The Signal November 18, 2009 issue

Fight for the funny

Horrors remembered Two survivors of the Holocaust spoke in Forcina Hall on Nov. 12 about their experiences.

12 student comedians competed for three spots in the N.J. Comedy Festival in the Rathskeller on Nov. 12.

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Arts & Entertainment, page 19

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Bid for Tucker Max now up to College students

New poll to be released at end of week will decide

By Katie Brenzel Arts & Entertainment Editor Due to an overwhelming response from groups across campus, the College Union Board (CUB) has decided to postpone presenting a bid to author Tucker Max to lecture in Kendall Hall on Jan. 20, according to CUB director Raquel Fleig.

Later this week students will have the opportunity to participate in a revised poll to either reinforce the $25,000 bid for Maxʼs appearance or select a different performer.

The new poll was prompted by criticism that the first poll wasnʼt clear, Fleig said.

Last month, students were asked to select from various genres and examples of entertainment in an online poll.

According to Fleig, claims of confusion were made over whether students voted for the genre or

Photo courtesy of Tucker Max

Tim Lee / Photo Editor

Students will vote to bring Tucker Max (left) to the College. According to Jackie Deitch-Stackhouse (right), Max is a ʻred dot,ʼ and is therefore a threat to OAVIʼs message on campus. the specific example supplied with each option, in this case, Tucker Max. The writer of four-time New York Times best-seller “I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell,” which

was released as a feature film in 2009, is known for his controversial presence on the web and as a lecturer on campuses across the country. His comedic material draws from alcohol-induced

sexual exploits and in his own words on his Web siteʼs homepage, his tendency “to act like a raging dickhead.”

Jackie Deitch-Stackhouse, coordinator of the Office of Ant-

Violence Initiatives (OAVI), is one of the leading figures of dissent over Maxʼs proposed visit.

According to Stackhouse, OAVI see MAX page 2

Problems with PAWS worst for transfer students

By Juliana Fidler Staff Writer

Tim Lee / Photo Editor

The newly-installed public art was vandalized on Nov. 11. Currently, the police have no suspects.

‘Pixels’ vandalized

By Caitlyn Camacho Correspondent

Last week the controversial “Pixels” public art project was vandalized just a week after its installation caused campus-wide debate.

“The public art display adjacent to the new Art and Interactive Multimedia Building has been the subject of a great deal of debate and discussion. Matthew Golden, executive director of public relations and communications, said. “The discourse related to that art has been both questioning and informative.

At times, it has been undeniably humorous.

There is, however, neither humor nor intellectual value in the act of vandalism that has

taken place.”

According to Campus Police, the vandalism was discovered by Sgt. Raymond Scully at 2 a.m. on Nov. 11.

Scully was performing routine foot patrol on campus when he discovered black spray paint around the circumference of the blue pixel, reports said.

A check of the other three balls revealed spray paint on the purple pixel as well. The purple pixel had a solid circle as well as the Greek letters “∑” and “∏” spray painted on it. Scully observed no one in the area at the time. see VANDALISM page 3

The Records and Registration office has been “inundated with e-mails” about problems students are having with PAWS, the new scheduling system, said Frank Cooper, director of records and registration.

One such student is sophomore civil engineering major Christian Zografos. “I canʼt register for classes on PAWS because Iʼm a transfer student,” he said.

Since he did not receive credit, according to PAWS, for the “stepping stone” courses he took at his previous college, the system would not let him sign up for classes necessary to his major.

“It could delay my graduation if a class closes or something like that,” he said. “Itʼs kind of a big deal.”

“The biggest issue is for transfer students,” Cooper said when he addressed SGA at its meeting on Wednesday, Nov. 11.

This is a recurring problem, said Marisa Hutton, secretary in the department of Engineering. “Itʼs a difficult situation for these students.”

The PAWS team began with about 170

thousand courses “that were not equated to a course at (the College),” Cooper said, and “built a crosswalk” to show the credits students earned at other schools.

“That crosswalk was not as detailed as we thought,” he said. “We equated (transfer credits) to electives. That could have been done in more detail.”

However, “all this is fixable,” said Cooper.

He said that the PAWS team will be “running scripts” to address these issues. This process was set to begin Monday, Nov. 16.

Another scheduling issue involves the exceptions and waivers for certain requirements that are not yet recorded on PAWS. Hundreds of such requests are being submitted this week by advisors, Cooper said.

This is especially relevant to “specializations within majors,” such as the Math Science Technology (MST) program, Cooper said. Other majors like psychology, international studies and music have such specializations.

Updates to course substitutions specifically in the MST program will begin Nov.20, he said.

The Singing Revolution ‘Gangs 101’ A College film festival was A panel including two state police about the fall of communism. officers discussed gangs.

Opera comes to College Lyric Theatre performed ‘Cosi Fan Tutte’ over the weekend.

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Provost: More transparency in art decision

By Arti Patel Copy Editor Provost and Executive Vice President Carol Bresnahan spoke to the Student Government Association (SGA) on Nov. 11 about plans for the Collegeʼs Center of Teaching and Learning and clarified details about the pixel art installation and subsequent vandalism.

“Two of the pixels were vandalized and I am very sorry about that,” said Bresnahan. “I donʼt care how much you donʼt like it, but to mar an artistʼs work like that is very sad.”

In hindsight, Bresnahan agreed that informing students about the selection process, the artistʼs background and vision, and the artwork choice itself would have served to help maintain a transparent communication process with the College community and quell a large amount of dissatisfaction.

Bresnahan is currently seeking

to revive a project, formerly grant funded, centering on the development of a Center of Teaching and Learning that would offer cuttingedge help in pedagogy inside the classroom for student teachers.

Though the long-term plan is to construct a building to house the program, the short-term task of getting the project up and running is the responsibility of Vice Provost of Academic Affairs Mark Kiselica.

“Everything on the academic side of your life here, inevitably, falls under my responsibility,” said Bresnahan, “Iʼm not at all content about where we are, but I am excited about where weʼre heading.”

Director of Records and Registration Frank Cooper provided student leaders with an update on the PAWS system.

Cooper said the College is “very satisfied” with how PAWS is work-

ing and hoped students could see the multitude of benefits the system offered in the areas of advising help and browsing for and scheduling classes. He recognized three main concerns for students — transfer credit authorization, class waivers and substitutions, and the acknowledgement of specialization declarations.

“The department (is) being proactive to help students avoid the bureaucratic system,” Cooper said. “We brought back a consultant to help fix some problems we knew we would have during the go live shakedown.”

According to Cooper, during the PAWS transfer conversions the sheer volume of courses needing transfer accreditation by the College caused the system to “go out of whack” but he assured students of a swift recovery period. Within the

month, the PAWS team said class waivers and substitutions accepted by student advisors will be up to date and Cooper urged students that have not yet declared their interdisciplinary concentration or specialization to do so immediately.

SGA senators voted to recognize three new organizations, Beta Alpha Psi, Students Against Childhood Cancer, and TCNJ Operation Smile, all of whom passed by majority vote.

Beta Alpha Psi representative Alison Weld, senior accounting major, explained her nationally recognized organization would be an honor society for accounting and finance majors.

Passed by unanimous vote, this is the first honor society within in the school of business for either major at the College.

Founder and President of Students Against Childhood Cancer Brad Whitely, freshman exercise

science major, said, “you have to have a strong passion for fighting childrenʼs cancer” and defended his clubʼs difference from the already SGA recognized club Colleges Against Cancer, claiming his organization would be highly active and devoted to their cause.

Alex Gregorek, senior business major, represented TCNJ Operation Smileʼs interests at the meeting by showing her devotion toward helping raise money and awareness locally and globally for children with cleft palates.

This College offshoot would work directly with the international organization Operation Smile through fundraising events and surgical missions.

“I believe College students have the skills to raise money and save peopleʼs lives,” Gregorek said, “This program will spread awareness and help College students help kids globally.”

Obesityʼs economic consequences in adults, kids

By Alyssa Mease Staff Writer

Susan L. Averett, professor of economics at Lafayette College spoke on Nov. 11, discussing adult and childhood obesity and its physical and economic consequences.

“Being obese itself is not a health problem, but it is correlated with these other health problems,” Averett said. In a paper published in the Journal of Human Resources in 1996, Averett and economist Sanders Korenman studied the effects of obesity on earned wages.

“We worked really hard to find the causal effect of obesity on wages,” Averett said. The article, titled, “The Economic Reality of the Beauty Myth,” cited data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth.

Averett and Korenman were looking to see if a person was overweight because of his or her low income or if a person earned a lower income because he or she was overweight.

They used a temporal ordering of the data set. By doing this, they could use an earlier measure of BMI, which is less likely to be tainted by reverse causality, though Averett admitted that no system is perfect.

Two-thirds of adults in the United States are either obese or overweight.

According to Averett, Body Mass Index (BMI) of 25-30 constitutes being overweight, while a BMI of over 30 is considered obese. BMI is calculated by dividing a personʼs weight in kilograms by his or her height squared, in meters.

“Given that obesity rates have continued to climb for a number of years, and are particularly high for younger individuals, I feel it is important for our generation to understand both the personal lifestyle as well as financial issues that accompany obesity,” said Brad Van Arnum, junior economics major and president of the economics club, who hosted the event.

In Averettʼs studies, she found that overweight women were less likely to marry, their spouses earned a lower wage, and they earned about 15 percent less than their skinnier counterparts.

There were significantly less discrepancies between overweight or obese men and their average weight counterparts.

Wages differed only seven percent. Men donʼt get penalized for being heavier like women, Averett said.

“Personal health extends beyond individuals,” said Lauren Rittenbach, a sophomore economics major. “She shed a new light on finding the causes of obesity and how the effects differ amongst men and women and whites and blacks.

If one wishes to improve general health and wellness, an economic analysis on

the causalities will help you to identify outlying problems, rather than merely declaring obesity as an individual life choice.”

The other part of Averettʼs presentation was about childhood obesity. This year, she has published two papers on the topic, “Childhood Overweight in the U.S.: A Quantitive Regression Approach” and “Race and Gender Differences in the Cognitive Effects of Childhood Overweight.”

Averett found race played a large part in childhood obesity. “A lot of the action for kids really varies by race,” she said.

African-American girls were the most overweight group between 1984 and 1996.

Mothers with a higher education had fewer occurrences of underweight daughters, but their education didnʼt make a difference if their daughters were overweight.

Higher education for the mothers of boys tended to make the boys lighter, especially in white males.

Averett also studied the correlation between fast food prices and BMI in children. She found that as fast food prices decreased, the average BMI of children increased.

The hospital costs associated with childhood obesity were estimated at $127 million between 1997 and 1999, as mea-

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Susan L. Averett talked about obesity. sured in 2001 U.S. dollars. This was up from $39 million between 1979 and 1981.

“The analysis was impressive and I think the economic costs of obesity are really important to talk about, especially with health care costs being debated,” said Mike Zane, senior economics major and secretary of the economics club.

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has centralized efforts against Max through petitions sent to various groups on campus. Stackhouse said she believes the second poll will yield different results.

“I really believe, in my heart of hearts that this campus doesnʼt support the values that Tucker Max promotes,” she said.

“It has been my opinion, that once weʼve educated the campus community, that if given a second opportunity to vote, they will choose what they really want, and itʼs been my hope that they will say anything other than Tucker Max.” As a part of the Collegeʼs Green Dot Initiative, a campus-wide campaign to counter personal violence (red dots) with acts against violence (green dots) Stackhouse identifies Max as a “red dot,” and therefore, a direct threat that undermines the messages espoused

by OAVI, as well as other offices such as the Office of Differing Abilites and the Alcohol and Drug Education Program. The implications of Maxʼs visit go beyond differences in comedic taste, Stackhouse said.

“If students re-poll … and continue to say that they want him … after helping people understand the connection between his sexist, misogynist, pro-rape values and comedic works … then thereʼs a much bigger issue for me to deal with than CUB programming,” Stackhouse said.

In response to many studentsʼ arguments that preventing Max from visiting represents a violation of free speech, Stackhouse held that the issue isnʼt whether CUB has the right to bring Max to campus but whether it should.

“CUB is an entertainment body … theyʼre not supposed to have an ideology, not supposed to have an agenda. Itʼs supposed to be for entertainment purposes. So itʼs different. Even putting Tucker Max on the survey, to me, is problematic. I donʼt know that it should have ever gotten that far,” Stackhouse said.

Fleig said, “We found that students in the past have been apathetic towards campus programming … we saw the opportunity to use (Max) as a catalyst for discussion.”

Fleig said she personally isnʼt a fan of Maxʼs brand of humor and said she recognizes the concerns of different groups regarding his jokes about sexual assault. However,

she feels he has a right to speak on campus.

“I donʼt think as adults we should be censored in what we are seeing or hearing … From CUBʼs standpoint, we believe that there is an audience for him on campus,” she said.

Fleig said Maxʼs lecture will focus on his experience as a former lawyer turned writer, so it will be useful for students who are fearful about their careers after college.

According to the vice president of the Womenʼs Center Sharanya Mohanty, junior psychology major, however, it is nearly impossible for any writer, especially Max, to separate his experience as a writer from the content of his work.

“To bring a guy who is the antithesis of what we promote on campus just isnʼt right … He essentially promotes a culture of rape,” Mohanty said.

W.I.L.L., OAVI, Office of Differing Abilities Services, International Socialist Organization, College Democrats, College Republicans, Alcohol and Drug Education Program have all stated opposistion to Max coming. OAVI also started circulating a petition and the organizations mentioned above helped.

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Film honors Estonian revolution

Intoxicated female student found lying on Ely Hall floor

When a nation is faced with invasion, what is the appropriate plan of action? For the tiny country of Estonia, the answer was singing.

Nov. 10 was part of the two day film festival in the library auditorium commemorating the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the deterioration of communism. The event featured filmmakers Jim and Maureen Tusty and their film, “The Singing Revolution.”

The film focuses on the Soviet occupation in Estonia and Laulupidu, the Estonian song festival held every five years, which continued despite Soviet efforts to rid the country of anything from pre-Soviet domination.

The song festival, which last took place in July, is an opportunity to experience national identity for Estonians. In Tallinn, Estonia, the festival included nearly 30,000 singers.

“Think of half of Yankee Stadium singing in unity,” Jim Tusty said.

The Tustys learned of Estonia’s nonviolent revolution while teaching a filmmaking course in Estonia in 1999. The film was released in 2006 at the Black Nights Film Festival in Estonia. According to the filmmakers, the response was so positive

By Alyssa Mease Staff Writer

By Elaina Horowitz Correspondent

Tom OʼDell / Photo Assistant

ʻThe Singing Revolutionʼtells the story of Estoniaʼs non-violent rebellion. that today the film is shown in Estonian schools to educate students of their country’s history.

“You could feel the power of the people,” said Meaghan Castle, a freshman at Arcadia University and niece to the Tusty’s.

The film’s screening was also attended by students and many from the surrounding community, including local Estonians.

“You can’t underestimate the power of rock and roll. Give peace a chance,” said Bill Walto, a Ewing citizen.

Leatrice Taling, an Estonian woman who now lives in Kendall Park, N.J., said, “I have been waiting for that film.”

A female was found lying on the hallway floor at 8 p.m. on Friday Nov. 6 in Ely Hall. When Campus Police arrived, she was sitting in a chair with her head swaying back and forth. According to reports, her speech was slurred and her responses were incoherent.

Lions EMS arrived and were unable to get accurate and direct responses from the female, who smelled of alcohol. Medical transport was requested because of her unstable physical condition.

She was issued a summons. …

A female was found unconscious in a rest room at 12:45 a.m. on Saturday Nov. 7 in Wolfe Hall. According to campus police, the victim was disoriented, incoherent, and urinated on the bed she had been moved to. She then vomited several times, and said she had too much whiskey and wanted to sleep.

Pennington Road EMS arrived, assumed patient care from Lions EMS and transported the victim to Capital Health Systems at Fuld.

A summons was issued, reports said. …

A dark blue Verizon EN-V3 cell phone, valued at about $200, was stolen from a womenʼs rest room in Travers Hall between 2 a.m. and 12 p.m. Sunday Nov. 8.

The victim, who is not a College student, said she woke up at 2 a.m. to use the bathroom. According to campus police, she believes she brought her phone in with her and then accidentally left it there. When she awoke again at 12 p.m., she realized that she no longer had her phone. She then called it from another phone, and heard male voices laughing, reports said. She was unable to further describe the voices. …

A six-foot section of gutter and several feet of wire were found to be pulled down at 9:10 a.m. on Sunday Nov. 8 at the chemistry loading dock in the science complex.

According to campus police, it is unknown when the damage occurred but it appears to have been done by a truck or similar vehicle, as the principle damage is high above the ground.

ʻGangs 101ʼ teaches students about N.J. gangs

By Matt Huston Nation & World Editor

The Halloween shooting in Lot 4 last year is believed by police to be gang related.

Lt. James R. Lopez of campus police told students this on Nov. 11 in the Business Building lounge during “Gangs 101,” a forum dedicated to gang awareness that was held by Township and College Together (TACT).

The event was also arranged in part by members of the New Jersey State Police Street Gang Bureau, who regularly speak at New Jersey schools and community centers.

State Police officers Lt. Keith Bevacqui and Detective Sgt. 1st Class Ronald Hampton presented a slide show and discussed the dramatic growth of gangs, both in membership and in public consciousness.

Hampton initiated the presentation with humor, cueing up images of Scarface, the Village People and the Brady Bunchʼs kind disciplinarian maid, Alice, whom he dubbed an O.G. — original gangster.

“Guess what? This is what we thought about gangs just 10 short years ago,” Hampton said.

When gang influence exploded in the 1990s, communities were uninformed and enforcement was relatively lax. Hampton emphasized that since 1996, the stateʼs commitment to stopping gang crime has increased tremendously.

The common knowledge of gang gestures and visual symbols (e.g. opposing red and blue colors, the “blood” hand sign, and the “crip walk”) has swelled despite the deathly seriousness of gang rivalries.

Bevacqui warned young people about casually flashing such hand signs, telling them “you might be in the wrong place at the wrong time.”

In 2007, there were 794 different gangs in New Jersey. The largest gang, the Bloods, has a presence in 211 municipalities.

Contrary to popular belief, gang members are becoming increasingly involved in financial crimes like identity theft and the smuggling of non-narcotics. Yet life-threatening violence is still very much a part of gang culture, the officers said.

The officers challenged age stereotypes as well, illustrating the expansion of gang involvement into all age groups. Hampton described the arrest of a 72-year-

old woman discovered to be a gang-employed drug transporter.

Even more worrying to law enforcement, the officers said, is the influence of gangs over very young children.

In many cases, children are brought up into gangs by their parents. Bevacqui recalled an eight-year-old who already had the Bloodsʼ “dog paws” burned into his arm by an older brother.

Focusing on at-risk youth is more important than trying to turn around gang converts, Detective Frank Guido of the Trenton Police Department said.

Following the presentation, TACT members discussed gang trends by locality.

Detective Sgt. Joseph Smith of the Ewing Police Department said that contrary to the national increase, gang activity in Ewing is on the decline.

Guido said that while drug-dealing is down in Trenton, robbery and burglary rates are increasing. He also said the number of “innocent victims” is rising as a result, despite Hamptonʼs estimation that about 90 percent of gang crimes are committed against gang members.

Matt Huston can be reached at huston4@tcnj.edu.

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College honors veterans

Veterans Day was observed on Wednesday, Nov. 11 at the College. A ceremony was held in the Library Auditorium that honored those who have served in the military and those currently serving. Although it was primarily those currently in the military who attended, veterans and some students were also in the attendance.

Because spray paint was used and the balls were wet from rain, no latent prints were able to be lifted, Sgt. Mike Bell said.

Campus police said they have no suspects at this time but the case is still open and under investigation.

According to Bell, the presence of Greek letters does not necessarily mean the organization they belong to is responsible for the vandalism and it could be anyone on campus.

“It is inexcusable and very disappointing,” said Golden of the vandalism.

According to Angela Chong, associate dean of students and director of student conduct, any kind of vandalism violates what is acceptable at the College.

According to Chong, if Campus Police were to pass a report on to the office of Student Affairs with a named suspect, that person would be charged for violat-

ing standards at the College.

The College has “no tolerance” for the destruction of campus property, Chong said.

She also said part of the judicial process would be to determine how to educate that person and figure out how they can make reparations for their actions.

By Thursday morning, the spray paint had been removed from the spheres.

According to Kenneth Oliver, crew supervisor of building maintenance workers from Grounds and Landscape Services, the removal of the spray paint was delegated to the Collegeʼs paint shop.

The paint shop buffed the spheres with ArmorAll, a product that will give the artwork added protection, said Pete Ratzlaff, Crew Supervisor Carpenter / Paint Shop.

If anyone has any information regarding this case they can contact Campus Police at (609)-771-2345.

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Groups prepare for finals and the holidays

By Kelly Johnson Staff Writer

With finals quickly approaching, the Student Government Association (SGA) requested $9,874.67 from the Student Finance Board (SFB) at its Nov. 11 meeting to hold their biannual “Finals Fest” event, this yearʼs theme being “De-stress December.”

At the event there will be massage therapists, free bagels in the morning, baked goods, hot chocolate and pizza in the evenings.

SGA was also hoping to use a creative, new form of advertisement this semester by distributing stress balls with the dates of Finals Fest printed on them and bamboo sticks with the dates as well displayed in places like the Brower Student Center and the library to create a “zen-like” atmosphere.

“We encourage creative publicity, but this is not cost effective,” said Michele Velluzzi, operations director and senior accounting major.

Some members thought that the publicity was misdirected.

“I think they should focus publicity more toward freshman who have never heard of Finals Fest,” said Billy Freyberger, freshman representative and finance major.

Ultimately, SFB voted to cut funding for the stress balls and bamboo sticks, and other areas such as chalk, banners, and a tip for the pizza. SGA was granted $8,320.70 for Finals Fest.

Chabad and Hillel are teaming up to host the Annual Chanukkah Party, celebrating the Jewish holiday with an emphasis on traditional foods.

Among the attractions will be Ted Saint James, a mentalist and hypnotist tailored specifically toward a Jewish audience.

“Iʼm all for it,” said Warren Samlin, sophomore representative and finance major.

“I think it fits the event very well and will attract people,” Ashley La Rose, senior representative and psychology and communication studies major said.

SFB unanimously voted to fully fund the event, granting Chabad and Hillel $1,743.14. The event will be held on Dec. 6 in Cromwell Lounge.

SFB also granted Amnesty International $325 for basic

Tim Lee / Photo Editor

ʻFinals Fest,ʼ a series of events designed to help students de-stress during finals, was granted funding by SFB. Massages and free food will be included. funding for their events such as food, speakers, and film showings.

As a group they hold food drives and presentations on matters such as Darfur and sex trafficking. Amnesty International brought speakers of both issues to the College this semester.

Everyone in SFB agreed to support community service efforts, however some identified flaws in the groups.

“I think that community service groups have fragmented and splintered … and they become counterproductive unless they join into one large group … together they could accomplish many more things,” Samlin said.

SFB granted $49 to Secondary Education Teachersʼ Association (SETA), which focuses on the lack of community in the field of secondary education.

The theme this year for SETA is to target the problems in urban education, and with their funds they hope to continue their newly publicized newsletter and engage in professional workshops for students aspiring to become teachers.

The Chinese Culture Club was also granted $10.50 from SFB for additional funds. On campus, they hold two main events per year, and unfortunately those are the only two events they are financially capable of holding.

After some debate, SFB decided to deny the Catholic Campus Ministryʼs (CCM) request for $448 to hold “Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week”, scheduled to begin Nov. 15.

CCM missed their appointment to present to SFB on Nov. 4, and therefore were budgeted for time to get approval.

Because of the lack of time, CCM distributed flyers advertising their event on campus before their meeting with SFB. “Our policy says we canʼt fund events that have already been advertised for,” Velluzzi said.

Some members felt the policy should not stop the event.

“I feel like this could be one time we could bend the policy because it is a good cause,” Samlin said.

After voting, SFB decided they cannot ignore the policy in this case.

The French Club also requested $931 from SFB to hold their annual event “Soireé,” promoting French culture and tradition. However, their presentation was not prepared, with funds and requests missing from their proposal.

The proposed date also raised concern because it was very close to Thanksgiving and during Experience Asia Month.

SFB decided to table the request in order to address concerns of food insurance, movie rights and a date change.

Deaf-hearing connection hosts deaf author PAWS / Issues

By Mark Barroso Correspondent

Raymondluczak.com

Author Raymond Luczak came to the College to talk about his experiences growing up gay and deaf. The event was held by the Collegeʼs Deafhearing connection.

The Collegeʼs Deaf-Hearing Connection (DHC) provided the campus community with a presentation by deaf author Raymond Luczak.

The event, which washeld on Nov. 9 in the Mildred & Ernest E. Mayo Concert Hall, featured Luczak reciting poems and telling the audience about his experiences growing up gay and deaf.

Luczak gave his presentation in American Sign Language (ASL), as an audio interpretation was given by two women sitting in the front row.

Luczak said he lost his hearing at the age of seven months due to a case of severe pneumonia. He started using hearing aids when he was two years old.

“At age 15, I was obsessed with Harrison Ford. I did not realize I was gay … It was difficult being deaf growing up. I didnʼt feel like I could connect with my family,” he said, describing his youth.

Luczak started writing after the death of grandmother when he was 11 years old. His many books include “Eyes of Desire 2: A Deaf GLBT Reader” and “Assembly Required: notes from a deaf gay life.”

“Eyes of Desire 2” is an international anthology of deaf people while “Assembly Required” is a memoir, he said.

Luczak has also produced two fulllength documentaries. One of them, “Nathie:No Hand-Me-Downs,” is the first documentary to feature a black, deaf and gay man.

The presentation was the only event

held so far by DHC this semester, but more events are planned for next semester.

The event was funded by the Student Finance Board and co-sponsored by PRISM and the students that support them, according to the groupʼs Facebook page.

Members of the DHC shared their reactions after the presentation as Luczak held a book signing in the lobby of the Music Hall.

Megan Reynolds, sophomore psychology major, is a member of DHC and said, “It was nice to sign with someone who is deaf. I was one of the people who hung out with him (Luczak) before he presented.”

Luczak currently works for SIGNews, the national newspaper for deaf and signing communities. He also said he is currently working on a cinematic ghost film with exceptional special effects, to be done in ASL. According to Luczak, the film “is very dramatic.”

Kristine Gonzalez, sophomore deaf education major, is the president of DHC. “The goal of DHC is to create awareness about the culture of the deaf community,” she said. “You donʼt need to know sign language …

DHC focuses on learning more about deaf culture and all of its surrounding aspects.”

DHC, which was started roughly 10 years ago at the College, travels twice a year to the Katzenbach School for the Deaf to participate in the schoolʼs Field Day and send out care packages.

The next DHC event is scheduled for the spring semester, but there are few details at this time.

addressed ASAP

continued from page 1 “I have been having issues with PAWS for a few weeks, and the problem is it will only let me stay on for a few minutes and then it will kick me off,” said freshman elementary education and sociology major Katelyn Crawford.

“When I was trying to pick my classes for next semester it was a huge inconvenience because I would get kicked off every few minutes and would have to start again,” she said.

These are “normal things that would happen with any new system,” Cooper said.

Consultant Walter Terrell, from CedarCrestone, is identifying the problems and working to solve them, said Cooper.

Cooper said that students having problems with PAWS should “document the issue with their advisor via e-mail” and send a message to pawshelp@tcnj.edu as well.

Cooper also said some individual problems have already been fixed. “If students raised an issue, it was addressed manually,” he said.

“I think PAWS will be an excellent system after one or two more registration periods,” said Modern Languages Chair Regina Morin.

“When I have had problems, the scheduling team in Records and Registration has responded immediately and resolved all the issues. This system is new — the kinks are still being worked out, but I think we need to give it a chance,” she said.

“I think we need to say ʻthank youʼ to the people who are helping us through the transition.”

Morin also said that the new system has been very helpful in the advising process, which, according to Cooper, was the PAWS teamʼs intent.

Students will be able to “see from day one” the classes they need to graduate and “monitor their own academic process,” he said, adding that PAWS will “change the nature of advisement.”

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Nation & World

In Shanghai, president promotes ‘non-censorship’ BEIJING (AP) — President Barack Obama pointedly nudged China on Monday to stop censoring Internet access, offering an animated defense of the tool that helped him win the White House and suggesting Beijing need not fear a little criticism.

The presidentʼs message during a town hall-style meeting with university students in Shanghai, Chinaʼs commercial hub, focused on one of the trickiest issues separating Chinaʼs communist government and the United States — human rights.

It was a delicately balanced message and Obama couched his admonitions with words calling for cooperation, heavy with praise and American humility.

“I think that the more freely information flows, the stronger the society becomes, because then citizens of countries around the world can hold their own governments accountable,” Obama told students during his first-ever trip to China. “They can begin to think for themselves.”

The first-term U.S. president then flew to Beijing where Obama quickly drove to the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse for Obamaʼs third meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao. Trade, climate change and economic issues were expected to dominate. The two leaders had dinner in the government complex and were scheduled to meet again Tuesday.

In brief remarks before their initial talks, Hu noted Obamaʼs meeting with students, calling the session “quite lively.”

Obama smiled broadly throughout the Chinese leaders welcoming remarks, then told Hu that “the world recognizes the importance of the U.S.-Chinese relationship” in tackling global problems.

Obamaʼs message, aside from his proddings on human rights, was clear: Few global challenges can be solved unless the worldʼs only superpower and its rising competitor work together. He and his advisers have insisted in virtually all public utterances since he arrived in Japan on Friday: “We do not seek to contain Chinaʼs rise.”

Talk at dinner involved the respective histories of the two countries, and both Hu and Obama outlined the economic challenges his country is confronting.

The pair also swapped ideas about the significance education plays in the advancement of their people.

During Obamaʼs opening statement to university students in Shanghai, he spoke bluntly about the benefits of individual freedoms in a country known for limiting them.

“We do not seek to impose any system of government on any other nation,” Obama said. Then he added that freedom of expression and worship, unfettered access to information and unrestricted political participation are not unique to the United States; instead, he called them “universal rights.”

The line offered echoes of Obamaʼs predecessor, George W. Bush, who often talked of the “universality of freedom.”

Obama talked at length about the Internet, which he said helped him win the presidency because it allowed for the mobilization of young people like those in his audience in Shanghai.

“Iʼm a big supporter of non-censorship,” Obama said. “I recognize that different countries have different traditions. I can

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U.S. President Barack Obama greets audience members after a town hall-style event with Chinese youth, Monday, Nov. 16. tell you that in the United States, the fact that we have free Internet — or unrestricted Internet access — is a source of strength, and I think should be encouraged.”

Given where Obama was speaking, such a comment carried strong implications. And he appeared to be talking directly to Chinaʼs leaders when he said that he believes free discussion, including criticism that he sometimes finds annoying, makes him “a better leader because it forces me to hear opinions that I donʼt want to hear.”

China has more than 250 million Internet users and employs some of the worldʼs tightest controls over what they see. The country is often criticized for having the so-called “Great Firewall of China,” which refers to technology designed to prevent unwanted traffic from entering or leaving

Obama rejects initial war options WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama wonʼt accept any of the Afghanistan war options before him without changes, administration officials say, amid an argument by his own ambassador in Kabul that a significant U.S. troop increase would only prop up a weak, corruption-tainted government.

Obamaʼs ambassador, Karl Eikenberry, who is also a former commander in Afghanistan, is voicing strong dissent against sending more forces, according to an administration official. This puts him at odds with the current war commander, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who is seeking thousands more troops.

Eikenberryʼs misgivings center on a concern that bolstering the American presence in Afghanistan could make the country more reliant on the U.S., not less. He expressed them in forcefully worded cables to Washington just ahead of Obamaʼs latest war meeting Wednesday.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss administration deliberations.

The developments underscore U.S. skepticism about the leadership of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, whose government has been dogged by corruption. The emerging administration message is that Obama will not do anything to lock in an open-ended U.S. commitment.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday that she is concerned about Afghanistanʼs “corruption, lack of transparency, poor governance (and) absence of the rule of law.”

“Weʼre looking to President Karzai as he forms a new government to take action that will demonstrate — not just to the international community but first and foremost to his own people — that his second term will respond the needs that are so manifest,” Clinton said during a news conference in Manila with Philippine Foreign Secretary Alberto Romulo.

Obama is still expected to send in more troops to bolster a deteriorating war effort. He remains close to announcing his revamped war strategy — troops are just one component — and probably will do so shortly after he returns from a trip to Asia that ends Nov. 19.

Yet in Wednesdayʼs pivotal war council meeting, Obama wasnʼt satisfied with any of the Afghanistan war options presented by his national security team, one official said.

a network.

Obamaʼs town hall was not broadcast live across China on television. It was shown on local Shanghai TV and streamed online on two big national Internet portals, but the quality was choppy and hard to hear.

Obama is in the midst of a weeklong Asia trip. He came with a vast agenda of security, economic and environmental concerns, although always looming was how he would deal with human rights while in China.

The White House hoped Mondayʼs town hall meeting with Chinese university students would allow Obama to telegraph U.S. values — through its successes and failures — to the widest Chinese audience possible.

News Bits The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a student who complained that high school officials violated her constitutional rights when they turned off her microphone during her religion-tinged graduation speech.

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In this picture taken Monday, Nov. 9 a U.S. special operations member pays his final respects for a comrade killed on Saturday.

The president instead pushed for revisions to clarify how and when U.S. troops would turn over responsibility to the Afghan government. In turn, that could change the dynamic of both how many additional troops are sent to Afghanistan and what the timeline would be for their presence in the war zone, according to the official.

Military officials said Obama has asked for a rewrite before and resisted what one official called a one-way highway toward commander McChrystalʼs recommendations for more troops. The sense that he was being rushed and railroaded has stiffened Obamaʼs resolve to seek information and options beyond military planning, officials said, though a substantial troop increase is still likely.

The president is considering options that include adding 30,000 or more U.S. forces to take on the Taliban in key areas of Afghanistan and to buy time for the Afghan governmentʼs small and ill-equipped fighting forces to take over. The other three options on the table are ranges of troop increases, from a relatively small addition of forces to the roughly 40,000 that McChrystal prefers, according to military and other officials.

The war is now in its ninth year and is claiming U.S. lives at a record pace as military leaders say the Taliban has the upper hand in many parts of the country.

Retail sales rose more than expected in October due largely to a big rebound in auto sales.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday he will lead an intensive push for new ways to defuse the threat from homemade bombs, the crude ambush weapons that account for eight in 10 casualties in Afghanistan.

The nationʼs largest publisher of newspapers serving the gay and lesbian community, Window Media LLC, has shut down.

The U.S. Library of Congress is awarding Paul McCartney its third Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.

Authorities have stopped trying to capture a wild turkey that has been causing havoc for toll collectors and motorists on Interchange 14B on the New Jersey Turnpike.

Information from AP exchange

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Editorial

CUB drops the ball with Tucker Max

We’re a student newspaper. We love controversy. We love protests with big signs that we can take pictures of and impassioned people who give us long and angry quotes for stories. And we especially love jackasses — people who will run their mouths and say the most outrageous things possible in order to shock. To all the asses of the world, you make for some fun journalism.

For the above reasons, we couldn’t want Tucker Max to come to the College more.

But beyond our interests as journalists, our personal opinions vary quite a bit, much like everyone else at the college.

Some of us — both male and female — think Max is hilarious, and can’t wait to see him. Those of us think all the arguing is stupid and a waste of time. Either way, someone is going to end up unhappy.

Others think it’s ridiculous that student money is funding someone so controversial and offensive to so many students.

Yet others of us are too irritated by the fact that uninformed people are throwing around phrases like “censorship” and “free speech” to even have an opinion on Max himself.

Calling rescinding the bid for Max censorship demeans actual censorship, like burning books or banning Web sites.

Rescinding the bid would in no way suppress Max’s right to speak. He can come to the College and speak whenever he wants to — he would just be speaking on his own time and dollar, instead of ours. It’s a distinction that cannot be ignored.

No one is suggesting that Max be banned from campus, the anti-Max groups are simply encouraging CUB to bid for someone else.

If Max does not come, no student is prevented from buying his book, seeing his movie, or attending a lecture at another school.

Please, take a media law class before using words like censorship. You might think you sound incendiary, but we think you sound like an idiot.

One thing many of us agree on though, is that the College Union Board is in over its head.

Why CUB decided to suggest such a polarizing figure is a mystery to us. But, now that it has, we think CUB could have handled itself slightly better.

First of all, the original survey was ambiguous and confusing. If you don’t remember or didn’t vote, it said “ex.

Tucker Max.” This is an example, as in not justification for a final decision.

Secondly, CUB sent out a press release dealing with the controversy before even bidding for Max, or letting him know he was being considered. They also planned a movie screening and panel discussion a bit prematurely.

They sensationalized the issue before anyone even knew what was going on, leading people to believe that Max was definitely coming when they had not even requested the bid yet. At this point, Max could voluntarily decline the bid, as CUB has postponed it again and has no reason to believe that Max is coming at all.

Some of the controversy over this issue might have been avoided if CUB had waited until Max was confirmed to publicize the event.

But we applaud CUB’s attempt to right its mistake with the second poll, and hope that things can go smoothly for the remainder of this controversial situation.

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Tucker Max (right) may be coming to the College in January, depending on whether students vote for him to attend and give a lecture.

The Weekly Poll: Do you want Tucker Max to come to campus?

• Yes. I think he’s funny and would definitely go see him.

• No. I hate him, he degrades women and I really hope he doesn’t come.

• I hope he comes but I won’t go and see him.

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Quotes of the Week “Sometimes history is difficult to understand and remember, but when you hear it from a person who experienced it is more meaningful.”

Last Week’s Results: How do you feel about the new public art on campus?

— Ruth Lubitz

55% I hate the new art and think it’s a waste of space.

28% I love the new art and it is a great addition to campus.

13% It looks cool but it cost too much money.

4% What public art?

“To bring a guy who is the antithesis of what we promote on campus just isn’t right … He essentially promotes a culture of rape.”

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Correction In the Nov. 11 issue of The Signal, the article titled “Lions narrowly defeated in final home game of season” sophomore James Donoghue was written as “freshman James Donaghue.” We regret the error.

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Letters SGA member requests Signal correction

When people tell me they have been misquoted by The Signal, I have always argued on behalf of the reporter or editor.

I was a member of my high school newspaper and I know how hard it is to quote everything someone has said in an interview, a public meeting, or in passing.

I guess I made these excuses because I had never been misquoted.

In the Nov. 11 issue of The Signal, I was not only misquoted, but my reported comments were far from the truth.

The article titled “SGA addresses student concerns on spheres” said that “Vice President for Legal and Government Affairs Olaniyi Solebo, sophomore political science major spoke on behalf of (Tucker) Max supporters, saying he did not agree the comic should not come to campus. He referred to Max’s material as ‘funny.’”

Again, I must strongly emphasize that these reported comments are far from the truth.

Whether this is a mistake or a misinterpretation, it is damaging and I feel that I must explain exactly what happened.

During the Nov. 4 Student Government Association (SGA) meeting, I said that I thought the conversation concerning Max and the direction in which it was going was not suitable for an open forum.

When I began, I said I was speaking on behalf of myself and no one else. Never during my comments did I speak on behalf of so-called Max supporters. I urged caution to those commenting during the open forum to think about their duties as elected representatives of SGA. I believe that many people were speaking on behalf of themselves instead of on behalf of their constituents, which I believe should

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be the only people represented during a meeting of SGA. I asked people to empathize with those in the room, like me, who may not have shared their belief that Max should not be allowed to speak on our campus. I said that I would be happy to discuss my reasoning with anyone in private, outside of the General Body.

Please let me offer you the clarity of my convictions — I never said I thought Max was funny. Again, I never said I thought he was funny. I have read his material. He is not funny.

He disgusts me. I find him repulsive and offensive. I think he is abhorrent and obnoxious.

I think his comedy is appalling and atrocious. I also think the same thing of Ann Coulter and her beliefs.

While I know many people say there is a difference between Max and Coulter, I believe that the concerns are the same in each case — we should allow people who hold opinions different from our own to speak on campus, no matter what.

I know that many people will disagree with my position and that is fine — I am afforded my freedom of speech like Coulter and Max. I will not be at any event for Max. If one were to take place I will be outside protesting him with anyone who chooses to join me. But when I am protesting, I will not be representing SGA or any other organizations and departments with which I choose to identify — I will be representing myself.

I would like an apology in writing from the reporter and The Signal Editorial Board. I would like a correction printed in The Signal, specifically in the “Eye on SGA” and in the corrections section.

Lastly, I would like this letter printed with the other letters to the editor, in its current form.

Olaniyi Solebo

Opinions article ‘waste of space’ I just read the latest issue of The Signal and I found the article “100 ways to spend $100,000 besides buying spherical art” extremely unnecessary.

Such useless information should not even be published in our newspaper — it’s a complete waste of space and incredibly uninformative.

First of all, as most know by now, the money could only have been used toward artistic purposes. I understand the article was meant to be humorous, but I did not find it funny or entertaining.

Many of the listed alternatives were also tasteless and insulting, such as the ones involving Mary-Kate Olsen and Miley Cyrus.

I found this article a huge disappointment. Other than that, I love The Signal and am a great supporter of it — I just needed to express my disgust.

Clarissa Gomez

Should Tucker Max lecture at the College next semester?

“No, he promotes a bad “Yes, the College is an open environment.” message.”

— Casey Olesko, sophomore sociology major

This is not personal. It angers me and hurts me so much to know that there are people, some who may not know anything about me, who will read that article and think that I believe something I do not.

In life, there are very few things we can control, and I am determined to control my convictions and how they are portrayed.

I strongly believe The Signal can be a reputable and respected paper, but these mistakes belittle and dilute all the hard work I know The Signal staff has done and will continue to do. For those at The Signal who are trying to uphold the standards of a reputable paper, your efforts are appreciated.

— Jessica Klama, sophomore history major

“No, heʼs disgusting and degrades women.”

“Yes, I find him entertaining.”

— Sarah Lane, senior nursing major

—Chad Ficara, senior accounting major

Opinions Editor Diana Bubser is leaving on a plane to Florence, Italy!

Still in Ewing next semester? … Lame.

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PAWS significant improvement over TESS Ever since the start of the registration period, I have heard incessant complaints about Primary Academic Web-based Services (PAWS) around campus.

Many people on this campus are reAbby Stern sistant to the transition from TESS to PAWS, and they claim it has inconvenienced them and is not worth the trouble.

While I understand that PAWS is not flawless, I believe that these complaints are ridiculous and unfounded.

Those of us who are familiar with TESS remember the problems it posed, particularly during registration time.

Letʼs paint a picture of what registration used to be like with TESS. In preparation for registration, you would search for your classes through a convoluted search feature. Every so often you would press the back button in your internet browser only to end up cursing when you were directed to an error page.

On the day of your registration, you would sign into TESS and go to the registration page — that is, once you had been logged off once or twice.

When you reached the registration page, you would anxiously keep clicking “submit” until TESS finally con-

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Registering for classes with PAWS is easier amd more convenient than registering with TESS, according to Stern, who calls the changed information system a ʻwork in progress.ʼ firmed that you were enrolled in your classes.

Throughout this entire process, you

hoped that you werenʼt suddenly logged off due to over-activity on the system.

Only when your registration was con-

firmed could you breathe a sigh of relief, having survived yet another registration period.

Unlike TESS, PAWS allows you to keep track of classes that appeal to you, by saving potential classes in a shopping cart.

This way, you donʼt have to bother with call numbers, and you can register directly from there.

Also, PAWS is not bogged down by a lot of traffic on the system, and the back button takes you to the previous page without logging you off.

While PAWS has its flaws, I believe that this system is a significant improvement from our previous situation.

We have online program planners, we can log in at any time of night, and we can see our billing information in full detail.

Many people on campus donʼt seem to realize that PAWS was not just created and then abandoned — itʼs still a work in progress.

The kinks are still being worked out, and many errors have already been fixed.

In addition, the staff that works in Records and Registration has been extremely helpful in correcting mistakes during registration. Theyʼve been instantly enrolling students in classes if the system is giving them trouble.

People need to realize that change isnʼt always a bad thing. Give it a chance.

Technology education unknown on campus As a senior at the College, I look back on the past three years and often think of how many times I was Brianne Stratton asked “Oh youʼre a technology education major?

So youʼre like, a computer teacher?” If you are a technology education major, or know someone who is, which you probably donʼt, then you know that question makes us cringe.

No, we are not computer teachers.

While some of you may be thinking, “Then what are you?” the rest of you are probably thinking, “We have a technology education major here?”

I am convinced that technology education is the most unknown major on this campus.

However, this is not a surprise to me, since you will only ever find us in two rooms in one building — Armstrong Hall 112 and 114, the technology education home base.

Yes, we are located in the School of Engineering, not the School of Education. Weird, right?

We are somehow caught between needing to know how to teach and needing to know everything about wood and metal working, electronics, and design.

We complete both student teaching and senior design.

Diana Bubser / Opinions Editor

Technology education majors work in Armstrong Hall 112 and Armstrong Hall 114. Students with this major complete both senior design and student teaching. They often spend their nights designing and building in the shop, while other students study and write papers in the library.

Yes, both. Itʼs no wonder no one knows about us — we arenʼt with other teachers and we arenʼt with other engineers, but are an entity all our own.

Still wondering what we do?

Everything.

Think back to any elective in school that wasnʼt art, music, or gym and we could probably

teach it. Technology is designing solutions to societal needs and wants. While the rest of the students at the College spend nights in the library writing papers and studying for tests, we spend them in the shop designing and building.

Thinking about switching majors? Iʼll give you two rea-

sons to pick technology education.We are one of only two colleges in the state that offers the major and are highly in demand, which means you will get a job, and we are a closer group of friends than any other major on this campus. How many majors do you know have their own semi-formal and truck at

Homecoming tailgate, or spend all day and night in their building just to hang out with each other?

I know itʼs taken me a couple of years to write this but hopefully when Iʼm graduated and gone, people around this campus will finally stop asking that damn question.

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CUB officers defend Tucker Max bid

Denying Max will open door to censorship It has become evident that a segment of the campus community is displeased with our intention to bid for a lecture from author Tucker Max. We understand and respect their Raquel Fleig concerns, and take them into account. However, we would appreciate the opportunity to be heard, as well.

We admire the successes of the Office of Anti-Violence Initiatives and student groups like PRISM and WILL that work against prejudice and abuse based on race, gender, religion, and sexual orientation, and in no way are trying to undermine their efforts. The College Union Board (CUB) has a female majority, with a large general board consisting of various ethnic and social backgrounds. We are extremely aware of the issues facing college-age women, and support all efforts made toward equality and a safe campus community.

However, CUB would like to maintain its role as the campus entertainment programming board that provides a variety of educational, social, recreational, and cultural programs. After researching Maxʼs history of lecturing at many other colleges and gauging interest from our own board, we decided to

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CUB requested $16, 138.40 from SFB to bring controversial writer, blogger and film producer Tucker Max to the College at SFBʼs Oct. 28 meeting. take the next step and poll the entire student population to determine what genre/presenter students would most like to see as the Welcome Back Weekend lecture. “Pop Culture Lecture ex. Tucker Max author of ʻI Hope They Serve Beer in Hellʼ” garnered 38 percent of the vote, winning with 9 percent more

than the lecture in second place, celebrity baker Duff Goldman from the Food Network reality TV show “Ace of Cakes.” With this information along with our research presented, the Student Finance Board (SFB) funded our request to bid for a Tucker Max lecture at the College in January.

CUB and SFB have followed all procedures set by the College to ensure this event can occur. To demand that we pull funding for this event due to protest would contradict the values of the campus in support of free expression. There is no way around it — not allowing this event to take place is censorship.

There have been many other controversial speakers, comedians and musicians who have been hosted on our campus in the past. Denying students the right to have Max on campus would only open the door to further censorship of all entertainment at the College. Also, it completely undermines the value of the survey system, as well as CUB and SFBʼs roles as student leaders.

Every student has the right to be heard, regardless of his or her opinion on this matter.

To give the students a second chance to give us feedback on this event, we will be redistributing a slightly modified lecture survey.

CUB encourages students who would like to see Max to not feel pressured to vote against him simply due to the protests of outspoken student groups or campus offices. We ask that you consider each choice on the survey fairly and encourage you to research each person and come to an informed decision. Use your voice and vote so we can bring you who you want to see.

Controversial visit sparks important dialogue

If you h a v e n ʼ t heard about the Tucker Max debate by now, you probably are going to. The Matty Daley struggle between student organizations and Student Affairs initiatives has become an “in your face” campaign that runs deeper than basic principle, but into the roots of democracy, free speech and separation of “church and state.” I put “church and state” in quotations to signify Student Affairs as a belief system — a basis of values governing the ideology of the Collegeʼs student population, with our student organizations acting as the political representation of the student body.

Recently, two of these organizations, the College Union Board (CUB) and the Student Finance Board (SFB), have been under political attack from the division of Student Affairs and other further affiliated student organizations.

But are these attacks justified in their pursuit of this ideological justice?

Many of these attacks have been misdirected, attempting to pinpoint a target to aim the “blame thrower” at. The position of CUB, and its purpose for bringing Max, has already been explained

by CUB Director Raquel Fleig.

Regurgitating that information would serve no greater purpose in pointing out the alarming issue at hand.

Talk of censorship has begun to rise within this battle. What we really have in our possession is an issue of free speech — the right of the student population, and its organizations, to act independently

in the decision to bring whatever form of entertainment to campus, and to allow visiting artists to share with the student population their services.

But what about Max? Heʼs an author, with a self-proclaimed hate for not only women, but all people. OAVI has launched a campus-wide petition to prevent him from lecturing at the College, in disgust of his overt racism, sexism, homophobia, and misogyny.

Simply, heʼs a rich “frat boy” who has risen to recent fame from the novelization of his misdemeanors, titled “I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell.”

Who has actually read Maxʼs book? I have. I regard it as embellishment by its author, narrowed down to the most outrageous moments in the life of a party boy — but in that lies Maxʼs appeal, garnering him four years on The New York Times best sellers list.

Max, who had no interest in pursuing a career in law with his degree, instead managed to turn his life of partying into a career.

If he visits the College, Max will not directly speak about his lifestyle, but about when his blog was stretched into memoir format for publication. In short, Max got lucky.

The argument doesnʼt rest here.

It lies within Maxʼs potential position as a Red Dot on our campus.

Jackie Deitch-Stackhouse, the coordinator for OAVI and figurehead of the Green Dot Campaign on the College campus, has become a voice among the opposing parties, urging the division of Student Affairs to halt the efforts to bring Max on campus, because of who he is.

I have had the pleasure of working with Deitch-Stackhouse for almost a year now as an Of-

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Maxʼs blog and bestseller book chronicle his outrageous, and often illegal, party boy antics. fice Assistant. I have observed her passion for her position in the College community, and I have never felt threatened or disappointed by her and the work I have completed in support of her efforts — until now.

As a CUB executive board member, Iʼve been placed in a compromising situation — torn between my desire to demolish the issue of censorship and deliver what the student community has asked of CUB, and my belief in Deitch-Stackhouseʼs efforts to abolish issues of rape, nonconsensual sex and violence against men and women on our campus.

However, in recent days of this battle, I have come to an alarming realization — to prevent Max from coming to the College would be deadly to the efforts of this abolitionary movement. If we silence him, we silence ourselves.

We close the conversation, and we gain nothing from it.

If we reexamine Ann Coulterʼs visit last semester, weʼll remember the anger at the decision to expose her values to our campus. How-

ever, we forget one thing — she didnʼt change who we are as an institution. Enough rumors about her ridiculous ideology were spread to prevent student converts in her wake, and I say that with a bit of tongue-in-cheek. I attended the Coulter lecture. While I was reviled by her as a person, I admit that I admired her passion.

If we correlate Coulter to Max, we uncover an important truth — we canʼt change who Max or Coulter are as people. However, we can allow them to visit, if only to admire what they have managed to achieve, in spite of their controversy.

We can obtain from them the necessary ingredients in their stories that can lead to our own successes. Both Max and Coulter are best selling authors, and surely there is something of value to gain from people who have managed this.

I would encourage OAVI, and all other anti-Max affiliated parties, to transform this experience to support their causes. Max can be used to open dialogue about

the issues of sexism, racism, homophobia and misogyny. Thereʼs a saying, “Thereʼs no such thing as bad publicity,” and I couldnʼt agree more. Bringing Max could be the best thing to happen in the anti-violence movement, if we encourage students to view Max as a primary resource of power, alerting students to the nature of individuals of his kind, and empowering the proceeding conversation to launch astronomically.

If we give the student population the entertainment they have requested, and ride the wave to further our own purpose, everyone can win. Its ultimate effectiveness can only be determined by the efforts in the days that follow. It will reinforce Maxʼs purpose as an entertainer, much as we come to view films like “The Hangover” and “Superbad” as entertainment and not guidelines for living, and can change the conversation while students are still perked to the issues.

I do not agree with who Max is as a person, but I do feel that his story as an author has something valuable in it, so I think we should bring him here. As a member of CUB, I feel it is necessary to protect the rights of our student organizations. Otherwise, we have compromised the relationship built between our student leaders and campus offices.

As an employee to DeitchStackhouse, I think we can use Max to alert the campus to the Green Dot Campaign, creating a dialogue that can prove more valuable than shutting down the controversy. Iʼm game to embrace the double-edged sword. Are you?

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Features

Holocaust survivors bring meaning to history

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Holocaust survivor David Wisnia told his story of survival to audience members in Forcina Hall last Thursday.

By Brandon Gould Staff Writer

Two Holocaust survivors came to the College to have an intimate talk with faculty and staff, telling their tales of bravery and survival last Thursday.

“The Holocaust is one of the very important times in history,”

said president R. Barbara Gitenstein. “It is a privilege to listen to these extraordinary people share their stories.”

Survivors Ruth Lubitz and David Wisnia came to room 132 of Forcina Hall by the Jewish Student Union.

Hillel contacted the New Jersey Holocaust Commission to

find two local speakers that would be willing to share their stories during Holocaust Remembrance Week, which took place from Nov. 9 to Nov. 13, according to Hillelʼs president Tracy Steinberg.

Lubitz explained her horrifying account of the Holocaust.

“Sometimes history is difficult to understand and remember, but

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when you hear it from a person who experienced it is much more meaningful,” Lubitz said.

Lubitz was born in Germany in 1922 to a middle class family. Her family lived in Chemnitz, where her father owned a local business.

Lubitz described how SS (Schutzstaffel) officers and men who wore brown shirts and brown boots would march the streets and terrify her family.

One night these men beat her father, who fought in World War I for Germany, so badly that he died a few days later. Lubitz was only seven years old and could not even attend the funeral.

Her brother was able to obtain a visa and escape Germany in February 1939.

In April 1939, Lubitz also left Germany, but in a different fashion. She was escorted during the night and taken to England where a family took her in.

Lubitz mentioned that if the audience wanted an example of her situation, they should watch the film called “Into the Arms of Strangers.”

Lubitz said she stayed in contact with her mother until 1945, when her mother was killed at Auschwitz.

Lubitz closed by saying, “All men are created equal. We all

understand this, but we donʼt all practice this.”

According to Mike Baker, a junior mechanical engineering major, “It was pretty powerful. It makes it really real when people are talking right to you about ʻthe Holocaust.ʼ This was a good event to open your eyes.”

Wisnia explained the manner in which he “became an orphan in one day.” When he was 16 years old, Wisnia came home one day to find his family murdered atop a burning pile of corpses.

Along with 1,500 others, Wisnia was taken to Auschwitz.

Only four survived, according to Wisnia.

He was able to survive by singing to the SS guards and cellblock leaders, keeping them entertained.

Prisoners at Auschwitz were taken on a death march where Wisnia was able to escape and find the 506 Parachute Infinity batallion nearby, members of the 101st Airborne Division of the U.S. Army.

A book about his journey, “Butterflies in Kanada,” is in the makings.

“There are not many of us left who survived Auschwitz,” Wisnia said. “Our story needs to be told.”

By Todd Petty Staff Writer

After meeting with the Student Government Association (SGA) and Legal and Government Affairs (LGA) a total of seven times, Gabrielle Fuller, sophomore interactive multimedia major, saw her vision for a new organization at the College finally come to fruition on Oct. 14.

Travel Eminence Agency (T.E.A.) is a traveling organization that aims to take leisurely overnight trips in locations along the East coast.

According to their Web site, T.E.A.ʼs mission statement is to “provide an outlet for studentsʼ need to travel and get off campus for recreational and educational purposes, and to teach students management and event planning skills.”

Fuller saw the need for a traveling organization at the College.

“A lot of colleges have some type of travel club, and I essentially got the idea from looking at what other colleges have,” Fuller said.

According to Fuller, the club has become much more focused since its beginnings.

“At first the organization was a conglomerate of several things going on at once, but now the club is focused on traveling and overnight trips,” she said.

Fuller, who is an out-of-state student from Maryland, says she loves to travel and hopes to get more people involved with the organization.

“In general people seem interested in the organization but they donʼt know it really exists,” Fuller said. “Itʼs a great way to give students a break from their studies and go somewhere over the weekend instead of just staying on campus or going home.”

Photo courtesy of Gabrielle Fuller

This year, Fuller hopes to organize several trips to generate interest and participation from more students. Among the possibilities for this yearʼs excursions are trips to monuments, museums, Washington D.C., the Smithsonian Institution, or simply spending a couple of days in New York City going to a comedy show, or other attractions.

Interested members would travel together by charter bus and train. Fuller wants the trips to remain cheap for participants and hopes to raise money through fundraising.

According to Fuller, her dream trip would be a trip to Florida for a week over spring break.

It was only after much trial and error that Fuller was finally able to get her club approved.

“It is much easier if you are a fully functioning club before you go through the approval process,” Fuller said. “And be passionate about whatever your club is.”

T.E.A. meets Tuesdays and Sundays from 1-4 p.m. at the Social Science Building room 226. During meetings, members plan trips, organize fundraising, and watch movies.

Those interested may contact T.E.A. at tea.tcnj@gmail.edu or view their Web site at teamasc.webs.com.

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ROTC takes a dip in the pool The Army ROTC had a training session last Friday at the Collegeʼs Aquatic Center. According to Debra Cho, senior women and gender studies major and public affairs officer for Army ROTC, they conduct semesterly water confidence courses to prepare themselves for water combat situations, learning how to jump into water properly with full uniform and gear for a proper simulation. The soldiers were also blindfolded to boost the anxiety.

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Don’t fall into a food-focused mentality this holiday

By Andrea Thyrring Staff Writer

In just another week, we will all head home for Thanksgiving break.

Whether you celebrate the holiday with a traditional turkey, or opt for another main dish, a homecooked meal is something any college student looks forward to. But before you dig in and indulge in some not-so-healthy eating habits, read over this list of healthy alternatives to prevent any feelings of guilt after the holiday.

First and foremost, donʼt sit down to the table hungry. Youʼve heard of the saying “your eyes are bigger than your stomach.” If you go into the meal hungry, you are more apt to take portions much larger than what you actually need to feel full.

You might think that it makes sense to avoid eating beforehand, thus saving calories for the big meal. Skipping meals, especially breakfast, is never a good idea. According to WebMD, skipping meals can actually make weight control more difficult — youʼll be more prone to overeating the next time you eat. Kathleen Zelman, registered dieti-

cian at WebMD, suggests starting your day with a small but satisfying breakfast — such as an egg with a slice of whole-wheat toast, or a bowl of wholegrain cereal with low-fat milk so you wonʼt be starving when you arrive at the gathering.

Once youʼre ready to eat, remember that Thanksgiving dinner is not an allyou-can-eat buffet. Selecting reasonable-sized portions is a good way to keep from overeating. Have one half of your plate filled with vegetables, one quarter filled with lean and preferably skinless meat, and the rest filled with a healthy carb.

Survey the table before you fill your plate. A good idea is to focus on dishes that you might not have year-round.

Holiday favorites are a treat, so enjoy them on Thanksgiving, rather than loading up on foods you might otherwise find on campus.

Beware of high-fat dishes. Foods that are fried or creamy, as well as cheesefilled casseroles, pack the highest caloric punch. While they might taste good, they are not necessarily your best choice. If you do opt for these dishes, make sure you take a small serving size.

If available, aim to fill your plate with white turkey meat, plain vegetables, sweet potatoes, and pumpkin pie. These dishes include all the holiday flavors, and are the most nutritious.

After sitting down, make a point to

eat slowly. If you find yourself rushing through your plate, try setting down your fork between bites to slow your pace. According to WebMD, “tasting each mouthful is one of the easiest ways to enjoy your meal and feel satisfied.”

You will get to enjoy the special flavors of the holiday without feeling stuffed afterwards.

And most importantly, let this holiday be about spending time with family and friends. Instead of letting the focus be on the food, spend your vacation enjoying the company of those around you. Use your time off to relax and do something

What is your style inspired by?

I donʼt really have a specific inspiration because my look changes so much. I love international street fashion, especially Japanese and Parisian street fashion.

Kristen Kubilus / Staff Writer

By Kristen Kubilus Staff Writer Cassandra Jackson Associate Professor of English What are you wearing today?

Lace-up boots by Michael Kors, the pants are Max Azria, my shirt is from Forever 21, and the sweater I picked up in Spain at a little bitty boutique.

How would you label your style?

My style is always funky, unexpected, and slightly inappropriate. My personal rule is that itʼs always better to be underdressed than overdressed. I feel more like myself when Iʼm underdressed.

What is it about street fashion that attracts you?

I think the fact that itʼs so unconventional. Youʼll see people dressed in ways that seem to speak more to the individual than that sort of broader fashion culture. I think in the U.S., most people are really just trying to fit in and look appropriate. But with international street fashion, because itʼs so centered around youth, there seems to be less emphasis on conventionality and more emphasis on expressiveness.

Do you dress differently when youʼre in the office than you would on a day off?

If anything, my skirt length changes. I tend to not wear short skirts in the classroom. I donʼt want to risk giving any sort of peep show.

Where do you shop?

Free People is one of my favorite boutiques. I love Rouge in Princeton. I also love European discount stores like Zara and Top Shop.

Have you always been into fashion?

Yes, since I was tiny. Some of my

For story ideas, e-mail Andrea at thyrrin2@tcnj.edu.

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For Thanksgiving, think of healthy alternatives instead of all the foods that will leave you feeling guilty.

Campus Style When Iʼm overdressed, I feel like Iʼm trying to be someone else. Itʼs really a matter of temperament.

fun – watch a movie, or if the weather permits, set up a game of football.

This Thanksgiving, donʼt let yourself fall into a food-focused mentality. While it is a holiday to celebrate the bounty of the year, you donʼt need to over-eat in order to enjoy yourself. Making healthy eating choices and spending time with loved ones allows you to relax and take pleasure in your time off. Youʼll be able to return to campus recharged and ready to tackle the rest of the semester.

Be wary of hook-ups

By Lauren Gurry Copy Editor

earliest memories are putting on my motherʼs wigs leftover from the ʼ60s. I played dress up every day as a child. If I knew I was going to watch “Hee Haw” that evening, I would have a special outfit for that. I would pull out all of my country and western gear.

Did you ever consider a career in fashion?

When I was younger, I worked for a fashion magazine called Platinum, and I modeled as a teenager through college. I found the fashion industry to be a little oppressive. The “industry” wasnʼt about all of the things that I loved about fashion.

It was more about the efforts of a particular company to sell products than it being a form of personal and artistic expression.

Do you have a favorite designer?

I love Roberto Cavalliʼs designs.

Cavalli was one of the first designers that went for the “deconstructed look.” He has a way of producing clothes that look both upscale and slightly grunge at the same time.

Do you have any style icons?

My mom had a really edgy style.

She would wear four-inch heels that would be red or gold. She would wear incredible scarves that she would tie in a sort of French fashion. She had amazing clothes. Mila Jovovich also pulls together some extraordinary looks. She has a great way of putting together totally unexpected pieces and making them work.

In college, many young adults ditch dating for casual hook-ups and try to steer clear of longterm relationships.

Although this method definitely works for a portion of students at the College, others are looking for a substantial relationship. To such people, the effects of hook-ups make forming a romantic relationship difficult in college.

Your chances of contracting a sexually transmitted infection (STI) increase with each new sexual partner you have. Some people do not have sexual intercourse with their hook-up buddies, but other sexual contact — like oral sex — is dangerous as well.

According to a survey conducted by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 25 percent of college students have an STI. The rate is increasing with every passing year.

Despite the risks of STIʼs, people still continue engaging in sexual relations while in college, and alcohol can be a catalyst for adolescent hookups, since it lowers inhibitions.

In the CDCʼs survey of college students, results showed that up to 70 percent of college students who have been intoxicated have been intimate during that time.

As with long-term relationships, there are emotional side effects associated with hook-ups, which are often times what people fear most.

Total Life Counseling Center (TLC) conducted a survey about how women feel after hook-ups, and

many of the results are negative. According to TLC, the two most common emotions women experience in the 48 hours succeeding a hook-up are awkwardness and desirableness.

Whatʼs interesting about these results is that feeling awkward doesnʼt seem to correlate with feeling desirable, but some women feel both emotions, based on TLCʼs studies.

52 percent of women polled say they feel confused after a hook-up, which explains why some women may simultaneously feel awkward and desirable after a hook-up.

A negative opinion toward hookups may exist in the female community, but it doesnʼt change the fact that hook-ups are currently very common. The CDC reports that 86 percent of college students had sex before or during college, and TLC says more than 60 percent of sexually active adolescents will have sex with a person they arenʼt dating in the future.

Based on all of these statistics, it is very likely for women at the College to hook up with someone and feel awkward or confused afterwards.

Whether or not you condone hook-ups, itʼs probable someone will try to hook up with you during your college career. The best thing for you to do is decide your personal policy on hook-ups before acting.

Something else to consider is avoiding hook-ups with strangers.

Since STIʼs are so common in college, it is best to only hook up with someone after learning his or her sexual history. By only hooking up with people you know, you can also avoid feeling uncomfortable.

If you want relationship advice, email Lauren at gurry2@tcnj.edu your questions.

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Arts & Entertainment

Students fight for comedic glory in Rat

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Twelve students competed on Thursday Nov. 12 for three available spots to continue on to the N.J. Comedy Festival on Jan. 30 at Rutgers University.

By Garrett Rasko-Martinis Sports Editor It’s unusual to see large amounts of people at the Rathskeller, even during a dinner rush.

Thursday night proved an overwhelming exception as students fought for a mere spot against the wall to watch 12 student comedians battle for three spots to the N.J. Comedy Festival on Jan. 30 at Rutgers University.

Most of the crowd stuck around for the entirety of the two-hour event to see junior interactive multimedia major Shelley Snyder, junior math major Garrett Hoffman and junior English major Rick Cohen dubbed the best of a group of very talented young stand-up performers.

College alumni and former N.J. Comedy Festival winner Adam Mamawala returned to campus as the event’s unofficial master of ceremonies. Mamawala opened up the festival with fresh material focused primarily on his new dead-on impersonation of President Barack Obama.

Mamawala also introduced each act and entertained the crowd between performances, and while the judges deliberated and choose their winners.

Snyder was one of the three who won this same event last year, but lost in the finals to alumni Kevin Lancaster.

This year Snyder emulated the likes of Stephen Lynch and Adam Sandler, as she brought her guitar on stage and serenaded the crowd with short humorous songs. Most noteworthy was her ballad dedicated to “nerd girls” and

why they make the best romantic partners.

“I went to the finals last year, but I knew I wasn’t going to win because (Kevin) ‘Vegas’ Lancaster was in the competition, and we all knew he was going to win,” Snyder said. “So I’m pumped, I’m really excited to go on to Rutgers. And besides I love the fat sandwiches, so it’s another reason to go up there.”

Hoffman made his stand-up debut last year at this event, but did not advance to the second round. He rebounded this year with a much stronger effort and an exceptionally funny routine. Hoffman appeared much more comfortable with his delivery this time around, and his material, which touched on an array of topics, including his physical appearance.

“Last year was my first time performing,” Hoffman said. “So I just think the more experience since then helped a lot. You get a lot more comfortable up there and I think that if you’re having a good time up there, the audience is going to be having a great time too.”

Cohen was performing a semester after he beat out other comedians for the right to open up for Stephen Lynch at the College back in April. Cohen’s routine perhaps aroused the greatest amount of laughter from the crowd, with jokes about such things as his attempts to end a relationship with a girl by purposely performing poorly sexually.

“That was actually my first time doing stand-up,” Cohen said. “I would just write down a bunch of jokes and talk to my roommate about them. It’s a lot more work than people think it is — hours sitting and transcribing stuff, going through it. It’s a huge practice and I’m trying to learn more about it … For Rutgers, I’ll work on some jokes I didn’t do tonight. You have so much material, because I’m used to doing 15 to 20 minute sets, so when they tell you that you only have five minutes, you really have to pick and choose from this huge catalog.”

Snyder, Hoffman and Cohen will be heading to Rutgers University on Jan. 30 for a chance to bring back the first place prize to the College for the third straight year. If the comedians get a crowd like they had at the Rat to feed off of, their stand-up routines will be just as strong as they were Thursday night.

Unwinding with Huck and DeRose at Playlist Night

By Shaun Fitzpatrick Staff Writer

Rathskeller diners last Tuesday were greeted with a friendly, “Evening, Rat people!” by Mark DeRose who, along with singer/songwriter Huck, performed on Nov. 10. The College Union Board (CUB)-sponsored Playlist Night treated listeners to a mellow, yet cheerful acoustic sound.

Huck took the stage, relaxing the crowd with his low voice and acoustic guitar. Although he lacked the playful wit of DeRose on stage, he more than made up for it with cool disposition and husky crooning. Huck, who is recording an album in California, will embark on a West Coast tour in December with Sarah Bareilles, who also lends her vocals to his song “Princess.” When asked about the tour, he replied that he is “very excited … it’s something I’ve been working towards forever.”

DeRose kicked off the night with a series of original songs, which he performed solo. Although diners initially paid little attention, they were soon won over by his confident presence and quirky stage banter, such as proclaiming “Zanadu,” the word of the night, early on in his performance. A highlight of his set was his cover of The Beatles’ “Here Comes the Sun,” which inspired an audience member to chime in on a portion of the chorus, much to DeRose’s delight. His original

Abby Hocking / Photo Assistant

Mark DeRose (above) and Huck performed a series of original and cover songs both independently and collaboratively for Playlist Night at the Rathskeller.

songs, such as “45” and “Carolina Smile,” were upbeat acoustic numbers about love, friendship and life.

Later in the night DeRose and Huck shared the stage, playing a number of original and cover songs based on the topics of love and hope in a set that DeRose described as being “facemelting.” Huck stole the show with his acoustic rendition of Kanye West’s “Heartless,” which was preceded by a rant about his ex-girlfriend that received

cheers from the remaining audience.

DeRose and Huck also sang together on DeRose’s number “Hold On,” with Huck providing backup vocals.

By the end of the night there were only two tables left occupied, and the duo ended the show an hour earlier than anticipated.

However, the two were more than happy to stick around and interact with fans, answering questions with friendly, open attitudes.

When asked what inspired them to start playing and touring, Huck joked, “I like

driving. I really enjoy driving,” as DeRose laughed in the background. “No, I fucking love music and that’s what it’s all about,” Huck responded seriously.

“I love music without the expletive.

I guess I don’t love it as much as him,” DeRose added with a grin. “Also, I love free food at the Rat.” The two will reunite for another show during Snowball Weekend, a CUB sponsored overnight bus trip in February.

Tickets for the event will go on sale in January.

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Murder, Russians, monkey, chaos

By Katie Brenzel Arts & Entertainment Editor

David Bowie, aliens and a video cameo of a mock President Obama. The only word to describe All College Theatre’s (ACT) edition of this year’s murder mystery is “ridiculous.”

“2009: A Space Oddity-Murder at Zero Gravity or How I Learned How to Stop Worrying and Love the Alien” continued the tradition of catered playful actoraudience interaction on its opening night Friday Nov. 13.

Brower Student Center was transformed into the Excelsior, a Russian Space Station thought to be abandoned, but secretly inhabited by a U.S. soldier, an eccentric Russian family, an alien and a monkey. In the confusion of the encounter with the inhabitants, the jeanobsessed Jean Genie is murdered and a full cast of peculiar characters claim responsibility, turning the space station into a playground for murder, infidelity, David Bowie references and possible incest.

The members of the Bahktin family, the only original survivors of the space station, were the most entertaining characters of the night. Maddie Patrick, senior sociology and communications studies major, utilized every part of her body to portray the forceful Katarina Bahktin. The combination of her exaggerated waddling and facial expressions, complemented by a strong stereotypical Russian accent, created a hysterically demanding presence.

Equally comical but slightly more gentle, was Mikhail Bahktin, played by sophomore psychology major John Eldis. Equipped with an eye patch and a squat stance, Eldis charmed the audience with his simplistic pride and masterful and, again, stereotypical accent.

Playing their slightly ditzy daughter, Anya, senior English major Heather Duncan completed the picture of dysfunction, with her coy stupidity and expert imitation of naivety.

Noah Franc, sophomore history major, created a particularly unlikeable persona for Major Tom, with an arrogant stride and gruff address of the other characters. His brash attitude toward the Russian family made any sympathy for his character impossible, whether or not intentional. While his success

Norwegian dance pop, Bolt dabbles in‘metal’ Lightning Bolt “Earthly Delights”

By Jeffrey Roman Features Editor

Abby Hocking / Photo Assistant

Officer Cosomono played by Justin Mancini (left) asserts authority as the Bahktin family cowers behind Major Tom (Noah Franc). in this respect captured the anticipated rogue soldier attitude, it overshadowed any attempts to appeal to his character such as his randomly inserted monologue and his supposed love for Anya.

Justin Mancini, sophomore English major, also achieved an unpleasant character as Officer Cosomono. Though Mancini initially accomplished drawing suspicion with shifty eyes and an obnoxious wielding of authority, his inconsistent stutter was both distracting and unconvincing. Sophomore art education major Kelsey Long provided a refreshing counter to Cosomono, with a perfected false, sweet tourguide demeanor, that switched seamlessly to a controlling grammar Nazi.

Liz So, self-designed international study major, played both Jean Genie and Chimp 527, the murdered and the murderer. Her portrayal of the jeans fiend and chimp was successful through her squeaky voice and hyperactive bouncing around Brower food court, highlighting both her boundless energy and the play’s creative utilization of space.

Though the Bowie references were at times excessive, especially an unwarrantedly

long cast-wide break out into a revised “Ashes to Ashes,” “2009: A Space Oddity” was the product of evident tremendous effort, that produced a show that was both infectiously hilarious at times and consistently entertaining.

The diversity of characters — from a twitching conspiracy theorist, a doctor with a vendetta against “X-Files,” to a “bitch with a gun” — provided infinite quirks that created the brilliant chaotic atmosphere of the play.

According to director Mark Smith, junior communications studies major, rehearsals for the play began three weeks prior to opening night. “2009: A Space Oddity” is the brainchild of Smith, along with Steve Avigliano, junior English major and Ray Fallon, senior English major. When asked the source of their inspiration, the three selfproclaimed Bowie fans referenced a comment Fallon had previously made.

“The murder mystery is typically written by idiots,” he said. “And we’re all idiots, and so we’re perfectly capable of writing it.”

K a t i e B re n z e l c a n b e re a c h e d a t brenzel2@tcnj.edu.

Fans of Providence, R.I.’s Lightning Bolt had to wait four years for a new album, but it has been worth it.

The noise rockers’ newest album, “Earthly Delights,” features their signature style with spastic drums, distorted vocals and bass guitar covered in a slew of effects.

Dubbed the “metal” Lightning Bolt album, Brian Chippendale (vocals and percussion) and Brian Gibson (bass) work with heavier riffs, incorporating more chords than finger tapping which Gibson is known for on previous albums.

Highlights of the album include “Colossus,” a song that builds and pummels the listener, and “Funny Farm,” which is as heavy as it is amusing with its “twangy,” country-style progression.

Lightning Bolt is known for endurance, with most songs they perform ranging well into the six-minute time length. Testament to this is the closing song on the album, “Transmissionary,” which exceeds 12 minutes long, allowing Chippendale to pound his drum set without remorse for the length of the track.

All in all, Lightning Bolt’s newest album continues the band’s interesting journey through noise rock, blurring standards and developing a style that is now legendary.

Key Tracks: “Colossus,” “Funny Farm.”

Annie “Don’t Stop”

‘Cosi Fan Tutte’ plays with fidelity

By Matt Huston Nation & World Editor It was all fun and games when two young men made a bet on the fidelity of their lovers, but their challenger warned them, “the beginning is amusing, but tomorrow comes the sorrow.”

“Cosi Fan Tutte,” the sixth main production by the College’s Lyric Theater, focused more on the amusement than the sorrow. Yet the Mozart opera, directed by Robert Guarino, associate professor of music, seethed with biting irony carried to a tee by a talented cast of vocalists.

The story began simply enough on Sunday Nov. 13, with Ferrando (Jared Salwen, graduate vocal performance major) and Guglielmo (Nicholas Dogas, junior music education major) demanding of an old man, “We want satisfaction!” Don Alfonso (Ian Highcock, junior vocal performance major) had shocked the young men by insisting that their lovers’ ardor was fleeting.

In the face of such cynicism, the friends hatched a scheme to test the fidelity of their respective ladies, prompting a sequence of ridiculous interactions between Fiordiligi (alumna Sarah Cossaboon), Dorabella (Mary Starkey, senior music education major), and their swapped men-in-disguise. The plot was a blast for the foolish men until, to their dismay, the women took the bait.

The young women, lounging in colorful, well-lit settings that were all-too-idyllic, bore the immediate brunt of the opera’s subtle humor. Between their painting ridiculous portraits of their lovers, passionate well-fishing, and butterfly-netting, the ladies made fine subjects for the story’s attack on hyper-inflated proclamations of love.

Visually, Cossaboon and Starkey cemented the satire with intermittently lovestruck and inquisitive facial expressions and gestures. All the same, the interplay between the two female voices was the most striking of the performance

On the whole, the “Cosi” cast made a mockery of seriousness.

Thrown off by circumstances, characters threatened one another with little spoons, begged for death, and then, upon seizing new paramours, reaffirmed the “wonder of love.” Still, the skeptical undertones affected every scene, and a rare moment of seriousness bridged the gap between the farcial and dramatic.

In an outstanding soprano solo, during which Fiordiligi lamented the embrace of temptation, the expressive power Cossaboon used to push the comedy earlier in the performance registered morerealistic shades of shame and sadness. With this interval, Cossaboon established the relative complexity of her character and earned her place at the top of the cast list.

But Fiordiligi, too, succumbed to caprice and restored “Cosi” to its lighthearted center.

At the heart of all the cognitive dissonance, the maid Despina (Nicole Cascione, sophomore music education major) told the ladies like it was and stirred the pot of irony. Playing counterpoint to Highcock’s jaded old man, Cascione beckoned the women to “perish the thought of a man who is true” and “do unto them as they do unto you,” all versed against a background of sprightly keys.

Other highlights of the action included a six-voiced song as vivid and frenzied as the men’s faux uniforms, Dogas’ fourthwall complaint against women at large, and the abusurd comingtogether of lovers in the finale.

Through all the mess, it almost seemed as though there was a message to be taken away. Don Alfonso, vindicated, told the young men not to sweat the betrayal and to “take them as they are.”

Then, in a hilarious last glimpse of the lovers reconvened, a secret hand-grasp between illicit lovers made it clear that “Cosi” was, at its core, a comedy with little faith.

Matt Huston can be reached at huston4@tcnj.edu.

By Chris Payne WTSR Music Director Norwegian pop singer Annie’s 2004 debut, “Anniemal,” cemented her place in the electronic music scene and produced two absolutely contagious singles — “Heartbeats” and “Chewing Gum.” Four years later, Annie finally returns with her sophomore record, which sounds like a good bet to piggyback the indie dance success of groups like MGMT, Phoenix and The Ting Tings.

“Don’t Stop” tries to cultivate its flow from start to finish, opening with the tribal “Hey Annie.” But Annie’s second album sounds more like a singles collection than anything else. Annie has always been a devotee to ’80s era Madonna, though the pulsating and swooping synths of “Songs Remind Me Of You” pushes that obsession to new height, marking her greatest dance anthem to date.

As the parade of singles nears album’s end, the quality predictably trails off, though closer “Heaven and Hell” is a refreshing answer to the flatness of “When The Night” and “The Breakfast Song.”

Key Tracks: “Songs Remind Me of You,” “I Don’t Like Your Band.”

November 18, 2009 The Signal page 21

Vampirism and literary ‘crimes’ at Close Reading

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Professor Larry McCauley dissected Christina Rossetti’s poem ‘In the Artist’s Studio’ for the Close Reading on Thursday Nov. 12.

By Emily Brill Staff Writer Professor Larry McCauley began his poetic interpretation with an apology.

“I apologize in advance,” the professor of English said, “for the crimes of interpretation I shall commit during my first analysis of this poem.”

He cited pathetic fallacy and the use of biological references as his offenses, claiming that although he is ardently opposed to students’ use of them, he felt they were necessary to a full understanding of the poem.

“Also, I will make repeated attempts to mitigate my interpretive crimes,” the he said with a smile.

However, McCauley’s “crimes” proved no obstacle to appreciating his comprehensive analysis of Christina Rossetti’s poem “In the Artist’s Studio.”

McCauley discussed the poem before 50 members of the staff and student body in the final close reading of the year on Thursday Nov. 12 in the Building Business Lounge.

McCauley discussed the sonnet’s use of ambiguity, the tension between singularity and multiplicity, and fragmentation during the course of the reading.

He focused on the poem’s overarching theme of the woman as an object whose life was sucked from her by the painter’s overbearing gaze.

Though the subject he discussed was weighty, he delighted the audience with flashes of tongue-in-cheek wit that kept the mood buoyant.

Discussing the punctuation in the poem, McCauley referred to the seventh line of the sonnet.

“A saint, an angel; – ” the line begins.

“Then we have that semicolon dash,” McCauley said. “A common Victorian emoticon.”

McCauley also discussed themes of vampirism, chauvinism and struggle for power, themes that students found intriguing and worth closer inspection.

“His connection to vampirism was interesting,” said Meredith Jeffries, freshman English and deaf education major.

“I wouldn’t have seen that on the first readthrough.”

After the reading, McCauley fielded a

number of insightful questions from both students and professors. The questions ranged from further biographical inquiry to conjectures on the use of metaphor, word choice, and poetic technique.

The questions also drew out a number of literary comparisons to “In the Artist’s Studio.” Simona Wright, professor of the modern languages and international studies departments, compared the poem to works of Dante. David Venturo of the English department compared the work to John Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale.”

Students were impressed by McCauley’s in-depth analysis of the poem.

“I thought McCauley had an insightful and intriguing interpretation of the poem,” said Andy Gallagher, freshman English and secondary education major. “He also added humorous aspects to his lecture to lighten the mood.”

For his part, McCauley atoned for the interpretive crimes he confessed at the onset of the close reading by presenting a clear and technically correct analysis of the poem.

Those members of the audience who weren’t won over by the jargon assisted interpretation were charmed, as Gallagher was, by the professor’s humor.

When discussing an aptly placed colon in one of the final lines of the sonnet he suggested was there to recall a vampire bite’s puncture marks, McCauley referred back to his crack about computer lingo in the 1800s.

“I wasn’t serious about the Victorian emoticon,” he said, “but I’m serious about this. We’re close reading here.”

Soloists rock originals, covers and PowerPoints

By Krystal Spencer Staff Writer

The student soloist night hosted by the College Union Board (CUB) in the Rat last Friday featured four very different sets from some of the College’s most talented students.

Sophomore communications studies major Jake Ehrlich kept the audience intrigued with his original “B.Y.O. ppt. (Bring Your Own PowerPoint).” Dressed in full business attire, the act consisted of a presentation entitled, “The Women of My Early Years: The Ones Who I Made Cry, But Mostly the Ones Who Made Me Cry- K-12.” The 40-minute routine broke down his entire love life in yearly anecdotes, which was driven by his dry humor as well as before and after pictures of all the girls he introduced. Ehrlich was very open about all of his humiliating experiences of rejection, including getting in trouble for threatening to kill a boy just to impress a girl in elementary school.

“I wish I could take full credit for it, but the idea came from my friend David,” Ehrlich said. “He was involved with something similar at his school, and when he told me about it, I knew it would be a great thing to bring to the College.”

Sophomore international studies major Maggie Pakutka opened the night with a set of original songs on her acoustic guitar. Pakutka’s song “Key Guy” told a love story featuring multiple places throughout the College including the Science Complex and Cromwell Hall. The song “Smoke” had a sultry chord progression reminiscent of lounge music, while the upbeat tune “I Wanna Be Your Plans” had a tinge of country. Most entertaining was her last song, an acoustic version of R. Kelly’s “Ignition (Remix).”

Danny Giovenco, senior communication major, drew the most crowd support of the night. A trio of girls stood at the bar, armed with a sign saying, “We Love You Danny.”

Giovenco sang many popular songs, such as his opener “I Want You Back” by the Jackson 5 and “Use Somebody” by Kings of Leon. From the beginning the crowd was enthusiastic, singing and clapping along to his songs. Giovenco also serenaded the audience with “Run,” which was a hybrid of the two versions by Snow Patrol and Leona Lewis.

“Seeing my friends in the audience made me a lot less nervous,” Giovenco said after the show. “I was so

Abby Hocking / Photo Assistant

Maggie Pakutka (above) opened Student Soloist Night on Friday Nov. 13 with a series of original songs on her accoustic guitar. happy that they came to watch, so I wanted to make sure I put on a good show.”

Junior English major Rick Cohen closed the night in a surprising twist. Prior to student soloist night, Cohen performed at the Rat in the New Jersey Comedy festival where he was selected as a finalist. When he sat down onstage with a guitar in hand, the audience looked confused. Many believed that he was introducing a new side of his comedy and were satisfied with his opening song, a dry yet scathing tune about his ex-girlfriend But his next song was a short song about the end of the world. Although Cohen’s songs were comical, there were small nuances of his set that were slightly darker.

Right as the audience expected the next verse to a song, Cohen would stop playing.

“I don’t really write songs longer than a minute or two,” he admitted. His carefree stage presence drew more laughs than applause from the small crowd.

Abby Hocking / Photo Assistant

Jake Ehrlich presented a powerpoint presentation featuring ex-girlfriends.

page 4 The Signal November 18, 2009

SignalSports Lions creep closer to NCAA Finals with two wins College to play undefeated Williams College

By Michael O’Donnell Staff Writer

Tim Lee / Photo Editor

The Lions are four wins away from playing in the NCAA Finals in San Antonio, Texas.

on-goal advantage in the majority of their games this season, the Lions were matched by the Jeffs in this contest. Both With two convincing wins in the first teams recorded 17 shots apiece. two rounds of the NCAA Division III “Each game has been a battle,” Clarke Tournament, the Lions are continuing said. to ride high on their quest for a national The defense cannot be overlooked eichampionship. ther. Thanks to a season-high nine saves, “We are very excited to be at the spot Clarke recorded her 14th shutout of the we are at now,” senior goalkeeper Jessica season. That is a career high for the seClarke said. “We have worked extremely nior. hard all year to get to here.”

The four-year starter says the two The team handily took down games in two days may have host Amherst College by a Lions 2 had something to do with final of 4-0 in their second her busy day.

Cardinals 0 round matchup.

“Anytime a team plays In a very quiet first half, Lions back to back games in a 4 the Lions scored the lone goal weekend, it becomes an Lord Jeffs 0 thanks to freshman forward issue of grinding it out,” Kate Landrigan’s goal with 9:33 left in Clarke said. “It may not always be pretty the half. but our team exhibited a great deal of The second half was a completely dif- determination and fight throughout the ferent story. The Lions stormed out of game.” the gate with a goal just 2:33 into the By virtue of their win, the College will half. This score was off the foot of senior now go head-to-head with unbeaten Wildefender Jillian Casey, as she knocked in liams College, who stands at 19-0 on the her ninth of the year and second in the year. The College is now 18-2-1 after tournament off a nice pass from junior their second round victory. forward Briann McDonough.

There is also the chance of the Lions Freshmen forward Allyson Anderson meeting a New Jersey Athletic conferand defender Brittany McGinley iced it ence rival in the next round of Sectionals. for the victors within 10 minutes of each If the Lions can hand Williams its first other. McGinley got her second goal in as loss, and Rowan wins its game against many days thanks to a dime from Alexa Ithaca, thes two rivals would meet Rozzi, while Anderson got her goal on a with a berth in the semifinals at stake. pass from Eva Gimello. see TOURNAMENT page 23 Despite having the distinct shots-

Men’s Basketball

Lions start the season with thrilling double OT victory

Seniors help College shake road struggles from last season

By Garrett Rasko-Martinis Sports Editor Bob Uecker says at the beginning of “Major League” that you can tell how a season is going to go by the first game. If that’s the case, then the Lions have a season full of late-game heroics and thrilling wins to look forward to.

After flirting with defeat for the majority of the game, the College managed to win its season opener against hosting Lehman College 83-76 in double overtime.

Photo courtesy of the Sports Desk

Frank led the Lions in scoring.

“It’s definitely an exciting time,” head coach Kelly Williams. said “It was big being able to get a win on the road. We knew this season that road games were going to be one of our biggest hurdles to overcome. Hopefully this puts our guys in the right state of mind to continue our success and remain this good for the rest of the year.”

The two teams fought back and forth for the majority of the game, with neither team holding a lead for very long.

At the end of the half the Lions were holding a small 30-26 advantage. The Lions made 33.3 percent of their total field goals in the first half, while the Lightning only made 20. 7 percent.

In the second half, the Lions held the lead until the Lightning started coming back with 11 minutes remaining in the game. Lehman went on a 7-0 run to tie the game up at 48 with nine minutes left in the game. The Lightning kept putting pressure on the College, and with two minutes remaining in the game, the Lions were trailing 59-57.

In danger of losing the first game of the season, senior guard and captain Jay Frank made a jump shot with a minute left to tie the game. Frank would finish this contest with a team-leading 20 points and seven rebounds.

“Jay is a real special player,” Williams said. “He’s a great teammate and an excellent competitor, and he really made some outstanding offensive plays.”

Neither team could sink the game-winner in regulation, Photo courtesy of the Sports Desk forcing an overtime.

Syvertsen scored 16 points Sunday.

In the first overtime the Lightning dominated the first three minutes and held a 66-59 lead. But the Lions fought back and because Lehman couldn’t just key in on one player. No one went on a 7-2 run to turn the deficit to 68-66 with a minute really had their good A-game, but we all played well enough together to win.” remaining. With only 15 seconds left in the game, 83 In double overtime the Lions took an early another senior made a big play to tie the game. For- Lions ward Aaron Syvertsen made both of free throws to Lightning 76 lead and kept on scoring to secure the win 83-76.

The College has its home opener this once again force overtime.

“We started five seniors across the board and we were able Wednesday Nov. 18 at 8 p.m. against Berkeley College. The to feed off that as a team.” senior forward Christoph Schoen- Lions will then travel to Pennsylvania this weekend for a beck said. “We had a balanced offensive attack, which was key two-day tournament at Albright College.

November 18, 2009 The Signal page 23 Wrestling

Women’s Soccer

Lions secure three top spots at Ursinus College Tournament /

By Krystal Spencer Staff Writer It was another successful Saturday for the wrestling team at the Fall Brawl Tournament hosted by Ursinus College.

Ten wrestlers placed in the top three spots for their own weight classes. Graduate student Dan DiColo, senior Justin Bonitatis, sophomore Jim Somma, and freshman Brian Broderick won four matches to take the title in their weight classes. Bonitatis met fellow Lion and senior Al Wonesh in the finals while Somma wrestled freshman Anthony Damico.

“I love wrestling (Bonitatis),” Wonesh said. “Every time it’s always a close, tough match. We learn a lot from each other, and the competitiveness

pushes us to unimaginable levels. We train so hard together, so we look forward to tearing through tournaments and beating each other up in the finals.”

Bonitatis is already 5-0 on the season. After suffering from an injury inbetween seasons, Bonitatis has showed full signs of recovery.

The same can be said for Wonesh, who had a case of mono during preseason training. He chose not to wrestle last season in order to be eligible during his fifth and final year of school next season. But that hasn’t derailed his focus in the slightest. Wonesh became an all-american in track and field this year, setting a school record in 400-meter hurdles.

Sophomore Dan Herr and junior Ed Broderick joined Wonesh and Damico

Tim Lee / Photo Editor

Adam Koziol pins his opponent to improve his record this season to 3-2.

at second place in their weight classes, winning three out of their four matches for the day. And after falling into the consolation brackets for their weight classes, juniors Mike Denver and Adam Koziol pressed forward to take third place. Koziol, who wrestled last year as a heavyweight, is quickly taking strides in the 197-pound weight class.

Last week he pinned Norwich’s Michael Monica and this week has improved his record to 3-2.

“Tournaments are much different in my mind,” Koziol said. “There’s a lot less pressure on the individual matches compared to a dual meet. Everybody isn’t focused on you.”

But the wrestling team has been the source of a lot of pressure early this season. After their 600th win, which was also head coach David Icenhower’s 500th win, along with their impressive showing at Ursinus, the Lions now have to tackle back-to-back home meets this Wednesday and Thursday.

“Doing well at Fall Brawl is what’s going to carry us through these upcoming meets,” Koziol said. “Everyone finally got a chance to wrestle hard matches against new guys. We’ve been wrestling with each other for so long and now its time to compete with other teams.”

Wonesh added, “It was an amazing feeling being able to finally compete against other schools after a year and a half off the mat. As soon as I step foot into the locker room I feel the energy radiating from the team. I hope the school can come out and watch us do what we do best.”

The Lions take on Hunter College at 3 p.m. on Wednesday and New York University at 7 p.m. on Thursday. Both matches will take place in Packer Hall.

Lions keep winning continued from page 28 The time and venue of the contest between the Lions and the Ephs has yet to be determined.

“Williams is a good program, one that we lost to last year,” Clarke said. “Our entire team is looking forward to the opportunity to play them again on their field.”

The College’s first match in the tournament was the opposite win over their first-round opponent Plattsburgh State.

The theme of the game was scoring early and often, and two first-half goals was all the team needed to keep the momentum going and win 2-0.

Casey got her tournament play off to a good start, scoring unassisted just 4:12 into the game.

Not long thereafter, sophomore defender Brittany McGinley hooked in a beautiful one-timer on a pass from Anderson to add the insurance for the College.

The scores were just two of the 25 shots the College took on the day. Plattsburgh managed just three.

“We definitely came to play and our offense did an excellent job of putting away our chances,” sophomore forward Maria Grady said.

With outscoring their opponents 6-0 in their two tournament games thus far, the Lions are confident in their chances. As many of the players have spoken of their hard work, it remains to be seen if that hard work does indeed pay off.

“I believe regardless of whom we are playing and their record, if we play like we are capable it will be a good weekend of soccer,” Clarke said.

Women’s Basketball

College starts season with a tough last-second loss

By Brandon Gould Staff Writer

Women’s basketball was back in action at the College on Saturday as the Lions played a thrilling game against Stevens Institute of Technology.

The Lions battled back against the Ducks in the second half only to lose a nail-biter in the final seconds, 48-46. The loss snaps a 13-game winning Ducks streak at home for the Lions.

With six minutes left in Lions regulation freshman center Candice Vigo shook off freshman jitters, and hit one of her four foul shots to tie the game at 41.

“I really try not to think about it. I just

try to focus on my release and keeping may elbow in,” Vigo said.

Sophomore guard/forward Hannah Tait followed this score up by driving into the lane, scoring the basket, and drawing the foul. Tait sank the foul shot and put the Lions up 44-41.

The Ducks stayed strong and the score was tied yet again with 1:55 left in the game. The game would not stay tied for long as Stevens’ senior 48 guard Sarah Gehring drew a 46 foul and made both shots to put the Ducks up 48-46.

In the following minute the Lions got an opportunity at two shots but missed.

All hope seemed lost until junior forward Kelsey Kutch swatted the ball away from

Tom O’Dell / Photo Assistant

Senior guard Karen Lassoni drives toward the basket.

the Ducks.

Junior guard Keri Washington snatched up the loose ball and the Lions got a chance for one last shot. The crowd watched as Tait attempted another clutch shot, but this time it came up a few inches short and bounced off the front of the rim.

“It’s one possession, it’s one shot, it’s one box out. Any possession in that game could have changed the game for us,” said head coach Dawn Henderson.

The Lions struggled offensively in the first-half of play and the Ducks held the momentum. Then, in the last two minutes of the first half the Lions started to heat up.

The Lions finished the last two minutes on a 6-0 run started by sophomore guard Katie Occhipinti. Tait finished the run with a buzzer-beating three-point shot.

The Lions came out in the second half with all the momentum they gained toward the end of the first half.

The Lions received a strong boost from Vigo, who was 4-8 with 8 points from the field and 4-5 from the freethrow line in the second half.

“It was pretty much my team just encouraging me to play hard and they directed me,” said Vigo. “Coach helped me play hard too and juts kept me through it.”

Vigo’s performance was accompanied by a strong defensive performance that seemed to get better as the game went along.

The Lions forced turnovers, blocked

shots, dove for balls, and put all their effort into shrinking that nine-point deficit from half time.

“Defensively — especially for the game — to hold a team to 48 points, that’s what we need to do,” Henderson said.

The Lions will look to rebound against Moravian College on Nov. 18.

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Candace Vigo makes a jump shot.

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November 18, 2009 The Signal page 25 Cross Country

Football

Profs blank Lions in season finale College races at NCAA Finals

By Bobby Olivier Managing Editor

In disappointingly similar fashion to 2008, the Lions ended their season with a decisive loss to New Jersey Athletic Conference (NJAC) rival Rowan University, falling hard to the Profs 0-39 on the road last Saturday.

The Lions’ fourth consecutive loss set them with a final record of 4-6, leaving them tied with The College at Brockport for sixth in the New Jersey Athletic Conference.

“The positive we take away is we kept battling even after all we have been through,” head coach Eric Hamilton said. “10 NJAC teams is a battle of survival and attrition and early on we were able to hang in there. As the season went along, competition became stiffer and our depth dwindled. What we took away was the need to develop mental toughness during the offseason so it carries over into 2010.”

Although the Lions may have developed mental toughness, they were no match for the physical Profs who gained 541 yards on offense, improving their record to 7-3.

Senior quarterback Frank Wilczynski led the charge against the Lions, gaining 140 rushing yards and three touchdowns, in addition to 238 yards passing with two more trips to the end zone.

In his second start of the season, sophomore quarterback James Donoghue did not fare as well, as he completed only three passes on 13 attempts and was sacked four times.

Hamilton was impressed by the Profs’ ability to keep the Lions in check.

“Rowan’s defense was very good as was Montclair and Kean,” he said. “The NJAC is a tough physical league and numbers and depth are keys to success.”

The Lions did not have depth either in their final contest of the season as senior quarterback Chris James, as well as leading rushers sophomore Justin Doniloski and Chase Misuira were sidelined with injuries.

“Missing those three didn’t help, but I’m not sure how much of a difference since they were not the only ones, Hamilton said. We would have liked to play (Rowan) earlier in the year.”

The Profs were in mid-season form against the Lions, as the allowed only 52 total yards on offense including a pathetic -14-yard rushing performance.

“Rowan controlled both sides of the line of scrimmage,”

Hamilton said. “They were more physical and had depth.

We couldn’t run the ball or give our quarterback a chance to throw on offense and couldn’t contain their quarterback.

(Rowan) had a couple big plays that hurt including a blocked punt.”

Although the Lions finished the season on a sour note, the team still has many highlights to reflect on, including breaking the all-time single-game and season scoring records previously held in 1921 and 1989, respectively. James also broke the College’s all-time passing yardage, completion and attempt totals to finish his campaign as a Lion.

Bobby Olivier can be reached at olivier6@tcnj.edu

Tim Lee / Photo Editor

Donoghue throws the ball to Picatagi.

By Chris Rotolo Staff Writer On Saturday the College’s cross country teams competed in the NCAA Division III Atlantic Regional Championships hosted

by SUNY-Geneseo and produced disappointing showings with the women placing 11th of 33 teams and the men bettering them by one spot at 10th place out of 39 programs, meaning neither team has qualified for the National Championships.

“Saturday was not a good day for our team,” said Michelle Wallace, who personally placed eighth overall with a time of 22:15. “We were looking to qualify for Nationals as a team and we just did not pull it off.”

“Our team was definitely prepared for this race,” Wallace said. She personally qualified for the singles National Championship race in Ohio next week. “We knew that we were one of the top teams in the region. Sometimes the race just doesn’t go the way you plan.”

In their final regional races, the seniors stepped up and led the way for the women with Nicole Ullmeyer following Wallace in 36th place finishing the 6,000-meter race with a time of 23:22 and Cathy Goncalves clocking in at 23:51 and taking the 63rd position.

Sophomore Katie Nestor finished in 80th place with a time of 24:13 followed by freshman Rachel Morris at 111th and junior Brittany Erickson at 112th. Morris broke the tape at 24:58.4 and Erickson at 25:00.4.

“It was a little bit disappointing to tell the truth,” said junior captain T.J. Bocchino of his team’s showing. “We were hoping to maybe slip in there in the fifth spot and maybe get a shot at qualifying for nationals, but we did not think we would be as far back as 10th.”

Although Bocchino finished in 24th place with a time of 25:50 and earned a trip to Ohio, he was not happy with his personal performance.

“It was one of my more lackluster performances of the year,” he said. “If I raced like I was capable of, I would have been in the top 10 or 15 in the field.”

Freshman Max Sparsha finished with an impressive time of 26:21 that was good enough for 44th place. Senior Brandon Rodkewitz followed Sparsha in 47th position at 26:26.2.

Sophomore Alex Yersak and junior Dennie Waite posted top 100 times and freshman Matt Hernberg and sophomore Kevin Schickling finished back to back at 123 and 124.

Cheap Seats

Next basketball offseason has historic implications

By Brandon Gould Satff Writer

The summer of 2010 is not just going to be about driving to the Jersey Shore or playing the slots in Atlantic City.

The summer of 2010 may be showcasing the greatest free agent class that the sports world has ever seen.

Headlining the group will be Cleveland Cavaliers’ forward LeBron James. The superstar is a native of Ohio, but James has made it known that he would like to win a championship. The Cavaliers have

brought in numerous players to try to appease the man known as “The King.”

The newest Cavalier acquisition, Shaquille O’Neal, a 7’11’’ center who has won four championships in his career brings experience. O’Neal has made his intentions for Cleveland clear; “Win a ring for The King.”

However, if O’Neal’s efforts fall short and the Cavaliers’ front office does not prove to LeBron that a championship is near, The King may be searching for a new palace.

Possible destinations include the New

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James and Wade will be the two biggest prizes next offseason.

York Knicks and the New Jersey Nets.

Knick fans have not been shy about demonstrating their desire to land James.

Most notable of this group is director/actor Spike Lee. Not to be outdone by the Knicks, the Nets are also pushing for James with a star of their own. Rapper Jay-Z has a close relationship with James and has not kept it a secret that he would love to have James in Nets blue and red.

Every team in the league will have an interest in the 26-year-old if he hits the market and many teams have already begun to clear cap space to open up room for James or one of his star free-agent mates.

Whatever teams do not land James will be fortunate to have a strong collection of backup plans.

The rest of the potential free agents will be left with many different choices as the summer approaches. Some of them are unrestricted free agents, some have player options and some have early termination options.

Ray Allen, Manu Ginobili, Tracy McGrady and Joe Johnson lead the charge of unrestricted free agents in the 2010 class.

Allen, Ginobili and McGrady may have their best years behind them, but they still provide veteran and playoff experience. On the other hand, Johnson hasn’t even turned 30 yet and this may be the

prime of his career.

Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh are the biggest names beside James of the 2010 class and both have player options. This option will allow them to choose returning to the cities they’ve played with since 2003, or move on to teams with a better chance at claiming the championship. Similar to Wade and Bosh, a core of players have early termination options that would allow them to leave in 2010. The early termination option, which is similar to the player option, allows the player to end his contract at the season’s end or keep his current deal.

These players include Paul Pierce, Tyson Chandler, Dirk Nowitzki, Yao Ming, Michael Redd, Amare Stoudemire, and Richard Jefferson.

Although most of these players will probably return to their old squads, their options to leave makes this class loaded with talent.

Some of these potential free agents may be more attractive than others in this group, but they all could provide a big splash for anyone willing to put out top dollar.

In an era where switching teams and making splashes have become common, the 2010 free agents class may cause a tsunami in the basketball world.

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Bobby Olivier Garrett Rasko-Martinis Managing Editor “The Ref”

Duncan Slobodzian Staff Writer

Drew Conn Correspondent

With two AtD rookies already going to the finals, it’s up to Managing Editor Bobby Olivier and Staff Writer Duncan Slobodzian to beat out Correspondent Drew Conn for a veteran presence in the AtD Championship. Sports Editor Garrett Rasko-Martinis will quiz our contestants on which MLB free agent will garner the most interest, which NFL players have been the most surprising and disappointing, and which sports icon would be most fun to spend time with.

1. Which free agent in the MLB do you think will be the most sought after and why? Where do you think he will end up and why?

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BO: After scanning the entire MLB 2010 free agent list, one thing is very clear – this is not a star-studded class of guys looking for new contracts. The obvious answer is Matt Holliday, who will be pursued strongly by the New York Mets and other big market teams, but Angels’ starter John Lackey is garnering a slew of suitors as well. Lackey is currently being tracked by the Mariners, Brewers, Red Sox, Yankees, and Mets — as well the Angels who offered him a $72 million deal earlier this year. The Red Sox have touched base with Lackey’s agent, but the unlikely candidate Mariners will end up with Lackey. They dropped $40 million when Jarrod Washburn went to the Tigers, and Adrian Beltre, Erik Bedard and Miguel Batista are all free agents, freeing up another $29.75 million. The M’s are going to offer Lackey a monster contract and he is going to bite and stay on the West Coast.

DS: There are a number of household names on the 2010 free agent list – especially if said household is inhabited by die hard Yankees fans. Johnny Damon, Hideki Matsui, and Andy Pettitte are all among the free agent players. Of course, there is baseball beyond the perimeters of the Big Apple. And there are a number of marquee names to peruse. The one that stands out is Matt Holliday, left fielder extraordinaire.

Holliday was a staple in the explosive Colorado offense for years. After moving to Oakland, then St. Louis midway through last year, Holliday is looking to cash in and settle down, à la Mark Teixeira from a year ago. I think he will land in a big market, seeing as teams from those areas have deeper pockets. My prediction is the Mets, who are in rather desperate need for a left fielder. Plus Holliday’s agent is the notoriously stubborn Scott Boras, who has a way of leveraging deals for his clients so that maximum interest is generated.

DC: Matt Holliday will keep the suspense going for a while, but he will ultimately sign with the Cardinals. They gave up too much to acquire him and won’t just let him walk away. The Cards are known as a “mid-market franchise” but they drew the third-most fans in the NL this past season — they do have the

income to make this move. With Albert Pujols in his prime, the time is now for St. Louis to make a serious move. John Lackey will be the most sought after free agent and will sign with the Red Sox. They have already begun serious talks and, after getting embarrassed during last year’s off season, Boston won’t let him slip by.

But the Dodgers are in desperate need of an ace and will give the Red Sox a serious run for their money and if they don’t resign Pettitte, the Yankees may as well.

GRM: Matt Holliday is an excellent hitter when he’s in the National League, but John Lackey is an ace pitcher with a great deal of both regular season and postseason success – he is the best free agent out there. Drew gets 3, for stating that one of the big-market teams is going to land Lackey. Bobby gets 2, Lackey is going to want be on a contender, and that’s not the Mariners. Duncan gets 1, because an ace like Lackey is more valuable than a hitter like Holliday.

2. At this point in the NFL season which player do you think is the most surprising success story and most disappointing?

BO: The most surprising story this season so far has been the resurgence of Carson Palmer as a top-10 quarterback in the NFL. After a 2007 season that saw 20 interceptions and a four-game 2008 season cut short by injuries, the Cincinnati Bengals became the subject of many insults and Palmer was all but forgotten, but this season, he has led the Bengals to a 72 record and the top spot in the AFC North.

Palmer has completed 63 percent of his passes and has 14 touchdowns and seven interceptions in what has been a comeback year for him. The most disappointing story has been San Diego Chargers linebacker Shawne Merriman. Coming off an injury, he was supposed to be a dominant force again this year, but he had no sacks until Week Eight, when he got two against the Raiders, and he is eighth on his team in tackles. His public problems with girlfriend Tila Tequila have just made everything worse and he is a big disappointment this year.

DS: Halfway home in 2009, it’s safe to say that running back Cedric Benson’s season can be filed under “most surprising.” Benson was more or less shipped off from the team that drafted him (Chicago), and left for dead in the NFL waters. He admits some culpability in the chain of events that led to his release after the 2007 season. Nonetheless, Benson has bounced back in a major way to rank sixth across the NFL with rushing yards. As far as disappointments go, I would single out the Cowboys’ Roy Williams. Formerly considered a bar-none No. 1 receiver, Williams’ production has seen a steady decline to the point that quarterback Tony Romo looks in two different

directions before giving Williams a glance.

DC: The most surprising success story has to be Cedric Benson. I know that he had a strong finish last year, but this year Cedric Benson is one of the top running backs. Almost everyone wrote this guy off as a bust. During the summer, no one would have predicted Benson to be a top-three rusher this season and help the Bengals contend for the division. After all the drama and hype, Jay Cutler is, without a doubt, the most disappointing player. He made the Pro Bowl last year but looks like a rookie this year. Yes his receivers are mediocre but he has a solid tight end and running back. For some reason Cutler doesn’t have his head together and has killed the entire offense. People labeled him the “Bear’s missing link” but right now he is making Josh McDaniels look like a genius.

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GRM: Drew gets 3 again – Benson has turned the Bengal’s offense into a potent balanced attack. Jay Cutler is definitely the biggest disappointment, at the quarterback position, the most important player on the field. Duncan gets 2, Roy Williams is a disappointment, but a team can pick up the slack from a struggling receiver than from a quarterback. Bobby gets 1 – I like the Merriman answer, but Carson Palmer playing well is not surprising, he’s always been a quality quarterback when he wasn’t injured.

3. Which professional athlete do you think would be the most fun to hang out with and why?

BO: At this very moment, LeBron James has to be the most fun to hang out with. Think about it — where is there the most fun to be had? The answer to that question is New York City, and right now James has the Big Apple eating out of his powder-filled hands as no restaurant or club owner wants to be the guy who kept James away from the Knicks. Walking through Midtown with James, we would cut lines anywhere — clubs, restaurants, prime tickets to sporting events, and even Broadway shows if James is feeling cultured. A night on the town with James right now would a night to remember.

DS: This is a no-brainer to me, and any fan who has paid attention to professional basketball for the last 15 years or so. The answer is Shaquille O’Neal. He is by far the most charismatic sports personality across the board, and one of the most transcendent to boot. As one of the most entertaining personalities, O’Neal has attracted a whole audience of fans apart from NBA devotees. Yes, I’m talking about the flocks of “Kazaam” DVD-renters who have let their voices be heard for the last decade. Perhaps the attribute that best qualifies O’Neal (also known as The Diesel, Shaqtus, The Big Aristotle, and most recently The Big Witness Protection) as the undisputed leading man in this category is his range of interests.

Look no further than the backlog of the Shaq Vs … television show for proof. Plus, I’ve taken a virtual tour of Shaq’s house via MTV Cribs and I wouldn’t mind spending an afternoon, or two, there.

DC: LeBron James. Why? Just look at how I envision my day. In the morning, we meet for a shoot around — he dunks on me several times, I cry out of excitement. After practice we hit the weight room — I get to spot the King — and go to Shaq’s place to watch “Kazaam” and “Steel” while his personal chef makes us food all day. Then we go to a club with Delonte West because he’s packing heat, but Cleveland sucks so we take a private jet to New York City. We meet Jay-Z and Beyonce at Hova’s 40/40 Club. I convince James to sign with the Nets in 2010. In return, Jay sets me up with Rihanna and signs me to the Roc. After several drinks we decide to find Braylon Edwards and rough him up. In the wee hours of the morning, we fly back to Cleveland and repeatedly prank call Kobe Bryant.

GRM: Duncan gets the 3 for picking Shaq when everyone else put James. As much fun as James probably is, Shaq has a mystique that can’t be matched. Bobby gets the 2, because the thought of a huge basketball player like James attending a Broadway show is awesome. Drew gets 1, because he only wants to hang out with James to leech off his lifestyle, not because he likes James as a person.

AtD Playoffs No. 2 Brandon No. 5 Jason No. 7 O’Donnell No. 3 Neyman No. 4 Mike No. 6 Garrett No. 1 Duncan No. 8 Bobby No. 9 Drew

Jason wins 8-7-3 Mike wins 8-5-5 Drew wins 7-6-5

Championship begins for Issue 13

“I’m like Nevada in the middle of the summer” -Drew

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November 18, 2009 The Signal page 27

LIONS ROUNDUP Date 11/15/09 11/18/09 11/20/09 11/21/09 11/24/09 11/28/09 12/2/09 12/5/09 12/17/09 12/19/09 1/4/10 1/6/10 1/9/10 1/13/10 1/16/10 1/20/10 1/23/10 1/27/10

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Womenʼs Swimming Sophomore Laura Pierce not only conrtibuted to the Lions’ win in the pool over Franklin and Marshall College on Friday, Nov. 13, but the swimmer also qualified for the NCAA ‘B’ cut team by three onehundredths of a second. Pierce finished the 100yard butterfly with a time of 58.47.

Wojtowicz, Sports Assistant

This Week In Sports Menʼs Basketball

Nov. 18 vs. Berkeley College, 8 p.m.

Time/Result

Stevens Institute of Tech. L 46-48 Moravian College 6 p.m.

Swarthmore College 1 p.m.

Haverford College 3 p.m.

Rowan University 6 p.m.

Frostburg University 8 p.m.

Salisbury University 8 p.m.

Arcadia University 6 p.m.

William Paterson U. 1 p.m.

Marymount University 3 p.m.

Norwich University 2 p.m.

York Co./Ursinus Co. 12/2 p.m.

Alvernia University 6 p.m.

New Jersey City U. 2 p.m.

Nov. 20 - 21 @ Albright College Tournament, 6/8 p.m.

Nov. 24 @ Muhlenberg College, 7 p.m.

Nov. 28 @ Centenary College, 2 p.m.

Womenʼs Basketball

Nov. 18 vs. Moravian College, 6 p.m.

Nov. 21 @ Swarthmore College, 1 p.m.

Nov. 22 @ Haverford College, 3 p.m.

Trivia Question

Cross Country

Nov. 21 @ NCAA Division III Championships, 11 a.m.

Womenʼs Soccer

Answer to Last Week’s Trivia Question: Bobby Richardson

The Indianapolis Colts remain undefeated after squeezing past the New England Patriots 35-34 on Sunday. The Patriots have been 5-4 against the Colts over the past six years, with the Colts winning four out of the last five years.

The two teams have also remained at the top of the rankings in number of regular season games won. How many regular season games have the Colts won since 2000?

Laura Pierce

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Womenʼs Basketball Opponent

Lion of the Week

Nov. 21 @ NCAA Tournament - Williams College, 11 a.m.

Wrestling

Nov. 18 vs. Hunter College, 3 p.m.

Nov. 19 vs. New York University, 7 p.m.

Nov. 21 @ Oneonta State Invitational, 9:30 a.m.

Dec. 1 @ Kingʼs College, 7 p.m.

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