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By and for the students of Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Sarah Caffrey ‘10Herald Reporter

Bryan Lee ‘10 and Charlie Barth ‘10contributor

Guster coming to Geneva Hobart and William Smith

Colleges will present a concert by Guster, a pop/rock/folk band originally formed at Tufts Uni-versity, begin-ning at 8:30 p.m. Wednes-day, Nov. 15 at the Smith Opera House in downtown Geneva.

Doors will open at 7:30 p . m . T h e concert is ex-pected to feature selec-tions from Guster’s new album, “Ganging Up on the Sun.”

Tickets are $11 for HWS students with ID, and will be available starting Oct. 18 in the

Student Life and Leadership of-fice (cash only) or in the College Store (Visa, Master Card, cash, check or student charge).

General ad-mission tickets are $21 each and $16 for students at oth-er colleges and univers i t ies with ID, and will be avail-able beginning Wednesday, Oct. 25 at the Smith Opera House Box Of-

fice. For details on the band, visit

http://www.guster.com/press/.

On Monday night, fire light illuminated the quad to reveal the supportive faces of those who champion justice. After a long march, women and men alike stood with conviction in a candle light vigil in order to “Take Back the Night.”

Originally called “Reclaim the Night,” the marches began in Europe in the late 1970’s in protest of violent crimes against women. It found its way to the US in 1978 where “Take back the Night” enjoyed its first success in San Francisco. Soon, college campuses across the country ad-opted this march to demonstrate their intolerance of violence against women as did HWS.

This year’s march on the HWS campus was this past Mon-day October 16th. It began at 9:15 in the evening when the women of William Smith gathered on the steps of Smith Hall. The women marched around campus and through downtown Geneva, all the while radiating an aura of support and strength. A white carnation was given to each site in tribute to the women who suf-fered acts of violence there.

The march, however, was not greeted entirely with warmth and respect. There were some on the street who found it a nuisance and expressed this to

the marchers. But for every one disapproving citizen, there were many more who showed their support of the cause, whether it be from honking, clapping, or joining the walk themselves.

The march circled back at-around 10:30 pm to the location of the Hobart and William Smith sign where the men of Hobart joined the demonstration. To those that attended, this coali-tion symbolized the recognition of the issue of violence against women by the community’s men and their resolve to work in uni-son with women to combat this violence. “It felt a little awkward at first to have this mob of wom-en walking toward you,” claimed Roger Arnold, a first year student at HWS “but as the men joined you could hear the chanting become louder, not only from the extra bodies, but something about the added support, I think, made the women grow even louder than before; the only word to de-scribe it for me is powerful.”

F r o m h e r e candles were lit, a tradition that is faithful to the very first “Take

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Take Back The NightBack the Night” assemblies, and students proceeded down to the quad where the vigil and speak-out were held. Some gave reflections, others read poems or lyrics; the content and atmosphere touched both sup-porters and victims alike. Leanne Roncolato, a co-chair for the Women’s Collective, the spon-sors of the event, had this to say about the evening, “While it is an intense event, it is very healing for a lot of people.”

When the night had ended, candles were out, and tears were dried, the marchers worked their way back home. In their union they had helped to take back the night.

BAC Testing at HWS

photo courtesy of Adam Croglia ’10

For the remainder of the fall term, students from the Freshman Alcohol in College Seminar, will be administering BAC (blood alcohol concentration) tests in random dorms throughout the campus. After that first sentence, you are probably thinking one of two things. Half of you are thinking that this is a terrible idea, and that you could get in serious trouble for participating in this study. The other half of you are thinking that you defi-nitely cannot wait to hold the record

for the highest BAC reading ever recorded. Starting Tuesday, October 3rd, students from this class will set up a BAC testing station in the lobby of a randomly selected dorm each night. On school nights, students will be administering random BAC tests from 11pm-2am while on weekends, they will be stationed from 11pm-3am. Using a random number generator, the students will choose participants at

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random when they are walking in and out of the selected dorm. Participants will be informed of the study and its privacy clauses. For the results to be accurate, all students asked are encour-aged to participate, even if they have not been drinking. The goal of this study is participation, but it is impor-tant to understand that the student has the choice to participate or not. If the student decides to participate, he or she will be administered a breathalyzer test measuring their BAC. To make sure the student cannot get in trouble for their participation in the study, the participant will remain anonymous and their BAC level will not appear

on the instrument when the test is administered. In-stead, the breathalyzer will just display a test number. This test number, along with the researchers phone number, will be given to the participant, who can then call later and ask for his or her results. The BAC number is never connected to the individual during this process thus keeping the student out of any possible trouble. After the BAC test, the participant will be asked to fill out an anonymous short survey. Again, the

participant will not be connected to his or her individual BAC level or survey answers. The goal of this study is to get an accurate picture of alcohol use on the HWS college campus. With the cooperation of the student body, this research project will run smoothly, and the results will give the student body a better picture of what the usage of alcohol at Hobart and William Smith.

Alcohol Tests

On Thursday, October 12, pho-tojournalist Matt Moyer visited HWS as the John Henry Hobart Fellow. He spoke to an attentive audience about his experiences in the Middle East, where he spent months attempting to capture the human spirit through his photographs. Arriving in Baghdad six days after it had fallen to American soldiers, Moyer had ample opportunity to explore the shifting roles of the Shiite population – he watched as they emerged from the binding suppression of Saddam Hussein and were able to finally express their religious views without being threatened.

Moyer explained how Saddam had specifically targeted Shiites while in power. Some were singled out because of calluses on their foreheads (made from praying numerous times a day for years), as well as for having Shiite sounding names. They were a direct threat to his power and were made even more distinctive because of their sheer numbers. By far, Shiites make up the majority of the popula-tion in Iraq. Moyer discussed the significance of this for America in the war on terrorism. He said that it was important to have good relations with them, because “if you loose the Shiites, then you lose Iraq.”

He also discussed some of the Iraqis he met throughout his journey. One man, Fakher Haider, acted as his ‘fixer.’ Haider accompanied Moyer in his travels, alerting him to cultural differences that he might have not otherwise recognized. Haider also acted as a translator and mediator. He described a paralyzing instance when they were caught in cross fire. When a man aimed his gun at Moyer, Haider

stood in front of him – thus acting as a shield -- and quickly got them both out of danger. Moyer said that Haider told him, “if one drop of your blood spills, it is as if all of my blood is spilled.” Moyer also mentioned a man who watched his back (liter-ally), while he was taking photos, and admitted that when looking into the camera, you have very little sense of what is happening outside of that little box. Moyer commended this man, explaining that “he risked his own life to protect me.” He mentioned how all humans should take the example of these few Iraqis who exhibited such loyalty and common decency to a person they barely knew to heart. Of Haider, Moyer said, “when I hear people talking about journalists, me-dia…they’re talking about him.”

Moyer also reflected on the current war with Iraq. He says that as time goes on, Shiites have “a certain degree of skepticism” of Americans. This is due only to past actions, when the United States supported Saddam dur-ing the Iran-Iraq war, when, as a result, many Shiites were massacred.

Moyer said it was his hope to pro-vide another outlet of journalism. He stressed that his work shows “it’s not a story about war; it’s about a group of people caught up in the war.” He noted that there are “different ways to tell a story,” and he does so by focus-ing on people, rather than the guns and violence we see much of today.

Moyer ended by saying that one of his main goals as a photojournalist is trying to convey the idea to Americans that “[The Iraqis] aren’t so different from us after all.”

Student Activists for Darfur (SAD) is a new group on campus full of good intentions and hope for the future. The first meeting on Thursday, September 28th in the Jewish Culture house, brought 25 to 30 students with many others pledging to help in the future. The room was filled with all sorts of interested people who wanted to do something that might make an impact on the genocide issue in Darfur.

SAD’s success will lie in its student leader and founder, sophomore Jacqui Sands. Sands is full of ideas and en-ergy. She wants to take action in any and every way as soon as possible, so she decided to form a club to give the people who feel “as enraged and inspired” as her to “have a place and a means to channel that energy.”

Sands first learned about the geno-cide in Darfur from her high school economics teacher and it has made a

huge impact on her “because of the scale of the death that has been al-lowed to escalate.” Reports estimate that 400,000 deaths have occurred as part of this genocide. These shocking numbers leave Sands with the obliga-tion to help. “I believe that I have the responsibility, as a privileged and in-formed person, to do everything I can about ending the genocide in Darfur” Sands stated.

Sands’ has over two pages of ideas for the group ranging from movie nights, to speaking in high school classrooms, to candle light vigils, to a possible benefit concert in the spring. Along with the smaller events that will help raise awareness, the group has many ambitious ideas as well. One idea is to make a human chain by involving the Geneva community. The human chain would be made from people holding hands all over campus and into the streets of Geneva. This idea has worked before, but SAD knows the effort it will take to make it

work. Everyone at the meeting seemed willing to give their time and effort to these ideas.

Another main focus of the group is to get the Darfur Genocide to be the focus of Hobart and William Smith Day. The annual event of Hobart and William Smith Day is centered around an issue that can be integrated into classes, is timely, can make a future impact. Then SAD would be given 7,000 dollars to help raise awareness and plan events, such as a speaker for the day. If you are interested in helping aid the people in Darfur, whether it is something as easy as letter writing or selling bracelets, or by organizing a big event, bring your ideas to the Student Activist for Darfur meetings. The meetings take place every Thursday at 6pm at the Jewish Culture House on 408 Pulteney Street. It is worth your time and your help could make all the difference.

Students Activists For Darfur

Locations of the reported incidents of sexual assault where white carnations were placed during the march:

1. Smith Hall2. Medbury3. Back door of Geneva4. Mini Quad5. Sherrill6. 412 Pulteney St.7. Parking lot of JPR8. Sigma Chi9. Beta Sigma10. 737 South Main St.11. Phi Sigma12. Sigma Phi13. Kappa Alpha14. Kappa Sigma15. Delta Chi16. Chi Phi17. Sonny’s18. The Holiday19. Side Show20. City Hall (G.P.D.)21. Finger Lakes Times22. Cooley’s23. Geneva Middle School24. Emerson25. Top of Hill (symbolic for

incident at Old Bell’s Grocery)26. Comstock27. Miller28. William Smith Circle

(symbolic)

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Hugs Across AmericaEl Heraldo

Class of 2007,The Stewardson Society Presents: A Champagne Toast

on Saturday, November 4, at 4:45pm in the Hirshson Ballroom to celebrate the beginning of the end.

This is a semi-formal, Senior Only event and the champagne is on us!

Please RSVP to your E-vite or email KC1289@hws.edu no later than October 26th

Jawad Cipriani ‘07El Heraldo Editor

News Around the World“The ailing Fidel Castro is

not dying but is recovering from an illness, his younger brother and Cuba’s acting president said Sunday in response to ru-mors that the leader was on his deathbed. Raul Castro, who has been standing in for his brother since July 31, was responding to recent reports, including one in Time Magazine, that said Castro apparently has terminal cancer. Castro is recovering from intestinal surgery but the lack of details from the Cuban govern-ment regarding the nature of his illness has sparked a number of rumors about his health.

Last week, local media re-ported Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque telling Cubans that Castro will return to his post as maximum leader, but he did not say when. “This takes time, but he’s right there,” Raul Castro said Sunday. “Little by little, he’s working.” The acting president presided over the closing session of a state-sponsored youth con-gress, which brought together 900 schoolchildren aged 6 to 12 -- an age group known as “pio-neers” on the communist-run island. The children gave their support to the ailing Castro in a message published Sunday on a government-run newspaper’s Web site, saying his presence was felt at the event. They also

said they would defend the island’s revolution against any assault by the U.S. government, calling U.S. President George W. Bush and his supporters “cockroaches.” “To Bush and his followers, we say stop being foolish, and that they are truly a bunch of cockroaches,” they said in their message. “Don’t mess with us, because the pioneers are also ready to defend the

Revolution.”-From Associated Press

(10/8/2006)Here at HWS:Tuesday October 24, 2006-

ISA & ASU will be hosting their installment of The Decades Series coordinated by Sankofa. They along with Professor Ben-nett of the Asian Studies Depart-ment will discuss “Little Known Events in Asia” at 7pm in the Geneva Room.

Wednesday October 25, 2006- ISA will be hosting a pumpkin carving in the Intercul-tural Affairs House (IC) from 5:30-7:30pm.

Saturday October 28, 2006- HERITAGE DAY @ HWS- It will be held in the Barn 1p-3pm. Learn about other cultures and maybe something new about your own.

Saturday October 28, 2006- LAO & CAB will be having its annual collaborative Halloween Party in the Barn from 11pm- 3am

It is soft and welcoming. It

is always available to provide comfort and hope when you are sad. And most of all, it is always around when you need a hug.

What is it? It is a teddy bear, many children’s most precious possession, which protects them when the world seems like a scary place.

A newly formed group at Ho-bart and William Smith Colleges, a local chapter of the Hugs Across America charity, is recognizing the value of a teddy bear to a child by raising money to provide chil-dren in crisis with their very own fuzzy friends.

“Teddy bears can give kids a sense of comfort,” said Stephanie Wells, co-founder of the HWS chapter. “Kids love to hug, so a teddy bear is something they have that they can hug whenever they want for however long they want.”

Wells, a first-year psychology major, learned about the charity while working at the colleges’ Public Service Office, and she be-came interested in starting a chap-ter because it combined her love of children and volunteering.

Wells’ desire to help children is shared by the charity’s founder and director, Sue Lucarelli.

A teacher of young children in New York City, Lucarelli explains that she was struggling to help her students cope with the trauma they suffered after the Sept.11, 2001 World Trade Center attacks, which many witnessed first-hand. She helped the children process their fear creatively though drawing

pictures and writing letters to firemen, but it was one student’s simple statement that made clear how she could console the chil-dren.

“He said, ‘All I know is, I need a hug,’” said Lucarelli, who proceeded to give him one, along with one of the three teddy bears she had in the classroom.

The other students shared his desire, and, for the entire day, they passed the three bears around.

Recognizing the comfort the bears gave the students, Lucarelli contacted the Manhasset Com-munity Reformed Church and several friends, who responded by sending 58,000 teddy bears that were then distributed to New York City children in the follow-ing months. Another 15,000 bears were given to rescue and recovery workers at Ground Zero and St. Paul’s Chapel, who used them to sleep on or put in the straps of their helmets “just for a little touch of love,” said Lucarelli.

“It was such a powerful ‘tool’ to help assuage the fear and anxi-ety, not a toy, but truly therapy,” she said, noting that her students, who were comforted by their teddy bears for the rest of the school year, have kept them to this day.

Since the organization of the charity, 80 chapters have been formed across the United States and have donated over 130,000 teddy bears, which are accom-panied by hand-written notes, to children who have suffered from a wide range of traumas, including house fires, domestic violence, natural disasters, and parental de-

ployment to war zones, according to the charity’s Web site.

Making a difference in chil-dren’s lives is the central goal of the charity, and it is also the motivation of Wells, who has teamed with senior Katie Smith to organize a group of HWS students who are interested in becoming involved with the charity.

After an initial informational meeting, the group has split into creativity and publicity, fundrais-ing, and public relations com-mittees, each of which will focus on certain aspects of the group’s goals to raise money and increase recognition of the charity on cam-pus and in the community. The three committees will also meet together every three or four weeks in order to discuss their progress and future plans.

The group plans to have a donation table set up in the din-ing hall and will perhaps hold a raffle to raise money. It will also create pamphlets and posters to hang around campus and will also advertise to the Geneva schools and churches. Potential places for the group to donate bears include Geneva General Hospital, local abuse shelters, and police and fire stations, said Wells.

Wells encourages any inter-ested students to join one or more of the committees and contribute to the group’s efforts.

“I am so appreciative for ev-eryone’s interest so far and the enthusiasm we have received,” she said. “It’s great to see kids who go to HWS doing nice things for people and volunteering their time to help someone else.”

Erinn Cain ‘08Herald Reporter

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Having returned to school, after spending four eventful days in the Albany area visiting friends at their col-leges, I’ve stumbled upon a new understanding of a few defining characteristics of life at HWS. Not only is the social atmosphere completely unique, but the way we live, and the arrangement of our dorms, severely effects the atmosphere here. I realized how much schools are shaped by residences and how people live in them.

My first stop was at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY. I stayed in a dorm called Towers; an eleven story, completely co-ed living area, inhabited by the most openly social people I’ve ever met; one could barely hope for privacy. The way the dorm was set up sort resembled our Emerson, with four or five Suites to a floor, all centered around their own bathroom. While each suite was uni-sex, it was also literally feet from its oppositely gendered neighbors, so the bathrooms were completely co-ed. I was actually shocked on Saturday morning when I emerged from the shower to find six or seven girls in their towels sitting on the counter discussing the events of the night before. But what was strange was that the bathroom was in a guys sweet.

Nevertheless, living on a co-ed floor presented far more interesting differences than simple shower confronta-tion. Most importantly, it broke the sex barriers instantly. What I find here at Hobart is that al-though guys and girls live in the same dorm, each floor feels like

a separate unit. Even for those with partners, or good friends on the floor below or above, it’s a trek to make the visit, and not nearly as natural as it was at Skidmore.

My wake-up call on Sunday morning was an incred-ibly interesting experience. My friend lived in a single so I was forced to endure the texture of his floor for two nights; which wasn’t half bad, given that I had discovered a fold out floor-mattress at some point, and smuggled it back to the room for my personal enjoyment. I was sleeping on the floor, and I felt someone’s foot on my leg. Confident that it was my friend I simply rolled over and ignored it, but was shocked when a girls voice spoke out: “Hey, you up yet?...” Everyone has a morn-ing or two where the first thing they do is try to figure out what they did do the night before, but I was positive I had remembered. I opened my eyes to find myself face to face with one of the girls on the floor whom I had met briefly the night before. She was sitting on a chair next to me in her PJ’s, hunched forward as if engaged in a serious con-versation. I sat up quickly and searched for my friend but he was nowhere to be found.

One could argue that this incident could be accred-ited to the nature of the people involved and not the location, however seven or eight more girls and guys managed to wan-der into the room over the next twenty minute period, as I dis-cussed the dynamics of Skid-more with this stranger. Again, my friend was not in the dorm, I still don’t know where he had vanished to, and I had not met

any of those people previ-ously.

Here at Hobart I think our social standards are fare more rigid. In addition to the floor to floor barrier, we don’t seem to be morning people, at all. On the other hand, Friday nights tend to be open door fes-tivals across campus, whereas at Skidmore they became ex-clusive. A very strange flip for such open people, but those I met during my stay appeared to be very selective about who they spent time with on a given weeknight, and always seemed to approach it with a plan. Not a simple “What’s going on to-night? Can I come too?” plan, but a “After we visit X we’ll walk with Jay, Bob and Ron to Y, and then bring Jen and Steph to Z.” plan. Needless to say it seemed quite strange to me. Granted I know some of us at Hobart tend to approach the night with an idea as to which party we intend to visit, how-ever rarely have I seen anyone schedule their weekend night and literally mark down at what time they will be where, and

Katrina Consciousness It was hot out but he was

used to it. After all Larry had lived in Louisiana his entire life. He pounded his shovel into the earth one more time. “It ain’t as bad as summer” he said, pausing to look up at the big beige house he was build-ing a fence around.

Larry didn’t own the house; in fact he had never owned any house. He was a com-mon laborer whose educa-

tion petered out at fifth grade. Larry never owned much and what he did have he worked hard for; a few weed whack-ers and a lawn mower or two. But he didn’t have that any more. He didn’t have anything anymore.

Across the street Deborah watched as a group of college kids from 1300 miles to the north began to haul away the ruins of what once was her entire life.

She watched as someone

threw another load onto the trash pile in the street. A pile of things she didn’t think she would be throwing out any time soon; her grandchild’s Mickey Mouse doll, her shoe collection, her Elvis records, her family photos. She sat mo-tionless and silent on the steps leading up to what her life had become, her FEMA trailer, and just watched as an occasional item was placed in the “sal-vageable pile”. As the teenagers

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BLOODY MARY The greatest of breakfast drinks, the Bloody Mary is enjoyed by millions of people, and almost everyone has their own version of the drink. Indeed there are many variations; and the more creative of us find great ease in exploring the variety of options offered. Perhaps add something like Green Chilly sauce, or Old Bay seasoning, even a touch of vinegar. It’s up to you. This recipe is fairly basic but requires some special ingredients. Mainly Clamato which is a tomato cocktail juice created with the soul purpose of providing the perfect base for a Bloody Mary. Marvelously blending tomato juice with faint hints of vinegar, Clamato perfectly captures that sweet and salty flavor, provided by a small amount of dehydrated clam juice. BRILLIANT! The problem with Clamato

though is that it is not widely available; I know you can get it in Rhode Island, but I’m not sure about up here. Wegmans would probably be your best bet.

Ingredients:

One Pint Glass half full with iceVodka (as much as you want)Clamato or tomato juice (fill to top)Worcheshire Sauce (four dashes)Horseradish (see below)Pepper (three dashes) Add the Vodka and Ice first followed by the horseradish, pepper and Worcheshire Sauce (you can also add some hot sauce or pepper sauce). For the horseradish, everyone has their own taste so I would say add as much as you would put on half of a sandwich. Then, add the Clamato and then shake vigorously so there is a nice froth on top. Finish the drink

with a garnish of celery and a slice of lime and lemon, and end with a good morning.

cleared away the final remains she knew it wasn’t anywhere near over.

Everyone became silent in the blue minivan as we drove towards the Ninth Ward. Pass-ing over the parish line, it felt as though we were crossing into another country because if you considered for a second what we stand for as a nation, and what we publicly pride ourselves on, it becomes hard to fathom that you are still in the United States. It was deso-late; all that stood were rows of lonely houses yet to be gutted. There was no one there, it was hauntingly quiet. It was still de-stroyed, one year after Katrina. There was no running water and hardly any electricity one year later. I have to keep re-peating that to myself, because on some level it is impossible to grasp that the richest nation

in the world would allow this to exist within its borders, and unfathomable that it remains a topic of relative ignorance.

Until I came to William Smith I, like most Americans, had put Katrina out of my mind; forgetting momentarily about, in my opinion, the level of incompetence of some of the key people currently run-ning the nation. I didn’t realize reconstruction was still failing basically because no one had

told me (not even CNN or The New York Times). But that excuse isn’t going to work for anyone at the colleges anymore because there are people all over this campus that have been down to New Orleans in the past year, and there are more opportunities to go down in the coming months.

Think about this issue, talk about it, because it’s still very real. Go to New Orleans if you don’t believe me. And go to New Orleans if you do. Go

down there and you will know how massive this failure is.

You will know when you have to take a sledgeham-mer to a woman’s 150 year old piano as she stands in the distance weeping, when you experience what one year old fridge smells like, when you are ripping down mold covered drywall that soaked for months in festering waters. You will know when you see a boat in the street, when you see where the breaches were, when you

feel six inches of sewage and mud clinging to the bottom of your boots.

When you meet people like Larry and Deborah who have been let down by their government, then you will know that this isn’t over and you will know that you can help correct it. You will know that if we don’t address this, it will happen again and it is our responsibility to ensure that doesn’t occur.

Katrinawho they intend to meet.

RPI was a completely different story. I stayed in a fraternity, in yet another single, however this one had a mattress waiting for me, and I did not have to scrounge. The social dynamic of the school, from what I gathered, was that of a: “you don’t exist until you intro-duce yourself to me.” This was both nice and bothersome at the same time. The guys I stayed with were a lot of fun and very friendly, however those I hadn’t been introduced to yet, or hadn’t encountered simply didn’t ad-dress me at all, or make any effort to introduce themselves. There seemed to be no interest in meeting new people, in spite of the fact that I had planted myself amongst them, and read-ily engaged those I knew in the

group. To contrast that, I think

we at HWS have a tendency to be outgoing. While we don’t wander into each oth-ers rooms in the wee hours of the morn, scantily clad in the shambles we dozed off in, we are universally friendly at parties, and I’ve never found it hard to meet new people here. Our atmosphere does have barriers, but I think they serve a purpose. Privacy is attainable here, but a vivid social atmosphere is as well, which provides a good mix for anyone, no matter what his or her communicative inclination may be. I very much enjoyed my stay at both RPI and Skidmore, however I feel the environment here fits me the best, and I am glad to be back.

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challenging, entertain-ing and fun. But there is a lot of disappointment with the process itself. I love it because it gives me an outlet. It’s my way to yell, complain or cry. And because it fills me with satisfaction to create.

Q: What filmmak-ers, writer/directors are your biggest influences? Why?

A: I cannot answer this question but can only try. It’s too hard. Luis Bunuel is my favorite filmmaker. I identify almost too much with his contradictions both spiritual and cin-ematically. I admire his spirit and the creative island his work is. There are so many directors that have at some point or another b e e n m y f a v o r i t e and at the moment it’s hard to tell. Films that jump out to me lately a r e : T h e Graduate, A Clock -work Or-ange,

Cache , Apocalypse Now, Ikiru, Stroczeck, Catch-22, T h e L i f e A q u a t i c

and Elephant. I believe I change favorite directors depending on the project I am workingon at the mo-ment. So these film I men-tioned are more present in my mind now not because of my short or my feature. I think they are starting to form the inspiration for my next film.

Q: What are your current/planned proj-ects?

I am in post production of my first feature film “Mejor es que Gabriela no se muera” The film is not going to be finished until late February. So I am practically 100% devoted to that at the mo-ment. I am in the process of sound design, original music and color correc-tion. I am new at all this in comparison to the great team around me. So my

next few months will be mostly learning from the people around me and doing my best to guide them to do their best. At the same time I am be-ginning to struggle with what to write next. And when I begin to struggle it’s because something is starting to boil. So I am taking everything in and figuring out what will be the next thing to mysteri-ously take over me for the next few years.

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Bob Weir and Ratdog are coming to Geneva, and will play the Smith Opera House on Monday, October 30.

Ratdog originated as a side project for Weir, the rhythm guitarist for the San Francisco bay-area’s legendary jam band, The Grateful Dead. For 30 years Weir was a member of the Dead as they forged a path based on improvisation in performance and pioneering amplified music to a state of art. However, after the death of Jerry Garcia on August 9, 1995, Ratdog became Weir’s primary musical outlet.

Ratdog plays mostly old favorites from Weir’s days with the Dead as well as to some of the band’s new material and classic cover songs. This summer Weir and Ratdog toured with The String Cheese Incident and made special guest appearances with Mike Gordon and the Rhythm Devils, and Keller Williams. Picking up where they left off in August, we’re in for something extraordinary downtown, where Weir will prove to us one more time that the music never stops!

Note: Costumes should be worn to this concert.

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Words lie in sentences lying on newspaper sheets. I disin-form myself: I will buy a paper every morning. I will always buy a paper. I will always read the paper. I will always read the paper. I will always read the papers that pile on the floor, unread. They sit in the corner of my bedroom where I sent them. They are orphans whispering prophesies to one another.

I edit these ideas. I imagine their parents as scientists that hack with Bic sickles at the minds of lab monkeys. There they find headlines to scream their children’s silent sonic booms. There they find new ways to paper over the walls in our tenement memories with images like mixed and dead metaphors. The dingy yellow newspaper-wallpaper of this place is covered with confusion: funnies flash-bang boxing-match punch-flat-lines of Dow dropping bombs on

kitchens redecorated with movie times.

I try to delete the gray el-ephant from the corner of my room. I bury myself in I-witness accounts. I think, therefore I am what I think. I think that there is no world outside of these columns. There is no world outside of these columns. There is no world outside of these columns. There is no world out-side of these columns. There is no world—I have to leave this bedroom. I have been in here for days. I have been staring at shadows dancing on the walls. I am old news about to—break.

I rush through the hallway to the washroom. I draw a bath. It fills and fills and fills and fills (not fast enough); it fills and fills and fills and fills (come on) and fills (hurry up!) and—filled. Finally, I get in. There, in the warmth of the water, I find my first solace in weeks. At last, I have tamed the curst words of that five-foot tall gray-skinned, paper-thin Lolita.

I close my eyes. I take a deep breath. With my head uplifted above the water, I repeat my latest mantra: Galileo never believed in horoscopes. Galileo

never believed in horoscopes. Galileo never believed in Galileo never believing in horoscopes. Galileo never believed in horo-scopes. Galileo never read the horoscopes. Galileo never read the newspaper. Who needs to read the newspaper?

I open my eyes. The bathtub is filled with black ink. It covers me—cold, thick, and putrid. I leap from the tub, running from the ink as the ink runs down my naked skin.

I am confronted by a mirror in the hallway. I look over my skin. My skin is (it can’t be) gray. My skin is (no…no, it can’t be) thin. My skin tears as I scratch it. My skin is covered in fine, newspaper print. I have become newspaper.

In an instant I know that I could cry in terror joy despair victory delusion happiness, and no one would ever know. You could never know that I felt, that I lived, that I died unless you read it in this paper. Now I see the lies that have been in the lines all along. Now I reveal the illusion. Now I feel the shock of nothingness. All I can hear is the dissonant silence. Now all I am is the absence. I realize that until now I have been another article whose truth is relative and terminal.

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Check out the events CAB has in store for you this weekend. Tonight, the hilarious and edgy all-female Sketch Comedy group MEAT will be perform-ing in the Geneva Room at 7pm. “MEAT: tender, juicy, delicious. And funny.”-GREG LEITMAN, MAD Magazine Known for smart, dangerous, inventive writing and fearlessly committed performances, MEAT is one of the most critically ac-claimed and respected groups on the sketch festival circuit.

Saturday, National Slam Poet winner Buddy Wakefield will perform at the Cellar Pub at 7pm. Buddy Wakefield is the two-time Individual World Poetry Slam Champion featured on NPR, the BBC, HBO’s Def

Poetry Jam, and most recently signed to Strange Famous Re-cords. The Cellar Pub will be serving food so come out and enjoy this linguistic marvel with your friends.

You can check out these performers at their respective websites:

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CAB meets every Monday at 7pm in Gullick 100 and is open to any comments or suggestions via email cab@hws.edu

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The transition from high school to college is not an easy one; after all, college sepa-rates one from his or her fam-ily, friends, and, ultimately, home. This transition, however, has been a rather easy one for first-year William Smith soccer player Kayleigh DeLap. In fact, the new Heron is finding a nice niche at HWS.

In high school, on the soc-cer field, DeLap excelled as a defender. Her productiv-ity during her senior campaign earned DeLap a Second Team All-County selection and a spot in the 2005 Exceptional Senior All-Star Game. Now that those days are just fond high school memories, DeLap presently finds herself playing an offensive position in college- midfield. A complete reversal of position is often difficult, especially when an athlete moves up to a higher level of competition. Yet, the change has not fazed the new midfielder. “I’ve played of-fense before, so it’s not bad,” asserted DeLap in a recent in-terview. This acceptant attitude has attracted the attention of her college coaches. “My coaches always compliment me on my

For the second year in a row, it was one and done for the New York Yankees. Once again, the Yankees entered the playoffs on a hot streak, but failed to ma-terialize a strong showing and were ousted in the first round. Considering the Yankees have begun to abandon their tyranni-cal reign over the MLB playoffs, and have not won the World Se-ries since 2000, I was not terribly surprised by this outcome. What did surprise me, however, was the general reaction to this re-sult. I did not hear hearts cracking and crumbling like the leaves of the blustery autumn evening; rather, I think I may have heard glee wafting through the Octo-ber breeze- people were happy the Yankees lost.

This sadism in the Yankees’ blunders has become a common mindset among the tri-state area. Across the spectrum of fans in Major League Baseball, an en-tirely new category has arisen; Yankees haters. The fan base of all the teams that New York swept away with nonchalant ease throughout the nineties are coming back to take glory in New York’s recent woes. These people, who still can’t cheer for their own teams successes (for they don’t exist), seek solace in the Yankees losses. These poor, misguided, morose sports fans have become Yankee hat-ers- they direct their energy not to the positive advancement of their own team, but rather the dilapidation of the Bronx Bomb-ers. This, in my mind, is wrong and fundamentally against the law of sports.

These People (the haters, as I will refer to them) may argue

Don’t Hatethat it is not their angst, but rather the Yankee establishment itself that is against the law of sports. People grow angry with the fact that the Yankees buy their play-ers, and that they build their organization around a pay-role rather than character and player dynamic. To this, I respond that the Yankees are viewed like this because they are the only team that has succesfully straddled the fence that the MLB has become. When major league baseball is being considered, there are two undeniable thoughts; one, that baseball is a game, and two,

that the MLB is a business. The business of the MLB could not function without the game of base-ball, and the game of baseball would not stand as the iconic spectacle that it is if it were not organized like

a business. With this structure, the Yankees have bridged the gap between the two opposing ideologies. And it is because of this utter success and accom-plishment that people go crazy. The haters cannot stand the fact that the Yankees get the best players to play the game; envy fills the hearts of the weary, woe stricken fans of the losers, and they displace this depression in the form of outward hate of the New York Yankees.

To the people who spend all their energy hating the Yankees, my advice is very clear and di-rective; grow up. Dry your eyes and keep you chin up- don’t worry. I’m sure that one year the Phillies will be back in the playoffs, and you can rest as-sured that 86 years from now the Red Sox will get another shot at the World Series. Until then, get off the Yankees, and give credit where credit is due.

positive attitude,” she said, “and that is encouraging.”

Hobart and William Smith Colleges are compromised of many positively motivated stu-dent-athletes, such as DeLap who graduated 11th in her large Webster Schroeder Class of 2006. During her college search, it was DeLap’s intent to attend a school that not only provided her with the ability to play soccer, but was also strong academically. At HWS, the first-year soccer player has found this balance. “I love it here,” she expressed, “it’s nice to be at a school where athletes take their academics just as seriously as their athletics—all the while still having fun, of course.” Fun is what DeLap is having, as she is not only gaining tremendous experience by playing on the William Smith Junior Varsity Soccer Team, but also enjoying her new teammates. “The soc-cer here is great, the girls (on the team) are great, and the school is somewhat close to home, which is a good thing,” she said—the only thing between her and her hometown is a comfortable one hour car ride west on the thruway. Along with a tremendous athletic opportunity, the school itself has

The Herons’ Positive Teammate

impressed DeLap. “The school is absolutely pretty, and I was well aware of the school’s strong academic credentials when I researched (William Smith).” HWS’ strong academic cre-dentials may one day thrust the potential environmental science major into law school, which is a hopeful path of hers down the road. However, the green Heron soccer midfielder knows that she has work to do as a collegiate athlete first.

In order to take the next step and earn a position on the varsity team, DeLap realizes that she must address some things in the off-season. “I need to improve my endurance and strength,” she affirmed, which is a reasonable assessment considering that this is her first experience competing at the collegiate level. If her improvement in the off-season is anything like her transition from high school to college, Kayleigh DeLap may just find a niche on the William Smith Varsity Soccer Team next fall. Already though, the new Heron has shown herself to be a nice addition to HWS.

Mike Kaplun ‘08Sports Editor

photo courtesy of HWS Athletics