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SGA Drops Motion to Ban Club Officers from Senate Positions “To deny students the right to run for SGA is appalling to me.”- Christopher Leahy

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The CCSU Riflery and Marksmanship Club is hosting the campus empty holster protest, a demonstration in which supporters of the controversial concealed carry policy on college campuses wear holsters for a week. This week will include a visit by a National Rifle Association representative, a bake sale and holster event.

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Leah S. Glaser was featured at CCSU’s Central Authors this past Wednesday to discuss the reasoning and inspiration behind her latest novel.

Glaser, who is an assistant professor of history and public history at Central focused her novel Electrifying the Rural American West: Stories of Power, People and Places, on the distribution of electricity in rural – mainly Native American – areas in Arizona.

The book is openly described as being the “social and cultural history of rural electrification in the west.”

As taken from the inside cover, “When examined from a local level, the process of electrification illustrates the impact of technology on places, economies and lifestyles in the diverse communities and

glaser’s Electrifying the Rural American West: Stories of Power, People and Places

landscapes on the American West.”

She bases her work off of three case studies done out in Arizona, which she discussed in a chronological timeline, of the advancements of electrical progress in various Native American areas from 1914 through World War II and on.

For most of the lecture, Glaser focused on giving the background for the case studies so those in the audience got a better grasp of what her book was mainly about. And for those unfamiliar with the concepts and terminology of the subject matter, she includes a glossary and list of abbreviations at the front of the book.

Glaser is one of the last few to be featured as part of Central Authors this semester. Two more are scheduled and will take place in the campus bookstore. Dates are to be announced.

Changes to the Student Government Association's constitution were made at last week's meeting, including new regulations for electing members of the Senate.

The Senate also entertained a debate over whether to disallow club executive board member and Senator overlap. A proposed motion came forth to add a stipulation to Senator restrictions that indicated "no voting member of the SGA may be an executive board member of a club funded by the Student Government Association."

It was killed quickly, when Senators realized that many of the senators present at the meeting would be forced to choose between the SGA and their clubs if the motion was passed.

Senator Christopher Leahy voted against it.

"This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard," Leahy said.

"To deny students the right to run for SGA is appalling to me. We could lose fundamental possible SGA members based on them trying to better themselves, and that is wrong."

In order to edit the constitution to reflect a more organized manner of holding elections in certain places and times, the Senate voted to approve that elections for the fall semester will now take place on the fourth week of September and the third week of April for spring semester.

The SGA constitution's Article 4 was also revised to add the Events and Stipend Review Committees to the list of standing committees, and the descriptions of the other six committees have been taken out of the Constitution.

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Restaurant Emissions Contribute to Pollution Researchers from the University of Minnesota found pollution from commercial cooking in restaurants is prominent.

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(WIRE) - Researchers from the University of Minnesota found pollution from commercial cooking in restaurants is prominent, and current methods to reduce it are less than effective.

Dr. Thomas Kuehn, professor in the department of mechanical engineering, said commercial cooking creates emissions that are significant contributors to pollution, and these emissions are harder to control than previously thought.

“Compared to other emission sources, it is quite large,” Kuehn said. “[The emissions] are sometimes several percent of the food product being cooked.”

Using a laboratory equipped with a full kitchen, Kuehn said he was able to test a number of different cooking appliances for emission rates.

Conveyor broilers, which are used in a number of fast food restaurants, created nearly 25 pounds of emissions in the exhaust duct per 1,000 pounds of hamburger cooked.

A clamshell griddle, which is similar to the George Foreman Grill, only produced about 10 pounds in the exhaust duct per 1,000 pounds of hamburger cooked.

Kuehn said the variance in the amount of emissions is dependent on the food and how that food is being cooked.

Foods with a high fat content have higher emissions, according to Kuehn.

“If you are cooking hamburgers compared to cooking vegetables, the hamburger is going to have a higher emission,” Kuehn said.

Also, Kuehn said a cooking appliance like a broiler, which cooks at a high temperature, contributes more emissions than something that cooks at a lower temperature.

Dr. Bernard Olson, senior research associate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, said appliances like a wok using peanut oil produced about 55 pounds of emissions in the exhaust hood per 1,000 pounds of chicken cooked.

“The percentage of the food product emitted was pretty amazing,” Olson said. “There is a lot coming off the food that is just going into the air.”

Along with analyzing the emissions’ physical characteristics, experiments to determine the chemical composition were taken, according to Dr. Deborah Gross, associate professor of chemistry at Carleton College.

With cooking methods that used high temperatures, Gross said the experiments revealed the

presence of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, a compound that is potentially carcinogenic.

Tim Farrell, chemical engineer and independent consultant, said this is of particular risk to people who repeatedly cook using higherheating methods.

“There is large risk to kitchen workers, and even people who cook in their homes,” Farrell said.

Particles emitted from commercial cooking can become lodged in the deep lung area and cause various health problems, according to Kuehn.

Kuehn said restaurants that may contribute to this risk are visible by both sight and smell.

Although the smell of grilled hamburger may seem harmless to a passerby, Kuehn said it is direct evidence of the restaurant’s pollution contribution.

Also, the particles emitted can condense on the roof of the restaurant, as well as erode the surrounding asphalt, according to Kuehn.

“In a perfect world, you wouldn’t see or smell anything when you walk by a restaurant,” Kuehn said.

Although other industrial practices, like factories, have caused more pollution, these industries have received the attention necessary to address the problem, according to Farrell.

“Lots of industrial practices that were dirtier than cooking have been cleaned up,” Farrell said. “Cooking has been largely ignored.”

Efforts to utilize Kuehn’s research have begun in California, where cooking practices are regulated in areas of Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Olson said it is common practice for regulations like this to start in California before spreading out to the rest of the United States.

“Once it is established there, I believe that it will move throughout the rest of the country,” Olson said.

Along with increased regulations, technological advancements would be necessary to have increased filtration systems, according to Olson.

Olson said typical filters would require constant replacing.

“The technology is going to take some time to be able to remove a lot of particulate and vapor,” Olson said.

Fuller said the research gives manufacturers of this technology the information they need, which they would otherwise lack the resources to find out.

“It has really advanced the state of practice in this industry,” Fuller said. “It is enabling innovation all across the industry.”

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Students Feel Impact of Obama’s Health Care Reform Young adults weigh in on the good, bad Sasha Lekach

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(WIRE) - Yolo County Health Officer Dr. Joseph Iser can’t see much a UC Davis student could find problematic in the recently signed health care reform.

The law, which passed this March, specifically targets younger constituents with a new option of staying on parents’ health insurance plans until age 26. “[Yolo County] is very optimistic,” Iser said. “This is a way to make sure students have health care coverage.”

Although changes will not take effect for six months, Iser said the benefits are already apparent. Another valuable component of the bill is that students with preexisting conditions cannot be excluded and are treated equally for insurance coverage, he said.

“For students in particular it’s such a great benefit,” he said. “It’s a really good deal.”

Davis College Democrats Vice President of Communications Kelsey McQuaid shared similar views with Iser and is optimistic for what this means for future generations. Davis College Democrats did not release a public position on the bill, but McQuaid said in debates and discussions there seemed to be a common view.

“Our club members have varying views on how extensive reform should be,” McQuaid said in an e-mail interview. “But we all agree that this bill is a critical first step.”

Outside of the club, sophomore political science and Spanish major McQuaid was

happy to see Obama sign the bill.

“This reform is a building block upon which we can further improve the system,” she said.

Not all students are celebrating the recently signed reform.

Lydia Sandlin, a senior political science major, is part of the UCD group Davis College Republicans (DCR). After meetings and debates, the organization decided the health care reform has some problems.

“Our point of view is that it got rushed through the house and senate so fast,” Sandlin said. “And it’s so long, so nobody really knows what it said.”

Although Sandlin disagreed with the politics of the reform, she said the new age limit is a benefit that all students will appreciate.

Others problems Sandlin and other DCR members identified include its slow start many parts of it will not be seen until 2014 - and a non-transparent signing process.

“We have a couple members who were infuriated by it,” Sandlin said. “It’s not just going to be completely free health care. To pay for those services, it is going to have to come from somewhere.”

New Grad Life, an online blog for soonto-be graduates and recent college graduates, has an online poll about the health care bill.

The site’s poll asked, “Does the recent health care bill really help college students/ grads?” Of the 131 responses, 47 percent said yes, while 42 percent said no. Eleven percent was not sure.

Police Log On March 19, Darryl Wilson, 22, of New Britain, was arrested for breach of peace around 1:15 a.m. He was scheduled to appear in New Britain Superior Court for April 6.

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Though Unfortunate, Metal Fest Incident Should Not Trigger Undue Rigidity At last Wednesday’s metal fest put on by the radio station WFCS, a moshing injury caused a brief pause in the show. A fan was hit right under the eye while hardcore dancing during the second act’s set.

While unfortunate for the fan and the metal fest attendees, this will most likely mean extremely right security for concert events in the future, and a lessened tolerance for metal events.

When these concerts are held at actual venues, they normally

require bouncers or authorities to keep the crowds from rioting and the like. Having expected only 100 or so people, it was thought that the concert would be fine with just the event staff watching over. Though, unfortunately, that fan had to be escorted out of the building and driven away in an ambulance, the event went otherwise as planned.

Most colleges provide the occasional concert which involve local to house hold names in hiphop, pop, punk, rock and even

indie. Only occasionally is there a metal show at CCSU. Metal comes with a lot of baggage - and incidents like last Wednesday’s don’t help the public image. WFCS’s PR Director himself acknowledged that the injury is going to further tarnish metal concert reputations. He said he believes that there will not be another show like this until fall 2011.

However, CCSU took a chance on a concert that otherwise was fairly successful. CCSU and WFCS

Drilling Should Not Be a Surprise Obama Has More to Think About Beyond Climate Change Jason Cunningham The Recorder

Environmentalists have declared President Barack Obama’s decision to lift the ban on offshore drilling as the most detrimental and unproductive decision of his presidency.

Though the outburst may make the situation seem unexpected, plans to open our waters to drilling have been talked about since Obama was on the campaign trail. Taking this step should come as a surprise to no one.

Equally unhappy are the Republican Party, whose top ranking member House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) dismissed the plan on the day it was announced. Shouts of outrage on both sides usually mean a halfway decent compromise has been made.

Fiscally, drilling offshore on the southern Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and north coast of Alaska is intelligent.

CNNMoney.com reported that depending on the number of new rigs created, drilling could create jobs for up to 25,000 people working offshore with salaries as high as $90,000.

Additionally, the federal government and some states stand to gain royalties from drilling.

Experts maintain that the East Coast isn’t likely to have large oil reserves and no one honestly knows how much oil is in any of the new drilling areas. Finding large reserves, however, isn’t the main goal. Easing our dependence on foreign oil over a long period of time is.

Obama isn’t waving a middle finger to the environment and he’s not substituting finding alternative fuel sources for drilling. He’s trying

to satisfy a need. Our thirst for oil isn’t going away within the next 20 years, but hopefully it’ll be decreased, eliminating the need for more expansive efforts to obtain oil in the future. Most Americans have no problem with offshore drilling when it’s not happening close to home. Accepting drilling and its consequences is a reality our fast consuming country must face.

This decision doesn’t call for harsh criticism. Not only is drilling offshore a good choice, but it actually says in the most public way possible that Obama is thinking about a larger picture. Senator Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) claims that the efforts Obama has made to please both sides are contradictory, saying, "It also appears President Obama is caught in a contradiction: the President is, on the one hand, pushing forward with global warming policies to make fossil fuels more expensive, while on the other hand, he's talking about drilling for more fossil fuels offshore.

How does the President square these two policies?"

It’s not as if a depleting natural resource should be cheap when it’s a main contributing factor to our environment’s increasing jeopardy. As oil is phased out as our primary fuel as planned, it’ll only get more expensive.

Obviously, high oil prices aren’t convenient, but they’re realistic and morally tolerable.

Drilling doesn’t mean the United States isn’t seeking an edge in the global marketplace in renewable, clean energy. Obama isn’t leading a global climate action plan; he’s leading a country. Positive reform and research is still underway, but in the meantime the roar of the gas pumps stills calls out loud.

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at least tested their limits. Assuming that CAN and the school officials involved will consider heightened security and greater planning, it means the spring concert with Wale and New Found Glory will probably be stiffer and stricter than usual. It’s a logical and smart choice - why would the university let certain rules slide, especially after an injury?

The spring concert will most likely bring in a different crowd, and maybe more guests. It’s why the school will probably be more strict

as to IDing both, understandably.

But the metal fest incident should not seriously stifle concerts of a more physical kind. If anything the radio station and planners must have already learned a lesson: when in doubt, bring more security and enforce stricter preventative measures.

Tom and Jerry: Obama and Health Care In classic Tom and Jerry fashion, this column's aim is to reflect different and sometimes opposing aspects of discourse on each topic.

With the recent passing of the Health Care and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act of 2010, otherwise plainly known as health care reform, debate has ensued over whether it is exactly the money-saving, effective and revolutionary bill it has been touted as.

Tom: It feels so foolish to have put faith in someone based on his empty rhetoric.

Everyone was swept up in the hysteria of change. Better than McCain? Certainly, but the system is undeniably flawed. Politics in this country DO need to be changed. That is the great shame behind Obama, we actually believed he'd be the one to do it. Instead he abandoned the people who made his campaign inspiring and shacked up with limousine liberals and businessmen. He’s terrible. Even passing the monumental health care bill was understudied and rushed. Not to mention that it'll put future generations in debt. How much of an accomplishment is that?

Jerry: Rushed? Understudied? They spent a year on it, Tom. And look at the final vote in the house. They actually got health care reform passed. What’s the problem with the legislation they passed? He’s set an agenda that I am very happy with and he is getting it done piece by piece. I’m not sure what the problem is.

Tom: Listen Jerry, I’m not completely unhappy with some of the bill, but the cost is overwhelming. There’s quite a bit to account for. Additionally, I don't feel as if there's been enough exposure of the bill to the public.

Most members of congress on both sides admit to not even reading it. That’s a big issue for me.

Jerry: The cost is overwhelming?

According to the Congressional Budget

Office, this bill is a long-term money saver. It will pay for itself and then some. The failure of the Obama administration in year one is that they haven't been campaigning. Essentially they haven't been explaining, loudly and frequently, all the things they have been doing and why these are all smart things. The GOP, the health insurance companies and other special interests have been talking so much trash about Obama and everything he is doing. Even you can admit that it always hasn't been easy to see things for what they are, from a more objective standpoint.

Tom: There are still doubts over the CBO's projections that the bill will save $143 billion over the next decade. I think health care costs will probably bankrupt us.

Jerry: Eh, sounds overly dramatic to me.

Tom: The danger is not that we can't solve our problems, but that Obama isn’t going to take the steps to. I don't believe his approach has been sound.

Jerry: Give Obama some time. He staved off total economic collapse and passed really serious health care reform among other things, all in his first year and two months.

Now that he has a little bit of that "experience" he was lacking in the campaign, let's see how he does over the next year or two. I think you need to rate him relative to what is actually, legitimately possible Tom. With this congress, I am pleasantly surprised that this reform package covers as much as it does. In the words of President Obama: "I am not an ideologue."

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TITUS ANDRONICUS to Rock Toad's Sunday Matt Kiernan The Recorder

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Indie rock group Titus Andronicus will be coming to Toad’s Place next Sunday, April 11 in promotion of their new politically charged album, The Monitor, with support from the indie pop group The Babies.

Titus Andronicus have a very in-your-face indie rock sound that can be more aggressive than other bands in the genre performing today. While the lead singer’s screams are full of anger, he’s also heartfelt in his approach, with many parts of the bands’ songs slowing down for quieter moments.

The Babies are a combination of members from indie pop band Vivian Girls, and indie folk band Woods. The band has a noisier indie

pop sound, taking instances of the Vivian Girls and a road that leads more toward garage rock.

My Heart of Joy, based out of Kensington, Conn., will be the show’s opener. This comes after the band had to cancel a show at the University of Rhode Island coffee house that was scheduled on the same night.

The band takes a very alternative rock/ emo approach to their music, with the lead singer screaming often in the same sense that the singer from Andronicus does, which should be a good match-up for those who are fans of Andronicus.

Tickets cost $10 before and on the day of the show, with the doors opening at 7 p.m.

The show predicted to start at 8 p.m.

Moshing Accident Sobers Metal Fest Kim Scroggins

“This is not the kind of thing we wanted to happen at a show.” - Nick Menapace, WFCS PR Director

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Students and guests were asked to vacate Alumni Hall during WFCS’ Metal Fest last Wednesday night when a fan was struck in the face in the confusion of the crowd’s hardcore dancing.

The fan –whether he is a CCSU student or a guest has not been disclosed– was was one of the few dancing in front of the stage when he was kicked in the eye by another person in the crowd, which knocked him to the floor.

The injury occurred during the second band’s set.

Event staff immediately responded to the incident and made the crowd leave the hall until decisions were made about where to take the injured person and whether to disband the show.

“This is the first time they let us do this in two years and this looks really, really bad.”

Nicholas Menapace, the PR Director of WFCS 107.7 stated. “This is not the kind of thing we wanted to happen at a show.”

Though he admitted to somewhat expecting something to happen once the crowd began hardcore dancing.

Once the student was taken away and reports were filed with the campus police, the staff decided to let the show continue but with strict rules, which even the bands enforced.

Staff said that if moshing or dancing were to continue, the show would be shut down completely and everyone would be forced to leave. The metal concert ended around 11 p.m.

Sue Sweeney, the Associate Director of Student Activities, who said she has had plenty of experience with these types of shows, felt that the incident was handled in the best way possible. An issue that was brought up was whether or not the show should have had security present from the beginning.

“The decision to have police is not made by us but made by the police department.”

Sweeney said. “The police department, as a result of this incident, might be more conservative.”

Menapace agreed that police security might be something they would have to consider.

The student center staff and the WFCS staff were only expecting a crowd of 100 or so people which is not a large enough crowd to warrant police security and which Sweeney said is “generally manageable with the staff.”

For those who are familiar with metal shows, situations like this are common, but in a school setting, it may lead to different reactions from the audience. However, Sweeney was not pessimistic about the fate of Metal Fest, despite the accident.

“We have had a lot of success with metal shows in the past,” she says and also re-

Metal band Attentat performs at last Wednesday’s WFCS Metal Fest. enforced that, “I don’t want the media painting a negative image of this.”

By the end of the show, the accident seemed to have blown over; and though

everyone is unsure how the events of the night will shape the future for WFCS Metal Fest, Menapace predicted that if another were to happen, it wouldn’t be until the fall of 2011.

The injured metal fest-goer was taken away by ambulance.

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“I really don’t know how it’ll proceed from here,” Menapace said. “This is definitely going to affect the way we do concerts in the future.”

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Hot Tub Time Machine Fails In Execution Nicholas Proch

Special to The Recorder

After having spent my afternoon seeing the latest work from Steve Pink, Hot Tub Time Machine left me feeling empty handed. This film is just the latest in a long line of comedies which you’ve seen over and over again.

There’s something to be said for dumb humor, but to really shine you need to have smarter dumb humor than what this movie has. What made The Hangover shine wasn’t the vulgarity but the glittering irony sprinkled throughout. Hot Tub Time Machine has vulgarity but it doesn’t help build the story or even make it interesting. Besides the vulgarity, the topic has been covered over and over again, only this time with a slight, unoriginal twist.

The story centers around three friends who are middle-aged and burnt out. They need to recharge themselves and decide to take a trip to an old ski town they used to visit. The town they had come to love became a shell of what it once was since the 1980s. It’s really a reflection on the movie itself.

What could have been a great thing resulted in disappointment. While trying to bury their emotions in a blur of alcohol, they stumble upon a glowing, inviting and, as the film title suggests, a time-traveling hot tub.

The plot isn’t very original, far from it, to say the least. The guys were on a trek similar to The Hangover, but happened to mess with the space time continuum.

They didn’t do it in a DeLorean

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like in Back to the Future at least, otherwise they’d have two studios angry with them. Clark Duke, who plays the nephew of John Cusack in the film, meets his mother and father just as Marty McFly did, and almost accidentally stops himself from ever being conceived.

One of the film’s shining stars is the disgruntled bellhop, Crispin Glover, who also plays Mr. McFly in the Back to the Future series.

Whether or not this is a coincidence or a shout out to the series is

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It only took Americans a year to rip off Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza's sensational 2007 horror film [REC].

There's a great chance that most movie-goers didn't know that John Erick Dowdle's 2008 film Quarantine was largely a shotby-shot remake and conceptual rip-off of the original Spanish film that made waves inside horror film culture when it debuted at the 2007 Venice International Film Festival before gaining buzz after leaking to the Internet. To be fair, a lot of that had to do with the fact that Quarantine was released in theaters nationwide before the original film was given the light of day on DVD shelves across America in 2009.

[REC] follows a television reporter and her cameraman who end up quarantined in an apartment building after following a team of firefighters on what they hoped to be a routine distress call.

While Quarantine was an okay film (it ripped off a masterpiece), it still managed to fall short of the initial ferocity Balagueró and Plaza were able to achieve first. [REC] is a tightly created and intense horror film, seething through the screen with substantive atmosphere made possible thanks to an eerie apartment building setting that leaves with the viewer a feeling of absolute entrapment.

And that claustrophobic and tense feeling is one of the reasons [REC] works so well as a genuinely scary horror film. It's aided greatly

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by a mastering of the first-person handheld style of shaky cam filmmaking seen in titles such as The Blair Witch Project and Cloverfield.

Balagueró and Plaza make sure to never induce too much nausea, keeping things in check at times while mixing the calm creepiness with a dash of terrifying mayhem and insanity when called for.

The experience of [REC] is so integral to the horror process. If there was ever a horror film made for a large screen, a dark room and an at least adequate pair of speakers, this is it. Watching this on your laptop simply will not suffice (as is the norm with most films). The entire point of the film is built around watching it in suitable surroundings. While the film leaves you on edge with a lethal dose of suspense and a creepy atmosphere that in true haunted house style will leave you wonder what's around every corner, the blunt impact of [REC] is best noticed in its timely and surprising scares.

[REC] is simply one of the best horror films of the last 20 years, maybe more. It's effective in every possible area, from concept to execution. It's a shame this superior film with better acting and because of it a more convincing ending wasn't simply sent to American theaters instead of the cheap remake being called for.

Balagueró and Plaza recently released a sequel to [REC] that picks up right where this film leaves off, so there's no better time than now to see [REC], even if you've already been tricked into seeing the shoddy remake first.

uncertain.

Rob Corddry plays Lou, a middle-aged burn out who never really left the 80s. He can be funny once or twice, but after a while he just became annoying. Craig Robinson may have been the only semblance of hope from the film.

His lines, as usual, are short and to the point, but it was exactly what some of the scenes needed. His character comes to a self-realization of what his life had become since the 80s. This helps him fix his future

in the space-time continuum.

John Cusack, clearly the highest billing actor in this movie, doesn’t really add anything that any other actor couldn’t have. His reputation as a serious man shines through where it shouldn’t in this comedy.

This movie should have been much better than this. The formula has worked in the past, but somehow the creators of this film really messed it up. There is something to be said for originality, but when you can’t execute on something that is proven

to work, you really don’t deserve to be credited with a positive piece of work.

While I suggest not wasting your ten dollars to see this movie, you should feel free to pick this up when it releases on DVD. Just be sure not to watch it after having seen Back to the Future, The Hangover, or She’s Out of My League, which is another movie constructed by this group of writers, otherwise you’ll feel like you’re watching the same thing you’ve already seen.

The Spring Essentials Samantha Fournier | The Recorder

Growing up, each season could be defined by the amount of clothes we were wearing. For girls, summer brought nothing more than light t-shirts, a pair of denim shorts, and Keds. In winter we were bundled up in monstrous snow jackets, constricting scarves, and colorful mittens.

Then spring came and it was time for the old shiny yellow rain jacket. It never seemed so exciting back then, but this spring has a lot of fashionable rain clothes and accessories to offer. You might even be excited to show them off on one of April’s rainy days. As the saying goes April showers bring May flowers.

Last week CCSU’s campus was bombarded with a huge rain storm that had students scurrying from class to class trying to stay as dry as possible. With these affordable spring essentials students will be sure to stay dry.

Rain Coats While rain coats can be found at any major department store, Target has a few trendy water resistant rain coats to choose from that also happen to fit the student budget. These lined coats resemble the sought-after trench style and come in a multitude of colors. The Mossimo Black Zipper Front Rain Jacket is priced at $49.99. Old Navy also has belted trench coats starting at $49.50 that are made for more than just rainy days.

Rain Boots It’s time to put away the comfortable Uggs and tuck your skinny jeans into a pair of this seasons rain boots. Macy’s has a few brands of stylish rain boots for sale. Dirty Laundry’s purple rubber quilted rain boots cost $59.99 and will keep your feet dry even if you do still have the urge to jump a puddle.

Umbrellas Keep your face dry and notebooks covered with Tote’s Jingleberry Umbrellas. They can be found at Sears and come in all sorts of colors and prints from plaid to polka dot. They are a steal at the price of $14.

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REVIEWS Dum Dum Girls I Will Be Sub Pop March 30

Matt Kiernan The Recorder

Noise pop band Dum Dum Girls release their debut album, I Will Be, an album filled with sugary pop hooks that look back to the era of C-86 from the late 1980s.

After spending the past year releasing singles on various indie labels, it was becoming a question of when the band would put out a proper full-length. The Dum Dum Girls seem to have found an excellent home on the prestigious indie label Sub Pop. From the get-go, the influences on the band can be heard with the sounds of the indie pop bands The Vaselines, Black Tambourine and Tiger Trap being the roots of the Dum Dum Girls’ style.

“It Only Takes One Night” opens the album to a pounding drumbeat and distorted and reverberated voice of lead singer Dee Dee with a chorus that’s straightforwardly catchy of words from the song’s title.

“Bhang Bhang, I’m a Burnout” is like a children’s song with the female members of the group coming together to sing the ironically happy chorus.

The Dum Dum Girls slow it down on the track “Rest of Our Lives,” bringing a nice change of pace for a heartfelt song that looks back to the pinnacle days of Jesus and the Mary Chain.

“Blank Girl” is an excellent C-86 duet, with the backup vocalist having a voice that’s reminiscent of Stephen Pastel, lead singer of indie pop group The Pastels.

The band is able to use distortion and noise at perfect levels so that it doesn’t become overwhelming to the listener and not so much as to hide the meaning and intricacies of each song. This may be due to the fact that Sub Pop recorded the album, using their years of experience to master the levels of noise.

I Will Be is a wonderful album for the genre of noise pop, not even seeming to come from this decade but directly from the era in which the band idolizes.

Usher Raymond v. Raymond La Face March 30

Don Weber The Recorder

Usher is back again with the new release of his hour long album entitled Raymond v.

Raymond. The album contains a variety of previously recent hits and some new material for the album. Raymond v. Raymond is very

true to the Usher fan base as song after song has that traditional R&B vibe that got Usher the fame he has now.

The album has a variety of little helpers that made some marks on Usher’s album.

Bigger names like Plies and will.i.am helped run some more popular tracks (“Hey Daddy” and “OMG”) which have made some past buzz on the radio and morning music video showcases. While these featured artists do support Usher, this album is pretty reliant on Usher’s effort alone.

Usher drops some sexual lyrics, cool background beats and a few vivid vocals. It’s a surprise that Usher doesn’t just rant about his abs in smooth tone, but he certainly does give some of the hour-long album time for it.

The album itself is pretty supportive of Usher’s career and it precedes a recent divorce and protégé discovery of Usher’s in most recent timeframe. Any listeners will be able to tell that Usher had the time to work on this album.

Usher’s new release is pretty good, especially if you haven’t kept any tabs on the Dallas-born entertainer in recent years. It has already made some radio play and I can guarantee you that it will have more plays in the future. Look for some Usher buzz to come out following this album.

R&B has been getting some rise in popularity with the younger generation and chances are a number of tracks from Raymond v. Raymond will gain quick ears because of it.

By all means, if you like R&B or pop check Usher’s new album out. The songs aren’t timeless by any means, but the album is good and worth a solid look.

Method Man, Ghostface Killah, Raekwon Wu-Massacre Def Jam March 30

Matt Kiernan The Recorder

Wu-Massacre is the result of the teaming up of Wu-Tang Clan members Method Man, Ghostface Killah and Raekwon, and is an album that’s nothing new for the rappers, but one that’s enjoyable to hear from members of the legendary rap group.

Being produced by Wu member RZA, the rapper and producer uses R&B tracks from the 1970s to sample from and loop throughout the tracks that are lesser known, but great older songs.

The rappers have said that the record isn’t a Wu-Tang release, but one that was meant to be an album written by a separate group.

“Criminology 2.5” is a hard-hitting opener to the album and is pleasantly dense in lyrics for being just over two minutes long.

Ghostface and Method tell the life of being a criminal that includes killing competitors and snitches in a dog-eat-dog world that has every man looking out for himself.

“Our Dreams,” uses the late Michael Jackson’s track “We’re Almost There,” off the 1975 album Forever, Michael, for very soulful singing in between raps of the three artists talking about a man and woman looking to the future in a relationship that can be dysfunctional.

The smooth rap, “Miranda,” starts off with the tunefully strained voice of soul singer Linda Jones from the song “Let It Be Me,” for a song that’s about a highly sexual and attractive woman.

The two comedic skits on the album, “Ya Moms,” and “How to Pay Rent,” aren’t very

humorous but are worth giving a listen just to hear the rappers and comedian Tracy Morgan pal around.

The album is strong in its lyrics, but lacks the hooks and magic that’s found on the artists’ other records. While this may be the case, Wu-Massacre is a wonderful addition to fans’ of the rappers collections and is nice to hear the rappers back together again.

MGMT Congratulations Columbia Records April 13

Matt Kiernan The Recorder

Considering the incredibly successful debut album Oracular Spectacular in 2008, MGMT’s new album Congratulations may seem like a “what happened?” release, but is in actuality a highly imaginative record that may take a few listens to grasp.

With music review Web sites and blogs giving split opinions on the highly challenging album, it’ll be equally hard for fans to decide what to make of Congratulations. At first it may sound like a psychedelic jam session between the band members, but after listening harder

you can hear the catchiness that was found on Spectacular.

The first single, “Flash Delirium,” which band member Ben Goldwasser laughed at on first recording, lacks the big chorus that “Time to Pretend” and “Kids” had, but holds lyrics that are very chaotically poetic. Lead singer Andrew VanWyngarden’s words are of high merit while covering a variety of topics that aren’t connected and connected at the same time.

“It’s Working,” the opening track, is a challenging song sung by an echo affected VanWyngarden’s voice that seems to avoid a big chorus, instead concentrating on long verses.

When it finally reaches the chorus though, the waiting is rewarding with VanWyngarden singing, “It’s working in your blood/ which you know is not the same as love/ love is only in your mind and not your heart.”

The operatic and lengthy 12-minute track, “Siberian Breaks,” may be a little too long for the average listener, but contains many great segments that could stand on their own as separate tracks.

The band pays their respects to the musical connoisseur and producer Brian Eno, with a track of the said name. Learning from Eno’s strange and progressive albums, VanWyngarden sings in perhaps one of the catchiest choruses on the album, “We’re always one step behind him/ he’s Brian Eno.” The album ends with the song, “Congratulations,” a track that sums up the meaning of the album’s title; that it’s a difficult situation when a band receives instant success and the surreal feeling of being celebrities for music that’s completely different from all other mainstream songs on the radio.

Congratulations is an album that’s meant to separate the true fans of MGMT from those who only loved “Electric Feel,” “Time to Pretend” and “Kids,” perhaps in the same styled plan that Nirvana used on their 1993 album In Utero.

A fantastically psychedelic album, Congratulations strays away from mainstream hits for songs that are artistically complicated, made by Wesleyan art school students who know the power of a great pop song.

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Calendar 4.7 - 4.14

mansion where pianos bite the hands that play them, disembodied heads like nothing more than a wild chase, and even the futons are capable of turning murderous. “...insanely magical...one of the most coveted cult films to emerge from the fantastic realm of Asian cinema.” David Wilentz, The Brooklyn Rail.

4.11-4.14 April in Paris Film Festival 4.11: L’argent (2 p.m.), The Rules of the Game (7:30 p.m.)

4.12: Stavisky (7:30 p.m.)

4.13: Dernier maquis (7:30 p.m.)

4.14: The Secret of the Grain (7:30 p.m.) @ Cinestudio Hartford, Conn. $7.00 4.12 - 4.14 Soundtrack for a Revolution @ Real Art Ways Hartford, Conn. $6.25 / 7:00 p.m.

Academy Award winner Jeff Bridges in ‘Crazy Heart,’ playing at Cinestudio.

MUSIC 4.8 We the Kings @ Toad’s Place New Haven, Conn. $25 / 8 p.m.

4.9 …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead @ Daniel Street Milford, Conn. $5 / 8 p.m.

4.9 Kung Fu @ Sully’s Pub Hartford, Conn. $10 / 10:30 p.m.

Jeff Bridges (The Big Lebowski, The Last Picture Show, Starman) hits upon (another) perfect role: a past-his-prime country singer who one minute is tuning in to the high and lonely tradition of Hank Williams, and is found throwing up in a parking lot the next.

Marginalized by the slick sounds of Nashville, it is Bridges’ stubborn authenticity that gives him a shot at redemption - and captures the eye of a perceptive journalist (the great Maggie Gyllenhaal). The original songs are written by T-Bone Burnett and Stephen Bruton. “Some actors are blessed. Jeff Bridges is one of them.”

- Roger Ebert.

4.8 The Young Victoria @ CCSU (Devil’s Den) New Britain, Conn.

Free / 10 p.m.

4.11 Titus Andronicus @ Toad’s Place New Haven, Conn. $10 / 8 p.m.

FILM 4.7 - 4.10 Crazy Heart @ Cinestudio Hartford, Conn. $7.00 / 7:30 p.m.

Forty years after shooting his first movie,

‘The Young Victoria,’ playing at CCSU.

The film is a romantic dramatisation of some of the events preceding and following the coronation of Queen Victoria, focusing on her early reign and romance with Prince Albert in the 1830s.

4.9 - 4.10 House @ Cinestudio Hartford, Conn. $7.00 / 9:30 p.m.

Late show fans, we dare you to enter Obayashi Nobuhiko’s psychodelic hausu of horrors!

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Hugely successful in Japan when it opened in 1977, Hausu lives on as the ultimate cult horror film, inspiring other classics of the genre from Ringu to Ju-On. Seven bright & shiny sailor-suit clad tween schoolgirls take off for a summer adventure. In a spectacular error of judgement, they choose a crumbling

“[A] skillfully assembled history of the civil rights movement, with musical interludes. It’s civil rights’ greatest hits: Montgomery, Selma, Birmingham; “Eyes on the Prize,” “We Shall Not be Moved,” “We Shall Overcome.” It’s the kind of film that will have audiences clapping and singing along. And why not? The images and stories may be familiar, but it’s history worth retelling.” - Mike Hale, The New York Times “The film puts a fresh spin on the issues and struggles of the civil-rights movement.” Jennie Punter, The Globe And Mail

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Soccer’s Spring Season Kicks Off Christopher Boulay THE RECORDER

CCSU men’s soccer starts its Spring campaign Wednesday, April 7 against Monroe College, the first of five spring games over the next two weeks of April.

The team finished 6-10-1 in the fall, with a very disappointing finish after a brilliant start. The Blue Devils traveled to Durham, N.H. and defeated Vermont and New Hampshire in impressive victories.

They also defeated Holy Cross, but defensive lapses and unlucky late goals ended the season on the sourest of notes—missing the NEC Tournament.

Coach Shaun Green believes that this year will be different, though the team is still a work in progress.

"This is a two-year project with this team,” Green said. “We are in the first year.”

The team will be led by captain and center midfielder, Robert Cavener, whose eloquent displays in the middle kept the Blue Devils in matches throughout the season. He will be joined by fellow midfielder Connor Smith in the center. “[Cavener] is the heart and soul of this team,” Green said.

Green hasn’t been thrilled with the preparation for the spring, mainly because of the short schedule and poor weather that has been prevalent as of late.

“We haven’t really had a whole lot of preparation going into these games,” Green said. “We have had conditioning and strength training indoors.”

The defense will be in better shape this season, with Jared Spieker, Blaine Veldhuis and Jesse Menzies all returning to the squad.

“I am happy with how Jared Spieker looks. He’s come in really good shape, he’s healthier. He looks the part,” Green said. “I like the attitude Jesse Menzies has. He’s gonna be a big leader for us - an absolutely great kid.”

The goalkeeping situation will be interesting, as both Anthony Occhialini and James Perkins will try to fill the void of the parting Paul Armstrong.

We’ve got two young keepers, two Connecticut lads,” Green said.

“They are going to be splitting time evenly this spring, fighting for that starting role.”

The Blue Devils’ attack will be contentious with a group of players looking to fill the starting roles.

Joel Diamand, Eduardo Ortiz and Beamer Freeman are just a few of the names that should be contending for positions this year.

CCSU will have a mix of Division II schools to play against, as well as their one match against a professional side, miming what the club did last spring, in what turned out to be quite the successful campaign.

The team will have three home

games, at Arute Field this month, while the team will travel to Yale on April 18. They will play a charity match against the Western Massachusetts Pioneers on April 18th at 10 a.m. in Burlington, Conn.

Spring Schedule: Wednesday, 4/7 at 7 p.m. versus Monroe College, Arute Field Saturday, 4/10 at 1 p.m. versus Dowling College, Arute Field Friday, 4/16 at 7 p.m. versus Mass Pioneers, Burlington, Conn.

Saturday 4/18 at 10 a.m. versus Yale University, New Haven, Conn.

Wednesday, 4/21 at 7 p.m. versus AIC, Arute Field Robert Cavener.

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Wagner Defeats CCSU Women’s Lacrosse at Home Andrew Ragali The Recorder

Though determined to get their program record fifth win on Thursday afternoon, the CCSU women’s lacrosse team (4-5, 0-4 NEC) fell to the Wagner Seahawks (2-8, 1-3 NEC) 17-12 in the first of back-to-back home games for the Blue Devils at Arute Field.

Sophomore attacker Ashley Perkoski put in a strong game with three goals on seven shots on goal for CCSU, and freshman attacker Betsy Vendel added two goals to go with her four assists, but their efforts were canceled out by Wagner’s six straight goals within the first 15 minutes of the second half.

“Thirteen minutes we forgot about the game plan,” said CCSU’s head coach Rachel Tringali, who is in her fifth season as the leader of the squad.

“It’s forgetting the game plan, whether we’re up, down or tied, that’s the difference - thirteen minutes of not doing the game plan.”

The thirteen-minute time span Coach Tringali alluded to came after Perkoski scored for the Blue Devil’s with 29:16 left in the half, tying the game at seven each. Wagner came right back down the field and got one of five goals in the match from attacker Annie O’Conner at the 28:40 mark.

That was the game changer. The Seahawks had the momentum, and scored five more times in the span, the last of the six straight goals with 15:13 left. The run gave Wagner a 13-7 cushion with only 15 minutes left, and ultimately doomed CCSU. “Being conference, this is were it kind of separates the good from the great,” said Tringali, “and under pressure moments, we just couldn’t rise up.”

It was a back and forth game for much of the first half, but the Blue

Betsy Vendel had two goals and four assists in CCSU’s loss.

Devils found themselves down 5-2 at the 13:57 mark. A quick timeout by Tringali got the team focused, and CCSU rallied off four straight goals from four different players: freshman attacker Meaghan McCurry, senior midfielder Lyndsey Mastandrea, Vendel, and junior midfielder Michele Conway.

The Blue Devils were unable

to hold the momentum though, and Wagner came back with three straight goals in the final four minutes of the half to give them the lead going into the break.

“I feel we played well for the majority of the time, except we get panicked at times, and once we get panicked it’s hard for us to get out of it,” said Perkoski. “It’s the game plan

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we don’t follow, and once we get out of that, it’s hard for us to get back in.

We got back in too late basically.”

CCSU fought hard after a tough beginning to the second half, and even brought the game to within four with 12:43 left on McCurry’s second goal of the contest, but as Perkoski said, it was just too late.

“Once again I think it was

panicking, but I think it’s also patience,” said Vendel. “Waiting for that, waiting for our plays to go through, waiting for our offense to work itself out.”

The Blue Devils hosted and lost to NEC opponent Long Island on Saturday at Arute field, even though confidence was abound going into the match from coach and players.

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Senior Tommy Meade raised his season batting average to .438 after the four games against Monmouth.

Game Two Rally Produces Split Continued from Page 12 Monmouth pitcher threw a low curveball that hit home plate, and bounced to the back stop.

Miller-Jones was able to hustle down the line and beat the throw by the catcher to tie the game at 10. With first base open, Monmouth decided to walk Scialdone, which brought up junior Pat Epps with the bases loaded. Instead of swinging for the fences, Epps looked for the first pitch he could handle, and lined a fastball up the middle that scored Zarotney, and completed CCSU’s 10 run comeback.

“I don’t know what to say,” said Hickey “We were fortunate obviously to steal a game today. They out-played us for about 12 and a half innings. They out-pitched us, out-hustled us.”

The comeback came after a 5-2 loss in the first game where the Blue Devils had chances, but were unable to capitalize on their nine hits.

“We had some chances but we couldn’t deliver,” said Hickey. “I think the second game made up for it a little bit, but our pitching is still not where we want it to be.”

CCSU Overcomes 15-Run Deficit Continued from Page 12 pitcher with his second home run of the game, which cut the deficit to just four runs.

An RBI double by Kyle Zarotney, and a twoRBI single by Sean Miller-Jones got the Blue Devils within one.

Roy Natoli came into the seventh after Nuemann gave up two hits with one out.

Natoli was efficient, striking out the first batter and getting a weak fly ball for the third out.

CCSU took the lead in the seventh inning.

Epps led off the inning with a double. After a fly ball by Meade that advanced Epps to third, Mitch Wells doubled to right center field to gave the Blue Devils the first tie.

After pinch hitter Andy Lalli worked out a walk and a pop out to the pitcher, freshman pinch hitter Chris Renzoni stepped in and lined a clutch two-out single up the middle to give CCSU a 17-16 lead. Miller-Jones then came through yet again with an RBI single up the middle to give CCSU an insurance run, leaving the score at 18-16.

Natoli continued to pitch solid into the eighth inning and gave up one hit, but ultimately kept Monmouth from scoring.

Central came out in their half of the eighth, and added two more behind the bat of senior Kyle Zarotney who ended up with three RBIs on the day.

“In a stupid way, I didn’t want to have the lead,” said Hickey. “If we could be tied going into the bottom of the ninth, I would rather be there than have the lead.”

Coach Hickey’s concerns turned out to be warranted, as the Blue Devils had trouble putting the Monmouth Hawks away. It took seven batters, but Natoli was able to secure the win despite giving up three runs on three hits.

CCSU evened their record to 8-8, and gave them a 5-3 NEC record. They will face Iona University of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference on Wednesday, and will return to NEC action with a four game set against Bryant next weekend in Smithfield, R.I.

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CCSU Baseball Tops Monmouth Hawks Brittany Burke The Recorder

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Meade earned his second NEC weekly honor on Monday.

The CCSU baseball team walked away with a win Thursday, defeating NEC rivals the Monmouth Hawks 11-7.

Thursday afternoon’s game was the first in a four game series between the Blue Devils and Hawks, which carried on through with a doubleheader on Friday and the final game on Saturday.

“Getting the first game of the series is huge,” said Head coach Charlie Hickey. “It allows us to work our bullpen a little bit differently... I call it treading water. You get through the first weekend... but now we’re 3-2 and we can get one more this weekend, playing next weekend and you know you play yourself into the second half of the season without digging yourself a hole.”

The Blue Devils entered Thursday’s match up on a high after splitting another fourgame series with NEC opponent Farleigh Dickinson, but things got off to a slow start for both teams.

CCSU was the first on the board when Blue Devils’ Mitch Wells and Sean Allaire managed to cross home plate off a single hit

by Sean Miller-Jones.

The Blue Devils had the lead through the bottom of the third, but the Hawks finished at the top of the fourth with three runs on three hits, which gave them the two-run advantage.

Down by two, Wells stepped up to the plate and hit a home run to right field, tying the game at four, with the third run scored by senior Tommy Meade. Later in the

inning Allaire hit a double with three RBIs from Richie Tri, Miller-Jones and Normand Gosselin.

“We kicked the ball, we played poorly and then all of a sudden it was 4-4…I had to watch it too, so it wasn’t pretty,” said Coach Hickey.

Despite staying on top for the rest of the game the Blue Devils had four errors to the Hawks’ zero.

CCSU had a pair of errors in the third followed by a single error in both the sixth and ninth innings. CCSU’s first throwing error allowed for Monmouth’s Ryan Terry to advance to second, which eventually lead to the Hawks’ first run of the game.

“We have to learn to do better things, getting the first batter out in the inning, we have to be able to finish innings, play defense,” Coach Hickey said of his team’s sloppy defensive performance. “Not only is that four errors up there, one of them is at least a double play. We don’t block them all on strike three, so that’s six extra outs in college baseball.”

The errors did not cost the Blue Devils Thursday’s game, but Coach Hickey was concerned about the errors becoming an issue in the future and noted that there is still work to be done.

“To be a better team we need to be better pitching and defense wise. We know on a warm day like this we’re going to get some swings, and we’re still not where we should be,” he noted.

The Blue Devils finished with the Hawks on Saturday and will take on non NEC opponent, Iona at home on Wednesday April 7 at 3 p.m.

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CALL IT A COMEBACK

Junior Pat Epps celebrates with his teammates after hitting a walk-off single to cap a 10-run comeback on Friday.

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Blue Devils Score 19 CCSU Splits Twinbill Against Monmouth Unanswered For The Win Kenny Barto The Recorder

CCSU baseball split a doubleheader with the Monmouth Hawks Friday with a rallying comeback in game two.

The Blue Devils were down 10-1 going into the bottom of the fifth, and the team was tired of seeing Monmouth’s trained hawk circle their home turf after every run scored.

The bottom half of the fifth inning yielded only one run, but seemed to wake up CCSU’s offense, which had been sleeping since their one-run first inning. Sean Miller-Jones kicked off the offense with a double to right field, and was later brought in on a Sean Allaire single.

A quick one-two-three inning by reliever Tyler Riordan gave way to a huge offensive inning in the sixth. Mitch Wells lined a single to left field, and catcher Andy Lalli was hit on the elbow which gave the Blue Devils runners on first and second.

Normand Gosselin delivered with an RBI double to left field which advanced Lalli to third. Kyle Zarotney came in to pinch hit for Richie Tri, and worked a walk to load the bases which brought up the dangerous Allaire. Monmouth wanted no part of Allaire, who worked the bases-loaded walk. Anthony Scialdone then lined a quick single, which brought in two more runs to bring the score to 10-6.

Riordan came through with another quick one-two-three inning to bring the hot CCSU bats up for the last time. Tommy Meade led the inning off with a quick walk which gave way to Mitch Wells. With the flag blowing out towards left field, Wells launched an outside fastball over the 375 foot sign in left to bring CCSU within two.

“When the flag is blowing out like that all day, you figure you will get at least one,” said

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head coach Charlie Hickey.

Chris Renzoni pinch hit for Lalli and came through with a a double to deep center field. Gosselin was able to advance Renzoni to third on a groundout to the first baseman.

Miller-Jones hit a hard ground ball into the hole that was fielded by the shortstop. The shortstop was too far in the hole to make a play, however, and the run scored.

Walks by Zarotney and Allaire loaded the bases. With Scialdone up to bat, the See Game Two Page 11

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Saturday’s scoreboard registered a final score of 20-19 in favor of CCSU after the team pulled off 19 consecutive runs to overcome an initial 15-run deficit. It was the Blue Devils’ second day in a row in which they had to overcome a nine or more run deficit.

Just twenty four hours earlier, CCSU came back from a 10-1 deficit to beat Monmouth 11-10 on a walk-off, bases loaded single by junior Pat Epps. The win on Friday afternoon

Tommy Meade batted .529 with seven RBI’s and two homeruns.

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was the second of a doubleheader, after losing 5-2 in opener.

“I think we’ve stolen two this weekend,” said head coach Charlie Hickey. “Most of the time, you won’t win games like these.”

The Blue Devil offense didn’t get started until a third inning rally, which netted five runs. Sean Allaire kicked off the big inning by driving in Richie Tri. Anthony Scialdone followed suit and drove a double to rightcenter field that scored Sean Miller-Jones.

Epps grounded out to the pitcher, but the runners stayed put on second and third.

Tommy Meade, who gave up eight runs as the Blue Devils’ starting pitcher, stepped up in a huge spot and delivered big time. Meade waited for his pitch, and cranked a towering three-run home run to left center field to cut the deficit to 16-6.

“Tommy Meade is the same person that he was and is every day,” said Hickey. “He’s a quality individual, and it’s hard not to root for someone like that.”

The CCSU bats fell silent again until the sixth inning. The beleaguered Blue Devil pitching staff found a bright spot in their bullpen that kept the explosive Monmouth offense off the board as well. Freshman Nick Nuemann shut out the Hawks over 4 and 1/3 innings while recording three strikeouts and yielding only three hits.

“Nick Nuemann came in and performed great,” said Hickey. “If we knew he was going to pitch that well, he would’ve been in the game sooner.”

A Central explosion in the sixth inning brought nine runs across home plate. The inning included a three-run Epps home run that forced Monmouth to change pitchers.

After the change, Meade welcomed the new See CCSU Overcomes Page 11

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