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Vekakis Is 2010-2011 SGA President SGA ELECTIONS At the close of last week’s Student Government Association elections, the results are in and this year’s vice president will be next year’s SGA president.

Matt Vekakis, CCSU ‘11, narrowly defeated Alex Rodriguez, also CCSU ‘11, by an 11-vote margin. Vekakis pulled in 400 votes and Rodriguez came in at 389.

Vekakis, a junior English major, succeeds current president Andrew Froning in his new leadership role.

Before the election Vekakis told The Recorder that he was looking forward to giving back to the CCSU community as president.

He also said that he will carry on with the usual duties of the SGA president, that is, oversee the usual support and funding for student clubs and see that the Senate stays on track.

“The SGA is so focused on pleasing the upper administration.

Student’s concerns come first and foremost. That’s my only gripe,” Vekakis said. “I want to make the senate aware that they’re not voting for the individual, but for their constituency. The senate can be very ‘tunnel vision’ within. I also want to make senate legislation effective and purposeful.”

The senate is responsibly for allocating hundreds of thousands of dollars - approximately $429,000 - to around 100 SA/LD-recognized student clubs.

This year’s election was the first conducted online through SGA’s and SA/LD’s recently purchased network Collegiate Link, but not without issue. Despite an early Monday voting glitch, turnout reached into the 700s, depending on the commuter and resident voting numbers.

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Steve Forbes spoke Wednesday night to both students and greater CCSU community members.

Computer Glitch Pauses SGA Election Students who were the first to vote in the Student Government Association elections last Monday morning were subject to a voting glitch on Collegiate Link that shut voting down.

Students re-casted their ballots again after the system failure.

The 70 students who voted around 10:30 a.m. were asked to resubmit their votes after the system was back up and running.

Votes were re-taken again around 11:30 a.m. on Monday.

SGA members say that the glitch could have been caused by a number of things.

“There was a mix up with the list registrar gave us,” SGA President Andrew Froning said.

“When you’re dealing with thousands of students, some names are going to get mixed up, but we fixed that.”

The SGA has been using collegiatelink.net for a little over a year and admits that there is still more to learn about the program.

“Obviously you’re going to have bumps and glitches when using something for the first time,” Froning stated. He said there was the possibility that the system didn’t recognize all the functions it needed to perform, such as requiring that commuters only vote for commuters.

Those who still were unable to vote after the system was brought back up could go to the Student Activities Office to get a paper ballot.

Ultimately, voting was allowed to remain open until 12 p.m. on Wednesday.

Matt Vekakis won the presidential race by 11 votes.

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Forbes Discusses His Faith in the Free Market meLissa traynor the recorder

Steve Forbes casually said he was going to make a speech or two about free market, offer bad date advice and get a free meal as he addressed students in Vance 105 last Wednesday.

He also delivered his views on how to solve the current economic crisis in bits and pieces, offering different options for Wall Street recovery and advocating for a more lenient, but sensible approach to businesses.

Malcolm “Steve” Forbes, Editorin-Chief and publisher of Forbes magazine, who also campaigned for the Republican nomination for President in 1996 and 2000, stayed true to GOP party lines and favors a leaner, lenient government approach in handling and pulling out of the financial down turn. He met with mainly business students earlier in the afternoon during last Wednesday’s two-part visit, where he promoted his pro-business, pro-free market views in both the afternoon Q and A and evening

Forbes Magazine E-i-C and Publisher Stops

By As Vance Distinguished Lecturer lecture.

“You can only succeed when you provide something that someone else wants,” Forbes opened his 3 p.m. speech. He was borderline defensive of the United States’ free market, but also offered positive ways and preventative measures to fix the economy when he addressed Vance 105’s audience.

“Even if you’re greedy, you don’t succeed if you don’t pay attention to the needs and wants of other people,” he explained, in reference to the attacks on Wall Street in that many were too greedy and placed their concerns before others. He added that the crisis cannot be attributed to a failure of the free

markets.

Forbes said that he would like to see a more sensible and reasonable approach to economic development with “rules of the road,” as he called them, which he believes would both cure the recession and grow businesses.

Part of his vision for the free market includes restructuring the current health care system so that all citizens would have the option to buy insurance privately. Forbes criticized the hybrid system the country has now, in that employee benefits are virtually the only way to get good health insurance, but the system still has many faults. He said citizens have no idea of what they are paying for, which does not help keep costs low.

“It should not be an employerbased system,” Forbes said, and said he’d rather like to see something like TIAA- CREF, a program that helps establish retirement plans for those in medical, research and academic fields. He also advocated for opening up the health insurance industry to See Forbes Speaks Page 3

In The Recorder This Week:

SPJ Visits Fox 61 and the Hartford Courant

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B.oB. Among Latest Album Reviews

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Phish 3D Captures Band In New Way

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CCSU Sports Complex Gets a Facelift

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Blue Devils Split Games with Red Foxes

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CT1 Media Trip Reveals Changing Industry Jason Cunningham The Recorder

The Hartford Courant’s home on Broad Street has transformed from the one that earned America’s longest continuously published newspaper a Pulitzer Prize. The integration of Connecticut’s affiliate Fox 61 with the Courant has created a new kind of media beast.

Students from CCSU’s Society of Professional Journalists chapter who visited the paper’s newsroom on April 30 were greeted by the yellow smiling faces of dysfunction known as The Simpsons. The longrunning Fox cartoon family sits in the building’s main entrance, an instant reminder that this house now provides for two.

“TV people are very noisy,” joked Douglas Stewart, Fox 61’s Operations Manager .

Stewart, who led the SPJ’s tour through the building, believes the combination of the newspaper and station provide the greatest extent of coverage possible for their news organizations.

“We’re all adjusting to each other,” Stewart said.

The group first got a look at the massive printing press used by the Courant. According to Stewart it’s referred to as the “Daily Miracle.”

On the third floor Stewart explained how Google Hot Trends is used as a journalistic tool for both media organizations. He also talked of how the Courant and Fox 61 have expanded upon each other’s work, especially for online content. Sharing staff is a common translation for sharing resources between the two.

“Our photography staff is fluent, they work within both worlds,” Stewart explained.

Working within multiple journalistic worlds is Stewart’s main advice for anyone considering a career in journalism. Advising the SPJ members to be trained in as many disciplines as possible, ranging from writing and photography to audio and film editing.

“Be a one man band,” Stewart said, “This is what it’s moving towards and you’ve got to be ahead of the game.”

Regardless of what different news philosophies the Courant and Fox 61 bring to the table, Stewart

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View of the Fox 61 and Courant newsroom. says the newspaper and station count on each other.

“At the end of the day, that’s a good thing,” Stewart said.

Jenifer Frank, the Courant’s Deputy Metro Editor, calls the convergence an “interesting experiment.”

The group had moved into a conference room next to the newsroom, briefly sitting with Stewart and Frank until Stewart exited, leaving Frank open to the SPJ’s questions.

“Convergence is tough,” Frank said. “What’s going to happen is all trial and error.”

The future of the news industry, print journalism in particular, has taken a dramatic shift with the

consuming popularity of Internetbased news organizations.

Frank told the group that while training in the traditional print journalistic method is useful, it’s not enough to base a career of off in the transforming industry.

“If I were your age I wouldn’t go into journalism right now,” Frank said with a laugh. “It’s a whole different ball game.”

Members of the SPJ still seemed confident that jobs in journalism would be available to them after graduation.

“There’s always and interest in sports,” said Andrew Ragali, SPJ President. “Having ESPN in your backyard is encouraging.”

Thursday Night Fight: Heads vs. Feds In Debate Over Marijuana Laws Michael Walsh The Recorder

Central Connecticut State University's NORML chapter will sponsor a "Heads vs. Feds" debate that will bring the controversial topic of the legalization of marijuana to the table.

Thursday night's debate, which will be held at 7 p.m. in Welte Auditorium, will be between longtime High Times editor-inchief Steven Hager and former DEA agent Bob Stutman. The debate intends to bring forth factual opinions from both sides on the subject of marijuana and the laws that govern it.

"The debate will be a great opportunity for CCSU students

to examine both sides of the issue, and to decide for themselves what they think is the most rational policy," said CCSU NORML public relations officer David Allard.

Hager was editorin-chief of High Times, a marijuana culture magazine, for 15 years.

Since his departure from the magazine in 2006, Hager has remained a key visible proponent for the legalization of marijuana.

Stutman retired from the DEA in 1990 as Special Agent in Charge of

the New York Field Division. He first became a street agent in 1965 before becoming the youngest supervisor in the history of the agency at the age of 27. Stutman has also been a consultant for CBS and PBS on substance abuse.

Allard also mentioned that the fight is not that someone has an opinion one way or the other, but that they have factual ones.

"Marijuana Reform is a very controversial topic, it inspires heated opinions," said Allard. "The danger in this is not that one has an

opinion on the subject, but if one has an uninformed opinion."

CCSU's NORML chapter hopes to promote an overall awareness and understanding of the issue and in turn hope to raise group membership at the same time.

"Whether you support marijuana reform or not, you will enjoy this event, and much can be learned," said Allard. "The Heads vs. Feds debate is going to be a very fun, informative and eye-opening event."

The Head vs. Feds debate is part of a national tour produced by Wolfman Productions. The tour has been to Virginia Tech, College of Charleston and Middle Tennessee State University among others.

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Police News: Week of May 3 The Central Connecticut State University and New Britain police departments will be conducting a DUI checkpoint on Thursday May 6 between 7 p.m. and 1 a.m.

According to CCSU Police Lt. Chris Cervoni says the checkpoint

will be held on various streets surrounding the CCSU campus.

The CCSU police will also be conducting several DUI awareness programs in residence halls during the final weeks of the spring semester.

Vekakis Is 2010-2011 SGA President SGA Election Results Vice President: Chris Kyle with 434 votes Opponent: Lawrence Wooten, 295 votes Treasurer: Asia Smith with 380 votes Opponent: Javier Fernandez, 327 votes At-Large Senators: Ryan Sheehan Joanna McCarthy Chelsea Reagan Brian McKeown Rosalee Daley Jamie Canny Board of Trustees Representative: R. Sheehan Connecticut Foundation Representative: Lawrence Wooten

Resident Senators: Drew Blythe Daniel Vega J. Rodriguez Omar Morgan Lindsay Jean-Philippe Evan Robbins Nick Alaimo Ryan Baldassario Commuter Senators: Kerrie Rowe Zackary Keegan Tyler Zajac Ivonne Lopez K. McKeown Eric Bergenn Shelby Datillo Erika Dawson Head S. Savage Easton Lawson Jr. Ashley Foy Enid Largaespada Ben Hasse J. Blain O. Nguyen Albi Sako

Forbes signed copies of his book How Capitalism Will Save Us: Why Free People and Free Markets Are the Best Answer in Todayʼs Economy.

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Forbes Speaks at CCSU As Part of Vance Lecture Series Continued from Page 1 general, healthy competition.

“If you’re a teacher, or administrator, or whatever and you go to a school, you would own the policy,” he said. “The employer would fund it and you’re allowed to put money in, too, but it’s your property. So if you went from school A to school B, it went with you. And that’s what we need in health care.”

Consistent with his conservative views, Forbes also said that he would like to see government spending decrease. When asked that he thought was the best way to reduce the national deficit, he said that the federal government should cut large programs in order to save money.

He said that government spending in usual economic circumstances is 18 percent of the gross domestic product, but currently it’s around 25 percent.

“If the Fed decides to stop spending on [the troubled asset relief program], that’s $700-800 billion saved right off the bat,” he said, which he also discussed at his 7:30 p.m. lecture in Welte Auditorium.

Students were also generally interested in knowing how Forbes came to be the person and business man he is, and what it takes to be successful. “ Well I was fortunate, and most of you can’t do what I do,” Forbes began, “and that is to pick parents who already own a successful

business. But in terms of starting out one thing about free markets is, you can come from the most unlikely backgrounds and have a chance to make it work.”

For example, Forbes said, take Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who was abandoned by his biological parents.

A person’s business success requires drive and more than a little bit of luck, Forbes said.

“And the thing is, it’s not based on personality,” Forbes said. “I’ll be blunt with you: Steve Jobs can be a bastard.” But he praised Job’s ability to revive Apple and steer it straight.

Forbes also spoke to crowd in Welte later that night, but the audience was largely from the greater CCSU community and not necessarily students.

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OPINION EDITORIAL

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SGA Should Reevaluate Motion To Eliminate Conflict of Interest

In March, CCSU's Student Government Association tabled a motion that would deny club executive board members from holding a senator position.

SGA's negligence of this motion and failure to approve it represents a missed opportunity to clear up a major conflict of interest problem inside CCSU's student government.

Should the motion be brought up again, the senate should absolutely vote yes. A large amount of current and recently elected SGA senators publicly double as executive club officers for a variety of campus clubs and organizations.

For example, Chris Leahy, an outspoken senator that is in favor of allowing overlap between SGA and clubs, is also Vice President of Programming for the Central Activities Network. Even though

CAN doesn't receive their money from SGA, there shouldn't be an overlap in control. If Kelly Fournier had beaten Andrew Froning for SGA president a year ago, she could technically have been both SGA president and SUBOG president, the position she also ran for and ended up winning. Ethically it isn't fair for the same people requesting money to be the givers of money.

It's a simple, serious and clearly unethical matter of conflict of interest.

And even if there hasn't been one problem or one honest issue of conflict of interest inside SGA, it still looks bad from the outside.

In the end, perception and image is the most important thing when it comes to gaining the trust of the student body and the clubs that look forward to receiving budgets.

It also doesn't mean that just because there hasn't been a conflict of interest issue yet that there isn't the potential for one down the road.

The longer SGA ignores the motion they quickly batted away, the longer an unethical threat remains in the near or even distant future.

Governmental organizations represent the people, in this case it's CCSU's student body. According to current SGA President Andrew Froning, the group handles the appropriation of roughly $660,000 in student activity fees. Froning also stated that around 65% of those funds go to various CCSU clubs while the rest, approximately $221,000, stays inside SGA. Given the large amount of student money being handled, there should absolutely be serious restrictions on who can be a senator and how

Is the op-ed dead?

Maybe it’s time for a cash-strapped Daily to send its columnists and editorialists packing.

Jake Parsley | The Minnesota Daily University of Minnesota

(WIRE) - Here’s a suggestion to the powers that be here at the Daily: If you have to cut content, I recommend you start with the opinion section. That’s right; if someone has to vacate the Daily offices, let’s ship the columnists, the editorial board and even the political cartoonists. Now, I promise I’m not just saying this because I’m graduating in a week. This column isn’t about me keeping a job; it’s about what’s best for the University of Minnesota community.

Now don’t get me wrong; in an ideal world where news organizations have zillions of dollars to spend any way they please, I would totally support a robust, free-wheeling opinion section.

But of course, anyone who follows either a) the current economic status of print media or b) the current economic status of the University community and/or state of Minnesota at large can tell you we are not operating in an ideal world.

And since money is tight, difficult decisions will have to be made. One thing is clear: The news reporting that Daily reporters do every day around the University is just too darn important to let slip. Don’t cut the reporters. We absolutely need those people out there in the community, holding our administration accountable and keeping our students informed of local goings-on.

If the Daily doesn’t cover the ordinary goings-on of the University community, nobody will. So I propose that we do whatever it takes to save the reporters.

That’s where the opinion section comes in. Or, as I’m proposing, it’s where we go out.

As in, out the door.

It’s not that I think the current slate of columnists or editorial writers is doing a poor job — quite the contrary. But opinions are available everywhere nowadays. Talk radio, cable news, blogs — all of these forums are basically opinion forums.

Consider for a moment the Daily editorial.

Do we, as poor college students, really need to subsidize another group of anonymous college students so they can tell us (as they have within the past few weeks) that Obama should repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” or that the SEC must take action against Goldman Sachs “with bold and common clarity”? I’m

skeptical.

It’s not that I think these opinions are invalid. I just don’t think we need to spend Daily resources on them.

And let’s be realistic here, folks; there are literally thousands of websites available full of commentary on the aforementioned subjects from more qualified, more educated and more informed individuals than an unnamed editorial board of college students. And thanks to the Internet, it’s all available to any one of us to access any time we want.

The same goes for the columnists, including (especially) myself. Why should the student body have to pay me nearly $50 to spout off 900 words about whatever I happen to find interesting in a given week? I really have no specialized knowledge or unique qualifications, and neither I nor the other Daily columnists tend to bring any truly new information to the table. All of it is already out there somewhere. Honestly, we’re basically writing blog posts on crushed, dead trees. So again, when it comes time to make the tough decisions, let the columnists crumble.

Of course, the opinion section apologists will argue that the paper needs op-eds to spark debate within the student community, to make people angry, sad, happy or maybe just a bit more thoughtful. To those who hold such opinions, I say maybe it’s time we just ceded that work over to talk radio, cable news and the blogosphere. They’re already doing it anyway.

And so, if things are really as bleak as they appear here at the Daily, I propose we sacrifice our anonymous editorials and preachy columns for the greater good of the paper. The University simply cannot afford to sacrifice reporting.

Opinions are important, of course, but there are so many avenues for editorial expression in cyberspace now, I just find it indefensible that a penny-pinching paper continues to expend resources to compete in the viewpoint marketplace. Blogs, after all, are free. This column you’re reading is not.

So I’m volunteering. Daily powers that be, when it comes time to tighten that belt, send me and, if need be, my opinionated comrades packing. (But do it quick; I’m graduating in two weeks.)

Spend that money on some good hardnosed reporting, and don’t worry about us.

We’ll be fine; we’ve still got talk radio.

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they can appropriate money. These restrictions would go a long way in preserving the ethical values surrounding conflict of interest, something any serious government organization should be concerned about upholding.

When Leahy spoke out against the motion, he called it "the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard." In full, Leahy went on to say that "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."

The idea behind Leahy's argument is flawed. Because SGA is the body that distributes the money that clubs need, they get a constant flow of attention and membership from all club executive officers. Are

SGA members really fundamental when their arrival to the group is based on bettering themselves? If the motion was put into immediate action, a large chunk of the senators would have to choose between the SGA and their clubs. If an individual chooses being an executive officer for their club, it's clear as to why they were in SGA in the first place. If SA/ LD appropriated money and SGA was merely committees planning their events, membership might be a lot different than it is right now.

The matter of conflict of interest shouldn't be ignored simply because those inside SGA don't want to have to deal with a major overhaul. If SGA is serious about what they do, they should reevaluate this matter as soon as possible and clear up any potential unethical issues.

Summer Class Catch-Up Ashley Foy The Recorder

Never ending complaints about late graduation or difficulty getting into the right classes overwhelm the CCSU campus.

While there are obviously limitations to the courses offered over summer break, it is very easy to catch up or get ahead in the summer months by taking as few as one class. Even if students are simply taking a general education requirement and nothing specific to students' major or minor, they can still free up the work load for the following semester.

However, it does come with a heftier tuition than the average fall or spring semester. The cost of a 3-credit course for an in-state undergraduate is $1,125, which is almost double the cost of a 3-credit course for undergrads during a usual semester. Tuition for a 3-credit course in fall or spring is $617.83 for full-time students taking the maximum 6 credits.

One of the hardest classes to get into during a student’s first year of college is ENG 110 Freshman Composition. This summer CCSU is offering three ENG 110 classes. It is important for students to jump on these opportunities to catch up or to start early because ENG 110 is mandatory in general education and a prerequisite for many different courses among most majors.

Another important course is PSY 236 LifeSpan Development. This course is required for all education majors and tends to fill up quickly during the regular school year.

Education majors could benefit tremendously by using the summer months to fulfill this requirement.

Many other useful and interesting courses are being offered this summer as well. If students still need to fulfill a communication requirement, there are many lower level courses to choose from with morning hours, evening hours and online format available. A potentially entertaining course, however, could be GEOG 100 Search: Ethnic Restaurants. Mathematics and Philosophy also have decent course listings, both in number of courses offered as well as variety of topics covered.

It is understandable for a student to want some time off after slaving away all fall and spring with only a short winter and spring break to help pull them through. Taking a summer course, however, does not take the entire length of your summer break. Courses are offered in a five-week, eight-week or post session (August 9-26) time frame. Even in the eight-week course, which is the longest session, students still finish by July 22 and that leaves one month of break before the Fall semester.

Online courses are offered as well, if students do not want to travel to campus.

Online courses also enable working students to pick up a summer job or continue working their regular hours, or potentially take on even more. This can off set the extra cost of taking courses outside of the regular CCSU tuition.

If students know what classes they need to graduate on time, they should find one or two in the summer course catalog and sign up. Summer classes are short and to the point, and a great way to get one or two classes out of the way - if students are dedicated and willing to help curb the five- or six-year graduation rate. xkcd.com

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REVIEWS New Pornographers Together Matador Records May 4

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The New Pornographers have released their latest record Together, rounding out five out albums over a decade. While this last album is a collection of pretty average sounding songs at first, listeners will quickly recognize that the band’s sound has matured and noticeably.

Upon the first few listens, and really throughout the third fourth of fifth listens and beyond, Together is very much typical Pornographers’ brand of indie rock. Almost all tracks incorporate male and female duets between Neko Case, A.C. Newman and Dan Bejar, which makes the band an outstanding group in the indie rock scene. It’s also probably why I always confuse them with the Dirty Projectors (though the Projectors are a far superior band).

Together’s style is very upbeat and it focuses on acoustic guitars, tambourine, even some orchestral backing to give their music an added layer.

Even the saddest sounding of songs is still happy; “My Shepard” is kind of a mediocre tune, much more regular rock without any type of flair, but still manages to come off upbeat. The background music, with the exception of the chorus, is very minimal to place a heavier emphasis on the vocals. It’s not totally clear as to whether the song is religious in nature, but the lyrics seems to suggest that said shepherd is Christ. Eww. The least they could have done was disguise it in some flashier music.

There are some significant highlights on the record, however.

“Crash Years” - which sounds so average, and I know, it’s not a great term for a song - is easily single material. It’s largely acoustic guitardriven and uses major chords, a pretty good amount of whistling,

and what sounds like an upright bass. Case and Newman share vocal on this pretty standard indie rock track, but I mean standard in a good way. It’s sturdy, memorable with its refrains from the chorus and probably the best song on Together.

Instead, The New Pornographers chose “Your Hands (Together),” a track that’s largely underwhelming.

They arranged the vocals, again Case and Newman, so that they sing in unison. This was particularly annoying on Newman’s self-titled solo debut album, and still is now.

Hole Nobody’s Daughter Mercury Records April 27

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While Courtney Love has been in the public eye recently for her legal troubles with her daughter Frances Bean, she’s managed to write songs about her chaotic lifestyle that are straightforwardly melodic.

Since Hole’s last album as released over a decade ago, it was questionable as to whether she still had the talent to write a grungefueled tune. After it was established there would be another Hole album, the production itself was hectic with multiple producers being attached that included Smashing Pumpkins front man Billy Corgan.

Having producer Michael Beinhorn, who produced the band’s 1998 album Celebrity Skin, seemed to provide a comfortable outlet for Love to express her heavily personal tracks.

“Nobody’s Daughter” seems like a full collaboration between the band members by having all of the instruments have equal force and includes backing vocals. Love is expressing her troubling personality and need for help through her throaty voice.

“Skinny Little Bitch” has vocals that are very much like Corgan’s

that are backed by pounding guitar riffs. On the track the songstress is looking at those who’ve made fun of her and sings that she’s quite aware of what’s being said, and breaks herself down in spite.

The beginning of “How Dirty Girls Get Clean” sounds as if it was recorded while Love was in rehab, and then moves into blasting electric guitars that give it a proper recording sound.

The album ends with the stripped down acoustic song “Never Go Hungry,” a track that gets rid of all the distortion and shows the vocal power of Love and leaves her in her most vulnerable moment on the record.

While the album features original members of Hole, it’s for the most part a solo album by Love since she wrote many of the songs on her own while in rehab.

Nobody’s Daughter is an album that proves Love’s music career can still have a bright future and that through all the drugs and family problems she may have, she can draw upon them to write songs that are expressive of her controversial personal thoughts.

Peter Frampton Thank You Mr. Churchill New Door Records April 27

B. o. B. The Adventures of Bobby Ray Atlantic April 27

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Arena rocker Peter Frampton returns for his fourteenth album, Thank You Mr. Churchill, an album that shows Frampton’s age has no effect on his ability to rock harder than any big name of today.

The opening track, “Thank You Mr. Churchill,” starts off quietly as what seems to be an acoustic track, but then opens up to loud power chords. The song takes breaks at a couple parts for killer classic rock and roll solos that have Frampton working his fingers all over the fret board.

UMass Amherst

(WIRE) - Perched atop North Pleasant Street in the center of Amherst is a veritable jewel of a restaurant. It is inconspicuous in its architecture, sandwiched between stores, allowing its prestige and clientele to speak for it. That restaurant is Chez Albert, a Parisian bistro in the middle of western Massachusetts.

On a chilly Friday evening, the staff was bustling and the place was packed. That’s not too hard for the location, which is smaller than a single in Sylvan and about as pricey.

After getting a table, the server poured water and it was time to take a look at the menu.

For such haute cuisine, it was surprising to discover that there was, for one, a short and rather unimpressive wine list, and an apparent electricity moderation as well, with sparse lighting that comes off as Cretaceous rather than creative. Thus, this allowed very few options to imbibe while waiting for the food in the dark.

Deciding on the moderately priced French onion soup, $9, and the butternut squash soup, $8, was no challenge. However, the entrées went up from there. There is no prix fixe menu or middle ground,

as the most economical entrée from thereon out is a paltry $23, which may be reasonable for dinner with parents, but college students can get a far better value elsewhere.

The bowls came out relatively quickly. The French onion soup was served in a rather rustic and simple style, in a classic soup crock with a small handle. It was warm and hearty, but unfortunately, those were its only merits. The onions, though plentiful, were stringy and tough, and soaked into the beef broth, imparting a flavor devoid of any other notes due to the intensity of the allium cepa. French onion soups usually include cream or cheese based toppings to cut the tang of the

for singing and rapping on pop rap tracks that feature many well-known rappers.

B.o.B. starts the album’s first track “Don’t Let Me Fall” with singing, an interesting beginning considering he decides not to overwhelm the listener with hard-hitting rapping but rather with soulful vocals.

The record’s first single, “Nothing On You,” doesn’t even seem like a rap track with the pop/rock-like vocals of Bruno Mars singing, “Beautiful girls all over the world/ I could be chasing but my time would be wasted/ they got nothin’ on you baby.” This is until Ray opens into his rapping that has a style similar to Andre 3000 of Outkast.

“Bet I,” which features T.I. and Playboy Tre, brings out Ray’s roots in the dirty south, having forceful vocals that are quickly paced.

The track “Magic” brings together rock ‘n roll and rap with the featuring of Rivers Cuomo of Weezer. The song has Ray’s wacky rapping style during verses, with Ray stepping aside to let Cuomo sing the catchy chorus of, “Magic, magic, magic/ I’ve got the magic in me.”

Most of the track “Lovelier Than You” isn’t even rapping but acoustic guitar playing and singing, with the song ending with a part for rapping. The singing contains the very romantic lyrics of, “If I could rewind both the hands of time/ still I would never find a lovelier design than you.”

B.O.B. asserts his position in the world of rap with Bobby Ray, bringing new things to the table of rap by pulling together multiple genres that mix pieces of rap and singing. It gives reason for why so many popular rappers are being drawn to the artist who should be producing very intriguing albums for years to come.

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“Solution” brings the listener back to when Frampton was at his peak during the 1970s, with forcefully stroked chords and a simple but effective chorus of, “What I really need, in a world revolution/ what I really want, is a girl with a solution.”

Frampton steps away from playing loud power chords for a lightly plucked electric guitar-heavy song backed by an acoustic guitar.

The drums in the song are also lightly played to not overtake the singing and guitars, providing an easygoing break midway through the album.

“Asleep at the Wheel” kicks the album back into the arena rock realm with spacey guitar strumming for a song about people drifting through their lives.

“Restraint” begins like a blues track with some allowance for electric guitar, but doesn’t keep out Frampton’s passion for long, complicated guitar solos. The blues can be heard when Frampton sings about being put down by a greater power and overcoming them.

“Invisible Man” sounds as if it was recorded during the ‘70s with soulful female backup singing and tambourine parts. Frampton asks a girl to recognize him with lyrics, “All this love got to give it up/ but you keep me hanging on/ tell me girl what’s going on/ don’t you know it’s the same old song.”

Frampton’s newest release is quite possibly one of the best releases he’s had in a while, and captures all of the factors that made him such a successful musician.

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Bobby Ray, otherwise known as B.o.B., releases his breakthrough album, The Adventures of Bobby Ray, a record that combines his talent

French Fare for the Masses in Amherst onion’s taste and mix in a different savory flavor. Nothing like that in this one, merely a bruschetta-sized baguette with more of a gruyere confetti than topping that quickly soaks up the soup, rendering it inedible.

The butternut squash soup fared for the better, with a multi-layered flavor from the crème fraiche and the pumpkin seeds. It was a delightful dance of spicy and sweet, indulgent and earthy, and large enough to serve two for a starting amuse bouche. If Chez Albert serves dishes to this level and depth, it’s no surprise that they’re so successful.

The dessert menu is dismally small. For such a creative array of

main courses, it seems like the chef ran out of ideas while starting on pastries. Featured in the restaurant are desserts rehashed to retirement in stereotypical French cuisine – a plain crème brulee, tart tatin, what have you, but not necessarily representative of France itself. The crème brulee was fine, with a lovely but thick caramelization of sugar on top, requiring one to be more of a Charles Atlas than an Amélie when tapping it with a spoon to yield to the custard beneath. That being said, it’s a substantial portion, liberally dotted with vanilla bean seeds, and is a delicious, if uninventive finish to this small dinner.

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Netflix It: True Grit Michael Walsh The Recorder

Thirteen years before his portrayal of Rooster Cogburn in True Grit, John Wayne was roaming the great old west as the combative and heroic Ethan Edwards in John Ford's The Searchers, a film greatly considered to be one of the best westerns ever.

And while the concept of an ideal American western film like The Searchers (you know, cowboys vs. Indians, women being depicted as weak characters, and so on) died around the time True Grit and the ultra-violent The Wild Bunch were released in 1969, Wayne's prolific horseback and cowboy hat image was going nowhere.

Wayne won his first and only Academy Award for his performance as the drunken Cogburn, the meanest, nastiest and grittiest U.S. Marshal around. Cogburn is a man with "true grit," as co-star Kim Darby as character Mattie Ross will remind you.

Ross is the contradiction to the weak female character that idealized the American western throughout Wayne's early days in cinema. But it was nearly 1970, and no longer was such a representation of the female often found. Ross is a strong and equally smart young woman who hardly sheds a tear at the sight of her father dead in a wooden box, not the widely misrepresented bumbling, stupid woman who falls for the handsome blonde cowboy at first sight.

What will strike viewers, aside from the wisely manipulated boyish appearance of our leading female character, is the relationship Ross carries with both Cogburn and Texas Ranger La Boeuf (Glen Campbell). Ross is a headstrong and insisting woman, who bargains with the toughest and knows how to carry her own weight. Her journey with Cogburn and La Boeuf through Indian territory to track down the man who murdered her father is realistic, she isn't depicted as some super woman, she bends,

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but doesn't ever break as she searches the vast land for justice.

But sight of old Rooster Cogburn can't be lost. It is after all the powerful performance that won the aging legend his only and very deserving Academy Award. Wayne plays the brooding Cogburn with an unrelenting mean edge, complete with a rather dark sense of humor. Cogburn is easily one of Wayne's most memorable characters he ever played, right up there with his turn as fugitive Ringo Kid in Stagecoach among other performances.

True Grit is set to be remade, but don't worry, the project is in great hands. The Coen brothers are signed on to direct and write, with Jeff Bridges reviving Wayne's Cogburn.

If a remake of this story has to happen, I can't think of better hands to put it into. Also set to appear in the Christmas 2010 release are Matt Damon and Josh Brolin.

Directed by Henry Hathaway, True Grit is one of the most important westerns ever.

It represents a drastic change in western themes and is one of Wayne's legendary performances. I wouldn't say it's an unknown or even underrated film, but when everyone is giving Clint Eastwood all the western credit in the world (rightfully deserved, that is), it can't hurt to go back and pay a little more respect to one of the original legendary pioneers.

Thick fudge swirls appear in each bite of A.C. Petersen Farms’ creamy yellow cake batter ice cream. Small chunks of dense yellow cake also make an appearance on my little plastic spoon. While cake batter ice cream can be found at most ice cream shops, A.C. Petersen’s version tops the rest. If you were looking for a sweet treat on a hot day this restaurant should be on your list of places to stop.

A.C. Petersen’s has been in the dairy business since 1914 and has been a local favorite in West Hartford since the restaurant opened more than 60 years ago. This restaurant lists more than 40 flavors to choose from on the rotating flavors sign including Almond Joy, Kahlua chunk and mocha mud pie. Be sure to try a Petersen’s sundae, which is topped with fresh whipped cream and irresistible thick dark chocolate fudge.

Like A.C. Petersen’s, Mortensen’s Ice Cream and Restaurant also has a history in the dairy business. Elmer Mortensen started the business in 1915 when he started delivering milk with a horse and wagon.

Today, Mortensen’s thrives in Newington on the Berlin Turnpike, attracting customers near and far with their legendary homemade ice cream and delicious lunch and dinner menu.

Mortensen’s displays more than 20 colorful

flavors in their glass case. This summer customers can look forward to native cantaloupe, strawberry and blueberry when each fruit is in season.

While Shady Glen Dairy Stores in Manchester is known for their legendary cheeseburgers and the excess fried cheese that extends off of the bun, they are also well-known for their homemade ice cream.

Despite that you won’t find anything too out of the ordinary on their flavor list, each flavor they offer is top quality.

The royal blue exterior of the Main Street Creamery in Wethersfield will grab your attention at first glance.

Colorful nylon flowers and butterflies hang from the top of the white porch.

Pictures of friendly faces and happy customers cover the walls on the inside of this quaint ice cream shop.

But it isn’t only the pleasant surroundings that attract customers. The creamy homemade ice cream attracts happy customers with flavors like rum raisin, black raspberry and peppermint stick.

If you’re willing to travel farther, Robb’s Farm in Glastonbury makes their own ice cream. In the small ice cream shop you’ll find friendly service and handmade flavors such as vanilla caramel turtle and espresso fudge crunch made right behind the counter in the shop.

Make sure you to visit these ice cream shops to cool down and satisfy your sweet tooth on one of the scorching days of summer.

Film Review

Phenomenal Phish 3D A Special Treat for Phans Michael Walsh The Recorder

Let's put aside all bias right now. Phish is my favorite band. There I said it.

But I'm not about to limit the enjoyment of Phish 3D to fans only. If there were ever a game-changer for someone on the fence of the popular counterculture jam band this 3D concert film is it.

Phish 3D highlights Festival 8, the band's most recent music fest held over Halloween weekend in 2009.

Phish played a total of eight sets of music that weekend, including a special daytime acoustic set and the complete covering of The Rolling Stones' Exile on Main St. album, a performance that kept up Phish's tradition of covering an entire album as their musical Halloween costume.

Musically, Phish 3D excels in all the right areas. What it brings is some but not all of the band's best and tightest jamming from that weekend. Sure, 2009's best jams might not be included here, but this is still worthwhile content. The film's first third is highlighted by a menacing "Tweezer" that goes right into a psychedelic "Maze," as well as a funky and dark "Undermind." Guitarist Trey Anastasio absolutely dominates the early stages of the film with blistering guitar play, but the rest of the band aren't far behind either.

The night then turns to day, saying goodbye to the glow stick wars and the flashy and mesmerizing Chris Kuroda-controlled light show, bringing on a relaxing sunlight.

The acoustic set contains a few softer gems like "Strange Design," but the main focus is certainly the dazzling version of "The Curtain With" and a energizing performance of the fan favorite "Wilson." I can't forget the unique "Back on the Train," a tune that usually is one

of their funkiest but made mellow by the acoustic setup.

The final third of the film is utilized to showcase part of the band's excellent Exile on Main St. performance. A standout moment is their electrifying and chilling rendition of "Loving Cup," a song they had been covering since 1993. The entire set was aided by the amazing Sharon Jones, whose backing vocals add a level of soul and dimension to the performance, and the accompanying trumpet, trombone and saxophone.

The four tracks in the Stones segment capture the festival's energy in no other way possible. Anastasio hardly wipes his signature grinning smile off his face the entire time, and that level of joy carries right through the screen. More focus on this part of the show wouldn't have been a bad idea. I'm always amazed at how this band can pick another artist's album or song and replicate it in their own style so flawlessly, and the four tracks chosen here ("Loving Cup," "Soul Survivor," "Happy," and "Shine a Light") absolutely epitomize their ability to turn out a brilliant and inspiring cover.

Fans will enjoy what they see and hear, some will complain and wonder why a certain track wasn't picked over another, but that's going to happen when more than 12 hours of music has to be trimmed down to just over two hours. Sure, the song selection is a little mainstream friendly, but big deal. The only thing that I question is that the songs that were picked weren't always played in the order they came in, a strange decision if you ask me.

The magic of editing helped the concert flow, but it's something that'll be very noticeable to fans who pay attention.

Visually, Phish 3D thoroughly impresses with crystal clear cinematography. The crew used the benefit of the 3D technology to try and put you in the shoes of a fan lucky enough

Trey Anastasio and Mike Gordon of Phish. to actually attend the festival, putting you right in the middle of glow stick wars and in way of errant balloons you wish you could reach out and hit. Brought to a new life are Chris Kuroda's always spectacular light shows, with colorful flashing lights that can easily put any mind in a state of trance. The entire festival leaps into view, bringing the weekend's vibe and energy right into the theatre.

The camera constantly soars above and around keyboardist Page McConnell's giant and all-encompassing rig, putting you right on top of the action. Nice close-ups of Anastasio's guitar playing and bassist Mike Gordon going at it are also cut to quite often and help add

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a lot to the detail level of the film. It was also nice to be so close and personal to Jon Fishman's drum set, a point of view you can't get otherwise.

Phish 3D is truly an experience that any Phish fan won't want to miss. The sights and sounds won't leave my mind for quite some time. I can't promise it will convert a non fan or someone who isn't really sure what they think, but the bottom line is, fans will have to overthink the film and go out of their way to not enjoy this immersive experience that works as an engaging and entertaining appetizer to the band's upcoming summer tour.

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(WIRE) - If “The Great Gatsby ” has taught us anything, it’s that drugs, a debauched lifestyle and riotous tunes are the three key ingredients to having a phenomenal summer.

We can’t help you with the first two pieces of that decadent puzzle, but we can offer some pertinent information when it comes to choosing a musical happening. Here are A&E’s picks for the best and most affordable summer festivals.

Pitchfork Music Festival Date: July 16 - 18 Location: Chicago Cost: $40 (one-day pass) Pitchfork’s ridiculous, down-to-the-tenth rating system continues to irk the sane, but their notable anal retentiveness makes for one finely arranged festival. This year’s biggest draw is undoubtedly Pavement, whose disbandment a decade ago left indie connoisseurs with a serious case of aural withdrawal.

Those who prefer more contemporary indie stylings can look to Wolf Parade , LCD Soundsystem and Modest Mouse for relief, but don’t overlook Girls, whose brand of San Franciscan surf-rock is immaculate in its angst.

Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival Date: June 10 - 13 Location: Manchester, Tenn.

Price: $249.50 (four-day pass) Bonnaroo may not be the best choice for the light of wallet, but those willing to shell out will not be disappointed. Nay, they’ll be too busy yelling encore for His Hoviness Jay-Z to notice their empty pockets, too busy laughing at Conan O’Brien’s much-missed self deprecation or his loose Radiohead covers and too busy clutching their melting faces in agony as Jack White burns Manchester to the ground with his guitar. And let’s not forget The Flaming Lips ; does anyone ever get sick of Wayne Coyne’s hamster-ball shenanigans?

The answer is no.

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Lollapalooza Date: August 6 - 8 Location: Chicago Price: $215 (three-day pass) The wonderful, contradictive Lollapalooza persists as a beacon of both anti-establishment rock ‘n’ roll and capitalistic fervor. Where else can you watch an increasingly irrelevant Green Day fight the power on a stage paid for by Citigroup? What a country! Mock outrage aside, Lollapalooza is a strong pick for best festival of the summer because of the monstrous acquisitions of Phoenix, MGMT’s psychedelic incarnation and those Canadian baroque stars Arcade Fire. However, the biggest hubbub surrounds the return of The Strokes , which should be glorious provided they play the hits and not Julian Casablancas’ solo fare.

80/35 Date: July 3 - July 4 Location: Des Moines Price: $60 (two-day ticket) With only five bands currently listed (Spoon

among them), it’s hard to say if 80/35 will be worthwhile. New acts are announced every Monday and if last year’s line-up is any indication — The Flaming Lips, The Roots, Andrew Bird and Black Francis — 80/35 may be the sleeper hit of 2010.

North By Northeast Date: June 14 - 20 Location: Toronto Price: $25 - $399 (for various combo packs) Admittedly, North by Northeast rocking involves an international hike and no small amount of vaudevillian Mountie-duping, but the promise of Iggy Pop is more than enough reason to head to Toronto. At 63, Pop’s onstage antics continue to baffle medical doctors and defy spatial reasoning, while his music retains the ferocity of a lost age.

North By Northeast will also play host to garage rockers Japandroids , the much-hyped Surfer Blood and Les Savy Fav , whose live shows are sublime for those who like frenetic rock delivered by a fat, bald, bearded man in short shorts — and who doesn’t, really? Plus,

drugs are cheaper in Canada; gotta love that exchange rate.

Summerfest Date: June 24 - July 4 Location: Milwaukee Price: $8 - $15 Summerfest is appealing this year for a couple of reasons: It’s the most economically friendly, it features some great acts, both classic and contemporary and, with Minnesota’s own 10KLF Festival on hiatus, it’s the closest thing to Minneapolis with any merit. Or perhaps you just don’t give a damn about any of these other lame hipster festivals, but don’t want to deal with WE Fest for another year. Well, my hateful friend, this is the place for you.

The Roots , Modest Mouse, and The Hold Steady are perhaps the most noteworthy acts for the indie crowd, while Eric Clapton , Rush and Tom Petty beckon to KQ92 listeners.

Clear Channel fans, you’re set with Tim McGraw , Usher and Carrie Underwood . Yep, Summerfest has something for every broadly defined demographic.

Marco Benevento To Promote New Album With Main Pub Show michaeL WaLsh the recorder

Experimental jazz pianist Marco Benevento will be playing The Main Pub in Manchester, Conn. on Friday May 7 in support of his latest album, Between the Needles and Nightfall.

Benevento will be aided by his trio, made up of The Slip members Marc Friedman (bass) and Andrew Barr (drums) and Benevento himself.

Benevento is a staple in the New York music scene, making a name for himself with his psychedelic and modern jam-inspired jazz playing and his endless list of musical collaborations. Benevento has played with a number of highly skilled musicians in the jam band and jazz genres, including Tea Leaf Green's Reed Mathis, Charlie Hunter and memorable tour with the band GRAB, which matched Benevento up with Joe Russo and Phish's Trey Anastasio and Mike Gordon.

The New Jersey-born pianist also worked on the latest album from jazz band Garage a

Trois, Power Patriot, with Mike Dillon (Les Claypool's Frog Brigade), Stanton Moore (Galactic) and Skerik. In addition, Benevento has recorded four solo albums and four albums with Joe Russo as the Benevento/Russo Duo. Among Benevento's most outstanding work is his Live at Tonic album, which in rare fashion happened to be his debut solo recording. Live at Tonic was recorded throughout a string of November 2006 shows in New York City and featured many of the aforementioned guests.

Benevento set up shop at Sullivan Hall, a Greenwich Village music space, to run a residency of performances where the promiment modern jazz musician invited all of his musical friends to jam along with him.

Benevento had the shows recorded, which led to the creation of his first DVD, Live in NYC: The Sullivan Hall Residency, a series of performances that matches up with Live at Tonic on the visual side.

Drum and bass artist Wyllys is set to be Benevento's opener. The show starts at 9:30 p.m. with tickets running only $12 a piece.

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Calendar 4.7 - 4.14

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3OH!3 are performing this Saturday in Danbury, Conn.

MUSIC 5.6 Lloyd Banks @ Toad's Place New Haven, Conn. $30 / 10 p.m.

5.7 Marco Benevento Trio @ The Main Pub Manchester, Conn. $12 / 9:30 p.m.

5.7 The McLovins @ Infinity Music Hall & Bistro Norfolk, Conn. $15 - $25 / 8 p.m.

5.7 We Came As Romans @ Webster Theatre Hartford, Conn. $10 / 6:30 p.m.

5.8 3OH!3 w/ Cobra Starship @ Western Connecticut State University ( Ives Concert Park) Danbury, Conn. $27 / 7 p.m.

Hartford, Conn. $6.25 / 7:00 p.m.

"Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher's October Country is a beautiful evocation of a time and place -- Mohawk Valley in upstate New York, spanning from one Halloween to the next -- and a loving but unflinching probing of the lives of Mosher's family in the course of a year." - Kevin Thomas, LA Times "A powerful portrait of the American working poor and the dynamics that govern all families, regardless of economic class." - Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post 5.8 Om Shanti Om @ Cinestudio Hartford, Conn. $7.00 / 2 p.m.

Cinestudio and the English Department of Trinity College are proud to co-sponsor a special event introducing Prakash Younger, Trinity's new film professor, to Trinity students and faculty and the Hartford community!

After the (rare 35mm film) screening of the classic Om Shanti Om, Prof. Younger will give a short talk on the hugely popular phenomenon that is India's Bollywood. Om (Shahrukh Khan) is a young movie extra working in the 1970s' era Bollywood industry while dreaming of making it big and winning the

heart of the famous actress Shanti (Deepika Padukone). While the twists and turns of the reincarnation-inspired plot are too numerous to list, we promise a wholly satisfying movie experience – including one blow-out musical number featuring 31 of Bollywood’s greatest stars.

5.9 - 5.11 North Face @ Cinestudio Hartford, Conn. $7.00 / 7:30 p.m.

In 1936, the Eiger peak in the Swiss Alps was still unattainable to mountain climbers, unable to scale the 5,900-foot near-vertical north side “murderwall.” Phillipp Stölzl’s thrilling true story opens as the Nazi government drafts Toni Kurz (Benno Fürmann) and Andi Hinterstoisser (Florian Lukas) in a suicidal effort to win glory for the Fatherland. As comfortable officials watch from a hotel, the two climbers meet with terror as they battle injuries, vicious blizzards, equipment failure, and the impossible height of their quest.

While the story itself is nail-biting, the film’s real drama comes from the awesome images of Eiger shot on location by cinematographer Kolja Brandt. “A mountaineering adventure more tense, more edge-of-the-seat suspenseful, than Touching the Void - Almost incredibly, this German drama is that film.”

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CCSU 5.5 - 5.8 William Shakespeare's As You Like It @ Maloney Hall, Black Box Theatre New Britain, Conn. $5 students, $10 regular / 7:30 p.m.

Join Rosalind and her cousin Celia in a romp through the Forest of Arden in CCSU Theatre's bold new retelling of William Shakespeare's As You Like It. Banished from court and disguised for safety, the two cousins encounter a wild cast of characters and find surprising contentment in a world governed by love. Directed by Sheila Siragusa.

5.6 Heads vs. Feds Debate High Times Battles The DEA Sponsored by CCSU NORML @ Welte Auditorium Free / 7 p.m.

5.6 Devil’s Den at 10PM: Alice in Wonderland @ Devil’s Den Student center Free / 10 p.m.

5.11 Emerson, Lake and Palmer Tribute Act w/ Mahavishnu Project @ Toad's Place New Haven, Conn. $20/ 9 p.m.

FILM 5.5 - 5.8 Alice in Wonderland @ Cinestudio Hartford, Conn. $7.00 / 7:30 p.m.

Any movie that features Stephen Fry as the Cheshire Cat and Alan Rickman as a hookahsmoking Caterpillar is a must-see for lovers of (PG- rated) sly perversity. But what else might you expect from a trip down Lewis Carroll’s rabbit hole as imagined by Tim Burton, whose dedication to slightly sinister fantasy animates his films including PeeWee’s Big Adventure, Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, The Corpse Bride & more!

While Mia Wasikowska is gothic-lovely as the curious Alice who returns to Wonderland as a teenager, this is Johnny Depp’s movie: a Mad Hatter with a Kabuki-white face, hypnotic green eyes, and a jazzman’s subversive fluidity.

“A boldly revisionist remix…it's tempting to think that Carroll himself would consider Burton an altogether frabjous match.” Ann Hornaday, Washington Post.

5.7 - 5.13 October Country @ Real Art Ways

Alice in Wonderland is screening this week at both CCSU and Cinestudio.

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CCSU Sports Complex Gets a Facelift Brittany Burke The Recorder

The new CCSU baseball and softball fields being utilized this season were just the tip of the iceberg of what is to come over the next two years as the CCSU athletic fields go through a complete renovation.

There is still work to be done on the fields before they can be considered 100 percent completed, but that hasn’t stopped the plans for a new soccer field, track and football/ lacrosse field to be set into motion.

“The first three legs of this project; this major project that they are working on has baseball, softball and the recreational field well under way that we’re looking at as we enter the fall. That recreation location will be completed, both baseball and softball will be online 100 percent and we’re in the process right now of working on the football/lacrosse stadium,” said Assistant Chief Administrator and Director of Facilities Management Sal Cintorino.

The new recreational field is adjacent to the baseball outfield and will serve as another space for non student athletes to go and play sports without interrupting CCSU athletics.

The new renovations will equip the field with recreational lights and a sprinkler system which allows for actual sod. The perimeter of the baseball and softball fields is the final step in the process toward completion.

While phases one through three are in progress, facilities management staff plan to begin work on the soccer and football/lacrosse fields beginning this summer. The football field is going to be outsourced to DPW, allowing for the soccer fields, an internal project done

by CCSU that has recently gotten approval, to be worked on simultaneously.

The renovations for the two fields are projected to take between 12 and 18 months and should be completely finished by 2012.

The renovations include seating on both sides of the football/lacrosse field and a track around the soccer field, which the school hasn’t had since the 1980s.

“What we’ve done is actually baseball and softball has been moved closer to Route 9 so

View from the press box overlooking that we open that area in the middle up where there will be a track now that will go around the soccer field. The soccer field will also be an artificial surface and that’ll have lights on it as well,” Cintorino said. “So from a recreational stand point we’re really excited because both the football/lacrosse playing surface as well as the soccer playing surface will all have lighting and the ability for recreation.”

In addition to the seating, lights, turf and new track it is planned for there to be a new support facility near the soccer field that will provide bathrooms for men and women as well as team rooms for half time.

The plans for the athletic field’s overhaul have been three years in the making, but there have been some restrictions, especially when it

Arute Field. comes to budget. New construction is funded by student fees that every student pays with tuition that have been set aside specifically for this purpose over the past few years.

“To do the fields, what we did - something we were trying to do for the students - we had student fees that had been set aside specifically for that and Dr. Miller directed us to make sure that we created a project that was going to be supportive of the needs of the students both from a recreational and athletic standpoint,” said Cintorino. “[The funds are] dollars that have been set aside for this, and each one is broken up into a different piece of the puzzle.”

It is hoped that the new athletic fields will draw in current CCSU students and

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community members to the games, attract potential students for recruitment purposes and create first class facilities for the athletes to hone their skills.

“We hear all the time, ‘wow it’s a breath of fresh air to look out there and see a first class facility,’ and I think that’s what our commitment is from a university to do our best to be the best that we can be and to showcase our university. And I think that this is just another example of what we’re doing on campus to continue to move forward as a university,” Cintorino said.

The next two and a half years are going to be filled with construction, but the outcome will be beneficial for the entire CCSU community.

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Central Connecticut State University finished with its best showing in school history at the Northeast Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championships on Sunday.

The Blue Devils placed third out of 11 teams with a total score of 79 points. CCSU was led in day two action by third place finishes by senior Ry Sanderson and sophomore Jeremy Schmid.

Central Connecticut continued its rise to the top of the conference track scene this weekend with a third place finish. Last season the Blue Devils finished fourth and fifth in the league indoor and outdoor championships, respectively. Both were program bests accomplishments. This fall CCSU won its first ever NEC Cross Country Championship and this winter they matched last year’s fourth place finish at the conference indoor meet.

Monmouth took home the team championship with 214.5 points, while Long Island was the runner-up with 137.5 points.

Mount St. Mary’s and Sacred Heart were just behind the Blue Devils with 78.5 and 74 points, respectively.

Sanderson, who won the 10,000 meter run on Saturday, took third place in the 5,000 meters to lead CCSU on Sunday. The senior recorded a time of 15:24.62 in the event.

Sophomore Sam Alexander and freshman Craig Hunt also put forth top performances in the 10,000. The former placed fifth in a time of 15:35.38, while the latter crossed the line in 15:39.23 to take sixth.

Schmid finished less than a second behind the winner in the 1,500 meter run. His time of 4:00.57 was good enough for third place in the event. Freshman Mohamed Hrezi also recorded a top performance in the middle distance. He placed fourth in the 800 meters,

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recording a time of 1:54.13.

Hrezi was also a member of the CCSU 4x400 meter relay team that placed seventh at the championships. The team of Hrezi, freshman Dan Hopper and sophomores Myles Mason and Michael Waterbury recorded a time of 3:22.24. Hopper, juniors Josue Paul and Harry Lewis, and freshman Keith BoydCarter added an eighth place finish in the 4x100 meter relay. The squad crossed the line in 43.66 seconds.

Paul and sophomore Anthony Gonsalves also competed in individual final action on Sunday. Paul placed eighth in the 100 meter final with a time of 11.07 seconds. Gonsalves took ninth in the 3,000 meter steeplechase, crossing the line in 10:03.56.

Sophomore Matt Berube, who won the high jump on Saturday, put forth a sixth place finish in the triple jump on Sunday. He recorded a distance of 45’11.25”.

Central Connecticut softball dropped its final two road games of the year at Fairleigh Dickinson to fall to 19-29 on the season and 7-11 in the Northeast Conference. Fairleigh Dickinson improves to 16-30 overall and 6-12 in the Northeast Conference with the two victories. Senior Jaclyn Logan hit two home runs for five RBI on the afternoon and is now tied for the teams season lead with 10 home runs on the season.

In game one Central Connecticut opened the top of the first inning and the scoring with back to back walks followed by a sacrifice bunt by junior Katherine Knowles. Logan then came to the plate and hit the first of two home runs on the afternoon.

FDU answered quickly in the bottom of the first inning for three runs of their own to tie the game at 3-3. The Knights led off their half of the first inning with three straight singles, the Knights would then gather two more RBI singles to score their second and third runs of the inning.

The Knights broke the stale mate in the bottom of the fourth inning scoring two runs on the two RBI double by FDU’s senior Kristen Kinner to give the Knights the 5-3 lead at the end of four innings of play.

Central Connecticut would cut the FDU lead by a run in the top of the fifth inning when sophomore Rebecca Mussatti hit a double to left field to start the inning. Mussatti was then followed by senior Sara Budrick who drove in Mussatti with a single through the left side of the infield.

The Blue Devils would take the lead in the top of the sixth inning when freshman Kelsey Barlow led off the inning with a double, the Blue Devils then took advantage of three RBI singles scoring three runs giving CCSU the 7-5 lead.

Central Connecticut could not hold on the lead when FDU sent eight batters to the

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plate to score three runs on four singles and a sacrifice fly to give FDU eight runs on 14 hits and one error to defeat Central who finished the game with seven runs on nine hits and one error.

Central Connecticut would score it’s only two runs of game two in top of the first inning when Knowles started the hitting with a two out double to right center. Knowles would then score on the next play when Logan hit her second home run of the afternoon.

FDU sent nine batters to the plate in the bottom of the second inning scoring four runs on three RBI and two doubles.

FDU would score their fifth and final run of the game on a home run by junior Brianne Benedict. FDU would finish game two with five runs on nine hits and no errors to defeat Central Connecticut who finished game two with two runs on nine hits and no errors.

Central Connecticut will return to action for their final games of the season when Long Island University travels to New Britain, CT for a doubleheader Saturday, May 8 beginning at 2:00 p.m.

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CCSU Baseball Upsets Number 20/21 UConn Kenny Barto The Recorder

The Blue Devils didn’t have to travel far, but they came away with an important out of conference road win against the nationally ranked University of Connecticut Huskies, beating them 7-3 last Wednesday.

The Huskies were ranked 20th in the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association poll, and 21st in the USA Today/ ESPN poll. CCSU’s win snapped UConn’s 22-game winning streak, which was the longest current streak in the nation.

The Blue Devils offense struck for the first time in the top of the second inning when Pat Epps led off with his ninth home run of the season. After a Tommy Meade single and a Mitch Wells walk, Kyle Zarotney hit an RBI double. An RBI ground out by Chris Renzoni, and a Sean Miller-Jones RBI single were the other forms of offense in the second, which netted four runs.

CCSU did not score again until the fifth when Wells hit an RBI single through the left side that scored Epps. Richie Tri added an RBI single that scored Meade. Their final run came in the sixth when Anthony Scialdone hit an RBI single that scored Miller-Jones.

Jason Foster picked up the win for the Blue Devils, and did not give up a hit until the leadoff batter in the sixth inning. Foster was taken out two batters later after Mike Nemeth hit a three run home run, which netted UConn’s only three runs in the game. Foster gave up just three hits, three runs, and four walks, while striking out three. Dave Krasnowiecki pitched the next four innings, giving up only two hits, and struck out one.

The two southpaws combined to only let up five hits against a tough UConn offense

Infielder Anthony Scialdone batted in who has beaten tough programs such as Ohio State, Boston College, USC, Louisville, and West Virginia.

“Sometimes people forget about baseball in the northeast because of teams like LSU and Texas down south,” said head coach Charlie Hickey. “It was nice to be on that national stage, and have a big win against a ranked program.”

The win against UConn comes after a rough series with in-state conference rival

Photo Courtesy of Uconn the final run for CCSU against UConn.

Quinnipiac, where they were only able to take tougher to bring good teams in and have two one out of the four games in the series. game series,” coach Hickey said. “Teams like The last time CCSU beat a ranked team Rutgers and Rhode Island have wanted to play was on March 22nd-23rd, 2009 when they two-game series, but it’s just not conducive to beat the 19th ranked University of Illinois us, because our pitchers and position players in back-to-back games in Winter Haven, Fla. need rest.”

It was also the first time the Blue Devils had CCSU will wrap up their out of conference faced a ranked team since the three game schedule this week with games at Hartford series with Illinois. on Tuesday, and at Fairfield on Wednesday.

“Ever since the conference series got The games will start at 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. moved to four games instead of three, it’s been respectively.

Sean Allaire: Jack of All Trades Continued from Page 12 and appeared in 29 games, hitting .250. He continued to build, and in 2008 he finished third on the team in batting average at .313, and led the team in hits, doubles, extra-base hits, runs and total bases while starting every game.

In 2009, Allaire led the team again in hits and runs scored while starting every game

for CCSU. He batted .329, which was good enough to be named Second Team All-NEC. This year has proven to be his best year, and he will add to his accolades after the season is over. Allaire isn’t concerned with his awards, however, as he just wants to help this team win with just 10 games remaining.

“This is a great bunch of guys,” Allaire said.

“I couldn’t have done this without them, and it’s just been real fun this season.”

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Mitch Wells hit a three-run home run to lead the Blue Devils.

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Blue Devils Split Games with Red Foxes Continued from Page 12 the sixth, when Mitch Wells continued his strong offensive day and doubled to left field.

After advancing on a wild pitch, and another Renzoni walk, Wells was able to score when Andy Lalli grounded into one of CCSU’s three double plays on the day.

CCSU’s seventh and final run came in the bottom of the seventh inning. With two outs, Anthony Scialdone doubled to left center.

Pat Epps was able to single through the hole between shortstop and third base, which advanced Scialdone to third. Scialdone later scored on a wild pitch with Meade at the plate.

“We hit into too many double plays today,” said Hickey. “I don’t know if we have to start having to try to hit behind runners, or get the runners moving a bit more, but we can’t have that in conference games.”

The strong performance by Greenhouse improves his record to 3-1 on the year with a team-leading 2.12 ERA. His ERA also leads the Northeast Conference for pitchers who have pitched over 20 innings.

After CCSU wraps up their out of conference schedule at Hartford and Fairfield this week, they will return to conference action this weekend with a four game series at Mount St. Marys.

“The Mount is always a tough place to play,” said Hickey. “But, we’re in a position where we have to go win some ball games.”

The Blue Devils will not return home until Friday, May 14th when they start a four-game series vs. Wagner. The next weekend they will wrap up their conference schedule with another four game set against Long Island.

“It’s crunch time, and I think the players are starting to feel it,” said Hickey. “With three series remaining, we have to finish strong to get ready for the tournament.”

clearance off of the line, we threw ourselves in the way, blocking balls, heading things out.

Terrific defending by the boys.”

Four former CCSU players were in the squad for the Pioneers during this match, including Armstrong, Raphael Guimaraes, Eddie Floyd and Mersad Sahanic.

“It's kind of surreal to me, to know they played in the same color shirt. Now you are playing against them,” Cavener said. “We all want to beat each other, but at the same time we're all friends.”

Green also felt odd seeing his former players in different kits for the match.

“It's just weird seeing your guys out there,” Green said. “You get so used to seeing guys

out in your jersey. You get some pride seeing them moving on to another level. I just love watching my players play. Overall I thought it was a good experience for them - a going away party.”

The win gives CCSU a 4-1 record to finish the spring season.

“Overall I am happy with the season. Bang on target. We've got good recruits coming in. Our goal was to get new recruits and get better in the spring, and I think we have accomplished that,” Green said. “Bring it on, the fall. I can't wait for it to start.”

All of the match's proceeds were donated to the Cameron Greenwood Fund. Greenwood is a 13 year-old battling bone cancer. His local soccer club, Ajax were in attendance for the match. A ceremony honoring him occurred at the beginning of the match.

CCSU finished the spring season with a 4-1 record.

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Mitch Wells celebrates with teammates.

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After a close 7-6 loss at Marist the day before, the Blue Devils were able to roll past the Red Foxes on Saturday, to defeat them 7-1 at Saturday's game.

The two games against Marist were added to the schedule early last week, as both teams suffered from rainouts early in the season.

“Both us and Marist had a few rainouts, and needed to fill the schedule with some games,” said head coach Charlie Hickey.

“We found out that they had a by in their conference schedule as well, and decided to play two games.”

With a perfect 80 degree day, the Blue Devils played their quickest game of the season, as it took only two hours and 22 minutes to play nine innings.

Marist was able to strike first in the second inning on an RBI single by left fielder Dan Zlotnick.

The Red Foxes were not able to score again,

as starting pitcher Jack Greenhouse turned in another impressive pitching performance, giving up nine hits in eight innings of work, while striking out four.

“I’ve said it before, you have to play defense behind Jack Greenhouse,” said coach Hickey.

“He gave up nine hits, but we were able to play defense and only hold them to one run.”

The Blue Devils were able to answer in the bottom of the second. Back-to-back singles

by Pat Epps and Tommy Meade brought up the dangerous Mitch Wells. Wells did not disappoint, and hit a towering three-run home run over the trees in right field.

“It was a case of playing for the three-run home run,” said Hickey. “We knew Epps and Meade could hit, it was just a matter of if Wells could come through in a big spot.”

CCSU added two more in the third on an RBI single by Meade, and an RBI bases loaded walk by Chris Renzoni.

The Blue Devils did not score again until See Blue Devils Split Page 11

Jack Greenhouse allowed only one run improving to 3-1.

CCSU Soccer Finishes Spring Season Strong Christopher Boulay The Recorder

Two spectacular first half goals lifted the CCSU men's soccer team to a 2-1 win over Western Massachusetts Pioneers, in their last spring match of the season.

Western Massachusetts, a United Soccer League Premier Development team, is no stranger to the Blue Devils as many former Blue Devils have played on the squad before, and CCSU played them as recently as last spring; a 3-2 victory at home.

“I know most of their players, and I know they have a lot of quality,” Captain Robert Cavener said. “They are still training for the PDL season, so they are still getting to know each other.”

Eduardo Ortiz opened the scoring from a header that went by former CCSU goalkeeper Paul Armstrong.

“I take my hat off to [forwards] Joel Diamand and Eduardo. They have worked hard and earned their chances,” Coach Shaun Green said.

“Eduardo has had four goals in five

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Robert Cavener. games. He's took on a whole new life.”

Robert Cavener put the Blue Devils up 2-0 on a world class goal from over 30 yards out. The shot was a one-touch from the right side of the pitch that deflected off of the right side of the crossbar and in.

CCSU had a close call after the Pioneers cut the lead in half.

With only minutes remaining,

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Western Massachusetts had a flurry of chances created inside of the Blue Devils' box, with the closest call being cleared off of the line by Aaron Durr and Connor Smith.

“We gave up a goal in the last minute three times last season,” Cavener said. “We made the See Blue Devils Page 11

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Utility man Sean Allaire has proved just how valuable he is to the Blue Devils’ baseball team, posting a Northeast Conference leading .434 batting average, and leading the team in seven other offensive categories.

Allaire has also defined what it means to be a team player, showing that he can hit in big spots, and pull his weight in the field as well.

“We’re really not fair to Sean,” said head coach Charlie Hickey.

“He plays shortstop, center field, and he’ll catch one or two games during the week, and do all of them exceptionally well.”

Allaire has committed only four errors, giving him a .971 fielding percentage on the season.

“I come to the ballpark not knowing where I’m going to play,” said Allaire. “I just go out there and do my best day in and day out.”

In addition to batting average, Allaire also leads the team in hits,

doubles, RBIs, total bases, slugging percentage, on base percentage and sacrifice flies.

“I try not to pay attention to stats,” said Allaire. “But, I look at them once in a while.”

Allaire has put himself in position to be the first CCSU player drafted since 2007 when pitcher Evan Scribner was selected by the Arizona Diamondbacks in the 28th round.

“It means a lot to me to do this good in my senior year,” Allaire said. “Be it get drafted, or try to go into independent ball, I just want to keep playing.”

Allaire is a native of Bristol, Conn, and attended Bristol Eastern High School during which he made Second Team All-State in his senior year. He was redshirted in his first year, and moved up the ranks ever since.

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