The Pace Chronicle - Volume II, Issue X

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The Pace Chronicle Volume II, Issue X

Inside News............3 Feature.........2,4 Health.......4,5 Opinion........6-8 Entertainment.....9 Sports...........11,12

The G-Spot: Page 6

Rushing to Orgasm

News: Page 3

Fiscal Cliff Looms

Health: Page 5

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Victory through Hardware Pace Students Invent Fun & Friendly “Smile Gear” iPad Stylus Dr. Copolla Jennifer Simon Janelle Wallace Contributing Writers This month, two of Pace’s MS in educational technology students, Jennifer Simon and Janelle Wallace, achieved their dream of being published before they graduate.

As part of their TS642 Computer Hardware, Troubleshooting, and Maintenance class taught

by Dr. Jean Coppola, Simon and Wallace developed adaptive iPad styles for the hand/arms and head that they call “Smile Gear.” These unique, colorful, and friendly styluses have been selected to have their Assistive Technology invention placed into a new book, Design and Technologies for Healthy Aging (DATHA) as part of a coalition initiative housed at the Center for Assistive Technologies and Environmental Access (CATEA).

The DATHA is currently under development by Claudia Rébola, Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Industrial Design at Georgia Institute of Technology.

Simon and Wallace explained, “We discovered that in certain cases of cerebral palsy and other physical disabilities, patients are

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not able to use e-Devices to their full capacity because they are restricted physically. To help solve this problem and also bring a smile to people with disabilities, we have created two gizmos designed for touchscreen devices that are cool, colorful, functional, and simple to create. These friendly self-made adaptive tools

are a refreshing change to the cold and uncomfortable metal/plastic pointers that are the norm for alternative tools. The tools we have developed are inexpensive to make, flexible for different needs and body sizes, and lend themselves to people with disabilities who have difficulty using the iPad or other e-Devices. These cool &

colorful styluses are able to wrap around hands, arms, or the head to point and select apps on touchscreen devices. One special and distinctive feature about our tools is that they are available in different colors and textures even with fun accessories like eyeballs and antenna which transform these styluses into friendly creatures that not only aid those with disabilities, but that also boost their confidence by putting a smile on their faces and making them feel “cool” about using it.”

This new book by DATHA will focus on design tools used for aging for the purpose of identifying and communicating designed technologies for healthy aging.

The book will be illustrated with approximately 200 pages containing an inventory of designed technologies for older adults. The completion of the book is expected within two years, with Wiley being a target publisher. For this book, designed technologies are defined as products that make use of digital interactive technologies to support an activity for older adult.

Just another example of what PACE Students can achieve! To find more, you can visit their website at: http://paceuniversity2012. wix.com/victoryhardware.

Power Couple Set to Return to T.V. as Parents in New Sequel Series Samantha Finch

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Holiday Blues Sports: page 11

Tamilee Webb

The year 2012 is coming to a close - but not before bringing a piece of the past into the future.

The announcement of the release of a pilot episode for a new ABC’s Disney Channel series Girl Meets World, a spinoff of the hit 90s television sitcom Boy Meets World (BMW), was made early last week.

Earlier in Nov. it was publicized that Disney Channel was in the first phases of creating a new series whose protagonist would be Riley Matthews, the 13 yearold daughter of Cory Matthews and Topanga Lawrence, the two protagonists of the original series.

In the long tradition of television super couples, perhaps no couple is more unforgotten than

Cory Matthews and Topanga Lawrence, whose friendshipturned-love melted the hearts of the 90s generation. Now, 12 years later, they are back and ready to step out of the role of children and into the role of parents.

On Nov. 26, it was officially reported that after more than a decade, Ben Savage (Cory) and Danielle Fishel (Topanga) would reprise their roles for the new series where Savage would also play a seventh grade school teacher, almost mirroring the pivotal role of Mr. Feeny. Both Savage and Fishel are excited for the new project.

The creator and executive producer of Boy Meets World Michael Jacobs is developing the new show.

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“Power Couple Set to Return”

Photo from CNN.com Cory and Tapanga return and are happily married with two kids in the new Disney Channel show Girl Meets World.

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Meet the Greeks: Sigma Iota Chi (ΣIX)

Arthur Augustyn

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Sigma Iota Chi (ΣΙΧ) is the youngest sorority at Pace Pleasantville and in turn, the most rapidly changing. The sorority was brought back on campus in the spring of 2010 after a five-year hiatus when the organization was removed from the campus for hazing allegations. Despite the setback, the organization is working hard to be viewed in a positive light through their contributions to the campus. ΣΙΧ was founded in Sept.

1989 as the first local sorority at Pace. ΣΙΧ was brought back to campus because of the efforts made by Barbara Kotsmanidis, an alumni of Pace and member of ΣΙΧ. Kotsmanidis was active when the organization was removed from campus five years ago and contacted Pace about bringing the sorority back to the school in 2010. Due to the hazing allegations and removal from campus, ΣΙΧ has gained a reputation of having an intense education period.

“I think a lot of people have a misconception of us that we’re such a tough sorority. Not a lot of people want to join us because of these rumors,” said senior business management major and president of ΣΙΧ Alicia Holzer.

Holzer has heard rumored hazing rituals that range in levels of absurdity. Some suggest physical abuse and other force lewd acts towards other Greeks. Holzer insists the rumors are not true.

“I’m not the type of person who would join an organization that would degrade me,” said Holzer. “We don’t degrade anyone that joins us.”

The misconception is a popular one but ΣΙΧ’s members don’t let the rumors get in the way of their accomplishments.

“We try to be mature,” said Holzer. “We never choose sides in Pace’s drama. We strive to stay out of conflict.”

Even though ΣΙΧ’s reputation is a source of drama, the organization doesn’t feel obliged to actively combat it. They prefer to set examples through their contributions.

One of the biggest contributions ΣΙΧ has on the campus is bringing back the Pace Pageant, which used to be an annual event back when the sorority was still on campus five years ago. Last year the event was co-sponsored with UPC and gathered over 50 students to view the pageant.

Contestants have three rounds of competing: formalwear, casualwear and talent. The event is open to both men and women and a portion of the funds raised for the Pace Pageant is donated to breast

completely different ideas on what they want for the holidays.

“Most men want the new iPhone 5,” said sophomore business major Blair Wyna.

Senior accounting major Bobby Davenport suggested movie tickets as a good holiday gift.

Fathers can be one of the hardest people to shop for. What do you buy for a man that who is able to buy whatever he wants or needs?

“The best bet is to go with a gift card,” said senior public accounting major Emmanuel Ramirez.

At the Pace bookstore there are dozens of different kinds of gift cards that have various bal-

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Photo from Alicia Holzer Sisters of Sigma Iota Chi. cancer awareness. ΣΙΧ is also hoping to start another annual tradition through an event called Sig I Circus and Alpha Phi Dunk, a circus-themed event that’s co-sponsored with Alpha Phi Delta. The event hopes to provide a dunk tank, food and music towards the end of spring semester. ΣΙΧ hopes the event allows for students to unwind and relax just before finals take place.

Currently, the organization only has 12 members, so they are limited in their ability compared to other organizations that have over 30 members. In the future, they hope to increase their numbers and increase the number of events they can plan and host.

However, those 12 members consider themselves a tight-knit

unit and can accomplish most tasks thrown their way. Holzer believes that ΣΙΧ’s members are closer to one another than most organizations. Despite the date members entered, or their personalities, they all have a pro-active nature in common which bonds them together.

This pro-activeness is what allows them to accomplish the events they’ve planned so far and what pushes them to improve in future semester. ΣΙΧ looks for members who are deeply invested in becoming a part of their organization and have the maturity to get along with the existing members. Their Pace Pageant and Sig I Circus events are intended to take place next semester.

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Holiday Shopping It’s that time of year again.

Everyone is making last minute dashes to the local shopping centers in town to get deals on everything from footballs to bracelets for family and loved ones.

However, one thought will keep you tossing and turning at night, haunting you until time runs out.

What is that one simple thing you should get them for the holidays?

While it is clear that most girls don’t want a football it can be unclear and sometimes frustrating to try and figure out what those dearest to you want for the holidays. This is only compounded when it seems that they have everything that they could ask for already in their hands.

This, however, doesn’t mean that it is impossible. The following are some of the most widely craved items to get your girlfriend, boyfriend, brother, sister, farther, or mother.

When it comes to women ages 25 and under there are three main items you can buy according to Pace students.

“Chocolate and/or a nice pair of jewelry, preferably Pandora bracelets,” said junior communications major Sara Palmer.

“Concert tickets are also a great gift,” said junior biology major Jessica Mirto.

Men on the other hand have

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Christopher D’Erasmo/The Pace Chronicle It’s that time of year of again. ances from 15 to 100 dollars.

They also come in various forms including restaurants, iTunes, major clothing stores, and general Visa cards.

Mothers, in comparison to fathers, are far easier to shop for.

However, what your mother likes and wants can have a great swaying power over what you should buy her.

“It depends on what she wants.

If she likes jewelry, you get her that. If she likes to knit, you get her a crochet. If she likes clothes or shoes you get her those. Or, if she wants picture frames, you can get here those,” said junior nursing major Alicia Thompson.

When it comes time to go

shopping for your holiday list, make sure that you get through your list quickly. A majority of the bigger items on your list might not be on the shelves if you wait too long. Also, a good tip is to plan ahead on which stores to go to.

For those students without a car and no time between finals to shop, a quick stop in town from the bus will get you through 90 percent of your holiday shopping.

Starbucks sells cool coffee and tea accessories, and the Pleasantville Pharmacy sells candles and tchotchkes. You will be surprised what some stores also sell besides their main product this time of the year.

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‘Debate for Democracy’ Programming Skills Required for Stresses the Importance Non-Computer Sciences Majors of Civic Engagement Heather Askildsen News Editor

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Pace held its ‘Debate for Democracy’(D4D) last Fri. in Gottesman. To kick off the event, President Friedman took the stage.

“Civic engagement is in our DNA,” said President Friedman.

“It is in the seal of Pace University.”

The opening remarks stressed the importance of communication between citizens and their government. The problem is money, an absurd amount. Tens of millions going toward an election or a political party could leave the party more concerned with the welfare of its wealthiest constituents.

Students were broken up into groups of two and were told to discuss the fiscal cliff.

Students then went over the types of unions. Three examples were used: a green energy company, an anti-tobacco group, and a public library. Students were asked to discuss a bill that would help each. Participants were instructed to ask five questions about the program: what were its goals, stockholder’s directly, public opposition, cost, and alternatives to the program.

The event also went over debate techniques and logical fallacies. Students were taught the nine deadly rebuttals. These rebuttals include factual rebuttal, co-opt concern, strawberry v.

vanilla, pivot, agree to disagree, you leave the argument, and go emotional.

Students were asked to discuss which union should get 100 million dollars to help sponsor them: green energy, anti-tobacco commercials, or the library? In groups if two, students with opposing views walked around the room and engaged in debate. The importance of eye contact was stressed.

Three tips on how to talk with a senator or elected official were also given.

Students then discussed the news and important figures today. They were given advice on getting their message out there.

Premises such as timing is everything, play a controversy, provide email and phone numbers, be professional, provide photos and videos, don’t pressure, and don’t sit on a story.

Immediately following this, students made mock newspaper clips where people talked about D4D and other events that went on in their neighborhood.

Finally, students held a mock democratic vote over who should get the 100 million dollars of funding; the library, the antitobacco, or a new comer green energy program. After much debate between the pros and cons of each side, the seven senators (four demarcate three republican) came to a decision. After voting 4-3, they decided to give the money to the green energy program.

All undergraduates are required to take CIS 101 in order to graduate.

“At Pace University, and in careers beyond Pace, students will face the challenges of coping with technology and the opportunities to benefit from the productive use of technology,” the course description reads.

The course educates students on how to use office software like Microsoft Excel, how to create and design a website using HTML, and the fundamentals of computer programming. This last item reflects a growing trend in higher education. There is now a push for non-computer science majors to learn computer programming skills. Many computer information experts believe that the category of ‘computational thinking’ should be regarded in the same way as essential analytical skills such as reading, writing, and arithmetic.

“Nowadays, computing is so much more important,” said adjunct professor of information technology, Anastasia Burke. “It just changes the level of thinking that a person uses. I think it helps a person grow on a different level, this is my personal opinion, if you’re forced to think logically.

And really, that’s what software design is all about. I mean, just thinking about all the different scenarios that could happen and how to plan out for that. As you talk about the development classes, it is all about planning prior to sitting down and programming and that is one of the important things…I just feel like it’s important for business but also for your level of thinking as somebody who has higher level education.

People are expecting that.”

However, according to Randall Stross of the New York Times, “There is little agreement within the field, however, about what exactly are the core elements of computational thinking. Nor is there agreement about how much

Photo from rvschool.com Alice 2.0 programing software used at Pace. programming students must do, if any, in order to understand it.”

“I am pretty comfortable with the level that we touched on it at Pace because it’s not a very high level,” said Burke. “We didn’t really go into depth that much. But I do feel that it was enough that people understand or start thinking about the different things going in all applications and programs that they’re using…like the fact that we worked with Alice and we were creating all the separate little methods and understanding that a program is broken into smaller parts. It helps people really start thinking about all of these different applications that they might be using. Something that we use every day like Microsoft Office. Well, maybe you will start thinking about the fact that-‘oh yeah!’ it makes sense that maybe spellcheck is a separate method or a separate module that is probably shared amongst all of the Microsoft Office processes.”

Students in CIS 101 learn how to use the object oriented programming system Alice 2.0., which demonstrates the nature of programming without going into semantics. “‘Literacy’ implies reading

and writing, so ‘computer literacy’ suggests that writing programs is a required skill for activity under this name,” Prof. Henry M. Walker of Grinnell University told the New York Times. “However, general citizens may or may not have to write programs to function effectively in this technological age.”

The question of how much students will need to learn as technology progresses remains.

“I grew up with computing being more like a mainframe system that most people never even come across anymore, and you did need to know more programming back then,” said Burke. “You did need to really sit down and write code.

You had to basically go in and check it for bugs and make sure that you figured out what was wrong. You needed to know more at that level. We’ve made it easier to program now with object-oriented programming like we use [at Pace]...Do I think that in the future it is going to be that we need it less or more? I think it really depends on where things go.

I don’t see it being much less…I think it is just going to be different.”

You Jump, I Jump: The Fiscal Cliff Looms

Kaitlyn Szilagyi Featured Reporter

Kaitlyn.M.Szilagyi@pace.edu

The looming fiscal cliff being furiously debated by economists, politicians, and consumers has a lot to do with the implementation of the Budget Control Act of 2011 which will occur on Jan. 1, 2013.

This political policy will essentially result in budget cuts, interest rate increases, tax increases, and more government spending.

Tax rates put forth when George W. Bush was in office will expire, most likely causing higher interest rates for income, capital gains, dividends, and es-

tates. Also, minimum tax breaks for businesses will expire; however, these are often renewed.

Taxes will increase for every employed American, and taxes to support Obamacare will most likely impact the wealthy. Budget cuts will also impact government spending.

Why is this fiscal cliff worth mentioning? Why are all these aforementioned changes important?

Many economists predict and fear the looming fiscal cliff and all its consequences could be the start of a global recession. John Nyaradi, publisher of Wall Street Sector Selector, has gone so far as

to say, “The fiscal cliff countdown continues, but lost in the noise is a much bigger, more dangerous cliff just ahead: global recession that could extend for years.”

Though this may sound extreme, there are other economic columnists who claim the fiscal cliff will have little to no immediate impact upon the state of the economy. Market Watch columnist Rex Nutting makes the claim, “The U.S. economy will not go over a ‘fiscal cliff’ on Jan. 1, as we’ve been led to believe…The fiscal cliff is a misleading metaphor. The laws will change on that day, it’s true, but the impact will be spread out over many,

many months.”

Here at Pace, economics professor Andrew Kliman has a similar opinion as to the impact of the fiscal cliff.

“I don’t think it’s going to be that big of a deal,” said Kliman.

“We get this again and again with the president and Congress. It doesn’t matter who the president is. I haven’t talked about it in class because it’s political gameplay more than anything.”

When asked whether or not he believed politics would get in the way of economic recovery, Professor Kliman stated he did not believe so because the fiscal cliff isn’t making much of a difference

from what he’s seen in recent indicators, though there may be some current uncertainty among businesses.

Columnist Rex Nutting agrees.

“Businesses, investors, workers, and consumers have begun to prepare for the changes, and that’s caused the economy to slow a bit already,” Nutting writes.

Whether or not the fiscal cliff will have an overwhelming, sudden effect remains to be seen.

Should Jan. 2013 show the drastic economic effects of the fiscal cliff, the consequences will doubtlessly touch everyone.

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Procrastinate Now, Don’t put it Off Emily Wolfrum

Featured Reporter Emily.R.Wolfrum@pace.edu

With finals a comfortable week away from beginning, it seems quite likely that most students have not yet made any conscious efforts to begin their studying.

For many, the ultimate hysteria of sorting through notes, memorizing figures, and cracking down on their textbooks will not come until hours before their exams.

In fact, according to Psychology Today, one in five identify themselves as chronic procrastinators, persistently putting off activities in all aspects of their lives.

While parents and teachers boil down these time management mishaps to mere laziness, psychological research may yet provide college students with the back-up excuse of science.

In a study by Norman Milgram on college students in the 90s (The Procrastination of Everyday Life), causes of procrastination were categorized in one of three ways: Dysphoric affect: Students prioritize tasks of greatest pleasure over those with “negative emotional response” (i.e. studying).

Covert negativism: Students prioritize tasks they view as voluntary over those which seem forced or imposed.

Perceived Incompetence: Students put off assignments and work which they feel they are incapable of executing (“fear of failure”).

Photo from collegecandy.com College students are chronic procrastinators.

In a similar study on Turkish high school students by Bilge Uzen Ozer and Joseph R. Ferrari (Gender Orientation and Academic Procrastination), “risk taking” or “working well under pressure” was additionally listed as a potential reason for procrastinating.

“When you have a short amount of time to do something, you have to get it done,” said graduate mental health and counseling student Humara Awan.

“You feel much more stressed and nervous.”

This very active decision to put off work stems often from unrealistic perceptions of time.

In her article “Why We Procrastinate,” Hara Estroff Marano states

bluntly: “Procrastinators tell lies to themselves.”

“I keep putting everything off because I keep telling myself that there is all the time in the world even though I know that’s never the case,” said freshman psychology major Eric Medina-Rivera.

Undoubtedly, this habit has been enhanced by modern technology, where distracting oneself from a task is easier than ever.

While computers, smartphones, and social media were designed to make tasks more efficient and less time-consuming, their more recreational functions serve as enablers to slow productivity.

When asked about the source of her procrastination, junior

nursing student Carson Tibbett answered in one word— “Facebook.”

“It’s more fun. It’s easier. It’s just mindless,” she said.

While student ability to organize time may seem skewed, the quality of the work they produce is not necessarily affected.

A 1997 study by Dr. Dianne Tice and Roy Baumiester suggested this idea. It concluded: “Whether a task is done far ahead of the deadline or only slightly ahead of it does not necessarily make any difference in the quality of work.”

While students generally agreed with this idea, they did admit to other effects procrastination had taken on their health.

Sleep deprivation and increased stress levels were common byproducts of chronic procrastination in students.

Psychology Today added that procrastinators, on average, experience more colds and flus, gastrointestinal problems, and cases of insomnia than non-procrastinators, and display higher levels of alcohol consumption.

For some, the solution to their procrastinating problems can be found in the practice of better time management skills.

In an article entitled “An Instant Cure for Procrastination,” Dr. Marcia Eckerd suggested breaking up assignments in to smaller tasks, rewarding accomplishments, and removing all distractions from the work environment as just a few quick tricks to fighting the urge to put off.

“I don’t procrastinate as bad as others because I have my work scheduled out so that I’m never cramming the night before,” said freshman nursing student Katrina Villacorta.

However, for others, procrastination is merely a result of an individual’s mental state, personality, or upbringing, and must be mastered rather than cured.

As Dr. Ferrari once said on a conference panel for the American Psychological Association, “Telling someone who procrastinates to buy a weekly planner is like telling someone with chronic depression to just cheer up.”

Essentially, it’s worth putting off.

Phi Sigma Sigma’s Bizarre Bazaar Barterer Arthur Augustyn

Feature Editor AAugustyn@PaceChronicle.com

Through his reputation you might think he’s a superhero and that comparison might be apt. If he was a caped crusader, he’d have 90 different powers, each with their own unique flavor.

More people know him by his nickname than his actual name and his past is unknown to most of the people he helps. His real name is Steve Geisel, but attendees of Phi Sigma Sigma’s (ΦΣΣ) annual Bazaar know him as the Jam Man. ΦΣΣ held their eighth annual Bazaar on Dec. 2 this past Sun. The event opens opportunities for poor Pace students to buy various knick-knacks and jewelry from vendors with the intent of gifting them to their loved ones. The event has its fair share of vendors but the one that sticks out every year is the Jam Man, a bearded old man whose charisma helps sell his variety of jams.

These flavors are not the type of typically offbeat attempts at originality that a major corporation like Lays potato chips might pass off as unique. These flavors contain ingredients that seem foreign to the recipe of jam and can

be used in various ways.

One of the more notable flavors is Apricot Jalapeño, which has the appearance and texture of an apricot jam, but contains a noticeable spark of jalapeño spice.

The apricot jalapeño is sampled with crackers, but Jam Man suggests people try new ways of using his jams including grilling, marinating, and dip, in addition to regular jam on bread or crackers.

Before he was known for his jamming proficiency, Jam Man was known as Steve Geisel, a regular man from Rockland County who worked in the computer industry. After many years in the computer industry, Geisel realized his work was consuming his life. He recalls his last year of typical work involved him traveling 321 days in a single year. He had enough traveling for a lifetime. Geisel decided to retire, but it didn’t last long.

“I did a lot of work on my golf swing but got very bored,” said Geisel.

He decided to pick up a hobby, making jam, to pass the time.

Geisel’s jams became popular with neighbors and friends. He started selling jams to break even on his hobby, but soon found the need to raise some money.

Geisel’s wife, Patricia, told

Photos from Pace Univeristy Facebook The Phi Sigma Sigma Annual Bazaar began eight years ago and has become increasingly more popular.

him about a student in a nearby school who was a diabetic, but couldn’t afford his medical costs.

He decided to make some jams for his wife to sell at the school for a fundraiser to support the student.

He also provided some money in case the jams weren’t selling and money couldn’t be raised for the kid, but it wasn’t needed, the jams had sold out.

From there, Geisel decided to tour his jams around local neighborhoods similar to a garage band playing at different venues. He played the song of delicious jams at various farmer markets and local events, always selling out, al-

ways getting positive reception.

Eight years ago, he was invited to an event hosted at Pace called Phi Sigma Sigma’s Holiday Bazaar.

“He’s been with us all eight years,” said Anntonia Darbibri, an alumni of Pace and member of ΦΣΣ who helps with the bazaar every year. Most of the members of ΦΣΣ are fans of Geisel’s jams and feel the Jam Man has become synonymous with the event.

“People say Phi Sigma Sigma bazaar, they know the Jam Man is showing up,” said Darbibri.

Geisel is experiencing the popularity in his own way.

“I’ve had people call me and

place orders, they’ll pick up six or eight jars. I don’t do a lot on this side of the Tappan Zee Bridge,” said Geisel.

Geisel has a lot of success with ΦΣΣ’s bazaar and plans to keep coming back every year. His jams have been very popular in every community, but Geisel doesn’t have any plans to rush back into a life of travel and constant business management by making his jam a commercial entity. He’s left that life behind him and is embracing his new life.

“I’m known as the Jam Man. That’s who I am,” said Geisel.

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Stem of the Conflict Katie Szilagyi

Featured Reporter Kaitlyn.M.Szilagyi@pace.edu

Cloning, genetic engineering, and cures for cancer…stem cells seem to be capable of feats some might even call miraculous.

Stem cells are cells with the potential to develop into many different cell types in the body during their early life and growth.

Unlike most cells in the body, stem cells are capable of renewing themselves through cell division, and they can sometimes even be induced to become tissue or organ-specific cells with particular purposes. This ability to become other types of cells and tissue has made it possible for doctors and scientists to develop cures for unnecessary and debilitating diseases.

Embryonic stem cells are developed from eggs which have undergone in-vitro fertilization, fertilization which occurs outside the body. Embryonic stem cells are pluripotent, which means they can be induced to become any other type of cell in the body.

Quite literally, the possibilities with these cells are endless. The use of embryonic stem cell transplantation can cure diseases such as Parkinson’s, diabetes, traumatic spinal cord injury, Duchenne’s muscular dystrophy, heart disease, and vision and hearing loss.

Adult stem cells, on the other hand, are limited in their capabilities. They are undifferentiated cells, found among differentiated cells in a tissue or organ, which can renew themselves and differentiate to become some or all of the major specialized tissue or organ cells. Their restrictions have to do with the fact that, once adult stem cells are removed from the body, their ability to divide decreases. However, their list of potential functions, though significantly less than that of embryonic stem cells, includes important procedures as well. Cells derived from bone marrow stroma can help regenerate bone. Adult stem cells can produce insulin-producing cells to help cure type-1 diabetes, and cardiac muscle cells can help repair heart muscles damaged from a heart attack.

All in all, embryonic stem cells are the preferred method of regenerating cells by doctors, scientists, and geneticists because they can become all cell types of the body and are pluripotent while adult stem cells are much more restricted. Furthermore, because adult stem cells have a difficult time dividing once removed from the body, it is challenging for them to create cell cultures which are essential in cell replacement therapy. So, why not just use embryonic stem cells?

“There’s no reason why not;

It’s genius,” said senior psychology major Sarah Croghan.

While many agree with this sentiment, the employment of embryonic stem cells has “…generated objections from fear, on ethical or religious grounds, that scientists are pressing too far into nature’s mysteries and the ability to create life artificially” according to the New York Times.

“Many right-wing republicans consider the harvesting of stem cells to be murder because those cells would potentially be a person if left to develop,” said sophomore communications major Lesley Donelan.

Some might say the issue is similar to that of whether or not people support a pro-life view of embryonic development.

“If the stem cells are taken from the placenta, how does that prevent life from forming? The organ leaves the body in afterbirth and is generally thrown away – is that preventing future life?” said Croghan.

In addition, who has the right to decide whether an embryo or a teenager suffering leukemia should live more than the other?

“If you consider the amount of diseases that could be cured and the lives of those affected that could be saved as a result of stem cell research, I think the potential outcome is too great to give up on so easily because of one group’s religious beliefs,” said Donelan.

In addressing the perspective of scientists pressing too far into nature’s mysteries and the ability to create life artificially, many people express concerns that the use of embryonic stem cells damages cells of a living organism, that by using embryonic stem cells we are destroying potential life.

However, junior psychology major Kay Lanza said, “All cells hold life, not just embryos. We don’t get in trouble for scratching off dead skin cells.”

Whether or not embryonic stem cell use is ethical or not is a matter of personal opinion which requires deep consideration and profound awareness. Adult stem cells, after all, can do their part in curing diseases, but they are only capable of a fraction of the benefits and outcomes that embryonic stem cells can exhibit in numerous patients and circumstances. Umbilical cord stem cells can serve to replicate cells which might otherwise require a donor, which are consistently in short supply. Adult stem cells have experienced minimal success in treating multiple conditions. While it appears obvious that embryonic stem cells are the more convenient option, the stem of the conflict seems to be whether or not ethics will allow health to prosper.

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Holiday Blues Christiana Lloyd

Health Editor CLloyd@PaceChronicle.com

We have all heard that the suicide rate is higher during the holiday season than any other time of the year, but if this is true, how do we avoid the depression that leads to this act and how do we help others who might be experiencing it avoid it as well?

Many people fall into a state of depression around the holidays for a number of reasons. It can be that they are disconnected from their family and don’t have someone close to share the holiday with, they could be far from home and unable to make it back in time to celebrate, or simply the financial stress or seeing others around them happy causes them to fall into a funk.

According to a research done but the psychology department of Notre Dame in 2004, over 62 people committed suicide between the months of Oct. and Jan. here in the United States alone.

The data also revealed that 34 percent of men and 44 percent of women will experience holiday depression at some time in their

Photo from JourneyOfHearts.org Get out of the holiday dumps. lifetime.

“I think that a big reason for holiday depression is seeing everyone else happy, and feeling like you are being left out,” said junior accounting and finance major Anthony Fanelli. “I know that if I couldn’t be with my family at Christmas that I wouldn’t be the happiest person around.”

No matter what the reason there are ways to avoid being another number on a statistic scale of those who simply can’t bear it.

Volunteer; one simple way to make yourself realize just how fortunate you are is to volunteer to help those that have much less than yourself. This will also help distract yourself from anything that you have weighing on your

mind as well.

Another act is to speak up, let those that you are closes to know how you are feeling. While this can be a difficult thing to do, it will be one of the best things that you can do to help yourself.

“I think that people who are depressed during the holidays don’t say anything because they don’t want to be a burden or sound like they are complaining,” said Fanelli.

This is true, so if you see a loved one or someone that you know being dragged down by the holiday blues, get into the seasonal act of selfless giving and lend a helping hand or word. You never know who might be suffering around you.

Missing out under the Mistletoe Christiana Lloyd

Health Editor CLloyd@PaceChronicle.com

Every one of us has had the extreme un-pleasure of having chapped dry lips, which during the season where people are cuddling up for body warmth, having rough lips doesn’t exactly say, “kiss me.”

So what is it that causes dry lips?

“I don’t really get dry lips but I think that a main source of it could be the colder weather,” said junior business management major Alison Wu. She is correct. One of the main causes in our lips drying out is the change in climate. But surprisingly there are a large number of causes that have nothing to do with the fact that the weather makes us want to hibernate.

One large reason is that you could be having an allergic reaction to any number of things. If you enjoy wearing lipstick but find your lips chapped afterwards, you might be allergic to the ingredient propyl gallate. You can also be allergic to an ingredient in your toothpaste called Guaiazulene.

For people that are allergic to nickel, this too can be the blame.

While you may avoid wearing jewelry with nickel, even at our age we are prone to put things in our mouths and if you are placing metallic items such as paperclips or bobby-pins in your mouth, your lips are reacting to it. Even something as simple as red dyes in candy, lipstick, toothpaste, or mouthwash will cause your lips to crack.

It isn’t just personal allergies that can cause your lips to dry out; even foods like figs or citrus fruits will have an effect on you.

Photo from SchoolofHowto.com Get kisssable lips like Napolean.

“I have a family member that snores at night and his doctor told him that the reason that he has chapped lips was because he was breathing through his mouth too much which was causing his lips to dehydrate,” said senior accounting major Andrew Rubano.

“I feel like my lips crack the most during the winter but no matter how much I lick them or apply lip balm they stay chapped,” said junior criminal justice major Arella Ayala.

Many of us do this as well but don’t realize the harm of this small habit. When we stress we tend to bite our lips or lick them constantly, which despite the wetness that our spit adds to the hurting area, it is doing more harm than good. Continuous contact with saliva leads to both dehydration as well as irritation because of the enzymes that are in our spit to help with digestion.

So what is to be done for our unkissable lips?

Don’t lose hope. Of course there is the obvious way to go which is go and buy yourself some lip balm or chap stick, but

for those of you who prefer home remedies, are allergic to the lip balm ingredients, or just can’t find one that you like, there are simple things that you can do to keep those smackers looking plump and yummy.

If you don’t mind the taste of coconut, get some coconut oil and put a small amount on your lips a couple of times a day. Another easy solution is to grab some aloe vera and put it on your lips (this one works within hours).

“My grandmother had a home remedy that I thought was odd but it works. She would crush a few rose petals and add a few drops of glycerin onto them,” said Ayala. “It helps heal any dehydration that your lips have but it also makes the color stand out real well, although if you’re a dude I wouldn’t recommend this unless you like rosy lips.”

So if you are feeling a bit left out at the holiday parties and lonely under that mistletoe, try getting those lips a bit more smooth and soon you won’t be able to keep them to yourself.

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The G-Spot B : G y

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Oh God, I’m Coming!:

Is the Finale the Only Thing that Matters?

What’s The-G-Spot About?

"College is run by sexual tension. Many of us like sex, have sex, and have walked in on our roommate having sex. Why ignore it?

Let’s be honest instead. In college, learning doesn’t only happen in the classroom, it happens in the bedroom. Don't be shy, now, welcome to the G-Spot." - Gabrielle Davina “If no one’s coming, what’s the point of sex?”

This question was posed to me by a now-ex boyfriend when he told me he didn’t enjoy sex if he wasn’t making the other person come because he so rarely came himself.

Okay, buddy, screw you.

As someone who doesn’t come like a porn star (think: multiple screaming orgasms per session. Or, um, ever), I was offended. I think back to the boy I dated abroad who was also hyper-focused on finishing.

Is so much emphasis put on the end result that the journey to get there doesn’t matter?

There is a sexual practice called Karezza where the focus is shifted from working toward climax to staying at the plateau phase of arousal and therefore trying not to come. The purpose of Karezza is feeling connected, bonded and relaxed with your partner during sex. People who practice Karezza report more positive energy during and after intercourse than their orgasm-focused counterparts and, apparently, it has something to do with the release of dopamine and oxytocin that happens when you’re gently touched by a lover as opposed to railed by them.

I’m not asking you all to stop trying to climax during sex—after all, orgasms are pretty much wonderful—but I’m suggesting you change your mindset about what makes sex “good.” (Girls, many of you will understand this.

Some guys will, too, but this idea eludes men more often because most guys get used to reaching orgasm fairly easily and regularly by the time they even start having sex with something other than their hand.)

Sex is a process. Say you have ten minutes of foreplay—kissing, touching, oral—and twenty minutes of actual intercourse. That thirty minutes of activity builds up to about 10 seconds of orgasm.

If you don’t reach orgasm, why discount the other 29 minutes and 50 seconds of pleasure when determining if the sex was “good” or not? The vast majority of our sexual experience as humans is spent in a non-orgasmic state and therefore should not be evaluated solely on the end result.

Having the mindset that the orgasm is the be-all, end-all to your sexual experience denounc-

es any pleasure you feel outside of an orgasmic state. Saying sex is only pleasurable if you orgasm is like saying Vegas is only fun if you win the jackpot, or saying Six Flags is only fun if you sit in the front seat on the Kingda Ka. Ladies, many of you will understand this because (gasp!) you’ve never had an orgasm before. You’ve been faking it for every boyfriend you’ve had, or maybe you haven’t even bothered. According to Psychology Today, only 25 percent of women consistently reach orgasm during sex. Depending on the source, between 10 percent and 37 percent of women simply can’t climax.

Yeah, it sucks, but we get used to it.

Men, most of you don’t have the same issue. Whether it takes you one minute or one hour, you pretty much always end up climaxing. Inability to climax in men is either seriously underreported or truly that much more rare than the same issue in women. Experiencing orgasms on the regular, you grow to associate them with “better” sex and consider yourself jipped (or rather, blue-balled) if you don’t climax.

Those of us who don’t come learn to concentrate on other aspects of sex that are fulfilling. Sharing the experience with someone you care about is emotionally gratifying. Studies have shown that having sex gives you a rush, makes you feel more attractive, and brings you closer to your partner.

Oh, yeah, and it feels freaking awesome if it’s done skillfully with the right sized tools.

I tried to explain to the aforementioned ex-boyfriend that even without orgasm, sex is something to be savored and enjoyed. Ask most girls and they’ll tell you they’d rather have sex with their lover and not climax than climax seven times in a row from their vibrator.

The most memorable moment in a sexual act doesn’t have to be the orgasm. It can be a sexy new move, a passionate kiss, a spinetingling ear bite or a hot phrase your lover says in your ear, The point I’m getting at is that you should enjoy the process instead of harping on a measly 10 seconds at the end.

In sex, there is much more to the game than just the final score.

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The Miseducation of Society: Lauryn Hill is Overrated What is 40 Acres and a MacBook?

Whether it’s the questionable news headlines on Fox News or when we walk into Kessel and see all the same kids sitting comfortably on opposite sides of the cafeteria, it’s time to stop ignoring racial issues within our youth with our 40 acres and a Macbook - a modernized compensation for the world in which we are forced to live in.

Photo from urbanbellemag.com Have we been mildly miseducated in what it takes to make a legend?

This is easily one of the biggest cardinal sins to make in the music world, and especially the Black community - to say anything bad about Lauryn Hill is as polarizing as speaking bad about soul food. You get stares as if you are an alien that arrived from planet “You are not Black,” and are passed over as a lunatic that does not know of what they speak. Before you judge, consider the opinion before you shoot the messenger.

I am a huge fan of Lauryn Hill’s many great moments, from her time with The Fugees, her contribution to one of the greatest love songs for one of my top ten worst films ever (see: Love Jones), her collaborations with hip-hop greats and her unplugged album that stamped her exit from the corrupt music world that took her peace of mind. I love her voice, her talent, and her impeccable writing, but the pedestal she has been elevated to all from one album is ridiculous, undeserving and should not make her too good to be labeled overrated. Who else do you know is put to historic, legendary levels all from one album?

Granted, my mother has told me just how popular “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill” was—so popular she could not go to a hair salon that wasn’t playing it. Every scorned Black woman, radio, and closet R&B loving Black man alike was bumping this album or cassette through their speakers. It was the soundtrack to the end of the 90s R&B era.

No one was taking R&B to this level at that time. Adapting lessons of life to song, with impeccable melodies, writing and

a thematic chronology that was normally only adapted by the hiphop greats. She took everyone to the school of her life, and left critics breathless almost to a point that if the album got a negative review it was tossed as hogwash, considering everyone worth reading gave it no less than five stars.

She sold 500 thousand copies within a week of its release, won five Grammy’s out of her ten nominations, was on the cover of every major magazine labeling her as the Jesus of R&B bringing the genre to new heights. This is a lot of responsibility and praise given to a debut album, and none of the reviews recognized that at some point Hill would have to follow this up with nothing less than better than this. While “Miseducation” had three or four songs on it that I still listen to even today, listening to it now, all hype aside, a great album is an album that can be listened to from start to finish: no skips, regardless of the era we are in. “Miseducation” did not do that for me, and the greatest R&B album did not come until after this release by D’Angelo, which in my opinion has yet to be surpassed in quality by any R&B artist and was the best sophomore album of all time. That is neither here nor there, but Hill’s album was not as timeless to me and had too much hype that has yet to live up to.

Hill has not followed up her solo debut with anything but her “Unplugged” album, which in theory, is not a follow up because it was just a performance on MTV’s defunct stripped down live performance series. She gave up her career to birth babies for a man that has never and still has

yet to claim her as ever being anything other than the mother of his many children. The love lessons in her album had a problem sticking for me after reading up on her relationship with Rohan Marley, and the way the relationship even began which ended under the same circumstances.

I understand we all make mistakes, especially in matters of the heart, but I don’t understand why after over a decade we are still affording the level of respect she has over one album. Why does she get a pass for failing to reproduce and solidify her greatness?

Her terrible live performances of late are evidence of the fact that she has no desire to respect her fans enough to give them a reason to still herald her in the way she has been heralded.

As an artist, she has a talent that is non-existent in our current musical state. However, just because this album was created in the elusive era of the 90s doesn’t mean the people of this era were too good to hype up an overrated album. No one was going to say anything bad about Lauryn Hill during this time period because they were not going to be taken seriously - too many people disagreed by association rather than really listening to this album and determining her greatness as an artist by her longevity. Something even the most average of artists have managed to do his follow up an album and stay around for years, a feat Hill has yet to accomplish in a way that produced music. If you even got this far, understand that I respect her one effort and her many spotty efforts as an artist, but Lauryn Hill and her Miseducation are overrated.

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A CULTURE OF BLIND LEADING THE BLIND

Photo from Madamenoire.com We all want to belong to something, but at what cost?

Ebony Turner

Opinion Editor ETurner@PaceChronicle.com

The most memorable scene in Spike Lee’s second feature film School Daze, an artful imitating life adaptation of Lee’s experience at Morehouse College, was the scene in which all of the pledges of the fictitious fraternity Gamma Phi Gamma, G Phi G for short, were lined up, bent over holding the fraternity’s symbol up. Behind them were all of their big brothers, one of which was giving the pledges “wood,” an action more commonly referred to as paddling. The pledges shouted words of adoration to their big brothers after every swing of this wooden paddle, decorated with the fraternity’s Greek letters, slapped their backsides.

23 years later Lee’s film foreshadowed the scene Lagarian Bridgewater, former Southern University band member, described for journalist Frank Deford on HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumble. Bridgewater describes that the “crab,” a term used amongst band members to describe freshmen band members, would stand in the center of a circle slightly leaning over surrounded by upperclassmen band members while they are hit with a large slab of wood. Bridgewater describes the tradition as a competition amongst the members to see who could hit the “crab” the hardest, a tradition that would go on for hours, and the freshman is still expected to play with these members the next day, and for the remainder of their college career.

It’s the dark side of historically black colleges and universities (HBCU) that was known but not spoken of, until the deaths of Florida A&M University (FAMU) band member Robert Champion in 2012, an event that came after a domino effect of previous hazing cases from other popular bands such as Bridgewater’s. It was a secret to the world but a normalized reality amongst the Black community, being that hazing has been going on under

the noses of HBCU administration for decades, partly because the administration is composed of HBCU alums. Even if a prospective member is aware of it, they are faced with a confliction that calls into question whether the horror is worth the honor these groups bring.

It’s not a mystery why young impressionable Black students would want to belong to groups that are highly revered and respected within our community.

All of them were created to give opportunities to a demographic of America that had been consistently neglected, belittled and dehumanized by the majority. Blacks have been told intentionally and subconsciously that we were not meant to be part of American history, so as a result, universities and Greek-lettered organizations were made to make a history of our own – to fill a void inside that said we were too inadequate to belong. It also helps that aesthetically, all of these organizations and bands possess a kind of cool that breathes an air of confidence into anyone.

But what has been lost in the hundreds of years of their existence and reputation building has been muddied by institutionalized abuse hidden under the guise of laws that protect the institution and not the victim. Prospective members are subconsciously pressured into protecting a sobering truth that everyone is expected to accept as a way of that world. Thus the cycle continues, a cycle Bridgewater explained that he could not wait to engage in once his time as a crab was complete. However, when Deford asks him why he was excited to partake in this tradition, he replied that it was in retaliation to what had been done to him.

“The process is so intense that it’s brewing; you got your blood boiling for the next person like a vampire looking for blood,” Bridgewater said.

What is the purpose of this hazing? A ritual birthed out of a need for a process or journey into these groups that builds camara-

derie and respect for the organization is the response Bridgewater gave, but how does any sane individual with even an ounce of self-respect subject themselves willingly to abuse for admiration from people who bleed the same blood, breathe the same air and walk the same earth as them?

And how does any human being with a soul and a conscious inflict this pain on another and not feel any remorse? There is no logic behind the justification that without shedding blood, sweat and tears, literally, you do not appreciate anything in life. Working hard does not equate to being on the brink of death, and no title is worth that degree of “work.”

The excuse that what was done to you should be done to another is null and void when a parent is met with the circumstance of having to identify their child in a body bag over the decisions of a sadistic insensitive individual, projecting their internalized trauma onto an impressionable child.

This tradition of hurt people hurting people does not build a “brotherhood,” it builds an unhealthy relationship with an unstable foundation that psychologists would otherwise refer to as Stockholm syndrome. It does not go away once you get your band uniform; it does not go away when you finally get the validation you thought you needed. It is projected onto the next individual, who is just as mislead and desperate as you once were. We must identify collectively that this is an issue in our community that we can no longer accept or fail to speak on until another life is taken.

The only people who are able to change the ways of an institution are the people who are within it and not afraid to speak up, and if any group of people should understand that it should be the Black community. We all want to fulfill our purpose through belonging to certain things, but your self-respect will never be a worthy enough sacrifice to belong to anything.

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His Hard Truth: Eros

The One Night Stand and Fall Over It’s either sought after, or a complete mistake. Either you’re very happy with it, or you’re regretting it for a long time to come.

One sure thing is that a one night stand is certainly full of surprises, especially after a long night of drinking.

Let’s be serious, it’s college.

If you haven’t done something stupid while you were drinking yet, jump on the bandwagon before it’s too late. Once you’re out of college, the crazy things that you’ve done here will not be nearly as socially acceptable. So for all of you that have stayed the “safe” course so far, I recommend you start funneling beers, taking body shots and chugging fish bowls that are very questionable in safety.

Don’t take this the wrong way.

I don’t suggest that anyone goes out looking to vomit or start destroying things… though it’d be nothing new to our beautiful Pace campuses. I’m just suggesting that you go experience college life the way it’s supposed to be experienced, highly inebriated and with lowered inhibitions. Even once would at least be worth a story. I’m sure many people have heard the line, “Alcohol: Because no good story ever started with ‘this one time when I was eating a salad’.” Say what you want, but it’s the truth. And I’m definitely a supporter of having fun while you’re sober because in all reality, nobody should need alcohol to have a good time. But the bottom line is, the college kids that drink every weekend and say “I always have fun when I drink,” get away with it because it’s common knowledge: alcohol can be a lot of fun.

That fun can lead to a number of things though, from meeting new people, to vomiting up your dinner, to dancing until you pass out or the notorious one night

stand. And I’m not talking about your friend that you always flirt with and finally decide to take to your room for one drunken night; I mean the alcohol-fueled, random hookup that you KNOW you will never see again.

But be wary of who you indulge in this experience with.

And that’s for men and women.

The first caution that most people would throw out at someone is to make sure you don’t lower your standards, but I’m a realist and know that alcohol will do that for you regardless. I throw caution in the direction of just how random the other person is. If you’ve never seen them before, you don’t know what you’re getting yourself in to. You can be sex-craved all you want but you’ll never know if you can really deal with someone in bed, until you’re in bed with them.

And by then, I wish you the best of luck.

Important things to remember are as followed. Number one: always remember to glove it before you love it. It’s cliché but especially with a random person; you should never take them solely on their word that they’re healthy or “on the pill”. Number two: know that you’re getting yourself into this situation as much as he/she is. Number three: be prepared for the other person to get attached to you afterwards.

It’s not very common, but both guys and girls will look to their past if they need something in the present. And lastly, number four: if at some point during your escapades you suddenly feel sober and are questioning what you’re doing, don’t be afraid to stop.

Who cares what the random person says about you later?

They’re the one that got denied in the end, right? And in the end, what more is college than plausible deniability?

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A loss of Culture on Campus Samantha Finch

Entertainment Editor SFinch@PaceChronicle.com

Let me begin with a brief introduction of myself. My name is Sammie Finch. I am a senior media communications arts and journalism major; I am also a photography minor. Additionally, I am the arts and entertainment editor of this paper, one of the photography editors of The Ledged Yearbook, and the Chief Designer of VOX literary magazine.

That being said, my time at Pace has been filled with many memorable experiences. From being on the executive board, to University Panhellenic Council for two terms, to the wonderful experience of being a sister and eventual sisterhood development chair of Phi Sigma Sigma, to taking the travel course to Greece, I have aimed to make the most of my four years at this institution.

If you know me, then you know there are two things I am never without: a cup of coffee and a camera. I am constantly glued to my view finder, and when I don’t have it? I’m wishing in my mind I had a camera to capture something beautiful that caught my eye. I walk around this earth as a physical camera I have been taking film photography courses since my junior year of high school and I feel as though in only six years I was able to find a medium I was truly inspired by, and more importantly, something that I was able to grow and learn from. My experience in photography, primarily film, has been one that not only altered my college experience, but it altered my soul and the way in which I view the world.

Photo by Samantha Finch/The Pace Chronicle The removal of the darkroom on the Pleasantville campus will leave the few dedicated film photographers on campus with out a place to print their work.

This past week I learned that one of the aspects that I love the most about this campus is days away from being taken away from me.

It has been told to me by several reliable sources that Pace will no longer be offering students any art minors or major. To make manners worst, the photography darkroom lab on this campus will no longer exist for they are gutting out Paton Hall (the main art building on campus) and simply not rebuilding a darkroom.

Now, remember how I said I am photography minor? There are many reasons why this news bothers me.

On a personal level, as a student some of my favorite learning experiences were accomplished in that darkroom and to see it go is heartbreaking simply because all the time and memories I have invested in it.

Another reason I am unhappy about this decision of the university and the Media Communications Arts and Visual Art Department is because I know many

people who were interested in the intro course but now can’t do it.

Additionally, though my minor is technically complete as of this semester (you need 15 credits worth of photography for the minor) I was planning a huge exhibit for another art class that would revolve around film. Now, I am taking a class that I am not excited for because I will not be doing the initial project I envisioned.

Financially, I am also impacted by this change. For the past two years I worked as the photography lab assistant and held

open lab hours in the darkroom where I helped students with their photography questions. With no darkroom it means I don’t have a job. This is a major issue because I need the money to help pay for my education here at Pace.

Overall, the saddest thing has nothing to do with me at all but in fact only has to do with the future if this campus. Not only will the current students , including two other photography minors and three other students I know who wanted to take a photo class, not be able to enjoy the wonders of a darkroom, neither will the future students of this campus.

Although I know that technology is constantly advancing and digital has replaced film in many aspects it is still a cultural and popular method in history and should still be something students can explore. It is an art form; though not a quick “snap and upload” process, it is still art and that is something important to emphasis on campus.

Academically and personally, I can truthfully say that no professor, no class, no project fulfilled me as much as the courses that built up my minor. Not only did I make great friends who loved film as much as I do and work with an amazing professor named Robert Kozma, I grew as a person, I became a better person. My images from my first class to my latest are completely unique, my technique, my style, my vision, all grew from the Pace art department. The loss of the art department is a travesty on the part of the school.

Pace is not only taking away a selection of courses, a major, a darkroom, they are taking away a piece of the cultural history of this campus.

ESPN 30 for 30: Exactly What the Sports World Needed Ebony Turner

Opinion Editor ETurner@PaceChronicle.com

We only listen to the people we understand, or who understand us. Such is the case for many athletes, artists or actors in our world, hence why series such as Behind the Music and The Actor’s Studio are popular and high points for any person’s career that is in any of those industries.

ESPN’s 30 for 30 series is similar in that many of the great stories of our beloved sports, both tragic and beautiful, are finally coming to the mainstream world that may not be privy on these stories.

I am not a huge football fan in any capacity - never have been and never will be. I know what is going on, but it is just something I do not get a thrill from unless it’s Superbowl time and each team’s unique story comes to the forefront.

I decided to expand my horizons and watch 30 for 30’s “The U” episode out of pure curiosity. Not only did the story give me the same rush of a basketball

game tied up 50 seconds into the end of the game, but it made me want to love football. It shows you the background behind the dirty world of college sports and the wild wild west life it used to live during the 80s, as well as the racial shift the era brought and its influence on the world of sports.

I never knew about this story but I have a weakness for stories that chronicle the rise, fall and possible resurrection of any individual, group or sports team and the 30 for 30 series is great for that. It gives those who may not know much about sports in general, or have any interest in the sport at all to have an educational yet entertaining walk through of some of the great cautionary tales.

The Len Bias story hit me deep because it was one of the many cautionary tales of my Maryland roots that any individual who is Black and an athlete has heard before.

ESPN did the story justice by chronicling a level of greatness that was never fully actualized due to the lethal combination of bad judgment and far too much

Photo from ESPN.com ESPN 30 for 30 gives us all a lesson in sports and life. freedom and influence. The Two Escobars was that story for Colombia, only extenuating circumstances and the stark reality of the corrupt world Andres Escobar lived in proved to be greater than his soccer talent and potential to be greater.

However, while all of these films were great in their own right, The Fab Five brought the critic and basketball fan out of

everyone. Twitter was uproarious, and the episode was talked about for months for Jalen Rose’s comments about Grant Hill when he was a young player. It brought Juwan Howard to the forefront after years of playing the bench for the franchise Miami Heat, and Chris Webber became a trending topic for his absence in the documentary possibly due to the most controversial time out in sports

history.

It’s important for sports to be seen in this kind of methodic manner, because it is part of our American culture to have so many various sports that are loved by millions. Most of these stories were tales only known amongst individuals who had a love for any of these sports, but the lessons attached to them need to be universal.

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The news of this exciting project immediately traveled across the wires and was mentioned on Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, and other social media sites.

“I am excited about it [Girl Meets World] as long as they handle it right and don’t lose the tone of the original,” said junior communications arts and journalism major Janine Bowen. “The fact that the original creator as well as Ben Savage and Danielle Fishel are returning is very reassuring.”

If you don’t remember Boy Meets World, don’t feel bad— you can always catch up. The show ran from 1993- 2000 spanning over 158 episodes and seven seasons. The show was part of the TGIF line up on ABC and followed Savage, Fishel, Rider Strong (Cory’s best friend Shawn Hunter), and others characters through the many stages of growing up.

For the new show, a nationwide search is now underway for who will play young Riley, the daughter whose point of view the story will be told from.

Currently no other members of the original cast are set to be a part of the show including Strong,

who played the edgy but lovable character of Shawn, who has thus denied involvement in the new show in his statement to Entertainment Weekly.

“I am extremely happy for Ben and Danielle to be able to continue the story,” Strong said.

“At this point, I have no official involvement in Girl Meets World.

There might be a chance to see some of the BMW cast in a guest spot, and I think it would be nice to find out where our characters have been all these years.”

Strong, who has become more involved in directing since the end of the show, continued by stating an important fact all fans should bear in mind.

“But Girl Meets World will be, and I think it should be, its own show. It will be about Cory and Topanga, their daughter, and a new set of characters… it’s the next generation,” said Strong.

This theme was also echoed on the Tumblr page of Fishel.

“It isn’t ‘BMW’ brought back to life,” Fishel wrote. “It will have familiar faces, familiar themes, and familiar messages.

It will also have new faces, new themes and new messages… But

please keep in mind that this will be episode one, of season one, of a brand new show.”

While some are excited for the new series, others worry that fans looking for the same experience as the original won’t be satisfied and that Girl Meets World is aimed at the wrong age bracket.

“I feel like it won’t do well because of the timing and also because of the network,” said senior English and publishing major Erica Weiman. “Disney’s audience is very young and I don’t think they’ll be as connected with the show as an older audience, mainly our age.”

As many of us anxiously wait to see a piece of our childhood resurrected into something new, it is vital to note that this will be a completely different show.

Hopefully it will have the same impact on the younger generation as the original had on ours.

No official date for Girl Meets World has been released at this time. For more information on the original show Boy Meets World or any of the original cast please visit IMDB.com.

Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012

YouTube, the New Talent Scout

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Since the new teen heartthrob Justin Bieber reached maximum stardom, singers and songwriters everywhere have been trying to gain fame the same way he did: YouTube. This video search engine doesn’t just allow you to share clips all over the world, it also allows people to share their talent (or what they think is talent).

YouTube gets an average of one million 568 thousand hits a day, not to mention the millions of videos that are uploaded per day. You can search literally any song and find someone singing a cover of it. But Bieber isn’t the only one whose talent was found via YouTube. Many of these singers don’t have groundbreaking record deals, but they do have millions of fans, making them “YouTube Famous.”

Boyce Avenue, a band consisting of three brothers from Sarasota, Florida, gained recognition for their original covers and compositions. Their YouTube videos lead them to release five different albums of covers, collaborations, and acoustic sessions. Now they have their own independent record label called “Three Peace” and they tour all around the world.

Another set of YouTube sensations are fraternal twins Megan and Liz. They are known for their covers as well, but have numerous videos of their original tracks and lyrics including the songs “Bad for Me,” “Long Distance,” and “Runaway.” Their YouTube channel currently has over 167 videos, 800 thousand subscribers, and over 175 million video views. Their talents have landed them on the Oprah Show, where they also had the opportunity to meet their singer role model, Taylor Swift. Recently the twins have

made media news. They are also on the Billboards Top 21 under 21 as number 14 and performed at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Additionally, the duo will be touring starting this Dec. Cimorelli is another family based YouTube group. This band of six sisters, ranging in age from 13 to 20, all specialize in acapella. Their videos are mostly covers that use little to no instruments. Cimorelli recorded two albums and were recently signed to Universal.

Sabrina Carpenter is another young starlet whose covers of famous songs and original soundtracks on YouTube have increased her popularity in the music world. The young singer and actress is only 13 years old yet has begun to build a resume well beyond her years. Carpenter placed third in a singing contest by the Miley Cyrus webpage, and her recent song “Smile” was a track on Disney’s Tinkerbell’s “Faith, Trust, and Pixie Dust” album. Her YouTube page, sabrinastar99, has 10 million 733 thousand video views and 66 thousand subscribers.

“I think that YouTube is a great way to get started in something like singing,” said senior chemistry major Larisa Posada. ”I think that YouTube can definitely show a person’s true musical talent as well as their personality.”

There are a variety of other artists that have grown “infamous” on the YouTube scene.

In a world where the internet is becoming more influential each passing day, marketing is what singers and other talented artist are using to put themselves in the eyes of the talent searchers. YouTube and other social media sites can provide many with a marketing avenue to thousands of people and give them hope that they will be the next “big artist” found on YouTube.

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Sports on the Side: Shave the Day

Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012

Sports

Setters Fall To So Conn

CJ Dudek

Sports Columnist CDudek@PaceChronicle.com

Being bald is not all bad.

You save a boatload of money on hair care products, you don’t get carded for alcohol because everyone assumes you are over the age of 35, and you get to scoff at dandruff as it fails to accumulate on your head. Still, not too many of us would choose to be bald if we didn’t have to, especially if you are a woman.

But in Indianapolis, the nation of CHUCKSTRONG, there is a woman who chose to shave her head a week before going on national television as an NFL cheerleader.

This woman’s name is Megan. She cheers for the Indianapolis Colts on Sundays and will continue to cheer in a crowded Lucas Oil Stadium and on national television without her hair for quite some time.

Megan is not affected by cancer, but Colts head coach Chuck Pagano is battling leukemia. He hopes for nothing more than the opportunity to dance at the future weddings of his two daughters. Megan hoped that her gesture of solidarity would be enough to get a fan base to donate 10 thousand dollars to the CHUCKSTRONG. It was. And the brunette’s locks fell to the floor as some dude in a blue horse costume shaved them away.

The event itself was organized by Blue, the Colts team mascot, and promoted to the fans via twitter. The terms were simple enough: donate enough money and one of these lovely young ladies would shave their head in support of Chuck.

Megan was the first and

only one to volunteer. She told sportingnews.com that she had seen friends die of cancer and that the decision to lose her locks was an easy one to make.

After all, it was “just my hair.”

Well sure it’s just hair… if you happen to be some dude who has been working at a law firm for way too long. But these circumstances are just a tad different. We don’t even need to get into the differences in hair care for girls and guys - just look at her job.

She has to go out every Sunday and be what every guy (and some girls) ogles over in front of his (or her) significant other watching awkwardly and angrily. It’s unofficially a job requirement for these women to be beautiful, long-legged, have a full head of hair and fuller… well you get where this is going.

Not to mention most people are skived out at the thought of a bald woman. Michael Jordan was bald, Kevin Garnett is bald, and countless other middle aged men are bald. Other than Britney Spears and actresses that have had to shave their heads for a movie roll, name one bald woman you know.

If you can’t name even one, don’t be surprised.

So what if the Colts won’t tell us what Megan’s last name is? As you can see, she’s done more than enough to make her point clear. Too many people die of all different kinds of cancer. Who.int.com stated that 7.6 million people died of cancer in 2008 and that it is still the leading cause of death in the world.

So hats off to you Megan, Blue did a nice job with the new doo.

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Photo from Stockton Photos Setters lose to Southern Connecticut State.

CJ Dudek

Sports Editor CDudek@PaceChronicle.com

A strong second-half rally was not enough to get the home team a win for their fans.

Pace put up 46 points in the second half, but still they fell to the Owls of Southern Connecticut State University 84-75 on Wed. When the Owls got their shots, more than half of them found the bottom of the net. Southern Connecticut State shot 52 percent on the night while the Setters shot only 42 percent. The Owls also were able to make it rain from downtown as they went 10-18 from three while the Setters went 6-28 on the night.

It was not just the shooting that the Owls did better than Pace that night, for they also managed to share the ball more. While junior business major Denzel

Primus-Devonish led the Setters with seven assists, the Owls as a team put up 23 assists compared to 15 from Pace.

There were two statistical areas that the home team took advantage of. Pace managed to force the Owls to turn the ball over 17 times while only giving up the ball 10 times. Also, the Setters were able to put up 42 points inside the painted area compared to just 30 from the Owls.

The leader of the Setters postattack was senior business management major Keon Williams.

Williams led the Setters in scoring with 14 points on the night while shooting 7-9 from the field.

Pace also got an inside boost from junior forward Jonathan Merceus who had eight points of his own and added three rebounds.

Still, the Owls were able to put more points on the board than the home team. Southern Con-

necticut’s leading scorer, Trevon Hamlet, put up 24 points while three other Owls put up more than 10 points. The Setters only had three players in double figures on the night and nobody had more than 14 points.

Perhaps the most productive member of the Setters on Wed. came off the bench. Freshman undecided major Jaylen Mann provided 10 points and seven boards for the home team. Mann also managed to lead the Setters in rebounds on a night when the Owls brought down 44 total rebounds compared to Pace’s 30.

With the loss, the Setters fall to 3-3 on the season with a record of 1-3 in the NE-10. As of today, the Setters sit two spots from the bottom in the NE-10 standings.

The Setters will be taking a twogame road trip to visit the Panthers of Adelphi and the Mavericks of Mercy College next week.

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Setters Take the Win CJ Dudek

Sports Editor CDudek@PaceChronicle.com

Pace found themselves on the right end of a tight game against the Owls.

The Setters defeated Southern Connecticut State 62-59 on Wed. to notch win number four at home. Pace is undefeated at Goldstein Gym this season and the Setters have broken 60 points twice in front of their fellow students.

Perhaps the most prominent key in the Setters win was the offensive contributions they received on the offensive end from graduate political science major Brittany Shields, graduate media and communications major Jessica Scannell, and sophomore special education major Margo Hackett. All three Setters scored in double figures and shot a combined 50 percent on the night.

While Shields, Scannell, and

Hackett all put up points, Pace also won the battle on the glass.

Even though Jackie Beathea of the Owls pulled in 11 rebounds while Shields led Pace with eight boards, the Setters out rebounded the Owls 39-29 over the course of the game.

Even though the rebounding total favored Pace, the scoreboard was far more contested throughout the game. With 4:25 to go in the first half, the Owls had an eight point lead. Pace cut the deficit to four points after Scannell hit a three with 2:11 to go in the first, yet the Owls had a 35-28 lead when the teams went to recess.

After the Owls built up an eleven-point lead in the beginning of the second half, the Setters tore it down with a 13-0 run.

The see-saw game tilted in Pace’s favor after a Hackett three with 5:43 to play. From that point on, the home team never trailed and Pace earned home win number four on the year.

Photo from Stockton Photos Setters win close one, stay undefeated at home.

A challenge that Pace will team traveled to Worcester and 4-1 overall on the year with a 3-1 have to face has more to do with fell to Assumption College 77-51. record in the NE-10 with the win. where they play as opposed to Coach Carrie Seymour will have Pace currently sits in the number how they play. The Setters will to prepare her team to handle the four spot in the NE-10 standings be hitting the road for the rest of adversity the road ahead will have this season. The Setters will travDec. and half of Jan. Pace’s only for them. el to Long Island University to loss on the season came when the The Setters obtain a record of take on the Blackbirds.

Mind Setter CJ Dudek

Sports Editor CDudek@PaceChronicle.com

Everyone in their family has a cool aunt that they can joke around with.

She makes the family laugh time and time again, but every once in a while she also doles out good advice. The spirit of the joking and caring aunt on Pace’s volleyball team is embodied by senior media and communications major Tamilee Webb.

When Pace’s volleyball team set, spiked, and bumped their way to the NE-10 semifinals, Webb was the one that you saw shouting words of motivation at her teammates. While she also put up 267 kills on the year, it was Webb’s words of encouragement that contributed to the team in a larger way.

“I would say motivating is my most important role on the team,” Webb said. “It is important to help get everyone’s spirits up especially when we’re down. You want to be angry but it doesn’t help and if everyone’s emotions are down it becomes a lot harder to win.”

You couldn’t get Webb to say anything bad about her teammates if you tried because of the family-type bond she has with several of them.

Take the relationship between Webb and senior elementary education major Nora Rugova, for example. Webb and Rugova have spent the last six years of their lives playing volleyball together.

And according to Webb, she and Rugova will each tell you the other is a better player.

Photo from Pace Athletics Tamilee Webb sets the team’s mindset.

“Nora is one of the most humble people you will ever meet,” Webb said. “We’re best friends and roommates, we see each other every day, and we argue about whom is the best, but we each always say that the other is better.”

In fact, Webb said that she might not even have come to Pace if it was not for Rugova. Webb was still undecided about where to play volleyball, but her club coach at Ardsley High School and Rugova convinced her to become a Setter.

Those who are still not convinced need only to talk to Webb about the play of her teammate senior biology major Elyse Rowland. For the Hartsdale native, there are few people that she trusts as much as Rowland.

“It’s a good relationship,” Webb said. “I trust her to be behind me, we have a saying that I protect her face and she protects my back.”

The relationships Webb has

with her teammates stretch from the summit of seniors to the base of freshman on the team. With a total of seven freshmen on the roster, Webb sees herself as a person who helps focus the seven different personalities through leadership.

“If you show them that you’re willing to work hard they follow that example,” Webb said. “They are all funny and have their own personalities; it makes you learn how to adhere to each other.”

When Webb is with her volleyball family, winning the game matters more than personal accomplishments. Webb recalled tearing her ACL in a game against the Owls of Southern Connecticut State University her freshman year; all for just one point in the third set.

“We were down and I really wanted to get that kill because we were almost out of it,” Webb said.

“I did get the kill and we went on to win. I was happier that we won than I was worried about my ACL.” Even though her season is over, there are other goals Webb has in mind. While her major is communications, Webb said she wants to be a nurse for her career after school. While Webb would have majored in nursing if she had the chance, it would have prevented her from playing volleyball.

Whatever studies come after graduation in May, Webb will forever have the memories of dinners and discussions with her family away from home.

Twin Thrilling Emily Riehle

Featured Reporter Emily.Riehle@pace.edu

Two times Pace’s basketball teams squared off against the Golden Knights, and twice the home team came away with the win.

The men’s team defeated the college of Saint Rose in a thrilling 64-59 game while the women’s team took care of business earlier 62-50.

While the men’s game came second, the drama was first rate.

At no point in the game did either team have a double digit lead and there were a total of ten lead changes in the game. With :38 seconds left in the game, junior business major Denzel PrimousDevonish hit a running bank shot to put the Setters on top for good.

For the men’s team, three players were in double figures.

They got a huge lift from senior business management major Keon Williams, who scored 23 points on eight of 15 shooting from the field. Primous-Devonish added 11 points and junior forward Jonathan Merceus put up 13 points of his own to solidify production from the starters.

In a game where the two teams were dead even in rebounds (42 each) and assists (17 each) the turnover battle became all the more important. The Setters gave the ball away 14 times throughout the game while the Golden Knights turned the ball over 17 times. Subsequently, the

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Setters managed to capitalize by getting 18 points off turnovers compared to just 12 from the Golden Knights.

The bench of the men’s team also outplayed the Golden Knights reserves. Freshman business major Salvatore Vitello contributed eight of the Setter’s 14 bench points in the game, while the Golden Knights got just six from their reserves.

While both benches in the women’s game had 15 points, the Setters had four people score ten points or more in the game.

Sophomore biology major Brianna Harris and graduate media and communications major Jessica Scannell each put up 13 points to lead the team in scoring.

The other two Setters who put up double digit points were graduate political science major Brittany Shields and senior psychology major Allison Cleary; each notched 12 points.

The women’s team dominated in every statistical category. The Setters outrebounded the Golden Knights 42-41, and the home team got 12 assists compared to six from the Golden Knights.

Also, the Setters got 32 points in the paint compared to just 26 from Saint Rose.

Both teams have played their last home game for the 2012 calendar year. The men’s and women’s team will hit the road throughout December and Pace will neither team will be at home until the men’s team plays against Concordia (N.Y.) on Dec. 31.