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Students participated in the National Day of Silence to protest the oppression of the LGBT community.

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April 21, 2010

No. 13.

Vol. CXXXII.

Student radio station WTSR may face shut down

By Katie Brenzel News Editor Since Governor Chris Christie announced his budget proposal for fiscal year 2011, the prominence of potential cuts to programs, especially in education, have plagued the news. The College is no exception. Among other programs, the student-run radio station, 91.3 FM WTSR, is currently being considered to be shut down next year according to John Laughton, dean of the school of arts and communication.

“I have been asked by the Provost to consider ways of consolidating programs and looking at cost saving measures,” Laughton said in an e-mail interview. “I am collecting information to respond to this request. No decisions have been made, nor will they be made without thorough review.”

According to Kevin Potucek, assistant director of radio, television and film communication studies and advisor to WTSR, as a small academic program with an expensive overhead cost, WTSR is a “reasonable program to look at” in regards to program consolidation. However, he and the organization have been working to prove the significance of WTSR

to the campus community by writing letters to the vice president of college advancement, John Marcy, as well as seeking other sources of funding, should the school of arts and communications drop the organization.

“I believe that WTSR is an absolutely essential part of the campus. I also believe that many other staff, students and alumni feel the same way,” Potucek said.

Many students are adamantly opposed to potential cancellation, such as Darren Farinas, former station manager of WTSR. Farinas was station manager from April 2008 to March of this year and said his experience has granted him insight into the importance of the organization. He said in addition to providing the campus and surrounding area with exposure to a variety of genres and forms of music, WTSR is a consistently major contributor, by request, to Welcome Week and events coordinated by

the College Union Board and ResLife, as well as many others. He also said the organization provides invaluable experience to those involved.

“WTSR’s student volunteers gain so much from being a part of the station. The relationships students build with each other is an added bonus, but the skills students can develop through their on- and off-air experience can never be gained in a classroom,” Farinas said in an e-mail. “My public speaking skills, ability to multitask, lead an organiImage courtesy of WTSR zation, improvise, collaborate with other organizations and plan ahead have improved exponentially as a result of my involvement with WTSR.” Involvement in WTSR has enabled students to secure internships such as Billboard Magazine and AM ESPN Radio, an experience perhaps unavailable without WTSR, he said.

“As for me, I would be devastated

‘Soup’ host dishes celebrity dirt

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Joel McHale entertained the crowd with jabs at celebrities such as Hugh Hefner.

By Katie Brenzel News Editor He’s loud. He’s witty. He has a mini vendetta against Ryan Seacrest. Joel McHale, host of the celebrity roasting show “The Soup” and star of NBC’s “Community,” was featured in the College Union Board’s (CUB) annual spring comedy show on April 16 in the Kendall Main Stage Theatre.

McHale appeared with his typical repertoire of popular cultural critiques, poking fun extensively at his own network, E!, which he referred to as the “ehh” network. His routine mirrored the style of “The Soup,” which he embodied as the “sanitation team of television.” McHale

kept the audience in hysterics with his sarcastic brand of comedy, charged by his imitations and mocking commentary. Addressing everything from his encounter with the Kardashians to Ryan Seacrest’s height and sexuality, McHale’s energetic deliverance blended charm with snarky observations, occasionally followed by a victory jig around the stage after a particularly accurate, and consequently offensive, joke.

No celebrity seemed safe from McHale’s blunt dissection of public personas. He likened Tyra Banks’ fear of dolphins to a fear of glaciers, demonstrated Hugh Hefner’s waddle complete with sound effects and recounted his fear of contracting “hand Chlamydia” after shaking hands with Bret Michaels.

Hitting a little closer to home, McHale characterized “The Jersey Shore” as the “show that ruined the solar system.” “‘The Jersey Shore’ is a bigger disservice to the Italian people than the Olive Garden or the mafia,” he said. “Snookie gets paid $10,000 an appearance. So go drop out, kill yourselves.”

In an interview preceding the show, McHale said he often prefers college-age audiences because they tend to be the most familiar with his cultural references.

“For the most part, most college kids know what I’m talking about,” he said, after recounting an unfortunate corporate event where the audience was unfamiliar with Tyra Banks.

“The people are younger, healthier, for the most part less drunk … they are young and full of

Refuse art exhibited The Salon des Refusés show displayed art made of trash.

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Professor invited abroad Anita Allyn will be going to London to show artwork at the Tate Modern.

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to see something happen should WTSR have to close down as a result of a lack of funding,” he said. “Our volunteer base has risen from 40 in 2008 to over 100 in 2010.

To see all of the work that we have all put in go to waste would be a huge blow to all those involved, and to see all of this hard work be for nothing.”

Justin Dilks, sophomore interactive multimedia major and contributor to the Friday night show, “The Song Remains the Same,” said the station helps students prepare for working at other stations in the future.

“It’s a great way for communication (studies) majors to learn the procedures and what it takes to work for radio,” he said.

The station is currently in the process of setting up a website for donations to be made to WTSR, according to Melissa Virzi, the current station manager.

According to the website, WTSR, though the name has changed, has been the College’s radio since 1966. It has an average weekly audience between 50,000 and 100,000 listeners.

Katie Brenzel can be reached at brenzel2@tcnj.edu.

Have you seen this mural?

Photo Courtesy of Ruane Miller

A mural hand-painted in spring 2008 by Kasey Tararuj, a fine arts major who graduated that spring, has gone missing from one of the outside walls of Holman Hall. Plans had been made to move the mural to the new Art & Interactive Multimedia building, but when officials went to move the mural, they discovered it was missing, according to Ruane Miller, professor of fine and digital arts. Closer inspection revealed the mural had been unbolted from the wall.

Anyone who may have information should contact Richard Mylowe at mylowe@tcnj.edu or Ruane Miller at ruane@tcnj.edu or Campus Police.

Sid Bernstein visits The man who brought The Beatles to America spoke to students.

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Proposal to save students’ money with carpool to campus

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Jamie Grant, director of the Policy Institute at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, discussed the results of a survey conducted by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.

Survey gives voice to transgendered individuals

By Joanna Fantozzi Correspondent Students, professors and guests from other universities filled the Mildred and Ernest E. Mayo concert Hall on Friday April 16 to hear Jamie Grant, director of the Policy Institute at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, speak about transgender rights.

Grant discussed the results of an innovative new survey that gave a voice to over 6,000 transgendered Americans.

The event was sponsored by the department of women and gender studies and took place during the “National Day of Silence,” where students nationwide are silent for one day in an effort to dramatize the effect of silenced members of the LGBT community.

Grant, who has a Ph.D. in Women’s Studies at the Union Institute and has led the nation’s only academic women’s center at the Union Institute, spoke about the survey that was led by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and helped transgendered people tell their story.

“I want to create a different portrait of transgender people. The old study is that they are on the fringe of society and aren’t like you and me,” Grant said.

The National Task Force that administered the study was founded in 1973, and was part of the effort to take homosexuality out of psychiatric handbooks and diagnoses.

The survey was their latest advancement

in educating the public about the LGBT community.

According to Grant, it was very difficult to implement the survey due to limited funds and resources.

Grant said the 70-question survey took eight months and covered a wide range of topics including gender association, housing, employment and harassment. The 6,500 respondents made up the largest sample ever collected in a survey of its kind.

“Our data tells a very dramatic story,” she said.

Grant shocked the audience with statistics like 46 percent of FTM (female to male) transgendered people surveyed have attempted suicide, 70 percent of transgendered people report having been harassed in school and 20 percent reported being harassed by teachers.

“We were pretty much weeping around the table about the suicide statistics, but it confirmed what we already knew,” Grant said.

The survey’s first question, “Do you identify as gender non-conforming in any way” produced varied results such as one respondent’s gender identification of FTX, or female to “blank” or “question mark.”

After Grant’s lecture was finished the floor was open for questions.

“I didn’t realize there was so much discrimination,” Pam Rotter, a sophomore art education major, said. “It was definitely an eye-opening experience.”

It was business as usual at last week’s Student Government Association (SGA) meeting – except, on this particular Wednesday, that business was conducted on more comfortable chairs.

The SGA held their annual New Jersey State House meeting on April 14, in which the association busses its general body to the political hub of Trenton in order to hold its meeting in one of the building’s Senate chambers.

While there, members reflected upon the recent Mike Huckabee event and discussed a proposed student carpool system.

Brian Block, vice president of administration and finance, introduced the SGA to the carpool initiative he has worked on with senator-at-large Megan Coburn.

The pair has worked in tandem with the Greater Mercer Transportation Management Association (GMTMA) in order to develop a system that works with the students, according to Block.

“It would be students carpooling with one another to get to campus mostly,” said Block, junior political science major.

He went on to outline the system’s objectives.

“The three main goals of this are, one, to save students money on gas … two, to eliminate and reduce our carbon footprint in accordance with the president’s Climate Commitment Committee, and three … to (rather than) build more lots and create more expenses … subtract cars and then making parking a little bit easier,” Block said.

Block and Coburn, freshman math

secondary education major, hope to survey students in the next week to gauge interest, and hopefully to launch a website with help from the GMTMA. “They have a website platform that they could recode and refine for us … our goal is to get it up no later than the second semester of next year,” Block said. “We look forward to that, as it’s something that could serve the students on three fronts, and probably not cost us anything.”

The SGA also noted the success of the recent Mike Huckabee lecture and book signing.

“In the beginning of the year, our goal for bringing people in was to get (the College) more prominent public servants, whether they be national or local, and through bringing Corey Booker and now Mike Huckabee, I think we’ve really reached that goal,” said Olaniyi Solebo, vice president of legal and governmental affairs and sophomore economics and political science double major, who helped organize the event.

Both aspects of the evening were well-attended.

“We had over 800 people come to either the book signing or the lecture,” Solebo said.

Billy Plastine, senior political science and business administration double major, presided over his final State House meeting as executive president, but bestowed good wishes upon candidates running for office for the 2010-2011 academic year.

“I really am pleased so far with the caliber of the campaign and I’m really encouraged by the quality of the candidates that we have running this year. I wish you all a lot of luck,” Plastine said.

Voting for SGA representatives took place April 19-20.

SFB adopts Taiko, denies funding to others

By Kelly Johnson Staff Writer Ink will be hosting their biannual talent show “The Goods” this spring after the Student Finance Board (SFB) allocated them $813.50 for the event during their April 14 meeting.

The purpose of The Goods is to showcase all kinds of student talent, and will feature poet Kenneth Goldsmith as the headliner.

“I think it’s a good event, they do it every semester and they always have a good turnout,” Brianna Glynn, senior representative and biology major, said.

The show will be from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. with Goldsmith going on around 7 p.m., and will take place on April 24 in the Rathskeller.

SFB also voted to pick up the Outdoors Club and budget them $271 toward their club for next year.

The purpose of the organization is to spread awareness about the importance of the outdoors and the environment through trips including hikes, camping, climbing and water rafting.

All of the trips are open to the entire student body, although some activities like rock climbing can only accommodate several people. The funds from SFB will go towards publicity for future events and necessary equipment for the trips.

After some discussion, SFB also decided to pick up Phi Beta Lambda, budgeting their organization $210 for publicity.

Phi Beta Lambda is a professional and social organization based out of the school of business but is open to students of all majors.

The group is involved in state and national leadership conferences and is planning on bringing basic finance speakers to the College to speak about issues such as balancing a checkbook and paying off loans, something Phi

Beta Lambda thinks will be very beneficial for all students.

Some members of the board were not in support of picking up the organization.

“Most of what they’re doing is networking and career building,” said Michele Velluzzi, operations director and senior accounting major. “It’s something that the school of business should be funding.”

However, the majority of the board decided that Phi Beta Lambda was worth budgeting money toward.

The board also unanimously voted to pick up the Japanese drumming group, TCNJ Taiko, budgeting them money for publicity for next year’s events and performances.

The group holds workshops to teach the basic techniques of Japanese drumming to anyone interested. They also hold on-campus performances, but hope to do some shows off campus in the future.

If funded, Taiko also hopes to have a spring concert next year.

SFB will also be recognizing Council for Exceptional Children, a student organization that provides social events for people with disabilities.

The group currently is in need of more activities for the events. Some board members felt that funding the group would be benefitting others more so than students.

“I don’t know if this is an appropriate thing to fund,” said Garrett Hoffman, administrative director and junior mathematics major. “The stuff we’d be paying for is not for the students and it’s student money.”

Others felt that this organization was appropriate to fund in order to further their mission.

“I think this club is very similar to Best Buddies, which we fund,” said Ashley LaRose, senior representative and communication studies and psychology double major.

SFB also voted to pick up the Christian a capella group Voice of Hope which has not been funded for the past two years after it was brought to light that the organization was restricting membership based on singing ability as well as religion.

Voice of Hope no longer restricts membership based on religion or ability and now includes positions that do not involve singing.

The group holds two concerts per year and sings at Relay for Life and Mystique.

The board decided not to pick up the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu ground fighting and martial arts club.

The club would want funding primarily for equipment, as it was brought to their attention that the Recreational Center allegedly does not clean the wrestling room more than a few times a year.

The board agreed that the club should consider making themselves a club sport in order to receive funding.

SFB also voted not to budget Pre-Students of Osteopathic Medicine Association (Pre-SOMA) funds because of the exclusivity of the groups’ events.

A majority of the events held by Pre-SOMA would not hold any interest for students outside of the organization other than their blood drive. The board came to the consensus that this organization should be funded by school rather than the Student Activity Fee (SAF).

SFB also denied the request made by Colleges Against Cancer.

Their main event, Relay for Life, has traditionally been paid for through fundraising.

“They’re mostly just focusing on fundraising, and we don’t fund that for any organization,” LaRose said.

“Our decision does not reflect if we are for or against cancer,” Michael Stolar, executive director, said.

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Cubes vanish Friday to host Senior Gala

Tim Lee / Photo Editor

The cubes in the Brower Student Center atrium were removed April 16 to accommodate the Senior Gala on May 13, which will house over 600 attendees, according to Tim Asher, director of student activities. After the gala, potential plans for new carpeting and furniture may be put in place. Funds have yet to be approved and will require student input.

The removed furniture is being stored off campus, and may make a reappearance.

Two won’t leave bed during fire alarm

By Alyssa Mease Production Manager A male and female refused to leave a room after a fire alarm went off at 4:30 a.m. on Wednesday April 14 in Norsworthy Hall.

A Community Advisor found the two together in bed. They were issued summonses for Disorderly Conduct. …

An intoxicated male was found drinking a Keystone Light at 5:45 p.m. on Thursday April 15 in Eickhoff Dining Hall.

He said he consumed one beer and was taken to the hallway because of his disruptive behavior.

A member of Lions EMS asked him to sign a “Refusal for Medical Treatment” and he laughed. He was then handcuffed and taken to the College Police Department for processing. He was issued a summons. …

An anonymous caller reported a white male with a pink shirt was writing on a wall at 1:45 p.m. on Thursday April 15 in Lot 6.

The individual was found on the soccer field and arrested. He was issued a summons for criminal mischief. …

A golf cart rented by Conference and Meeting Services was damaged on Thursday April 15 in the Eickhoff parking garage. The golf cart was parked at 7:30 p.m. the previous day and was found damaged in the roadway. There is no further information at this time. …

Prescription Adderall pills were stolen out of a backpack between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Tuesday April 13 from the Brower Student Center. The victim kept her backpack unattended. There are no suspects at this time. …

The New Residence Hall basement hallway and laundry room were sprayed with a fire extinguisher between 2 a.m. and 10:35 a.m. on Thursday April 15. The extinguisher could not be found and there are no witnesses at this time.

Day of Silence speaks against hate

By Laura Herzog Nation & World Editor PRISM members and their allies gathered to “Break the Silence” with an outdoor concert in the Alumni Grove at 5 p.m. on The National Day of Silence on Friday April 15. The day began as a serious reflection on the bitterness of homophobia and ended with a lighthearted outdoor celebration, which persisted despite rainy weather.

Students organized the first Day of Silence at the University of Virginia in 1996.

According to tradition, PRISM members and their allies, heterosexual students that support the LGBT community, spent hours before 5 p.m. in silence, offering their friends and teachers notes explaining their silence.

Meanwhile, chalk writing on the sidewalk scrolled words of hate directed against the LGBT community and a space on the main floor of Brower Student Center, featuring several empty cafeteria tables, was blocked off with caution tape to represent the many students that stay home from school for fear of bullying based on their perceived sexual orientation. Students walked around campus wearing black t-shirts scrolled with red writing on the front and the back: “Fuck this/the silence ends here,” “End the silence/Gay is not a crime,” and “What will you do/to break the silence.” “(The National Day of Silence) is the one day when we truly call attention to the silence that people face because of homophobia and make people aware of the fact that they need to speak out for the next 364 days of the year,” said PRISM president Liz Ehret, junior fine arts major.

However, the laughter, music and refreshments in Alumni Grove showcased another, more light and hopeful side of the day.

A “We Are Not Afraid” poster was proudly displayed on one table. It was covered with supportive student signatures that had been amassed over the course of the day at a table PRISM set up in the Student Center. According to PRISM member and sophomore art education major Pam Rotter, the sign gets more and more signatures every year.

“It’s at the point where we’re joking that we need a bigger sign now,” said Greg Boyle, junior music education major, who organized the event. “I see a lot of hope for the future. Our generation doesn’t have the same biases and there are so many more steps to be taken, but the steps we have taken are so great.”

He highlighted the legal side as the new focus of the LGBT tolerance movement — gay marriage, recognition on the census and adoption rights.

“I hope next year even more people come out and I personally thank everyone

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Members of PRISM were stationed in Brower Student Center with stories hanging around their necks, highlighting instances of homophobic related abuse. for coming out and showing me that (the College) is an accepting campus,” Boyle said.

“I think our biggest issue is the excessive apathy among the campus environment,” Ehret said. “There’s an unwillingness to take ownership of issues. A lot of students don’t seem to feel that they can make a difference so they don’t even try.”

Freshman finance major Brittany Sykes, who is not a member of PRISM, was one of the allies on campus who joined the silence and wore a shirt in support.

“People noticed the shirt, so they would look,” she said. “But no one that didn’t know me came up to me and talked … People need to know so they can put a stop to (discrimination) and change can come.”

“I feel that it’s a matter of education, not a matter of getting mad at them,” said freshman English major Mike Dalpe. “I’ve gotten most of my floor to stop saying ‘that’s so gay.’ I’ve actually gotten my roommate to stop saying ‘that’s so—’ and then, he says ‘stupid.’ … There’s no reason to say something like that. In other words it makes them look ignorant.”

Attic, a band composed of current students and alumni, played at the event, singing upbeat pop and hip-hop songs and attracting a lot of attention to the gathering.

As the rain fell harder a few members of PRISM and their allies gathered closely under a rainbow-colored umbrella, shivering and laughing as the lead singer of Attic gave a speech about “a world without hate.” He then launched into a rendition of “We will make it through the rain,” followed by the “StarSpangled Banner.”

“It’s okay to be gay. It’s okay to be straight,” Boyle said. “But we can all make the same music.”

Talking business, tips and tools for women and minorities

By Jeni Alo Correspondent

Approximately 25 small business owners attended the “Doing Business with the State of New Jersey” workshop held by the N.J. Office of Supplier Diversity and the Division of Minority Women Business Development at the College on Friday April 16 to learn about the small, women and minority business registration and certification process.

Ahsaki Tamara McCall, diversity officer, began the workshop with a PowerPoint presentation that informed the attendees of the procedure of state contracting, the bidding process and the many programs the Office of Supplier Diversity offers.

One resource that was mentioned is New Jersey Selective Assistance Vendor Information (NJSAVI), a database open to the public that can be used by small business owners to create awareness of their business.

“Believe me, large companies go on here to find small business companies like yours,” McCall said to the attendees.

McCall also mentioned Small Business Resource, the quarterly newspaper that is published to help small business owners, which was given to the attendees free of charge. The rest of McCall’s portion of the workshop mostly consisted of the Request for Proposal components that small business owners must go through. This process was described as lengthy, taking anywhere from 30 to 60 days to be completed, according to McCall.

“Sit down with someone at the Small Business Center and make sure you have all of your documents in order.

If something goes wrong, they will reject your bill automatically,” McCall said.

Nina Moseley, senior director of the Department of the Treasury, began the second part of the workshop by explaining a new online service that notifies small, minority and women business owners to reapply for registrations and

certifications prior to expiration, as well as accommodating fair competition.

“We want similar companies to compete against each other. That wasn’t happening in the past,” Moseley said.

Ramirez also explained the online Diversity Registry that gives business owners the opportunity to market their businesses to the 109 agencies within the state.

“This is where you want to captivate buyers and other vendors,” Ramirez said.

Many attendees found the information very helpful and had many of their questions answered personally. If they needed extra help, Elvis Ramirez, a technical officer with the division, was available after the workshop to assist them.

“I’m a small business owner. This workshop gives you more information on how to bid and find more opportunities.

These people give you insight,” Lata Kirpalani, a certified public accountant who owns her own practice in Metuchen, N.J., said.

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In recognition of National Nurses’ Week May 6-12, 2010 The Department of Nursing, acknowledges all nurses and future nurses on campus including faculty, staff, and students.

Thank you for your Professionalism, Dedication and Caring to the School, to the College, to the Community and to Society!

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Advocates carry handguns, rifles at Va. rally

ARLINGTON, Va. — Carrying loaded pistols and unloaded rifles, dozens of gun-rights activists got as close as they could Monday to the nationʼs capital while still bearing arms and delivered what they said was a simple message — Donʼt tread on me.

Hundreds of like-minded but unarmed counterparts carried out a separate rally in the nationʼs capital.

The gun-carrying protesters in Virginia rallied on national park land, which is legal thanks to a new law signed by President Barack Obama that allows guns in national parks.

Organizers said itʼs the first armed rally in a national park since the law passed.

The District of Columbiaʼs strict gun laws, however, generally make it illegal to carry a handgun, so rally participants there were unarmed.

Daniel Almond, who organized the “Restore the Constitution” rally in Virginia, said he wanted to convene in a place where “we can exercise our rights.” He pointed in the direction of Washington and said, “Over there, the Constitution is being violated in that we cannot bear arms.”

Among the speakers in Virginia was former Alabama Minuteman leader Mike Vanderboegh, who has been denounced in recent weeks after calling for citizens to throw bricks through the windows of local Democratic party headquarters across the country. Several such incidents occurred after Vanderboegh issued his call.

Vanderboegh said the broken windows are a wakeup call that many people feel threatened by an expanding federal government.

“We are done backing up. Not one more inch,” Vanderboegh said to cheers, after telling the crowd that for too long Americans have acquiesced at the loss of liberty.

In an interview, Vanderboegh said he considers armed resistance justified only “when they send people to our doors and kill us.”

But he suggested that an arrest at the hand of federal government is tantamount to a death sentence and that he would fight back in such a case. Specifically, he outlined a scenario in which people who refuse to buy health insurance under the new health reform law would be subject to arrest and that such confrontations could turn violent.

“If I know Iʼm not going to get a fair trial in federal court ... I at least have the right to an unfair gunfight,”

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Don Syfrett of Dallas, Ga., makes a phone call while demonstrating for first and second amendment rights at a ʻRestore the Constitutionʼ rally at Gravelly Point Park in Arlington, Va. on Monday April 19.

Vanderboegh said.

After his speech, gun control advocate Martina Leinz confronted Vanderboegh and called him a “small, little bully” and said the rally was designed to intimidate.

“If they wanted to have dialogue, they donʼt need to bring a big weapon with them,” she said of the protesters.

The rally began in Fort Hunt Park and moved to Gravelly Point in Arlington, next to Reagan National Airport and just south of the nationʼs capital, with the Washington Monument and the U.S. Capitol in the backdrop. Departing planes frequently drowned out speakers, and reporters nearly outnumbered rally participants.

Ken Garvin of Newville, Pa., said he had never before attended such a rally but came Monday because he believes the government is out of control. He stressed that the people attending the rally “are not a bunch of crazed thugs. Theyʼre just people.” He said all sides need to listen to each otherʼs viewpoints.

“I donʼt hate the left. I just donʼt understand where theyʼre coming from,” he said.

Wes Wdzieczny of Essex, Md., said people are unduly alarmed if they see rallies like these as promoting violence.

“I donʼt think anyone here has delusions of storming the Capitol. People are just basically fed up,” he said.

In Washington, signs reading “Which part of ʻshall not be infringedʼ confuses you?” and bright orange stickers saying “Guns save lives” dotted the crowd at the Washington Monument.

Organizer Skip Coryell said he chose the date to mark the anniversary of the Revolutionary War battles of Lexington and Concord, and dismissed any associations with the actions of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. The bombing occurred on April 19, 1995.

“I think there are some people out there who have an agenda and they want to paint us as gun-toting, lunatic, militia types, and weʼre not that way,” Coryell said.

Egyptian security warns it may fire on protesters CAIRO — Egyptʼs powerful security ministry warned that its forces could open fire on pro-democracy protesters if necessary, media reports said Monday, drawing criticism from groups calling for political reform in a parliamentary election year.

An Interior Ministry adviser delivered the warning at a parliamentary hearing in which opposition lawmakers questioned him over the use of force against protesters at an April 6 demonstration. Several dozen protesters managed to briefly assemble in front of parliament to call for constitutional reforms and fairer presidential elections before plainclothes security men knocked some over and dragged them away.

Calls for change have grown louder in the lead-up to Novemberʼs legislative elections.

Presidential elections are due in 2011, and Hosni Mubarak has not said whether he will run in an attempt to extend his nearly three decades in power.

The Interior Ministry official, Hamed Rashed, told the parliamentary session that it is legal for security to use force, including firing live ammunition against protesters if they attack the police, as he accused demonstrators of doing. His comments were published by the independent dailies AlMasry Al-Youm and Al-Shorouk.

Hamdi Hassan, a lawmaker from opposition Muslim Brotherhood who initiated the hearing, confirmed Rashedʼs comments and said the opposition takes them “very seriously.”

“We were surprised to find that the Interior Ministry is explaining its position by saying that the law permits it to use force to break up illegal protests, even by using live ammunition, according to an ancient law

News Bits Former boxing champion Edwin Valero, who had a spectacular career with 27 straight knockouts and flouted a tattoo of President Hugo Chavez on his chest, hanged himself in his jail cell on Monday April 19, after being arrested for stabbing his wife to death, police said.

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Opposition protesters demonstrate behind a cordon of security forces in downtown Cairo on Tuesday April 13. from the days of British colonialism,” Hassan said.

Hassan said two ruling party lawmakers supported the ministryʼs use of force and that one of them accused the ministry of being “too lenient” and urged it to fire at protesters.

Ahmed Abou Akrab, one of the ruling party lawmakers who railed against the protesters, said their comments were taken out of context.

He said the protesters are misled and should not challenge security orders.

“If the security is attacked by firearms, it should respond to defend itself,” said the lawmaker, himself a former police officer.

Spontaneous protests in Egypt are illegal

and a police permit is required for any gathering of more than five people. Rallies are often violently broken up and protesters detained.

During parliamentary elections in 2005, security forces fired rubber bullets to keep voters from reaching polling stations, killing 14 people.

“The language of threats is very real.

We take it seriously,” Hassan said. “These threats are even more serious because we are entering a political season before elections. It should be a political feast, not a season to use force.”

Amnesty International condemned what it called “clear incitement” by the ruling party lawmakers.

After five days in which nature brought the jet age to a halt, European officials agreed on Monday to let air traffic resume on a limited basis, giving hope to millions of travelers around the world stranded by ash from a volcano in Iceland.

The U.S. and Iraq claimed a major victory against al-Qaida on Monday, saying their forces killed the terror groupʼs two top figures in this country in an air and ground assault on their safehouse near Saddam Husseinʼs hometown.

Information from AP exchange

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Editorial

Huckabee’s comments incite controversy

Former governor Mike Huckabee’s visit to the College has garnered much attention, particularly his comments regarding LGBT marriage and adoptive rights. If you read The Perspective’s coverage of the event and media interview, you know that he said some pretty incriminating things.

While placing statements such as “Children aren’t puppies” and “You don’t go ahead and accommodate every behavioral pattern that is against the ideal” in context, don’t excuse their implications, major parts of his argument in defending his views were omitted.

Regarding adoptive rights, Huckabee emphasized that he believed the major issue to address is the reason why these children are even up for adoption. He said couples need to be more responsible for their actions.

“In a perfect world, in an ideal world, people would realize that having a child is a heavy duty responsibility … You don’t use that person as a sexual toy and toss them away,” he said in The Perspective’s audio recording. “leaving them with the burdens of a child. That to me is what is so recklessly irresponsible and ridiculously immature.”

When asked if he “would classify among those who are immature and selfish, the gays and lesbians who want to adopt a child?”, though his argument was strictly referring to sexual relations that lead to a child that is subsequently put up for adoption, he replied, “No, you said that, I did not.”

Additionally, in respect to his statement, “You don’t go ahead and accommodate every behavioral pattern that isn’t ideal,” the rationale for his viewpoint is delivered in an incomplete version. He compares legalization of same-sex marriage to the legalization of polygamy or incest, not as a way of rendering the first a ridiculous notion, but in order to highlight what he believes is the “burden of proof” by LGBT activists to change societal standards.

“If we are going to accommodate a different definition of that (marriage) then why do you get to choose that two men are ok but one man and three women aren’t ok. Why? Who gives you the right to say the polygamist isn’t just as right in this argument,” he said.

To a degree, Huckabee has a point. Who is to decide what is right or wrong in society, and why can someone accept one lifestyle, but condemn another? It is unfortunate that he doesn’t seem to see this same hypocrisy in the context of society accepting heterosexual marriage and not homosexual marriage. However, Huckabee did make it clear in the interview that he believed it wasn’t his job to decide whether gay marriage merited the same rights as heterosexual marriage.

“But as far as me telling someone else how they have to live, that’s not my goal,” he said. “Now on the other hand, if they want to try to change the definitions of institutions like marriage, then they’ve got to convince me and the rest of the culture that we should change 5,000 years of recorded history of what marriage means.”

I do not agree with much of what Huckabee said. However, I think some essential elements of his argument were lost in the outrage over snippets extracted from the conversation, which are particularly offensive without his other statements.

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Freezers and fridges can really affect people

By Cara MacNeil English and Secondary Education Major Class 2010 George Carlin had a stand up routine about refrigerators — how prehistoric man decided that it was cold outside and he should build a box to stay warm. Once inside the box he realized his meat spoiled so he made a cold box inside the warm box. Upon the invention of butter humans realized that there had to be a slightly warmer box inside the cold box inside the warm box or else the butter gets too hard to spread.

Fridges are the center of the kitchen. It used to be mainly a storage unit — people still cooked but they needed somewhere to put the food. Eventually we shed the Cooking Gene and now most of us are relatively dependent on pre-made frozen meals. Being without a fridge is like being in prison — you’re isolated from most food groups and chained to the dry goods section of Wegman’s. Right now I’m not just in prison, I’m in the Jurassic trying to preserve my food caveman style.

There I was, in a puddle created by the now-dead fridge, holding my yogurt, milk and butter against my chest, feeling like I’d just been hit by a tornado. There’s a moment of shock, a moment of silence and then you just have to get to work because the Yoplait is sweating and

that’s not a good thing. I have the basement room and one perk is that it’s always a bit colder than the rest of the stead. I immediately sped to the window and carefully stacked my two Tupperwared pastas, my condiments (sans Mayo, I’m not that brave), my brand-new butter and my yogurt against the window (but not too close, this wasn’t an invitation to ants). I had to balance everything precariously while keeping it far enough from the edge that one errant swipe of my arm in the middle of the night wouldn’t careen the pile to the floor (or worse, me) but still in front of the drapery so that it was hidden from the pesky pests looming in the dirt outside.

During the night I had nightmares about freezers. I woke in a panic thinking I had to eat four boxes of frozen chocolate-covered bananas while I devoured a dozen melting pints of Halo. There were nightmares about beer slowly losing its delicious cold tang that I’ve repressed because of the horror. When I woke I had a delicious breakfast of warm yogurt (warm yogurt is on the menu for a while) and gooey butter on toast (let’s be clear, the butter was gooey before hitting the toast). As I ate them I felt like I was roughing it; a true pioneer — I had sort of preserved my food for the night and I wasn’t choking on poisonous preservatives that were rebelling against the warmer temperatures. I was like my caveman ancestors … except now I’m thinking of getting another kind of small cold box to put in my warm box: a cooler.

Class consciousness can generate change

By Matt Hoke Member of the International Socialist Organization

America needs another revolution.

While banks are bailed out with 100s of billions, education faces downsizing. New Jersey K-12 education is losing 800 million dollars and teachers are being laid off nationwide. Despite a pro-education image, President Obama recently congratulated a Rhode Island school district for cutting teachers. This is not the way to help our growing 10 percent unemployment, which not only robs millions of a livelihood, but forces the rest of us to expect less pay.

The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have cost one trillion by conservative estimates, some say three trillion dollars. Still, both parties claim there is no money for universal health care. Obama’s promise to close Guantanamo Bay remains unfulfilled. He has continued most of the wiretapping and judicial policies which made Bush look like a dictator. Contradicting its own patriotism, the system neglects returning veterans, who face hopeless waiting lists for promised benefits like healthcare. Many are unemployed.

Capitalism is in a log jam. Former customers of first-world industry are now industrialized nations, which would be a good thing in a sane world. From Europe to China, everyone is manufacturing, but no one is buying. While not the end of the world,

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this means a decrease in workers’ standards of living before the wheels turn again.

Meanwhile real wages in the U.S. have been falling since 1973, and 35,000 people starve to death daily in a world with enough food overproduction to feed everyone 1,000 more calories per day than needed.

Could we solve these problems through normal channels? Many people attempted this by electing Democrats, and they are rightly losing patience. Voting alone cannot break a system in which our voting doesn’t govern the economy, and cannot influence a Congress flooded by 4,500 health insurance lobbyists, nor the Supreme Court as it rules in favor of corporate election donations. The ‘proper channels’ are indirectly owned by the one percent of the population that owns 40 percent of the wealth. As long as class disparity exists, democracy is impossible.

Let’s not romanticize revolution. Violence shouldn’t be glorified. However, workingclass revolution is based more on organization than violence, different from the stereotypical takeover by armed rebels. This kind of uprising, having happened over five times around the world since 1968, cannot be controlled by anyone but emerges spontaneously. It involves the working class in its true sense — the fourfifths of the population who labor anywhere from offices and factories to the service sector, whom cannot survive except by working for employers. It is not only a youth rebellion but

emerges across all ages and races. It includes revolt by occupied nations like Iraq, and even the very soldiers charged with keeping them in line.

Streets and workplaces come alive with discussion and democracy. Everywhere conversations emerge about how to continue the struggle and run society under new management. These outbreaks of workers’ democracy merge into one congress with recallable delegates from democraticallymanaged workplaces — the true definition of “socialism.”

Progress toward this revolution is happening now. Movements that demand anything against the system’s interests — peace, civil rights, economic justice — grind against the reality of what the system can allow, forcing people to revolutionary conclusions. Our job is to participate in those movements, and accelerate their attainment of the radical epiphanies without which they won’t even win their own reasonable demands. Besides participating directly, exploration and spread of radical ideas is the most crucial step for knitting the working class into a self-conscious force capable of acting in unison. In the short and long term, locally and globally, class consciousness is the only way genuine change can happen.

Sources: foodfirst.org, nationalprioritiesproject.org, publicintegrity.org, socialistworker.org

Programs and clubs, such as Lions EMS, may shut down. Which club or program do you think needs to remain open?

“I think they should keep them all open.”

“Unión Latiná.”

“Sports.”

“Lions EMS.”

—Sam Williamson, freshman deaf education and English major

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—Anoop Kandikatla, freshman open options science major

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LETTERS

By Laura Herzog Nation and World Editor Never in my life have I felt so afraid to write something. Yet, I feel so conflicted I suppose I need to write something. I’m writing in regards to the recent controversy with The Perspective and Mike Huckabee.

It’s one of those instances that has unequivocally proven that we live in a very different world today, where no words go un-scrutinized and no individual’s reporting is less valid than another’s. As the Huffington Post said, commenting on the situation, “the (journalism) world is flat.” Yet I suppose the irony, in regards the omnipresence of the media today (in every shape and form), is that in some respects, rather than encouraging responsible public figures and transparent behavior, it has often produced the opposite effect.

Public figures are becoming phonier, less open and less sincere, so great is their fear that something they say will kill their reputations. (As Huckabee so ironically quipped before giving his talk at the College: “You’ll ask your questions and I’ll do my best not to say anything that might be a career-ender. It’s called Q&A: Questions and Avoidance.”) However, the degree to which this merciless media glare is merited is debatable—and it has been debated, extensively. Perhaps for the average man, who doesn’t set policy and have a stake in creating political barriers to gay marriage, this kind of reporting over a stupid comment, indicative of his generational and religious views, would be unfair. But perhaps Mike Huckabee does deserve to be called out, even if the controversy was undeniably courted.

And I know that it was, because—in part two of my revelation, and the cause for my fear in writing this and my personal shame — I was present at that interview, as the reporter for The Signal (a publication of a decidedly more quote-on-quote “neutral” personality). And, what’s more, I knew that Mike Tracey would ask those questions, so I purposefully avoided the controversy, instead asking questions that I felt would be more appropriately geared toward the nature of Huckabee’s coming to our campus.

To be honest, at first I felt slightly indignant when I heard about what Mike had done. I thought: “he got what he came for.” Furthermore, he possibly destroyed the reputation and political career of a man who –I will go ahead and admit — I liked. I honestly believe that Mike Huckabee is a good man, and this is despite the fact that I do believe he has some undeniably bigoted views. He said many good things during the course of his talk as well — which were ignored in The

Perspective’s article — and I decided to forgive him for the bad. Why? Simply put, I guess that for better or for worse, I have a respect for authority and experience that I suppose a lot of kids my age don’t. I will think “what can this man teach me?” As opposed to: “where does his ignorance lie?”

However, I now find myself at a crossroads: On one hand, I feel ashamed, of course. I wonder if I too am symptomatic of my institutions and what has long been one of the greatest shortcomings of the mainstream media: I called myself a supporter of gay rights and yet I ignored an opportunity to call-out a public figure for his homophobic views. I cried in my dorm room when I considered the gay-rights ramifications of so many people like me committing the same “innocent” inaction.

Nonetheless, on the other hand, I still cannot condemn myself entirely — I still see the rationality behind my mindset in that press conference.

For one thing, I knew that anyone who did their research could know Huckabee’s views on gay rights—views which are symptomatic of both his Biblical Evangelical Christian upbringing and his generation. I wanted to ask him about less political issues that the mainstream media had not already hit him on a hundred times. With this in mind, interview or not, I would not have voted for Huckabee because I am a supporter of gay rights — his responses in the interview only corroborated what I already knew.

However, there is a broader social context here that the mainstream media discourse has largely ignored.

No mainstream politician has supported gay marriage unequivocally — they have just not said something as offensive as Huckabee and/or been exposed for it. To me, this lack of open political support for gay rights is an issue that roots from two main things: the many interest groups that guide our so-called “democracy” and an ignorance that is pervasive. In my mind, there is no justification for being against gay marriage that any politician could give that would not, like Huckabee’s now-infamous words, be offensive and based in ignorance. Thus, getting rid of one man from the political circuit does not change these things.

I have always felt that these kinds of individual-focused discourses hurt all parties involved by creating a conflict that distracts from more constructive social action. To me, a journalist who is a supporter of gay rights would better spend his or her time covering the gay community in its own terms. It has been proven that increasing exposure and awareness decreases bigotry. Thus, I would rather hear the voices of gay individuals and their supporters explain why homophobia is ridiculous than read an endless array

of articles declaring Mike Huckabee a homophobe.

To be fair, the blogs have definitely generated some constructive dialogue. But it is dubious whether politicians see these condemnations as representative of a voter base and not just the “liberal left minority.” If these condemnations change their policy, The Perspective has, in part, done a truly commendable thing. But—will NOT supporting gay rights soon become the new “political suicide”? One can hope, but only time will tell how this kind of pro-gay rights discourse, which is recurrent in the media, is interpreted in the political sphere. As Huckabee himself stated, “politicians don’t care about people, they care about voters.”

To that end, all of this discourse and controversy generated by The Perspective’s story will be for naught if we, as gay rights supporters, do not get out there and vote our opinion. This is my belief and the reason why I would rather act constructively than reproach destructively any day. In some people’s minds this might make me an ironic coward; in my mind, this makes me the antithesis of a cutthroat reporter and I don’t know if that’s a good or bad thing, necessarily. To each his own, I suppose. We all need to be true to who we are.

If this event illustrates anything it is that words are more dangerous now than ever. In fact, I shudder to think how these words will be (mis?)interpreted in this climate. Yet, as a person who has always felt actions speak louder than words, I now am vaguely disgusted not only with myself, but also with the entire cutthroat culture of modern journalism.

If not as a reporter per se, I plan on spending my life building bridges and educating people — and forgiving them for ignorance until they are educated. Ignorance is a cultural affliction. As Mike Huckabee stated, cultural afflictions take “time” and “spreading awareness and creating incentives” (“not dictating behavior or penalizing it”) to eradicate. Homophobia, like any cultural affliction, will not be eradicated by taking down one perpetrator. And it is not fair to mercilessly vilify a person who is ignorant in one facet of his life, even if it is a glaring one and an important issue that has the potential to become the claimto-fame of our generation in particular, just as civil rights was our parents’.

Still, we are all guilty of ignorance. To that end, I believe Mike Huckabee was fair at the very least in stating that “the burden of proof is with those who wish to change the definition.” Mike Huckabee himself challenged us to take action to support gay rights and we should. But the way to support gay rights is not by pinpointing and criminalizing ignorance, but by eradicating it through education.

Student Finance Board responds to Mike Huckabee piece

By Mike Stolar Executive Director of the Student Finance Board

As Student Finance Board (SFB) Executive Director I’d like to address some of the concerns and accusations made by Venkat Ramamoorthi in last week’s issue of The Signal. Unfortunately, his article was considerably misinformed, and shows a lack of research on his part. It is easy to sit back and make accusations of your fellow students.

It’s just as easy to actually put in the small amount of time and effort into researching your complaint. We make ourselves readily available to field any concerns students have, and can be reached at sfboard@tcnj.edu.

In his article, Mr. Ramamoorthi lists the speaking fee for Mike Huckabee, but fails to state the expense for the “banquet” put on by the Student Government Association and SFB. This is because the Student Activity Fee (SAF) funded banquet is a complete fabrication. The dinner that occurred came from SGA’s own pocket — from money that they fundraised and have every right to spend how they wish. They did, however, choose to spend $1,600 of their money for new gym equipment in the Physical Enhancement Center. The accusation that SFB would choose to fund this event to have a dinner with Huckabee is baffling. Only two SFB members attended dinner with Huckabee and

both serve on SGA. Additionally, neither of those members had a vote or were even present during discussion of the Huckabee request. To avoid conflicts of interest, the SFB does not permit members of the presenting club to be present during discussion of the request. Contrary to the belief of many students who choose to be uninformed, the SFB is not a corrupt organization. Each year new members campaign claiming that they will fix SFB, however upon election they are shocked to find what safeguards we have in place, and how responsible we are when allocating the SAF. While Huckabee’s speech was shorter than I had hoped, it is important to take consideration of the many variables that come into play when scheduling an event. For instance, Huckabee, not the SGA, scheduled the time for dinner. There are always time constraints when booking events, but particularly so when hosting a prominent public figure with both a radio and TV show.

As always, I encourage students to challenge each other, however, this particular accusation is disheartening, as there was almost a complete lack of research behind this compliant. Mr. Ramamoorthi presents his opinion as fact, although it is in reality no more than rampant speculation. The members of the Student Finance Board joined to have a say in campus activities and to responsibly allocate the Student Activity Fee. Whether or not you choose to believe so, we approach that task very seriously.

Writing for Opinions is a great way to share your views about on-campus events.

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Features

Art department chair to show art in London

By Alexandria Hurtt Correspondent As May marks the semesterʼs end and graduation for this yearʼs seniors, it also marks the 10th anniversary of Tate Modern in London. One of the worldʼs greatest museums of modern art, it is inviting artists from all around the world to celebrate, including the chair of the Collegeʼs art department and associate professor of art, Anita Allyn.

Allyn will join 10 others within the Vox Populi artist collective, located in Philadelphia and one of the oldest running art collectives in history, including adjunct professor of photography at the College, Stefan Abrams, at Tate Modernʼs Turbine Hall as part of a three-day festival entitled “No Soul For Sale – A Festival of Independents,” from May 14-16.

The festival was first housed in New York City last June, and this year it has invited 50 independent art spaces and collectives from Shanghai to Berlin. Vox Populi also participated in the first edition of the international festival, that a press release described as “a convention of individuals and groups who have devoted their energies to keeping art alive.”

It is a chance to “explore ideas that canʼt easily be made into a commodity,” Allyn explained, as it allows for more visibility of art, while it enhances a focus on content.

While many shows present an artist individually, this free, non-profit festival operates on a different model, Allyn said, as there is “something that can happen when a group works together, which can be much more powerful than (when) working alone.”

And it is this process that will ultimately dictate

the art Allyn and the other members of the collective will present, as it is still in the planning stage.

“Weʼre trying to create work that represents us all … and can travel,” she said with a laugh.

While the scale for the upcoming project is not finalized, the artwork has been created for a presentation space eight feet wide by eight feet high, and the final piece will incorporate each memberʼs personality and style.

“Weʼll use materials in London,” Allyn continued, describing the final piece as “a conglomeration of all the artistsʼ artwork.”

Many mediums will be framed within a base sculpture, which will ultimately include anything from digital media, such as video and photography, to print and animation.

Allyn, who has experience in many mediums, takes a “cut-and-paste” approach to media, as her biography on the Vox Populi website reveals, and much of her recent work has taken the form of print on vinyl and installation, a medium that challenges oneʼs perception of space.

Her pieces are also largely influenced by her childhood, drawing upon images from the 1970s and 1980s, and her work has been exhibited in galleries from New York to Beijing. This is her first presentation at Tate Modern.

Allyn and the other members will leave for London on May 11 in order to install the project by the opening date, and the entire event is “really exciting for the artist collective,” she explained.

Vox Populi, which was founded in 1988, is a high profile, competitive artist collective that has been supporting and challenging experimental work from

Professor studies Latino population

By Adriana Oviedo Correspondent Located in South Trenton is Chambersburg, a diverse immigrant community with a growing Latino population, which was unknown to Rachel Adler, associate professor of sociology and anthropology at the College.

She had heard of the neighborhoodʼs famous Italian dishes and wanted to taste for herself, but instead noticed a change that caught her attention. A multitude of Latino establishments now adorned the streets of the town she once knew to be primarily dominated by the Italian community, a change that came about in the 1990s according to Adler.

This rise in the population of Latinos sparked Adlerʼs interest and from there on, Chambersburg became the focus of what is now an ongoing academic study of the migration of Latinos across Trenton. As a cultural anthropologist, Adler has studied the migration of Latinos and deemed Chambersburg a point of interest for her ongoing academic research with a group of students from the College.

“Chambersburg is a well-defined neighborhood and close to campus,” she said when explaining why she chose to study this particular area.

So far, Adler and a group of students from her Anthropology-390 class, “Student-Faculty Research,” have interviewed key leaders in the Trenton community as well as health care providers. They are looking at Trenton in terms of Latino health needs and studying just how many immigrant Latinos have accessed health care services.

“There is a problem with health literacy and people knowing and understanding that they can access what they need (without fear),” Adler said.

Current research has shown a trend of common denominators across the Latino community, some of which include high

blood pressure, diabetes, alcoholism and mental health issues. Research has also brought light to the stigma of seeking medical attention for mental health illness.

Adler, who at the moment is studying to obtain her nurse practitioner license, has been motivated to help the area of Chambersburg by giving aide and guidance to the Latino population.

“My dream is to have a clinic,” she said.

She does not know if she will establish her own location, but she plans on making it public and accessible, holding her services in churches.

“I want to provide direct service to people on a weekly basis,” she said. “We will secure grant funding in order to do that and I want to get students involved interested in health.”

She plans on educating the Latino community across Trenton about health service accessibility, as well as helping them gain access to legal service in general.

When the research first began, she witnessed regular raids by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement into homes where threats of deportation and arrests were common. People did not want to leave their homes, which made Adler want to not just study, but help them on many different levels.

Adler has several friends and contacts who are immigration rights lawyers and who will inform the people of their rights. Through research involving Latino immigrants, she noticed, “They are a vulnerable population.

Because of the way the laws are structured, many of them live in the shadows and cannot adjust their status. They are frightened.”

The professor and her group plan on conducting a long-term study in the shift and migration of the Latino community as the years progress.

Adler concluded, “Iʼll be there for a long time.”

Photo courtesy of Anita Allyn

Art department chair Anita Allynʼs cut-and-paste art will be featured at Londonʼs Tate Modern this May. artists for over 30 years. Recently the collective published “Weʼre Working On It,” a visual representation which includes the first written history of the collective and also celebrates its 21st year of programming.

To learn more about the festival and visiting information, visit tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions, and for more information about Vox Populi, visit voxpopuligallery.org.

Campus Style on my iHome when I wake up usually dictates what I wear for that day.

Where do you get your inspiration?

Music, the website Lookbook, and I like a lot of fashion blogs. The Sartorialist is one of my favorites.

Have you always been into fashion?

My parents were a large influence on my sense of style. When I was little, my mom always dressed me in suspenders and blue corduroys. I still wear blue corduroys all the time and everyone makes fun of me for it.

Photo courtesy of Kaitlin Tambuscio

By Kristen Kubilus Staff Writer Robbie Jiggetts Sophomore History Major What are you wearing?

The cardigan is from Urban Outfitters, V-neck from Old Navy, tweed pants from Urban Outfitters, rainbow Flip Flops and the glasses are Versols.

Where do you like to shop?

Urban Outfitters, H & M, Heritage in the Freehold Raceway Mall and anywhere else that catches my eye.

Any particular item of clothing youʼre eyeing these days?

TOMS shoes. Theyʼre pretty funky and they support a good cause.

How would you classify your style?

My style is so ambiguous. I feel like what I wear changes with what kind of music Iʼm listening to at the moment. Whatever comes on

Do you have a favorite article of clothing?

Probably my entire collection of bow ties, even though I rarely wear them. I feel like everyone judges me.

Do you have a style icon?

Andre 3000. Heʼll take something that is supposed to be really professional and classic, and make it trendy and fashionable. He wears things that people wouldnʼt ordinarily wear on an everyday basis, and somehow makes everything seem more accessible.

Do you think you stand out with your style?

I think my style is different, but not as crazy as Iʼd like it to be.

Why not be more crazy?

I donʼt want to look like a hot mess.

Where do you see your style 10 years from now?

I envision it to be very business-professional, with a twist of funk. If I have to wear a black suit, Iʼm gonna wear a purple bow tie.

Kristen can be reached at kubilus2@tcnj.edu.

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Author of mysterious 1879 diary discovered

By Todd Petty Features Assistant

Who wrote the diary? Was it Sam Ward?

Was it William Hurlbert? Was it really even a diary in the first place?

Historians had been asking these questions for nearly 150 years before two professors at the College, David Holmes and Dan Crofts, unraveled the mystery once and for all.

The text in question is what has come to be known as “The Diary of a Public Man,” first published anonymously in 1879 in the North American Review. The diary was written in 1860, just weeks prior to the outbreak of the Civil War. The diarist allegedly recounts secret conversations with Abraham Lincoln as well as a number of other key public figures on the eve of this historic conflict.

According to Crofts, professor of history at the College, the nearly 10-year quest to discover the true author of the enigmatic diary began when Ryan Christiansen, history major and alumni of the College decided to undertake the mystery of the diary in a seminar on the North-

South sectional conflict and the coming of the Civil War in 2001.

It was then that Crofts enlisted the help of Holmes, a mathematics and statistics professor, who is an expert in the field of stylometry, or the statistical analysis of literary style. According to Holmes, just like people leave fingerprints behind on evidence, writers often leave “word prints.”

“Subconsciously we use lots of little words without thinking about them, words like the, and, all, but, by, and if you collect a large number of those words, 60, 70, or 80 of them and look up the rate in which those words are used, you can build up a print for a writer,” Holmes said.

So who is this mystery writer? In 1948 a historian identified Sam Ward as the diarist.

However, according to Croftsʼ and Holmes extensive research, the authorship of this legendary document can be traced back to William Hurlbert, a journalist writing during the antebellum period.

“Hurlbert was a longtime and very successful journalist who had a very distinctive writ-

ing style, once you become acquainted with the things heʼs written, ʻThe Diary of a Public Manʼ just jumps off the page, he has a particular style that was much more clear-cut,” Crofts said.

Holmes research affirmed Croftsʼ analysis of the text, although, Croftsʼ analyses led him to an additional discovery — the diary was not a diary after all. The text in question was a memoir which was nonetheless built on a foundation of factual evidence.

According to Crofts, although the writer was likely not present for many of the conversations and events recorded in the memoir, “he had ways of finding out what was said behind closed doors,” Crofts said. “He had information on the shaping of Lincolnʼs cabinet, writing of Lincolnʼs inaugural speech and all kinds of interesting detail on the secret backdoor negotiations between William Seward and unionists in Richmond, Va.” Croftsʼs work over the past decade has coalesced in the writing of a book, “A Secession Crisis Enigma,” published last week.

According to Crofts, much can be learned

about American history from this memoir.

“It brings to bear quite first-hand testimony about what the most important people in the country were thinking, what they were saying behind closed doors, in the weeks and months before war started. The war was arguably the greatest moment the greatest moment of truth in American history – Abraham Lincoln is one of the most written about people in American history, and there are three purported interviews with Lincoln – its juicy stuff,” Crofts said. “There is a much less sure of himself Lincoln than his modern admirers are inclined to depict – there is a sense of someone who was feeling their way through a terrible crisis, hoping for some peaceful resolution.”

Holmes and Croftsʼs article “The Diary of a Public Man: A Case Study in Traditional and Non-Traditional Authorship Attribution” has been accepted for publication in the journal Literary and Linguistic Computing, Crofts said. Also, the article has been accepted as a conference paper for “Digital Humanities 2010” held at the University of London in July.

Understanding STDs Couples celebrate b-days and how to stay protected

By Lauren Gurry Copy Editor

By Andrea Thyrring Staff Writer Many students come into college knowing of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), yet do not know the signs or symptoms if they were to have one.

Even worse, many students may find themselves uneducated on the contraction, prevention and care of STDs. Rather than let misinformation lead to myth, I believe it is beneficial for college-aged adults to have truthful information on sexually transmitted diseases and the ways in which they can better protect themselves from contracting one.

Previously known as venereal diseases, or VDs, sexually transmitted diseases or sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are, according to the Mayo Clinic website, infections acquired by sexual contact. Any time you have unprotected sex with a partner who is already infected, you put yourself at risk for contracting the disease. The bacteria or viruses that cause STDs are passed from person to person through blood, semen and vaginal fluids.

Simply having sex does not mean you will contract a STD. Your partner must be a carrier of the disease, and you must come in unprotected sexual contact with them in order to contract the disease yourself.

You can, however, contract a sexually transmitted disease from someone who appears to be healthy. In fact, they may not even know they are infected. Often, the symptoms of several sexually transmitted diseases can be mistaken for other conditions, and this may delay the diagnosis and therefore treatment of the disease.

This is why it is important to always practice safe sex.

Before you and your partner begin an intimate relationship, both of you should get a STD screening. These tests are available through Planned Parenthood, which works through the Collegeʼs Health Services department. These tests are confidential, and will ensure your safety before entering a new relationship. If either you or your partner are infected, follow the protocol given to you by the registered nurse.

Only after you are cleared of infection, and at no time before, should you resume any sexual

practices with your partner.

Also available at Planned Parenthood are condoms. Condoms are the best way to prevent the contraction or spread of sexually transmitted diseases. Do not expect that your partner will always come prepared. There is no shame in buying condoms, and having one available should you be found in an unplanned sexual encounter is far safer than proceeding with your activity unprotected.

What if you think you might be sick, or may have contracted a STD? Your first step should be to stop all intimate activities. You should then make an appointment with Planned Parenthood to get tested. Results are available in a timely manner, and if you are in fact infected, you can begin your treatment immediately. Any sexual partners you have been with in the last year should be contacted so they can also get tested.

Condoms and STD screenings are not only for single students. If you and your partner have been in a monogamous relationship, you may have established a certain level of trust with each other. This is no reason to throw caution to the wind. Entering an unprotected sexual relationship is always risky, and should be talked about beforehand. Important questions to consider are — Have you or your partner engaged in sexual activity prior to or outside of your relationship? Have you or your partner always used condoms or other forms of protection when engaging in sexual activity? Is there another form of protection you and your partner would feel more comfortable using?

Single and committed college students alike should feel comfortable talking to their partners about any concerns they might have. Using condoms is the best way to prevent STDs. However, an open dialogue and adequate information on sexual practices is key in making the right decisions and to remaining safe in moments of high risk.

If you have any concerns about your sexual health, advocating for yourself and, if necessary, seeking medical help is the most important thing you can do to keep you and your partner healthy.

The Mayo Clinic website, mayoclinic.com, is an excellent source of information on STDs and prevention methods should you want further information.

Andrea Thyrring thyrrin2@tcnj.edu.

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Iʼm one of those birthday fanatics. You know, the crazy people who count down to his or her birthday and remember everyone elseʼs birthdays without checking Facebook? Yep, thatʼs me. My birthday happens to be on April 21, so Iʼve been thinking a lot lately about special things people do for their loved oneʼs birthdays.

Even though Iʼm obsessed with my birthday, I really believe birthdays should be less about the price tag on a present than the actual birthday experience. I would take a sentimental card, enjoyable dinner and time with people I care about over an expensive gift in a heartbeat.

“Itʼs more important what you do, not what you get,” said my longterm boyfriend, Eric Boonstra, who is a senior statistics major.

“Itʼs not necessarily going out and spending a lot of money. It sounds cliché, but itʼs the thought that counts,” Boonstra said. “For example, a homemade dinner rather than a trip to a restaurant might be better because then you know your significant other put more thought in it.”

I donʼt work an off-campus job during the academic year, so I was strapped for cash when Ericʼs birthday came around in January. Instead of taking him out, we spent an evening in, and I made him a dinner of his choice from a cookbook. I had never made a meal more extensive than Hamburger Helper, so Eric really appreciated the effort I put in to make his birthday special.

One of my good friends, senior management major Mike Leatherwood, has been dating his girlfriend for more than one year, and he follows the same sentimental philosophy, emphasizing the element of surprise.

“I think itʼs important to do something that he or she isnʼt exactly expecting,” said Leather-

wood, whose non-sports friendly girlfriend surprised him with tickets to a New York Mets game for his last birthday. “The element of surprise always makes birthdays more special and memorable. If you get to do something you have done before, I believe it wonʼt have as much meaning.”

Leatherwood brought his girlfriend to an Italian restaurant for her birthday last May, and surprised her with a heart-shaped necklace.

“I thought the heart would be good especially, since we were a new couple at the time, and it would show that I really care for her and that this relationship is something special.”

Kathy Escalante, sophomore Spanish secondary education major, says she and her boyfriend of two years like buying each other meaningful gifts.

Escalanteʼs boyfriend loves the computer game “World of Warcraft,” so for his birthday, Escalante got him action figures from the game and shirts from one of his favorite stores, Express. For Escalanteʼs birthday, her boyfriend brought her to an Italian restaurant and took her shopping.

“I definitely think (whatʼs important is) just making them feel special on their day … just doing anything special for them to enjoy it and make it memorable,” Escalante said.

Lauren Gurry can be reached at gurry2@tcnj.edu.

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Rock concert pioneer riffs on British Invasion years

By Emily Brill Arts & Entertainment Assistant

Sid Bernstein, a cheerful, softspoken man in his early 90s, was a bit taken aback upon taking the microphone in the Library Auditorium on April 14.

Why? He was escorted to the stage and showered with affection, words of gratitude for his appearance and, to his delight, a box of homemade cookies. He was appearing to discuss his history as a “rock promoter” — a title he has worn well during his multiple decades in the music industry.

Introduced by David Venturo, professor of English, Bernstein listened as his accomplishments were lauded and his invaluable place in the history of rock ‘n’ roll was carved out. His audience sat in reverent, rapt attention to the man who brought the British Invasion to the United States.

“Sid is a towering presence in the music industry,” Venturo said.

“He’s best known for his work with The Beatles. He wanted The Beatles to come to America before anyone else did … but The Beatles really only mark one chapter in the remarkable musical life of Sid Bernstein.”

Venturo went on to mention a handful of the artists with whom Bernstein has worked — among them, Judy Garland, Tony Bennett, the Rolling Stones, Chuck Berry, Duke Ellington, Frank Sinatra and Elvis.

So why was Bernstein, whose name had just been thoroughly extolled, bestowed with the

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Sid Bernstein, who promoted The Beatles’ and The Rolling Stones’ first gigs in America, recounted some of his experiences for a College audience on April 14. admiration of an entire room and given baked goods, not happy?

“You’ve said so much about me, I have nothing more to say,” Bernstein said. “Would it be alright if I leave? I would like to see my grandchildren tomorrow morning.”

But then he cracked a warm smile, the audience laughed and his presentation began.

Bernstein continued to provide humorous commentary throughout his hour-long presentation, during which he discussed the lighter aspects of working for dozens of years as a music promoter.

He fielded questions from the audience and spoke extensively about the concerts for which he is best known — those of The Beatles.

“When I made the deal to have The Beatles perform in this country,

I had never heard them perform. I was in the war. The War of 1812,” Bernstein said, eyes twinkling. “I’m older than I look.”

All jokes aside, Bernstein told how he had read about the Beatles in a British newspaper, The Guardian.

“I read about four guys creating some excitement in their native city of Liverpool. I read the story about four guys, whose music I’d never heard, called The Beatles. The third or fourth time there was one story, which showed them with a lot of hair. They were referred to as the mop-tops,” he said.

Bernstein, who was working as an “artist promoter” in a ballroom in New York City, was stirred by the hype the four mop-tops had generated in the U.K. He decided he wanted to bring them to the U.S. Bernstein grabbed a friend,

hopped on a plane and ventured into the land of the Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane. In fact, he made a point to see them.

“I had seen Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields. I decided I should call (Beatles manager) Brian Epstein. So I called Brian Epstein. I said, ‘I’ve been reading about your guys,’” Bernstein said.

From that encounter sprang the first concert — a sold-out show at Carnegie Hall on February 12, 1964.

“It was amazing,” Bernstein said. “Carnegie Hall had never seen anything like this.”

It was after this concert, and another held subsequently in an attempt to pacify the hordes of fans in a frenzy to see The Beatles, that Beatlemania truly struck America.

No one saw the tide of support for

the four British singers rising any higher — that is, except Bernstein.

He wanted to get them again. And this time, he wanted it bigger and better.

Originally, he planned for another Carnegie Hall performance.

Then he had a better idea.

“There was a whole change in the world of music … I called Brian and I said, ‘I want them to play Shea Stadium,’” Bernstein said.

According to the promoter, Epstein was skeptical. The New York City stadium seated over 50,000.

But Bernstein was confident.

He struck up a deal with Epstein — the music promoter would pay the manager, out of pocket, $10 for every unsold seat.

The deal proved to be unnecessary.

The Beatles went on to play Shea Stadium, the former home of the New York Mets, before a sold-out crowd on August 15, 1965. It became their best-known American performance.

Bernstein has left an indelible imprint on the history of rock ‘n’ roll in this country. It is something the modest man acknowledged with gratitude, and with a sparkle of good humor.

“I didn’t write the books.

I didn’t write the songs. But I touched those guys. Carnegie Hall, Shea Stadium, 1965,” he said. “I have had such a good life. And I have met so many good people — like (the person who) made these cookies. I thank you.”

From vitamin C to feces, writers speak their minds

By Matt Huston Arts & Entertainment Editor

The three creative writers who closed ink’s Student Reading Series on April 15 refused to play it straight. As they read original work to an audience in the Library Auditorium, their dark and ironic observations of the world emerged in cryptic imagery, unconventional forms and idiosyncratic voices.

Junior statistics major Lou Klein, introduced by a friend as a “proud, fullyfledged punk-rocker,” led the trio with a number of sporadic and self-referential poems.

In the punk-rock tradition, much of his work seemed intended to throw the audience off guard. “Division by Three” was full of fiery images, focused on “a lovely, shattered dream.” “Aftermath,” by contrast, was streamof-conciousness, jumping in focus from MI6 to Kevin Smith and the Boogeyman.

Some lines were introspective.

In “Decomp Position,” Klein lamented “14 lines … all bullshit.” In a later poem, he told listeners to “look a mirror in the eye. I think we’re all past due.”

“Sleep” was crafty, confusing until the final line. The writer rattled off a list of things that “it” was, including actions, objects and events characterized by happiness and intensity.

“And now, it’s just sperm in a sink,” he finished.

For Klein, who read his lines with raised brows and an arguing demeanor, the key phrases were naturally subversive. In one poem, he read, “Rules should be broken …

I’ll tell you what doesn’t fit. This shoe.” He

proceeded to remove one of his shoes.

“Who isn’t tired of being a cog in the fucking machine?” he demanded in his final line.

Junior English major Alyssa Gillon’s work was unsettling in its own, understated way.

On “Objective Correlative,” her “nonfiction” piece, she masked a scathing account of college life with a level-headed, scientific reading voice. In what at first seemed a strange pairing, the writer led into an emotional breakup story with an examination of the human digestive tract.

The relevance of Gillon’s textbook description of inner tubing became apparent as she referenced a drunken freshman girl and the effects of drinking on digestion. Dryly citing poopreport.com, (to the laughter of the audience), Gillon revealed that one of her characters was about to have an unfortunate experience.

“Everything will go according to plan up until this part, but soon everything will go downhill,” she read in her sterile tone.

Her college student ended up farther downhill than one might have expected. In a shocking turn of events, the emotionally tired protaganist became covered in another girl’s feces.

The gloomy humor was not lost on the audience as the girl fled and exclaimed that the “shit-bitch” could have her ex-boyfriend.

Gillon finished with a couple of poems. In “Dinner,” she pleaded with someone to eat and outlined some obscure trauma related to a breakfast nook. In a brief, untitled conclusion, she imagined a girl cruelly shoved by her father.

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Tricia Torley spanned the gap between poet and reader with poems that contemplated mortality and the routine.

The dark vibes continued in the poetry of senior English and women’s and gender studies double major Tricia Torley.

In “Expiration Dates,” which she said was inspired by her father’s dark sense of humor, the poet read about “the modern art of dying.” In “Don’t Panic,” she counted down through scenes of characters in desolate circumstances.

Throughout, Torley showed ability for assembling large words into artful phrases.

In “After the Fall,” the narrator slipped on a sidewalk before anyone was awake. On the ground, she became thoughtful. “This collective nocturnality was more than any of us bargained for,” Torley read.

In her last poem, “Thirteen Ways,” she

described a vitamin-based struggle to stave off disease. Torley’s depiction, though medical in tone, bordered on chaotic as she spoke of powerful colors (“orange antagonizes”), the immune system, infections, deficiencies and free radicals. A tiresome routine of vitamin-taking seemed to frustrate the poem’s speaker — “If I could peel off my skin, I would try to figure out where they go.”

Torley’s final line made as good a conclusion as any to the night’s irony-infused readings. “I still do not have scurvy,” she read with an air of mock-triumph.

Matt Huston can huston4@tcnj.edu.

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energy. They haven’t been crushed yet.”

Judging from the resounding laughter, Kendall’s audience was no exception to McHale’s success with college crowds. The current star of NBC’s “Community,” however, said he hadn’t always planned to do live performances.

“Stand-up and hosting were two things I never planned on doing,” he said. “I always wanted to be an actor on TV or movies.”

With his natural presence on stage, conversing and occasionally antagonizing the audience, it’s hard to imagine him doing anything else.

Television wasn’t the only target of the night.

The College’s public art also provoked McHale’s commentary.

“We’ll put four balls,” he said imitating the rationale for the art. “That’ll scare Mike Huckabee something fierce.”

Opening for McHale was Rory Albanese, the fourtime Emmy-winning executive producer of “The Daily

Show” on Comedy Central.

Contrasting McHale’s hyper, fast-talking style, Albanese established a relaxed familiarity with the audience th1rough storytelling, complemented by his “sexy pose,” which he accurately characterized as “a little like lunging in a women’s ’80s aerobics class.”

His act revolved around his slightly sarcastic patriotism, highlighted by his love of McDonald’s and mockery of Canada as the “crazy grandma living in the attic.” His explanation of the world’s hatred for America by providing the audience with an analogy elicited a particularly loud response.

“New Jersey is to America as America is to the world,” he said.

Albanese also exercised his pre-performance research on the College by questioning the logic of Tuesday “party nights” and the chalking on the sidewalk.

“They write mean stuff on the sidewalk and party on Tuesday nights,” he said. “This place is a fucking freak show.”

Katie Brenzel can be reached at brenzel2@tcnj.edu.

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Joel McHale incorporated the ‘Pixels’ art installation and Mike Huckabee into his act.

Musical mathematicians sing a few numbers about calculus

By Matt Huston Arts & Entertainment Editor

When a class-sized group of students took seats in a Roscoe L. West Library lecture room on April 15, they weren’t sitting in on any ordinary math course. They were there to wrap their brains, left and right, around the traveling know-show, “Calculus: The Musical!”

The fifty-minute musical, performed by Jae Boley and Sean Powell of Know Theatre of Cincinnati, dressed a crash-course in calculus with math-themed spinoffs of popular songs.

As class began, Boley and Powell jokingly urged each student to take out a piece of paper and to prepare to copy down a lot of notes.

Then came the class’ warm-up—a burst of positive piano music and a group wave (or “sine function,” as they called it)—making it clear that the performers were not traditional lecturers.

Before long, the actress and actor were singing and playing keyboard and acoustic guitar to a tune that sounded an awful lot like The Beatles’ “In My Life” but happened to be about the five sizes of numbers. On background projectors, a film showed people in colorful costumes, labeled “finite,” “infinite” and so on, painting the inside of a house.

The pairing of funny faux-pop and visuals continued throughout the show as the performers acted out a fictional account of how Isaac Newton discovered the rules of calculus.

In their telling, Newton was deeply troubled by a physics problem, an obsession he confessed to his psychiatrist. To gain a deeper understanding of the world, Newton (Powell) and his action-figure sidekick, Little Isaac, embarked on a multi-chaptered quest.

Along the way, the caricatured mathematician had pouty run-ins with rivals Robert Hooke and Gottfried Leibniz (Boley) and, of course, sang a number of explanatory songs.

Rock, pop, opera and hip-hop songs highlighted breakthroughs in the development of calculus. “The Limit’s Alright,” based on The Who’s “The Kids Are Alright,” celebrated Newton’s discovery of limits. “Under the Curve” mimicked the Red Hot Chili Peppers and featured a spoof music video.

At one point, the performers charged three student volunteers with holding posters representing extrema — “Peak,” “Saddle” and “Trough.” They proceeded into a nearly breathless version of “Infernal Gallop” (a.k.a “Can-can”), during which the students frantically raised their posters as the math terms were called out.

Possibly the most entertaining bit of historytwisting was an exchange between a hillbilly Archimedes (Boley) and a super-fly Bernhard Riemann. The Greek scientist finished explaining his “Method of Exhaustion” only to be outshined by his German successor, who strutted in fur and shades and proclaimed, “Like everything else in the world, it will take time and Germans to really get it perfect.” A

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Student volunteers provide visual aids to the Know Theatre’s musical explanation of extrema, a centerpiece of ‘Calculus: The Musical!’ math rap, based on Eminem’s “Without Me,” ensued.

The performers swapped instruments and Boley swapped accents in her portrayal of several European thinkers and, in one scene, Newton’s mother. Visiting the scholar in a bizarre dream, she warned him, “Parts of this are weird. Parts of this don’t make sense at all.”

Indeed, much of what was being sung about may not have totally made sense to the less math-savvy members of the audience.

Complicated concepts were drilled out in artful but often inscrutable riffs.

The absurd series of events did, however, offer viewers at least a basic idea of the history of calculus and what’s more, the Cincinnati duo carried out its lesson plan with emphatic singing, playing and dancing talents.

This was the second time in two years that the Mathematics and Statistics Club hosted the event, although it was the first showing funded by the Student Finance Board, according to club co-president and sophomore mathematics major Eric New. Matt Huston can huston4@tcnj.edu.

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Salon de Refusés brings potpourri of art to student center

By Emily Brill Arts & Entertainment Assistant

The College recently completed construction on the new home for the arts on campus. It is replete with installation spaces and possesses ample room for students to show their work in an attractive environment. But based on the Art Student Association (ASA)’s newest student gallery, one might not know that.

The ASA has compiled an exhibit they call “Salon des Refusés” — but they haven’t put the paintings and photographs submitted by about 15 different students in the new Art and Interactive Multimedia (IMM) Building. The “gallery” is located on the second floor of the Brower Student Center, where the works adorn two brick walls above the Rathskeller.

Orchestrated with little fanfare, the works hang, mostly unframed, on plain white walls in an area students pass every day on their way to club offices. It bears no name, and the artists’ taglines are scribbled ink on white stickers.

Covert, but striking, the works have impressed students that frequent the area — though not many of those passersby could tell you why it’s there.

“I like the splash of color it adds to this section of the Stud,” Joe Montes, freshman biology major, said, “but I’m not sure

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Over a dozen student artists of various majors are showing their work above the Rathskeller.

why it’s here.”

Montes’s favorite piece is “Fruit-full” by Lindsey Hardifer, sophomore graphic design major. Hardifer created her series of prints by dipping halved fruits, including strawberries and apples, into paint and pressing them onto paper.

Hardifer’s prints hang alongside paintings, lithographs,

charcoal drawings and photographs, both black-and-white and color. The works draw from as many different mediums as there are types of students exhibiting — ASA’s makeshift gallery did not pull only from within the art major.

“The criteria was totally open,” Katie Petrillo, co-president of ASA and junior art education major, said.

The gallery includes works by biology and sociology majors, in addition to fine arts and graphic design majors.

Except for each piece’s unadorned quality, the artwork seen together does not seem to ascribe to any certain theme.

“Salon de Refusés” was inspired by an event of the same name, organized by the French artist Édouard Manet in 1863.

The name literally translates into “Exhibition of Rejects.”

Artwork rejected by the famous Paris Salon, a prominent French art gallery of the 1800s, constituted the original Salon de Refusés.

When asked from where he thought the exhibit drew its name, Montes seemed confused.

“Well, I’m not sure,” Montes said. “A lot of these works are really beautiful. I can’t imagine what they would even be rejected from.”

“Salon de Refusés” can be seen on the second floor of the Student Center, above the Rathskeller, until April 28.

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ACT hosts dark, fantastical one-acts

By Katie Brenzel News Editor

The word that best describes All College Theatre’s (ACT) production of four one-act plays on April 15 is “perseverance.” Despite the limitations imposed by a less-than-ideal space in room 202 of the Brower Student Center, ACT presented a series of compelling studentdirected shorts ranging in subject from a lunatic ex-girlfriend to a compassionate reaper.

In “The Dumb Waiter,” Mark Smith, junior communication studies major, as Ben, and Jack Scully, sophomore English major, as Gus, managed to overcome the noise of other events occurring simultaneously in the Student Center that, at times, overwhelmed the room.

Smith humanized the role of assassin with notes of compassion, extenuated by Scully’s oblivious fast-talking.

Director Justin Mancini said the primary challenge of the play was “creating realistic banter” between the two characters. Though they largely achieved this, the length of the play detracted from character engagement with the audience.

“Don’t Fear The Reaper” both closed and stole the show. The fantastically ridiculous play personified Death, played by Art Malarczyk, junior computer science major, and his overly sweet wife, Conception, played by Jacki Ferrara, sophomore elementary math education major.

Malarczyk conveyed the misplaced compassion of Death toward his victims through exaggerated intensity as the messenger of fate.

The personas constructed by each character made for hilarious interactions.

Keith Salmeri, freshman history political science major, as Robert, and Claire Symanski, freshman biology major, as Jessica, perfectly portrayed an initially selfish couple, each willing to sacrifice the other to Death, stationed at their front door.

Each character fleshed out individual quirkiness — Julian Starr, sophomore physics major, elicited explosive laughter as Jeremy, the bug reaper, when he traded his nasally voice for a demonic one. Hannah Adamy, freshman music education major, as Satan, captured the seductive, enthusiast of evil with ease, contrasting with sophomore communication

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ACT president Maddie Patrick led the proceedings as characters auctioned a boy who turned into a violin in ‘Lot 13: Bone Violin.’ studies major Sam Paternostro’s collected demeanor as a business-oriented God. The play thrived on the hysterical implications of its characters, while echoing the eternal need to validate life in fear of death.

According to director John Eldis, sophomore psychology major, “Wanda’s Visit” is a play that “lives and dies on the believability of the characters.”

Caitlin Dougherty, senior biopsychology major, was hysterical as the eccentric Wanda.

Though outrageous, Dougherty managed to make the unrealistic insanity demanded of Wanda’s character believable.

Dan Loverro, freshman biology major, as Jim, and Rhonda Dubois, sophomore chemistry major, as Marsha, contrasted drastically with Wanda as an ordinary couple faced with the unusual burden of housing Jim’s seemingly unstable ex-girlfriend.

“Lot 13: Bone Violin” introduced a more serious tone to the night, presenting the haunting commentary of four individuals involved in the life and death of a child prodigy.

Each character seemed tailored to the cast member — producing genuinely provocative performances. Liz So, sophomore self-designed international studies major, and Casey Perno, sophomore history major, posed as the parents of the child. Perno’s gruff, but approachable

persona and So’s sweet admiration for her son convinced of average parents unable to explain tragedy for which no one and everyone is at fault.

The most chilling aspect of the performance, however, was delivered by ACT president Maddie Patrick, senior sociology and communication studies double major, who acted as conductor through each player’s account of the story.

Patrick closed the show by starting the bid for the boy’s body-turned-instrument. The presentation, with each character positioned behind a music stand facing the audience, directly confronted the audience with the powerful message of the tragedy innate in pursuing one’s dreams.

Despite the night’s distractions, ACT adapted. According to Alexis Vitello, production manager and sophomore history and art education double major, ACT is restricted to one performance per semester in the Don Evans Black Box Theatre, a preferable locale for the intimacy complementary to One Acts.

Despite the room’s poor acoustics and difficult set-up, Vitello said, “We made the best of our circumstances.”

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College brass does American anthems, English ‘Cats’

By Todd Petty Features Assistant

Professionalism was paramount as members of the College’s brass ensemble took the stage in Kendall Hall on April 18 dressed entirely in black and white to deliver an eclectic array of music.

The ensemble included renditions of the work of John Philip Sousa, Léo Delibes, Quinto Maganini, Chris Hazell, Felix Mendelssohn, Giovanni Gabrieli and Ronald Lo Presti.

The performances were immense in scope — the 15-piece ensemble was comprised of several trumpets, trombones, euphoniums, a tuba, a percussion section and the occasional flugelhorn. The performers were led by James Hala, adjunct music instructor, who worked with students throughout the semester and conducted the concert.

The first piece, “Washington Post,” was one of the night’s most familiar. Composed by John Philip Sousa in 1889 for the United States Marine Corps band, the ensemble’s faithful performance of this popular march seemed to conjure up over 100 years of American history.

Sousa’s “The Liberty Bell” was another of the night’s most recognizable performances. Bass trombone player James Crowley, senior music major, introduced the piece as “one of the most patriotic marches in history.”

Elizabeth Yacone / Staff Photographer

The 15 student members of the brass ensemble reached into the American canon on April 18.

“The Liberty Bell” is a staple of presidential inaugurations — it was played in three of the last four — but it has also become a part of pop culture as the theme song for Monty Python’s “Flying Circus.”

The “Liberty Bell” utilized plenty of cymbals and snare rolls which instantly gave the feeling of a parade or celebration.

One of the most memorable and distinct performances was a more contemporary piece, Hazell’s “Three Brass Cats.” Hazell liked writing about people and places, according to euphonium player Max Oh, sophomore music major, who mentioned in his introduction that Hazell was inspired to write this piece by some stray cats that were living at his house.

The last movement of “Three Brass Cats” had a film noir, jazzy feel to it. This piece was also the favorite of Elizabeth Earle, junior music education major and trumpet player.

“In ‘Three Brass Cats,’ everybody plays the melody somewhere and it’s just great to hear all the different timbres in the ensemble,” Earle said.

Another notable moment was when many of the musicians temporarily exited the stage for the “Suite for Five Trumpets,” a piece composed by Lo Presti which showcased the talent of the trumpet players. The four student players were joined by Hala, who temporarily relinquished his conductor’s baton in favor of a trumpet.

The piece includes three movements which had a distinguishable arc.

“Intrada” began the piece with a burst of energy, until the quintet moved into part two, “Chorale,” which was much slower and more contained.

The piece finally culminated in “Finale,” which was a return to brass magnificence.

The concert concluded appropriately with a final homage to Sousa, “Semper Fidelis.”

According to Hala, the concert is traditionally shared with the College’s horn ensemble, so one of the challenges was to ensure that there was enough material for the brass ensemble to play.

“We needed to make sure we had enough material to present a full concert and the endurance and concentration to perform at a high level from start to finish. The musicians were up to the task and I am proud of every one of them,” he said.

Having already garnered huge popularity and critical acclaim in the U.K., Two Door Cinema Club is set to take the U.S. by storm. Named after one of the band members’ mispronunciation of Tudor Cinema in their hometown of Bangor in Northern Ireland, TDCC has released a debut album that is a definite contender for record of the year.

Three Irish lads, guitarist/keyboardist Alex Trimble, bassist Kevin Baird and guitarist Sam Halliday, who all lend their voices to the tracks, have skillfully crafted ten songs that make “Tourist History” a pleasure to listen to from start to finish.

Even the use of a Mac as the driving rhythm section adds to an inevitable affinity for this electro-pop trio, which sounds like the perfect mix of Bloc Party, Death Cab for Cutie and Phoenix.

The only problem is that the album is too short. It clocks in at just over 30 minutes and once the last song, “You’re Not Stubborn,” hits its final notes, the listener is left craving more — but that may just be what TDCC was aiming for.

Plus, how can you possibly deny an album whose cover art looks like an homage to Andy Samberg’s SNL digital short, “Laser Cats?”

Key Tracks: “I Can Talk,” “Undercover Martyn” and “What You Know” Typhoon “Hunger And Thirst”

By Matt Jannetti WTSR Music Director Typhoon’s latest release, “Hunger and Thirst,” takes a common sound and does it better than most other bands.

They sound a bit like dream-pop group Beach House, but they put their own spin on the genre. They use guitars, drums and even some brass instruments and they are all used well to make great use of harmonies.

This album is a journey. Each track is full of layers of intertwining sound.

Listeners can get lost in the music while this album is playing. The slow beats are extremely relaxing.

“Hunger and Thirst” is not perfect, however. Some of the songs become a little repetitive and go on a little longer then they need to.

But these flaws do not erase the worth of this album. Above all, it is worth a listen, a very close listen. Despite its flaws, this is one that listeners should not let slip by.

Key Tracks: “Body of Love” and “Ghost Train”

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Baseball

Sweep / Lions Winning / College bats awaken over weekend roll past Pioneers continued from page 24 strong, hitting her pitches when she needs to.”

Before the games, the team learned that they would be without their starting rightfielder Rebecca Florczyk for the rest of the season, as the sophomore suffered a stress fracture in her right shin.

“Basically, I’ve been playing with horrible shin pain in my right leg all season,” Florczyk said. “I went for treatment on a regular basis with the athletic trainer, but nothing was helping and in fact, the pain only got worse as the season went on. This injury is out of my hands and all I can do is focus on getting better for next season.”

With Florczyk focused on her return in the fall, the team is still looking towards the conference tournament and beyond. With their next doubleheader looming this Saturday against Ramapo College, the team will look to stay hot and keep their hold onto first place in the conference.

The team currently is tops in the NJAC with 18 points, sporting a 9-1 record. They are 23-5 overall.

With a mark like that, one could think the team is a lock for the playoffs. But that is not how Coach Miller does things.

“In the NJAC, there is not a team you can look past, and the truth of matter is there is a lot of talent on a lot of teams,” Miller said. “We are having a great season, but I have not looked past our next upcoming game. We have to play with what’s gotten us here do what we do well, and things will take care of itself.”

Momentum is certainly key at this point in the season, and with the Lions playing extremely well all season long, they know this fact better than anyone else.

continued from page 24 and we made sure we got our business done on Saturday.

Lions We didn’t want to give them any sense of con- Crusaders fidence during those Lions two games, and we did Pioneers a great job at that.”

In the second game, Lions the Lions’ offense Pioneers perked up, pounding out 11 runs on 14 hits in the contest.

Galeotafiore grabbed three more

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The Lions sport dominant pitching.

hits, driving in three in the process.

The sophomore currently leads the College in batting average with an impressive .438. Ru2 zich continued his 7 offensive onslaught, 3 crushing his team2 leading third homerun of the season.

11 Ruzich was content 5 with the team’s performance.

“It’s always great to sweep a Saturday in the NJAC no matter the opponent,” he said. “But, to do it on the road against a quality team like William Paterson helped prove to ourselves and we can play with anyone.

Hopefully we can carry the success of this past weekend into the rest of the season.”

Earlier in the week, the Lions clipped the Ospreys for another important NJAC win at home.

Freshman pitcher Bobby Graber gave his third strong performance, holding Stockton to just one run and six hits in seven innings. Graber has only allowed four runs in his last 24 innings pitched. Ruzich started his week off strong with three doubles and two runs batted in.

The Lions will continue in-conference play this week, taking on Kean University at home on Thursday April 22 before traveling to Stockton on Friday and then to a doubleheader with Rutgers University-Newark on

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A College fielder throws to first.

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“We need to stay focused, and keep doing what makes us a successful team,” Galeotafiore said.

“We need to take the bad with the good, and like I said before, constantly make adjustments.

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Track and Field

College cruises at Moravian Streak / Lions still

By Karissa Hearn Staff Writer The Lion’s came home from Moravian College this weekend with great scores, and a handful of Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) qualifying times.

Men and women’s outdoor track and field teams participated in the Greyhound Invitational in Bethlehem, Pa. They battled against athletes from more than 10 different universities, including those from Division I teams.

“The high winds and cool temperatures made fast times more challenging,” head coach Phillip Jennings said. “So we focused more on competition rather than simply fast times.”

Not only did the Lion’s place in their races, many of the athletes clenched top, qualifying scores, and personal and season bests.

Junior Kyle Gilroy had a big second-place finish in the 400meter hurdle event. In the 110-meter Gilroy finished with a 15.45, a time qualifying him in the ECAC. When he teamed up with sophomore Justin Worthing, freshman Robert Searby and senior Steve Murray for the 4x400 relay, the Lion’s took first place with an ECAC-qualifying time of 3:22.11. Murray also competed in the 400-meter race and again, finished first of all the Division III runners.

Continuing to make marks, the College’s Dennis Waite, junior, was the first to cross the finish line in the 1500-meter race.

His time of 3:59.64 qualified him for the ECAC competition, also. As freshman, Andy Gallagher, finished the 3000-meter steeplechase at 10:03.33, he too qualified for the competition.

In the field events, senior Zach Goldstein threw 49.38 meters in the hammer throw. His score ranked him first out of Division III athletes and qualifying him for the ECAC. The women had great results in the Greyhound Invitational, but also made extraordinary moves the night before at the Larry Ellis Invitational at Princeton University. There, Lions athletes competed in elite distance races, in hopes of qualifying for the NCAA. “The depth of competition in that meet is unmatched by other meets in the northeast,” Jennings said.

Senior Jianna Spadaccini ran 2:12.51, adding her name to the NCAA championship list. Last year, Spadaccini came in second, nationally. And senior Michelle Wallace qualified with a 4:35.43 in the women’s 1500-meter, a personal best.

On Saturday at the Greyhound Invitational, the women’s success continued. Spadaccini teamed up with junior Meryl Wimberly, freshman Brielle Doremus and freshman Kim Shelus, to take first place in the 4x400. Their time of 3:57.70 was

an ECAC qualifier.

In the 100-meter hurdle, senior Priscilla Senyah finished with a 14.94, an NCAA provisional qualifier. She also placed second in the 100-meter and third in the 200-meter dash, extremely impressive accomplishments, considering she ran against a number of Division I athletes.

Megan Miller, a senior, also finished with a NCAA provisional qualifying score in the 400-meter hurdle.

“Although we have quite a few members who are consistently at the top of their events and qualifying for nationals, they are not the only people we rely on,” freshman Rachel Morris said. Many of the athletes have contributed to the College’s success this season.

Morris placed second in the 5000-meter race, and qualified for the ECAC competition.

Junior Sarah Wehran and senior Ashley Krauss both set their personal bests in the field events, and freshman Mary Chismar took sixth place in the shot put throw, setting a season best and qualifying for the ECACs. Before NJACS we have our home meet, the Lions’ Invitational next weekend.

This week, the College track and field athletes will prepare to “dominate the competition,” senior Deshard Stevens said.

On Thursday, the team will travel to the University of Pennsylvania for Penn Relays, and this weekend, they will host the Lion’s Invitational at home.

“We would love for people to come out and help support us,” Morris said.

defend home court

continued from page 24 season. The women’s team increased the home winning streak to 18 after defeating the Mules at home on Sunday. Haar led the Lions with a 6-2, 6-1 win in fourth singles, which helped her to reach 125 combined victories in her career. Haar has gathered 66 wins in singles and 59 in doubles.

“Hitting the 125 wins is sort of unreal,” Haar said. “I’ve just been working so hard to focus on winning to help my team that I forgot I had an individual record. I think I achieved this success through dedication to hard work and to striving for my personal best.”

Haar’s win in singles was not the only one for the Lions. Senior Jackie Shtemberg, freshmen Karisse Bendijo, Lauren Balsamo and Paige Aiello and sophomore Emily Petersack each picked up a win for the team, as well, all finishing their matches in two sets.

Doubles teams of Shtemberg and Trihn, Aiello and Bendijo, and Balsamo and Petersack swept the competition with three wins of 8-1, 8-6 and 8-1.

The win over Muhlenberg College puts the Lions at 13-4 overall this season.

“With two matches left in the season, I think we need to focus on going out and playing our game,” Petersack said. The women’s tennis team’s season will come to an end on Saturday April 24.

“We need to come out strong from the very beginning and play with a lot of energy throughout the match.”

The Lions are scheduled to face Bates College on Wednesday April 21 with the men playing at 10 a.m. and women’s team at 1:30.

Hilarey Wojtowicz can be reached at wojtowi3@tcnj.edu.

Tim Lee / Photo Editor

The Lions had several top finishes this weekend.

Elizabeth Yacone / Staff Photographer

Freshman netter Paige Aiello.

Lacrosse

Lions drop heart-breaker to NJAC-rival Rowan College loses after claiming the No. 1-ranking

By Brandon Gould Sports Assistant The College had no sooner risen to the top of the women’s lacrosse Division III standings then the team was knocked out in a close game at home.

The Lions came into their match against rival Rowan University with the No. 1 ranking in the latest Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association Division III poll. Unfortunately, the Lions did not bring their best effort and fell

Tim Lee / Photo Editor

The Lions’ defense protects the net.

12-11 to the Profs, who improved their record to 8-4.

“We just needed to play smarter,” head coach Sharon Pfluger said. “I kind of feel like we woke up on the wrong side of the bed. We were just a little off all game.”

The Profs’ defense did not make things any easier as they were able to contain the stick of junior midfielder Ali Jaeger. Jaeger, who was recently named a candidate for the 2010 Tewaaraton Award, was held to one goal.

“A lot of teams just try to mark (Jaeger),” Pfluger said. “She does really well with that, but I don’t want her to feel like she’s the only one who has to go to goal because we have a lot of other good players.”

With Jaeger’s stick being controlled, sophomore midfielder Leigh Mitchell did all she could to keep the Lions in the game as she scored seven of the Lions 11 goals and tacked on two assists as well.

“We just needed to get goals,” Mitchell said. “I happened to be the hot person, so when we needed it I had to go to goal.”

The Lions couldn’t seem to get their offense attack into gear in the first half and struggled to maintain ball control throughout the match.

“In the beginning we played very lackadaisical,” Pfluger said. “It’s not like

us at all and I think we were just so high coming off the Salisbury game. All these other games are so important to us though and I think we were just lackadaisical in the beginning.”

The Lions were able to chip away at a 7-3 deficit and pull within one goal at half-time, but the Profs just wouldn’t allow the Lions to even things up in the second half.

Both teams exchanged back-and-forth goals for 30 minutes until the Profs circulated the ball around to eat up the last 40 seconds to finish off the upset.

“Nobody likes to lose,” Pfluger said.

“You just hope that it’s a learning experience and we’re better for it. You sit in it right now and suffer through it, but you say, ‘okay what’s going to come out of this,’ because we have to move forward.”

“We just have to learn from this loss,” Mitchell said. “We can’t take any team lightly and we have to come out every game like it’s a big game.”

The Lions followed these words as they returned to form in their next game against Frostburg State University with a 19-3 victory.

Jaeger came back with six goals and two assists to move into ninth-place on the College’s all-time scoring list.

Tim Lee / Photo Editor

Kathleen Notos plays defense.

Senior attacker Robin Deehan added to Jaeger’s performance with four goals of her own. Mitchell and senior attacker Lisa Seldeen also helped the Lions improve their record to 11-1 with three goals each.

The Lions have another tough test looming as Franklin and Marshall, the defending Division III champions, will come to Lions Stadium on April 23.

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LIONS

AROUND THE

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Bobby Olivier “The Ref”

Dan Neyman Correspondent

Chris Rotolo Staff Writer

Mike McLoughlin Correspondent

With two contestants already winning in the AtD Playoffs there is only one more spot up for grabs in the AtD Finals. No. 3-seeded Correspondent Mike McLoughlin will try to stop Staff Writer Chris Rotolo and Correspondent Dan Neyman from pulling an upset. Editor-in-Chief Bobby Olivier will ask the contestants if Eddie Jordan deserved to be dismissed, will David Ortiz turn this season around and which NFL trade will have a bigger impact.

1. The Philadelphia 76ers fired head coach Eddie Jordan after one “unacceptable” season. Was this firing well-deserved or should Jordan have been given another shot?

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CR: I feel like the face of the 76ers franchise is still Allen Iverson, as if the organization never really recovered from his departure, and even tried to relive those golden days this season.

What moves have the front office made since Iverson left? The acquisition of an aging Elton Brand? Sometimes a head coach can be victimized by a front office that does not provide that coach with a talented enough player personnel to win games. Andre Igoudala is the star of the 76ers and that just is not good enough.

I’m not saying Eddie Jordan was the right man for the job, but let’s be real, Pat Riley could not make a winner out of this collection of sub-par players. The firing was undeserved, especially after only one season, which leads me to believe the Jordan hiring was never meant to be a long-term marriage.

DN: It’s hard to put all of the blame on Eddie Jordan for this past year. The 76ers, simply put, were a bad team this year. While I don’t think that Jordan’s firing was completely justified, I also have no arguments against it. As a coach, regardless of the situation, you are expected to perform. The 76ers had made the playoffs the past two years, so Jordan should have been able to take this team to the playoffs. The 76ers will find a new coach to hopefully shake things up, and it appears likely that Jordan will be the next head coach at Rutgers. Jordan should want no part of the 76ers because while they might be playoff worthy, they are years from competing for an NBA title.

MM: While New York is the toughest place for a team that is underperforming, Philadelphia’s Eddie Jordan was fired prematurely and should have been given another shot. It is not as if the 76ers were one of the best teams in the East. Did they have a bad year? Yes. But the same way Mike D’Antoni should not be fired for the Knicks’ struggles, neither should Jordan have been.

BO: Chris gets the 3 here for mentioning

the front office – the real problem with this franchise. Dan gets the 2 for mentioning the 76ers making the playoffs the last two years. Mike gets 1 for not giving enough support for his answer.

2. David Ortiz has fallen under a bunch of criticism that he is finished, and he continues to lash out at the media, claiming he just needs some time. Will Big Papi make a comeback or is he washed up?

CR: Ortiz is on the wrong side of 35 years old, and, with the implementation of stricter steroid policy, he is without the aid of pharmaceuticals. Nobody will say or write it, but, it’s no surprise his numbers have dramatically decreased since the MLB has cracked down on steroids use. Ortiz is out of shape, at an unathletic 230 pounds, and adds very little to an aging Boston lineup that can’t be provided by the likes of a Jack Cust, who is currently with Oakland’s Triple-A affiliate in Sacramento and available for cheap, or Carlos Lee, who will be up for trade sooner rather than later as the Astros will continue to slip further into the depths of the NL Central. Ortiz’s sack of diminishing skills sits directly in the middle of Boston’s lineup and, at 4th place in the AL East, the Sox will continue to be dragged down if they do not part ways with Big Papi, or at least reduce his role. If Boston could better Jason Varitek, the team’s captain, with Victor Martinez, then the organization should not feel any guilt over cutting ties with Big Papi.

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DN: Big Papi will never be what he once was.

He is too old, fat and slow to put up those kind of numbers. That being said, he still has enough left in him to put up around 25 homers and 80 RBI’s. He started off terribly last year and had a relatively strong second half. His bat has slowed, but he still has the power to take the ball deep, especially over the course of a full season. He is a full-time DH, so the likelihood of injury is lower, even though he’ll probably hurt himself somehow. Ortiz is a shell of his former self, but if the Red Sox are simply us-

AtD Playoffs No. 1 Brandon No. 5 Bobby No. 8 Garrett No. 2 O’Donnell No. 7 Jason No. 9 Leather wood No. 3 Mike No. 4 Chris No. 6 Dan

Garrett wins 7-6-5 Jason wins 8-7-3 Chris wins 8-7-3

ing him for the home run or bust approach, a la Matt Stairs, then he should suffice. If anyone is expecting him to come within smelling distance of his former numbers, you’re out of your mind. If you lower your expectations, then you’ll realize that Ortiz is still a useful commodity.

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MM: Last year Big Papi got off to a horrific start, but still managed to have a respectable season. I do not think he will ever return to his 50-home run 120 RBI levels from a few years ago. He is getting older and his beer belly physique does not appear to be aging well. Still, he came back from wrist problems last year and was OK, and this year he appears healthier at the start of the year. I expect a prolonged slump for the Sox slugger, but he’s in a good hitter’s ballpark with a good hitting team around him.

He will see his pitches, and he will eventually get his hits.

BO: Chris gets the 3 for making the Jason Varitek comparison, which I completely agree with. Dan gets 2 for comparing Ortiz to Matt Stairs, and Mike gets 1 for telling me nothing I did not already know.

3. Which was the better signing? The Jets snagging Santonio Holmes or the Dolphins grabbing Brandon Marshall? Why? CR: The Dolphins nearly made the playoffs last season and the acquisition of Brandon Marshall should push them into at least a wild card slot. Marshall’s presence in Miami will help all facets of the Dolphin’s offense. With Marshall and Ted Ginn Jr. spreading the field, an already potent rushing attack led by Ronnie Brown and Ricky Williams should only benefit, placing Williams’ career on a permanent pedestal with Michael Phelps’ as a pair of the worst anti-drug campaigns in the history of America’s War On Drugs. In all seriousness, Chad Henne emerged as a very adequate NFL quarterback last season, and did so without anything remotely resembling a receiving corp. With Marshall, Henne now has that big go to receiver every quarterback covets, like a

warm security blanket waiting on the wings as the pocket collapses. Also, look for Ted Ginn Jr. to finally emerge as the receiving threat Miami expected when they drafted the speedster in the first round of the 2007 draft.

DN: While both signings were surprising and huge for both teams, Santonio Holmes will prove to be the better of the trades. Even though he is suspended for the first four games of the year, Marshall isn’t exactly a boyscout and will probably be suspended at some point in the season. Also, Holmes only cost the Jets a fifth-round pick, whereas Marshall cost the Dolphins two second-round picks. Even though he was won the Super Bowl, Holmes is clearly an inferior WR in comparison to Marshall. That being said, the addition of Holmes gives the Jets a nice receiving duo of Holmes and Edwards, whereas Marshall will be the only threat the Dolphins have in the air. Simply put, Marshall makes the Dolphins a wild-card contender, but Holmes (along with other key additions) makes the Jets Super Bowl favorites.

MM: Both of these signings are excellent, and the AFC East is becoming a very intriguing division. However, I believe the Brandon Marshall signing is better for several reasons.

First, Holmes is going to be suspended for the first 4 games, which costs him dearly in a head to head comparison with Marshall. While both receivers are great talents, I also think that Marshall at his best is the superior receiver. He has an unbelievable knack for catching hard to reach passes and getting open. Lastly, Marshall helps the Dolphins receiving core more than Holmes helps the Jets. The Jets were already set up on offense, Holmes is the cherry on top. Marshall, especially with the departure of Ginn, will prove to be more integral for his team.

BO: Dan gets the 3 for calling the Jets a Super Bowl contender, which makes my heart warm. Chris gets 2 for talking about the Dolphins spreading the field. Mike gets 1 for less facts than the other two.

Chris takes the last seat in the finals, 8 - 7 - 3

Championship begins next week!!!

“That’s a bingo.”

—Chris

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LIONS ROUNDUP Baseball

Date 3/19/10 3/24/10 3/26/10 4/1/10 4/2/10 4/3/10 4/6/10 4/8/10 4/9/10 4/10/10 4/13/10 4/14/10 4/16/10 4/17/10 4/22/10 4/23/10 4/24/10

Date 3/12/10 3/16/10 3/18/10 3/20/10 3/25/10 3/30/10 4/3/10 4/6/10 4/10/10 4/12/10 4/15/10 4/17/10 4/20/10 4/23/10 4/27/10

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Time/Result

Haverford College Gwynedd-Mercy College Penn State-Abington Rowan University Rutgers University-Camden Ramapo College (DH) Widener University Rowan University Kean University N.J. City University St. Joseph’s College Alvernia University Richard Stockton College William Patterson Univ.

Kean University Richard Stockton College Rutgers University-Newark

W 13-0 L 6-10 W 20-2 L 2-3 L 8-13 W 14-2/W 4-1 L 6-21 L 2-3 W 5-3 W 18-2/W 14-7 W 20-6 L 2-7 W 10-1 W 3-2/W 11-5 3:30 p.m.

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Opponent

Time/Result

St. Mary’s College(Md.) Eastern University Cabrini College Drew University Ursinus College FDU-Florham Gettysburg College Rutgers University-Camden Salisbury University Ramapo College Rowan University Frostburg State University Montclair State University Franklin & Marshall Kean University

W W W W W W W W W W L W 7 6 7

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Lion of the Week

Leigh Mitchell Womenʼs Lacrosse

Sophomore midfielder Leigh Mitchell scored 10 goals and tacked on three assists in two matches against Rowan University and Frostburg State University this week.

—Brandon

Womenʼs Lacrosse

Date 9/23/09 3/7/10 3/8/10 3/9/10 3/27/10 3/27/10 4/1/10 4/3/10 4/6/10 4/10/10 4/11/10 4/18/10 4/21/10 4/24/10

Opponent

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This Week In Sports Baseball

16-6 22-9 19-1 6-4 22-8 20-10 13-10 15-1 16-2 20-5 11-12 19-3 p.m. p.m. p.m.

April 22 vs. Kean University, 3:30 p.m.

April 23 @ Richard Stockton College, 3:30 p.m.

April 24 @ Rutgers University-Newark (DH), 11:30 a.m.

April 27 vs. Stevens Institute of Technology, 3:30 p.m.

Softball

April 24

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Time/Result

Richard Stockton College University of Rochester Emory University Coe College St. Lawrence University William Smith College Johns Hopkins University Skidmore College New York University Williams College Middlebury College Muhlenberg College Bates College Wellesley College

W 9-0 W 7-2 L 1-8 W 8-1 W 9-0 W 9-0 L 0-9 W 6-3 W 8-1 L 2-7 L 3-6 W 9-0 1:30 p.m.

10 a.m.

vs. Ramapo College (DH), 1 p.m.

April 27 @ Rowan University (DH), 3 p.m.

Track & Field April 22-24 @ Penn Relays, TBA April 23-24 Lionsʼ Invitational, TBA Menʼs Tennis

Trivia Question

April 21 vs. Bates College, 4 p.m.

April 27 vs. Haverford College, 3:30 p.m.

Answer to Last Week’s Trivia Question: 3

Ubaldo Jimenez gave up no hits as he pitched the Colorado Rockies to a 4-0 victory over the Atlanta Braves on Saturday.

The 26-year-old’s performance was the first no-hitter of the 2010 Major League Baseball season and the first in Rockies team history. Now that Jimenez has ended the Rockies’ 18-year nohitter drought, how many major league teams have still yet to record a no-hitter in the history of their franchise?

Womenʼs Tennis April 21 vs. Bates College, 1:30 p.m.

April 24 vs. Wellesley College, 10 a.m.

Womenʼs Lacrosse April 23 vs. Franklin & Marshall College, 6 p.m.

April 25 vs. Kean University, 6 p.m.

AP Photo

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Lions’ Lineup April 21, 2010

Lions move into No. 2 spot in the NJAC College pitches its way to 8-3 conference record

By Bobby Olivier Editor-in-Chief

only one half-game behind Rowan University for the top spot in the conference.

“We really have benefited from tremendous pitching from our whole staff and timely hitting one through nine,” Ruzich said. “I also think we have finally come together as a team. We always knew we had enough talent to win games, but with so many new and young players, it took some time for everyone to find their roles on the team.”

Ruzich’s role on the team has become that of an offensive leader, as he gained seven RBIs and a homerun in the Lions’ 10-1 victory over Richard Stockton College on Friday and doubleheader sweep of William Paterson University on Saturday, 3-2 and 11-5. Ruzich is now batting an impressive .418 with three homeruns and 26 RBIs on the season.

“I have been working with our hitting coach on my approach at the plate, and have started to feel very comfortable,” he said. “Whenever you are comfortable while hitting it almost seems as if the game slows down and your able to see the ball very well.”

In game one of the WPU doubleheader, it was not Ruzich’s bat, but Henderson’s arm that led the College to the narrow victory. Henderson improved to 6-0 on the season and 14-1 as a Lion, as he allowed just two runs on seven hits over seven innings. Senior A.J. Adamczyk closed the game for the College, while

Following stellar performances by junior pitcher Connor Henderson and sophomore first baseman James Ruzich, the Lions grabbed three New Jersey Athletic Conference (NJAC) wins this past week, launching them to a 8-3 NJAC record,

Tom O’Dell / Photo Assistant

The College improved its record to 15-13.

Inside

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Track runs at Moravian page 19

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Lacrosse loses first game page 19

A College batter drives the pitch.

sophomore catcher Mike Galeotafiore chipped in with three hits.

“Coach Palese, our hitting coach, talked about making adjustments, and that’s exactly what we did,” Galeotafiore said.

“It is very difficult to beat an NJAC team, regardless if they have talent or not. The bottom line is, every game is a rivalry, see WINNING page 18

Lion of the week page 23

Softball

Tennis

Haar sets career mark No. 9-ranked Lions keep rolling Goldstein nets his 17th win

By Hilarey Wojtowicz Opinions Editor The Lions swept the courts this weekend as the men’s and women’s tennis teams each collected another win to add to the team’s record and senior Stef Haar reached a career milestone with 125 career wins. The men now sit at 8-5 this season, and the woman at 7-4. The women’s team triumphed over Muhlenberg College 9-0 on Sunday April 18 and the men were right behind with an 8-1 win against New York University on Saturday April 17, but an 8-1 loss to Trinity College on Sunday April 18.

The men took first in all three doubles matches against the Bobcats with sophomores Steve Fernandez and Stewart Fernandez gaining an 8-5 win, freshmen T.J. Riley and Dean Thompson gathering an 8-1 win and junior Jon-

athan Yu and sophomore Dan Lee finishing the match 8-2. In singles, the Lions won all but one match, with freshman Keith Goldstein, Stewart Fernandez, Thompson, Yu and Lee each winning their match in two sets.

In the match against Trinity College, the men’s team took a harsh setback, with Goldstein being the only player to gain a win. The freshman collected his team-leading 17th singles win, defeating sophomore Charles McConnell of the Bantams in two sets, 6-2, 6-4.

“I’m glad I was able to play my part and contribute to the team the best I could,” said Goldstein. “I’m just going to stay focused and stay hungry in order to be successful before the end of the season.”

The 8-1 loss put the Lions at 8-5 for the see STREAK page 19

Tom O’Dell / Photo Assistant

A Lions tennis player returns the serve with his forehand.

By Michael O’Donnell Staff Writer

With the playoffs just weeks away, the Lions continued their torrid run through the regular season conference schedule by routing the Pioneers of William Paterson University on Saturday.

The team pulled off a 3-0 shutout in game one, while showing off the bats in a 7-1 romp the second half of the twin bill at Lions’ Park.

“There are two huge wins,” head coach Sally Miller said. “Coming off a few doubleheaders that were not the best offensive performances, we got back to basics and hit our stride in both games.”

The No. 9-ranked team in the nation, according to the latest National Fastpitch Coaches Association poll, took it to William Paterson in the initial contest thanks to dominant pitching of senior Ashley Minervini.

The ace of the Lions’ staff blanked the Pioneers on five hits. She didn’t walk a batter while fanning five to pick up her 10th win of the season.

“She’s been good all year,” Miller said.

“Our pitching has been dominant up until now.”

Her stuff was there, so she didn’t need much support from the offense. Nevertheless, her offense continued its impressive overall output.

Sophomore left fielder Crystal Lee used her speed to knock an inside-the-park home run in the fifth inning.

Seniors Ellen Seavers and Dani Hagel both had RBIs for the Lions as well. Seavers singled in rookie second baseman Ashley Sogluizzo in the first, while Hagel plated

Tim Lee / Photo Editor

The Lions get the out at first.

freshman pinch runner Michelle Casale in the sixth.

More of the same occurred in the second game. The hit parade was led by sophomore catcher Michelle Kent, who went 2-4 with two RBI singles. Lee pitched in with a 3-5 day, including two runs and a RBI herself.

Like Minervini, pitcher Lauren Fitzsimmons didn’t need much help. The sophomore hurled a complete game for her New Jersey Athletic Conference (NJAC) leading 13th win of the season. “Fitz” scattered four hits over the seven innings while striking out five. “(Fitzsimmons has) been consistent and dominant all year,” Miller said. “She’s been see SWEEP page 18