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Friday, February 24, 2012
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The second week of the Student Association presidential race closed with a second
debate, a town hall style where the audience
asked questions important to them.
Though the debate did not bring the
turnout the candidates had hoped, they
said it was an issue they each plan to
improve. Student involvement was a
highlighted problem and as one candidate pointed out, with the sheer number
of enrolled students at Oswego State we
should have much greater involvement
in clubs, S.A. and campus events.
Current S.A. President Jonathan McDonald said he expects the candidates will garner student attention as the race progresses.
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Youth athletes
susceptible to
concussions
Collin Leadbeater
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One of the hottest topics in sports today is the abundance of concussions that
is seen in contact sports such as football
and hockey. After scores of studies have
shown the amount of trauma athletes
who have suffered concussions face
during live after sports, professional
leagues have taken a proactive stance
on protecting athletes.
Youth sports are no different. While
children may not play at the same speed
and intensity that professionals do, they
are still at risk for violent collisions and
head injuries. In Oswego, youth sports
leagues are taking precautions to lower
the amount of concussions, as well as
preparing to care for a child that is possibly suffering from one.
The Oswego Pop Warner program
sports one football team and two
cheerleading teams that contain a combined 60 kids, according to President
Deanna Kraft.
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Benjamin Franklin wrote in 1780
that “The only two certainties in life are
death and taxes,” a principle that one
business in Oswego has relied on for
more than a century.
The Dain-Cullinan Funeral Home is
a combination of two families that have
served the Oswego community since 1865
and 1882 respectively. After 100 years of
friendly competition, the two businesses
combined and eventually consolidated into
their current location on East Second Street.
The Dain-Cullinan Funeral Home is
one of the few businesses that has existed
since the 1800s and never left the family. After John F. Dain founded the Dain
Funeral Home in 1865, the business has
passed from father to son for four generations, and the Cullinan side will be welcoming their fifth generation when Eric
Cullinan assumes his father’s business in
the coming years.
Chris Dain and Michael Cullinan, the
current owners of the business, emphasized
the importance of providing a personal and
unique experience to their customers.
“I think when a family is experiencing a
loss it’s a very important thing that the person they are dealing with is someone that is
known to them personally, or at least has a
reputation that they’re aware of in the community,” Dain said. “I think families look for
that, and they prefer that.”
A furniture-maker’s second job
The job of a funeral home was quite different in the 19th century than it is today.
“Most calling hours would take place
in the family home,” Cullinan said.
“People typically died in their homes, or
in the hospital, and were brought here
for preparation.”
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Top left: A horse-drawn hearse in front of the Dain Funeral Home. Top right: John F. Dain in front
of his funeral home with his dog. Bottom: A funeral at St. Mary’s Church in 1914.
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SUNY Cortland’s fifth annual Charles N.
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“Global Health Equity and the Location of
Culture,” which will focus on the disparities in quality and access to public health
care around the world.
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Binghamton
Representatives of the Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied
Science at SUNY Binghamton introduced
a presentation focusing on innovations in
engineering and new projects on Feb. 16.
The presentation, entitled “Engineered
for Discovery,” consists of a slide show
that showcases the research conducted
and engineering discoveries made in the
school’s Innovative Technologies Complex. The presentation, which was given
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Dr. Richard Lapchick, director of the
Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport,
will give two presentations at SUNY Potsdam on Feb. 28.
Lapchick, who is also the the chair
of the DeVos Sports Business Management Graduate Program at the University
of Central Florida and the founder and
president of the National Consortium for
Academics and Sport, will give two presentations entitled “Your Ethical and Diversity Legacy” and “The Healing Power
of Sport,” respectively. The presentations
will focus on how sports can play a positive role in social change and increasing
equality amongst diverse groups of people.
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be open to the athletic staff and the campus community. The second presentation
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Krista A. Cerrillo, 22, was arrested on
Feb. 16 at 2:22 a.m. at the intersection of
George Washington Blvd. and Third Ave.
for disorderly conduct involving obscene
language and gestures. Cerrillo was released on an appearance ticket.
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Kayla M. Lynskey, 21, was arrested on
Feb. 16 at 2:22 a.m. at the intersection of
George Washington Blvd. and Third Ave
for driving the wrong direction on a oneway streer, driving while intoxicated and
for aggravated DWI. Lynskey was released
on an appearance ticket.
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Camren M. McKenna, 19, was arrested
on Feb. 21 at 1:44 a.m. at 169 W. Second St.
for criminal possession of a weapon with
intent to use and second degree attempted
armed robbery. McKenna was released on
an appearance ticket.
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Konnor C. Shares, 22, was arrested on
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Charity fashion show
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With auditions complete and 20 models
lined up, the staff of Rent the Runway at Oswego State is working toward the charity fashion
show, which it will host on April 13. The Child
Advocacy Center of Oswego County will be the
beneficiary from the fundraiser.
Models will showcase rented designer
dresses in the Hewitt Union Ballroom from 4
p.m. to 7 p.m. These dresses are available online
for anyone to rent, ranging in size from zero to
12 plus and price from $40 to over $200.
Rent the Runway started in 2009 and was
named one of the top 50 websites of 2010 by
TIME, and one of the 10 websites that will
change the way you shop online by Cosmopolitan. College students are customers they target
and they hire students as interns to better display their dresses to their target population.
Gloria Grimaldi is the team manager and
social media representative intern at Rent the
Runway, the Oswego State chapter. She came
across the internship opportunity following the
company online. In preparation for the event
at Oswego she has created a small public relations, marketing and coordination team, but
is still looking for volunteers. They receive no
monetary support from Student Association so
the cost to rent the dresses is completely out of
pocket for the organization.
To date, the group has had a street style contest to bring attention to the organization. They
have also laid a strong social media groundwork, including a blog on the official Rent the
Runway website. Grimaldi said she is very
happy with the publicity and reaction their social media efforts garnered which was started
early on.
Marketing representative Brenda Singleton
said starting up is hard work and time consuming but well worth it.
“I’m fairly encouraged. We’re pretty new.
We’re up and coming,” Singleton said. “We
want to keep Rent the Runway alive.”
The staff said choosing a charity was difficult
as well. After consideration they decided to support the effort to prevent child abuse in America.
Alleged robber
charged, jailed
Oswego City Police responded to two
reports on Monday night. One person
claimed they had seen suspicious activity in
the area and one person claimed they had
been held at gunpoint while walking his
dog, a department release said.
Camren McKenna, 20, of 141 West Oneida
Street was arrested early Tuesday morning.
Allegedly, McKenna approached the victim, pointed what appeared to be a black handgun and demanded money. Upon learning that
the victim did not have any money, McKenna
reportedly fled in a Mitsubishi Lancer.
A car matching the description was seen
leaving items around the area of 278 Syracuse Ave. Police found a black air pistol and
several items of clothing consistent with the
description the robbery victim provided, a
statement said.
He was charged with attempted rob-
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bery in the second degree, a felony and
criminal possession of a weapon in the
fourth degree a misdemeanor.
McKenna was remanded to the Oswego
County Correctional Facility in lieu of $3,000
cash bail or $6,000 bail bond. He is scheduled to appear in court on Feb. 28 at 9:30 a.m.
The winter of 2011-12 has been a very
unusual one. Mild temperatures and below average snowfall rates have effected
many parts of the country.
According to the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
the Northeastern United States had the
third-least snowiest January since the
administration started keeping records
in 1966. And in that month, 2,890 daily
high temperatures were recorded across
the nation. And as of Feb. 22, snow covers only 27.1 percent of the continental
United States.
Why has it been so unseasonably
warm? According to the National
Weather Service, the reason is primarily because of the jet stream; the air
current that flows West to East across
the Northern latitudes of the U.S., Europe and Asia stops cold Arctic air from
drifting far south. This year, that jet
stream has been straighter and further
north, sending the snow the Northeast
would usually see to Northern Canada
instead. In fact, there is so much snow
that Canadian snowy owls have been
migrating south to places like Michigan.
Flowers are blooming in the Southeast
and migrating birds have returned to
the Midwest a month ahead of schedule
demonstrating the effect winter has had
on the environment.
In an area that is known for its snow
amounts, this year Central New York has witnessed weather diversity. Winter events have
been canceled, winter clothing industries
have slumped and thin or no ice has caused
more deaths than usual.
The weather is hurting some businesses, while saving money for others.
“We’ve seen a 50 percent drop in the
attendance at the slopes this year,” said
Rick Bunnell, marketing manager at Labrador Mountain Ski Area.
“We’ve got snow makers and we’ve
got 12 trails up and running. But when
people don’t see the snow in their own
backyard, they have no motivation for
skiing here.”
Because of the conditions, little snow
removal equipment has been needed.
“We saved a lot of money in 2010 because of a long January thaw,” said Kurt
Ospelt, Oswego County Highway Department Superintendent, “we started
out with a budget of about 2.7 million and
ended the season with 400,000 dollars
still to our name. We expect even more
this year. We haven’t spent much money
on salt, fuel for the plows, or anything
this year.”
Forecasters say that it is nearly possible for winter to simply pass on by. March
is still ahead and is a popular month for
cold weather and storms.
Raising bar for pole vaulting safety, box injuries
Gwen Girsdansky
News Editor
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By launching athletes sometimes well over
15 feet in the air, pole vaulting is debatably the
most dangerous event in track and field. Since
1982, over 20 vaulters have died, according to
research done by National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research (NCCSIR).
Many of the deaths result from athletes
bouncing off the safety mats or missing them
entirely: many athletes die on impact from spinal or brain injuries.
Samoa Filli II, a high school student from
Kansas, died in 2002 after bouncing off a mat
and hitting his head on the cement surrounding
the pit during a meet. After three deaths in 2002,
pole vault pits were required to be larger to prevent vaulters from bouncing off or missing the
mats by both the NCAA and the National High
School Federation.
“They made the mats larger in 2003, but mats
are expensive; they had to give schools time to
comply,” said Fred Mueller, the director for the
NCSSIR at the University of North Carolina.
Some schools, particularly high schools,
were unable to afford new or additional mats
and were forced to eliminate the event, said
Peter McGinnis.
McGinnis is the pole vault coach at SUNY
Cortland and chair of the pole vault equipment
sub-committee, which was formed after the
2002 deaths.
“The number of kids bouncing off the mats
have decreased, but the number of kids falling back into the pole box has increased,”
Mueller said.
Jan Johnson, who won the bronze medal
in the pole vault at the 1972 Munich Olympics, runs a pole vault camp in California
and chairs several committees for pole
vault safety and agrees with Mueller that
injuries have decreased.
“We’ve had, on legal-sized pits, one off-theback-of-the pit injury and one off-the-side resulting in death,” Johnson said. “And we’ve had
18 in-the-box injuries.”
Of these, 10 or 11 were catastrophic head injuries, Johnson said.
The box is a one-and-a-half to two feet metal
dip in the ground that stops the pole, which
then allows for the bend in the pole that launch-
es vaulters over the bar. There are sharp edges,
which can paralyze athletes and provide a hard
surface for brain and spine injuries. In 1970,
Johnson watched a teammate fall into the box.
“[He] went straight up and came straight
back down in the box, hit his head on the back of
the box,” Johnson said. “He was in the hospital
for two months, crushed skull and swelling on
the brain. Fortunately he recovered.”
Approximately 75 percent of high school
vaulters will land in the box at least once. Some
vaulters land in the box as often as five or six
times, Johnson said.
Johnson also wants to create a rule that vaulters are mandated to land in a designated safety
zone, if they fail to do so then they will be disqualified. Similar rules are in place for throwing
events, if the discus or shot is thrown outside of
the zone, the throw is disqualifed as a foul.
“Anybody who has pole vaulted for any
amount of time knows the box is the worst thing
you can do,” Johnson said. “If you make a mistake in your run or takeoff and come up short,
you’re in trouble.”
Currently, there is a box collar required for
high school, but there is no standard set yet.
“Probably the more dangerous vaulters, or
the vaulters that have to be more concerned
with injuries, are college vaulters. College male
vaulters,” McGinnis said. “Because they are going higher and some of them haven’t developed
stable techniques.”
Kevin Dare, a former Penn State vaulter, died
vaulting, along with three others, in 2002. His
death was the result of falling backwards. He
died instantly from a severed spinal cord injury
while attempting his 15’7” vault, Johnson said.
“They move around and they haven’t been
tested for any sort of performance capabilities,
so many of them won’t do much,” McGinnis said. The American Society for Testing and
Materials (ASTM) is working to develop a standard, which could be implemented by different
overseeing organization like the National High
School Federation.
“It’s got to reduce the impact forces tremendously, a lot,” McGinnis said. “The accelerations have to be below a certain level in order for
the box collar to pass. If it’s above a certain level,
mainly based on head injuries (it won’t pass).”
“If you’re concerned about the safety of your
vaulters, you need to get a box collar that will
something, that performs well,” McGinnis said.
“You have a responsibility to provide the safest
environment possible for your athletes. It costs
less than a pole.”
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Coaches worry over big head injuries in little players
YOUTH, from COVER
The football team has five coaches and
each cheerleading squad has one head coach
and one assistant coach, most of who are
equipped to deal with injuries. There is also a
medical trainer that is on hand for both practices and games.
“[Every team] needs at least one person
that is Red Cross certified,” Kraft said. “All
head coaches have to take a concussion clinic, which is offered by Upstate University
Youth Program.”
Kraft said that there has not been any
instances of a player concussion in Oswego Pop Warner to her knowledge, but
coaching staffs are prepared to deal with
them just in case.
Helping coaches identify concussions
or head injuries is a checklist that is provided by the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC). The list gives examples of behavioral signs that one may
observe of a child who may have a concussion, as well as symptoms that a child
may be complaining of that could indicate
a concussion.
The CDC also provides a list of questions
to ask a child that, if answered incorrectly,
may signify a concussion. The questions may
be as simple as “What city is this?” or more
difficult, such as, “Can you name the months
of the year backward?”
“Even if [a coach thinks] a player has
a concussion, the player has to go to a
doctor,” Kraft said. “[The player] has to
be cleared by a doctor before he can even
practice or anything.”
Oswego Pop Warner has a Preparticipation Physical Evaluation form through
the American Academy of Family Physicians that parents must fill out before
their child can be cleared to play football
or cheerlead. The form asks questions of
the child’s medical history regarding any
medical conditions or issues the child may
have faced.
Equipment is a big part of concussion prevention, as the wrong helmet may not provide enough support and protection from a
harsh blow from an opposing player.
“[Equipment] has to be examined every
year before practice starts,” Kraft said. “We
just had helmets reconditioned last year. They
have to be recertified, it’s required through
Pop Warner.”
Coaches also have to be recertified every two years through Pop Warner by going
through a training course, according to Kraft.
While Oswego Pop Warner may not have
had to deal with a concussion, the Oswego
Minor Hockey Association has. According
to President John Rice, the league has to deal
with “one to three each year.”
Oswego Minor Hockey has 14 teams with
15 kids to each team and anywhere from one
to four coaches per squad. Each team also has
a medical kit on hand at every practice and
game in case of injury, Rice said.
“[Concussions] are a hot topic with us
right now,” he said. “USA Hockey puts
out what they call the Head’s Up program,
which is a concussion awareness, concussion
identification program. It touches on the hot
points of how to determine if a kid possibly
has a concussion.”
Rice also said the league is looking to
improve its concussion detection process
through ImPACT, which is a company that
sells concussion testing equipment to schools
and organizations.
“ImPACT is able to provide the bench
marking through a computer program,”
Rice said. “The Oswego city school district
has all of its athletes go through this. Then,
if there’s a concussion or blow to the head…
they can go back and retake the test and use
that as a diagnosis for the doctor. We are
looking as an organization to also start doing that program.”
Much like Oswego Pop Warner, Oswego Minor Hockey requires that a player
be taken out of a game in case of a possi-
ble concussion. But instead of a mandatory medical examination, Oswego Minor
Hockey leaves the decision up to the parents of the injured child.
“We’re not medical people, but when we
see something that happens out on the ice,
the first thing is to get the responsibility back
to the parent[s],” Rice said. “The parent[s],
hopefully, [are] aware enough to know
if something still isn’t right and to get to a
medical person.”
Coaches also have to be certified through
USA Hockey in order to coach a team in
Oswego Minor Hockey. Each coach must
complete eight online modules which takes
about eight hours to complete in total, according to Rice.
Equipment is not checked individually, Rice said, but it can be looked at if it is
deemed questionable.
“Through USA Hockey, all helmets are
certified,” he said. “The helmet has a shelf
life, so to speak. As far as people checking
that, I think the ultimate responsibility may
come down to a referee, but I’ve never seen a
referee checking helmets.”
Rice also said the USA Hockey has completed studies that have shown that any
specific brand of helmet or wearing a mouth
guard can prevent concussions.
“Safety for the kids is the No. 1 priority,”
Rice said. “I’m all for whatever we have to
do to be able to identify and do the correct
things medically so kids do not get hurt.”
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Chris Dain holds the originial funeral home sign from the 1800s next to the modern day building which houses the joint operation with the Cullinans.
Funeral home stands test of time, Spanish influenza
FUNERAL HOME, from COVER
Funeral homes provided an important
service for families that did not have the
means or facilities to host a wake. In fact
most funeral homes in New York at the
time were residential homes that had been
converted into funeral homes. The Dain
Funeral Home was the first in the state to
be built for the sole purpose of being a funeral home.
Not much is known about John F.
Dain’s partner, a man named Benz, but
the city directory from the 1870s and advertisements from that decade describe
them as furniture makers who were also
undertakers. Funeral directors, or undertakers as they were known in the 19th
century, were often furniture makers by
trade. The need to build coffins created
a natural niche market that one Benz and
Dain used to their benefit. “Back in the
19th century, there were fewer regulations in professional licenses,” Dain said.
“If you wanted to become an undertaker,
you could.”
Cullinan said that funeral homes also
provided delivery services, using horsedrawn hearses called hacks until they
were replaced by automobiles. As time
went on, cremation began to increase in
popularity and the Dain and Cullinan Funeral Homes expanded their operations to
offer it.
The Spanish Influenza
After World War I ended, the funeral
business was still in for a fair share of surprises. In 1918, the Spanish Flu swept the
world, infecting 27 percent of the population and killing at least 3 percent. Oswego
in particular was hit hard by the flu pandemic, and funeral homes in Oswego were
overrun with more business than they
could handle.
“If you look back into the old books,
there are records of a very high number of
deaths in that period of time,” Dain said.
According to Dain oral history, the Dain
Funeral Home actually entered into a contract with Fort Ontario to handle the corpses from the fort.
Changing Communities
Although much of the ethnic divisions
in Oswego have dissolved in recent decades, for most of Oswego’s history it was
far from a united community. With each
new wave of immigrants, a new neighborhood in Oswego became home to the
incoming ethnic group. And since each
crowd tended to have their own religious
preferences, funeral homes would specialize to serve the communities they found
themselves in.
The Cullinan’s funeral home would
serve the Irish-Catholic population,
while the Dain’s served the German
population. As time wore on, though,
ethnic divisions lessened and many of
the smaller funeral homes in Oswego
that focused in only one community
went out of business.
“McDonald’s would’ve gone out of
business a long time ago if they were still
trying to sell just hamburgers and French
fries. Everything changes,” Cullinan said.
The Dains and Cullinans were able to
successfully change with the times though,
and their continued presence in the same
building (although renovated many times)
for over a century speaks for itself.
“Be prepared to work hard, to be involved with your community, to build
relationships, and do the best you can to
serve the families that call you. Whether
you’re a funeral home or a dry cleaner’s
or a bakery… the fundamentals haven’t
changed in the last 140-plus years,” Dain
said. But some things do change, he
pointed out, and if you don’t change with
them, you’ll soon be out of business.
“There are certain fundamental things
that don’t change. But any business needs
to adapt to changing customs, needs, and
desires of a community,” Dain said.
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SCOREBOARD
Men’s Basketball
Tuesday, Feb. 21
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CELEBRATING RACIAL
EQUALITY
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Men’s hockey ends regular
season with 2 shutouts
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SUNYAC semifinal
Men’s basketball finishes season 18-0 in SUNYAC
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Women’s Basketball
Tuesday, Feb 21
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Mike Reynolds
Staff Writer
sports@oswegonian.com
The Oswego State men’s basketball
team had a trifecta of big wins this weekend: a big comeback victory over Buffalo
State, 78-73, a dominating effort on Senior
Night against SUNY Fredonia, 75-44, and a
first-round playoff victory over SUNY New
Paltz, 73-62.
The first game of the weekend against
Buffalo State was a bit of a scare, and threatened the Lakers’ perfect conference record.
They were down 10 with less than seven minutes to go in the second half, and things were
looking pretty grim. During those last few
minutes The Lakers used superior rebounding and defense to climb back, and eventually
take the lead. The Lakers held Buffalo State
scoreless in those final 7 minutes while scoring 15 straight points to seal the deal.
“Our guys showed a lot of resolve, being
down 10 with four minutes to go, and being
able to come back and win this game,” coach
Jason Leone said. “It was indicative of our
team’s effort all year.”
See MEN’S BBALL, page B3
Men’s Ice Hockey
Saturday, Feb. 17
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0
Women’s Ice Hockey
Sunday, Feb. 18
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UPCOMING
MATCHES
* green indicates
home games
Men’s Basketball
Friday, Feb. 24
Billy Reese | The Oswegonian
Senior forward Chad Burridge reaches for the opening tip during the Lakers’ 75-44 win against Fredonia.
Jessica Bagdovitz | The Oswegonian
The Lakers celebrate a goal against Plattsburgh which they shutout, 3-0, on “White Out” weekend.
Mike Kraft
Managing Editor
mkraft@oswegonian.com
“White Out” weekend proved to be a
shut out weekend for the Oswego State
men’s ice hockey team, as the Lakers won
a pair of 3-0 games against SUNY Plattsburgh and SUNY Potsdam over the weekend at the Campus Center Ice Arena.
Junior goaltender Andrew Hare recorded his second and third shutouts this
season and the Lakers completed the regular season unbeaten in conference play
at 14-0-2. Oswego State clinched home
ice advantage throughout the SUNYAC
playoffs after Friday’s victory against the
Cardinals in front of a sold-out crowd
frantically waving white towels.
The Oswego State penalty kill unit
proved to be the unsung hero in Friday’s
win over archrival Plattsburgh, killing
off all seven power play opportunities
for the Cardinals. Leading 2-0 late in the
second period, the Lakers found themselves on the wrong side of a 5-on-3 after
junior forward Luke Moodie was called
for a double-minor penalty for roughing
and junior forward Paul Rodrigues was
called for hitting after the whistle.
“That could have been the turning
point of the game,” junior forward and
assistant captain Jon Whitelaw said.
“Once we killed it off they seemed deflated. Had they scored that would have
taken the wind out of our sails. Our penalty kill all night long was dynamite.”
Both penalties came at 19:18 of the
second period, giving the Cardinals a
5-on-3 power play for two minutes and
an additional 5-on-4 power play two
minutes later. The Cardinals recorded
four shots during the four-minute power
play, but couldn’t get the puck past Hare.
Plattsburgh recorded just three shots on
the goal the rest of the game.
“The turning point of the game was
the 5-on-3 at the end of the second period and the beginning of the third,”
head coach Ed Gosek said. “As we’ve
said many times, you gain momentum
from the power play and you can lose
momentum for the power play. I thought
we clearly as a team gained momentum
from the penalty kill.”
Junior defenseman Jesse McConney
got the Lakers on the board at 6:06 of the
first period with a slap shot off a faceoff in
the Lakers’ offensive zone, beating Plattsburgh goaltender Mathieu Cadieux. Just
three seconds after an interference penalty
by Plattsburgh’s Jake Mooney resulted in
4-on-4 hockey, junior forward Tyler Leimbrock cleanly won the ensuing faceoff and
passed to McConney at the point, who recorded his sixth goal of the season.
The Lakers increased their lead to
two before the end of the first period, as
Whitelaw continued his scoring streak
with his 16th goal of the season at 17:21
of the opening period. Whitelaw received
a pass from the slot by Moodie to the left
faceoff circle, where Whitelaw one-timed
a shot past a sprawling Cadieux for a 2-0
lead heading into the first period intermission. Rodrigues received the secondary assist on Whitelaw’s goal.
“There’s no better atmosphere to
score a goal,” Whitelaw said. “Regardless
of whether we’re playing Plattsburgh or
someone else, anytime you score at home
with the crowd and the students, there’s
no feeling like that.”
See HOCKEY, page B2
vs.
Location: Max Ziel Gymnasium
Time: 8:00 p.m.
Men’s Ice Hockey
Saturday, Feb. 25
vs.
Location: Campus Center Ice Arena
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Women’s Ice Hockey
Saturday, Feb. 25
vs.
Location: Campus Center Ice Arena
Time: 1:00 p.m.
Wrestling
Saturday, Feb. 25
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Location: Jim and John Vlogianitis Gym
Time: 11:00 a.m
Women’s basketball ends
season with playoff loss
Nick Wojton
Staff Writer
sports@oswegonian.com
The Oswego State women’s basketball
team’s season came to a close on Tuesday
after a 53-40 loss to SUNY Oneonta in the
SUNYAC quarterfinals.
Over the weekend the Lakers ended the
regular season with a 72-66 win over SUNY
Fredonia on Senior Day and a 71-61 loss to
Buffalo State.
Tuesday night the Lakers visited Oneonta
for the SUNYAC women’s quarterfinal tipoff.
The season series between Oswego and
Oneonta was split, with both teams winning at
home. The Lakers got off to a slow start which
they struggled to recover from.
“Oneonta came out with a big run and that’s
what really hurt us,” Ryan said. Oswego would
score only five of the game’s first 19 points.
“Tuesday was very disappointing,” Bruno
said. “[Oneonta] did a great job of changing
defenses and it really seemed to confuse us.”
Though her squad fell short, 53-40, Bruno
was proud her squad never quit playing.
“We were a couple of made shots or one
less turnover away from cutting the lead to
single digits,” Bruno said.
On Friday, February 17, the Buffalo State
Bengals came to Max Ziel Gymnasium for
a “Play 4Kay” event against the Lakers. The
event was put on by the Oswego State Athletics Department in conjunction with the national Kay Yow Cancer Fund.
The contest saw the Lakers get on the
board first with a 3-pointer from senior forward Kayla Ryan and the game continued
to be a back-and-forth game with the Lakers
keeping pace with the top seeded Bengals.
“I really thought we battled tough,” head
coach Tracy Bruno said.
The Lakers would struggle offensively toward the end of the half with the Bengals pulling ahead by 10 at the end of the first half.
“When you play the top team in the conference you really can’t afford to do that,” Bruno said.
The second half began with the Bengals,
going up by 17, resulting in a 46-29 score. After
a few adjustments, the Lakers slowly chipped
away at the lead, eventually trailing by only six
points. A 3-2 zone defensive switch and concentrating on shutting down the top shooters
of Buffalo State helped the Lakers come back.
“Our concern with going zone is rebounding, particularly against Buffalo State, who averages over 16 offensive rebounds game. We
did a great job of limiting them to one shot”
Bruno said.
See WOMEN’S BBALL, page B3
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Senior guard Kayla Ryan attempts to drive past an opponent during the Lakers’ 72-66 Senior Day win.
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Oswego State
ROAD RECAPS
Women’s Ice Hockey
Oswego State dropped a pair of
games on the road against No. 7 Elmira
this past weekend, losing each contest
by a score of 4-3. In game one on Saturday, the Lakers were able to take a 2-0
lead but the Soaring Eagles came back to
win the game. The following day’s game
was more back-and-forth, but Elmira
scored with one second remaining in the
second period to take the lead, and that
goal would eventually be the game-winner. Sophomore forward Carly Henderson led the Lakers with two goals over
the weekend, one in each game.
Quote of the Week
“
face Fredonia for
Michele earns Lakers
second consecutive year
top spot on team
There’s no better atmosphere to score a goal. Regardless of whether
we are playing Plattsburgh or someone else... there’s no feeling like that.”
-Junior forward Jon Whitelaw on playing in front of the home crowd
HOCKEY, From B1
Senior guard leads D-III in 3-point shooting
Women’s Basketball
Oswego State ended its season on
Tuesday with a 53-40 loss to SUNY
Oneonta in the SUNYAC quarterfinal
round. The Lakers were able to keep it
close in the first half, trailing by as little
as three at one point, but the team went
ice cold shooting and never trailed by
less than 11 in the second half. As a team,
Oswego State shot 21.6 percent from the
floor. Senior Kayla Ryan led Oswego
State with 10 points in what was the final
game of her Laker career.
Track and Field
Senior Dylan Hardwick finished
second for Oswego State in the mile
run with a time of 4:23.24 on Friday
at the RIT Invitational. Junior Ben
Sweet took seventh in the 800 meter
run and junior Thorin Kane finished
the 1000 meter in eighth. On Saturday
at the Deneault Invitational hosted
by Cornell University, Sweet, Kane,
Hardwick and freshman Nick Reinsdorf combined to finish second in
the 4x800 relay. Da’Quan Coleman
took seventh in the triple jump with a
score of 46 feet, 1 1/2 inches, which is
an ECAC-qualifying jump.
Athletes of the Week
LAUREN NUNZIATO
Women’s Basketball
Sophomore, West Sand Lake, N.Y.
Nunziato scored 17 points in
the Lakers’ regular season finale
win against Fredonia. Nunziato
finished the game shooting 5-for6 from the three-point range to
finish the week at 9-for-13 (69.2
percent) from downtown.
ANDREW HARE
Men’s Ice Hockey
Junior, Burlington, Ont.
Hare was perfect between the
pipes this weekend, as the goaltender posted a pair of shutouts to
help the nation’s top-ranked Lakers
clinch the No. 1-seed in the SUNYAC playoffs. Hare made 27 saves on
Friday night in a 3-0 win over fourthranked Plattsburgh and stopped 19
shots in a 3-0 win over Potsdam.
Jessica Bagdovitz | The Oswegonian
Senior guard Sean Michele leads all of Division III with a 52 percent 3-point shooting percentage.
Joe Manganiello
Staff Writer
sports@oswegonian.com
At a staggering rate of 52 percent, the NCAA
leader in three-point shooting at the Division III
level is making the majority of his attempts with
over 2.5 made 3-pointers per game.
For the probable (SUNYAC) First Team allconference selection, Oswego State senior point
guard Sean Michele has been a shooter as long
as he can remember.
“My dad has been the varsity basketball
coach at my high school for over 15 years, so I
grew up around those practices and that basketball atmosphere,” Michele said. “And I’ve
always been a shooter.”
For Michele, his shot has been a growing
part of him since he was a boy. He possesses
a special jump shot that earned him a spot on
his high school’s varsity team as a freshman; a
jump shot that led his high school varsity team
to the sectional final in his sophomore and junior year, and which won his team the sectional
final in his senior year.
And now Michele, a third-year player for
the nationally-ranked Oswego State men’s basketball team, has the best jump shot in the country, something that his head coach Jason Leone
says basketball coaches can’t teach.
“Sean’s three-point numbers are not a
product of something I did, but rather something he did,” Leone said. “Sean’s shooting
numbers are a product of his ability to read defenses, take high percentage shots and knowing when to shoot and when to pass. Sean deserves a lot of credit.”
Michele and the Lakers have been having a dream season, as Oswego State recently
completed a perfect 18-0 conference record. In
the SUNYAC quarterfinal on Tuesday, Oswego
State defeated SUNY New Paltz 73-62, led by
two 3-pointers and a game-high five assists
from Michele.
“Michele is having a tremendous senior
season and has come to be known as one of the
best shooters, not only in the conference, but in
the country,” New Paltz head coach Michael
Rejniak said. “He has provided Oswego State
with the outside threat that they needed to be
successful this entire season.”
“Michele does a fantastic job of running his
team and making team’s pay when they focus on other players like Burridge, Gilkes and
Ward,” Rejniak said.
Only two wins away from clinching the
program’s first SUNYAC championship, Michele has not forgotten that they have to play
the games before they can win the tournament.
“We had to deal with national pressure at the
end of last season, and losing to St. Lawrence in
the season opener this year helped us learn that
rankings are not wins and losses,” Michele said.
“You don’t win games in the rankings.”
“Michele’s best asset off the court is that he
is a relentless worker in everything he does and
comes from a great family,” Leone said. “His best
asset on the court is his basketball IQ; it is the best
I’ve seen in 13 years of coaching at his position.”
Over the last three years, Michele has led the
SUNYAC with 343 assists. Michele has never
finished outside the conference’s top two in assist/turnover ratio, proving how excellent his
discipline is with the basketball in his hands.
Michele has a 43 percent 3-point percentage
for his career, the second best percentage in the
SUNYAC conference over the past three seasons. With that said, the career numbers don’t
reflect how Michele’s non-traditional path to
Oswego State led to shooting struggles early in
his Laker tenure.
After graduating from East Rochester high
school, Michele enrolled at Arizona State University, where he was not an NCAA athlete. Although Michele enjoyed his 70 degree weather
during January and incredible campus life,
there was something irking him the whole year;
he missed basketball.
Michele decided to leave Arizona State and
play basketball again. He began the transfer
process, looking into schools he had been considering while at East Rochester high school,
and some he had not considered.
“I missed competing,” Michele said. “My
mom had actually talked with my high school
counselor about where I should look to transfer and she kept suggesting Oswego State.
[Oswego State] had my major and a competitive basketball program.”
Michele emailed Oswego State’s then head
coach, Adam Stockwell, and informed him of
his situation. Stockwell indicated to Michele he
would be welcome to try out for the team that
coming October. Michele was sold and enrolled
at Oswego State for the fall of 2009.
“Transferring is hard, but the guys on the
team were great,” Michele said. “I was excited
to be on a team again, so I didn’t care about
playing time. Stockwell and my teammates
made me feel right at home.”
After a year away from competitive basketball and adjusting to a new school, town and
team, Michele struggled with his jump shot.
While attempting a modest 40 3-pointers in his
first year, Michele shot only 25 percent from the
behind the arc, half of his average this season.
“A lot of shooting is just confidence,” Michele said. “Getting more shots helped me learn
to take better shots. During conference play my
second year was when I really felt like my shot
was back.”
Michele’s 3-point efficiency jumped up to 36
percent while starting every game for the Lakers in his second year. He has started 65 consecutive games dating back to 2010.
Heading into this weekend’s semifinal
matchup against The College at Brockport,
Michele is on pace to become the only Laker
player to finish in the top 10 in assists, steals
and 3-point percentage in program history.
For Michele, however, this season will mean
nothing if the Lakers don’t accomplish their
most important goal this weekend: win the
SUNYAC title.
“This year has been great, but all we have
done is give ourselves an opportunity to be
great in the postseason,” Michele said. “We really haven’t accomplished anything yet.”
After a scoreless second period, junior
forward Chris Ayotte gave the Lakers a
three-goal lead at 7:05 of the third period,
scoring the only power-play goal of the
game. At the tail-end of a tripping penalty to
Plattsburgh’s Alex Brenton, Ayotte collected
a loose puck after junior defenseman Zach
Josepher’s shot from the blue line deflected
off a Cardinal defender and blasted a shot
from just outside the right faceoff circle that
slipped just under the crossbar for the goal.
Whitelaw received the secondary assist on
the play.
The Cardinals were shut out for the third
time this season and first by a SUNYAC
team. It was the first time the Lakers had
shut out the Cardinals since Feb. 13, 1998.
The loss sealed the No. 2 seed in the conference playoffs.
Hare finished with 27 saves to earn his second shutout of the season. Cadieux finished
with 25 saves in a losing effort for the Cardinals.
“[Hare] tracked the puck very well,” Gosek said. “I thought they were a lot of shots
that went into his pads through screens and
he did a good job controlling rebounds.”
“Words can’t describe it,” Hare said.
“That was my first ‘White Out.’ We have a
lot of diehard fans out there and I really appreciate everything they did.”
The Lakers are unbeaten in seven straight
meetings with Plattsburgh, sporting a 6-0-1 record.
Following an emotional victory over
Plattsburgh, the Lakers followed up with
another 3-0 victory, this time over Potsdam
on Senior Day. Although the game served as
a celebration for the five seniors, it was the
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juniors who stole the show, scoring all three
goals. Hare posted his third shutout of the
season, stopping all 19 shots for his 18th
victory of the season.
After a scoreless first period, Oswego
State broke out with two goals in the second
period in a 4:20 span. Leimbrock scored the
game’s first goal on the power play at 9:03,
beating Potsdam goaltender Kevin McFarland on a rebound attempt. Following a holding penalty by Sy Nutkevitch, senior forward
and assistant captain Ian Boots had a shot
from right in front blocked aside by McFarland, but the rebound came right out to Leimbrock, whose slap shot ended up in the back
of the net. Junior forward Chris Muise earned
the secondary assist on the play.
Whitelaw extended his point streak to
11 games, scoring his team-leading 17th
goal of the season at 13:23 of the second
period to give the Lakers a two-goal lead
heading into the second period intermission. Whitelaw took possession of the
puck at the defensive blue line and skated
around a couple Potsdam defenders before
ripping a shot from the left faceoff circle
past McFarland.
Junior forward Matt Singleton added
a shorthanded empty-net goal with 22
seconds remaining to seal the victory for
the Lakers.
Following the game, the team’s five seniors: forwards Andrew Mather and Boots,
defensemen Hank van Boxmeer and Jared
Anderson and goaltender Paul Beckwith
were honored with a video tribute.
The Lakers will host a semifinal round
game on Saturday, Feb. 25, at 7 p.m. at the
Campus Center Ice Arena against Fredonia.
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Junior goaltender Andrew Hare makes a diving save during the Lakers’ 3-0 shutout against Plattsburgh.
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Brady Farkas
Contributing Writer
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BASKETBALL:
Blowouts highlighted week three of the basketball tournament as the top seeds were all in action. Beach Season routed SAE, 54-19, while Jahmeer Rohlin led the 518 Ballers to a 70-21 victory
over White Lightning.
Behind a balanced attack, the Supersonics
posted the week’s highest total as they dropped
the Geeb Team, 83-48. The tournament’s topseeded Lee Hall Legends survived a scare from
Ball So Hard University before coming out with
a 14-point win.
The week’s closest contest came down to the
end as A Amen defeated A Clute, 40-37.
BROOMBALL:
Mike Lillis had a hat trick for the Oswego Hurricanes as they hung on to defeat the Stallions, 3-2.
Dave Russell had the play of the night, scoring from 40 feet out as the Ninjas knocked off the
Maple Leaves, 3-2.
Bar South rolled to a 6-1 victory over the
Sharks while Back Dat Pass Up used plenty of offense to beat Quatro Loko, 8-2.
INDOOR SOCCER:
Tully’s Tenders rolled over Two Legit behind
three goals from Mactar Faye while Zeta Beta Tau
also got three goals from Kyle Starks as it defeated
Viking Quest, 8-1.
The offensive outbursts continued as Amanda Howe scored three times for Party in 208S in
an 8-0 win over Broneida.
The Cosby Kids defeated Team Team Ole!,
9-3, behind four goals from Kevin Tyler.
UPCOMING EVENTS:
Climbing 101: Learn the basics of bouldering
on an indoor rock climbing wall. Registration
deadline is Sunday. Register at Lee Hall. The trip
date is Saturday, March 3 from 3-5 p.m. The cost is
$15 and includes equipment rental, instructions
and a rest of the day pass. The trip will be held at
The Wall on 77 W. 1st St. in Oswego. Transportation will leave from Lee Hall, if needed.
Table Tennis Tournament: Registration deadline is Wednesday, Feb. 29 from 6-7 p.m. at Funnelle Hall. Play begins at 7 p.m. in the Funnelle
Hall Lounge.
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lar season, but coach Leone refused to allow
his team to underestimate the Hawks. “The
most important thing in post-season game[s]
is to respect and value the fact that the games
will be played at a higher level.” Leone said.
The Lakers started the game with a 15-4
run in which Ward scored nine points. New
Paltz constantly nipped at the Lakers heels, but
Oswego State was able to hold back the comeback attempts. The key to the Hawks’ comeback effort was some costly turnovers from
the Lakers, along with some poor free throw
shooting and shot selection. The Lakers led 29-14 with 11 left in the half,
but New Paltz went on a 12-4 run to trim the
lead to single digits. During the run, the Lakers
had some problems with turnovers and broke
down defensively. “I was upset with some of the contested perimeter jumpers our guys were taking,” Leone
said. “When we went back to going inside, the
game really swung back in our favor.” The Lakers answered with their own 13-2
run, spanning from the end of the first half
and going into the second half, to build their
lead back up to 46-28, but the Hawks refused
to give in. After the score hit 52-37, the Hawks
went on a 13-4 run to come within six, but
Ward, Burridge and Gilkes made one final
push to win the game.
Those three scored 28 of the Lakers’ last 31
points to seal the win, and made some huge
shots down the stretch to ice the game for a final score of 73-62. “It wasn’t our best game, but New Paltz
deserves a load of credit for keeping it so close
and really making us work,” Leone said.
“We played good as a team, but we had
some rough stretches,” Burridge said. “In the
end, we buckled down and played our brand
of basketball, and it ended up winning out.”
Most of Oswego State’s defensive woes occurred while Burridge was in foul trouble early
in the second half.
“Any time you lose a player like Chad for
an extended period, it can really hurt your
team,” Ward said. “He makes a huge difference on both ends of the floor, and really
makes everyone else on the team better.” Ward finished with a game-high 25 points
and 16 rebounds. Burridge added 15 points,
and Gilkes had 10 to round out Oswego State’s
balanced scoring effort. Junior forward Matt
Devine had 22 points and five rebounds for
the Hawks, but was boggled down by fouls
for most of the game. “Despite Devine’s high point total, Chad
did a really great job of keeping him in check
the whole game,” Ward said. “I played well
myself, and the whole team was looking to be
aggressive. We were all just ready to go and we
did what we had to do.”
The Lakers will be hosting fourth-seeded
The College at Brockport in the SUNYAC
semifinals on Friday at 8 p.m.
The Lakers scored nine of their 15 points
off offensive rebounds during the stretch,
which included a clutch 3-pointer by junior
forward Hayden Ward to tie the game and
four consecutive free throws to take the lead
and ice the victory. The Lakers went back and forth with
Buffalo State in the first half, and had a lot
of trouble containing junior forward Jake
Simmons, who had 22 points in the first half
and finished off the game with 30. Despite
their difficulties throughout the game, the
Lakers were able to clamp down and show
why they haven’t lost a game in conference
this year. Leone was particularly impressed with
the team’s ability to execute and play its
game despite being down by double digits.
“I was very impressed with our guys resolve and determination,” he said. “We got
stops when we needed to and executed our
offense. It was a great win. The biggest reason why we won is because we played the
full 40 minutes.”
The next day, the seniors took the
court prior to the game to be honored and
celebrated for their accomplishments on
Senior Day.
“The best way to describe the seniors,
in winning 32 straight games in conference, is how great their intangibles are.
You can’t put into value how good of people, students and leaders they are.” Leone said. “It will be impossible to replace
those kinds of players.” Following a short ceremony in their honor,
they treated the game against Fredonia as a
victory lap. The Lakers led from start to finish
in the one-sided 75-44 victory. At one point in
the second half, the Lakers led by as many as
36 points. The seniors were pulled with 6 minutes to go in the game, and were able to walk
off to a standing ovation.
The win meant that the Lakers finished
with a perfect 18-0 record in conference. Ward
and Gilkes each scored a game-high 14 points.
Senior forward Chad Burridge scored seven
points in his brief 19 minutes on the court. Senior forward Damien Goodwin chipped in 10
points for the Blue Devils in the losing effort.
The Lakers as a whole shot a dazzling 50.9
percent from the field and forced the Blue
Devils into 10 turnovers. “We are really playing our best basketball
at the end of the year, and we got a lot better from a month from now,” Leone said. “It
makes me really proud as a coach to see this
kind of improvement.” On Tuesday night, the Lakers took the
court for the most important game of the season, their first round SUNYAC playoff game
against New Paltz. The Lakers defeated New
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Surf’s up on Lake Ontario
Wave riders embrace Oswego’s cold air, water to partake in winter sport
Photo by Mark Deffenbaugh
Winter lake surfer, Darrell Liacata, rides a wave on Lake Ontario. Many winter lake surfers catch waves on the water near Bevs on County Route 89.
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With heavy snow blustering in through
a harsh 30-degree wind, an Oswego winter
storm has turned Oswego State into a ghost
town. However, a walk down Route 89 just off
campus will reveal a group of surfers oblivious
to the conditions, braving the 50-degree waters
of Lake Ontario.
The surfers are taking advantage of the
storm, traveling down the Oswego coastline
to surf different spots. As far as they are concerned, the only condition that matters is that
the wind is blowing strong out of the west, creating large enough waves to surf.
An area where surfers say the sport is gaining interest, the Great Lakes provide a different set of challenges from ocean surfing, such
as cold water, strong tides and often times extreme weather conditions.
“Lake surfing is a challenge and the waves
are not as good, but we surf because we love to
surf,” surfer Scott Johns said.
Johns, a 36-year-old from Rochester, N.Y.,
surfed the ocean when he was younger and
started again recently when a friend introduced him to lake surfing.
“These are the conditions we are given, so
we make the best of it,” Johns said.
Using cold-weather wetsuits, the Great
Lakes can be surfed during even the coldest
months. The strong winds of the fall, winter
and early spring usually provide the best surfing conditions, so a good wetsuit is a necessity.
The wetsuits are up to six millimeters thick
and made from neoprene designed to trap water within the suit to be heated naturally by the
body. Once the initial water is in, the suit seals
and traps the now warm water without letting
any more cold water in. By trapping body heat,
the suit allows for surfers to stay in water as
cold as 40 degrees.
The Lake Ontario surfers are organized
through a Facebook page. On the page they
post pictures, discuss conditions and plan
meet-ups and trips. Surfing tournaments are
held throughout the fall and winter season,
usually planned very tentatively due to the
unpredictability of surfing conditions.
The group of surfers in the area all vary in
background and age, each driven to the lake
for different reasons.
“I got into surfing on a trip to New Zealand,
ever since then I was hooked,” Tony Schepis
said. “I went to a surf shop in the Outer Banks
where I discovered people surf the lakes.”
Schepis, a 27-year-old from Rochester, N.Y.,
attended Oswego State for four years, but said
that even though he noticed the wave size, he
had never thought to actually surf during his
time on campus.
“Surprisingly enough the girl I was visiting
in New Zealand eventually came to Oswego
as a foreign exchange student thinking Lake
Ontario was the ocean and could be surfed
on,” Schepis said.
The Great Lakes can often feature waves
big enough to seem like an ocean, but the
waves are produced in different manners.
Lake waves are less powerful, come in shorter
intervals and are far less consistent than ocean
waves. Ocean waves are primarily created by
offshore storms far from the beach. Lake waves
are created by local winds. This distinction
usually leaves Great Lakes surfers to surf in
the middle of storms to catch the best possible
waves, where ocean surfers often surf on the
fringe of larger storms.
“Most enjoyable is knowing that we are
part of a few that brave the cold to surf the
lakes,” Aurelien Bouche-Pillon said.
Bouche-Pillon, 30, of Rochester, was born
in France and said he was drawn to surfing by
the lake itself.
“It’s a unique experience, surfing 100 miles
from the ocean,” he said.
When asked about the best spots along Lake
Ontario, most surfers are guarded in a manner
similar to fishermen and their favorite spots.
Each surfer admits to having his or her own preference, but is hesitant to give the location away,
usually instead insisting the best spot is better
left for a surfer to discover on his or her own.
“The best spots are still undiscovered consider-
ing lake surfing isn’t all that popular and there
is more coastline on the Great Lakes than the
East and West Coasts,” Johns said. “So lets just
say, the quest begins.”
“Finding a spot needs patience and intuition and imagination,” Bouche-Pillon said.
Kody Kasper, a Niagara University student from California, insists the best surfing
can be found along the north shore of Lake
Erie. Kasper surfed in California before coming to the Great Lakes region for school. He
said the waves have less push, but at their best
are comparable to those of the ocean.
Third Coast Surf Shop, a Michigan based
company specializing in the sale Great Lakes
surfing merchandise, said on their website
that the best spots can be found around manmade jetties, piers and break walls. Also natural features, such as coves and bays can produce solid waves.
Kasper said that if one wants to get into lake
surfing, a person should have a strong will and
want to surf before buying the equipment.
“You will lose some money, if you’re worried about money,” Kasper said.
A wetsuit capable of withstanding the
low water temperature costs between $300
and $400, while a long board, recommended
by Third Coast Surf Shop for beginners, can
range between $600 and $1000.
As far as risks, lake surfers are free from
having to be concerned with sharks and jellyfish, but still have several things to look out for
while catching waves, including heavy currents and hard ice blocks near shore.
“The risks are like everything in life, do it
or don’t do it,” Bouche-Pillon said. “It’s not for
the average people on some days.”
As the sport continues to grow in the area,
Lake Ontario surfers are encouraging to any
who want to try it.
“Do it up, get bitten by the surf bug, and join
the family of freshwater surfers,” Kasper said.
Johns advises that each surfer have
strong swimming abilities before entering the water, and adds, “don’t drop in
on me, and the first round of beers is on
you, Aloha!”
Senior Day win last highlight for Lakers
WOMEN’S BBALL, From B1
In the offensive end the Lakers became
much more aggressive, forcing 12 Bengal fouls,
and getting to the free throw line. The Lakers
hit 12 field goals in the second half, improving
from seven in the first and added another three
3-pointers to their total in the second half. The
top-seeded Bengals, proved to be too much for
the Lakers. Buffalo State would hang on to its
lead and defeated the Lakers, 71-61.
The following night the Lakers would be
in action again against Fredonia, in a Senior
Night contest.
“It was a very emotional start,” Ryan said.
“They went over the top.”
Fellow senior Jenna Rossi agreed.
“The team did a lot for Kayla and I. they
made life-size posters of us in action and hung
them up for everyone to see,” Rossi said. “It
was a touching surprise.”
The team also made commemorative Tshirts for the seniors along with the coaches’
gift of a framed home jersey for each of the seniors, which they both acknowledged as something special they can share with their families.
“It’s wild to think four years have already
passed,” Rossi said.
These emotions carried the Lakers to an
impressive start, storming out of the gate and
not looking back. After a Megan Stover layup
late in the first half, the Lakers were up by as
much as 17, finishing the half up by 11.
“A lot of the players wanted to play for the
seniors,” Ryan said.
The second half would not come without
any pushback from Fredonia. Twice the Blue
Devils came within six points of Oswego State,
but the Lakers held on for a 72-66 win. The win
clinched the sixth playoff seed and a matchup
with Oneonta in the playoffs. Bruno acknowledged her seniors will be missed.
“Kayla has been a fixture in our line-up for
all four years of her career,” Bruno said. “She
leaves our team with career numbers in scoring, steals and rebounds.”
Rossi also played her last game in a
Laker uniform.
“Jenna’s fierce, competitive spirit will be
greatly missed. She hates to lose and brought
that attitude to every practice and game,” Bruno said.
Though a disappointing ending to the season, another one on the horizon shows much
promise, according to Bruno.
“We return a strong nucleus of players led
by Meagan Stover and Lauren Nunziato,”
Bruno said.
Nunziato was named Athlete of the Week
for her 17-point performance against Fredonia,
including going 5-for-6 from 3-point range.
Along with Stover and Nunziato, several
key players down the stretch such as Kassie
Kleine, Kari Kipper, and Paula Egelston will
return. Oswego State also will be looking to
four freshmen from this season to step up and
fill big shoes left by the seniors leaving.
“We’re going to be a good team next year,
we have guards that can shoot and drive and
post players that can shoot too,” freshman
guard Emily Birchall said. “We’re already excited for next season.”
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Junior forward/guard Meagan Stover attempts a
shot during the Lakers’ 72-66 win over Fredonia.
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“The Voice of the People”
What’s your take on Chris Brown
and Rihanna’s drama?
As we move into the latter half of Black
History Month, there have been some great
events to celebrate the history and current existence of a proud people. President
Obama was part of the breaking ground
ceremony for the future National Black
History Museum, which will bring AfricanAmerican culture and history into the forefront of a Smithsonian institution. Our own
Black Student Union has organized many
successful events across campus in a show
of solidarity. In this time when we celebrate
the steps we have made toward a racially
unified nation, it is even more incredibly
saddening to see the recent incidences of
teenage girls videotaping their own racially
biased and derogatory speeches and posting them on the Internet.
Two teenage girls from Gainesville,
Fla. posted a video of themselves responding to a post one of the girls made about
food stamps, reading the comments others
made on the video aloud and responding to
them. When they were called ignorant and
racist, they only laughed and responded
with even more ignorance and racism. One
of the girls argued that African-American
vernacular English speakers were unintelligible, while unable to use the right words
herself. (Legible instead of understandable?) They even tried to tell the commenters they were the wrong ones. After
their video circulated the Internet, they
were kicked out of school and issued death
threats, causing one girl to give an apology
and the other girl’s mother to issue a public
statement asking for forgiveness.
Two other girls attending another
Florida high school claimed that once
you stepped into their school you started
turning black yourself, and black people
only wash their hair every three months.
One girl in the second pair ‘flaunted’ her
long hair, falsely lamenting how black
people can’t do the same – like they don’t
have hair that is enviable? She laughed at
the idea of large behinds and thrust forward her own breasts toward the camera,
saying white people have the good ones.
Only white people are sexy, then? Only
white people are human? They even ended their rant with, “Peace and love!”
Oh no, it’s not as if anyone is actually
going to see this video, which was posted
on a public site.
In a day where kids are saying anything and everything they want on the Internet, you would think these were some
anonymous blog posts or forum comments,
but they aren’t. These are girls who think
it’s okay to broadcast to the world their
thoughts on race and their ignorant ideas
about people. These girls pull their black
peers down to the stomping ground, trampling the pride and self-value their own
families and communities try so hard to
build up. The second set of girls even had
the audacity to say, “Don’t post this on Facebook, all our friends are black.” If all of your
friends are black, young white girl, then
why are you criticizing them so rudely?
This sort of thing is one of many ugly remnants of Jim Crow thinking. I speak how people
are supposed to speak; your speech is different,
therefore you don’t speak like a person. I have
the best hair, the best mannerisms, the best
everything: You don’t. You’re inferior. As a defense, the first two girls insisted that when they
talked about black people, they weren’t talking
about all black people. It was just a generalization, they meant nothing personal, but even this
lame excuse doesn’t contradict what they were
saying. In their apology they’re just restating
what they were saying to begin with.
Many stereotypes are being perpetuated here, from what the girls say about
black people and how they themselves act
like the entitled white elite who are the opposition to African-American equality. This
sort of behavior is all that equality is struggling against, but every day we seem to still
make a little headway. In her apology, one
of the girls choked out multiple sobs as she
explained that she isn’t racist and she was
never brought up to judge based on skin
color, and cries that nobody will ever believe her now. We can only hope that there
is still a chance of redemption for her as she
grows, and for us as a society as well.
IN THE OFFICE
Don’t be left behind by new technology
“I plead the fifth.”
-Alex Resila
senior, broadcasting
Chris Ellison
Web Director
cellison@oswegonian.com
“They were a match made in
heaven. I’m glad they’re back
together.”
-Barry Wygel
senior, journalism
“Kick his ass to the curb.
There are bigger problems in
the world.”
-Jordan Harmon
sophomore, broadcasting
“I can’t believe we’re still talking about this.”
-Carolyn Joy
graduate, literacy education
“I think it’s deplorable. I don’t
think Chris Brown should
have a career anymore.”
-Brett Ferrante
junior, cinema and screen studies
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The advancement of technology is
incredibly fast. It sometimes bewilders
me. Once you buy an electronic item and
walk out of the store, the electronic is already obsolete. Keeping up with the latest
trends and fashions is impossible. There
are no indications of this pattern slowing down in the near future, so you either
have to board the bandwagon or be left in
the technological dust.
I recently bought a new computer
just last Thanksgiving. It had many great
features, and was at a great price. My old
computer was starting to die, so I bought
this new computer.
A few days after I bought my computer, I saw a commercial on television about
a new computer, with even better specifications than the one I had just purchased.
Of course, I had felt that I might have
wasted my money by not waiting for the better model that will come out in a few weeks.
If I had decided to wait to buy a new computer until the better model had come out,
I would have kept waiting and would have
never purchased a new computer.
One example of this is the reason
that I still have not purchased a tablet
computer. I am a man that likes to try out
new technology, but I still do not have
any form of a tablet computer. The reason
for this situation is that I keep seeing advertisements for newer, bigger and better
tablets. So, I waited and waited before deciding what kind of tablet that I wanted
to purchase. There are always so many
choices, and I can never make up my
mind before the new models come out.
So, I have never bought a tablet.
After reading my story, you may
know some device that you want to buy,
but are waiting for a better device at a lower price before committing to a purchase.
Just to keep you in the loop, as I have said
before, you will be disappointed. If you
do not jump on some bandwagon at some
point, you will never make it to the trail.
If you do jump on a bandwagon, just
make sure that you are ready to stick
with your choice. You will experience regret from making your purchase as soon
as you see the newer model. But do not
follow the fan-boy mentality – wait until
you need something new before buying
it. Do not buy something just because it
is new.
Either way, you must be prepared
for the rush of new technologies that are
constantly coming from device manufacturers. Day after day, the reports of new
technologies will come out, and some
company’s marketing team will try to sell
you its new device, even when you just
bought its last model.
My experience may be typical, but
your results may vary. I jumped to replace
an old device that I needed to replace.
However, I am stalling to purchase something that I would really like to have. You
might be in the same situation, but be
aware that some bandwagons are easier
to get on, and others move fairly quickly.
I will not tell you what to buy, but I am
letting you know that you need to make a
choice: buy now, or be left behind.
Santorum plans on supporting Christians, not Americans
Aaron Hammond
Chief Copy Editor
ahammond@oswegonian.com
Religion is always a touchy subject,
especially within the realm of politics.
The religious and/or spiritual beliefs of
candidates are always under constant
scrutiny. One example of religious focus is Mitt Romney’s Mormonism or the
mind-numbing controversy over Obama’s
religion of choice.
Personally, the religious beliefs of a
candidate do not mean very much to me.
I am not a religious person, and I would
never not vote for a candidate because
they were Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Pastafarian, etc. What matters to me are their
policies and leadership abilities. The only
time religion becomes a problem is when
candidates make their religious beliefs
the primary focus of their campaign, and
they get so far into their beliefs that they
lose touch with how the political landscape around them actually operates.
The biggest offender in this year ’s
election is Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania. I’ve been fascinated by Santorum for
years. I first learned about him on “The
Daily Show” in 2005 when they attacked
him for his comments in which he equated
homosexuality to bestiality. He fell off of
the political radar after he lost his Senate
seat in 2006, but came back strong with
this year ’s presidential race, with a series
of increasingly stupid comments.
The problem with Santorum isn’t that
he has strong Catholic beliefs. The issue is
that Santorum is a fanatic who can’t separate his moral beliefs from what would
actually be feasible policies in 2012 America. Santorum’s idea of America is shockingly outdated and hysterical. As president, he wants to give states the right to
outlaw condoms if they wish. He thinks
America’s biggest enemy isn’t a weak job
market or terrorists, but Satan himself.
Santorum said in 2008 that Satan is eating
away at American’s principles. He has a
habit of making things that haven’t been
an issue for 50 or 60 years into serious
problems that he feels must be discussed.
Santorum believes that contraception is
evil and that it is pulling America into a
vortex of promiscuousness, rock ‘n’ roll
and staying out past 9 p.m. It’s kind of
strange that someone who has five kids is
so terrified of sex.
But perhaps the most infuriating comments came last week, when he accused
Obama of “enforcing a false theology,”
and calling him a major threat to religious
liberty when a mandate was passed forcing Catholic organizations to offer free
birth control to female employees.
Santorum strikes me as one of those
people who saw “Reefer Madness” as a
kid and believed every word of it. Some
critics have called his hysteria a front,
that he is just pandering to the evangelical crowd to secure more votes. I disagree, his mind really is trapped in 1952
and he believes every word he says. At
least he hasn’t pulled a Gingrich and
started to assemble a “faith team” to combat the secularism infecting the United
States. Because we all know the Founding Fathers wanted freedom of religion so
politicians could persecute all of the ones
they disagree with.
Santorum and politicians of his ilk
are a problem because they operate under
this delusion that one specific religious
doctrine needs to be enforced through
our legislature. It’s great that Santorum
has such pronounced Catholic beliefs,
but you cannot run a country that consists of so many different belief systems
by enforcing your own warped, outdated
sensibilities. I hate to keep beating a dead
horse, but the birth control controversy is
just laughable. The majority of America
decided decades ago that contraceptives
were acceptable, so it is really sad that
Santorum lives in this fantasyland where
he must keep America’s youth from the
evils of fornicating.
But the comments he made about
Obama were even worse. It is pretty
low to question the president’s faith in
public; and the notion that Obama is
restricting religious liberty is hypocritical nonsense. It is okay to discriminate
against gays and women in the military,
but it is wrong to tell Catholic organizations to provide basic needs to their employees? One cannot control how other
people live their lives and then complain
when someone tries to control them. If
Santorum and other Republicans want
the government out of their lives, then
don’t waste tax payer money on hearings
discussing birth control.
Santorum needs to realize that he
is running on the idea of creating a theocracy, the one thing America’s system
of government was designed not to become. America is not a “Christian nation.” It is a nation for everyone no matter what their beliefs are. The lunacy of
Santorum does not represent where our
country needs to be, it’s where our country used to be, and has correctly evolved
from. Santorum is entitled to believe
what he wants, but he has to understand
that America is in the 21st century, so his
policies have to be as well.
OPINION
Iran heads closer to war, terror
Lori Moreth
Staff Writer
opinion@oswegonian.com
As we bicker over domestic issues like
contraceptives, marriage equality and taxing
the wealthy, America faces a real foreign threat.
Furthermore, it is being ignored by the Obama
regime and the mainstream media.
Iran is on the verge of obtaining nuclear
weapons. What this means is that we could
be heading for another world war on a scale
never before seen. We have heard over and
over again from radical Islamic extremists
who control Iran and their followers, that the
West and Israel must be destroyed.
As recently as Jan. 13, an Associated
Press article reported that Iranians were
demonstrating in the streets over the assassination of Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan.
During his funeral, Iranians chanted
“Death to Israel” and “Death to America.” So is it any wonder that nuclear
weapons in the hands of Iran could possibly hold a threat to Israel or the US?
Iran loaded its first domestically-made
fuel rod into a nuclear reactor. This was accomplished despite the sanctions placed
on them by the West designed to prevent
nuclear proliferation. Ahmadinejad in a live
television broadcast announced, “The era of
bullying nations has passed. The arrogant
powers cannot monopolize nuclear technology. They tried to prevent us by issuing
sanctions and resolutions, but failed. Our
nuclear path will continue.”
Despite the intelligence reports, the
Obama administration is downplaying
the threat from Iran. A State Department
spokeswoman stated, “We frankly don’t
see a lot new here. This is not big news. In
fact it seems to have been hyped.”
Israel doesn’t view the situation quite
as the Obama regime. “We’re at the very last
moment. This is going to be the first time in
history that a maniacal, radical Islamic regime will acquire a nuclear weapon,” said
Naftali Bennett, a former chief of staff to
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “The
day after they have a bomb will be a different day for the entire world,” he added.
“Iran does have missiles capable of hitting U.S. facilities in the Persian Gulf, and
notably, in Afghanistan, and it is known to be
in development of long-range missiles that
could reach Eastern Europe. It has a pretty
robust missile program,” Alireza Nader, an
analyst at the RAND Corporation said.
Israel warned that an Israeli strike on
Iran is imminent. The White House, however,
is putting pressure on Netanyahu to quiet his
cabinet about a possible attack on Iran. General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, was sent to Israel to solidify
the effects of sanctions and to obtain a commitment that Israel would not launch a unilateral attack against Iran. It didn’t happen.
This administration, including Secretary of
Defense Leon Panetta and Security of State Hillary Clinton, has publicly condemned Israel for
wanting to defend itself. This sends the message
that Israel can no longer depend on America to
support them in their right to survival.
Sanctions will not work against the
radical Islamic extremists such as Iran,
who have been calling for the annihilation
of Israel, the US and the Western way of
life. Iran has deployed warships in the
Mediterranean to show its strength. It has
also been engaging in “war gaming” maneuvers. Reuters recently reported that
Iran has stopped selling crude oil to Brit-
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ish and French companies in retaliation
for the sanctions placed on them by the
European Union. Is it any wonder that gas
is at its all time high for this time of year,
not to mention that it is estimated to rise?
The Obama administration is now in
the process of reducing our nuclear arsenal by 80 percent. That would deplete our
nuclear weapons to less than held by China. The left is trying to convince us that it
would show the world that we are willing
to be a peaceful force, that if we put down
our weapons they will put down theirs.
They couldn’t be more wrong.
Those of you who were propagandized
into believing you can fight the enemy with
diplomacy are sadly mistaken. History tells
us differently. When the fascist nation of
Cuba in 1964 demanded that nuclear missiles be placed in Cuba (just a hundred miles
from Florida) President Kennedy ordered a
buildup of our military as well as our weapons arsenal. During the 1980s it was President Reagan who brought down the Berlin
Wall and ended the Cold War by building
up our nuclear weapon arsenal, making the
U.S. the strongest military as well as making
America the only “superpower.”
Perhaps you don’t realize that all
it would take is one nuclear weapon to
detonate close enough to emit the electromagnetic pulse (EMP) which would literally send our nation back to the dark ages.
Iran has the capacity for such an attack
not to mention their allies such as China
and Russia. The danger is real and we can
no longer ignore the threats and allow this
government to continue to put our nation
and our people in harm’s way.
Lin hype well deserved as player continues to shine
Ben Schleider
Contributing Writer
opinion@oswegonian.com
What makes the story of the 23-yearold New York Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin a special one? More importantly,
why should we care about him more
than the recent trend of hysteria surrounding Tim Tebow? Both have a great
deal of similarities. Both had doubters,
took their respective sports by storm,
both single-handedly blew up social
networking sites and turned mediocre
teams into championship contenders.
In many ways, however, Lin is so much
more than Tebow.
Tebow was a highly-touted football
player coming out of high school, albeit
not at the quarterback position. He received a Division I scholarship to play
for the University of Florida, a perennial
football powerhouse. He won a national
championship in 2006 as a backup, then
again in 2008 as the starting quarterback.
Tebow won the prestigious Heisman
Trophy in 2007, the first sophomore to
receive the award. Tebow would eventually be drafted by the Denver Broncos in
the first round with the 25th overall pick
in the 2010 NFL Draft. After a shaky first
season, Tebow was named the starting
quarterback early into his second season
and led the Broncos to a playoff berth
and a win over the Pittsburgh Steelers in
the Wild Card round of the playoffs.
Jeremy Lin was an outstanding high
school basketball player in northern California, however, his dream schools, Stanford and UCLA, wanted him to walkon instead of giving him an academic
scholarship. Walking-on means that if
he wanted to play at these schools he
would not have been guaranteed a spot
on their roster; he would have had to
prove himself without a scholarship. Lin
ultimately decided to play for Harvard,
a university known more for producing
presidents and computer geniuses than
professional athletes. Ivy League schools
do not offer athletic scholarships, but Lin
was guaranteed a spot on their roster.
Lin graduated from Harvard in 2010
and entered the NBA Draft…but no one
took him. He was eventually signed by
the Golden State Warriors and was subsequently waived the next year to free
up salary space. He was then claimed
off waivers by the Houston Rockets and
then waived again 12 days later. Three
days later, Lin was claimed by the New
York Knicks to be their third-string point
guard after a slew of injuries.
Lin played sparingly throughout
the season, not scoring more than nine
points in a game. But after an injury to
the Knicks’ star forward Carmelo Anthony on Feb. 4, it was Lin’s time to shine
and he didn’t disappoint the Madison
Square Garden crowd. Lin brought the
Knicks back to take down the New Jersey Nets that night with 25 points and
seven assists, and he has started every
game since. Since then Lin has owners
and general managers around the league
scratching their heads, wondering how
they all missed this guy. He averaged
24.6 points per game and 9.2 assists per
game in the 10 games since he has been
given significant playing time.
More impressively, the Knicks are
8-2 in those 10 games, and even more
impressively this has all been done without Anthony who has been out with a
groin strain and power forward Amar ’e
Stoudemire who has only played in the
last five of Lin’s game due to a death in
his family (numbers are due to change).
Lin has revitalized basketball in New
York; he has saved Knicks coach Mike
D’Antoni’s job and has the Knicks on the
cusp of a playoff berth.
Tebow was supposed to succeed.
He has had his doubters, but he also
had supporters. A quarterback drafted
in the first round is supposed to lead
their team to playoff victories, especially a team with an above average
defense and good players surrounding
him. Sure, not many people thought
that a Tebow-led Bronco’s team would
win their division and a playoff game.
I’m sure head coach John Fox was confident as well as his teammates. No
one had any confidence in Jeremy Lin.
He wasn’t supposed to even be playing professional basketball. The last
Harvard alum to play in the NBA was
in 1954. The odds weren’t against this
guy, no one even thought to place a bet.
Not to mention that Lin is performing
well in one of the most demanding cities in sports, as opposed to Denver in
Tebow’s case.
Injuries landed him in a game that
didn’t matter, the Knicks were dead
anyway, who cares? Jeremy Lin cared.
You can’t help but want to use phrases
like “silence the critics,” but you can’t
because no one was talking in the first
place. He enamored the critics, gave
them something to talk about and put
New York basketball on the map for the
first time since Patrick Ewing. Jeremy
Lin is bigger than Tim Tebow, he’s bigger
than LeBron James right now. He even
has fans begging for a Carmelo Anthony
trade. Regardless of what you call him,
Linsanity, Super Lintendo, Lincredible,
Linsane in the Membrane or even #Linning, Jeremy Lin is the greatest story that
sports has seen in a very long time.
THE OSWEGONIAN
FRIDAY, February 24, 2012
B5
Hydrofracking should
not be dismissed
Tim James
Staff Writer
opinion@oswegonian.com
Personally, I thought the debate had
ended sometime last year when the news
stopped talking about it. But somehow, on
MSNBC.com, a little story on hydrofracking found its way through. A University of
Texas study found that when hydraulic fracturing is done correctly, there is no groundwater contamination.
Of course, I saw the video where the guy
set his water on fire, and that’s pretty strong
evidence that something is in the tap water. I
was just as enraged as anyone else last year that
energy companies were contaminating our tap
water in their ruthless search for more fossil fuels. This new study found that the contamination was probably occurring before hydraulic
fracturing occurred. It concluded that at every
drill site where procedures were followed correctly, none of these incidents were reported.
So I questioned the source. The Energy
Institute of the University of Texas at Austin
describes its major research initiative as facing the challenges and constraints brought
about by “The advent of global warming and
the need to produce energy from environmentally benign sources.” It hardly sounds
like a front for the energy lobby.
Why did we give up so easily on fracking?
No industry is perfect and mistakes happen, but
we have little evidence to show that fracking is
any more damaging to the environment than the
average industry. With the evidence that groundwater contamination is more of a myth than fact,
what criticisms are left? Some environmentalists
claimed that fracking was causing earthquakes,
but somehow that seems a bit farfetched.
But what are the benefits? About 18,000
New York State jobs, $2.5 billion of yearly income, and an extra $125 million in tax revenue
for the state government, for starters. But with
this new activity comes a multiplier effect, because most of the $2.5 billion that is earned will
be spent elsewhere in New York, leading to even
further increases in income and tax revenue.
Sometime in the coming months, the state
government of New York will decide to what extent hydrofracking will be allowed in New York
State. In all likelihood, some kind of compromise
will be struck where cities or counties will decide
whether hydrofracking will be allowed in their
turf. But it may already be too late, as many energy companies have moved past New York to explore cheaper sources of natural gas in other states.
Yes, more studies are probably needed to
come to a clearer conclusion. But there is strong
evidence that New York is missing out on one
of the biggest economic booms in its history. At
what point does environmentalism go too far?
When it comes to preventing damage to the
environment, should we hold hydrofracking to
the same standard as any other industry activity or continue to demonize this potential economic lifeboat? You may say that we can’t take
any chances when it comes to the environment. But in the unsure economic times we
live in, consider what we can afford when
such a powerful technology could provide
the jobs that New York desperately needs.
Postal Service plans to create own inefficiency Celebrities should fear fickle media
Gwen Girsdansky
News Editor
ggirsdansky@oswegonian.com
If local mail in Cobleskill, NY takes a
straight route to Albany, NY for processing, it is an 90.8 mile round trip. It’s an
utterly unnecessary trip for the United
States Postal Service.
According to the postal service this
sorting of local mail at massive city locations is supposedly making the postal
service more efficient than ever. But that
is the kind of inefficiency built in to new
postal service policy. No wonder they’re
hemorrhaging money. I don’t know how
driving at least an extra 90 miles is more
efficient, especially when it’s returning to
the same place from where it started.
It’s a pity it’s illegal to just put it in
the box yourself.
I think it used to be efficient. But
that was in the days before consolidation,
back when postal employees would go
outside, get the local mail out of the box,
bring it in for sorting, and place it immediately into the mailboxes. That was less
than a tenth of a mile.
Instead, the mail is picked up and
sent out of the county for processing to
reduce the need for employees. In Schoharie County, where Cobleskill is located,
unemployment is already soaring near 10
percent; we really don’t need to be cutting
jobs at the expense of the environment.
USPS released its “Plan to Profitability” on Feb. 16. This plan includes making some local mail travel even further.
From Richfield Springs, NY to Utica, NY, local mail travels almost 50 extra miles. But the talk now, is taking the
Richfield Springs mail and bypassing it
past Utica to Syracuse.
This would be almost 160 miles, if it
were a straight shot.
I know that these gas-guzzling vehicles are already going to these locations.
But they are also making stops at many
other rural post offices. The extra weight
of the local mail probably isn’t helping
the gas mileage in any way. How much
money is being spent on gas? That’s probably a cause of the increase in postage.
But remarkably that’s still not the majority of the costs. According to the plan, 80
percent of the money goes toward employee
costs. To save on personnel costs, there has
also been talk of closing some of the rural post offices. Coming from a small
town that is built around Route 20 and
contains one, fairly unnecessary blinking yellow light, a post office is necessary. It provides jobs to our little development of Carlisle, NY and reduces our
need to go into “the big town,” still 15
minutes away.
Why not close some of the more urban post offices, where there are more
employment opportunities if people are
willing to take them? Forcing people to
drive to a different location in the city
would still equal less additional mileage
than if a rural office was shut.
The “Plan to Profitability” states that
half of the career employees that work for
USPS are eligible for retirement, with the average age of them being 59. The plan wants
to offer them the opportunity to retire.
I know this is going to save the post office money. I know that. Promise. But, it
doesn’t mean I have to agree with cutting
jobs, or in this case not renewing jobs. I understand business models focus solely on
profit, but I really wish it focused on people
and preserving community values.
From Oswego to Syracuse and back
again it’s almost 70, completely unnecessary, miles.
Tyler Blance
Staff Writer
opinion@oswegonian.com
Have you ever noticed how after a notorious celebrity dies, the media instantly drops
their criticisms and forgets all of the flaws they
mercilessly and consistently pointed out? Do
you ever feel like a recently deceased celebrity
is being mega-praised? The point I’m trying to
convey is completely aside from the respect aspect of a celebrity death. In terms of media ethics, one could argue that sudden deaths of celebrities cause a drastic change of press coverage
from negative to positive. There are countless
examples that demonstrate this phenomenon.
First, I would like to say that this topic
relates directly to the unexpected death of
Whitney Houston this past week. Houston
was a celebrity who experienced a great deal
of media criticism during her fame. She was
a talented singer and actor, and had many
good qualities to her (may she rest in peace),
but aside from her sudden passing, let us take
a look at media coverage of Houston prior to
her passing. In a Herald Sun article from 2010,
“The fall and fall of Whitney Houston,” there
is quite the atmosphere of negativity.
“Houston spent most of that time (out of the
spotlight) smoking cocaine-laced marijuana.”
“She can’t sing her power ballads from
the ‘80s anymore.”
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Among these criticisms in the article, the
writer goes on to discuss Houston’s admission
to freely using cocaine to Oprah Winfrey. The
article clearly disapproves of Houston’s celebrity image. After her death, however, the Herald
Sun came out with an article praising Houston’s
life. The article titled “Remembering Whitney
Houston through her songs” describes Houston
as legendary, tells of her Grammys and memorable appearances and narrates her life through
her music career. Now that Houston has passed
on, she will be remembered through the foreseeable future as an amazing musician; not a drug
addict or untalented singer.
Michael Jackson is a classic example
of drastic changes in media coverage. Prior
to the sudden death of the vilified celebrity,
press coverage of the “King of Pop” usually
involved the terms “molestation,” “cosmetic
surgery” or “balcony.” There are timelines of
Jackson scandals, articles criticizing his behavior around children and proposed reasons
for why Jackson had fallen from his greatness.
E! Network even created a simulation of Jackson’s court experiences entitled “The Michael
Jackson Trial.” These media publications were
arguably not joyously praising the celebrity.
After Jackson’s passing, the media seemed to
scrape their sacred scandals under the public
rug. E! completely dropped the molestation
topics, and moved on to “mourning the loss of
two great entertainers,” in an article on their
website. Other press sources follow suit, and
the mass criticisms halted for quite some time.
Media coverage before and after celebrity
deaths occurs in the same fashion for other
celebrities like Jackson and Houston: Lisa
‘Left-Eye’ Lopez, Elvis Presley, the list goes
on. These stars experienced media scrutiny
prior to their death then their left-behind existence experienced abundant glory and praise
from the very sources that fanned the flames
of their troubles. Stars who experience a crisis
or scandal are especially prone to this media
attacking. Press coverage of celebrities could
lead one to ask: do the press over-scrutinize
celebrities while they are alive, and then compensate for the criticisms by bombarding their
name with praises after they pass away? Just
a little something to consider in the world of
media ethics the next time an infamous celebrity suddenly dies.
INSIDE
C2
‘This Means War’ places
friends against each other
C4
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than a children’s story
C4
Film festival brings
all emotions into play
FRIDAY
February 24, 2012
RAPEWHISTLE issues debut EP
Avery Galek
Asst. A&E Editor
agalek@oswegonian.com
Adam stood front row screaming lyrics with the band RAPEWHISTLE in cathartic release
through a modern-day art form.
“I thought that RAPEWHISTLE put on a great set; they really know how to liven up a
crowd” said Insufficient Funds’
vocalist Adam Shannon. “A lot
of their songs are very personal
but I feel they still convey in a
way that vicariously picks up the
rest of the crowd and really gets
the energy going.”
Along with Shannon, dozens
of more show-goers attended a
well-known practice building at
384 N. Midler Avenue in Syracuse on Saturday, in celebration
of the debut EP release “Having
Problems” by RAPEWHISTLE.
The event was an all-age show
free of charge in effort to promote independent music and local playing spaces, headlined by
two crowd-drawing groups; SSWAMPZZ (Syracuse) and Dumb
Talk (Beekman).
RAPEWHISTLE began when
founding members Matthew
Jaime and Nathanael Larsen
finished a work study shift at
Syracuse University. Sharing
each others passion for punk
rock and independent music,
the two united in writing a song
while perched on the hood of a
car in Barry Park last October. A
policeman pulled up and asked
them what they were doing.
They responded, saying they
were writing music. The authorities praised their endeavor and
drove away. Jaime then invited
Larsen to a local show that
night where their idea of creating a band together surfaced into
a serious effort.
Immediately afterwards, the two
originators took on two additional
members who were close friends
of theirs, also attending Syracuse
University at the time, solidifying
RAPEWHISTLE as a four-piece
group. The core members of this
quartet from the very beginning
include: lead vocalist Jaime, guitarist and vocalist Larsen, bassist John
Newland Jr. and drummer Spike
Anderson.
RAPEWHISTLE describes their
name as something with intended
shock value. It comes as tradition for
a genre of music that uses social satire to convey hard-hitting issues. The
name had been thrown around as an
idea but never actually used until the
night they played their first show.
Larsen’s brother had used the title
previously as a joke, so as a quick fix
the band used the name for anyone
who was wondering who they were,
and the tag stuck. The band guarantees that there is no subliminal message involved and are quick to say
that rape whistles help people.
“It’s not supposed to be offensive in any way,” Newland said.
“It’s shock value but very much
so a helping [aid to people].”
The band strives to express life
through their lyrics and music in
an aesthetic way that everybody
can relate to. Many of the lyrics are
very personal for vocalist Jaime
and touches on subjects ranging
from love, suicide, death, hope and
lack of hope. A lot of the meaning
comes from specific events in the
band members’ lives.
“[We] try to get kids to have
fun even if they’re not into punk
and hardcore,” Jaime said. “What
I want to do is get [people] to understand what the community is
about. It’s about getting through
things together and not about
violence at all. It’s about peace.”
The group’s debut release is also
intended to shed insight on current
social issues within the local music
scene and promote kinship. They
want people to feel welcome at underground shows and comfortable
being themselves. They explain that
being associated with inhabitants at
Syracuse University, that people often come to shows who have never
listened to heavy genres of music or
have never come into contact with
such a sporadic environment. It is
exciting for them to see people experience it for the first time.
“I remember my first punk
show,” Larsen said. “One of my favorite things about it that got me
into punk is when you get in the
pit and you’re jumping around and
crowd surfing. If you fall down,
anyone is willing to help you up.
It’s a community and it’s a family.
That’s what I love most about it.”
RAPEWHISTLE recorded and
produced their own work under the
assistance of Gregory Lifanov, who
opened up a studio in his house.
It was a group collaboration, but
the band praises Lifanov for stepping up and playing the role of a
producer to achieve their goals.
The recording process was accomplished in a minimalist approach
and the equipment was said to be
very basic. The band prides itself
in their lo-fi quality recordings and
perpetuate a rough independent
sound. Their method steers away
from unnecessary added flare and
emphasizes their live sound.
“I listened to it and I enjoyed
it way more than I did live,” said
freelance writer Thomas Charles.
“I don’t know if that was me personally, which I think it is, but it
is actually a really killer EP.”
RAPEWHISTLE’s debut album,
“Having Problems,” was distributed
on Saturday at the Midler practice
space. Each compilation and additional merchandise was purchased
by a simple donation by choice of
the buyer. All proceeds went to the
band in support of their album.
Editor-in-Chief Jeanette Wall,
representing the independent online
magazine “The Miscreant,” shared
her thoughts on RAPEWHISTLE
and Saturday’s gathering.
“I think that they’re a big part of
the revival of the scene and [contribute to] integrating these bands that
are playing at [Syracuse University]
and bands that are playing locally,
and it creates a great marriage between those two scenes,” Wall said.
As the creator of “The Miscreant,” Wall uses the magazine as a
supplemental promo for Miscreant
Records, which previously featured
the headlining bands SSWAMPZZ
and Dumb Talk at Saturday night’s
performance. The magazine is in the
process of producing its 17th edition
and has already included a review
of RAPEWHISTLE. Her endeavor
is completely contribution based, focusing on album and music reviews
along with interviews of musicians
congregating the local scene. Miscreant Records plan to collaborate with
these bands on a more regular basis
and will include RAPEWHISTLE on
the bill for future shows.
“I think all the bands here totally fit the same aesthetic, they
have similar goals and they’re all
great dudes,” Wall said.
RAPEWHISTLE has hopes of
touring in the future, but for the
time being they all have work and
college-related commitments. The
four members come from various
parts of the country and continue
to work through the challenge of
collaborating in a team effort. They
said they will be playing a show in
North Syracuse this weekend at a
venue known as Fusion. Other future shows include opening for the
distinguished band D.R.I. in March
with dates still pending.
Laker Review
The Oswegonian
C2
FRIDAY, February 24, 2012
Events Calendar
Friday, Feb. 24 through Thursday, Mar. 1
Oswego Film club: “Mixed Emotions”
36 hour film festival
Date: Friday, Feb. 24
Time: Team registration 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
Competition 9 p.m.
Location: Campus Center
Fashion and talent show: “Unlimited hype”
Date: Friday, Feb. 24
Time: 6 p.m.-10 p.m.
Location: Campus Center
Registration Cost: Free
RAIL JAM
Date: Saturday, Feb. 25
Time: 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
Location: Campus Center/Quad
Black student union dinner
Date: Saturday, Feb. 25
Time: 5 p.m.-8 p.m.
Location: Hewitt Union Ballroom
Theatre: speaking of sheldon
Date: Saturday, Feb. 25 and 26
Time: Sat. 7:30-8:30 p.m.; Sun. 2 p.m.
Location: Sheldon Hall Ballroom
international coffee hour
Date: Monday, Feb. 27
Time: 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m.
Location: Room 255, Campus Center
Movie: “voces inocentes”
(“innocent voices”)
Date: Monday, Feb. 27
Time: 7:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
Location: Room 132, Campus Center
Film: “si-gueriki”
(“The queen mother”)
Date: Tuesday, Feb. 28
Time: 7p.m.-8:30 p.m.
Location: Room 107, Lanigan Hall
Laker Review
New beginning with original sound for Axe
Chris Chambers
Contributing Writer
laker@oswegonian.com
Lillian Axe, a band founded
in the 80s is currently making its
way back into the present music
world, with their newest album
“The Days Before Tomorrow.”
The band Lillian Axe was formed
in New Orleans, Louisiana in
1983. Ever since then, except for
a four-year hiatus, they have
been producing a breed of glam
metal that only they can master.
Lillian Axe has such an interesting dynamic, from the chugging
riffs of guitarist Steve Blaze, the
only founding member left in the
band, to the melodic voice of Brian Jones, their new singer. All that
followed by the great instrumentals of guitarist Sam Poitevent,
bassist Eric Morris and drummer Ken Koudelka. The album
starts off very quietly but quickly
speeds up with the quick tapping
of “Babylon,” which Blaze has
mastered during his tenure with
the band. The chorus slows down
with a steady hi-hat beat that sets
the tone for the rest of the album.
80s rock band Lillian Axe consisting of lead guitarist Steve Blaze, lead singer Brian Jones, guitarist Sam
Poitevent, bassist Eric Morris and drummer Ken Koudelka, look to regain previous fame.
The album continues quickly, only slowing down occasionally like during the song
“Gather Up the Snow,” which is
complemented by another guitar solo that only a few people
could play as well as Blaze does.
“Take the Bullet,” opens up with
a barrage of machine gun fire
followed by a quick and military-like drumbeat. The song
continues to march along with
structured lyrics about the struggles of war. The major power
ballad of the album is “Bow
Your Head,” which is a very
slow song that has slow scales
at just the right time to make it
sound even more climactic than
it already is. The rest of the album continues with a quick
pace only slowing its beat occasionally. The instrumentation is
absolutely incredible as well as
the synchronization of the band.
One issue with the album
is the fact that the lyrics get repetitive quickly and lose their
power before the song is over.
Overall it is a well-recorded album that deserves
a lot more critical attention
than some of the “artists”
of today. The band seems
to knows their instruments
inside and out. On their
eleventh album they seem to
have really found their niche.
This album is not just something for metal heads. This is
an album anyone who enjoys
good music could get into.
‘War’ creates action packed competition
Moraima Capellan
Staff Writer
laker@oswegonian.com
The purpose of an action
comedy is plain and simple,
to supply stunning action
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sequences and a few natural
Date: Wednesday, Feb. 29
good laughs. “This Means
Time: 7 p.m.-8 p.m.
War” provided that and an
Location: Room 114, Campus Center
extra pinch of romance.
Directed by Joseph McZen meditation workshop
Ginty Nichol (TVʼs “SuperDate: Thursday, March 1
natural”), “This Means War”
Time: 7 p.m.-8 p.m.
has numerous cheesy, but
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adorable parts following the
premise of two spies falling for the same girl. Best
friends, FDR (Chris Pine,
“Star Trek”) and Tuck (Tom
Hardy,“Warrior”) put their
friendship aside when they
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discover that they are both
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dating the same woman and
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begin a competition to win
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her heart.
Reese Witherspoon (“WaCover photos by
Cover graphic by ter for Elephants”) plays the
Meagan Gregg, Daisy Chen Nick Graziano leading female role of Lauren,
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a product critic who follows
her friend’s advice and dates
two men at the same time.
What she does not know about
is the roller coaster that these
two men will put her through
as they outdo all of their previous dates. FDR and Tuck use
their CIA connections to cater their dates with her to her
preferences, leaving
Lauren confused when it
comes down to picking the
right guy. Laurenʼs over the
top best friend is played by
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comedian Chelsea Handler
(TV’s “Chelsea Lately”) and
Two friends FDR (Chris Pine) and Tuck (Tom Hardy) find themselves
she adds great moments and in a competition for the same women, Lauren (Reese Witherspoon).
laughs to the story. Hardy
and Pine both have amaz- the chance to pick their favorites plot. FDR and Tuck were dealing chemistry as best friends and to better relate to these un- ing with a ruthless criminal
that was out to kill them and
fighting over a toy which they likely characters.
In a movie with this type ultimately came down to a
end up falling in love with.
They also collaborate well of premise, the leading lady guns and glory kind of a fight
would usually depart from to save the damsel in distress,
with Witherspoon.
“This Means War” was suc- both men, but Lauren makes which made for a predictable,
cessful with the characters of a choice between the two, but not too terrible scene.
Witherspoon gave a good
FDR and Tuck because they are causing either surprise or apperformance, while Hardy and
different. Tuck is the sensitive, ro- proval from the audience.
“This Means War” ended Pine will have girls swooning
mantic lover and FDR is the fearless bad boy. It gives the audience abruptly and had a weak sub- in their theater chairs.
Laker Review
Sleigh Bells mix pop, noise
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Derek Miller and Alexis Krauss stand as a two-piece band that gives pop music an edgy sound. Their recent album
“Reign of Terror” blends intense guitar riffs and drum beats with catchy chorus lines.
Aaron Hammond
Chief Copy Editor
ahammond@oswegonian.com
When a band arrives on the
music scene with a totally original
sound, one of two things may happen: they find ways to explore that
sound and carve out new musical
territory or they turn out to be onetrick ponies whose novelty wears
off after a couple of albums. Sleigh
Bells, the Brooklyn duo consisting of singer Alexis Krauss and
guitarist Derek Miller, are a prime
example of the band on the scene
with the original sound. They are
the purveyors of “noise-pop;”
their 2010 debut “Treats” was a
unique blend of Krauss’ sugarsweet pop vocals, enormous drum
beats and Miller’s ferocious, loud
guitar work. They sounded like
the unholy union of the fuzzed-out
dreaminess of My Bloody Valentine and the arena-shaking grandeur of a band like Queen.
The duo’s sophomore effort, “Reign of Terror,” does
not break a ton of new ground
in terms of their music, but it
is still a solid follow-up that
shows Sleigh Bells are ready to
introduce a few new elements
into the mix.
The album starts with “True
Shred Guitar,” a brief intro during
which Krauss orders a simulated
crowd to get “down on their knees.”
It then leads into “Born to Lose,”
which carries all of the group’s
hallmarks; a simple yet intense guitar riff from Miller, a forceful drum
machine beat and Krauss’ ethereal
singing. Her vocal range is very high
to begin with, and the added effects
make it difficult to make out a lot of
lyrics, which will never be acknowledged for their profundity. The joyous intensity of Sleigh Bells’ music
makes up for lyrical shortcomings.
The pep-rally march of “Crush”
adds hand claps to the high-intensity atmosphere the album has at the
beginning, but the biggest surprise
comes with “End of the Line,” which
is a break-up ballad, of all things.
The song’s refrain of “It didn’t
have to be this way,” is not exactly
groundbreaking in the song-writing
department, but it shows that Krauss
and Miller are not afraid to expand
their musical repertoire and let some
honest emotion seep in.
Another component that makes
Sleigh Bells interesting is how simple their music is beneath all of the
noise. Miller does not play solos and
his riffs are never more than a handful of chords, but the impact of the
group’s signature elements, along
with some carefully placed keyboard
flourishes, hits hard because they are
able to drown out their shortcomings
with sheer volume.
“Reign of Terror” peaks with
the single “Comeback Kid,” with its
gunshot drums, poppy keyboards
and a ridiculously catchy chorus.
“Don’t turn around/get your gun
ready” is a constant refrain in the
song, which deals with issues of
survival and coming back from
personal turmoil, but it is a perfect
distillation of the energy and fun
Sleigh Bells can bring to the table.
“Demons” is a fiery call-to-arms
that with Miller’s dive-bombing
guitar, veers close to heavy metal.
It is unfortunate that the second
half of the album tails off slightly.
“Road to Hell” and “You Lost Me”
are both ballads dealing with loss,
but neither of them provide anything
new or insightful enough to render
them anything more than forgettable. “Never Say Die” and “D.O.A”
also has the group trying to expand
their sound a bit, but these songs are
not entirely successful either.
Despite its flaws, “Reign of
Terror” is a step in the right direction for Sleigh Bells, and hopefully they will be able to figure out
how to expand their sound in new
and exciting ways. The album
is not a complete success, but
Krauss and Miller are still able to
kick up a high-volume racket.
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FRIDAY, February 24, 2012
Exploring ‘Secret World’ of Borrowers ‘
Chase Winkstern
Contributing Writer
laker@oswegonian.com
“Enchanting” is the watchword to describe Studio Ghibli’s
new movie “The Secret World
of Arrietty.” The Walt Disneyproduced film is based off of
Mary Norton’s novel “The Borrowers.” Made by the creators
of “Spirited Away” and “Howl’s
Moving Castle,” it is set in a locale where everything can be
seen as magical and mesmerizing. The movie puts its trust in
the viewer ’s sense of imagination. “The Secret World of Arrietty” has impeccable animation
that shows how beautiful and
colorful the environments truly
are. Its story brings a fresh face
to the anime scene, not the typical cliché prince or princess story, but about the importance of
friendship, family and survival.
The movie’s adaptation of Norton’s story is suitable for all ages.
The main characters of the
movie are the Borrowers, a race
of little people who live under
the house of human beings and
borrow items to survive. They
are not thieves per se, only taking a small amount of items that
the humans would not notice
like pins, tissue paper and sugar
cubes. Borrowers do have one
code to follow, namely to never
be seen by a human being, or as
the movie puts it “bean,” due to
a misinterpretation of the language. The story follows Arrietty (Bridgit Mendler, TV’s
“Good Luck Charlie”) a teenager
itching to go on her first borrowing mission into the house
above. Her father Pod, (Will Arnett, TV’s “Arrested Development”) believes that the survival
of the race depends on Arrietty
learning the ways of borrowing and distrusting the humans
above. Arrietty’s mother, Homily (Amy Poehler, TV’s “Parks
and Recreation”) is extremely
worried about Arrietty traveling into the world of human
“beans” and wants her to remain
hidden under the house. On the
day of Arrietty’s first borrowing, a 12-year-old “bean” named
Shawn (David Henrie, TV’s
“That’s So Raven”) comes to reside in his aunt’s house for his
necessary heart surgery. He notices Arriety on her first borrowing by accident and while she is
terrified, he is not afraid or menacing, but acts kindly toward her.
Arrietty is torn, knowing that
the Borrower code states that
her kind is not to interact with
humans, but she feels Shawn is
non-threatening and that he is
trying to gain her friendship. Arrietty’s world soon turns for the
worse when Shawn’s housemaid,
Hara (Carol Burnett, TV’s “Carol
Burnett Show”) captures Homily and imprisons her in a jar,
looking to prove the existence of
the Borrowers. Realizing they
need each other to save Homily,
Shawn and Arrietty team up.
As mentioned prior, the animation in “The Secret of Arrietty” is idyllic and picturesque.
The Borrower ’s home is colorful
and innovative, using human
items for smaller purposes. Japanese stamps adorn the walls, as
pictures and a leaky pipe over a
tea cup serves as their tub. The
characters also are nicely animated, but have some unusual
features, such as big eyes to convey more emotion with the character. Outside the house shows
the true artistic style of this
elegant world. The vast greenscape of the garden is stunning,
and the river flowing next to the
house is a sight to behold. We see
these aspects both through the
“beans” and the Borrowers’ eyes,
giving two different perspective
of the same environment, such
as the cat Niya, who is small and
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The Borrowers code of not being seen by humans is broken by Arrietty
(Bridgit Mendler) when she is seen by Shawn (David Henrie).
cute to humans, but a dangerous threat to the Borrowers. If
you have ever watched one of
Studio Ghibli’s movies, then you
will know the level of animation
is phenomenal and that an immense amount of time was spent
making the world look as breathtaking as possible.
Though “The Secret World of
Arrietty” is an animated movie
with a G rating, it should not
be regarded as just a children’s
Disney movie. It brings a level
of creativity and beauty to the
screen that will engross most
adults in the tale being told.
This film is a great adaptation
of the novel “The Borrowers”
and viewers should not miss a
chance to see a true artistic masterpiece in theaters.
36-hour Film Festival pushes students to new limits
Casey Croucher
Staff Writer
laker@oswegonian.com
Oswego State will be hosting
its second 36-hour “Mixed Emotions” Film Festival on Feb. 24
through Feb. 26.
“We are advertising that the
theme of family is very broad
and encouraging teams to run
with it as they see fit,” said Allain Daigle, festival coordinator
for Oswego Film Club. Members
of the Film Club think the portrayal of ‘family’ could go in a
number of different directions.
“Whether people are really serious with family issues, or they
turn them into family comedies,
or even thrillers; it really could go
anyway, which is what we love
about this festival,” said Kelsey
Titus, president of the Film Club.
“Our Panic festival is restricted
to the horror genre, but this is
completely open to any. And it’s
amazing to see how people take
the theme differently.”
Teams will not only be writing and producing a film, but
they will also be following specific guidelines and requirements for the competition, which
they do not find out about until
9 p.m. Friday.
“All teams are emailed a list
of requirements that they must
include in their film at the kickoff
of the festival such as a camera
technique, a line of dialogue or a
prop,” Daigle said. “This forces
teams to be creative with mediating ideas they may have before
the start of the festival with the
creative requirements to which
we lovingly submit them.”
Titus has experience with being an editor for a couple festivals. She said the best way to go
about the stress of it all is to have
a basic idea with the theme and
then give certain roles to each
team member.
“One director, one cinematographer, one editor, etc. At
the beginning, you really need
to figure out your time frame,
as well. Make sure you’re giving your team enough time for
pleted films. The registration
money goes towards the first,
second and third place prizes as
well as audience choice, best cin-
One director, one cinematographer, one editor, etc. At
the beginning, you really need
to figure out your time frame,
as well. Make sure you’re giving
your team enough time and try,
if possible, to give some leeway
for mistakes.
By Kelsey Titus, president of the Film Club
production and post-production,
and try, if possible, to give some
leeway for mistakes,” Titus said.
The competition will have
three faculty judges; Brad Riddell, Leigh Wilson and Jane Winslow will be judging the com-
ematography, best performance
and best editing prizes.
“You get to a point where
it’s three in the morning, everyone else has gone to bed, and
you’re sitting at your desk in
the dark chugging Mountain
Dew and getting a Zonie,” Titus
said. “But seeing your work up
on the screen, and knowing how
quickly you put together a film,
and witnessing the audiences’
reactions completely makes it all
worth it.”
“Whether you are a Cinema
and Screen Studies major or not, I
think most people will be amazed
at what the participants can and
will do during the 36 hours of
this festival,” said Public Relations Coordinator Kylie Genter.
“Please come out to the screening on March 4th at 2 p.m. in the
Campus Center Auditorium to
support your fellow students and
have an awesome time watching
some fantastic short films.”
Registration for the festival is
Feb. 23 and 24 from 10 a.m. to 3
p.m. and costs $5 to register. There
are an estimated 10-15 teams that
will officially start competing in
the festival on Friday, Feb. 24 at 9
p.m. to create a film that is up to
seven minutes long.
Laker Review
FRIDAY, February 24, 2012
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‘Ghost Rider’ burns out with sequel
Nick Graziano
A&E Editor
ngraziano@oswegonian.com
The flaming skeleton super hero,
Ghost Rider has returned to the big
screen in “Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance.” The Directors of “Crank,”
Mark Neveldine and Seth Hoffman,
were brought on to the project to
not only create a sequel to better the
original “Ghost Rider,” but to try and
reboot the series. They were entirely
unsuccessful, but Neveldine and
Hoffman are not the only ones to
blame. The poor writing gave for a
weak story, which was a surprise because even though two of the screen
writers have only done television
shows, the third writer of the movie,
David Goyer, worked on the story
for “The Dark Knight” with Christopher Nolan. The acting did not fare
any better as well, especially with the
Ghost Rider himself, Nicolas Cage.
For this time around, Johnny
Blaze (Nicolas Cage, “Drive Angry”) is hiding in Eastern Europe,
still trying to escape his demons of
transforming into the soul stealing
Ghost Rider. Blaze is called upon by
Moreau, (Idris Elba, “Thor”) a secret
sect of the church, to save the life of
Danny, (Fergus Riordan, “I Want
to Be a Soldier”) a boy who Roarke
“The Devil” (Ciaran Hinds, “The
Woman in Black”) is after. Moreau
makes a deal with Blaze; if he saves
the boy, then he will lift the Ghost
Rider curse. After trying to keep the
Rider away, Blaze agrees and begins
to try and use his power for good.
Along the way, Blaze discovers that
Danny’s mother, Nadya, (Violante
Placido, “The American”) while
on her deathbed, also made a deal
with the devil to have his child in
exchange for her life. He must take
on the devil’s lackeys as well as the
devil himself before Danny is fully
transformed into the Anti-Christ.
The directors wanted to take
“Spirit of Vengeance” in more of a
horror direction from the original,
but like most horrors, the film turned
into more of a joke. There were a
lot of puns that went flat and having Cage play both Blaze and the
Ghost Rider this time showed to be
the wrong decision. He acted more
like a guy that belonged in a mental
institution than someone who was
cursed by the devil. In classic Nicolas Cage fashion, there was a lot of
odd facial expressions followed by
awkward movement. Every time
Blaze would start to make the transformation to the Ghost Rider, Cage
would start laughing uncontrollably
like a mad man, which turned a serious and exciting moment into the
most awkward scenes in the movie.
Cage, a big Ghost Rider fan himself, put a lot of effort into trying to
playing the Ghost Rider, who was
played by a stunt man in the first
movie. The effort did show with the
movements the Rider made, whether
it was the disturbing way he would
tilt his head when he would look at
you, or his general movement. There
were still times when the Rider
would do his death stare and all he
would do is just stare at the person
for 30 seconds before anything happened. Then there were a couple
times where the Rider was held in
mid air during a battle sequence,
either not moving or spinning and
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Johnny Blaze (Nicolas Cage) is back as the devil’s bounty hunter, Ghost RIder. He is called upon to take
on the devil and stop him before he turns a young boy into the Anti-Christ.
never made any sense.
The rest of the movie was filled
with many more scenes that either
were something that was supposed
to have been taken serious, but
turned into a joke or served no purpose to the movie. There is one scene
when the devil is performing a ceremony with Danny and they are both
on their knees awkwardly swaying
around as people in front of them
chanted a ritual. Then, to add insult
to injury, there is another scene that
originally appeared to be a gag for
presents
the trailer, but actually ended up in
the movie where Danny asks Blaze
what it would be like if he had to pee
while he was on fire, and it cuts to
the Ghost Rider with his back turned
to the audience as he sprays a stream
of fire back and forth.
Two things Neveldine and Hoffman did do right were the camera
angles and special effects. The shots
were perfect with the kinds of angles they were getting and how they
were getting them. They literally
put their lives on the line to get those
shots and it turned out to be one of
the few good parts about the movie.
If the character got thrown off a cliff
then they were getting thrown off
the cliff in real life as well. When
either Blaze or the Rider were on
their motorcycles, either Neveldine
or Hoffman would be holding on to
that motorcycle or another while on
roller blades to get the perfect shot.
The special effects were vastly improved from the first movie.
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Marty McFly in ‘Back to the Future,’
before being replaced by
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Blaze must find a way to deal with his demons and use the Ghost RIder power
for good, if he is to stop the Devil and lift his curse.
No ‘Vengeance’ for dark hero
Rider, from C5
The Ghost Rider got a muchneeded makeover, with a more
realistic look of both the skeleton and fire he is engulfed
in. The same goes for his new
motorcycle and every time he
burns someone to ashes with his
chain. Even though Cage ruins
the transformation process with
his crazy laughter, the effects of
when he half transforms have a
very realistic look to them. His
face will partly start to turn into
the skull with his eyes all black
and his face taking more of a
skull-like form.
There were high hopes that
Marvel’s most badass super hero
would actually come back with
“vengeance” but there was nothing in this movie that did it any
justice. Usually when someone
goes up against the Devil or
any antagonist in any film you
would expect a great battle or
struggle and they fully missed
it this time by giving the Ghost
Rider too big of an advantage.
Many super heroes have successfully made the transition
from the comics to movies, but
for “Ghost Rider” it seems that
it is going to have to go to the
back burner for a while until a
proper group, which hopefully
does not include Cage, can come
along and give the Ghost Rider
the proper movie it deserves.
Capricorn (Dec. 22 - Jan. 19): You shine when it comes to communication skills. Cancer (June 22 - July 22): You are in the mood to argue with a higher-up.
Aquarius (Jan. 20 - Feb. 18): You should particularly love people today. Leo (July 23 - Aug. 22):
Pisces (Feb. 19 - Mar. 20): This could turn out to be one of those pleasant days. Virgo (Aug. 23 - Sep. 22):
Aries (Mar. 21 - Apr. 19):
There may be anticipation of a special date tonight. Libra (Sep. 23 - Oct. 23):
Taurus (Apr. 20 - May 20): It seems as though there are plenty of interruptions.
Your mind may be on finding that right person.
Finally, you are glad to have the weekend close.
There is much work to be done before the weekend.
Scorpio (Oct. 24 - Nov. 21): Make an effort to keep a balance into your day.
Gemini (May 21 - June 21): You may decide to put an end to some frustrations. Sagittarius (Nov. 22 - Dec. 21): You may be elected to lead a new co-worker.
Funnelle Main Lounge
8pm
Saturday, February 25th
Dance-A-Thon
!