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Famed designer Oscar de la Renta dies at 82 Fashion world mourns death of legendary fashion designer

MELISSA VARGAS News Editor On Monday, Oct. 20, one of fashion’s greatest passed away. Legendary Dominican fashion designer Oscar de la Renta died at age 82. He was in his home in Connecticut. Although de la Rentas’s family did not give a cause of death, he had been diagnosed with cancer in 2006. The New York Times reported, “Though ill with cancer intermittently for a decade, Mr. de la Renta was resilient. During that period, his business grew by 50 percent, to $150 million in sales, as his name became linked to celebrity events like the Oscars. Amy Adams, Sarah Jessica Parker and Penélope Cruz were among the stars who wore his dresses.” There is no doubt that de la Renta was a hardworking man, who inspired many.

De la Renta’s death affected many all over the world. Danilo Medina, President of the Dominican Republic, tweeted, “The international fashion world and all the Dominican Republic is in mourning. We lost the great Oscar de la Renta.”

It was when Oscar de la Renta studied abroad in Spain that he became interested in the world of design and began drawing for various Spanish fashion houses. Soon after he had the opportunity to be trained by Cristobal Balenciaga, one of Spain’s most famous designers. Early in his career he worked for Arden, and later for Lanvin and Balmain. He was awarded the American Fashion Critic’s Award twice and was inducted into Coty hall of Fame in 1973.

He would later become known for his eveningwear gowns. He dressed high profile celebrities, royals and even former first lady Jacquelyn Kennedey. It was in the 1960s he became internationally known when he first dressed Mrs. Kennedy.

Oscar de la Renta was big philanthropist as well.

“I think Oscar De La Renta was a true inspiration.

I think that his fashion wasn’t about objectifying women, it was about empowering them and making them feel beautiful. I think he is definitely someone to look up to...

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Sciences take center stage amid lab renovations New labs and new courses pave the way for future student success JUAN P. CASTIBLANCO Staff Writer While the University has spent a lot of time and money renovating and building new dorms, classrooms and offices, some areas have been neglected for far too long. One such area, the science facilities located on the third floor of One Pace Plaza, have been renovated thanks to the generosity of former University Board Member Alfred R. Goldstein.

In the early stages of this year, trustee emeritus Goldstein, who has contributed to the continual growth of the University through the support of academic scholarships and funding for the Goldstein Fitness Center and Goldstein Academic Center in Pleasantville, donated $3.1 million dollars to modernize the “outmoded and outdated” science facilities in the Lower Manhattan campus, as described by Goldstein in the Wall Street Journal.

The previous science facilities appeared monotonous and cold to anyone who dared approached them, and those who did would often find themselves lost and frustrated by the tight spaces and packed shelves. With the new design, however, science majors and faculty are now welcomed by appealing ambient light, elegant wood panelling and spacious bright spaces.

“The science department definitely feels more welcoming,” said sophomore Biology major Syed Mohammad Jarri Abidi, adding, “Before this year, it was a little daunting and intimidating to go into those old and worn down hallways, but now, it definitely feels more welcoming—and it’s easier to navigate!”

Dr. Nancy Krucher, associate chair of Biology and Health Sciences in Pleasantville, praised the new additions for their ability to facilitate collaboration between students and faculty. In New York City, Dr. Elmer Rico Mojica, associate professor in the Chemistry and Physical Sciences, embraced the change brought by the renovation, and hoped that not only will this provide opportunity for growth for the science community in the Lower Manhattan Campus, but also enrich the education provided by the science faculty.

University science labs before

Before this year, it was a little daunting and intimidating to go into those old worn down hallways, but now, it definitely feels more welcoming—and it’s easier to navigate!

-Syed Mohammad Jarri Abidi, Student

“It is gratifying to see that the college takes into account the constant growth seen in the science community, and how this creates a need to see change and growth within our existing facilities. It was definitely an improvement from before,” said Dr. Mojica.

Currently, the only facilities renovated include the inorganic chemistry lab, general biology lab, faculty offices, the student common area and the conference room. However, the renovation plan includes a 765 square foot biology lab, a 2000 square foot research lab and a crime reconstruction lab for use in forensics and pathology. These new labs will be named Albert R. Goldstein laboratories, in honor of their generous benefactor.

The new facilities are not the only positive changes occurring in the science community at the University. A new learning community offered to Pforzheimer Honors College students known as “Changing the Conceptions of Sexuality, Reproduction, and The Family” is the only learning community that offers a scientific component to it: The Biology of Sexual Reproduction.

“I think this a very exciting learning community,” said Dr. Matthew Marcello, associate professor of biology and health sciences. “The learning community before this was a combination [of] sociology and gender studies course[s], which are two far-too-similar fields that may provide a narrow view; however, students are now offered a combination that explores the social implications of sexuality.... In the end, the students are receiving a well-rounded education.”

Another course added to the science curriculum is Neuroscience, taught by Dr. Zafir Buraei, who teaches Molecular and Cell Biology during the Spring semester. The current and continuous need for grow in the science department at the University is needed for an up-to-date and fulfilling education, which will prepare students to perform well in the various fields of education, research and medicine.

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Homelessness a city reality for some students MAXIMILLIANO ONOFRE Editorial Assistant Every day, New Yorkers walk the streets, ignoring the homeless who sit on the sidewalk. What some may not realize, however, is that many of these homeless adults are also students enrolled in universities across the city.

There is a misconception that a student who can attend college, even more so when attending a private institution, has the ability to afford housing—but that is not always the case.

By definition, being homeless means that the student either has no good living situation during the school year, doesn’t have a place to return to when school is not in session, or both. The Pace Press had the chance to speak Zoe Kaseman, a senior, who is affected by this problem:

students in a tight spot where money becomes prioritized over school. In order to avoid this jeopardy, students need to be aware that there are many extra costs that come with renting.

While the University currently holds no record of how many students are homeless, they do have a few resources for those who need the help.

The Office of Student Affairs and Financial Aid work in conjunction with the student to find the best financial aid as well as other options to place the students housing needs first. The Office of Housing and Residential Life offer resources for students who need housing during the school year and if a student is looking for a place to live, there is a listing of affordable housing on the University’s website. And if the student prefers a more personal support, Dean Marijo Russell O’Grady has an open door for students.

The Pace Press: Are you homeless here or when you go “home”?

Zoe Kaseman: My situation is complicated, because ever since my freshman year of college, my mom has been living in temporary housing situations, mostly motels, and I’ve been bouncing between living in the dorms, living in motels, and living on couches at my friend’s places. While I’m lucky enough to not be on the street, I’m still without a permanent residence and my mom and I are always in danger of being on the street.

I’ve lived in the dorms my entire time at Pace, which is perhaps the most stable living environment I’ve had in the last five years.

TPP: Have you ever gone to the University for help with your situation?

ZK: Not really, no. I’ve definitely went to the school for help with money when I didn’t have any and I wasn’t eating. The help I received was pretty minimal, and it really didn’t encourage me to seek help with any housing or any further help with money issues. I think the problem is that the university hasn’t really created an environment for poor students to seek help or support. I think there’s a misunderstanding that if you’re going to college, especially a private liberal arts college, then you must have money. But there’s a difference between having your own money and having money from loans and grants, which is already pre-spent for your bill.

TPP:: On average, how much stress does this situation lead to for you?

ZK: It’s incredibly stressful. I’m always worried about my mom and about what I’m going to do when I go back to my home state and if I’m going to have a place to stay or if I’m going to have food and money. It makes it difficult to always put my schoolwork first when I’m stressed out about my finances and living situation. — There are times that students decide that their best housing option is to move into an apartment because it is easier to pay rent slowly than to pay for housing at the dorms all at once. However, one thing that many students forget is that while they may be able to afford the rent, there are many other costs that are not thought about beforehand such as transportation, groceries, electricity bills, among many other bills. This sometimes places

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Campus size large factor in freshman decisions Students weigh the pros and cons of larger and smaller universities SABRINA BOYLE Contributor Many schools, such as the University, who are considered smaller schools have many benefits in their small populations of students.

Freshman Syed Abbas said, “The class sizes in a smaller school like Pace are much better. You’re not just a number in a lecture to a professor; you’re an actual student that a professor can get to know. Also, a smaller school works for here in the city, since there’s obviously not much room for a closed off campus.”

Smaller class sizes, with a maximum of approximately thirty, is an advantage to students looking to create a relationship with their professors.

Other benefits include the advantage of seeing the people you know more often. Smaller schools create an intimate sort of community that only forms in cliques in larger universities.

Not only does the University have its advantages being a small school, but also its city location makes for a unique campus. Colleges like the University, or NYU that are right in the middle of a city—make for the city being the campus. The “traditional” college experience is turned on its head and makes for a whole new one.

Being in a city presents different opportunities than a college placed in a suburban or rural area. One could say that connections are more easily built when business is surrounding the campus. Also, if said school in the city is smaller, it could possibly be easier to network within the school for

professional opportunity. Although small schools have a great advantage, they have their disadvantages, and big universities have their virtues. At a big university, the types people you meet are endless.

Freshman Louis Ruziecki from the University of New Hampshire, a near opposite to the University, stated, “I like that going to a big school presents a lot of opportunities and that there a lot of new people to meet, it’s also a traditional kind of school, which I really like,” said Ruziecki. “I also love the serenity of my school being in a rural area, but it does get boring sometimes.”

A big school can present a lot of space, and larger class sizes. Large lectures can be excellent for a learner who only likes lectures, and prefers to have an abundance of resources in his or her class. When going a to big school, there are endless amounts of people. This can create a lot of opportunity for new friendships.

However, at a large school like UNH, traveling and finding something to do is a burden. Being in a rural setting can be hard for students to find activities outside of the school itself when they have no means for leaving campus. Although, a big campus has much more room to provide on-campus activities for it’s students.

Overall, going to a large or small school is up to the student in question.

Weighing the advantages and disadvantages is an important part of the college application process. Making sure that you love everything about your school is essential to have the most effective and wonderful college experience overall.

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Entrepreneurship takes the University by storm Students compete and train through the Entrepreneurship Lab

ARIZE LEE Contributor The Veterans Entrepreneurship Boot Camp commenced on Oct. 9th and aimed to equip military veterans with business and technical skills crucial to creating and maintaining a start-up.

Run by the Entrepreneurship Lab (eLab) at the University, the program includes instruction in market research, business operation and web development.

It concludes on November 20th and will host a ‘Demonstration Day,’ which allows trainees to showcase their business concepts to industry experts, investors and venture capitalists.

The Blackstone Charitable Foundation issued a $50,000 grant towards the project, making it free for all participants.

Senior Scott Deming, a Management/ Entrepreneurship major, was involved in the flyer design and promotion of the Bootcamp, pushing for other universities and veteran organizations to get on board.

As a Bootcamp participant, he believes that “computer resources and pricy software are common barriers to developing modern entrepreneurial skills, thus the eLab is a ‘viable resource’ that supplies them.”

Since joining the eLab in May, Deming has appreciated the ability to meet other individuals or get perspectives from other students.

“Here are people with additional expertise.

They can help you with Photoshop or Powerpoint. Someone is willing to show you how to get the maximum value out of the software you’re using,” he said.

However, the Bootcamp is not the first eLab-managed initiative this Fall.

Prior to it, the lab established the ‘Ted and Pat Levine Proof of Concept Entrepreneurship Initiative.” Eligible University students and recent alumni submitted original proposals for a business idea by Oct. 20, consisting of budgets and guidelines. Two or three winners will receive $5,000 or $7,500 to officially test the success of their product or service.

The winners will be announced on Dec. 15 and their project plan and implementation will be reviewed in Jan. 2015. The initiative’s benefactors are Ted, Patricia and Andy Levine, Chairman,

Former Vice President and President of Development Counsellor’s International, respectively.

Senior Javier Dutan is a contestant for the prize and sees it at as an opportunity to make a concept a reality.

“A lot of people have a lot of ideas but until you start [actualizing] them, you don’t realize how expensive and how much time and effort it takes,” he noted.

“This initiative gives you funding to help you test your ideas in terms of marketing, building your product and getting it out there.”

Undoubtedly, the eLab, founded in 2004, provides students and others with valuable knowledge and capital to pursue entrepreneurial aspirations, but eLab director Bruce Bachenheimer pointed out, “It’s not about being an entrepreneurship major.”

“I’m here to bring University students together in a collaborative work setting,” Bachenheimer explained. “What I would say to anyone interested, is come to the entrepreneurship lab, look around, ask some questions and apply.”

Through the application, “we understand what students are looking for and match them up with other students interested in doing something similar,” said Bacheheimer.

Students can sign up online and become a student associate. Then they are added to the mailing list, invited to activities and access the lab and its various equipment.

In addition to the video studio and private meeting room, the eLab has “a 3-D printer, poster printers and Alienware high-speed computers that are great for 3-D modeling and video editing,” Bachenheimer added.

Bachenheimer describes the facility as an ideal environment for anyone to conceptualize, test and launch a business concept. “There’s the space, there’s the equipment and there’s the people,” he said, identifying graduates in the engineering, finance and computing fields that work within the lab.

Among the myriad events hosted by the Entrepreneurship Lab are three annual contests: the Pace Pitch, Pace Business Plan and Mobile App Design competitions.

These contests sharpen students’ corporate public speaking, written and technical

skills.

Furthermore, invaluable lectures by prominent leaders in a number of industries are frequently hosted by the eLab. Presenters include Fredric Price, Chairman and CEO of the biopharmaceutical company Chiasma, Karen Leland, President of Sterling Marketing Group and Mark A Herschberg, CTO of MadisonLogic.

In Deming’s eyes, “entrepreneurship is paramount for success of innovation and sustainability” in the global market.

Deming remarked on the exponential growth of entrepreneurship. As a result of globalization and the internet, “everyone can become an entrepreneur and many people are becoming entrepreneurs after

they quit 9-5 jobs,” he observed.

Bachenhemier warns that “this idea of going to look for a job is a problem. It’s no more, like a generation ago, that you just get hired. Almost all new jobs are being created by small companies, less than 4 years old with under 100 employees.”

Information on the Entrepreneurship Lab, its technologies, grants and events are available online on the University website, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and more.

No matter your occupation, “it’s about recognizing opportunity and creating value,” Bachenheimer stressed.

“Pace University’s motto is Opportunitas and nothing is more synonymous with opportunity than entrepreneurship.”

Students gather at the Veterans Entrepreneurship Bootcamp on Oct 9th Arize Lee | The Pace Press

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Democracy Might Just Be The Expense of The Digital Age Do new technologies actually inhibit the power of the American protestor?

KOBE Y. JACOBS Staff Writer A certain energy radiated through the streets of Upper West Side on Sunday, Sept. 21. Impassioned activists were descending upon The People’s Climate March from across the nation. Columbus Circle was the starting point and marchers stretched more than thirty blocks up Central Park West.

AP reports total attendance around 310,000, far exceeding organizer’s expectations of 100,000.

Among the attendees were celebrity activists Leonardo Dicaprio and Mark Ruffalo, Senators Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Bernie Sanders (IVT), former Vice President Al Gore (known for his 2006 documentary on the climate crisis), and Mayor Bill De Blasio (who came directly from his announcement of new environmental standards for The City).

The feeling in the air certainly carried the weight of a historic event. One woman parading around the students section before the march commenced bragged about having attended the 1963 March on Washington, and compared the two events. At first this may seem like a premature comparison, however, viewing such an event in the context of historic movements that preceded it can aid in understanding its possible long-term effects.

In the 1960’s, a generation known for civil unrest and mass protest, public demonstrations led to the passage of The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and, eventually, the U.S. withdrawal from the quagmire in Vietnam. By contrast, in the modern world, where our personal gadgets are central to our lives and where people have exceedingly more control over the media content they choose to view, public

demonstration seems to have a diminished influence over the course of events.

The morning of August 29, 1963, the day after The March on Washington, Americans across the country were confronted with the news on the front page of every daily paper. Regardless of their position on civil rights, Americans were forced to process the information and have some sort of reaction to it. However, on the morning of September 22, 2014, the day after The People’s Climate March, home pages of most news websites did not even feature the event. In fact, USA Today’s homepage had a bright red breaking news banner pertaining to Apple’s iPhone sales and nothing regarding The March. Bear in mind that the attendance for The People’s Climate March exceeded that of The March on Washington by over 100,000 people, yet few people out of the New York area seemed to know it happened.

In the age of technology, every individual can be a journalist, broadcasting events on their various social media accounts. Paradoxically, the very websites and institutions that we believe are connecting us seem to be barriers to societal engagement. The vast range of options provided to us—from the many Twitter accounts we may follow to the seemingly endless spectrum of cable programming—provide people the choice to avoid consuming news they are disinterested in. As a result, our journalistic institutions have incentive to headline stories that are less controversial. By headlining iPhone sales, USA Today was able to draw people to their homepage without evoking an emotional response based on viewer’s political preference. Instead of being confronted with the important news, readers must be predisposed to

Senate kills paycheck fairness AMANDA PEREZ Contributor Senate Republicans have unanimously voted down the Paycheck Fairness Act despite strong support from the public, the majority of the Senate and President Obama.

The act, designed to tie up the loose ends left by the Equal Pay Act of 1963 by shrinking the wage gap between men and women, has been struck down three separate times.

Senator Kelly Ayotte’s (R-NH) justification of her “no” vote was that this type of legislation would “prohibit merit based pay.” It was also thought by many Senate Republicans, including Senator Susan Collins (R-ME), that this would lead to an influx in lawsuits over pay inequity.

Sen. Collins told the Huffington Post, “I think this bill would result in excessive litigation that would impose a real burden, particularly on small businesses. So I think existing laws are adequate.”

The Act would in fact ban salary secrecy. In this practice, an employer prohibits, or at the very least strongly discourages, employees discussing wage with their coworkers. A practice which makes it very difficult for women to find out if they are being paid less than their male colleagues with the same experience.

“It’s baffling that employers are essentially putting gag orders on employees just so I can’t find out that I’m worth less to my boss than a

male colleague,” said sophomore Laura Sills.

A study done by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research found that half of all workers in the private sector said they could not discuss their wages, saying it was discouraged or could even lead to punishment.

Women make $0.77 to every dollar a man makes, and the gap is even wider for AfricanAmerican and Latina women, who make $0.64 and $0.54 cents to every dollar a White, Non-

It’s baffling that employers are essentially putting gag orders on employees just so I can’t find out that I’m worth less to my boss than a male colleague -Laura Sills,

University sophomore

Hispanic man makes.

In addition to the reform, the bill also sought to narrow the amount of legitimate reasons for pay differences in men and women with the same job, skills and responsibilities. It planned to increase the penalty for any employer who had no just cause for this wage difference.

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click on the politics section to find it. Therefore, individuals with established political preferences are more likely to come upon the story than the impressionable undecided population whose votes may shape the course of history.

With time waning and the extant global warming crisis looming, the time for urgency is now. Polls show an alarming contingent of the American public is either unconcerned or skeptical about global warming. Despite this massive obstacle, The March on Washington taught us that activists do have the power to change public opinion.

That is why public demonstrations like these matter. Because without a central medium for demonstrators to be seen far and wide, democracy is all but lost.

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October 29, 2014

OPINION AND EDITORIALS

Why OSA and Financial Aid need to change, and fast.

COURTNEY MICHELLE JOHNSON Features Editor Walking through the glass revolving doors, one walks only a few feet before unfortunately gazing upon a massive amount of grief-stricken, frustrated and otherwise angry individuals. They all seem to be waiting for a resolution which I hope they receive, but many times is very much overdue or for some will not come at all. This is not a scene out of some hellish kind of the Manhattan DMV or the waiting room of the New York Presbyterian Hospital. The picture I’ve painted is one of our very own University; the notorious never-ending line for OSA and Financial Aid. In all fairness, one cannot realistically expect the OSA and Financial Aid departments to be able to move at the speed of light when there are at times near hundreds of students waiting to be served who each have different issues which may require their own respective amount of digging which can very well range from rifling through tax documents to explaining ominous financial aid packages.

In keeping with the air of fairness, having a job that is not the best or most glamorous in the world is no excuse for blatantly half-assing it. Sure, the lines are long and usually if one needs to report to OSA or Financial Aid it isn’t for any kind of positive reason, but most of the complaints about OSA come from the fact that when we finally do reach one of those “chairs of doom,” otherwise called Helpdesks, we are greeted with the usual unnecessary bad news: 1) OSA lost an important document that was crucial to our financial aid or registration needs and because someone back there does not know how to file we have to go back and try to reproduce the document.

2) Financial aid has selected you for verification, ironically right after you receive more financial aid that is not even based on income or tax information.

3) One OSA or Financial Aid staff member told you that you need to produce a certain document and when you bring that document to OSA, magically another totally separate and unrelated document is needed instead.

4) OSA or Financial Aid made a decision about your loans which you did not authorize them to and because of that your tuition money to pay for the following semester or year is nonexistent.

5) OSA decided not to release your return and it is already December, even though they are “processed daily.”

Let’s not forget the most famous one: 6) “Our systems are down and that’s why we

have not been able to process what you need and we don’t know when it will be back up.”

These points of inadequacy in service are pretty unavoidable as well, because at some point in the approximate four years that students will spend here, at least one or two trips to OSA or Financial Aid are inevitable. As students of this beautiful institution, which also costs some over $50K per year, we should not have to consistently encounter these things when visiting OSA/ Financial Aid. These claims are not baseless either. Just a few weeks ago I sat in a “chair of doom” in the Financial Aid office and listened to a staff member read me three different numbers and claimed that each of them was my balance, this balance was actually left unpaid because OSA and Financial aid pulled an “unnecessary bad news number 4” on me and decided that they did not want the tuition money that they were set to receive. That actually happened because of them initially pulling an “unnecessary bad news number 1” on me as well.

I can and have had lengthy conversations with my peers and colleagues here at the University on the fact that OSA and Financial Aid needs improvement in the area of customer service and actual competence. These conversations usually turn into informal lecture halls on how to actually get any productivity out of OSA and Financial Aid. The one conclusion that students have collectively come to is that calling OSA or Financial Aid is better than dealing with the people on the front lines. I have seen this to be true myself, however, the fact that this is true means that OSA and Financial Aid is capable of doing better. That’s all the students here and myself want: for OSA and Financial Aid to do better. I love this University. It was here that I was able to find one of my first jobs that actually wasn’t hazardous to my health, meet many good people who I will remember for years to come, learn and expand my mind to points I was excited to discover are possible and enjoy some cool sushi in the Cafe!

This is not the first time that OSA and Financial Aid have been pointed out for their shortcomings. Now is as good a time as ever to improve the practices and actual competency at OSA and Financial Aid, especially since tuition just went up.

The first step is to listen up! This is not a “Pace-bashing” column, this is a wake up call and a blueprint for what issues exactly need to be cleaned up in order for OSA and Financial Aid to get it together; so let’s get it! Its 2014 and it is about time.

DISCLAIMER: These opinions are expressed by contributors (students, faculty, administration and staff) to The Pace Press. These opinions are solely those of the individual writers and do not reflect the opinions of The Pace Press, the members of The Pace Press staff or Pace University. The Pace Press is not responsible and expressly disclaims all liability for damages of any kind of arising out of use or relevance to any information contained in this section.

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U2 and Apple collab for iPhone 6 promotion U2 releases “Songs of Innocence”

SABRINA BOYLE Contributor

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In the beginning of the school year, most like to treat themselves to some new clothes, or perhaps a new bag, but rarely do we get the ‘gift’ of a new U2 album dropping on iTunes for free.

On September 9th, 2014, the band worked with Apple to exclusively release their album “Songs of Innocence” through iCloud, into hundreds of millions of users devices.

While there was a percentage of people who were pleased with the surprised planned by Apple and U2, most customers seemed completely unhappy with the drop of the album. Some of the outraged Apple users brought up privacy concerns, as the album was downloaded onto personal software without permission.

Artists like Jay Z and Beyonce have used similar marketing tactics, by releasing secret albums and surprising their fan bases. While this creates buzz and publicity for the artist, this could have negative side effects as well. There is the possibility that retailers will not sell the album in stores, such as Target did with Beyonce’s self titled album when it was released.

After the release of the album, Bono made a statement about “Songs of Innocence;” “We felt that the ‘album’ is almost an extinct species, and we (tried to) create a mood and feeling, and a beginning, middle and an end.

And I suppose we’ve made a work that is a bit challenging for people who have grown up on a diet of pop stars.”

True to Bono’s concerns, whole album sales continue to plummet daily, with the iTunes and Spotify libraries all over the world consisting of an abundance of albums. Guy Oseary, the band’s manager, said “[U2’s] intention was to restore the integrity of an album, creating a set list of songs with a beginning, middle, and an end.” As far as the band’s business goals, Oseary says that not everything is going to make sense to everyone now, and their main concern is that music is in the hands of as many people as possible.

Around the University’s campus, students have been expressing mixed feelings towards the album. Chase Ballas, a freshman, said that “U2 can do no wrong,” and is very happy with the free album appearing in his iTunes.

Because of such negative backlash, many people on the Internet have decided to speak up on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr.

Fortunately, for those who found the album to be a nuisance and/ or a privacy breech, Apple has released a tool to delete the album from user’s accounts. Whether or not the public is enjoying or hating “Songs of Innocence,” it has certainly created a buzz within the world. U2 feels satisfied in their attempts to get people talking, and to give people access to their music, which was the original goal of the band.

Theater Review: “This Is Our Youth” MAXIMILLIANO ONFORE Editorial Assistant The curtains open to expose a stage with a scarcely illuminated apartment where any young bachelor could easily and comfortably spend days upon days. On the bed sits Dennis (played by Kieran Culkin), watching an old, boxy TV as it sputters out the day’s news. Suddenly, there is a crackle in the air as a voice comes through the apartment’s intercom.

Warren, (played by Michael Cera) is in a hurry to get in, although it is past midnight and this is not his home. From here, the events unfold for a story that lasts no longer than two days but brings about lasting thoughts of growth, love, fear, and calamity.

The play, “This Is Our Youth,” is a revival of Kenneth Lonergan’s West End show. It involved only three actors; Culkin, Cera, and Broadway newcomer, Tavi Gevinson, though she is no newcomer to the spotlight. Gevinson is most known for being a fashion prodigy and running her own online magazine, RookieMag.com. She plays the part of Jessica, a young, slightly naïve girl with whom Warren is in love with and who is attempting to become an adult. Culkin is most known for his acting in the film Igby Goes Down and Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, where he played opposite of Cera as

his best friend. However, he has been active in the theater before, and is one of the reasons that “This Is Our Youth” was revived. He stated that he could not get the show out of his system. “I can’t articulate it exactly,” said Culkin, “The only thing I can compare it to is when you love somebody. It’s hard to explain why you do, you just connect.” However, this time, he played Dennis, the oldest of the group, and yet seemingly, also the most lost. Cera played the part of the awkward and skittish Warren who is abused by his father and his best friend Dennis.

“This Is Our Youth” focuses on the lives of three young people attempting to find their path into adulthood in New York in 1982. In the two days the audience gets to see of their lives, Warren runs away and tries to outdo his father, to show him that he is capable of living on his own. Dennis goes from believing he can do it all, to having a crisis and questing his life path so far and yet holding onto the belief that he belongs on a pedestal. And Jessica is just questioning whether or not she’s in the right place at the right time with the right people or if she should have followed the same footsteps as her friends and left the city long ago.

Recently, Professor Woertendyke took students in his Current Theater in New York class to see the performance and they had much to say about how

they felt.

Mary Kate Kruhm, a senior, stated, “I thought the script was great and that Culkin and Cera were very honest and natural.” Other students, like Abigale Lindauer, a freshman, found the show relatable, even if the plot isn’t something that happens on a common basis. “The show was…relatable in an odd way,” exclaimed Lindauer, “It had the perfect mixture of humor and drama, and the acting was phenomenal!”

However, not everyone was pleased with all aspects of the show. “I did not love the show because the storyline is not my favorite. However there is some intimacy to it and I appreciated that,” remarked Sophie MacArthur, a junior.

Some noted that Cera played the stereotypical character he tends to play. Savannah Apple, a freshman, commented on this, saying, “It was wonderfully awkward which is to be expected because of Michael Cera.”

As Cera states, “I think by the end of the play you can feel very sad for all of the characters- for what they’ve gone through and where they’ve ended up, and where they are going.”

“This is Our Youth” debuted on Broadway on Sept. 11, 2014 and is set to run until Jan. 4, 2015.

Tickets can be found on www.telecharge.com or at Cort Theater box office.

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Review: Lorde takes New York City to church BRETT MYERS Contributor

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The United Palace Theater, a church turned music venue, became “the house of the Lorde” on Tuesday Sept. 16.

Underneath the gold, neoclassical décor that intricately sprawls across every inch of the theater, fans of all ages-, from selfie-taking teens to subdued adults approaching middleage-anxiously waited for this new force in pop to take the stage.

After her minimalist and gothic first tour, Lorde announced a second tour earlier this year to promote her album “Pure Heroine”, tweeting that it’ll be “something different.” Though she maintained the dark tone, she lived up to her promise. From the minute she walked on stage, the most fitting way to describe her would be the classic definition of “cool.” With her hands in the pockets of her black dress pants, she slowly went into the opening verses of “Glory and Gore,” wearing a black crop top and black blazer. After going dark and silent for a moment.

She burst into the chorus, whipping her hair and convulsing her body in the rhythmically spastic manner she has become known for. From then on, the concert was an artistic expression of fog, flashing lights, and articulate descriptions of childhood ending.

After the opening, the curtain dropped the reveal the minimalist stage from her previous tour with small additions: A drummer and a keyboardist in the back and three, gold framed LCDscreens above them. Additionally, two white, suburban streetlamps stood on each side of the stage, serving as perfect visuals to connecting to her themes of autonomous suburban life.

Every song had its own set of color

palates, lighting design, and screen projections, fitted thematically to images described in her album. Glimmering and shining white lights for “White Teeth Teens,” projected videos of a children playing soccer for “Tennis Court,” an aquatic and gesticulating blue for “Buzzcut Season,” moving video of dark suburban streets during “400 Lux,” slowly shifting red and orange enveloped the audience during “Still Sane,” etc.

The strongest visual points came during her performances of ‘Biting Down” and her covers of Bon Iver’s “Heavenly Father” and Kanye West’s “Flashing Lights.” “Biting Down” flashed images of blood floating in water almost to an overwhelming degree, hinting at sinister, hidden meanings. Under some of the best lighting of the night, Lorde sang West’s rap verses of “Flashing Lights” with surprising crisp and natural vocals in a white monk’s robe. “Heavenly Father” bathed the theater in blue and she sang with her head held high and still, sharing a quiet moment of reflection and faith with the audience.

Just like on her previous tour, she took a few moments to describe her thoughts on growing up before performing the most engaging song on her setlist; “Ribs.” She went on an improvised speech about her gratitude towards her fans and how New York City reflects growth, connecting it to the coming-of-age subject matter of the song. She delved into the song, filled with blue and green light, and the audience put down their phones for the only time during the hour and fifteen minute set.

The singles “Royals” and “Team” both had special remixes different than what can be heard on the albumCD and they shook the theater with bass and volume, eliciting the biggest response from the audience. The reflective “A World Alone” proved just as good of a concert closer as it is an album closer with chords and lyrics helping us accept that things comes to an end. The last words of the show: “Let ‘em talk.” Blackout.

Many times during her performance at the Roseland Ballroom in March , she retreated to the less lit space between the band members and let the lights and projections perform while she sang. This time around, she remained right at the front of the stage, welcoming the lights, one of the many signs that she’s growing as an artist and as a person along with her more confident voice and stronger visions for her live music.

She may not be old enough to drive late at night here in the United States, but Lorde is a force to be reckoned with.

Hader and Wiig go for dark in “Skeleton Twins” BRETT MYERS Contributor The pain of sudden family tragedy is deeply wounding in Craig Johnson’s “The Skeleton Twins” and the cuts go deep enough to bring two siblings back together after 10 years. Many films have portrayed brother-sister relationships as lovingly dysfunctional mostly for the purpose of comedy. “Skeleton Twins” portrays Milo and and Maggie, played by Bill Hader and Kristin Wiig respectively, as broken siblings with only happy childhood memories together.

Openly gay Milo has been living in Los Angeles trying to make his way as an actor while Maggie never left their native upstate New York home, working in a dentist’s office and married to the upbeat but boring Lance (Owen Wilson).

The film follows them trying to repair themselves and each other by reconnecting with images of their youth. This subject matter has served as the plot for many clichéd movies, but Nathan Larson’s script presents these clichés as realistic mechanisms for Milo and Maggie’s road to recovery. The most impressive example is their shared sense of humor.

Several scenes have little purpose except to show how the two make each other laugh. Their thoughtout, deadpan characters combined with their natural chemistry and improvisation background set their

characters’ relationship apart from other brothersister movies during certain scenes where they don’t break into laughter despite sarcastic statements. One scene shows Milo getting angry with Maggie for potentially spoiling the end of “Marley and Me,” which he had almost finished. He throws the book aside and she apologizes, but Milo turns back to her and says, “I know what happens…It’s the book where the dog dies. Everyone knows that.” While their comedic cynicism keeps the two of them connected like only family can, it also leads them farther down the path to destruction.

Like her character in Bridesmaids, Wiig’s character in the “Skeleton Twins” is the portrait of a perpetually sad woman unwilling to admit she’s falling apart for other people’s happiness. However, it’s more damaging in this film than it is funny, and Wiig’s character is angry with herself more so than with others. She values the feelings of others more so than her own feelings in a too matter-of-fact manner. She doesn’t ask how to please them, she just does—no matter how damaging it may be. And little by little, the consequences slip out. She sleeps with her scuba instructor in a moment of weakness, feeling undeniably unsatisfied with her husband who is head over heels in love with her. These lapses in judgment, in all their possible forms, ultimately lead to her destructive actions.

Those most familiar with Bill Hader from SNL will be surprised to see this realistic character from him. His portrayal of Milo captures the bitterness embedded in many members of the LGBT community due to judgment and oppression. His constant criticism of everything around him leaves him unable to live with his own thoughts as his attempt at suicide that begins the movie is implied to come after a breakup.

Additionally, his emotions come to a boil each time he gets drunk, a time when anyone’s true thoughts come to the surface. Other than the comedic banter with his sister, the only time he shows excitement is when he sees his ex-lover Rich (Ty Burrell), who was his English teacher when Milo was 15 years old.

The thought of reunited with a past and problematic lover seems to be the only thing keeping him uplifted during his visit home.

This quiet gem of a movie may have initially served as a reel for Wiig and Hader’s talents toward heavy material, but it’s one that shouldn’t be forgotten when award season comes around. While a few of the heavier plot points come from left field for a possible tug at our hearts or a gasp, the actors handle them with grace and vulnerability, blending them in to the story as character development. Very little is resolved at the end of the film. In fact, they may be back where they started with the roles reversed. But in the least cliché way possible, all they need is each other.

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Racial gap acknowledged as Broadway flaunts new “Cinderella” production

Keke Palmer and Sherri Shepherd with Barbara Walters broadway.com BRIANNA WILLIAMS Contributor Keke Palmer made her Broadway debut as the black Cinderella in the production, “Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella” on September 9, 2014. This is the first time in history that the role of Cinderella is played by an African American on Broadway.

Miss Palmer has made headlines already this past year as the youngest talk show host in television history for her new talk show, “Just Keke” on BET. Palmer is also well known for her lead role on the Nickelodeon television show, “True Jackson, VP” and her lead role in the 2006 film, “Akeelah and the Bee.” Keke Palmer is the second celebrity to play Cinderella on Broadway after Carly Rae Jepsen’s 12-week run of the production. In addition to Palmers debut, African-American actress Sherri Shepard will also be taking the stage as the wicked stepmother.

This spin on the Disney Classic is a big step in Broadway history since a white actress traditionally plays Cinderella.

However, in 1997, Brandy played the role of Cinderella in the television movie “Cinderella” with Whitney Houston.

For Cinderella, this was one of the first uses of a multi-racial cast in this Disney remake. Rodger and Hammerstein, who are currently directing Cinderella on Broadway, also directed the 1997 remake

with Brandy.

Palmer credits her decision to play Cinderella from Brandy. “I feel like the reason I’m able to do this is definitely because Brandy did it on TV,” Palmer said in a recent interview. “In me doing this, it shows everybody that everything is possible.”

On Broadway, roles traditionally played white characters are typically casted to white actors. There hasn’t been much cross-racial casting on Broadway over the decades.

However, a number of Broadway productions are experimenting with cross-racial casting and have been given traditional white lead roles to black actors.

This summer, Norm Lewis was the first black man in New York, to play the Opera Phantom in the production, “Phantom of the Opera.” In addition to Nikki M. James playing Eponine in “Les Miserables,” and James Monroe Iglehart as the Genie in “Aladdin.”

Broadway shows are slowly making that shift with the production of more multi-racial casts but continue to be one step behind in the entertainment industry.

Broadway shows are much more hesitant to re-envision certain productions than in the television and movie industry.

It has become to social norm to have a multi-racial cast in movies and television yet Broadway have not mend this racial gap.

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Fall movie season officialy in full swing SARAH HARTZELL Contributor

Oscar buzz starts earlier every year, and this year is no exception. Now through December, theaters will be flooded with some of the most anticipated films of the year, as well as lesser-known indie breakouts.

Already released to rave reviews is “Tracks,” starring Mia Wasikowska, which follows real-life writer Robyn Davidson’s trek through the Australian outback as she writes for National Geographic.

Similarly, December’s “Wild” follows a heroin addict on her solo journey through the Pacific Northwest, based on Cheryl Strayed’s memoir and starring Reese Witherspoon. Both Wasikowska and Witherspoon are receiving Oscar buzz for their performances.

Also currently in theaters is “The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them”..

The subtitle refers to the film’s unique narrative: it was originally two separate films, subtitled Him and Her that told the story of Conor and Eleanor Rigby’s marriage from each of their perspectives.

Combined into the shortened “Them” for theatrical release, the full film Him/Her will be released in October.

Biopics of influential people in an array of fields will open in the coming months. Written and directed by Oscarwinner John Ridley, famous for “12 Years a Slave”, “Jimi: All is by My Side” stars OutKast frontman Andre 3000 as Jimi Hendrix. Oddly enough, the film will not include Hendrix’s music due to failed rights negotiations.

“The Imitation Game” centers on Alan Turing, played by Benedict Cumberbatch, as he famously cracks the Nazi code during World War II and his later criminal prosecution for homosexuality.

Scientist Stephen Hawking is depicted in “The Theory of Everything,” focusing on his relationship with his wife Jane and the beginning of his debilitating ALS. Hawking is portrayed by “Les Miserables” star Eddie Redmayne.

For horror fans, this fall brings two truly terrifying films. “Annabelle,” a spinoff of “The Conjuring,” is a demonic doll that brings terror to her owners. Indie film “The Babadook” finds its horror in demons both human and supernatural: a widow and her son are threatened by a monster from a children’s book due to their psychological problems from the death of their husband/father.

The holidays always bring a variety of movies, from critical favorites to family films.”Exodus: Gods and Kings” brings the Old Testament to the big screen, despite the its criticismcriticsm over the whitewashing of African nobility, while the lower-class characters are played by black actors. Also coming to theaters this holiday season, is Tim Burton’s “Big Eyes” will premiere this Christmas. The title refers to the popular paintings of Walter and Margaret Keane (Christoph Waltz and Amy Adams), which sparked

the couple’s messy divorce. Also opening on Dec. 25, “Selma” is the long-awaited Martin Luther King Jr. biopic, revolving around the violent 1965 civil voting rights march that took place in Selma, Alabama.

Children will also have their pick of movies this holiday season. “Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb” sends Ben Stiller across the pond to a British Museum. The “divisive” “Annie” remake, starring Jamie Foxx and Quvenzhané Wallis, finally debuts in December.

Children’s book character Paddington Bear will get the CGI treatment for his film, “Paddington.”

This year’s festivals have produced independent successes that will open this fall Premiering at the Sundance Film Festival, “A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night” is an Iranian vampire western and opens in November. Satirical drama “Dear White People” focuses on an Ivy League school as an African-American themed party thrown by white students causes a riot. Sundance breakout “Whiplash” stars Miles Teller, as an aspiring jazz drummer and has received awards buzz for Teller’s role. As for comedies, Chloe Grace Moretz and Keira Knightly star as unlikely friends who struggle to act their ages in “Laggies.”

From the Cannes Film Festival, “Pride” will be limitedly released this month. The film is based on the UK miners’ strike in 1984 and its support from the gay community. “Foxcatcher” stars Steve Carrell as real-life John du Pont, who murdered an Olympic wrestler in 1996.

The Russian winner of best screenplay at Cannes, “Leviathan” has raised controversy for its attacks on Vladimir Putin and conflicts with Russia’s anti-obscenity laws; its profanity almost prevented its release.

Finally, there’s the films that have been water cooler fodder for months.

“The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies” brings Peter Jackson’s trilogy to a close this December.

Next in the string of young adult novels-turned-blockbusters is “The Maze Runner,” opening recently to rave reviews. Not to be outdone, “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1” continues the popular franchise in November.

Here to break up the dystopian sci-fi drama is “The Boxtrolls.” “The Boxtrolls” is a feat of animation, using 3-D printing as part of its stop-motion process. Disney’s newest movie is “Big Hero 6,” adapted from a Marvel comic and marking the first animated crossover between the brands. Also from Disney is “Into the Woods,” based on the Broadway hit musical about fairy tale characters and their interconnected stories. Movie goers have alot to choose from this season, making for an interesting race come award season.

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Documentary tracks professional art forger Mark Landis BRETT MYERS Contributor Art or craft? Genius or insane?

Tradesman or criminal? These questions are just the tip of the iceberg of questions that Sam Cullen, Jennifer Grausman, and Mark Becker’s documentary “Art and Craft” conjure up. However, none of these questions come from outright discussions. Instead, the documentary follows the antics of the most prolific art forger in U.S. history: A frail, mousey older man named Mark Landis with bipolar disorder/schizophrenia and a sense of humor as sharp as his colored pencils.

In 2010 and 2011, Landis received widespread coverage in publications from The Art Newspaper to The New York Times.

After presenting innumerable art recreations to museums all over the South as heirlooms from recently deceased family members, Landis caught the attention of Oklahoma City Museum of Art registrar Matt Leininger.

Noticing that other galleries were in possession of the same pieces Landis had donated to his museum, Leininger proceeded to follow the eccentric man’s path for approximately four years, looking for any way to bring attention to his forgeries and make him stop.

The strengths of the documentary aren’t limited to the accurate telling of this fascinating yet fleeting story. Simply watching Landis create and submit his incredibly detailed falsifications is just as entrancing as the Picasso, Rene Margritte, and Charles Shultz pieces he copies. When we first see him at work, his work appears like an incredibly attentive science as he contemplates whether the original artist used a paintbrush or just household items. In one sequence, he studies an impressionist piece of three girls lounging in a field and makes a note of the slight remnants of veins in the faces of the piece’s subjects. However, as the film progresses and reveals Landis’ history of mental instability, the forgeries morph from a science into a coping mechanism.

Watching him create what has already been created resembles watching a child interact with his imaginary friends. He hides from the devastating death of his mother with every

copied stroke of his brush.

Just as much as he appears to hide from what upsets him, he openly shares with the audience what ails him. In one surprisingly heart-warming scene, he reviews the official diagnosis he received from a mental institution when he was a teenager. He checks off what he thinks he still has and what he doesn’t have and chuckles at his own awareness of his thoughts. Whether he’s criminal or genius is still up in the air, but one thing he isn’t is oblivious. He frequently comments on the morality of what he does and the implications on his reputation. Almost like an addict, he talks negatively of something he loves, but continues to do it. Even when it drives him to fake an identity as a priest to donate his art, he receives no money for his work, which keeps what he does legal.

However, just when the film leaves you smirking at his self-aware witticisms and thinking what he does is harmless, the focus shifts to those dedicated to uncovering his forgeries and stopping his career, reminding the audience of his debatable actions. Matt Leininger’s efforts are the main focus of these segments and his dedication matches Landis’ own obsessions. Even Leininger’s daughter knows the face of the man her father has been after and asks if he’s angry with this man. While his efforts serve as the necessary opposing argument to Landis’ trade, he ends up resembling a dog chasing cars by the end of the film when the two meet at an exhibition about the elderly man’s portfolio. He watches Landis interact with admirers of his skills with a disappointed look on his face, as if expecting a horde of tomatoes thrown in his face. On the contrary, the patrons laud him for his skill while simply inquiring as to why he chose not to make his own work. Like a dog chasing cars, Leininger caught and stopped his car, but didn’t know what to do with it from then on.

No matter their opinion of the subject, all those involved with researching Landis admit to him being an artist in his own way. It’s only Landis that doesn’t think so. “I have no delusions of being a great artist. But I’d like to sorta be one.” Whether he meant to or not, Mark has in fact made himself an artist. Sorta.

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Netflix boasts new lineup of shows, movies JUAN P. CASTIBLANCO Staff Writer

Social Media everywhere may have exploded after the news that one of the shows that touched many people’s hearts for seven years is coming to everyone’s favorite streaming site.

Netflix recently announced that all seven seasons “Gilmore Girls” will be streaming. The show revolves around Lorelai Gilmore, and Lorelai—more commonly known as Rory—Gilmore.

Lorelai is a single mother who hails from an Upper-class Yale legacy. After Lorelai became pregnant with Rory when she was 16 years old of age, she ran away and became a maid at an inn, where eventually she worked her way up to manager. Rory— now 16 years old—is a hard-working, Harvard bound, straight-A student, who also happens to be best friends with her mom. This show portrays a special—if

not maybe unusual—relationship between a mother and daughter, showing the friendship and love the girls have, but also portraying the hardships and nuances that may come from being a mother or a daughter.

The show was heavily underrated, being one of the WB shows that didn’t get its deserved praise due to the station where it aired, or because of the audience’s dislike of the fast-talking dialogue; however, the show had a supporting fandom through-out its seven seasons, and it gave rise to OscarNominated actor Melissa McCarthy, who played the role of Sookie, the chef of the inn Lorelai managed at the beginning of the show, and eventually co-owner of the Dragonfly Inn with Lorelai Gilmore. The show also features two Broadway stars Kelly Bishop and Edward Herrmann, who happen to win their Tony Awards in the same year, and play Lorelai’s upper-class parents in the show.

“Gilmore Girls” will not be the only

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show debuting on Netflix this fall. The CW series “The Originals” will also be making its debut on the popular streaming site. Arrow fans will also rejoice in the fact that season 2 will also be arriving this month. Many great shows and movies have also been recently added. “Silver Linings Playbook,” the appraised movie where star actor Jennifer Lawrence won her academy award, has recently been added.

This movie is quite a gem, featuring the dynamic duo of Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper, who worked together in the fantastic movie “American Hustle,” and will be costarting again in the upcoming movie “Serena,” which is schedule to release in early 2015. Other shows who have recently been released include Blacklist, a story about a government agent turned criminal, and Bojack the horseman, an

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Fictional “Central Perk” pop-up pleases “Friends” fans Central Park celebrates famed show’s 20-year anniversary with shop ALEXANDRA POPKEN Contributor

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Fashion designer passes away continued from FRONT PAGE “...although he was born in DR in the 1930s he was born during a time when Latinos weren’t treated equally to white Americans in the USA and the world wide success of Oscar De La Renta was definitely a way to empower the Latin American community. He was also a huge philanthropist and his focus on children and orphanages is inspiring. He was a great all around talent but his era isn’t over. He lived an amazing 82 years and will be a legend forever, “said senior, Jaquelyn Morales.

Oscar de la Renta had huge respect for women. He wanted to empower women when he dressed them. He had been quoted countless times speaking about the way he wanted women to feel when they slipped into one of his gowns. Sophomore Cindy Nguyen said, “‘Fashion is what’s fashionable, style is more about being yourself.’

One of my favorite quotes by the man himself. I have always wanted to “look fashionable” or “be on trend” but always thought it was more of copying what the prettiest models were wearing or even what celebrities wore in the magazines. But really, it is more of my interpretation of fashion or of what I see. I owe a lot to his outlook on what fashion is because I think that is why I started to develop my own personal style and felt it great.”

The NBC sitcom Friends recently celebrated their 20th anniversary! Though the show aired September 22nd, 1994 it is just as popular in 2014 as it was 20 years ago.

Friends starred Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, David Schwimmer, Matthew Perry, Matt LeBlanc and Lisa Kudrow as a group of six loyal, zany and hilarious friends living in New York City.

In honor of the show’s 20th Anniversary, a pop-up Central Perk café has opened on Lafayette Street in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan! Warner Bros. Television Group, Warner Bros. Consumer Products and Eight O’Clock Coffee have teamed up to offer Friends fans and coffee lovers alike, a unique experience in downtown Manhattan. They’re calling it, “The One with the Free Coffee’ a play on the show’s episode titles, which all began with ‘The One...’

The pop-up café is a fully functioning replica of Central Perk, the coffee shop frequented by Monica, Chandler, Rachel, Joey, Phoebe, and Ross. Guests will be able to check out signature props from the series, buy merchandise and even snap a picture on the iconic orange “Friends” couch.

Inside the café are pieces of show memorabilia, such as Monica’s engagement ring, Chandler’s wedding vows, Phoebe’s sister (Ursula’s) sex tape, and Joey’s Soap Digest cover. The café also has Ross’ laminated list of celebrities he would be allowed to sleep with even if he was in a relationship. Some obsessive fans may even notice that this version includes Isabella Rossellini, who in fact didn’t make the cut for the final, laminated version in the episode.

Fan favorites inside the café include: Joey’s ceramic statue, Pat the Dog, and the gold frame

from Monica’s apartment door. The Friends artifacts are definitely the highlight of visiting Central Perk because fans can see just how much the props department paid attention to detail. And who doesn’t want to see Chandler’s hand-written vows?

There is a gift shop selling Friends merchandise including DVDs, T-shirts and coffee mugs—so don’t forgot to bring your credit cards! Visitors will also be treated to instore musical performances, akin to Phoebe’s improvised songs, like “Smelly Cat.” The Soho location won’t be the first Central Perk to pay tribute to the made-up java den. England is home to two such cafes — in Liverpool and Chester — while China boasts one in a bustling Beijing district.

While none of the six lead cast members showed up for the opening, James Michael Tyler - who played Central Perk’s barista Gunther - was on hand to meet, greet and serve fans coffee. “Gunther” will also make an appearance when the pop-up shop closes on October 18. It is expected for the main cast to make an appearance sometime before the popup café closes! Central Perk will be having a special day of activities on Monday, September 29th in honor of “National Coffee Day!” On of the reasons Friends has endured and is still a hit 20 years later is because of its fan base. The show is attracting a second generation of fans because of the show’s smart, well performed, and seemingly timeless comedy.

20-something-year-olds today can relate to the issues of career, money, family, friendship and love, which were all central themes of the show’s main characters.

A tip: get in line early on the weekends, because the line has been 3 hours long just to get into the café! The Central Perk shop is located at 199 Lafayette St. It opened September 17th and closed Oct. 18.

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Fall Kicks off at the Schimmel JUAN P. CASTIBLANCO Staff Writer The Schimmel Theatre has something to offer for everyone this fall; from ballet to sing-along movies to great musical shows and silent films.

On September 21st, Voce Rising Opera Stars in Recital Julia Bullock, Paul Appleby, Andrew Garland, and Steven Blier will join us. They will be preforming French/American art songs. This performance will be starting at 3:00pm. Tickets will be $39.

Interested in watching a family show? Come see Gustafer Yellowgold Family Show. Gustafer Yellowgold is a creature that came to Earth from the sun. Gustafer Yellowgold is now an explorer in the Minnesota woods.

This friendly creature will be sharing its stories. This family show includes live music. This show is on September 27th at 2:00pm. Tickets for adults will be $25 and for kids they will be $10.

Silent films are making a comeback! The silent film “Seven Chances” directed and starring Buster Keaton will be showing on September 28th at 2:00pm. Ben Model will be performing live piano music to accompany the film. Tickets for adults will be $12 and tickets for students $8.

To start off October, there will be an art history lecture with Dr. Janetta Rebold Benton. This lecture will be on the topic Sandro Botticelli and the early Renaissance in Italy. This is part of a series called the Great Masters Series. This will be on October 1st at 12:15pm. Tickets are $29.

On October 5th at 7:30pm the

Boban I Marko Markovic Orkestar will be performing. This brass brand is known as one of the best brass bands around the world. This twelveperson band will be performing good rhythms. Tickets are $39.

There will be another art history lecture from the Great Masters Series on October 8th at 12:15pm to 1:15pm. Dr. Janetta Rebold Benton will be discussing Francisco Goya and Romanticism in Spain. Tickets will be $29.

Come see Loudon Wainwright III take the stage on October 11th at 7:30pm. Tickets will be starting at $49.

Loudon Wainwright is well known for his song “Dead Skunk (in the Middle of the Road) and he has appeared in hit films of Judd Apatow.

On October 12th at 7:30pm The Sarod Project will be performing with Amjad Ali Khan, Amaan and Ayaan Ali Khan, as well as Issa Malluf and Anaubrata Chatterjee. Amjad Ali Khan is well known for being a great sarod or lute player. His ancestors had in fact shaped the instrument over several hundred years. Tickets will be $39.

There will be an art history lecture from the Great Masters Series on October 15th at 12:15pm with Dr. Janetta Rebold Benton. This lecture will be on Auguste Rodin and Impressionist sculpture in France.

Tickets are $29.

A concert will be performed on October 18th at 7:30pm. This concert will be sung and danced by stars from Coleman’s musicals accompanied by The Fred Barton Orchestra. They will be performing Cy Coleman and other hit songs. Tickets start at $49 and go

down to $29.

Ready to learn about Marc Chagall and Expressionism in Russia? Part of the Great Masters Series with Dr. Janetta Rebold Benton, this art history lecture will be discussing Jewish life from Russia, to France, to the US. Tickets are $29.

A family show will take place on October 25th at 2:00pm. The Okee Dokee Brothers will be playing their original folk music and take you on a hike! Tickets for adults will be $25 and for kids tickets will be $10.

On October 26th at 2:00pm Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Lodger” will be played along with a live piano accompaniment by Ben Model.

Alfred Hitchcock directed this silent film when he was only 26 years old!

Tickets for adults will be $12 and for students $8.

Who doesn’t love the classic movie Grease with John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John? On November 1st at 7:30pm there will be a chance to sing-a-long to Grease! Tickets are $20.

The Gelsey Kirkland Ballet will be performing the Nutcracker. There is nothing better to get into the holiday spirit than by watching The Nutcracker.

On December 11th, 12th, 18th, and the 19th the performance will take place at 7:30pm. On December 13th and the 20th, there will be two shows, one at 2:00pm and 7:30pm. On December 14th and 21st, the shows will start at 2:00pm. Tickets range from $59 to $39.

For more information on all of the events, visit schimmel.pace.edu/ calendar. There is something for everyone this fall!

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Fall Festival Round Up KATIE SPARER Contributor

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As many NYC residents know, there are always many incredible events happening on the great island of Manhattan. Of these events, city festivals are particularly fun to take part in. There are countless festivals here in New York City, but a few to focus on are the Food and Wine Festival, the CBGB Music and Film Festival, the New Yorker Festival, and the New York Television Festival.

The New Yorker Festival was held Oct. 10 through the 12 and was presented by MasterCard and sponsored by Acura, United Airways, Häagen-Dazs, Elit by Stolichnaya, The Folio Society, and the city of Ontario, Canada. The festival featured many discussions with various comedians, musicians, actors, writers, directors, cartoonists, artists, and more. Some of the biggest names at the festival, including Bill Hader, Seth Rogen, Lena Dunham, Mindy Kaling, Larry King, and Kiefer Sutherland. Two of the panels held were ones about LGBTQ television and the legalization of marijuana. Attendees were also able to see sneak previews of a few television shows and films.

Another festival worth mentioning is the CBGB Music and Film Festival. This one took place from Oct. 8 through the 12, and if you were lucky enough to catch it, you had the pleasure of experiencing a few big names such as Jane’s Addiction, Devo, and Billy Idol tear up the stage at various venues across the city. Some of the venues included were The Bowery Electric, Brooklyn Bowl, and The Knitting Factory; places that are well known in the music scene to watch an awesome show.

The festival also showed films at different cinemas around the city. This Is Spinal Tap was shown on its 30th anniversary at Village East Cinemas and I Wanna Hold Your Hand was shown just down the street at Anthology Film Archives. In addition to movies, the festival was also showing documentaries such as: Austin to Boston and Riot on the Dance Floor, both shown at Anthology Film Archives.

The Food and Wine Festival was presented by every foodie’s favorite television channel, The Food Network. Some big names from the

network were in attendance, such as Ted Allen, host of the series Chopped, Anne Burrell from Worst Cooks in America, and Robert Irvine from Restaurant Impossible. Aside from personalities from The Food Network, there

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were many culinary icons, such as Emeril Lagasse and Mario Batali. This festival was held from Oct. 16 to Oct.19 at locations all around the city, depending on the event you chose to buy a ticket for and attend.

The New York Television Festival in Manhattan, as stated by their website, “is a pioneer of the independent television movement, connecting its community artists with leading networks, studios, agencies, production companies, and brands.

The website also features an interesting section called NYTVF by the numbers which includes a handful of facts about the festival.

There are “14,000 creative community members, 100,000+ attendees, 11,500 total submissions, 9 annual NYC festivals, 800 officially selected projects, 51 content initiatives, and 545 free events, screenings, and panels.” This year’s upcoming festival will have a week of screenings, panels, and premieres with plenty of artists, industry leaders, and television fans in attendance. If you take an interest in the television world and community, then mark your calendars for Oct. 20 to the 25 and purchase a pass or reserve a ticket online to gain access to the events. You can also show up at the door and will not be charged entrance.

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Stormtroopers, Mutants, and Cons; Oh My! Comic Con once again overtakes New York City’s Javit’ Center

GWENNYTH WHITE Contributor This year’s New York Comic Con was held at the Jacob K. Javits Center, October 9 through the 12. The turnout was massive, as per usual, a thick stream of attendees in and out all day, every day. Those lucky enough to score tickets—as they sold out online within minutes—were treated to advanced screenings, sneak peeks, previews, celebrity meetings, and plenty of opportunities to purchase memorabilia.

One of the sneak peaks included Disney’s new film Tomorrowland— inspired by the attraction at Disney’s theme parks. The teaser itself was very vague, but excited fans all the same. The panel included Director Brad Bird, Producer Damon Lindelof, and an unannounced George Clooney. The panel went on to discuss and show a new trailer for Disney’s new animation Big Hero 6. There was also plenty of buzz about the confirmed new Ghostbusters movie, starring an all-female cast. Directed by Paul Feig, director of Bridesmaids, and The Heat. Fans are crossing fingers that the movie will hold up to the first two.

Video games were not left out at Comic-Con as the Star Wars Battle Pod was premiered. A new arcade machine, it offers an immersive experience as a fighter-pilot—be it for the Rebels or the Alliance—as you take on missions in some of the franchises most prominent battles. The player’s chair is enormous and moves on rails while you play, giving you an adrenaline-pumping, roller-coasterlike experience. Final Fantasy’s newest edition: “Type-0” had a playable demo, showing off its new combat system.

Gone is the turn-based system of fighting, and moving in are real-time battles. It’s been out for quite some time in Japan, but it’s finally making its U.S. debut on PlayStation Vita and Xbox-One. It will be available on shelves this March. Finally, for all the classic-game-fans out there, the cult favorite of the late nineties, Grim

Fandango, is being re-mastered in HD for re-release on PS4 in 2016.

Netflix’ “Daredevil” footage got rave feedback from fans, looking more like a gritty film noir than a television show.

The fight scenes were a great show of good choreography and visual effects. The rumor that it could connect to the Marvel films has yet to be confirmed.

One of the most crowded panels was ABC’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. where Clark Gregg made a surprise visit and ran into the audience to shake hands and take photos.

During the panel, guests were given an exclusive first-look at Peggy Carter’s new standalone television show, Agent Carter.

The footage featured, without giving away too much, Peggy Carter knocking Howard Stark out cold, and kicking a man out of her kitchen window.

Other panels included The Walking Dead, Legend of Korra, Bob’s Burgers, and Game of Thrones. Pleasantly surprising were the number of minorityfocused panels for comics, television, and movies. Some of the more packed panels included: #WeNeedDiverse (Comic) Books - Diversity in Comics; New York Times OUT and Geeks OUT Presents LGBTQA in Comics; Geeks of Color Go Pro: Working in the Industry; “Mary, Do, or Kill?” What Will it Take to Shatter Female Stereotypes in Comics; and Women of Color in Comics: Race, Gender, and the Comic Book Medium.

Famous celeb attendees included Bill Nye the Science Guy, Patrick Stewart, Gillian Anderson, Karl Urban, Scott Snyder, Arthur Darvill, Billy West, and voice of SpongeBob Squarepants: Tom Kenny. There were several concerts, dramatic readings, movie nights, a costume ball, cosplay contests, and even speeddating for attendees, LGBTQA included.

Comic-Cons seem to grow in size every year, along with the culture, and with the renewed interest, it’s exciting to see where it will take the industry. In this attendee’s opinion, this Con was worth every second spent in line, and every cent paid.

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Review: Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga’s “Cheek to Cheek” Duo shine in colloborative album of American jazz classics

ERICK MANCEBO Editor It started slowly. A one-off solo jazz performance during a London gig, before— just as suddenly—another jazzy performance of “Orange Colored Sky” overtook a 2011 ABC Thanksgiving special. Then came a duet with Tony Bennett for his “Duets II” album, before finally, officially, Lady Gaga tackled jazz alongside Bennett once again for their joint album, aptly titled “Cheek To Cheek.”

The album is a swooping, punchy and overall very sweet package from the two singers. And while pop music fans won’t find any dancefloorthumping beats or synthesizer aerobics on any of the offerings from Bennett and Gaga, many music fans will indeed find the Great American Soundbook tunes to be worth checking out.

The album opens up with the duo’s first single, “Anything Goes,” which finds Gaga decrying the nature of today’s society in which, well, anything really does go. The obvious pink elephant in the room—that Gaga has for years masterfully exploited this laissez-faire philosophy to much success—winks at the audience as the pair call and return their lyrics.

Bennett and Gaga are in on the joke.

Then comes the title track “Cheek to Cheek,” which finds Bennett and Gaga crooning about their love of going out dancing together at week’s end, over the scratching sounds of metal

brushes on a snare drum (all of the songs were recorded live with Bennett’s band). The bouncy number sets a happy tone for the album that quickly morphs as more thoughtful numbers like “Nature Boy” and “Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye” take center stage.

A perky standout, “Firefly” is a welcome accent to the middle of the album. Horn pops— an endearing cracked trumpet note audible— build as Bennett and Gaga again go back and forth. And another standout, the duo’s second single “I Can’t Give You Anything But Love” marries Gaga’s usually auto-tuned (but now much richer, grittier) voice to a visceral and bluesy hi-hat-assisted declaration of: “I can’t give you anything but love, baby/ That’s the only thing I’ve got plenty of, baby.”

The album rounds out with the heartfelt tunes “Sophisticated Lady” and “But Beautiful” before Gaga is allowed her exclamation point at the end of the album—by way of her (bonus track) rendition of “Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Down).”

Here, she absolutely shines. Rolling suspended cymbals build suspense alongside horns before coolly fading and giving way to Gaga’s clear, crisp opening notes. There’s an airy but deliberate containment to her voice as she continues, allowing herself a little more breathiness in the closing notes of her first verse. A Latin-inspired piano kicks in, along

Bennett and Gaga pose before a promotional event for “Cheek to JustJared.com with subtle hand drums. Gaga sings about her ex-lover, both of them effectively killing each other—“not for me, no church bells rang”—before building to the song’s climax: a tearful bellow of, “Now he’s gone, I don’t know why/ Until this day sometimes I cry/ He didn’t even say goodbye/ He didn’t take the time to lie—Bang, bang! I shot you down/ Bang bang!

He hit the ground/ Bang bang! That awful sound/ My baby shot me down.”

As the song wraps in a wave of cymbal rolls and horn flourishes, one almost finds themselves catching their breath alongside Gaga. It’s clear that the tempered rumors of the pop artist’s days as a successful vocal performer at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts don’t do her justice—just as her pop records don’t do her talent justice either. But with another Bennett-Gaga collaboration album already in the pipeline, and several tracks from “Cheek to Cheek” already submitted for Grammy consideration, it might not be too far off to say that Gaga’s new side-project may gain her some muchoverdue credit.

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New Amazon tablets hit the market The online retailer debuts mass of new tablets

Amazon’s Kindle Fire HD.X SARAH HARTZELL Contributor While Apple has been getting the lion’s share of attention lately with the release of the iPhone 6, Amazon has been making waves of its own with its announcement of new tablets on September 17. The new range includes upgrades to existing models as well as brand new devices.

The Kindle Fire HDX is Amazon’s newest state-ofthe-art tablet. The device has an 8.9 inch screen and retails at $399. It is thinner, lighter, and faster than Amazon’s previous tablets and has enhanced audio, which claims to be twice as loud as the iPad air. The Fire HDX uses a system of dynamic light control that adapts to lighting

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conditions to make viewing the screen easier. The tablet supports 4G LTE connectivity in addition to its improved Wi-Fi connections, and the increased battery life lasts up to twelve hours.

Slightly less advanced than the Fire HDX are the Kindle Fire HD 6 and 7. Available in six- and seveninch displays for $99 and $139, respectively, the devices include improvements to the existing Fire HD. The highdefinition displays are crisper and run the new Fire OS 4 Sangria. Sangria includes updates like Firefly, which allows users to “scan” real-life objects to get information about them, and family member profiles akin to those on Apple’s new iOS 8.

Both Fire HD models will be available as Kindle Fire HD Kids’ Edition. Retailing for $149 and $189, respectively, the new model builds on existing apps and options on older models that give parents more control of their children’s use of the tablet. Photos taken on the Kids’ Edition are automatically uploaded to their parent’s Amazon Cloud Drive account. The device comes with unlimited access to the service FreeTime, usually $2.99 a month, which gives parents the ability to set limits on the time spent on the tablet and the content accessed, as well as including over 5,000 kid-friendly apps. Both models come with a free rubber protective case and a two-year guarantee for repairs.

Amazon’s acclaimed e-reader gets an upgrade in the form of the Kindle Voyage. Selling for $199, it is Amazon’s thinnest e-reader to date and has an E-Ink screen that is designed to resemble real paper. The screen adapts to light to provide a brighter, sharper display that makes outdoor reading easier. Voyage also has a longer battery life and free 3G connectivity.

Finally, an updated basic e-reader, called simply Kindle, builds on the original model but with a faster processor and the E-Ink screen. It is the most affordable option at $79.

Despite the large-scale upgrades to Amazon’s line of tablets and e-readers, the consensus among University students is still not in Amazon’s favor. “Honestly, I prefer Apple and I didn’t really know about [Amazon’s announcement],” said freshman Savannah Lemke.

“The Amazon tablets are affordable and nice; they don’t quite match up to Apple or Samsung in terms of overall functionality, design, ease of use, and quality

hardware, but Amazon might offer the most bang for the buck,” said junior Dan Sherwood. “Currently Amazon might offer the best value in a very crowded tablet market, but nobody will be confusing their tablets with Apple’s any day soon.”

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Students react to child star’s controversial comments JORDAN LITTLE Contributor In a recent interview with Oprah, Raven Symone, the child star best known for her role as Olivia on “The Cosby Show,” rejected the labels that she had been given by the public. Symone stated that she doesn’t see herself as gay or as an African American, she simply sees herself as a “human who loves other humans” and a “colorless person.”

Her message may have been a wellintentioned one, however that hasn’t stopped the backlash she has received from many people for her perceived rejection of their communities. Even Oprah seemed shocked by her comments, immediately reacting with “Don’t set up Twitter on fire!

Oh, my Lord. What did you just say?”

On the other side of the spectrum, many people have expressed agreement with this idea, and believe that labels are unnecessary and harmful to individuals and society as a whole.

“It’s a logical point,” says Miya Alex, a freshman criminal justice major. “Why are we looked at as African Americans when we’re Americans?”

Performing Arts major Harold Hodge feels that labels are unnecessary in the black community and do not contribute

any substance. “Having a label and having a culture are two different things.”

The arguments from those that oppose Symone’s comments have regarded the ways in which labels foster communities for minority groups. For people who are struggling with their identity, having a support group of peers who understand their struggle and identify the same way that they do is of the utmost importance.

Having that community can help one feel not so alone. Similarly, many have stated that attempting to see the world through a “colorless,” as Symone put it, lens erases the unique struggle that people of color go through in this country as well as years of history.

Not to mention the fact that, while we have made strides towards equality between the races, we are still far from equal in todays world and need to acknowledge the different experiences people have, based on their race or their sexual orientation.

Symone’s interview has raised many relevant questions for us as a society on whether labels are holding us back from achieving equality, or are necessary tools used by marginalized groups to find people with whom they share a struggle and a culture.

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Anthony DeStefanis believes that labels may not be needed in the future.

“Idealistically there wouldn’t need to be a label, but at this current point in time we

aren’t at a place where people can just like what they like or be who they are without there being consequences.”

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Students weigh in on campus dining preferences ANNA YESILEVSKIY Contributor Having to choose between food spots nearby the campus and the cafeteria, students take into consideration factors such as expense, time travel, and distance.

Flex dollars and the meal plan are both available on the OneCard.

While the meal plan is used to buy meals in the campus cafeteria, flex dollars can be used for off campus food spots.

Such spots include Subway, Au Bon Pain, Chipotle, Long Island Bagel Café, GRK, and many more.

When questioned if she buys her meals at food spots around the University, Junior Helena Santiago stated that she buys food in both places. She often frequents Chipotle and the mexican grill is her favorite food spot because “One meal is good for two helpings and is under ten dollars.”

Santiago also has a suggestion for the University’s own Café 101. “It would be great if the café had more Asian food,” said Santiago.

Santiago also believes that meal plans and flex dollars are essential to students.

“Meal plans can be good for days when you don’t feel like going outside of campus,” said Santiago.

Freshman Meesha Ahujd had a similar response. She also said that she buys food at both food spots nearby and at the café. “The meal plan is still helpful,” said

GRK restaurant on Fulton Street is just one of the places that currently accepts the University’s flex dollars.

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Ahujd. Ahujd said that she would like to see, “more healthy food that is not a salad.”

Sophomore Emily Wohl also stated that she buys her meals at both the food spots nearby and in the University café.

Her favorite food spot is “[Clarks Diner] because it is cheap and has a lot of options.”

Wohl also does not want the University to stop offering the meal plan. However, she did make a suggestion for the café.

Wohl would like it if the café would offer more dessert options.

Sophomore Brianne Moreno had a similar response. She said that she buys food at both the school cafeteria and at an outside food spot; she commonly goes to GRK on Fulton Street.

She had a different view on whether the University should stop giving the meal plan and instead increase amount of flex dollars. She stated that she would prefer that.

It is evident that University students like both the meal plan and flex dollars and that each has its disadvantage and advantage. While the meal plan is within footsteps and is easily accessible, it cannot be used for a big variation of meals.

On the other hand, flex dollars allow students to have more options on what food to buy and eat.

Furthermore, many of the meals at food spots are cheaper and therefore, flex dollars indirectly help students save money.

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Personal Trainer Chris Lowe’s fitness tips

Crunch Gym personal trainer offers tips—and a “Pace” discount

The Pace Press was able to speak to Crunch Gym’s Chris Lowe, who offered up some advice on fitness, diet, and staying healthy on a college campus.

The Pace Press: For some freshmen, the first semester at college means trading healthy home-made meals for easily accessible junk food between classes. Are there any “eat this/ not that”-type food swaps you’d recommend?

Chris Lowe: Ask yourself if your in-between class, am I having a snack or a meal?

If it’s a snack, keep it low-calorie (under 250) high value (value, in this context can be substituted with nutrient density). Some healthy snack options are: · A protein bar containing between 10-20 grams protein, under 250 calories, and under 3 grams of saturated fat. · A 100 calorie ‘snack size’ serving of almonds · An apple, orange, or banana.

If it’s your meal, and you will be going for several hours before you can eat again, you may want something in the calorie range of 250-500. Some protein bars have the nutritional value and caloric power to replace a meal (bars that have between 350-500 calories could be considered meal replacements. While you should be focused on getting whole foods (lean meats, whole grains, fibrous veggies) to account for the bulk of nutrition, time strapped students may benefit from doing a little nutritional research and buying a box of meal-replacement bars. Again, look for 15-25 grams of protein, very little saturated fat, and a modest amount of carbohydrates. The name of the game is nutrient density-getting calories that will work for you.

TPP: If a student finds they’ve got a 15-20 minute window for a quick workout, what’s the best way to maximize the workout?

CL: Check in with your goals. If you are trying to tone, maintain, or build mass, body-weight exercises, and larger compound movements give you the most bang for your buck. I recommend the TRX Suspension Trainer if you are in a gym that has one. If not, body weight exercises like squats, bridges, pushups, burpees, etc. · If you are strictly looking for weight-loss results, jump on your favorite cardio apparatus (bike, elliptical, stepper, arc trainer) and select an interval or random hill program). · Caution: Rushing through a workout is often an ingredient for injury. Know yourself. Look at your calendar. Make the time. · If all else fails-you live in New York City. Take a walk! Even a little movement can go a long way if you keep committed to your goal.

TPP: Are there any exercises that can be done in a dorm room or office (i.e., working with a small amount of square footage) CL: If you are working out in your dorm room or common area, bodyweight exercises are ideal.

Split squats, stationary lunges (in all directions), planks, leg raises, are all excellent choices that will quite literally fit into your lifestyle. · If you are in a crunch for time, consider using that small space and window as an opportunity

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to de-stress with some stretching or yoga. While it may not burn calories, you will be doing something good for yourself and supporting your exercise regimen. · If classes are your thing – you can also log-in to CrunchLive.com where you can access Crunch’s signature group fitness classes for $9.99 per month that are totally doable in a small amount of spaces. Classes range from 15 minute “quickie workouts” to full length workouts and they are taught by real Crunch instructors. Free trial available at CrunchLive.com TPP: How often should students looking to combat the “freshman fifteen” schedule a workout? What type of exercises should they be doing?

CL: Exercising most days of the week for 45 minutes- 1hour at a moderately vigorous pace is an important component of keeping your heart healthy and your weight down. Bear in mind: weight management is exercise combined with healthy nutritional choices. Move more, eat nutritiously dense food.

TPP: Is it possible to go on a “healthy” crash diet?

CL: You may see results from crash diets, but ask yourself if the eating behaviors you are engaging in are sustainable. If the answer is no, then you may see all the weight that you lost come right back.

At the end of the day, lean meats, legumes, fruits, and vegetables-you know-real food- in healthy portions and proportions, are the healthiest, most long term way to keep weight off, when combined with regular exercise.

TPP: What are some of the best outdoor workout/running spots downtown?

Get to a river! Whether the East or the Hudson, running along the water can really put things in perspective (not to mention burn a few calories).

TPP: Any other fitness tips?

CL: There are no short-cuts to fitness or your goals. Whatever you are trying to do, it will take time and effort. Make a plan, and execute it.

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Video Games with large followinga command notice CHRISTIAN GOMEZ Executive Editor

The Lord of the Rings canon is no stranger to the triple A treatment by developers and the “Shadow of Mordor” is the latest game from Monolith productions to explore Middle Earth. Debuting at last year’s E3, the game quickly built up a lot of hype from the gaming community along with comparisons to the “Assassins Creed” series.

Mordor brings a large open

world experience with stealth elements that explores the little talked about Mordor, characterizing it as cities overrun with Orcs. It demands of the player character to use a combination of stealth and visceral combat with an interesting twist. It also has a major new system known as nemesis that will remember player interaction with certain types of enemies over the course of the game, leveling up enemies as you do, creating a more personal emergent experience while playing the game. This mechanic is littered across the game and quickly is becoming one of its points of praise by gaming publications along with its expansive and filled to the brim open world asking to be explored with secrets and orc politics to interact with.

The strikingly similar game design continues to be a point of interest among reviewers, but does not ultimately ruin the game’s public opinion, as more and more games of late have been openly borrowing ideas from more established games but fine tuning them to fit a different scenario.

The inspirations for “Shadow of Mordor” are apparent but the game makes a name for itself while not in story but in the journey players embark on with lead character Talion and his adventures across Mordor.

The story may not be one of the greatest to be told within the LOTR fiction, but what it lacks in

narritive it certainly makes up for in its deep and at times rhythmic fighting system that improves on the Batman formula. There is an emphasis on primitive combat and the game has succeeded with reviewers praising its rewarding and tight combat mechanics.

Coming with a very similar amount of hype after last year’s E3, “Destiny” is Bungie’s first game since leaving Microsoft and ending their ties with the “Halo” series. The pedigree shows in “Destiny” immediately with similar character models and aesthetics of the earlier Halo games, robotic companion, voiced surprisingly by Peter Dinklage, very familiar looking enemies and weapon animations as previous games. From the start it was noticeable that Bungie was focusing on the feel of “Destiny” over the story with little to no information being released on the plot and the ability to play with friends always took center stage in interviews and advertisements of the game. While the game is said by the developers to open up once you max out your characters level, it reflects poorly on a developer if a game only gets fun after a huge time sink. A major complaint coming from players has been repetitive nature of the game once the open world presents itself to the player; missions quickly make you cover the same terrain multiple times exhausting the extremely detailed levels.

The game clearly shows off its budget with stunning graphics but lacks in actual interesting game mechanics.

The shoot is what is to be expected from companies like Bungie and Activison who published the game, a fine balance between “Halo” and “Call of Duty”. “Destiny” has become the next gen staple though, with a huge player community on both the Xbox One and PS4 but it is

also worth noting both consoles have seen very little attention in the past few months in terms of big releases. “Destiny” kicked off the season and it is exciting to see “Shadow of Mordor” fare so well among reviewers.

Hopes are high for this coming holiday season with “Super Smash Brothers” dropping next month alongside “Alien: Isolation” and “Sunset Over Drive” which all faired extremely well in the press during their E3 announcements.

Long-delayed “Deadpool” movie underway GWENNTYH WHITE Contributor The Deadpool stand-alone film has been trapped in pre-production limbo for more than ten-plus years, being kicked from project manager to project manager since 2003.

Most of the project’s heavy lifting can be attributed to Ryan Reynolds-who himself played Wade Wilson in X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

Earlier this year, test footage was “leaked” from special-effects company Blur depicting Deadpool knocking around a few heads-figuratively and literallyin his signature silly fasion. Ryan Reynolds can clearly be heard lending his voice to the leading role. The footage was yanked hours after its appearance on YouTube, with the caption “This video contains content from FOX, who has blocked it on copyright grounds.”

If anything, it validated the video’s legitimacy and created just as much excitement as the video itself.

Three months later, Blur itself posted the video on their own website for public viewing, saying the project was only “in the works.” Then, several days ago, Fox announced an official release date for a Deadpool film: February 12, 2016. Writers on the movie’s script include

Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick-writers of Zombieland.

With the film safely in Production-land, fans can sit back and wait for the fruits of their labor to arrive.

Comic book films are becoming more commonplace in the box-office, with more than 30 superhero films released in the last six years alone; not to mention the eleven films confirmed to come from Marvel Studios in the next ten years and another nine on the part of Warner Bros.

Ever since the first comic-serials appeared in newspapers, on-screen counterparts followed. Waith series like The Adventures of Captain Marvel in 1941, and Batman in 1943 played before movie-showings, it was warmly received among old and young audience members alike. However, comics fell out of the bigscreen’s favor in the 50’s when the comic-book industry as a whole fell into turmoil due to demands

by The United States Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency to establish the Comics Code Authoritythe bane of every comic creator for the next fifty years.

Even with the negative stigma placed on comics, one studio took a chance on—not a bird, not a plane, but Superman. Despite Warner Bros. hesitation, the 1978 Superman film went on to be one of their highest grossing films in the company’s history. After the

release, the ball began rolling once more on comic-tofilm productions. The buzz lasted well through the 80’s and mid-90’s, ending with Batman & Robin in 1997, a notorious flop thanks to over-the-top cheesiness, and Batman’s strange, rubber-nipples included on the batsuit. Again the movie scene went quiet until its revival in 2002 with Sam Raimi’s Spiderman.

A new and fantastic element was added to superhero films thanks to large strides in technology. No longer were actors limited to camera cuts and rubber-villains; they could now play in the world of CGI. From then on-comic movies moved from B-rated to top-grossing territory.

With each movie adaptation, there are alterations from the origins of the character’s storylines that take place for various reasons-be it running-time-trimming, rating-changing, or otherwise. Some comic-purists have cried out that this corrupts the character and ruins the franchise as a whole. There have always been alternate timelines, branching series, gender-bending, race-bending, and even species-bending (see Frog Thor).

As other films are confirmed, fans will have to keep hoping that their beloved characters will continue to slowly come to life on the big screen.

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SARAH HARTZELL Contributor Online retailer Amazon has announced plans to open brick-and-mortar stores in Sacramento and San Francisco, CA.The announcement comes on the heels of a Wall Street Journal report that a similar store will soon be constructed in Manhattan. Amazon has not yet confirmed or denied these rumors.

The pop-up kiosks will serve as showrooms for Amazon’s line of electronics, including the Kindle e-reader and the Fire phone. The speculated New York location would also serve as a small warehouse for sameday deliveries in the area. The storefront will also be able to process returns and exchanges.

The store openings are well timed, as consumers are beginning preliminary shopping for the holiday season.

The stores allow for customers to try out Amazon’s newest devices in a similar manner to existing chains like Best Buy and Wal-Mart.

While certainly the largest, this is not Amazon’s first

foray into retail.The company has previously installed Kindle vending machines and Amazon lockers, to which online customers can ship their packages and pick them up in a convenient location-- 7 Elevens, primarily-- on their own time.

The San Francisco branch will be located in the Westfield San Francisco Centre, a mall not far from many major tech companies. The Sacramento location will be in the Westfield Galleria at Roseville, a mall that has served as a testing ground for similar stores like Google’s holiday store in 2013, which still remains open. The reported New York store will have prime realty across from the Empire State Building and down the street from Macy’s, in Herald Square.

While the stores add an element of convenience, they may not be the best financially for consumers. Known for it’s low prices, Amazon has become a top retailer due to the lack of sales tax charged in certain states, giving the website an edge over physical retailers. The brick-andmortar stores give states the authority to charge sales tax,

which could result in a raise in prices for customers. The additional costs associated with running a retail store will also likely be passed on to customers.

On the other hand, the increased competition among retailers, both online and in stores may cause a drop in prices across the board. Wal-Mart has already expanded its online store and started offering free shipping in an attempt to keep up with Amazon. The addition of another major player to the market may shake things up enough to prove beneficial to customers.

“They have good offers,” says Hege Nylund, a freshman, “So if they have the same offers I would [shop at the store].”

With the pop-up stores scheduled to open in time for the holidays, it is likely that their future, and the future of additional locations, will depend on the revenue they bring to the company. Although they are described as opening for the holiday season, it is likely that the addition of storefront venues is more of a trial run for the next phase of the ever-growing Amazon Empire.

The Best Places to Ice Skate in Manhattan ALEXANDRA POPKEN Contributor Midterms are underway, pumpkin spice lattes are in full force and before we know it, it will be time to take finals.

The Fall 2014 semester is flying by, but before students get onto their buses, planes, or trains home to celebrate the holidays with family, it’s time to fit in all that New York City has to offer in the winter—which includes Ice Staking. The Pace Press has compiled a list of the four closest and most convenient places for students to ice-skate this semester.

The Winter Village at Bryant Park that is much more than just an ice skating rink. The complex holds up to 500 people and has various holiday shops, an indoor pavilion and a lounge named Celsius, which has amazing hot chocolate. The Bank of America Winter Village at Bryant Park Ice Skating Rink is located on Sixth Ave between 40th

and 42nd St in Midtown West. Cost of admission is free and it only cost $15 to rent a pair of ice skates. The Winter Village opened its doors on Oct. 21 and will remain opened until March 1. The complex is open Sunday thru Thursday, 8am–10pm and, Friday and Saturday 8am–midnight. From the University, take the A, C, or E trains uptown to West 4th and transfer to the B, D, F, or M train to 42nd St–Bryant Park; 7 to Fifth Ave. This year, the university is going to have an ice skating rink right in our own backyard. The intersection of Fulton Street and Front Street will hold a 110-by-45-foot ice-skating rink. General Admission for students is $10. It will also cost $6 to rent a pair of ice skates— which will have less of an impact on students’ wallets’ than the Rockefeller and Bryant Park rinks. The rink will open right after Thanksgiving Break on Nov. 26, and remain opened until March 2.

Hours are as follows: Monday through

Thursday: 11am - 9p, Friday and Saturday: 10am - 10pmm and Sunday: 10am - 9pm. This skating rink is also offering drop-in basic skills classes which will be held Saturdays and Sundays from 9–9:45am ($20 including skate rental) and private lessons are also available Thursday–Sunday ($60).

Finally, The Wollman Rink is located on the east side of New York City, very close to the Central Park Zoo. To skate Monday thru Thursday it will cost individuals $11.25 but if one would like to skate on the weekend, the price increases to $18. Skating rentals are $8 everyday.

Out of all of NYC’s skating rinks, Fulton Street Ice Skating Rink is the closest option for university students, The Bank of America Winter Village at Bryant Park is the cheapest and both the Wollman Rink and The Rink at Rockefeller Center are iconic spots worth visiting at least once.

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App users’ passwords, info in danger of theft ARIZE LEE Contributor

Information security breaches have been multiplying. Nude celebrity photo leaks and violations in consumers’ credit card accounts have exposed vast vulnerabilities in today’s technological world.

Many popular apps and services in today’s technological world present dangers to users’ passwords and sensitive information. This now means, that, in exchange for convenient GPS directions and international social networking, users make their personal information more open and accessible through giving these apps certian priviliges and access

to sensitive credentials; thus, making privacy more difficult to protect.

Senior Sabiya Bacchus a Computer Science major and Seidenberg Peer Leader, is confident that technology is ruining privacy today.

“If you’re not paying for it, you are not the customer, you are the product,” Bacchus said.

Bacchus explained that free social networking companies such as Facebook offer their free services while also profiting off of user’s personal information.

Rebecca Arbogast, former analyst

at investment banking firm Sitfel Nicolaus in Washington, stated that the business model of free web services like Google “depends on them being able to target advertisement more and more precisely to us; it goes to the core of what they are all about.”

These allegations highlight information theft by big, lucrative tech firms, however, Bacchus noted a second group of information violators, “those that steal your bank account information and hurt you,” the individual hackers.

This group of people are more notorious and their actions negatively impact users’ livelihoods.

Dave Lewis, a Global Security Advocate for Akamai Technologies and founder of Liquidmatrix Security Digest, identified in a Forbes article, two ways of securing your tech applications and accounts from such people: “First off you can enable twostep authentication on your iCloud account. Once this is enabled a user would receive a four digit SMS message with a code to input in addition to their password,” said Lewis. “This way, if a password is compromised the attacker would still need an SMS code to gain access to the user account.”

“The last piece to take into account is making use of a password manager,” said Lewis.

“This is a piece of software that can manage your passwords for you securely; there are excellent products out there that can do this for you such as 1Password from Agilebits, Keepass and Lastpass

to name a few.”

Despite these available security options, junior Josué Vicioso noted that as people improve protection of their data, “the malware developers and hackers are getting better at taking it.”

Vicioso also emphasized that users should create passwords with “a nice mix of numbers and letters,” because it is “getting easier to crack passwords every day.”

Pertaining to the government’s role in information security, Bacchus believes that “the government shouldn’t be involved if [security violators] are not stealing your money or messing

with your identity.”

Bacchus pointed out that oftentimes people willingly make their information widely accessible; therefore, there is no need for legislation to protect them from “harmless” information theft.

Surely, information insecurity may appear inevitable and irrelevant to many who do not seriously try to prevent it.

Nonetheless, Vicioso explained that the amount of damage a security violation causes someone is worse for common people.

Bacchus agreed.

“Celebrities have the money to deal with that; the majority of people, on the other hand, can face grave and permanent consequences for failing to properly defend against cyberattack.”

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University students cope with harsh debt

BRIANNA PADEN Contributor

Each year, thousands of college students take out student loans to cover the expensive cost of a higher education. As the numbers continue to rise, thousands of college students have been put in a financial strain.

In New York, college students are hit the hardest, as the student debt average is higher than the national average. Students come to New York for the endless opportunities; however this comes with a price tag due to the high cost of living. About 28 percent of New Yorkers between 18 and 34 are in debt with student loans, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

For many students, taking out a student loan is the only available option to pay for their education

that has left students drowning in debt.

Over the past decade, colleges across the nation have increased their tuition annually to adjust to inflation.

Since 2009, the University has experienced over a $6,000 increase in tuition alone.

According to the Project on Students Debt, the University had the highest average student debt of New York in 2013 with $35,895, followed by NYU with $35,104.

Sophomore Naomi Tshifunda lives on campus and has had to deal with the exorbant housing tuition.

“I lived on campus last year but that came with the inescapable student loans to cover the cost of my room and board. The school has made it really difficult to avoid student

loans with the high tuition cost and housing,” said Tshifunda. “I decided to commute this year because it became a question of whether I was willing to take out another loan just to live on campus or commute from home to avoid being in more debt.”

On the New York City campus, commuting is a popular option for students looking to save money.

Whether it be leaving at home or finding an apartment as an alternative to the residential halls.

Students here rely heavily on the scholarships and grants provided by the University, however, this aid only covers a portion of students’ tuition, leaving the students to pay for room and board out of pocket. A large number of University students come from out of state and must use the residential halls provided by the University.

This leaves students no choice but to borrow loans to cover the out

of pocket cost for housing. At this University, that can cost a student an additional $15,000 or more a year.

There are other options to help students pay for schools in substitute of student loans. Getting an off campus job is a great way make extra cash as well as gain work experience. The University also offers federal work-study, which is available to eligible students to apply for on-campus jobs.

For students who do not qualify for work-study, the University has a number of non-work study jobs that are also available. In addition to the scholarships offered at here, students can also apply for outside scholarships.

There are thousands of scholarships available to students to help pay for schools. Websites such as FastWeb.com allow students to search for scholarships based on their interest and skills.

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Upon entering the hottest night club of the weekend, one can see young freshmen girls being offered drinks and VIP service. All being very new and exciting, most do not stop and think what could be in their drink. Women are being whisked into the VIP sitting area and poured free drinks all night.

Freshman Ben Rhodes witnessed an unfortunate situation one night in a VIP section.

Rhodes claims he saw an older male hand his female friend a drink specifically and without thinking his friend had handed him the drink because she wasn’t interested. He may have only had a few sips, but within 20 minutes he was starting to feel sick and had to be escorted out and taken home. The potency in these “date rape” drugs can be lethal.

Rhodes recalls the incident. “I didn’t remember anything that had happened after the club. I have no memory of even getting home,” said Rhodes. “If it wasn’t for my friends it could have turned out really bad.”

Altered drinks are becoming such a common occurrence that the faculty has had to step in. Marijo Russell O’Grady, the Dean of Students at the University even stopped in on a few University 101 classes to spread the news on how dangerous accepting a drink

from a stranger could be, and proceeded to hand out “test strips” to the first year students to detect if their drink has been tampered with. She encourages all students to use these strips, whether they are making the choice to drink alcohol, or just a seltzer when they are out in public.

Up and coming promoters are starting to target college students, typically ones that are “well-liked and attractive”, to start working for them and convince their peers to come out to their clubs and bring their friends. Having access to someone who can roam the residence halls and communicate with people their own age is crucial in the promoting business. They get offered free drinks and admission along with some pocket change if they can bring in their quota of students. It seems like a perfect job for already time consumed students, but what they don’t know is that it can be extremely stressful. Having to go out all night long all weekend long doesn’t leave much time for down time or homework nights. These young students are expected to be the life of the party Thursday through Sunday, and then seem too tired to concentrate on their school work.

The night life should be experienced at one’s own pace, and not used as a career pathway. Students should be safe and observant of their surroundings when going out at night.

Talent at PaceU: Eric Pubins and The Bohemians GEORGE-ANN RYAN Staff Writer

Eighteen-year old Eric Pubins is a freshman Accounting major. He is also the drummer in a band called Bohemians which was formed in 2012 in Long Island. The other band members are Luke Lotardo (Vocals, Keyboard, Guitar), Eric Milton (Keyboards, Guitar), and Perry Ladoucer (Bass). The boys have an eponymous EP out now and their first full-length studio album named “Settle Down, Carry On” coming out in December, 2014. The Pace Press had the opportunity to sit down with Eric Pubins and his band-mate Luke Lotardo and ask a few questions.

The Pace Press: How did the band form?

Bohemians: We officially state our formation date as around August 2012. At that time, It was just me [Luke], Eric P. and Eric M.. We all knew each other in high school but played in different bands. When our respective bands weren’t working out to our liking, we had a moment when we just jammed together and that’s when it clicked. We wrote two songs that afternoon and they came naturally. From that moment we became a band.

TPP: Could you describe your vibe, genre or style?

B: That’s really hard to do. We like to get electronic and we like to use synths, but at the same time we are indie or alternative in essence. Just imagine any mainstream alternative band and that’s pretty much us, really.

TPP: Bohemians, that’s an interesting name. Where did it come from?

B: Well Eric M. is really into conspiracy theories. Not in a creepy, crazy sort of way but he just finds them interesting. So one day he learned about the Bohemian Club, which is basically a private gentleman’s club of politically influential rich people. We were looking for a band name at the time and it was convenient. Later on, we saw the actual meaning of the word ‘bohemian’ as someone who is unconventional and it fit so it stuck.

TPP: What are your musical influences?

B: It differs from member to member for me [Luke], mine are definitely Coldplay, M83, Two Door Cinema Club, Bombay Bicycle Club, The Killers and Muse. There’s also this band called Horse Jumper of Love that includes some people I know. They’re really good too.For me [Eric], I really love Twenty-One Pilots, The 1975, Bad Sons and Blink 182. As a drummer, the beat is important so it has to have a drum and bass element.

TPP: What have been your most memorable gigs so far?

B: We’ve played a few. Recently we played at the Webster Hall in May. We were the opening act for an artist called Talain Rayne. That was our most high- profile gig. We also played the Theatre 80 St. Marks. That was our first acoustic gig. Also, the show that could not be forgotten was the first time that we played as a band. It was before Perry joined, but it was when Luke, Eric M., and I [Eric P.] first thought we had something. It was at out high school talent show.

TPP: Where do you see yourself in five years?

B: That’s really hard to say. If you told us that we would be where we are now a year ago, we wouldn’t believe you. The past year has been so kind to us. We’ve garnered a fan base, we get Facebook messages from Sweden saying that they love our music. Our debut album might change it all. In five years, we just see ourselves as reaching higher heights.

Eric Pubins (left) with bandmate Luke Lotardo (right).

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Coming Out with the University Community

MAXIMILLIANO ONOFRE Editorial Assistant On Monday, Oct. 13, the LGBTQA and Social Justice Center partnered with the student organization, Stonewall Coalition, in order to commemorate the annual National Coming Out Day with the University and outsider.

National Coming Out Day, celebrated every year on Oct. 11 was founded in 1988 by Robert Eichberg, the founder of the personal growth workshop, The Experience, and Jean O’Leary, an openly gay political leader from Los Angeles and then head of the National Gay Rights Advocates. This date is significant because it is a way to celebrate the anniversary of the 1987 National March on Washington for lesbian and gay rights.

The fair, held outside of One Pace Plaza, was overwhelmingly well attended, with students, faculty and outsiders coming to enjoy their time and getting a chance to hear the astounding speakers. Attendees also had the chance to hang out, participate in a raffle and an arts and crafts competition while getting to meet people.

The team that made this event possible was composed of volunteers, the Stonewall Coalition team and Center staff.

The Center’s own Queer Blast had a chance to speak with those at the fair and get some feedback on why the fair was such an important event. “Visible support and

examples of LGBTQA individuals and love matters. Without it there is silence. For those who are able to do so safely, whether you’re LGBTQA or a straight ally, we have the obligation to love each other boldly and in the open and to recognize and celebrate our differences,” stated Kelly Herbert, the Center’s Assistant Director, “We need to remember that for every chair that was filled at our fair, there is another waiting to be...when it’s safe.”

Herbert was not alone in her sentiments however, as Senior Jamie Popovics comments, “I found the Coming Out Fair to be a comforting representation of a supportive community within the Pace community at large. The performers and speakers were moving and inspirational and not anywhere near as cliché as the words I could find to describe them. “ Speakers this year included poets such as Joanna Hoffman, Akbar Jahnilli and Sam LaRoche.

Each one had different topics to discuss regarding the LGBTQA community and presented them as spoken poems. Maleia Sheflin, a previous University staff member was also asked to speak as was past Stonewall Vice President, Roberto Chavez who gave an inspirational speech on how coming out can be such a major part of someone’s life.

All in all, the fair had the largest turnout in years and was very well received.