March 28, 2014

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VOLUME CXXVIII, ISSUE 7

New SAT Unveiled

SLU to Re-Examine Test-Optional Policy

By REBECCA DOSER STAFF WRITER Recent changes to the SAT will require SLU to re-examine its test-optional policy, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Jeff Rickey told the Chronicle of High Education’s Eric Hoover.

Deemed the “ultimate test” of one’s high school career, the SAT college entrance exam is undergoing changes such as an optional essay, no penalties for incorrect answers, and the option of taking the test electronically, College Board President David Coleman announced Wednesday, March 5.

These changes portray an attempt by the SAT to compete with the ever-growing

popularity of the ACT, which offers an optional essay and also announced a year ago that it plans to administer computer-based testing beginning in 2015.

Among the new changes to the SAT test, which will be first administered in 2016, is the addition of citing parts of passages to support responses along with a specific focus on minimalized math areas such as algebra as opposed to a wide range of mathematic concepts.

These changes are the first upgrades to the SAT design since 2005, when the essay portion was added and analogy questions were removed, according to Associated Press writer Kimberly Hefling.

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Tuition, Fees to Rise 3.6% Next Year

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rummer Matt Burr ’03 from Grace Potter and the Nocturnals surprised the Java Barn this Thursday with a four-piece drum kit crafted of vintage Vermont maple wood boasting scarlet hoops and stainless steel. “I wanted to start with the heartbeat,” said Burr, who along with the Nocturnals plans to donate a “candy shop of gear” for the venue in the future.

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mong the post-Spring Break chaos, one group on campus has set its aims on education regarding the criminal justice system. Above, the Prison Reform Symposium holds a discussion regarding solitary confinement and related ethics.

See page 10, where THE HILL NEWS details the events of this important symposium.

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On February 25, 2014, President Fox sent a letter to all St. Lawrence families on behalf of the University Board of Trustees announcing an increase in the comprehensive fee for 2014-2015.

The base comprehensive fee in 2014-2015 will be $59,982. This is an increase of $2,071 from the comprehensive fee for 20132014. This increase is a 3.6% difference for tuition, room and board, which is slightly less than last year’s adjustment.

In addition, Thelmo approved a new resolution that increases the student activities fee by $11 to a total of $336, in addition to $10 for class dues. This money will be spent in additional support for student clubs and campus events.

Kathy Mullaney, Vice President and Treasurer of Finance for SLU, said that the university consistently does all it can to contain costs, conserve energy and develop innovations “to keep the price as low as possible, but the increase is somewhat inevitable.”

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Mullaney explained that much is considered when trying to determine what the year’s comprehensive fee should be. The business office compares its own list price versus other universities and how this money was used in the previous year. They further evaluate the market rates and global cost factors that have to be considered when determining the price.

“Our number one goal is calculating how low in cost we can make the comprehensive fee while still maintaining the integrity of the university,” Mullaney said. Of the University expenditures for 2014-2015. 61% will be consumed by salary, wages and benefits of those employees who keep the high level of education SLU is known for.

This was an approximate individual 4% increase, where in other expenditures such as business services, supplies, food and interest expense, it was a near 3% change.

Mullaney recognized and SEE TUITION, PAGE 5

In This Issue: Canton, Potsdam hospitals to merge, page 4 Stories from the Sustainability Semester, page 6 Prison symposium enlightens campus, page 10 Missed chances at the Underground, page 8 Equestrian team triumphs at regionals, page 12

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MARCH 28, 2014

Are We Supporting Torture?

By NICK DESANTIS ‘15 GUEST WRITER Every day, civil liberties are violated and atrocities are committed in America’s penal system. It is our Constitutional right to be innocent until proven guilty. However, accused persons are still allowed to be held in jail for long periods of time before their trials unless they can post bail. This system discriminates against the poor as well, as accused persons who are unable to post bail may sometimes have no choice but to remain in jail for many months without even having been convicted of anything. The fact that they are supposedly presumed innocent appears to have no bearing here.

Atrocities are committed against inmates in jails and prisons every day.

One example is the use of solitary confinement as punishment.

Research by psychologists such as Stuart Grassain, Terry Cupers, Harry Harlow, Huda Akil, and many others has resulted in extensive evidence

that solitary confinement causes serious psychological problems. This is so much the case that Juan Mendez, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on torture, declared that not only is solitary confinement “contrary to rehabilitation,” it is actually torture if it occurs for longer than 15 days. Despite this knowledge, inmates are arbitrarily sent to solitary confinement for a month

U.N. Special Rapporteur on torture declared that solitary confinement is actually torture. or more at a time for offenses as silly as having too many pillows or pens. No trial or hearing is required to put inmates in solitary confinement; the prison staff can simply decide to do so.

Furthermore, a major reason these archaic practices are allowed to continue is selfdelusion and apathy on the part of American citizens. We

tell ourselves that the inmates “deserve it” for the crimes they have committed. We delude ourselves into believing that there is nothing we can do to stop it, that the prison-industrial complex is too powerful for us to make a difference. We may even simply turn a blind eye and ignore the problem, rather than facing the harsh reality that it exists. But as long as we continue to tell ourselves these stories and attempt to absolve ourselves of responsibility, the practices will continue. We need to spread awareness so that it becomes more and more difficult for people to turn this blind eye to the problem.

We need to write or call our senators and representatives and tell them that if they want our support, they must take a stand against the unconstitutional and inhumane practices of our penal system. With collective action and acceptance of responsibility, change can happen. But as long as the self-delusion and apathy continues, so too will the atrocities.

Social Inequity and the American Education System

By MAGGIE SULLIVAN ‘15 GUEST WRITER

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Imagine being forced to share three chairs with eight other people besides yourself.

And then imagine doing this while watching one person sit right near you take up seven entire chairs and refuse to share them. You are unable to object. You must simply accept the grim conditions.

This inequality is present in our everyday American lives, and it has a tremendous impact on our education system.

Dr. Paul Gorski from George Mason University outlined this exact analogy in a crowded Eben Holden during his guest lecture about social justice in education on February 26th.

The chair demonstration conveyed the facts: 90% of America’s population controls only 30% of our country’s wealth, while a tiny 10% (consisting of people like Bill Gates or Paris Hilton) have control over an absurd 70% of the wealth.

This 10% of our population has the ability to control most of our education by funding politicians, corporations, and other movements which shape our public schools. These are people who were very likely born into extreme wealth, have never taken a single college course on education, and perhaps have never set foot in a public school before.

Yet somehow, we are taught to believe that these are the most qualified people to make decisions regarding our education, our children, and our future. How can this possibly be fair? How can we be okay with this reality?

Dr. Gorski provided a few reasons for this compliance.

America is a meritocracy, meaning we believe that people acquire money, success, and happiness from working hard. There is no denying that this is the American Dream—

10% of our population has the ability to control most of our education.

Are we okay with this reality? you can start with nothing, but still make it to the top if you want it and work for it. The flip side of this mindset, then, is that those who do not have money or success are simply not working hard enough. But isn’t this logic deeply flawed?

We must take action against this inequality. Just as Dr. Gorski urged, we cannot simply sit here, tolerating the bleakness surrounding our class division.

The number one solution he provided for this was to refuse the deficit view that the poor are lazy; with low expectations, how will we ever create

opportunities for the poor to thrive?

Furthermore, Dr. Gorski claims that understanding is a method of reform. If we understand where our students come from, realize that their conditions are a result of social inequality, and accommodate these factors, then we will be more likely to have stronger classroom pedagogy and higher expectations. This will result in a better education, which of course leads to a better chance of students’ success later on.

With a stronger understanding of the issues taking place right in front of us, it becomes so difficult to not feel enraged, to not want to get out there in the world and find a way to make all of this better. Obviously there is no simple solution, but awareness is certainly key.

Dr. Gorski eloquently asserted, “I think I’m the ultimate patriot! I think I can make this be a better place for those who are less privileged than I am.” For those who feel equally patriotic, inspired, enraged, or moved, please visit Dr. Gorski’s website, www.

EdChange.org, where there is information about research, facts, workshops, publications, projects, etc. that can further this movement to reduce the opportunity gap in American education.

OPINIONS

MARCH 28, 2014

No Spitting: Emotions Due to the constraints put upon me by greater powers that make up this student run material media source, I have a smaller word count than usual.

This tyranniBy LUKE MATYS ‘15 cal constraint COLUMNIST has forced me to choose a subject that I can discuss in my usual fashion in fewer words than I usually do.

After critical thought on what exactly the subject should be, I

feeling because I tell them or they can read my face that does everything but (although, it does on occasion) scream how I am feeling. And I understand that most of humanity couldn’t give less than a flying monkey poop about how I’m feeling, but that shouldn’t stop how I naturally am. Should a person change the way they feel because they are “in public”?

For all things holy, please don’t. Emotions are part of being human. A human who is not receptive to the world around

Most of humanity couldn’t give less than a flying monkey poop about how I’m feeling. have come to the conclusion that the topic of emotions would be an easier topic to cover rather than the nature and history of paper. Perhaps discussing my thoughts with you about my decision making process over the subject of this column due to the word constraint was not exactly complementary to the overall goal of writing a column with a word constraint. But the words are already typed and there is no going back now. Anyway, let’s get to the point.

I am an emotional person.

Despite popular belief, this does not mean that I am always grumpy and sad. I am not the type of person that always has a smile on their face because if I did I know I would be lying to you (being the world I interact with) and annoying myself. I do obtain feelings of happiness and joy. As they say, I wear my emotions on my sleeve. Those around me know how I’m

them is not really a human, but rather a silly looking igneous rock formation. These igneous rock formations include those who smile and are friendly even though they are feeling miserable almost all of the time.

The same is true for the igneous rock formations that are always appear down about something and the igneous rock formations that are never upset or happy.

Being receptive to the world and events around us is something that separates humanity from igneous rock formations. I understand that not everyone is as obtrusive with their emotions as me, but no one should feel pressured to hide them. Have different emotions! Laugh, cry, be bored, and confused! Emotions are part of living. Don’t hide the fact that you are alive!

No Spitting.

Location of Galveston Spill

Source: National Geographic

Kirby Inland Marine Corp. spilled 160,000 gallons of oil into Galveston Bay, shutting down Texas’ busiest port and threatening endangered shorebird sanctuaries.

Saint: When your advisors Saint: hand deliver multiple kinds of fancy ice cream because they’re absolute gems of human beings.

Asking somone to Formal in the form of sculpted Rice Krispies treats.

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the Bottle to get to know your coworkers better/initiate the new kiddies.

Purgatory: Ticker rePurgatory: Seven day streak Purgatory: Using your little opening rumors move faster across campus than freshmen to the hockey suite.

at the Hoot. Senior spring alcoholism at its finest.

break in between classes to go get your nipple pierced.

Sinner: Apparently the

Sinner:

Sinner: When your younger

OC’s double secret probation is contagious, having now spread to other themehouses.

Attending Denise Jolly’s workshop and commenting that something was just “too vulgar.” Uh yeah duh.

siblings come to visit and you have to make a list of the people to stay the hell away from.

Letter to the Editor: Serenity in the Storm To anyone who may be struggling with something in his or her life, I’d like to share my story.

I am keeping my identity anonymous, for I feel that it is not the specifics of this story that are important, but rather the message, and I hope that you can take something positive from it.

I am 23 years old and a senior at St. Lawrence. For the past 5 years of my life I have struggled with addiction. Since my father passed when I was 18, I have been numbing myself and chasing a false happiness. During my use, I have had many severe consequences and hurt many people who love me, but I have never hit bottom as hard as I did one night last semester. That night completely changed my life, and due to a series of unfortunate events that have followed, the school has asked me to leave campus and finish my degree from home.

I have almost been 4 months clean today. Staying sober is not easy even in the best of circumstances (especially at college!) and these past 4 months have been some of the most trying I

have experienced, culminating in my suspension. While on the outside this would seem devastating, I’ve realized that it offers me the opportunity to remove myself from this stressful and tempting environment to focus on what really matters: my recovery. I truly feel blessed to be able to recognize that things really do happen for a reason. Emerson said that “once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make that happen.” On December 7th of 2013 I made the decision to get and stay clean and since then the events that have unfolded in my life have been difficult. I have lost people who mattered most to me, been tempted during the lowest of times, and am now getting removed from a place I love dearly, and that’s why I am still clean today. Sometimes we have to face the worst of circumstances to find out who we really are and what were really made of. After all that’s happened, I’ve seen that things will always work out for the best given time; it’s all a matter of perspective. It’s not what

happens to you in life, but rather how you deal with it. And when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

Most of all, my time at SLU has taught me what it is to be strong. My father once said that ‘strength is not measured by what a man can lift, but rather by what he knows he cannot.’ I have learned that knowing where you have failed and why, then accepting yourself and your circumstances as they are, and having faith in yourself and the universe are some of the best lessons one can reach in happiness. Not every day in life will be sunny; life has its storms. And strength is not fighting the storm, but finding serenity in it. I would just like to end by saying: Take hope! If I can be an example of getting sober, then I can be an example of starting over.

Anonymous Editor’s Note: Due to the sensitive nature of this article, the Hill News editorial board has allowed the letter to remain anonymous.

Op-Ed: Galveston Oil Spill

By SYDNEY FALLONE ‘17 COLUMNIST

first few weeks after the spill,” and is weathering or degrading very slowly. “ At this rate, the oil remaining in the sound will take decades or possibly centuries to disappear entirely. The spill in Texas’ Houston Ship Channel over the weekend released over 160,000 gallons of oil into the Galveston Bay. This disaster has provided yet another example of the dangers that come from oil

continue to make mistakes, equipment will continue to fail.”

In addition, Steiner pointed out As the 25th anniversary that the rules dealing with the of the Exxon Valdez disaster financial liability of a company approaches, the United after an oil spill have not been States finds itself cleaning updated in nearly a quarter up yet another oil spill - this of a century. In particular, the time, in Texas’ Houston Ship liability limits explicitly stated in Channel. Those two disasters the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 have are dire reminders that not been adjusted to reflect the environmentalism and corporate 78 percent increase in inflation interests are constantly in since 1990. Following the conflict, and all too often The oil remaining in the sound BP blowout in 2010, the it is the corporations that passed a package of will take decades or possibly House hail victor, which creates reform measures. However, calamitous environmental centuries to disappear entirely. it never passed the Senate. problems.

The 25th Many ask what it would take anniversary of the Exxon Valdez accidents. to get Congress to update laws disaster is a stark reminder of In a press conference governing oil spills. the need to update regulations following the Galveston spill, Cindy Shogan, an executive on the oil industry, as well as the environmental advocates for the Alaska Wilderness risks that still linger. expressed that their concerns League expressed, “You’d need After 10.8 million gallons of oil have not changed much over the a new Congress. It’s just that spilled into the Prince William past 25 years. They argued that the oil industry has a lot of Sound on March 24th, 1989, the the effects of the Exxon Valdez power. And until we hold them Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee spill should be a cautionary tale accountable... that’s not going Council, which oversees the for drilling in the Arctic, in seas to change.” One thing remains restoration of the Prince William off the northern coast of Alaska. clear: Exxon, and spills since, Sound Ecosystem, says the oil Richard Steiner, an Exxon Valdez are probably inevitable, as long that persists in the environment oil spill response and restoration as the U.S. is still extracting and is “nearly as toxic as it was the advocate stated, “People will using oil.

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NEWS

MARCH 28, 2014

Security Blotter March 18, 4:48 p.m. Four students cited for skiing alongside Sullivan Student Center dumpsters March 19, 7:49 a.m. Medical call, non-alcohol related, student signed off March 19, 7:08 p.m. Students in Sykes Hall found emptying cigarettes and refilling them with marijuana, grinder confiscated March 20, 10:50 a.m. Pocket knife confiscated from Lee Hall March 21, 1:05 a.m. Marijuana and grinder confiscated from Dean Eaton March 21, 5:18 p.m. Two students reported smoking on the porch of 62 Park St., marijuana confiscated March 21, 11:42 p.m. Medical call, alcohol related, student signed off March 21, 11:50 p.m. Noise complaint in Hulett Hall, 150 students in a suite, underage drinking cited, party was closed down March 22, 8:25 a.m. Pulley injury, student signed off March 22, 11:19 a.m. Wallet reported lost between Hulett Hall and the Townhouses March 22, 1:07 p.m. Damage to a vehicle reported in the parking lot, no injuries March 22, 5:35 p.m. Reiff door was entirely blocked, snow had been shoveled up to the window, facilities cleared the area March 22, 10:49 p.m. Vandalism to a window at 58 Park St. March 22, 11:17 p.m. Vandalism at 72 Park St. March 23, 2:01a.m. Student arrested by Canton Police for attempting to purchase alcohol by fraudulent means, and for possession of a forged license March 23, 4:03 a.m. Fire alarm call at Dean Eaton, food was overcooked in the kitchen March 23, 4:40 a.m. Vandalism in Hulett Hall, rails were taken off stairway March 23, 9:39 p.m. Vandalism to a light fixture in Dean Eaton, bulb was smashed SEMESTER RUNNING TALLIES: Bike Thefts: 0 | DWIs: 3 Open Containers: 2 | Transports: 3

What is Thelmo up to?

Wednesday, March 26th Office Hours: President Kelly Appenzeller, Monday through Wednesday 8 to 10 p.m. Vice President of Senate Affairs, Annie Dietderich, Friday 2 to 3 p.m.

Contingency Requests: -Singing Sinners contingency request for use of PK performance space passed pending second approval.

New Business: -SLU Diversity Commission report out now, includes recommendation to make Whitman Annex more visible and accessible for students, as well as incorporating more gender-neutral bathrooms in public spaces.

-Canton Bar Tour April 8th, 7 pm.

-Kaleidoscope Multicultural Event to be held in PK Hall on April 8 at 7pm.

-Beta-sponsored Men of Principle scholarship to be made available April 1.

-Applications for Board of Trustees and class council executive boards will be released soon.

-The Main Squeeze will be playing at Java on Friday!

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North Country Hospital Merger

By NICOLE LEINDERS STAFF WRITER Canton Potsdam Hospital and recently renamed Governeur Hospital stepped into a partnership this January, and there is a lot of confusion over how and why this happened. When newspapers reported the alleged-merger, many students wondered how it would affect them.

Never fear my fellow SLUzers; whether it is weekly physical therapy visits, a drop by on Sunday morning to get your concussion confirmed as a result of your actions Saturday night, or even worries about a dreaded 2:00 am transport, there should be few changes to the high-quality care you are used to. Spokesperson for Governeur Hospital and Director of Corporate Communication for Canton-Potsdam Hospital Rebecca Faber, and Community Relations and Practice Management Coordinator for Governeur Hospital Bonnie Porter, explained the changes the health care system in the North Country has undergone over the past few months.

The E.J. Noble afterhours building on the edge of our campus has undergone a multi-million dollar renovation to accommodate more primary care, pediatrics, and specialty services. The Canton Postdam Hospital has collaborated to open the Urgent Care Center in the Helen Snell Cheel Medical Campus in Potsdam, where it is open from 9:00 am to 9:00 pm daily and will accept SLU students if the campus health center or Afterhours are closed.

The Urgent Care Center will treat patients who don’t need to be seen in the ER, so the Emergency Department should have lower wait times. This means Governeur’s ER should see a drop in wait times as well.

Why did all of these changes take place? Rebecca explained that in September 2012, E.J. Noble Hospital’s laboratory was closed by the NY State Department of Health due to serious deficiencies. Shortly thereafter, the hospital itself closed.

At the time, Canton Potsdam Hospital (CPH) stepped in to assist the community, and E.J. Noble

Hospital reopened in October.

The board stepped aside to new leadership that restructured the hospital to a more sustainable system, and in March 2013, CPH and E.J. Noble Hospital’s new board entered into a formal management agreement, with CPH and NY State providing emergency funding to reopen the laboratory services that had been closed prior to September 2012.

In the meantime, the new board applied to NY State to establish a new hospital, Governeur Hospital (GH), which would operate as an affiliate of Canton-Potsdam Hospital under a new parent corporation, St. Lawrence Health System. St. Lawrence Health System purchased the assets of the former E.J. Noble Hospital and created GH, which has no relations to the now defunct E.J. Noble Hospital; both corporations were just located within the same building. Both GH and CPH began to operate under the new parent notfor-profit corporation on January 1st, 2014, establishing stable health services in the North Country that should last for years to come.

This Week in the News International Updates

By LEXI BECKWITH MANAGING EDITOR

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North America NY schools most segregated in US A UCLA civil rights policy group has found NY public schools are the most divided across race and class, in a report released Wednesday.

Africa Algeria cracks down on political dissent Human Rights Watch calls for authorities, who have been deploying greater numbers of policemen to combat protest, to remove ban on demonstrations and to allow competition for the benefit of upcoming elections.

Latin America Venezuelan generals arrested coup charges As part of leftist President Nicolás Maduro’s crackdown against the opposition, three air force generals have been detained, following six weeks of protests, that resulted in 34 dead and many more injured.

Europe IMF presents $18 million bailout plan to assist Ukraine Though they may be unpopular domestically, Kiev has agreed to economic reforms, which will unlock European and American aid, to keep the region from falling into col-

Middle East West Bank clashes leave Palestinians dead Israeli soldiers entered the Jenin refugee camp to arrest a member of the Hamas military wing, leaving three Palestinians dead and 14 injured, with some in critical condition, including civilians.

Asia Phillipines and Muslin rebel group sign peace deal In exchange for the Moro Islamic Liberation Front ending the rebellion, the deal will grant autonomy to the largely Muslim areas of the Mindanao region.

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The Ukraine Situation:What you Need to Know

By EMILY MULVIHILL STAFF WRITER Each As everyone has heard by now, there’s been a lot going on in Ukraine over the last several months. The conflict, which began back in November, has recently made headlines on Crimea’s recent referendum separating from Ukraine. But with new updates every day, it can be hard to stay on top of the matter. So here’s a no-nonsense, what you really need to know low-down on the matter.

November: Remember back to the middle of first semester? At

that time the conflict in the Ukraine was just heating up as the Ukrainian government (headed by President Viktor Yanukovych) declared that it would abandon an agreement that sought to strengthen relations with the European Union.

In response, many protesters took to the streets, particularly in Kiev, the capital and largest city in Ukraine.

December: Protests continue. Protesters occupy Kiev city hall, attracting large amounts of support.

According to BBC News up to 800,000 people protest during the largest demonstration.

January: Parliament passes strong antiprotest laws that are eventually annulled by Parliament at the end of January after the prime minister Mykola Azarov resigns. Furthermore, January brought the first protest-related deaths.

February: February 16: demonstrations in Kiev cease in exchange for the release of all imprisoned protesters. Two days later, clashes erupt in the streets leaving hundreds injured and several dead. Violence continues and increases.

February 22: Parliament votes to remove President Yanukovych

from office. He later appears on TV to denounce “coup”. At the same time, Yulia Tymoshenko, Yanukovych’s rival, is released from custody. Parliament names speaker Olexander Turchynov as interim president, and Mr. Yanukovych receives an arrest warrant.

The end of February is when all eyes begin to turn toward Crimea. Men in Russian military uniform control Crimean airports and Russian navy surround region.

March: Ukraine and the West ask and warn Russia not to get involved in Crimea, while Russia’s parliament approves Putin’s

request to use force in Ukraine to protect Russian interests.

March 6 Crimea’s local parliament votes to join Russia and sets date of referendum to March 16. In this referendum, a significant majority of votes went to joining Russia.

So what has happened since the referendum? EU leaders gathered to condemned Russia’s annexation of Crimea, and the U.S. has placed economic sanctions on Russia. This did not, however, stop Russia from taking over two naval bases, forcing the Ukrainian government to withdraw its soldiers and their families from Crimea.

Club on the Rise: Model UN

By CAROLINE SEELEN STAFF WRITER A new club on the St. Lawrence campus this semester is the Model United Nations Club. The club is led by President Lisa Dyatko ‘17, Vice President Vanessa Chilunda ’17, Secretary Miles Crump ’16, and Public Relations Chair Yibei Chen ’16.

Model UN exists in many high schools and universities throughout the world. The basic function of the club is for students to simulate the actual United Nations. Every student represents a country, and they must accurately portray how this country would view world issues.

Different committees are formed and each is presented with a topic and problem to solve. Each student writes a position paper based on what his or her country would actually think about the topic. At the conference, students debate the issue using their countries’ opinions and pass resolutions. The conference is run by parliamentary procedure, like the real UN, and it is formal with business casual dress.

Dyatko was an active member of her high school Model UN club and was surprised when SLU didn’t have one, so she set out to change that. Dyatko is a member of Thelmo’s International Committee, and last semester

she and Chen, chair of the committee, planned and held a Model UN conference. This semester, they decided to make Model UN an independent club. Many of the people who participated in the conference in the fall joined the new club.

Currently, the club is planning another conference to take place in April with the date to be announced. They are meeting weekly in order to plan for the conference. Dyatko is also educating the members in parliamentary procedure, position paper writing, and the basic functions of the UN. The club members are currently voting on which topic they would like for the conference.

Dyatko has high hopes for the club. Many universities around the country run conferences for high school students to participate in, with the college students chairing the various committees.

Dyatko would love for St. Lawrence to hold a conference for high school students in the future. She would also love to see the SLU Model UN club attend World Model United Nations at Harvard University.

If interested in the club, contact Lisa Dyatko (edyat13@ stlawu.edu), join the Facebook group (SLU MUN 2014!), or come to meetings Saturdays in Carnegie 010 at 4 pm.

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This past Tuesday, dozens of students gathered on the first floor of the student center to cast their votes toward the Northstar Cafe’s newest coffee flavors.

SAT FROM PAGE 1 Once again, the SAT will be scored on a 1600-point scale as opposed to a 2400-point scale.

In response to these changes, Dean Rickey told Hefling in an interview that “It will encourage students to consider the questions more carefully and to attempt them, where before if a cursory glance at a question made it seem too complex to them, they may go ahead and skip that question.”

The test-optional policy, which

St. Lawrence adopted seven years ago after finding that ACT and SAT scores did not add much predictive power beyond the level of students’ grade point averages and rigorous level of their course load, will be re-examined as a result of these changes. “We will need to do a new validity study,” Rickey said.

“Depending on what the new test is measuring and how that relates to students’ performance, we may go back to requiring it, if it has validity that tells us we should.”

A large criticism of the SAT for many years was that students of wealthier households performed better due to their ability to afford expensive test preparation classes or tutors, Hefling said. Coleman spoke to this criticism at the announcement event in Austin, Texas, by proposing two specific strategies to shorten the gap of educational inequalities between low-and middle-income students and students from wealthier households.

Theme Cottage Proposals Returned,Varying Results for Fall 2014

By EMMA CUMMINGS- KRUEGER NEWS CO-EDITOR This Monday, theme cottages along Park St. and University Avenue received notice regarding the status of their houses for the coming fall. Although most houses will remain the same for the 2014-2015 academic year, the Theme House Selection Committee has imposed slight

changes upon several residences.

In addition to the I-Floor failing to reapply for theme renewal, I-House will be moved from their current location in the 2600s of Sykes Hall to the entire 3600 wing. According to Associate Director of Residence Life Stacie Olney LaPierre, members of the I-House hope to encourage more students to apply without fear of the single-room fee that plagues the 2600 wing.

The I-House will also welcome new neighbors in Sykes; a new Asian Culture theme floor will establish itself nearby this fall. Although there is no house available at this time, the group will be given eight rooms with the potential for growth in the future. Olney LaPierre is hopeful that the I-House residents will set a good example for this new group of worldly residents.

Commons College has been

placed on social probation for the fall semester; no other theme houses were assigned a change in their Spring 2014 social statuses.

The Theme House Selection Committee offered personal feedback to each theme cottage regarding their progress and standing with the university. Olney LaPierre said that this annual process will ensure that, “the themes remain relevant to the

student body.” She hopes that the themes will serve in both a social and extracurricular context. “It’s a student-driven process to meet the students’ needs,” she said.

The theme cottages community is an integral aspect of campus life. With our small Greek community, these houses offer variety to students looking for living arrangements outside of dorm life.

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Dinner Table Tales

By MYLES TRAINER STAFF WRITER Looking outside this past weekend was a little discouraging, as Google’s homepage ironically showed daisies in the spirit of spring’s first day.

Although the winter keeps stretching, gracing the North Country with unwanted snow, it is a crucial part of our world’s systems. Conversation at the Sustainability Semester home often revolves around the strength of communities and the differences of bottom up vs. top down political approaches.

The layers of snow that accumulate can help us look at strong communities and strong nations involved with the environmental movement.

While skiing the backcountry, an outdoor enthusiast must be cautious of the state in which snow accumulates. Before entering a slope, they take out a shovel and dig a square into the pitch they will ski on to observe the different layers of snow that have fallen that year.

Sometimes the snow pack will look upside down with layers of snow on top that accumulate and get very hard. As they look down this snow pack, the layers get softer until the bottom, where there may be facets or sugary, unstable snow. An upside down snow pack is dangerous, suggesting the skier should turn around.

The right-side-up snow pack

is what most outdoor enthusiasts are looking for. Starting from the bottom, the snow is very hard, gradually tapering to the top layer, which consists of fluffy white stuff that you can blow off your hand. It is extremely stable, begging for people to play on it.

The debate we had in one of our classes developed sides that best fit the environmental movement from a right side up system, but also for the upside down system. We talked about the perks of a system that was

“The right-side-up snowpack is what most outdoor enthusiasts are looking for.” majorly regulated at the nations governmental level creating policies that would advocate certain taxes on excess income, emissions and waste. This would regulate people’s actions with a system of equality having an environmental focus. It would provide a template for all towns and cities to follow creating a foundation advocating the economy and the health of our planet.

In one of our classes we recently discussed the strength of a city in Brazil called Curitiba.

Curitiba, as a city, is equivalent to a strong community as a right side up snow pack is to an outdoor enthusiast. The mayor of Curitiba has taken many

bounds locally to create a place designed around the people.

This design has a strong foundation for economies to grow allowing a community of educated, happy people to prosper.

While some students found that the upside down format created strong communities, we also discussed how a community built upon a strong local government provides happy living qualities. The argument against a top down system was that the system was too generic to fit all sizes of towns and cities. Like a ski slope, every place you go is different and requires a metaphorical inspection of the snow pack. By creating a foundation that could support many diversified layers would provide room for innovative prosperity and happy people.

In the next few weeks, our group will be participating in a diverse array of activities involving the greater Canton community that make up these structural systems. Friday we will split into groups to teach classes in two surrounding middle schools. This weekend we will spend time with a local musician learning to communicate through music. Next weekend we have a timber-framing demo with guidelines on basic timber frame construction. All of these unique opportunities create that bottom foundation or snow pack providing a space for people to grow and bounce ideas from one another.

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Third“Kick It”Planned

By ALEXA MITCHELL STAFF WRITER On Saturday, April 5th, head over to the Newell Field House between 12 p.m. and 4 p.m. for the annual “Kick It” event, sponsored by The Center for Civic Engagement. This year’s event will sponsor a local 7th grader named Zachary Hamilton, who was diagnosed with Neuroblastoma in 2009. Hamilton’s family has had to travel from Canton to NYC and Syracuse constantly for appointments. Therefore, this event is being held in order to lessen the burden of these expenses for travel and lodging at the Ronald McDonald House.

“Since Zach is from Canton, the community around SLU is much more involved in the planning of the event,” event planner Taylor Capuano ’14 mentioned, “and we have had such a great partnership with Zach’s friends, family, and Canton Schools.”

The Center for Civic Engagement started these events in 2012 when Madison Wilcox ’14 and Alie Mihuta ’14 wanted to reach out to a young North Country girl, Krissy, who was suffering from leukemia. The event held a four hour long

Zumbathon and raised over $5,000 for Krissy and her family.

“In two years we’ve raised over $10,000 for two local families in need and have already raised $6,000 for the event this year,” Capuano said. “It has also resulted in a day where students and local community members can come together for a common goal.”

This year the event will feature rotating fitness classes, including Zumba, Insanity, Tabata, kickboxing, and yoga, among others, taught by instructors from across the North Country.

The event will also include a silent auction, emceeing by 95.3 The Wolf, and activities hosted by student clubs, organizations, and teams, as they have done in past years.

“It’s very rare for hundreds of SLU students to come together on a Saturday unless it’s at the Tick Tock- and it has been such a fun, wholesome event where everyone leaves feeling so happy they came,” Capuano said.

Do not miss this excellent student and community planned event Saturday from 12 p.m. to 4 p. m. in the Newell Field House, and be sure to bring a minimum donation of five dollars to help Zachary on his road to recovery!

We’re Only Human: Study Evaluates Empathy

By CARL MAYER STAFF WRITER The capacity to empathize with others is one of the most important elements in being a member of society. The ability to understand another’s position is a basic need if anyone wants to be able to interact with others in any meaningful way, and most of us would like to think our empathy extends to all people, no matter their place in society. Dr. Susan T. Fiske, a social neuroscientist, has been investigating just how far public empathy and to whom that feeling extends in general. Her discoveries reveal that the ability to empathize with others has a broad-spectrum, and despite what you think about your own morality, odds are good that there are people that you view as inhumane.

The ability to empathize is predicated upon the ability for someone to confer a conscious mind, complete with emotions and intentions upon another person, categorizing them as human. Once someone has been established as being human,

they are gauged on warmth and competence. For example, elderly people generally evoke perceptions of warmth and incompetence, while someone who is outwardly very professional (picture the stereotypical stock broker) is often perceived as cold and competent.

The study looked at several groups of people and observed reactions in order to establish how they were perceived in general. Once these perceptions were established, test subjects were subjected to neural imaging and exposed to different groups of people to get an idea of how their brains responded differently to different groups of people with variable warmth and competence. The region of the brain they were looking at was the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), an area of the brain that responds differently to people than it does to objects.

The people who scored lowest on combined warmth and competence were drug addicts and homeless people. When people were ‘exposed’ to these two groups, their brain almost universally read them as inhuman.

In fact, the brain response resembled that of rodents, insects, or other vermin. Other results that the study yielded were that men who were predetermined to be sexist tended to respond to highpowered women in a similar fashion replacing vermin with a response to a robot, and the brains of both sexes tended to respond to sexualized representations of the opposite sex as in a similar objectified manner.

While the results seem discouraging, understanding the way that we interact with others, especially the negative gut responses to dehumanized groups of people is an important step to eliminating intolerance in society. It is also useful in establishing which groups of people should be protected as they are more likely to be discriminated against due to the lack of empathy that they receive. These responses are also not permanent; it is possible for people to respond favorably to all people, it just requires mindfulness and if someone recognizes that they are dehumanizing another their capacity for empathy is instantly improved.

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CriMeARiver

By BENJAMIN ADAMS STAFF WRITER For those of YOU who have been stocking up on nonperishable goods stolen from Dana and wondering if your half an inch thick closet can be used as a makeshift fallout shelter for the eventual nuclear holocaust that is to ensue from the reemergence of Cold War angst, you might be the one to think that Obama’s recent economic sanctions would be the first stone-throw at bringing back the iron curtain. The first thing to understand about these sanctions is that they are targeted at the oligarchic elite, not the old Russian Lady in the babushka who sold her last pair of shoes for a loaf of bread, or the Russian majority. The New York Times reported that Obama’s sanctions so far on Russia have been a multitude of blacklistings of members of the Russian

oligarchy, Putin’s inner circle, and the Russian-based Bank of Rossiya. Obama’s objective for placing these sanctions against Russia is to weaken the Oligarchic Support of Putin and Russia’s hold on Crimea by hitting them where it hurts: their wallets. Yet Russia has remained unified and firm in their decision to maintain their hold on Crimea due to their control of natural gas to Europe and the available Eastern Markets that have not only increased trade with Russia from 5.5 billion in 1995 to over 88 billion in 2012, but with plans to expand trade to the East with renovations on the trans-Siberian rail to begin transitioning trade of natural gas from the EU to China. So no need to hide yo’ wife, hide yo’ kids, or hide yo’ husband because Obama isn’t sanctioning everyone out there, but is instead just slapping the hand of the Russian bear on the unicycle.

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Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) for US President 2016

By ALIE MIHUTA STAFF WRITER Even though the world is only a couple of months into 2014, the United States is already thinking about 2016 and making predictions on candidates for the next presidential election.

Hillary Clinton has been the name on everyone’s lips for years as the lady with the potential to be the first woman president.

In fact, she’s been on the virtual ballot for many Democrats for the past six years since she lost in the primaries to Obama for the 2008 election. But the Clinton name may be tired and worn out by this point, which is too bad because Hillary could have been great if she didn’t have to waste her prime waiting for Bill to have his run.

It may be time for Democrats, and any Republicans feeling compelled to swing to the other side, to focus their attention on a new name. I vote WarrenElizabeth Warren, democratic senator for the state of Massachusetts.

Elizabeth Warren has been up to great things. Last summer she fought with Senate Republicans over interest rates on student loans. She got the rate reduced from 6.8% to 3.86% and a cap for any future increases at 8.25%. Warren’s goal is to make interests rates on student loans .75%, the current interest rate of U.S. loans to big banks, arguing that college students, not fat bankers responsible for the recession, deserve a break.

And Elizabeth Warren is back at it again. In early March she delivered the key note

address at the Higher Ed Not Debt Campaign launch event.

She discussed her plans to introduce a bill that would allow Americans to invest in students and not millionaires. The bill would be similar to the Buffet rule, named after billionaire Warren Buffet, which would establish a minimum tax on income in excess of $1million.

This measure has the ability to raise approximately $50 billion

Hillary could have been great if she didn’t have to waste her prime waiting for Bill to have his run in revenue and it also ensures that millionaires do not pay lower taxes than middle class families. Warren wants to use this revenue to refinance student loan debt, promising that recent grads could see their payments drop by as much as $1,000 a year and the total interest on the loan could be cut in half. If by chance the Buffet rule raises more revenue than expected, Warren assures us that the money will continue to go towards lowering the interest rates on student loans.

Elizabeth Warren is also committed to raising the minimum wage, arguing that it should currently be $22 an hour had it kept up with workers’ productivity. Addressing University of Massachusetts Amherst profes-

sor and minimum wage guru, Dr. Arindrajit, Warren said, “so my question is Mr Dube, with a minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, what happened to the other $14.75? It sure didn’t go to the worker.” Warren supported raising the minimum wage to over $10 an hour in incremental steps over the next two years, arguing that it would not be as damaging for businesses as some critics have argued.

Warren is also on the campaign for gender inequality in regards to biomedical research.

Many diseases affect men and women differently and yet the majority of research is conducted on men. Therefore, women are potentially in a position where they are receiving inappropriate information regarding their illnesses and drug recommendations. At a women’s health conference held earlier this month, Senator Warren argued that medical students need more data about women and she urges federal agencies like the National Institutes of Health to take necessary action to increase the medical research of women.

If you like what you read, then Elizabeth Warren is the candidate for you. I encourage you to read more about the status of her recent proposals and her position on other important issues by visiting her website.

You should also grab politics by the balls and write Senator Warren a letter yourself, urging her to run for president. As of now, she has not announced her candidacy but it is hoped that she will because she is just the lady for the job.

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Greek Corner

By EMILY BALDWIN COLUMNIST Last weekend the brothers of Beta Theta Pi participated in a philanthropy trip to Bittersweet Farm, their main philanthropic organization. The brothers enjoyed having the owner of the farm, Brian Bennett, speak on campus Wednesday night and feel honored to be able to help maintain the strong relationship between Bittersweet Farm and St. Lawrence. The brothers are working on the Men of Principle Scholarship Award, in which all non-Greek male students are eligible to apply for.

In order to raise money for the First Presbyterian Church, the sisters of Kappa Delta Sigma will host a food drive at Price Chopper this Saturday from 12-6 PM. All donations are encouraged and the sisters look forward to giving back to the local Canton community. Following this, KDS will host Brunch for

Books on Sunday in order to raise money for an elementary school in Greensboro, NC. The sisters of Kappa Kappa Gamma returned to the local soup kitchen this week to prepare and serve meals to local residents. In addition to their weekly volunteer work, the sisters are excited to begin a clothing drive and hope this will create even stronger bonds between sisters.

Chi Omega seems to have contracted the winter blues! The sisters have begun participating in outdoor challenges that encourage bonding between sisters. Philanthropy in the NoCo often includes both cold temperatures and sister bonding so Chi Omega will be fully prepared.

Follow Tri Delta on Instagram at “tridelta_betachapter” to get an inside look at Delta’s great events.

Keep your eyes on the lookout for exciting future events such as TriHop to learn about different aspects of Greek life at SLU. Greek Week 2014 is April 7th12th and is just around the corner.

We want to see everyone there, so make sure you save theses dates!

Zumba for Zachary—April 5th.

GSA Inductions/Greek Awards— April 8th. Self Defense Class—April 10th. BBQ/Pub 56 Event—April 11th. Peter Rabbit in the Park— April 12th. See you all there!

Fighting theWar onWriting

By OLIVIA WHITE CO-FEATURES EDITOR In second grade, nothing defined maturity and sophistication like learning to write in cursive. It was a skill coveted by those not educated in the art of proper handwriting (i.e. first graders) and a source of bragging rights for those who were.

In the elementary school hierarchy, cursive not only established a dividing line between grades, it separated the calligraphically enlightened from the lowly “printers.”

Yet, when I had mastered the skill and proudly wrote my name for my parents to admire, my mother scoffed at the paltriness of my script, exclaiming “that’s not what a cursive ‘W’ looks like!” and promptly demonstrating the correct form, which didn’t really resemble a “W” but boasted a number of loops and curls and looked significantly more elegant than my own. It appeared that even though the art of cursive was still being taught in elementary school, the characters had been modified to resemble printed letters and had lost much of the stylish appeal of my mother’s handwriting.

Today, cursive is rarely used and many schools across America have deemed it too archaic to include in the elementary curriculum.

For some, the discontinuation of teaching proper handwriting techniques in school symbolizes the death of an art form and, on a

greater scale, the death of writing on paper in general. The usual suspect of the slow demise of acts and “art forms” now deemed nostalgic (i.e. letter writing, print journalism) is technology. We sacrifice cursive for print writing, and print writing for typing, all in an attempt to make the act of writing and communicating quicker and more efficient.

However, studies show that young students aren’t just writing less and less in cursive; they’re writing less and less in general. Most aren’t even being taught to type correctly. Therefore, the real fear is not the death of cursive, but the death of the ability to communicate eloquently and concisely through the written word. Instead of learning to expound on original thought in essays, students are filling in blanks and bubbling in multiplechoice answers on standardized tests. This doesn’t seem to do much to enhance students’ abilities to express ideas and certainly doesn’t prepare them for the realities of college-style writing.

The solution is an argument that seems to be popping up more and more: down with standardized testing, up with more panoptic assessments of a student’s intelligence. But it’s simpler than that. Children should be encouraged to write more, in cursive, print, or otherwise, in their formative years. There’s more than the death of scrawly, looped, elegant handwriting at stake.

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Underrated Underground

By ALEXA MITCHELL STAFF WRITER On Tuesday, March 25th at 8 p.m. the Kinan Azmeh’s Cityband Quartet performed at the Underground for a group of community members and students. I had never been to the Underground, which is located below the Noble Center dance classrooms, and was pleasantly surprised to find that the room was quite large and shaped like a triangle, with cool green and blue lighting, multiple chairs, and a mini stage at the front. This fourman band from New York City included one clarinet player, one bass player, one acoustic guitarist, and one drummer/percussionist.

Drawing from their diverse backgrounds, the Cityband created an eclectic sound all their own. Two of the musicians are from the Middle East, another is from Oregon, and another from the East Coast. The band travels to perform all over, but spent the majority of their time

in the Big Apple. Their music combined their Middle-Eastern feel to their music. Their music also has roots in reggaeton, which has its foundations in Latin and Caribbean music and has been a major genre in Puerto Rico for the last decade, and merengue, a type of Dominican music and dance. These influences give the Cityband a unique sound that is built on the foundation of a strong beat layered with intricate harmonies that led to back and forth solos.

This was the band’s first time at SLU and one member mentioned that it was “such an honor and pleasure” to be here. The band also had the chance to workshop with different classes during their stay.

The Underground often hosts bands that have multi-cultural origins and inspirations, not to mention our very own SLU Funk So next time you’re looking for more diverse music, check out The Underground, located on the first floor of the Noble Center.

Turkuaz Lights Up The Night

By STEVE YARDLEY STAFF WRITER On Thursday, March 20th the roof was raised at the Java Barn. One hundred people leaving their feet and jumping with band decked in jumpsuits on the Java stage. A bleach blonde bombshell in a yellow jumpsuit and lace lingerie was belting like Aretha from her red lipstick pressed against a golden microphone. She had a sidekick in pink. Both were choreographing dance moves, busting grooves with their tambourines, and harmonizing like sirens. The whole band was jumping, and choreographing moves getting the crowd going wild. The best way to describe their music is face melting funk and soul. An endlessly entertaining show accompanied by genius light tech, and my java housemate Joshin running the sound. Its rare to find a show where everyone looks entertained by the music. There were people who were rocking so hard that they look fully immersed in it. The snack bar with juicy peppers, dip, salsa, and chips is a main attraction at Java, but damn did Turkuaz steal the show for all audiences.

There music blends funk, classic rock, blues, Motown, and R&B, leading to one breathless and sweaty crowd. It could turn Sarah Palin into a head-banging hippy.

The trumpet player simultaneously played the keyboards, while the Gibson firebird with the ginger beard and soul slammed guitar solos while smiling ear to

ear. The band chemistry was unbelievable. A perfect personality recipe with some of the tightest musical breakdowns the Java Barn has ever heard.

They played mostly all originals, but when the Talking Heads cover of “This Must Be The Place” was jammed,

Book Review: A Tale of One Sentence

By ALEX GLADWIN COLUMNIST “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,” begins Charles Dickens’ classic novel, A Tale of Two Cities (1859). The story takes place during the French Revolution, jumping between London and Paris. Many of you have read and studied this book; some might remember it as notably difficult. I think that’s entirely fair, as this book is dense.

It constantly introduces new characters and jumps between settings in a way that is at times as disorienting as the time period it portrays. But those opening lines, which continue in a sequence of apparent contradictions, illustrate the tumultuous and confusing era that swept up much of Western Europe. The duality of a world in transition is illustrated in a single poetic sentence.

But I’m not here to talk about those lines, or even most of the book. A Tale of Two Cities is not my favorite novel, but I can attribute to it my favorite line in all of literature; they are the last thoughts of Sydney Carton, a man who has wasted his life in idleness. The novel ends as Carton decides to take the place of the protagonist, Charles Darnay,

at the guillotine, rectifying his self-perceived worth.

As he approaches his death, his last thoughts—which he never gets to speak aloud or write down— conclude the novel, ending in these words: “It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”

After all the turmoil of the revolution, after the deaths of great people in a time of necessary upheaval with unnecessary losses, Dickens ends his 135,000 word novel with the unspoken thoughts of a single person. But why is it so powerful?

On a linguistic level, Dickens’ ability to manipulate language is unmatched here. The repetition of “far,” reflecting the repetitive structure of the independent clauses, creates a musical effect, one so comfortably balanced as to communicate the peacefulness washing over Carton as he accepts his fate. This effect is enhanced by the rhythm of the sentences. By carefully placing the commas, Dickens breaks up the first half of the sentence, but lets the second half flow, creating a sense of satisfaction that mimics Carton’s.

The meaning of the words, though, are not to be written off. Carton’s recognition of his sacrifice, the inimitable service he has performed for Darnay’s family, is not overstated or overwrought.

He recognizes and contextualizes the action in relation to himself, which is a deserved introspection considering his sacrifice. He has earned a desire to rest. Carton’s

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satisfaction invokes identification from the reader, a desire for an ultimate rest, the sense that an action can be so superlative in a human life that the end can be welcomed rather than feared. The ending of the book is but another kind of rest, and is thus welcomed implicitly.

Perhaps most importantly, though, this sentence encapsulates the themes running through the entire book—namely duality, which is hinted at in the title and emphasized in the opening lines. The contrast in the independent clauses stands out: the first is about his actions and the second, the calm he will yield from them. Add that to the focus of the plot, the French Revolution, and you see the calm anticipated in the wake of the violent turmoil resulting from the French people’s attempts to shed the oppression of the elite—and, in another contrast, the terrible cruelties they inflicted upon themselves as a result. By giving us an intimate moment to close off a novel shaped by turbulence, Dickens brings his themes to a point so sharp that you don’t even feel the cut, but understand that you’ve been cut none the less.

These words have left their mark and inspired me to read a little closer, write a little better, and maybe work a little harder.

A Tale of Two Cities is a long and difficult book—not to mention one that I could hardly scratch the surface of in a short article— but for all its density, it reveals the power that just one sentence can hold.

“The best way to describe their music is face melting funk and soul.” lyrics echoed all around. A group encircled me in postmidnight bliss. Turkuaz did not go underappreciated. The Java Barn erupted and every one experienced euphoria, whether they remembered it or not.

After the show, when we pick up all the trash you leave behind, the band was raving about the rocking receptive audience. Rock on Java goers, it makes the packing process at 3 o’clock in the morning all the easier. Especially for an underpaid band who crisscrosses highways coast to coast for the sake of music and friendship, not money.

Their new album Future 86 comes out in April so don’t be a fool and scoop up the funkiest thing since old school Chili Peppers. Turkuaz made the difficult transition from spring break bearable, breaking sonic boundaries and busting grooves that made St. Lawrence jive all night long.

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DOCUMENTARY SCREENING Monday, March 31st at 7pm

What makes St. Lawrence so special?

According to Maggie Sullivan ‘15’s summer research through the SLU Fellows program, it’s all about the people. Come to the Winston Room on March 31st at 7pm to watch the final Humans of SLU product--a 30 minute documentary about what exactly it means to be a Laurentian for Life!

Email Natalie Dignam, Arts & Entertainment Editor, to learn more. ngdign11@stlawu.edu

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Featured Artist: Giancarlo Filippi

PHOTO COURTESY OF GIANCARLO FILIPPI

By HANNA HAMBLEN and ALLEGRA LUCAS COLUMNISTS Giancarlo Filippi ’16 is a talented artist here at St. Lawrence who has recently been given an amazing opportunity to work with a physical laboratory theatre named Studio Matejka in Poland this summer.

The walls of his room in the Artist Guild are decorated with his artwork. Giancarlo is a confident, aspiring young Renaissance man, and a joy to chat with.

HN: What is your academic focus?

GF: Fine Arts and Performing Arts. I am a PCA major. I do all different mediums. I like doing sculpture, painting, and drawing.

I’m really versatile with mediums.

I’ve been teaching myself how to sing. I took ballet this semester.

HN: Could you tell us about being invited to work with Studio Matejka?

GF: A Polish physical dance theater came and worked with [the cast of Romeo and Juliet] for a week. At the end of the week they came up to Claude and I and said, “Look we’ve got two spots open this summer for you guys to come.

Would you be interested?” YEAH. It was a really big chance because it’s not usually something that they simply offer to college students.

Professionals have to apply to do it. Established actors or dancers or singers apply. But they literally just said, “You can come do this.” It was just like, “Wow.” Furthermore, it’s an opportunity to get cast and hypothetically be in a production in France in September.

HN: What would you being doing there?

GF: I am trying to raise money for the trip right now and I will go May 19th. They worked together for two or three years getting a lot of physical disciplines together and trying to figure out what worked and what didn’t. So this mixture of physical theater, dance, yoga, and just whatever. It’s their own conglomeration to create Studio Matejka.

HN: Have you been doing art and acting your whole life?

GF: I’ve been drawing since I was two. I did the math once and I minimally would have had to have drawn 10,00 hours at this point in my life, calculating it on the low end.

I did plays in high school and have been in a production every semester here thus far. Last semester I was in Peter’ Quigley’s SYE, “The Walk.”

It was actually recently nominated and we are going to be putting on a few scenes of it in a month or two. I was in Almost Maine and the Fringe Festival last year, put on by the Guild.

HN: What do you want to do in the future with your art?

GF: I don’t want to focus on anything. A lot of successful artists these days aren’t primarily painters or actors or dancers. They’re versatile and have the ability to move between and mix mediums.

I’ve had ideas about mixing performance and art together so I could have a one man show of a physical theater where I’m creating a piece of art in the process that’s sculptural but with painterly aspects.

HN: What are you most proud of?

GF: Getting invited by Studio Matejka [to audition in Poland].

Also I’m proud of the fact that I’ve had so little training. I did a lot of construction work with my father which has helped with my artistic ability because it’s a lot of measuring, creating, and precision.

HN: Do you have any favorite artists or do you take your inspiration from your own head?

GF: Kinda’ my own head. I studied art history a bit but not a lot.

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Second Breakfast: Muppets Most Wanted

By CHRIS MELVILLE COLUMNIST The Plot: Riding high from the success of their last movie, but fearing the fame is fleeting, the Muppets seek new managerial assistance, and find it in the conspicuous but charming Dominic Badguy (Ricky Gervais).

Meanwhile, the world’s most dangerous frog, Constantine, who happens to look exactly like Kermit except for a telltale mole, escapes from a Russian gulag, infiltrates the Muppets, and sets up Kermit to take his place back in prison, run by the fiendish, but also musically inclined Nadya (Tina Fey). Constantine and Dominic use an international Muppet tour as the front for their criminal enterprises, whilst trying to keep everyone convinced that Constantine is indeed their beloved Kermit, and avoiding the investigations of CIA agent Sam the Eagle, and Interpol agent Jean Pierre Napoleon (Ty Burrell).

Mistaken identity plots are rarely that interesting. It’s acceptable for this film, but it has become sort of a tired cliché.

That having been said, Muppets Most Wanted is pretty funny, but most of the humor is owed to the excellent songs by Bret McKenzie, who won an Oscar

for his work on The Muppets back in 2012. Given the Academy Award and his success as one half of the comedy/musical duo Flight of the Conchords, it’s no big surprise that he delivers such clever, hilarious, and catchy songs. My favorite one might be the opening song, in which the Muppets all sing about doing a sequel, but about halfway through the film there’s a half spoken/half sung interrogation number between Sam the Eagle and Ty Burrell, which is just as fabulous. Thinking back, though, the best songs are often not the really funny ones. I loved “Life’s a Happy Song” from The Muppets, but the best song was the touching, moving “Pictures in My Head.” Even in the original Muppet Movie, the best song’s “Rainbow Connection.” This movie didn’t have a “Rainbow Connection” or a “Pictures in My Head.”

I think that’s the missing factor: heart. Muppets Most Wanted lacks heart, and I think that’s at least in part because it lacks Jason Segel, who didn’t reboot the franchise because he thought it would be funny and successful, but because he loved it and missed it. That, and the plot is a little boring. They should go back to doing literary adaptations, because Muppet

Treasure Island and Muppet Christmas Carol are both so good. You know the other thing that makes those movies great? A limited, focused human cast. As a flaw, I think, this movie packed in too many celebrity cameos, including, but not limited to, Tom Hiddleston, Danny Trejo, Celine Dion, Jemaine Clement, Christoph Waltz, Tony Bennett, Lady Gaga, Zach Galifianakis, Salma Hayek, Saoirse Ronin, Usher, Chloe Grace Moretz, and Stanley Tucci. Treasure Island had Tim Curry and Christmas Carol had Michael Caine, and except for a few scattered human actors, the rest were Muppets.

Since they had so many needless cameos, there weren’t that many actual Muppets in this Muppet movie, a fact that I found rather disappointing.

Overall, I found Muppets Most Wanted a pretty entertaining viewing experience, but it didn’t quite live up to the hype, especially as a sequel to such a good movie. It had the humor, but lacked creativity, heart, and also Muppets. It’s worth watching, but maybe wait until it comes out on DVD. I guess I can’t be too let down, as Bret McKenzie includes a disclaimer in the lyrics of the opening song, “The sequel’s never quite as good.”

Moving in Stereo: Foster the People Starts “Coming of Age”

By WILL STANDISH COLUMNIST Foster the People - Supermodel Foster the People made a big, perplexingly catchy splash with the release of their 2011 debut album, Torches, and its strippeddown single “Pumped Up Kicks,” a song that will now be stuck in your head for days because I mentioned it. On Supermodels, the band’s sophomore album, Mark Foster and company aren’t comfortable resting on their established sound, eschewing much of the pared down electric pop of their debut in favor of lush arrangements and inspired instrumentation. The result is an album that dips its toes into foreign waters and experiments with new sounds, even if it’s not always completely comfortable with them.

“Are You What You Want to Be?” starts the band off in interesting new directions.

Its decidedly more guitarcentered sound and unique time signature immediately signal a departure from FTP’s familiar territory. “Coming of Age” carries the album further into new, Killers-esque frontiers with its shift of focus towards guitar, wispy electronic backing and piano powered bridge. Dreamy

and vast, the sound embodies the sense of alienation and isolation described in the song’s lyrics.

In fact, dreamy and vast are the two superlatives that seem to best describe a majority of the songs on Supermodel.

Foster seems to consciously move into more psychedelic territory on this album, such as on “Pseudologica Fantastica,” a track that would not be out of place on a Tame Impala album (whose Lonerism made my best of 2013 list). Like the Australian psych band, Foster the People combine modern trends in indie music with sensibilities and aesthetics of 60s acid and psychedelic rock. The band maintains a layer of airy distance on this album, even on their excellent disco-smacked dance song, “Best Friend.” This determination to expand into mind-bending territory ends up being both the album’s biggest strength and its recurring weakness.

Mark Foster is an incredibly solid songwriter with an ear for pop. It’s clear that Brian Wilson is a huge influence on Foster, as many of the expansive arrangements (and Foster’s falsetto singing voice) recall the former Beach Boy. But whereas

Wilson’s goal was to consciously move away from the short, punchy pop songs of his early career, Foster seems hesitant to completely let go of his pop roots. Despite a wider canvas and instrumentation, tracks such as “Ask Yourself ” don’t stray too much from the confines of standard indie pop, expanding the sound of the band, but not necessarily propelling them forward. The uniform airiness of the song also makes some of the songs occasionally seem to run together more than they should; “Goats in Trees” is an interesting acoustic track that gets a little lost in the preceding “A Beginner’s Guide to Destroying the Moon.” The songs aren’t bad, but they don’t stand out from each other much. It isn’t until the closer, “Fire Escape,” that the band truly allows the listener to get close. It’s quiet, intimate recording provides a nice contrast to the large scale of the rest of the album.

Supermodels is a collection of solid indie-pop songs that occasionally fail to stand independent of each other.

Foster the People are headed in a unique direction on Supermodels, even if their ambition doesn’t always match their larger palette.

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TUITION, FROM PAGE 1 complimented the student and faculty efforts to keep costs down. She said they have been so significant and effective, that we are doing almost all we can do. Therefore, SLU does not have as many places to reduce the costs. In the next year, the new residence hall including a café will open, the Quad will be revived, 17 lounges that were previously converted to student rooms will be restored and Herring-Cole will be renovated.

These are just few of hundreds of advancements the university will be undergoing.

Technological software licenses and travel expenses increase constantly, and in particular the Athletic department is aiming to keep their costs down by reducing game and travel costs. “We have to spend money to make money,” Mullaney said. She then explained that the spending cost is being kept as low as it can be and usually pays off in an increase in revenue by bringing in more students.

One big issue is that food costs are constantly increasing, and the global food cost is increasing at rates faster than ever before.

For example, Dana Dining Hall is reducing its ground hamburger use by only grilling them one time a day each week, as opposed to the previous twice a day, weekly. This is one of many ways dining services is contributing to reducing their total cost.

Net student revenues in 2013-2014 made up 73% of the University’s operating revenue.

The rest of the revenue comes from the endowment and gifts, which grew from 18% to 19% in the last year. The university is aiming to offset the student cost by increasing these factors.

In terms of new incoming students, the increase in comprehensive fee is accompanied by an increase in financial aid. In 2012-2013, about 40% of tuition revenues were covered by financial aid.

This increased to 42% in 20132014. This increase is possible due to the investment return from the endowment, which has increased $700,000, allowing the gift aid for incoming freshman to increase.

Lab supply costs are being held constant, all the computers on campus were replaced with energy efficient machines that has kept kilowatt levels even and reduced the cost a lot. In addition, the university has joined five other institutions to create the NY-6 which is a cumulative health insurance program and reduces the chance of increase by avoiding cost growth.

“Everyone in the campus community is pulling in the same direction,” Mullaney said. “We are all pulling our own weight to uphold SLU’s reputation and to reduce our cost waste.”

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Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Margie Strait presents at on gender equity in sports at a panel discussion Monday. More to come on the topic of women and coeducation at SLU in an upcoming issue.

Prison Reform Symposium Embraced on Campus

By GABBY WILSON STAFF WRITER Beginning the week of March 16, SLU hosted a number of events for the Prison Reform Symposium in order to raise awareness in the SLU community and shed light on the issues of the criminal justice system in the United States. Many different groups on campus such as SLU Amnesty International, the African American Studies Department, SAGA, and the Weave sponsored the Symposium with support from the Brush Art Gallery, as part of a greater goal to promote human rights and expose human rights violations worldwide. Some of the main issues addressed in the events of the Symposium were the Prison Industrial Complex, solitary confinement, and prison reform efforts. These events are meant to encourage discussion and communication among members of the SLU community and North Coun- try about northern New York’s role in each of these issues, which are not always covered in the news or media.

America currently has the highest incarceration rate in the world with five percent of the world’s total population but twenty-five percent of the world’s prison population.

According to the Pew Center, one in every thirty-one adults is behind bars, on probation, or on parole.

The Prison Industrial Complex has developed out of the massive growth in the number of private prison industries, in which State and Federal governments rely on the prison industry for jobs and use the system to improve the economy by building and running jails and prisons. Particularly in the North Country, there are currently more than a dozen state and federal prisons with the closest prison only twenty miles away.

During the first week of the Symposium, a lecture was given on Tuesday by prison reform and social justice activist Five Omar Mualimm-ak in addition to a display of his work. He spent twelve years in a New York prison and five years in solitary confinement. He currently works with “the Campaign to End the New Jim Crow” and the New York “Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement” as a community leader and prison abolition activist. On Wednesday, a Flash Seminar was also held in the Global Dialogue Center, which focused on statewide reform efforts and student activism. The following week, exhibition curator Phyllis Kornfield gave

a lecture about the artwork in the exhibition “Cellblock Visions.” The artwork in the exhibition was created by individuals who have been incarcerated in American jails and prisons from coast to coast who are serving anywhere from six months, to life without parole, to awaiting execution. One of the final events was a Gallery Prison Open Expression Event in the Brush Art Gallery at 6 pm on Thursday March 27 that allowed students from the SLU community to share their thoughts, ask a question, share a poem or other performances in order to promote reflection about the issue.

Most of the information for the background of the Prison Reform Symposium was contributed by Savannah Crowley, a senior who is one of the major contributors in the organization of the Prison Reform Symposium. She is currently completing her SYE on Prison Issues and Human Rights and has become really passionate about these matters through her Global Studies major. On explaining her position on her issue, Savannah states that “Mass incarceration affects all of us. If our country is so focused on retribution and punishment, there’s no hope for rehabilitation, trust or cooperative, healthy community building. If you can’t think about it

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any other way, then consider how much money we are sinking into surveillance, policing and punishment- the majority being for nonviolent crimes! We could be spending our tax dollars on education or health care instead.”

The next Prison Symposium event will be a “Town Hall” event in the Nobel Center on April 3 with North Country Public Radio. The producers of the program “Prison Time” will speak with other featured groups and community members in order to answer questions about the issues that are demonstrated in the Prison Symposium. The Weave, a student run alternative journalism organization, is also working on a Media Literacy Project to help reveal problems within the media regarding the publicity of these issues.

There are currently more projects in the making by student organizations that will allow the SLU community to be more informed. If students are interested in becoming more involved and learning more about the information behind the Prison Reform Symposium, meetings are held every Sunday at 2:30pm at the Global Dialogue Center. Students may also contact Savannah Crowley (smcrow10@stlawu.edu) or Allison Paludi (alpalu10@stlawu.edu) if they have any questions.

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NATIONAL RESULTS

03/25 Avalanche v. Predators, W 5-4 SO 03/25 Blues v. Leafs, W 5-3 03/26 Raptors v. Celtics, W 99-90 03/26 Cavaliers v. Pistons, W 97-96

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From Flag Football Legend to “Real” Football Hopeful The Story of Matt Geremia

By BRANDON DI PERNO STAFF WRITER

Whoa, Boy! Kevin Durant Kevin Durant has had an MVP season to say the least, making Tuesday’s performance against the Mavericks resemble a regularity from him. Durant traded baskets with Dirk Nowitzki all game.

Durant played 51 minutes, and in doing so scored 43 points, grabbed five boards, six assists, one steal and five 3-pointers. While some might argue and still back LeBron for MVP, it is impossible not to consider Kevin Durant’s crazy numbers and the fact that they are consistent.

By JOSEPH CORSO STAFF WRITER Football at the Division III level is arguably football at its purest and most beautiful form. Most of the players on the St. Lawrence football team are football lifers, continuing to play the game they love despite the fact that even for all their hours of work the great majority will receive little fame or glory. These are guys who first put on the pads in Pee Wee or Middle School and haven’t looked back since. Then there is the case of current first semester senior, Matt Geremia.

From the beginning, Geremia was destined to be an athlete.

Blessed with exceptional coordination and an uncanny ability to pick up new skills quickly, Geremia has proven to be adept in a wide assortment of sports, ranging from skiing to lacrosse.

However, where he has achieved his most notable athletic success has been on the baseball diamond.

Recruited out of Massachusetts’s Brooks Academy, Matt played his freshman year on St. Lawrence’s baseball team, where he earned a reputation as a hyper-competitive, hard-nosed ball player.

While most of his formal athletic success has come on the ball field, his real claim to fame at St. Lawrence has come on the dusty intramural soccer fields where Geremia is three-time defending flag football champion quarterback.

While undersized even for an intramural quarterback at a mere 5’8, Geremia, while wearing his trademark baggy Tom Brady jersey, has long carved up opposing defenses thanks to sound decisionmaking ability and an escapability factor that can only be described as Johnny Manziel-esque. Junior Brian Bohmert, a teammate of Geremia’s this past season on the championship squad “Peter North Stars,” praised his quarterback when asked about him saying, “Some call him TB12, some call him The Freak, while others call him Bubby. I refer to Matt Geremia as “Matty Ice,” because of his ability to constantly perform to his

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PHOTO COURTESY OF UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS Matt Geremia, pictured third from left, at the intramural football championships.

utmost ability, no matter the situation.”

Yet for Geremia, intramural football immortality isn’t enough.

He thirsts for more. As a result, the senior is seeking to become a wide receiver on the Saints football squad after never having played a down of organized football in his life.

It is natural to wonder why anyone in his right mind would want to subject himself to the physical and mental demands football provides, never having strapped on pads in his life. When asked about his decision, Geremia said, “I love football, always have. I’ve always wanted to play. I have one semester left next fall and I’m just missing that competitive edge.

Watching football over break I just thought to myself, I should do this.”

Now, a couple months into this astonishing journey, Geremia is beginning to look and sound more like a college football player. Since starting the football lifting routine, Geremia has packed on about 10 pounds of much needed muscle.

In addition, he is slowly starting to learn the intricacies of a wide receiver position that is harder to learn than any casual fan of the game could imagine.

Through the grind of spring ball, Geremia has drawn some encouraging reviews, particularly from incumbent starting quarterback, junior Mike Lefflbine. “So far he’s been a raw talent, but he has a lot of potential.” Lefflbine added that he was encouraged by Matt’s attitude and desire to improve and sees Matt having the potential to

earn himself playing time in a “few packages.”

Despite that promising endorsement, the road ahead for Geremia won’t be easy. Although he is currently practicing with the team, there are no guarantees he will be invited back once camp starts in the summer. In addition, even if he does make the team, the competition for playing time will be fierce as there are currently nine receivers on the roster, not including the incoming freshmen.

Realistically speaking, he would be lucky to play at all. Notwithstanding the fact that the odds are against him, Geremia remains unfazed. “Look, I love competing, I love sports, and I love football. It’s made me work harder then I’ve had to work in a long, long time.

And probably the biggest thing is that I’m not doing it by myself but with the whole team and all those guys.” He continued saying, “And yeah, although there’s a ton of uncertainty I might never get in a game, so far I know it’s all been worth it.”

With football season still nearly half a year away, the sport isn’t on most people’s radar at this point.

But here at St. Lawrence, just like at football factories around the country, our players are out there often before the crack of dawn, working, sweating, and preparing so they can experience the ecstasy and adrenaline game day provides, some of them for the last time. And for the rare few like Geremia, who have never put on the pads until the window is about to close, that last time will also be their first.

SCHEDULE Women’s Tennis v. Vassar Saturday, March 29th Sammis Courts @ 11:00am

Women’s Softball v. SUNY Potsdam Tuesday, April 1st Saints Softball Field @ 3:30pm

Men’s Tennis v. Vassar Saturday, March 29th Sammis Courts @ 2:00pm

Men’s & Women’s Rowing @ RIT Sunday, March 30th Rochester, NY @ 8:00am

Kevin Love The Timberwolves are at an all time low, as they are looking to miss the playoffs yet again. Nevertheless, it has not stopped superstar Kevin Love from delivering All-Star level play night in and night out. He has averaged 28.5 points over the last five games, as well as averaging double digits in rebounds and high numbers in assists. The Timberwolves may be out of sight in the west, but Kevin Love’s play remains a reason to watch their struggles.

LeBron James Injuries seem to be incapable of holding back King James, as he led the Heat to an impressive fourth quarter victory over the Trail Blazers Monday night. With Dwyane Wade out due to injury, LeBron was able to put together an impressive stat line of 32 points, 4 steals, 6 rebounds and 4 assists.

Buy Reggie Jackson With Russel Westbrook once again out of play following a knee on knee collision with Raptor’s point guard Kyle Lowry, Jackson has seen an increase in playing time and has transformed into quite the playmaker averaging 13 points and 6 assists over the last five games.

If you are looking for a point guard in your playoff run, look no further.

Joe Johnson Despite a slow start to the regular season, it finally appears as if Joe Cool has finally found his role, and as a result the Nets are surging.

Brooklyn has sported the best record in the East since January 1st and Johnson is averaging high numbers consistently for the first time all season. If you’re in need of assists as well as threes and JJ is on your waiver wire, pick him up.

Nick Young Despite a nasty injury weeks ago, Nick Young (aka Swaggy P) has finally returned to the Laker’s rotation and is averaging high minutes of playing time. If you are desperate for points, Young can contribute, however, he is an average playmaker (averaging .5 assists) and his field goal percentage is inconsistent (he has averaged .500 in his three games back). But he is a last look right now, if you really need the help.

Sell Eric Gordon Eric Gordon is suffering from acute tendinitis in his knee, and is ‘day-to-day’. There is a possibility he may come back very soon, but it is possible that better players exist on your waiver wire in the short term.

Pau Gasol Pau suffered a vertigo attack a few days ago and has not returned to Lakers rotation since. There is a possibility he returns soon, but it might be worth turning your eye to another big if you desperately need to win this week.

Kyle Korver The three point specialist has been out of commission with back injuries, and this has missed the Hawk’s latest road trip. It might be worth scouring the waiver wire at this stage in fantasy to get points quick. If you need threes, give Vince Carter a look.

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LATEST RESULTS

03/22 Women’s Tennis @ Rensselaer, W 7-2 03/22 Baseball @ Rochester (DH), W 4-3 03/22 Baseball @ Rochester (DH), L 0-3 03/25 Men’s Lacrosse v. SUNY Geneseo, W 8-7

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Lacrosse Q&A with Abigail Horan

By KRISSY DI PERNO STAFF WRITER Name: Abigail Horan Age: 22 Hometown: Medfield, MA Majors: Psychology, Art and Art History Position: Attack

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Equestrian Team Wins Regionals

By EMILY HARRINGTON STAFF WRITER As Emily Sutphen ’15 of the St. Lawrence Riding Team put it, “Five for five riders to be qualified for zones is truly unbelievable” but that is what happened on Saturday at Elsa Gunnison Appleton Riding Hall during the Zone 2 Region 2 Regional Championship Horse Show. “We have a very supportive team,” Mackenzie Alderman ’16 said in regards to the success of the five Saints riders on Saturday.

“Although only five of us competed on Saturday, the entire team worked together to make the show run very smoothly.”

The Saints will advance to the Zone Championships in Fairfield, Conn. next weekend following their stellar performance on Saturday. The competition was led

by Emily D’Allessandro ’15, who took first place in open equitation at the regional level, Alyssa Bokor ’16, who led her teammate as champion in open equitation over fences, and Regional Champion in intermediate on the flat Emma Sutphen ’15. Jessie Lewis ‘14, who will compete in novice equitation on the flat, and Mackenzie Alderman ‘16, who will compete as reserve regional champion in intermediate fences, will join their teammates in Fairfield on April 6 to continue the Saints’ impressive season thus far.

“Going into zones I know we are going to be practicing a lot and cleaning up our technique,” said D’Alessandro ’15 of the outlook for the next show. “Zones will be more stressful because we aren’t competing against people we know as well… and we are unfamiliar with the venue and the horses.”

That said, the team has the utmost confidence in their ability to meet the challenge of competing in Fairfield. “Mary [the St. Lawrence head coach] knows exactly what she has to do to prepare all of us.

She’s pretty amazing when it comes to this stressful time of year.”

Given the Saints equestrian history over the past few years and the progress they have made this season, there is little evidence to refute that fact. “We have a wonderful group of new girls who have made our success possible, as well as many committed upperclassmen…I can’t help but hope that our achievements will only continue in the following weeks!” Sutphen said in an interview, echoing the optimistic sentiment felt throughout the team.

Be sure to check in next week for results of the competition.

Men’s Lax Looks to Continue Win Streak

By JACK LYONS STAFF WRITER This past Saturday, the then 20th ranked St. Lawrence men’s lacrosse team downed Skidmore 9-6 in their home opener. Junior Tommy Hovey led the way on the offensive side for the Saints, recording a hat trick, while goalie Nick Ford ‘15 made 10 saves for the win.

SLU scored first, when Tommy Hovey scored his first goal less than four minutes into the game.

Skidmore’s Quinn Hawkins answered Hovey’s goal with his own, 5:24 later. Hovey and Skidmore exchanged goals twice more, earning him the hat trick, before Conor Healey scored with 6:51 left in the second quarter to give the Saints a 4-3 lead heading in to halftime.

SLU scored three straight goals at the opening of the second half to take a commanding 7-3 lead.

Skidmore responded by scoring two goals to pull within two. Ryan Brigham ended Skidmore’s push by winning the fourth quarter

How long have you played lacrosse for?

I’ve played lacrosse for 10 years, ever since 7th grade.

What inspired you to join the team here at SLU? I had such a great experience on PHOTO COURTESY OF UNIVERSITY my high school lacrosse team, COMMUNICATIONS I wanted to continue that. I’ve played team sports for as long as I can remember and I couldn’t imagine not being on a team.

What is your favorite memory of playing lacrosse at SLU? My favorite memories are playing outside in the spring, when we can hear the chapel bells ringing at 5 o’clock.

Did you play any other sports before committing to lacrosse?

I played soccer throughout high school and I’ve skied my whole life.

Who is your biggest fan (why)?

My parents are definitely my biggest fans. They’re my first phone call whether it’s good or bad. My dad loves talking about the technical side of sports; he has great advice and a real knowledge for sports. My mom is my free therapist. She’s always there to make sure my head and my heart are in the right places.

How do you feel lacrosse is different from other sports on campus?

I think lacrosse stands out as a sport where the men’s game is drastically different than the women’s game. Yellow cards are given to women who play the way men are actually taught and encouraged to play. The level of physical play between the two sports is very different.

What are your favorite teams to play against, and why?

Playing teams in Florida is always an exciting change of pace and scenery, but our team has a real passion for playing William Smith and Union. There’s a history to it, but the games are always intense and very close.

Do you have any big plans for this semester - bucket list fulfillments, etc?

I’ve never been to Lampson Falls, that’s definitely happening before graduation!

Do you have any superstitious pre-race rituals?

It’s not superstitious, but I’m useless until I have a cup of coffee.

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opening face-off, and running straight down the middle of the field before firing a shot past Skidmore goalie Matt Diaco, giving SLU a three goal lead.

Skidmore pulled within two of the Saints again, before Charlie Jennings sealed the win for SLU 36 seconds later.

The Saints outshot Skidmore 36-22, improving to 4-1 on the season.

On Tuesday, the Saints squared off against SUNY Geneseo at

home. They were able to escape with a victory in a very close game, 8-7. Jeremy Vautour ’16 scored the only goal of the fourth, which was enough to keep the Saints ahead.

The nationally ranked No. 16 Saints, now 5-1, head to Schenectady this weekend with a three game win streak. They get set to take on the #11 Union Dutchmen, in what should be a tremendous Liberty League battle.

How do you think your Spring Break trip helped prepare the team for lacrosse?

Our Spring Break trip had it’s ups and downs. But I think the games we played highlighted our weaknesses very well. We were able to come back with specific areas of our game to work on. We now have a more developed style of play that was missing in Florida.

What is your favorite thing to order from the pub?

Chicken pesto wrap, no tomatoes!

What are your suggestions for this weekend’s playlist?

“The Man” by Aloe Blacc.

Do you have any advice for student athletes?

Stick with it. Tomorrow’s a new day. And ask questions.