Campus Times
Volume 138, Number 15
Serving the University of Rochester community since 1873
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Meliora Weekend keynote tickets Campus security
to be ramped up
stirring student controversy
by Leah Buletti
News Editor
Student demand for
tickets to this year’s Meliora Weekend keynote
address by President Bill
Clinton was the greatest
in the highly-anticipated
weekend’s history, according to Executive Director
of Alumni Relations Kevin
Wesley.
Despite brewing student
controversy over the way
tickets were distributed
and the high level of online
traffic that made registration nearly impossible this
summer, Wesley says Alumni
Relations was prepared to
meet the unprecedented
demand and did everything
they could to ensure that
students had a fair shot at
seeing the live address.
Currently, 1,185 students
have tickets to either the live
event or the simulcast, and
this week’s lottery will distribute 200 more free tickets to the
live keynote address.
This year’s address will
be delivered in the Eastman
School of Music’s Kodak Hall,
which seats 2,326 people —
600 more than the Palestra
without arms
Cheryl Seligman • Presentation Editor
on the River Campus, the site
of the keynote speeches for
the last five years.
Alumni Relations went to
great lengths to ensure that
there were more simulcasts
of the live speech this year
because of the iconic speaker,
Wesley said. The speech will
be simulcast in the Palestra,
Strong Auditorium, the
Class of ’62 Auditorium and
Eastman’s Kilbourn Hall.
The decision to add an additional simulcast in Strong
Auditorium was made early
on the morning of Monday,
Aug. 22, the day the online
registration site went live
in response to the “huge
demand” seen by Alumni
Relations staff monitoring
the site.
All simulcasts, which are
free of charge (unlike the $30
cost of admission to the live
event), are now completely
filled up.
“We are constrained a
bit by the facilities that we
have,” Wesley said. “We do
not have a space that can fit
everyone.”
The complexities of ticket
distribution were compounded by the variety of interests
Meliora Weekend caters to.
“Meliora Weekend is for
See TICKETS, Page 4
will complete New York’s
campus peace officer academy
program to become sworn officers, which entails 332 hours
of additional training.
Sworn officers will carry
batons and pepper foam as
“defensive weapons,” but will
not carry firearms or tasers,
while non-sworn patrol officers will carry pepper foam for
their personal protection.
“Almost all of our peer
institutions are protected
by sworn officers with safety equipment rather than
licensed security guards
alone,” Seligman wrote in his
statement. “Many of these
universities have armed officers on their campuses. We
do not believe that armed
security is appropriate at
Rochester.”
Paprocki said UR concluded that firearms “are not
necessary in our particular
situation after consulting
with various campus constituents” and finding a
“widespread reluctance to see
firearms on campus.”
See SECURITY, Page 3
by Leah Buletti
News Editor
UR President Joel Seligman approved a series of recommendations on Wednesday
to improve campus Security
Services after a year-long
review of campus policies
conducted by Senior Vice
President for Administration
and Finance Ronald Paprocki,
senior administrators, Security officers and members of
the University community.
The most significant
change will be the process
of establishing sworn officer
presence among the security
staff, according to a statement
released by Seligman.
Sworn staff will have greater access to government
criminal information, the legal authority to make arrests
based on probable cause if a
felony, misdemeanor or other
breach of peace is committed,
and the ability to intervene in
mental health emergencies,
according to Seligman.
Over the next 18 months,
about 40 members of UR’s
120-person security staff
UR planning new major, building to combine disciplines
by Melissa Goldin
News Editor
It is no secret that technology is rapidly making
its way into many classrooms. Smartboards, laptops, ebooks — all of this
technology and more is
Cheyrl Seligman • Presentation Editor
Faculty Council on Wednesday, Sept. 21, but discussion
has been delayed until the
next meeting, which will
occur at least a month from
the present time.
Greta Niu, a former assistant professor of English
at UR who studies the social and cultural aspects of
technology and the Internet,
had a positive take on the
proposed major.
“I think it will be incredibly important to students,”
she said. “It is a good way
to study something in a
multi-faceted way.”
See DIGITAL, Page 4
finding its own place in the
world of academia.
UR is no wallflower in this
rush toward digitization.
The University is currently
developing plans for a digital studies major and a new
Digital Media and Innovation Center, which will be
attached to Morey Hall.
The new major will combine science and technology
with the arts and humanities. From the perspective
of these various disciplines,
students will study the history, theory, analysis and
production of digital media.
They will take classes that
focus on the side of technology and production, history
and theory of digital media,
culminating their studies
with a capstone project in
their senior year.
“I think the proposed
major is an extremely interesting one, combining the
humanities and the sciences
in an especially creative
way,” Dean of the College
Richard Feldman said.
Thomas DiPiero, recently
appointed Dean for Humanities and Interdisciplinary
Studies, is working to get
this new endeavor off the
ground.
“So much of what we do,
both in our work lives and
in our leisure time, involves
some form of digital media,”
he said. “It is important to
understand the form and
function of media — of
whatever variety — to become more critical users and
producers of them.”
DiPiero was reluctant to
comment on any additional
details about the major, since
it is still in its preliminary
stages and has not yet been
approved by the faculty.
It was possible that the
new major was going to be
discussed at a meeting of the
Camilo Benitez, hopes to
uncover the truth behind the
Students’ Activities Fees.
“My curiosity to know how
the $258 Students’ Activities
Fees were being managed
inspired me to represent the
class of 2015 in the Senate,”
Benitez said.
The SA Government Kickoff took place on Friday, Sept.
19, in the Meliora restaurant.
The Senators and Council
Members listened to a welcome address from President
Seligman, as well as talks from
Vice President Paul Burgett
and Dean of Students Matthew Burns.
“Class Councils are programming groups that promote class unity and school
spirit by planning events and
creating traditions,” the SA
Website says. “The Senate is
the legislative body of student
government. Charged with
the task of bettering student
life, the Senate works to pass
legislation and oversee the
operation of student organizations.”
Duncan is a member of
the class of 2014.
Freshmen Daniel Gaona, Camilo Benitez, Vanessa Sanchez
and Rishi Sharma (from right) were elected SA senators.
SA welcomes dynamic new freshmen to serve Class of 2015
by Jordan Duncan
Staff Writer
On Thursday, Sept. 15, the
official election results were
posted after 725 people voted
in the Fall SA Elections on
Tuesday, Sept. 13. Four new
Senators and eight new Class
Council members from the
Class of 2015 won the vote in
several close races.
The winning senators are:
Rishi Sharma, Daniel “Danny
Boy” Gaona, Vanessa Sanchez and Camilo Benitez.
Brian Shin, Mehr Kashyap,
Will Burke, Nikita Mirosh-
Inside this issue:
nichenko, Daniel Gaona, Inge
Chen, Luis Alonso and Rachel
Suresky are the newly elected
Class Council members.
Voter turnout was high this
year, with 1,413 votes cast for
Senators and 2,619 votes cast
for Class Council.
Rishi Sharma, also the President of Gilbert Hall Council,
foresees great changes on
campus.
“I hope to obtain state of the
art technology for classrooms
and alleviate sustainability
concerns,” she said.
Sharma’s fellow Senator,
News: Open Letter publishes e-book for translators
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Bow young kim • Copy Editor
Don’t cut the un-pasteurized
YellowJackets go national
The FDA overregulation of raw milk products
is inadequate.
The UR YellowJackets made their debut on NBC’s
“The Sing Off” on Monday, Sept. 19, clearing
the first round of the competition.
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A&E: Page 14
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NEWS
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Five-Day Forecast
Thursday
Friday
Showers
Chance of precipitation: 40%
High 62, Low 53
Showers
Chance of precipitation: 40%
High 71, Low 56
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Courtesy of www.weather.com
Saturday
Sunday
Monday
Showers
Chance of precipitation: 50%
High 58, Low 50
Scattered Showers
Chance of precipitation: 30%
High 66, Low 52
Partly Cloudy
Chance of precipitation: 20%
High 66, Low 53
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This Week on Campus
Thursday
September 22
LOGOS launch party
6 - 8 p.m., Gamble Room, Rush Rhees
LOGOS, UR’s art and literature journal, will celebrate the publication of
their 2010 - 2011 journal this Thursday. Whether your work was published,
your friend’s work was published or you have no connection to the journal,
come out to grab a copy of the journal, chow down on some delectable treats
and play a rousing game of “pin-the-tale-on-the-camel.”
Free Movie: “You Should Meet My Son!”
Drue Sokol • Photo Editor
8 p.m., Hoyt Auditorium
Pride Network and Cinema Group will screen “You Should Meet My Son!,” a
comedy directed by Keith Hartman and starring Joanne McGee, Carol Goans
and Stewart Carrico, about a conservative Southern mom who finds out that
her son is gay and sets out on a quest to find him the perfect husband. The
event is free and open to the public.
Acoustic Guitarist Awes at starbucks performance
Junior Sarah Sheppeck captivated patrons at Starbucks in Wilson Commons on Friday, Sept. 16 at a
Coffeehouse Live performance, playing original songs as well as covers of “Superbass” and “Just Dance.”
Friday
Unlicensed undergrad unleashed
6 - 9 p.m., Hirst Lounge, Wilson Commons
This event will explore and celebrate Latino countries and their cultures
with free activities, food and dance lessons at 8:30 p.m. The celebration is
free and is sponsored by Lambda Pi Chi Sorority.
Security Update
By Melissa Goldin
News Editor
1. A vehicle being driven in an
erratic fashion in Park Lot by two
undergraduate students was spotted
by a Security Supervisor on Sunday,
Sept. 18, at 10:05 p.m.
According to UR Security Investigator Daniel Lafferty, it was
surmised that the driver only had
a learner’s permit and was not attending driving lessons. The car’s
passenger also did not have a license
either. The driver claimed that she
was showing the passenger that she
could drive.
Officers had the driver park the
vehicle and contacted the owner
of the car, another undergraduate
student. The owner explained that
he had lent the car to the driver but
was unaware that she did not have
a license. He was subsequently told
where his car was and that the driver
could not bring it back to him.
Rugby leaves student with
lingering pain
warned not to be in the library after
it closes again.
Former student causes
ruckus at event
4. A male individual was escorted
out of a group-sponsored event in
the Frederick Douglass Building
on Sunday, Sept. 18, at 1:55 a.m. by
members of the group after causing
problems inside.
According to Lafferty, the individual, who graduated from UR in
2010, was reported by an unidentified individual for allegedly carrying
brass knuckles at the event. He departed the scene before officers had
a chance to speak with him.
Man caught trespassing
5. Eric Loyd, 30, of Rochester
and a second male individual were
approached by Security on the
plaza level of the Computer Studies Building on Sunday, Sept. 18,
at 5:02 p.m. after officers received
a call reporting a sighting of two
2. An undergraduate student
injured his left shoulder while playing rugby in the Robert B. Goergen
Athletic Center on Sunday, Sept. 18,
at 3:30 p.m.
According to Lafferty, the student
ceased playing and was examined by
MERT. Although he had lingering
pain in his neck and down his arm,
the student declined further medical
treatment at that time.
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UR Medical Center
Saturday
September 24
Smithsonian Museum Day
All Day, Memorial Art Gallery
The Memorial Art Gallery will offer free admission upon presentation of this
year’s Museum Day ticket, which is available from the Smithsonian Magazine
website. Each ticket admits the attendee plus one guest. The event is in the
spirit of the Smithsonian Museums in Washington, D.C., which offer free
admission everyday.
Eastman Virtuosi
8 - 10 p.m., Kilbourn Hall, Eastman School of Music
The concert will feature chamber music performed by Eastman School of
Music artists, faculty, guest artists and outstanding students, including Bonita
Boyd on the flute, Julianna Athayde on the violin and James VanDermark on
the doubless bass, to name a few. Mark Davis Scatterday will conduct. The
event is free and open to the public.
Sunday
September 25
Shack-A-Thon
6 p.m. - 8 a.m., Wilson Quad
UR Habitat for Humanity and Delta Upsilon fraternity will host a shackbuilding event to benefit Habitat for Humanity. Beginning Friday, Sept. 23,
students can sign up for a box and donate to the cause with flex, cash or
checks. Every $5 donated gets one cardboard box. With $25 raised, teams get
a sixth box for free. Campus clubs, teams and groups of friends can register to
participate in the event, which will feature entertainment from on-campus
performance groups and guest speakers during the shack-building process.
When all shacks have been built, volunteers will spend a night in their shacks.
There will be prizes valued at $100 for the best-looking shack and the shack
that raises the most money.
Monday
Riverview Complex
Students work overtime
3. Two undergraduate students
were found exiting the old stacks of
Rush Rhees Library on Friday, Sept.
16, at 10:34 p.m. by a Security officer
after setting off an intrusion alarm,
according to Lafferty.
The students claimed that they
had been working in the library, lost
track of time and did not know that
the building was closing. They were
informed of the building’s hours and
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suspicious males in the building,
according to Lafferty.
Both men claimed that they were
catching a bus, but when officers
asked to see identificatiton both
said they did not have any, and
one of the men suddenly became
anxious to leave.
Once the men had left, they walked
toward the bus stop at Intercampus
Drive, but continued past it towards
the Medical Center and entered the
facililty through the doors of the
Medical Research Building.
Both men were stopped once
again on the ground floor of the
Medical Center and were asked for
ID, which they then provided. It
was determined that Loyd had been
previously banned from the facility,
and he was arrested and issued an appearance ticket for trespassing. The
second individual was issued a ban
form. Both men were subsequently
escorted from the property.
Goldin is a member of
the class of 2013.
Information provided
by UR Security.
Eastman Music School
September 23
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September 26
Boren Awards Info Session
3
5 p.m., Gowen Room, Wilson Commons
A representative from the Boren Awards for International Study will visit
the River Campus to talk to students interested in studying in Africa, Asia,
Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East or Latin America about scholarship opportunities for undergraduate study abroad and fellowships for graduate study abroad. The event is sponsored by the Fellowships Office and the
Center for Study Abroad.
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NEWS
Thursday, September 22, 2011
NROTC senior
honored for valor
Student recognized for excellence in military,
scholastic and civic affairs with prestigious award
By Bow Young Kim
Copy Editor
Senior Michael Krestos was
recently awarded the Legion of
Valor Bronze Cross for Achievement Award, making him one
of six students out of 1,000
nominees in the U.S. to receive
the honor.
Krestos is the first Naval Reserve Officer Training Command
(NROTC) Midshipman from UR
to earn this national award.
He was surprised upon receiving the recognition two weeks
ago. “I felt like a deer caught
in headlights,” he said. “I knew
I was getting something, but I
didn’t know what it was.”
Not everyone was quite as
shocked, though.
“Michael has shown that he
can manage a rigorous workload,
physical fitness and leadership,”
Kyle Thayer, U.S. Navy Lieutenant
and Assistant Professor of Naval
Science, said. “He is getting the
award because of his leadership
and potential.”
Krestos’ outstanding grade
point average, top physical fitness
and overall devotion to his unit
over the past three years have been
evident in his success so far. Fellow
battalion members and staff nominated Krestos months ago to be a
candidate for the Bronze Cross for
Achievement award. The Legion of
Valor organization then screened
more than 1,000 nominees all
across the country to find ROTC
cadets who have demonstrated
excellence in military, scholastic
and civic affairs.
“He is a relatively reserved
leader. He leads by example and
has very high standards — for
himself and what he expects from
others,” Jeff Bartkoski, U.S. Navy
Captain and professor of Naval
Science, said. “He is unique in
that he knows what he wants.”
Currently, Krestos serves as
commanding officer of the Charlie
Company, one of the four orga-
nized military companies at UR.
He leads a group of about 15 to
20 midshipmen and is held responsible for that company’s performance. Whether it is helping
them in academics or militaryrelated tasks, Krestos is a role
model to other midshipmen.
“We look to him to ensure that
things get done, and we can confidently give him tasks,” Thayer
said. “He utilizes all sorts of tools
to make sure that the job gets done
properly.”
After graduation, Krestos will
attend the Nuclear Power School
based in Charleston, S.C. for a
year-long nuclear power training and will later deploy to a
submarine. With a background
in mechanical engineering,
Krestos is expected to excel in
the training.
“It is always challenging to lead
others, but when you are in a position to lead peers, that is even more
challenging,” Bartkoski said. “I
think that’s a challenge for all of
our students, but Michael stands
out in the crowd.”
Coming from a military family, Krestos was able to see and
experience the lifestyle of several
dedicated military figures, and
knew he wanted to continue the
tradition. Krestos has a retired
Navy Captain father, two grandfathers who fought in World War
II in the Army and Navy, two
Navy nurse sisters, and uncles
and cousins who belong to the
Marine Corp. and Air Force.
“My family did not push me in
one direction. But I knew I was
interested in nuclear power,” said
Krestos.
His advice to fellow NROTC
students?
“Take it as a full-time job and
expect to do more than the average student,” he said. “It is an
investment — and give back as
much as you can.”
Kim is a member of the class of 2013.
Bow Young Kim • Copy Editor
NROTC senior Michael Krestos is the first UR midshipman to be awarded
an esteemed Legion of Valor Bronze Cross for Achievement.
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Open Letter Books to open new
doors for literary translators
lowing the development of modern translators — who are often overBy emily berkowitz
and contemporary international looked and undervalued by the
Senior Staff
UR’s literary publishing house, literature, which is furthered in publishing industry — “The Three
Percent Problem” accomplishes
Open Letter Books, recently re- “The Three Percent Problem.”
Post had an integral part in the goals that Post and McCabe
leased an ebook titled “The Three
Percent Problem: Rants and Re- the planning and development of strived for during the publishing
sponses on Publishing, Translat- the book, and was responsible for process.
“Translators benefit in a gening, and the Future of Reading” writing all of the pieces included in
eral way from [this] book, because
in celebration of the four year the ebook.
“Our goal is to raise awareness it helps them understand the
anniversary of Three Percent, the
publishing house’s literary com- about the state of literature in industry and climate in which
translation and convey our pas- they are working,” self-employed
mentary website.
literary translator Mar“[‘The Three Percent
ian Schwartz said. “LimProblem’] is sort of like
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Andre Schiffrin’s ‘The
publishers do and how the
Business of Books,’ but
business works seems to be
with more swearing,”
a major practical hindrance
Open Letter Publisher
for many translators.”
Chad Post said.
Jeffery Angles, Associate
The book explores
Professor of Japanese Literathe state of contempoture & Translation Studies
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at Western Michigan Unirespect to publishers,
versity, also sees how “The
book reviews, bookstores
Three Percent Problem” is a
and ebooks. It is focused
guide for literary translators
mainly on how things
and the future of their field.
could change for the bet“[The book] helps us unter — specifically how
Cheryl Seligman • Presentation Editor
derstand where we — the
there could be an increase
in the publication of international sion about books,” he said. “I hope small guys sitting at our desks and
‘The Three Percent Problem’ does working on our nitty-gritty transliterature.
lation problems — fit into a larger,
“The Three Percent Problem” just that.”
Three Percent intern and sopho- world-wide industry,” he said.
is an anthology of articles that
He explained how translators
examines the financial and cultural more Taylor McCabe, who also
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“The book is a funny, readable, interest in reading works written
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The Three Percent website serves about the struggles of working in ary translators.
Berkowitz is a member of
as a destination for readers, editors translation,” McCabe said.
the class of 2012.
According to several literary
and translators interested in fol-
Security: Changes to improve safety, staff
Continued from Page 1
“It’s going to be an opportunity
to be better prepared to support
and protect the campus,” Director of University Security Walter
Mauldin said.
One of the major advantages
to having officers in the sworn
capacity will be a faster response
in mental health emergencies, he
said. Currently, Security sometimes has to wait up to an hour for
public health officials to respond
to a situation if the individual does
not immediately comply, according to Mauldin.
Mauldin also said that the sworn
officer program will give those interested in careers in public safety
greater career opportunities and
chances for professional development. The program will offer more
advanced training opportunities
in investigative technology, forensic sciences and interpersonal
relationship skills.
Mauldin said the University’s
Security force, which he described
as “pretty large” for a university
of UR’s size, might increase as
a result of the report, though
exact numbers haven’t been determined.
“We hope this positions UR as a
national model for other universities’ security forces,” he added.
Other security recommendations released in the report include
increasing in-service training, improving internal communications
and electronic technology and
strengthening the relationships
between Security and students.
The policy analysis began before
the death of Jeffrey Bordeaux, Jr.
in January and was conducted
separately. The independent
review of the Bordeaux incident
found that “Security’s response
to the event was exemplary, and
nothing in my recommenda-
tions would have changed that
response,” Paprocki said.
He said some of the changes
will be implemented quickly, while
others are expected to take about
18 months to complete.
Paprocki does not anticipate
that “students will necessarily
notice these changes except that
Security will be able to resolve
situations more quickly than in
the past,” but said he felt it was
time UR moved toward increasing
security given the nationwide focus on such matters and the recent
growth of UR’s campus.
“The leaders, supervisory staff
and line officers in Security Services provide essential services
in times of stress, anxiety and
danger,” Seligman wrote in his
statement. “We owe them our
support.”
Buletti is a member of
the class of 2013.
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Thursday, September 22, 2011
Digital: Media major created Tickets: Some think lottery, alumni spots unfair
Continued from Page 1
Junior Jay Ricciardi, a film and
media studies and English major,
voiced concern about practical
aspects of the major.
“I think we [would] need to
build up good, dedicated courses
with established professors instead of cobbling together a major
first,” he said.
The Digital Media and Innovation Center is also in its early
stages. In the beginning, there
were thoughts to simply create
an edgy digital media lab, which
would have resided in Spurrier
Gym.
Robert Clark, Dean of the Hajim School of Engineering and
Applied Sciences, then suggested
looking into a stand-alone building once it was determined that
many improvements would have
to be made to Spurrier to house
the lab.
The building will be roughly
16,000-square feet, with 8,000square feet used as programming
space. It will be used primarily
as a collaborative space, similar
in concept to Gleason Library,
according to Jose Fernandez,
Executive Director of Campus
Planning, Design and Construction Management.
“A big part of this new building is really collaboration space
that encourages students to work
together,” Fernandez said.
Classes will occur mostly in
other locations, with the Digital
Media and Innovation Center
being used as more of a lab or
a workshop where students can
work on projects in a fabrication
lab and create digital media.
The building will be accessible
through Morey Hall and will provide elevator access to Morey.
The total cost of the project will
be $10 million, funded by donors
and an issuance of bonds.
The project is currently in a
phase of design competition.
Three architects are working on
designs for the buildings. When
completed in the middle of Oct.,
the designs will be submitted and
one will be chosen, after which
detailed drawings for the structure will be sketched out.
“Everything is basically moving forward, and we are just all
super excited about it,” Fernandez said.
The building is currently slated
to open in Aug. 2013.
Goldin is a member of
the class of 2013.
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many different audiences — [it is]
parents weekend, homecoming
weekend and reunion weekend,”
Wesley said. “What we try to do
every year is balance accessibility
to tickets across all the groups.”
To placate these interests, Alumni
Relations took what Wesley calls a
“small bucket of tickets” and gave
reunion alumni early access — a
few days to purchase tickets prior
to Aug. 22, when registration went
live. Wesley said the alumni were told
that “once those tickets are gone,
you can try with everyone else when
registration goes live.”
Another “small bucket of tickets” was reserved for the George
Eastman Circle, key supporters of
UR who have been “very generous
in their contributions to the University,” Wesley said.
A special edition of the Weekly
Buzz sent to students on Aug. 19
stated that “there will be a special
opportunity for students to receive
tickets to the keynote address free of
charge” and that details on how to obtain the “limited number of reserved
tickets just for students” would be
made available in September.
Wesley said that UR specifically
set aside 200 free tickets for students
to win in the lottery, which was an-
nounced in the Sept. 4 Weekly Buzz
with a statement that read: “Due
to the overwhelming response from
students interested in tickets for
President Clinton’s live keynote address at Meliora Weekend, a limited
number of student tickets for the
event will now be determined by
a random electronic lottery later
this month.”
“I think they
should have
given the opportunities to
students first.”
The opening of the lottery was
announced on Sept. 18. The lottery closes Friday, Sept. 23 and
students will be notified on Monday,
Sept. 26.
“We wanted to make sure everyone
had a chance to secure a ticket,”
Wesley said. “It was very important
to me and also to President Clinton’s
office that students got to see the live
Keynote address.”
Alumni Relations has also saved
several tickets for the live event to dis-
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tribute to student leaders in various
campus activity groups. These tickets
were proportionally allocated to every school at the University in order
to “give a representative sampling of
student leaders,” Wesley said.
As of Wednesday morning, Wesley
said only 521 students had put their
name in the lottery, a surprising turnout possibly resulting from student
resentment about the difficulty of
obtaining a ticket.
“I don’t agree with the lottery,”
junior Meghan Sullivan, who has
not been able to secure tickets to the
live keynote address or a simulcast
version, said. “I think the lottery idea
was kind of stupid. It should have just
been first-come, first-served.”
Other students completely missed
the lottery publicity and said more
effort should have been made to
advertise the event.
“I didn’t even know when it
was,” junior Chris Wright said. “I
get that the venue can only fit so
many people, but I [do not] think a
lottery is fair.”
Wright said he has no interest in
attending a simulcast, and that this
was the first speaker that has interested him since he’s been a student
at UR. He also said that students
should have gotten more priority over
alumni in the ticket distribution.
Wesley would not give exact details
about the number of alumni who
already have tickets.
“Since basically no one was able
to get tickets, I think it’s a good alternative and definitely better than
nothing,” senior Sarah Cohen said of
the lottery decision. She added that
she can “see both sides” to what some
students say is the unfair advantage
alumni have in obtaining seats.
“These are the people giving
money to the school, after all, so I
can understand it,” she said. “I do
think they could have provided more
options for watching it, maybe [by]
broadcasting it online.”
This is the first keynote address
that she has had any interest in attending, but she said she is uncertain
if she will attend a simulcast.
“I think they should have given
the opportunities to students first,”
freshman Emily Dubin, who was in
favor of the lottery, said. “A lot of
alumni come, and I know it’s a big
event for them, but they had their
time here and their fun events. This
[weekend] should be for us.”
Sophomore Natalie Molta said she
was on her computer “right away”
on the day tickets went on sale, but
still had no luck. Her parents got
seats to a simulcast.
“I get the first-come, first-serve
idea, but even people there two minutes later didn’t get in, so I think the
lottery can make things a little more
even,” she said. “Maybe they should
have done it by time priority, though,
and given people who entered [the
lottery] earlier more points.”
Senior Lian Law, who got a ticket
to the live event during the summer
online registration, thinks the idea
of first-come, first-served is fair in
theory, but that “many people who
actually should have gotten them in
the first place were unable to.”
“Perhaps setting aside a certain
amount of first-come, first-served
tickets for students and a certain
amount for alumni would help to
even the odds,” she said.
Despite the charged situation and
variety of student opinions, Wesley
emphasized that the keynote address is only one of more than 200
campus events this Meliora Weekend, and encourages students and
families to make an effort to attend
the simulcast in case tickets open
up. Buletti is a member of
the class of 2013.
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Celebrating 40 Years
Out of the Closet
The Empty Closet, an LGBT publication with UR roots,
celebrates its 40th anniversary
Article by Leah Buletti • News Editor
Design by Cheryl Seligman • Presentation Editor
Photos by Drue Sokol • Photography Editor
Images courtesy of Shoulders to Stand On and FirstGiving.com
In the middle of a summer night in 1969, a group
of policemen violently descended on the Stonewall
Inn, a gay nightclub in the heart of New York City’s
Greenwich Village that had become an enclave of
the up-and-coming gay rights movement.
Bottles, rocks and gunshots rained down upon
the crowd of about 200 homosexual bar-goers in a
melee that lasted most of the night and decimated
the Stonewall Inn — already a burgeoning icon for
the city’s gay community. Battling in the streets
lasted for days as police and homosexuals clashed
against each other, including beloved Beat poet
Allen Ginsberg, who may have given the moment
its most apt christening: “Gay power! Isn’t that
great! It’s about time we did something to assert
ourselves.”
The gay rights movement had begun.
A little more than a year later, on Oct. 3, 1970,
two gay UR students, Bob Osborn and Larry Fine,
stood on the steps of Todd Union, anxiously waiting to see if anyone would attend a talk by guest
speakers from two regional gay rights groups. The
event was the first of its kind in the University’s
history, at a time when society around UR was
pervasively homophobic. But no fewer than 100
people came out for the event.
The fledgling group became the Rochester Gay
Liberation Front and was granted formal recognition by UR, given an on-campus office and an
operating budget. Part of their start-up included
The Empty Closet, a four-page chronicle of the
emerging gay rights fight, first published in January 1971.
The Empty Closet, which is the oldest monthly
gay newspaper in New York state and one of the
oldest continuously published LGBT papers in the
country, transferred hands from the Rochester Gay
Liberation Front to the Gay Alliance of the Genesee
Valley (GAGV) — the name officially given to the
original group of UR students in 1973. The GAGV
still publishes The Empty Closet in its current
form — a 40-page monthly tabloid newspaper
that covers local, state, national and international
news, as well as issues pertaining to the LGBT
community.
Forty years after Osborn and Fine stepped out
from the crowd to lead a movement in its infancy,
The Empty Closet has transformed into a dynamic
newspaper, celebrating its 40th anniversary this
fall with a completely digitized archive, thanks in
large part to UR’s inculcation of the movement
and financial support.
As of this fall, every issue of The Empty Closet
from April 1971 to April 2010 has been digitized. The
complete collection will be available on UR’s online
database for research purposes this semester, while
the microfilm will be kept in the Rare Books and
Special Collections secure storage area.
“We needed to have it digitized to make it a
complete record of gay liberation in upstate New
York,” Evelyn Bailey, chair of a local LGBT history
committee called Shoulders to Stand On, said.
To fund the project, Bailey’s committee applied
to numerous grants — to no avail — before turning
to Richard Peek, Director of the Department of
Rare Books and Special Collections at Rush Rhees
Library, who helped secure preservation grant
money from UR. The CD digitization process was
paid for by an anonymous donor.
Besides creating a commemorative collection of
the archived issues that is for sale in celebration of
the 40th anniversary, one of the main motivations
for archiving The Empty Closet is a documentary
project.
See CLOSET, Page 7
FEATURES
Page 6
Kiss the right way, you nerds
BY hannah bazarian
Photo Editor
In our earlier years, swapping
spit was regarded as an epic event,
but by now it’s something we
hardly think twice about. While it’s
not exactly sex, kissing or making out is an important prelude
to intercourse and should not be
dismissed so quickly.
Outside of monogamous relationships, it’s essentially seen as
a formality that two people must
engage in before they can advance.
It’s also used as a great distraction technique that allows a guy
to begin the up-shirt groping he’s
really after. But nothing can kill
the mood faster than a bad kiss or
make out session. It’s something
almost everyone will claim they’ve
been the victim of, but few will
admit to being the perpetrator.
While I’m sure your techniques
are flawless, and there’s really
nothing left for you to learn, I’d
still like to offer a few tips. Just in
case.
1. Regarding teeth: It’s almost always a terrible idea to dive
head first into a round of making
out gnashing your pearly whites.
No one leans in expecting to get
bitten right away, unless there’s a
vampire-themed role play in the
works. So when is it OK to nibble
a little? Your best bet is toward the
end, while pulling away. It goes
without saying that being gentle is
key, and, for God’s sake, don’t ever
bite anyone’s tongue. There’s no
way to make that sexy.
2. To tongue or not to
tongue: I’m sure plenty of people
are cool going all out right from the
get-go, but if you’re not sure about
your partner’s intentions, don’t
risk it. Jamming your tongue out
at someone’s chastely closed lips is
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On top of that, it’s a totally
novice move. It screams lack of self
control and suggests that you probably haven’t kissed anyone since
middle school.
3. Sloppiness: It’s not like
there’s a huge variance in the
amount of saliva a person can
have in his or her mouth, yet some
people seem to have an endless
supply.
You know what I’m talking
about — when you pull away from
a kiss and immediately have to
wipe your face off without being
From the Archives
blatantly obvious.
If you want to not remind your
make out buddy of a golden retriever, try to mirror the other
persons movements and, er, mouth
shape. If you realize you’re better posed to perform CPR than to
seduce, something has gone wrong.
4. Hands: This is something of
a bonus point, as it’s not directly
a part of making out. The question of where to put your hands is
something that puzzles and frightens unkissed adolescents. By now,
it comes naturally, and everyone
probably assumes what they’re doing is totally correct. However, this
all depends on the message you
want to convey.
Sure, shooting your hands into a
girl’s bra five seconds in is correct
— if you want to send the message
that you’re a sleazeball. On the
other hand, keeping your hands
loosely on your partner’s hips or
waist the entire time is a big mistake, and any flame you had will
fizzle out.
I know it’s hard to convince college students to follow advice, but
I can promise you this much — if
you do take anything out of this
article and bring it to your next liplock, no one will know you didn’t
figure out how to do it right all by
yourself.
Bazarian is a member of
the class of 2013.
Thursday, September 22, 2011
things you
should
KNOW this week
Urban Dictionary word of the week:
“lunch-block”
(v.) The act of preventing or postponing someone from going to lunch through actions such as scheduling meetings,
asking questions or starting discussions at or near lunch
time.
“I was trying to get to Danforth to beat the rush, but was
totally lunch-blocked by my freshman roommate.”
This Day in History: Sept. 22
1692: The last people are hung for witchcraft in the
North American colonies.
1823: Joseph Smith, Jr. finds the golden plates that
would later become the Book of Mormon in Palmyra,
N.Y.
1888: The first issue of National Geographic magazine is published.
2003: David Hempleman-Adams becomes the first
person to cross the Atlantic Ocean in the wicker basket of a hot air balloon.
Imagine a time when Towers was an experiment
Campus Times Archives
Psychology professor Vincent Nowlis released his findings on the
Towers experiment, which introduced suites to UR in 1964.
BY caitlin olfano
experiment. In 1964, that experiFeatures Editor
ment took place in the Anderson
For students at UR, the dorand Wilder towers.
mitory is a place of refuge, even
Space was an ever-present issue
a home away from home. Our
for UR in the ’60s, as class sizes
suitemates become family, while
expanded year after year. Anderour roommates can become our
son and Wilder towers were built
best friends. But there was a time
to accommodate new students
at UR when the dorm wasn’t just
then, much like a new dorm is bea home — instead, it functioned
ing constructed today in the vicinmore as a psychological and social
ity of the Towers. But while suite-
UR Opinion
style living is seen as the norm for
upperclassmen now, it was in its
trial stages back when the Towers
were first constructed.
Exactly 47 years ago, the Campus Times published an article regarding the University’s decision
to create suites, entitled “Replies
Indicate Advantages of Towers
Suite Experiment.” Back in an
era when living arrangements
were heavily based on gender,
and parietals were in effect to
keep members of the opposite
sex out of each other’s bedrooms,
the University used Towers to
conduct an experiment in coed
dormitories.
Professor Vincent Nowlis of the
Psychology Department was in
charge of conducting the experiment, which included sending out
surveys to the first students who
inhabited Towers. The choice to
live in Towers in the ’60s wasn’t
based on whether a student had
enough points or took part in
special-interest housing. Instead
individuals were chosen based on
a screening process.
At the end of the year, Nowlis
collected 48 responses from these
individuals and determined that
there were several advantages to
students living in suites, namely
that living in Towers “helped …
to prepare students for their life
after graduation.”
Unlike other dormitories in
1964, Towers required students
to be more responsible for their
own actions due to a lack of residential staff. The increased level
of responsibility and the natural
replication of coed life outside UR
were both cited as being positive
features of the suites.
In terms of grade point average,
Towers was the place to live. Nowlis determined that the students
who lived in Towers had higher
grades on average than students
living in other dorms across campus. Students also listed in their
surveys that closer proximity with
their peers fostered communication and problem resolution.
However, while closer proximity allowed students to be part
of more discussions, the Towers
experiment showed that close contact between students made UR’s
“Bedroom Rule” obsolete, due to
its inability to be enforced.
“The only parietal rule in effect
in the Towers that prohibiting
members of the opposite sex in
one’s bedroom was undoubtedly
broken by the majority of residents,” Nowlis stated, based on
the replies he received.
In 1964, breaking the “Bedroom
Rule” was a serious offense, punishable by the Dean of Students to
those who were caught. Acknowledging that there were a few flaws
in the suite system, Nowlis suggested that an all-Towers system
of government be instituted. With
a strong government, Nowlis believed the actions of irresponsible
students would be kept in check,
and the parietal rules would be
better enforced.
Overall, the suites were found
to be a successful endeavor —
evidenced by the existence of
suite-style living at UR today. If
only Nowlis were still around, he
might be able to determine if the
Riverview and Southside apartments continued the trend of developing more mature, responsible
individuals.
Olfano is a member of
the class of 2012.
“How far do you think the YellowJackets will go on ‘The Sing-Off’?”
by matt Chin
Rachel Daum ’12
Jesse Lozano ’14
Lauren Laibach ’14
Helen Huang ’12
Mohamed Ahmed ’14
“I’ve never seen the
show but I hope they win.
They’re very good!”
“All the way! I saw the
opening segment, and
they were way up at the
front of the stage — such
good exposure.”
“I haven’t been paying
attention at all, so I have
no idea. That probably
makes me a bad UR
student.”
“I don’t know! I’m friends
with some of them, but
they won’t tell me anything.”
“Hard work and determina- “As far as they believe they
tion will always pay off, so I can go.”
will vote for them and others
will too.”
Charles Genese ’12
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Thursday, September 22, 2011
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BY Jordan Cicoria
Opinions Editor
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Continued from Page 5
“If we hadn’t digitized it, we would
have to go through literally 40
years worth of newspapers and
extract news. It would be an incredible task,” Bailey said.
Bailey’s committee is still working to finalize funding for the
documentary, which she aims to
complete by 2012 or 2013. They
need to raise about $120,000.
“A community doesn’t exist until
history has been documented and
written,” she said of the importance of the project. “It’s too easy
to dismiss a group of people who
may be involved in politics but
don’t have a documented history
of participation. The gay community has been extremely active in
Rochester, and we want it to be on
record so that the LGBT community cannot be dismissed as here
one day and gone the next.”
Even after the passage of legislation that legalized gay marriage in
New York state this July and the
excitement surrounding The Empty Closet’s anniversary, students
have varied opinions on the LGBT
community at UR. “UR is big on supporting diversi-
ty, and I think the UR community,
at least as far as I’ve experienced,
is really accepting, tolerant and
open,” junior Casey Aten, publicity
chair for UR’s Pride Network, said.
“But I also find that LGBT support
is kind of background support here
— people think [sexual orientation] doesn’t really matter, so they
think you don’t really need [the
support].”
Pride president and senior Melanie Davidoff said that while she
doesn’t feel like students are generally aware of The Empty Closet,
she thinks the LGBT community
at UR is strong.
“We have a decent core of LGBT
students who are interested in
activism, along with many others
who help to create a sense of community via social events,” she said.
“I do think more could be done to
create a larger sense of LGBT community in Rochester as a whole,
rather than a bunch of smaller
communities at the different colleges and in the city itself.”
Davidoff also said she thinks the
administration at UR has been
supportive of the LGBT community in recent years, which she said
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for you at the end of the underground tunnels.
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You’re already planning your
Spring Break get-away, but don’t
lose sight of your studies … or
your wallet.
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galaxy points to an Archery Club
encounter in your near future.
Capricorn (Dec. 22 - Jan.
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love at the Fraternity Quad on
Thursday. Your over-indulgence
will regretfully not permit you to
remember it.
Aquarius (Jan. 20- Feb. 18):
See page 18 for details on how
the position of Uranus will affect
your productivity this month.
Pisces (Feb. 19-Mar. 20):
Though you are drawn to the
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Cicoria is a member of
the class of 2012.
Illustrations by
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“I think UR is a very open and
welcoming community for LGBT
people, but organizations like Pride
aren’t particularly active on campus,” she said. “Gay rights issues
aren’t really advertised ... there
aren’t many awareness events that
would educate the average student.
For example, [‘don’t ask, don’t
tell’] was finally repealed for good
this week and there wasn’t a celebratory rally or anything.”
In 40 years, the gay rights movement has covered an immense
amount of ground, starting from
that night in Greenwich Village.
From there, two brave souls on
a cold October night went on to
revolutionize LGBT acceptance in
Rochester. Even recently, we see
improvements in gay rights with
this past Tuesday’s official end to
the military’s “don’t ask, don’t
tell” policy.
Despite society’s strides, bullying and suicides at the hands of the
uneducated leave us wondering, as
Bob Dylan asked, how much longer
we will go on, pretending we just
don’t see.
Buletti is a member of
the class of 2013.
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is especially important given the
group’s push to make UR a more
“transgender friendly zone.”
“I’ve had pretty good experiences — I have good friends and
feel comfortable talking about my
sexuality with everyone I meet
on campus, including professors,”
senior Charles Genese, who has
been involved with Pride for four
years and served on the Shoulders
to Stand On Committee, said.
Genese concurred that few
students, even in the LGBT community, are aware of The Empty
Closet, but said that UR Pride
still has a strong relationship with
GAGV. Pride’s fall general interest
meeting saw the largest turnout in
recent years, he added.
“My one complaint is that many
of my gay friends find it hard to
form relationships on campus
because LGBT students are, of
course, in the minority and many
open people don’t make it public
knowledge,” he said. Junior Alanna Scheinerman,
who is not formally involved in
Pride, said she thinks prejudice
still exists at UR and that more
could be done to educate students.
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EDITORIAL BOARD
LATS bus standing
Have you ever noticed a gray bus that makes frequent stops at the Rush Rhees bus terminal
every weekend but doesn’t look anything like the buses that regularly run through our school?
That would be the Livingston Area Transportation Services bus, simply referred to as the
LATS bus. It looks foreign to UR students because, technically, it is — the bus is operated out
of the nearby town of Geneseo.
Its primary purpose is to provide SUNY Geneseo students, as well as Geneseo residents
in general, transportation around their area. But on the weekends, the LATS bus route
extends beyond its hometown. Every Friday, Saturday and Sunday, the LATS bus provides
Geneseo-to-Rochester service specifically for SUNY Geneseo students. This isn’t merely a
back-and-forth ride between two campuses — instead, the LATS bus covers a surprisingly
extensive number of Rochester hot spots. Some of its weekend stops, besides our own campus,
include: Rochester Institute of Technology, the Eastview and Marketplace Malls, The Little
Theatre, the Trailways, Greyhound and Amtrak loop, the Rochester airport and more. All
in all, the LATS bus covers a little bit of ground from each of UR’s bus lines, as well as some
unique places of its own.
Why, then, does UR not embrace the possibilities of this extra bus line? The Rush Rhees
vestibule displays the full schedules of every UR bus line, but not the LATS schedule. The
schedule is also not available anywhere on campus, even at the Campus Connection office in
Wilson Commons. Even though the LATS bus comes to our school nearly a dozen times every
weekend and goes to many points of student interest, UR hardly seems to acknowledge this
service. Maybe that explains why, every so often, a few poor freshmen accidentally board a
LATS bus, mistaking it for a UR bus and not realizing their mistake until they’re 40 minutes
outside of Rochester. (It sounds ridiculous, but ask around — it happens every semester).
For UR students, the LATS bus has one big disadvantage: While the service is free for SUNY
Geneseo students, it costs $6.50 for all other riders (assuming the driver remembers to ask for
student IDs), meaning the LATS is a luxury as well a convenience. But the University could,
plausibly, work on a deal to extend the free service to UR students, seeing how our campus is
one of the most popular stops on the route and the weekend service exists primarily for students. However, before doing so, UR would need to take notice of this service and how helpful
it could be to UR students wishing there were just a few more stops on the weekends.
Microphone check
If you’ve had a class in any one of the University’s large lecture halls, there’s a good chance
that you’ve encountered one of the most universal and persistent technological problems on
campus — microphone failure. A microphone on the fritz can become anything from a slight
nuisance to major class disruption, but either way, they’re an important enough piece of campus
technology to warrant more attention.
In many cases, a microphone will either cut out completely near the beginning of class or worse,
the professor will fail to turn it on in the first place. In less extreme instances, the microphone
can be on, but it seems to be amplifying all the wrong sounds, such as “Ps” and “Bs” at the
beginnings of words, while the rest of the speech remains completely inaudible. The resulting
sound is essentially that of two bears fighting, which really doesn’t help to make the professor’s
message any more clear.
Oftentimes, professors will try to fix these microphone problems at the beginning of class.
This takes time out of a lesson that was probably calculated to fit exactly in the alloted 50 or
75 minutes. The strain from this can either fall on the professors, because they have to adjust
their lesson plans, or on the students, if the professors decide that they’re not going to change
the class material. What’s worse, if these microphone malfunctions become a recurring issue,
the wasted time at the beginning of class does too.
Even if the professor doesn’t try to fix the problem on his or her own, a call to ITS is in order
to get the problem resolved — no matter what, valuable class time is lost.
There are many factors that could be at play here. Perhaps the microphones themselves are
at fault. Alternatively, the media control systems in the halls could be the culprit. Or maybe this
isn’t really a technological issue at all — perhaps professors simply haven’t received the training
necessary to properly use the microphones and systems in the various lecture halls. One thing is
for certain: the University should devote some resources to finding out exactly what the problem
is, and subsequently toward resolving it.
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which consists of Jason Silverstein (Editor-In-Chief), Justin Fleming (Managing Editor), Jordan
Cicoria (Opinions Editor), Jonathan Raybin (Copy Editor) and Julia Sklar (Arts & Entertainment
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Editorial Observer
Government restrictions on cheese stink
Don’t get me wrong, I am not
a libertarian. I think government
restrictions are a good thing in
certain cases — like big businesses,
carbon emissions, killing people,
etc. I do not think of the government as a big faceless entity whose
sole purpose is taking away my
rights. I do have one issue, though,
in which I’d gladly take up arms
in order to fight the menace of
government overregulation: my
cheese.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), as you might
already know, is a branch of the
government concerned with making sure that the aspirin we pop
isn’t tainted with LSD and our
Easy-Mac does not contain any
traces of baby tears. All in all, I’m
pretty darn neutral on the whole
organization. But for some reason,
they seem to be honing in on the
sale of all raw milk and raw milkbased products.
If one ventures over to the FDA’s
website, one will find scary Soviet
propaganda-esque warnings about
all the possible evil bacteria that
you could get from unpasteurized milk. According to the FDA,
queso fresco can kill your baby,
and your grandmother’s favorite
brie just might be the end of her.
The FDA has also put forth a ban
on the interstate sale of raw milk
products, although the extent to
which raw milk can be sold — and
otherwise distributed — remains
up to the individual state laws,
much to their dismay.
Why is the FDA so concerned
with us eating pasteurized products? Are soft stinky cheeses really
a menace to our society? Well,
according to the FDA, 800 individuals in the United States have
gotten sick from ingesting raw
milk products since 1998. Let’s do
some math now. That’s 800 people
in 13 years, which averages out to
about 60 people a year. When you
consider that some of the tastiest
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and most popular cheeses are made
exclusively from raw milk, that is a
ridiculously low statistic. My guess
is that you’re much more likely to
get gastrointestinal upset from a
panda bowl or hot dog at a Red
Wings game then you are from a
fancy bleu cheese. The European
Union states that raw milk products are “safe for human consumption” and doesn’t limit their sale
at all, and I haven’t seen a mass
extinction of Europeans yet.
But Hayden, you say, I understand that I am statistically very
unlikely to become sick from eating tasty, unpasteurized cheese,
but why not completely reduce
the risk and avoid unpasteurized
cheese altogether? My answer
would be because most unpasteurized cheeses are, as I said before,
tasty! Cheeses made from raw
milk include brie, asiago, pecorino,
comte, manchego, chedder, etc.
One of the most delicious examples
of a raw milk cheese, Roquefort,
is required by European law to be
made from unpasteurized milk in
order to bear the name at all.
Okay, you admit, you have
sold me on the idea of raw milk
cheeses, but do you suggest that
the government do absolutely
nothing to warn the public of the
potential dangers? No, I am not
saying that at all.
I propose that the FDA uses its
power to educate people of the
realities and the specific dangers
of raw milk. Instead of banning the
sale and distribution of raw milk
products throughout the U.S., why
doesn’t the FDA simply require an
informative warning sticker on
all raw milk products so people
can make their own choices about
what to eat?
Just as there are warnings about
the danger of consuming raw
meat to those who are pregnant,
elderly or immunocompromised
in all establishments at which
one might order a medium-rare
Hayden
Ford
•
Features
Editor
steak, there should be warnings
on unpasteurized milk products
so that each individual can assess
his or her own risk.
Perhaps this may be part of
the larger problem of American
obesity, since fresher food is more
likely to contain potentially harmful bacteria. The FDA banning or
over-regulating these items might
encourage the public to stick with
“safer” options such as processed
cheese or, God forbid, Cheetos.
What I’m really trying to say,
though, is that the FDA should do
more informing and less scaremongering — Americans should pay
more attention to their food and
how it is made. And know, if you
try to take away my Camembert,
you are in for a world of pain.
Ford is a member of
the class of 2013.
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OPINIONS
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Page 11
“It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.” — Lewis Carroll, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”
Democrats should require more litmus tests
BY Matthew Dawidowicz
If you want to run as a Republican on
the national level, you must have very
specific opinions on many issues. If you
deviate from even one, you run the risk
of alienation and primary challenges. You
may never badmouth your party, never deviate from the party line on major issues
and never tolerate dissent. A substantial
amount of primary challenges succeed.
No matter how crazy something is, you
must follow it.
But notice this doesn’t apply to
Democrats. There are Democrats who
constantly stray from the party line
and repeat GOP talking points. Dissent
is not only tolerated, but is sometimes
encouraged to set them apart from the
party line to win in their areas. Primary
challenges to dissenters rarely succeed,
and if anything, they prove that dissent
is favorable to them, causing even more
deviation.
This is likely a holdover from the New
Deal era, when Democrats had perennial
majorities (except in really bad years for
them) and both parties were ideologically
diverse. Since Democrats always had
allies in the opposing party for major
political issues, they never worried about
losing the majority. But obviously, we
don’t live in that world anymore.
Quiz question: name one policy thatwould permanently alienate a Democrat
from his party if he disagrees with
them. Time’s up. I guarantee that you
couldn’t think of one. A Democrat could
disagree on abortion, welfare, taxes, or
even entitlements and the party always
says, “Eh.”
Of course, these Democrats will always
be more liberal than any Republicans
in that seat, but that is not enough.
I want Democrats to
win to complete various
political and ideological
goals — not just to prevent the other side from
winning.
Democrats have a faction in their party that
goes out of its way to
bash its national party
and emulate its opposition in public. That
would be like if CocaCola hired people who
told customers not to
buy its soda, but still
said that they worked for them.
Granted, this faction is smaller than
it used to be, and it is now much smaller
because of Republicans beating many of
them in 2010, but it should be close to
nonexistent. It annoys the liberal base
and only creates the meme of “bipartisan
disagreement” and “Democrats split.”
Now, I don’t completely draw the line
here. My rule is this: any Democrat may
disagree with the party on a few issues,
but they must not disagree on major
party priorities, and they must never
be proud of any such disagreement.
Any Democrat that goes on Sunday talk
shows to talk about how uncontrollably
liberal their party is should be booted
out immediately.
In 2010, Rep. Chet Edwards (D-Tex.), who represented the conservative
Waco area, ran a campaign
on how he fought Obama’s
agenda. A Democrat must
never, under any circumstance, proudly fight his or
her party, even in rhetoric.
All that shows is that you
display contempt for your
party’s priorities.
Another example is Gene
Taylor (D-Miss.), who represented Biloxi and Hattiesburg and bragged about
voting for Sen. John McCain. What?! I
got mad about Democrats supporting
Republicans in rhetoric, but actually supporting them? I am at a loss for words.
Both lost their election to candidates
Taylor and Edwards, respectively.
Democrats must root out dissenters.
If the GOP functions that way, so should
the Democrats. This may sound odd, since
BY Adam Ondo
With the U.N. Resolution 377 “Uniting for Peace,” will Palestine finally
achieve statehood? Most likely, it will
not.
In order to adopt the resolution, all
15 members of the U.N. Security Council must affirm it unanimously. President Obama has already said that the
United States will exercise its veto
power if the resolution reaches the
council. There is a loophole, found in
rule eight of the resolution, which may
allow the Palestinians to bypass the
Security Council, but the chances for
success are still rather slim. Palestine
will probably be denied statehood, and
that is unfortunate.
If Obama, Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton and Prime Minister of Israel
Benjamin Netanyahu really wanted to
put an end to the Palestinian threat —
or nuisance, depending on who you ask
— they would grant Palestine statehood. Let me explain.
As of now, terrorist attacks coming
out of Gaza and the West Bank cannot be attributed to a country, which
means that most forms of sanctions
and force cannot be used against the
territory from which the terrorists
came. However, if Hamas or Fatah
commit any act of aggression against
Israel while they have political leaders
in office, that can be considered provocative, and Israel can legitimately go
to war with the territories comprising
Palestine.
Some naïve individuals may think
that giving Palestine statehood would
eliminate terrorist attacks, but the
Bloomberg View editorial board is
probably correct in assuming that
statehood followed by a predictably lethargic change in the status quo will
“spark a new uprising” and “increase
the chances of a terrorist attack.”
These terrorist attacks could provide
Israel with a legal reason to invade
Palestine as both a preventive and
preemptive measure.
A new uprising, which could be expected in a newly created state that
is full of volatility, might also provide
a window of opportunity to countries
like the U.S., which would like to seize
control of Palestine. Some may wonder how an uprising could provide the
U.S. a chance to secure Palestine and
neutralize it as a threat. Army Field
Manual 100-23, Peace Operations explains everything.
Peace operations states that these
measures are used “to assist in the
maintenance of order and stability in
areas where it is threatened.” Foreign
intervention is usually only seen in instances “where the loss of order and
stability threatens international stability” or where human rights violations are occurring. Russian military
actions in South Ossetia and Abkhazia have been labeled as stability operations. Foreign involvement in Afghanistan has been deemed a stability
operation. If Palestine had a government that denied involvement in the
predicted new wave of violence, unrest
or terrorism, but could not reclaim order within the state, then the international community would still have a
reason to take control of the country.
Another reason not to veto the resolution would be to keep our ties with
other Muslim countries healthy. Saudi
Arabia has already warned that a veto
would be “toxic” to diplomatic relations. The U.S. does not receive much
cooperation from Middle Eastern countries as it is — so maybe allowing the
Palestinians to become a state would
improve diplomatic relations with
Muslim countries, while making Palestine even more susceptible to foreign intervention or retaliation if the
terrorism and unrest does not end.
However, assuming that Obama goes
through with his plan to veto, none of
this will matter. A veto, though probably venomous to diplomatic relations,
would provide Israel with a new, and
possibly better, option.
If Palestine gains statehood, however, Israel will then have to respect its
borders and stop expanding its settlements. If the buffer zone from other
Muslim countries’ advances, the West
Bank will also disappear and will probably be replaced by a country with a
military stationed just a few hundred
feet from the Israeli border.
If Palestine does not gain statehood,
then Israel could bring its own resolution before the U.N. The resolution
could contain Israeli defined boundaries and extend an offer of statehood
to Palestinians living in the areas outside of said boundaries. The resolution
could also have a clause restricting
the military capabilities of the Palestinian state, like the restrictions put
on Japan after World War II.
This option may be better than granting Palestine statehood and hoping
that they become unstable enough to
justify an invasion. This is from Israel’s point of view. The U.S. will suffer
diplomatically if it vetoes, so it may
want to rely on the chance to confront
Palestine as an opposing state.
Veto or no veto, if the U.S. and Israel play their cards right, Palestine
will lose this game of politics.
Ondo is a member of
the class of 2014.
Democrats
must root out
dissenters. If the
GOP functions
that way, so
should the
Democrats.
Holding Palestine responsible
webpoll
What do you think of UR’s
reputation as a research
institution?
I love it! So many cool
studies come out of our
school.
48%
It’s nice, but some of the
teachers are definitely
all about the research.
I wish the school was
more balanced toward
the liberal arts.
31%
21%
Democrats are in the minority right now
and need help from conservative areas to
win the majority. I call baloney on that.
The Republicans didn’t moderate at
all in 2010. Here is my easy plan for a
liberal, cohesive Democratic Party in
the House.
Find, at a minimum, the 218 most
liberal districts in the country — no
matter what redistricting does, that list
will exist — and then win them. There
you go.
This is obviously easier said than done.
Many of these districts are Midwestern
suburbs with popular Republican incumbents, and are rather Republican at the
local level. But my point is that this is a
path that is there when they want it. If
you have to disagree with your national
party on so many issues, and then brag
about it, I would prefer to just let the
GOP have the seat.
I am a liberal first and a Democrat
second. I do not want the Democrats to
be “the party of the people,” or “the party
of sane people.” I want it to be America’s
liberal party. Some Democrats disagree
with me, saying that our diversity helps
us as a party. I do not know why you
would ever be proud of something that
weakens you, but it is their opinion and
not mine.
Dawidowicz is a member of
the class of 2012.
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houses.
We may not have
dragons.
But at the CT,
there is magic.
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arts & entertainment
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Mid-Autumn Festival honors Chinese culture
By Amanda Decker
Contributing Writer
The Mid-Autumn Festival, also
known as the Moon Festival or
the Zhongqiu Festival, is a harvest
celebration that takes place in
the eighth month of the Chinese
lunar calendar, when the moon is
at its fullest. This past weekend,
UR celebrated this year’s festival
with a show in Strong Auditorium
sponsored by the Chinese Students’
Association (CSA).
The event’s emcees, seniors
Miles Vaughn and Jay Jintian Li
and sophomore Jessica Cheung,
compared the holiday to American
Thanksgiving due to the role of a
special food — in this case mooncakes — and, of course, a specific
sport to watch, which for the MidAutumn Festival is dragon boat
racing.
The evening consisted of a series
of performances by groups from
around the city of Rochester as well
as students from UR. A lion dance
kicked off the show, with drums
and cymbals set up in the back to
set the tone of the dance, which was
certainly powerful, albeit confusing
for someone with little knowledge of
Chinese culture.
Following this was a fashion show
of traditional Chinese qipao dress. It
began with girls in their early teens,
then went all the way down the age
continuum to toddlers, who were
absolutely adorable in their brightly
colored embroidered dresses.
Despite the obvious efforts of the
emcees to make the show easier
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Phoenix Dance Studio of Rochester performed “Dance of the Long Pink Sleeves,” which showcased
traditional Chinese choreography and spectacular costuming during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
to understand for non-Chinesespeaking attendees, the effect of the
jokes made by Li — who announced
most of the performers in Chinese
— was lost in translation. Vaughn
and Cheung often switched between
speaking Chinese and English,
making it difficult to understand
what dialogue was simply being
translated and what was being said
in response to the other emcees in a
different language.
Language wasn’t a barrier for the
entirety of the show, however — one
of the best examples of this was the
performance by junior Bonnie Bi,
who sang “I’m Not As Brave As You
Think I Am.”
Although I really had no idea
what words she was actually singing — or what they meant — the
sadness of the song was portrayed
beautifully in her performance.
The first half of the show concluded with two performances from
the Chinese Federation of Greater
Rochester. First was Matthew
Zhang on the “erhu,” a traditional
two-stringed Chinese instrument
comparable to the violin. Zhang, at
only 14 years old, wowed the crowed
with his jaw-dropping ability and
ease at playing his instrument. If
you knew nothing about the erhu
but listened to him perform, you
would swear it had at least eight
strings, if not more.
Next was “The Lotus Dance,”
which masterfully intertwined
calmness and grace with power
and dynamism, especially once the
dancers brought out their fans.
They moved with such ease that
the fans looked like an extension of
their arms.
The second half of the show began with a poetry reading accompanied by three zithers — a harp-like
instrument with 18 to 23 strings
— and calligraphy writing, which
was being filmed and projected on a
large screen to allow audience members a close-up view of this intricate
art. While I didn’t enjoy the poetry
— mostly because I couldn’t understand what the poetry meant, unfortunately — the background zither
music was beautiful, as was the skill
of the calligraphy writing.
One of my favorite performances of the night was by two
students from Eastman, graduate student Yuan Wang, who
played piano, and freshman Han
Xie on violin. The English title of
the piece is “The Sunshiny Tashkurgan,” named for the influence
of Tashkurgan folk music.
See DRAGON, Page 14
Greentopia is anything but a throwaway experience
By Melissa Kullman
Staff Writer
It took two years of preparation, two dedicated men and
a shared vision for a greener
planet to make Rochester’s first
annual Greentopia Festival a
reality.
As indicated by the name,
Greentopia is a festival with a
theme of environmental consciousness. Its primary goal was
“that everyone in attendance
leave with at least one new
‘green’ idea that you can incorporate into your daily life,”
co-founders Lewis Stress and
Michael Philipson said in a statement printed in the festival’s
pamphlet. Greentopia also served
as a fundraiser for Stress and
Philipson’s other project, GardenAerial, which aims to transform
the High Falls area of Rochester
into a floating arboretum. By
hosting Greentopia in High Falls,
Stress and Philipson hoped to
bring more attention to the area
for this purpose.
The festival began with opening ceremonies on the Honest
Tea Music Stage, which included
speeches from Lewis, Stress,
Monroe Community College
President Ann Cress, Sen. Joseph Robach, Sen. George Maziarz and Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks. It was clear
that the county and state governments were just as excited about
Greentopia as the co-founders
and attendees.
Soon after, bands began to play
on the main Honest Tea Music
Stage and in a smaller tent in
the food court. The bands featured were incredibly talented
and varied in genre. Many were
family-friendly soft rock, such as
This Life — highly reminiscent
of Third Eye Blind — and Still
Saffire — an all-girl band with
vocals channeling the Cranberries, plus a tastefully thrown in
trumpet. There was also a highly
Wegmans Recycled Art Exhibition featured
local artists using
recycled materials to create art
with a
statement.
energetic Beatles cover band, Mr.
Mustard, which closed out the
festivities on Saturday, as well as
several other local favorites such
as Funknut, The Bob Squad and
Shaded Passion.
In an old building overlooking
the falls was Wegmans Recycled
Art Exhibition, which featured
local artists using recycled
materials to create art with a
statement. The Best in Show
award was Alexis Macdonald’s
“181 Days,” which consisted of
181 shelved jars full of the trash
the artist would have disposed
of daily. Her piece “allows the
viewer to visualize their own
participation in the waste crisis
that we face today,” as she said in
her artist’s statement. For those
interested in fashion, Goodwill
hosted the Extreme Fashion
Show, where runway models
displayed designer pieces made of
recyclable materials.
Movie screenings and speakers
were also abundant. In ROAR
nightclub on Commercial Street,
several popular sustainabilityoriented films were shown,
including “Everything’s Cool,”
after which director Judith Helfand used Skype to answer questions from the audience about
the filming process. Speakers
included film directors, activists,
actors, professors and businesspeople.
In addition to the variety of
artistic aspects of the festival,
100 sustainable businesses and
organizations from all over New
York gathered to spread their
environmental ways. Businesses
like One World Goods and Arteco
sold their recycled and fair trade
jewelry and accessories from all
over the globe. Companies like
Beyond Green and Hip Green
Pet showcased their all natural
cleaning and pet products respectively. Clothing company Eagle
Ray Traders featured hand-dyed
Boho-style skirts and dresses,
and a percentage of their profits
support a school in Bali. Mooseberry Soap Co. sold their organic
julia sklar • A&E Editor
Alexis MacDonald’s “181 Days” was displayed at the festival’s art
exhibit, and showed the trash she accumulated over 181 days.
soaps and representatives were
available to cheerfully explain
how easily they are made. Alternatives for Battered Women
showcased recycled lingerie
made for their tenants. Several
nonprofit organizations were
also present, including Lollypop
Farms, the American Diabetes
Association, Animal Rights Advocates of Upstate New York and
the Northeast Organic Farming
Association of New York, Inc.
The food vendors were also
rich in variety. All were either
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A&E
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Page 13
‘Ready Player One’: a wild ride
through a virtual world
Courtesy of daemonstv.com
Barney and Robin’s spark might be making a comeback, according to the season seven premiere of “How I Met Your Mother.”
‘HIMYM’ refocuses on
character growth
By Julia Sklar
A&E Editor
“How I Met Your Mother” is a
show that rewards its loyal viewers, that’s for sure. One of the
most successful ways it does this is
through the technique of continuous sub-plots. One such subplot
began last season — the mystery
of the wedding that viewers only
got to see for a few minutes during
each episode for an entire year.
For a while we all thought it was
Ted (Josh Radnor) finally tying
the knot, but toward the end of
the season, we saw far enough into
the scene that Lily (Alyson Hannigan) comes out of the chapel and
tells Ted that the groom wants to
talk with him; so unless the newest storyline is that Ted is a schizophrenic, we knew it wasn’t his
wedding. And so, after waiting a
year, season six ended with the big
reveal that Barney — the eternally
single womanizer — is surprisingly the groom of this mystery
wedding, which is where the first
of the two-episode season premiere
picked up on Monday, Sept. 19 on
CBS.
Last season added some muchneeded depth to the five friends
on this show, as the death of Marshall’s father actually allowed for
the notoriously funny characters
to cry. With the exception of Ted,
it seems like the show is continuing on with this idea of morphing
its characters and allowing them
to grow up a bit, although so far it
seems a bit contrived.
It makes sense to start seeing
Barney settle down, since we now
know his storyline will ultimately
end up at his wedding, but the
method for getting to that end
is all jumbled up. After showing
Barney at his future wedding, the
narrative goes backward and proceeds to show Barney attending
one of Ted’s friend’s weddings and
using that as testing ground for
his newest slew of creepy pick-up
methods. Seems normal enough
for Barney, right?
But at the same wedding, there
also seems to be a renewed spark
between him and Robin, as they
join in an intimate dance in front
of the entire wedding crowd. As
if these two story lines weren’t
misaligned enough, throw in the
second episode of the premiere
where Barney spends an entire
day sleeping at a diner to prove
to a girl that he cares about her.
Then we have Ted, who, in
these first two episodes, goes
through a short period of change,
but ultimately is the one character who seems exactly the same
this season. Honestly, his woeis-me-I-just-want-true-love approach to life was endearing for
about half of the first season, but
it’s been overplayed ever since
See MOTHER, Page 14
By Becky Rosenberg
Online Editor
College students have no time
to read. That’s a broad generalization, but let’s face it, it’s kind of
true. There’s no time to balance
problem sets, exams, papers, 1000page science textbooks, 10 classic
English novels and a book for pure
enjoyment.
So then how is it that we spend
so much time online? Hours waste
away with our eyes glued to Facebook, and Sporcle can drain away
at least 60 minutes of good study
time. We spend seemingly endless amounts of time surfing the
Internet in search of anything to
make us laugh, anything to waste
just one more minute before going
back to the real world of stress.
Well, what would happen if we
disappeared into the online world
altogether? What happens when
the Internet becomes more than a
tool and becomes life?
It’s the year 2044 in Ernest
Cline’s new novel “Ready Player
One.” It is the third decade of the
ongoing economic recession, and
the world outside is deteriorating
before the eyes of humanity —
that is if humanity were around to
pay any attention.
Wade Watts, along with billions
of other citizens of Earth, has
taken shelter inside the OASIS.
Created in 2012 by the Willy Wonka-esque James Halliday, the OASIS is an online interactive virtual
reality that is more than a video
game and more than the Internet.
Over 30 years into its existence,
OASIS has become a way of life.
Wade was born into a generation that lives inside the OASIS.
As an orphaned 18-year-old living
with his not-so-pleasant aunt and
her even less pleasant boyfriend
in a trailer park, it’s no wonder
he chooses to hide in an alternate
world. The virtual reality provides
both his high school and his social
life. In the evening, there is an entire universe to explore. It’s where
Wade learns, grows and meets
friends. Why venture outside
something so infinite when reality
is so limited?
Now here’s where things get
interesting. Wade doesn’t spend
his free time making new friends
on other OASIS planets or exploring new worlds. He spends his
time hunting. Hunting for what
exactly? That’s where Halliday
comes in.
No spoiler alert is necessary
when I tell you that Halliday
dies and his will is released for
the entire OASIS to see. This
is no ordinary will, though; in
extraordinary fashion, Halliday
leaves his $260 billion fortune
and the leadership of the OASIS
in the hands of any single person
who can find the Easter egg he
has hidden within his invention.
Three clues are hidden to lead to
the hiding place of the prize, and
so the hunt begins.
Five years go by and not one
person is closer to finding the
mysterious Easter egg. It becomes a myth, a legend. Only a
few of the most dedicated people
continue searching.
Then, Wade finds the first key
and the world turns upside down.
Cline sweeps up his audience
in this sci-fi adventure of the
past, present and future, binding
nostalgia and futuristic technology together into a heroic journey.
“Ready Player One” takes a very
realistic “what if” question of
our world and twists it into the
ultimate geek voyage.
I’m not even this book’s
ideal reader — that would be
the video-game-obsessed, ubergeek child of the 80’s , and I only
possess one and a half of those
qualities. But what is fascinating
and so entertaining about Cline’s
novel is its uncanny ability to
connect with the reader.
Sure, you may say you have no
time to read, and that’s probably
true. Instead of wasting hours in
front of your computer, however,
get lost inside the virtual world
of Ernest Cline’s imagination. If
there is one book you’re going to
read during this crazy semester,
or even this year, make it “Ready
Player One.”
Rosenberg is a member of
the class of 2012.
Courtesy of geek-news.mtv.com
The cover of Ernest Cline’s new book, about a virtual world in the
not-too-distant future, mimics the look of old school video games.
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It’s not often that I read something funny enough to actually render me incapable of stifling my laughter. It’s
also not often that I read blogs. So “Books of Adam” must be something really special if it is a blog I read religiously that also makes me “lol” for real. Updated a few times a month by Portland artist Adam Ellis, “Books
of Adam” in actuality does little more than document Ellis’ un-miraculous life. But being the gifted wordsmith
and graphic artist that he is, Ellis can easily turn the most mundane stories into the biggest comedy event of
your week.
His drawings are what really elevate his blog to something worth following, as they are apt comedic caricatures of real life situations that most readers can relate to. His most recent post is about beard maintenance.
Sounds like the most hilarious thing you’ve ever read, right? Of course not. But add some sarcastic wit and a
skilled drawing or two and it is. Ellis begins the post with: “‘Adam!’ said nobody. ‘How do you keep your beard
looking so fancy fresh?’ Well, figment of my imagination, I’ll tell you. It’s not easy. It’s a commitment, but since
you asked, I’ll do my best to impart my beard wisdom upon you.” He then goes on to explain that he started
growing a beard much earlier than everyone else, and his exclamation is accompanied by a picture of a bunch
of dopey-looking kids — one of whom has Rip Van Winkel-like facial hair — and is captioned “Mrs. Wilson’s
3rd Grade Class.”
“Books of Adam” is smart, cheeky and chock-full of enjoyable illustrations — if you were to only ever read
one blog in your life, this should be it.
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Thursday, September 22, 2011
YellowJackets
update corner
shermaine singh • Staff Photographer
The Chinese Federation of Rochester performs “Lotus Dance,” using traditional choreography.
Dragon: CSA celebrates Chinese harvest season
Continued from Page 12
The song, as the title implies, is a
bright, positive piece, perfect for the
celebration of a time of bounty.
The song “Qian Li Zhi Wai”
(“A Thousand Miles Away”) was
performed next as a duet between
senior and CSA president Alexander
Wei and RIT student Enqi Zhang.
This was an obvious favorite of the
crowd, as the performance received
raucous applause at its conclusion.
The Mid-Autumn Festival closed
with two more dances, but of very
different variety. First, the RICE
Crew performed to a mix of Asian
pop songs and recently popular
American songs. Their mix of Asian
pop dance and other styles such as
hip-hop made the performances a
pleasure to watch.
Next was Phoenix Dance Studio’s
“Dance of the Long Pink Sleeves.”
They wore very, very long sleeves
indeed. Initially, it looked as though
their sleeves only went just past the
tip of each dancer’s fingers, but with
a flick of the arm they tripled in
length, as extra fabric unfolded from
within the sleeves themselves.
This was unsurprisingly a far
more traditional dance than RICE
Crew’s. “Dance of the Long Pink
Sleeves” was an exceedingly graceful and controlled dance, whereas
RICE Crew’s dance was exciting
and modern. “Dance of the Long
Pink Sleeves” was certainly interesting to watch, but in a festival
rife with displays of traditional
Chinese culture, RICE Crew truly
stood out.
At the end of the show, Wei told
the audience that he was glad to
see such a diverse crowd because
“the Mid-Autumn Festival is for
everyone.” He expressed that one
of the goals of CSA was to allow
everyone to join the group, not
just Chinese or Chinese-American
students.
A lot of effort was put into making the group more diverse, and
this year’s show was more accessible for audience members who
aren’t familiar with Chinese culture — this was especially evident
in that they had the emcees switch
between Chinese and English,
which I personally appreciated.
This year’s Mid-Autumn Festival was a great mix of traditional and modern performance
styles that hail from China, and
it will be something that I look
forward to seeing become more
diverse in the coming years.
Decker is a member of
the class of 2014.
Mother: Newest season starts off mediocre
Continued from Page 13
then. The show’s creators, Carter
Bays and Craig Thomas, have finally caught on to this, I think, as they
tried to change Ted’s image entirely
in the course of one episode.
Ted has recently become the
youngest architect to add to the
New York skyline and, as such, gets
his picture on the cover of New York
magazine. He uses the opportunity
to pick up girls, and ultimately tries
his hand at dating two girls at the
same time. Hold up, is this Barney
or Ted we’re talking about? At this
point in the premiere, it became
apparent that Bays and Thomas’
technique for advancing their characters is to switch their personalities
around.
This doesn’t last long, though, as
Ted soon realizes this isn’t him (...
that’s because he’s acting like Barney), and he reverts right back to
his chick-flick ways of trying to find
a life partner.
Robin has always been a character that many movies and TV shows
have — an attractive woman with
the emotional range of a stereotypical man. Her character development
in this season will likely be that she
is actually still in love with Barney
and suddenly wants to get married.
It’s just hard to see this shift happen so suddenly in a character who
has consistently been emotionally
detached from relationships and
settling down.
Lastly, there are Marshall and
Lily, who sort of function as one
character in the show. Even though
viewers knew Lily was pregnant
at the end of last season, the other
characters didn’t know, so this
serves as the big reveal for the start
of season seven. I feel like an only
child who just found out Mommy
and Daddy are having another
kid and isn’t happy about it. Sure,
we all knew this was coming, and
I was even overjoyed when I initially found out that Lily was finally
pregnant. But I already don’t like
what it’s done to Marshall and Lily
as characters.
Over the summer, they went
from being the token cool couple to
bumbling, baby-obsessed soon-to-beparents. Not only is that predictable,
but I would have expected something less mushy from Marshall
and Lily, whose humor and sarcasm
throughout the show have always
been my favorite.
This turned out to be an unexpectedly negative review of the premiere — I really did enjoy the episodes, and they did make me laugh
as usual, but there’s still something
not quite right about where the
show is at right now.
As the characters get older, it’s
only natural that they start to turn
away from being silly recent college
graduates and turn toward being serious parents, husbands and wives,
but this can’t happen in a flash
between seasons six and seven, and
they shouldn’t lose their characteristic wit and humor in the process.
“How I Met Your Mother” airs
Mondays at 8 p.m. on CBS.
Sklar is a member of
the class of 2014.
Continued from Page 12
local or sustainable, or both. Options ranged from Snow Daze —
shaved ice flavored with all-local
fruit — to Flippin’ Birds, which sold
freshly grilled Cornish Game Hens
topped with rice. Vendors such as
Abundance Cooperative Market,
Noto Fruit Farm & Cider Mill, Honest Tea, Odwalla, Prairie Organic
Vodka, Sammich! and Heron Hill
Winery were also featured.
Greentopia made sure to appeal
to every age group with a wide
range of activities. The YMCA held
free Family Pilates sessions for
anyone to participate in.
The Kid Zone was a huge success,
featuring recycled crafts, a dirt pit
for “gardening,” demonstrations
by Seneca Park Zoo, including live
animals and grown men dressed in
green fairy costumes.
While their children learned how
to live sustainably on an accessible
and enjoyable level, parents could
enjoy a free wine tasting, where
several local wineries and breweries
showcased their sustainable alcoholic beverages.
In hosting the festival, the environment was always kept in mind.
Every sign and banner displayed
this message at the bottom: “This
sign will be recycled or upcycled
after use.” There were also carefully labeled waste centers, with
receptacles for composting, recycling
and throwing away trash. Volunteers were stationed near the waste
centers to instruct festival-goers on
where to put their garbage.
Overall, the Greentopia Festival
was an incredibly successful event.
Not only did it educate Rochester
citizens about sustainable living, but
it also provided a very enjoyable and
affordable experience for its vendors, volunteers and attendees.
Kullman is a member of
the class of 2014.
As the characters
get older, I guess it is
only natural that they
start to turn away
from being silly.
Green: Environmental festival is a Rochester first
By Cheryl Seligman
Presentation Editor
The YellowJackets can now be
considered our very own primetime
celebrities. On Monday night, the 15
singers kicked-off the third season of
NBC’s “The Sing-Off.” Competing for
the chance to win $200,000 and a Sony
Music recording contract, the YellowJackets earned
their place in the season premiere and advanced to the
next round.
In honor of a recent trip to Africa, the YellowJackets sang
“Wavin’ Flag” by K’naan, the official song of the 2010 FIFA
World Cup. Shawn Stockman of Boyz II Men commented
that the performance was powerful, had range and was full of
energy. Singer-songwriter Ben Folds agreed, but said that the
tempo fluctuated too much. Thirdly, Sarah Bareilles — also a
singer-songwriter and the show’s newest judge — noted the
sense of brotherhood among the members, yet explained that
she wanted to hear a more intricate counterpoint in terms
of arrangement. Bareilles did admit, however, that she was
unsure whether the song called for that.
Now allow me, your resident fourth judge, to weigh in.
Counterpoint is defined as the simultaneous movement of
multiple lines that possess different shapes and rhythms.
The YellowJackets employed this crucial element of musical
arrangement, but the full harmonies were the glue, which is
why there was no need for anything more “intricate.” That
being said, it would have been nice to hear more projection
on those existing contrapuntal lines.
Unmentioned by the judges was the addition of a key
change to the YellowJackets’ arrangement. The task of
changing keys is incredibly challenging, especially when not
present in the original song. Yet, when executed properly, a
key change is comparable to a suspended cymbal roll released
at the peak of a symphony. UR alumnus Danny Rubenstein
’11 brilliantly led the ensemble into a higher key so that the
closing phrases sounded absolutely epic. Audience members
on the show couldn’t resist throwing their hands up and waving them along with the group.
Lastly, the song selection was perfect. For the first performance, it’s difficult to captivate audiences with a slow
ballad, yet groups cannot fascinate the judges with a purely
gimmicky show. This song was both emotional and exciting.
Tune in to NBC on Monday, Oct. 3, to see how the YellowJackets fare in the next round.
Seligman is a member of the class of 2012.
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unanimous decision. Hands-on training is a large part of what we
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t Reasonable tuition and fees
t A campus recognized as one of the most diverse in the United
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We are a Tier One law school in a Tier One university. In addition,
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the most of your budget. There’s a lot to like about our school. Find
out more at www.law.uh.edu.
The University of Houston is an EEO/AA institution.
From the Pressbox
Thursday, September 22, 2011
A lockout for the better
BY Adam Ondo
Staff Writer
It appears that the NBA lockout is far from over, with the
players and owners still not able
to come to a deal regarding the
hard salary cap. The 1999 NBA
lockout resulted in a 50-game season, and I believe that this season
may be headed toward something
very similar. However, if the talks
do indeed end in a stalemate —
resulting in no NBA season this
year — many fans will be forced
to turn to other leagues or sports
for entertainment.
A quick Internet search for
alternative basketball leagues
brings up a couple options. The
World Basketball Championship
acted as a distraction over the
summer, especially for University
of Connecticut fans who wanted
to watch UConn star Jeremy
Lamb do his thing, but the event
couldn’t last forever. The “Lockout League” of
Impact Basketball in Las Vegas
is a good alternative to the NBA
right now (who doesn’t want to
watch John Wall drop 42 points
a game?), and Spurs fans have
been watching their man Manu
Ginobli, playing for Argentina in
his drive to the Olympics. The Na-
tional Football League and Major
League Baseball could also gain
new fans due to the lockout.
A season-canceling lockout,
if it improves the quality of the
game, may not elicit the vitriolic
response from fans that many
analysts are predicting. After the
2004-05 NHL season was cancelled, journalists and analysts
reported that the NHL was losing
fans, and that it would take a few
seasons for it to recover. This
was not the case, however, as
one study from the University of
Toronto indicated. Though many
NHL fans turned to amateur or
junior hockey teams, they went
right back to the NHL for the
subsequent 2005-06 season.
That said, the study suggests
that fans only returned to watch
the NHL because the majority of
them approved of the changes
that came from the restructuring
of the league. If the NBA wishes
to retain its fan base, it should
follow the NHL’s suit and work
to make the next season more
exciting. Then again, fans might
just be craving some basketball
after having spent the whole
winter without it.
Ondo is a member of
the class of 2014.
SPORTS
Page 15
athlete of the week
Casey Larsen
By John bernstein
Sports Editor
SeniorCaseyLarsenhascompeted
in three tournaments this season
with the women’s volleyball team,
and named
to the All
Tournament
team in all
of them.
Despite her
credentials,
the outside
hitter from
Livingston,
N.J. insists
that she is simply one piece of
the machine that is this year’s
volleyball team, with its 9-3
record.
What is your college major?
Psychology, [with a] minor in
Studio Arts.
Is there such thing as a “home
court advantage” in your
sport?
Yes. When we play at home we
are used to the lighting, the ceiling
beams and the perception of the
ball based on the wall distance.
The Palestra is the best gym I’ve
played in. I love how it sets a stage
for the team so fans can watch
from above.
Courtesy of UR Athletics
of five, and it’s difficult for a team
to beat another three times in a
row. But this team has a lot of
experience in playing multiple
times a day, and it’s something you
learn how to handle in travel ball
before attending college.
play for that long, that well?
Our team trained really hard this
summer and during the preseason.
Even though we lost the first game,
we were able to prevail in the next
three games. We were also really
mentally fit because many of our
previous matches have been long
or have gone to five games.
In the record-breaking win
over Geneseo, you had 16 kills
and 22 digs. Was it tough to
Your tournaments routinely
consist of playing multiple
times, multiple days in a
row. Is it difficult to come to
the court and compete, only
to come back a few hours
later?
It is difficult, especially because
the games we play are three out
What are your hopes for the
team this season?
I would love to see this team
show everyone how passionate
we are about the sport and how
hard we have worked. I believe
success will follow. Overall, I’m
really excited about the potential
of this team.
Bernstein is a member of
the class of 2014.
BY Dan Lane
Staff Writer
The men’s and women’s cross
country teams faced stiff competition at this past weekend’s University at Buffalo Stampede Invitational.
The men finished second of five
teams behind the host, with a
score of 53 points to UB’s 21. The
Yellowjackets were led by senior
captain Jamie Vavra who finished
the 8-kilometer course in 25:23
for sixth place. Behind Vavra were
sophomore Adam Pacheck (ninth,
25:49), Take Five Scholar Frank
Ramirez (11th, 26:04), sophomore
Yuji Wakimoto (12th, 26:08) and
junior Dan Hamilton (15th, 26:24).
The displacers were sophomore
John Bernstein (16th, 26:26) and
senior Paul Kintner (19th, 26:38).
Both Bernstein and Kintner had
breakout races to make the top
seven.
Many members of the team
consider their second place finish
a solid, albeit unsatisfying, performance. “We ran well,” freshman Mark
Rollfs said. “But coach wants to
keep our expectations high because
we can do much better.”
Despite the desire for more, the
race contained many overwhelming
positives for the Yellowjackets. They
held their own against a tough Division I team in University at Buffalo
and defeated California University of
Pennsylvania, SUNY Geneseo and
St. Bonaventure University. Almost
every UR man improved his personal best time. The Yellowjackets had
11 runners finish in under 27 minutes and 19 under 28 minutes.
The women’s team had a similar
finish and a similar attitude following the race. They placed third of
five behind UB and California University with a score of 80 points to
UB’s 21 and California’s 52. First
across the line for the Yellowjackets
was junior Zarah Quinn, who finished the 5-kilomter race in 19:37 for
tenth place. Closing up the scoring
for UR were senior Hillary Snyder
(17th, 19:54), sophomore Danielle
Bessette (19th, 19:59), freshman
Katie Woodworth (20th, 20:12) and
junior Meg Ogle (21st, 20:13), with
freshman Victoria Stepanova (23rd,
20:24) and senior Meg Battin (24th;
20:29) finishing as the displacers.
UR’s top seven women all finished in under 21 minutes, and their
spread from first to fifth was only
36 seconds — a good sign with a big
meet like the Paul Short Invitational
not far away.
The Yellowjackets managed to run
solid races among tough interdivisional competition this week. Their
improvement between last week’s
race and this one plus the demeanor
of this team shows that they have a
lot more to give before the season
ends.
*John Bernstein is
CT Sports Editor.
Lane is a
Take Five Scholar.
For Buffalo fans, it’s
‘next year’ every year UR succeeds in heat of stampede
Courtesy of nflpassers.com
Bills quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick has led his team to a 2-0 start.
BY Thomas McAndrew
poised for a breakout, and led by
Contributing Writer
a smart, conservative quarterback
It appears that the NBA lockout in Ryan Fitzpatrick, a Division III
season were indicative of what is yet running back who runs with a chip
to come, we’d be well on our way to on his shoulder, and an Ochocincoa Super Bowl for the ages: a rivet- like personality in Johnson, if nothing Chicago Bears vs. Buffalo Bills ing else this rag-tag group will be
showdown. These two teams were fun to root for.
the surprising leaders in terms of
So even though Buffalo probably
scoring differential (points scored won’t be a factor in this year’s postminus points allowed) in their re- season, there’s reason to believe
spective conferences after Week 1.
that the despondency that has
As the season progresses and come to define the Bills fan will
the statistical sample sizes prove be a thing of the past by then. The
that the Bills’ 41-7 demolition of cause of such hope will be a 2011the Chiefs is unfortunately the 12 campaign that will have yielded
exception (as opposed to the rule), the Bills’ first winning season since
Bills fans will soon have to come the 2004 Bledsoe, McGahee and
to the realization that their prized Moulds team. My crystal ball shows
wide receiver Stevie Johnson will the Bills winning nine games and
be watching the playoffs like the losing seven.
rest of us — any follower of @SteThe first real test is next week:
vieJohnson13 should already know a home game against the Patriots.
he’s a man of the people — on his If the Bills can cover the spread
couch at home.
against New England, a winning
The playoffs are nothing but a season will be assured. At the
pipe dream for Buffalo, and have very least they’ll quiet all the noise
been since the turn of the century. about leaving their hometown.
It’s difficult to compete when you’re
It feels like every year, around
more likely to be a contender in the this time, fans set themselves up
Andrew Luck Sweepstakes than for disappointment with their lofty
to stand a chance against the New expectations of what’s in store for
England Patriots and their Ugg- the season. Maybe tempering our
clad, reigning MVP quarterback expectations is the best bet, but, for
Tom Brady.
now at least, the Buffalo Jills (the
While the first few games of the Bills’ cheerleaders) are no longer
NFL season tell very little of what’s the most exciting thing in Buffalo.
yet to come, they’re certainly far
We can only hope.
from meaningless. In the game
McAndrew is a member of
against the Chiefs, Buffalo looked
the class of 2015.
This Week in Sports
Friday, September 23
•Women’s Volleyball at Salisbury College, 3 p.m.
•Field Hockey at St. Lawrence, 4 p.m.
•Women’s Volleyball vs. Rowan College, 7 p.m.
SATURDAY, September 24
•Women’s Tennis at ITA Regional Championships, 8 a.m.
•Men’s Golf at Liberty League Championships, 9 a.m.
•Women’s Volleyball vs. Moravian College, 10 a.m.
•Men’s and Women’s Cross Country at Harry Anderson Invitational, 11 a.m.
•Football vs. Union College, 12 p.m.*
•Field Hockey at Skidmore College, 2 p.m.
•Men’s Soccer vs. Lycoming College, 7 p.m.*
*denotes home competition
Stat of the Week
19
Campus Times Archives
Senior Hillary Snyder was the
second Yellowjacket to finish.
Number of goals the women’s field hockey team has scored in the past three
games. The Yellowjackets rolled past Elmira College, 9-0, on Thursday, Sept.
14, then walked over Kenyon College, 5-0, and College of Wooster, 5-1, this
past weekend.
S p o rt s
Campus Times
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Results
Field Hockey
(6-1)
Cardinals punish 'Jackets
Liberty League standings:
Sept. 17: Kenyon College
5-0 (W)
Sept. 18: College of Wooster
5-1 (W)
Football
(1-1)
Liberty League standings:
Sept. 17: St. John
Fisher College
52-3 (L)
Men’s
Soccer
(6-2)
Sept. 17: Hobart College
2-1 (L)
Women’s
Soccer
(5-0)
Sept. 17: Union College
2-1 (L)
Women’s
Volleyball
(9-3)
Sept. 17: Trine University
at RIT Invitational
1-3 (L)
Sept. 17: SUNY Potsdam at RIT
Invitational
3-1 (W)
Courtesy of Dennis O’Donnell
Senior Thomas Hayes, who had 50 yards receiving in a 52-3 loss to St. John Fisher
College on Saturday, made several key plays that set up a second-quarter field goal.
By John Bernstein
FuQuan Borum rushed for with a field goal. From
Sports Editor
another to compile a 28-3 the Cardinals’ 24-yard
The Yellowjackets strug- lead entering the half. St. line, junior kicker Alex
gled on both sides of the John Fisher totaled 238 Antonucci cut St. John
ball in Courage Bowl VII at yards passing, 147 rush- Fisher’s lead to 7-3 with
Sahlen’s Stadium in Roch- ing.
six minutes to play in the
ester on Saturday, Sept.
That said,theYellowjackets first half.
17, falling to the perennial didn’t go completely unOn the defensive side,
national contender St. John heard. UR passed for 107 junior inside linebacker
Fisher Cardinals, 52-3.
yards throughout the game, Brendan Pidgeon, who had
Headlined by linebacker 50 of which went to junior two interceptions in last
Nick LoBrutto — who fin- w i d e r e c e i v e r T h o m a s week’s victory over Case
ished the game with eight Hayes. Yellowjackets’ ju- Western Reserve Univertackles and a sack — the nior quarterback Braezen sity, led UR with 15 tacksharp, physical Cardinals’ Subick, who completed 11 les. Outside sophomore
defense refused to allow of 19 passes for 90 yards linebackers Tony Ortega
a single UR touchdown and an interception, con- and Zach Cicero had 13
throughout the game.
nected with Hayes five and 10 tackles, respectiveSt. John Fisher’s offense t i m e s t h r o u g h o u t t h e ly. Spencer Miller tallied a
was perhaps even more bru- game. Two of Hayes’ re- six-yard sack of Kramer
tal, as Cardinals’ quarter- ceptions contributed the for the Yellowjackets.
back Ryan Kramer passed t e a m ’ s s e c o n d - q u a r t e r
Bernstein is a member of
for three touchdowns and scoring drive, which ended
the class of 2014.
In matchup of unbeaten
squads, soccer falls just short
Sept. 18: Buffalo State University at RIT Invitational
3-0 (W)
Sept. 18: Nazareth College at
RIT Invitational
3-1 (W)
Sep. 20: RIT
3-0 (L)
Men’s
Tennis
(1-2)
Sept. 18: St. Lawrence Fall
Classic
Sophomore Boris Borovcanin
won the A flight singles at the St.
Lawrence Fall Classic, defeating
Andrew Libin of Hamilton College (3-6, 6-4, 10-3). Borovcanin
andjunior Brian Rice reached
the Championship match of A
Flight Doubles, but fell to a pair
of Hamilton players (8-9). The
Yellowjackets’ senior Alex Magill
lost in the semifinals of the B
Flight Singles to Coby Berman
of Hamilton (2-6, 4-6).
Men’s Cross
Country
Sept. 17: University at Buffalo
Stampede Invitational
2nd of 5
Women’s Cross
Country
Sept. 17: University at Buffalo
Stampede Invitational
3rd of 5
Volleyball grinds
out three more W’s
Women improve to 9-3 on season
1. UR (0-0)
1. Skidmore (0-0)
1. St. Lawrence (0-0)
1. Hamilton (0-0)
1. Rensselaer (0-0)
1. Vassar (0-0)
1. Union (0-0)
1. William Smith (0-0)
1. UR (0-0)
1. Merchant Marine (0-0)
1. St. Lawrence (0-0)
1. Hobart (0-0)
1. Rensselaer (0-0)
1. WPI (0-0)
1. Union (0-0)
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Campus Times Archives
The UR offense took a 1-0 lead over Union in the first
half, but couldn’t hold on, surrendering two goals later.
By John Bernstein
Sports Editor
The competition the women’s
soccer team has been slated
against this season has been,
in a word, underwhelming.
Entering their game with
Union College this past Saturday, Sept. 17, the Yellowjackets
had shut out four of the five
opponents they’d faced this
season, only yielding one goal
throughout that span to cross
town rival Rochester Institute
of Technology last week.
The women finally met their
match on Saturday, as the
Dutchwomen broke through
the normally impenetrable UR
defense to score two goals in the
second half and defeat the visiting Yellowjackets, 2-1. The loss
was the yellow and blue’s first
of the season, while the Dutchwomen improved to 5-0.
The match was a battle from
the start, as two of the top
teams in the country (UR
ranked No. 8, Union No. 15
at the start of the game) went
back and forth without scoring
a goal for a majority of the first
half. UR sophomore Kathryn Rowe broke this streak,
however, as she accepted a
corner kick from teammate
and sophomore Grace Van der
Ven, aimed and kicked the ball
into the right lower corner of
the net. Rowe’s goal was her
first of the season and put the
Yellowjackets on top, 1-0.
UR junior goalie Bridget Lang
subdued the Union offense for
the next 25 minutes, refusing to
let in a goal despite a number of
potent shots on the part of the
Dutchwomen — Union ended
up outshooting UR by the
game’s end by a tally of 13-7.
Midway through the second
half, however, things tilted in
the home team’s favor. Union’s
Jennifer Mansfield got a pass
by the UR defense, and teammate Whitney Bickford was
there to knock it in. Four
minutes later, Union’s Mollie
Gilchrist headed in a corner
kick to put the Dutchwomen
up for good.
The women open University
Athletic Association competition on Saturday, Oct. 1,
when they travel to Waltham,
Mass.to take on Brandeis
University.
Bernstein is a member of
the class of 2014.
By John Bernstein
S ports E ditor
The women’s volleyball
team didn’t have to travel
very far this past weekend, heading across town
to Rochester Institute of
Technology to compete in
the RIT Invitational. It
was, however, a busy and
eventful weekend for the
team. The women played
four matches and won
three of them.
Things didn’t start so
hot for the Yellowjackets.
Up against Trine University in the first of two
games on Saturday, the
women lost a hard-fought
battle in four sets, taking
the second set (25-21) but
relinquishing the other
three (23-25, 16-25, 1625).
Junior Kelly Mulrey contributed nine kills to the
effort, while sophomore
Savannah Benton wasn’t
far behind with eight. Junior Lauren Bujnicki, who
leads the Yellowjackets in
digs in the 2011 campaign,
added 17 to keep several
crucial rallies from falling
through.
L a t e r t h a t d a y, t h e
Yellowjackets returned
to the court to take on
SUNY Potsdam. Like in
the Trine match, the outcome was determined in
four sets, with the loser
claiming just the second
set. Unlike the match with
Trine, however, UR was on
the winning end this time
around.
Mulrey was again a
presence, pouring in 10
kills, eight aces and nine
digs. Bujnicki put on an
even greater performance
than in the Trine match,
this time supplying 22
digs. The real difference,
however, was senior Casey
Larsen, whose ruthless
style of play earned her a
game-high 14 kills.
UR returned to go twofor-two in competition
on Sunday. The women
quickly did away with
Buffalo State University,
sweeping the board 3-0
(25-22, 25-23, 25-21).
Sophomore Sara Ribakove had a standout game,
leading the way with 13
kills and 10 digs. Larsen
had 12 kills, and Bujnicki
15 digs. Senior Katie
Kao played solid defense
throughout the match, for
the 'Jackets, contributing
one solo block and three
block assists.
The team wrapped up
the day by downing local
rival Nazareth College, 3-1
(25-14, 20-25, 28-26, 2522). The win snapped the
Golden Flyers’ three-game
winning streak, dashing
the team’s hopes of claiming the team title.
UR took home thirdplace in the 12-team tournament, behind Trine and
St. John Fisher College
but ahead of University
Athletic Association rival
N e w Yo r k U n i v e r s i t y,
which finished fourth.
The 'Jackets return to
play on Friday, Sept. 23,
when they take on Salisbury College and Rowan
College in the opening
rounds of the York Invitational in York, Pa.
Bernstein is a member of
the class of 2014.
Campus Times Archives
The Yellowjackets’ net game was sharp, overwhelming
three teams to claim third place at the RIT Invitational.