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the CABINETSince 1878 - Geneva College - Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania Vol. 134 - Issue 19

Psalm 121: 6-5 - The LORD watches over you— the LORD is your shade at your right hand; the sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night.

Miller publishes new book

The tattoo controversy

Eating healthy at Alex’s

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al icon. The blog has been taken down, but its contents can still be found eas-ily online.

Her comments and her suspension by the middle-class school district have clearly touched a nerve, with scores of online commenters applauding her for taking a tough love approach or exco-riating her for verbal abuse. Media at-tention has rained down, and backers have started a Facebook group.

“My students are out of control,” Mun-roe, who has taught 10th, 11th and 12th grades, wrote in one post. “They are

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Black and gold in all the worldJosh Carback/Staff WriterThe second the game clock expired in Super Bowl XLV in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, the brilliance of the magical moment captured in the Pack-ers’ crowning as NFL champions, was dwarfed only by the incredible impact the losing team would have on fami-lies oppressed by hunger and poverty around the world.

That’s right, the losers.

World Vision, a Christian non -prof-it organization devoted to combat-ing global poverty and AIDS, has had the pleasure of acquiring the hundreds of shirts, hats, and other apparel that read “Super Bowl Champions” from the losing team of the Super Bowl, and shipping it around the world to fami-lies in need every year since 1994.

“We work with the NFL, MLB, NBA, and MLS and we get the losing team’s materials and products and ship it from Pittsburgh,” said Sarah Arata, a senior international business major at Geneva who is a Corporate Relations Intern for World Vision at their local headquarters in Sewickley, PA.

Arata is one of the many young peo-ple who flock to World Vision every year out of a desire to help make a dif-ference. The donation of NFL apparel to needy families is a gesture of good will and concern that is only a drop in the proverbial bucket of compassion from which World Vision continues to pour out much needed relief and care

to the less-fortunate by way of child sponsorships and health clinics across the globe.

Disaster relief is an especially im-portant part of World Vision’s inter-national ministry, as the organization was among the first to respond to the desperate call for help sounded by the millions of people in Haiti who were affected by the earthquake last year.

Responding quickly with the first word of crisis, World Vision helped provide comfort and support for those left homeless and starving, provid-ing over 1.8 million people with criti-cal supplies including food and water, temporary shelters, and medical atten-tion.

Arata has witnessed the partnerships between World Vision and private companies that are established for the purpose of healing depressed regions. The people in suffering communities have very special needs in light of the difficult conditions they face.

“There are four million people who live on two dollars a day,” said Arata. “The idea is that these businesses cre-ate products that are modified for their way of life.”

World Vision’s operations here in the U.S. are another effort direct-ed to achieve the company’s goal to work with the poor and oppressed to seek human transformation, in deliv-

Geneva student, Sarah Arata lends a hand by getting the shirts ready to ship.

Photo courtesy of Sarah Arata

Pa. teacher strikes nerve with ‘lazy whiners’ blogFEASTERVILLE, Pa. (AP) — A high school English teacher in subur-ban Philadelphia who was suspend-ed for a profanity-laced blog in which she called her young charges “disen-gaged, lazy whiners” is driving a sen-sation by daring to ask: Why are to-day’s students unmotivated — and what’s wrong with calling them out?

As she fights to keep her job at Central Bucks East High School, 30-year-old Natalie Munroe says she had no inter-est in becoming any sort of education-

rude, disengaged, lazy whiners. They curse, discuss drugs, talk back, ar-gue for grades, complain about ev-erything, fancy themselves entitled to whatever they desire, and are just gen-erally annoying.”

And in another post, Munroe — who is more than eight months pregnant — quotes from the musical “Bye Bye Birdie”: “Kids! They are disobedient, disrespectful oafs. Noisy, crazy, slop-py, lazy LOAFERS.”

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...to the disappearance of White Cheddar Popcorn in the Brig.

February 18, 2011 - The Cabinet - Geneva College

in case you were wondering...Danny Massaro/Editor-in-Chief

2 editorialIn November, I read one of the best pieces of sports journalism I could ever remember. It was an Outside the Lines piece by Wright Thompson on ESPN.com called “BELIEVELAND.”

Thompson is a senior writer for ESPN the Magazine. He was born in Mis-sissippi, attended college in Missouri, then worked in Kansas City and New Orleans. He had no affiliation with Cleveland until he wrote “BELIEVE-LAND.” He spent a few weeks in Cleveland, getting to know the city, with hopes of writing a completely post-LeBron piece. But the more time he spent in Ohio, the more he realized that it wasn’t about LeBron or even the Cavs. It was about Cleveland.

His story started somewhat LeBron-centered, but it then turned into a Cleveland thing—about how Cleve-land’s economy is shot. In fact, next to Detroit it is the second-poorest big city in the country. He wrote how people don’t leave Cleveland in search of new work and life because they are Cleve-land.

The end of the article paints a picture of the Cavs win over the Boston Celt-ics on October 27. Thompson used the word “euphoric” to describe the crowd, the atmosphere, and noted that he has been a lot of places, but there was something different about Cleve-land.

For some reason, Thompson made a lot of references to sports bars. He never mentioned the scene, but only the people. In the bars were athletes like Daniel “Boobie” Gibson, authors like Scott Raab, and multitudes of the common man. Thompson explained that sports bars weren’t a place of chest bumps and insobriety, but a place of reverence and hope.

Last weekend, I saw a glimpse of what Wright Thompson was talking about.

I went with three of my friends to the Clippers-Cavs game at the Q on Fri-day. With me was a Pittsburgh resi-dent and sports fan who would rath-er see Cleveland burn than succeed, someone who was born and raised in New Orleans and shows devotion to the Saints and Hornets, and my best

friend from home who’s favorite team is whoever will win him money. Avid gambler.

Long story short: The Cavs were rid-ing an NBA-record 26-game losing streak and were matching up with the sub-15 win Clippers. Any other city in America excluding Chicago, New York, and Boston would have had an empty arena. Not in Cleveland. The game was sold out.

The guy in front of me was a season-ticket holder. I asked him why it was so packed and he told me that it was like that every night—during the streak and during the season. ESPN even not-ed Cavs attendance – in an arena that seats 20,562, the average attendance during the losing skid was 20,000+. I don’t even know if the Bulls, Knicks, or Celtics could pull that.

The game was back-and-forth, big shot after big shot. But somehow, among 26 straight letdowns, the Cavs got the win. The atmosphere was euphor-ic. Even the three apathetic fans that I brought with me were hugging strang-ers by the games end. It was more than a streak being broken. It was Cleve-land winning.

After the game we felt it appropriate to grab a bite to eat at some sports bar. We chose one called Local Heroes. Also appropriate.

It was late, and Cleveland isn’t a real hustle-and-bustle city, so the restau-rant was pretty quiet. The TV kept showing highlights of the Cavs win on repeat. On one end of the bar was a man sitting by himself with a Browns shirt on and an Indians jacket draped over the chair. For an hour we watched him drink the same beer and watch the same Cavs highlights.

When the TV station stopped airing the highlights, he finished his drink and put on his jacket to leave. Then he reached in his pocket and pulled out a hat that read “Cleveland Cavaliers.” He looked at it, smiled, put it on his head, and left as proud as could be.

One person that came with me, Goose, watched the man do this. Goose then turned to us and said, “If Cleveland

ever wins a championship and a movie is made about it, that could be the end-ing of the movie.”

Unfortunately there is no champion-

ship and no movie. Just an uncondi-tional hope and pride for the city of Believeland.

Letter to the EditorDear Justin (and Geneva),

Thank you for your letter of concern in last week’s Cabinet edition. We as the GCSU would like to say “yes!” The GCSU is primarily responsible for the Geneva “Go Green” movement. This includes, but is not limited to, going tray-less and the “Go Green” cups on campus. The issue of going tray-less is not a decision made by the workers in Alex’s, so please do not take any nega-tive attitudes out on them.

“Go Green” was proposed by students to the GCSU a few years ago, and has been an ongoing project ever since. As a result of careful consideration and student feedback from last year, the GCSU decided to investigate what it would mean for Geneva to go “tray-less.” Out of the 59 schools that Pio-neer Caterers serve, only 11 are not tray-less. The tray-less initiative in these schools and many other colleges and universities has been increasing-ly successful – saving not only in food waste but water conservation and en-ergy savings as well. These statistics indicate that further steps of research should take place to see if going tray-less is the right decision for Geneva.

The GCSU initiated Trayless Thurs-days as the beginning of these steps.

As far as talking about issues the stu-dents want to see, the GCSU has tak-en multiple measures to reach out for suggestions to hear what YOU the stu-dents want to see at Geneva. Some of these available means include: sugges-tion boxes, emails to any senator, our page on the web site, stopping by the SPL Office located below the Brig, the Town Hall event, and finally all of our senate meetings are open to anyone! We would love to hear your thoughts, questions, and concerns. We consider all requests and act on most as our re-sources and connections are able.

Finally, if you have any questions or further concerns, please contact us by any of the means listed above. Re-member we are your fellow students as well. We want what is best for the campus community, and are eager to hear how we can work together to make Geneva better!

Sincerely,

The GCSU

Gwen Ward

GCSU President ‘10-’11

In response to the Letter to the Editor published on February 11, 2011

The opinions expressed in this letter do not necessarily represent the views of Geneva College, The Cabinet, or any of its staff members.


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3caMPUs newsering care for the 10% of Americans who find themselves below the pover-ty line.

Distribution centers provide every-thing from toys to building supplies - helping communities to move for-ward. World Vision also provides ed-ucation programs that service tutoring and support for struggling students whose desires for learning and growth are choked by the adverse environ-ments around them.

World Vision’s ministry is funded by private donors and child sponsors, as well as the profits from entertainment venues as well. One such event is the Ed Kowalczyk concert set for March 1, at State Theatre in Centre County, PA – an event featuring former lead singer of the hit grunge band, Live - a group which sold over 20 million al-bums worldwide.

“They do child sponsorships at those concerts, they also give some pro-ceeds to World Vision,” said Arata, speaking to ways in which people can support her organization. “Definitely come and volunteer.”

Arata also spoke to the need for peo-

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ple to help out at the company hub in Sewickley where supplies are shipped out to aid stations around the world.

“We also do Kit builds – which are backpacks for school, made for kids in the US that can’t afford those sup-plies.”

Pittsburgh will certainly take a mo-ment to recover from a lost opportu-nity to claim its seventh football world championship. But perhaps, the city can finally afford to crack a smile at the irony of it all, knowing that black and gold encrusted shirts and hats will be spread from World Vision’s distri-bution center in Pittsburgh, to plac-es beyond our borders, adding to the ranks of the Steeler nation in the need-iest corners of the Earth.

The NFL has been partnering with World Vi-sion for several years.

Photo courtesy of blog.worldvision.org

She also listed some comments she wished she could post on student eval-uations, including: “I hear the trash company is hiring”; “I called out sick a couple of days just to avoid your son”; and “Just as bad as his sibling. Don’t you know how to raise kids?”

Munroe did not use her full name or identify her students or school in the blog, which she started in August 2009 for friends and family. Last week, she said, students brought it to the atten-tion of the school, which suspended her with pay.

“They get angry when you ask them to think or be creative,” Munroe said of her students in an interview with The Associated Press on Tuesday. “The students are not being held account-able.”

Munroe pointed out that she also said positive things, but she acknowledg-es that she did write some things out of frustration — and of a feeling that many kids today are being given a free pass at school and at home.

“Parents are more trying to be their kids’ friends and less trying to be their

parent,” Munroe said, also noting stu-dents’ lack of patience. “They want everything right now. They want it yesterday.”

Munroe has hired an attorney, who said that she had the right to post her thoughts on the blog and that it’s a free speech issue. The attorney, Steven Rovner, said the district has led Mun-roe to believe that she will eventually lose her job.

“She could have been any person, any teacher in America writing about their lives,” he said, pointing out that Mun-roe blogged about 85 times and that only about 15 to 20 of the posts in-volved her being a teacher. “It’s hon-est and raw and a little edgy depend-ing on your taste. ... She has a deep frustration for the educational system in America.”

Rovner said that he would consider le-gal action if indeed Munroe loses her job.

“She did it as carefully as she could,” he said about her blog. “It’s so general that it applies to the problems in school districts and schools across the coun-try.”

Geneva’s got talentSerumun Ubwa/Staff WriterLast Thursday, February 10, The Black Student Organization hosted their an-nual talent show in Skye Lounge. The BSO hosts the event every February as a way of paying tribute to Black His-tory Month. The night consisted of ten impressive acts that were judged on by a panel of judges, led by Geneva’s Dean of Student Development, Mi-chael Loomis.

Extensive planning and preparation went into making the annual event possible. The ten acts that were put on display were not limited to song and dance. The contestants did everything from singing solos, to dancing, to cho-reographing routines of yo-yo tricks.

Graduate student Twon Carter and se-nior sociology major Jonathan Bald-win were the night’s MCs. The two gentlemen introduced the acts, added some comic relief – whether intention-al or unintentional – and announced the winners upon the show’s conclu-sion.

Deanna Briody, freshman English ed-ucation major, received enough votes to be the second runner-up in the tal-ent show. The Oakdale, New York na-tive garnered third-place honors for singing and playing a song that she wrote on the piano.

Josh Mauro, a senior youth ministries/student ministries major received the show’s second place honor. Mauro may not be a name familiar to much of Geneva College, but is unparalleled yo-yo skills make him a face a talent that the majority of the college can recognize. He brought his unique tal-ent to the BSO Talent Show stage and an act to the 1980s hit “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)” by the Proclaimers.

While every act received sincere ap-plause, there could only be one win-ner. Freshman computer science ma-jor, Daniel Chung, walked away with the first place trophy. The California native put on a dance display that in-cluded break dancing and the robot.

Junior elementary education major Tyler Jodon also performed. But when Chung walked off of the stage last Thursday, Jodon said three words of the performance: “He killed it.”

Chung, though, was not as confident that he would walk away the winner.

“Going into the talent show, I didn’t really have expectations to win. I just wanted to show everyone something that a lot of people didn’t know about me, but yeah, it felt good to win.”

To only give credit to the top three performances would be an injustice. Every act walked off of the stage to applause showing appreciation. Oth-er performances included an acous-tic rendition of The Script’s “The Man Who Can’t be Moved” and a reenact-ment of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” music video. Masks, zombies, and all.

Molly Lyon, freshman music educa-tion major said, “There are a lot of tal-ented people on Geneva’s campus. At shows like these, you can be pleasantly surprised at your friends’ hidden tal-ents. I arrived late, but even seeing the last half made it worth coming out to watch.”

The festivities even involved a few au-dience members and judges. During a break in the acts, as well as when the judges were tallying their votes, se-nior Corey Fraction led a few people from the audience and panel of judges in dance. While Fraction was accom-panying the dances, the King of Pop led it by way of The Michael Jackson Experience on a Nintendo Wii. Need-less to say, this performance was an-other smash hit.

All in all, The BSO Talent Show was once again a success as it displayed talent scattered throughout campus, entertained those in attendance, and brought the Geneva College commu-nity together.

Chung took first place in the competition.

Photo credit: Skye Mumau


4 caMPUs newsMiller’s book laudedAllie Reefer/Staff Writer

Dr. Eric Miller is making an impact on the world of literature with his recent-ly published book “Hope in a Scat-tering Time: A Life of Christopher Lasch,” which is quickly being recog-nized for its worth as the first biogra-phy of Lasch, as well as a well-written scholarly book. Last month, Christianity Today recog-nized Miller’s book in their 2011 Book Awards for the best in the category of History/Biography. The magazine’s reviewer calls the book a “sure-footed and penetrating narrative,” and this is definitely not the only compliment the book has received. Intellectual com-munities everywhere are discussing Miller’s work. The book is about the life of Chris-topher Lasch, who was an expert on history, as well as a critic of society. Lasch challenged much of the ideas of his time and was always question-ing the way society was. Miller uses Lasch’s personal writings, as well as comments from his friends and fami-ly, to create a written story of his jour-ney and the shaping of his ideas about the American way of life.I had the chance to correspond with Dr. Miller about his successful book:why did you decide to write this bi-ography?“I chose to write a biography of Chris-topher Lasch in part because I had long been affected by his writing and thinking. Reading him in the early 1990s while working on a masters’ de-gree in Christian Thought, I realized that I had to re-think the way I had un-derstood American politics and Amer-ican history itself. I was very taken by his command of a vast amount of liter-

ature and the facility and acuity with which he was able to use it to interpret the times. It was partly because of his influence that I decided to pursue a Ph. D in American history.”how long was the process of writing this book?“I wrote a seminar paper on Lasch’s books in 1996 and in January of 1998 began work on a dissertation about Lasch at the University of Delaware at the urging of my advisor, Guy Al-chon, also a Lasch devotee. I came to Geneva in 1999 and defended the dis-sertation in the spring of 2002. I began to seriously re-write it, in the hopes of turning it into a book during a sabbati-cal in the fall of 2006. I spent much of the summer of 2007 completing the re-vision and then went through a series of edits that culminated in publication this past spring [April 2010].” what kinds of research did you have to do for this book?“The research mainly involved read-ing several decades worth of his cor-respondence (housed at the Universi-ty of Rochester, where he taught), and reading his published writing: hun-dreds of articles and essays, along with his many books. I also interviewed by telephone many of his friends and for-mer students, and corresponded with others.”what can readers take from this book, and how does it relate to us to-day?“I think the book helps readers to gain a sense of the real movement of mod-ern American history, and the late 20th century in particular. And I think it takes readers into the life of man who had, as the historian Andrew Bacevich puts it, “relentless integrity.” As one of the leading intellectuals of the 20th century, he showed not just brilliance as a thinker but remarkable courage as a writer. He took stands and defend-ed positions that were sure to alienate people whose regard he deeply valued. The path he chose was not easy. But it did result in much light: light about the nature of the world and light about how we might live in it.” For those reading some of Lasch’s books in class, this biography would be a good source of background infor-mation. Besides that, it is always great to support Geneva’s professors.

Geneva: A statistic or an exception?Emily Bestor/Staff Writer

The quality of higher education has been called into question by a recent study. The authors of the book “Ac-ademically Adrift: Limited Learn-ing on College Campuses”, Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa, argue that more than a third of most American college seniors’ level of writing and reading skills show no significant im-provement from their initial semester of college. The authors believe the lax academic rigor is the greatest contrib-uting factor to American college stu-dents’ lackluster test scores.

Naturally, one might wonder how the faculty of Geneva College perceived this controversial study. Dr. Ken Car-son, the Provost of Geneva, was not at all surprised by this recent study, and he views it as a useful reminder to look at where colleges, specifically Geneva, need to improve.

One might also wonder if the facul-ty here are interested in determin-ing whether or not the academic at-mosphere of Geneva pushes students enough to grow and improve in cru-cial fields, such as critical writing and reasoning.

Carson would say that this is a legit-imate concern of the Geneva faculty and professors. In an effort to improve the writing level of Geneva students, Dr. Carson pointed out that the Hu-manities program here has moved away from multiple-choice assess-ments to longer writing assignments.

Carson also noted that one factor that plays into this recent startling statistic is the nationwide grade inflation. Spe-cifically for Geneva College, in 1974, the average GPA was a 2.8. In the 2009-2010 academic school year, the average GPA was a 3.2.

Carson cannot easily answer the ques-tion of why there has been such infla-tion. However, he is not quick to de-termine lower expectations from professors and faculty as the catalyst of this change.

The next question is if Geneva College is an institution that is an exception to this study.

Many of the schools used in this study were larger-scale, state schools. Gene-va’s smaller size assists with the pre-vention of students falling through the cracks.

“As the faculty here, we are constantly reevaluating the curriculum, faculty, and this college as a whole to decide what’s appropriate,” Carson pointed out. “We have not come to the conclu-sion that we are not rigorous enough. It could come to that. But, Geneva has a lot of data that shows our students to be very well prepared when entering graduate school.”

While Carson and other faculty ar-gue that Geneva College exemplifies a college education that is academically rigorous, they are not the only ones to feel this way. Students and graduates of Geneva College do not view this college as a place where students are lacking academic growth.

Jonathan Bacon, a 2010 civil engineer-ing graduate said, “Geneva’s engineer-ing program requires their students to take many rigorous courses in their sophomore year. While I would agree that many students may not learn a great deal during their first year, and especially their first semester, they do learn how to operate and thrive in the collegiate world. “

“For engineers at least, a great deal of learning takes place during the soph-omore year—learning which great-ly increases a person’s factual basis, but also radically changes the way the world is viewed.”

In a time of economic difficulty and countless college educational opportu-nities, one might, finally, ask what Ge-neva College truly has to offer.

Carson answered this probing ques-tion when he concluded, “Geneva is a place, where if you come to work, and apply yourself, I guarantee you will be well-prepared. We have an education that we won’t, I won’t, apologize for.”

...to Daniel Sepulve-da. Whether you love or hate the Steelers, you have to respect this man.


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Ask AngelinaDear Angelina,

I am taking a night class this semes-ter and it is very crowded. As with most Geneva classes, everyone sits in the same seats all the time. At the be-ginning of the semester, I chose the WRONG seat! I sit next to this per-son who, quite simply, smells terrible. The only other seat available in the class is beside this boy who I have a slight crush on. How do I move seats without drawing attention to myself and without offending the foul smell-ing student?

Homeless in Night Class

Dear Homeless,

You cannot move seats without being noticed. If everyone sits in the same seat, people will see that you have moved. The real question is: will the other students care? The answer is no, most likely no one will care. In night class, students are generally too tired to pay attention to their peers. The person you usually sit by will most likely not care that you no longer sit in your usual seat. Also, do NOT tell them that they smell. This would be rude and awkward. I would suggest showing up for class and nonchalant-ly taking the seat next to the boy you like. If you play it cool, your behavior will not seem strange to anyone.

Angelina

UPCOMING SPORTS EVENTS

Saturday February 18th

5:30 p.m. Women’s Basketball v.s. Waynesburg

7:30 p.m. Men’s Basketball v.s. Waynesburg

IN NEXT WEEK’S ISSUE...

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Bevington improvingEmily Hunt/Staff WriterBen Bevington, a former Geneva stu-dent, was involved in a life-changing accident while renovating a house on July 6, 2010 that left him paralyzed from the waist down. Now, seven months later, he is still singing God’s praises.

“I just learned how important every day is and that each is a blessing,” said twenty-one year old Bevington.

Less than a year ago, Bevington was reroofing a house along with Ignite Church in New Brighton. He missed a rung on the ladder he was climbing down and fell thirteen feet, and land-ed on his back.

“I can remember what happened pret-ty easily,” said Bevington. “I wasn’t knocked out and stayed awake till I had surgery some six hours later. I re-member the EMT telling me they were life-flighting me because I couldn’t feel my feet. They took my boots off and I didn’t even know.

“I was then driven to the New Brigh-ton football field where I waited for the life-flight. Once I got to the hospi-tal I finally got pain medicine. Then I got an MRI and was told my back was broke. Then I just had to wait for sur-gery. That is all I can remember.”

After being life-flighted, he immedi-ately underwent a thirteen hour sur-gery and woke to find that he not only had suffered a spinal cord injury but

that he was also surrounded with his loving family and friends. They all took turns coming to the house with food or to help out; donations were given and fundraisers were planned. All in all, $15,500 was raised to help Bevington and his family in their time of need.

“It meant a lot to me how much people wanted to help,” said Bevington. “We actually got so much food we had to tell people [to] stop sending it. I thank God for the support and everything that was sent my way. We did a lot of fundraising and there are plans for more. I want to help others as much as other people helped me, so I am in the works of starting a charity for people in the same situation as me.”

After the surgery, Ben was required to go through physical therapy so that he could strengthen his body.

“I am still doing therapy three days a week at MRS therapy in Bridgewater. It is going well right now. I lift weights and I am working on doing floor trans-fers right now. Those are transfers from the floor back into my wheel-chair. In case I fall out of my wheel-chair I [have] to know how to get back in. I will keep doing therapy as long as they let me.”

Ben is currently taking classes at the Community College of Beaver Coun-ty in the hopes of someday becoming a high school history teacher.

slow The Hype- Anthony d’Ambrosia Looking UpAshley Galbreath/Staff Writer

Former Geneva student, Antho-ny D’Ambrosia began his battle with Acute Myeloid Leukemia a little over a year and a half ago. Before his diagno-sis, the nose guard for the Golden Tor-nadoes thought he was in prime phys-ical condition and began training for another season. Tragedy struck when he was diagnosed, postponing his edu-cation and football career. Now, nearly 18 months later, D’Ambrosia is proud to report that he is in great health.

D’Ambrosia maintains regular con-tact with his doctor and will continue checkups to maintain his health status. He says that he feels 100% better than he did before his diagnosis. His blood counts are back in range after being extremely low during his illness.

In order to continue with his future plans, D’Ambrosia has to finish two more semesters of school. He does not know where life will lead him but he is excited to tackle it head on.

D’Ambrosia is surely an inspiration to many young people, both those in good health as well as those who are battling illness like D’Ambrosia did last year. His advice is pertinent to anyone, “Try to stay as happy as pos-sible.”

Throughout his treatment, D’Ambrosia maintained this positive attitude. His teammates and friends admire this about him.

Throughout the treatment,

D’Ambrosia’s family and friends ral-lied around him. A support group was created on Facebook where many en-couraging messages were displayed. Friends could also follow his progress on particular days.

The Golden Tornado football team, in coordination with several players from D’Ambrosia’s hometown, sold t-shirts displaying the messages, “Slow the Hype” and “Your Boy’s Too Strong.” All proceeds went to D’Ambrosia and his family to help fund his treatment.

Throughout the 2009-2010 football season, his #54 was hung near the scoreboard at the closed end of Reeves Field to remind his teammates to fight as Anthony was fighting.

“It was really easy with all the support I had from the entire Geneva commu-nity,” said D’Ambrosia, referring to his battle with cancer.

For those who are currently battling cancer, D’Ambrosia encourages them to “stay strong and pray for better days.”

D’Ambrosia recognizes the blessing that he has received and can see the difference his battle has made in his life.

“I think I did grow a lot. I appreciate every single day and I do not care how boring that day is because anything is better than a hospital bed.”

Anthony remains optimistic about the future and thanks God for the second chance he has been given.

... to Doug Bradbury. Hakuna Matata!

... to not cleaning up af-ter yourself in the Brig. The rest of us don’t want to sit in your pile of garbage.


6 caMPUs newsThink before you ink

Ashley Boxen/Staff Writer

At Geneva College, learning is based on a Christian background with an in-evitable mix of student life, pop cul-ture, fashion, and fads. Generations and decades are marked by these trends.

The 1990s birthed not only the major-ity of students currently here at Gene-va, but the grunge look, long straight hair, and the beginnings of tattoos as a popular trend. This trend carried on into the 2000s, and has been growing steadily since and is ever-popular to-day.

Christians across the board have a broad spectrum of comments and con-cerns on the issue of tattoos.

The Bible states in Leviticus 19:28 “Do not cut your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the Lord (NIV).”

This verse is pretty straight forward, yet many Christians still ink their body.

A local minister, Rev. Ed Hanley, Pas-tor of the New Galilee Church of the Nazarene, gives a pastoral view of tat-toos.

“When looking at this particular Bible verse,” Hanley said, “one must also look at the context. God was speak-ing to the people of Israel and His new covenant with them.”

Many in Rev. Hanley’s congregation have tattoos, religious or otherwise, and most of those individuals were mature adults, husband and wives and

parents, when they went and got their tattoos.

“It is a matter that requires much thought and prayer, which is all I can really say,” said Hanley. “It’s a perma-nent decoration on your body and a great deal of thought needs to be put into it.”

“I read my Bible and know what God’s Law says, but I also compare this verse to the previous few verses and take note of the Old Testament value of this,” said former Geneva student, Ron Boxen, of his reason for getting

tattoos. “Not that it does not apply to Christians today, but I believe that Christians can tattoo their bodies and still glorify God in every aspect of their lives.”

Boxen has two tattoos, one of a cross and one of a sword, both marked with Scripture references.

“I see my tattoos as a way of minister-ing,” Boxen said, referring to the tat-too of Galatians 2:20 on his right arm. “Someone comes up and asks what the verse is then I tell them and witness to them.”

Another example of one whose tattoos are seen by the public is junior writ-ing major, Mat Meyer. His tattoos of a Star of David-Sun, as well as a fish, are out there for all to see. His tattoos reflect his faith.

Giving the history of his tattoos he said, “The Star of David is more mean-

ingful to me than a Cross. A Cross tat-too, to me, is a cliché. I see it on people whose actions and lifestyles conflict with what it symbolizes.”

Yet another student sees his tattoo as a way of identifying his family back-ground as well as his faith.

Adam Teets, freshman history major has a Celtic cross on his right arm. He said, “[The tattoo is a] sign of my Irish heritage that also marks me as a Chris-tian.”

I, myself, has given in to the trend of tattoos. Yes, I was inked my freshman year of college. Unlike the gentlemen previously mentioned, my tattoo does not reflect my religion and love of Je-sus Christ. My tattoo is a music clef heart on my ankle; the size is no big-ger than a fifty cent piece. It is because I love music and everything about it - from singing, to playing my instru-ment, to tapping out a beat, to dancing.

Tattoos are an inevitable part of our generation and culture. They reflect the person who chose them. Tattoos are not a minor thing. A lot of thought needs to be put into something that will mark the body for the rest of life.

Tattoos can be used to reflect an indi-vidual’s faith, used to witness, mark a person as a Christian, or show off a person’s passion. Before making a big decision to give into pop culture and go with a trend that you cannot simply forget about by throwing away bad pic-tures of big hair or bad clothes, just re-member to think before you ink.

Cody Hoskins, Junior, Sociology Photo credit: Skye Mumau

Mat Meyer, Junior, Writing


Ashley Boxen, Junior, English

Photo credit: Ashley Boxen

Adam Teets, Freshman, History


Ron Boxen, Alumnus



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sustainable suggestionsJoshua Andre/ Quest Coordinator and Creation Stewardship Club Secretary

Alex’s nutritionDeanna Briody/Staff Writer

Geneva’s featured dining hall, known across campus as Alex’s, serves a va-riety of food each day. Many students eat every single meal at Alex’s; there-fore, the nutrition of Alex’s food is of vital importance to the students’ over-all health and wellbeing.

Clayton Cappellanti, Director of Food Services, said, “Absolutely [we have a balanced diet available in Alex’s each day]. With that being said, I would say that probably less than 5% of peo-ple- students and faculty- that come to eat here make correct choices when it comes to a balanced diet.”

According to Cappellanti, the most popular meal served in Alex’s is the made-to-order pasta. While pasta is

not terribly unhealthy to eat, it does not have much to offer the human body other than carbohydrates (which are, of course, necessary). On top of that, the toppings that people add to the pasta are not exactly nutritionally sound. According to an Alex’s work-er, Alex’s goes through 40 pounds of cheese and 15-20 pounds of bacon each time they serve made-to-order pasta, in a two hour period alone.

This seems astronomical. If there are

healthy choices offered in Alex’s, why are they not the popular choices?

Nicole Stout, junior human services major, said, “I think that the prepared food is rarely nutritious; the vegeta-bles are usually really overcooked and that probably takes away the nutrition-al value. Most of the ‘healthy’ food served in Alex’s usually doesn’t taste good at all.”

The vegetables cooked in Alex’s, con-trary to what may be popular opin-ion, are not canned, but they are fro-zen, steamed, and then served plain. Butter and salt are available for peo-ple to use if they wish to add them to the plates, but the vegetables are the healthiest choice as they sit on the glass counters in the cafeteria.

Each day, Alex’s con-sistently serves the following: salad and vegetables from a salad bar, wraps, a meat, a cooked vege-table, and some spe-cialty dish. This year, a new addition is the rotisserie chicken, which is clearly much healthier than fried chicken.

Cappellanti said, “Some days it’s hard-er than others, but ev-ery day, between the salad bar, the sand-wich bar, the rotis-serie chicken, and the hot special, I can find a way to put togeth-er a healthy, balanced meal.”

Freshman engi-neering major, Jes-se Herman, said, “I

think there are definitely healthy op-tions each day at Alex’s. I think you’d probably have to eat the same thing, though. There are healthy options, but among those options there’s not much variety.”

“Alex’s should maybe try to change things up more often. Maybe they should have the make-your-own chicken caesar salad lines more times a week or something like that, just to make people want to make healthier

choices. There are other healthy op-tions in Alex’s, like the deli line, but I think they get old after a while.”

It seems that, despite what many peo-ple would say, Alex’s gives custom-ers enough options to where a healthy meal is realistic and attainable for ev-ery meal.

But whether students are choosing healthy options and whether those healthy options are appetizing is a whole different issue.

The made-to-order to bar is a favorite among students. Photo credit: Skye Mumau

The all-too-tempting dessert spread has proven to be the downfall of many freshman fifteen-ers.

Photo credit: Danny Massaro

Students often choose the less healthy op-tions offered to them.


reduce – Take shorter showers. Turn off the water while you’re lath-ering up. Also take top-down show-ers: Rinse once to get your body wet, lather up your whole body, and then rinse yourself starting at the head and working your way down. Since the water runs down, you won’t have to rewash anything.

reuse – Don’t throw away your old socks when they get holes! Buy some darning thread and learn to mend them.

recycle – Check out the Beaver County Recycling Center (www.bea-vercountyrecycling.com) in Brady’s Run Park to learn what items they can recycle that Geneva’s recycling services might not be able to take.

Check out http://earth911.com to find other local recyclers.

rethink – Make “green” choices about household cleaning products. Many conventional products have chemicals that are harmful to hu-mans or the environment. Look for products that contain environmen-tally-friendly cleaning agents (such as lemon or coconut oil.) Or make your own—a mixture of equal parts vinegar and water makes a good all-purpose cleaner. NEVER pour extra cleaning products down the drain!

Reflect – “Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his master has set over his household, to give them their food at the proper time? Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes.” (Mt. 24:45-46, ESV)


8 tiMe wastersThe Cabinet Staff

Editor-in-Chief:

Danny Massaro

Assistant Editor:

Brandon Kauffman

Features Editor:

Alyssa Spang

Sports Editor:

Seth Kuhns

Photo Editor:

Skye Mumau

Layout Editor:

Lisa Lyon

Business Manager:

Tyler Blanco

Advisor: Dr. Tom Copeland

Staff Writers:Hillary Staudenbaur

Emily Bestor Emily Hunt

Ashley Galbreath Nathan Burns Heidi Gillette Joel Shannon

Jordan Watson Allie Reefer

Ashley Boxen Morgan D’Eramo

Katherine Cosgrove Deanna Briody Serumun Ubwa

Josh Carback

The purpose of The Cabinet, the of-ficial student newspaper of Geneva College, shall be to keep the mem-bers of the College community in-formed about all events that concern it, whether they be of internation-al or campus-wide significance; to provide for an open forum for airing the views of all interested groups on campus in order to promote under-standing among all the groups; to help create a climate of intelligent and mature consideration of issues and events; to help expose injustice on any front; to develop in the read-ers an appreciation of Christian val-ues by approaching all duties in the spirit of love, justice, and responsi-bility that Christ showed in all His dealings on earth.


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“ ‘Moulin Rouge’ because it’s a great story and I love the choreography.”

“ ‘Damn Yankees’ be-cause it’s the only one I’ve seen.”

“ ‘A Very Potter Musi-cal’ because Darren Criss is super hott and next year I’m transferring to PIG-FARTS!”

“ ‘West Side Story’ because there’s less singing and more ac-tion.”

What’s your favorite musical?Photo credit: Danny Massaro

...to Gerard Muschette, David Girardi, Lee Thieroff, and Adam Rose for being named NCCAA All-Americans. Congrats guys!


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Morgan D’Eramo/Staff WriterMichael Jackson, Diana Ross, P.Diddy, Christina Aguilera, and Justin Tim-berlake. These stars may not have a lot in common, but they do have one defi-nite similarity. They have all appeared on America’s biggest stage: The Super Bowl halftime show.

There is no question that celebrities are human and sometimes mistakes are made during the show, but has there ever been a show that was a com-plete fail? We always have to give in-dividuals credit for going up on stage in front of millions of people watch-ing, but after all they are professionals so when mistakes are noticeable there is no doubt that everyone will be talk-

ing the next day.

This was Christina Aguilera’s third Super Bowl performance, this time singing the National Anthem, so the audience was expecting a flawless rou-tine from a singer who has had expe-rience on this stage. As the media has clearly shown us over the last week, this was not the outcome.

Also no stranger to the Super Bowl stage, the Black Eyed Peas, who ap-peared in the 2005 Super Bowl pre-game show, were the main act in the 2011 Super Bowl halftime show. With excitement brewing, everyone was ea-gerly waiting for the Black Eyed Peas to take the stage, but no one was ex-pecting what actually occurred.

Besides having light up outfits and hundreds of dancers, the performance was rather “boring” for the audience. Fergie’s microphone did not work un-til almost half way through her verse and it was reported they all lacked ex-citement while performing. The songs did not sound pleasing to the ear due to the fact that the performers all sound-ed like they were screaming instead of singing.

The appearance of Slash, from Guns ‘N’ Roses, was another letdown. The only time the audience seemed to come to life was during Usher’s sur-prise appearance. It should have been his name hitting the headlines for the show because he received nothing but

positive feedback.

Unfortunately, the talent for this year’s Super Bowl halftime performance was not as expected and millions of people were let down. Yes, people are going to mess up and they may experience technical difficulties but it is extreme-ly hard to overcome when we watch the performances back to back.

For all the Steeler fans, if the game didn’t have a bad enough ending, the entertainment surely hit the nail on the head. Better luck next year pick-ing the entertainment for the Super Bowl but for now Christina Aguilera and the Black Eyed Peas are just go-ing to have to take Usher’s advice and “Let It Burn.”

Men’s hoops coming to a promising endKatherine Cosgrove/Staff WriterThe Geneva College men’s basketball team had a promising week with vic-tories against Penn State-Beaver and Grove City College. At the Penn State-Beaver game on Monday, February 7, Geneva came out strong with a 84-62 victory led by starting forward Rich Colick and point guard Brandon Sop-ko.

Colick, a senior, posted 20-point per-formance and Sopko finished with nine points and ten assists.

Following this well-earned victory, the men’s team conquered yet another time, on Monday, February 12, beat-ing Grove City College on their own court with a close win 61–58.

Colick heavily participated by scor-ing 20 points for the victory, includ-ing six of the final eight points and was a flawless 7-7 from the foul line. Lambros Svingos, the team’s starting center, also played a large role in the Grove City game with his second dou-ble-double of the season with 11 points and 14 rebounds.

This means that Geneva comes out with a 17-6 record entering their fi-nal week of the regular season. Dur-ing this final week, the men’s team an-ticipates their chance to qualify for the National Christian College Athletic Association (NCCAA) playoffs, and capture the NCCAA National Cham-

pionship.

An NCCAA title would mean a great deal to the goals of the team, and would be a huge victory for the team currently ranked fourth in the NC-CAA Division I Men’s rankings.

“Though it will be a tough qualifying game, we are confident in ourselves and the way we are playing that we can make this goal a reality,” said Sopko, a senior civil engineering major.

The ambition and positivity of the players has made for a rewarding sea-son, not only in regards to the tour-nament, but also the teams personal goals of accomplishment.

“So far the season has been everything we hoped for as a team,” added Sop-ko. “We came into the season want-ing to win a minimum of eighteen games, and we have an opportunity to do that this week and we expect to get it done.”

Matthew Lorello, a sophomore center, also shares Sopko’s realistic outlook on the team’s goals towards the cham-pionship.

“Our team’s goal this year involved getting back to the NCCAA tourna-ment in Oakland City, Indiana, and so far we have put ourselves in a position to accomplish that goal,” said Lorello. “To be able to accomplish that goal, we need to finish out [the] regular sea-son strong and take that momentum

into our regional games.”

The Golden Tornadoes look picked

up a win in their final road game of the regular season against Westmin-ster College on Wednesday, Febru-

ary 16. They will face off against Waynesburg University on Saturday, February 19. At this final home game of the regu-lar season, both teams will be honoring their senior athletes for their dedication and participa-tion during their years at Geneva.

The GT’s huddle up before a victory at home.



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that I stepped up but I was put in the right position to make plays,” he said. “These are shots we always take in our offense and they just happened to fall.”

Jeremy Hazell had 25 points to lead the Pirates (11-15, 5-9) but he missed two shots in the final 13 seconds, the second a 3-point attempt to tie with 3 seconds to play.

“They stepped up on the drive big. I tried to get it over them. I thought it was going down but it just rimmed off,” he said of his drive that could have tied the game with 13 seconds left. “The 3-pointer I thought that was going down but I left it a little short.”

Villanova beat Seton Hall for the ninth straight time, a streak that dates to 2004, and this was the 100th meeting of the schools and the Wildcats own a 63-37 advantage.

Corey Fisher had 12 points for Villa-nova and Antonio Pena had 10 points and 12 rebounds.

Villanova turned the ball almost every way possible, from passes off team-mates’ legs to passes that reached the stands to offensive fouls and even two 35-second shot clock violations.

“We’re playing more forwards and (starting guards) Maalik (Wayns) and Fish got in foul trouble and they were sitting for long periods and Seton Hall has great quickness,” Wright said in explaining the turnovers. “They got rusty on the bench.”

The Wildcats somehow managed to overcome all those mistakes and Bell, who came in averaging 1.8 points, was how.

Jordan Theodore hit a jumper with 10:35 to play that brought Seton Hall within 45-43. Bell hit the first of his two second-half 3s to give the Wild-

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Geneva track building communityHillary Staudenbaur/Staff Writer

The men’s 4x200m relay team, Stephen Polite, Ryan White, Corey Fraction, and John Henry Jar-wood. Photo courtesy of Brian Yowler

On Saturday, February 19, nine of Ge-neva’s finest athletes will be traveling to Indiana Wesleyan for the NCCAA national meet, the most competitive meet of the year.

The team’s head coach, Brian Yowl-er, said of the event, “The trip in itself is a key trip in terms of building rela-tionships, but also it really is a compe-tition that pushes our athletes to face their events at a higher level. It’s tough and they know it.”

Dr. Yowler, who also serves as the As-sistant Professor of Biology, has been the head track and field and cross country coach for the past two years at Geneva College. As head coach he has been working to set up individu-al and team goals for his athletes to strive for throughout the season. He is very excited to be accompanying the athletes next week to the finals and be-lieves that this event is a great oppor-tunity for the runners, jumpers, and throwers.

“[It is] a great experience for the stu-dents to have to opportunity to com-pete with fellow brothers and sisters in Christ from [other] colleges,” said Yowler.

The finalists in the men’s division are: Corey Fraction, Steven Polite, Ryan

White, Nick Edinger, Dan Dillman, Matt Logan, Tyler French, Wes Mar-quis, and Shaka Sydnor. The four women that will be representing Ge-neva are Julia Urbanski, Aisha Moore, Shannon Rech, and Kathryn Regala-do. Dillman, Sydnor, Moore, and Ur-banski are all team captains.

During this season of indoor men’s and women’s track, Yowler has en-couraged his student-athletes to set

a good example for other classmates both in their athletics as well as their academics. His goal for the team was to strive to obtain a 3.4 GPA this se-mester. He also encourages each ath-lete to get to know their other team-mates in the different sections.

He stresses the importance of “fami-ly,” because track and field is a sport which tends to be more individual. He wants this team to really know each

other.

In order to create team chemistry, Yowler has created a kind of buddy system where each athlete is paired up with another (rotating every meet), and they are required to hang out with each other. This includes watching each other’s events, getting together at practice and spending time togeth-er away from the arena of practice and competition.

Kathryn Regalado, a freshman his-tory education major, said, “We have an awesome team that desires to seek God in our training, academics and competition. We have a strong bond that goes deeper than track but goes to our relationship with Christ.”

Graduate student and team captain Shaka Sydnor expressed his love for the team’s community.

“The most impressive part about our season so far, is seeing how much young talent we have,” said Sydnor. “It’s really exciting to see some of the freshmen and sophomores go out, compete for the first time collegiately, and qualify. We have one of the largest teams we’ve ever had since I’ve been here and it’s been a blast just getting to know them personally and encour-aging them to reach their goals at ev-ery meet.”

cats a five-point lead, but Hazell hit one of his four 3s to make it 48-46.

Bell’s next 3 gave the Wildcats a 54-46 lead with 6:38 to go. Over the next 3:10 Villanova committed five turnovers, including four in as many possessions.

Bell made three free throws with 5:34 left to give Villanova a 57-48 lead. Se-ton Hall took advantage of the Wild-cats’ miscues to go on a 7-0 run and was within 57-55 with 2:14 to play.

After Bell’s layup and two free throws by Herb Pope of Seton Hall, it was again a 2-point game with 1:12 to play.

With 40 seconds left Villanova turned it over again, this time when Fish-er dribbled the ball off his leg right in front of Wright.

Hazell missed a drive after that turn-over and Antonio Pena made one of two free throws with 13 seconds left.

Hazell’s 3 to tie was off the rim and the

Pirates lost for the third time in four games.

“James Bell killed us. He hit some tough shots,” Seton Hall coach Kevin Willard said. “We’re just not getting a break, we’re not getting a bounce.”

Hazell finished 9 of 23 from the field and he made four of 17 3-point at-tempts. The Pirates, who came into the game last in the Big East in 3-point shooting at 29 percent, were 4 of 26 from beyond the arc.

“We’re shooting too many 3s at home and I think that is one of our biggest is-sues,” Willard said.

Herb Pope, who had seven points in a foul-plagued 29 minutes for the Pi-rates, couldn’t get over that they couldn’t beat a team that committed 22 turnovers.

“They gave us a chance to steal the game and we gave them a chance to steal it right back,” he said.


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Seth Kuhns/Sports EditorTwo Sundays ago, I enjoyed one of the greatest moments since I first became a Packers fan. As I sat in my apartment – er, stood – during the final moments of Super Bowl XLV, a great sense of joy overwhelmed me. I was watch-ing the Steelers offense melt down the same way the Ravens defense had against Pittsburgh twice over the course of the past season, and it was all happening to the advantage of the Green Bay Packers.

As I excitedly jumped around my apartment (still unsure of what to do now that Green Bay had won) I re-ceived at least a dozen text messages and several phone calls congratulating me on the Super Bowl victory. I start-ed to settle down a little bit, and in that time, I managed to start responding to these messages. Sort of.

How do you respond to a message that congratulates you for something you had nothing to do with? I am not a member of the team, and I won’t be re-ceiving a ring for my performance in the living room that night. All I do is

watch the games and buy the apparel.

When the Packers made it to the Super Bowl, I joked with my friends about making the trip to Texas and spend-ing my life savings on a ticket to what grocery chains (who have no sponsor-ship rights) were forced to call “the big game in Dallas.”

I perused StubHub and TiqIQ, hop-ing that someone had put a decimal in the wrong place and was about to give me the deal of a lifetime. Then I read an article on CNN about how people were paying exorbitant amounts of money just to watch the game in the parking lot. I bowed out of the ticket-buying race then and there.

So when I found out that people who bought tickets from scalpers for $2,000 couldn’t even sit in the seats they were “promised,” and some of them had to watch the game on a TV in the stadi-um, I laughed.

Then I heard that the NFL was being sued for millions by these people be-cause the NFL wasn’t doing enough to reimburse them. Roger Goodell

had (only) offered them three times the face value of their tickets as well as tickets to next year’s Super Bowl. When that wasn’t enough, he offered them full coverage of airfare and rooming plus tickets for any future Su-per Bowl of their choosing.

They quarreled over the fact that it was non-transferrable. They argued that they had spent more than three times face value. So Goodell has now said that they can opt to receive $5,000 or reimbursement for all their document-ed costs for this year’s game, which ever figure is higher.

Still, the five-million-dollar lawsuit continues. The NFL is now commit-ting two million dollars to these peo-ple, but one Yahoo! Sports blogger said that’s “couch-cushion money” for the NFL.

What I don’t understand is why I’m supposed to feel bad for these peo-ple. They are the ones who chose to get ripped off by scalpers, they are the ones who overpaid for hotels, and they are the ones who haven’t figured out that watching a game in Dallas means

you stare at a giant TV screen inside the stadium for three hours.

While I agree that going to the Super Bowl should be an awesome experi-ence, especially considering it’s usu-ally a once-in-a-lifetime deal for most people, I have yet to figure out why the NFL has any reason to pay people more than $5,000 for their “suffering.”

Maybe I’m bitter about the fact that I couldn’t afford to go, but since when is any football game worth paying thou-sands of dollars to see in person? With the thousands that those people spent on those tickets, they could buy a 50-inch 3D HDTV, a couch, and a proba-bly a few years of DirecTV with NFL Sunday Ticket. That would give them the ability to watch every game for the next few years (pending a CBA) in darn-good comfort and a lifelike 3D picture.

But, hey, now they can do that and complain about how much they hate Roger Goodell for ruining their Super Bowl experience. Isn’t that worth the “suffering?”

Freshman leads no. 15 VillanovaJim O’Connell/AP Basketball Writer

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — James Bell made a name for himself Tuesday night. The reserve freshman guard more than doubled his season high with 21 points as No. 15 Villanova beat Seton Hall 60-57 in one of those games that won’t be rerun as a classic anytime soon.

“A road win in the Big East. That’s the nicest thing I can say about that game,” Wildcats coach Jay Wright said after his team snapped a two-game losing streak with one of those performances that left a lot of people shaking their heads. “The Pitt game was one of the ugliest games ever (a 57-54 loss on Saturday) and so was this game and the common denomina-tor was us. We just had to gut it out and our young guys played great.”

One of the young guys played the best game of a freshman season that started late because of a leg surgery.

The 6-foot-5 Bell, whose previous high was 10 points against Delaware

and who scored a total of 31 points this season, became the offensive star for the Wildcats (20-6, 8-5), who commit-ted 22 turnovers, three over their sea-son high and double their season av-erage.

The Wildcats were without second-leading scorer Corey Stokes, who has missed two games with a turf toe inju-ry, and there wasn’t a whole of offense coming from anyone but Bell.

“He didn’t play all summer and all

fall,” Wright said. “He couldn’t do anything. We shut him down in June and he couldn’t do anything until De-cember, so he’s been working his way back. He’s been playing great in prac-tice but he gets tired very quickly. He really arrived tonight.”

Bell had stress fractures in both tibias. He tried rest from June until Septem-ber but the doctors decided on surgery. Rods were inserted into both legs on Sept. 8 to help the bones. He started practicing with his team in December. He saved them on Feb. 15.

“I didn’t play for 6 months straight so it took some time,” Bell said of his return. “College basketball is a fast game. I was really frustrated but I knew I was doing everything for the right reason.”

He was extremely modest about his 7-for-9 shooting performance that in-cluded making 4 of 6 from 3-point range.

“I got an opportunity and it’s not

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Wells Fargo Center packed out for last year’s rivalry game against Georgetown.

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