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HolcadHolcadThe Friday May 7, 2010

Volume CXXVINumber 22

W e s t m i n s t e r C o l l e g e ’ s s t u d e n t n e w s p a p e r s i n c e 1 8 8 4

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By Ashley LukanCampus Writer

Students expecting reading dayto occur before finals begin nextsemester have another thing com-ing.

Due to issues ranging fromnumber of classes to the constantmisuse of reading day, college offi-cials have decided to move readingday to the middle of finals insteadof before the final period.

Dr. John Bonomo, associate pro-fessor of mathematics and com-puter science was the lead pioneerfor this change.

“This change is in conjunctionwith making finals week Mondaythrough Friday and not allowingthem to spill over into the week-end. The change allows the week-end before finals to prepare fortwo days of finals and then readingday will allow students to preparefor the last two days of finals.,”Bonomo said.

The motivation for this changewas student centered.

“I’ve found that students areusually burned out toward the endof finals and do increasingly pooron their exams as the week goeson,” Bonomo said. “Also readingday is often used as a party day,and if it were moved to the middleof the week, it is more likely thatstudents will use it correctly.”

Students across campus havemixed reactions to this change.

“At first I was a little upset bythe change,” junior Talia Hullumsaid. “But after I realized thechange allowed me to have abreak from finals in the middle ofthe week, while still having theweekend before the first few daysof finals to study, I was excited.”

Sophomore Brendan Bankshad a different reaction.

“This change is not going tohelp students,” Banks said. “A lotof us spend the weekends at homeor at work and won’t have time toprepare for the first part of finals ifreading day is moved to the mid-dle of the week. I know I dependon that day to prepare myself forthe week of finals.”

Moving reading day to the mid-dle of the week will cause anotherdifference for students. The num-ber of days that breaks last will beaffected by this change. For exam-

ple, next semester’s fall break willonly be one day. Easter and springbreaks will also be affected. Thissemester’s 10 day long springbreak will only last about sevennext spring semester. However,Easter break will pick up an extraday so students can enjoy morethan three days at home for theholiday.

The reason that the change inreading day is affecting breaklengths is that every class requiresthe same amount of meeting time.Monday, Wednesday, Friday class-es must meet the same amount oftime that Tuesday, Thursday class-es do. Changing reading day andbreak lengths will in turn helpeach class meet the same numberof hours. This is especially benefi-cial to professors of lab courses be-cause they won’t have to worryabout losing an entire lab to break.

Bonomo has his own theoryabout how students will react tothe change.

“I think the students will likesome aspects of the reading daychange. No one will like the fallbreak change, but the change forEaster break is a better distributionof vacation days. I’m sure therewill be grumbling everywhere,”Bonomo said, “No one will likeevery aspect, but if there are anymajor problems, we will bring itback up to the faculty for reinvesti-gation.”

This change was also instated toreduce the misuse of reading day.Many students spend the night be-fore reading day partying. In turn,reading day turns into a recoveryday instead of a finals preparationday.

Although other schools havechanged the placement of theirreading day, Bonomo urged thatthis change is not based on whatother schools have done.

“This change is basically help-ing to fit in with the requirementsand restraints unique to Westmin-ster,” Bonomo said.

For now, the change is perma-nent unless the faculty collectivelydecides to reinvestigate the issue.

“This change may last the next30 years. Will it actually last thatlong – who knows? We will seenext semester if there are any ma-jor problems,” Bonomo said.

By Brendan MoultonStaff Writer

From Monday, April 26 untilFriday, April 30, the campus wasin the grip of a zombie invasion.

Groups of students chasingeach other, foam weapons and or-ange and yellow armbands are allpart of the game Humans vs. Zom-bies. Humans vs. Zombies is agame of survival. The goal is foreither the zombies to infect all ofthe humans or for the humans tosurvive for a set amount of time.

“I’m pretty paranoid,” sopho-more Troy LaCorte said. “I getready everyday very quietly andwith the lights off so that no oneknows I’m up.”

Humans must protect them-selves from an ever increasinghorde of zombies using foam-dartguns and foam swords. They areidentified by orange armbands.The zombies wear yellow arm-bands and must “tag” a human toconvert them.

Senior Adam Baker is a self-proclaimed survivalist. Duringzombie invasions, he can be seenwalking around campus with twofoam-dart pistols in his pockets, afoam axe and sword tucked intohis jacket and carrying his enor-mous foam shovel.

“This is the stupidest thing I’ve

ever seen people do at Westmin-ster, and I love it,” Baker said.

Sophomore Todd Slobodnyakis the moderator of the Humansvs. Zombies games. He plannedon organizing two games, eachlasting a week, but the second onewas cancelled because of difficul-ties with the registration website.

“My high school back home didit. I was watching Zombielandwith some friends, and I decided tostart it here,” Slobodnyak said.

To get the game started, Slo-bodnyak visited the national web-site, submitted the location of thegame and signed up to be themoderator. He was in charge ofsetting up registration, resolvingrule disputes and organizing dif-ferent missions for the humans tocomplete.

“I wish I would’ve been there,”sophomore Ben Gandolfi said. “Iheard it was boring because therewere only six zombies, but I thinkthat the next one will be more ex-citing. I mean, it’s just so awe-some!”

During the first week, the mis-sions involved big battles whereall of the humans had to hold offzombie attacks. If all of the hu-mans survived the attacks, they re-ceived an antidote and could turna zombie back in to a human.During the second week, Slobod-

nyak planned for the humanswalk through the bio-trail andfend off zombie attacks.

“I want to be a zombie for thebio-trail walk,” freshman EmilyPitzer said. “I think it’d be fun.Who wouldn’t want to be a zom-bie for that?”

The game starts off with oneoriginal zombie, but the numberof zombies increases exponential-ly. Sophomore Nate Delk had aclose encounter at the Phi Tau fra-ternity house.

“I went down to the house tofind out when Sing and Swingpractice was ,and I saw that TomCho was a zombie, so I threw asock at him and hit him,” Delksaid. “Then I realized there werefour other zombies in the house. Igot two with socks and one withmy sword, and after that I bookedit to Hoyt.”

Slobodnyak plans to organizeHumans vs. Zombies again nextyear. Anyone interested in partici-pating in Humans vs. Zombies canvisit the school’s website athttp://westminster.hvzsource.com/,go to the national website athttp://humansvszombies.org/, jointhe Humans vs. Zombies facebookgroup or contact Slobodnyak.

By Sarah KehrStaff Writer

At the end of this year the cam-pus will say goodbye to retiringfaculty and acknowledge profes-sors stepping down from campuspositions.

Professor of art Dr. Kathy Koopand Professor of French Dr. CarolBove will retire at the end of thissemester. Dr. Sandra Webster willstep down as the faculty develop-ment officer while Dr. Terri Lenoxwill step down as the co-director ofthe Drinko Center.

Koop has taught here for 37years as a professor of art. Despitearriving on campus in 1973, Koophas taught as a visiting professor atInstitut Taknologi Mara in

Malaysia and as a visiting scholarat the Western Carolina Universityin North Carolina.

Koop’s work has been exhibitedboth nationally and international-ly. A display of her work entitledRetrospectacular: Variations ofClay and Wood from 1973-2010was on display in the Patterson artgallery from Feb. 17 – Apr. 17. Ac-cording to Koop, it was “a celebra-tion of fine art within the liberalarts tradition.”

When asked about her favoritememory from the school, Koop re-flected on her students’ growth intheir love for art.

“The students that really madea difference in their lives to learnto create and love what theymake,” Koop said.

After retirement, Koop plans to“continue to make art and to cre-ate.”

Bové has taught here for 26years as a professor of French. Shecame to campus from VirginiaTech in 1984. In addition to French,she also teaches courses on foreignfilm, including an Italian film clus-ter this semester. One of her fa-vorite memories from the schoolincludes a run-in with a formerstudent.

“One day I was in my officewhen a girl came in and said ‘Youprobably don’t remember me.’ Itturned out she was a student inmy first class in 1984, and hername came right back to me,”Bové said. “It reinforced with methat you do retain certain memo-ries of individuals.”

Bové says she will miss herfriends and students and says thatone of the highlights of her careerswas in 2006 when her book, Lan-guage and Politics in Julia Kriste-va, was published.

“The year that my book waspublished was a great highlight forme; it meant a great deal,” Bovésaid. “It it hard to teach and re-search, so to have a book come outafter all that hard work was veryrewarding.”

Bové plans to continue teaching

as a professor of world literature atthe University of Pittsburgh afterher retirement

After six years, Webster willstep down from her position as fac-ulty development officer. The posi-tion entails organizing Faires facul-ty forum, the training of newfaculty and department chairs, run-ning workshops, making recom-mendations and ultimately sup-porting faculty and their work.

The school is one of a few col-leges that has a half-time facultydevelopment position. Webster ac-cepted the position on these terms,for she continued to teach duringher time in office.

“I have a passion for teachingundergraduates,” Webster said. “Af-

ter all, how could you be good atdeveloping faculty if you weren’tteaching?”

Webster plans to continueteaching until 2021. Professor ofeducation, Dr. Charlene Endrizzi,has been elected to fill the position.

Lenox, associate professor ofcomputer science, will step downfrom the position of co-director ofthe Drinko center after two years.Serving alongside co-director Dr.Patrick Krantz, Lenox planned andhosted the undergraduate researchand arts celebration, coordinatedservice learning and communityengagement as well as the scholarsin service program.

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Photo by James Bonetti

Last defenseHuman survivors, senior Max Muska and sophomores Brendan Moulton and Nathaniel

Delk, hold strong in their position during a battle recreation from the game Humans vs. Zom-bies.

Contributed photo Contributed photo

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Faculty and staff members bid farewell

The zombie invasionStudents participate in Humans vs. Zombies competition

Students will witnessbig calendar changes

Drs. Kathy Koop and Carol Bove retire, Drs. Sandra Webster and Terri Lenox step down from positions

For four years, you could find“Christina Alducka” along thepages of The Holcad. After this edi-tion, you won’t see my nameagain. Maybe you’re happy aboutthat, but personally, I feel like I’mgetting out of a relationship. TheHolcad and we have had our upsand downs, but at age 22, I have tomove on.

What am I moving on to? Iwish I could answer that question.As of now, I’ll be moving back inwith Mom and Dad. I haven’t en-rolled into the Journalism andMass Communications graduateprogram at Point Park becausehow can I pay for my part-time ed-ucation without a full-time job? Ihaven’t been slacking in the appli-cation process. Simply, no one thatI’m interested in wants me. Thepanic has kicked in.

I know that this will soundcliché, but the thought of me grad-uating is a bittersweet feeling. I’manxious to leave Westminster, butnot ready to enter the adult world.

I’m through with dormitories.I want to continue late night

chats with my roommate.I’m tired of the Internet outages.I’ll miss my shared folders.The popcorn from the Club

Room is fattening.Other popcorns can’t compare

in taste.Dinner shouldn’t be eaten out

of plastic containers.The TUB’s turkey and mashed

potatoes is my favorite meal.The gym doesn’t have enough

machines.I don’t have an elliptical in my

house.Sing and Swing is exhausting.I’ll never perform on stage

again. Pittsburgh is an hour away

from campus.Campus is an hour away from

my home.Sorority dues are expensive.What will I do without my sis-

ters?Too many girls attend Westmin-

ster.There aren’t any guys in my

hometown.New Wilmington is a dry town.My hometown doesn’t have

any fraternity houses.Parking passes cost $30.I have to park on the street.Attending Greek events cost

money. I’ve never donated to so many

philanthropies. I’m graduating.I’m graduating.It’s bittersweet. Thank you for

the last four years.“You walk across the stage, take

a bow, hear the applause,and as the curtain falls, just

know you did it allthe best that you knew how

and you can hear them cheeringnow.

So let a smile out and showyour teeth ‘cause you know youlived it well.” Lyrics to “This is Notan Exit,” by Chris Conley of Savesthe Day

Dear Holcad,

After an intense, year-long af-fair, I think we need to see otherpeople.

I’d like to say it’s not you, it’s me,but I think we’ve both played apart in this separation--mainly you.

I wish I could put this gently orsweetly, but you were so NEEDY!How am I supposed to get mywork done for class when I neededto be with you between 35 and 50hours each week? Yes, I know.You’re a weekly newspaper--Iknew that about you when I metyou, but do you know what it doesto a person having to think aboutyour last edition, the current edi-tion and the upcoming edition si-multaneously? No matter whatday of the week it was, I had to bethinking of you! No one shouldconsume that much of someone’stime!

Frankly, Holcad, you’re smoth-ering me. You’re the first thing Ithink about in the morning; you’rethe last thing I think about eachevening before I go to bed--don’tflatter yourself, this isn’t a goodthing. You’re the reason I forgetmeals, seem scattered in my class-es and always look exhausted. Ihave dreams about you--fighterjets attack me because I miss yourdeadline; every page I create re-mains empty despite all the arti-cles and photos I place on it; I findmyself trapped in a post-apocalyp-tic world because for some reason,a shortage of articles has ended theworld.

Yes, I knew you were needywhen we first got together, but Ihad no idea your cronies would

constantly be calling me at allhours of the night. The texts,emails and calls from your en-ablers (by which I mean the staffand students responsible for yourexistence) never stop!

Oh, and while we’re on this sub-ject, do you have to tick people off?I mean, people don’t send me a lotof criticism about you, but whycan’t you deal with them for achange? You don’t do anything foryourself! You force all of these peo-ple to work for you, but do you dothe payroll? No! You like lookingdashing on Fridays, but do you lifta finger to make this happen? No,you’d walk off without your head-lines if they weren’t attached. Youjust love to explore, but do youtransport yourself to your variouslocations early on Fridays? No, youinsist on being chaffeured aroundlike a celebrity.

Well, I’ve had enough. I can’ttake your neediness, your helpless-ness or your ego. I want my lifeback! I want to be able to say “yes”to an activity or engagement with-out considering if we already haveplans. I want to be able to enjoymy weekends without feelingguilty for not being with you. Iwant to sleep without you keepingme up all night!

Maybe I’m being selfish andcold-hearted, but I gave and gavein this relationship and all you didwas take! It’s not me, it is all you,Holcad.

Love,Shannon

Dear Holcad,

I take everything back! Youknow you’re the center of myworld, and I love that about you.You’re fun because you changeevery week. I don’t mind the calls,texts and emails---good or bad,staff or non-staff--because that tellsme that people are engaged intheir weekly newspaper. With crit-icism, we can grow and improvetogether.

You helped me to go beyondmy comfort zones. I would neverhave met so many interesting peo-ple or attended such a diversecollection of activities if youweren’t constantly pushing me todo so.

You were a lot of work, Holcad,but I never would have done it if Ididn’t love you, and what youstand for, so much. So thanks forletting me be part of the journeyfor four years, and I’m glad wehad this chance to get closer dur-ing this past year. I know that Ican go anywhere and handle any-thing now because I’ve been

putting up with you for so long!

With more love than before,Shannon

Thank you, everyone, for a tru-ly great year. A lot of students putan exorbitant amount of workinto giving this campus a newspa-per each week. I hope you notonly found our creation informa-tive and entertaining, but I alsohope that you appreciated thework each staff member did tomake this possible.

I also want to thank the peoplewho have supported us--peoplewho agreed to interviews, submit-ted story ideas, providedcomments and suggestions, andmost importantly, who faithfullyread each edition. A paper withoutreaders isn’t really a paper at all,so thank you for giving us pur-pose for the work that we do. Imust also thank our adviser, Mrs.Natale, and other faculty memberswho gave me guidance when I feltquite lost in this paper.

I have had a wonderful timebeing the editor of The Holcad.My time here would not havebeen as great if not for the hardwork and support of a really dedi-cated staff. A strong staff providesa paper with a solid foundation,and I’ve enjoyed finding out whatwe could build on that foundationthis year.

Good luck to next year’s staff.Olivia Sweeney will be the newcaptain at the helm of The Hol-cad, which literally means “ship ofburden,” and I hope she finds thisexperience as rewarding as I have.

Despite the occasional gripingin my columns, I hope that every-one knows that I have always, andwill always, consider my term aseditor an honor and privilege, aswell as one of the highlights ofmy years here.

Enjoy the rest of the term andhave a splendid summer--I’m go-ing to begin trying to fill the holein my life that The Holcad oncefilled.

“Have Ithaka always in yourmind.

Your arrival there is what youare destined for.

But don't in the least hurry thejourney.

Better it last for years,so that when you reach the

island you are old,rich with all you have gained

on the way,not expecting Ithaka to give

you wealth.Ithaka gave you a splendid

journey.Without her you would not

have set out.She hasn't anything else to give

you.” (excerpt from “Ithaka” byConstantine P. Cavafy

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The HolcadWestminster College’s student newspaper since 1884

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general: (724) 946-7224 ads: (724) 946-7223 holcad@westminster.edu fax: (724) 946-6223

Read each week’s edition online at holcad.com

Editor-in-Chief Shannon RichterManaging Editor Sarah SimonNews Editor Laura HenryLayout Editors Stephanie Chaffee, Katelyn LivingstonPhotography Editor James BonettiOutside the Bubble Editor Katie WestSports Editor Brad FetesSports Writers Corey Kendall, April Scudere, Mike

Katrancha, Andrew Dafler, Christen Whalen, Milt Constantine

Arts & Entertainment Editor Stefan SchneiderArts & Entertainment Writers Max Muska, Ben Portz, Brett

Gerthoffer, Amanda Ehrhardt, Ryan SargentFeatures Editor Katie EllisonCopy Editors Addie Domske, Ryan Sargent, Mike Disotell,

Jessie Debiec, Sarah Kehr, Sarah ByerlyStaff Writers Brendan Moulton, Sarah Kehr,

David Lynch, Allison McKinney, Sarah Byerly, Kelly Gould,

Olivia Sweeney, Emily WinnPhotographers Alex Davis, Coleen York, Alyssa Hanna,

Emily Winn, Olivia SweeneyOperations Manager Max MuskaAdvertising Manager Katie WilliamsDistribution Manager Lynn RiceFaculty Adviser Mrs. Delores Natale

RANT& RAVE

Want to Rant &Rave? EmailThe Holcad

with RNR as the subject.

I find your breath offensive.

“And that is because . . . theirlove . . . is real. Thank you and

good night.”

You went to Montana andcame back a born-again hippie.

Starfish loves you!

I’m not a drowned rat . . . I’m adrowned MATT!

I have 359 reasons to get upevery morning.

Those 3 little words we allwant to hear . . . “Let’s . . . get . .

. naked.”

Spreading rumors will notmake people like you. Stop it.

I smiled each time you came toour Sing and Swing practice.

Hi Soupy!

Every time you show your facein public, a baby animal dies.

She thinks that giving me dirtylooks will somehow make mebreak up with my boyfriend.

These younguns these dayswith their Hanner Montanner...

If you didn’t know any better,you’d think that was a giant

throw pillow except that throwpillow is breathing and if yousay its name, it looks at you!

Behold, my cow-bending pow-ers!

I heart fast turns . . . AHHH!

I stand behind you . . .metaphorically.

"I hate when fallen angels tryto seduce me."

Dollar store souvenirs

Carry on the tradition!

I am the final rant & rave ofthe year! MOOHAHAHAHA!Yes, the A&A class will still

take care of you when you’re64!

Christina AlduckaColumnistShannon Richter

Editor-in-Chief

Shannon is a senior Englishmajor and public relations mi-nor. She has a fondness forhedgehogs and is so ob-sessed with Jane Austen thatit frightens her roommates.

Christina is a senior Englishmajor and writing minor.She's probably one of theonly students who followsthe Pirates. You can usuallyfind her in her on-campus of-fice, MCC 257.

It’s not me, it’s you It’s bittersweet

Letter tothe EditorDear Holcad,

Westminster's Greek communi-ty continues to amaze me withtheir caring and generosity. I amstill in shock that they were able toraise $8,000 for the Cystic FibrosisFoundation. Our family is ex-tremely grateful.

We were unable to attend theSing and Swing because we werein Florida walking in the Cystic Fi-brosis Great Strides Walk with myUncle. The walk was very nice.Three miles along the beach withbeautiful weather. It was also hardbecause there was a team therewalking in memory of a 21-year-old-young man who had died ofCystic Fibrosis last January. I alsospoke to a young lady who was19-years-old, and she has had avery rough time.

Then I read Camille's e-mailabout how much the Greeks hadraised, and it truly touched myheart and gave me hope forClaire's future. Thank you all sovery much!

Kelly Hartner

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Ripped from the wire

INTERNATIONAL

REGIONAL

Murder charges dropped inMercer Co. in drug shootoutcase

MERCER, Pa.-- The MercerCounty District Attorney says he willdrop murder charges against fourmen accused of planning a drug rob-bery that sparked a deadlyshootout.Mercer County District At-torney Robert Kochems filed a mo-tion on Monday to dismiss thecharges against 18-year-old JohnHosey's alleged accomplices in adrug deal-turned-robbery in Sharon.Kochems says Hosey and the othermen planned to rob four people whocame to his brother's home to buy apound of marijuana in November.But Kochems says prosecutors don'thave enough evidence to prove whofired the shots that killed Hosey inthe subsequent gun battle.

Two other people sustained mi-nor injuries in the shooting. Attorneys for 12-year oldLawrence Co. boy appeal preg-nant killing case

NEW CASTLE, Pa.-- Lawyers fora 12-year-old boy charged with fatal-ly shooting his father's pregnant fi-

ancee want a judge to revise hisopinion that the boy should be triedas an adult so they can take a directappeal to the Pennsylvania SuperiorCourt. They went to court on Mon-day asking for the appeal.

Last month, Lawrence CountyJudge Dominick Motto ordered Jor-dan Brown to stand trial as an adultin the Feb. 20, 2009 slaying of Ken-zie Houk. Her unborn son also died.

Motto found the boy was unlike-ly to be rehabilitated in juvenilecourt because he won't take respon-sibility for the crime. But Brown's at-torneys say making the boy ac-knowledge the crime to avoid trialas an adult amounts to self-incrimi-nation.

That's why they've asked a judgeon Monday to acknowledge that animmediate Superior Court appealmay advance the cause of justice.

If the judge agrees, the appealscourt would review the judge's deci-sion.

If the 12-year old Brown is triedas an adult and is convicted, he willface life in prison.

NATIONAL

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Citypolice are considering whether of-ficers should get involved whenunruly but nonthreatening fanssprint onto the field during sport-ing events, a review begun after ateenager was subdued with a Taserat a Phillies game.

A police officer used his stungun Monday night on 17-year-oldSteve Consalvi, who jumped ontothe field and ran around in circlesin the outfield.

Police Commissioner CharlesRamsey examined video of the ar-rest and felt the officer acted with-in department guidelines, whichallow officers to use Tasers to ar-rest fleeing suspects, said policespokesman Lt. Frank Vanore. Thedepartment's internal affairs unit isinvestigating, Vanore said.

The department is now review-ing whether its officers should beon the field wrangling runawayfans who aren't threatening any-one, Vanore said.

"Should we be on the field atall? I think that's what's beinglooked at," Vanore said. "I'm notsure we should be chasing peoplearound the field."

Consalvi, a high school seniorfrom Boyertown, leapt onto the

field at the top of the eighth inningduring Monday night's gameagainst St. Louis. He ran around inthe outfield, waving a white towel,and dodged two security officers.

The police officer chased himfor about 30 seconds before thestun gun probe hit the teenager,who stumbled forward, slid face-first on the grass and stayed downfor about 30 seconds before stand-ing up and walking off the field.

"From the preliminary look atit, it appears that the officer waswithin the policy," said Vanore,adding that he did not know whatmay have transpired before thevideo started. "He was attemptingto make an arrest and the malewas attempting to flee."

Police said the teen is chargedwith defiant trespass, disorderlyconduct and resisting arrest.

Consalvi's mother, Amy Ziegler,apologized for his actions and saidhe regrets running onto the field.

"It was stupid. It was just ab-solutely stupid," she told WTXF-TV.

His father, Wayne Consalvi, toldThe Philadelphia Inquirer that hisson called him from the ballparkto tell him about the stunt. WayneConsalvi said he told him not to doit.

The team said the police depart-ment was discussing with thePhillies whether using the stungun was appropriate.

Vanore said it was the first timehe knew of that a Philadelphia offi-cer had used a Taser on a fan onthe field. There have been in-stances in other cities of police us-ing stun guns on unruly fans in thestands, including last year at an A'sgame in Oakland, Calif.

Players didn't think the officer'saction was excessive.

"If you're on the streets runningaway from a cop, doesn't that cophave a right to Tase you becauseyour fleeing from a cop? So what'sthe difference," Phillies centerfielder Shane Victorino said.

Cardinals manager Tony LaRussa agreed the use of a Taserwas appropriate.

"If somebody comes up thereand does some damage, they're go-ing to be second-guessing not do-ing anything," La Russa said. "Ijust think it's acceptable, becauseit's a good deterrent."

Pat Courtney, a spokesman forMajor League Baseball, said securi-ty issues are dealt with at the teamlevel.

"MLB is reserving comment

until the Philadelphia Police De-partment has completed their in-vestigation and discussions withthe Phillies," he said in a state-ment.

An expert on police account-ability said he couldn't commentspecifically on the Philadelphiacase, but said the general rule isthat officers should only use Taserson people who are posing a threatof "imminent harm."

Merrick Bobb, executive direc-tor of a Los Angeles-based non-profit police oversight group calledthe Police Assessment ResourceCenter, said mild resistance usuallydoesn't justify the use of a Taser.

"Usually the resistance has tothreaten some harm to the officerin order to justify the use of aTaser," Bobb said.

Mary Catherine Roper, an attor-ney for the American Civil Liber-ties Union in Philadelphia, said shedidn't understand why the officerhad to use a Taser.

"How long can he really runaround out there?" Roper said ofthe fan. "In this situation, he's notdangerous, he's not getting away."

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — KieraBrinkley doesn't mind curiouschildren, and mostly brushes offthe stares of adults.

Every once in awhile, someonewill ask the 16-year-old aboutwhat happened to her legs andarms. She'll explain: doctors had toamputate them or a bacterial infec-tion that raged in her blood wouldhave killed her. She was two at thetime.

Sometimes, she'll get a rudestare or a harsh question and hernormally sunny mood shifts.

"I got in a fight with a shark,"she'll flash back.

She doesn't let it get her down.She roams the halls of a Portlandhigh school in a wheelchair, chat-ting with friends or taking in a hugor two. At home, she cares for hertwo sisters and a little brother, andmakes them dinner.

Through it all, Kiera dances, alot, in the living room with hermother as her audience, in a prac-tice studio at New York'srenowned Juilliard School and onstage with her high school class-mates wildly cheering.

When she sways, she's nolonger the girl in the wheelchair,the one with the missing limbs.

"It lets people see the real me,"she says.

Watching her, it makes youwonder how a little girl who losther arms and legs at an age whenmost children are still getting usedto their bodies grew into a youngwoman — and dancer — who be-lieves there are no limits, just hur-dles.

Kiera (pronounced Key-AY-RAH) was a bubbly, eager to helptoddler. Once, she even managedto carry her crying infant sister,Uriah, to her mother in another

room. She made everyone smile,says her 36-year-old mother, Ele-sha Boyd.

One day, Kiera fell severely ill.Boyd left Uriah with her mother,and rushed Kiera to the hospital.As they waited in the emergencyroom, Kiera had a seizure. Doctorstold Boyd that Kiera had an infec-tion of the blood.

As the bacteria spread and tis-sues died, Kiera slipped into acoma. Surgeons amputated all buta few inches of her legs, her leftarm at the elbow and her rightarm above the wrist.

Much of that time was a haze.Boyd floated in a netherworld ofworry and grief. They dependedheavily on their church and faith.She says she never felt alone, shar-ing the pain she felt as a motherwith her church family.

When the day came to leave thehospital, Boyd knew that she couldnot let disability limit Kiera's fu-ture.

"She doesn't have any bound-aries," says Boyd, a bank supervi-sor who also danced and playedflute growing up in Portland. "Shejust has hurdles, like we all have.Life for her wasn't going to be:'You can't do that.'"

At home, Kiera worked withphysical therapists and learned towalk with prosthesis. But she wasmost comfortable getting aroundon her thighs. Uriah copied herlike little sisters do, scootingaround on her behind and neverlearning to crawl properly.

Before Kiera began kinder-garten, Boyd asked staff from Port-land Shriners Hospital for Chil-dren — where Kiera had receivedmuch of her treatment — to visitthe school and show a video aboutthe kids who are treated at the hos-

pital.Boyd hoped that Kiera's soon-

to-be classmates wouldn't treat herdifferently than any other kid.

They did — she was greeted likea rock star.

"She was eager to go to school,ready to try anything," Boyd says.

It soon became clear that thedaughter of a woman who filledtheir home with dance, music,singing and art wanted to dance,limbs or no limbs. When it cametime to move to middle school,Kiera won a lottery to attendDaVinci Arts Middle School.

"I was so scared about middleschool," Boyd remembers. But shelet go, giving Kiera space.

School counselors advisedteacher Kristen Brayson that asixth grader without arms and legswould be joining her tap danceclass. She remembers Kierabounding from her wheelchair anddoing cartwheels around the stu-dio.

This girl didn't need any specialtreatment, Brayson recalls think-ing.

Boyd and her mother stitchedsmall metal tap plates onto a pairof shorts so Kiera could dance withthe same percussive rhythms asher classmates. The music drivesher spirit, Brayson says.

"I think that piece of her wasgoing to drive her soul, no matterwhat," the teacher says.

Kiera introduced herself to theschool at the fall talent show with ahip-hop routine to Lil' Bow Wow.The crowd cheered, chanting hername.

"She did this magic," Braysonsays.

It stayed with Kiera into highschool.

Shriners' staffers contacted the

Dream Factory, a national organi-zation that grants wishes to criti-cally and chronically ill children.The group invited Kiera to live outone of her dreams: A trip with herfamily to New York City for a Juil-liard workshop.

Kiera choreographed her ownroutines, always imagining eachmove with the full reach of armand leg.

At Juilliard, she taught one ofher dances to students. At the endof the session, Kiera and her moth-er sat off to the side, and the youngchoreographer yelled: one, two,three, go!

She had never seen one of herworks performed as she'd seen itin her mind.

"My mom and I just sat andbawled — to see tall, long-armed,long-legged people do my dance,"Kiera says.

Friday, April 2 was a specialday. Kiera was going to perform atthe school's annual Diversity As-sembly, a morning-long studentshowcase that included hip-hopbreak-dancing, Japanese popsongs, hula and Vietnamese cere-monial dance.

Her dance, set to Babyface's"The Day," was dedicated to ayoung cousin who had died in afire several years earlier.

As she danced, each move wascharged with emotion. Tears wether cheeks. On the final note, asshe bent in a graceful bow, stu-dents jumped from their seats, ap-plauding and shouting her name.

Afterward, Kiera wheeledthrough the hallway to her honorsEnglish class. Several friends bentdown to give her hugs.

"When I dance, I can freely ex-press myself," she says. "It's myown therapy."

No limits, just hurdles for teenager without limbs

Philadelphia chief backs officer who Tasered fan

DETROIT (AP) — Prosecutorssaid they will ask a federal appealscourt to quickly intervene Thurs-day and stop the release of ninejailed Michigan militia membersaccused of conspiring to overthrowthe U.S. government.

U.S. Attorney Barbara Mc-Quade said the appeals court inCincinnati will be asked to issuean emergency stay.

The nine were expected to bereturned to court to be processedat 11 a.m. EDT before being re-leased until trial. But the appealscourt could halt everything.

In a ruling late Wednesday, U.S.District Judge Victoria Roberts saidshe would not further suspend herMonday order that releases themilitia members with strict rules,including electronic monitoringand curfews.

"We don't think the conditionsare satisfactory," McQuade said.

"We think the defendants pose adanger to the public and to law en-forcement in particular. It's myduty to protect the safety of thepublic."

Roberts had ordered the militiamembers released Monday, thensuspended her decision while pros-ecutors decided whether to appeal.They will appeal, but she was notpersuaded to freeze the order anylonger.

"Defendants are presumed in-nocent of all charges against them.... This presumption of innocence ispart and parcel of why, 'In our soci-ety liberty is the norm, and deten-tion prior to trial or without trial isthe carefully limited exception,'"Roberts wrote, quoting a 1987 U.S.Supreme Court decision.

The members of the southernMichigan militia, called Hutaree,are charged with conspiracy tocommit sedition, or rebellion,

against the government and the at-tempted use of weapons of massdestruction. They have been in cus-tody without bond since lateMarch.

Authorities, citing secretlyrecorded conversations, say thegroup planned to kill a police offi-cer and bomb the subsequent fu-neral. Defense attorneys say it wasnothing more than hateful talk.

Prosecutors claim the suspectsare too dangerous to be releasedfrom jail. But Roberts has set manyrestrictions and appointed third-party custodians, mostly familymembers, to keep watch.

An undercover agent infiltratedthe group and secretly recordedsome members talking aboutkilling police and fearing a "NewWorld Order."

Earlier this week, Roberts said itwas "offensive and hate-filledspeech" but it did not signal a con-

spiracy to levy war against the gov-ernment.

William Swor, lawyer for militialeader David Stone, 44, of Clayton,Mich., said he was delighted to seethe judge's decision Wednesdaynight.

"We think it's another step to-ward vindication, but we have nodelusion that this is over," Sworsaid.

Since a series of raids and ar-rests, Hutaree members have beenportrayed by the government ashomegrown extremists out tostrike at authorities. But evidenceoffered during the detention hear-ing pointed to no specific plot.

"The government's positionthat the defendants sought to ac-quire explosive devices is weak-ened by the evidence that theagents found no explosive deviceswhen defendants were arrested,"the judge said.

BEIJING (AP) — There were noNorth Korean flags flutteringaround Tiananmen Square. No TVfootage of smiling hugs or heartfeltstate banquet toasts. Not even thebarest recognition that one of theworld's most famous recluses wasin the country.

Kim Jong Il's China trip unfold-ed amid the usual bizarre secrecythat highlights both the North Ko-rean dictator's cloistered ways andthe singular relationship betweenhis hard-line communist regimeand its most important ally.

While Kim has grown evermore dependent on Chinese aidand diplomatic support, Beijing ap-pears determined to do what ittakes to prevent his regime's im-plosion and the potential politicalchaos that could bring severe un-rest to its border regions.

That mutual interdependencegoes far in explaining China's will-ingness to acquiesce in the farcicalspectacle of obfuscation and denialthat defined Kim's four-day tripthat was believed to have wrappedup on Thursday.

"China accepts North Korea'srequest for secrecy, consideringtheir special relations," said KimYong-hyun, a North Korea expertat South Korea's Dongguk Univer-sity.

On Thursday, Chinese ForeignMinistry spokeswoman Jiang Yupleasantly maintained her insis-tence on claiming ignorance aboutthe visit — but indicated wordwould be forthcoming.

"In keeping with past practice,if top (North Korean) leaders comefor a visit, relevant informationwill be released at the appropriatetime," Jiang said to reporters.

A motorcade left the DiaoyutaiState Guesthouse, where foreigndignitaries often stay, on Thursdayafternoon, arriving shortly after-ward at Beijing's South Stationfrom which Kim's train left a shorttime later — destination unknown.

Kim met with Chinese Presi-dent Hu Jintao on Wednesdaynight and with Premier Wen Ji-abao and other officials on Thurs-day, according to reports in SouthKorean media, which have closelyfollowed the visit.

Kim is thought to have arrivedMonday on the special armoredtrain he uses because he shuns airtransport. This week's visit is hisfifth to China since succeeding hisfather as ruler in 1994, with thelast in 2006.

Ailing from what was believedto have been a stroke in 2008,Kim, 68, is rarely seen in publicand is surrounded by tight securityat all times. His movements arenever announced until his trips arefinished, but several journalistshave spotted him in Beijing andrare footage of Kim has been cap-tured by several TV broadcasters.

South Korea's Yonhap newsagency reported that Kim told Huhe is ready to return to six-nationdenuclearization talks, but it gaveno details. Kim has said the samething in the past, but usually withattached conditions, such as a long-sought direct dialogue with theUnited States. Yonhap did not saywhat, if any, conditions he set thistime.

Scholars have said they expect-ed Kim to express some new will-ingness to rejoin the long-stalledChina-sponsored negotiations, un-der which North Korea agreed todismantle its nuclear programs inreturn for aid.

North Korea quit the talks ayear ago and then conducted a nu-clear test that drew tightened U.N.sanctions. The last round of thetalks — involving China, Russia, thetwo Koreas, Japan and the U.S. —was held in December 2008.

Although China is unlikely tolink them explicitly, a return to thetalks is likely to go hand-in-handwith new aid, including the imple-mentation of economic agree-ments reached during a visit byWen to North Korea last year.

China, which sent troops toback North Korea during the 1950-53 Korean War, already providesthe bulk of its food and fuel aid tofeed its malnourished populationof 23 million and prop up an econ-omy devastated by natural disas-ters and chaotic management —most recently a currency revalua-tion that backfired disastrously.

Beijing's support for Kim is dri-ven overwhelmingly by its own se-curity concerns, which overrideany unhappiness it might haveover North Korea's nuclear pro-gram or rejection of economic re-forms, Chinese scholars say.

"No matter how different itsopinions are from those of theNorth Koreans, and how much un-happiness it has toward them, theChinese government will not leaveNorth Korea to implode, and it willnot let the strategic balance of theKorean peninsula be broken," saidCai Jian, deputy director of theCenter for Korean Studies inShanghai's Fudan University.

That, however, comes at therisk of upsetting South Korea,where suspicion is rising that aNorth Korean torpedo destroyedthe naval ship Cheonan in March,killing 46 sailors. North Korea hasdenied involvement.

The timing of Kim's China visithas aroused some complaintsamong South Korean politicians,who say it shows insensitivity to-ward the Cheonan victims. SouthKorean officials have asked thatChina play a "responsible role" inthe aftermath of the sinking andkeep them informed of Kim's ac-tivities in China.

Jailed Michigan militia members could be releasedSecrecy a trademark of KimJong Il's trip to China

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Senior Send-offsPage A-4 May 7, 2010 The Holcad — Westminster College, New Wilmington, Pa.

Shannon RichterEditor-in-Chief

Major- EnglishMinor- Public RelationsPost-graduation plans- Attend Duquesne University for my master’s in English,

earn my PhD and hopefully become a college professor. Oh, and take a roadtrip to Cal-ifornia with Stephanie Chaffee.

Greatest lesson learned at WC- The English and PR department is the coolest de-partment on campus.

Dream job- if someone would pay me to read and travel, that would be ideal.Something random about myself- Other than being good at schoolwork, my only

talent is my ability to recite the alphabet backwards.

Sarah SimonManaging Editor

Major- EnglishMinor- WritingPost-graduation plans- moving to Pittsburgh and

hopefully finding a job as a copy writer and editorGreatest lesson learned at WC- to never take for

granted the time you have on campusHobbies- photography, reading, tennis, training to

one day become the winner of Survivor and watchingan obscene amount of Law and Order: SVU

Dream job- to become an animal cop

Stephanie ChaffeeLayout Editor

Major- Public RelationsPost-graduation plans- Work at PetSmart for-

ever and live with Shannon Richter. Duh. ORFind a job with a PR firm or corporation.

Greatest lesson learned at WC- Growing uphappens too fast.

Favorite hobby- Watching hours and hours ofTV with Shannon Richter

Current pets- I have a two dogs, a cat, a chin-chilla, and a very spikey fish.

Katie WestOutside the Bubble Editor

Major - English Minors - History, Theatre, MusicPost-graduation plans- I will be attending the University of

North Carolina Wilmington to gain a masters degree in Public His-tory.

Greatest lesson learned from WC - How to stay true to who Iam. In the course of being here, I have grown and changed, but Ihave learned that the best way to adapt to that change is to staytrue to yourself and just go with the flow.

Favorite quotation or personal motto- "The future belongs tothose who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roo-sevelt

Something random about yourself- I own over 120 pairs ofshoes.

Laura HenryNews Editor

Major- Public RelationsMinor- EnglishPost-graduation plans- seeking a position at a PR firm,

advertising agency, or in graphic design in the Cleveland,Youngstown, or Akron area

Greatest lesson learned at WC- work hard no matterwhat, believe in yourself, and never give up.

Hobbies- spending time with my family, boyfriend, andfriends, photography, design, and writing.

Favorite Quote- "I can do all things through Christ whostrengthen me" Philippians 4:13

Christina AlduckaColumnist

Major- English Minor- Writing Post-graduation plans- To get a big kid job and possi-

bly get a Master’s degree in Journalism and Mass Com-munication from Point Park University

Greatest lesson learned from WC- A random room-mate assignment can lead to a great friend..

Something random about yourself- I’m not datingBrad Fetes.

Dream job- To get paid for writing about my travelsaround the world (at the company’s expense, of course)

Max MuskaOperations Manager and A&E Writer

Major- Christian Education Minor- EnglishPost-graduation plans- Hopefully getting a job in this area or in PittsburghGreatest lesson learned at WC- I discovered that the more I learn, I realize that I know a lot less than I thought I did.Favorite location/vacation spot- I like cities, especially Nashville, Pittsburgh, and Toronto.Dream Job- A three-way tie between movie-director, touring musician, and music producer.

Lynn RiceDistribution Manager

Major- HistoryMinor- Music Post-graduation plans- Graduate school at IUP for Public History Greatest lesson learned at WC- Do not procrastinate! What is your favorite location/vacation spot? I love visiting Glacier

National Park in Montana. It is most definitely the most beautiful place onthis earth.

David LynchStaff Writer

Major- English Minor- Writing Post-graduation plans- Torn between peddling hotdogs while living in a van and joining the circusGreatest lesson learned from WC- No matter how much you’ve learned and how much you’ve grown, there’s always room for

JELL-O.Favorite quotation or personal motto-“There’s a world going on underground” – Tom WaitsSomething random about myelf - some of my ancestors are fictional characters

Steve SankeyStaff Writer

Major- English Minor- Music Post-graduation plans- I am attending Columbia Theological Seminary in

Atlanta, GA to get a Master of Divinity. I will be seeking ordination as a pastor.Greatest lesson I learned at Westminster- Instead of cranking something

out the night before, you get more satisfaction from work when you completeit over time. I did that once and it felt great!

Current pets- I have 3 Pearl Danio fish and 4 Guppies. The guppies just hadbabies but I think they have been eaten.

Something random about yourself- I have a black belt in Tae Kwon Do.

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Brad FetesSports Editor

Major- HistoryMinor- Secondary EducationPost-graduation plans- Find a teaching job?

Go to graduate school? Become famous? TBD.......Greatest lesson learned from WC- You're

friends are the most important people in your life.They will always be there for you. Don't ignore thatfact.

Dream job- Trophy HusbandCurrent pets- My cat Ziggy ran away, he is sand

colored, loves to talk and is totally adorable; if youfind him, i would love that he would be returned tome. Thank you.

Favorite quotation or personal motto- "Towish oneself well, is to wish all others ill"

Stefan SchneiderA&E Editor

Major- English Minor- ZombiesPost-graduation plans- Going to grad school at IUP

for now, but if that doesn't work out, I'm going to learnhow to clone dinosaurs.

Greatest lesson learned from WC- Being in chargedoesn't make someone correct, unless that person isAbraham Van Helsing.

Favorite quotation or personal motto- "The genepool needs some chlorine."

Dream job- I would like to be a knight ridingaround with my comrades, fighting evil, even though wewouldn't live long since guns have been invented.

April Marie ScudereSports Writer

Major- Mathematics Minor- Secondary Education Post-graduation plans- After graduation, I plan on going on

vacations, being lazy, sleeping in past noon and playing tenniseveryday. After the excitement of that fades away, I plan on at-tending graduate school somewhere to hopefully get my PhD inmathematics.

Greatest lesson learned from WC- It is possible to live off of20 dollars on a meal plan with 3 weeks left in the school year.

Favorite hobby- I love playing tennis, taking pictures/scrap-booking, and working on math problems.

Favorite location/vacation spot- I love going on vacationevery year to the Outer Banks. There's nothing I love more thanjust relaxing on a beach doing nothing after a long, stressful yearas a math major. However, at the moment, I would love to gotake a vacation down in Asheville,NC. I'm pretty much in lovewith all of North Carolina.

Ben PortzA&E Writer

Major - historyPost-graduation plans - pursuing a

masters degree in journalism from De-Paul University

Greatest lesson learned at WC- noth-ing teaches you more than failure.

Dream job - point guard on the LosAngeles Lakers

Favorite vacation spot - Woodstock,New York - circa August of 1969

Brett GerthofferA&E Writer

Major- Broadcast CommunicationsPost-graduation plans- Find a job in the broadcasting or

film fields.Greatest lesson learned at WC- Dedicate yourselfCurrent pets- Four cats. Cinder, Mr. Butters, Beatrice Kid-

do, and B**ch catSomething random about myself- I was featured in

Playgirl magazine.

Amanda EhrhardtA&E Writer

Major- English Minor- MusicPost-graduation plans- Next year I will be attending the University of

Chicago's Master of Arts Program in the Humanities. Greatest lesson learned at WC - Take advantage of your education and

all the opportunities it could hold for you. You have to become involved in ac-tivities and courses that you love, and if you invest your time and energy intothings that bring you academic and personal satisfaction, the potential payoffwill be huge.

Something random about myself- I had Lyme's Disease once. I got Bell'sPalsy in my face and my brother started calling me The Pirate!

Favorite hobby- I really enjoy painting those birdhouses you can get atMichael's. I have a brick Victorian, a beach cabana, a stone castle, and a me-dieval German house.

Sarah ByerlyCopyeditor

Double major- Elementary Education and SpanishPost-graduation plans- Searching for teaching positions in

Pennsylvania, Texas, and other southern statesGreatest lesson learned at WC- Developing a sound persev-

erence to achieve my academic goalsFavorite location/vacation spot- Definitely one of the Greek

Islands (either Santorini or Mykonos) both of which I want to vis-it some day!

Alex DavisPhotographer

Double Major- Biology and SpanishPost-graduation plans- This summer I will be volunteer-

ing in Egypt for 6 weeks. In September I will be moving to aLatin American neighborhood in either Miami or Hollywoodto do healthcare-related work

Greatest lesson learned from WC- I've learned so muchfrom my time at Westminster, but I think I've learned themost through the out-of-classroom leadership experiencesthat I have been given.

Favorite location/vacation spot- San Luis, Rio Colorado;an orphanage in Mexico

Dream job- I would love to work with developing coun-tries and their health care systems

Corey KendallSports Writer

Major- Accounting Minor- Human ResourcesPost-graduation plans- Find a job Greatest lesson learned from WC- Some of the best

teachers are farmers...Something random about myself- I can touch my

nose with my tongue.Favorite hobby- Karaoke!!!!

Derek DeremerCartoonist, Photographer and Staff Writer

Major- English Minor- Secondary Education Post-graduation plans- Get a job allowing me

to share my vast knowledge with America's im-pressionable youth.

Greatest lesson at Westminster- trying to getout of my comfort zone...although maybe I did thattoo much...

Personal motto- "Don't worry . . it could alwaysbe worse . . . I mean, you could be Rosie O'Donnell"

Dream job- Writing Slowbs and Thelma for thenext 53 years with a guarantee that maybe at leasta half a dozen people would actually read them andat least 33% of them would actually laugh.

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By Aleya TylinskiCampus Writer

There are more than 100 orga-nizations on this campus, each di-verse and pertaining to any indi-vidual. One of the most recentgroups formed is The DisabilityAwareness Club. This organizationwas created by first-year JacobCratsa. Cratsa is ecstatic for the or-ganization.

“I know a lot about the issueand the issue particularly interestsme,” Cratsa said.

The purpose of this organiza-tion is to spread awareness of dis-abilities and their true meaning.Some people may think that thisclub is about physical improve-ments on campus. However, themain purpose of the organizationis to spread the word about disabil-ities. The club wants to throwaway the typical stereotypes andprovide information about all dis-abilities, including what they meanand how they are overcome. Crat-sa feels that the campus is separat-ed between those with disabilitiesand those without.

By creating this club, studentswill come together, enjoy each oth-er’s company and forget about anydifferences amongst themselves.Cratsa, who works in the LearningCenter, wants to spread awarenessto those on campus who may bemisinformed about the issue. Ad-viser Corey Shaw is also eager forthe new organization to start. He

hopes that many people will showinterest in the club and will wantto learn more about the issue.

“I would like the organizationto be a place where it’s cool tohang out and be who you are,”Shaw said.

Junior Sarah Schulz justlearned about the organizationand believes that the club will helpimprove campus awareness aboutdisabilities as well.

“When it comes to disabilities, itis the largest and most misunder-stood minority group. It does notget a lot of attention because it isoverlooked and people are un-aware,” Schulz said.

The Disability Awareness Clubis open to all students and will be-gin at the start of next semester.The club will have a president, vicepresident and treasurer, and elec-tions will be held at the middle ofeach spring semester. Meetingswill be held once every otherweek, and there will be no dues;however, the organization will ac-cept donations.

“I would like the or-ganization to be aplace where it’s coolto hang out and bewho you are.”

Corey Shaw,adviser of The Disability

Awareness Club

By Sean SchachnerCampus Writer

With the end of the semester insight, seniors are looking forwardto a week with their classmates asthey take part in a number of cele-bratory events.

Senior week is the college’s wayof congratulating students for allthey have done and providing anopportunity for them say goodbyeto their friends and classmates be-fore they part ways and move intothe next phases of their lives.

The events will commence onMay 15, when the senior mealplan will begin, which includesbrunch and dinner at McGinnessfor most of their remaining week.

However, their first scheduledevent will begin on Monday, May17 and will include an evening ofcelebration at Tully's Steakhouse.Tully's is known for its great pizza,wings and music. All of this willbe offered to the seniors at the costof only $5.

The next day, President Dor-man will host the annual Presi-dent's Brunch at 11:30 a.m. Stu-dents may also organize their ownactivities in addition to those of-fered by senior week.

“After the President’s Brunch onTuesday, I think a lot of people aregoing to be getting together t ospend some of our last few mo-ments hanging out together,” se-nior Amanda Ratliff said.

On Wednesday, the highly an-ticipated trip to Cedar Point willtake place, with tickets costingonly $20. Charter buses will departat 9 a.m. for the 3 hour trip. Whenasked about senior week, most se-niors said that out of all the up-coming events, they were most ex-

cited about the Cedar Point trip.This might be because it is tied forhaving the most rides in a singlepark and also includes more rollercoasters over 200 feet than anyother amusement park in theworld.

“I think Cedar Point will be themost fun; it will just be an all dayevent with all of the seniors o ncampus where we will be able tohang out and spend time together,”senior Maile Kirkpatrick said.

The last event on the schedulewill include a Pittsburgh Piratesgame against the MilwaukeeBrewers. Not only is it t-shirtThursday, but also for only $10,each student will be receive trans-portation to the game and a Pirateshat.

“I think those are outstandingprices, especially since you get freestuff for the Pirates game and transportation is provided foreverything,” senior Steven Sankeysaid. “Mainly, I just think it's a

great way to cap off a great collegeexperience.”

Friday will mark the beginningof the end of the journey for mostseniors. The day will begin withgraduation rehearsal at 10 a.m., fol-lowed by brunch and then dinnerin McGinness. The last day beforeCommencement is sure to hold abittersweet taste for seniors.

“I couldn't ask for a better fouryears,” senior Benjamin Gutmannsaid. “I'm sad that it's over, but Ithink Westminster has preparedme for everything. I don't knowwhat my next step will be, but Ithink I'm ready for it.”

The final day for seniors will beSaturday, May 22. It will beginwith a continental breakfast servedin McGinness at 8 a.m. and endwith Commencement at 2:30 p.m.The events of this week will leavestudents with one more memoryon a long list of things to remem-ber from an integral part of theirlives.

By Kara KnickerbockerCampus Writer

The Black Student Union host-ed their annual fashion showThursday, May 6 at 8 p.m. Theevent was open to the campus freeof charge, but donations for HaitiRelief were appreciated.

The event, which had been inOrr Auditorium the past threeyears, was held in the BerlinLounge this year.

“We decided to go for a more in-timate setting this year, like a realfashion show,” junior EvangelinaFigueora, president of BSU, said.

Carmen and Company, a pro-fessional model group, were a spe-cial guest this year thanks to thehelp of Jeannette Hubbard, Headof Diversity Services.

A variety of people were in-volved in the show such as stu-dents, faculty, faculty's childrenand a few non-Westminster stu-dents.

Figueroa had high expectationsfor this year’s show and hoped thatas many students would come outto support their friends as therewere last year.

“The event was a definite suc-cess last year. CPC sponsored a co-median, Alexandra McHale, whohosted the show, adding a new ele-ment, and the attendance far ex-ceeded our expectations,” Figueroasaid.

Participants modeled differentscenes such as school spirit, formal,sporty, animation, frat/sorority, pa-jamas and many more. All of themodels wore their own clothingthat they have selected for the cat-egory.

“There was great music, awe-some outfits and fabulous models,”freshman Kylie Tray, who modeledin the colorful, preppy and throw-back categories, said. “Overall, Ithink students enjoyed it.”

Sophomore participant DanStephenson was also ecstatic forthe event, calling it his favoriteevent of the semester.

“I was super excited to modelfor BSU,” Stephenson said. “It is afun way to express yourself and begoofy at the same time.”

“BSU will continue to promotediversity through its social and ed-ucational events,” Figueroa said.“We plan on increasing our com-munity service efforts through thisinstitution.”

Along with raising money forHaiti Relief, BSU has also been in-volved with Southwest Gardens, awomen’s shelter/community cen-ter in Farrell.

The Black Student Union pro-motes diversity on campus and isopen for membership to people ofall different backgrounds and race.They also have a Facebook group,Westminster’s Black StudentUnion, which is updated periodi-cally.

By Kelly GouldStaff Writer

Big Brother Big Sisters is an or-ganization on campus that givestroubled teens a shoulder to leanon.

Big Brothers Big Sisters meetsevery other week for one day.There are two groups, one groupmeets on Wednesdays and the oth-er group meets on Thursdays.They meet for two hours and par-ticipate in activities geared towardthe girls that come to campus.

Sopomore Jami Orahood onlyparticipated in Big Brothers BigSisters for a semester, but enjoysevery second of it.

“I just started it [Big BrothersBig Sisters] last semester and I amreally glad that I’ve had the oppor-tunity to be involved in these girls’lives,” Orahood said.

Some of the activities that thegirls participate in includemakeovers, girl talk and recently ascavenger hunt.

The girls were given a list of dif-ferent things to find on campussuch as a red car or a place wherebooks could be found. This did notonly provide the girls with enter-tainment but also makes them fa-miliar with the campus.

This would hopefully give thegirls an idea of what a college islike and would possibly interest

them in attending college whenthey graduate.

The most recent event that washeld was the spaghetti dinner. Thegroup got together to share a mealand share stories from the past se-mester together. This dinner is thefinal event of the semester.

Each of the girls, both the bigsisters and the little sisters, havelearned a lot from each other overthe past semester.

“These girls have really openedmy eyes to a greater picture. I wasso naïve before I met them. I feellike they have taught me somuch,” Orahood said.

The girls that come to BigBrothers Big Sisters are typicallyfrom foster homes and treat thevolunteers as a role model. Thevolunteers and the girls view eachother as a big sister and a little sis-ter relationship rather than a men-tor and student.

The girls really enjoy workingwith the teens and getting to knowthem. In those two hours eachweek, the girls learn about one an-other and enjoy spending time to-gether. They have become closeand learn a lot of life lessons fromone another.

Junior Tawni Conley enjoys thetime she spends with her little sis-ter.

“It’s not just good for your re-sume, but it is a great life experi-ence,” Conley said.

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Under her leadership, URACwitnessed exceptional participa-tion from departments and the cel-ebration was moved from a halfday event to two and a half days.Lenox also strived to work morewith the community, which shesays occurred.

“The stuff that the Drinko Cen-ter does is the fun stuff on cam-pus,” Lenox said. “I worked withreally great people; I’ll miss it.”

Lenox plans to continue teach-ing as the new department chair ofthe math and computer sciencedepartment. The position of a full-time director of the Drinko centerhas been created, but no decisionhas been made on the new direc-tor.

By David LynchStaff Writer

On Sunday, May 2, studentsfrom campus ran in the PittsburghMarathon. The event was spon-sored by Dick’s Sporting Goods.According the mission statement,the marathon is a non-profit orga-nization which promotes the loveof long-distance running and en-hances community involvement.

“It’s a huge thing where every-body’s cheering for each other,” se-nior John Magnuson said. “No-body’s rooting against anybody. Ithink there were close to 20,000people that ran this one. Thestreets were just filled with people.”

The marathon has differentraces that cater to different abilitylevels. Besides the full marathon,there’s also the full marathon relayand the half marathon.

“People come in from all overthe area and even other placesaround the country to run therace,” Magnuson said.

The event attracted a wide vari-ety of people including old and

young, and they all had their ownreasons for running. Some ran inhonor or in memory of peoplewhile others were representingvarious teams or causes. And somewere in it entirely for fun or specta-cle.

“I saw a guy wearing a sharkoutfit,” Magnuson said. “And therewere people pushing babies instrollers, and there was a guy thatran with a trumpet and he wouldplay and everybody would yell‘Charge!’.”

According to Runner’s Worldmagazine, these sorts of activitiesare not uncommon duringmarathons. For example, thefastest recorded marathon rundressed as a carrot is 3 hours and34 minutes. The fastest marathonon stilts is currently 8 hours and 25seconds. And the fastest marathonrun while juggling three beanbagsis 2 hours and 50 minutes.

“I saw a guy juggling,” juniorEmilee Stanford said. “It was prettycool; there were bands along theside and there were people cheer-ing. There was one guy just play-

ing congo drums by himself. Therewere old guys in rock bands.”

The marathon was mostly asuccessful event except that it wasraining, which didn’t really botherthe hot and sweaty runners thatmuch. Also, there was some con-cern for the safety of the runners atone point.

“There was actually a bombscare,” Magnuson said. “It was af-ter I had finished, but they had toredirect the end of the race.”

According to ESPN’s coverageof the event, there was a device ina small microwave oven that wasspotted that morning on the side-walk near the finish line of themarathon. The bomb squad deter-mined that the contents of the mi-crowave, seen through X-rays, re-sembled an explosive, but thedevice was disabled and policesaid it was not believed to havebeen an actual explosive.

So the threat, fortunately,turned out not to be anything seri-ous, and the marathon was able tocontinue with some mild confu-sion.

“I think the coolest part was get-ting to go over the bridges just tak-ing your time and running overthe bridges and looking out overthe water. It was really neat,” Mag-nuson said.

The dedicated marathoners re-fused to allow a little bomb scareto keep them from enjoying asport that they all share a passionfor.

“When I was done, it made mewant to run another,” Magnusonsaid. “It’s because there are somany people that are with you andyou just have that instant connec-tion with the other runners that Idon’t think you have with any oth-er sport.”

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All the helping hands for Haiti

Organized by the Chapel Office and Chapel staff, The Mitch Nasser Concert(above) and Westminster's Gospel Choir came together to help benefit the Handsfor Haiti Campaign.

Westminster's Hands for Haiti campaign has raised over $6,000 that will go tosupport WorldVision, Oxfam America and Partners in Health in their efforts to pro-vide assistance to Haiti. The Westminster Hands for Haiti Committee would liketo thank and recognize the following organizations and individuals for their sup-port in the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti:

Dance Theatre Collections, Oxfam Banquet, Freshman Education students, RACollection, SGA Bucket Collection, Mitch Nassar Concert, Titan Traverse Climb-A-Thon, PRSSA, Alpha Gama Delta, Sigma Nu, Theta Chi, Phi Kappa Tau, SigmaPhi Epsilon, Alpha Sigma Phi, Black Student Union, Board of Trustees, AthleticDepartment Collections at Men's and Women's basketball games and swimmeets, Zeta Tau Alpha, faculty and staff donations, and Sudexo Food Service.We apologize for any organization that we may have missed.

Campus unites to raise money for Haiti

Marathon MadnessSeveral students participate in marathon held in Pittsburgh on Sunday, May 2

Senior Week Shenanigans

Big Brothers BigSisters on campus

Annual fashion show hosted by the BSU

Money raised at event on May 6 will go toward Haiti Relief

Newly created campusclub raises awarenessabout disabilities

The class of 2010 anxiously awaits their week of freedom from May 17-21

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By Olivia Sweeney Staff Writer

As the number of students andcars rises on campus, so does thecost of parking, which has receivedmixed reviews among student dri-vers.

Recently, the President’s Cabi-net decided to increase the parkingrates on campus by 100%. Theprice of parking jumped from thir-ty dollars to sixty dollars in oneyear. The cost of parking last in-creased from twenty dollars to thir-ty dollars in the 2000-2001 schoolterm.

“Although I was not responsiblefor the final decision, I felt that theincrease in parking rates wasneeded, because it had not beenincreased for close to ten years,”Director of Public Safety, WilliamBrandt, said

Brandt surveyed schools oursize and larger to evaluate theirparking fees. Brandt looked atschools such as W&J, Thiel and Al-legheny. According to Brandt, ourcollege lies within the mid-rangefor parking fees. Of course, urbanschools had outrageous rates, andsome schools do not charge out-right for parking. Colleges withoutfees instead typically hide thecharges somewhere else andcharge all students.

“The parking fees are more of auser fee,” Vice President for Stu-dent Affairs, Neal Edman, said.“The College only charges thosestudents who actually have vehi-cles on campus.”

Although not all of the moneygoes into the lots themselves, agood portion goes into re-tarringand maintenance. Each new park-ing space costs the college approxi-mately $1,200. Recently, close to$115,000 was put toward thenewest overflow lot near the foot-ball stadium.

Despite rumors that have circu-lated, next year’s freshman classwill be permitted to have their carson campus. The cut-off for thenumber of vehicles on campus istwo-hundred and twenty per class.The cap has been in place for fourto five years, and according toBrandt, it has only been used once.

Each residence hall has its ownparking. Some lots are larger thanothers. Parking decals are sold byclass year at the Information Desk.Once residence hall lots fill up, stu-dents receive decals for overflowparking located behind Hoyt andthe football field.

“As more students need to getjobs and are in financial need, theyneed to have access to their vehi-cles,” Edman said.

The money collected from park-ing goes into the College’s GeneralPurpose Revenue Fund which, inaddition to other needs, takes careof improvements on campus. Forexample, the money could be usedto repair the unforeseen damage tothe Ferguson Hall gutters due towinter weather conditions. ThePresident’s Cabinet and other indi-viduals have been looking to even-tually build perimeter parking inareas next to the Physical Plant,

which would be relatively easy. Al-though the increase in parkingwas extreme, it seems as thoughcollege officials had the best inter-ests of students in mind.

“Perhaps an incremental in-crease in rates would have beenpreferred,” Brandt said.

Many students have falselyspeculated that the decision to in-crease rates was in order to keepstudents on campus on the week-ends. Others rumors have circulat-ed that the underclassmen will notbe permitted to bring cars on cam-pus. Edman denied such rumors,saying that he would not want totake away students’ rights to comeand go from campus.

“We are in no man’s land,” Ed-man said. “Students should be al-lowed to have access to thingsaway from campus. It is importantto have that freedom.”

By Allison McKinneyStaff Writer

With the end of the semesterfast approaching, many studentsare beginning to feel over-worked,over-stressed and definitely overschool.

It’s common during the end ofthe year for students to becomeoverwhelmed with all the school-work and finals being thrown theirway. However, with a few simpleanti-stress tips, students will beable to make it out of final weekalive.

The first tip is to develop studyrituals and routines. By using thesame strategies every time theystudy, students will more easily beable to get into concentrationmode for high-stress situations likestudying for finals.

The next tip is to learn tobreathe abdominally. If studentsbreathe this way all the time, it willbecome calming in situationswhere they are anxious, worried,imagining the worst or thinkingnegative thoughts.

A third tip is the power of posi-tive thinking. By thinking positive-ly, it is possible to get through diffi-cult situations. Another tip is toincrease attention skills. If a stu-dent is able to train their mind notto wander when focusing on a top-

ic, situations like studying becomemuch easier.

Also helpful is a strategy ofmental rehearsal, relaxation andcoping imagery. By imagining thesituation and the different out-comes and coping with them, it ispossible to imagine success andbecome calm.

Finally, being able to managetime is crucial to stress-free suc-cess. Students should create a dai-ly schedule of things to do and car-ry this out through the rest of thesemester.

“You are way more than a goodgrade,” Student Health Centercounselor Babs Quincy said. “Besure you don’t define yourself ex-clusively by your academic perfor-mance.”

Through experience, many up-perclassmen have come to findother little tips that are helpful tomaking their week of finals astress-free experience. Remember-ing the big picture is always ex-tremely helpful. Honestly contem-plate these questions—Howimportant will this seem in a year?Do grades really define a person?By students protecting themselvesfrom the things that normallystress them out, situations like fi-nals can pass with much moreease.

Eating well and sleeping well

are also very crucial—it may notseem important, but little thingssuch as getting enough rest andnot eating junk food make a bigdifference.

Along with eating well in gen-eral, it is necessary to avoid thingslike caffeine, alcohol and sweetsbecause these will just hinder per-formance. Another small tip toavoid crashing during finals weekis learning to vent to the right peo-ple.

If students vent to their closefriends, it takes off a lot of thestress they may be feeling that isunrelated to the finals they arestudying for. If students worryabout the wrong things duringhigh-stress situations, it can be ex-tremely overwhelming and lead toemotional or mental breakdownsthat completely hinder the abilityto correctly deal with the necessarystresses. Through following manyof these tips, breathing deeply anddealing with situations in a calmmanner, it is possible to have asmooth final week.

“The biggest thing I’ve learnedabout being successful during fi-nals is to not stress,” senior LeahTimm said. “I take things as theycome at me during finals with acalm attitude because I truly be-lieve that is the path to success.”

By Emily WinnStaff Writer

Don’t like the food? Tell them.Don’t like the computer center?Tell them. Don’t like the living en-vironment on campus? Tell them.Every other year, Student Affairsadministers an online all-campusStudent Satisfaction Survey. This isa chance for students to voice theiropinions on things around cam-pus. Though only given every oth-er year, the numbers seem to bestagnant.

The survey has 25 simple ques-tions about things pertaining tocampus ranging from McGinnisDining Services to intramuralsports. Each of these 25 questionsis split into two parts; an impor-tance rate and a fulfillment rate.Dean of Student Affairs, Neal Ed-man, explains the reasoning be-hind these questions.

“These help us decide where wewant to deploy resources,” Edmansaid. “Say, for example, that intra-mural sports get a low fulfillmentrate, but also a low importancerate. We don’t want to put a lot ofmoney into something that stu-dents feel is unimportant.”

This is not the only researchthat the student affairs office doesto find out about the opinions ofstudents. In February, 25 studentswere randomly selected to be apart of a focus group. These stu-dents then split into groups of 4,and all administrators left theroom. Students were then allowedto talk about everything and any-thing. After both tests were done,Edman then calculates the num-bers in the survey and takes the in-formation, anonymously, from stu-dents, and creates a report for theyear.

“We then administer this infor-mation to all offices. Each one hasa copy of what students are look-ing for in their college experiencesand what things need to bechanged,” Edman said. “Student

organizations can even see this in-formation. We don’t want to keepany secrets; it’s all open.”

The report has not been drawnup yet for the survey given thisyear, but some of the numbershave been calculated, showing thedifferences between now and twoyears ago. Most of the numbershave been stagnant, but there havebeen some changes. The total thatpops out the most is a questionabout the TUB dining services. Itsimportance level only loweredmildly, but its fulfillment leveldropped. It became one of the low-est rated for performance, but it isalso the highest rated for fulfill-ment.

“Neither number dropped orrose severely,” Edman said. “Butthis is something that is importantto the students, so it should besomething that we watch.”

Students who wish to see theresults of the survey are free to talkwith Edman, as long as a sched-uled appointment is made.

“The most important thing tous is to listen to the student,” Ed-man said. “We do, though, listenwith a dose of reality. We want toknow what they want, but we alsohave to know what our resourcesare.” “These help usdecide where wewant to deployresources. Say, for ex-ample, that intramur-al sports get a lowfulfillment rate, butalso a lowimportance rate. Wedon’t want to put alot of money intosomething thatstudents feel isunimportant.”

Dr. Neal Edman,dean of Student Affairs

By Steve SankeyStaff Writer

This summer, visions will be so-lidified for plans to change thelook and feel of the school andNew Wilmington through exten-sive landscaping projects.

According to Vice President ofInstitutional Advancement, GloriaCagigas, new landscaping projectsare an outcome of a key initiativeof the President’s strategic plan,“Advantage: Westminster.” Cagigassaid the plan will “visually inte-grate and unify the campus.”

Physical Plant Director, OwenWagner, who was involved in theinitial stages, said the projects willinvolve a combination of “hard-scapes” (i.e. benches, lighting) and“softscapes” (i.e. mulch, placementof plants) which “[blend] with thecharacter of the college.” Some of

the areas under consideration fornew landscaping are the corner ofMarket Street and Maple Street,the College Drive entrance ontoRoute 956 (by townhouses) andthe senior terrace.

A donation was given last fall tostart the process according to Wag-ner. This money was used to hire alandscaper. After a bidding process,the committee selected Dahlkam-per Landscape Architects & Con-tractors Inc. Using aerial photos ofthe college to make a current topo-graphical map of the school andother pictures of possible projects,Dahlkamper will create projectsfor different sites around campus.

According to President Dor-man, the projects will be finalizedthis summer and presented to theBoard of Trustees in October. Afterthe trustees approve, the main fac-tor that will determine when this

future foliage will take root isfunding. Wagner explained thatthe total cost of these projects willnot be known until the projects arefinalized and Dahlkamper hasmade estimates.

Funding will rely heavily upondonations. According to Cagigas,“Once the plan is designed, donorscan choose pieces of the plan.”Cagigas also mentioned the pro-jects would have naming opportu-nities for donors.

While the plan will be present-ed in the fall, students should notexpect to see many of the changesanytime soon. The landscapingproposals cannot become a realityuntil there is funding to pay forthem. The college plans tofundraise for the projects but islooking for private donors. Sincethe landscaping projects cannotbegin until there are adequatefunds, according to Dorman, theentirety of the landscaping planwill be implemented over 10 years.

New Wilmington Borough isalso planning major changes to thelook and feel of its business dis-trict. According to Suzi Ligo, ownerof the Wright Place Salon andmember of the Streetscape Com-mittee, changes in town will be oc-curring in phases over the nexteight to 10 years.

Improvements will be made atthe intersections of NeshannockRoad and Market Street, and Ne-shannock Road and High Street aswell as the business district alongMarket Street. Improvementscould include fountains, a townclock, new seating, new sidewalksand lighting. These changes arehoped to get more students inter-ested in town and potentially morebusinesses interested in NewWilmington. “This town could bebooming,” Ligo said. “New Wilm-ington has a lot to offer but no-body knows about us.”

Along with attracting more peo-

ple to the college, Wagner de-scribed two benefits of a landscap-ing project. One is to ensureprospective students and guests ofthe college have a good first im-pression of the school. The secondbenefit is for students, staff and fac-ulty, so that spending time on cam-pus “is pleasurable and a place tobe proud of,” Wagner said.

New Wilmington and theschool will work in coordinationwith one another. According toDorman, who is a member of boththe Borough and college commit-tees, “[Westminster] will work withthe Borough’s streetscape commit-tee in blending our plans so it isseamless as you come down Mar-ket Street.”

The plans for the college will beconsidered by the Landscape Com-mittee, which is composed of Dor-man, Wagner, Steve Connell, LindaBurkhart, Ken Romig, JeannetteHubbard, Gina Sharbaugh, DaveGesacion and student representa-tive junior Sarah Kehr.

Student awareness and input isimportant to this project. Kehr em-phasized that the committee “defi-nitely wants student’s opinions.We’re the ones that have to be sat-isfied with campus; it’s great that[the college cares] what it lookslike and [has students] in mind.”Kehr requests that anyone who hasideas about landscaping projectsshould contact her.

Ligo says the New WilmingtonStreetscape Committee is also in-terested in student input. Studentsare invited to the Streetscape Com-mittee meeting in Beeghly TheatreTuesday, May 18 at 7 pm.

Amidst plans of new visions forthe college’s look and feel, Wagnermade clear that the proposalswould be an enhancement, not acritique. “This committee isn’t say-ing what we are doing is lacking. Itis an opportunity to enhance whatis already here,” Wagner said.

Photo by Alex Davis

Seasons changeAs the season changes from spring to summer, so will

Westminster campus’ landscape.

Photo by James Bonetti

Stick it or ticketBeginning next year, the cost of an on-campus parking

sticker will increase by 100%. This has caused mixed reac-tions from students, but some people such, as Director ofPublic Safety, find the increase necessary. Contrary to popu-lar belief, all students will be permitted to purchase a pass.

Surviving finals stress freeAnti-stress tips to help you make it through finals week alive

100 % increase in parking cost sparks interest among drivers

New landscaping project in campus’ futureNew look and feel of school outcome of Advantage: Westminster

25 simple questionsStudent Satisfaction Survey forwarded to campus

Photo by James Bonetti

Royal highnessMiss Phi mu representa-

tive, junior Ian Pickens, wascrowned this year’s Miss Ti-tan. As an annual GreekWeek tradition, Sigma Kappahosted Miss Titan with allproceeds benefiting their Ul-tra Violet campaign, raisingmore than $1,200. Pickensbeat out Miss Panhellenicrepresentative Casey McDon-ald for the crown. More than10 organizations were repre-sented at the event, all com-peting for the title of Miss Ti-tan 2010.

Miss Titan2010

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It’s all Greek to them!The campus Greeks capped off a successful week with Sing and Swing. Alpha Gams and Sig Eps won Greek Week, and the Zetas and Theta Chis won Sing and Swing.

The following has little to dowith sports.

The other day, I was in theweight room getting jacked (asusual), when a young ambitioussports writer of the Holcad saidthe following to me: “Brad, youspend hours preparing excellentlessons as a student teacher, count-less hours in the gym to look freshand still manage to consistentlywrite an outstanding columnevery week for the Holcad. Howdo you do it?”

“Now hold on there cowboy,” Ireplied “I’m simply your averagesenior sports enthusiast who putshis pants on one leg at a time justlike you do; the process for beingHolcad Sports editor isn’t too diffi-cult”

Now I may be paraphrasing theconversation slightly, but it got methinking about the fact that thiswill be my last column, and thatwhoever comes after me may bethrown in the lake and asked toswim (like I was). And being thatI’m not selfish enough to take mysecrets with me, I’m leaving this fi-nal column as a guide to my futureSports Editors titled “How BradFetes writes his Holcad Sports Col-umn.”

It all starts fairly “hazily” Sun-day “morning” around 1p.m.when I wake up and figure outwhat I’m NOT going to writeabout. The first topic off the list isusually professional basketball.

Besides the 1980’sLakers/Celtics rivalry, the inven-tion of the 3-pointer and anythinghaving to do with Michael Jordan,the only thing I deem newsworthyabout the NBA is the fact thatteams with losing records con-stantly make the playoffs.

I could care less about Lebronor Kobe, or any overly genericslam-dunk and triple-double thathappens daily in the NBA. Every-one and thing will forever be com-pared to Michael Jordan; they can-not be him or surpass him; theycan only hope to be Jordan-esque.

Even the great players beforehim pale in comparison: MagicJohnson will be remembered forhaving his career cut short byAIDS, Wilt Chamberlin is the guywho had “relations” with “20,000women” (I call that a slow Tues-day), and Larry Bird ruined his ca-reer by appearing in Space Jam,while Jordan prospered from thefilm, only proving what “believingyou can fly” can do.

Plus I feel like any organizationthat considers itself professionalshouldn’t allow teams that fail towin half their games into the play-offs.

After I eliminate the snore-festthat is professional baseball (is itstill going on?), I use the next threedays to do productive things likeParkour, watch House, sleep (endof Monday), enjoy 3 hours of TheOffice while enjoying choice bever-ages, wonder if Milton-Bradley stillproduces the game Mouse Trapand where I could possibly find it,as well as plot my future as thelead singer of a Meatloaf coverband (end of Tuesday).

Wednesday starts sometime(usually around 12 p.m.), and Ipointlessly yell at Mike Katranchafor not having his article in ontime, as I contemplate what Ishould actually write about. Typi-cally, I just find something thatbothers me; Barry Bonds, sports-manship, Women’s Curling (I’m

still available Nicole Joraanstad),people getting mad at athletes forsmoking pot and the expansion ofthe NCAA tournament to 96teams (its only going to be 68; I’mtaking full credit for that).

Now I’ve never written any-thing journalistic before, so once asuitable topic has been found I “goto the well” and complain like afive-year-old but with the pop-cul-ture knowledge of someone wholongs for the days when dunk-a-roos and The Wonder Years (I loveyou Winnie Cooper) were awe-some, TGIF defined Monday’sschool conversation, and has lis-tened to so many Ace of Base al-bums that I’m confident all threesingles (“I Saw the Sign,” “All thatShe Wants,” and “Don’t TurnAround”) are exactly the samesong (I know this because Swedishpredecessors ABBA did the exactsame thing!).

Next I blindly send in my hack-job attempt at the English lan-guage to the (honestly) wonderfulHolcad copy editors who put upwith my garbage and fix the gram-mar nightmare that is my articleand wait till Friday to see the finalresult.

Friday morning starts off thesame way every week. I normallyget a text from either KevinKapraly, Jon Marrow, Lynn Rice,Marissa McClung, or one of myother loyal 12 readers telling me Idid a good job, and I glow for thenext few hours.

The feel good emotions arequickly squashed by a text frommy mother, who consistently textsme every Friday around 1:30 p.m.to tell me that my article is in poortaste and that she “can’t believethat she raised a son who makescasual drug and alcohol use refer-ences” and then condones such ac-tions (true story).

After shaming my family name,I spend the next two days in an at-tempt to scapegoat my sorrow,complaining bitterly to friends andanyone who doesn’t want to listento me about how bad the Holcadcopy editing staff is and how theonly reason why my article wasn’tgood (or funny; this is supposed tobe funny) was because they fail toconsult me whenever they makechanges and that even LouisBraille could do a better job (sorryguys!).

After vindicating myself at theexpense of my co-workers, I spendthe next two days in a non-sportsrelated miasma that results in mewaking up Sunday at 1p.m. won-dering what I’m not going to writeabout for the week; and repeat.

I can’t believe I got paid to dothis.

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Brad is a 6 foot 185 poundsenior history major. Heloves walks on the beach,dinners by candlelight, sport-ing events and playing gui-tar. His favorite color isblue.

Brad FetesSports Editor

How to writea column

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By Andrew DaflerSports Writer

The men’s and women’s trackteams finished the conferencecompetition at the PAC Champi-onships held on May 1 at GroveCity College.

The women’s team claimed itsthird straight PAC title. The Titanscompiled a team score of 174. Sev-eral Titans contributed to captur-ing the title with outstanding indi-vidual performances in theirrespective events.

Senior Rachel Hudson capturedthe longest events of the day in the5,000 and 10,000 meter races. Shefinished the 5,000 in a time of19:19.29 and took the 10,000 witha time of 40:49.83. Several otherTitans also took top spots. SeniorAbbey Basta placed first in the 400hurdles with a time of 1:06.18.Basta also anchored two winning

relay teams in the 4x100 relay and4x400 relay. Sophomores AlishaSlater and Mallory Mack were onboth relays, while sophomore Hay-ley Ebersbacher was on the 4x100and sophomore Tyler Dever wason the 4x400. Sophomore EmilyDolsak defended her title in thediscus and sophomore MerissaMalcom captured the first everfirst place finish for the Titans inthe pole vault.

Slater also took second in the100, and Dever took third in the800. Sophomore Jennifer Kruegerplaced third in the 3,000 steeple-chase, senior Natasha Kassim tooksecond in the discus and juniorKelsie Crowder was second in thelong jump. Prior to the meet,Slater looked forward to the chal-lenge.

“Everyone is being asked tostep up to the plate, and I knoweveryone is excited for the chal-

lenge,” Slater said prior to themeet. “I know it’s going to be afight, but it’s going to be a goodone for sure!”

Step up to the plate they did asthey tied a school record for con-secutive titles captured in the PACin a single sport. With winningthree straight, the women’s teamhas tied the 2005-07 men’s swim-ming team and the 2002-04women’s soccer team who also ac-complished this feat. Head coachTim McNeil was also named PACWomen’s Track Coach of the Yearfor the second time in his career.

The men’s team finished fifthout of six teams with 64.7 points.Washington & Jefferson took theteam title with a score of 165.

The first top finish for the teamcame in the 4x400 relay, whichwas the first ever top finish in aPAC relay event for the Titans.Team members are junior Ian

Pickens, sophomore Caleb Smath-ers, freshman Adam Carswell andfreshman Bob Fazzolare.

Smathers defended his title inthe Pole Vault while teammate ju-nior Jack Taylor tied for second.Rounding out the team highlightswas sophomore Morgan Haneswho took second in the 3,000steeplechase. Fazzolore also placedthird in the 400. Smathers praiseshis school and coaches for his suc-cess thus far in his career.

“I am very fortunate to be a partof this team,” Smathers said. “It’s agreat group of athletes, and wehave the best coaches anywhere.”

With the conference schedulenow over, both teams will be fo-cusing on qualifying for nationalsin three remaining meets. The firstis the Slippery Rock Qualifier onMay 8.

By April ScudereSports Writer

The men’s tennis team finishesup their season with a 3-9 recordwith those three wins attributingto a 3-2 President’s Athletic Confer-ence record. This is better than the2009 season, which ended with 2-11 and 1-4 records.

In the end, the Titans were notable to capture the third place spotin the PAC tournament in Erie, PA,but instead placed fifth out of sixteams. The Titans do not lose sightfor next year even with the loss oftheir two seniors Mark Drabickand Scott Lawrence. While four ofthem will remain, they hope tobring in some new players tobring the team back up to the nec-essary six competitors.

“We are a young team onlygraduating two seniors,” freshmanSean Black said. “We should beable to build off this season and besuccessful next year.”

The Titans began their seasonon Feb. 23 against Saint Vincent.The men’s tennis team battlesthrough the weather during thesemonths by driving to nearby in-door courts for practices andmatches until the weather breaks.With 12 matches over two months,the Titans get to see many levels ofplay.

“I think the Washington and Jef-

ferson match was the best of theseason,” Black said. “We beat themby a narrow margin, and the winguaranteed us a winning record inthe PAC.”

With 12 matches, it is hard tochoose one as the best match forthe Titans.

“The best match of the seasonwould probably be against Frost-burg State,” sophomore DrewTrifelos said. “Even though we lost9-0, we all for the most part playedreally well, and I know a couplematches that went 15-18 games. Itwas the closest match that we hadwith such an unrepresentative re-sult. It was a good sign of wherewe were as a team competitivelyand was a good building block forthe rest of the season.”

In the end though, the highlightfor the entire Titan team was theirannual trip to Hilton Head Islandwhere they spent six days soakingup sun and playing teams fromaround the country. During thistime, they got to know each otheron a more personal level.

“My favorite memory from theseason is being down in HiltonHead with the guys and girlsteams,” Drabick said. “Going toHilton Head is always a goodbonding experience for the twoteams. I know I have createdfriendships that have started inHilton Head that I will have for alifetime.”

By Milt ConstantineSports Writer

The Titan softball team finishedtheir regular season schedule witha 24-14 (10-4 PAC) record as finalsweek approaches. They playeddoubleheaders against Ursuline,Chatham and Thomas Moore.

The lady Titans split two non-conference games against Ursulineon Tuesday, April 27. They won thefirst game 12-3 in five innings butlost the second game 5-2. JuniorDiAndra DiBacco and freshmanBrittany Gamble led the team inhitting 3-for-4. DiBacco had twoRBIs and two runs and Gamblescored three times.

The winning pitcher, junior LisSchulz (9-2), helped her own causeby scoring two runs and threeRBIs. Freshman Katie Hughes had

four RBIs and two runs whilesophomore third baseman EricaKimmick batted in two runs andscored a run herself. Hughes, Kim-mick and Shulz each had two hitsapiece. Senior first baseman Jen-nifer Emery also recorded two hitsand a run.

Shulz pitched four innings al-lowing two runs on three hits inthe five inning game. Shulz struckout two. Freshman Chelsea Brownclosed the game allowing one runwhile striking out two in one in-ning of work.

In the second game, Ursuline’sCiara Seymour scattered five hitsthrough seven innings, allowingthe only two Titan runs by a Hugh-es triple.

The following day, on Wednes-day, April 28, two school recordswere rewritten. Emery broke boththe single-season RBI record andthe career RBI record during thedoubleheader match against PACfoe Chatham. The Titans routedChatham 13-0, 13-0 in both match-es.

Emery finished the day with acombined 4-for-6 effort, scoringfour runs and batting in eight run-ners. Her 36 RBIs this season and127 career RBIs both stand as cur-rent records. Head softball coachJan Reddinger praised Emery’s per-formance this year, especially afterhaving knee surgery before theseason.

“Breaking those school recordswasn’t unexpected,” Reddinger

said. “Jen [Emery] will be one ofthe best hitters to leave this pro-gram, ever.”

In the first game against Ursu-line, pitchers Shulz and freshmanLayne Carpenter combined to tossa no-hitter, sharing six strikeouts.The team knocked in nine runs inthe second inning and added fourin the third. Hughes hit her thirdhomerun. Emery added a home-run to her career homerun recordthat now stands at 20.

“Jen [Emery] is a clutch hitter,”student assistant coach sophomoreAlex Scull said. “You can alwayscount on her to perform when youneed her most.”

In the second game, the teamtook advantage of Chatham’s poorfielding. Seven hits and fourChatham errors later, the Titansjumped to another early lead, scor-ing eight in the second inning.Shulz picked up her second win ofthe day, tossing four innings whilescattering two hits and a walk.

The lady Titans completed theirregular season with a PAC playoffpreview match against ThomasMore on Saturday, May 1. ThomasMore entered the game with thetop spot in the PAC conference butlost the first game in a 1-0 pitchers’duel.

The game’s only offense oc-curred in the fifth inning when DHHughes batted in starting pitcherShulz who had reached on an er-ror earlier that inning. Hugheswent 3-for-3, good for half of the

team’s six total hits. Shulz wasnearly flawless, tossing a completegame shutout, allowing only fourhits and one walk over seven in-nings.

“Every pitch of every inning hasbeen our motto,” Reddinger said.“Just one play at a time.”

In the second game, ThomasMore jumped out to a 7-0 lead inthree innings and never lookedback. Brown struggled, only mak-ing it through two innings.

The team will get a rematchwith Thomas More on Friday, May7, at Bethany, in the two-day, dou-ble-elimination PAC tournamentbetween four teams.

“I believe the PAC tournamentgames are going to be very tightlycontested, much like the ThomasMore match,” Scull said.

The Titans are the #3 seed ofthe tournament but has split eachdoubleheader with the other threetournament contenders - Bethany,Thomas More and Thiel.

Eliminating mistakes, especial-ly on the defensive side of the ball,will be the key to success, Red-dinger explained.

“Our key players must comethrough as usual, but the role play-ers will be very important in thetournament,” Reddinger said. “Wecan win or lose to any of thoseteams, but if we can eliminate er-rors, we will be in very goodshape.”

By Mike KatranchaSports Writer

The Titan baseball team (14-22,6-9 PAC) took the series againstthe Bearcats of St. Vincent (19-18)two games to one on Wednesday,May 5. The Titans have positionedthemselves in a tie for fourth placein the PAC.

In the first game of the series,the team’s offense was led by se-nior catcher Dan Agiro, who onlywent 1-4 but made his one hitcount as he belted a 3 run homerto put the Titans on top 9 to 5 inthe bottom of the fifth.

The Titans rebounded from a 5-0 deficit in the fifth scoring all nineof their runs.

Three pitchers took the moundfor the team’s first win but fresh-man Liam Halferty (2-5) walkedaway with the by, pitching an in-ning and a third with three runsoff one hit, two walks and twostrikeouts. Sophmore closer EthanYeager got the save as he went aninning and a third allowing onlytwo hits.

In the second game, the Titans’sophomore outfielder Justin Kinghit a walk off single to score Agiroto break up a no-hitter and givethe Titans the 1-0 win in the bot-tom of the ninth.

Yeager (2-2) got the win bypitching the shutout in the finaltwo innings. Freshman startingpitcher Ty Miller went seven in-

nings for the Titans with five hits,no runs, a walk and three strike-outs.

The Titans then dropped thethird game 7-2 after leading 2-0 forthe first two and a half innings be-fore allowing seven unanswered togive the Bearcats the win.

Sophmore second basemanBud Main led the Titans' 10-hit at-tack by going 2-for-5 with a runand an RBI. Senior right fielderDave Evans, Yeager, and freshmancenter fielder Tyler Robinson allcontributed two hits apiece in theTitan loss.

Freshman starting pitcher VinceIosue will be credited with the lossas he went six innings with fourruns (3 earned) off 10 hits with nowalks and five strikeouts.

The team will host a threegame series against the Saints ofThomas More (24-14, 11-4 PAC).Thomas More is currently sittingsecond in the conference while theTitans are tied for the fourth and fi-nal spot in the PAC championshipplayoffs.

The Titans will need a goodshowing against the Saints to holdonto their fourth place position be-cause the Waynesburg Yellow Jack-ets (15-19, 6-9 PAC), who the teamis currently tied with, are also play-ing a series against first placeWashington and Jefferson (27-8,13-2 PAC).

The Titan’s first game of the se-ries starts Saturday, May 8 at 1p.m.

Photo by Emily Winn

The women’s track team at it againFor the third straight year in a row, the women’s track team claims PAC title

Baseball team to host a three game series

Men’s tennis ends season with their heads held high

Two school records rewrittenSingle-season RBI and career RBI records broken at recent softball game

I was thinking about what to dofor my last column, and I decidedthat, with my fondness for doingtop five lists of movies, I will doone more. Because it is my last

column, I have decided to do whatis in my opinion the top fivemovies of all time! Granted theseare all my opinions, so if anyonehas a different opinion, that’s per-

fectly fine. I joked that I would putClash of the Titans (1981) andClash of the Titans (2010) on thelist, but that would be downrightresponsible.

Also, allow me to say some-thing that will likely put me at thefront of the lynching line for filmprofessors and film students alike.Citizen Kane will not be on thislist. I simply do not care for thatmovie. I agree that it is well shotand beautifully composed, but I donot find the narrative engaging. It’slike if someone carefully construct-ed the mise en scene of a lawngrowing. Now that every film con-noisseur wants to throw me in awell, let’s get on with the list.

1. Casablanca (1942)I challenge anyone who claims

that they do not like old black andwhite movies to watch this filmand fail to be engaged. High polit-ical stakes, interesting and well-de-fined characters and an unobtru-sive love story make Casablanca awinner. I probably couldn’t evenbegin to sing the praises of a filmthat entire books have been writ-ten about in a simple paragraph.I’ll just say it in three simple words:Humphrey Bogart rules!

2. The Godfather (1972)I still find it hard to believe that

it took me until I got to college towatch this masterpiece. That said,if anyone out there has yet to see it,do yourself a favor and give it awhirl. Marlon Brando, Al Pacino,James Caan, and Robert Duvall,among others, give fantastic per-formances in their roles. FrancisFord Coppola’s directing makesthe entire experience a treat forfilm experts and novices alike. I

did not want to put too much timeinto the series, but The Godfather,Part II is an equally great film. TheGodfather, Part III, not so much.

3. The Deer Hunter (1978)When considering a few of the

great Vietnam War films that Ihave seen (and mind you thatthere are several great VietnamWar films), this one rose to the topof my list. Director Michael Cimi-no is not exactly a householdname, mostly because the film thathe followed up the success of TheDeer Hunter with is not a winner,but do not let that hinder this ex-perience. This is not an upliftingfilm by any means, but it feels real,and taking place in Pennsylvaniaas well as the jungles of Vietnam, ithits pretty close to home. RobertDe Niro and Christopher Walkenare especially standouts in thiswell-crafted drama.

4. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)Some people think that Singin’

in the Rain is the greatest film mu-sical ever made. I am one of thosepeople. Catchy songs, amazing

feats of physicality, good actingand a good story put this filmmiles ahead of other musicals, par-ticularly the more modern excusesfor musicals. I will confess that ittook me until my film musicalsclass here on campus to truly ap-preciate this gem, but hopefully Imake up for lost time by spreadingthe word.

5. Star Wars (1977)I hate to be that nerd who puts

this sci-fi epic on his list of the topfive greatest movies, but there isno denying the power of this fran-chise. Sporting a cast of virtual un-knowns at the time (the brilliantAlec Guinness an exception), StarWars started off a space opera se-ries that would span decades. Thefilm is also responsible for numer-ous popular quotes and the imageof Darth Vader as an iconic villain.Granted, nerds out there, the filmis titled Star Wars Episode IV: ANew Hope, this one is rivaled onlyby its immediate sequel, The Em-pire Strikes Back in terms of filmgreatness. The others, while enter-taining, are just lacking.

That concludes my list of thetop five best films. I will now pro-ceed to barricade myself in myroom for fear of the wrath of Citi-zen Kane fans.

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Stefan is a senior Englishmajor, and he has justlearned a terrible truth:Chancellor Palpatine is aSith Lord!

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By Ryan SargentA&E Writer

Another in a long line of sub-standard horror film remakes, ANightmare on Elm Street lackssubstance and strength. The film’sbland execution is dragged by acardboard cut-out cast and poorwriting, as well as erratic editing.It’s really a shame that this remakewasn’t given the treatment it de-served, as the original film waswritten and directed by WesCraven, one of the most influentialhorror film-makers, who brieflytaught English here on campus be-fore beginning his film career.

For those unfamiliar with thetale, A Nightmare on Elm Street isabout a young group of friendswho all experience dreams inwhich they are stalked by a de-formed, burned killer. As theteenagers realize that their dreams,and the killer, Freddy Krueger, canhurt them, they try to avoid sleepand death while getting to the bot-tom of the town’s secret that mayhold the key to Freddie’s murder-ous rampage.

This remake of A Nightmare onElm Street shares only these broadplot points with its predecessor. Al-most every other detail is changed,and not for the better. While astraight copy of the original filmwould hold the potential for point-less film-making, the changes inthis version are exemplary ofpointless film-making. Many newplot elements and basic story beatsare played up as important but lat-er tossed aside with no conse-quence on the larger story, or aresimply so nonsensical that they arebest forgotten about. Ultimately,

the film relies only on its core con-cept and cheap “jump-out-at-the-audience” scares, which are all ithas going for it.

The teenage characters inNightmare are reminiscent ofwooden planks, insofar as woodenplanks are expressionless objectswith no acting ability. Our insom-niac heroes spend much of theirtime staring groggy-eyed at thedarkness of night or staring grog-gy-eyed at each other, lamentingtheir meaningless interpersonal re-lationships.

The characters’ emotions to-ward each other are played up inthe beginning of the film as a pointof tension, but these conflicts fall tothe wayside (perhaps into one ofthe numerous plot holes) and real-ly have nothing to do with theoverarching conflict of having adisembodied killer attacking themin their dreams. The exposition ofthe film is wasted on these point-less interactions rather than thereal conflict and the first act dragsbecause of it.

Being a Nightmare on ElmStreet film, the real draw for mostfans is the killer himself, FreddyKrueger, here portrayed by JackieEarle Haley. Some may rememberHaley from his performance asRorschach in Watchmen and a tor-tured mental patient in Shutter Is-land, both performances I thoughtwere fantastic. His turn as Kruegersadly lacks the tortured tenacity ofthose two previous roles. WhileHaley certainly adapts manner-isms and speech patterns that arescary enough for the job (the wayhe scratches his finger-knives to-gether makes my spine itch), hisperformance is ultimately hin-

dered by more pointless storychanges. Freddy’s history is alteredin this remake, and not for the bet-ter. Doubt is cast on Freddy’s inten-tions, as the characters considerthat before his death and transfor-mation into a stalker of dreams, hewas innocent of his offenses; how-ever, it doesn’t matter or factor intothe larger plot in any considerableway. I’m sure Haley did what hecould with what he had to workwith, but it appears to be not muchand not enough.

The editing also inhibits whatlittle of this film was left to save.Many of Nighmare’s dream se-quences rely on a lighting and cin-ematic gradation that allows theaudience to perceive the transitionbetween the waking world and therealm of nightmares, but oftenthese transitions are unimagina-tive and jarring. Frequently there isno middle ground between bothrealms, only a harsh “real” and“unreal,” but even the unreal ispresented so realistically that thenightmare realm becomes a bore.Some sets and settings in thenightmare world are pretty cool tolook at, but they’re not really inte-grated into the dream sequences atall; they’re more like cardboardbackgrounds that drop in and outof frame.

A Nightmare on Elm Street wasa disappointing remake of a semi-nal horror film. The remake bringsno new insights or meaningfulideas to the source material.Rather, the film-makers seem tohave been content to make a mun-dane, current-day update instead ofa true reimagining. It’s a nightmarealright, just not the kind the film-makers hoped for.

By Ben PortzA&E Writer

There are just as many compar-isons to Bob Dylan as there areconspiracies about how JFK died.Though the truth of the matter is,none of these corresponding artistssuch as David Gray, Bruce Spring-steen, Patti Smith or Conor Oberstreally sound like Bob Dylan.

Ok, so there are definitely Dy-lan-esque bluesy influences emit-ted from these wonderful musi-cians, but do they really simulatehis emotive vocal tone that couldmake you feel as empathetic asever? Maybe sometimes. (Plus,Springsteen’s “Into The Fire” al-ways gets me to shed a tear),though probably not as much asthe artist for this week.

He goes by the name TheTallest Man On Earth, but alsocould be known as Kristian Mats-son. He hails from Sweden andhas just released his second albumon an American label entitled TheWild Hunt. Normally, I don’t wantto compare anyone to Dylan, be-cause he is a sacred, more-iconic-than-ever artist that should neverbe touched. Just as I should notcompare any basketball player, nomatter how great, to Michael Jor-dan. Jordan is Jordan and Dylan is

Dylan. There will never be anoth-er. Everyone else is just a transientfigure in the past. Though, withThe Wild Hunt, I am confident inmyself in saying that The TallestMan On Earth definitely deservesto be compared to Dylan lyricallyand vocally and should be dealt along career.

The most poignant aspect ofthis album is the fact that it is en-tirely acoustic. The record is eitherMatsson with the guitar or pianomaking the intrinsic element ofthis album incredible. Even if therecord just had Matsson’s virtuosic

finger-picking, I would still label itas one of my favorite albums ofthis year.

Most of his songs begin withhis immaculate strumming,pulling the listener right in to heara story full of scenic imagery andlong lost love. Vocally, his voice ismore convincing than ever. Thereare definite times when if youwere to listen to Matsson and Dy-lan back-to-back, you would not beable to tell the difference. Now,don’t get mad at Matsson as beingunoriginal for just mimicking Dy-lan, because Dylan would not bewhere he was without mimickingWoody Guthrie.

The album opens with the titletrack called “The Wild Hunt.” Inmy opinion, this song is filled withone too many obscure metaphors,but still, his loneliness is portrayedever-so accurately, singing “I planto be forgotten when I’m gone”every chorus.

“Burden of Tomorrow” is one ofmy favorites on the album. Mats-son expresses genuine frustrationwith himself and his inability tokeep a relationship. “Troubles WillBe Gone” is a finger-picking de-light about a man struggling withparanoia.

“King of Spain” is one of theprettiest songs from the album. Itsabout Matsson dreaming of be-coming a larger-than-life person,which would make sense for themeasly 115 pound Matsson whocalls himself “The Tallest Man OnEarth.”

Though he may be small, Mats-son is definitely contributing to thefolk world in a bigger way thanany other musician.

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By Max MuskaA&E Writer

The kings of mediocre metal-core, Bullet For My Valentine, areback with their third full-length al-bum, Fever. I'm going to be honestright away and say that I've neverliked this band. I sort of like thesong “Tears Don't Fall” from theirfirst record, The Poison, but I stillfind that song to be rather conven-tional and uninteresting.

The above description fits theband's entire catalog. Every trackon the first two albums borrows instyle and content from older metal-core/pop metal acts. Unfortunately,these older bands have more tal-ented songwriters and musicians.There just isn't anything new orexciting about this music, just thesame old sound any fan of metalhas already heard thousands oftimes.

This newest effort, however,takes the band to an even lowerpoint. But this is to be expected be-cause Fever is Bullet For My Valen-tine's debut with new label Jivewhich features many mainstreampop acts. I can't help but think thatthe label chose the producer forthis album, Don Gilmore who hasworked with successful bands suchas Good Charlotte and LinkinPark.

The changes in style on this al-bum take Bullet to a far moregeneric rock sound (think Hinder,Nickleback, and Shinedown) withthe random guitar solo or metalscream. I already didn't like thisband for its generic tendencies, butnow Bullet is probably within thebottom five on my list of least fa-vorite bands alongside the otherbands mentioned above.

I have to say, though, that gui-tarists Matthew Tuck and MichaelPaget and drummer MichaelThomas are talented players. Themusicianship displayed on therecord shows an improvementover past albums. Some of the gui-tar solos, like the bridge of “Plea-sure and Pain” and more technical

sections like the intro to “Alone,”are very impressive and, in a fewinstances, almost mosh-worthy.But, unfortunately, musicianshipdoesn't make an album successfulunless it is partnered with at leasthalf-way decent songwriting, anarea in which Bullet has alwaysbeen gravely lacking.

I've never really liked Tuck's vo-cals, but this time I can barely getthrough a song. The vocalmelodies are terribly simple andjust not catchy, with randomscreamed parts which don't fit thesongs at all. Tuck claimed in 2009that this album would not haveany ballads. I feel like he musthave been in a sarcastic mood dur-ing that interview, because I wouldcharacterize most of this album asballad-like.

Any melody that I enjoyed onthe album was instantly ruined bythe terrible lyrics: metal cliché, af-ter metal cliché, after metal cliché.Such is the case on every track. But

I should have expected this with ti-tles like “Your Betrayal,” “BeggingFor Mercy,” and “Alone.” Here aresome of my favorite examples:“Eyes Sewn Shut, So Tear ThemOpen Wide.” “No more I'm takingthis hatred from you/You makeme feel dead when I'm talking toyou.” These lyrics seem to be writ-ten just to rhyme and not to haveany real meaning or message be-hind them. That is the number onecomplaint I have about bands inthis genre: why write and play mu-sic if you don't have anything tosay with the art you are creating?

Well, I'm kind of sad that mylast review for this paper wassomething that I disliked so much.As soon as I finish this paragraph, Iam deleting the album from myitunes library. The only peoplewho would enjoy this album arefans of Hinder and Nickleback. So,if that's not your cup of tea, stay faraway from Bullet For My Valen-tine.

By Brett GerthofferA&E Writer

I might as well just flat out sayit now instead of putting it off…Furry Vengeance is by far one ofthe worst movies I have ever seenin my life. There is no focus, notarget audience, no flow, no emo-tional attachments or relatablecharacters, no humor, no point…the list goes on. Whoever gave thismonstrosity the green light to con-tinue into production should beashamed. How this awful storythat is filled with awful acting, ter-rible dialogue, no humorous mo-ments and a weak portrayal ofcute woodland creatures was evereven considered to be produced isbeyond me.

We are established into the sto-ry as we meet Dan Sanders (Bren-dan Fraser) who lives in a modelhome that represents a chain ofnew homes to be built in a small

community. He took his wife andteenage son away from their homein Chicago for the year long con-struction phase.

Dan is quickly presented with anew opportunity by his quirky andannoying boss, Neal Lyman (KenJeong). Lyman has plans to takeout the entire beautiful forest fullof woodland creatures and create amassive community. Dan, who ispractically forced into the position,takes it. His family is disappointedto hear that they will have to re-main away from Chicago for an-other four years, and the woodlandcreatures are sad to hear that theirhomes will be destroyed.

So begins the typical animalversus human battle. Day afterday Dan is attacked, humiliatedand mentally bombarded by thesavage furry creatures, but no oneseems to believe that animals arecausing such pain and embarrass-ment to Dan. They just think he isgoing crazy. How will Dan stop

these wickedly smart creaturesfrom terrorizing his life? Well, youwon’t care enough by the time youfind out, especially since it is veryexciting and extremely predictable.

Fraser finds himself in yet an-other over the top and ridiculousgoofy role that he knows how toplay all too well. I feel like that isnot a good thing, however. His act-ing is not bad, just overused andannoying.

The rest of the cast. however, isterrible. There’s Brooke Shields asthe wife who just seems misplacedin the story and Jeong (from TheHangover, Role Models) who is soinsanely annoying its not evencool. I have never thought thisridiculous little man was funny,and now I dislike him even more.Dan’s son, played by Matt Prokop,does not add one bit of positive ef-fect to the story. To sum this issueup, there is not one bit of believ-able, funny or good acting thatcomes from a cast of people whotry way too hard to be goofy andhumorous.

To add to the bad acting, theplot is even worse, the dialogue isterrible and there are no emotionalconnections to any characters, ani-mals or the story. Most of theevents that unfold are unexcitingand stupid. The animals add nodepth to the story as their wackyantics, facial expressions and dia-logue (portrayed by a bunch ofawkward squeals and noises ac-companied by a thinking bubblethat shows video of what they aresaying) are constantly overused.

The story and use of the ani-mals are overall uncreative, uno-riginal and boring. Unless youwish to sit in the theater and neverlaugh but instead put your head inyour hands out of embarrassmentand disbelief, go for it. But don’tsay I didn’t warn you. Might I sug-gest using the money you wouldhave spent on a ticket to buy abouncy ball and play with that foran hour and a half? It will be a lotmore exciting.

By Amanda EhrhardtA&E Writer

The troubled, drug-addledqueen of grunge rock, CourtneyLove, has rallied the troops for hermusical comeback, a reunion ofher chick-centered, gritty, take-no-prisoners grunge band Hole.

Although one can argue how le-gitimate the reunion is, (seeing asnone of the original line-up are

present and Love is currently en-gaged in tempestuous financial ne-gotiations with co-founder and for-mer guitarist Erik Erlandson) themusic on their newest album No-body’s Daughter is incredibly solidwith a nineties alternative edgethat is refreshing in today’s rockscene.

Billy Corgan and Linda Perryare the album’s co-producers, andtheir hands-off but collaborative

approach works well for the albumas a whole, carefully allowing thebetter parts of Love’s voice andHole’s talented instrumentalists toshine together as a band ratherthan as competing individuals. Al-though the guitar work reflects thecharacteristic Smashing Pumpkinspretty distortion a little too stronglyon some tracks, the overall effect iscohesive, intelligent and appropri-ately ticked off.

While many tracks possessechoes of Hole’s traditional grungemusical aesthetic, the resoundingquality is that of alternative withattitude, a state of mind more re-signed than angry and contempla-tive rather than self-pitying. Loveharnesses the lower part of hervoice to deliver vocals that if notpretty are emotionally expressive,and although her range is limitedand has obviously been effected byyears of substance abuse, custodybattles and grieving over KurtCobain, the experiences add tex-ture to her voice and allow the lis-tener to hear her sense of pain andher longing for a better life.

She gets a little too gravelly attimes, almost evoking a second-rate Bob Dylan, and when her vo-cals are exposed against a prettyinstrumental backdrop, the tonequality doesn’t do much for the pu-rity and beauty of the backgroundsound, but Love commits to heremotions and delivers attitude.She is starting to get back her own,and I for one think this chick canshow all those wimpy rock femalesingers today how it’s really done,instinctively and with no regrets.To be frank, Courtney Love justdoesn’t give a hoot, and that’s ex-actly what makes her music sogood.

The album opens with the titletrack, a mid-tempo, gentle songabout not being beholden to anyperson, idea or group that packs anedge with Love’s stylized vocalsand the soaring, shiny guitar.

The main instrumental melodyis straight out of the nineties alter-native tradition (how we miss it!)and the restrained and steady butextremely competent guitar anddrum work complements Love’svoice and adds texture to the song.Love occasionally indulges insome weird sounding vocal slurs

that have questionable effective-ness, but her soft screaming mo-ments add a haunting quality tothe song. There’s nice variationand a logical musical projection,and the guitar work sounds like aharder Gin Blossoms. Great, solidsong.

The tempo picks up in the al-bum’s next track, “Skinny LittleB*tch,” a delightfully irritated songthat sees Hole returning to itsgrunge roots. The guitar iscrunchy and grimy-sounding, andthe vocal onslaught on a slender,materialistic female (thinkGarbage’s “Stupid Girl”) holdsgreat appeal.

Love’s voice is snarly and cyni-cal, her money spot, and as thesong ends, her voice crescendoswith energized screams that matchthe frenetic acceleration in thebackground instrumentals. It’s funand irreverent and amply displaysthat you can be female and mad ashell but still rock just as well as thesweaty, long-haired dude on theother side of the stage.

The album slows down for thenext few tracks, drawing the spot-light towards Love’s vocals withuneven success. “Honey” startsgently with an acoustic feel, and al-though the instrumentals serve asa good support for Love’s voice, Isense that she’s out of her comfortzone in this folksier approach toher grunge origins.

The dirtiness of Love’s voice,great for up-tempo numbers, does-n’t quite work in ballad-like songslike “Someone Else’s Bed,” andstrings and piano are not comple-mentary background instrumentsfor her tone, making string and pi-ano tracks like “For Once in YourLife” sound like The Fray’s left-overs.

More successful are tracks like“Letter to God” and “Pacific Coast

Highway,” songs that begin with agentle, acoustic feel but transitioninto more rhythmic rock tuneswith the gradual addition of dis-torted guitars and steady drumbeats. The former has a beautifulinstrumental melody around thesecond bridge into the chorus withits deliberate manipulation of pitchfor textured effect, and the latterhas a strong, almost spoken vocalby Love and an intelligent musicalprogression.

Although I appreciate the factthat Love is trying to expand hermusical repertoire and highlighther impressive sense of lyricism byincluding these slower, more re-flective songs, I can’t deny thatshe’s best when she’s letting it rip,spewing out venom and shootingfor straight-up grunge alternative.“Loser Dust” and “Samantha” at-test to this fact, the former utilizinga fun, frantic mosher beat to propelits chick rock, strangely tunefulmelody forward, and the latter re-peating the profane line “Peoplelike you (four letter word) peoplelike me to avoid agony” for rhyth-mic effect.

Although Love’s vocals some-times prove problematic and thefolky approaches to some tracksfall flat, Nobody’s Daughter on thewhole is a solid representation ofgood, intelligently-produced, solidalternative rock. The instrumen-tals are in balance with the vocal,extracting the potential diva-nessaway from rock princess Love andplacing it securely in the power ofthe band’s ability to work as an en-semble. With grunge, it’s not aboutbeing pretty. It’s about reflectingan attitude, a resignation with theimperfection of life, and if that’s theobjective, then this album has defi-nitely succeeded.

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Hole’s Daughter: solid and well-produced

Who the heck gave FurryVengeance the green light?

Bullet For My Valentinereaches an all-time low

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ARIES (March 21-April 19).

A certain way of doing thingshas become standard practice. Butit wasn't always this way. And itwon't be this way for long. As theroutine gets disrupted and over-turned, be calm and observant.You'll likely be the first one to rec-ognize an opportunity in this. Acton your impulse. Seize the mo-ment.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20).

You'll hit some traffic on theroad of life. That's natural whenyou want something that manyother people want, too, and you areall going for it at the same time. Ina way, this makes the road safe, be-cause everyone is moving slowlytoward the goal. The slower pacewill give you the time to ponderdifferent future routes.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21).

You'll be inspired early in theweek. Make a list of the brightthings that cross your mind. Youwon't be able to act on them all inone week. But one of these actionsteps -- it will be obvious which one-- is such a fantastic idea that it willpropel you forward with great ve-locity toward the person you wantto become.

CANCER (June 22-July 22).

You could complain about theway a loved one is behaving. Youcould. But you prefer to blithely ig-nore the less than ideal circum-stance and instead be a gourmandof cheerful thoughts, happy connec-tions and big dreams -- absolutelystuffed with joy. What you focus onwill grow and take over the rest.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22).

Long ago, you decided therewas something you wanted to doand were willing to work for it. Itmay have been difficult for you togo through the early stages of theprocess, but now you're almost atthe end. Reach your hands towardthe reward. An energy boost onThursday will help you to acceler-ate in the final stretch.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).

It's an anxious feeling, waitingfor someone to call you back. You'llbe tempted to leave more mes-sages and e-mails and generallypester someone until they respond.But the opposite approach willwork: Forget about it. Do some-thing else. Focus on all the peoplewho answer your requests in atimely manner.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).

Wait to make a move. Talkabout the move you are consider-ing with a variety of people. Oneperson thinks it's extreme, and an-other finds it completely normal.Keep throwing out ideas. Try to geta consensus of opinion. Do not goforward until you have a plan thatmany people think is a good one.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21)

The show must go on, andyou're the one who must make

sure of it. Less experienced typesmay try to bow out, and you'll bethe impresario who keeps the tapdance going. Luckily, you'll be sur-rounded by entertaining characterswho don't mind being thrown intothe spotlight as a lovely diversion.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.21).

Something blocks the comple-tion of a project -- something youare not big enough to see over. Youneed a ladder -- or to ask a heli-copter flying over to report on whatit is and how to get around it. Askquestions. If you don't get answers,take it as a sign that the timing isn'tright, and move on to the next en-deavor.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan.19).

Instead of worrying aboutwhere the garbage goes or theplight of children and the elderly,you'll be focusing your energy on ajob that has meaning only to a fewselect people. It's as good a place asany to put your energy, and by do-ing so, you have a fair shot at im-proving all else that ails the world.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18).

Just when you think there isn'troom in your head for one morepassword, account name or bank

number, someone comes alongand asks you to take on a responsi-bility that includes handling a slewof such things. Plus, you'll bewatching out for another person.You'll be greatly enriched by takingthe whole thing on.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20).

Much good comes of knowingyourself well. Observe the feelingsthat come up as you reflect on yourlife. Dig into your history, readwhat people wrote about you inyour yearbook, or cobble togetheryour philosophy on life and write itdown. Through the process of self-discovery, you become magnetical-ly attractive.

THIS WEEK'S BIRTHDAYS:

A subtle turn of events will havea remarkable impact on your year.The way you think and the actionsyou take will add up to an impres-sive result by the end of thismonth. You are the recipient of anaward in June. New work comesyour way in July. August brings anexciting detour in a relationship.You grow closer through sharedadventure. You'll experience a per-sonal victory in September be-cause of what you contributed to agroup. A financial bonus boostsyour lifestyle in November.

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president born Jan. 30, 1882

19 See 17 Across20 Merry21 Bride’s ride22 See 17 Across26 Spanish titles29 Rapunzel feature30 Cookbook abbreviation33 Smart ___34 Retrieve35 Salad cheese36 Driftwood, e.g.39 Prepare for a new job41 Former Caddy features42 Command to a canine44 Sunday songs45 Word of agreement46 Do a crossword puzzle48 Precarious49 Loser to 22 Across in

193651 Medicinal measure53 Edith Bunker, to Archie57 22 Across studied to be

one59 Birthplace of 22 Across60 Work the waterfront61 French friend62 Choir member63 Tried out64 Operate65 Nitti’s nemesis

DOWN1 Boot, as a grounder2 About, in legal matters3 Depots: abbr.4 Legal documents5 Tribute6 Most unfriendly7 Sword’s superior, prover

bially8 Established norm: abbr.9 Puts down10 Dark11 First man12 Early 007 film13 ___ Paulo18 Mall stands23 Work unit24 Swerve25 Italian noble family26 One of Bugs’ buddies27 Friend of Fran or Stan28 Inert gases30 Braves, Indians, et al.31 Unpleasant odor32 Cultivated violet35 Wok, for one37 Starting38 Paper ___40 Where the queen be43 New Deal org.46 Pipe coupling47 Spinal cord lining49 Until now50 Ruined51 Go out with52 Has creditors54 Hay unit55 Liberal ___56 Ring decisions, shortly57 WWII vessel58 Embarrassed59 Eggs’ partner

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Friday, 7 May

11:40 AM - 12:10 PM Chapel

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM DiversitySymposium Meeting

7:30 PM - 8:30 PM CombinedBands Concert

7:30 PM - 8:30 PM TheatreWestminster: The Children's Hourby Lillian Hellman

8:00 PM - 10:00 PM Movie: Al-ice in Wonderland

10:30 PM - 11:55 PM Movie:Dear John

Saturday, 8 May

VOLLEY ROCK

9:00 AM - 11:00 AM Phi Mu'sPancake Breakfast

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Movie: Alicein Wonderland

7:00 PM - 8:00 PM CatholicMass

7:30 PM - 8:30 PM Jazz Ensem-ble Concert

7:30 PM - 8:30 PM Theatre

Westminster: The Children's Hourby Lillian Hellman

8:00 PM - 10:00 PM Movie:Dear John

10:30 PM - 11:55 PM Movie: Al-ice in Wonderland

Sunday, 9 May

9:00 AM - 3:00 PM Calm Beforethe Storm Day Retreat

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM TheatreWestminster: The Children's Hourby Lillian Hellman

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Movie: DearJohn

7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Senior Ves-pers

9:00 PM - 10:30 PM Movie: Al-ice in Wonderland

Monday, 10 May

Classes End

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM CareerCenter's Junior Education Seminar

12:00 PM - 6:00 PM Communi-ty Blood Drive

6:30 PM - 7:30 PM WESPYAwards

Tuesday, 11 May

Reading Day

8:00 AM - 4:00 PM Finals CarePackages Pick-up

9:00 AM - 11:30 AM FacultyMeeting

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EmployeeRecognition Luncheon

9:30 PM - 10:30 PM NewmanClub Meeting

Wednesday, 12 May

Final Period

Thursday, 13 May

Final Period

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM SupportStaff Meeting

Friday, 14 May

Final Period

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SGAMinutes

-It’s Volleyrockweekend! There are121 teams signedup.

-2,008 cans werecollected during theGreek Week SGAcanned food drive.They were presentedto Southwest Gar-dens.

-The IronPort issuehas been addressedand multiple prob-lems should now beresolved.

-Changes for theFieldhouse weightroom were discussedand $5,000 was allo-cated to the project.

-Keep a look outfor free on-the-gosnacks during finalsweek provided byyour SGA.

-An approval forthe 2010-2011 bud-get was made

-The student orga-nization of themonth for April wasvoted on, Greek Lifewon.

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By Lindsey PollockCampus Writer

Now that spring has arrivedand the flowers have startedblooming, it is time to recognize avery important person in your life:your mother.

Mother’s Day isn’t another com-mercialized holiday; it dates all theway back to the ancient Egyptians.According to the Mother’s DayCentral website, one of the earliestcelebrations of Mother’s Day iswith the ancient Egyptians. Theyhonored the goddess Isis, knownas the Mother of the pharaohs,with a festival.

Along with the Egyptians, theAncient Romans celebrated theirPhrygian goddess Cybele, knownas Great Mother, and the Greekscelebrated Rhea, the Greek motherof the Gods.

There was also a celebrationamong the Catholics that honoredthe church they were baptized in,which was known as the Mother-ing Church. Europe began recog-nizing mothers in the 1600s withMothering Day. When the settlersarrived in the United States, theystopped celebrating the MotheringDay holiday.

It wasn’t until 1908 when AnnaJarvis, who wanted to honor hermother, petitioned for an officialMother’s Day. In 1912, West Vir-ginia became the first state to rec-ognize Mother’s Day and by 1914Woodrow Wilson signed the na-tional observance to make the sec-ond Sunday of May the nationalholiday.

“I try and appreciate everythingmy mom does for me every day,”senior Shannon Long said.

In past years, students have hadthe opportunity to celebrate theholiday at home with their moth-ers. However, this year studentswill be preparing for finals, mak-ing the holiday more difficult tocelebrate.

“I feel bad for my roommate,Hayley, because she can’t go homeand visit her mom this year,”sophomore Brittany Grabski said.“So, I asked her to come homewith me and spend the afternoonwith my family and me.”

Despite the difficulty with get-

ting home, some students decidedto share how they have celebratedMother’s Day in the past.

“When I was little, my youngerbrothers and I use to lock our-selves in a room and make giftsfor our mom,” junior Jordan Rein-hart said. “We would make cardsor picture frames. I use to makeher breakfast in bed. But mymom wouldn’t let me cook any-more after I almost burnt downthe kitchen.”

“When I was younger, I wouldalways make my mom couponbooks for Mother’s Day,” juniorRachel Jack said. “The books hadcoupons for one free hug, cleaningmy room or any other chores I did-n’t like to do.”

Since it is harder to makebreakfast in bed when we are atschool, here are some last minutegift ideas within walking distance.Flowers on the Vine has been ad-vertising Mother’s Day gifts on thesidewalk all week. This store hasmany gift ideas inside along withvarious flower arrangements. Pep-perberrys and The Silk Road havemany possible gift ideas as well. Ifyour mom is traveling to you forthe day, the Tavern could be an op-tion for lunch or dinner.

“Last Mother’s Day I bought mymom a gift from Flowers on theVine,” senior Jenn Kutzner said.“My mom likes frogs so I foundher a teapot and cups shaped asfrogs. It was one of my favoritegifts I bought her for Mother’sDay.”

No matter what you decide todo for your mom on Mother’s Day,be sure to thank her for everythingshe has done for you.

By David LynchCampus Writer

“Can I get all hands?” Paula Fer-guson shouts as she takes com-mand of the stage at Beeghly The-atre. “That last wall’s comingdown.”

Ferguson’s strike crew jumps toattention and systematically dis-mantles the set of the last theatri-cal production.

“Let’s take it apart,” Fergusoncommands. “Anyone with a screw-driver, have at it.”

Each member of the crew hasbeen conditioned to respond toFerguson’s orders quickly and effi-ciently.

“Anyone who doesn’t have any-thing to do: that lumber needs tobe in the shop and that floor needsswept,” Ferguson yells.

Ferguson’s students vary in ex-perience and skill level, and so herdirections are firm but instructivewhen necessary. That is how Fer-guson teaches.

“I was scared to death of her fora very long time,” sophomoreNicole Hockenberry said.

Ferguson is the technical direc-tor of Beeghly Theatre and the fa-cilities coordinator of Orr Auditori-um. She maintains both facilitiesand trains students to be responsi-ble for them as well. She alsotaught three classes last year as aone-year visiting lecturer. But evenafter Gianni Downs, the currentfull-time designer, was hired on,Ferguson assisted Downs with setconstruction and running labs.

According to Dr. Scott Macken-zie, associate professor of theatre,Beeghly theatre was in a “sorrystate” and very disorganized beforeFerguson brought everything up topar by painstakingly rearrangingthe place, piece-by-piece, thus mak-ing the open full-time designingposition more attractive to an em-ployment-seeking Downs. The pre-vious designer, Mike Slain, left foranother job a couple of years ago.

“Now because of Paula beinghere, Gianni has a lot more free-dom to design,” Mackenzie said.“Mike used to have to do every-thing. Now Paula takes care ofmost of the building and lets Gian-

ni be a designer.”Ferguson started college as a

music major at YSU. While there,she took an interest in theatre andeventually switched majors. Shestill kept up with music, managingto play in the orchestra, wind en-semble, symphonic band and jazzensembles. But her focus had shift-ed to the stage. She graduated andtook jobs with various communitytheatres and joined the StageHands Union and continued work-ing in theatre for over 20 years.

Ferguson’s intensity and pas-sion for her art was a key compo-nent to her reputation throughouther career. One of her best friends,actress Molly Galano, recalls work-ing with Ferguson and describesher as “a force of nature. I’m notjoking. Like a force of nature. Any-thing you throw at her, she canthrow back with more. She pushesyou to do your best.”

‘Character and integrity’ are thetwo words Ferguson will alwaysrepeat to her students. Both, shesays, are important in working intheatre and, ultimately, life.

“She loves [theatre],” Galanosays. “She loves what she brings toit. She loves what she gets out of it.And most especially she lovespassing her passion to other peopleso that they can realize how muchthey can learn through theatre andwhat fun it can be.”

Despite Ferguson’s love ofteaching, she didn’t go into educa-tion immediately after college. Sheconsidered herself to be under-qualified, only having a bachelor’sdegree. This all changed when shebecame more involved with theplayhouse in New Castle.

Mo Ferguson, her husband, wasthe technical director of the NewCastle Playhouse when she took ajob there.

“I remember her runningaround hollering and screaming atthe time while she was settinglights,” M. Ferguson said. “I just satin the booth the whole time andbehaved myself.”

Years later, they were marriedon the stage of NCP, and their re-ception took place at theYoungstown Playhouse. Thus, theywere married at their respective

‘home theatres’.Now that she was married to

the technical director, Fergusonsearched for shows to do at theNCP. As it happened, Mackenziewas directing J.M. Barrie’s Echoesof the War. Ferguson auditionedfor the show and was cast.

Mackenzie, who was stillsearching for someone to fill in forSlain, saw potential in Ferguson“from working with her andknowing how passionate she isabout theatre,” Mackenzie said.“She loves creating theatre. Sheloves the backstage element. Sheloves being on stage. She workslong weeks around here, plus shestill directs down at the playhouse.

“The term ‘Theatre is my life’applies to Paula. I thought she’d fitin around here because, in militaryterms, we needed a good Non-commissioned officer who couldcome in and kick some butt, takesome names and get thingssquared away in the theatre, andthat’s what she did,” Mackenziesaid.

Ferguson was skeptical that shecould do any good in an academicsetting, but Mackenzie assured herthat her experience would makeup for her lack of a master’s de-gree. Ferguson agreed to let himset up some interviews. She wentto them and got a response the

same day.“I went online and there was an

email from Dr. Barner,” Fergusonsaid. “Dr. Barner said ‘It’s yours ifyou want it.’ I responded as calmlyand as coolly as I could, typing avery nice response. I signed myname. I hit send. And then I wentcrazy.”

Ferguson was nervous aboutteaching at first, not knowing ex-actly how to go about it. But shelearned quickly and received a lotof positive feedback from the stu-dents, who enjoyed hearing abouther experiences.

“I think that it is the job thatwas waiting for her all her life,”Galano said. “I just think it’s whereshe needs to be, passing this alongto young people. To let young peo-ple know that this is how you dothings, because without disciplineit all falls apart.”

“She says exactly what’s on hermind,” Hockenberry says. “I wasn’tused to that before, but now I loveher to death.”

“You’ve got to get past the barkthat she has because all she wantsto do is give the kids the best expe-rience she can,” Mackenzie said.“And once you do realize whereshe’s coming from and that shejust wants to do the best she can,you can appreciate her.”

By Olivia SweeneyStaff Writer

I was recently moved by a par-ticular non-fiction book about in-ternational female oppression ti-tled Half the Sky.

Violence against women in de-veloped countries such as the Unit-ed States does occur, but societywidely disapproves and conse-quences often ensue. Strikingly, inmany developing countries andcultures, the disregard, disfiguringand silencing of women of all ages,including teens, has become acommon and ignored presence.

Half the Sky was written byPulitzer Prize winning journalistsNicholas D. Kristof and SherylWuDunn. As I read the openinglines of the text, I closed my eyesand entered the cruel environ-ments of women destroyed by so-ciety. I didn’t realize what I wasgetting into at first.

I knew that violence againstwomen occurs all over the world,but never to the extent describedin the book. Each story began witha description of shocking stories ofhuman beings trafficked, gangraped, punished by acid thrown intheir faces and receiving no treat-ment during pregnancy.

The book recognizes that morewomen are trafficked into sexualslavery than the numbers of slavesshipped into plantations in theeighteenth and nineteenth cen-turies, during the height of slavetrade. The vivid yet informativelanguage of the book pulled at thestrings of my heart. Young girlsand women everywhere wereforced into prostitution, raped, mu-tilated and trapped by society with-out notice. Many women accepttheir fates because their cultureshave conditioned them to obey.

Some women do not receivethe proper prenatal care, which of-ten results in death. Specifically,

during delivery, a young womannamed Prudence. Her unqualifiedmidwife jumped on her stomachto deliver the baby, which rupturedher uterine wall; her baby endedup dying inside of her and rottingaway. Prudence then suffered froma massive internal infection anddied after three excruciating daysin a hospital, because her doctorrefused treatment.

Kristof and WuDunn carefullydescribe the unsettling circum-stances of women they have comeacross while abroad, and in somecases their stories take a positiveturn. The journalists encounteredsuccessful women despite unsym-pathetic conditions. Specifically, awoman name Muktar Mai, oncemaimed and humiliated by mem-bers of her community, demandedconviction and eventually receivedenough compensation to open aschool which still thrives today.Muktar’s story gives hope, but thecycle has not ended. At any point,Muktar’s life could once again turnto brutality or brothels.

We must not discredit men en-tirely for the oppression of women.Many times the vile treatment ofwomen comes from women them-selves.

According to Kristof andWuDunn, “Approximately onceevery ten seconds, a girl some-where in the world is pinneddown. Her legs are pulled apartand a local woman with no med-ical training pulls out a knife or ra-zor blade and slices off some or allof the girl’s genitals.”

Such a harsh rite of passage formany women continues to cus-tomarily occur due to tradition, ig-norance and in an attempt to keepgirls from promiscuous behavior.

Kristof and WuDunn give voiceto these women silenced by cultur-al depreciation. Half the Skyreestablishes existence, voice andbeauty for women suffering fromthe oppression of merciless patri-

archs and uneducated cultures.The book calls attention the elimi-nation of a generation by “gender-cide” and ignorance. Though Halfthe Sky draws attention to the is-sue, a frightening number of sto-ries will never be heard andwomen will continue to disappear.

Half the Sky makes it difficultto ignore the devastating humanrights issue of female oppressionin developing countries. As respon-sive readers, we must work to in-form so that some day knowledgeof the victimization of women,such as those described in Half theSky ,will influence change; we can-not just change laws; we mustwork to change the culture.

Kristof and WuDunn stress thepositive effects of educationthroughout the text. One shouldanswer the call to action on the is-sue of female oppression world-wide by reading Half the Sky.

The journalists suggest sponsor-ing a girl in the Congo or donatingto organizations such as CARE,which fights poverty worldwide;however, one does not have to stopat “half the sky.”

On a larger scale, imagine if stu-dents in study abroad programsvisited developing countries notonly to educate themselves, butalso to aid and educate impover-ished countries.

Instead of Westminster in Lon-don, why not Westminster in theCongo or Cambodia or some otherdeveloping country? Of course wewould have to first address issuesof safety, but programs such asthese could spread the wealth ofknowledge.

Ultimately, we must not letwomen like Prudence or Muktarcontinue to disappear. We mustfurther acknowledge their struggle.We must educate and recognizetheir existence, as Kristof andWuDunn tell us, in order to “turnoppression into opportunity world-wide.”

By Dr. James A. PerkinsGuest Reviewer

One of the very best thingsabout spring in New Wilmington,other than the often false promiseof warmer weather, is the annualappearance of Scrawl, the school’sliterary magazine. This spring is noexception. Scrawl has arriveddressed in a cover that screams,“This is not your father’s literarymagazine.”

Hunter McClevish, who pro-duced the cover art and featureddrawings opposite the title pageand on page 16, is a serious find.Whoever made the decision tohold the book together with minia-ture reproductions of his drawingsis a genius. When I started in thisbusiness (publishing), printerswould generally call these Ding-bats. Now the digital publisherscall them Wingdings. Hunter, in anemail to me, called them doodles. Ihave only to remind you that KeithHaring was spray painting walls inNew York City long before he wasfeatured in mid-town galleries.

This sort of graphic glue can beoverpowering, as it is in the 2010issue of Signatures, the literarymagazine from Rochester Instituteof Technology. Signatures uses var-iously colored paint spatters as

graphic glue; often they overpowerand interfere with the text on thepage. The Dingbats in Scrawl cre-ate a unity of design without de-tracting from the other content inthe book.

The content of the book is im-pressive in its diversity of genresrepresented and in the number ofauthors and artists involved in theproject. Over the past few years,with the advent of the Scrawl Writ-ers’ Festival in the fall and theScrawl graphic art show in thespring, an increasing number ofstudents have taken an interest inthe design and production ofScrawl. It has grown from the hob-byhorse of the few into the Pega-sus of many. When you considerthe tiny budget of Scrawl (tiny ascompared to that of the Argo, forexample), the artistic return on theinvestment is impressive.

Reviews tend to fall into twogroups: notices of publication andcritical essays. Newspapers gener-ally carry notices of publicationand quarterly journals generallycarry the critical essays. The mosta notice of publication can hope todo is tease the readership into dip-ping into a volume by suggestingsome highlights, and those high-lights are never more than an ex-pression of the personal taste ofthe author.

I have already highlighted theartwork of Hunter McClevish. Letme add that you may enjoy his“(Excerpt from the Middle of anUnfinished Story)” or “An Insignifi-cant Moment” by Jillian Maniscar-co, and since Brendan Moulton’sname was omitted on page 32, letme recommend his “The Power ofDreams,” although the ending ofthe story begs the question: “Whois telling the tale?”

I fell off my chair laughing atDebra Sanchez’s scene “The TrafficStop,” and I was delighted to seedrama represented in Scrawl for

the third year in a row. The con-cept of “The Traffic Stop” is trulyfunny; I would like to see Sanchezwork it up to a one act.

Stefanie Cumberledge’s finephotograph “Tranquility” remindsme of a statement by Robert God-frey, who taught painting here foryears: “I hate water. Water is toofast.” It was too fast for Godfrey topaint, but not too fast for Cum-berledge’s camera. She captures itfrom drizzle to spray. I also likeAlyssa Hanna’s photograph“Chalk.” Now you may think that Ilike it for professional reasons be-cause it reminds me of all thoseyears I went home with a streak ofchalk on my cloths from leaningagainst the chalk tray, but youwould be wrong. I like it becauseof the point-of-view. Creative pho-tographers learn quickly to movethe camera away from eye level tofind the best composition. Thesame thing can be said for “Repeti-tion” by James Bonetti.

Tim Giblin’s “Walk Tight” is likea Christian McBride bass solo, thenotes are limited, but the vibrationis overpowering. Giblin haslearned that suggestion and associ-ation can be every bit as powerfulas narrative. “My Dearest Raven”by Brian Cosgrove is haunting; itcarries overtones of “The Twa Cor-bies,” but the cigarette and thespeaker’s knowledge of its effectsplace it solidly in the modern peri-od and make the reader wonderabout the identity of the Raven. Re-member, in “The Twa Corbies” itwas “his lady fair” who knewwhere lay the new slain knight.

There is a great deal to enjoy inthis year’s Scrawl, and both CorriHines, for her overall guidance aseditor, and Evann Garrison, for herbenign neglect as advisor, need totake a bow. You need to pick up acopy of Scrawl and enjoy the cre-ativity of your fellow students.

Photo by James Bonetti

Woman behind the curtainPaula Ferguson serves as the technical director of Beegh-

ly Theatre and the facilities coordinator of Orr Auditorium.

Scrawl cover by Hunter McClevish

Photo from www.aflowersgift.com

Reach for the sky

Students talk about theirtraditions and how theyspend each Mother’s Day

Meet Paula Ferguson

Experience students’ creativitythrough literary magazine, Scrawl

Roseanne Barr once said,“There’s a lot more to being awoman than being a mother, butthere’s a hell of a lot more to beinga mother than most people sus-pect.”

Although I’m not the biggestRoseanne Barr fan, I have to agreewith this statement considering Ihave no idea what it’s like to be amother and can only imagine howhard that job must be. One thingthat I do know is that we have oneday out of the year specifically setaside to show our moms howmuch we truly appreciate themand all that they do for us, and weshould do whatever it takes tomake them feel special.

When you’re a kid, it’s accept-able to make your mom a nicecard out of construction paper, signyour name to a gift that your dadalready bought her or allow yourgrandma to buy the gift and thenyou take all the credit for it…atleast that’s what I always did.

However, now that you’re older,the construction paper cards aren’tgoing to cut it anymore. It’s timefor you to show your mom justhow much you love her throughbuying her a Mother’s Day giftthat’s straight from the heart.

The problem for many of us is

that we are poor college kids whohave spent too much time study-ing and spending money and notnearly enough time working andsaving money. It’s too bad thatMother’s and Father’s Day are notcelebrated sometime during or af-ter the summer; at least then wewould have a little extra cash onhand. But there’s no use complain-ing about things that you can’tchange, so here are some creativeand crafty gifts that you may wantto consider.

The first thoughtful gift to getyour mother would obviously beflowers. What woman doesn’t en-joy getting a bouquet of fresh flow-ers from someone she cares about,and depending what kind of flow-ers they are and how many you or-der, they can be relatively inexpen-sive as well.

Flowers are a classic way ofshowing someone that you havethought about them and appreci-ate all that they do, so it makessense to get them for your mothersince it is her day and since youshould be thinking about her.

Another idea would be to getyour mother some kind of photokeepsake. This could be in theform of a scrapbook, picture frameor even a keychain. The point isthat it’s something personal andshows that you have put thoughtinto what you were getting her andwhat would make her happy.

The last thing that you want todo is make it seem like you ran tothe store and bought her the firstthing you set your eyes on becauseit’s a fact that most mothers devotetheir whole lives to making theirchildren happy. The argumentcould be made that happinessneed not be reflected in presents,and that is true; however, gifts area sort of reward, and if your moth-er is anything like my mother, thenshe’s deserving of a thoughtful re-ward every once in a while.

In light of thoughtfulness, abook is something that can bevery personal. Usually you knowwhat kind of books your friendsand family are interested in, and

reading is used as a form of relax-ation. Therefore, it should be easyfor you to think of what your mommight enjoy reading, and hopefullyshe will realize that sometimes allit takes is a rainy day under thecovers with a great book to reallyfeel happy and at peace.

This last idea might be my fa-vorite gift of all, even if it’s not thatcreative. Something that shemight truly appreciate could be anice dinner on the town with herfavorite son or daughter. It soundssimple enough, but the gesturealone speaks a thousand words.Coming back from college with amillions stories and experiences toshare, this is the perfect time toopen up communication and let inone of the people who care aboutyou the most.

I hope that these ideas will pro-vide you with the inspiration youneed to show your mother justhow much you care.

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Katie is a sophomore Englishmajor and secondary educa-tion and writing minor. TheHolcad staff does not thinkshe dresses like a grandma.

What is your favoriteicecream flavor?

Question of the Week

WC CribsSigma Kappa sophomores Aleya Tylinski, MelissaRudman and Alyssa Hanna show off their room

The girls have the only bay window on campus, and theysay it’s the best “creeper” window to have because they canoverlook the quad. In the winter, their room is freezing but inthe spring and summer it’s scorching hot.

Show your mom you care

For fun theywatch movies,T.V. shows andthey often havedance parties intheir room to re-lax and let offsteam. They allusually go to bedaround the sametime and washtheir faces andbrush their teethtogether too.Next year, they’reall living on thesuite again.

Sophomores AleyaTylinski, Melissa Rudmanand Alyssa Hanna live to-gether in a triple on theSigma Kappa suite in Fer-guson Hall. Despite all liv-ing in one room, after rear-ranging three times, theyfinally feel as though theyall have their own space.

Their room is a majorhang out spot for sistersand friends, especiallyChelsi Cannon who theyconsider their fourthroommate. They once fitthirteen girls to watch theBachelor finale.

Things to do this weekendFriday

Men and women’s Track & Field qualifiers atSlippery Rock

11:40a.m.-12:40p.m. Chapel3-3:30p.m. Diversity Symposium7p.m. Jordan Depaul and the Reputations, Bon-

Journey and EVE 6 Concert7:30p.m. Theatre Westminster: The Children’s

Hour by Lillian Hellman8p.m. Movie in Mueller: Alice in Wonderland10:30p.m. Movie in Mueller: Dear John

SaturdayTBA Softball PAC tournament at Bethany9a.m. Volleyrock competition begins9-11a.m. Phi Mu’s Pancake breakfast in the Field

House12-4p.m. Photo booth, obstacle course, popcorn

and snow cones1p.m. Baseball vs. Thomas More3p.m. Movie in Mueller: Alice in Wonderland4p.m. Quaker Stake & Lube wings (Field House)7p.m. Catholic Mass7:30-8:30p.m. Jazz Ensemble concert7:30-8:30p.m. Theatre Westminster: The Chil-

dren’s Hour by Lillian Hellman8p.m. Movie in Mueller: Dear John10:30p.m. Movie in Mueller: Alice in Wonder-

landSunday

9a.m.-3p.m. Calm Before the Storm Retreat1p.m. Baseball vs. Thomas More2:30p.m. Theatre Westminster: The Children’s

Hour by Lillian Hellman3p.m. Movie in Mueller: Dear John7p.m. Senior Vespers9p.m. Movie in Mueller: Alice in Wonderland

Sophomores Molly Sharbaugh and Addie Domske

Freshman Chrissy Moudrey

Freshmen Kate Cerelli, Sammi Garrity and Hannah Paczkowski

Sophomore David Merrick

Some Mother’s Day gift ideas for those struggling with what to buy

Children’s Hour opens on campus

Photos by James Bonetti

Break a legTheatre Westminster presents The Children’s Hour by Lil-

lian Hellman on campus this weekend. The show is directedby professor John Gresh and stars 14 students. The showopened on Thursday night at 7:30 p.m. in Beeghly Theater. Itwill also be performed on Friday, May 7 at 7:30p.m., Satur-day, May 8 at 7:30p.m. and at a matinee on Sunday, May 9at 2:30p.m.