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When help harms Graduate student attacked by CWRU security officer On the night of Wednesday, Sept. 2, a Case Western Reserve University security officer attacked a 32-year-old CWRU graduate student on Bellflower Road near Ford Drive.

The perpetrator was later identified as Robert Peterson III, a 26-year-old mobile patrolman.

Peterson also verbally threatened other bystanding students.

When police arrived on the scene, Peterson was found with blood on his right hand.

The graduate student was found on the porch of Steiner House with blood coming from his mouth.

The graduate student declined to comment and wishes to remain unnamed.

While his name remains on the CWRU Police Department roster online, Peterson is currently on administrative leave and has not responded to a request for comment.

Peterson told police on the scene initially that he was acting in self-defense, and that the student assaulted him. However as the investigation proceeded, it became quickly apparent that this was not true.

Upon seeing the student’s condition, a responding CWRU police officer called Case Emergency Medical Services to the scene and the student was taken to the emergency room at University Hospitals Case Medical Center (UHCMC).

The security officer was initially taken back to CWRU police headquarters. After he became “increasingly agitated,” he was transported to UHCMC for evaluation as well, which President Barbara R. Snyder noted in an email to students the next day.

Snyder apologized for the event..

“I will update the campus community as additional information emerges,” the message concluded. “For now, let me emphasize our deep regret regarding this incident.”

As of press time, no additional information had been shared with the student body by the university.

CWRU PD is typically required to release security alerts on security threats to students on campus, but one was not sent out in this situation.

“Because all of the reports to date have been transferred to Cleveland Police Department, and they are independently investigating the case, they are the agency charged to release information,” said a representative of CWRU. “It is not ours to release.”

CWRU third-year student Ryan Rose was surprised that the incident occurred, and was a bit concerned that the university hadn’t said anything more.

However, he said he didn’t feel any less safe on campus, describing the event as an “isolated” incident.

Second-year student Allison Root agreed that she didn’t feel any less safe.

She was “appalled” after hearing what happened though.

“You’d think he would have better judgement if that was his job,” Root said.

“I don’t think that one guy is a reflection of CWRU security, but it’s concerning that whoever hires CWRU security would hire someone who would do that.”

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pg. 3 Stuck in an elevator

pg. 8 Studio-A-Rama: on campus music fest

pg. 5 Spot Night shouldn’t change

pg. 14 Volleyball sweeps weekend

-additional reporting by Makela Hayford, contributing reporter

news Delayed residence hall to open on Sept. 12

Jeniece Montellano Copy Editor

Case Western Reserve University’s new residential hall is finally opening for move-in this weekend. Originally intended to open at the beginning of the school year, the building was put on hold last winter due to record low temperatures, pushing its move-in date back by almost a month.

“What they had told us initially about a target date is actually coming true,” said Loretta Sexton, associate director of Residence Life and Services. “Students are moving in on Sept. 12. We’re very excited about that.”

While it still lacks a name, the Office of Residence Life and Services is calling the new building “the 1576,” in reference to its address on E. 115 St. “We would love for it to have a name, but we’re not exactly sure when or where or how that would be decided,” said Sexton. “It’s hard to call something the ‘new residential hall’ because at some point it isn’t new anymore.”

On Thursday, students who chose to store their belongings with Armbruster Moving & Storage, Inc. had their boxes delivered directly into their rooms.

This Friday students staying at the four hotels have the option of moving certain items into designated central areas, leaving the transportation of these items to the moving company. These students can then move in the next day, Saturday, with the help of shuttles traveling to and from the hotels from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Students had the option of living in their Greek houses if space was available, the Courtyard by Marriott-Cleveland University Circle, the DoubleTree Tudor

Arms Hotel by Hilton, and Intercontinental Conference Center & Intercontinental Suites Hotel, Wade Manor or in off-campus housing of their own choosing. Around 70 chose to find their own housing and received a further discount on room and board for the semester, and those in hotels were randomly assigned.

“It’s inconvenient to be living this far away from the heart of campus,” says junior Mara Grigg, one of nearly 200 students currently living in a hotel. “But the hotel staff [at the Doubletree] has been wonderfully accommodating to all of us.”

Sexton reports that there were no complaints from students about getting to class in a timely fashion; most of the issues came from returning back to the hotels. The Office of Residence Life and Services opted to not include the hotel shuttles in the predictions on NextBus, largely due to the inability to predict how long the trip back to campus would take, given Cleveland traffic and construction.

Senior Hirsh Shah found housing off-campus.

“Living off-campus was all right,” remarked Shah. “I felt much more in control of my situation. I didn’t have to send my laundry or things off to a third-party service.”

Housing used focus groups to determine what new amenities the 1576 could contain. Much like the Village at 115th and Triangle Apartments, the new residential hall still has apartment-style housing, with a full kitchen and bathroom. The sink has been moved to outside of the bathroom, much like in hotel bathrooms, and the showerheads have been moved up significantly, two of the biggest requests from the focus groups.

Unlike the Village, where every

Neil Chavan/Observer Students who have spent the beginning of the school year in hotels or other temporary accomodations will be able to move into their rooms in the new residence hall on Sept. 12. suite is different, each suite in the 1576 has the same f loor plan. There are also parts of the building that are only meant for residents: study rooms, which are dubbed “academic nodes,” and residential lounges. These cannot be reserved by outside parties, and must be accessed by residents of that building. The 1576 will also contain common spaces on the first f loor that are for the residential community, such as a multipurpose room and an active learning classroom.

The eight townhouses lined up along East 115th Street are not connected to the rest of the complex, and do not have their own laundry units. However there is a back exit for each townhouse, allowing the students to traverse the short distance back to the rest of the complex and access the laundry room.

While there are no grand opening plans for this weekend, Sexton stated that there will be an official opening later this semester. Students will have the chance to see the finished outside landscaping, installed benches and common areas available to all of the CWRU community. The building is expected to be Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Silver certified and contains environmentally friendly aspects such as rain gardens and a green roof.

According to Allison Heuring, assistant vice president for Campus Services, the costs of this delay will also not be known for a few weeks, as Housing is still incurring costs for hotels, the laundry service, shuttles, moving and storage and meal plans.

How CWRU textbook costs add up

$238.85

$87.90

$130.90

$185.30

$268.45

$376.25

$199.80

$257.55

$285.80

$387.95

$447.95

$395.19

$302.28

Average Price of Textbooks

$601.55

$636.90

$741.50

Freshman Furious Guerrieri expressed his frustrations with expensive textbooks.

“I can see how the textbooks and $800.00 online programs can be useful, but it makes affording books way more diffi$700.00 cult,” Guerrieri said. “I had planned on buying used books, but had to get new $600.00 ones in order to have online access with a physical book. Textbooks are already $500.00 very expensive in the first place, having to buy them new is just frustrating.” $400.00 The increased costs could have detrimental effects on students’ educational $300.00 success.

According to research by Student Public Interest Research Group (PIRG), $200.00 an organization founded to create college advocacy groups, 65 percent of stu$100.00 dents did not buy one or more required textbooks due to costs, even though $0.00 Nursing Biology

Finance Biomedical Computer Chemistry Political

Statistics History

most of them believed it would hurt their grade.

(5 Books +1 (4 Books + 1 (4 Books) Engineering Engineering

(3 B ooks + 1 Science (3 Books) (13 Books) There are new emerging textbook Clicker) Clicker) (4 Books + 1 (3 Books + 1 Clicker) (11 Books) Clicker) Clicker) options that might be cheaper. Some students might be able to download Average Total Price New 2015 Average Total Price Used 2015 e-versions of their textbooks at cheaper Clarissa Cuevas/Observer rates and some professors even assign Recommended first semester classes for each major came from the Office of Undergraduate open-sourced materials, such as those Studies’ “First Year Registration Guide” for 2015-16, and costs were found on the CWRU offered through Bill Gates’ recently Bookstore’s website. This graph does not include books required for SAGES classes. launched program OpenStax College. $900.00

$551.20

The average cost of textbooks for a student’s first semester at Case Western Reserve University is $500.32, if they buy new editions of all required textbooks.

According to an NBC news research report, textbook rates nationally have increased over three times the rate of inflation at 1,041 percent from January 1977 to June 2015. According to research by the National Association of College Stores, college students spent an average of $313 dollars on textbooks for the 2014 fall semester, notably lower than the $500.32 for CWRU students.

The amount a first-year student spends on textbooks, however, also largely depends on the major or academic path they decide to take. Nursing students spend the most per semester at approximately $800, whereas history students spend the least per semester at approximately $239.

Many students rarely spend the full bookstore price for textbooks, instead opting for used books. If CWRU first-year students could find all of their textbooks used, their average cost per semester would be approximately $266.

Average Cost of Textbooks by Major

$803.45

Suneil Kamath Staff Writer

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CWRU’s campus goes dark Outage on Sept. 7 leaves students without power Anne Nickoloff Director of Print At 10 p.m. on Sept. 7, the Case Western Reserve University campus went dark.

“There was a general scream when it first happened,” said junior Abby Ortenberg, the resident assistant for the fourth f loor of Sherman House.

“Then, a lot of ‘what’s going on?,’ and I don’t have those answers. No one knows how to fix it when it’s campus wide.”

Just one night earlier, on Sept. 6, a power outage spread across Lakewood and Rocky River, two neighboring towns, according to Cleveland.com. It is unclear if these two instances were connected.

Outside the first-year residence halls, students gathered on the sidewalks, many of them around Raymond House.

First-year student Abbi Moss’ hair was still wet. Stuck in the shower when the power went off, Moss hurriedly wrapped up her routine and got out of the building. “I wanted to finish conditioning my hair,” Moss said.

“And I did, in the dark.”

Others made the best of the situation outside of their rooms. First-year student Dori Nurzynski and friends broke out a deck of cards and played a few rounds of B.S. while they waited for an update.

“We’re stuck for the night unless they can get us back in,” said Nurzynski.

Nurzynski is among the residents staying in Raymond, a building with updated key systems that accept Case One Cards instead of the typical swipe room key or hard metal key. When the power went out, the card readers stopped working, and the students were stuck outside.

At Wade Commons, the front door to the North Area Office was shut. Customer Service Assistant Janet Lanman was working when the lights turned out, and after a call to a supervisor, she was instructed to lock the office.

After the power turned off, she overheard a student in the hallway upset over money lost in the WEPA printing machines.

Lanman said that the main complaints in the offices later that

night were WEPA-related.

At 10:22 p.m., just 22 minutes after the start of the black-out, the power returned to all buildings on the north side of campus.

Shouts of joy could be heard from different areas as various buildings lit up once again.

Starbucks worker Dasharee Glenn continued to close up the coffee shop on the first floor of Village at 115th House 3A. After calling her manager, she was instructed to close early for fear of the register being insecure.

Fourth-year students Bryant Jacob and Daniel Doherty had taken the opportunity to walk up Bellflower and see how far the power outage extended. According to the two, all the fraternity and sorority houses still appeared to have power during the outage, along with off-campus neighborhoods like Hessler.

The campus buildings, however, appeared to have no power.

Further into the night, Wi-Fi had not been restored in every building, even hours after the outage.

Additionally, Uptown Cleveland’s traffic lights and building electricity were reportedly out, along with the Triangle

apartments. Third-year student Mahima Devarajan, a Triangle resident, said the power remained out in the Triangle for about 45 minutes.

Though the power was only out for 22 minutes on the north side of campus, it was out for roughly twice that time on the south side of campus. Fifthyear student Jevon Montague was stuck in the Tippit elevator throughout the outage. He said the south residence halls were out of power for 45 minutes.

According to university officials, the power outage was caused by high demand in all of Northeast Ohio, which had led to other local outages the previous day. They said that an update was not sent out to the students as CWRU staff were unable to determine the exact cause of the outage, and that there was no useful information to share. According to a university statement, CWRU is “reviewing all aspects of the outage and response and will adjust protocols to address areas of improvement.”

Campuswide blackout traps students in residence hall elevators Anne Nickoloff Director of Print Two different Delta Chi brothers entered two different Case Western Reserve University elevators at 10 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 7. Moments later, they

were stuck, as a power outage swept across CWRU’s campus.

“There’s always that fear going into the Tippit elevator, of what’s going to happen,” said fifth-year student Jevon Montague.

Montague, the president of Voices of Glory, was returning to his room after a practice for

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Voices of Glory. His room is on the top f loor of Tippit House, designated for Delta Chi fraternity brothers.

On the opposite side of campus, visiting a friend in Clarke Tower, second-year student Vineet Erasala entered a newly-emptied elevator, and started going up.

Both students witnessed the blackout from inside the small elevator rooms. “I thought I’d be freaking out more than I did,” said Erasala. “Panicking wasn’t really going to help anybody.”

Erasala’s elevator had already worked its way to somewhere near the eighth floor of Clarke Tower, but it slowly returned to the basement floor, on what he thinks was generator power. He tried calling security via the button on the elevator door, but the call didn’t go through.

The same happened to Montague; he said the call rang for about a minute, didn’t go through, and then ended, as though the person on the other end had hung up. Both students attributed this to the large number of phone calls the

CWRU Police Department received that night.

Montague was able to get through to the security office with his cell phone, but Erasala had to call his friend, a resident assistant in Clarke Tower, to tell security he was trapped in the elevator.

As for figuring out the situation, they both found out about the campus-wide power outage via Facebook. Montague posted a status about being stuck in the elevator.

Erasala saw this, and the two fraternity brothers messaged each other about their situations, later joking about the coincidence.

In the meantime, Montague took out a book and started working on some homework while he was stuck in the small elevator. “It was the typical Case thing to do,” he said.

Both students spent less than an hour in the elevators; Erasala exited the Clarke Tower elevator at around 10:35 p.m., and Montague left Tippit House’s elevator at around 10:40 p.m.

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CWRU Shield app President Snyder talks finance at open updated, raffle announced USG meeting Jessica Yang Staff Reporter

Anastazia Vanisko Staff Reporter Case Western Reserve University has seen a multitude of changes over the past few years, and on Sept. 8, students were invited to hear about even more new developments. At an open general assembly of the Undergraduate Student Government (USG), President Barbara R. Snyder delivered information on a range of ongoing projects meant to improve the CWRU campus and provide aid to its students.

The subject that sparked the most discussion was the university’s goal to make itself more affordable for students.

“It’s not about the sticker price of tuition, but about the average loan debt, since that’s really about what people pay for education,” said Snyder.

With lower debt for graduating students in mind, the university is beginning a mini-campaign to gain scholarship dollars. This is a continuation of previous efforts to reduce student debt, which Snyder says is $28,500 for CWRU. This is a significant reduction from 2011, when CWRU students graduated with an average of $40,000 worth of student loans.

In comparison, the national average student loan debt is currently estimated—based on the available data—to be above $30,000, making the national average of $26,600 in 2011 seem relatively low.

Money is a concern for the CWRU student body, whose questions for Snyder often came back to some aspect of financial aid. Studying abroad, aid for international students and coop fees were all discussed.

Concern exists surrounding the affordability of studying abroad, as students are required to pay CWRU tuition while attending schools that actually cost less. For example, King’s College London charges international students $23,380 per year and the National University of Singapore charges them $20,542, though these prices vary somewhat

depending on what you study.

Some students also choose to go somewhere with a higher cost of living, making worries about affordability even more potent.

“The cost of running the university is the same even if you study abroad,” Snyder reminds students, adding that most schools require that students abroad pay tuition to their home university.

However, according to Snyder, only a small percentage of CWRU students studied abroad until recently. As a result, CWRU has begun looking for opportunities to increase the financial aid options for students who choose to go abroad. The university is also trying to implement more international co-op and internship programs.

For international students studying at CWRU, need-based aid is available, although merit aid is not an option. Snyder says that the focus with these students is to meet their demonstrated financial need.

Yet another facet of the financial world at CWRU is the endowment, which supports both students and faculty. Goals for the endowment include yearly increases, and at this point, $17.8 million of its $43 million go to student scholarships, according to Snyder. This is out of the $90 million total that goes towards scholarships.

Though Snyder spoke about many of the costs associated with going to CWRU, sophomore Rachel Hudspeth, wished that Snyder would have addressed recent increases in tuition and housing.

“I just don’t get why you have to pay $11,000 [per year] to live in The Village but only $400 [per month] to live in Little Italy,” Hudspeth said.

One overarching goal that Snyder stressed was that one of the Board of Trustees’ investment committee’s aims is to ensure intergenerational equity for students.

“We want to balance the needs of the people who are here today and who will be here in the future,” said Snyder.

On the beat

Fire, fire

You are about to drift off to sleep after another fun-filled day here in Spartanland, going into your own special happy place when “BRAAAANG.” As you snap awake, you swiftly realize you are not in a submarine under depth charge attack, but you are in a Case Western Reserve University residence hall where the fire alarm has just gone off.

Fire safety is a concern everywhere, and all CWRU buildings, academic or residential, have some type of fire alarm system in them. Every year it seems as though we have a few close calls with fire, as well as a lot of unnecessary false alarms, so here are some tips.

When an alarm goes off in any university building, evacuation is mandatory—mandatory as in you have to do it and it is university policy. This actually is for your own safety: just because you can’t see a fire right away doesn’t mean there isn’t one, and fires spread faster than you think. You can check out “Christmas tree fire safety” on YouTube for a vivid demonstration of this.

The Christmas tree example also explains why certain items are prohibited in residence halls, such as the Christmas tree itself or heating lamps for your pet Gila

Several years ago, the Case Western Reserve University Police Department had an idea to make an app that would make responding to emergency calls easier.

They reached out to many developers, who scoffed at the idea of an indoor positioning system. However they found a developer team in nearby Beachwood, now called 911 Cellular, who thought the idea was feasible.

The app was released in 2014.

Now, CWRU PD has released an update to its iPhone app and will soon be releasing one for Android. They are raffling off an iPhone 6 as well as an iPad mini to users who download the app and save their profiles before 5 p.m. on Sept. 14.

The technology used in CWRU Shield, Indoor Positioning System (IPS), is a step above GPS technology, since GPS is often inaccurate to hundreds of meters. On a campus, those 100-meter radii can become the equivalent of another building that the police have to search. In a traditional GPS search, the police have to search a building, starting from the entrance and clearing each floor. IPS narrows that search down by having the phone ping off of the Wi-Fi routers which are across campus, sending that information to dispatch.

When students use the app with Wi-Fi and GPS turned on to make an emergency call, dispatch knows exactly down to which room or floor the caller is calling from, even before the caller’s phone makes the call.

Since Wi-Fi routers are often found in each room or at least on each floor, this cuts down on search time. Usually, the first 30 seconds to up to a minute of a police call is

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monster. Also, just like on an airplane, trying to disable smoke detectors or alarms is a crime, as well as a stupid idea.

In most cases however, fire alarms are false alarms. Cooking is the primary culprit in residence halls and academic buildings, and it can be avoided by following simple rules. Watch your food while it’s cooking, add water if instructed to and in the amounts suggested, follow the rules on microwave popcorn (it comes with instructions for a reason)—you get the idea.

This way you can avoid being the one who just triggered an evacuation of your residence hall at 2 a.m. on a snowy morning.

And for the smokers out there, remember cigarettes are a heat source until properly put out as well, especially before sleeping.

Fourteen years ago, a John Carroll University senior died the week before commencement in a late-night party/cigarette-related fire. I know; I was there. It was very sad.

So let’s look out for each other and keep an eye on the popcorn.

On the Beat is a weekly safety column written by Sergeant Jeffrey Daberko of CWRU PD. He welcomes questions, suggestions and gripes/groans/moans/complaints about campus life at policecolumn@case.edu.

spent on who and where the caller is, and the app already provides that tool. If Wi-Fi isn’t on, dispatch receives a Google Maps location, which will track until the signal is deactivated through the app.

Users don’t have to be on campus to use the app. The information gleaned from the app will be sent to the local authorities.

Functions such as safety check, which will ping the user after a set amount of time to check in, are also useful for late night runs, on campus or not. If the user doesn’t check in during the specified time, the app will text the emergency contacts provided in the app with a message that the user didn’t check in, the activity that they were doing, which was provided when the safety check was made, as well as a link to a map of the user’s last known location.

The latest iPhone update for CWRU Shield now includes easy access to the SafeRide system and NextBus, which cuts down time Googling the websites for both services. In addition, there’s an interactive crime map with information about each crime committed in the last 30 days and the locations of each crime. There is also easy access to the 24-hour counseling services hotline.

Sergeant Daniel Schemmel of the CWRU Police Department said of the app, “It’s a services app that integrates the technologies on campus in one app.”

He added that an added bonus to the app is that when students use it on a daily basis, they’ll be able to access it more easily in an emergency situation.

Although the app is named “CWRU Shield,” the latest iPhone update opens up the app to nearby CIM and CIA students, faculty and staff. An Android version with the latest updates is also forthcoming.

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opinion Editorial

Spot Night can change, but not all at once Spot Night is a key concert and a much beloved event that the University Program Board (UPB) historically put on weekly. Students always knew that they could find a band playing at the Spot on Thursday night. There was a sense of community.

That feeling has now been shattered by a drastic change: This semester there will only be one large Spot Night on Friday, Nov. 13, months after the orientation week Spot Night. To accompany a bigger crowd, the wall between L3 and The Spot will be lifted to create one large space, replacing The Spot’s intimate feel.

Instead of throwing other Spot Nights on a monthly basis, UPB is using the Homecoming Dance and Fall Concert as “Spot Night” stand-ins; that is, they’re finding an excuse to kill two birds with one stone. In the past, both Spot Night and other concerts have existed simultaneously.

That is not to say that the UPB’s concert committee requested its executive board to implement this change without student input. Last semester UPB conducted a poll in a newsletter and in-person at Leutner Commons. With 418 responses

(only 10 percent of the undergraduate student body), UPB felt confident in shifting Spot Night’s focus.

Nearly two-thirds of respondents noted that they only attended one to three Spot Nights. About 10 percent said that they attended more than four. The rest hadn’t been to any.

Additionally, approximately 80 percent preferred a more expensive monthly concert and about the same number said they wouldn’t be dismayed if alcohol wasn’t sold there. When asked to choose from what days of the week they preferred, students preferred Friday (90 percent) and Saturday (75 percent) over Thursday (50 percent).

The change to a monthly, higher priced concert on a Friday was clearly based off of this poll. However, if you crunch the numbers, UPB responded to a decision based off of less than eight percent of students. It was supposed to be representative, but in reality, it was simply a weak voting pool.

UPB forgot that Spot Nights can be well attended and central campus events.

Though, no, thousands of students did not attend the event weekly, the low-key

atmosphere of Spot Night is what made it one of the greatest regular events on campus. Anyone could go, there was no registration required and it was free.

It seems that recent memory is also clouding this decision.

The quality of Spot Night lineups has fluctuated. In our opinion, two years ago (2013-2014) was not only well-attended, but well-planned. The Mowglis, X Ambassadors, Cloud Nothings, Lucius, St. Lucia, Danny Brown, Small Black, Yuna, Magic Man, Wild Belle, Echosmith and American Authors were all great bands which graced the lineup.

Spot Night was well-attended. It was cool.

Granted, last year’s lineup (2014-2015) was not as noteworthy. Advertisements were lacking, and the bands simply weren’t as universally desirable. If last year were an indication of this year’s lineup, we would agree: make Spot Night monthly.

However, if UPB did it once, they can do it again. A stellar lineup like 20132014’s would bring students in with the right marketing. To us, it seems like UPB isn’t running into problems with funding or student disinterest. They’re running into

problems marketing and planning the right kinds of shows.

UPB has the opportunity to make this a smarter, more thorough experiment.

UPB should first test what changing the weekly concert series to Fridays would do for Spot Night attendance, and then evaluate other options, instead of messing with multiple variables at once.

Similar to an experiment, too many variables will change the outcome unpredictably. Is it the Friday night slot that will help Spot Night, or the reduced frequency throughout the semester? The greatest question we have, however, is if these changes will affect attendance at all.

When you choose great bands, students show up, even on a weekly basis, as UPB proved two years ago.

The Observer staff thinks it is in everyone’s best interests for UPB to create a plan to allocate at least $10,000 to add three ordinary Spot Night events into the concert schedule this semester.

Going from what was once a weekly concert staple to a single concert is simply not enough, and a disappointment to CWRU’s once-loved music scene.

Diversity 360 needs to comes full circle Exploring the Spartan Pit Austin Stroud Diversity has always been an issue at Case Western Reserve University.

Underrepresentation of minority groups on campus has historically led to a multitude of criticisms and protests that have challenged the way CWRU’s administration and student body interact. Last year, this type of activism was observed with tangible results, as the Undergraduate Diversity Collaborative (UDC) was elected into the Student Executive Council (SEC), although it barely had enough votes to do so.

Chances are you may not have heard of the UDC or the SEC, even though the former now represents student organizations related to diversity and the latter holds a significant amount of power when it comes to making decisions about funding and resolving disputes concerning student organizations. This surely seemed to be the case during the referendum to vote in the UDC, when less than a third of the undergraduate student body participated in such a momentous achievement for diversity on campus. Perhaps the other supermajority of the undergraduate student

population had much more important things on their mind, like cramming for an exam.

Illiteracy in the structures of power that govern the student body, as well as those that contribute to the disparaging treatment of minorities at CWRU, constitutes a significant hurdle in trying to strengthen diversity and inclusion. If a large portion of the student body is part of the majority category and not affected by minority underrepresentation, then there is little personal motivation for them to be invested in issues such as the vote to add UDC to SEC. Instead it is much more beneficial for them to remain disengaged from such discussions, as it allows them to enjoy their privilege without having to think much of it.

On the other hand, CWRU’s administration did take forcible action to engage the first-year class. This year CWRU’s Office of Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunity had an answer to the illiteracy surrounding diversity in the form of Diversity 360. Diversity 360 was a four-part diversity and inclusion training program that was administered as part of orientation for the Class of 2019.

As a participant of the program, I believe there were certain aspects that were beneficial in promoting diversity and

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inclusion but also other aspects that reduced the program’s overall effectiveness.

As a purely educational forum for discussing diversity issues, Diversity 360 did well to highlight the way that power is distributed amongst majority and minority groups, and how that influences the ways that overt and covert discrimination can occur on campus. Touching upon categories such as race, gender, sexuality socioeconomic status and many other forms of diversity, the program shed light on subjects many people did not know much about and may have been afraid to ask and promoted action when confronted with discrimination. Although this educational element of Diversity 360 proved to be beneficial, it is only a marginal gain in achieving greater diversity and inclusion when observed in a broader context.

In the grand scheme of student affairs, Diversity 360 appears to be a token of progress that CWRU’s administration and those with majority privilege would like to claim as an answer to concerns about minority neglect. However, the potency of Diversity 360 is something that leaves much to be desired.

Aside from the four short sessions that I participated in during orientation, there was little to no discussion or follow-up after my first week. It became clear to me

that Diversity 360 was a program aimed at promoting discussions of diversity, but never actually seeing them through for the entire year, let alone a single semester. While the hypothetical scenarios, motivational speeches and reflective activities all seemed to have a profound eye-opening effect that made you want to be a better person, this effect wore off quite quickly. Unless you were to join a minority organization or have an active interest in continuing the discussions sparked in Diversity 360, there was no means of reinforcing the knowledge and interaction, thus allowing that education to slowly fade away.

As of now, Diversity 360 exists as a thing of the past to be forgotten. While it contained powerful educational elements that enhanced the Class of 2019’s understandings of diversity and inclusion, (which is probably better than a complete absence of diversity training) I fear that this knowledge is soon to be lost, and the program itself co-opted as an excuse for claiming CWRU now exists as a postmarginalization institution, when in fact there is still a long way to go.

Austin Stroud is a first-year student and bi-weekly opinion columnist at The Observer.

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When across the world, make that friend Guest Columnist Arundhati Menon On Aug. 13 at 5:45 p.m., I ran across the space outside Leutner Commons for my 5:30 p.m. group meeting—cursing early morning flights and hotel check-in times. I sat in my allotted circle and thanked my stars that because everyone was completely involved in icebreakers, nobody noticed my presence. To me the process of playing an icebreaker just seems like a way to elevate the already existent awkwardness of a first meeting; I was glad to have missed it. Unless my orientation leader is reading this: in which case, I’m just joking.

I was extremely scared that I would end up sitting in the corner reading a book, as I reminded my mom over and over, but—as it always does—it turned out that there were people who were much more nervous than I was. We may have looked like UN ambassadors when we were together, but we got along like a house on fire.

For me to say that it was easy to come 13,576 kilometers (alright, 8,431 miles) away from my home, family and friends would be a blatant lie, but I also know that it would have been infinitely more difficult had I not been able to obtain the kind of support system here that I had gotten. I distinctly remember the look of utter shock and disbelief on people’s faces when I tell them that I honestly enjoyed orientation, but that is actually a bit of an understatement.

However, not very dissimilar to most things in life, my experience was spoilt by one very disappointing, reoccurring conversation. It all began in a subtler way when I got a few of the usual, “You’re from India? But you speak English so well!” which I decided to take lightly and equate to ignorance rather than as an insult.

When we were split into batches and made to take an English proficiency exam, it was the last straw. For someone who learnt English before even learning her own mother tongue, and who, contrary to popular belief, used it daily, it seemed frivolous and downright insulting to have to take an exam to prove it. I initially didn’t give it much thought, but as everyone else in the group started to obsessively worry about not doing well, I found myself—against my better judgment—starting to get equally anxious about the test. Once the test started I realized that my fear was unnecessary, yet I found that I was nervous about the results.

Which also turned out to be completely futile in the end, but as my friend put it so eloquently in a group chat before the results: “When will we find out if we’ll get to take classes with the Americans?”

At this moment, three weeks into college, it’s hard for me to believe that I’ve only been here for this long. It feels like it’s been much, much longer. In the beginning I was proud of myself for not feeling homesick, then I realized that unlike what I thought it would be, homesickness came in waves. The other day, I was studying and ran out of my room to go downstairs and get some rice, when I realized that I wasn’t at my home in India.

Times like this can get a little overwhelming, but it’s nice to know that there are people around me who are probably feeling the same way. So if you’re feeling nervous or angry or some other inexplicable, unusual emotion (if you’re like me, chances are you are), go out and talk to someone else about it—because even though you feel completely alone, and silly and weak for feeling like that, there’s at least one person out there who’s feeling exactly the same. They’ll be happy to have found company.

Arundhati Menon is a first-year majoring in computer science and economics.

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Learn and teach properly Behind the Podium Monica Chavan Case Western Reserve University is first and foremost an institution of higher education. Sure the sports, diverse student groups, think[box] and even the shiny new Tinkham Veale University Center attract new students, but the main reason we all came here was for the education. But what exactly does it mean to obtain a CWRU education? Can a CWRU education be categorized as “liberal arts,” does it fit into the box of being “research-oriented” or is it something else entirely, undeserving of the limits of a particular label?

Above all, how does an institution with such a diverse student population manage to provide an education that fits all of our different learning styles, academic needs and personal interests?

Admissions officers and public relations staff will tout the school’s small

class sizes, ample research opportunities and overall campus diversity as selling points for CWRU, but how legitimate are these claims? Do introductory biology classes containing 300-plus students really prepare biology majors for the smaller and more advanced classes later on in their track? Do life science labs, which appear to be woefully disconnected from their corresponding lectures, reinforce class material or simply serve to confuse students? Does SAGES—a program designed to promote intensive writing and critical thinking skills—actually equip students to become future “leaders in their fields”?

Also do the efforts of campus-wide campaigns for inclusion, such as those presented to entering first-year students in Diversity 360 seminars, really have an effect on how comfortable students feel both inside and outside the classroom?

This column will seek to explore answers to these questions and many others related to CWRU’s philosophy of

education. Examining aspects of education such as teaching style, classroom organization, student-professor interactions and feedback systems will peel back the curtain between professor and student. It will allow students to see exactly what happens—and why—behind the scenes of our lecture halls, our lab stations and our classrooms. Furthermore these investigations will provide a higher resolution picture of how a CWRU student learns, how a CWRU professor teaches and most importantly, what a CWRU education entails.

If you have suggestions for topics this column should explore, or have comments about any of its articles, please feel free to email the author with your feedback.

Monica Chavan is a freshman who attended high school in Carmel, Indiana. Her interests include sports, education and cats. If you have suggestions for her column or are giving away free food, feel free to contact her at any time.

Can’t we all just get along?

View from the Press Box J.P. O’Hagan, Sports Editor There is an old journalism theory that states if the headline of a piece asks a question, the answer to that question is always no. The same holds true here.

Can’t we all just get along? No. Now by no means am I saying that we can’t eventually get along or that many of us currently get along. However, I firmly believe that we can’t all just get along. My personal issue when this very common phrase arises is the use of one simple four-letter word, “just.” “Just,” as used in the phrase, implies that the only thing missing from peace on campus, in this nation and even around the world is the willingness of people to put down their differences.

This imaginary roadblock, as I see it, could not be further from the truth.

Humans are intrinsically different from each other due to numerous and often complex reasons. Upbringing, interests, our life events and our reactions to them all shape us individually as human beings. Where we differ biologically, things beyond our control such as the pigment of our skin, our gender or even our age, those are not fundamental differences between people, no matter how much media and the government may present those divisions to you. On that basis, every human has certain inalienable rights. No difference can or should be found among them. Instead we must judge people on things in their control.

People are different on a personal individualized level and such blanket approaches to issues in every facet of life

are ill-fitted to fix the problems in our world, our country and on this campus.

I hope you will join me on a journey of looking at these issues through a lens cleared of the artificial divisions we have created and instead judge every issue and every idea on their merits rather than the origin.

We must first form this lens. We need to look above the typical differences that divide us and instead first unite in how we are similar. Once we have this lens we must use it to understand how our differences can come together to become a more perfect whole. We may be different, but so are individual puzzle pieces and they come together to become a beautiful whole. To see that larger picture of the puzzle, we need to be above the table rather than at the table’s surface.

This column is entitled, “View from the press box.” As the sports editor, I am able to see the larger picture of the action on the field or court from the press box, similar to standing above the table.

It seems only fitting that this year, as I write this column, I encourage my fellow students to take a similar view from above the chaos and try to see a larger picture. The first step to see that picture is to understand the individual pieces, and so my challenge in each article will be for the readers to better understand their peers. The challenge will always be to have discussions and find the differences and the similarities between one another.

Colleges are supposed to be places for those discussions on all topics to occur. I can only hope CWRU can return to that type of culture where ideas of all types can be shared and debated.

Last year, the campus community came face-to-face with the ugliness of racism, police brutality, rape culture and many other issues. Instead of open discussion, the larger response was an emotional one of attacking and defending opinions. I want to facilitate constructive discussions on topics like these that arise this year.While I am encouraging debate on these topics, everyone is entitled to their own opinions and should not be attacked. Opinions can be swayed but never proven. I personally am open to criticisms that will arise from my thoughts on this column. If you have a point of view you wish to discuss and can’t find someone to discuss it with, please reach out to me. However, I will never argue with any member of the campus community if an opinion is wrong or right.

I will, however, argue facts, since facts can be proven. I will attempt to sway you and you can try to sway me, but attacking my opinion or those of anyone you discuss with is counterproductive to the purpose of these talks. These discussions are for the swaying of opinions, finding actual truths and accepting differences. They are not for the purpose of attacking points of view different from your own. This first vital step is why we can not simply “just” get along. We can eventually get along, but it will require time, effort and understanding. So this is the first step. Start talking.

JP. O’Hagan is a junior at CWRU and sports editor for The Observer. In the classroom he is “one of those” crazy BME and pre-med student. When he isn’t studying or contemplating and discussing life’s largest issues, he enjoys Netflix and watching Chicago sports.

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Fasipe in response to “Hillary Clinton: an agent of progress?”

To the editor Despite how even the best-intentioned media have portrayed it, voting rights aren’t the only issues that minorities face. Few of the most important issues in today’s society that minorities face are those of police brutality and mass incarceration. Hillary Clinton supported her husband’s Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, which spent $30 billion on prisons. But the only way prisons could get this money was if states would scale back early paroles and adopt sentencing policies that required that inmates serve more time in prison.

If facts like this make people dislike Hillary or feel that she isn’t in their corner, it’s not outrageous. You say that Hillary isn’t for mass incarceration, but she was at one point in time.

She even said that “we need more and tougher prison sentences,” and she still receives large campaign donations from private prisons.

People, especially minorities, have the right to be wary of her, especially as she wants to become the leader of this country.

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It’s a (two) party and no one’s invited Cleveland in Color Sarah Jawhari The frenzy hurtling us into the 2016 elections is nauseating to me. I despise politics. I actively choose not to follow it the same way I choose not to listen to the tedious din the radio believes popular. On principle, I disown what the media circus follows, and many people save a headache and a half by doing the same.

It’s not because I feel I am above the noise but because I’ve found the news we sift through repetitive and trivial.

Donald Trump allowed yet another racial slur guide his prospective policies?

Excellent. He still has a significant following, pleated with diehard supporters? Yes. Even stranger still, we live in America and the year is 2015. Just when you thought narrow-minded bigots were finally going extinct, here comes a 70-year-old racist running for office, his flimsy toupee dancing with each impassioned, ignorant speech.

But I still vote. It’s your duty as an American to vote, and my foremoth-

ers took great risks in granting me this right. I try to make informed decisions with what little we are offered. If a donkey and an elephant are there at the polls, you have to pick one, because a third animal never makes it to the party.

You review what they offer. As a student who is perpetually broke and a child of immigrants, I pick the donkey who vows to help me out. The elephant is looking at my future paycheck and counting the moments when it might benefit me more to tack my vote on his manly tusk and pray for a tax break.

What animal am I when I go the polls? A sheep.

Our fault is in a two-party system that champions old dogs, all while clumping certain beliefs in categories that might not be cohesive. They have to be viewed as opposites somehow, even if they are not. If you’re pro-choice but champion stricter immigration policies, you’re forced to make a split. Or take easy street and not vote at all. As a nation, we are holding on to laws or maintaining rusty frameworks that simply can’t be applied with our current racial composition, our scientific advances, our debt

load, our evolving crime or even our economy. America is dynamic and the faces of America are morphing into the contemporary new world. Why don’t we have more diversity at the polls? Why is no one else invited?

When Hillary Clinton visited our university, my primary thought was, “I hope parking is not so bad this morning.” To avoid the anticipated rush, I left my west side home an hour early. “Curse you, Hillary, you democratic goddess,” I grumbled. “Couldn’t you have visited on a weekend? Help a sister out.”

However, I don’t dislike Clinton. For what it’s worth, if I imagine Trump as an angry, stripped ear of corn, I don’t hate him either. My skepticism of the political arena is not a personal endeavor; it’s just that we’ve been stuck in this dichotomous rut for decades on decades. If I were to water down my analysis to these two candidates (or any two others), the conclusion would be identical. The fact is, we are not voting for our futures— we’re voting for a single person (one out of two) who essentially decides it for us.

Sarah Jawhari is a biweekly columnist for The Observer.

Campaign proactively It’s time to talk guns The Salt Pile Daniel Miles It’s hard to be even moderately aware of politics these days and not know the name Bernie Sanders. The Democratic senator from Vermont has been steadily gaining in the polls, even as detractors jeer that he has no chance against the liberal frontrunner Hillary Clinton due to his myriad left-of-center policies. This surge in the polls is stemming from an obvious cause: Sanders has a lot of supporters and they are loud. The issue, though, is how this loudness detracts from Sanders’ actual message.

The movement for Sanders has spread throughout the country and Case Western Reserve University is no exception. This semester, a group called Bernie’s CWRU was established with the goal of promoting Sanders and his policies to the student body in an effort to increase voting turnout. Sanders’ popularity is clear; only two months after its creation, the group’s Facebook page boasts over 140 members, an impressive feat when one considers the typical political apathy among collegeaged Americans. Members of this group are anything but apathetic.

As an example, consider Hillary Clinton’s visit to campus on Aug. 27.

At least a thousand people showed up that Thursday morning to hear the presidential candidate speak, but six CWRU students very pointedly did not. Instead, these students staged a minor protest just outside of the assembly, carrying signs claiming that the country is “#NotReadyForHillary.” They were nonaggressive, instead choosing to simply hold their signs and promote their criticisms of Clinton, but their total opposition to the rally was apparent.

It is interesting to note, however, that while some of these students were members of Bernie’s CWRU, the organization was not officially affiliated with the protestors in this endeavor. In fact, there was a minor dispute within the organization over the appropriateness of the counter-protest.

The Sanders campaign prides itself on non-aggression toward other candidates, a position Sanders frequently notes, which provides a stark contrast to

most if not all of the other candidates on the campaign trail. The #NotReadyForHillary rally is clearly against this supposed tenet of the Sanders campaign.

The opposition from members of Bernie’s CWRU is understandable.

This incident is not unique to CWRU; the notion of peaceful campaigning is one that is being brought up across the nation. From coast to coast, pundits are either applauding or lambasting Sanders’ decision to not detract from his opponents. Is this a wise decision on Bernie’s part? I, for one, applaud him for promoting his policies over blasting his opponents’ directly. It may be naive, and it may prove to be a fruitless strategy, but who can fault a candidate for trying to bring integrity to the campaign trail?

This particular incident involving Sanders’ supporters and Clinton is just the latest in a series of conflicts between the two camps. Citizens supporting Sanders loudly criticize Clinton’s policies, even going so far as to attack her integrity directly. This isn’t new to the political process, as it has been the norm since this country was founded. A part of me, though, wonders why that can’t change. Why can’t Bernie’s supporters promote his message peacefully, like the senator himself wants?

One would assume that this kind of proactive campaigning, which would hinge on promoting one’s favorite candidate, would lead to a more positive reception and a stark contrast to the feuds that can erupt when candidates start directly attacking each other across the media. Bernie doesn’t want that, and, for the most part, Clinton doesn’t seem to want that either. I say it’s time we make that change. Let’s bring some integrity and respect back to the campaign trail, and with it, possibly some unity to not only the Democratic Party, but the country as a whole. A house divided cannot stand; perhaps this can be the first step to putting that house back together.

Danny Miles was supposed to be made of everything perfect little boys are made of: sugar, spice, and… Whoops, someone used salt instead of sugar. He is a second-year.

Case Western Reserve United Josh Lehrer There are 268 dead and 288 injured from 33 separate incidents. All by the mass shooting sprees by one (in the case of Columbine, two) perpetrators since 1998.

Men, women, children, fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, teachers, students, the list simply goes on and on. These are the tragedies that the United States has suffered by senseless gun violence.

Let’s do just a little more number crunching. Guns in 2010 killed more infants, toddlers and preschoolers than law enforcement officers in the line of duty in the U.S. Gun deaths and injuries cost $174.1 billion each year, or 1.15 percent of our total gross domestic product. Okay, thanks for letting me contextualize this issue just a little more.

Values associated with gun reform methods vary according to American individuals’ political beliefs and practices.

On the right side of the political spectrum, most of the general opinion rests on the fact that the individual perpetrator is the problem, not the firearms used themselves in the conduction of crimes. Values on the right include autonomy and individuality as well as the right from government involvement in personal affairs and privacy.

As Ilya Shapiro of the Cato Institute puts it, “We’d be better off focusing on the identification and treatment of mental illness—the common factor in all these incidents [of mass shootings].”

Other pundits like Trevor Burrus support concealed-carry policies so as to enable “responsible citizens” to prevent “mass bloodshed by drawing their weapons and using them for the public good.”

He and other right-wing critics also claim that many criminals will find means to subvert any laws put in place, and therefore render efforts and legislative actions useless.

On the left, support for gun control is commonplace, based off of liberals’ values associated with equal opportunity and broader governmental roles in regulating society. Left political activists seek to ensure human rights are guaranteed through government’s participation in the daily lives of citizens. Liberals endorse gun re-

forms for these reasons. They also pose gun control as a public health-related issue—one that should take priority in order to achieve the greater good for all.

Common sense gun reform measures need to be put in place on the federal level.

And folks, I mean now. It shouldn’t spur political debate, but discussion is healthy.

Gun reform needs to be a priority. Such measures worked relatively well in the late 1990s, after the passage of the Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act, more commonly known as the Federal Assault Weapons Ban (AWB).

The act has since expired in 2004 due to the “sunshine provision.” But think about it, between the 1994 implementation of the law, until it expired (2004), only 58 deaths and 75 injuries from gun-related violence occurred. From 2005 on, the figure is 215 and 204, respectively. Does that not mean anything? Isn’t that evidence enough?

We all have had enough. The day we see newscasters murdered on live television, covering that common local news item, that’s the day we rise up, put aside differences and actually take action. We cannot remain idle. It’s certainly too late for all who’ve been gunned down mercilessly.

We cannot bring them back. However, we can at least ensure they are never forgotten, that their legacy was causing reasonable change on a national level to take place.

Gun violence is a national public health issue. Why guns are not regulated like automobiles befuddles me, quite honestly.

Cars are regulated, wherein registration is required, classes to educate their proper usage are mandatory, etc. Nope. Not firearms.

You see, this is not what the forefathers envisioned in drafting the Second Amendment; that is quite clear. In fact, our forefathers would be disgusted by how the Second Amendment has been used and interpreted. It is not what they intended at all.

Americans deserve to feel safer, knowing they will not be vulnerable at all times to the ridiculous prevalence of gun violence.

Josh realizes this issue is among the most contentious in our country. But as someone who eventually strives to have a career in public health and be a pediatric clinician, he feels it is imperative that something finally be done about this violence. He is a senior.

arts & entertainment Studio-A-Rama highlights local acts concert will be transmitted from the broadcast station and, for the first time, will also be streamed live through YouTube.

So if you’re up for listening to some pretty great music, come out to StudioA-Rama this weekend. Hope to see you there.

Chrismaly Vidal Staff Reporter Summer and music festivals go together like hot dogs and barbecues.

This Saturday, give the season one last hurrah at Studio-A-Rama, the annual music festival hosted by WRUW 91.1 FM, Case Western Reserve University’s campus radio station.

The station has been around for 48 years, and has run Studio-A-Rama for 34 years. It originally got its name because WRUW hosts a show called “Live From Cleveland” every Thursday night from 10–11 p.m. where they broadcast a live concert from Studio A. Back in the early days of this festival, they held it inside Studio A, but now it has grown larger than the studio can handle.

Teddy Eisenberg, the business manager of WRUW, explained the purpose of the festival. “A big part of the reason we do Studio-A-Rama is not only to support local music, but to thank our loyal listeners,” Eisenberg said. “We like being able to put on a free concert festival for our listeners based on our telethon that occurs every year, in midApril, where we ask for our listeners to donate so we can put on events like this.

It’s not only something to champion local music, but to also thank those who support us.”

The “More Music, Fewer Hits” WRUW 91.1 lives up to its saying.

Eisenberg said, “We have a rule that local bands cannot play in the festival for generally three to four years after their performance. This is to...keep it fresh and also to highlight all the new talent in the community.

Courtesy WRUW Facebook page Tacocat performed a surfy, bubblegum concert at last year’s Studio-A-Rama.

“We want to provide a platform for people to listen to music they normally wouldn’t seek out or listen to,” he added.

Eisenberg thinks WRUW as a college radio station provides a place for local music to be heard, thus making WRUW a champion for local music. The guitar rock festival, Studio-A-Rama, will have nine local acts leading all the way up to the special guest and national headliner.

“Our special guest is always someone that has roots to the Cleveland community but has made it and either left or is still playing around Cleveland and has been performing for years,” said Eisenberg.

The nine local acts are Heavenly Creatures, ITEM, Half An Animal, Sweepyheads, Swirly in the Fryer,

Upcoming fall albums Charlie Topel Contributing Reporter As the summer draws to a close, classes start and leaves begin to fall, many highly anticipated albums will be released. Below are just a few choice cuts of soon-to-beheard albums that have already been getting some major hype.

Lana Del Rey—“Honeymoon” (Sept. 18) Lizzy Grant’s fourth album as the mysterious and sexy Lana Del Rey hits the shelves on Sept. 18th. According to earlier reports, Del Rey says this album will be “very different” from her previous album, “Ultraviolence,” and more similar to her first two albums. Hopefully the sadcore slow jams of the last album will still be featured. Already released tracks include “High By The Beach” and “Terrence Loves You.” Chvrches—“Every Open Eye” (Sept. 25) The Scottish trio Chvrches will be releasing its follow-up to 2013’s “The Bones of What You Believe” in late September.

Its critically-acclaimed debut left listeners itching for more danceable-synthpop tunes featuring lead singer Lauren Mayberry’s signature high-pitched, sweet-sounding

vocals. Songs we’ve already heard from “Every Open Eye” include “Get Away” and “Leave a Trace,” both of which indicate that the new album will be full of dancefloor-ready tunes.

Disclosure—“Caracal” (Sept. 25) Disclosure, an EDM duo made up of two brothers from England, releases its sophomore album “Caracal” on Sept. 25th. When the pair’s debut album “Settle” came out in 2013, it dominated the charts with hits like “Latch” and “White Noise.” Disclosure has teamed up with an incredibly long list of big names for this album, including Sam Smith, The Weeknd and Lorde. Tracks off the album that are already making the rounds include “Omen” with Sam Smith and the club-ready “Bang That.”

Joanna Newsom—“Divers” (Oct. 23) Indie folk lovers rejoice: another Joanna Newsom album. “Divers,” the follow-up to Newsom’s massive triple album “Have One on Me,” will be her fourth in 11 years.

Though not much is known yet about the upcoming album, listeners can expect her classic Appalachian-style vocals paired with lush instrumentals and complex, storytelling lyrics. The lead single “Sapokanikan” was released with a music video of her wandering through New York City streets at night.

Sammy Slims, Cheap Clone, Queen of Hell and Hiram-Maxim. On stage after them will be the headliner Doug Gillard (who some readers may know from Guided by Voices (an indie band that rose to prominence in the 90’s and early 2000s), GEM and Death of Samantha) and special guest, Man or Astro-man?.

This is an event where people can sit and enjoy the music they want. Guests can bring their own drinks, including alcohol for those of age, without glass bottles, and guests are encouraged to bring a picnic and just hang out. There will also be food trucks, such as Touch Supper Club, to help satiate any appetites that day.

As for those who may not be able to go or want to share the fun with others not currently in Cleveland, the entire

Studio-a-Rama Line-Up: 1 p.m.: Heavenly Creatures: indie pop 2 p.m.: ITEM: Gritty, early brit-pop sound that fuses with modern alternative 2:45 p.m.: Half An Animal: danceable chic-rock 3:30 p.m.: Sweepyheads: rock ‘n roll with garage rock and punk band influences 4:15 p.m.: Swirly in the Fryer: surfer punk 5 p.m.: Sammy Slims: electronic indie, bouncy indie pop 6 p.m.: Cheap Clone: guitar-driven rock (Similar to the New Pornographers) 7 p.m.: Queen Of Hell: heavy metal band 8 p.m.: Hiram-Maxim: noise rock (Like a grungy My Bloody Valentine.)

9 p.m.: Doug Gillard: indie rock 10:30 p.m.: Man Or Astro-man?: surfer rock

What: Studio-A-Rama When: Saturday, Sept. 12, 1 p.m. - 12 a.m.

Where: Courtyard outside Mather Memorial Building (Rain or shine) Cost: Free

“The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” shines despite early stumbles Julia Bianco Director of Web & Multimedia Early promos for “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” ranged from painfully bad to simply uncomfortable. The host, coming off of a nine-year stint playing the most egotistical guy on TV on Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report,” struggled being comfortable as himself on camera.

Tightly written lines were delivered with an unnecessary push of bravado. The sense of self that is so necessary to anchor a latenight show was missing entirely.

Luckily at some point between those promos and Tuesday’s premiere, Colbert found his groove. In the premiere, he was effortlessly funny, relaxed and charming.

There were only a couple of moments (mostly during a minefield of an interview with GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush) where he slipped back into his old persona; with time, those minor slips in inflection should be ironed out of his system.

For fans of “The Colbert Report,” though, Colbert still includes a few of the old classics: The typical chanting of “Stephen” is a welcome carry-over. Other, newer additions, including a cursed amulet that forces him to discuss the show’s spon-

sors, feel like they hail from the old Colbert era, while still fitting in with the new show’s vibe.

The show does maintain some odd stylistic choices; the music feels old-fashioned, and, while the opening credits are gorgeous, the cards used going into and out of commercial breaks look cheap. Visually, it sometimes feels as though the show has one foot stuck in the past.

Still, for an episode with so much riding on it, “Late Show’s” premiere felt breezy and well-executed. George Clooney’s fake movie “Decision Strike” was a particularly nice addition, and by pulling in a highprofile presidential candidate like Bush this early on, Colbert proved that he has the pull and the name-recognition to make CBS’ staple great. Even though “The Colbert Report” will be greatly missed, “Late Show With Stephen Colbert” has the drive and the potential to live up to Colbert’s former work.

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New and through in University Circle Sarah Lisk Contributing Reporter Cleveland’s warm summer months ushered in a number of grand openings in the University Circle neighborhood. While some businesses shuttered their doors, even more opened for the ever-increasing number of students, residents and Circle visitors in the area. Understandably, the number of business openings exceeds the number of closings.

Anne van H., an upscale boutique located in Uptown since 2012, announced its closure this past July. The shop, owned by entrepreneur Anne van Hauwaer, was previously located in Little Italy, where it had been a staple since 1988.

The Verizon Wireless store on Euclid, part of Uptown since the business district opened in 2012, left the area

over the summer.

Wrapz Pita Bar opened in January 2014 in hopes of serving students Mediterranean fare and poutine until three in the morning. After first limiting night hours, the restaurant went dark in August despite its popular food.

Reasonably-priced fast-casual restaurants dominate the University Circle business scene. Despite the loss of Wrapz, a number of new eateries joined the likes of the recently opened Ninja City Kitchen & Bar, Chipotle, Panera Bread, ABC The Tavern and Jimmy John’s. On the whole, these restaurants illustrate the rapidly changing neighborhood around Case Western Reserve University.

Following the success of their downtown location, Tea House Noodles opened a second casual sit-down restaurant in Uptown. The Asian restaurant also delivers orders via GrubHub to hungry Circle

residents.

On July 7th, Kenko burst onto the University Circle food scene. Serving hibachi, sushi and much-loved bubble tea, the new Japanese restaurant excels at connecting to students and the area community.

Dynomite Burgers & Sushi expanded to Uptown in May. The Zack Bruell restaurant joins Crop Kitchen in serving upscale, sit-down food. The popular eatery features themed burgers from each of the Cleveland entrepreneur’s other businesses.

The popular Chapati Indian Grill serves rice and wraps in an assemblyline style. The restaurant seeks to dish out Indian flavors to college students at its second location (the first location is at Cleveland State). The University Circle opening signifies a possible rapid expansion, as it will soon be followed by a third restaurant in Chicago.

Inchin’s Bamboo Garden offers another

taste of Pan-Asian cuisine. The nationwide restaurant, which already has a location in North Olmsted, expanded its Northeastern Ohio presence with an Uptown opening.

Finally, the only new non-restaurant establishment in the Circle, FirstMerit Bank, opened in Uptown following the recent closure of several Ohio branches. An ATM and walk-in service area make the bank a convenient addition to the area.a University Circle’s growth mirrors that of downtown Cleveland. Public transportation like the HealthLine, which transports riders from East Cleveland to downtown through the Circle, and the newly constructed Little Italy-University Circle rapid station. Despite the closure of several businesses in Uptown, the new establishments demonstrate the up-and-coming nature of the University Circle neighborhood, already an economic and cultural powerhouse of Northeast Ohio.

Uptown’s recent advancements included a handful of new successful restaurants, but the area still experienced many closures this summer.

Be afraid of Halsey Michael Wu Contributing Reporter

“God damn right, you should be scared of me,” bellows Halsey during “Control,” a track off her debut album, “Badlands,” creating a nearly perfect introduction for a blue-haired pop star in the making.

In fewer than 10 words, Halsey has created a character that is so striking and imposing that the listener has no choice but to heed her words and feel utterly terrified.

Halsey, a stage name for 20-yearold Ashley Frangipane, fits comfortably in a category with fellow genre-busting pop stars Lorde and Lana Del Rey. After launching a career through a small but fervent online fan base, Halsey was able to grab the attention of better-known acts, like Imagine Dragons and The Weeknd, who she will tour with later this fall.

This appeal is immediately noticeable throughout “Badlands.” The album is stuffed with absorbing synths and clever riffs. “Gasoline” opens with an ominous mandolin that is as soothing as it is disconcerting. Later in the track she asks, “Do you call yourself a fucking hurricane like me?” followed by a memorable melody heard on a previous track titled “Hurricane.”

As fascinating as “Badlands” often is sonically, Halsey harnesses most of her power in her lyrics. In these lines, she populates her world with seedy characters she can’t resist, late-night drives and time spent gazing from the back seat. “You said

your mother only smiled on her TV show…

I hope you make it to the day you’re 28 years old,” she croons on “Colors.”

“Badlands” is far from invincible.

“New Americana,” as catchy as it is, can’t shake off the impression that it is anything more than a plastic and clunky attempt at social commentary. “Cigarettes and tiny liquor bottles / Just what you’d expect inside her new Balenciaga,” she sings on the track. The song’s anthemic, call-to-arms chorus is irresistible, but feels too manufactured to be memorable.

“Drive” sounds like Halsey’s best Lana Del Rey impression. “California never felt like home to me,” she repeats throughout the track. While she does a good job of capturing Del Rey’s signature brand of West Coast yearning, Halsey can never capture her inspiration’s enigmatic appeal for long enough to truly sell this track.

Despite the many similarities that could be drawn between Halsey and all the other young women with a yen for electro-pop currently dominating the record industry, “Badlands” is still an impressive debut, providing just the platform necessary to hoist its artist above the fray. Her name is Halsey and you should be scared of her.

God damn right.

Album: “Badlands” Musician: Halsey Release Date: Aug. 28, 2015

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Miley and her druggy new album Alex Clarke Staff Reporter Miley Cyrus dropped a free 23-song album on SoundCloud after her performance on the VMAs on Aug. 30. Her performance on the VMAs to “Dooo It!” and the music video for the song left many hesitant to hear the rest of album. Some responded that the song didn’t deserve such negative reactions, but diehard fans weren’t happy with the turn Cyrus has taken in her career away from party jams and pop.

The songs on this album range from a ballad about a dead fish (“Pablow the Blowfish”) to raunchy sex jams (“Bang me Box”) to an environmental anthem (“1 Sun”). Cyrus’ voice is on the forefront, which is a different sound from the pounding bass and many layers of sound in “Bangerz.” Some of the songs are very raw and feature just her voice, which gives a very vulnerable feeling. These songs come from different places of vulnerability: some from a deeply introspective place like in “Tiger Dreams,” or from an almost child-like place like in “Twinkle Song” or “Pablow the Blowfish.”

Listening to it, I sometimes couldn’t tell when one song ended and the other began.

It’s a very trance-like psychedelic album.

There are a few songs that have more of a percussion section and complex layering,

like “Milky Milky Milk” and “I Forgive Yiew,” but many songs are as smooth as a trip downstream, like “Cyrus Skies.”

Cyrus’ talent with everything she does is evident, but she definitely made this album with a different aim, and I think the goal was to be herself with as little outside input as possible. The entire album was written or co-written by Cyrus herself, which is unusual for a pop star. Her last album “Bangerz” had a large production team; this album hardly has one. She also dropped the album on SoundCloud for free. To me, this album is more about Cyrus expressing herself as an artist and trying something different than trying to gain popularity or profit.

Bottom line: weird, diverse and raw but not without talent. Cyrus crafts albums that are representations of her, and “Miley and Her Dead Petz” is a perfect representation of who she seems to be right now. The entire album is like getting a trip through her carefree, introspective, horny and high mind.

Album: “Miley and Her Dead Petz” Artist: Miley Cyrus Release Date: Aug. 30, 2015 Rating:

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Likenesses create perfect Cleveland dream-pop Teddy Eisenberg Staff Reporter There’s nothing particularly new about the musical art form we know as rock ’n’ roll, but that doesn’t mean that the combination of vocalist backed by guitar, bass and drums can’t still be awe-inspiring.

Such is the case with Cleveland’s own Likenesses, the ambient, dream-pop quartet which released its self-titled debut LP on Sept. 4.

Recorded and mixed entirely at the west side art gallery and studio Survival Kit, the rich tapestry of sounds constructed on this release mirrors that setting. Guitars shimmer like flecks of gold paint and vocals

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Maria Fazal Staff Reporter The Case Western Reserve University community is known for thinking beyond the possible. Each week, this column aims to capture a slice of campus life.

Q: What are you majoring in?

A: Chemistry.

Q: What made you decide to major in that?

A: When I was in high school, I had a really good chemistry teacher. I took firstyear chemistry, then AP chemistry, and I really enjoyed it. My teacher explained things really well and always pushed me to do my best. I could always go to him outside of class and ask him about anything

regarding school, family, relationships. At the beginning of the year, he talked about his childhood, and I grew up in the same neighborhood in the suburbs of Chicago— it wasn’t the best neighborhood. It made it easier to identify with him.

Q: Have you been able to find a professor like that at CWRU? A: No I don’t really talk to my professors personally. I don’t talk to them unless if I’m asking questions.

Q: Are there any changes you’re planning on making this year?

A: I hope to be more open with my friends and my professors. I think I should reach out more, because I didn’t reach out much last year. I think I should be more open to everything on campus.

Courtesy Likenesses’ Bandcamp page Likenesses’ new cassette tapes became available this September.

soar like broad brush strokes.

The aptly titled track “Captivator” kicks off the album with an attention-grabbing musical waterfall of cascading drums and recessed vocals provided by the group’s vocalist Alex Tapié. Building in intensity with each successive verse, this track is an early highlight that serves as the perfect introduction to Likenesses’ dreamy, reverbsoaked sound. “Of Course You Do,” the single-ready second track, follows this musical framework to a tee with similarly satisfying results.

The most appealing of the eight tracks on the album is the crystalline “Like We Used To.” The album’s longest cut, this song is a crescendo of brooding bass and drums. It stuns the listener each time the jazzy chords of its chorus dispel the remaining instruments to bask the track in flash of light. Here, the group’s instrumentalists—guitarist Tony Cavallario, bassist Matthew Gengler and drummer Craig Ramsey—shine brightest.

In only 36 minutes, Likenesses easily prove with their debut that there’s plenty of room at the top when it comes to crafting deeply textured and thoughtful guitar pop.

“Likenesses” is available for purchase on cassette at Blue Arrow Records in the Waterloo Arts District and on Bandcamp, and can also be streamed on Spotify.

Album: “Likenesses” Artist: Likenesses Release Date: Sept. 4, 2015 Rating: 75004

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Concert calendar A look at this week’s upcoming performances Anne Nickoloff Director of Print Every week in Cleveland is a week to see live music. But, like any other week, it’s difficult to see them all; dozens more of Cleveland’s concerts are just waiting to be experienced.

Here are five upcoming shows, featuring a range of bands, venues and prices:

Date: Sept. 12, 6:30 p.m.

Band: Hippo Campus/American Wreslers/Diverge Venue: The Grog Shop Price: $10-12 It took a second to figure out that “Hippo Campus,” an indie band, isn’t referring to a college for hippos. It’s like “hippocampus,” the part of the brain that takes care of memory (duh). And their unique, summery blend of indie pop, along with their adorable onstage joy, will be something to remember long after their Saturday night show.

Date: Sept. 13, 6:30 p.m.

Band: Buckcherry/Saving Abel Venue: The Agora Price: $25-30 Buckcherry isn’t for everyone. Their whole butt-rock vibes are either beloved or hated, like Nickelback (when they were popular, that is). There’s nobody saying “Buckcherry, they’re okay.” No. When you put out a song like “Crazy Bitch” there is no middle ground. But for those who love the band, this show will be a hit. Apologies to everyone else.

Date: Sept. 15, 7:00 p.m.

Band: Stone Temple Pilots Venue: House of Blues Price: $37.50-49.50 Stone Temple Pilots are pretty beloved, but after Scott Weiland’s departure, they’re not the STP that we knew and loved. Even with no Weiland, the group gained favor with the addition of previous Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington. It’ll take them “one step closer” to the hearts of their fans.

Get it? Because “One Step Closer” is a Linkin Park song. Sorry again.

Playlist of the Week Teddy Eisenberg Staff Reporter

Born from Dan Auerbach’s insatiable appetite to create groovy songs with sweet melodies, The Arcs is the latest venture from the guitarist best known for his work with The Black Keys. “Stay In My Corner” is a shimmering standout cut from the group’s debut record, “Yours, Dreamily,” that marries Auerbach’s soulful croon with bright piano and twangy guitars. Look for it on Nonesuch Records starting Sept. 4.

“All Yours”—Widowspeak

Widowspeak is the dreamy-sounding Brooklyn duo comprised of vocalist Molly Hamilton and guitarist and bassist Robert Earl Thomas. Together with the help of producer Jarvis Taveniere, Widowspeak blends the sounds of country and classic rock into a surprisingly velvety mix of reverb and jangle. “All Yours” is a perfect example of this sonic mastery, and can be found on the group’s third LP, released Sept. 4 on Captured Tracks Records.

Date: Sept. 17, 9:00 p.m.

Band: Best Coast/The Lovely Bad Things Venue: Beachland Ballroom (presented by the Grog Shop Price: $20-25 Ohio is in the midwest, meaning that there is no coast—that is, unless you count Lake Erie, which is questionable. Instead of arguing about geography, how about you enjoy Best Coast’s faraway, laid-back rock at their upcoming Beachland Ballroom show?

Date: Sept. 17, 7:00 p.m.

Band: Wilco/William Tyler Venue: Masonic Auditorium Price: $37.50-71 Break out your greatest hipster outfit and top if off with a cowboy hat for Wilco’s upcoming show. It’s entirely possible the show will sell out, but as of press time, there were still some reasonably priced tickets available. Grab ‘em while they’re hot.

“Stay In My Corner”—The Arcs

“Why Generation”—FIDLAR

On “Why Generation,” FIDLAR poses an age-old question to its listeners: Why do you have to grow up? While the group doesn’t come up with any definitive answers, everything from the sound of this song’s defiantly pop-y chorus to its irresistible hook show that the L.A. skater group has at least found the secret to musical eternal life. Find this track on FIDLAR’s cheekily titled second album, “Too,” available Sept. 4 on Mom + Pop Music.

“Floating On Air”—Dam-Funk feat. Flea & Computer Jay

Bringing the considerable chops of Computer Jay and the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ bassist Flea under the fold of some intensely nuanced grooves, one-man band, producer and DJ DamFunk cultivates a simply transfixing medley of sounds on “Floating On Air.” This seven-minute cut may seem like a daunting listen at first, as each repeated drum hit and bass flourish leaves the listener more dazzled than the last. Find this song on Dam-Funk’s latest record, “Invite The Light,” released Sept 4. on Stones Throw Records.

“Pacifica”—These Knees

Retro Pick of the Week:

The end of summer doesn’t necessarily have to mean the end of fun in Cleveland, as local rockers from These Knees are quick to remind listeners on their song, “Pacifica.” Catapulted by lead singer Stephanie Trivison’s crystalline voice and a killer melody, this track is sun-soaked indie rock at its finest. See These Knees at the second annual NEOCycle Fest at Edgewater Park in Lakewood this weekend on Sunday, Sept. 13 at 2 p.m.

“Holiday In The Sun”—Sex Pistols

When “Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols” dropped in 1977, the world was forever changed by its brash amateurism and the destruction it left in its wake. To simply dismiss the Sex Pistols as loud punk rockers bent on wrecking everything in their path is not inaccurate, but it is a huge mistake. “Holiday In The Sun” shows the group at their athematic best, led by lead singer Johnny Rotten’s rapid, foaming vocal delivery. Simply put, this is some of the greatest, most inspired rock songs of all time.

Find all these tracks online with our weekly Spotify playlist at observer.case.edu Courtesy Joshua Webb’s Facebook page Buckcherry is a divisive band, and because of this, their upcoming show at The Agora will be either hated or loved.

Teddy Eisenberg is a fourth-year programmer at WRUW-FM 91.1 Cleveland. He hosts The ’59 Sound, an exploration of rock music, every Thursday morning from 8-10 a.m. and co-hosts the variety talk show Max and Teddy in the Morning at Night (Sometimes) on Mondays from 5-6 p.m. The crackle of vinyl warms him on cold Cleveland nights.

All photos courtesy of npr.org, pitchfork.com, stereogum.com, thefourohfive.com, theseknees.bandcamp.com, & sexpistolsofficial.com.

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Aries You can ram through those assignments this week!

Taurus This week, grab the ball by the horns!

Gemini Don’t be too startled when you spot your doppelganger on campus. The world is smaller than you think.

Cancer You might be a bit crabby this weekend, be sure to get enough sleep.

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Scorpio Your sting is worse than your bark so try not to snap too much at those close to you.

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Spartans start season on fire with a perfect 5-0 record Veijay Raj Contributing Reporter Pull out the brooms. Case Western’s women’s volleyball team swept the Otterbein Classic in Westerville, Ohio this past weekend, winning all four games and continuing their hot start to the season.

Regarding the team’s strong effort, Coach Karen Farrell said, “At the Otterbein Tournament we played some teams that had a lot of inexperienced players on the floor, and I think that gave our team an advantage.”

Case Western matched up with midwest schools Kenyon College, Berea College, Otterbein University and Capital University.

After a tight match against John Carroll University last Tuesday, the Spartans utterly dominated the Otterbein Classic. The Spartans opened the tournament against Kenyon last Friday. Following a competitive first game, CWRU increased its intensity with a ridiculous 0.417 hitting attacking percent in the second game to win by 17 points. The Spartans handily closed out the match with a 25-16 victory in the last set behind the strength of a 6-1 run to pull away towards the end of the set.

Senior setter Robyn Marks spread the wealth with her 30 assists leading to 60 percent of her teammates’ points. Junior hitters Kayla Pfaff and Marian Barton added a combined 20 kills to lead the offensive attack.

Immediately after, the Spartans played tournament host to Otterbein University. In their closest match of the tournament, CWRU dropped the first set 19-25, unable to recover from an early deficit. However, CWRU rebounded to take the next three sets in a row, 25-22, 25-22 and 26-24. Falling behind 16-17 in game two and in danger of dropping the first two sets, CWRU’s hitters powered a 6-0

run that ultimately led them to victory. Following a win in the third set, CWRU received a scare in the fourth, blowing a 19-12 lead to Otterbein. Despite a strong effort by Otterbein to claw back to even the score at 24, Otterbein made two errors to hand the Spartans the match.

Senior Haley Kauffman highlighted the competitive matchup against Otterbein, tallying 12 kills at an exceptional 30 percent rate.

Senior Carolyn Bogart followed with five kills and nine points.

On Saturday, the team tallied two more wins against Berea and Capital, winning both matches 3-0. Against Berea, Kauffman once again posted 12 kills to lead the team to a 2516, 25-20 and 25-11 victory. The team then demolished Capital University to conclude the tournament, winning 25-8, 25-14 and 2513, behind a 0.274 kill rate. Hitter Bogart was specifically in attack mode in the Spartans’ last game with 12 kills on 28 attempts.

Individuals Kauffman and Katie Best earned all-tournament honors, with Kauffman also taking home the tournament MVP award. Coach Farrell commended their efforts and said, “Katie anchored a great defensive effort in the backcourt and Haley performed at a high level statistically.”

Despite a tremendous effort by the Spartans at Otterbein, Coach Farrell believes the team has plenty of room for improvement.

She said, “Going into this weekend we are still looking for more consistency in our attacking and turning a percentage of our attacking errors into points,” adding that, “We also need to improve our serving effectiveness to put our opponents out of system.”

The team hopes to correct these mistakes against Buffalo State this Friday at the Marcia French Memorial Invitational.

Spartan cross country crush competition at Sudeck Stampede JP. O’Hagan Sports Editor With the late summer sun sitting low over the horizon, the Spartans lined up at the starting line.

The men’s and women’s cross country squads played hosts as they kicked off their season this past weekend. The teams hosted both crosstown rival John Carroll University and Ursuline College in the 15th Annual Bill Sudeck Stampede at Sundown.

The home course for the Spartans is located at the Squire Valleevue Farm in Chagrin Falls, Ohio; they used that home course advantage to secure a pair of wins.

In the intense heat of the weekend, the separation between the scoring runners was extremely narrow, with a mere 36 seconds of difference between the first and ninth place runner. The men’s side was led by junior Galen Caldwell, who crossed the finish line with a time of 19:56.30. Caldwell narrowly beat out his teammate sophomore Sam Merriman, who finished the race right on his heels. Merriman finished the 6K run just over a second later than Caldwell, posting a time of 19:57.60.

This one-two combo for the Spartans helped them ride to victory as the next three spots were taken by John Carroll and Ursuline College runners. However, the Spartans also posted points with sixth, seventh and ninth place finishes. Senior Chippy Kennedy came in sixth, finishing in 20:23.40, followed by senior Ben Davis with a time of 20:28.30. Freshman Timothy Travitz closed out the scoring, finishing ninth.

The women’s squad crushed their competition of the day as they followed senior Kelsey Aamoth’s third straight victory in the event to take home the title. Aamoth finished the 4K with a time of 15:14.09, a good 48 seconds before the second place runner crossed the finish line.

That second place runner was fellow Spartan Kristen Ruckstuhl, who crossed the finish line in a very solid 16:13.06. After allowing John Carroll sophomore runner Erin Kiley to take third place, the Spartans then placed senior Dana Jeter at fourth place and swept the bottom of the scoring spots of sixth through ninth.

After the strong showings, the Spartans run again on Saturday, Sept. 12 at Calvin College. The race starts at 10 a.m.

Runner

School

Place

Time

15:14.9

K. Aamoth

CWRU

1

16:03.4

K. Ruckstuhl

CWRU

2

16:11.5

E. Kiley

JC

3

Time

1 2 3

# 1 3 4 6 7 9 12 13 14 18 20 22

Player C. McCracken H. Ewart K. Nickles K. Bender B. Kapavik J. Troutwine M. Mitchell N. Webber K. Parkhurst C. McDivitt A. Jeffers J. Winstel Team Totals

CWRU Capital Player K SA A Digs BS BA K SA A Digs BS BA # 1 S. Chua 0 0 1 3 0 0 4 0 0 7 0 0 2 G. Sodini 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 2 4 J. Colaianni 0 0 0 3 0 0 3 0 0 5 0 0 E. 5 0 0 0 4 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 2 Wolfenbarger 2 0 0 0 0 1 9 A. Lu 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 H. Kauffman 5 0 E. Briggs 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 11 0 0 8 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 12 S. Carroll 0 4 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 13 L. Anderson 1 0 15 K. Bondelid 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 7 6 0 0 16 R. Marks 1 0 17 10 0 0 0 4 1 0 0 17 N. Jeansonne 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0 0 18 M. Barton 3 0 0 4 0 1 16 1 14 30 0 6 21 D. Witri 5 0 1 2 0 1 25 K. Pfaff 4 0 0 0 0 1 26 C. Bogart 12 2 0 6 0 0 33 K. Best 0 3 2 10 0 0

Case Cycling Team to host a race at NeoCycle this weekend Julia Bianco Director of Web and Multimedia The Case Cycling Team is bringing their talents to NEOCycle, the Midwest’s biggest urban cycling festival, this weekend. The club will be organizing a Criterium race on Sunday, Sept. 13, which will feature a short, fast-paced race around Battery Park, near the event’s hub at Edgewater Park.

The club is hoping to get about 200 signups, including about 10 students from the club who will be participating in the race. The event costs a total of $11,000, of which $3,000 comes from company sponsorships and the rest of which comes from registration fees.

“We’re pretty much in charge of the entire event,” said Case Cycling president Matthew Swartwout. Race director and Cycling Club

vice president Evan Guarr worked on all of the organizational pieces of the race, including getting permits, finding race officials and arranging for set-up and teardown on the day of.

NEOCycle also features a number of other races, as well as stand-up paddleboarding, mountain bike demos, yoga, pinball, vendors, a beer garden, performances and more. In 2014, the event drew over 10,000 attendees in its first iteration.

Case Cycling also hosted a race at last year’s event, in addition to a number of collegiate races. Online registration for the Criterium is available until Friday, Sept. 11 at noon, but day-of registration for most of the events is available throughout the weekend.

“It’s a huge event,” said Swartwout. “This is definitely the biggest race we’ve done so far.”

Men’s 6K Race

Women’s 4K Race Place

Observer Archives The Volleyball team celebrates last season after a kill. The Spartans had a lot to celebrate as they swept their four games this weekend to start the season 5-0.

Volleyball 1 2 3 4 5 T Capital 8 14 13 0 15 3 John Carroll 25 25 25 3 12 2

Runner

School

19:56.3

G. Caldwell

CWRU

19:57.6

S. Merriman

CWRU

20:03.4

E. Thorkelson

JC

4

16:13.6

D. Jeter

CWRU

4

20:06.6

M. Oswald

JC

5

16:18.7

H. Sterle

JC

5

20:22.3

P. O'Brien

JC

6

16:21.4

E. Hail

CWRU

6

20:23.4

S. Kennedy

CWRU

7

16:26.1

D. Kulpims

CWRU

7

20:28.3

B. Davis

CWRU

8

16:27.0

R. Laveson

CWRU

8

20:28.9

A. Synder

JC

9

16:28.4

V. Cole

CWRU

9

20:32.3

T. Travitz

CWRU

Courtsey Case Cycling/ Facebook Case Cycling will be helping to host the Neocycle Event at Edgewater Beach this weekend.

Football Volleyball

Bye Week Home vs. Buffalo St. 5:30 PM & vs Baldwin Wallace 7:00 PM

observer.case.edu

Varsity Teams Home vs. Westminster 10:00 AM & vs. Franciscan 12:00 PM

Men's Soccer

Away @ Capital 5:00 PM

Women's Soccer

Away @ Wittenberg 1:00PM

Cross Country

Away @ Calvin College 10:00 AM

Monday 9/14

Tuesday 9/15

Wednesday 9/16

Football

Thursday 9/17

sports

Volleyball

Home vs. Mount Union 7:00PM

Men's Soccer

Home vs John Carroll 7:30 PM

Women's Soccer

Away @ Baldwin Wallace 7:00 PM

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Football team falls just short in opener Eddie Kerekes Staff Reporter Football is a game of inches. The Case Western Reserve University football team learned that the hard way after losing at the University of Chicago last Saturday by a score of 31-30. A fourth quarter missed extra point was the difference in the high-scoring affair, the Spartans’ third-highest scoring opener, as the teams were evenly matched throughout.

The first quarter was dominated by defense as both teams were held scoreless, though each had their opportunity.

CWRU looked like they were in business on their second drive, however, Chicago linebacker Nick Pielech forced a fumble, ending the Spartans’ push before they could score. Chicago missed their opportunity as well, failing to convert a 38-yard field goal after the Spartan defense stopped a crucial third down.

CWRU capitalized and on the first play of the second quarter, Rob Cuda hit Ethan Albers for a 67-yard touchdown.

This was the first of two long touchdowns from Cuda, who went 21 for 35 with 339 yards and three touchdowns through the air. Big plays abounded all game for the Spartans due in large part to an offensive line that only allowed one hit on Cuda all game.

After the two teams traded field goals, Chicago, led down the field by quarterback Burke Moser, tied the game before

the half expired, as Moser threw to Cole Thoms for his first of two scores. Early in the drive, Chicago converted a third and 13 after a timeout with a big play of their own, a 20-yard completion from Moser to Nathan Massey.

After CWRU got the ball following a Chicago punt, their running backs drove the team to Chicago’s 26-yard line to set up the play of the game. Cuda dropped back, rolled out, evaded a Chicago defender and threw the ball to the end zone for a diving Myles Anthony, who caught it to give the Spartans the lead back.

A stingy Spartan defense, led by corner Nick Kwon and linebacker Zach Lyon, prevented the Maroons from gaining any positive yards in the whole quarter. Senior defensive end Justin Williams got a huge third down sack on the drive following the touchdown, keeping all the momentum with the Spartans.

The Spartan offense took over near the end of the quarter and eventually scored on a Cuda run on the first play of the fourth. Cuda led all Spartans with 65 rushing yards, showing his dual threat ability. CWRU converted a key fourth down on the drive as well as a third and long to set up the touchdown scamper, increasing the lead to 14.

On the ensuing drive, Chicago responded with Moser eventually finding Syd Reynolds in the back of the end zone for his first touchdown, cutting the Spartans lead in half. After a CWRU punt, Moser once again led Chicago on a scoring drive, tying the game at 24.

Cross Country

A Chandler Carroll 31-yard run, one of Chicago’s five big plays, set up the score.

The Spartans responded with a big touchdown of their own, a 70-yard pass from Cuda to Erb, who finished with four catches and 96 yards. Unfortunately for the CWRU faithful, the extra point attempt was no good, giving the Spartans only a six-point lead and five minutes to defend it.

A fateful roughing the passer penalty against the Spartans gave Chicago new

life on their next drive as two plays later they took their first and only lead on another pass to Reynolds. The Spartans almost had a comeback as Cuda led the team to Chicago’s 48, but when a fourth down pass fell to the turf, the comeback ended.

The Spartans play host to the Saint Vincent Bearcats (0-1) in a Presidents’ Athletic Conference clash on Sept. 19.

The Spartans look to avenge last season’s three-point defeat at St. Vincent.

2015 Season Football Score Predictions Week

Date

Opponent

CWRU-Opponent

Week 1

September 5

@ Chicago

21-17

Week 2

September 12

Week 3

September 19

St. Vincent

__ - __

TBD

Week 4

September 26

@ Thiel

__ - __

TBD

Week 5

October 3

@ Bethany

__ - __

TBD

Week 6

October 10

Waynesburg

__ - __

TBD

Week 7

October 17

@ Geneva

__ - __

TBD

Week 8

October 24

Wash. & Jeff.

__ - __

TBD

Week 9

October 31

Washington

__ - __

TBD

Week 10

November 7

__ - __

TBD

Week 11

November 14

Thomas More @ Carnegie Mellon

__ - __

TBD

BYE Week

Correct X 30-31 N/A

A look at the upcoming NFL season Taylor Moran Director of Business Operations With the new NFL season kicking off this weekend, there are always interesting storylines across the league to pay attention to over the next 17 weeks.

I’ve been a huge fan of football since 2008, the year before my team won the Super Bowl.

What started off as a casual hobby slowly devolved into an all-consuming commitment that controls my Sunday nights and makes my roommates throw me side eye for yelling at the TV. My anticipation for the new season is slowly building, so enjoy my snarky take on the new season.

As any reasonable football fan does, I like seeing the New England Patriots lose. I always keep my fingers crossed that this season will be the one where they don’t make the playoffs.

Sadly, the rest of the AFC East is all but pathetic, so there isn’t much of a chance for that to happen. Now that Tom Brady has defeated “deflategate,” something that would take an entire other article to express my disdain for, the Patriots will be back in good form, but I will still always be cheering for their weekly opponents.

On a more local note, I see no hope for the Cleveland Browns this season in the AFC North. Johnny Manziel is a terrible quarterback, and they traded the better quarterback Brian Hoyer away. Their light at the end of the tunnel is just an oncoming train. The Browns’ only savior is their defensive team, but they seriously need to avoid another string of injuries if they want to avoid falling farther into the ranks of the worst teams. Hey, at least they will always have their fans.

The AFC North was up for grabs last year, but I foresee less of a fight breaking out this time around. It’s going to end in a good old fashioned knock-down drag-out fight between the Baltimore Ravens and Pittsburgh Steelers,

and my money is on the Ravens. Granted this is just because I vehemently hate the Steelers, their fans and their defense.

The entire season I’m going to keep hoping and praying that the New Orleans Saints win the NFC South, but the Saints always find new ways to disappointment me. Considering the Carolina Panthers were the first team to win the division twice in a row since it was created in 2002, they have the best chance of winning again this year, but something in me says they aren’t getting a three-peat. The Panthers had a losing record last year, mostly due to Cam Newton’s poor leadership. The Saints and the Atlanta Falcons are set to improve this year, but I expect that the Panthers will just stagnate.

The Saints have placed second in the division both of those years, so there are good chances they might pull ahead. But even if the Atlanta Falcons get to the playoffs, they will just choke in the first round as usual. No playoff run this year for them.

Now to incur the wrath of every other Saints fan, my own mother included, I am extremely glad Jimmy Graham is gone. With his trade to the Seattle Seahawks, Drew Brees will be able to spend his time building connections and trusting partnerships with receivers who can actually catch the ball.

Over in the NFC East, I also foresee the Washington Redskins making a comeback with their recent announcement of Kirk Cousins replacing Robert Griffin III as their starting quarterback. Cousins has improved greatly during his time with the Redskins, but then again, it’s not like the Redskins could possibly do worse than they have recently.

Finally, in the NFC North, the last team I plan to follow this season is the Green Bay Packers. The Packers have some admirable consistency to their legacy and I predict this season to be no different, just so long as they can keep Rodgers healthy and his legs from being stomped on. I’m still not over that.

sports Spartans split series in summer heat

Teams can’t score on women’s soccer Noah Crowley Contributing Reporter

Stephanie Kim/Observer Midfielder Paul Darmstadter clears the ball up field against Thomas More. The Spartans split their first home series but rebounded against Baldwin Wallace.

Jacob Rayyan Contributing Reporter The men’s soccer team had an up-anddown weekend of games, with the Case Western Reserve University Spartans finishing 1-1 consisting of a blowout win versus University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg on Saturday, and a tough loss in overtime versus Thomas More College. The overtime loss was the first of the season for the team, who are now 2-1 this year.

Against Pitt-Greensburg, the Spartans started strong with a quick goal by sophomore Michael Balog at the 19:54 mark of the first half, and the team never looked back from there. Four second half goals pushed the blowout to a dazzling 6-0 win for the Spartans. The Spartans (unsurprisingly) outshot Pitt-Greensburg 29-5 in the contest and overall held a 6-1 advantage in corner kicks.

When asked about Balog’s strong season so far, Head Coach Brandon Bianco said, “He has the ability to be as good as he wants to be.” Coach Bianco also didn’t hesitate to say what the team can improve on, saying, “In the first half we didn’t play with the necessary energy and engagement, but still scored two timely goals, which was good. ” Looking to continue their quick start to the season, the Spartans once again got off to a hot start against Thomas More, with Balog scoring the first goal of the game in the 15:47 mark. From then on, it became

a back-and-forth scoring match that didn’t end until overtime, with Thomas More coming out on top. Thomas More’s Eli Nienaber responded to Balog’s goal just a little over a minute later. The Spartans once again went up by one thanks to junior Jacob Grindel’s goal in the 60th minute of the game. Once again, however, the Saints responded, scoring a goal of their own in the 66th minute.

With the score tied 2-2 at the end of regulation, the game went into a 10-minute overtime period. All the way in the 96th minute of the contest, the Saints took their first lead of the game, and ultimately closed it off, giving the Spartans no chance to come back. When asked about one thing he could change, Bianco said, “We got fatigued; we didn’t manage the game as well as we could have. It’s something we’ll focus on.”

Bianco attributed the fatigue of his team to the hot temperatures during the game.

Nevertheless the Spartans showed they can compete with some of the best by holding their own against No. 8 ranked Thomas More.

The Spartans rebounded against Baldwin Wallace Wednesday night as they broke a tie to go up 2-1 late in the game for the win. Look for a full recap online at observer.case.edu.

CWRU will look to turn the win into a streak as they take on Capital University at 5 p.m. on Saturday afternoon.

Men’s Soccer CWRU Baldwin Wallace

1 1 0

2 1 1

Isaiah Ahn/Observer CWRU defender Elle Zadina fights for possession against a Thomas More forward.

The Spartans battled the #8 Saints to a scoreless draw this weekend.

Women’s Soccer

Final 2 1

Shots Case Western Reserve Baldwin Wallace Corner Kicks Case Western Reserve Baldwin Wallace

1 8 3 1 4 1

2 Total 5 13 4 7 2 Total 2 6 2 3

Shots on Goal 1 Case Western Reserve 0 Baldwin Wallace 1

2 1 2

Total 1 3

Saves 1 Case Western Reserve 0 Baldwin Wallace 0

2 0 1

Total 0 1

Assists Case Western Reserve Baldwin Wallace

1 0 0

2 Total 1 1 0 0

Fouls 1 Case Western Reserve 1 Baldwin Wallace 4

2 7 8

Total 8 12

Scoring CWRU M. Zembas 38:06 (Unassisted) 1 J. Grindel 72:08 (C. Cvecko) 1 Total 2

The Case Western Reserve University’s women’s soccer team took on Thomas More College’s women’s soccer team in a neck-andneck battle that ended in a dramatic doubleovertime tie. Senior Makenzie Best led the Spartans with three shots during the game, but could not come up with any scores. Junior Alexa Williams led the Spartans for shots on goal with two, but was also unable to find the back of the net. The Spartans’ goalkeeper, senior Megan Romelfanger, completed her second consecutive individual shutout.

This was the Spartan team’s second game of the season. In both games, the Spartans have not allowed for any goals to be scored.

The Spartans’ only goal of the season so far was scored in the first game against Oberlin’s team by Emily Dickens.

The game against against Thomas More’s Saints started with a lot of promise. Within the first minute of play, Best got off a promising shot on goal. Killing the Spartan momentum, a defender from the Saints deflected the ball before it even got to the keeper. No other shots during the first half had very much promise, leading to the Spartans having four shots and the Saints having two at the end of the half, tied at nil-nil.

The second half started off slow. It wasn’t until about 15 minutes into the second half that a good shot was made. In fact, it was the best shot of the game. The ball touched the back of the Saints’ net after a kick from Spar-

Scoring Mount Union C. Wallace 61:11 (Unassisted) 1 Total 1

tan sophomore Elle Zadina. However, due to a foul called during the play, this otherwise tie-breaking shot was voided and the game remained a stalemate.

Less than 10 minutes later the Spartans were given another great chance to break the tie. Junior Marley Praprost came up for a free kick. Praprost was roughly 40 yards out from the goal. Her foot collided with the ball and sent it sailing straight towards the goal—only to hit the crossbar. By what seemed like a miracle, Williams rebounded the ball and got off a quick shot on goal.

However, using her quick reflexes and athletic ability, the Saints’ goalkeeper, Megan Barton, kept the ball from scoring a goal against her team.

During the two overtime sessions that followed, neither team was able to get off a good shot as both defenses played seemingly as if their lives depended on it, and it didn’t help that the offenses were already exhausted from a long, grinding regular time in the game. The contest ended in a draw that was deflating for both teams.

The Spartans kept their winning streak alive with a victory over Ohio Wesleyan University, when the offense exploded for five goals in the 5-0 victory. Look for a full game recap online at observer.case.edu.

Since last season, the Spartan women’s soccer team hasn’t allowed the opponent to score in 300 game minutes, and looks forward to keeping that clock ticking as they go on the road to play Wittenberg University at 1 p.m on Saturday afternoon.

CWRU Ohio Wesleyan Shots Case Western Reserve Ohio Wesleyan Corner Kicks Case Western Reserve Ohio Wesleyan

1 2 Total 2 20 22 0 0 0 1 2 Total 0 4 4 0 0 0

Assists Case Western Reserve Ohio Wesleyan

1 1 0

2 Total 2 3 0 0

Scoring CWRU A. Lindberg P. Van Dijck R. Hammond A. Williams A. Batty

24:00 39:00 54:30 60:44 87:28

(Unassisted) (K. Dolansky) (M. Praprost) (Unassisted) (G. Scariano) Total

1 1 1 1 1 5

1 2 0

2 3 0

Final 5 0

Shots on Goal 1 Case Western Reserve 2 Ohio Wesleyan 0

2 9 0

Total 11 0

Saves Case Western Reserve Ohio Wesleyan Fouls Case Western Reserve Ohio Wesleyan

2 0 6 2 1 1

Total 0 6 Total 1 1

1 0 0 1 0 0

Scoring Oberlin Total

0