and The So So Glos. Here’s to hoping that Jacuzzi Boys self-titled album, out next week, is just as good.

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from Women’s | 18 well,” Crooks said. “It was a good week.”

Saturday the Spartans faced the Centre University Generals who are currently ranked eighteenth nationally. Centre edged out the Spartans 1-0, scoring the only goal of the game in the thirty-seventh minute.

Case Western had a strong outing, even though they dropped to 1-1. Junior goalkeeper Abbey Smith, who made her Case debut on Friday, made six saves and the defense helped the effort, clearing eight corner kicks taken by the Generals The offense was led by Dolansky and forward Caitlyn McGillis, who both forced saves by Centre late in the game, but were unable to tie the game. “The difference was in the offenses and defenses of the two (opponents),” said Crooks about the difference between the two games.

The Spartans return home with no big

changes needed, just a need to find the right fit. Throughout both games Crooks

Courtesy Case Sports Information and her staff cycled the same set of players through many different positions in an

attempt to find the perfect line-up. “We are open to learning,” said Crooks, “we want to keep growing.”

Practice this week has been focused on finding that perfect lineup heading into the home opener at Case Field tonight, Friday Sept. 6, at 7:30 against Heidelberg University. After tonight’s game the team plays The College of Wooster at home on Tuesday Sept. 10 before going on the road again Thursday Sept. 12 against Oberlin.

In addition to moving forward to finding the perfect line up, the weekend was a big chemistry builder for the team. “The away trips are a lot of fun,” Crook said. The team has time to get to know each other and bond as a team. Crooks sees being on the road as a great experience of getting away from campus and growing as a team. As the team grows closer together and makes needed minor adjustments, it should be well-prepared going into the next week of games.

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Upcoming Home Games Arianna Wage/Observer The Spartan football team, pictured in practice above Tuesday, will take on Marietta College this Saturday under the lights at 7:00 p.m. After the game, there will be fireworks sponsored by Bon Appetit, the Courtyard Marriott and 1-2-1 Fitness.

vs. Marietta....................September 7 at 7:00 p.m.

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from Denison | 20 have been the focus of the team this week in practice. “We didn’t pull it off,” said Bianco. The Spartans understood what was needed. While the team played two good games, the two biggest concerns for Bianco were the shape of the defense and the need to push up on offense. With so many shots, especially against the Sewanee Tigers on Friday, the Spartans are looking to spark their offense. They will need to be more aggressive and push numbers into the box, according to Bianco. They have spent the week practicing and focusing for their game against the University of Pittsburgh-Greensburg next Saturday. “We are lucky to have no midweek games, it allows us to focus.” Bianco said. The 1:00 p.m.

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game tomorrow will mark the start of a three-game road trip for the Spartans. After the game at Pittsburg-Greensburg, they are playing at Baldwin Wallace on Sept. 11 and at Penn St.-Behrend on Sept. 17. These games lead up to the home opener against Franklin on Sept. 21.

Even though there is still a zero in the wins column, Coach Bianco and the team are positive about the season’s outlook. By focusing and making adjustments in practice this week they are moving forward with a strong mentality. “We don’t compare or think about last season,” Bianco said. Hopefully the focus and practice pays off as the team looks for its first win of the season tomorrow afternoon.

vs. John Carroll...................September 6 at 4 p.m. vs. Buffalo State..................September 6 at 8 p.m. vs. Geneva.........................September 7 at 10 a.m. vs. Capital............................September 7 at 2 p.m.

Women’s Soccer vs. Heidelberg.......Friday September 6 at 7:30 p.m. vs. Wooster......Tuesday September 10 at 7:30 p.m.

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Visit the Office of Undergraduate Studies website or schedule an appointment to speak with Dean Hardy in 357 Sears Building.

Upcoming application deadlines include: Courtesy Case Sports Information Tiffany Crooks, (pictured above center), lead the 2012 Spartan women’s soccer team (left) to a .556 season.

Women’s Soccer 1-1 after Centre Showcase

J.P. O’Hagan Contributing Reporter

After playing their opening two games this past weekend at the Centre University Showcase the women’s soccer team stands with an even record. With a 1-1 start to the season the Spartans are looking to find the perfect line-up to move forward this season. “We are trying to decide who fits best where,” said head coach Tiffany Crooks. The Spartans played in the Centre University Showcase this past weekend, coming from behind to beat Transylvania 3-2 on Friday night, but then fell to nationally ranked host Centre University on Saturday 1-0.

The Spartans fell behind 2-0 just a minute into the second half in the game against Transylvania Friday night. The outlook

was bleak until sophomore Kate Dolansky placed a shot between the posts and past the Transylvania goalkeeper in the fifty-second minute. Still down 2-1 captain Leah Levey, fresh off contending for Team USA at the Maccabiah Games, added a goal of her own in the seventy-seventh minute to bring the game to a tie. With less than 10 minutes left in regulation, forward sophomore Kiley Armstrong scored off a corner kick, giving the Spartan’s their first lead of the game and the win once the final whistle blew nine minutes later. The win came with a strong performance from the defense as well. “The back four played

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September 15 • Fulbright — Graduating seniors/graduate students wanting to research/teach in foreign countries • Marshall — Graduating seniors who want to study in the UK • Mitchell — Graduating seniors/graduate students who want to study in Ireland • Rhodes — Graduating seniors/graduate students looking to study at Oxford, UK

October 8 • Churchill — Graduating seniors pursuing MS in engineering, math, & science at Cambridge

October 15 • Gates Cambridge — Graduating seniors/graduate students who want to study at Cambridge • Whitaker — Undergraduate biomedical/ bioengineering students who want to study abroad

November 1 • Goldwater — Sophomores/juniors in math, natural sciences, & engineering • Truman — Juniors going to graduate school for public service

November 4 • National Science Foundation — Graduating seniors in science, technology, engineering, & math

November 8 • Paul & Daisy Soros — Graduating seniors/ graduate students who are NEW AMERICANS interested in pursuing graduate education in the United States

December 3 • NIH Oxford/Cambridge — Graduating seniors/ graduate students pursuing collaborative Ph.D. program in biomedical engineering at NIH (Baltimore) and Oxford/Cambridge, UK Courtesy Case Sports Information

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Head Coach Karen Farrell is beginning her eighth season as CWRU Volleyball head coach. She expressed a lot of excitement about the coming season. Because of high expectations throughout the team, the weekend was bittersweet. “Our team expects to win every match we play,” Coach Farrell explained, “so there is a feeling of disappointment not necessarily in the result but in the process.” With a large crop of younger players, the team looks to improve steadily over the season as experience and confidence grow.

The squad will be coming back home

for the Marcia French Memorial Tournament, an annual event being co-hosted this year by Case Western Reserve University and Baldwin-Wallace University. “It’s always nice to play at home and have the great support of family and friends,” said Farrell. They will face local rival John Carroll University along with Buffalo State University, Capital University and 2011 Pacific Athletic Conference champions Geneva College. Coach Farrell feels the team matches up well against all of these opponents, stating, “There isn’t a team in the tournament we aren’t able to compete with.”

The Spartans will also be taking on Mount Union College next Wednesday as they face off here at home.

January 14 • Beinecke — Juniors interested in graduate school in arts, humanities, or social sciences • Boren — Undergraduate/graduate students interested in study abroad in underrepresented areas • Mellon — Graduating seniors who plan to teach humanities • Udal — Sophomores/juniors interested in environmental policy & native issues

March 9 • Witt (CWRU only) — Juniors/seniors in CAS interested in social work/community service • Pancoast (CWRU only) — Funds women CAS graduates for foreign travel/study post-graduation

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Cross country strong at Bill Sudeck Classic

Katie Wieser Contributing Reporter

Courtesy Case Sports Information The Spartans shone in their season debut at home on Saturday at the 13th annual Bill Sudeck Classic hosted at the Squire Valleevue University Farm. Beating out teams from John Carroll University, the University of Mount Union and Allegheny College, the women’s team led the competition with a first-place victory while the men’s team rose to high standards with a second place finish out of the four competing schools.

Nineteen Spartans competed in the 4,000-meter women’s race with six runners finishing in the top twenty of 77 runners and sophomore Kelsey Aamoth winning the entire race with a time of 15:33.

Aamoth edged out the second-place finisher by 11 seconds for her second straight win in this event. CWRU juniors Kristen Ruckstuhl and Erica Bauerbach finished strong in eighth and ninth place along with

senior Brooke Simpson, sophomore Lydia Greene and sophomore Dana Jeter who finished in thirteenth, fourteenth and sixteenth place respectively to contribute to the meet’s fastest total team running time of 1:20:35, giving the Spartans a victory over second-place finisher, University of Mount Union. The women have won four straight team titles at the Sudeck classic, which is dedicated to the memory of former coach Bill Sudeck who passed away in 2000.

The men also made a strong showing with 35 total runners in the 6,000-meter race. Senior David Dixon led the team, finishing in fifth place with a total race time of 19:56. The other Spartans that also finished in the top twenty of 102 participants are senior Wyatt Hoch in seventh place, freshman Galen Caldwell in ninth place, sophomore Timothy Travitz in eleventh

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CWRU Students Accidentally Witness Baseball History J.P. O’Hagan Contributing Reporter When Case students attended the Indians Game at Progressive Field during orientation, they unknowingly witnessed an endearing piece of history between a

young fan and his favorite players. Carlos Santana and Jason Kipnis both hit two-run home runs in the game on Aug. 24 during the Indians’ 7-2 win over the

and sophomore Gilad Doron rounding out the group with the nineteenth fastest time of the day. The team finished with a total time of 1:42:01, barely missing the top spot which was claimed by Allegheny College with a total time of 1:41:16. Overall, the men’s team showed strong against difficult competition in the season-opening meet.

Coach Kathy Lanese is returning for her thirteenth year and both teams are nationally ranked with the women coming in at number 35 and the men at 33. Lanese is extremely pleased with the performance of both teams. The women’s team, while expected to perform at a high level, still showed a lot of room to grow and improve over the season. The women’s squad includes 20 runners, mostly returning sophomores and juniors. Simpson and senior Allison Magee lead as the team captains for the 2013 season. The men’s squad showed

great potential in this meet which included several highly-ranked teams. The men’s team includes 38 total members including a total of 30 freshmen and sophomores.

Dixon and Hoch serve as the team’s captains.

Both squads will be able to take the next week to train before a couple of critical meets on Sept. 14. The top 14 runners from each team will travel to Calvin, MI to compete in the Knight Invitational. This course will also be used for the National Qualifying event in November. “It will kind of be a mini-regional,” Lenese explained, “a lot of the same teams will be there and it’ll serve as a nice preview for the qualifier.”

The team will use this meet to see what work needs to be done to be ready for the National qualifying race. The JV team will also be on the road, travelling to Penn State Erie for the Behrend Invitational.

Courtesy Case Sports Information The men’s & women’s cross country team placed first and second in their respective categories at the 13th Annual Bill Sudeck Classic.

Minnesota Twins. Their two home runs were promises made to a young fan, Niko Lanzarotta. Niko is an eight-year-old boy from Strongsville, Ohio who has cerebral palsy. Niko fell in love with baseball playing in NEO Challenger Baseball in Brecksville, OH; a league that is for those with disabilities who are younger than 21. He and his family visited the field and Niko was able to meet Kipnis and Santana. Niko asked both players to hit home runs, a big promise for any ballplayer to make.

A ballplayer willing to bet on hitting a home run seems to be something of legend, like Babe Ruth calling his shot.

However, in an amazing feat both players were able to hit homers for Niko. It

was especially important for Santana, who had the added pressure of knowing that he is Niko’s favorite player. Santana hit his home run in the first inning and while rounding the bases he pointed up to the stands toward Niko. Kipnis followed suit and made good on his promise in the third inning with another two run blast.

The two home runs were instrumental in the Indians win, and Niko may be the Indians’ good luck charm. He and his family have been to six games in the past two years and all were wins, including two this season. It was a great game for the Case community to attend, and it became a little more special to know about the young fan who was also in attendance.

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Men’s soccer all tied up after Denison Invitational J.P. O’Hagan Contributing Reporter Following the open of the season, the Spartans men’s soccer team is looking at a record of 0-0-2. The Spartans tied both Sewanee University and Washington and Lee University by scores of 1-1 in the first two games of the season at the Denison University Invitational. Even though the games weren’t losses they were “A bit of a disappointment,” said Head Coach Brandon Bianco. Any close contest, especially back-to-back ties, can leave the team feeling defeated. However, the Spartans are optimistic going forward. “There are lots of positives from the weekend,” Bianco said. “It was encouraging.”

In the season opener Friday evening against the Sewanee University Tigers, the Spartans went ahead early on midfielder Chris Cvecko’s shot from just outside the 18-yard box in the eleventh minute. However, the Tigers responded soon after with a header that snuck past starting goalkeeper Jay Darby. The two teams battled through

the rest of regulation and into overtime putting up a combined 37 shots, including two in the final six minutes by Case midfielder Jacob Grindel. The game remained tied due in part to Ari Lewis, the freshman goalie from Jericho, NY, who had four saves in his college debut for the Spartans.

In the second game of the invitational Case Western again scored first, this time early in the second half as Matthew Zembas beat the Washington and Lee University Generals’ goalie. Zembas scored in the fifty-first minute. It was his second career goal.

However the Spartans were again unable to hold on as the Generals’ forward beat Lewis. Saturday was Lewis’ first career start, after the strong showing on Friday, where Lewis made five saves against the Generals, including an important stop in overtime.

Unfortunately the game was cut short after a lightning delay forced the officials to call the match in during the first overtime.

The close games this past weekend

Courtesy Case Sports Information The Spartan men’s soccer team is 0-0-1 coming off their opening weekend.

(2012 team pictured)

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Volleyball even after Sommer Center Spiketacular Katie Wieser Contributing Reporter

Courtesy Case Sports Information The Spartan volleyball team, (last year’s team pictured above) has a .500 record off last weekend’s Sommer Center Spiketacular.

The Spartan volleyball team got off to an eventful start with a .500 record coming out of their opening weekend at Sommer Center Spiketacular in Bluffton, OH. Over the course of the two-day event, the women faced a total of four teams, winning two matches and a total of seven out of 12 sets.

On Friday, the team edged out two tough opponents during the evening event.

After being down two sets to one, the Spartans rallied to overcome Alma College in the final two sets with scores of 25-20 and 15-12. After just a short 15-minute break between matches, the women kept their momentum going with a resounding victory, winning three sets to one against Marietta College. Sophomore Katie Best led the defensive force in both matches with a total of 46 digs over the course of the evening. Stand-out offensive performers included sophomore Carolyn Bogart, who led the team with 26 kills and fellow sophomore Robyn Marks who pitched in with an astounding total of 80 assists.

The Spartans definitely had a more difficult day on Saturday with the two tougher opponents of Bethany College and nation-

ally-ranked Hope College on the schedule.

During the two afternoon matches, the Spartans were only able to clinch one set with the 3-1 and 3-0 defeats against these two powerhouse teams.

During the hard-fought match with Bethany, the women were edged out in the first two sets by scores of 21-25 and 1825, respectively. The Spartans fought back to take the third set 25-18 before dropping the fourth set 16-25. This exhausting match combined with the tough night on Friday may have contributed to the rough loss against Hope College, who went on to sweep the tournament. After a discouraging opening set score of 14-25, the Spartans had difficulty keeping up with their opponent and ended the second set with a mere five points against the dominant Flying Dutch squad. The star players of these matches included Best on the defensive side with an additional 26 digs on the day and freshman Isabelle Wagner with 11 kills

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