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February 13, 2008
No. 4.
Vol. CXXVIII.
Senior Week is back Third Eye Blind accepts bid
New traditions planned
By Megan DeMarco
News Editor
Senior Week is back this year, and
although the alcohol policy from last year
has not changed, everything else from past
Senior Weeks has.
“It’s a new program that will help us
leave our legacy,” senior class vice president Brad Henriksen said. “It’s not like the
old Senior Weeks.”
Senior Week this year has four goals:
unity, closure, celebration and legacy.
“The stigma of the week is completely
different,” Henriksen said.
On the first night, May 13, seniors will
participate in reverse PlayFair. While most
students at the College attend PlayFair
during Welcome Week to meet fellow
freshmen, this PlayFair will give seniors
the opportunity to see friends as well as
meet classmates.
“It’ll ... form unity right off the bat,”
senior class secretary Nicole Kasian said.
Other highlights of the week include a
“mystery” speaker that the council cannot
yet disclose, a lakeside picnic that will
probably feature boats on one of the lakes
and a big luau at KatManDu in Trenton.
On the last night, students will participate in a new tradition. They will assemble
around the Science Complex fountain,
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Senior Week Program 2008
May 13
May 14
May 15
2:00 p.m.
9:30 a.m.
Reverse PlayFair
10:00 a.m.
Brunch
Lakeside picnic
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5:00 p.m.
12:00 p.m.
7:00 p.m.
Pig Roast
Six Flags
Champagne toast
8:00 p.m.
9:00 p.m.
Jenk’s Club
Luau at Kat
8:15 p.m.
Senior gala
Third Eye Blind accepted the College Union Boardʼs (CUB) bid and
will be performing in the Student Recreation Center on April 19. The
band accepted the bid for $45,000 plus $5,000 for sound and lighting.
CUB is still searching for an opener. The concert is expected to be
the biggest concert at the College in recent years.
School of Business closes finance major
By Kelli Plasket
Web Editor
Admission into the finance major program within
the College’s School of Business is temporarily closed
this semester while the College re-evaluates its acceptance process after a recent surge of applicants, which
has nearly doubled in enrollment since 2005.
“This often happens when you have significant growth
in a particular program where the resources to support
that growth aren’t effectively in place. This is particularly common right now in finance, which is happening
at many institutions across the country,” Jack V. Kirnan,
interim dean of the School of Business, said. “What it’s
going to require on our part is not only to direct more of
our resources into these high-growth areas to service our
students, but to also impose a higher standard for students
entering into such programs.”
The School of Business, which also hosts such majors
as accountancy, economics, international business and
marketing, has grown from 935 total students enrolled in
2005 to 1,118 students in 2007. Meanwhile, the finance
major alone has grown from 152 students in 2005 to 281
students in 2007, accounting for just over 70 percent of
the school’s overall growth. Students have been entering
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Mock debate brings out students of both parties
By Leigh Kazmaier
Staff Writer
Photo courtesy of Terence Grado
Students participated in a mock presidential debate in the
Library Auditorium prior to Super Tuesday.
Potential provost visits
The third provost candidate
hosts a Q-and-A session.
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Amid a hectic presidential
election season, the College
Republicans hosted a mock presidential debate at the College on
Feb. 4 to motivate students to
cast their votes on Super Tuesday,
Feb. 5.
With Terence Grado, junior
political science and philosophy
major, and Steve Mariani, junior
mathematics and statistics major,
as moderators, the mock presidential candidates spoke openly
Faculty gets musical
Professor Nora Sirbaugh
stunned the audience at
the faculty recital.
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about the issues they plan to
address once in office.
The Democratic candidates were the first to debate.
Representing Sen. Hillary
Clinton was freshman political
science major Kelly Rossiter,
and representing Sen. Barrack
Obama was sophomore political
science major Mike Tracey.
With high hopes for the
country, Tracey (Obama), sporting his electoral pin, sat next to
Rossiter (Clinton) as the two
discussed issues including the
Iraq war, health care, taxes, for-
Right or privilege?
Panel discusses
health care issues.
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eign affairs and domestic concerns.
“It’s very important to put
the country on a new path,”
Tracey said. “We don’t want to
send the same people back to
Washington.”
Rossiter agreed with Tracey
regarding the current state of
the nation.
“It is a very difficult time
for our country,” Rossiter said.
“We’re both Democrats and we
should be working together.”
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College symposium tackles health care debate
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By Tom Dunford
News Editor
Faculty members from an array of disciplines gathered for a symposium on Feb. 6
in the Business Building lounge to answer
a seemingly simple question: “Is health
care a right or a privilege?”
“You cannot have a right or social justice without universal health care,” Regina
Kenen, professor emeritus of sociology,
said.
The symposium’s discussion panel consisted entirely of faculty members from
the College, encompassing such areas of
expertise as nursing, sociology, philosophy
and economics.
Kenen voiced the opinion that the United
States’ lack of universal health care is connected to the nation’s relative inefficiency
and lackluster treatment of the poor when
compared to other industrialized nations.
She cited data from The American College
of Physicians and the World Health Organization illustrating the United States’ low
scores on quality of health care.
But Kenen’s estimation of the U.S.
health care system was not shared by some
of her fellow panelists.
“I think we have the best health care in
the world,” Bozena Leven, coordinator for
the international business program, said.
Leven argued that while the government has an obligation to regulate large insurance, pharmaceutical and medical technology companies, the government should
also be careful not to discourage companies
from continuing to make breakthroughs in
medical science.
“When you think about the research and
development that goes into health care,
it’s one of the highest costs,” Leven said.
“And when you have government restricting it by controlling costs, you may have
a situation where (pharmaceutical companies) are not willing to take a long time to
develop a drug if there’s a risk that it’s not
approved.”
Melinda Roberts, professor of philosophy and religion, argued that prioritized
distribution of medical treatment will be
inherent to any health care system, whether
it is private or government-controlled, but
that does not mean the system has to be
unfair.
“I have a plea here, and it is that we not
talk about maximization and efficiency on
one hand and equity and fairness on the
other hand,” Roberts said.
Roberts argued that cost-effective
analysis could be used to determine how
treatment is distributed by maximizing
the number of quality-adjusted life years
given to patients per dollar spent. Roberts
acknowledged that this system has some
controversies surrounding it, including accusations of ageism.
Leslie Rice, assistant professor of nursing, spoke of her service at the Trenton
Adult Health Clinic and how such clinics
can serve as models in relieving the strain
on overburdened emergency rooms, a
problem in the treatment of patients without primary physicians.
While Rice was able to shed some
light on how health care providers attempt to treat those in need, she was unable to answer the biggest question of the
symposium.
“Is health care a right or a privilege? I
Chris Gifford / Photo Editor
Faculty members Melinda Roberts, Leslie Rice, Bozena Leven and
Regina Kenen (left to right) debate health care rights and privileges.
don’t know,” Rice said. “All I know is that
if people just got sick and died the minute
they got sick, then this wouldn’t be an issue. The problem is, people don’t. They
get sick and they stay sick for many, many,
many, many, many, many months. And it is
a drain on the whole health care system, on
the way they’re treated, on the way … hospitals are set up and the way they’re treated
at hospitals.”
The symposium drew a large crowd of
faculty, students and members of the surrounding community.
Maria Delacruz, senior marketing major, said that while she found the sympo-
sium informative, she felt the panelists
strayed off-topic.
“I felt like nobody really answered the
question of whether health care is a right or
a privilege,” she said.
But Marisa Schweber, freshman English
major, said she thought the panelists did an
admirable job of tackling an unanswerable
question.
“I think because there were so many different panelists with different areas of expertise, you got a lot of different perspectives on the subject,” she said. “You see
there’s no right answer to the problems in
our health care system.”
Senior Week allocated the same Newspaper program proposed
amount of funding as last year
By Lauren Gurry
Staff Writer
By Matt Lawyue
Staff Writer
The senior class council requested $27,500 to fund “Senior Week
2008.” With a completely revamped
set of activities and the support of
alumni and College President R.
Barbara Gitenstein, the senior class
council hoped to bring back a dying
tradition. The Student Finance
Board (SFB) ultimately awarded
$5,600 to the senior class council by a 9-4 vote, which was the
amount granted for Senior Week
last year.
“This is an entirely different Senior
Week with new
events and traditions.
There is a possibility that if this Senior Week doesn’t
get off the ground, then it might
die,” Nicole Kasian, senior class
council secretary, said, referring to
last year’s canceled Senior Week,
as well as to the decreasing funds
the event has received over the past
five years.
“It will bring a sense of closure
to seniors,” Brad Henriksen, senior
class council vice president, said.
“This will help them be proud of
the College.”
Funding for the event would
go to a fair, a Six Flags Great
Adventure day trip, a campus carnival and food.
Kasian and Henriksen stressed
that they weren’t expecting full
funding, but if it were granted to
them they said it would be greatly
appreciated. Without full funding,
the ticket price for Senior Week will
be $277.54. With full funding, it
would have been lowered to $198.
“I wasn’t going to go to Senior
Week,” David Adams, SFB senior
representative, said. “But after seeing this presentation, I might go. It
was maybe the best presentation
all year.”
“It creates school pride and is
something to look forward to at the
end of the year,” Vivek Kanumuri,
SFB sophomore representative,
said.
However, the amount of support
and fundraising for the event was
a major sticking point with some
SFB
members.
Henriksen cited
the ticket price as
one of the reasons
seniors were not
interested in attending. SFB ultimately awarded the
same amount it gave for last year’s
Senior Week.
This event is scheduled to run
from May 13 to May 15.
The Inter-Greek Council (IGC)
requested $1,543.44 to attend
the “Northeast Greek Leadership
Association Conference.” IGC
wanted funding for six members to
attend the conference, which they
hoped would give them ideas to
advance the fraternal system at the
College. SFB unanimously awarded
$250, citing a policy rule that only
allows $50 each for a maximum of
five people to attend a conference.
SFB unanimously awarded $250 to Lions’ EMS, which
requested $769.80 to attend
the National Collegiate EMS
Foundation Annual Conference.
Lions’ EMS wanted to attend the
event to bring back information
to help expand its operating capabilities at the College. SFB again
cited its conference policy.
The Haitian Student Association
(HSA) requested $737 for its lecture series “Beyond Being the
Other.” SFB awarded the group
$667, subtracting $70 for “small
thank-you gifts” for the speakers,
who are professors at the College.
It is against SFB policy to give
funding for professors who work at
the College.
HSA also started promoting the
event before requesting any money
from SFB, which is against SFB
policy.
However, because HSA is a
new club, it was granted some
leniency.
“I still think it’s a good event,”
Matthew McCann, SFB senior
representative, said. “They’re
new so we should look past the
technicalities.”
The Collegiate Readership
Program, a program that would
bring newspapers to the College,
was proposed by a representative of USA Today at the Student
Government Association (SGA)
meeting last Wednesday. Jeanne
Fetner, Regional Education
Manager, and Renee Speers,
Regional Marketing Director, of
USA Today, presented the program
proposal to SGA.
The Collegiate Readership
Program was founded by Graham
Spanier, Penn State’s president,
in 1997. Speers explained that
Spanier wanted to prevent students
from living in a “bubble.” Now,
11 years later, the program has
spread to roughly 500 campuses
nationally, including
Rutgers University,
Montclair State
University
and Penn State
University.
Speers pointed
out that the program allows for
students to make choices.
“It’s more than USA Today being
available on your campus. It’s a
selection of newspapers,” she said.
The program has already been
presented to the department of
Residential Education and Housing,
which decided that possible options
for the College include The Times
of Trenton, The New York Times
and USA Today.
Speers and Fetner explained
how the program would run. The
College will have a choice between
open or closed displays. Closed
displays would require students
to swipe their identification cards
as proof they are students at the
College to receive the free newspapers. Papers will be delivered
Monday through Friday by about
5:30 a.m. There will be recycling
bins stationed next to each display,
encouraging students to recycle
their newspapers.
SGA members expressed concern about paying for the program.
Fetner and Speers assured members that the Collegiate Readership
Program isn’t a “cookie cutter program,” and that it can be tailored to
the College’s needs.
The College will only be charged
for the papers used each day, and
papers will cost the College 40
cents per copy. The College can
also delegate a set total charge,
an overall charge USA Today will
ensure is not exceeded.
Before the College decides
whether or not to implement the
program, USA Today will
provide a free four-week
pilot. Sean Stallings,
director of Housing
Operations, has offered
to delegate money from
his internal budget to pay for the
program throughout the spring.
“Essentially, I’m extending your
pilot program,” Stallings said.
Fetner assured SGA members
that the purpose of the Collegiate
Readership Program is to help
students be aware of newsworthy
events.
“This program is not just about
selling newspapers,” she said. “It’s
more than that.”
SGA elected three new officers.
The two new senators at-Large
are freshmen Matthew Nugent
and Arielle Simonis. The new
sophomore class secretary is Eva
LaSata.
February 13, 2008 The Signal page 3
Stewed student stumbles from townhouse during drill
By Megan DeMarco
News Editor
At 9:30 p.m. on Jan. 30 Campus Police
officers were at the Townhouses Complex
for a fire drill when a student did not evacuate her room because she was intoxicated.
The student was brought outside by a housing assistant and then brought into the
lounge to be treated by Lions’ EMS.
The student admitted she was drinking
alcoholic beverages earlier in the evening.
Her breath and body smelled of alcohol and
she swayed and staggered when she tried to
walk.
She was transferred to a hospital and issued a summons for minors possessing alcoholic beverages.
There is no further information at this
time.
…
A suspicious man was reported harassing
a male student in the Townhouses Complex
at 3:50 p.m. on Jan. 30. The male victim
told Campus Police that the suspect, a white
male, knocked on the door of the townhouse
and a female student who also lives in the
townhouse answered the door.
The male suspect told the female
student he had formerly worked
for the College in Holman Hall as
a tutor for English and Spanish.
He said he was looking for
a male student that he was
supposed to tutor but he was
not sure he had the right address and would have to call
his wife to check. The female student told
him there were two males in the building
and led him to the door on the first floor. She
then returned to her room on the third floor.
The male victim said he heard a knock on
his first-floor door and when he answered it
the suspect asked if he needed any tutoring
in Spanish, saying he used to be an adjunct
professor in Holman Hall. The student said
he did not need any tutoring.
The suspect then
asked
him,
“Do
you like guys?” and
grabbed his chest. The
male student pushed
him away and said he
was calling the police.
The suspect fled and a
search for him in the area returned
no results.
There is no further information at this
time.
…
An injured intoxicated male was found at
2:25 a.m. on Feb. 2 at Wolfe Hall. Campus
Police arrived at Wolfe to find the student
sitting in a chair, conscious with a two-inch
laceration down his left elbow. The cut
stopped bleeding but the student had bloodshot, watery eyes, slurred speech and appeared light-headed.
He said he did not remember where or
how he was injured and that he had about
seven shots between 11 p.m. and midnight
on Feb. 1. He said he thought he was at the
Alpha Chi Rho fraternity house but wasn’t
sure.
He was escorted to a hospital and was
issued a summons for underage possession
or consumption of alcoholic beverages in a
public place.
There is no further information at this
time.
Week / Senior class council looks Debate / ‘Candidates’
to foster new traditions in 2008 quarrel over liberal,
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which will be turned on, and
College President R. Barbara
Gitenstein will lead them in a
champagne toast.
After the toast, seniors will
walk in a processional to Eickhoff Hall for their “senior gala,”
a semi-formal dance.
The council members said
Eickhoff will be set up with a
dance floor and a formal dinner
will be served. Henriksen said
Eickhoff will not be recognizable as the usual dining hall.
Other events planned are a
trip to Great Adventure, a pig
roast and a trip to Jenk’s Night
Club in Point Pleasant.
Alcohol is still not allowed in
Travers/Wolfe halls but will be
served at various events throughout the week in moderation, such
as at the pig roast and the senior
gala.
“We’ve really stacked this
program to appeal to so many
different people,” senior class
treasurer Karen Robinson said.
Robinson said the council
has worked hard with Jim Norfleet, vice president for Student
Affairs, and Magda Manetas,
vice president for Student Services. She said that despite last
year’s problems with lack of
ticket sales, the administration,
including Gitenstein, has been
very receptive to reinstating Senior Week.
“They’ve definitely been so
supportive throughout,” she
said.
Registration starts on Wednesday, Feb. 20. Tickets will be $185
each and will include everything
except extra meals and drinks
throughout the week.
Registration information will be
available through the Senior Week
Web site, tcnj.edu/~seniorwk.
The Student Finance Board
(SFB) allocated $5,600 at its
Feb. 6 meeting to go toward the
program.
Henriksen said although SFB
did not fully allocate their request, the council is extremely
grateful for the support of the
board.
That amount will be supplemented by funding from Alumni Affairs as well as through
fundraising by the senior class
council.
“We have a lot of confidence
in our program,” she said.
Council members said they
were motivated to try to resurrect Senior Week after last year’s
failure.
“We wanted to have a Senior
Week,” Robinson said. “We’ve
done this not just for ourselves
but our entire class.”
“We really just want to focus on
new traditions,” Henriksen said.
“This is the last chance we’re going to have to be together at some
of the places we remember.”
Chris Gifford / Photo Editor
Student Finance Board (SFB) members contribute feedback at the Feb. 6 meeting during
the senior class council’s presentation for funding of Senior Week events. SFB ultimately
allocated $5,600 to the senior class council, the same amount awarded last year.
conservative credentials
Photo courtesy of Terence Grado
Mike Tracey as Barack Obama and Kelly Rossiter as Hillary
Clinton square off in the Feb. 4 mock presidential debate.
continued from page 1
However, the debate wasn’t
entirely harmonious.
As Rossiter and Tracey
spoke passionately on their issues, there was some tension in
the air.
“Sen. Obama has constantly
attacked me,” Rossiter said after speaking out about Clinton’s
plans to restore the nation’s
economy.
After hearing the Democratic plans and debates on how to
restore the nation, Republican
presidential hopefuls entered
the stage to put forth their opinions on the issues.
Present were Sen. John McCain, portrayed by junior political science and economics
major Mike Peters; Gov. Mike
Huckabee (Arkansas), portrayed
by sophomore political science
major Brian Hackett; Gov. Mitt
Romney (Massachusetts), portrayed by senior political science major Dan Beckelman;
and Rep. Ron Paul (Texas),
portrayed by senior economics
major Daniel Uffleman.
After thanking the College
for hosting the debate, each
candidate presented his view on
how he would better the United
States.
First to introduce himself was
Peters as McCain.
“I believe I have the right vision
for the future,” Peters said. “I’m
ready to lead the next generation.”
His said plans to restore the
nation to a better state focused
on hard-working American
families.
“We need to lower taxes,”
Peters said, “and we need to
lower spending.”
Saying he is running for
president, not for vice president
as some believe, Hackett, portraying Huckabee, emphasized
his conservative views.
“Faith, family and freedom,”
Hackett said. “These are my
core beliefs.”
Implementing his tax plan
of eliminating federal income
taxes and replacing the tax with
a national 23 percent sales tax,
Hackett said he believes this
“fair tax” will ensure a reasonable tax system that will promote economic growth.
“Americans shouldn’t regret
April 15 every year,” Hackett
said.
Sitting to the right of Hackett, Beckelman, portraying
Romney, welcomed students,
then moved on to a more serious topic.
“Washington is broken,”
Beckelman said. “It’s time for a
change in leadership.”
Hackett, however, said he
did not believe Romney was capable of change.
“I don’t think Gov. Romney
reached his political puberty
yet,” Hackett said, “(and) right
now our economy is spending
like John Edwards in a beauty
shop.”
Lastly, Paul, represented by
Uffleman, focused more on the
values of America than anything else.
“We have lost our way,” Uffleman said. “I’m promising change
for the sake of freedom.”
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February 13, 2008 The Signal page 5
Bresnahan last candidate to host Q-and-A session
Provost candidate wants to reform advising at the College
By Kelly Duncan
Features Assistant
Carol Bresnahan, vice provost for Academic Programs
and Policies and professor of
history at the University of
Toledo, visited the College on
Tuesday, Feb. 5. Bresnahan
is the third candidate for the
position of provost/executive
vice president for the College.
The Provost / Executive Vice
President Search Committee
held a Q-and-A session for
Bresnahan in the Mildred &
Ernest E. Mayo Concert Hall.
During
the
session,
Bresnahan said she was attracted to the College because she
admires the successful transformation of the curriculum.
She also said she liked that it
is a public institution, like the
University of Toledo.
“The profile of the student
body here is a very impressive
one,” she said.
Despite her admiration for
the curriculum and the student
body, Bresnahan said there
were several things she would
change as provost to advance
the position of the College and
enhance the experience of the
students.
“The retention rate is wonderful here, but if you stand in
place, you will lose ground,”
she said.
Bresnahan said she would
consider implementing a teaching and learning center, which
the faculty could use to assess
its own teaching capabilities.
She said this center could
use student evaluators, who
would sit in on lectures and
provide feedback to the professors afterward.
She said the students’ feedback would be invaluable
because it would be from a
perspective that professors
rarely experience.
“A student evaluator in the
room can provide tremendous
help when it comes to assessing your own teaching,” she
said.
Bresnahan also said the
teaching and learning center
would instruct the faculty on
how to integrate technology
into its lectures. She said technology can help professors
cater to the different learning
styles of the students.
The teaching and learning
center would also provide support and training for advisers,
something that all three candidates felt was necessary.
“I asked students ‘What’s
one thing would you want a
provost to have on the front
Liz Hannah / Staff Photographer
Carol Bresnahan, vice provost for Academic Programming and Policies and professor
of history at the University of Toledo, applied to be the Collegeʼs new provost.
burner?” Bresnahan said.
“They said, as if rehearsed,
‘advising.’”
According to Bresnahan,
however, it is not the provost’s
place to tell faculty members
how to advise their students.
“To me, what the provost
should not be doing is telling
faculty how to advise, because
they may do things differently
for very good reasons depend-
ing on their departments.”
Instead, she said, the provost should work with the
deans to study the advising
process and come up with a
plan to address and fix the
problems each dean finds.
The other two candidates
for the position are Concetta
Stewart, dean of the School of
Communications and Theater
and associate professor of
communications at Temple
University, and Elizabeth
Paul, interim provost and
vice president and professor
of psychology at the College.
They held their Q-and-A sessions on Jan. 29 and Feb. 1
respectively.
To view the résumés of the
candidates, visit the search
committee Web site, provostsearch.intrasun.tcnj.edu.
Business / Student interest in finance
major creates overflow in the program
tcnj.edu
The School of Business is looking
at new admission policies for the
finance major, according to Dean
Jack Kirnan (top).
the finance program from within the
School of Business, from other schools
within the College and from other fouryear institutions, Kirnan said.
“We’ve decided that until we have
our new procedure and policy in place,
we can’t physically fit any more students into the (finance) program until
we get that framework laid out,” Kirnan
said.
Assistant professor of business
Andrew Carver said interest in the
finance major stems from the job
opportunities.
“Much of the interest in the finance
major is driven by the relatively strong
job prospects in the finance industry,”
Carver said when asked about the rising trend of new finance majors at the
College.
Kirnan said he is working with faculty to develop the framework of the new
admission policies and that they should
be in place by early March, in time for
students to apply and be considered for
entrance into the finance major before
registration begins in April for the Fall
2008 semester.
“We need to take a step back and
make sure we’ve got a handle on our
resource allocations so that we continue
to develop and provide the best quality
education for students that are choosing
(the finance major),” Kirnan said.
Kirnan said the School of Business
will likely develop an application for
students wishing to enter the finance
program, which may include require-
ments for letters of recommendation, a
personal essay and prerequisites.
“We will have a procedure laid out
that will be very transparent to the
entire student body so that they will
know what we will be looking at as we
evaluate candidates that are choosing
finance as a major,” Kirnan said.
He said there will be separate procedures for new students, students from
within the School of Business, transfer
students and others.
Once the changes are in place, the
new procedures will be communicated
clearly on the School of Business’s
Web site as well as in the “This Week
in Business” section of the Web site,
Kirnan said.
These changes do not affect the
finance minor, according to Kirnan.
Students who are unable to major in the
program can still minor in finance or
take courses in the program.
Nick Filippis, sophomore interdisciplinary business major, is one of the
students waiting for the new policies to
be implemented.
Filippis said he has wanted to major
in finance for a while, but was advised
last semester, after requesting a change
of major form, to wait since he wasn’t
sure what he wanted to do yet.
“I heard that the School of Business
stopped accepting finance majors when
I walked into my adviser’s office to
switch my major from general business
to finance,” he said, adding that he is
angry the School of Business did not
inform students about the hold until
after it had been implemented.
“I am very worried about my schedule next year because I planned on taking finance as well as 300-level courses
and was informed that many of the
seats in these classes are possibly being
reserved for finance majors,” Filippis
said. “I am planning to apply for a spot
as soon as the option becomes available because I want to try to place in
finance requirement courses for the next
semester.”
“
I just hope that the
School of Business
resolves this issue
quickly and allows for
a smoother transition
for students seeking a
finance major.
“
continued from page 1
— Nick Filippis,
sophomore open options
business major
Filippis is also currently looking for
a summer internship in the financial
services field.
“(I) find it rather dismaying when
recruiters see ‘interdisciplinary business’ on my résumé and/or transcript,”
he said via e-mail.
“I just hope that the School of Business
resolves this issue quickly and allows for
a smoother transition for students seeking a finance major,” Filippis said.
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Nation & World
February 13, 2008 The Signal page 7
Writers expected to end strike this week
LOS ANGELES (AP) — TV producers say they expect writers to return to work as early as today now that the Writers Guild of America has moved to end its three-month-old
strike.
On Sunday, guild leaders recommended a tentative threeyear contract to members and asked them to vote separately
on a quick end to the walk out.
Membership meetings were held last Tuesday in New
York and Los Angeles, Patric Verrone, president of the guildʼs
West Coast branch said.
“This is the best deal this guild has bargained for in 30
years,” Verrone said.
The tentative contract secures writers a share of the burgeoning digital-media market, he said, including compensation for Internet-delivered TV shows and movies.
“If they (producers) get paid, we get paid. This contract
makes that a reality,” Verrone said. But, he added, “It is not
all we hoped for and it is not all we deserved.”
Still, the unionʼs negotiating committee recommended
Saturday that the contract be accepted, and the West guildʼs
board of directors and the East Coast guildʼs council agreed.
They called for a membership ratification vote, which will be
conducted by mail over about two weeks.
Member approval of the contract and the strikeʼs end appeared likely as of press time. At heavily attended membership meetings Saturday in New York and Los Angeles, there
was resounding support for the proposed deal that could put
TV and movie production back on track, salvage the rest of
AP Photo
Writers Guild of America board member Nancy De Los
Santos waits for a news conference to start Sunday.
News Bits
Actor Roy Scheider, best known for
his role as a small-town police chief
in Steven Spielbergʼs “Jaws,” died at
age 75 in Little Rock, Ark.
A blinding snow squall caused a 68vehicle pileup on Interstate 81 in
Pennsylvania. One woman was killed
while over 35 others suffered injuries.
The United Nations General Assembly is bringing together business
leaders, activists and government
officials for a debate on climate
change — an effort to keep up momentum for a new treaty by 2009 to
fight global warming.
The Kiwanis Club of Fargo, N.D.,
flipped its way into the Guinness
World Records book after serving
34,818 pancakes in one day for its
annual pancake fundraiser.
Three armed robbers stole four paintings from from an art musuem in
Zurich, Switzerland. The artwork
was estimated to have a total value of
$163.2 million.
Information from APExchange.com
AP Photo
Writers Guild of America (WGA) officials (left to right) John F. Bowman, Patric M. Verrone and
David Young discuss developments in contract negotiations between WGA and producers.
the TV season and remove a boycott threat from this monthʼs
Oscars.
Verrone thanked television viewers who “tolerated three
months of reruns and reality TV.”
The guildʼs major bargaining concession to studios was
agreeing to take unionization of animation and reality TV
shows off the table, Verrone said. The guild has said it still
intends to pursue those goals.
The strikeʼs end would allow many hit series to return this
spring for whatʼs left of the current season, airing anywhere
from four to seven new episodes. Shows with marginal audience numbers may not return until fall, or could be canceled.
A minimum of four weeks would be needed for producers to start from scratch with their first post-strike episodes
of comedies and get them on the air, industry members said.
A drama would require six to eight weeks from concept to
broadcast.
“It will be all hands on deck for the writing staff,” Chris
Mundy, co-executive producer of CBSʼ drama “Criminal
Minds,” said. He hopes to get a couple of scripts in the pipeline right away, and for about seven episodes to air by the end
of May.
“Itʼs a real balancing act,” he said, “to get up and running
as fast as possible, but not let the quality slip.”
The strike, the first in 20 years for the writers guild, began
Nov. 5 and included bitter exchanges between the guild and
the producers alliance. Talks collapsed in December.
In January, the studios reached an agreement in separate
negotiations with the Directors Guild of America. Top media
company executives, including Peter Chernin of News Corp.
and Robert Iger of The Walt Disney Co., asked the writers to
resume bargaining.
What were termed informal talks between the executives
and guild leaders led to the tentative contract that writers will
be voting on.
Together, the East and West Coast guilds represent 12,000
writers, with about 10,000 of those involved in the strike. It
has cost the Los Angeles-area economy alone an estimated
$1 billion or more.
Based on the guildʼs summary of the deal, it is similar to
the agreement reached with directors.
It provides union jurisdiction over projects created for the
Internet based on certain guidelines, sets compensation for
streamed, ad-supported programs, and increases residual
payments for downloaded movies and TV programs.
Writers would get a maximum flat fee of about $1,200 for
streamed programs in the dealʼs first two years and then get
a percentage of a distributorʼs gross in year three — the last
point an improvement on the directors deal, which remains at
the flat payment rate. Some writers have balked at that, saying
Love lost in the online dating industry
NEW YORK (AP) — As Valentineʼs Day
approaches, all is not lovey-dovey in the highstakes online dating industry.
The contentious issue of the moment —
pitting one of the three biggest companies,
True.com, against its major rivals — is
whether online dating services can enhance
their clientsʼ safety by conducting criminal
background screenings of would-be daters.
Last month, New Jersey became the first
state to enact a law requiring the sites to
disclose whether they perform background
checks. True.com — the only large online
dating service that already does such
screenings — was elated by its successful
lobbying and hopes other states will follow
suit.
“The online dating industry tends to
get a real bad rap because of criminal
activity,” said True.comʼs founder and chief
executive, Herb Vest. “If we were to clean
up, thereʼs hordes of off-line singles whoʼd
come online to find their soul mate.”
However, Vestʼs many critics in the
industry say he is acting mostly out of
self-interest. They contend that True.
comʼs screening method — running
names through state databases of criminal
records — is incomplete and too easily
thwarted, potentially creating a false sense
of security for customers.
“Itʼs so superficial that itʼs worthless,”
said Braden Cox, policy counsel with
NetChoice, a coalition of e-commerce
companies that includes Yahoo, AOL and
other major players in online dating.
Match.com, one of largest dating services,
said it had been assessing online background
checks for six years and concluded they
offered no extra protection.
“Match.com is disappointed New Jersey
has enacted a flawed and unconstitutional law
and we will explore opportunities to challenge
it,” a company statement said.
There are no authoritative national
statistics on serious crimes arising
from online dating, but such
cases periodically
make headlines. A
Philadelphia
man,
Jeffrey Marsalis, was
accused of raping several
women he met through Match.
com, and was sentenced in October to at least
10 years in prison. A Cleveland firefighter,
George Greer, was indicted last June for
raping a woman he met through an Internet
dating site.
The New Jersey law, similar to ones
considered in other states, will require online
dating services to notify their customers
in the state whether criminal background
screenings have been conducted.
If a dating service doesnʼt perform
such screenings, it must acknowledge that
in large capital letters in every electronic
communication with members from New
Jersey, who would be identified by zip codes
they provide when registering. Details of the
notification rules are still being worked out.
Services that do conduct screenings must
disclose that fact and say whether they allow
people with criminal convictions to use
the site. Those services also must note that
background checks are not foolproof, but that
disclaimer doesnʼt have to be displayed as
prominently as the disclosure by companies
that donʼt do screenings.
Critics say the type of
screening envisioned by the law
— checking for a particular
name in databases of criminal
convictions — has inherent flaws: users
could give fake names and many
dangerous people may not be
in the databases. Methods used
Goo
gle Im
in more probing background
ages
checks — such as fingerprint
scans and research into employment records
and Social Security numbers — are not
required by the law.
Some worry that New Jerseyʼs action will
push other states to regulate the online dating
industry, creating a hodgepodge of laws that
will drive up operating costs and force some
companies out of business. Some in the
industry say theyʼd prefer federal legislation
addressing background checks, rather than a
patchwork of state laws.
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Editorial
Senior Week tries
to sober up
Senior Week is on… again… for now.
This year’s senior class council, in an effort to revive the
infamous tradition, has made many admirable changes to
Senior Week this year. The event is coming back, hopefully, bigger and better. It is scheduled to include events like a
champagne toast with College President R. Barbara Gitenstein, a lakeside picnic and a revised version of PlayFair.
These changes are certainly admirable, but I am skeptical that they are enough to overcome the biggest change to
Senior Week since last year: There will still be no alcohol
allowed in Travers/Wolfe halls.
Last year, banning alcohol from the Towers was a major
factor in why there was no Senior Week. This year, despite
the interesting and ambitious events added to Senior Week,
its downfall may once again be the Towers alcohol policy.
Seniors, juniors and maybe even sophomores know Senior Week as that infamous, near-mythical event that culminates most seniors’ college graduations. For upperclassmen
particularly, it is the week when everyone returns to the
Towers, gets plastered and says goodbye to the College.
I’m not saying that is all Senior Week could or should be.
Personally, I have no interest in partaking in the infamous
Towers-style celebration. But I know I’m a minority. And
even if I wasn’t, most, if not all, seniors are at least 21 and
are hyper-aware of this fact.
Not allowing drinking in the Towers could sink this
Senior Week like it sunk last year’s, grand and ambitious
though it is. Unfortunatly, the simple fact is that seniors and
juniors here still remember when Senior Week was known
for one thing and one thing only: drinking in the Towers.
For many, the opportunity to experience that particular aspect of Senior Week is what they’ve waited four years for.
Until the College gets a class who doesn’t remember or
dream of experiencing the infamy of past Senior Weeks,
new bells and whistles are unfortunately unlikely to ensure
Senior Week really is on this time.
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WIRED short insensitve to
to LGBT community
We are writing in regard to
the WIRED 2008 production
that was presented on Feb. 2.
As members of the campus
community and as individuals
who respect the guidelines of
common decency, we were appalled by degrading aspects of
this particular production.
This opinion does not reflect
negatively on all involved with
the six plays presented that evening. In fact, many who worked
on this endeavor created entertaining shorts that showcased
the many talents of our students.
However, one play in particular
stepped out of bounds.
The third short, “Suite!,” was
written to humorously show six
college students living together
in a communal setting, presumably for the first time. The writers, billed as Dan Keyser and
Vincent Scafuto in the handout
provided to audience members,
decided to use the play as a device to spread tasteless generalizations about homosexuality,
specifically about gay men.
Countless remarks in the
script demeaned the lesbian,
gay, bisexual, transgender
(LGBT) community and furthered outdated misconceptions about gays. Among the
many inappropriate remarks
was a joke about animals being
forced into the anus, and a fake
commercial that listed one of
a sexual deviceʼs possible side
effects as homosexuality.
These remarks were offensive and unnecessary to the plot
of the play.
We fully support the First
Amendment and the right of the
playwrights to speak and write
freely. However, when these
freedoms are used to perpetuate
stereotypes and to maliciously
attack members of an oftenmarginalized community, the
fine line between humor and
bad taste is certainly crossed.
It is unnerving to think that
such obvious attacks were not
addressed or muted during the
entire production schedule.
We would hope that in future
productions, similar arrogant
statements would be treated
with greater sensitivity.
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Amer responds to impeachment
I was unjustly impeached
from the presidency of the Student Government Association
(SGA) sophomore class council
position because of inaccurate
accusations proposed in a resolution by the executive board.
I formally requested that the
executive board carefully review the resolution, which had
false claims prior to being finalized. This request was ignored.
Furthermore, I was not given
an ample opportunity to present
my entire defense to address
these fallacies (listed below),
during my impeachment.
These infractions were: failure to run meetings, failure to
run fundraisers during the first
semester, exceeding the allowed
number of absences and failure
to complete October Campus
Engagement, a monthly requirement for every senator.
Although our meetings were
not always held in a classroom
setting, or in the same fashion
as our general body meetings,
we did consistently exchange
ideas, and divvy up responsibilities when needed. Of the
freshman, sophomore and junior class councils, I believe
it was a relatively uneventful
semester with the exception
of one event, the battle of the
bands, fantastically run by the
junior class.
The issue at hand is a lack
of guidance for the class councils. Last year, the members of
the class councils and I, as the
president of the freshman class,
met to address this issue and
created the class council coordinator position.
With this position, we hoped
to create a collaborative effort
among the class councils.
Due to lack of interest from the
executive board, this position was
not maintained.
This is a systematic problem
within SGA that needs to be resolved immediately in order to
ensure that our class councils can
consistently serve their respective
classes.
I also had an intense semester,
which led to my increase in absences from SGA. Among these,
I had an unexcused absence due
to an exam I needed to complete
and two other unexcused absences
due to a car accident involving my
sister.
I accept full responsibility for
this infraction because in my position, I am responsible for an entire
class of students and it is my responsibility to attend all necessary
meetings.
The final infraction listed in the
resolution said that “The sophomore class council president did
not complete Campus Engagement in October 2007.”
This infraction is probably the
most baffling of all to me. During our Dec. 3 meeting with the
executive board, I submitted a
record of my campus engagement for October. The record of
my Campus Engagement, which
was submitted to SGA executive
vice president Lauren Russo, was
never properly filed.
As a result, I call for Russo
to provide documentation for all
of her records to ensure they are
properly filed.
I certainly believe that there is at
least some biased towards me from
the executive board.
Why? I cannot say for certain. I
now feel that if if no one steps up to
eliminate this corruption, I will be
forced to do so.
Regardless of this impeachment, SGA bylaws protect my right
to run for office in the future.
The next thing you know, the executive board will present a resolution to prevent anyone who has been
impeached from running again.
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If you could change something at
Spotlight the College, what would it be?
“The interaction of
minority students
and Campus Police. I
donʼt feel like we get
the correct amount of
respect.”
— Charda Tabb,
senior
communication studies
major
“The food. I know
Sodexhoʼs contract
expires soon, but
thatʼs not soon
enough.”
“Housing for juniors
and seniors. Right
now, Iʼm worrying
about not living on
campus.”
— Elizabeth Teng,
sophomore
finance major
— Stephanie Chan,
freshman
business major
“The musical
performers. They
should offer more
eclectic choices.”
— Victoria Whiteman,
freshman
biology major
page 12 The Signal February 13, 2008
Opinions
Corzineʼs small ʻdʼ democracy excludes students
Any avid readers of nj.com or
the Newark Star-Ledger are probably, by now, well versed in Gov.
Jon S. Corzineʼs plan for the economic revitalization of the Garden
State.
One of the more controversial
elements of Corzineʼs four-step
plan is Corzineʼs plan to increase
tolls on all N.J. toll roads, beginJoseph Hannan
Opinions Editor ning in 2010, in scheduled 50 percent increments.
In order to sell his plan to the people of New Jersey,
Corzine promised, in his January State of the State Address, 21 town hall meetings dispersed throughout all of
the stateʼs counties. As a freelancer for a northern New
Jersey newspaper, I had the opportunity to cover Corzineʼs
Jan. 16 Morris County meeting at the County College of
Morris.
Prior to the town hall meeting, I gained admittance to a
round table discussion where I was given the opportunity
to grill the governor, with other members of the press, regarding whatever issues I desired. Some reporters asked
about illegal immigration, others about infrastructural
problems, but I had one issue on my mind: funding for
higher education.
Before Corzine showed up (he was late, of course), I
was force-fed a digestible packet of information regarding
his magnificent plan for the salvation of the state by his
intolerable press lackey.
This was everything I had hoped for and dreamed of. I
was prepared to do my democratic and journalistic duty by
being a professional, complete prick to Corzine.
For this particular encounter, I put my grudge as a student at a state college affected by budget cuts aside, and
refrained from asking the difficult questions that I had contemplated asking.
My better judgment combined with the over-talkative
nature of a self-important editor from another paper prevented me from asking any questions that day. Little did
I know that another chance at redemption was looming in
February, but more on that later.
What struck me most about this close encounter with
Corzine — who was professional, yet ineloquent and consequently, impossible to quote — was what he and Brad
Abelow, his chief of staff, kept calling the town hall meetings: “an exercise in small ʻdʼ democracy.”
When I first heard this, I thought to myself, “Gee!
Isnʼt that nice of the governor to take time out of his busy
schedule to meet with the great, unbathed masses of New
Jersey! He actually cares!”
Truth be told, Corzine did and does care a great deal
about the financial prosperity of New Jersey. It was written all over his face, and I could see the fear in his eyes as
the unbathed masses he was attempting to pacify picked
apart his beloved plan in the college auditorium like half-
starved piranhas seizing to the corpse of a crippled land
mammal.
Now that was “small ʻdʼ democracy.”
But apparently, Corzineʼs infinite benevolence to his
governed people does not extend to College students, or
higher education students throughout the state, for that
matter. Corzineʼs Mercer County town hall meeting was
held on Feb. 9. Before the meeting, he had scheduled a
round table discussion to be held with members of the student press from colleges and universities statewide.
As aspiring student journalists statewide salivated at
the prospect of tearing Corzine a proverbial new one, the
round table was conveniently canceled.
Apparently, “small ʻdʼ democracy” doesnʼt apply to the
18-24 voter demographic. And honestly, why should it?
If youʼve made it this far into this article, odds are, you
care about the financial future and prosperity of your beloved Garden State. Itʼs also more likely that you vote.
But the fact of the matter is, most college-aged men and
women donʼt vote, therefore, there is no reason for Corzine to listen.
Our complacency and apathy are the reasons why we
have to supply our own toilet paper, why funding for the
Outstanding Scholar Recruitment Plan was eliminated and
why the College has been forced to eliminate certain academic programs.
The state budget for the new fiscal year is now in the
making, and reliable sources have told me that the College
will receive no additional funds this year — not even to
keep pace with inflation. If students donʼt act soon, and
strive to reinstate affordable, high-quality higher education, the prospects of our already crippled state will only
further deteriorate.
Remember, soon we will inherit the financial missteps
of our state. To not act accordingly now epitomizes the
failure of “small ʻdʼ democracy.” Besides, making Corzine
and the representatives in Trenton squirm can be both exciting and therapeutic.
Military strike against Iran would be a disaster
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Republican
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Even
though
America is still
bogged down in
Iraq, the drumbeat
for war with Iran
has begun.
Presidential
hopeful John McCain is at the
forefront
of this
Scott Blair
proposal,
joking about how he would “bomb, bomb
Iran.”
It is said that those who ignore history are condemned to repeat it. Iʼm not
sure what this means for those who ignore recent history, but presumably itʼs
nothing good.
Once again, the nation, fearful of
a Mideastern state acquiring nuclear
weapons, is debating launching a war
that is not necessary.
The consequences of a war with Iran,
however, would be far worse than the
invasion of Iraq.
Let us imagine, for a moment, how
an attack on Iranʼs uranium enrichment
program would play out.
Let us suppose that the United States
is able to annihilate the program with a
minimum of American and Iranian civilian casualties. This seems unlikely,
given that there are several sites, some
of which are in major Iranian cities like
Ishafan, involved, but weʼll ignore that
for now.
Iranʼs efforts to acquire nuclear
weapons have been blunted temporarily. Except the Iranian government is
still in power, and if they were not set
on acquiring nuclear weapons before,
they would certainly be after America
illustrates how it can bomb Iran without Iran having any ability to respond in
kind. All this would do is create an even
more hostile Iran, still intent on acquir-
ing nuclear weapons.
Such a situation would be, in some
ways, familiar. In 1981, Israel bombed
an Iraqi nuclear reactor, crippling Saddam Husseinʼs atomic program.
Yet 22 years later, America invaded
Iraq because, ostensibly, we were worried that Iraq was going to acquire
weapons of mass destruction. Would an
attack on Iranian facilities merely delay
the fateful day when American troops
invade Iran?
On the other hand, letʼs suppose that
a president decides to invade Iran. There
are a couple of reasons this would be
more difficult than the invasion of Iraq.
Unlike the Iraqi military, which was
largely crippled after the Gulf War, the
Iranian military has rebuilt and acquired
some modern weaponry.
While it would certainly lose a conventional war at sea and in the air, the
economic consequences of Iranian missiles sinking tankers in the Persian Gulf
would be, to put it mildly, unpleasant.
Moreover, while the United States
could devastate Iranʼs economy, it is
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unlikely to be able to secure Iranʼs land
borders.
Iran is also a larger, more homogenous nation than Iraq, without any
group able to play the role of the Kurds
and Shiites.
Iranʼs terrain is also more favorable
to defense than Iraqʼs. Much of the
country is fairly mountainous, in contrast to Iraq.
Another obvious possibility would
be retaliatory strikes in America and at
Americaʼs assets abroad by members of
the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and
other Shiite terrorirsts, such as Hezbollah. In short, an invasion of Iran would
create a situation that would make Iraq
look like a cakewalk.
None of this means a nuclear Iran is
a good thing. But itʼs not like dictatorships havenʼt had nuclear weapons before. The world survived with Stalin and
Mao in control of nuclear weapons, and
the world will survive a nuclear Iran.
Rushing into war with Iraq proved
to be a costly mistake. War with Iran
would be a disaster.
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Sen. Jon McCain (left) has advocated military action against Iran.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (right) has worked to
strengthen Iranian military forces.
February 13, 2008 The Signal page 13
Abortion issue dominates news media coverage
Conservative candidates fail to address other pressing issues
Undeniably, recent media covWhile much of the news media and the right continue
erage has been dedicated almost to portray abortion as a significant issue, neglected are
exclusively to the political battles the issues that should, in reality, be at the forefront.
being waged during the current
This election season is a crucial period for our nation,
presidential primaries.
and we should not allow it to be squandered.
With this coverage comes a foThe possible election of a Republican, principally due
cus on the various issues that are to his stance on a moral issue such as abortion, scares
supposedly important to the Ameri- me.
can public.
Even more frightening is the fact that there is a majorOne specific issue I noticed that ity of Americans in several states casting their votes for
Brian Block
is consistently mentioned during conservatives based heavily on the candidatesʼ stances
Republican commentary is
on abortion and other similar
abortion.
issues.
Each and every cable network
One has not, in the past few
It would seem that fomonths, been able to tune into is guilty of pushing abortion as a
cusing a great deal on how
a cable news station without
Romney, McCain or Huckahearing pundits discuss Re- defining issue.
bee would help the estimated
publican candidatesʼ views on
13 percent of the population
this seemingly controversial subject. FOX News, CNN living below or slightly above the poverty line, instead
and MSNBC are all guilty.
of how they plan to outlaw abortion, is beyond the realm
Likewise, the Republican presidential debates were of possibility.
not complete without Mitt Romney, John McCain and
What should responsible citizens really be looking
Mike Huckabee badgering one another about the moral- for in a candidate: his ideas for improving the situation
ity of abortions.
endured by the approximately 40 million impoverished
Generally, the Republican Party has a shameful trend citizens of our country, or his stance on abortion?
of grossly misusing the subject of abortion as a strategic
Maybe all of those mentioned above will start to get a
point of attack to promote one candidate over another on clue and will begin focusing on advancing education, so
the basis of ideal social conservatism.
that in the future, the need for an abortion will become a
I feel that I speak for a number of people when I say I less frequent occurrence.
have heard enough from the Republicans about abortion,
Much of the blame has to fall on the news media. Each
and not nearly enough about more pressing issues, in- and every cable network is guilty of pushing abortion as
cluding the widespread poverty affecting millions across a defining issue.
the United States.
Thankfully, it is just assumed that all Democratic canAnd where is the intense debate on the failing educa- didates have similar stances on abortion, so we only have
tion system that threatens to produce entire generations to hear the pointless debate of one party.
of citizens incapable of competing with their counterIt is, however, the responsibility of every individual to
parts in developing nations?
weigh all of the issues and to learn not to rely on CNN or
Why arenʼt these issues frequently used by the right to FOX News, which each have agendas of their own.
justify one candidateʼs superiority over another?
Before anybody realizes it, this exemplary country
It wouldnʼt be a leap of faith (pardon the pun) to as- could be in a decline while countless citizens are still votsume that conservatives make use of abortion simply to ing for candidates based on their support for the banning
guarantee victory in the Bible Belt states.
of abortions.
Sadly, this tactic continues to be effective, much to
People should start seeing what is right in front of
the advantage of Huckabee, who seems to feed off of this them.
misguided constituency.
It has come time to end the abortion delusion.
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Features
Melting pot of cultures spice up festival
By Emily Gee
Staff Writer
The sounds of Japanese Taiko drums,
the sights of Latin dancing and the smells
of homemade food melded together in
Brower Student Center on Feb. 8. This mix
of diversity was courtesy of multicultural
sorority Theta Nu Xiʼs event ONEify.
“One of our goals is to expose people
to different cultures, and for them to have
Chris Gifford / Photo Editor
Students sampled homemade foods
from a variety of different cultures.
a good time doing so,” Yvette Mocete, vice
president of Theta Nu Xi, said. This attempt
was reflected in the eventʼs publicity. “One
World, One Choice,” read the giant banner
in the student center announcing the
multicultural festival. Dressed in T-shirts
with globes on the back and the countries
they individually represented, sisters from
Theta Nu Xi walked around the atrium
and served food which they had cooked
themselves.
Various organizations participated in
the event, some to contribute performances
and others to set up tables with cultural
information.
Tables lined the side of the atrium, set up
by organizations ranging from the Hispanic
soritories and fraternities to the Islamic
Society and the Haitian Students Union.
Elain Smolen, Prism president, said, “This
event brings a great variety of organizations
together, especially Greeks and non-Greeks,
to celebrate diversity, which is an important
part of college life and just life in general.”
There
were
four
performances
intermingled with music from DJ Godfather
throughout the night. Sisters from Theta
Nu Xi kickstarted ONEify with a song
and dance about what the event and their
organization was all about. Then members of
various Hispanic sororities and fraternities
performed cultural dances.
The Japanese Clubʼs performance on
Taiko drums was called “one of the best acts
around” by the announcers. It was announced
that the same act would be featured in
Mystique, sponsored by the Asian American
Association, in April.
“Most multicultural clubs on the campus
get separated, and this is a way we get
Chris Gifford / Photo Editor
The Japanese Clubʼs performance on Taiko drums was one of the
highlights of the ONEify multicultural fest.
to interact with each other,” Matthew
Schlotfeldt, vice president of Japanese
Club, said. “The Asians, the Latinos and the
Greeks — this event shows weʼre one big
community.”
This was the second year ONEify took
place on campus. Last year, according to
College alum and Theta Nu Xi adviser
Luciane Pacius, the event was part of a larger
one called Theta Week. Now it is its own
event, a trend the sorority wants to continue.
“Iʼd call this event a definite success, but
next year, we want it to be even bigger,”
senior nursing major Mary Elmalak, who
coordinated the event, said. “I tried to get
notices out to almost any diverse group on
campus. Eventually, (I hope) to make this an
annual event.”
“We just wanted people to show up, to
learn and to have fun,” Mocete said. “We put
all our heart and soul in the event because itʼs
what our sorority is all about.”
Elmalak talked about another goal of
the event. “I hope we can build campus
tolerance,” she said. “Prejudice and things
like that still exist. I hope we can help break
away from stereotypes by presenting the
basics of every culture involved.”
College physics group plans to get spacey
By Kelly Duncan
Features Assistant
Brandon Bentzley and Mike
Hvasta, senior physics majors,
Justin Nieusma, junior physics
major, and Rachel Sherman,
junior
physics/secondary
education major, will be spending
a week of their summer vacations
at the Johnson Space Center in
Houston.
The group, called Team DPX,
was recently selected as one of
40 teams from across the nation
that will have the opportunity to
perform an experiment in NASAʼs
Reduced Gravity Student Flight
Program. Other schools such
as Brown University, Cornell
University and Yale University
are also sending teams to the
program. The Collegeʼs team
will be the only one from New
Jersey.
According to Hvasta and
NASAʼs Web site, the teams
will be split up over four weeks
and will ride the “Weightless
Wonder,” a plane that flies over
the Gulf of Mexico and performs
“parabolic maneuvers.” This
allows for about 25 seconds of
reduced gravity as the plane
descends from the top of the
parabola to the bottom. The
maneuvers will be repeated
approximately 30 times.
The Collegeʼs team will be
flying during the programʼs
second week, from June 5 to
June 14. They will be performing
an experiment on dusty plasmas,
which make up the majority of
the visible universe, including
comet tails and the rings of
Saturn.
“If you apply heat or energy to
a solid, it will melt,” Hvasta said.
“So, ice into water. If you keep
adding energy, water to steam.
But if you keep adding heat, the
atoms themselves start to fall
apart. They start to lose electrons
and thatʼs a plasma. Thatʼs a
fourth state of matter, if you keep
dumping energy into it.”
Bentzley said their team
is specifically focusing on
techniques of imaging plasmas,
something
little scientific
literature has been written
about.
“To study this
in the past … what
they did was they
scan a laser through
(the
plasma),”
Bentzley said. “So
what theyʼre doing
is taking a two-dimensional cross
section and looking at the structure
of the plasma. So thatʼs all fine and
good, but the thing is, itʼs a threedimensional structure, so you
want to look at it head-on and see
all three dimensions of it.”
In order to get a threedimensional image of the plasma,
the team uses a fluorescent dust
that glows under ultraviolet light.
This allows for a better picture
than laser techniques provide.
Hvasta
and
Bentzley
became
interested
in
studying
plasmas
while working at the
Princeton
Plasma
Physics Lab (PPPL),
where Hvasta has worked for
nine months and Bentzley has
worked for three years. When
Hvastaʼs supervisor mentioned
NASAʼs program, Hvasta sent an
e-mail to several physics majors
and Sherman and Nieusma
responded.
“The smallest team allowed
is four members, so we are the
smallest legal team, I guess,”
Hvasta said. “So thereʼs a lot of
work to go around, but if this
works out as well as we hope
it does, itʼs going to be a lot
easier for (the College) to do this
program in the future.”
The team members have
several
outreach
programs
planned
for
when
their
experiment is completed. They
will be conducting a series
of workshops titled “Energy
in the 21st Century” at West
Windsor High School South and
Burlington City High School.
They will meet with the two
schoolʼs science clubs over a
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face
Photo courtesy of Mike Hvasta
Members of Team DPX will head down to Houston this
summer to perform their experiment.
period of four weeks and will
end the program with a tour of
PPPL.
According to Sherman, they
will also be doing a program
with Women In Learning
and Leadership
to help
target women, who she said
are underrepresented in the
sciences.
Sherman also said their final
outreach program will be talking
about their experiences at the
Liberty Science Center.
“Theyʼre actually going to
be taping us inside the plane,”
Sherman said. “Weʼll get the
tape about six weeks after we
get back, so hopefully weʼre
going to have that for the Liberty
Science Center program.”
According to Hvasta, the
team will be looking for
opportunities for publicity and
sponsors before they leave for
Houston.
“We have a lot of space on
our experiment to put stickers
and weʼll be doing hopefully
a lot more publicity, so we can
wear hats and everything like
that,” he said.
For more information on
the Reduced Gravity Student
Flight Program, visit NASAʼS
Microgravity University Web
site at microgravityuniversity.
jsc.nasa.gov or the teamʼs site
at tcnj.edu/~hvasta3.
February 13, 2008 The Signal page 17
Ways to beat the blues on Valentineʼs Day
Dear Sweta,
Dear We Say V-Day is Stupid,
It sucks being single on
Valentineʼs Day. Iʼm sick of
watching all the stupid romantic
movies with a group of other
single friends and sighing
about not having a boyfriend.
Please help.
All I ever hear is people
complaining
about
how
Valentineʼs Day is just another
corporate holiday created so
card and candy companies
can make money. Even on
the Collegeʼs campus, there
are events about how dumb
Valentineʼs Day is.
Well Iʼve got news for
Signed,
We Say V-Day is Stupid
everyone: Just because youʼre
single doesnʼt mean you should
buy into the “sit around and
mope” mentality on Valentineʼs
Day. So, for your benefit, I
have created a list of great
things to do on Valentineʼs Day
for singles.
1. Go to a party.
OK, so youʼre thinking,
“Why would I go to a party
on Valentineʼs Day without a
date?” There are lots of guys
and girls out there who go to
parties datelessly on Valentineʼs
Day and actually find someone
new and cool to hang out with,
maybe even someone to spend
their next Valentineʼs Day
with.
2. Give friends Valentineʼs
Day presents.
Valentineʼs Day is not just
about romantic love. A lot
of times people give gifts to
their friends and family on
Valentineʼs Day to show how
much they care.
Donʼt you remember in third
grade when you gave a valentine
to everyone in your class, even
that goofy, gross kid? Itʼs the
same principle, except this time
you get to choose who to shower
with your love and praise.
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Spending time with friends is a fun way to distract
yourself from being single on Valentineʼs Day.
3. Finally tell that special
someone you care.
Everyone is thinking, “This
is college. If he or she liked
me, we would already be going
out.” Wrong!
There are tons of shy people
around campus who probably
think youʼve got a great
personality and are really sexy
but they just donʼt have the guts
to tell you to your face.
If youʼre one of these shy
people, write a sweet little
valentine and slip it under his
or her door. Itʼs the perfect
opportunity to get where
you want to be and since itʼs
Valentineʼs Day, the note wonʼt
be considered immature. Itʼll
be considered cute.
4. Go to dinner with old
friends.
Believe it or not, getting
dressed up and hanging out with
people you really like to talk to
can take those Valentineʼs Day
doldrums straight to the trash
can, where they belong.
If you havenʼt seen these
friends for a while, itʼs a great
way to reconnect and youʼll be
so excited about seeing them
that it wonʼt matter what day
it is.
5. Go shopping.
Whatʼs the best way to get
yourself in a great mood? Buy
yourself a nice Valentineʼs Day
present! Youʼll feel better and
youʼll have some cool new
stuff. Itʼs a win-win situation!
who sit around moping and
watching bad romance movies,
itʼs time to change the tradition.
You never know, you might find
someone really great to spend
your time with if you just put
yourself out there.
Sweta
Love
&
Sex
Send Sweta your raciest
questions.
She’s not shy.
E-mail shah36@tcnj.edu
I hope these few tips have
helped to make you realize
Valentineʼs Day is not such
a horrible day after all, and it
could really be fun if you take
advantage of it.
For you singles out there
Keep options open during housing lottery
By Alex Seise
Staff Writer
Some say moving away from home
and living on campus for the first time is
one of the most stressful points of your
college career. I wholeheartedly disagree.
For the first year,
you are plopped onto
a floor with a group of
people from a plethora
of backgrounds. You
might click with some people. You might
fight. Freshman year, as Forrest Gump
so aptly put it, is really like a box of
chocolates.
On-campus housing only gets more
strenuous after this initial year.
Beginning with sophomore year, you
suddenly have a choice of dormitories,
roommates and options to weigh. The
choice can be overwhelming — is it better
to shoot for a single room in an older dorm
like Norsworthy, or are the prospects of a
personal bathroom and air conditioning in
New Residence Hall too alluring?
Before any selection can begin, it is
necessary to ride the waves of the housing
lottery and hope everything works out.
The situation here at the College is
as follows: Most people who want oncampus housing can, some way or another,
manage to find a place to live. However,
there are no guarantees that you will live
on a floor with people from your year or
anywhere near your friends. And despite
the fact that many people are able to find
a spot in a residence hall, some still do not
ever get the room they want.
The best way to deal with the lottery
is to submit your application and deposit
and then put it in the back of your mind. It
is out of your grasp and constant reflection
will only hurt you. Consider alternatives
to on-campus living and be prepared to
room in a nearby community if need be.
Once you have a number, begin
the quest to find your perfect living
arrangement.
If
your number is
low — within the
first 100 or so —
you need to decide
whether you want to room with someone
else or have a single room. Living with a
great friend can be a fun experience, but
beware of the turmoil that can hit when
you share a confined space for a long
time.
Isolated rooms in the townhouses,
however, can lead to depression and social
detachment. Strike a balance where youʼll
be able to have time to yourself while still
generously indulging in the company of
friends. Make a list of back-up plans in
case your ideal situation falls through.
On the other hand, you may have gotten
the worst number possible. There are a
few strategic options from here. First, you
can take whatever comes your way and
room wherever there is an open space.
This can be miserable if you happen to
get an incompatible roommate.
A more reasonable approach would
be to befriend someone with a really low
number and convince them to share with
you. The person with the better number
can sign in someone else who made the
lottery cut-off, guaranteeing you a decent
double room somewhere on campus.
A third option is to begin looking offcampus and seeing if your friends would
be willing to split the rent on an apartment
or house nearby.
Suppose you miss the cut-off and are
devastated. This does happen to some
people. The key thing is to avoid panicking.
I can list at least a million worse situations
that you could find yourself in.
Apply for the waitlist and begin looking
for a place near the College. Facebook
groups and listings have opened many
doors for people searching for roommates.
Craigslist.com has a fantastic listing
of inexpensive apartment and housing
options. If you still cannot find a place,
the free listings available at supermarket
entrances can be a huge help.
The best way to deal with the housing
lottery is with a cool head and a calm plan.
Know your options and keep on top of the
process.
People quickly become stressed this
time of the year and friendships are stupidly
strained in the name of a dormitory. Avoid
these hassles and youʼll assure yourself
another year of collegiate bliss.
Have you ever had a terrible experience
with dorm living? What has been your
favorite on-campus residence hall so
far? E-mail your ideas and questions to
DormSpaceAlexSeise@gmail.com
and
you might just see them in print!
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The prospect of having a single room may be tempting, but living by
yourself can be lonely and depressing.
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Arts & Entertainment
Sirbaugh gives swan song to an old friend
By Myles Ma
Managing Editor
Nora Sirbaugh, professor of
music, described her relationship
with Stephen Peet, her late longtime accompanist and collaborator, as a “musical marriage.” In
the program notes for her faculty
recital Saturday night, she mentioned that after their last recital
together, Peet said the two had
never performed anything by Johannes Brahms together. As Sirbaugh wrote in the program notes,
“Stephen, here is your Brahms.”
Sirbaugh, known to the students in her vocal studio as “Dr. S,”
opened her Saturday night faculty
recital with Brahmsʼ “Vier ernste
Gesänge,” literally, four serious
songs, an emotionally-charged
set dedicated to Peet, who died in
2005. The first three pieces in the
set dealt with death. Even without the aid of the program notes,
which contained translated lyrics,
Sirbaugh communicated the dark
and grave content of the words,
Old Testament verses translated
into German, coming close to
tears as she did.
Sirbaughʼs harrowing mezzo-soprano voice, a dark and vulnerable
instrument, turned uplifting and
hopeful as the third piece, “O Tod,
wie bitter bist du,” (O death, how
bitter are you) shifted into the last of
the set, “Wenn ich mit Menschen.”
Chris Gifford / Photo Editor
Professor of music Nora Sirbaugh (third from right) dedicated the first set of Saturday’s
recital to her late accompanist Stephen Peet, running the gamut from morose to fanciful.
Where the previous three pieces
were taken from Ecclesiastes, the
last was taken from Corinthians
and dealt with love. As she sang the
piece, she was suddenly animated,
and with uplifted hands, she sang
the German equivalent of, “Now
there remains faith, hope, love,
these three, but love is the greatest
among them.”
Sirbaughʼs second set was similar thematically, but it came with
a language change from German
to French. The second piece of the
set, “La Belle au Bois,” told the
story of a sleeping beauty, who,
after being awakened by a prince,
chooses eternal slumber “rather
than to live and suffer.” Sirbaugh
smiled sadly as she delivered
the final line of the piece, “at the
threshold of the seven funeral tur-
rets of Sleeping Beauty.”
The audience, a collection of
Sirbaughʼs students, family and
fellow faculty members, couldnʼt
possibly have been prepared for
the second half of her performance, a decidedly lighter side of
Sirbaugh, given the dark nature of
the first half.
Before performing “The Gnu,”
by Michael Flanders and Donald
Swan, Sirbaugh addressed her
students.
“I want to dedicate this first
English song to all my diction students, and youʼll know why when
we start,” Sirbaugh joked, drawing
confused laughter.
Their confusion was assuaged
as Sirbaugh sang, “G-know, gknow, g-know, Iʼm a G-nu,” drawing laughter as she sang the story
about meeting a gnu while pronouncing all the silent letters (Kknow wuh-whoʼs wuh-who).
The last piece in the set was
“Vespers,” the first Christopher
Robin poem, set to music by Harold Fraser-Simson. The piece,
about a boy struggling through his
bedtime prayers, contained easily the most adorable moment of
the night. Sirbaugh yawned as the
song ended, and even tiptoed off
the stage after the song had ended
and Christopher Robin was asleep
in bed, stopping only to wake up
her accompanist, Kathleen Milly,
whose head had drooped down
onto the piano.
Sirbaugh came out for the final
set with a giggle, followed by fellow professors of music Suzanne
Hickman, Robert Guarino, Mark
Moliterno and Joanna Chao.
Sirbaugh both began and ended
with Brahms, though her final set
was radically different from her
first: Sirbaugh chose to perform a
selection of Brahmsʼ “Liebeslieder,” love songs.
Sirbaugh, Hickman, a soprano,
Guarino, a tenor, and Moliterno,
a bass-baritone, formed a quartet,
while Chao joined Milly at the
piano, as they charged through the
short pieces in numerical order.
The songs were sweet trifles until
the quartet took a collective deep
breath before suddenly turning up
the volume and singing, “Nein, es
ist nicht auszukommen mit den
Leuten!” (No, thereʼs just no getting along with people!”)
The final piece on the program
was Number 15 – “Zum Schluss”
(To the close), from Brahmsʼ
“Neue (New) Liebeslieder.” The
lyrics contained a message of
healing from creativity.
The quartet wasnʼt done, however. Sirbaugh and the rest of the
gang came out for an encore, another “Liebeslied.”
“The words say,” Sirbaugh explained, “ʻlike a rushing stream,
we give you a hundred thousand
kisses.ʼ”
Her students, family and cofaculty members returned the
favor as she left the Mildred &
Ernest E. Mayo Concert Hall to a
round of cheers.
Poet’s play comes off College chills out to covers
Broadway onto campus
By Miguel Manalo
Correspondent
By Rebecca Suzan
Staff Writer
Friday nightʼs performance of “Love,
Life and Redemption,” an off-Broadway play
brought to the College by the Black Student
Union (BSU), begged the age-old question:
does art imitate life or does life imitate art?
The playʼs central character, Carolyn
Bowers, is receiving a lifetime achievement
award from her communityʼs Progressive
Arts Committee and is charged with writing an acceptance speech. A poet, not a
speechwriter, by nature, Carolyn is starved
for inspiration until she stumbles across her
muse in the form of a book of poetry she had
penned years earlier. Carolyn falls asleep and
the majority of the playʼs action occurs in her
dreams, where each of her poems adopts its
own narrative.
Much like her main character, writer,
director and producer Setor Attipoe is a
poet who has been inspired by the world
around her. Before the show, Attipoe explained why college students could relate
to her work.
“I wrote the poems on which the playʼs
stories are based between the ages of 18
and 25,” Attipoe said. “I was coming of
age and going through the same things
college students are dealing with, like relationships, defining yourself, the pressure
that society puts on you (and) experiencing injustice.”
Each member of the dynamic cast delivered a powerful performance, passion dripping from every pore. One scene had an actor performing a soliloquy about escaping
his fatherʼs abusiveness with his mother and
brother.
“We get in this old, worn cab,” the charac-
Chris Gifford / Photo Editor
Carolyn Bowers dreams throughout
‘Love, Life and Redemption.’
ter said, expressing fear of the world outside
his fatherʼs roof, “but we left the real hell.”
Carolyn Bowersʼ dream inspires the
words of her acceptance speech, which acts
as the playʼs final scene. Carolyn urges her
listeners to make their dreams a realization
and live a life of passion.
“Smack the devil with his own fork!” she
declares.
After the performance, Attipoe and “Redemptionʼs” cast participated in a Q-and-A
session. Several of the cast members shared
their stories of moving to New York City to
pursue acting careers, allowing them to identify with the playʼs message of the triumphant
human spirit.
“It is encouraging to see young people being bold,” Valisha Desir, sophomore political
science major and vice president of resource
development for BSU, said. “Weʼre traditionalists here, getting our college degrees and
following the path that has been set for us,
but they took a different road.”
It is still a mystery whether art imitates
life or life imitates art, but what is certain
is that “Love, Life and Redemption” succeeds as art as well as a study of human
nature.
A slew of acoustic acts descended on
the College Union Boardʼs (CUB) Student
Soloistʼs Night on Feb.9.
Ben Krupit started off the night, prepping the crowd for an evening of covers
and slice-of-life tunes. Krupitʼs set started with a cover of Dave Matthewʼs “Sing
Along.” Two of the six original
compositions Krupit
played, “Images” and
“Fireflies,” made use of
the harmonica or what
Krupit called the “sexiest
instrument next to the accordion.” “Dream
Good,” the closing song, was catchy and
Krupitʼs voice was memorable.
Cara MacNeil / Staff Photographer
Four student soloists entertained the
Friday night Rat crowd.
Dmitry Esterov replaced Scott Sarfert,
who had been slated to perform next, introducing himself by saying Scott had “gargled
with rocks.” Krupit sang with Esterov on his
cover of “On Your Porch” by The Format.
Esterovʼs set was littered with covers, including songs by Damien Rice, Jason Mraz
and John Mayer.
As with Esterov, many of the songs
Tim Grill played were acoustic covers.
This allowed the crowd to sing
along every now and then.
His opening song was “Jimi
Thing” by Dave Matthews Band.
To “slow it down a
little bit” Grill played an original title,
“Tripped Over A Rear View Mirror.” His
next cover was, Grill admitted, a risky
one, because it was higher than he is
used to singing. However, the crowd was
still pleased to hear O.A.R.ʼs “Right On
Time.” Grill also covered John Mayer and
Dispatch before going into a bit of Eric
Johnsonʼs “Cliffs of Dover” for the “Guitar Hero 3” fans. He closed with “Grey
Street” by Dave Matthews Band.
John Dutton and bongo player Eric
Paulsen were up next. The duo opened
for Jersey legends Saves the Day in December. Duttonʼs opening songs “Before
Itʼs Too Late” and “Yielding to Rooftops”
showed the crowd what the two had to offer: addictive bongo beats and a strong
voice. After the third song “In Night,”
Paulsen asked the crowd to raise their
hand if they had ever stolen anything
from Eickhoff and told a story about
how he was caught trying to steal a giant
pumpkin. Dutton made sure to repeat that
the fourth song was “on the CD you can
buy,” in reference to Duttonʼs debut fulllength album “Do You Believe In What
You Lie?”
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Hybrid outfit set for ‘Takeoff’
Photo from myspace.com/pegasusjetpack
Freewheeling campus rockers Pegasus Jetpack will bring
their brand of thinking man’s rock south this summer.
By Joseph Hannan
Opinions Editor
Trends in the modern music
industry are making the prospect of career musicianship for
aspiring acts worse. It used to
be that talent alone was enough
for an artist to make a living
practicing their craft, but it
seems that era has passed.
The pressures of marketing,
dollar amounts and the bottom
line arguably have pushed aside
the significance of both the music itself and the deep-rooted
feelings it conveys.
Pegasus Jetpack — consisting of sophomore business major Jon Irizarry, in addition to
Pat Maloney and Rick Rogers
of Lafayette, N.J. — exemplify
a band with its roots planted
firmly in the soul of music. The
band, as Irizarry said, exists for
the ideal purpose of creating in-
spired music for the entertainment of both the fans and the
band itself.
“Basically, what we wanted to do is just play some fun
music,” Irizarry said. “We just
have a good time and everyone
else has a good time.”
Pegasus Jetpack has put all
indie and rock ʻnʼ roll pretenses
aside, and has managed to laugh
off several struggles it has contended with, including Maloneyʼs early makeshift drum kit
(consisting of duct-taped cymbal stands and a lawn chair for
a throne) and an encounter with
a jaded promoter at New York
Cityʼs 169 Bar.
Describing the promoter and
the encounter, Irizarry said,
“She just sits there. She just sits
right at the bar when you come
in, on her laptop, and doesnʼt do
anything. She doesnʼt seem like
sheʼs having fun.”
Irizarry said he had been to
the 169 Bar once before as the
bassist in another band, and the
21-plus venue accommodated
the underage members of the
band. During this particular
encounter, all band members
were carded. Members of Pegasus Jetpack, and their underage
fans, were forced to pay double
just to enter the venue.
The encounter inspired an
on onstage improvisation. “I
originally wrote ʻAll I Can
Giveʼ about a girl that doesnʼt
seem to be happy no matter
what,” Irizarry said. When the
band launched into the song, he
said, “I was planning to repeat
the first verse three times. But
the second verse, I had an idea,
and I just made it up while we
were playing it, to sing about
how she double charged us.”
According to Irizarry, the
oblivious promoter
didnʼt
notice that his
pointed crooning was aimed
at her.
The song “All I Can Give” is
one of three tracks from Pegasus Jetpackʼs all-digital, aptly
named debut EP, “Takeoff.”
Available for free on the bandʼs
MySpace page, the record is
split between the psychedelic, Secret Machines-inspired
sounds of Irizarryʼs solo work,
and more pop-sounding piano
rock, characteristic of the former Ben Folds Five.
“Itʼs a completely different
vibe,” Irizarry said, drawing
a distinction between his solo
work and the team approach
to songwriting heʼs taken with
Pegasus Jetpack. “My old stuff,
I feel like itʼs better appreciated listening to a CD on your
own time. But this stuff — the
shows are what make it.”
Irizarry added that he prefers
working with the band instead
of putting out solo records.
He said the band offers “more
points of view” and improves
the quality of the song writing,
as different members introduce
new ideas and hammer them
out in rehearsal.
As the band begins to experiment with new harmonies
while infusing elements of jazz
into its sound, Irizarry said a
summer tour is in the making,
and the band is heading south.
“Venues in the South, theyʼll
usually do a
thing
where
they have all local bands and
one touring band
a week,” Irizarry said. “So then
youʼre not expected to bring anyone, and youʼre just there as a
touring band.”
“To me, the point of a show
is to get new people to hear
you,” he added.
As Pegasus Jetpack prepares
to take its act further down Interstate 95, the band continues
to develop into a rising indie
act, laughing its way through
industry adversity, and bridging
pop with psychedelic.
Past and present collide at 50th Grammy Awards
By Josh Page
Staff Writer
Itʼs been 50 years since the very first
Grammy Awards, and the producers of the
show definitely wanted to celebrate with
a bang this year. The show opened with a
beyond-the-grave performance as Grammy
darling Alicia Keys, planted at her piano,
sang a bluesy duet with Frank Sinatra,
his image projected onto the stage. Keys
claimed the nightʼs show would be a “duet
with history,” and such a statement proved
to be true as viewers were taken on a tour
of the history of music. A wide spectrum of
performers hit the stage, all coming from
different genres and styles, making this
yearʼs show a cornucopia of variety.
Representing country music lovers, Carrie Underwood performed her smash “Before He Cheats” along with a drum team,
which accompanied the “American Idol”
alum playing percussion on an elaborate set
of car parts, quite fitting with the lyrics of
the song.
Bringing in the pop and urban flavor,
Rihanna did a flashy club-like performance
of her multi-nominated “Umbrella,” while
Fergie, despite looking beautiful, screeched
her way through a boring duet with John
Legend that received little response from
the audience. However, a duet that did turn
heads was the joining of pop diva Beyoncé
and the still-kicking Tina Turner. After a
brief intro where a semi-naked Beyoncé
rattled off the names of some of historyʼs
greatest female soul singers, she willingly
shared the spotlight with Turner as the duet
performed a shimmying rendition of Turnerʼs staple “Proud Mary.”
Kanye West also performed “Stronger”
with a very special and unexpected appearance by the creators of the original sampled
track, Daft Punk. West also paid a small
tribute to his mother, whose much publicized
death this past November still reverberates
in the lyrics of his song “Hey Mama,” which
kept the audience in absolute silence and
gained him thunderous applause at its conclusion. However, the mastermind behind
“Graduation” was met with little respect
when giving his acceptance speech for Rap
Album of the Year. Seconds into his speech
West called out the producers of the show
when they began playing background music
while he honored his mother. “It would be in
good taste to stop the music,” he said, and it
promptly did.
Gospel, which is pretty much ignored
during each yearʼs award show, was given
its own time to shine, as Aretha Franklin
led a powerful choir of singers in a rousing
song of praise.
And the Foo Fighters injected some
much needed rock ʻnʼ roll into the ceremony by tearing their way through “The
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Amy Winehouse picked up two
awards at the 2008 Grammys.
Pretender” before being honored with Rock
Album of the Year.
Feist represented for the acoustic indielovers of the music world by performing “1
2 3 4,” which, thanks to iPod commercials,
no one could escape this year. And though
her performance was one of the most endearing of the night, the singer-songwriter
did not take home any awards, including
the Best New Artist award, which she lost
to trainwreck of the year Amy Winehouse.
And the night seemed to really belong
to the now-recovering addict. The recent
drama surrounding her drug use and
the circumstances of whether the singer
would be granted a visa to attend the show
kept most in suspense for her appearance. Though she stayed in London, she
performed via satellite and looked much
healthier than she recently has while delivering a splendidly on-point performance
of “You Know Iʼm No Good” and the brilliant “Rehab.” The latter won the singer not
only the lyricist award, Song of the Year,
but it also scored her the coveted Record
of the Year, to which a stunned Winehouse
immediately teared up, collapsing into a
crowd of her friends and family. However,
the grand prize of the night, Album of the
Year, was not given to contemporary hitmakers like West, Winehouse or the Foo
Fighters, but was instead placed in the
hands of jazz pianist, Herbie Hancock, for
“River: The Joni Letters.”
As always, the constant barrage of performers and endless parade of celebrities
was probably quite taxing on most viewers
(especially when the show started to inch
toward 11:30), but considering that this
year included such an eclectic spectrum of
artists, 2008ʼs show will go down as one of
the most memorable Grammy ceremonies
so far this century.
Guitarists going
solo this spring
By Chris Kubak
Staff Writer
Bob Mould
“District Line”
4 out of 5 stars
Bob Mould is a veritable legend in alternative music circles. As a founding member and front man for the wildly influential ʼ80s post-hardcore outfit Hüsker Dü,
Mould helped pave the way for almost all
alt-rock that would follow. In addition, the
Minneapolis trio helped to break industry
barriers, becoming one of the first ʼ80s underground bands to sign a major label deal.
His later band Sugar would achieve some
moderate radio and MTV hits in the early
ʼ90s with their blend of alternative pop. The
47-year-old Mould also had successful solo
careers churning out rock records and creating electronic dance records as a DJ.
“District Line,” the second album of
Mouldʼs “rock comeback,” so to speak,
is something of a return-to-form record.
He plays almost every instrument on this
album, with the exception of cello on a
few songs and drums, which are capably
handled by former Fugazi drummer Brendan Canty. The guitar work is loud and
bombastic in true Bob Mould fashion. But
this isnʼt a straightforward rock record as
Mould incorporates bits of his entire career
here, including several electronic flourishes, most notably on “Shelter Me.” But
otherwise, his songwriting is just about as
strong as itʼs ever been and sonically this is
his best album in years.
Key Tracks: “Silence Between Us,” “Very
Temporary,” “Stupid Now”
Chris Walla
“Field Manual”
3 out of 5 stars
After years of playing guitar, producing and serving as Ben Gibbardʼs
right-hand man in every suburban teenʼs
favorite group of reflective indie rockers, Death Cab for Cutie, Chris Walla
finally stepped out of the shadows with
his first solo effort. And, big surprise, in
a lot of places it sounds a lot like Death
Cab. But thatʼs not all bad as songs like
“Sing Again” and “Our Plans, Collapsing” sound very much like they could
have been Death Cab B-sides.
Where Walla really succeeds on this
album is on some of the more up-tempo
tracks, where he brings the guitars and the
rock. “Geometry &c.” is one of those tracks
and as it stands now is one of the best songs
Iʼve heard this year. On the production side
of things, Iʼve never been a fan of Wallaʼs
work behind the controls in the past, as I
always felt he had a tendency to fiddle with
things too much. This time he seems to get
it just right and the production helps bring
the songs out the way they seemingly were
intended to.
All in all, itʼs a solid effort. A pleasant
indie-pop album with just enough meat on it
to separate it from his better-known outfit.
Key Tracks: “Geometry &c.,” “The Score,”
“Our Plans, Collapsing”
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Gemini
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February 19 — March 20
Cancer
Aries
March 21 — April 19
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Taurus
April 20 — May 20
Virgo
You donʼt generally lose your
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their hair out from their roots. Itʼs
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something you will regret.
Empathy is an important theme
for you this week. There are
some people around you who are
feeling hurt and you will be able
to help them. You donʼt need to
do much; simple kindness is all
they need to feel better.
Sometimes you feel as though
you have to take responsibility for everything and you feel
as though people take you for
granted. Try talking to those who
you feel are mistreating you and
youʼll be surprised by their dedication to showing you that is not
true.
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like crying and the next youʼll be
smiling because the sunʼs shining.
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succeed.
May 21 — June 20
Libra
June 21 — July 22
Scorpio
July 23 — August 22
Sagittarius
August 23 — September 22
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can trust this person to be there for
you, itʼs OK to lean a little.
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being purposefully cruel to you
due to their own failures, yet
you are able to perceive this and
you are able to empathize with
them.
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You arenʼt one for schedules but
itʼs beneficial for you to map out
what you want to accomplish this
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bogged down with work and it will
be good for you to have a plan.
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You are feeling restless and have
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Focusing on relationships this
week will be good for you. Youʼve
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and relationships for a while due to
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be good for you to take a break and
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Controlling the court
Lions speed past Roadrunners 74-39
Devon DeMarco / Staff Photographer
Sophomore guard Karen Lassoni dribbles while looking for an
opening to move the ball upcourt in a game earlier this season.
By Michael O’Donnell
Sports Assistant
The Lions have proven they can take
complete control of a game. Last Saturday
at the Bradley Center in Mahwah, N.J., was
yet another example of their dominance.
The College routed the Roadrunners
of Ramapo College 74-39. This game
marked the Lions’ third win in a row and
their 10th win in their last 12 contests.
“We are confident as a team right
now,” head coach Dawn Henderson said.
“We’re looking to be undefeated in Feb-
ruary and to get to the playoffs, and we’re
taking it one game at a time.”
The College’s dominance began in the
first half. Ramapo took a 3-2 advantage
after sinking a three-pointer, but the Lions jumped out to a 21-point lead by the
half’s end.
“The team knows what they need to
do to be successful,” Henderson said.
“As long as we do those things on offense and especially on defense, then our
focus is in the right place.”
The Roadrunners were held to zero
field goals for the next eight minutes following their only lead of the game. Several double-digit runs and 14 Roadrunner
turnovers later, the Lions entered intermission leading 36-15.
The Lions held the Roadrunners to
less than 24 percent shooting from the
floor throughout the game.
“We try to focus on defense,” Henderson said. “If we can take care of business
there, then we’ll be fine.”
Junior center Hillary Klimowicz took
charge for the Lions on offense overall,
as she poured in 23 points on an impressive 10-of-12 shooting. Freshman
forward Kelsey Kutch also had a solid
game, as she netted 10 points of her own
along with five rebounds, three assists
and three steals.
“On offense, we’ve been focusing on
running our plays and looking for weaknesses in the opposing team’s defense,”
senior guard/forward Sara Best said.
“Ramapo didn’t have the height we have,
so we used that to our advantage by looking down low and feeding the posts.”
The all-around team effort did not stop
there as sophomore center Alexandra
see SPEED page 27
Lions’
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Lions’ Tennis Preview
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Lions Around the Dorm
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Dual disappointments for Roadrunners
Swimming and Diving
By Bobby Olivier
Staff Writer
Chris Gifford / Photo Editor
The Lions hosted Ramapo College at the
Aquatic Center on Friday, where both the
men’s and women’s teams dominated.
With impressive wins over Ramapo College, the College’s
men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams are on a roll
heading into the postseason. The women’s team improved to
4-7, defeating the Roadrunners 117-73 while the men won
103-69 and improved their record to 7-3.
On Friday, the Lions hosted their final dual meet of the year
at the College’s Aquatic Center and capped off the regular season with impressive performances. Junior Mike Molloy won
three events including the 200-meter backstroke (2:00.61),
200-meter freestyle (1:49.01) and 100 freestyle (48.83).
Freshman Joe Tseng, junior Ted Yoa, sophomore Herman
Chu and senior Jonaid Lone took first in the 200-meter medley
relay in 1:40.15. The Lions also came out victorious in the
200-meter freestyle relay with a time of 1:28.54. Participants
in this event were seniors Josh Forsman, Liam Gallagher,
Kevin Oliver and Lone.
Other highlights of the men’s dominant performances were
junior Thomas Nawrot’s two victories in the 1,000-meter freestyle (10:56.89) and 50-meter freestyle (21.84). Senior John
Altobelli took first in the 100-meter backstroke in 58.55 and
sophomore Eric Rohrs won the 100-meter breaststroke in
10:00.78 and the 200-meter breaststroke in 2:14.85.
The Lions swept the 200-meter butterfly event with freshman Tim Rauch, freshman Andrew Hessler and senior R.T.
Greeby finishing first through third, respectively. Other victories on this night of triumph included a first-place finish by
Lone in the 500-meter freestyle, a victory by Forsman in the
200-meter individual medley and a win by Gallagher in the
100-meter butterfly. This win was a great boost for the men’s
team as it prepares for the final three tournaments of the season after finishing the season undefeated at home.
The women’s team was equally dominant on the night, finishing victoriously in most events. The Lions swept the 200
medley (1:55.17), finishing first through fourth in the event.
The winning swimmers were seniors Christine Marino, Lauren Pfeifer and Ava Kiss, and freshman Kristin Udicious, respectively. The women’s team also took first in the 200-meter freestyle relay in 1:47.71 led by Kiss, freshman Jennifer
Rashti, senior Meghan Moore and Marino.
Other first-place finishes for the College included a victory
in the 1,000-meter freestyle by Rashti (11:22.33) and freshman
Margaret Molloy’s win in the 200-meter freestyle in 1:57.43
and 200-meter backstroke in 2:19.54. Junior Brittany Collyer
took first in the 100-meter breaststroke (1:13.01) and Udicious
won the 50-meter freestyle (26.13).
Sophomore Stephanie Seto claimed a victory in the 200meter individual medley (2:17.39), freshman Katie Zavoda
took first in the 100-meter freestyle (56.02) and senior Caitlin
Elmendorf won the 100-meter butterfly (1:04.85). The women’s team is also pumped up going into the postseason, winning three out of its last four meets.
Now that the regular season is officially over, both teams
can put their complete focuses on the three final tournaments.
According to head coach Brian Bishop, the men’s team is
“starting to back off and come down in volume” in preparation
for the Metropolitan Conference Championships (METs).
Women’s head coach Jennifer Harnett added that the women swimmers “have become more intense in the way of sprinting harder” and will begin preparing for the METs this week.
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Minor League Hockey
T-Devils suffer three consecutive blows
By Lauren Kohout
Senior Editor
The Cincinnati Cyclones, Dayton Bombers and Johnstown Chiefs were all too much for the Trenton Devils as
they went 0-3 on the three-day road trip last weekend.
All ECHL North Division rivals, the victors struck harsh
blows to the T-Devils’ record. Now standing at 18-25-1-4,
Trenton is clutching onto the fifth place spot with only a onepoint advantage in the rankings over Johnstown.
The Chiefs gained the point on the T-Devils Sunday night
after getting the 3-1 win. Left wing Jason Paige scored 4:12
into the first to tie the game at one when he surprised Chiefs’
goaltender Ryan Nie with a quick shot. The goal was the offensive high point for the T-Devils as they proceeded to give
up two power play goals as the night went on.
Right wing Matt Radoslovich and defenseman Jay Pem-
berton picked up the assists on Paige’s goal.
The T-Devils could not convert chances into goals as they
picked up their third straight loss on the road.
Defenseman B.J. Crum, defenseman Mike Knight and
center Jean Desrochers added to the offensive effort for the
Chiefs as they tallied a goal apiece for the game. Caruso
saved 22 of 25 shots in the loss for the T-Devils.
Trenton managed to pick up one point over the course of
the week due to a 4-3 shoot out loss against Cincinnati.
The Cyclones, currently in first place in the division,
struggled to gain a dominant edge over the T-Devils as they
fought back after each Cyclone goal.
Cyclones forward Travis Fuller began the scoring after
sending one past Caruso in the first period. Right wing Joe
Rooney retorted with a goal in the second as he found the
back of the net off passes from defensemen Ryan Gunderson
and Zach Tarkir.
Women’s Basketball
Trenton was the next team to get back on the board 2:13
into the third when left wing Andrew Leach connected on a
one-timer from Radoslovich from out front of the net coming
in from the top dot. Radoslovich made a steal to get the puck
back in Trenton’s possession.
The 2-1 lead didn’t last long when after only three minutes forward Matt Syroczynski just edged the puck over the
goal line. One minute later, the T-Devils had a charging twoon-two and a rebound from center Jason Bonsignore’s shot
gave left wing Eric Castonguay a shot opportunity for a goahead goal.
Another Cyclones goal forced the scoreless overtime and
led to a shoot out where only Cyclones forward Jason Deitsch could find the back of the net to get the win.
The losses to the Cyclones and Chiefs and a 1-0 loss to
the Bombers have the T-Devils coming home to some unfinished business as they host Cincinnati on Friday night.
Tennis
Speed / Lions Getting back in the swing of things
stay in control
By Jessica Cortese
Correspondent
continued from page 32
Gregorek dropped in eight points along
with a game-high three blocks. Alyssa Michella had an excellent game as well with
nine points, six steals and two assists.
With the win, the Lions have moved
to 7-2 in the New Jersey Athletic Conference (NJAC) and 16-5 overall.
Conversely, the Roadrunners failed to
obtain their first NJAC win in their 10th
attempt.
“We played well, and we’re trying
not to look forward but we know we’ve
got Kean (University) on the schedule,”
Henderson said. “We lost the first time,
but when you play a team for the second
time, the whole game changes.”
The Lions will look for retribution in
their next contest, as the College hosts
Kean in the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association Think Pink Initiative
Tournament tonight at 6 p.m. in Packer
Hall.
Cara MacNeil / Staff Photographer
Sophomore Jackie Shtemberg
is the reigning singles champ.
The men’s and women’s tennis teams
went out with a bang last season, ranking No. 25 in the country for the men and
No. 17 for the women. Both teams began
to prepare a few weeks ago for their first
matches next weekend against the University of Delaware, a Division I team.
Both sides are bringing back a solid
core group from last season.
The women’s team was faced with
overcoming a few injuries and illnesses
that it is now getting over, although they
have not been anything major. The team
has been conditioning and practicing
diligently to achieve another successful
season.
Amanda Berg, a talented freshman,
will be returning along with senior Christina Contrafatto and sophomore Jackie
Shtemberg. Contrafatto and Shtemberg
travelled to the International Tennis
Association Nationals in Alabama last
season along with men’s team star Mike
Klimchak.
“(The women’s team is) going into this
season very optimistic,” head coach Scott
Dicheck said.
Dicheck expects a lot from his team
this year and his first goal is “to make it
back into the NCAA tournament, and once
we’re in, advance as far as we can.”
Dicheck believes his players will be
tested a lot throughout the season and that
these challenges will only help them once
the postseason begins.
The team is well equipped with “good
senior leadership to keep spirits up,” Dicheck said. He placed responsibility on his
three senior captains — Klimchak, Eric
Ferriere and Roger Mosteller — to help the
younger players stay positive and focused.
He said last year’s experiences have
strengthened the team to a great extent
and, just like last year, “the key is to get
into the tournament.”
Dicheck and his players are ready to
achieve another successful season. They
are confident their hard work and preparation will lead them to success.
Lions falter while opponents take away two wins
Men’s Basketball
By Justin Jez
Staff Writer
“We were getting good shots,”
sophomore guard Steve Feinberg
said. “Sometimes, though, it is just
With just one New Jersey Ath- how the ball bounces. What we do
letic Conference (NJAC) game this need to do though is recognize that
week, the men’s basketball team we are not shooting well from the
suffered losses to conference rival outside and get ourselves higherRamapo College and to Stevens In- percentage shots.”
stitute of Technology.
Jumping out to a nine-point lead,
The Lions’ overall record now the Roadrunners took control of the
stands at 6-15 with the loss to Ra- game early. It was not until three
mapo dropping their conference and a half minutes into the game
record to 2-7, fourth place in the that senior guard Corey Gilmore
NJAC south division.
put the Lions on the board with a
“It is going to be tough to get in three-point shot.
(to the playoffs),” junior guard Jeff
A jumper from sophomore
Molinelli said. “We need to pull out guard Jay Frank at the 14:12 mark
a few more to make it and hopefully brought the Lions to within seven
we can make some noise towards points. That would be the last time
the end here. We have nothing to the Lions would trail by single
lose and if we get into the playoffs digits. Ramapo went on an 11-0
anything can happen.”
Lions
60 run that was stopped
In their NJAC game
by Feinberg with nine
on Saturday, the Lions Roadrunners 74 minutes remaining in
fell 74-60 as they visited Lions
52 the half.
Ramapo College (12-9).
Trailing 30-9, the LiDucks
63 ons mounted their own
Shooting was again
an issue for the Lions, as they con- 11-0 run behind the play of senior
nected on only 36 percent of their forward Mark Aziz, who contribshots from the floor while shooting uted eight points during the stretch.
just 21 percent (5-24) from behind Aziz would finish the game with a
the three-point line. Ramapo was team-high 16 points and eight reable to convert 51 percent of its bounds in 29 minutes of action.
Coming out of halftime with the
shots for the game.
score 36-22, the Roadrunners capitalized off a quick Lions turnover
to increase the lead to 16. The Lions trailed by as many as 18 points
in the second half. The closest the
Lions would draw was 12 after a
three-point play by junior guard
Jeff Molinelli with 4:30 remaining.
Molinelli and Frank were the
other two Lions players to score in
double figures with 12 points each.
Despite a career night by Molinelli, Wednesday’s contest against
Stevens Institute of Technology
(18-3) resulted in a 63-52 home
loss for the Lions.
Stevens entered the game
ranked No. 22 in Division III men’s
basketball.
“Our confidence was good going into the game,” Molinelli said.
“I think they had a preseason AllAmerican on their team, but they
were a really balanced team. Everyone was solid in their lineup.”
Six players for the Ducks scored
between eight and 12 points in the
game. Senior forward Tim Williams led the way with 12 points
and 10 rebounds in 22 minutes for
the Ducks.
Molinelli racked up a careerhigh 24 points on 10-16 shooting
in the losing effort. He also added
Cara MacNeil / Staff Photographer
Senior guard Jeff Warner controls the ball in the
College’s non-conference loss to Stevens Institute.
three rebounds and two blocks in
33 minutes.
“I was just feeling it that night,”
Molinelli said. “I was knocking
down my open shots and I also
made an effort to get to the basket.
Once I began shooting well, I began
to look for my shot more often.”
This time both teams struggled
to find their shooting touches in the
first half. The Lions were held to 30
percent shooting while the Ducks
shot 28 percent in the half. How-
ever, it was the visiting Ducks who
took a 25-20 lead into halftime.
Leading 38-33 early in the second half, the Ducks went on an 11-2
point run to give them their largest
lead of the game, 49-35 with 7:09
left on the clock. The Lions were
not able to overcome the deficit before time ran out.
The Lions are scheduled to play
a conference game at home tonight
against Kean University at 8 p.m.
in Packer Hall.
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Wrestling
Lions master last dual meet competitors
By Tom Galton
Staff Writer
The wrestling team wrapped
up its dual meet schedule Saturday with a pair of wins, doubling
up SUNY-Oswego 26-13 before
steamrolling the University of
Scranton 53-0.
With the wins, the No. 20 Lions finished the regular season
19-3 and extended their winning
streak to nine. The Lakers of Oswego State dropped to 3-10-1
while the Royals of Scranton remained winless at 0-12.
“We knew we could handle
both these teams, but everybody
(used) these matches as tune-ups
for (the Metropolitan Conference
Championships, METs),” senior
co-captain Ray Sarinelli (133
pounds) said. “It’s good to know
we’re going into conferences with
the right attitude.”
Sarinelli helped set the pace
early against Oswego State, following up freshman 125-pounder
Dan Hughes’ pin with one of his
own in the meet’s second bout.
Freshman John Barnett (149
pounds) and sophomore Dan DiColo (157 pounds) each followed
up with decisions.
In the 165-pound bout, junior
Al Wonesh overcame an early
deficit to notch a 4-2 decision,
forcing overtime with a ride point
at the end of the third period.
“We train so hard in the room
and gym that I was extremely
comfortable going into overtime,” Wonesh said. “With about
20 seconds left, I baited him with
Chris Gifford / Photo Editor
The College won both of its final dual meets against
SUNY-Oswego and the University of Scranton.
my right leg and let him get in on
a deep high crotch. I just simply
sat by, boot-scooted him and ended up scooting behind him for a
takedown to win.”
Junior Greg Osgoodby (174
pounds) and senior Jim Tomczuk
(184 pounds) rounded out the
scoring for the Lions, each winning by decision.
Against Scranton, the College
showcased a relentless offensive
barrage.
Sophomore Danny Franke (125
pounds), freshman Joe Bozzomo
(184 pounds), freshman Mike Denver (197 pounds) and senior co-captain Steve Carbone (285 pounds)
all had pins for the Lions.
Osgoodby, junior John Dinan
(157 pounds) and freshman Justin
Bonitatis (165 pounds) won by
technical fall, while Barnett and
junior Chris Prihoda (141 pounds)
added wins by major decision.
“The team is where we want
it to be right now,” Sarinelli said.
“Everyone is showing a lot of
hustle in their matches, pushing
their opponent, running back to
the center. These are things we
weren’t doing a couple weeks
ago, breaking our opponents’ will.
We’ve gotten back to our style of
wrestling and it shows.”
With the regular season finished, the Lions will turn their
attention toward the METs, to be
held at Wilkes University at 10
a.m. on Sunday, Feb. 24.
The Lions hope to repeat as
Chris Gifford / Photo Editor
The wrestling team hopes to repeat as champions
at the Metropolitan Conference Championships.
METs champions and send several wrestlers to the NCAA Division
III Championships. The winner of
each weight class at the METs, as
well as seven wild cards, will earn
an automatic bid in the NCAAs,
which will take place at the U.S.
Cellular Center in Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, March 7-8.
Last year, Osgoodby and
sophomore Tyler Branham (149
pounds) won METs crowns,
while Sarinelli earned a wild card
spot at the NCAAs as a runnerup. Carbone was also a runner-up
in last year’s METs.
Track and Field
Valentine’s Invitational shows Lions the love
By Steve Hofstetter, Adam Hofstetter, Cody Marley, Ryan Murphy, Elliot Steingart and Chris Strait
A judge ruled that jailed Michael Vick
can keep nearly $20 million in bonus
money he received from the Atlanta Falcons. Vick was relieved, as he’s got a really big dogfight coming up.
Chad Johnson is very upset at the
Bengals, making him a true Cincinnati
resident.
NHL player Nik Antropov was suspended for three games for throwing his
stick at officials. Fortunately the stick
landed in the stands, where there was no
one to injure.
World ice-dancing champion Maxim
Staviski has received a 2 1/2-year prison
sentence for a drunken driving accident.
A guy in a spandex unitard in prison?
Nothing could go wrong there.
Former Olympic canoeing champion
Frantisek Capek has died of an unspecified heart problem at the age of 93. Doctors could have saved him if they hadn’t
tragically reached for the wrong paddles.
Ballers Latrell Sprewell and Glen Rice
have both had assault charges against
them dropped. Maybe Johnnie Cochrane
isn’t dead after all.
The Toronto Raptors tied a franchise
record with a 39-point victory. Shockingly, it was not against the Knicks.
And Chuck Knoblauch said his involvement in the steroid investigation has
been blown way out of proportion. Like
Roger Clemens’ head.
For more of the Sports Minute (Or So),
visit minuteorso.com.
By Leeann Weiner
Staff Writer
The Lions racked up more Eastern College Athletic Conference- (ECAC) qualifying times this past weekend at Boston
University’s Valentine’s Day Invitational.
“This meet gave the team a chance to
travel,” head coach Eric Mobley said.
“It was a great opportunity to face some
great schools that we don’t normally
see.”
On the men’s side, the College is currently ranked No. 14 in the U.S. Track
& Field Cross Country Coaches Association Division III Coaches Power Rank-
Chris Gifford / Photo Editor
Senior Steven Murray (left)
runs alongside freshman
Peter Gallo during practice.
ings poll.The team excelled in numerous
events on Friday.
In the 400-meter race, junior Rob
McGowan paved the way for the Lions.
McGowan placed 22nd overall, but ran a
competitive time of 49.26 seconds.
Pacing closely behind were freshmen
Kyle Gilroy (51st, 50.53 seconds) and Jule
Brooks (62nd, 50.70 seconds). All three
runners qualified for the ECAC Championships in the 400 meters.
An ECAC time was additionally
earned in the 4x400-meter relay. Brooks,
Gilroy, McGowan and senior Steve
Murray came together with a time of
3:21.21.
In the 800-meter, junior Pasquale DiGioacchino had an impressive ECACqualifying time of 1:54.85 for 28th place.
Senior Josh Krowicki also competed
in the 800, finishing 68th in a time of
1:57.90.
The final two ECAC standards came
from sophomore DeShard Stevens and
junior Chris Guerriero.
Making a huge impact on the sprinting team, Stevens placed 11th in the
500-meter race, crossing the finish line
in 1:05.32.
Guerriero competed in the 5,000meter and came in 37th with a time of
14:55.80.
Guerriero believes the teams’ performances this weekend were one of the
best showings the team has experienced
in a long time.
“Almost everyone ran a personal best
or very close and it was just a great meet
to boost everyone’s confidence and excitement for the season,” he said.
The women competed on day two of
The track and field teams
will head to New York City
on Friday to compete in the
Lafayette College/Rider
University Invitational.
the Invitational.
The Lions’ distance medley relay team
was the lone competitor at the meet, but
it posted an NCAA provisional time. It is
also currently ranked No. 1 in the country for this event.
The relay team was comprised of junior Stephanie Herrick, freshman Rochelle Prevard, freshman Meryl Wimberly and junior Martine McGrath. The
Lions posted a time of 11:54.64 and captured fourth place.
Week after week the Lions are exceeding previous times and running personal bests.
“This meet showed us that we can
compete with the best people out there,”
McGrath said.
The College is scheduled to compete
next at 168th St. Armory, New York City,
in the Lafayette College/Rider University Invitational this Friday.
According to McGowan, the team
feels well prepared for the challenges
that lie ahead.
“Coach Mobley has really been doing
a great job preparing us for the season,”
he said.
He continued, “The base endurance
we’ve been getting from his workouts
combined with varied days of speed
workouts have really helped to highlight
everyone’s potential.”
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LIONS
AROUND THE
DORM
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James Queally
“The Ref”
Steve Cohen
Staff Writer
Justin Jez
Staff Writer
Bobby Olivier
Staff Writer
Let’s talk sports again, folks. In this round of AtD, we’re focusing on the basketball trading frenzy, the College’s women’s sports teams
and some shocking events in the sports world. Staff writer and reigning AtD champion Justin Jez is back in the game, this time taking on
staff writers Steve Cohen and Bobby Olivier. Arts & entertainment editor James Queally will dole out the points and name the winner.
1) The trade deadline shuffle has begun.
Several blockbuster deals were made in the
past two weeks, but which team made out
best between the Lakers, Grizzlies, Nets,
Suns and Heat?
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SC: The Lakers easily made out the best. When
Andrew Bynum is healthy, the Lakers will
have the best rebounding team in the league
between him, Lamar Odom and Pau Gasol.
Gasol will really help solidify their starting
five, giving them another strong piece for Phil
Jackson’s triangle offense with one of the alltime best, Kobe Bryant, leading the Lakers.
All the Grizzlies did was create cap space
for next year by acquiring Kwame Brown’s
expiring contract. The Suns added the most
dominant player in the league from two years
ago. Shaq is just a shadow of his former self
and will certainly slow down the Sun’s fastpaced offense. Stromile Swift has potential
for the Nets, but only if Jason Kidd was the
same player he was when he turned K-Mart
into an All-Star, not to mention that Kidd and
Carter could each be on the way out. The Heat
added a top-tier player in Shawn Marion, but
now they are missing that key big man necessary to dominate in the NBA.
JJ: By far the Lakers are the team that made
out best. With the acquisition of Gasol they
have become championship contenders, a far
cry from the bleak preseason they had where
Kobe seemed to be heading to Chicago. By
giving up two low picks, a decent young point
guard and Phil Jackson’s biggest headache
(Kwame Brown), they get the best frontcourt
in basketball. There is no other team that can
handle Odom, Gasol and Bynum on the floor
at the same time. There is so much size, talent and versatility there, it’s scary. In fact, the
only reason the Suns acquired an aged, rusty
Shaq was because that lineup scared new GM
Steve Kerr right out of his pants. Despite what
Shaq says, he can no longer run or jump. He
didn’t even play the last six Suns games because of his injured knee. The Suns are just
grasping at straws to keep up with the Lakers.
I also don’t know how much Marion can help
Miami, a team that has serious frontcourt issues now with Shaq gone.
BO: As the trade deadline approaches in the
NBA, there has been some movement due
to trading but none nearly as massive as the
Suns-Heat deal sending Shaq to Phoenix for
Marion and Marcus Banks. The Lakers, Grizzlies and Nets have not made any blockbuster
deals near this proportion. Shaq, who is bringing a mere fraction of his former dominance to
the Suns, should help them in the frontcourt,
but the winner of the league so far is clearly the
Heat, who needed another consistent scorer to
platoon with the ever-rehabilitating Dwayne
Wade. Marion is averaging 15.8 a game with
9.9 rebounds a night and Banks has potential
to improve since he is only 26 years old. The
Heat needed to begin rebuilding as they have
been dismal since their championship win
two seasons ago, and this is a start. Look for
the Heat to begin “heating” up soon.
JQ: Jez and Cohen provided similar breakdowns of what Gasol adds to the Lakers,
but Jez grabs the 3 for also pointing out
the knee-jerk reaction factor that added
to the Suns-Heat deal. Cohen, you’re stuck
with 2. Bobby gets 1 because while the
Heat argument was brazen, dismissing the
Lakers-Grizzlies deal as anything short of
“blockbuster” is just foolish.
2) With the women’s basketball, swimming
and track and field teams all coming off
successful weeks, which team has the best
shot to succeed beyond the regular season
this Spring?
SC: All three teams are looking very promising, but I think it’s the basketball team that
will go the furthest. They’re off to a great start
with a 7-1 record at home and a winning record on the road. Defenses are having a lot
of trouble figuring out a way to stop junior
center Hillary Klimowicz’s 16.4 points and
11 rebounds per game. Their 7-2 conference
record also is very promising and I do believe
the Lions will be able to ride their star centers
back all the way beyond the NJAC.
JJ: I will have to go with women’s basketball.
First of all, they have the College’s best woman athlete, in my opinion, at their disposal: junior center Hillary Klimowicz. She is averaging over 16 points and 11 rebounds in her best
season as a Lion. She is a Division I-caliber
player who has the ability to carry a team to
success beyond the NJAC. She has over 80
blocks this season, anchoring a talented Lions
defense which has kept its opponents to just
32 percent shooting this year. In order to do
well against national competition you need
to play solidly on both ends of the court, and
that is why the Lions are a threat to compete
on the national stage. Senior guard Sara Best
and freshman guard Kelsey Kutch have been
stellar for the Lions. Best continues to provide the solid veteran leadership and play we
have come to expect from her while Kutch
has been a nice addition to the Lions this year,
averaging double-digit points while shooting
over 50 percent from the field.
BO: Because I have been following them all
year, I am confident that the women’s swimming and diving team will persevere despite
its sub-.500 record and finish the season in
sparkling fashion. The team has performed
well of late, winning three out of its last four
meets heading into the end of the season.
The team has been led by senior Ava Kiss
and stellar rookie Margaret Molloy who has
had a record-setting season. The team has the
Metropolitan Conference Championships at
Rutgers University in two weeks and NCAA
Division III Championships at Wooster College in a month. I expect to see several winning performances out of the swimming team
in the next few weeks.
JQ: Jez wins easily as he dissects the women’s basketball team and gives Klimowicz the praise she deserves. For providing
equally craptastic answers, Cohen and
Bobby get 1 each. Cohen, your answer
pales in comparison to Jez’s. Bobby, you
basically told me what you hope will happen without backing it up with any facts.
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3) Which event had the bigger shock factor,
the legendary Bob Knight’s out-of-nowhere retirement or Roger Clemens’ ex-trainer Brian
MacNamee supposedly producing physical
evidence linking the Rocket to doping?
SC: Hands down, the big news is MacNamee’s announcement. Yes, Knight’s retirement was a shocker as he is the winningest
coach in NCAA men’s basketball history, but
he is old. That’s what old people do: Retire.
Clemens, who has outright denied shooting
himself with human growth horomone and
or steroids, will have his illustrious career
tainted. Some consider him the god of baseball after his last two seasons with the Astros
where he had ERAs of 1.87 and 2.30 in the
respective seasons. He was over 40! What do
those stats say if he was doping during those
years? How much credibility does he lose if
this evidence pans out?
JJ: Considering the fact that Clemens took
steroids is of no surprise to me, I am going
with Knight being the bigger shocker by default. Once the Mitchell Report mentioned
Clemens I assumed he was guilty. Then I also
found out that MacNamee is a paranoid ex-
law enforcement official, so it comes as no
surprise to me that he saved physical evidence
in case it one day came down to this kind of
circus. Not that I follow Knight’s career very
closely, but you could guess the guy was
burnt out. Perhaps if he had a better team he
would still be on the bench, but mediocrity is
not something coaches like Knight can tolerate for long. It was surprising that weeks after
his grand 900th win he stepped down, but after listening to him talk about his son taking
over as head coach I understand why. It was
just time for him to move on. It is a different
sports world for me now that Knight is gone.
Not so much for Clemens though.
BO: Although the supposed evidence linking
Clemens to steroids by his trainer was surprising, it was nowhere near as shocking as the
all-time leading coach in wins walking away
from the game he has been a part of for upwards of four decades. With the pressure of
win number 900 being surpassed, we thought
Knight would be able to at least finish out the
season screaming at his Texas Tech team into
March. It seemed this would be the start of
the golden years for Knight, but instead we all
woke up to see his resignation scrolling across
the bottom of our screens. Knight has always
been looked at as the pinnacle of determination and hard work, which he reflects into his
players, but I guess this is a new side of the
old coach who we all remember throwing a
chair across the floor instead of the towel.
JQ: Just when we thought Jez had earned
the kill shot, Cohen and Bobby punch him
in the mouth! Cohen gets 3 for pointing out
the impact Clemens’ guilt will have on the
sports world and that Knight’s right to go
out on his own terms. Bobby gets 2, because
even though I don’t think Knight gave up
on his team, it is fair to speculate he didn’t
want to deal with steering a bubble team
through another early March exit. Jez gets
1 in a tough round. Good answer, but you
gave me too much Clemens-bashing and
not enough on Knight.
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Despite a late surge by the competition, Jez takes the title 7-6-4.
Welcome to L.A., Pau.
Bring me some rings!
—Jez
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LIONS ROUNDUP
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22
03
23
20
12
30
15
34
35
42
10
04
41
25
50
MenʼsGP Basketball
Min
R/G
A/G
STL
Mark Aziz............20
Jay Frank............16
Jeff Warner..........20
Jeff Molinelli.......20
Corey Gilmore........19
William Jett.........20
Steve Feinberg.......12
Eric Hayes...........18
Adam Gonzalez........20
Aaron Syvertsen......12
Will Manhart.........6
Chris Snyder.........2
Frank Golz...........1
Matt Holly...........4
Christoph Schoenbeck.5
29.4
26.3
32.2
29.6
30.5
23.7
12.7
12.2
13.6
6.7
6.2
1.0
1.0
1.5
1.8
Total...................20
5.5
4.2
7.1
4.7
3.0
2.3
2.1
1.7
2.5
1.0
0.8
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
1.2
1.3
2.4
2.0
2.5
1.5
0.5
1.2
0.8
0.6
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
20
14
25
10
18
11
3
1
7
2
0
0
0
0
1
BLK
24
1
5
2
4
5
3
0
5
1
0
0
0
0
0
35.0
12.9
122
50
PTS/G
14.0
11.4
10.2
10.0
7.5
4.4
4.0
2.2
2.2
2.0
1.2
0.5
0.0
0.0
0.0
63.0
Name
GP
Hillary Klimowicz....21
Sara Best............18
Kelsey Kutch.........21
Alexandra Gregorek...21
Alyssa Michella......21
Nicole Diaz..........21
Lisa Koch............19
Stephanie Prall......14
Karen Lassoni........21
Chrissie Beha........18
Jamie Cresbaugh.......5
Total...................21
Min
27.2
26.7
25.7
20.1
29.7
27.9
18.7
6.6
12.0
8.7
3.2
Name
DUAL
Justin Bonitatis.........11-3
Greg Osgoodby............17-3
Al Wonesh................16-1
Dan DiColo...............15-4
Ray Sarinelli............16-4
Steve Carbone............12-4
John Barnett.............12-5
Dan Hughes...............8-5
Shawn Vanwingerden.......8-3
Kyle Kicnhen.............5-1
Tyler Branham............3-0
John Biango..............0-0
Mike Denver..............2-0
Jim Tomczuk..............6-6
Brian Suozzo.............2-7
Ryan McCabe..............3-1
John Dinan...............2-0
Adam Koziol..............1-5
Jaishon Scott............0-0
Robert Micheliche........0-0
Joe Bozzomo..............5-3
Bill Tenpenny............0-0
Mike Jacoutot, Jr........4-3
Jason Burch..............0-0
Jack Casey...............0-1
Dave Kiley...............0-0
Danny Franke.............2-2
Lenny Goduto.............0-0
Brandon Scott............0-0
Chris Prihoda............2-2
Louis Klein..............0-0
Andrew Mittleman.........0-0
Mike Derisi..............0-0
Will Dodd................0-0
A/G
1.3
2.6
1.4
0.8
3.0
3.6
2.9
0.6
1.3
0.2
0.0
STL
18
32
37
11
25
37
6
5
15
6
0
BLK
84
19
18
25
1
2
1
1
0
0
0
PTS/G
16.4
10.7
10.0
9.5
6.9
5.0
4.9
2.4
1.2
0.9
0.4
44.3
16.9
194
154
66.2
TOURNEY
20-1
12-1
13-4
13-3
9-0
12-4
11-4
11-10
10-2
11-4
12-1
15-6
11-7
6-7
10-9
8-8
8-5
8-6
8-6
8-8
3-7
7-6
2-2
5-8
5-8
4-3
2-8
3-2
3-4
0-0
0-2
0-2
0-5
0-8
Total....................151-69 250-161
TOTAL
31-4
29-4
29-5
28-7
25-4
24-8
23-9
19-15
18-15
16-5
15-1
15-6
13-7
12-13
12-16
11-9
10-5
9-11
8-6
8-8
8-10
7-6
6-5
5-8
5-9
4-3
4-10
3-2
3-4
2-2
0-2
0-2
0-5
0-8
PINS
8
5
5
5
3
6
0
1
5
1
1
0
2
2
1
2
1
5
2
0
2
0
0
1
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
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Swimming
tained three first-place finishes in the College’s dual
R/G
11.0
4.4
6.0
5.2
5.5
3.0
2.6
0.4
1.5
2.6
0.0
Wrestling
Mike
Molloy
Molloy had a huge week for the Lions, as he ob-
Womenʼs Basketball
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Lion of
the Week
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MD
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85
meet victory against New Jersey Athletic Conference
rival Ramapo College. The junior was triumphant in the
100 freestyle at 48.83, the 200 backstroke at 2:00.61
and the 200 freestyle at 1:49.01. His three wins led the
Lions to a solid 103-69 decision in their final meet of
the season.
—Michael O’Donnell, Sports Assistant
This Week In Sports
Menʼs Basketball
February 13
vs. Kean University, 8 p.m.
February 16
@ Richard Stockton College, 4 p.m.
Womenʼs Basketball
February 13
vs. Kean University, 6 p.m.
February 16
@ Richard Stockton College, 2 p.m.
Menʼs Tennis
February 16
Lionsʼ Spring Kickoff Tournament w/ the University of
Delaware, 1 p.m.
Track & Field
February 15
@ Lafayette/Rider Invitational, 3:30 p.m.
Opinion-Nation Trivia!
Who is best choice to become the New York Jets’
quarterback in the upcoming 2008 season?
Hint: It is the choice many fans and experts have
said was the best one since the start of last season.
A. Chad Pennington
Game of the Week
Women’s Basketball
Lions vs. Kean
University
Feb. 13, 6 p.m.
The Lions will be looking for retribution tonight
as they host New Jersey Athletic Conference rival
Kean University. The Lions dropped the previous
meeting with the Cougars, but will have the homecourt advantage coming into this heated match-up.
B. Kellen Clemens
C. Joe Namath
D. Anyone is good enough to be the New York Jets’ QB
If you don’t know by now, find out in the next issue
of The Signal!