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Fordham Defeats Temple, 30-29, in Surprise Win Business School Will Expand Rams Ranked No. 21 in FCS Polls After Beating Major Opponent for First Time Since 1954 to Manhattan Campus in 2014 By CONNOR RYAN EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

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Brian Wetzel and Carlton Koonce congratulate teammate Sam Ajala after he scored the game-winning touchdown.

By DAN GARTLAND EXECUTIVE SPORTS EDITOR

In the long history of Fordham football, there may not be a win more unlikely than the one the Rams came away with in Philadelphia on Saturday afternoon, as Fordham outlasted Temple, 30-29. Temple, an FBS program that plays in the American Athletic Conference (a conference with

an automatic BCS bowl berth), actually paid Fordham to come play the game. The exact figure is not clear, but FCS teams are usually paid around $300,000 to play such games. Of course, FBS teams are usually paying for the right to embarrass a lesser opponent. However, that was not the case on Saturday. Michael Nebrich threw a desperate 29-yard touchdown pass to Sam Ajala with four seconds

University Advocates for Immigration Reform By KELLY KULTYS NEWS EDITOR

Fordham University has partnered with the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities (AJCU) to continue its ongoing efforts to support just immigration reform. Recently, the AJCU has decided to place advocating for immigration reform at the heart of its agenda. “Fordham is a member of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities,” Thomas Dunne, vice president for administration, said. “As a member institution, we have embraced immigration reform and welcome partnering with them on this important issue. There can be no dispute that the issue must be addressed, and in this issue

Opinion Page 7 City Voters Send Home Comeback Hopefuls

Arts

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An Insider’s Perspective on Rodrigue’s Coffeehouse

Sports

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Women’s Soccer Defeats Vermont 3-0

universities have their role to play.” In June, the U.S. Senate passed its Immigration Reform Bill, also known as the DREAM Act, which outlined a path to citizenship for approximately 11 million undocumented citizens. “Many of whom are students, who through no fault of their own, find themselves living in this country undocumented,” Dunne said. The DREAM Act, an acronym for Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors, is a bill first proposed by Senators Dick Durbin and Orrin Hatch on Aug. 1, 2001. The bill would allow immigrant students to apply for permanent residency. A student must meet certain requirements, including graduating from a U.S. high school, arriving in the U.S. as a minor and living in the U.S. continuously for at least five years prior to the bill’s enactment. “DREAMers” who go to college or serve in the U.S. military can also become eligible for U.S. citizenship. Additionally, the DREAM Act would eliminate a federal provision that penalizes states that provide in-state tuition without regard to immigration status. The bill passed the Senate with a vote of 68 to 32. All Democrats in the Senate voted in favor of the bill along with 14 Republicans. Right now, the bill awaits a vote SEE IMMIGRATION, PAGE 3

left to tie the game at 29 and Michael Marando converted the extra point to put Fordham ahead. It was the first time Fordham had beaten a major college football team since 1954. “It’s a tremendous accomplishment for our kids and our coaches and our school,” Fordham head coach Joe Moorhead said. “We told them to expect success this week. They came out and fought.” SEE FOOTBALL, PAGE 19

The Gabelli School of Business (GSB) will expand next fall to include a small undergraduate program at Fordham’s Lincoln Center Campus in Manhattan, marking the end of a planning process that has spanned nearly two decades, a University statement confirmed last week. Students enrolled in the program will pursue a Bachelor of Science in global business, and will focus on one of four subject concentrations: digital media and technology; global finance and business economics; management, with a focus on health care; and marketing with a focus on consumer insight. GSB at Lincoln Center will begin with an inaugural class of 50 freshmen next year, according to the statement. There will be no sophomore, junior or senior programs until that freshman class advances. By the 2017-18 academic year, administrators expect to have a

full-range of student levels enrolled in the business program. Donna Rapaccioli, dean of GSB, says she looks forward to offering students a wide variety of course options in the city. “This program will provide a values-based business education that has a liberal arts focus,” Rapaccioli said in an email. “Having a site in midtown Manhattan will attract attention to our undergraduate business program in general, which carries benefits that will accrue to Rose Hill and Lincoln Center students, alike.” Nevin Kulangara, GSB ’15 and the vice president of GSB for Rose Hill’s United Student Government, says the new program will make Fordham’s business school more competitive among others in the area. “Manhattan is really the business hub of the world, so it makes sense for the Gabelli School to take this step,” Kulangara said. “I think having this other option for students will help us compete with NYU’s Stern School of BusiSEE GABELLI, PAGE 2

Enterprising Student Plots Security Alerts Online

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Creator Randy Clinton transformed crimes into points based on location and victims’ gender — females: red, males: blue.

By KELLY KULTYS NEWS EDITOR

Today many students ask themselves “what is the point of this class?” But one student, Randy Clinton, FCRH ’14, was determined to take what he used in the classroom and apply it to his life. That is how tent20.com was born back in January 2013. “I started to get nervous that I wasn’t learning enough or that I didn’t know how to do the things I was learning,” Clinton said. “I wanted to prove to myself that I could take the things I was learning and demonstrate it.” One of Clinton’s main goals with the website is to take complicated or frightening data and to

simplify it into a chart or graph. His most recent project involved creating a map of reported crimes in the Fordham area since January 2013. “I’m actually getting ready to sign a lease for an apartment up here and I hadn’t lived up here before,” Clinton said, “so as I was going through [the process], people were saying ‘oh that’s a bad part, that’s a bad area to live’ and I thought that was absurd.” Clinton decided to do some investigation of his own to see if the area surrounding Fordham was really as bad as some believe it is. “I noticed all those emails [students] get, those security blasts that come in like clumps which make it seem like there’s some

rapid crime spree going on,” Clinton said. “And again, I thought that was absurd. I was getting emotionally attached to seeing a bunch of them come in at once. You don’t think about them on the days you don’t get them.” Clinton believed that receiving all of the security alert emails, which seemed to flood students’ inboxes, especially after the weekend, gave students feelings of apprehension at all times. He was curious about how often incidents, such as iPhone robbery, occurred in the surrounding area. “I figured that if those were all the security reports just out there, I could gather the data and SEE CRIME, PAGE 3

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SECURITY BRIEFS Sept. 9 Belmont Ave. 1 p.m. A burglary occurred at an offcampus apartment inhabited by eight Fordham students, on Sept. 9, but the incident was not reported until a day later. One resident left the apartment at about 10 a.m. and returned around 1 p.m. to find that $80 in cash and two laptops had been taken. The door had been left unlocked. NYPD was notified and the investigation is ongoing. Sept. 12 Hughes Ave. 11 p.m. A female Fordham student was walking alone on Hughes Ave., near 189th street. A car pulled up to her, and the male driver pointed to her bag and asked what she had inside. The student fled to a store on the corner of 189th Street where she told a worker to call 911. The perpetrator ran back to his vehicle and fled. NYPD responded, but did not find the driver. Sept. 14 189th Street 1 a.m. A male student was walking alone on 189th Street when he was accosted and robbed of $40. The student suffered cuts on his head, right knee and right elbow, and was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital where he was treated and released. The student was unable to recall what his attackers looked like or where exactly he had been robbed. Police investigation is ongoing. Sept. 15 189th and Belmont Ave. 12:50 a.m. Police were notified of a loud party at an off campus apartment, and responded to break it up. While the police were at the scene, a fight broke out between two students at the party. Another student intervened, was hit in the side of the face with a bottle and was subsequently treated at St. Barnabas for a cut over his left eye. Sept. 15 Bathgate and Washington Ave. 12 p.m. A female student was walking on the north side of Fordham Road, holding a iPhone in her hand. A man approached her from behind, snatched the phone and fled. The student notified police, but the phone has not been found. —Complied by Katie Meyer, Assistant News Editor

Thursday Sept. 19 Volunteer and Internship Fair Edward’s Parade, 10:30 a.m. The fair, organized by the Dorothy Day Center, will include representatives from various community service organizations and companies, who are available to provide more information for students interested in becoming more actively involved.

September 18, 2013

Lhota Dominates GOP, De Blasio Ekes Out 40 Percent By KRIS VENEZIA STAFF WRITER

For some Fordham students, Sept. 10 was a typical Tuesday with class, dinner at Panda Express and a night out on the town. But for some Bronx residents, the day featured a trip to the polls as they cast their ballots for new lawmakers. The community had plenty of options for the City Council position in the area, as Joel Rivera is stepping down from his seat in District 15. This left a battle for the Democratic spot amongst Ritchie Torres, Cynthia Tompkins, Joel Rivera (no relation to the current City Councilman), Joel Bauza, Raquel Batista, Albert Alvarez and Kenny Agosto. 24-year-old Ritchie Torres emerged the winner, with roughly 36 percent of the vote. According to Torres’ campaign website, he grew up in the Bronx and has been working for City Councilman James Vacca as his housing director. Torres will now run against Joel Rivera in the general election. Rivera finished second in the Democratic primary with about 21 percent of the votes. Rivera switched from the Democratic to Republican party in order to gain poll site jobs, a move that the New York Daily News reports may be illegal. As it stands now, Rivera will be on the ballot come November against Torres. Local Bronx voters did not just vote for the next City Council member last Tuesday; they also cast their ballot for the next mayor. The Republican side featured a fairly easy victory for Joe Lhota over John Catsimatidis. Lhota is the former chairman of the New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA).

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Lhota and de Blasio won the primary mayoral elections, representing the Republican and Democratic parties respectively.

The Democratic primary was unclear as Bill de Blasio emerged the winner on Tuesday over Bill Thompson with about 40 percent of the vote. A candidate in the mayoral primary would need more than 40 percent to prevent a run-off election. Earlier in the week, it looked like the Brooklyn public advocate would have to square off against Bill Thompson in a run-off election on Oct. 1. Thompson was very clear after primary day that he did not intend to back down until all the votes were accounted for. However, as the popularity for de Blasio continued to grow, Thompson eventually conceded the race. Now it is officially de Blasio versus Lhota come November. Now, other former Democratic mayoral candidates, such as Christine Quinn, are throwing their sup-

port behind de Blasio. Despite all of these twists and turns, however, lies the question — how interested are Rose Hill students? Well, some said they are not losing any sleep over these tight races. Martin McCormack, FCRH ’15, lives in New York City year-round. He said having a new councilman in the area does not change his opinion of the community. “It doesn’t really affect me because I don’t feel very attached to New York City politics,” McCormarck said, “But good for him.” Luigino Alosco, GSB ’15, had a similar opinion to McCormack. Alosco said New York City politics do not take up too much of his time, but he has paid attention to the mayoral race. “I don’t care very much,” Alosco said. “I’m just a student here, but I’m intrigued about it with all

the weird storylines like Anthony Weiner.” The intense media coverage of Weiner’s personal life in recent months made him a household name and made his campaign one of the most closely followed. However, he failed to live up to the hype that he garnered early in his candidacy, ultimately becoming a non-factor in the later stages of the election. Alosco also said he believes he knows who will be the next mayor of New York City. “I think de Blasio’s going to win because he has the people’s support, and the other candidates seemed too attached to Bloomberg,” Alosco said. “de Blasio seems to have the voice of the people.” The general election date for New York City is Nov. 5, so voters have a little less than two months to decide for whom to cast their ballot.

Twenty Year Plan Comes to Fruition at Lincoln Center FROM GSB, PAGE 1

MIKE DOBUSKI / THE RAM

The Gabelli School of Business will be open at both campuses starting Fall 2014.

ness for the best students.” Considering Fordham’s business education as a whole, Rapaccioli said students looking to pursue accounting, finance and marketing will find stronger programs at Rose Hill. Students interested in health care, consumer anthropology, global business and digital media, however, will find those classes at Lincoln Center. “There will be two campuses, yes, and different academic concentrations in each, but I want to stress that we will be one community and one

school,” she said. But, Kulangara is aware of the schism within Gabelli that may be a result of the new program’s installation. “The challenge that will arise from this is avoiding a sense of separation between Gabelli at Lincoln Center and Gabelli at Rose Hill,” he said. Rapaccioli will speak about the new program during a town hallstyle meeting on Sept. 23 at 5 p.m. in the McGinley Center Ballroom at Rose Hill. Katie Meyer contributed reporting.

This Week at Fordham Friday Sept. 20 Harlan Cohen Speech Keating 1st, 7 p.m.

Saturday Sept. 21

Monday Sept. 23

Fordham vs. Columbia Homecoming Game

The Conversion of Saint John XXIII

Jack Coffey Field, 1 p.m.

Lowenstein Center, 6 p.m.

New York Times best-selling author and nationally renowned advice colThe Fordham Center on Religion The homecoming football game will umnist Harlan Cohen will be discussand Culture is hosting a forum which kickoff after some entertainment by ing words of wisdom for handling delves deeper into the legacy of Pope the Fordham band, cheerleaders and different aspects of college life, relaJohn XXIII and explores how he rethe Ram mascot. At the tent on Edtionships and parenting in the future. defined the papacy for a new era. The ward’s Parade, complimentary food, He previously authored the book, forum questions whether Pope Fransoft drinks and low-priced alcohol The Naked Roommate. cis is indeed his natural successor. will be served with proper ID. For more campus events, visit FordhamRam.com

Tuesday Sept. 24 The Role of Namibia in U.S. - Africa Relations Flom Auditorium, 2:30 p.m. Sponsored by the graduate program in International Political Economy and Development (IPED), Honorable Utoni Nujoma, Namibia’s minister of justice and former minister of foreign affairs, will discuss the role of Namibia in U.S.-African relations

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Widespread, Late Night Crimes Highlight Map FROM CRIME, PAGE 3

put it into a map,” he said. “I really wanted to do something with geo-mapping.” Geo-mapping is defined as an up-and-coming visual representation of data. It is very interactive for the user, allowing him or her to click on each individual piece of data to learn more information. Clinton explains that Google makes it very easy to translate data into maps. He began compiling a spreadsheet of information from the security reports, and then translated it through Google’s workflow into a geo-map. The result of Clinton’s work was a map of the Fordham area with red and blue dots, representing women and men respectively, placed exactly where the crimes took place. “I was curious to see if they all occurred in one area, but it seemed that they were rather spread out, ” Clinton said. Clinton sorted the data into graphs showing the percentage of crimes that happened to men versus women. An additional graph displayed the times the incidents most frequently occurred. “It kind of proved what I thought I was going to see,” Clinton said. “People who aren’t from this area walk around at 1 o’clock in the morning with a fancy phone out and get robbed, but if you’re just kinda walking around during the day, it’s not that bad.” Clinton did say, however, that he was surprised how the crimes were almost split evenly between men and women. “I was assuming at first that it would be mostly be a bunch of girls that looked vulnerable that stood out, and all of a sudden someone would take advantage of them.” Still, there are a few flaws with the map that prevent it from giving a perfect picture of what happens off campus. “It’s not comprehensive because it relies on a number of fallacies to get the information,” he said. “You need the person who was the victim of the crime to report it to campus security. I mean if I got robbed, I would call the police, but would I call campus security? They’re not going to do anything at the time.” The number of crimes listed is only based off of those documented through Fordham, not the entire number committed. “[As of Sept. 15], there have been 22 incidents this calendar year, but that doesn’t mean 22 students got robbed,” he said. “That means 22 students reported it to campus security.” Despite the fallacies, Clinton said this was one of his most popular posts on his website. “I got a lot of people that were interested in seeing it,” he said. In the future, Clinton definitely hopes to use geomapping with more intricate data, such as translating a 35 page military document into an easy-to-read chart and graph.

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FORDHAM IN THE BRONX

Fordham’s Bronx Home a Boon to Service, Justice Opportunities

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Fordham’s volunteer fair gives students a chance to make a difference with NYC community service organizations.

BY JEFFREY COLTIN BRONX CORRESPONDENT

The Bronx will enter Rose Hill’s gates Thursday afternoon with the annual volunteer fair. Nearly 50 community organizations will be looking for Fordham students to volunteer in the Bronx and across New York City. They’ll entice Fordham students with free pens, stickers and candy, in hope that it will be enough to get some Rams to hear about their organization. The variety of service opportunities for students is almost as diverse as the Bronx itself. There’s JumpStart if you want to teach preschoolers, South Bronx United if you want to play soccer and tutor younger students and LIFT — The Bronx if you want to connect New Yorkers with housing and employment resources [V. 94, I. 21]. “There are a lot of service opportunities very close [to campus] in the Bronx,” Manny Caballero, PCS ’15, said. “You wouldn’t find the diversity of service opportunities [somewhere else], especially considering that so many opportunities are within a 10-15 minute walk.” Caballero works at Fordham’s Dorothy Day Center for Service and Justice, which organizes the volunteer fair. Caballero said he “continually fell into service” after coming to Fordham and has worked most with College Access, a program that brings Bronx high school students to Rose Hill to guide them through the college application process. Fordham’s location in the Bronx

gives students countless opportunities for service and community organizing. According to a 2013 NYU report, the combined Belmont/East Tremont neighborhood that lies just south of Rose Hill has the highest poverty rate (43 percent) and the highest unemployment rate (21 percent) in all of New York City. The borough as a whole has a very large immigrant population — according to the US Census Bureau, one in three Bronxites is foreignborn. Much of that population must deal with the legal, employment and assimilation issues that come with being an immigrant — all while dealing with a language barrier. Still, the Bronx is more than just statistics. “We have a lot to learn from the Bronx,” Sandra Lobo-Jost, FCRH ’97, GSSS ’04, the director of the Dorothy Day Center, said. “Its history, its beauty in culture, music and art and its people who literally come from all over the world contribute to its diverse heritage.” One student who is learning from the Bronx is Meredith Lukas, FCRH ’15. Lukas is a part of the Dorothy Day Center’s Community Organizing Group. This year they are partnering with other schools to help push immigration reform — and Fordham’s location is the perfect place for that. “We have this great opportunity to work in a community where there are a lot of immigrants,” Lukas said. “And there are a couple service opportunities that we have

to be able to humanize in order to get a face and a name to the issue.” So would the Dorothy Day Center be the same if Fordham were in suburban Long Island instead of the Bronx? Lobo-Jost said the Dorothy Day Center could exist in any community. “There is, however, no doubt,” she continued, “that our work is unique given that we are located in the Bronx and that we have created partnerships with organizations with which we have worked alongside to better our mutual community.” Many of these partnerships go back a long way. Lobo-Jost said that in the peak days of the “Bronx is Burning” era in the mid-’70s, Fordham University collaborated with local clergy and residents to encourage investment back in the borough. She said it was out of this work that Fordham built relationships with community partners throughout the Bronx. Lobo-Jost said that same idea of collaboration informs the Center’s relationships with community partners to this day. It focuses on creating “mutually beneficial relationships” as a way to serve “alongside residents of the Bronx” and not patronize those same residents. There is still room to grow. Caballero said he feels “like Fordham hasn’t integrated itself in the Bronx, New York” — but he is still grateful to Fordham for giving him opportunities in social justice. “I’m thankful to God I’m here,” he said, “because I see the world in a whole different way now.”

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Service opportunities include tutoring children, aiding immigration reform and helping New Yorkers find employment.

Letter Campaign, Sermons, to Aid University’s Goal FROM IMMIGRATION, PAGE 1

from Congress to pass. “Our main goal is [to] have the Congress pass the Senate bill on immigration reform,” Dunne said. This movement to support immigration reform began even before the bill passed the Senate. As early as April 2010, Rev. Joseph M. McShane, S.J., president of the University, in partnership with Cornell University, signed a letter asking the New York congressional delegation to support the proposed DREAM Act in Congress. In June 2011, Dunne presented on behalf of Fordham in front of the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees and Border Security, describing the University’s support for the reform bill. Most recently, in May, McShane and the president of the AJCU wrote to Congress asking for compassionate legislation in regard to immigration reform involving students. Right now, Fordham is attempting to get its students to support this particular legislation for other students. According to Fr. Phil Florio, S.J., associate vice president of mission and ministry, the University is beginning a time of lobbying its campus members to join their stance on immigration reform. “We’re advocating young people to raise the issue,” he said. The Office of Mission and Ministry and Campus Ministry has partnered with the Dorothy Day Center for Service and Justice to create a postcard campaign on campus. Students who want to get involved and feel strongly about the issue have the chance to write a postcard to Congress, explaining their stance and supporting fair and just legislation. This initiative has also received backing from Fordham’s government relations department and McShane’s office. Also this week, students who attend the 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. masses can expect to hear the topic discussed during Florio’s homilies. Florio said his goal is to advocate for peace and justice in the process moving forward as well as to raise awareness among students about the importance of immigration reform. Dunne recognized that the issue of immigration is hotly contested throughout the country and acknowledged that not everyone agrees with the University’s vocal stance. “Backlash is a strong word,” Dunne said. “Having said that, we do not anticipate any antagonistic reaction to our support of immigration reform.” Still, Dunne and the rest of the offices believe this is an important issue that the University must continue to back. “We, at Fordham, honor our immigration past and recognize its future,” he said. Canton Winer contributed reporting.

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September 18, 2013

Lack of Funding Blocks New Chapel’s Opening By EDDIE MIKUS STAFF WRITER

The New York Jesuit Province is dividing the Saint Ignatius Retreat House at Inisfada, a historic 87-room mansion, which has been in its care since 1937. Fordham University is set to receive one of the main chapels from the retreat house. “It has been taken down in pieces,” Monsignor Joseph Quinn, university vice president of Mission and Ministry, said of the chapel, which is known as Saint Genevieve’s. “It’s probably, maybe twice the size of this room. But it was very intricate handwork, woodwork that was put together in the artistic fashion, and the duty we have right now is to preserve it in its appropriate state and that’s what we’re doing,” Quinn said, comparing the size of the chapel to the size of his office in the administration building. The University will preserve the chapel but does not have immediate plans to reconstruct it. Quinn said that the University would hold the chapel in storage for the time being. “Ultimately, we hope it will be used as a chapel,” Quinn said. “However, at the present moment, there are no defined plans to do so.” According to Quinn, the chapel was an unexpected surprise for the University, which is why there currently are no plans in the works. “When it is undertaken, it will

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Fordham will be receiving a main chapel of the Saint Ignatius Retreat House.

be only if there is a donor’s gift,” Quinn said. “This was an unexpected but welcomed gift. Currently, there are no plans to construct a chapel or to create a new Saint Genevieve’s Chapel. We will do so only when a gift is received, and it will be funded totally by that.” Quinn also detailed the history between the Brady family and the Society of Jesus. “Genevieve and Nicolas Brady were very devout Catholics,” Quinn said. “At the time of her death, that home, which was their country mansion, was given as a gift to the Jesuits, and for 75 years it was honored as such, used as such, revered as such.” The mansion is also significant in the history of the American Catholic Church. A New York

Times article published in July stated that the chapel hosted Masses celebrated by Pope Pius XII, when he was Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli. Pacelli stayed at Inisfada when he visited the United States three years prior to his coronation. He officially became pope in 1939. Quinn noted that since a future Pope once said Mass in Saint Genevieve’s Chapel, that could have a significant impact on Fordham’s decision to reconstruct it or not. “There will be people who would come just to see this piece of history, to partake in it, to pray in it, and it would be, I think, a very active site,” Quinn said. However, Inisfada’s historical character has also made its closing controversial. The New York

Times article reported that the Council of Greater Manhasset Civic Associations is conducting an effort to preserve Inisfada and is concerned that a new owner could demolish the building. Quinn said that the controversy over closing the house was overblown and not reflective of the changing and challenging times in which the Church and the New York Jesuit Province find themselves. “I would say that is an unfair review,” Quinn said when asked about the opposition that closing the retreat house has ignited. “I think the Jesuits should be applauded for what they did for 75 years. They’re simply facing the reality of changing times.” He proceeded to detail several specific challenges that the Jesuits are facing with regards to maintaining the retreat house. “The whole practice of retreats in the United States has changed,” Quinn said. “The demographics among the Catholic population have changed. The practice of retreats and the appeal of them as they were utilized throughout the greater part of the twentieth century have changed. All these changes have necessitated the need to look at things in a new way, which has always been the history of the Jesuits, never fearful to make decisions in light of new times, new challenges, new opportunities.” Fordham administrators provided no official word as to how the University plans to utilize the house in the future.

An Inside Look at a Converted Triple By SAMANTHA BANELLIS CONTRIBUTING WRITER

At any university, incoming freshmen will have a variety of anxieties about beginning their collegiate journey, ranging from worrying about their future GPA to wondering if the campus food will actually be as bad as the rumors make it out to be. For the soon-to-be Fordham student, there is another worry to be added to that list — the threat of placement in a forced triple. Even though these rooms come with a reduced housing cost, not enough students opt for them voluntarily, causing many freshmen to be placed in triples against their will. Forcing these residents to live in such close quarters may seem ridiculous to some, but Fordham really has no choice. Each year, more and more students choose to enroll, causing a housing shortage. With the freshman class increasing in size year after year, an obvious strain is placed on the limited first-year housing. Fordham’s Office of Residential Life has no immediate fi xes to this issue other than what they are presently doing — creating triples. For those who have not experienced living in one of these rooms firsthand, the whole situation probably seems extremely undesirable. But, what is living in one of these converted triples actually like?

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While they may wish they had the space afforded by a double, most students can successfully adjust to life in a triple.

In most cases, two of the beds are bunked and the third is lofted. Many rooms have a ladder or two, taking up even more of the small amount of floor space that the room has to begin with. The residents of the room are forced to split two closets between the three of them. This setup could prove to be even more inconvenient in Martyrs’ Court, which has the smallest rooms at 11 feet by 16 feet. “It’s a pretty cramped space for three girls…we have a lot of stuff in a small room,” Maggie Senft, FCRH ’17, said. Although it may seem surprising to some, many students have

actually had an extremely positive experience living in a triple. Elena Meuse, FCRH ’16, cites a lack of privacy as being the only downside for her. Not having much alone time does, however, seem to foster an enriching sense of community among the residents. “It was actually more fun because there was a group of three people instead of just two,” Meuse said. For the new freshmen nervous about forging relationships, their transition can be made easier by having an additional built-in friend. These freshmen are able to make a multitude of connections

they would not make otherwise, allowing them to expand their web of friends earlier in the year. “You definitely meet a lot more people because you’re introduced to many new friends through your roommates,” Veronica Figueras, GSB ’16, said. So, is living in a converted triple really that bad? Despite what many may think, these residents were able to overcome their less-thanideal living situation to find the silver lining. When asked if, knowing what she knows now, she would choose to live in a triple again, Meuse said that she definitely would.

RHA Holds General Board Elections By MARIA PAPPAS STAFF WRITER

This week, all Fordham students who live on campus will have the chance to vote for the general board of the Residence Hall Association for each building. The potential board members announced their candidacy late last week and have been campaigning. In each residence hall, the board members (president, vice president, treasurer, secretary and programmer) act as representatives for the residents. They also work to bring activities to the students in their residence halls with help from the buildings’ staff. Students who lived on campus last year have an idea of some of the events that were put on, and many want those events to continue to flourish in the future. Kristin O’Grady, FCRH ’16, enjoyed the events that she attended in Alumni Court South, where she lived last year. “My favorite South RHA events were the midnight breakfasts before midterms and finals ... taking a break to eat breakfast with our friends made the studying a little better,” she said. She also expressed high expectations for the upcoming year in O’Hare Hall. “I expect that RHA will have similar programs that will help all the residents bond with old friends and meet new friends,” O’Grady said. Students new to Fordham hold similar expectations for their RHA boards. “I want to see better ideas and communication of the events and program ideas going on in my res hall ... fliers don’t always do the trick; perhaps emails [would help],” Matt Manzione, FCRH ’17, said. His desire for more communication from Residential Life is one that many students share, including Loschert resident Andrew Freire, FCRH ’17. Freire said that he would like the RHA board “to keep us well informed about what’s going on, both in and outside the dorm.” With better communication between the RHA board and the residents, the residents would have a better chance to attend these events. The RHA representatives can communicate with the students in their residence halls at general board meetings, which students are invited to attend. At these meetings, the board works with students by telling them about upcoming events and listening to them. Through these interactions, board members learn of the students’ concerns, expectations and opinions on how residence halls and policies can be improved for the future. Each building’s board then works with the RHA executive board and Fordham’s staff and administration in order to share student opinions and bring any ideas that they have to fruition. The elections are taking place on Tuesday, Sept. 17 and Wednesday,

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Fordham’s Youngest Teammate Gets Hero’s Welcome Football Team Adopts a New Team Member, Jonah Shainberg, a 12-year-old Cancer Survivor and New York City Native for the Rest of the 2013 Season By KELLY KULTYS NEWS EDITOR

Twelve-year-old cancer survivor Jonah Shainberg is an avid football fan, who this past Thursday, scored a touchdown for his adopted team. Last week, the Fordham football team adopted Jonah as a teammate for the 2013 season through the Friends of Jaclyn Foundation. According to Joshua Shainberg, Jonah’s father, being a part of this team is the dream of a lifetime for his son. “[ Jonah] was psyched,” Shainberg said. “He loves football. We just found out before we came to the Nova game and he was like ‘Dad, when are we coming?’” The Friends of Jaclyn Foundation said the pairing could not have been better. “We try to pair teams up locally, so we saw he was right by Fordham,” Katie Johnson, adoption coordinator for the Foundation, said. The Friends of Jaclyn Foundation began in 2004 with a mission to help children and their families suffering with brain tumors to get the best quality of life possible. The Foundation pairs children with college and high school teams to give them an additional new family for support. The whole concept started with nine-year-old Jaclyn Murphy, who benefited from becoming an ad-

opted team member of the Northwestern women’s lacrosse team. Johnson also said this is probably one of the quickest adoptions the organization has ever seen. Usually the whole process takes a few weeks for everyone to answer their emails and get back in touch with the foundation. “With Fordham, it took about a day,” she said. Michelle DeIeso, the executive director for the foundation, pointed to Fordham’s history for the adoption’s rapid success. “We knew how good working with this team was from their work with Ty [Campbell],” DeIeso said, referencing Fordham’s adopted teammate from last year. Shainberg said that his family was actually visiting the Botanical Gardens when they got the phone call. He said his son, a New York City native, had a grin on his face for the rest of their trip that day. Jonah finally got the chance to watch some football at Fordham’s final practice before their game against Temple this past weekend. Head coach Joe Moorhead closed out his main practice with a team huddle before sending his first string offense and defense back out onto the field with just a player short on the offense. Moorhead then signaled to the sideline for Jonah to come out to the offensive huddle. Moorhead and quarterback Mi-

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Fordham football captains presented Jonah with his own locker, full of Fordham apparell and a signed football.

chael Nebrich, FCRH ’15, filled him in on the play. Jonah lined up at running back and received the handoff from Nebrich. Within seconds, Jonah was off racing for the endzone and beating a few defensemen along the way. After he scored, his teammates raced after him and lifted him onto their shoulders, carrying him into the locker room. There he received his very own locker complete with Fordham gear, such as a signed football by the team and new football appar-

el. Afterwards, Jonah had the honor of leading the team breakdown. The team then accompanied Jonah and his father for a team dinner in the Marketplace. Moorhead also gave Jonah an exclusive look into the team film room, showing him the process of breaking down tape to prepare for a game. Jonah was just six years old when he was diagnosed with a brain tumor. He had to undergo numerous surgeries for approximately two years. Doctors were able to remove

the tumor, but all of the stress from the surgeries caused Jonah to have a stroke, which weakened his entire right side. Currently, Jonah attends physical therapy to help strengthen his body. Right now, though, Jonah is focused on being the team’s newest Ram. Shainberg agreed this is a great season to be a part of the program. The Rams currently have a 3-0 record for the first time in 25 years after upsetting FBS opponent Temple just two days after Jonah’s adoption ceremony.

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By JOSEPH VITALE OPINION EDITOR

Following a last-minute frenzy of campaign sprints and saunters in the Big Apple, a number of selfproclaimed “comeback kids” had their dreams of regaining public office shot down last week. As many Democratic winners move forward in the election process, former congressman Anthony Weiner and former governor Eliot Spitzer now find themselves creeping back into the shadows of New York City politics. Joining these men are Vito Lopez and Micah Kellner, two candidates who were unwelcome in their respective districts’ city councils. These four candidates share the now-cursed mark of sexual scandal in an overwhelmingly Democratic city. Weiner, who most notoriously sent young women pictures of his, well, I think we all know by now, finished with five percent of the vote in the Democratic primary. Meanwhile, Spitzer, who resigned as governor when his involvement in a prostitution ring was uncovered, lost the race for comptroller by a slight margin. Vito Lopez and Micah Kellner, who were both under investigation for sexually harassing employees, were defeated in local city council elections by decisive margins as well.

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Anthony Weiner and Eliot Spitzer were recently defeated in New York City’s primaries, following controversial campaigns.

According to The New York Times, exit polls following the Democratic primary race showed three out of every four New Yorkers holding an unfavorable view of Mr. Weiner. The same poll showed that a little under half of all voters in the primary held a negative view of Spitzer. Each of these candidates, for better or for worse, found themselves campaigning in a city of opportunity. While a great deal of city voters wanted to deny them of that opportunity, just as many were willing to give them a second chance. They were given a fair run by the people of the city, carried on the backs of the city’s newspaper and tabloids. Fol-

lowing their loses, it seems bizarre to recall the weeks during which Weiner led the pack of Democratic candidates. It still is shocking that Spitzer lost by only four percentage points. Their results, however, paled in comparison to their respective rivals. For Weiner, running against similarly-positioned candidates with more modest backgrounds proved detrimental to his campaign. Bill de Blasio snagged more than 40 percent of the electorate, enough to bypass a run-off with second-place candidate Bill Thompson. Spitzer, who campaigned against Current Manhattan Borough Presi-

dent Scott Stringer, was left out to dry by most voters. His past denied him many key demographics in the city, including Catholic and Jewish voters as well as female voters. As it turns out, they were just looking for an honest worker for the discreet job of City Comptroller. But they came so far. Winning nearly half of New York City voters is no poor showing for Spitzer and Weiner still attracted more voters than Republican nominee Joe Lhota. They both made the front pages and were stars of articles in publications from The Daily News to Politico. So are New Yorkers crazy? Or are we stupid?

Or are Weiner and Spitzer just a little lucky? In New York, liberal comes in many shapes and forms. But for the most part, New Yorkers are people who can tolerate more than the average city-dweller. New Yorkers see people of different colors, speaking different languages and worshipping different gods. In subways, schools and everywhere in between, we see people dressed in clothes inspired by cultures around the world. What New Yorkers have seen surpasses the American norm. Most New Yorkers, for the most part, are not so willing to judge one another so easily. A New Yorker’s attitude is a combination of courtesy, honesty and self-awareness. Living in the most diverse city in the world, we transcend such petty intolerance. To breach this unspoken code of acceptance would make us vulnerable to our own shortcomings. New Yorkers are neither crazy nor stupid. We are just a bit more tolerant when it comes to mistakes. It is a refreshing dose of humanness in a political system run by liars and cheaters. Be it a few lurid photos (okay, a lot of lurid photos) or some involvement in a prostitution ring (okay, $80,000 worth), we have all been there in some way or another. Right? Joseph Vitale, FCRH ’16, is a political science and English double-major from Staten Island, N.Y.

Without Limited Intervention, Syrian Bloodshed Will Increase By ANTHONY CARL STAFF WRITER

In lieu of the recent drama regarding the crisis in Syria, the United States has been issuing a collective sigh of relief for the lessened prospect of continued military action in the Middle East. The American people view Assad’s agreement to relinquish chemical weapons to Russia as a victory. The truth of the matter is these recent political developments are a victory for Assad, who walks away unpunished after using chemical weaponry and who will continue the brutal slaughter of his own people by means of conventional weaponry. The international community as a whole must realize that this conflict will drag on and be even bloodier if we do not support the rebels militarily and strategically. Many Americans have skeptical support for the Syrian opposition due to a sense of uncertainty, and a “devil we know is better than the devil we do not know” way of thinking has proven itself to be popular. We must realize that this is not and cannot be an option. The “devil” in question is not one man but two: Bashar al Assad and his father Hafez al Assad. This despotic dynasty has ruled Syria for the past 40 years and has been oppressive and bloody at all times. Arguably more ruthless than his son, Hafez is infamous for the 1982 Hama Massacre, where he ordered the killing of over 40,000 Syrians in the city of Hama over the course of 28 days. Bashar, who took power after his

father’s death in 2000, has merely continued this legacy of bloodshed, which has manifested itself with the deaths of over 100,000 Syrians in the past two-and-a-half years, according to a UN estimate from the beginning of this summer. Likewise, the handful of attacks on the populace by chemical weaponry should also ring a bell. The “devil we know” argument falls to mere reason and facts, and the logical group to ultimately support is the Syrian opposition. Unfortunately, there has been a concerted push against any form of aid to the rebels in Syria because of the prevalence of radical jihadi groups, most notably Jabhat al Nusra and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, who have allied themselves with al-Qaida. Opponents of the rebels use these groups to instill belief that the vast majority of rebel forces overwhelmingly support the spread of radical Islam and that upon removal of the current regime, al-Qaida or a militant group will take over Syria. To put it bluntly, these conclusions are blatantly false. It would be wrong to claim that there are no radical elements in Syria. Yet the existence of these groups poses questions about who these radicals are and what their prevalence is. Heavily constituted of foreign Salafist and Wahabbist mercenaries from countries all over the Middle East and North Africa, these fighters are projected to only make up a total of 10 to 20 percent of those who are currently fighting the gov-

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President Obama is at the center of criticism regarding the United States’ involvement in the Syrian Civil War .

ernment in Syria. The rebel factions that the international community have agreed to favor the ultimate goal of a liberated and democratic Syria are the Syrian National Coalition (SNC) and the Free Syria Army (FSA). Made of a multitude of factions that include prominent leaders from all facets of Syrian society, these complementary groups embody aspirations to make the country the democratic, secular and diverse place that truly represents Syrian society. The SNC/FSA coalition is not compatible with rebel groups; they have violently clashed many times. What we in the international

community must realize is that although it seems the chemical weapons situation is somewhat solved in Syria, international intervention is not merely warranted, but also desperately needed. This intervention should in no way be a boots-on-the-ground plan or major bombing attack. Instead, the situation requires intervention in a minimalist sense: establishing a no-fly zone, funding the SNC/FSA and putting diplomatic pressure on the countries that continue to back the Assad regime. We must also realize that our current stance of inaction is doing more harm than good.

In “The Agony of Smashing Syria,” Rami Khouri, a professor of Middle Eastern politics at American University of Beirut, states “A post-Assad transition 18 months ago could have been relatively smooth, but today it can only be chaotic, protracted, violent and ugly.” Inaction in the crisis will only beget a more complicated and bloody story for the Syrians and their drive for freedom, and it is the duty of the international community to prevent an even bloodier conflict. Anthony Carl, FCRH’ 16, is an international political economy major from Cleveland , Ohio.

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OPINION

September 18, 2013

From the Desk of Drew Rapp, Business Director We’re not quite there yet. A canopy of vibrant green still rustles over the campus and the occasional humid afternoon keeps us from packing away our shorts and sunglasses for good. But, the nights are growing longer, the breeze is brisk and soon enough even the most stubbornly green trees will be dappled in oranges and fiery reds. Rest assured, autumn is just around the corner and if you’re anything like me, that’s reason to celebrate. I should preface this by admitting that I, like hopefully all of you, love New York. Growing up in suburban Ohio, the noise, the diversity and the spirit of the city fascinated me from a young age. As such, my decision to attend college at Fordham, the Jesuit University of New York, was a no brainer. New York’s energy drew me in, and the city shines in every season. Sure, there are strong arguments to be made that Christmas in New York is the most magical time of year, or that the summer in the city is the most fun. Both compelling. Still, autumn is my favorite.

Gone is the scorching heat and steamy asphalt of the summer that kept us cooped up in air-conditioned sanctuaries (sorry, Walsh Hall). Here to stay are crisp and comfortable afternoons, walks through crunchy leaves and more time spent with our classmates at Fordham. I know not all of my friends agree with me that fall is the best season. “It’s dark and dreary,” some say. Others grumble that the semester gets too stressful, that there is never enough time to enjoy the city with schoolwork lurking in the background. If you share their view, I hear you. Autumn is not perfect. No season is. But, I stand by my defense of the cooler months after summer and before Christmas. If you’ve never taken a walk through the New York Botanical Garden in the fall before, put that at the top of your short list of things to do in the coming weeks. Right as the trees change colors, sneak away across the street for a few hours on a blustery morning. Stroll through their pumpkin patch or just lose yourself in the vivid displays of chang-

ing color. It’s a great way to clear your mind for a paper or de-stress before a midterm. School spirit is perhaps most alive during the fall. Whether you’re a new student, or an upperclassmen sporting your favorite Fordham gear or you’re cheering on the Rams on the field or court, autumn is full of spirit and pride. Between homecoming, invitationals, games and matches on every field, there are plenty of opportunities to bundle up in maroon, embrace the chilly weather and feel your voice grow coarse in a cheering crowd. Find the time to get out of our neighborhood for a day and you’ll see that the city has a whole different energy in the fall than it had in the summer. With fewer tourists present and New Yorkers seeking warmth in cozy coffee shops, the streets are quieter. Autumn becomes this unique opportunity to explore the city, free from the haze of summer or wet snow of winter. So dig out your flannel, stay toasty with your favorite flavored latte, and go see our city in its autumnal splendor. Queens is home to acres of orchards ripe for a

Fordham students all over campus have been busy with club meetings over the past few weeks. Everyone is excited to join new clubs and plan bigger and better programs for the coming year. Extracurriculars are a big part of what “makes” the college experience for students. Outside of the classroom, students gain practical experience in leadership, make lasting friendships and explore interests as diverse as cooking, foreign languages and snowboarding. Student involvement in clubs should be encouraged and rewarded. They are part of what makes Rose Hill a fun, diverse campus. To that effect, the United Student Government started

an initiative this year to raise the Student Activities Fee (SAF) by $15 per student, the first increase in the SAF in 10 years. Currently, students pay $120 dollars to fund club budgets. In the Spring 2012 semester, the budget was able to fund only 29 percent of club requests. The Fordham Ram believes that increasing the SAF is a very small price to pay for the advantages of having a larger club budget. According to Fordham’s website, the combined number of undergraduate students between Fordham College at Rose Hill and the Gabelli School of Business is just over 5,600. Fifteen dollars per student equates to a significant increase

in the club budget, and with Fordham’s enrollment steadily increasing every year, the possibilities for activities in every club can grow exponentially. Students may feel consternation at the increase. Many view it as just another example of Fordham trying to squeeze as much money out of its students as it possibly can. This increase would be particularly impactful, however, as it would contribute directly toward student life and what students do on this campus. Ultimately, through club leaders and the budget committee, students are the ones who determine how to spend this money. Since Fordham is an institution in the Jesuit tradition, it is of the

Sunday spent apple picking. The village transforms into a spooky, festive celebration on Halloween. And, from Williamsburg to Harlem, bands, comedians and artists give us countless opportunities to make the most of those frosty nights that are too cold even for fall enthusiasts to bear. This fall, in particular, will be an exceptionally exciting time to be in New York. Construction of our city’s new tallest building, the Freedom Tower, will finally be complete and New Yorkers will come together in November to elect a new mayor. There is a lot to look forward to in the coming months. So, welcome back to Fordham, Rams! Here’s to a challenging and rewarding semester — and to a wonderful fall.

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September 18, 2013

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Did Miley Cross the Line, Or Change the Game? By STEPHANIE SCRAFANO CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Lighten Up! September is so stupidly stressful, it’s insane. Whether you’re a freshman literally trying to figure out your entire life at once or a junior getting back into the swing of things, the pressure pours in from all sides. It doesn’t matter if you’re a straight-A student or if you just scored your dream internship, something’s always going to slip through. Is it even possible to keep everything together? To its credit, the University really tries to make it as easy as possible to keep your life on track when things get crazy. Between the new gym, the new food and free counseling, it’s clear that cura personalis is something it wants us to take seriously. And why not? We all want a great resume, but it won’t mean a thing if we’re physically, mentally or spiritually unhealthy. But here’s the thing, Fordham. It’s definitely true that eating right, exercising and sleeping well are all important, but fitting those things in can be just as stressful as everything else you have going on. That’s why it’s so important to make laughter a priority. Science has proven that if you can’t let go and be silly every once in a while, you will actually physically explode. Lighten up and be OK with looking stupid in front of other people. You’ll walk around happier, and people will probably give you more credit for not giving a damn than they would have for your efforts being perfect anyway. Here are some of my favorite places to get a giggle in: Fordham Experimental Theater: Fordham has three awesome comedy troupes hidden away in the Blackbox at the back of Collins Hall. Stranded in Pittsburgh is Fordham’s only long-form improv comedy troupe, Free Pizza is the club’s sketch comedy group and Fordham Standup Comedy’s members perform there every few weeks. Very seriously, laughing at and with these guys was the only reason I made it through freshman year. Check it out. Upright Citizen’s Brigade: Amy Poehler’s famous comedy club puts on shows literally every night at its locations in Chelsea and the East Village, and usually they’re less than $10. Go see a Harold if you like improv or a Maude if sketch is more your style. Eastville Comedy Club: This just happens to be my current favorite standup comedy club in the city, but there are actually tons across Manhattan that are all relatively cheap. Get on their mailing lists and you can typically skip the cover charge and pay only for the drink minimum. Moral of the story: Even the really, really awful things can be funny if you want them to be, so no matter how bad your life seems, you can and should always take time out to make sure you’re laughing at it. Life will go on either way, so you may as well be having a good time.

Miley Cyrus twerked her way to internet infamy after she performed at this year’s MTV Video Music Awards. Scantily clad in nude latex, Miley showcased some overtly sexual dance moves on Robin Thicke during their duet performance of his song “Blurred Lines.” Much of the talk about Miley after her VMA performance was negative, but it caused the public to take an interest in her that had not even been seen during her days as Hannah Montana. Plenty of people believe that she seems to have “gone crazy,” but others claim that there might be a method to her latest madness. Seconds into her VMA performance, Miley’s name was trending on Twitter. It continued to trend for days, and stories about her popped up on various entertainment news outlets. Her Twitter activity rose 112 percent from the week before, she added over 200,000 fans on Facebook and her latest single “Wrecking Ball” broke the record for most viewed video on Vevo within 24 hours. Miley’s performance not only revived her name, it caused a media frenzy surrounding her. She left her Disney reputation in the dust and rebranded herself in a way that made her relevant to more than just her dedicated fan base. Using shock value as a revolutionary branding tactic is working for Miley right now, and her current fame is at an all-time high. This high, however, will certainly

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At this year’s MTV Video Music Awards, Miley Cyrus’ performance attracted negative reactions on social media outlets.

falter in time. Some think that this will permanently affect her personal life and public image. “It’s giving her plenty of attention, but not good attention,” Aya Itani, FCRH ’16, said. “She gets more criticism than compliments.” The criticism that Miley has received has been vast. Her VMA performance even triggered a variety of complaints to the Federal Communications Commissions, despite the fact that the FCC can only control broadcast television and not cable networks like MTV. Many people found her performance extremely offensive, from her manic moves to her veiled drug references. Some compared her to Britney Spears circa 2007 — a young, wholesome starlet

gone rogue. Shocking the public may be getting Miley plenty of attention now, but it will not give her staying power. Once the public moves past this Disney star gone wild, she will again find herself struggling for relevance in the public eye. The bottom line is that using shock value as a branding tactic works for a quick jolt of attention, but it offers no sense of permanence. The public loves a good scandal, but only until another, more interesting one comes along. The previous is then forgotten. It seems that Miley will be next in the line of young stars who reach the peak of their fame with scandal and then make a “come-

back from crazy” as their next big move. Miley should be wary of this; the public enjoys a scandal mores than a comeback. Lindsay Lohan’s first post-rehab interview with Oprah drew fewer than a million viewers. Despite the interest once vested in her, people seem to care less about Lindsay and more about the latest crazed celebrities: Amanda Bynes and, of course, Miley Cyrus. In time, we will see whether or not Miley’s twerking has been successful in her attempt to rebrand herself. If she knows what is best for her image, she can (and hopefully will) stop. Stephanie Scrafano, FCRH’16, is a communications and media studies major form Lodi, N.J.

Emulating New York Trends, With a Splash of Maroon By MADELYN MURPHY CONTRIBUTING WRITER

“You’re going to wear sweatpants to class in no time.” As I packed my dresses and colored jeans for college, my father’s prediction rang out as ludicrous. Wear sweatpants to class? “Bum it out” in public? It struck horror in my heart. Why? The image of a student rolling out of bed 30 minutes prior to class, performing a simple drill of brushing teeth, putting on some yoga pants and heading out the door did not seem atypical, but I was not just any college student. I was going to be a New Yorker. As I zipped up my suitcase, I had to wonder which identity would take precedence over my fash-

ion life — the college student or the New Yorker? The Fordham community seems to rest ambiguously on the question “What to wear?” On one side of the spectrum, we are college students: we proudly go to football games, we sport maroon and white and some days we just need to wear our sweats and devour an extra caf cookie (I mean, we are human). We are also, however, part of the New York City community. It is the only city that will not judge you on your religion, sexuality or political views, but will judge you on your shoes. We exist in this duality of Ram logo T-shirts and chic attire. So, do we dress the part of quintessential college student, or do we amp it up for the city in which we live?

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As a college campus in New York, Fordham’s fashion scene manages a balance.

As an incoming freshman, this question was at the front of my mind. My first class, I took a seat in the front and quickly scanned the room. No sweatpants. Literally. None. I texted my father later with a snarky remark and made a continual effort to admire the style of those around me. While Fordham is not without yoga pants and basketball shorts, a large majority of the student body is well dressed. While not every girl or guy wears Marc Jacobs, every Fordham student possesses some sort of style, a testament to some fashion-directed effort. Attending Fordham presents one with a distinctly unique college experience. We reside on our Gothic campus, spruced up with ancient trees, various statues and busts. We have a football field that has experienced wins (so far) and a caf with scrumptious cookies. We are college students with a college campus, and yet we are New Yorkers with the city at our fingertips. The city becomes just as much a part of us as Fordham does. Fordham students go to football games, play ultimate Frisbee on sunny afternoons, tan on Eddie’s and actively participate in a variety of clubs and activities. However, many Fordham students have gone to Fashion Week, seen Broadway shows, attend Shakespeare in the Park and conversed with celebrities. Our life extends beyond the campus, and thus beyond the typical college student attire. We are just as much a part of this

city as we are of Fordham, and that does call for a certain “oomfh” in style, not to say that wearing sweatpants is forbidden (I am wearing a sweatshirt as I write this piece). There will be makeup-less days, basketball shorts nights and cozy sweatshirt weeks (finals, specifically). However, I have seen a variety of Vogue-worthy outfits in my classes, with prime accessorizing, preppy oxfords and even bohemian vintage. I have frequently found myself complimenting both guys and girls on their incredible sense of style, and often see these unique expressions of style more than I see sweats and a hoodie. We exist in a dual world, and when it comes to style it is ultimately a personal choice. Do you play the part of college student or New Yorker today? Are those our only options? Looking at the variations of style present on campus, we do not necessarily need to choose between New York and Fordham when it comes to attire. We have a third option: blend the two together and form your own style, whether that be the artsy New Yorker, the Fordham athlete, the quintessential prep or the not-sohipster hipster. Fordham may seem to present us with only two choices when it comes to style — the New Yorker and the college student — but ultimately there is the third and most stylish fashion choice: You. Madelyn Murphy, FCRH ’17, is an English major from Orono, Minn.

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September 18 2013

Pro-Rape Chant Taints College’s Reputation

Ricky Bordelon

By GABRIELLE MCGOVERN STAFF WRITER

At St. Mary’s College in Halifax, Nova Scotia, welcome week for the incoming freshmen did not go according to plan. About two weeks ago, an event for the freshmen called “Turf Burn” started the controversy. A video has gone viral of the college’s orientation leaders chanting a prorape or pro-sexual assault song. Instead of educating the new students on how to prevent rape and sexual assault, the leaders were acting insensitively, even encouraging such actions on campus. They chanted: “SMU boys, we like them young. Y is for your sister. O is for oh-so-tight. U is for underage. N is for no consent. G is for grab that ass.” “For something that is such a concern, why would you chant about rape to freshmen who need to be taught the most about the seriousness of rape?” Ellie Buckner, FCRH ’17, said. Both men and women have performed this chant that supports non-consensual sex at the college’s “Frosh Week” since 2009. Hundreds of freshmen followed the lead of their 80 orientation leaders and shouted and cheered with them. With so many colleges trying to prevent rape, it is shocking that these leaders took the issue so lightly. “Although no one was physically hurt, rape isn’t something one jokes about. How would someone who was raped feel when listening to this cheer? Chanting about it is offending,” Magda Christoforou, FCRH ’17, said. “The people who have been sexually assaulted are hurting the most from this. If the leaders in the video had been sexually assaulted, they wouldn’t be chanting about it.”

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A pep chant some are calling “pro-rape” became the center of criticism, resulting in apologies and resignations.

“The only thing learned from the chant was how guys view and look at girls. The bystanders who were watching the leaders probably thought they were promoting rape,” said Sam Zimits, FCRH ’17 “The freshmen will think rape is not a serious concept because the leaders chanting were not taking the subject seriously. The leaders were chanting as if rape is the new norm.” With the media and public’s attention on St. Mary’s College, an apology was necessary. Jared Perry, the president of the college’s Students’ Association, said to CBS that he joined in on the chant, but he was sorry and found it inappropriate. Perry said it was the “biggest mistake I’ve made throughout my university career and probably my life.” Perry defended the “Frosh Week” leaders and said, “These are great leaders. This was…a lack of judgment.” Because of the negative public-

ity St. Mary’s College has been receiving, Perry voluntarily stepped down from his position as chair of Students Nova Scotia, a Canadian based student organization. “This chant does not label the leaders as bad people nor does it define their character. Sexual assault, however, is not something to be taken lightly,” Shannon Mis, FCRH ’17 said. “The chant was not even in a joking context. I just don’t understand. These leaders were projecting poor judgment. The student leaders should be educated about the seriousness of sexual assault.” President Colin Dodd of St. Mary’s College is taking charge. He is forcing the leaders to go to a consent and sexual assault seminar, where they will learn about sexual violence. Dodd recently said, “My colleagues and I were shocked... and are deeply sorry that our students… were exposed to disturbing, sexually charged material.”

Joe Southern, FCRH ’17, believes that what the leaders did was absolutely wrong. “Talking and joking about it leaves people hurt, especially those who have been assaulted,” Southern said. However, he does not believe that the leaders violated the law because they have freedom of speech. Perry added that the leaders are sorry, and they understand now that their actions were wrong. Justin Barker, FCRH ’17, gave great insight on what this chant shows. “The leaders may be sorry, but they proved the direction our society is headed for, which is this idea that sex is free and meaningless. People think they should get what they want, while not considering what the other person wants,” Barker said. Gabrielle McGovern, FCRH ’17, is a communication and media studies major from Branchburg, NJ.

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Have you ever thought that a whole town could be dedicated to one person? Could such a town exist where everyone seems to work or in some way contribute to the memory and legacy of its famous residents? Stratford-upon-Avon is one of these towns. Last Thursday, as I walked around the small town teeming with Renaissance-style buildings and pubs referencing the most famous characters of the Bard’s plays, I could not help but think, “What kind of person was William Shakespeare?” Was he the larger-than-life figure that we remember today and study intently in our English classes? Or was he a simple family man, the son of the town glovemaker, who just happened to be the best playwright in the English language? This pondering brought me to another question: Who really are these famous people that we glorify and revere so intently? When we consider historical, literary, political or pop culture icons, we often gloss over their imperfections and faults, exalting their accomplishments and accolades. People like George Washington, John F. Kennedy, Walt Disney and Oprah Winfrey tend to be glorified and placed on a pedestal. There is a danger, however, in participating in this kind of worshipping. Many times people try to overlook serious character flaws or irresponsible, even offensive, actions in order to create a legend, a “Camelot” of sorts, to have something to celebrate. Conversely, we simply overlook their everyday lives and interactions with others. I do not mean to imply that every historical figure has a serious character flaw or that celebrating accomplishments and great historical achievements is something to be frowned upon. An honest look at and analysis of the lives of great people allows for lessons to be learned and knowledge to be discovered. It is why they are discussed in our textbooks and continue to influence the world today. Otherwise, we merely sit and stew upon a mythicized biography, trying to use this as a key tool to understand our lives, our society and ourselves. Now, obviously, this type of thinking opens up a can of worms: Can history be unbiased? Will we ever be able to comprehend an entire person’s life and work? And furthermore, what is the point of examining the lives of others? Regardless of the answers, either failing to look past some great people’s accomplishments further into his or her life legacy or glossing over the full body of someone’s work can produce a skewed comprehension of the past.

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Rodrigue’s Coffeehouse: The Happily Misunderstood Cafe By BRENDAN MOSS CONTRIBUTING WRITER

If you are looking for a place to study, read or get your caffeine fix in preparation for a long night, Rodrigue’s Coffee House is open to all. Opened in 1991, Rodrigue’s Coffee House is the only on-campus club that provides a daily, tangible service to all members of the Fordham community through low-priced, organic and Fair-Trade coffee drinks as well as an open community space. Located between Queen’s Court and Alumni Court South, Rodrigue’s Coffee House — sometimes referred to succinctly as “Rod’s”– is maintained entirely by volunteer student workers and headed by an elected executive board. Each member of the club must volunteer to work four hours a week in the coffee house and attend a weekly meeting on Sunday nights. Besides volunteering her time as a regular member, Rachel Dougherty, FCRH ’15, said her role as co-president consists of “coordinating the general logistics of the coffee shop and events as well as perpetuating the community and personal feel of Rodrigue’s.” Dougherty and co-president Alex Minikes, FCRH ’14, Vice President Paul Ross, FCRH ’15, Secretary Sarah Champlin, FCRH

’16, treasurer Tom Geiser, GSB ’15, and publicist Kaitlyn Flanagan, GSB ’15 ensure that the space is run efficiently and implement measures voted for by the general board of student workers. Those measures include the delegation of the semester budget and use of the space. Rodrigue’s Coffee House hosts a variety of events including open mics, poetry readings, film viewings and concerts, all of which are free for the Fordham community to attend. So far this semester, there have been two concerts and an open mic night. For all three evenings the building filled to capacity. Rodrigue’s staff prides itself in offering a diversity of activities. “Rod’s provides an alternative hangout spot and meeting place for students and professors. We also attempt to provide an outlet for alternative arts and culture,” Geiser said. In addition to being a space for students to study and meet with friends, several clubs hold their weekly meetings there, including The Ampersand and Women’s Empowerment. Faculty members can also get in on the action. “[Rodrigue’s] is a great place to interact with undergrads and informally converse,” said Ph.D. candidate Louie Dean Valencia. Even more concerts, more open mic nights, a monthly mov-

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Phil Feinbusch tends the Rodrigue’s coffee counter as one of a dozen volunteer baristas who keep Rodrigue’s going.

ie viewing for the Justice Film Series, professor lectures and even classes such as one taught this past week by freshman Dean Robert Parmach for Jogue’s freshmen are on the slate for later in the semester. Even though Rod’s strives to maintain an atmosphere of acceptance and diversity, the coffee house is plagued by the idea that the building houses an exclusive club that is largely uninviting. “Most of my friends think it’s exclusive and scary to go into,” Sarah Lundell, FCRH ’17, said of the negative sentiment that is shared by a number of students. When asked if she shares the

same view as her friends, Lundell responded, “Absolutely not, everyone who works here is super welcoming and it’s a warm, friendly environment.” Sarah has felt so welcomed by the club that she now spends about five hours a day inside the building, as well as volunteering as a worker. Returning volunteer Tim Livingston, FCRH ’16, says he understands the thought that the people inside Rod’s are “unfriendly hipsters,” but he maintains that the worst thing about the club is the fallibility of the volunteers: “I’ve screwed up my fair share of iced cappuccinos,” Livingston said.

The drinks served inside of Rodrigue’s might not be perfect, but the club has found success by providing honest service and striving to engage the Fordham community as a whole. Rod’s is considered a home-away-fromhome for a large group of student volunteers, a number of regulars and even some Fordham Prep students. Even if you are fine with considering your dorm or apartment your home and do not need another, you should still stop in to Rodrigue’s Coffee House for a drink or merely a place to sit. “I haven’t found a comfier place to sit on campus, including my own bed,” Champlin said.

Toronto Film Festival Forecasts Award Season By DANIEL FINNEGAN STAFF WRITER

With the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival coming to a close, the Oscar race is already beginning to heat up. While films from the Venice, Cannes and Sundance film festivals always contend for the Academy’s nominations, Toronto typically dominates the award season. On Sunday, Sept. 15, the festival judges announced 12 Years A Slave as the recipient of the 2013 People’s Choice Award, the highest honor at the festival. With great reviews already from the Telluride Film Festival, 12 Years a Slave is hoping to follow the mold of previous People’s Choice Award winners and garner a nomination for Best Picture. Four of the last five winners received Best Picture nominations. The King’s Speech and Slumdog Millionaire both went on to win. Although the festival’s lineup contained more obvious, crowd-pleasing choices for the award, the crowds instead voted for Steve McQueen’s callous and wrenching portrayal of a freed black man who was kidnapped and sold into slavery. Receiving nothing short of rave reviews, the film is also likely to garner nominations for its powerful performances by Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender and Lupita Nyong’o. Fassbender’s nomination will be tricky, considering the horrific and evil nature of his character and the Academy’s preference for congenial performances, though he still

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Steve McQueen, director of 12 Days a Slave, walks the red carpet at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival.

deserves the nomination. The film is also likely to garner a well-deserved nomination for Steve McQueen, who is quickly becoming one of the most interesting directors in the film industry. Two films were runners-up for the People’s Choice Award as well. This year both Stephen Frears’ Philomena and Denis Villeneuve’s Prisoners came close to receiving the award and have been garnering rave reviews from the festival. Philomena pairs Judi Dench with Steve Coogan in a powerful portrayal of an unmarried Irish-Catholic who sets out on a mission to find her newborn son after her community

forces her to give up the boy. Dench delivers a fantastic, Oscar-worthy performance and Steve Coogan deviates from his normal, more comedic choice of roles. Prisoners is a tense thriller concerning the disappearance of two little girls and a father’s frightening quest to discover the truth behind it. Prisoners contains some of Jake Gyllenhaal’s and Hugh Jackman’s finest acting, allowing Jackman to dominate the screen with his physical presence. Also premiering at Toronto was sure-fire Oscar contender Gravity and indie-darling Joe. While Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity has wowed audiences with its spectacular cinematog-

raphy, visual effects and superb use of 3-D, Sandra Bullock and George Clooney’s performances have been a great surprise, impressing audiences and critics alike. Joe has also been garnering high praise for its acting, with many critics viewing it as a return to form for both lead actor Nicolas Cage and director David Gordon Green. Nicholas Cage, perhaps better known for the hilarious compilation videos of his overacting, delivers a convincing portrait of a decent, hardworking man, with a repressed violent nature. More importantly, Joe represents David Gordon Green’s return to drama, following his disappointing efforts with

Your Highness and The Sitter. Hopefully, this represents a return to the independent, visually-stunning films from the beginning of his career, allowing him to earn the praise of being called Terrence Malick’s successor. While Toronto is known for its expansive variety of great films, there were, of course, numerous films that did not receive the positive reactions they had hoped for. August: Osage County had high hopes for the Oscar season and a star-studded cast with strong acting, including a brilliant performance by Meryl Streep (no surprise there). Critics were not impressed, however, by the theatrical filming style, melodramatic tone and surprising change in ending from its adapted material. Also not living up to its hype, The Fifth Estate has been criticized for its preachy script, muddled direction and overall lack of clarity. While Benedict Cumberbatch has received positive reviews for his magnetic performance as Julian Assange, the Wikileaks founder, the film suffers from the ongoing case against Assange and the prevalent nature of the plot. Initially begun as a 10-day film festival, the Toronto International Film Festival has grown to be considered the second most important film festival after Cannes. It provides an outlet for the best that international, Hollywood and Canadian cinema have to offer, while also acting as a springboard for numerous Oscar contenders.

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Editor’s Pick: Upworthy Vampire Weekend When: Friday, Sept. 20 What time: 8 p.m. Where: Barclays Center, 620 Atlantic Avenue Price: $44.30 and higher

By KATIE MEYER ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR

Sept. 14, 2013 was a pretty average day. It was Saturday. It was sunny in the Bronx. And a quick glance at the front page of the New York Times’ website revealed headlines like “U.N. Reports Syria Uses Hospital Attacks as ‘Weapon of War’,” “Suicide Points to New Frontier For Cyberbullying” and “Aerial Video of Devastation by Colorado Floods.” In a society where information is readily available to us at the click of a button, we are constantly bombarded by news from the farthest corners of the world. All over the globe, billions of people are having nice, normal days, but our news isn’t about them. It is about the people involved in hospital attacks, the ones driven to suicide and the ones caught in floods, because that is the nature of news. Normality isn’t news, but tragedy is, because tragedy sells. There is no getting around the fact that bad things happen in the world. They do, and what’s more, reporters have a responsibility to tell the public about these things. But, when the bulk of the media’s attention turns to the latest bombing or earthquake or zombie apocalypse, the non-horrific stories that get reported on tend to slip through the cracks in the public’s awareness. That is where the website Upworthy comes in. Upworthy, which was founded in March of 2012, makes the good things important. It features a variety of stories, all of them inspirational, thought-provoking, and overwhelmingly positive. The best part of all? The content is actually relevant and significant. In a letter introducing Upworthy, Peter Koechley, one of the site’s founders (along with Eli Pariser), wrote, “we believe the things that matter in the world don’t have to be boring and guilt-inducing. And the addictive stuff we love doesn’t have to be completely substanceless.” Essentially, Upworthy serves as a kind of hub for worthwhile content that exists all over the Internet. Its

Coming off the smash success of its latest album Modern Vampires of the City, Vampire Weekend will be performing in their hometown this weekend only a day after its show at the Mann Center in Philly. If you are a fan, this is a must-attend event, as the band seems to be reaching new heights of popularity and success, and tickets may not always be this cheap. The experience is guaranteed to be a worthy one for audiophiles and die-hard Vampire Weekend fans alike, not to mention the awesome venue that is the Barclays Center, home to the Brooklyn Nets. MIKE BROWN/THE RAM

Upworthy’s goal is to make people aware of “the good in the world.”

team of curators scours the web for material and posts videos, graphics, pictures and articles under the site’s different searchable categories, which include everything from health to economy to LGBTQ to international. Each story, video or other tidbit of information is presented as a thumbnail picture and given an eye-catching headline, like “Some Facts that Would Really Help Next Time Your Uncle Wants to Talk About Welfare Fraud” and “A Debate Between an Atheist and a Christian has Quite a Surprising Result.” Once clicked on, the content is introduced by the curator in a few, well-written lines, and each snippet comes with a button you can click to share the page on Facebook or Twitter. As websites go, Upworthy is fairly simple. Content is curated, sorted and labeled. Consumers then are invited to share it via social media and so far, this basic model seems to be working well. In fact, in just a year and a half of existence, Upworthy has made Time magazine’s 50 Best Websites of 2013 list. Part of the draw is the ease with which you can share with others. Upworthy is actually designed with social media sharing in mind; the heading on top of the homepage, which reads, “Things that matter. Pass ‘em on,” says it all. I can vouch

for the effectiveness of this strategy; I discovered Upworthy on Facebook after a friend shared a link, and in the month or so that the site has been on my radar, I have noticed more and more shares coming from Upworthy. Perhaps the most appealing part of the site, though (and I can say this from experience and several lost hours), is the simple addictiveness of its featured material. The content is culturally relevant, fascinating and genuinely uplifting. It is all too easy to keep clicking on one link after another after another… until you look up and realize that hours have gone by. But, such is the nature of the Internet. What makes Upworthy a little different, for me at least, is that the time spent clicking methodically through links doesn’t end in self-loathing and a vow to be more productive. It ends with happiness, a renewed faith in humanity and the feeling that I actually learned something. And, that’s really what sets Upworthy apart from other news and entertainment sources. It accepts the bad in the world and doesn’t try to distract its readers from it with videos of people falling and cats, but it also doesn’t let us wallow in negativity. Instead, it counters it, simply by showing us that there is also so much good out there.

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From Mr. Chips to Scarface: Walter White’s Transformation on “Breaking Bad” When: July 26-October 27 What time: Open 7 days a week with varying hours Where: The Museum of the Moving Image, 35-01 35th Ave, Astoria, Queens How much: $9 w/ student ID (free on Fridays between 4-8 p.m.!) At the heart of Breaking Bad is a truly remarkable performance by Bryan Cranston, who won three consecutive Emmy Awards for Best Actor for his portrayal of Walter White. A mild-mannered chemistry teacher, White learns that he has inoperable lung cancer and begins producing the drug methamphetamine (“crystal meth”) to insure his family’s financial future. He becomes increasingly amoral and ruthless in his new persona, Heisenberg. Cranston’s startling transformation is explored in this exhibit with costumes, props, selected video clips from the series and behind-the-scenes footage. — COMPILED BY JACK MACGREGOR ASSISTANT ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR

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Mimes and Mummers Casts “Legally Blonde” By GISELLE ESPINAL CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Blonde hair. Dashing men. A unique fashion sense. Add some singing and dancing and what do you have? No, not a rendition of Miley Cyrus’ life. You have Legally Blonde: The Musical. In case you have not heard around campus, The Mimes and Mummers club is putting on a production of Legally Blonde: The Musical right here on Fordham’s campus in Collins Auditorium. In case you have no idea what The Mimes and Mummers club is or what they do, I will save you a search on Google. The Mimes and Mummers is the oldest club at Rose Hill. It produces several shows a year and allows incredibly talented people to expose themselves in an entirely different way than they normally do. Some of these incredibly talented people who will be baring their all on stage

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Rehearsals for Legally Blonde will last four weeks. It premieres October 3.

include Sean McKay, Pam Zazzarino, Jeff O’Donnell and Michelle Corr. Pam Zazzarino, FCRH ’13 and a pre-law student, will be playing the lead role of Elle Woods, a young blonde who defies all stereotypes and graduates with high honors from Harvard Law School. Zazzarino expressed what being on stage is about.

“My experience has been absolutely wonderful; our cast is so full of energy and fun to be with. I couldn’t be more excited to put on this show, because to me it’s about believing in yourself, and that is so important,” she said. Jeff O’Donnell, GSB ’13, will be playing the role of Warner, the young man who breaks Elle

Woods’ heart, essentially driving her to applying to Harvard Law School in order to prove her worth to him. “It’s a big show, especially to pull off in four weeks, but there’s a ton of talent in the cast and I’m confident it will be great,” O’Donnell said.” Many people are familiar with the music and the Broadway production of the show, so it’ll be a fun show to see especially on family weekend. Every show has that jerk you want to push off the stage, and this time it’s me. So, anyone who comes can push me off the stage if they want.” Sean McKay, FCRH ’17, will be playing the role of Emmett, the charming and supportive young attorney who wins over Elle Woods’ heart. “Obviously being in a show with so little time to rehearse is frightening, but everyone is incredibly talented and works incredibly well together so I think we can definitely

pull it off,” McKay said of his experience so far in the production. Michelle Corr, FCRH ‘17, will be playing the role of Paulette, a middle-aged, divorced manicurist who reinvents herself with the help of Elle Woods. “My experience in this show has been amazing so far. The entire cast, crew and production staff have been so welcoming, and everyone is so talented. I feel so blessed to be a part of this cast, and I can’t wait to see how everything comes together in the end!” Corr said. Whether you want to watch incredible talent coming together on the stage, get a thrill from stories where people overcome stereotypes and prove society wrong or you are just a sucker for a good romance, then you shouldn’t miss The Mimes and Mummers’ production of Legally Blonde: The Musical on Oct. 3, 4, and 5 at 8 p.m. and Oct. 6 at 2 p.m. in Collins Auditorium.

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WHO’S THAT KID? JOHN WASSERMAN A MEMBER OF GSB ‘15 MAJOR: INFORMATION SYSTEMS HOMETOWN: MONTEREY, CALIF. Describe yourself in a couple sentences for the readers. I’m an easygoing, amicable guy. I enjoy hanging out with friends, longboarding, working with computers and watching the Golden State Warriors. I am from a big family and really enjoy spending time back home.

ing in the industry.

What is your favorite aspect of Fordham and why? My favorite aspect of Fordham is definitely the community and the relationships. Everyone seems to get along.

What show, food, artist or movie would you consider your “guilty pleasure”? Doritos, man. And “Antiques Roadshow.” I dig that show.

If there was one thing about Fordham you could change what would it be? Certain aspects of the administration. There’s a lot of core requirements and sometimes I feel restricted as to what I can study. I also had a bad experience trying to figure out a study abroad option. What is your favorite thing to do in New York City? The many different places you can go to. New York is the center for everything: great food, entertainment and night life. What is something about you that not many people know? I can wiggle my ears. I can do my right one only, too, but not the left one. What is your favorite class at Fordham? Business Analytics. My professor really went out of his way to help the students any way he could. He even used his contacts to assign each student a mentor that was actually work-

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What is a personal goal you already have or would like to accomplish over your four years here? I want to dunk. That won’t happen though.

What is your favorite movie and why? I’m a big fan of Quentin Tarantino’s repertoire. Pulp Fiction, Django Unchained and Reservoir Dogs. I also like zombie films. Sometimes, I think I’d like to be a zombie. What is your favorite album released in 2013? It wasn’t an album; it was a mixtape, but Chance the Rapper’s Acid Rap is my favorite. His flow is unique and the lyrics are personal; you can feel that in each song. “Favorite Song” featuring Childish Gambino is, funnily enough, my favorite song.

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Wasserman hopes to work business analytics by day and skateboard by night.

Do you have plans, career or otherwise, for post-college life? I’m split between here and California. I’m gunning for a job as a software or analytics software developer.

club in its second year, and right now I’m in charge of bringing a speaker to campus. I also love to skate. The best time for a session is at night. I also do club lacrosse and tear it up in pick-up basketball.

What activities, clubs, projects or organizations are you involved with at school? I’m a business analyst for the Digital Business Society. It’s a new

If you were stranded on a desert island, what would you bring with you? Rations, obviously. I couldn’t bring my skateboard because of the san d.

If you could go back to your first day at Fordham, what advice would you give yourself? I should have gone to the city more. Freshman year I didn’t leave campus much, plus four years isn’t enough to explore everything anyways. “You must take advantage of everything you got,” is what I would say to freshman John. I’d tell him, “Don’t stop believin’.”

Dining Out: Dinosaur Bar-B-Que By LINDSEY MARRON STAFF WRITER

I recently had lunch with my father at Dinosaur Bar-B-Que in Brooklyn. It was a warm and sunny day with a light breeze, making the outdoor picnic tables extremely inviting. The host warmly greeted us and showed us to our table. I am a huge fan of exposed, distressed brick so I really liked the exterior of the restaurant. It appeared just rugged enough but still had a clean layout — sort of like a refined warehouse. Our waitress cheerfully welcomed us, asking if we were first-timers. As we were, she gave us a brief menu lesson, pointing out popular favorites. She was attentive and sweet, seemingly playing on the sunny, Southern disposition that is so often associated with BBQ. My favorite way to dine is to order a number of small plates to share so that I can get an overall taste of a restaurant’s menu. Given that, the swag sampler plate was a no-brainer. Meant for two, it came with chicken wings, drunken spicy shrimp boil, fried green tomatoes with cayenne buttermilk ranch dressing and creole-spiced deviled eggs. I went straight for the wings,

which we ordered to be made in a sesame hoisin sauce. The meat was succulent and tender, coming right off the bone. The spice was not incredibly overwhelming and temperature-wise, the wings were hot — as they should be. Two per person did not satisfy my hankering; it all ended too soon. Dinosaur Bar-B-Que knows how to do wings right, end of story. Next were the fried green tomatoes which were lightly coated and fried, but not too heavily enough to be dripping with grease. Sprinkled with Pecorino Romano cheese and dipped in the buttermilk ranch dressing,

these Southern staples were unreal. They were seriously unbelievable. Although, I would have preferred them to be a little bit less fried so that the fresh flavor of the tomato could have been more prevalent. However, that would not have stopped me from drowning them in the ranch dressing. The deviled yolk was sprinkled with creole spice by a heavy hand, yet the habanero sauce was a perfect marriage to the old-bay-seasoned shrimp. For my entreé, I ordered the BBQ catfish. The catfish was sweet tea brined, grilled and served with turkey neck greens and a BBQ glaze. The en-

trée came with their honey hush corn bread and two side dishes. I chose the mac-and-cheese and the crispy cole slaw. The catfish was cooked so that the bottom had a nice crisp to it and it was not smothered in the BBQ glaze. Dinosaur Bar-B-Que reaffirmed my sentiment that ice-cold lemonade should not be sipped from anything but a mason jar. It somehow made the lemonade taste that much more authentic and in turn, better. As I sat at the picnic tables, drinking from my mason jar and licking my fingers, I realized that I could get used to this southern BBQ lifestyle. Dinosaur Bar-B-Que gives as authentic a Southern and soul vibe as can possibly be achieved in the Northeast. With many other competitors around the city, Dinosaur Bar-BQue sets the bar high for best in BBQ. Overall Location Food Quality Atmosphere Hospitality Price $$$ (Out of 5

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Last week I talked about staying friends after a break up, but what about the reverse? What about dating your friend? I feel that the idea of dating a friend is stigmatized. People are afraid of ruining their friendship. If this were true, however, why is the classic line of a couple in love: “I’m lucky I’m in love with my best friend?” Dating one of your friends is a scary thought. It’s not covered in your average Taylor Swift song or favorite rom-com. In the songs and movies you see someone crushing on their friend from afar, but sometimes never see how it plays out. It’s either an unrequited love or an implied happily ever. It is not, however, as simple as that. Call me crazy, but I think dating a friend is a good idea! The truth of the matter is, if you want to date him or her, he or she probably was never really just a “friend” in your mind anyway. You have probably had that attraction since day one and have repressed it ever since. Denying your own feelings is more harmful than expressing them. It could be nerve-wracking trying to tell your “friend” how you really feel, but it will most certainly work out to your advantage in the long run. One of three things will happen: 1) your friend will politely turn you down; 2) your friend will reciprocate your feelings; 3) your friend will at first shut you down out of fear, but come to his or her senses soon enough. If your friend says he or she does not feel the same way, you should not feel like you ruined anything. You didn’t. You saved yourself. You made your life a whole lot easier since you probably originally settled for being just a friend in the beginning so you could hang around and enjoy your crush’s company. Any relationship you pursue has the potential for failure. That is no reason to put up an electric fence around your heart. How can you find happiness in love if you have never experienced pain? If you want to avoid getting hurt, expect a life of monotony and numbness. Dating a friend is a good thing. You have a good foundation on the trust between the two of you. Your mutual friends might be apprehensive about it, but they might be entirely supportive. Use your friends to get a feel of how the other person feels about you. If you are the mutual friend in the situation reading this, and you know that one party doesn’t feel the same way, warn the other party. Let them go through the process of talking it out, but warn them so things do not come as a surprise. Now, in college, is the time to experiment with these sorts of relationships and put your heart on the line. Hell, if you’re a girl in love with your best friend who is also a girl, go for it. At the very least your friend will be able to help you sort out those feelings. You can’t help whom you fall in love with, but you can help what you do about it. So go ahead and do something. Be honest. If you are honest, everything always works out just the way it should. You are lucky to be in love with your best friend.

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Ram Reviews Movie Review

Television Review

“Breaking Bad” Season 5, Ep. 14 “Ozymandias”

The Family By JAKE KRING-SCHREIFELS STAFF WRITER

There used to be a time when a Robert De Niro movie was an event. He made a picture only once every year, sometimes two, and filled those gaps with anticipation and the belief that fewer projects meant the production of high quality films. Right now he has six movies slotted in 2013 and over the past few years has credits in flimsy flicks like New Year’s Eve, Being Flynn and The Big Wedding. De Niro saturation is reaching its highest marks, and, with few outliers like Silver Linings Playbook, the quality of his films has been inversely proportional. That is possibly one reason why director Luc Besson (Leon The Professional) thought his latest feature The Family should bring De Niro back to his bread and butter, letting him portray another former mobster. This time his name is Giovanni, and he and his “Soprano”-like family are herded into Normandy under the witness protection program after Giovanni turned in some former associates to authorities back in New York. Now, under the watch of special agent Robert Stansfield (Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln), the brooding and meddling Long Island family must cozy up to its pastoral French village. Like that will ever happen. Giovanni, now under the name Fred Blake, brings along his thickaccented wife Maggie (Michelle Pfeiffer, People Like Us) and two kids, Belle (Diana Agron, “Glee”) and Warren (John D’Leo, Wanderlust),

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who are unenthused about immersing themselves into their polite surroundings. Their bruised and battered conditioning quickly emerges. Maggie goes grocery shopping and does not like her cashier so she lights a bomb and blows fruits and vegetables to smithereens. Belle is courted by some perverted French boys, whose ultimately harmless seduction earns one boy a tennis racquet to the head. Warren, meanwhile, begins scheming his way through his new school’s hallways, making allegiances and scamming foes of money. This is not a subtle family. Fred is also prone to excessive acts of violence, some involving a torturous scene with an unfortunate plumber. Apparently it is not Stansfield’s job to reprimand any crime this family commits; he, along with a two-man surveillance team, must

keep them safe. Stansfield must also find something for Fred to occupy his time with in order to keep the community from questioning his presence. He suggests writing, which quickly spawns Fred’s imaginative, and in some ways cathartic, memoirs and a few creative careers about which to brag to inquiring neighbors. The family throws a block party to seem “inviting” and Fred recounts a New York barbecue, through flashback, with his mobster friends in the same scene that he envisions slamming a frustrating French neighbor’s face into his grill. I am not sure where the meta-levels are, or why there is not any talk of resemblance after the screening. The Family is based off Tonino Benacquista’s novel Badfellas. That was the original title of the film, and it may have been more apt.

FIRST DATE Directed by Bill Berry Starring Zachary Levi, Krysta Rodriguez

ters to a college student’s budget. Finally, while other shows may attempt to be spectacular or flashy, to have huge stars stealing breath away from every scene or to have an awe-inspiring light design, this show attempts to be nothing more than a personification of a first date on stage. It is fun, lighthearted and slightly awkward, but somehow manages to be wholly relatable. We have all had that first date experience where we not only are confronted by nerves, but also haunted by memories of past dates. First Date looks enthusiastically forward to the future that first dates can bring. It epitomizes these life experiences and sentiments in an entertaining and fun start to this year’s Broadway season.

Theatre Review

First Date By JAMES DEMETRIADES CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Every year I see 20 Broadway shows. I’ve seen 40 in the past two years. This year, the first show I had the pleasure of seeing was one of the season’s newer shows, First Date at the Longacre Theatre. Open since August 8, this 90-minute show may lack an intermission, but it does have something special. The director Bill Berry sets the scene wonderfully in a run-of-the-mill diner, where the two stars, Zachary Levi (“Chuck”) and Krysta Rodriguez (“Smash”) meet on a first date. Levi plays Aaron, a hyper-nervous young Jewish man overworking himself and haunted by memories of his ex-girlfriend. Rodriguez plays Casey, the complete foil to Aaron in every way; she is the classic tough girl with the soft interior, afraid to be hurt. Their first date is accompanied by five ensemble members who play everyone from Aaron’s grandmother, to his ex, to a group of rabbis, priests and punks. The versatility of these ensemble actors makes the show come alive. They personify the voices in both the characters’ heads, either advising them or scolding them. One particular highlight of the ensemble is the waiter, Blake Hammond, who sings a jazz serenade about love. The other moment that shines is Aaron’s confrontation with his ex-girlfriend,

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which erupts in an impassioned song that is rewarded by a minute of enthused applause from the audience. The songs, by Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner, and the book, by Austin Winsberg, are not the most memorable, but they are fun and at some moments really shine. The best part of the show is the prices, appropriate for students looking for an affordable first date themselves. Student rush is $30 and all balcony seats are $35. The show, which is young at heart, certainly ca-

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Not often do television dramas produce hour-long odysseys of sustained fear, sadness and potential for vomiting quite like “Breaking Bad.” After watching Sunday’s episode, titled “Ozymandias,” which is named after a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley that tells of the fall of a great pharaoh and the inevitable collapse of great empires, maybe it is time for the general public to return to the generic storylines and milquetoast characters of regular television drama. For the collective psychological health of the nation, that there are only two hours left of the methamphetamine-fueled runaway train that is “Breaking Bad” is probably a better antidote than any cancer treatment Walter White could ever have received. Indeed, there is no mistaking it: last night’s episode, incredible as it may have been, was not fun to watch, nor was it ever meant to be (warning: spoilers ahead). After last week’s cliffhanger to end all cliffhangers in “To’hajiilee,” we all waited in suspense for the opening seconds of “Ozymandias.” At the genesis of the episode, the camera takes us to an old, familiar scene. We find Walt and Jesse cooking meth in their old RV. It’s a flashback. In the beautiful New Mexican desert, a setting forebodingly similar to the spot of the Hank and Gomie versus the Nazis shoot-out, Walt teaches Jesse the ropes of the cook. They squabble. For a moment, we’re supposed to feel nostalgic. Then, during a break in the cook, Walt steps outside the RV, strolls up a sandy hill and dials up Skylar on his cell (I’ve always questioned the improbability of having reception out there in the desert). As Walt conjures up a fib to his wife, his boss at the car wash needing him to work overtime, we realize that this is the first strand in the web of Walt’s lies, the initial catalyst for what will, ultimately, end up with the execution of his brother-in-law in the desert and a shattered family at home. In many ways, “Ozymandias” is the apex of the Breaking Bad story arc, the same way Shelley’s poem

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is about the apex and inevitable fall of a king and his empire. Hank is dead. Gomie is dead. Their deaths sting like the hot desert sun under which they perished. That the demise of everyone’s favorite DEA agents is not the most heartbreaking moment in the episode speaks to the unequivocal black hole into which season five has fallen. The saddest moments came with the scenes involving Walt’s immediate family. Marie forces Skylar to tell her son the truth about his father. Understandably, Flynn refuses to believe that his father is a monster, but when Walt returns home from the tragedy in the desert, so too comes the truth about Hank’s death. Skylar lunges for a knife, and Flynn, now the disabled patriarch of a disabled family, tackles his once beloved father in order to protect his mother and baby sister. One can interpret the final scenes of the episode in two ways. Walt steals his child from his shattered home and flees the house. Flynn calls the cops on his father and at this point it seems as if there will be no light at the end of the tunnel for the White family. Surely, Skylar will be implicated for compliance with her husband, but then the phone rings and it is Walt at the other end. The police listen in and now, finally, the world will know about Heisenburg. Raving like the lunatic that he has convinced everyone that he is, Walt berates and belittles Skylar. “This is all your fault,” he says. At this point Walt is one of two things: either completely off the deep end, or as calculating as ever. Did he know the cops would be listening in? By raving like a madmen, implicating himself completely, is this his last sacrifice to his family? Conjecturing about the next episode is not even fun anymore. Now it is just time for the sprint home. Walt will buy the huge gun we have seen in the flash-forward and Jesse will continue to be tortured by the Nazi’s; that will be the final clash and the question will no longer be who will die, but, for both the audience and the characters, how painful will the end be?

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Volleyball Men’s Soccer Struggles on the Road, Drops Two Matches Ready For A-10 Play By MAX PRINZ

ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

After a shutout win in their home opener, the Fordham men’s soccer team suffered a disappointing road trip. The Rams’ success at Jack Coffey Field did not accompany them on the road, as they lost to Northeastern 1-0 and fell to Army 1-0 in double overtime. “The thing is, we played based on the atmosphere over there,” senior Nathaniel Bekoe said. “We try to adjust to the atmosphere we’re playing in. Nothing is really different in the game but you do notice the traveling.” The Rams’ match with Northeastern was tightly contested for the entire first half. The Rams registered four first-half shots and the Huskies took five. Fordham’s best opportunity came on a free kick from senior Nathaniel Bekoe, but junior Ollie Kelly’s attempt went over the crossbar. There was very little offense to be found. The second half was a different story. The Huskies were reenergized coming out of the break. They

scored a goal just 1:26 into the second half, taking control of the game. Though that early goal would be the only tally, the Huskies’ offense dominated the Rams in the second half. Fordham surrendered 10 shots in the second half alone, and only managed one. The Huskies’ shot advantage, 15-5 for the game, was a clear indicator of the Rams’ struggles. After a disappointing showing at Northeastern, the Rams traveled to face Army. The Black Knights entered the match on Saturday with a 4-0-0 record and had yet to allow a single goal. Army would continue that string of success against Fordham. The match was very much a defensive struggle. Each team managed just one shot on goal in the first half. The third scoring chance of the game came in the second half when freshman Jon Agostino forced the Army goalkeeper to make a stop. The second half finished with neither team scoring, sending the match into overtime. It was in the second session of overtime that the Rams finally succumbed to Army. The Black Knights

scored in the 104th minute of the match to keep Army undefeated. The Rams lost the corner kick battle 7-1 and were outshot 15-9 on the match. Coming in double overtime, the second loss was even more difficult than the first. “Army is a very tough atmosphere to adjust to,” Bekoe said. “I actually

think we did that pretty well but it just didn’t go on our side. It was a tough loss in double overtime.” The thorny road trip drops the Rams’ record to 2-3 on the year. Their next match is Friday, Sept. 20 against Stony Brook. Perhaps playing on Jack Coffey Field can turn the team’s fortunes around.

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Fordham faces the Stony Brook Seawolves on Friday night.

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The Rams held a 13-7 lead at halftime. According to Moorhead, his team handled its success in stride. “The thing about ... halftime, when we went into the locker room, was that you would expect — or at least I was expecting — that the kids would be jumping around, all fired up, all excited, bouncing off the walls because we had a lead over a BCS team,” Moorhead said. “They were just very calm, very reserved. They sat down in their lockers. As a coaching staff, we made the corrections. We told them we were going to go out and do the same thing in the second half, and it was 30 minutes for the rest of our lives.” Temple made a quarterback change to begin the second half, replacing Clinton “Juice” Granger with PJ Walker. Granger was ineffective, completing only six of 15 passes. He also threw an interception and coughed up a fumble on a strip sack by Fordham’s Brett Biestek. Walker played only two series before being replaced by Connor Reilly, the usual starter, who was nursing a knee injury and was originally thought to only be available in case of an emergency. Reilly revealed after the game that he had a bone bruise in his knee in addition to a sprained ACL. Reilly entered the game with his team trailing 20-7 and 6:21 left in the third quarter. His entrance turned the tide for Temple, leading the Owls on three touchdown-scoring drives. “That Reilly kid’s a good quarterback,” Moorhead said. “You can see why he was named the starter. He throws the ball very well, operates the system, and he even ran the ball on some scrambles and a designed run [for a] touchdown.” Reilly’s performance forced Fordham to come from behind in the final minutes. His touchdown pass with 4:31 left in the game put Temple ahead, 27-23. Granger then

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Carlton Koonce had his best game of the young season against Temple, racking up 168 yards on 27 carries.

returned briefly to run the ball into the end zone for a two-point conversion that made it 29-23. On their final drive, the Rams converted two fourth downs — both on runs by Nebrich, both by a matter of mere inches. Then, with time running dangerously low, Nebrich scrambled out of the pocket and found Sam Ajala on the right edge of the end zone. Ajala jumped and caught the ball high above his head. He fell to the ground and was by himself for a brief second, before being mobbed by his teammates. “As I was rolling, I saw Sam chilling at the goal line, with [his defender] stacked on top of him,” Nebrich said. “Then, out of the corner of my eye, I see [Brian] Wetzel running the end line. So I said, ‘Hey, I’m going to throw this thing up and either Sam is going to make a great catch or Wetzel will be right behind him with it.’” According to Moorhead, Nebrich was just doing what he has done all season long. “The original play call was four verticals,” Moorhead said. “There

was 13 seconds left and we needed to get something down near the end zone. Michael did kind of what he does. The play broke down, he scrambled around, and as he’s done throughout this season and particularly this game, he found a way to make a play.” Nebrich continued his strong season, finishing the game with 320 passing yards while completing 23 of 36 passes. For the second time this year, he was named Patriot League Offensive Player of the Week. Fordham swept the League’s Player of the Week honors, as junior linebacker Stephen Hodge earned the award on the defensive side, and junior kicker Michael Marando was honored on special teams. While Fordham was riding high, the loss was a new low for Temple, which fell to 0-3 on the year. Owls freshman running back Zaire Williams told reporters afterwards he felt “dead inside.” Matt Rhule, Temple’s first-year head coach, told the media, “I’m sorry you had to watch that.”

Fordham had not beaten an FBSlevel team since 1954, when the Rams defeated Rutgers. After the 1954 season, Fordham discontinued its football program, but it was reinstated in 1970 at the Division III level, where the Rams played before moving up to Division I-AA/FCS in 1989. Fordham is off to its first 3-0 start since 1988, and after consecutive impressive victories, is ranked 21st in both the FCS coaches’ poll and The Sports Network media poll. But the team still has plenty of work left to do in order to qualify for the FCS playoffs. “Two things: Last week doesn’t matter this week; and the season starts today. That’s what we’re going to tell the guys tomorrow,” Moorhead said after the game. “Whether you trip over the first hurdle or the last hurdle, you still don’t win the race. So we have to have singleness of purpose as we sit down to watch this film and come out and prepare to beat a Columbia team that took us to the fourth quarter last year.”

By TARA SLEDJESKI STAFF WRITER

After starting the Coach Gini Ullery era off strong with a 5-3 record, the Fordham Women’s Volleyball team headed to Columbia University on Sept. 13 to participate in the Columbia Invitational. In their second-to-last tournament before Atlantic 10 conference play begins at home on Sept. 27 against Rhode Island, the Rams looked to improve their game against Boston College, Binghamton and Columbia. The tournament got off to a slow start for the Rams when they fell in straight sets to BC. The first set started out close, but ultimately went in BC’s favor 19-7. The second set was once again close in the beginning before BC took it 25-15. The third set was never in question, with BC taking it 25-12 to secure their victory. The Fordham highlight of the BC match was Sarah Konkel picking up career assist number 2,000. Things got better for the Rams in their second match of the tournament as they beat Binghamton, 3-1. In the first set of the match, Binghamton kept things close, but the Rams took it 25-21. In the second set, Binghamton jumped out to an early lead and, despite comebacks from the Rams throughout, won it by a score of 25-21. The third set was once again a back-and-forth battle, with the Rams winning it 25-20. The score of the fourth and final set was also 25-20 in favor of the Rams, giving them the match win. Coming off of her milestone match, Konkel had another great match by picking up 48 assists. Maria Rodenberg reached a milestone of her own in the Binghamton match, picking up her 1,000th career dig. The Rams finished up the Columbia Invitational by playing the host team Columbia and losing 3-1. The Rams actually started the match off by winning the first set 25-18, but Columbia came out on top in the next three sets. The score of the second set was 25-10, followed by a score of 25-14 in the third set and 25-16 in the fourth set that sent the Rams back to the Bronx with a loss. When all was said and done, Coach Ullery was content with how her team played in the Columbia Invitational despite losing two of the three matches. “We definitely had ups and downs this weekend,” Ullery said. “Overall, I think it was a good test for us. It showed us our strengths and weaknesses so we can prepare ourselves for the start of conference [play] in two weeks.” Before conference play begins, the Rams have one more tournament this upcoming weekend in New Britain, Conn. The CCSU Invitational will put the Rams up against NJIT, Hartford and Central Connecticut over the course of two days. After that, the Rams will have a six-day break before conference play begins.

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MLB BLOG

Playing In Puig’s Shadow By MATTHEW MICHAELS CONTRIBUTING WRITER

This past spring, baseball fans around the country were infatuated by “Puig-Mania.” As soon as he was brought up to the majors, Yasiel Puig made a sudden impact on the previously dead-in-the-water Dodgers. Los Angeles, the team that had been declared “World Series bound or bust” following a busy offseason, occupied last place in a weak division as late as June. At one point, they were 9.5 games behind the lead. Now they are 10.5 games ahead in the NL West. Contrary to media hype, the Dodgers’ resurrection is not the work of Puig alone. The unsung hero of the extended hot streak is shortstop Hanley Ramirez. I do not intend to degrade Puig’s incredible rookie performance. The 22-year-old Cuban defector is the second coming of the perfect athlete that was Bo Jackson. His strong arm and speed, combined with the ability to hit for a high average and flash of the leather, make Puig a five-tooled, once in a generation talent. Once considered one of the best players in the game, Ramirez was traded to the Dodgers midseason in 2012 when the Marlins considered him an expendable commodity. Ramirez suffered an injury to his hand during the championship game of the World Baseball Classic and did not play for the Dodgers this season until April 29. After just three games, Hanley was reinjured and stayed inactive until June 4, the day after Puig made his debut. During last Thursday’s game, the 29-year-old shortstop injured himself again, this time with a hamstring strain. Dodgers manager Don Mattingly knows Reyes can return soon, but feels no need to hurry the recovering process with the NL West all but locked up. Ramirez will be back in uniform

before the conclusion of the regular season, but will not be eligible to win the batting title due because he will not have enough at-bats. However, when the Dodgers are in need of a clutch hit in the postseason, they should look to the veteran Ramirez and not the rookie Puig to deliver. Ramirez played well and was clutch at the dish while the Dodgers climbed in the standings. Since June 3, Los Angeles has won 60 of the 83 games it played, for a winning percentage of .723 during that stretch. Puig garnered most of the media’s attention for his on-field spectacles and his divisive attitude. The right fielder has a batting average of .337, 16 home runs and 37 runs batted in, terrific numbers for a Rookie of the Year candidate. Hanley’s average, however, is five points higher, he has homered twice more and has driven in 16 more runs than his teammate, despite playing fewer games. Meanwhile, the three time All-Star put up impressive splits (BA/OBP/ Slugging) of .342/.390/.634 in just 79 games played. It is no surprise that Puig’s presence has had a large impact on Los Angeles, which has had two of its opening day outfielders struggle with injuries this season. When it comes down to the facts, his greatest contribution may have been deflecting the media’s attention away from the teams poor start. Credit is also due to Clayton Kershaw and Adrian Gonzalez, who improved their performances when Ramirez joined the lineup. Adding Ramirez to the team has proven to be the catalyst needed for the Dodgers to meet their lofty expectations. The star shortstop provided more to Los Angeles’ success than has been reported because of the massive hype of “PuigMania.” Then again, “RamirezMania” doesn’t roll off the tongue quite as easily.

Varsity Scores & Stats

Football Fordham 3 10 7 10 30 Temple 0 7 7 15 29 (FOR)M. Nebrich 320yds 2TDs (TU) C. Reilly 69yds TD Men’s Soccer Fordham 0 0 0 Northeastern 0 1 1 Goals: M. Callahan (NU) 46’

Fordham 3 0 3 Vermont 0 0 0 Goals: N. Natale (FOR) 14’ K. Doughtery-Howard (FOR) 31’ J. Widmann (FOR) 44’ Men’s Tennis Fordham 3 St. Peter’s 4

Volleyball Fordham 25 25 19 25 3 Hofstra 16 21 25 19 1 (FOR) L. Hipp 12 kills (HU) E. Burke 12 kills

Boston College 25 25 25 3 Fordham 14 15 12 0 (BC) K. Workman 9 kills (FOR) L. Hipp 5 kills

Fordham 25 21 25 25 3 Men’s Cross Country Fordham 0 0 0 0 0 Bing. 21 25 20 20 1 LIU Post Invitational Army 0001 1 (FOR) L. Hipp 19 kills Goals: T. Stapley (ARMY) 103’ 5K J. Duckworth 2nd- 25:53.14 (BU) M. Burgess 16 kills Women’s Soccer Columbia 18 25 25 25 3 Women’s Cross Country Fordham 0 0 0 Fordham 25 10 14 16 1 LIU Post Invitational Dartmouth 2 2 4 (CU) Z. Jacobs 13 kills 5K Goals: E. Brush (DC) 16’ S. Heaney 1st- 18:09.22 (FOR) B. O’Neil 9 kills L. Kozlov (DC) 26’ A. Bottalico 2nd- 18:29.14 E.Brush (DC) 48’ C. Lozier (DC) 61’

Athletes of the Week Each week The Fordham Ram’s Sports editors honor one male athlete and one female athlete for their on-field performance as its “Athletes of the Week.”

Michael Nebrich

Jessica Widmann

Redshirt Sophomore

Junior

Football

Soccer

Nebrich led the game-winning drive to beat Temple 30-29. He converted two fourth downs with his legs before tossing the winning TD pass to junior Sam Ajala.

Widmann spearheaded the Fordham offense, scoring two goals in her last three games. Widmann put home a header in the team’s most recent game to give the Rams a 3-0 victory.

News & Notes

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Yasiel Puig has recieved the attention of the entire baseball world this season.

• The most recent FCS Coaches Poll has Fordham football ranked No. 21 in the country. • Fordham football swept the most recent Patriot League Player of the Week Awards. Junior linebacker Stephen Hodge was named Defensive Player of the Week, redshirt sophomore quarterback Michael Nebrich was named Offensive Player of the Week and junior kicker Michael Marando was named Special Teams Player of the Week. • Two members of the Volleyball team reached milestones this past week. Senior Sarah Konkel picked up her 2,000th assist and senior Maria Rodenberg made her 1,000th dig. • Freshman Shanna Heaney broke the 5K course record at the LIU Post Invitiatonal this past weekend. She bested the record previously held by Keri Gallagher by finishing in 18:09.22. • Juniors Sarah Ali and Elliesa Ball of the women’s tennis team took home the “A” Doubles Title at the Stony Brook Invitational this past weekend.

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Kearns’ Kickoff While home games excite many fans, road games test the true mettle of our teams. Fordham’s football team validated this point with a 30-29 victory at Temple, while the Yankees showcased their mediocrity in a disappointing series versus the Red Sox. Because the odds are stacked against away teams, road wins often become the most memorable conquests of all. In many cases, a team uses a huge road win as a springboard towards greater things. Last fall, Johnny Manziel’s Texas A&M Aggies faced a daunting challenge as they entered Tuscaloosa to play undefeated Alabama. Despite the staggering magnitude of the game, Manziel threw two touchdown passes, and the defense got a major interception to preserve a 29-24 win. The victory fueled an 11-win season for the Aggies, and propelled Manziel to a Heisman Trophy. The road win proved essential for future success and allowed the victorious teams to escape mediocrity. By contrast, failures on the road can doom a season to mediocrity: the ultimate punishment for sports fans. In 2004, the Yankees held a 4-3 lead in Game 4 of the ALCS, with just one out separating them from a sweep of Boston. Mariano Rivera stood on the mound, and even the most optimistic Red Sox fans had given up on the series. But, the Sox rallied and won consecutive games with walk-off extra inning hits. The Yankees’ failure to execute away from home galvanized the Sox, and the rest is history. After overcoming all obstacles and defeating a worthy opponent, the silence of home fans leaving the stadium speaks volumes. This was never more apparent than at Lincoln Financial Field this past Saturday afternoon, where Fordham shocked the college football world with its stirring 30-29 win at Temple. Despite a monumental all-around performance, the Rams found themselves trailing 29-23 with four minutes left. Quarterback Michael Nebrich delivered, with two gritty fourth down runs to move the chains. Despite these clutch conversions, Fordham needed to travel 29 more yards with just 13 seconds remaining and no timeouts. The situation looked bleak, and it got even worse as the called four verticals play broke down. With three defenders chasing Nebrich down, he fired toward the end zone, but when Sam Ajala leapt over two defenders to haul the pass in, the roars turned to silence. As the fans filed out after a game-ending sack, Fordham’s players filled the stadium with cheers. I personally love when my teams win on the road. It shows a resiliency that cannot be fully duplicated at home. Fordham’s road win in particular should be remembered for years to come, because it came on the biggest stage an FCS team can get. This may be the start of something greater, or “merely” serve as the greatest win for Fordham football in the last 50 years. Regardless, we should always savor great road wins in any sport, especially when they matter most. — Dominic Kearns

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September 18, 2013

Senior Profile: Nathaniel Bekoe Deuce’s Wild

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Nat Bekoe was the MVP of the Brown Soccer Classic during his junior campaign. The Rams went 2-0 in the tournament.

By MAX PRINZ ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

Senior Nathaniel Bekoe has played a major role on the men’s soccer team for each of his four years at Fordham. He was named First Team All-Atlantic 10 his sophomore year, was a Third Team NSCAA All-Mid-Atlantic Region selection last year and has started 47 of the 48 games he has appeared in. The Fordham Ram: You were born in Ghana. How did you end up coming to Fordham? Nathaniel Bekoe: Well, I got recruited to high school. I went to high school in Connecticut, the Hotchkiss school. I spent two years there, my junior and senior year, and then I got recruited to Fordham. There were a lot of schools giving me offers. It came down to Fordham and Boston University, and I chose Fordham because I thought it was the best fit for me. TFR: You’ve played a major role on the team each season. How does it feel knowing this season is your last? NB: It’s tough to think that it’s my last season. Sometimes I don’t

believe it is my last one. I’m always thinking about the next game. I try not to think it’s my last year; I just play like I’m still in college. I haven’t changed my approach that much, and I’m trying not to put too much pressure on myself. I think about each game as it comes. TFR: You’re a vocal leader on the pitch. What goes into that? NB: I think it’s about the culture where I grew up in Ghana. It’s different on the field in Ghana. In Ghana, people talk a lot more than they do here. When I was younger, my youth coach pressured us to talk to each other. If you don’t talk a lot, you’re going to struggle. I’m definitely a vocal person, but it’s more about my culture and where I grew up. TFR: What has been your favorite moment at Fordham? NB: There are two actually. One was when we beat Temple my sophomore year. We beat them in the last regular season game to clinch an A-10 championship spot. It was great because we tied it up and then won in the second overtime. The second is when we beat Charlotte. We beat them 1-0 at home. They were ranked, and that

was a really great moment. TFR: The team has scored five goals this season from five different players. Is that your strategy or just a fluke? NB: It’s good to get everybody involved. I like that five different guys have scored, I think it’s a good thing. I’d like to have 11 guys scoring one goal each rather than one guy scoring 11 goals. You never know when someone’s going to have a bad day. TFR: What are the team’s goals for this season? NB: Obviously we want to make the playoffs and try to make our first NCAA tournament. It depends on how hard we work. We’re under .500, and we’re trying to get back up there. The main goal is to finish up well in the conference, play well in the conference tournament and try to make the NCAA. TFR: Do you have any plans for after graduation? NB: No, not yet. I don’t really have any idea yet. I’m still working hard in school and playing soccer so whichever road opens up I will definitely take it.

Men’s Tennis Falls to Saint Peter’s in Opener By NICOLE HORTON CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Fordham men’s tennis team opened its fall season on Saturday, Sept. 14, against the Saint Peter’s Peacocks with a very competitive match. The match began with advantageous doubles play by the Rams, earning them the doubles point. Seniors Kuba Kowalski and Matty Najfeld teamed up for an 8-6 victory over Charlie Carrera and Marko Knezevic. Meanwhile, juniors J.J. Tauil and Max Peara bested Tom Jottrand and Jorge Del Rey Rojas, 9-8 with a 7-2 tiebreaker victory. In the singles competition, Najfeld followed up his doubles win with an impressive showing at second singles, topping Knezevic 6-3, 6-2. At fifth singles, junior Jan Krouham adeptly defeated Mario

Huljev 6-1, 6-0. However, after three singles losses by juniors Michael Puntillo, Peder Gram and J.J. Tauil, the match decision came down to the sixth and final singles match between Gram and Del Rey Rojas. Del Rey Rojas would recover from his double loss with a 6-4, 7-5 victory over Gram, thereby solidifying the Peacocks’ 4-3 win over the Rams. “It was definitely tough to see us lose 3-4 in the last game,” said Fordham head coach Dimitar Brzov. “It was a good wake up call for us. It reminds us that we have to work hard and remain disciplined and focused.” The Rams have a positive outlook on their upcoming fall schedule and the season as a whole. “In terms of the record compared to last year, 8-10, coming in on paper we look much stronger

which should help us,” Brzov said. “We’re looking forward to a good, winning year.” Brzov also awaits the return of injured players junior Mischa Koran and redshirt senior Alastair Barnes. Koran saw this past season interrupted by injury and he is expected to make his return in the spring. Barnes is slated to make his Rams debut this fall after sitting out the 2012-2013 season due to NCAA transfer rules. These two players will certainly add depth to the Rams for the 2013-2014 season. Next up for Fordham is the USTA College Invitational, held at the National Tennis Center in Flushing, Queens from Sept. 20-22. The Rams will make their home debut on Sept. 28, with a match against New York Tech at 12 p.m.

The day is Sept. 14, 2013. Yu Darvish walks off the mound after seven strong innings of onerun ball, giving up just four hits and striking out 10. The Rangers would lose a tough one to the A’s, 1-0. Matt Moore, Brandon Gomes and four other Rays relievers combine on a four-hit shutout of the Twins. Ubaldo Jimenez turns in yet another impressive outing, giving up one run on eight hits over 8 1/3 innings to help the Indians beat the White Sox 8-1. CC Sabathia struggles to make it through six innings, allowing 13 runners to reach base and five runs to score. The Red Sox beat the Yankees 5-1. Those are three of the four teams ahead of the Yankees in the wild card standings entering the second-to-last week of the season, and they’ve all had several great pitching performances help them to the top. It’s generally important to have a quality outing a couple of times per week to keep your team in the hunt. How about the Yankees? They haven’t had a decent outing since Sept. 8, when Hiroki Kuroda went just six innings, giving up two runs. Joe Girardi had so little faith in the bullpen that he had to send in Mariano Rivera for two innings, and he blew the save. Before that, the Yankees had David Huff going 5 2/3 innings in relief on Sept. 2, picking up the win against the measly White Sox. That’s all — the Yankees seemingly have nothing going for them when it comes to pitching. Ivan Nova’s never really been able to handle pitching in a big spot, and he’s been pretty unimpressive down the stretch thus far. CC Sabathia hasn’t been himself all year. Phil Hughes was removed from the rotation, but things got so bad, he was put back in. Even the great #HIROK has begun to crumble. The only thing the rotation has working for them is the elderly Andy Pettitte, who just a month ago was the staff ’s weak link, looking like a guy who was ready to hang up the spikes. The bullpen doesn’t get any better — Joba Chamberlain has an ERA over five in September, while Shawn Kelley, Preston Claiborne and David Robertson all make Joba look like John Wetteland. The only effective pitchers in the ‘pen have been Adam Warren, Matt Daley (who?) and Dellin Betances. It is ugly right now. I say the Yankees should give the ball to Betances frequently this month. David Phelps is also back, so he’ll help, but someone needs to take the bull by the horns here. The Yankees can actually hit again (thanks, A-Rod!), now all they need is a couple of good outings. Without those, though, there’s no way this team makes the playoffs. So get out your David Phelps and Ivan Nova jerseys, Yankee fans. They’re going to need a big turnaround from the pitching staff to smell the postseason. — Kenny Ducey

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September 18, 2013

Women’s Tennis Begins Year at Stony Brook Invitational

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By MATT ROSENFELD SPORTS EDITOR

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Bella Genkina advanced to the semifinals of the “D” singles draw.

By TARA CANGIALOSI CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Fordham women’s tennis team opened its fall season this past weekend at the seventh annual Stony Brook Invitational, with play beginning on Friday, Sept. 13 and wrapping up on Sunday, Sept. 15. On Friday, the Rams swung into action in the “A” doubles tournament, with juniors Elliesa Ball and Sarah Ali defeating duos from Army and Navy 8-2 and 8-3, respectively. After defeating Rhode Island 8-2 in the semifinals on Saturday, Ball and Ali were set to play in the finals on Sunday against Army’s Jamila Paul and Gabirella Spindler. In a close match, the Rams edged their competition 8-6, winning the doubles “A” draw. Also in doubles, senior Angelika Dabu and junior Julie Leong competed in the “B” draw, falling to Army 8-6, while Bella Genkina teamed up with Stony Brook’s Alexa Cohn, dropping the match to Fairleigh Dickinson 8-1. In singles action, Genkina rebounded as she defeated Navy’s Cassie Fisbeck in three sets; 6-0, 3-6, 10-3 in the “D” draw. Genkina came back on Saturday to defeat Army’s Alyson Hayley 6-4, 6-4, but dropped her semifinal match to Stony Brook’s Louise Badoche, 6-4, 6-4. Junior Anika Novacek also bounced back from her doubles loss to beat URI’s Jordan Rucks 6-4, 6-0 in her first singles match in the “C” draw. Novacek fell to FDU’s Gisela Castany in her second match, though. Leong played in the “C” draw as well, advancing to the singles final with victories over Navy’s Rozel Hernandez (6-3, 6-0) and Stony Brook’s Lisa Seyton (6-4, 7-5). After a strong showing, Leong fell 6-2, 6-0 to Castany in the final on Sunday. The “B” draw also saw strong

play from Dabu, who defeated Marist’s Marielle Campbell, 6-3, 6-0. She beat Farleigh Dickinson’s Masha Krachok 6-3, 7-6 (5) to move to the semifinals but was forced to retire during her match against Stony Brook’s Cassandra Dix. Fordham’s Destiny Grunin was also in the “B” draw, but dropped her opening match 6-1, 6-2 to Dayana Agasleva of ASA College. In the “A” draw, the doubles team of Ali and Ball split to compete individually. The tough competition of the “A” draw gave both women a challenge, and both ultimately fell to their competitors. Ali lost to Stony Brook’s Jackie Altan Sarnai 6-2, 6-1, and Ball fell to Galina Chernykh of URI, 6-1, 6-1. The Rams competed well this weekend, grabbing the “A” doubles tournament final. Additionally, the strong play in each of the singles tournaments demonstrated the versatility and strength Coach Bette-Ann Liguori will need this fall, especially from her returning players. “Sarah Ali and Ellie Ball have the capability of interchanging in the number one position this year,” Liguori said. “And Angie Dabu, my senior, is a solid player.” With the addition of Elliesa Ball, a junior transfer from Marshall College, the Rams will be even stronger. Ball looks to aid Ali and Dabu in filling the hole left by Amy Simidian, a graduate of the class of 2013. The team looks to continue its strong play throughout the regular season, hopefully placing high in the A-10 Conference, in addition to getting as many girls as possible into the regional tournament in October. The Rams will be back in action on Saturday, Sept. 21, as they host the Manhattan College Jaspers on the Hawthorn/Rooney Courts at 11 a.m. and Adelphi University at 3 p.m.

I have a dilemma. I’m an avid football fan. I like college and professional football more than any other sport and it’s not even close. Like most big football fans these days, I participate in fantasy football. If you think about it, fantasy football is the best invention for the common football fan. It gives you a rooting interest in almost every game, every weekend, and when money is on the line things are always more interesting. Most sports fans dream of being the general manager of a football team. We all think we can make the right decision on who to play, who to sit and when to drop a certain player. Fantasy football seems to be all the fun in the world. But late last year, when I was competing for my fantasy league’s title, I realized something: I hate the way fantasy football makes me watch the NFL. The easiest way I can explain it is that it pulls your heart in so many different directions that it’s only a matter of time until it breaks. If you’re just a casual fan of a team (let’s say, the Giants) and you don’t play fantasy football, your happiness on Monday morning is directly proportional to your team’s success. If the Giants win their game, you have had a successful football weekend. If they don’t, however, you’re counting the days until next Sunday. That’s how I used to be. Until I was 17 or 18, I just rooted for my team, the Giants. I went as they went. Then, I started to play fantasy football and, after putting a lot of thought into this, I think I can explain how fantasy football ruins the NFL viewing experience. The fantasy element drastically expands the spectrum of good and bad football weekends. Instead of being on a scale of zero to one, now this scale is one to 100. There are many more possible results, and a much smaller chance that you reach the pinnacle of a successful football weekend. I’ll use myself as an example. I

currently partake in three fantasy leagues, along with being a big New York Giants fan. Come Tuesday morning, the results of four games will factor into my mood — one real, three virtual. The Giants come first. I always, put the team I’m rooting for in front of my fantasy results. I don’t know how anybody can do otherwise, and I’m definitely judging you if you do. If the Giants win, it’s a good week. But, instead of just ending there, I have three other games to worry about. If the Giants win and all of my fantasy teams lose, well, it’s still a good week, but not nearly as good as when I just worried about how the Giants played. If you reverse it and say all my fantasy teams won, but the Giants did not, again, I’m a little happy but still a bit sad. Rarely do I have a week where all of my teams win across the board, and rarely is there a time when all of my teams lose. The result is me, just stuck in this gray area of happy and sad with the way the football weekend went. And that’s just the big picture of fantasy. The real problem comes with watching the games that have nothing to do with the Giants. I love football, and I enjoy watching the game for the game itself, not so much certain players. With fantasy added, however I turn into a guy that only wants Matt Stafford to throw to Calvin Johnson, or yelling at the

49ers to give Anquan Boldin the ball more often. Rarely can I sit back and just take in a good game because I’m more concerned with the stats that my players are or are not putting up. I fully understand why fantasy is great. So many people have reasons to watch so many more games because of it. Would the average fan watch the Vikings and Browns game that will be on Sunday? Probably not. But, if a fantasy owner has Adrian Peterson or Trent Richardson, he or she certainly will tune in. Week after week, I find myself always a little bit stressed, a little bit upset and always on edge about my fantasy teams and the decisions that go along with it. So why do I do it? Because I think I’ll win a little money in the end. And guess what? I rarely do. Is it worth it? That’s my dilemma. I ask myself the same thing every year. Every August I come close to cutting off all fantasy ties and trying to enjoy the Giants and the NFL season as a whole. I never do it, though. And, I probably never will. I withstand the ups and downs. I hope the Giants make the playoffs, because that’s when I can shower them with unconditional love. I can’t give fantasy football up because, unfortunately, this light form of gambling is too much fun when you win…and I always think that I’m going to win.

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Roddy White is one player that is driving fantasy owners crazy this season.

Upcoming Varsity Schedule Home games in CAPS

Thursday Sept. 19

Friday Sept. 20

Sunday Sept. 22

Men’s Soccer

STONY BROOK 7 p.m.

Women’s Soccer

at Providence 4 p.m.

PRINCETON 7 p.m. MANHATTAN 11 a.m.

USTA College Invitational All Day

Cross Country

Leeber Invititational & Iona Meet

Golf Volleyball

Tuesday Sept. 24

Wednesday Sept. 25

at Temple 3 p.m.

Men’s Tennis

Water Polo

Monday Sept. 23

COLUMBIA 1 p.m.

Football

Women’s Tennis

Saturday Sept. 21

MIT & CONN. COLL Cornell Invitational All Day CCSU Invitational 7 p.m./11 a.m. HARVARD & BROWN

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September 18, 2013

Women Shutout Vermont, 3-0, After 4-0 Loss to Dartmouth Fordham By JAKE GROGAN STAFF WRITER

After suffering what could have been a morale disaster at the hands (or feet) of Dartmouth Friday night, the Rams bounced back for an impressive 3-0 win against Vermont to improve to an overall record of 2-4-1. Dartmouth was able to net four goals against the Rams Friday night, two in the first half against junior goalkeeper Ally White and two in the second against freshman Megan Fitzgerald. Two of those goals were scored by Dartmouth’s Emma Brush, who also contributed an assist to the 4-0 win. The loss was the third shutout by an opposing team against the Rams this season, highlighting the offensive struggles that Fordham has been experiencing throughout the beginning of the 2013 season. Hopefully Sunday’s game against Vermont showed us a sign of things to come, as the Rams’ offense celebrated three goals in the first half that would end up resulting in a 3-0 win. Freshman forward Nicol Natale started the scoring in the 15th minute off a cross feed from senior forward Kelley Alpaugh. Natale put the ball past Vermont goalkeeper Ally Ramos for her first collegiate goal. Senior midfielder Kelsey Dougherty Howard would put the Rams up 2-0 15 minutes later with a header off a free kick from senior

midfielder Mary Solimine. Dougherty Howard would get involved in the scoring again with a long pass to freshman defender Nicole Bates, who beat Vermont’s defense and sent a cross feed to junior midfielder Jessica Widmann. Widman hit a header into the net, joining Dougherty Howard in scoring their second goals of the season. “The midfield connected the team, keeping everyone compact,” Widmann said. “As a new forward, I couldn’t have asked for anything more from the midfield and defense. They dominated the field and kept possession for our team.” The defense played as spectacu-

larly as the offense did on Sunday, allowing only one shot on goal for the whole game. White and Fitzgerald each played a half, with Fitzgerald making a major save in the second half. “If we continue to play with the calmness we did yesterday, I feel that will keep the offensive success going,” continued Widmann, addressing the team’s strategy for continuing its success. The team’s next three opponents are a combined 9-7-3, with a game at Providence coming up this Friday, Sept. 20. The Friars have given up just seven goals in seven games, three of which came against Dayton,

so the Rams are going to have to be firing on all cylinders to get back to .500. They certainly have the talent to do it. Their defense is loaded with both freshman talent and junior and senior experience. Their midfielders are made up of a group of veterans that know how to get the offense going. If the two units begin to click at the same time, like they did against Vermont, this team could cause some serious problems for other A-10 schools. The Rams open conference play at Rose Hill against Rhode Island on Sept. 29. Their next home game is on Sept. 24 against Princeton.

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Senior midfielder Jessica Widmann has scored two goals in her last three games. She missed last season with an injury.

Water Polo Goes 2-2 at Bucknell Invational, Conference Play Looms By BETSY BOEHLER CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The water polo team had another challenging weekend on the road at the Bucknell Invitational, facing Washington & Jefferson, Diablo Valley College, Mercyhurst, a preseason top-20 team, and Bucknell, which is ranked 15th in the nation. Unfazed by the tough competition, Fordham came out strong against Washington & Jefferson. The Rams had a strong 7-2 lead by halftime, with senior Nick Allen netting three goals and senior Ben Clinkinbeard, sophomore Andrew Gonzalez, sophomore Patrick Reyes and junior Eric Minowitz sinking one apiece. The Rams stumbled a bit and Washington & Jefferson narrowed the score to 8-4. In the fourth quarter, however, the Rams relentlessly stepped it up and left with a 12-4 win. Sophomore Peter Bergum had two goals in the fourth quarter and sophomores Patrick Lenihan and Mike Hay ended the scoring with one goal each. Junior Noah LeBeau had a solid eight saves and senior Eric Mullery had one as well. Game two on Saturday was a tough loss for the Rams. Diablo Valley College came out strong, ending the first quarter 7-1; however, the Rams were persistent in their efforts to come back. After a six goal streak in the fourth quarter the team fell just short, losing 13-11. Lenihan scored four goals and led the Rams attack. Gonzalez added three and sophomores Bobby Wurtz and Davis DeFontes, Allen and Clinkinbeard all had one. LeBeau ended the game with six saves and Mullery had

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Fordham opens conference play with home games this weekend against Brown, Harvard, MIT and Connecticut College.

five in the final quarter to help the defense. On Sunday morning, Fordham had a rough game against Mercyhurst, but persevered. The Rams held the lead for most of the game and added a four-goal safety net in the final quarter, winning the game 10-6. Junior Ori Raz had a game-high four goals, while Lenihan netted three, Allen had two and Wurtz had the final goal. LeBeau had nine saves to help secure the Rams’ victory. “Mercyhurst was a top four team in the east in 2013,” head coach Bill Harris said, “so the win over them showed that we are moving in the right direction.” The Rams fell to Bucknell 14-7 in

game two, though. At the end of the first quarter the score was tied at two, but by halftime the Bison had netted five more and took control of the game. Raz and DeFontes each had two, while Allen, Clinkinbeard and Minowitz had one apiece. LeBeau had nine saves in goal once again. Proving to be a very consistent keeper, LeBeau will be a key player this season. The returning junior, who appeared in 25 of the 27 games last fall, making 199 saves (the sixth most in a single season in Fordham history). He also holds the record for most saves in a game, topping the charts with 21 against Mercyhurst last year. Still playing out of conference games, the team is building up a

steady record (5-3) for the start of conference play this weekend. They have a lot of action this weekend, with two games on both Saturday and Sunday. The Rams lost two players this weekend with DeFontes and Reyes suffering injuries, so the team will have to pull from the bench for the coming weekend. “We fought hard this weekend,” Harris said, “but I would have felt better going into the conference games with a full squad.” The weekend kicks off with a match against Harvard (2-7) at 2 p.m. and then Brown (6-4) at 7 p.m. Following on Sunday will be MIT (2-5) at 10 a.m. and Connecticut College (1-5) at 2 p.m.

Sweeps LIU Post Meet

Men’s and Women’s Teams Both Place First; By BRYAN KIEL CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Fordham cross country team continued its hot streak Saturday at the LIU Post Invitational in Brookville, N.Y. With wins from both the men’s and women’s sides, the teams continue to place strong times in the standings from many of their runners. This depth is a strong indication that the Rams will continue their hot streak well into the fall. The women, with their second title of the season, ran a different group of girls this race, still placing many in the top 10. Fordham ran six freshmen, three of which placed in the top 10. This included Shanna Heaney, Ariana Bottalico and Brianne Roche. Heaney’s time of 18:09 and Bottalico’s time of 18:29 not only gained them the top two spots overall, but were also record-breaking times for the Invitational. Roche finished sixth with a time of 18:53 and sophomores Melanie Notarstefano and Suzanne Forlenza finished eighth and 11th with times of 19:15 and 19:52, respectively. This is the first race in which Coach Dewey ran the freshman women and it is expected that they will continue to make big improvements to the team. “I think the biggest factor that came out of our first two team wins is a confidence boost,” Roche said. “But it is also important to say that they contributed to a greater sense of team unity.” The top three freshmen, Heaney, Bottalico and Roche, will be joining five other runners this Saturday at the Iona Meet of Champions at Van Cortlandt Park. The men’s team, after finishing third at Van Cortlandt last week, took the win over Manhattan College at LIU Post Invitational. Finishing second overall and first for Fordham was Jake Duckworth, a freshman from Monroe, Conn. The Rams placed four other runners in the top 10 as well: freshmen Adam Schwenzfeier and Ryan McGann, senior Kevin Harvey and junior William Slattery. Schwenzfeier placed third overall with a time of 25:56, just three seconds after Duckworth and 30 seconds away from the leader, Mikael Rojeras, a senior from Manhattan College. Harvey placed fourth overall, with a time of 26:03. McGann was sixth with a time of 26:18 and Slattery finished ninth with a time of 26:31. With three freshmen in the top 10, Fordham once again displayed its depth and youth, signs of a truly developing team that could prove fortuitous in the next few years for cross country. The next race for the men will be split this Saturday; the top seven men will be running at Van Cortlandt for the Iona Meet of Champions, while the rest of the team will be competing in the Leeber Invitational in Fairfield, Conn.