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NEWS
Spiezio named Dean of
Graduate programs
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LIFESTYLES
A&E
How commercialism
stole Christmas
Eating for the Holidays
Dance Company
presents: Winter Solstice
Challenges keep
Campbell going
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OPINIONS
The
SPORTS
CRESTIAD
Vol. 88 No. 7
Est. 1923
Cedar Crest College, Allentown, Pennsylvania
December 11, 2006
Plans in place to
Ethical Life
gets the grade update Ceramic Studio
Rachel Edgar
Staff Writer
The Spring 2007 semester
will usher in several changes to
the Ethical Life program. Perhaps
the most noticeable change to the
course will be in the way students
are graded.
The course will no longer be
offered on a pass/fail basis.
Instead, each student will take the
course for a grade. Ethical Life
will also feature a new textbook,
devised by Course Administrator
Dr. Elizabeth Meade. Since its
inception in 1998, Ethical Life has
been a requirement for sophomore
Cedar Crest students.
It is a three-credit course that
meets one hour per week in a
classroom setting to discuss theories of ethics and social justice.
The other two credit hours are
spent performing community
service on-site at locations such as
Trinity Soup Kitchen and the
Phoebe Home.
The program’s goals compliment Cedar Crest College’s liberal arts foundation and the experiential application of liberal arts.
“The course gives students an
opportunity to experience something they might not come into
contact with at home,” explained
Tammy Bean, Director of the Lutz
Center for Community Service
and Site Coordinator for Ethical
Life.
A meeting between Registrar
Janet Baker, Chair of the
Curriculum and Academic Policy
Committee Dr. LuAnn Fletcher,
and Meade decided the change
from pass/fail was plausible. The
change had been considered several times by the faculty, but was
finally approved for the Spring
’07 semester, with tremendous
support from the faculty.
“I knew that the Business
department is developing a course
that they will propose to fulfill the
Ethical Life requirement as well
as their own business ethics
requirement, which will carry a
grade, so it seemed extremely
important to me that the Ethical
Life be changed to carry a grade
as well,” explained Meade.
Fletcher and Baker agreed if
one course was going to count for
the requirement that carried a
grade, Ethical Life should also
carry a grade. Fletcher also said
the course should carry a grade in
order to correctly assess the effort
students put into the course.
Although the grading system
will change, the type and number
of writing assignments will not.
Students will be expected to put in
the same amount of effort to pass
the class. “Of course, any student
who would be inclined to do the
bare minimum necessary to pass
the class will probably need to
invest more effort if she wants
better than a D, but I do not
believe that describes the majority
of our students,” exclaimed
Meade.
Also, beginning in Spring
2007, Ethical Life will feature a
new textbook developed by
Meade during her sabbatical in
Spring 2006. The former textbook
had been largely unchanged since
1998, and when stocks of the textbook began running out, Meade
knew it would be the perfect
opportunity to update the somewhat outdated text.
“The new book has much
more recent and relevant material,
covering more topics than the previous textbook,” commented
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Linda Misiura | Photo Editor
The ceramics studio, along with the papermaking studio, is currently set to
undergo renovations. The newest project to upgrade Cedar Crest will start
next semester, around the week of January 18. The studios will be completely made over by the fall of 2007.
Presidential application
consideration nears end
Brea Barski
Staff Writer
The first major phase in the
search for Cedar Crest’s twelfth
president will end this week with
the Dec. 15 deadline for applications.
Following the death of
Dorothy Blaney, Cedar Crest president of 18 years, a great deal of
work has been put into finding the
next president.
Edward W. Kelley &
Partners, a consulting firm, was
hired. Shelly Storbeck, a consultant familiar with this area, having
worked to find presidents for
Lafayette
and
Muhlenberg
Colleges, is working closely with a
committee of fourteen members of
the campus community to find the
next president. The members of
the committee are:
-Carol Dao, Student Government
Association President
-Pamela Kistler, Chair and
Associate Professor of the
Chemical and Physical Sciences
department
-Elizabeth Meade, Chair and
Associate Professor of Philosophy
-Micah
Sadigh,
Assistant
Professor of Psychology
-Elaine Deutch, Executive Vice
President of Finance and
Administration
-Barbara Ginder, Cedar Crest
graduate
-Charles Noonan, Chair of the
Board of Trustees
-Alice Miller, Vice Chair of the
Board of Trustees
-Cynthia Blaschak, Secretary of
the Board of Trustees
-Susan Hudgins, Trustee
-Ed Meell, Trustee
-Charles Snelling, Life Trustee
-Ruth Spira, Trustee
-Linda Weimer, Trustee
The committee was chosen by
the Board of Trustees with the help
of the consulting firm.
The search for a new president began in September when
Storbeck came to campus to discuss the process and expectations
with Cedar Crest. According to the
CCC website, the search will take
about six months to complete.
Elaine Deutch, member of the
Presidential Search Committee
and Executive President of
Finance and Administration at
Cedar Crest estimated that the
search will be complete sometime
during the Spring and that the new
president–barring any effecting
circumstances–will be taking over
responsibilities during the summer
months in order to become acclimated before the students return
for the fall semester, 2007.
Confidentiality is a big part of
the decision process, explained
Deutch. Many of the applicants do
not want their current employers
to know that they are applying for
other jobs.
Because of the strict
anonymity she was unable to specify the amount of people that have
applied for the job, but “many people have applied” and the consultants are “comfortable” with the
amount of applicants. Deutch does
not know if anyone within the college has applied, though if she did
she would be unable to say.
Acting President Carol
Pulham was unable to comment on
her interest in the position.
Graduation
moves from
quad to
Blaney Hall
Lori Gallagher
News Editor
For as long as most Cedar
Crest students can remember,
graduation on the quad has been
a tradition. However, the class of
2007 will have their graduation
moved from the quad to the steps
of Blaney Hall.
“Students start their Cedar
Crest journey on the steps of
Blaney Hall during Open Door
Ceremony,” said Dean Joan
Laffey. With the change, students
will now end their journey on
those same steps.
Laffey
explained
this
change was proposed immediately following President Blaney’s
memorial service in May,
because even those in the last
row were close to the stage. Plans
to move commencement were
finalized only about a month ago.
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NEWS
Pink recognized as new color
of success in business world
Lauren Sandt
Staff Writer
Thursday, November 30,
2006 marked the celebration of
Cedar Crest College’s Sixth annual Women in Business award and
lecture. Dr. Elaine Thompson,
President of Lankenau Hospital
Main Line Health, was not only
recognized for her contribution to
the business world, but she was
also acknowledged for her dedication to the success of women.
More than Money with Gene
Dickison sponsored the annual
event, which attracted a big crowd.
“I am honored to be the sponsor of
this wonderful event,” said
Dickison.
He spoke very generously
about the kind of woman
Thompson is, and he commended
her on her accomplishments in her
career and also in her life. “ Elaine
is committed to enjoying the journey,” he said.
Dickison not only supported
the success of Thompson, but he
also expressed his sincere gratitude for all that women stand for
when he addressed the audience by
saying, “The world is made up of
50% women, but it is my belief
that they make up 90 to 100 per-
cent of compassion.”
Thompson thanked the audience for celebrating such a
momentous event with her. She
dedicated the award to late
President, Dorothy Gulbenkian
Blaney. “Dorothy welcomed me to
the Lehigh Valley and she continues to inspire me today,” she said.
Thompson entitled her lecture,
“The Pink Brigade” to represent
the strides and tasks that women
take on. She gave startling statistics about current trends of women
compared to men and how it is
affecting the future. “87% of the
poverty stricken elderly, are
women,” she said. She also stated
that, “women take off an average
of 11 years more than men to take
care of their children and their parents.”
The audience was in awe to
see the dedication that Thompson
possessed to mentoring young
women to make a difference in this
male controlled society. “We have
had 43 Presidents, and all have
been men,” she said. Thompson
also made it a point to discuss such
a hot topic as Cosmo magazine.
She was concerned with the interest in such demeaning and shameful topics such as, “the latest sexual positions” and “ways to know
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and Facilities
Contributed by:
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(Safety & Security, Maintenance, Custodial, Grounds and
General Services [Telecommunications, Transportation Services])
Safety & Security asks the college community:
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print because the cartridge has been removed? Safety & Security
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The
Crestiad
Fall 2006
Editor in Chief
Jennifer Woytach
Managing Editor/
Photo Editor
Linda Misiura
News/Feature Editor
Lori Gallagher
Opinions Editors
Jennifer Kumetz
Amanda Rachel Goodman
Lifestyles Editors
Stacey Solt
Tiffany Wanzie
A&E Editors
Gillian Maffeo
Kelly O’Donnell
Sports Editor
Jennifer Woytach
Copy Editors
Christa Hagan
Jennifer Kumetz
Lori Gallagher | News Editor
Erica Govan (Left), worked with the Professor Arlene Peltola (Right) during the fall
semester to promote Metamorphoses. They had an opportunity to network at the
dinner prior to the presentation of the Women in Business Award.
he cares.” Thompson warned the
audience that these are not the
issues that women should be concerned with. “Us pinks need to
change our focus off what we look
like and how we act, to who we are
and what we can do,” she said.
Thompson’s lecture was
inspirational and motivating to the
faculty, staff, students and general
public that attended. Her goal was
not to talk about what she has done
in her life, but it was oriented
towards making other women
more aware of what they are capable of. “She was very interesting
and she made a clear impact on
everyone here tonight,” said Tara
Wilson, senior marketing major.
Thompson represented a clear
indication of why she was chosen
to join the other five women in
accepting the Cedar Crest College
Women in Business reward.
Adviser
Elizabeth Ortiz
Kim Baksovich
Louis Mariani
Samantha
Barbato
La Lonnie Moore
Cara Nicholl
Brea Barski
Leann Pettit
Jamie Bosler
Emily Pulham
Beth Coulter
Sarah Relation
Jess Dominiczak
Rachel Edgar
Lauren Sanders
Lauren Sandt
Tori Hartnett
Jaime Smith
Susan Lopez
Liz Skoczylas
Staff
ETHICAL LIFE
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Meade.
The new textbook will highlight more works on the effects of
poverty,
race-discrimination,
class-conflict, and gender-discrimination, and will feature some
original material written by
Meade. The course will offer a
new reading and writing assign-
ments, different classroom exercises and case studies, and a brand
new syllabus to reflect all the
recent changes.
Tammy Bean welcomes the
changes to the program. “I think
it’s a really positive thing for the
course,” she says. “It will put
everyone on the same playing
field and more clearly define what
is expected of students in the
course.”
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NEWS
New to the Crest
Spiezio named Dean
of Graduate Studies
Learn about the new faculty members that joined the
Cedar Crest community
Thomas Brettell,
Assistant Professor of Forensic Science
Tori Hartnett
Staff Writer
With thirty years of experience in Forensic Science, Thomas
Brettell has joined the Cedar Crest
faculty as part of the Forensic
Science program. Brettell has
worked for the New Jersey State
Police Forensic Science Bureau
since 1976, and served as the
Director of the Office of Forensic
Sciences in Hamilton, NJ.
Brettell obtained his BA at
Drew University and his MS at
Lehigh University. He went on to
receive his PhD in Analytical
Chemistry
from
Villanova
University.
Originally, Brettell entered
college as a Mathematics Major,
but developed an interest in analytical chemistry while attending
Drew University.
Brettell stated that while acting as the Director of the NJ State
Police Office of Forensic
Sciences, he was in charge of six
crime laboratories, including the
DNA lab and an equine testing lab,
located in the Meadowlands, and
250 employees.
Brettell has been teaching
Forensic Science courses for over
15 years at The College of New
Jersey and Rider University. He
also taught a forensic science
course at Drew University, at the
Governor’s School for the
Sciences, and a summer science
program for high school seniors.
“While working at the State
Police Lab I began to teach chemistry and forensic science at some
local colleges: the College of New
Jersey and Rider University. I really liked teaching and interacting
with the students and decided that
is what I wanted to do when I
retired from the State Police Lab,”
stated Brettell.
As for wanting to teach at
Cedar Crest, Brettell stated, “I was
interested in teaching in a forensic
science program. I knew that
Cedar Crest was one of the best
programs in the country under the
direction of Dr. Quarino. When I
heard that an opening was available to teach forensic chemistry
and analytical chemistry and that
Cedar Crest was developing a
graduate [program] I really wanted
to be part of it.”
Brettell instructed various
chemistry laboratory sections this
semester, and will be teaching
Instrumental Analysis next semes-
Sue Ragusa,
ter, as well as some of the of the
forensic science laboratories.
Brettell is also creating a new
course for the Forensic Science
program
entitled Advanced
Separations
and
Advanced
Spectroscopy.
“I am an avid baseball fan and
love to golf, but am not very good
at it. All three of my sons beat me
every time,” Brettell stated, “I was
a little league coach for 18 years
and took one of my sons’ teams to
the NJ State Championships. One
of my players is now playing in
the major leagues for the
Milwaukee Brewers!”
Jennifer Woytach
Editor in Chief
Dr. Kim Spiezio, Professor of
Political Science and Chair of the
History, Law and Politics
Department, has recently been
appointed to Dean of Graduate
Studies at Cedar Crest College.
On November 30, Acting
Provost Roxanne Amico sent an
all-campus email announcing
Spiezio’s appointment.
When Spiezio found out
about his appointment midNovember, he said he was “pleasantly surprised.”
Cedar Crest’s graduate programs are “an area of the College
that have a lot of potential,”
Spiezio said.
Educated at the State
University of New YorkBinghamton, Spiezio has been at
Cedar Crest College for eleven
years and was previously on the
faculty at University of Minnesota
and Virginia Tech. He has been
Chair of the History, Law and
Politics Department since 1998
and was promoted to Professor
two years ago.
Spiezio will officially assume
the role of Dean of Graduate
Studies in January, but said he has
already been doing some work.
“It’s an interesting job,” he said,
“because it’s brand new to Cedar
Crest College.”
As Dean of Graduate Studies,
Spiezio will be responsible for the
supervision of all current and new
graduate programs at the College.
One of Spiezio’s goals is to
“create an institutional framework
to distinguish graduate programs
from undergraduate programs at
the College and to make sure both
aspects maintain their unique
identities.”
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MONEY FOR COLLEGE
NOW
Assistant Professor of
Performing Arts
Tori Hartnett
Staff Writer
Sue Ragusa has joined the
Cedar Crest community as a new
Assistant Professor of Performing
Arts.
Ragusa has previously used
her expertise in lighting design
while working as an architectural
lighting design consultant, and
many theatrical productions. She
obtained her BA in Theatre and
Art at Cedar Crest, and received
her MFA in lighting design from
the University of WisconsinMadison.
Though theatre and lighting
were always strong interests of
Ragusa, it was not what she had
originally planned to turn into a
career. She stated, “I wanted to go
into politics because to me, at the
time, it seemed to be the more
‘responsible’ thing to do.
Eventually in a moment of clarity,
I figured out that my passion was
for theater, and later on narrowed
it down to lighting design. I am so
happy that I followed my heart.”
As for why she chose to go
into education, Ragusa stated, “I
enjoy exploring ideas and sharing
knowledge with people; it is a natural path for me,” she added,
“[Cedar Crest] is my alma mater,
so for me the familiarity was a big
bonus. Also, my mentors in the
theatre and art department inspire
me a great deal. I am thrilled to be
working with them again.”
Ragusa has previously taught
Stage Prop Construction and
Lighting Design at the UWMadison. This semester Ragusa
taught Theatre History I and
Design for the Stage.
Ragusa is just two minutes
older than MTV, and her hobbies
include reading and cooking. She
stated, “I have been told that I
make the best spaghetti sauce. I
enjoy experimenting with new
spins on recipes; for instance, a
dessert spanikopita.”
Ragusa stated, “I will be
teaching Lighting Design in the
spring. I encourage all students
interested in theatre, art, photography, architecture, interior design,
film, and/or television to join the
class.
We will explore how lighting
is a design medium for theatre and
beyond. Lighting is part of the
daily human experience and
shapes how we perceive our environment.” She encourages interested students to stop by her office
at any time, located at TCC 326.
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NEWS
Cedar Crest sizes up to Spellings
Christa Hagan
Copy Editor
It was in 2005 when US
Secretary of Education, Margaret
Spellings announced the creation
of the Secretary of Education’s
Commission on the Future of
Higher Education.
The United States Department
of Education outlines the mission
of the group in a press release,
“comprehensive national strategy
for postsecondary education that
will meet the needs of America’s
diverse population and also
address the economic and workforce needs of the country’s
future.”
Since then, many colleges
nationwide have been observing
the standards that have been set
and seeing how their institute
matches the goals or ideas set up
by this educational coalition.
Among these colleges is
Cedar Crest College. The ideas of
the Spellings Commission (and the
ways to apply them to Cedar
Crest) have been brought up in
recent faculty meetings.
Associate
professor
of
Communication, Elizabeth Ortiz
said that during the October 31
faculty meeting, Acting President
Carol Pulham highlighted three
main ideas of the Spellings
Commission that she would like
the college to examine.
Pulham wanted to know if the
successfulness of how much the
students are prepared for the real
world could be shown, as well as a
closer look at the untapped market
Student Government
News
Class of ‘08 petition denied;
other club petitions granted
Brea Barski
Staff Writer
Problems among the officers
of the class of 2008 heated up the
Nov. 29 Student Government
meeting, leaving the class to fund
the remaining balance of Cedar
Crest’s traditional “Big Sis/Little
Sis Dink Donut Night.”
The class of 2008 was at the
meeting to request $275. Although
SGA does not usually give money
to support events that have already
taken place, the class wanted to
explain why they had not asked
for the funding earlier. The representatives claimed that everything
was behind schedule and confused—saying that the DJ from
the event had not even been paid
yet. Most of the blame was placed
on one specific class officer.
The $275 was to pay for beverages at the Oct. 12 event. The
GRADUATION
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ment stage is expected to closely
mimic the memorial service set
up. A platform stage will be
placed
in
front
of
the
Administration Building steps and
the graduates will be seated on the
new sidewalk. Trustees and faculty members will be seated on
either side of the stage.
In the past, there were
approximately 1800 seats at graduation.
However,
Laffey
explained that the last several
rows are usually empty, so fewer
seats will be used when graduation moves to Blaney Hall. The
seats will line the circle, part of
the quad in front of “The
Mountain,” and some of the lawn
in front of Blaney Hall. This
move will also allow Toshiko’s
bell to be incorporated into the
ceremony. Laffey said that they
are “entertaining ideas for how to
choose who will ring the bell.”
The biggest change that will
officers did not realize that there
was a $1 per person fee for use of
the soda fountains. They found
out when they received their
quote, the date of this was almost
a month before the event.
SGA’s Finance Committee
and the Executive board both recommended that the senate give no
money to further pay for Dink
Donut Night. After a great deal of
discussion and two votes—the
votes had to be counted due to
close results—SGA denied the
class of 2008 the money.
Money was given, however,
to support a Phi Alpha Theta
(History Honor Society) trip to the
Reading Museum and for the
Psychology Club to print more
newsletters. One student concern
was brought up—students are not
smoking the required fifteen feet
from all buildings—and the meeting was ended.
come with the move is that there
will no longer be a tent to cover
those in attendance. Laffey
explained that the college looked
at the graduation ceremonies at
other LVAIC institutions and
Cedar Crest is the only school that
still uses a tent. In the event of a
light rain, the audience can use
their umbrellas, said Laffey. Plans
for severe weather conditions are
still being worked out, but as of
now, Laffey expects that the audience will be moved into Lees
Hall, which will already be set up
for Baccalaureate. The downside
is that Lees Hall only seats about
750 people, and there are usually
about 250 graduates, so guest
seating would be limited.
However, Laffey is optimistic
about the weather. She said,
“Since 1989, it has only rained
one time and that was after everyone was already inside the tent.”
Even though the commencement location is changing, some
aspects of the ceremony, such as
the band, reserved seating, and
golf cart transportation.
of mid-career students. Pulham
also was hoping that the Spellings’
ideas of how well students are prepared to live and work in a globalizing economy could be examined
as well.
In exposing these ideas, the
hope was that the faculty members
could look and see where the college is. While doing this, they will
also be able to see how the college
can improve.
When the committee spoke of
this at the meeting, there were
some suggestions for globalization, specifically “global leadership.” “global leadership” was
defined (in the Faculty Executive
Committee’s minutes) as the need
to prepare students in the areas of
“science, engineering, medicine
and other knowledge intensive
professions.” One of the suggestions made was contacting alums
to speak at formal events and
receptions who have done things
such as Doctors without Borders
and similar programs.
Another way of improving
globalization was stressing not
only the status of women at Cedar
Crest or in Allentown but the status of women all over the world.
The possibility of creating an official Women’s Studies program was
also discussed.
The Spellings Commission
was created to unite common ideas
of higher education.
The faculty of Cedar Crest
have brought this idea close to
home and hope to look into it and
apply the school to the philosophies of the commission.
Speech team places
in several categories
at competition
Brea Barski
Staff Writer
The Forensic Speech team
has proven that they know what
they are talking about. This weekend at a competition in Richmond,
Va. the team won a dozen awards,
making the team’s total for this
semester an amazing 25.
The goal of the Forensic
Speech team, said Allison
Kazaras, senior four-year member
of the team and Vice President of
Pi Kappa Delta (Forensic Speech
National Honor Society), is to
become better both individually
and as a team.This year the goal
seems to be coming a reality.
“Although this is my first
year as coach for the Forensic
Speech team, I have been told by
the members of the team that this
year’s team is doing far better than
we have in years past,” said Tim
Brown, who replaced the late
Linda Baas as advisor this year.
“The team is incredibly unified
right now, and works hard supporting each other as we go out for
competition.”
Kazaras agrees with Brown,
saying that “We’ve come together
as a team, but in the past we were
only good as individuals; ‘you
must first come together as a team
to succeed as an individual.’”
Cedar Crest has a popular
forensics program, but the
Forensic Speech team has nothing
to do with science.“Forensics
refers to intercollegiate Speech
SPIEZIO
continued | page 3
According to Spiezio, there
are real possibilities for innovative academic programs on the
graduate level that have a “great
potential to advance Cedar Crest’s
reputation both regionally and
nationally.”
Cedar Crest College currently has graduate programs in
competition,” explain Brown. “It
consists of two distinct areas,
‘Individual Events’ and ‘Debate.’
The individual events include
a variety of traditional public
speaking formats such as informative, persuasive, impromptu,
extemporaneous, after dinner
speaking, oral interpretation of
poetry, prose, and drama. Debate
involves examination, analysis,
and reasoned argumentation of a
particular topic. The Forensic
Speech team represents Cedar
Crest at regional and national
Forensic Speech competitions.”
Those trips to competitions
are big perks to membership, says
Kazaras, who has traveled to
Montreal and St. Louis to compete
with Cedar Crest.
The Forensic Speech team is
done with competitions until the
“three or four” they have next
semester said team member Ness
Johnson. Awards for the last competition, in Richmond, were:
• First in Poetry – Allison Kazaras
• Second in Poetry – Monica
Cawley
• Third, Poetry – Ness Johnson
• Third, Duo – Allison Kazaras
and Adina Smith
• Fourth, Duo – Allison Kazaras
and Joey Craig
• Fifth,Duo – Ness Johnson and
Jess Dominiczak
• Second, Dramatic Interpretation
– Ness Johnson
• Third in Dramatic Interpretation
– Allison Kazaras
• Sixth in Prose – Chelsea Toth
Education, Forensic Science, and
Nursing. Programs that Cedar
Crest may consider adding as
graduate programs include a
Master
of
Business
Administration (MBA) and other
offerings in Education, along with
“opportunities in areas outsides of
professional programs,” Spiezio
said.
Spiezio will continue in his
current roles while serving as the
Dean of Graduate Studies.
In the
news...
Liz Skoczylas
Fiji Government
overthrown
Fiji's military overthrew the
elected government after weeks
of threats, locking down the
capital and putting the prime
minister under house arrest.
The coup was the fourth armed
takeover in the South Pacific
country in 19 years, and had its
roots in the same ethnic divide
that produced the previous
three.
Iraq prime minister seeks
change
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri alMaliki proposed holding
regional and domestic conferences aimed at national unity
and stability, as dozens of
Iraqis died in several attacks in
Baghdad and Diyala province.
Al-Maliki, speaking at a televised news conference, said his
new push included a reorganization of his Cabinet.
Lawmakers are working on the
Cabinet reshuffle in an effort to
foster national unity, he said,
and changes will be announced
soon.
Recovery efforts in Manila
boosted
Philippine President Gloria
Macapagal Arroyo ordered
stepped-up recovery efforts as
she consoled some of the families of the estimated 1,000 people who died in mud slides set
loose by a powerful typhoon.
Man Missing after storm
Searchers scouring a rugged
canyon found a pair of pants
matching the description of
those worn by a missing man
who struck out for help after
his family's car got stuck in the
snow. A helicopter with heatsensing equipment joined other
helicopters, snowmobiles and
foot patrols Tuesday in the hunt
for 35-year-old James Kim of
San Francisco. His wife and
two daughters were found
Monday after being lost for
more than a week.
Homeless man confesses to
murders
A man has confessed to strangling or suffocating 23 men
during an eight-year killing
spree and dumping their bodies
in remote spots in seven parishes. Ronald J. Dominique, 42,
was charged with nine additional counts of murder last
week, bringing the total to 11
counts against him -- 10 for
first-degree murder and one for
second-degree murder.
NEWS
Faculty to implement new
scheduling format in fall 2007
Alison Capik
Staff Writer
At a recent meeting, the Cedar
Crest faculty passed a new scheduling format for the Fall 2007
semester.
The format was developed by
Janet Baker and Marie Wilde of
FALL ‘07
8:00
Monday
Tuesday
A
8:30
the Registrar’s Office because of
the growing number of students
and the need for more class space.
The format is as follows:
Blocks A through E are 50 minute
classes held three times a week, H
through J are 75 minute classes
held twice a week, F through L can
be used as 75 minute time blocks
Wednesday Thursday
A
H
Friday
A
H
9:00
B
9:30
B
B
I
10:00
I
C
10:30
C
C
11:00
D
11:30
D
J
D
J
12:00
E
12:30
E
E
1:00
1:30
F
K
2:00
F
M
K
N
O
P
Q
2:30
3:00
G
L
G
L
3:30
4:00
4:30
R
T
R
T
S
U
S
U
V
W
X
Y
5:00
5:30
6:00
6:30
7-9:30
Courtesy | Registrar
Each letter in the schedule template represents a time during which professors may
schedule classes.
Top ten t-shirts to return
Brea Barski
Staff Writer
“You Know You’re At Cedar
Crest When... At home you find
yourself escorting your dad to the
bathroom—out of habit.” That is
one way to tell if you are a Cedar
Crest student. A list of ten ways to
tell was printed on the back of a tshirt and sold by the class of 2009
last year. The more than 80 shirts
that were sold had the Cedar Crest
falcons logo on the front and the
list on the back, but this year the
design will be decided in the form
of a competition.
Any campus community
member is invited to submit ideas,
said Sabrina Bell, Class of 2009
President Submissions for the
design on the front of the shirt,
any ideas for new reasons for the
back, and information on student
sinterest in purchasing tee shirts,
long-sleeved tee shirts, etc. will all
be taken. The shirts will be black
again this year.
The list on last year’s shirts
were: “10. It’s free to register your
car, but $50 to pick a leaf off a
tree, 9. You wake up to the sound
of garbage trucks every morning,
8. You have developed a sixth
sense – the smell of testosterone,
7. Squirrels out number the students, 6. You don’t have to bring
your own reading material to the
bathroom, 5. You sneeze and
someone at the other end of the
campus says ‘Bless you,’ 4. Half
of your new friends are questioning their sexuality, 3. You know
that a dink isn’t something dirty,
2. At home you find yourself
escorting a your dad to the bathroom–out of habit, 1. Every night
is a girls night.”
Submissions will be collected
at the beginning of next semester,
students will vote through e-mail
to pick their favorites. Then the
class of 2009 will put the top 10 in
order.
Reasons can be repeated on
this shirt, but new ideas are
encouraged. Submissions can be
dropped off in campus mailbox
#151
or
e-mailed
to
class09@cedarcrest.edu.
or combined to make a two hour
and 45 minute time block for
classes held once a week, and
blocks M through P are classes
held once a week for 2.5 hours. Q
is the only space of time reserved
for college programs, extra study
sessions needed for classes, or
campus wide events such as the
Health and Wellness Conference.
R through U are 75 minute classes
held twice a week, and V through
Y are evening classes once a week
for 2.5 hours.
Acting Provost Roxanne
Amico says that the new schedule
was proposed as a function of
making a predictable start time for
every class. Teachers may be taking up two time slots, so in order to
make use of all the classrooms, a
strict schedule needs to be set.
A similar format was implemented several years ago with
Wednesday as an open day with no
classes, but that format was rejected because it conflicted with the
schedules of other LVAIC schools,
making cross registration hard for
students.
From the meetings, Amico
has gathered that the faculty is
okay with this format and enjoys
the convenience of having 75
minute classes instead of 50
minute classes.
She explained that a model
example of a strict scheduling format is the setup of the tap classes
taught by Nicole Hockenberry.
Classes run from 8:00-9:15 a.m.,
9:30-10:45 a.m., and 11:00 a.m.12:15 p.m.
Dance classes are fine schedule wise, and no one else is in need
of the facilities besides the dance
department. The issue concerning
the faculty and staff was the proper use of equipment and proper
facilities, because certain disciplines have certain requirements.
Instead of putting a class in
any classroom of any building, the
location and time of classes will be
determined by the number of seats,
the number of students enrolled,
and the professor’s preference.
A faculty member can choose
what time and place they wish to
have their class, but will provide a
back up in case that space is
already full. Professors can choose
the facility that they want and students can take classes with greater
ease knowing that each class has a
definite beginning and ending
time.
Dr. LuAnn Fletcher, Associate
Professor of English and Director
of the English Program, has found
that the classes held on Monday,
Wednesday and Friday are generally taken up by science courses
and that when teaching with the
format a few years ago, students
did not want to be on campus for
Friday afternoon classes, and this
format “preserves the rest of the
universe that works on a Monday –
Friday schedule.”
Fletcher thinks that with this
new format, teachers will not have
to load everything into classes a
week and this will prevent an overlapping of classes within departments. Overall, the new scheduling format is a great way to make
the most out of the facilities each
classroom has to offer, give students a set start and end time for
their classes, and make semester
planning easier.
Preterite celebrates
holidays in Hartzel
In the
news
at the Crest...
Liz Skoczylas
Sell Back Your Books
It’s that time of year again to
sell your used books back to
the college bookstore. Bring
books to the bookstore during their normal operating
hours from now until the end
of the semester, with your
student ID, to sell books
back.
Campus Jobs
On December 15 payday, all
checks will be held at the
Cashier's Window for pickup
and will be mailed out the following Friday if not picked
up by then. If you want to
have this check mailed out on
December 15, please make
this request at the Cashier's
Window before December
15. December 29 checks will
be mailed out on that day.
Free Coffee
Rooster's Coffee Shoppe and
American Education Services
are coming together for the
$20,000 Lighten your load
sweepstakes. They are giving
away free cups of coffee to all
students who come and show
their Cedar Crest ID.
Rooster’s offers coffee and
espresso that is locally roasted to provide the freshest
drinks possible. They are
located at 3512 Hamilton
Boulevard, across from
Dorney Park.
Club Transactions
The last day for club transactions with Student Accounts
is Monday, December 11,
2006 (the last day of classes).
Please check that your club
ledgers (both SGA and personal) match your trial balance sheets. If there are any
discretions,
please
see
Student Accounts to fix any
problems. Also, all receipts
must be turned into Student
Accounts by this date in order
to receive a reimbursement.
This year, Preterite, the Cedar Crest literary club sponsored the
first annual Holidays at Hartzel. Starting at 5:00 p.m., the
Cedar Crest community gathered in the lobby of Hartzel Hall
for pizza and snacks. The reading of Charles Dickens’ A
Christmas Carol began at 5:30 p.m. Readers included Dr.
LuAnn Fletcher (pictured above), Linda Misiura, Jennifer
Woytach, and Professor Henry Marchand.
Communication Night
Wednesday, December 13,
beginning at 5 pm, student
work from the Digital
Photography and Video
Production classes will be
shown in the Bistro. Digital
Photography will run first,
and Videos will begin playing
around 6:30 pm.
FEATURE
Course overload results in
applications for dual majors
Leann Pettit
Staff Writer
More and more students are
double majoring at Cedar Crest
College; taking 18 or 21 credits a
semester to complete both majors.
There are also students on campus
that have a co-major.
Co-majors are also a certification in some field of study. Comajors are popular with secondary
education students, who’s main
focus is on their area of study
(such as biology or history), but
they are also studying education.
Students can pursue a second
degree to be awarded either at the
same time as their first degree or at
a subsequent time.
The second degree, however,
must be of a distinct area of study
and is limited to the majors and
programs listed in the course catalog.
While most duel degrees are
allowed, combinations of majors
that are extremely similar in con-
tent will not merit a duel degree.
Such combinations are: biology
and genetic engineering; biology
and biodiversity and conservation
biology; neuroscience and biology; chemistry and biochemistry;
and management and accounting.
Also, no biological sciences major
can minor in biology.
Janet Baker, Cedar Crest
College Registrar suggests students to speak with their advisors
about double majoring, to make
sure that it will work with their
schedule and that the combination
Plans are underway for the
Second Annual Black Awareness
Student Union (BASU) Cultural
Extravaganza, which will be held
Thursday February 22 from 7-9
p.m. in the Alumnae Auditorium.
Performances by students will
include singing, dance routines
featuring hip-hop and tap, dramatic interpretation, and poetry
recitations. Lehigh University’s
Step team, LU’s Finest, will perform a dance routine.
BASU hopes to feature spoken word artist Beny Blaq as a
special guest. An inspiring voice
in Slam Poetry, Blaq penned the
phrase “Silence is Forbidden.”
BASU anticipates that his voice
will blend with the voices of
Cedar Crest students.
“Through
the
Cultural
path for graduation.
Go over everything with them
each semester, and even speak
with them a few times throughout
the semester. The faculty members
that are advisors are so because
they know what the requirements
are for that field of study.
If you are double majoring or
thinking about it, speak to your
advisors and find out what is
required of you now and what will
be required of you in the future.
Your advisor is the best resource
student’s have.
Students register for classes
at surrounding colleges
Leann Pettit
Staff Writer
So, you want to take a class
that Cedar Crest does not offer.
Either you are interested in some
topic that is not offered at the Crest
or you need a class for some
requirement. What options do students have?
Once students are of sophomore standing at the college, students can enroll in LVAIC (Lehigh
Valley Association of Independent
Colleges) cross-registration classes. This program allows students
to take classes at any of the LVAIC
colleges without having to worry
about transfer credits.
To register for an LVAIC
class, first, find the class that you
want to take at the other school
(make sure that it works with your
schedule!). You cannot take a
course that is being offered here at
Preparation for
annual Cultural
Extravaganza begins
Rachel Edgar
Staff Writer
of majors is allowed.
Each program is different.
While some programs may require
two independent Capstone projects, others majors may be more
accommodating to students who
are double majoring.
Each semester while students
are registering for classes, Baker
suggests that they speak to both or
all of their advisors, check that
they are taking the right classes,
that what courses they are taking
will suit their needs and wants, and
make sure that they are on the right
Extravaganza, BASU hopes to
spread awareness and knowledge
of African-American and Black
culture to the Cedar Crest community,” says Renita Polk, BASU
Vice President.
BASU is looking for more
student performers to participate
in the event. Singing, dancing,
poetry readings, and skits are welcome. Performances should focus
on black culture or diversity
issues. Students can contact the
club through the email account
BASU@cedarcrest.edu to sign up
for a time slot.
The Cultural Extravaganza is
free and open to the public, but
donations are welcome. Light
refreshments will be served following the program. “It’s just a
fun time to come out and be educated while you’re entertained,”
said BASU President Brittany
Walker.
the same time, but if Cedar Crest is
not offering the same course, any
student can take it at any of the
LVAIC schools. Students can take
up to two courses per term or summer session at an LVAIC school.
Janet Baker, Cedar Crest College
Registrar, suggests that students
speak to thee registrar’s office at
the host institution to find out all
of their policies and let them know
that you are interested in crossregistering.
Once you have decided on the
class, students must pick up the
cross-registration form from Cedar
Crest’s registrar’s office. This
form needs to be signed by the student, the student’s advisor, the registrar, and the registrar of the host
school. Baker suggests that student’s personally take this form to
the host school and ask for a photocopy of it before they leave.
Although, the form can be mailed.
The credits that you are taking at the other institution count
towards your full or part time
credits here, so you do not have to
transfer credits from one school
back to Cedar Crest. Students can
also retake a class at another
LVAIC school. (But again, Cedar
Crest can not be offering the same
class at the same time, no exceptions!) The class will show up on
CampusWeb with X-(two letters).
This represents an off-campus
class and shouldn’t concern students.
Cross-registering is free for
full-time students and is included
in your tuition. However, part-time
students will have to pay the host
institution. Student’s can take
classes at any LVAIC school during any term, but it is only included in tuition during the fall and
spring semesters.
Alumnae brought
Santa to campus
Jamie Bosler
Staff Writer
On Saturday, December 9,
2006, Santa Claus made a visit to
Cedar Crest College.
He was in the Tompkins
College Center dining hall to meet
with kids from the community,
parents, grandparents, and Cedar
Crest students as well.
Cedar Crest students volunteered at this event and helped the
children enjoy a day full of crafts
and activities such as coloring
Christmas pictures and decorating
a Christmas cookie.
There were also games for
the children to play and a breakfast buffet.
The breakfast will include
eggs, bacon, toast, pancakes,
French toast, juice, milk, coffee
and tea.
Diane Gehringer, Assistant
Director of Alumnae Affairs,
explained that the number of peo-
ple who attend the Santa breakfast
has increased every year during
the past three years, since the
breakfast began.
She said, “When we started
the program in 2004, we had 64
adults and 54 children take part.
In 2005, we had 100 adults
and 76 children attend. This year,
we anticipate having over 120
children and over 150 adults participate.”
In order to accommodate this
many people, two seating times
were offered, one from 8:30 a.m.
until 10:00 a.m. and the other
from 10:30 a.m. until noon.
Guests were encouraged to
bring a new children’s book to
donate.
The books were donated to
the Reading Corner at the public
assistance office, which is sponsored by the Cedar Crest College
American
Association
of
University Women
Student
Affiliate Chapter.
Traditions
Now
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Christa Hagan
Copy Editor
For an entire semester, the
staff and faculty serve the intellectual needs of the Cedar Crest
students.
At the end of a semester,
once again, they are serving the
needs of students but this time, it
is the appetites.
After an evening of fun and
farce at Student-Faculty Frolic,
everyone rushes over to the cafeteria for a midnight feast of hash
browns, waffles, French toast
and other delicious offerings prepared by the faculty.
Seeing people such as
Acting President Carol Pulham,
Psychology Professor James
Skepansky and Dean Joan Laffey
donning aprons and spatulas for
an evening of stress free fun is
quite a way to end a semester.
Community Service Programs
Director Tammy Bean attends
the midnight breakfasts.
She explained that this is not
the first one she has seen and
another school she worked for
did it as a fundraiser.
Bean explains that what she
really likes about is that it is an
evening full of “so much tradition.” She also added that “all
students should go!”
Senior Psychology major
Megan Schroeder retold of her
first midnight breakfast in the
spring of 2006. She explained
that she had never been able to
go before because she had to
work.
She recounts her first experience with the tradition by saying “it was so much fun and it
was my birthday!”
Besides the entertaining part
of the evening Schroeder said
that she really liked the professors helping out with the meal.
“Seeing them in a totally different perspective is really neat. It
show that they really do want to
have fun and bond with their students.”
While some students are
gearing up for this semester’s
midnight breakfast, others are
lamenting over the fact that they
simply have too much to do and
cannot make the event.
Junior
Nursing
major
Elizabeth Steimel will not be
attending midnight breakfast, but
not of lack of desire to attend but
rather due to the fact that she has
“two exams on Tuesday and it is
a celebration and I just will not
be in a celebratory mood.”
Midnight Breakfast will
debut tonight in the cafeteria on
the third floor of the Tompkins
College Center. It will be following Frolic, which is in Samuels
Theater, on the second floor of
the TCC.
FEATURE
Behind Closed Doors
A deeper look at the services rendered
in the buildings on campus
Alumnae Hall
Susan Lopez
Staff Writer
June 1949, Dr. Frank M.
Cressman, President of Cedar
Crest College board of trustees
broke the ground for the building
of Alumnae Hall. Over 360
Alumnae were present at the ceremony and witnessed a dream of
the college come true. The building of the hall was made possible
by the $350,000 that was raised
during a campaign directed
towards the community and alumnae.
November 12, 1949, marked
the day for the CornerstoneLaying Ceremony. The cornerstone was set in place by Mrs.
Ralph Henry, chairman of the
committee in charge of fund-raising, and John A. Rupp, chairman
of the committee on building and
grounds.
In October 1950, six
Massachusetts colleges and universities participated in a ceremony where ivy was planted outside
Alumane Hall as a dedication to
the new building.
Alumane from colleges such
as Harvard, Radcliffe, Welllesley
and Boston University took part in
the services. In addition, Ivy was
sent from over 40 different colleges as a “symbol of relationship
and fusion of ideals and traditions”.
College
&
University
Business in July of 1951 published
an article on the new hall.
Alumnae Hall is over 375,000
cubic feet of space and the final
cost of the hall reached to
$375,000 including the building of
the hall and its furnishings.
The first level of the building
contained an auditorium with 502
fixed seats and space for 100 movable chairs. The stage was spacious enough for small productions or even large ones and is
equipped with new lighting, a ceiling dome and plenty of storage.
The stage curtain was donated by a
member
of
the Alumnae
Christa Hagan | Copy Editor
Alumnae Hall is home to the art and music department. Classrooms include television, sculpture, paint, printmaking, and metalsmithing studios.
Association and cost $2,500.
Attached to the main entrance
are two administrative offices of
the alumnae association and an
alumnae lounge. The north wing
of the building houses the art
department which has one oversized room, a standard and a special workroom with sinks.
On the ground floor is a
dressing room area with small
rooms adjacent. These rooms were
used as music practice rooms and
dressing rooms when needed. A
smaller theater was connected to
this area and used for chorus, visual education and dramatics.
The Lees Memorial Chapel
was located in northwest wing of
the building and remains there
today. The chapel held over 114
and when first built contained walnut pews. The chapel windows
were originally made of tinted
glass but later replaced with
stained glass.
At this time, Alumnae Hall
only had the bottom floor and the
first floor. February 1963, marked
the completion of the second floor
to Alumnae Hall.
The expansion was part of the
college’s 10 year plan that was
devoted to the expansion and
improvement of the physical facilities of the college. The expansion
provided four new classrooms,
visual arts center, laboratory for
teaching languages and 12 faculty
offices.
Today the Alumnae Hall
houses the art department including print making, jewelry and metalsmithing, a natural drawing and
painting studio. Alumnae Hall also
contains an auditorium,a theater
that can seat 75, multi-media suite,
communications studio, distant
learning laboratory and classrooms.
Alumnae Hall is a building
that displays the progress of Cedar
Crest College throughout history
and fervor of our trusted alumnae.
The honors program at Cedar
Crest is a continuously evolving
program designed to elevate students’ educational experiences.
The program currently has roughly 120-160 students in it, and this
May the college will graduate the
highest number of Honors students in the programs history
(approximately 20).
It is not a long-standing tradition at Cedar Crest. According to
honors program co-director Dr.
James Ward, the program has only
been around since former president Dr. Dorothy Blaney began to
put it together in 1989, with the
full honors program appearing
around 1991-1992.
Admission to the honors program can be attained at most levels throughout a student’s academic career. According to the
Cedar Crest website, “Freshmen
are admitted to the program if
they enter college with a minimum of 1150 on their SATS, and
if they place in the top 10 percent
of their graduating class.” Other
traditional students and Lifelong
Learners can enter into the program after obtaining a GPA of 3.5
from 12 completed credits.
Honors courses are offered
on a voluntary basis by departments. Some departments offer a
many honors courses (such as the
humanities department), while
other departments (such as the art
department) do not offer any honors courses. It is a cross-disciplinary program, but one which
allow students to combine their
final Honors research with
research from their major.
The honors program continues to evolve every year, with new
courses being added on a regular
basis. According to Ward, the program has been adding one or more
new courses per semester for the
past few years. This year an honors class on the history of terrorism was added, and next semester
Dr. Elizabeth Meade will teach a
course on reproductive issues.
Currently, the program does
not require honors program participants to take a certain number of
honors courses per semester; but
rather, four in four years and a
Senior Honors research. The honors program faculty are in the
process of potentially changing
this. If the change is approved,
honors students can expect to be
required to take one honors class
per semester, and still do their
senior honors research
The honors program is something Cedar Crest students should
take advantage of, and, in recent
years, more and more students
have been doing just that. In the
past six years, Dr. Ward has
observed the number of students
enrolled in the honors program
increase dramatically. He cites the
reasons for the increase in students as being because of the
“manageability” of combining
senior research, and also the prestige in being able to present a
company or grad school with a
degree with honors.
More information about the
honors program is available at in
the course catalog and on the website.
An opportunity to learn about the art you see everyday, but might not notice
Mystery sculpture revealed
Linda Misiura
Managing Editor
In the last issue of The Crestiad,
we left you all guessing as to what
the small sculpture in the
Tompkins College Center really is.
The Crestiad had a chance to interview the artist, Linda Rossell, who
gave a little bit of insight into the
inspiration for…dum da da dum
da daa: a bird!
TC: What have you named the
piece?
LR: "Emergence"
Alumnae Auditorium is the largest auditorium on campus. It is used mostly for
choral concerts, winter graduation, and the opening commencement ceremony.
Emily Pulham
Staff Writer
Sculpture Studio
The Crestiad: When did you
sculpt the piece?
Linda Rossell: Last fall when I
took my second semester of
Sculpture Studio.
Honors program
continues to evolve
TC: What was your inspiration?
LR: We were asked to react to the
word "emerge" for our assignment, and I automatically thought
of a baby bird emerging from it's
egg and nest. I wanted to make it
more abstract than just a bird and a
nest, so I made the bird look more
like a marshmallow peep.
TC: Is it white for any particular
reason?
LR: The color of the plaster was
white, and I thought that letting the
material show would make it more
interesting.
TC: How did it end up in TCC?
LR: It was displayed in the display
case in Alumnae Hall and I believe
Elouise asked Jill Odegaard if
there was anything available to put
in the TCC, so Jill brought my
sculpture over.
TC: So are you an art major?
LR: I'm a senior Biodiversity and
Conservation Biology major.
TC: Have you taken other art
classes?
LR: I have an art scholarship, so
I've taken an art class every semester (except one) that I have been
here. Besides two semesters of
Sculpture, I've taken the Printed
Image, Drawing Illustration &
Graphics 1 & 2, and Jewelry and
Metalsmithing.
TC: So you enjoy art?
LR: I really do enjoy art.
Although I am a science major, art
has always been a part of my life.
My grandmother and my aunts ran
a studio in which they sold wooden duck decoys that they carved
and painted. My whole family
has encouraged me to express
myself artistically. I've always
been into drawing, but I took
Sculpture my freshman year here
and I really enjoyed it. It was a
nice change and a new experience.
TC: I see you are a big nature fan;
has that influenced your sculpture?
LR: Nature has definitely influenced my art. Most of the work
I've done since high school has
been inspired by either a plant or
animal. It's a fun way for me to
merge a few of my interests.
OPINIONS
Just blowin’
my mind
Singing with
strangers can lead
to good things
Beth Coulter
Columnist
Linda Misiura
Managing Editor
For the last time
Greetings all,
After five semesters and
approximately 35,000 words, I
have reached my final column. It
is bittersweet to sit here and type
out these last words.
I want to thank those that
faithfully read my column and for
making this worthwhile. If you
didn’t read it, it would have no
purpose.
I indeed have “blown my
mind” all over you and I have a
feeling in the process I have blown
your mind as well. My politics
have not been either liberal or conservative, which might confuse
people. However, as I told you two
and a half years ago, I am a
Utopian Socialist who can see
both sides of the question. This is
what I’ve attempted to address in
this space.
I was against the war in Iraq
from the beginning because I
knew it would not succeed at anything but civil war and chaos in the
region. We are long past the point
of no return and have no good
options open to us, as I mentioned
last time.
I wanted John Kerry elected
not because he was a great man. I
thought that he couldn’t be worse
than Bush. I have no clue who I
think would be good presidential
material. That person has not come
to attention yet, and the best candidate may never get a chance so
long as millions of dollars are
required to run for office.
Beyond politics, I fear for our
planet. Yes, rogue nations
want/have the bomb, and that
would spell the end for us all
should someone push the button.
Yet, even if we disarm every
nation, our planet is still in a terminal condition.
Global warming has reached
past the tipping point according to
researchers. So much basalt rock is
exposed at the Artic Circle, that it
is absorbing the heat of the sun,
causing more melting, which
exposes more black basalt, which
absorbs even more heat, which…
Get the picture?
Al Gore says we have 30
years to reverse this. I think he is
wrong, that we need to figure out
how to cope with the effects while
severely decreasing our contribution to the problem. Renewable
energy is possible.
In North Central California,
there are foothills covered with
hundreds of giant white windmills,
all turning in the wind, creating
hundreds of kilowatt-hours every
minute. It is possible to help this
terminal patient we call Earth, but
we are going to be mighty uncomfortable as years go by before any
reversal will be possible.
I wouldn’t buy any waterfront
property for the next 50 or so years
if I were you. Unless you plan on
living in the water.
I ask you to take this fine education you are receiving at Cedar
Crest College and use it in order to
help heal our earth. No matter
what your major and career plans,
you can help. Don’t simply go
after money. Fulfill yourself and
create a better place for future generations while you are at it.
My future plans are unconfirmed as I write this, but I am
awaiting word from Lehigh
University. I have applied to be a
Fellow in the American Studies
Masters Program, and I am 90%
sure of getting in. I had a successful interview with the Chair of the
Department, and a decent GRE
score.
After I earn my Master, I’d
like to go on to a Ph.D. I don’t
know in what or where. I just take
it day by day and see where life
takes me. It’s been a successful
strategy so far.
I would like to teach at the
University level at some point. I
fell in love with teaching doing
class presentations and find it a
great deal of fun.
I want to thank all of the great
professors I have had during my
time here. Space constraints
restrict my naming them all, but
you know who you are.
I guess that’s it. Thanks for
putting up with my telling you
what to think. It’s been an honor.
For the last time,
Peace,
Beth
Contact
Beth
at
betheqt@voicenet.com and see
more thoughts at www.bethcoulter.com
I saved a girl from serious
harm last Sunday. While on the
Bieber Bus to New York City, one
of the overhead compartments
opened, threatening the safety of
the girl sitting below. I was worried her luggage would clonk her
on the head, so I tapped her on the
shoulder, pointing and mentioning
the perilous compartment. She
shrugged. I sighed. I was only trying to help.
This need to help strangers is
an everyday part of my life. I’ll
admit that I often eavesdrop on
people’s conversation, admitting
my opinions when they are not
always asked for, but usually well
received. This was obviously not
the case on this sunny morning.
This girl, 17, dirty blonde hair,
could care less if her Vera Bradley
duffle tumbled out onto her head
during the journey. I shrugged too,
and settled down for the ride into
the city, preparing myself for
more of the same: holiday shoppers, or just people in general,
who have forgotten the niceties.
Or who have just plain forgotten
the holiday spirit.
I often say that I hate people.
This of course, is usually shouted
in the midst of a crisis instead of a
four letter word, and I don’t completely mean it. But I do feel that
this statement leads to something I
state less often: I have lost faith
that there are nice people in the
world.
To add to the clichéd phrase
“I have lost faith in people” I propose another adage propagated by
the novel Pay It Forward: “What
comes around, goes around.” I
saw this happen today in a chain
of events that was startling and
inspiring, and most of all, faithaffirming. At least in people.
After the Vera Bradley Girl
incident, Lori Gallagher and I
traipsed off into the city for some
holiday fun, forgetting the girl and
her small bit of rudeness. We
walked from 42nd to 50th, to
Bryant Park and the Chrysler
Building, to the New York Public
Library and St. Patrick’s
Cathedral. I offered some makeup
advice to some women in Sephora
and directed a family towards
Times Square (they had been
completely turned around).
Our feet hurt, our tummies
were hungry, and I was aching for
a cup of coffee to thaw out my
hands and nose. Finding ourselves
back at 50th and Broadway, Lori
and I stopped into Ellen’s Stardust
Diner, “Home of the only singing
wait staff.” We ordered a full
meal, drinks, and milkshakes and
were just about to order coffee
when a surprise stepped into our
lives in the form of an older gentleman and his wife, married 45
years
and
hailing
from
Connecticut.
The man sang with us, which
lead to a discussion on their kids
(3) and grandkids (8), where Lori
and I attended school and where
their two daughters and one son
had graduated from. We joked, we
laughed and sang some more, and
as they stood up to put their coats
on and leave, they wished us a
safe trip back to Allentown (he
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Nurses need early hospital experience
Jaime Smith
Staff Writer
The joys of nursing -- there
are many, but early experiences in
the field should be limited to the
hospital setting. This is where the
nurse is exposed to nursing at its
finest. Nursing in hospital settings
can be very challenging. However,
there are many other positive
aspects of working in a hospital
right out of college, rather than a
doctor’s office, school, nursing
home or in the home.
First, nursing school, especially at Cedar Crest College, can
be quite expensive. Many students
face paying off loans after graduation. If they do not find a good
paying job right out of school they
could find themselves in a bad situation financially. Hospitals such
as Sacred Heart and Lehigh Valley
Hospital will pay some of the nursing students’ tuition if they agree to
work for them when you graduate.
This is a great opportunity! Not
only are the students’ loans being
lessened, but they are also being
guaranteed a job in their field
directly out of school. Christina
Hopping, a sophomore nursing
major at Cedar Crest, plans on
working at Sacred Heart Hospital
once she is out of school. Her reason for this is because “Sacred
Heart Hospital offers 100 percent
tuition payback of your junior and
senior year if you work for them
for two years directly out of college.” Currently Hopping works as
a Nurse’s Aide at a nursing home.
She said, “I think I am well prepared for when I become a nurse.”
Second, within hospitals, students undecided on their concentration are exposed to many different fields of nursing, including
work, emergency medicine or surgical, obstetrics and much more.
Nursing students’ first taste
of the hospital comes during their
junior and senior years when they
participate in clinicals. During
clinicals students become student
nurses in the hospital setting.
Under the careful watch of an
established nurse (to make sure
they don’t make any mistakes),
student nurses are allowed to physically care for patients for the first
time.
Brianna Powell, freshman
nursing major at Cedar Crest,
wants to work at St. Luke’s in
Quakertown once she graduates.
“Nursing is a tough profession and
the field requires book smarts,
common sense, and to be able to
reach people emotionally and
physically,” claims Powell. It is
through the clinicals that Powell
will learn how to reach people.
Clinicals give college nursing students a chance to be a “student
nurse” for a few months. It gives
them a taste of what it is really
going to be like working within a
hospital setting. Obviously, most
clinicals take place within hospitals. This is just one more reason
that it is great to work at a hospital
right out of college, rather then any
other place.
Many students get hired at the
hospital where their clinical is
being held. They have a job at a
hospital before they even graduate
which is also great. An individual
learning towards a hospital career
will have the guarantee of making
the big bucks before they are even
considered a registered nurse.
If you are a nursing student at
Cedar Crest College, clinicals are
held in a variety of very high-rated
clinical facilities that are just minutes away from the college. These
are usually hospitals, and these
sites include, but are not limited to
KidsPeace, Lehigh Valley Hospital
and Health Network, Sacred Heart
Hospital and Health Network, and
St. Luke’s Hospital. Hopping
believes that clinicals play a huge
role in the nursing program. “They
get you ready for not only the
working world as a Registered
Nurse, but also examinations such
as the NCLEX.”
There is no doubt the experience gained in a hospital setting is
irreplaceable for a beginning
nurse. “The end of your college
experience is only the beginning of
your learning experience as a
nurse. Bedside nursing offers infinite experiences to new graduate
nurses,” stressed Sandra Axt, RN,
BSN, CCRN, and nursing advisor
at Cedar Crest College. Nancy
Johnston, CRNP, PhD, and assistant professor in the Nursing
Department at Cedar Crest
College, feels that, “it is important
to know how to care for sick people first before you go into a primary care setting like a doctor’s
office. The skills you need for
assessing and intervening that you
are getting within an acute care
setting such as a hospital will help
your confidence to know the
worst.” This is very true also.
Within a hospital setting a nurse
will get to experience everything,
ranging from an individual having
a really high fever to an individual
in the last stages of Leukemia.
Nurses in hospitals do not miss
anything, and they learn a great
deal at the same time. Some of the
things they see they will never forget, and it may change their life a
little. At the same time, they will
be very satisfied with their career,
make a lot of friends, and become
someone to remember by their
patients.
OPINIONS
Life
Mr. Chemist’s
Neighborhood
with Liz
David Raker
Crestiad Cartoonist
Liz Skoczylas
Columnist
‘Tis the season
On November 21, I was making my six hour trek home for
Thanksgiving. After a while, I
started getting bored making this
journey, which I am sure takes
more time than it took for
Christopher Columbus to crash
into the Americas. So I decided,
with two hours left, that I would
count how many people had
Christmas lights already lit.
Forty-nine. Two days before
Thanksgiving, and that many
houses were already set for
Christmas. Granted, there were
two homes still celebrating
Halloween. But 49 had skipped
over Thanksgiving completely!
This fact amazed me.
I made it home that night to
find that my family was indeed
celebrating Thanksgiving, and
wasn’t quite ready for Christmas
yet, which was a relief to me. I
happen to be a big fan of turkey,
and I can yell at the football game
on television with the best of them,
regardless of the fact that I have no
idea of what’s going on, or who the
teams are for that matter.
The day after Thanksgiving,
however, my house slowly began
transforming into a winter wonderland.
My mother is a big fan of
snowmen, and, more recently,
Christmas trees. About two years
ago, I was bored enough to count
all of the snowmen that were
around my home. I gave up when I
hit the 500 mark. And, her collection continues increasingly.
The tree thing is probably the
most off the wall, bizarre phenomenon my house has ever seen. As a
kid growing up, we have always
had a live tree set up in our living
room, which my family would all
help decorate. Eventually, we also
got an artificial tree, which was
then decorated and put up in our
family room, which is the most
traveled through room in our
house.
The silver tree was next. And
it is possibly the most hideous tree
that I have ever seen in my life. It
is about a foot and a half tall, is silver, and has fiberoptic lights on the
end of each branch that change
color. My mom claims that the
original price of this tree is around
the fifty dollar mark, but that she
got it for “real cheap”. If you could
see this tree, you would understand
why she got it for cheap.
Regardless, she loves the tree,
and I think that it is the ugliest
thing that I have ever seen in my
life. My sophomore year of high
school, I had a boyfriend who
thought that the silver tree was
great, and so my mom had us take
a picture with the two of us in front
of the thing. There’s a Christmas
card to send out.
The tree in our kitchen was
next. A tree that was about a foot
tall and had tiny ornaments hanging from it graced the island in the
middle of my kitchen. Next was a
three foot artificial tree in our
upstairs hallway, to be seen out the
window. Then, a tree appeared in
the bathroom about two years ago.
We even put lights and bows on a
palm tree that is in my house!
I thought that the trees were
done. But, as the winter wonderland began making itself known
this year, as I tried to hide away in
my room working on final projects, I learned that this was not the
case.
Out of storage came two more
artificial trees. I was thankful to
learn that one was intended for my
mother’s office at work. But, that
left one more tree. It was destined
for the other bathroom in our
home.
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The Campus Corner
What is your favorite winter memory?
Erica Govan ‘07
Elementary Education
"Being in Vermont with my
family and my frat brothers
watching the meteor showers."
Elouise Schreffler
Information Desk
Coordinator
"...the expressions on my
daughters' faces when they
were toddlers; walking into
the family room on
Christmas morning."
Monica Cawley ‘09
Michelle Snead ‘10
Jean Welch ‘08
Biochemistry with
Forensics
Biochemistry
Genetic Engineering
"...a bunch of my friends
and I had a huge snowball
fight and my 32 year old
neighbor joined us."
"Staying up really late on
New Years playing games
with my whole family."
"Making a ninja turtle snowman with my mommy."
Compiled by Christa Hagan
OPINIONS
Targeting your passion
Courtesy | Brea Barski
Brea Barski
Staff Writer
I am completely ashamed to
admit this, but probably the most
surprising thing to happen to me
since I’ve arrived at Cedar Crest
was that we had classes on Nov.
27. That’s a really sad statement,
but I was shocked! Where I come
from, the Thanksgiving weekend
increases in importance as it goes:
Thanksgiving being somewhat
important, Black Friday shopping
being very important, and the first
day of deer hunting ranking higher
than Christmas to most. Each year,
weeks are spent on preparation,
dozens of sleepless nights are had,
and small fortunes are spent to
finance these hunting expeditions.
People purchase their
cars and sometimes even their
houses based on how beneficial it
is to deer season. Vacation days are
stock-piled and then used during
the first week of deer season in
order to leave the house by 3 or 4
a.m. and wait for a deer to walk by.
That’s all crazy. It’s where I’m
from, though, and a strong part of
my life.
I’ve never hunted, but I fall
into that category. I’m a shooter,
though I’ve never even tried to kill
anything in my life. I was once a
member of the first place junior
pistol team in the state of
Pennsylvania, my high school rifle
team went to States each of the
four years I was on it, and I was an
honorary mention athlete of the
week for a local newspaper that
covers over half a dozen school
districts.
Along with being surprised at
having classes on the first day of
deer, I’m surprised at how shooting has come back into my life.
Most people are surprised to find
that I shoot—even more surprised
to find what I shoot, which I’ll get
to in a minute. I miss it, though,
while I’m here and found myself
going to the range over
Thanksgiving break while all of
the hunters were out; it felt like
home.
Riflery is a harder sport than
most people think—especially
hunters. Precision, patience, focus,
and upper body strength are important, so training starts months in
advance. Weight training is common amongst serious shooters and
cutting caffeine from your diet
entirely (coffee, tea, soda, chocolate—everything!) is also really
important. Shots need to be taken
between breaths and, preferably,
between heart-beats, so a lot of
self-control is needed to be successful.
This is also a fairly expensive
sport. Rifles, bullets, a special
glove to support the gun, a restrictive straight-jacket type of coat to
keep the upper body steady while
in position, a sweat shirt or shooting sweater for added bulk, a
leather sling to attach the shooter
to the gun, ear plugs, eye protection, a special mat to lay, sit, or
A model of acceptance
brings learning home
Susan Lopez
Staff Writer
August 28, 2006 marked my
first day of classes at Cedar Crest
College. I am actually a transfer
student from Penn State, who
decided to change my major from
Biology to Communications with
a minor in Marketing. Yes, I can
hear all of you gasp after just reading that, but I found myself no
longer passionate about the science field and wondering where I
was going in life. So I started to
search for other schools that were
local to home and came across
Cedar Crest College’s website. At
first, I wasn’t so sure about going
to a school for women. I was used
to interacting with both sexes on a
daily basis and wasn’t sure if I
would adapt well. I finally
weighed out my options and
decided to go with Cedar Crest
College.
When I first arrived at the college to schedule my classes and to
set up the financial aid, I was
extremely impressed by the level
of support that all of the faculty
and staff gave me. They all were
tremendously helpful in choosing
a major right for me and even
offered their help when it came to
scheduling the appropriate classes.
I met with an advisor and she
assured me that this college was a
very unique one, where women of
all ages could expand their knowledge, express themselves and
learn in an environment that was
non judgmental. I will admit, I was
quite skeptical about everything
that she was telling me, but decided that if I was going to be successful at this college, I needed to
give it a chance and experience all
there was.
I sat there at my first class and
watched as everyone walked in
with their friends and sat where
they felt most comfortable.
Everyone seemed to be in such
good sprits and continued to talk
with one another until the professor walked in. The sound of con-
versation quickly faded and the
professor took the floor to introduce himself. The professor began
to talk about his past experience in
the workforce and his job as a professor. He continued by explaining
the course and what was to be
expected from us. Time quickly
passed and class was soon over. As
I went to get up and leave, the student that was sitting next to me
asked me what my name was. I
was sort of taken aback by this
because at my old school everyone
tended to stay with their group of
friends and not stray far away
from them. It was much like high
school was with the different
clicks of people. I introduced
myself to the student and was
relieved that someone took the initiative to introduce their self to me.
As the semester continued to
pass, I became better friends with
more and more students. Everyone
was always so pleasant and made
me feel as though I had been part
of the student body for years.
Obviously, I quickly grew attached
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kneel on that prevents sliding and
other movement while shooting,
and assorted cleaning products are
all necessary and most aren’t
cheap.
So how exactly does this
work? There are several positions
to shoot from: sitting, standing,
bench (resting the gun on something), kneeling, and prone (lying
down).
For
PIAA
(the
Pennsylvania
Interscholastic
Athletics Association) riflery (the
only co-ed sport offered for public
high schools) is practiced in the
prone position.
So the shooter gets dressed in
this crazy outfit, lays down on the
ground in uncomfortable conditions, and then tries to hit a piece
of paper with this deadly
weapon—there’s a safe afterschool program for kids!
The target is fifty feet away
and the part that’s to be hit is about
the size of a pencil eraser. There
are eleven bull’s-eyes per target.
The center one is for sighting in
the gun—making slight changes to
the eyepiece of the gun so the
shooting is more accurate—and
also for practice and warming up
the gun (most of the ranges are
cold, some even below freezing at
times, where the shooter’s breath
can be seen and blocks the sights).
The other ten bull’s get shot and
scored. A perfect target is a 100.
Each bull can get as much as ten
points—being a perfect center
shot—or nine, eight, seven, six, or
zero by shooting in the surrounding rings. Once the score out of
100 is found, X’s are counted. An
X is a perfect shot. It’s a ten-point
shot that also didn’t touch the ninepoint ring. An X only matters in a
tie-breaker and for the shooter’s
personal records. A 100-10X is an
absolutely perfect target, without a
tie, though, it has the same value as
a 100-0X. Accuracy is important.
In scoring, a few millimeters can
lose a match and magnifying glasses are commonly used to deter-
SEASON
continued | page 9
room have been overlooked for a
tree? It amazes me that it was treeless for as long as it was. Because,
everyone knows that the only way
to be truly happy during the holiday season is to look at a gleaming
tree while peeing. Obviously.
Now, you would think that
my family would have had enough
trees. However, as I have come to
learn, trees are like shoes- you can
never have enough of them. Write
that one down, I learned it from
my mother.
Saturday rolled around, and
my father was being the great outdoors man that he is, and putting
our outdoor lights and decorations
up. And that’s when I discovered
that we have four white trees with
colored lights.
When my family acquired
these, I may never know.
However, I am pretty sure that
they are new to the decor this year,
mine shots.
The shooter has a time-limit
of fifteen minutes to finish his one
target. Ten varsity shooters shoot
per match, but only the top five are
counted for the final win, going to
the others for tie-breaking purposes.
I’m a rifle shooter, though
meeting me, I don’t fit the stereotypes. Most shooters are male—
some teams are entirely—but I’m
kind of girly, wearing skirts to several matches and having to put on
sweatpants under my skirt. I’m not
a hunter and I’m not even really a
country person (the shooters with
John Deere hats and camouflage
clothes and chewing tobacco
weren’t exactly easy for me to
relate to). The most surprising difference (as I suggested before) is
that my gun was different: most of
the shooters shot bulky, dark, standard rifles, but mine was lightweight and neon pink. At one point
the gun was closer to Pepto Bismol
pink, but my dad painted it for me
and it was a beautiful, bright, “I
glow in the dark, so don’t mess
with me” pink.
I miss my rifle when I’m at
school. I have a target on the inside
of my closet door and next to my
bed there’s a picture of me in black
and white holding up my gun—the
only colored thing in the picture. A
lot of my friends see these things
as identifying factors for me. It’s
different.
In the remaining three and a
half years I’ll be at Cedar Crest, I
don’t think I will ever be comfortable sitting in classes the first
Monday after Thanksgiving. It’s
not because I want to be hunting,
but because shooting is a huge part
of who I am. Lying on the cold
ground, unable to move from the
uniform of a shooter, focusing,
controlling my breathing and
heart-beats, smelling gun powder
in the air, and freezing is when I
feel most at home.
and now their presence graces our
yard, and makes our decor that
much better.
I’m pretty sure that there is
no longer room for any more trees
in my home, but don’t write that
one down, because I definitely
didn’t expect trees in the bathrooms. I am fully expecting to
travel home after finals and find
that my home is no longer a home,
but a Christmas tree farm.
But you know what? As
much as I laugh at the ridiculousness of the trees, they are becoming a tradition in my house.
Without them, it really wouldn’t
be Christmas. I can stress out not
knowing what will come next in
my life, but I will always know
that there are those incredible
trees to look forward to every single year, something that grounds
me and gives me a sense of security. And, after all, aren’t traditions
what holidays are all about?
And so, to you and yours,
Happy Holidays. See you all next
semester.
OPINIONS
How commercialism
stole Christmas
Jess Dominiczak
Staff Writer
I first learned that ‘Santa
Claus’ died when I was in 3rd
grade homeroom, wearing a red
sweatshirt that read – “I believe in
Santa Claus.” To me it was a massive funeral because when Santa
died, as did the Easter bunny, and
the tooth fairy. I had lost my faith
in what I now know is commercialism.
However, Santa can never be
truly dead if he is in your hearts,
and everywhere you look from
Black Friday to New Year’s.
question, “Is there a Santa Claus,”
should prove enough hard evidence about his existence. The editorial later came to be known as,
“Yes Virginia, there is a Santa
Claus” because of the famous line.
Church began his argument for
Santa with the idea that children
are at a skeptic stage in life, and do
not believe because they do not
Santa Baby
According to the History
Channel, the legend of Santa originates hundreds of years to a monk
named Saint Nicholas, believed to
have been born around 280 A.D.
near modern day Turkey. He was
much admired for his kindness,
and giving away all of his inherited wealth, while traveling the
countryside helping the sick and
poor. A feast occurs on Dec. 6, the
anniversary of his death.
St. Nick made his first
appearance in American popular
culture in 1822; Clement Clarke
Moore wrote a Christmas poem
entitled, "An Account of a Visit
from St. Nicholas." Moore's poem
is responsible for our modern
image of Santa as the portly figure
with the supernatural ability to
ascend a chimney with a mere nod
of his head. His poem helped to
popularize Christmas Eve as the
day Santa Claus flew from house
to house in a sleigh led by eight
flying reindeer. In 1881, political
cartoonist Thomas Nast drew on
Moore's poem to create the first
image of modern Santa Claus in
Harper’s Weekly. He depicted
Santa as a rotund, cheerful man
with a full, white beard, holding a
sack with toys, wearing a red suit
trimmed with white fur.
Yes Virginia, there is
Commercialism
To reiterate my point I’m
bringing in the big guns; the editorial page of the New York Sun,
written by Francis Church on
September 21, 1897 in answer to 8
year old Virginia O’Hanlon’s
STRANGERS
continued | page 8
was excited because he knew
where that was) and a happy holiday.
And then he leaned over and
said, “Don’t worry about your bill,
we took care of it.” And my mouth
dropped open, which I quickly
formed into a smile, an emphatic
“Thank you!” and “You have a
happy holiday to you too!” All I
could think of was how I should
ask for their address to send them
a Christmas card, but by then they
were gone.
see, “You might get
your papa to hire men to
watch in all the chimneys on
Christmas eve to catch Santa
Claus, but even if you did not see
Santa Claus coming down, what
would that prove? Nobody sees
Santa Claus, but that is no sign that
there is no Santa Claus. The most
real things in the world are those
that neither children nor men can
see.”
A lot of band ‘isms’
Commercialism has a bad
rap. Its first definition is the principles, practices, and spirit of commerce. Spirit, like the Spirit of the
holidays, or the spirit of Santa.
This spirit of commerce is what
gets the big guy on his sled every
year, and the same spirit that causes traffic jams and accidents near
malls on the weeks leading up to
that special day. The second definition is; a commercial attitude in
non-commercial affairs; inappropriate or excessive emphasis on
profit, success, or immediate
results. Alright now, when have
you ever seen commercial attiLori and I walked around the
city for another hour, and the
smile never left my face. I kept
looking at her and smiling,
exclaiming disbelief over the previous events. Our walk led us to a
nut vendor on Broadway, where
the nut seller accidentally gave
Lori too much change—ten dollars too much. Lori returned it and
the woman seemed so genuinely
happy for her honesty. But we
were just paying it forward, passing on one couple’s kindness to
another.
Try it this holiday season. See
if you can’t make someone’s day
just a little brighter.
tudes in non-commercial affairs,
or excessive emphasis on purchasing needless merchandise in the
weeks leading up to Christmas?
Bah humbug!
Every Christmas, it is said
how commercialized the holidays
are and how the true meanings are
now lost. Yes, the truth behind
Christmas is forgotten,
but not the spirit,
because the spirit
includes commercialism;
sugarplums,
wreaths, trees, lights,
presents,
reindeer,
Santa Claus, candy
canes, mistletoe, etc..
“You better not
pout, you better not cry,
Ms.
Takes
Jennifer Kumetz
Columnist
Don’t forget yourself
The other day, as I was picking away at my cuticles in a blank
state of mental overload, I realized
that I hadn’t painted my finger
nails since the summer time. This
seemed like a fairly mundane realization, until I recognized what
this could mean—had I forgotten
to take time out for myself almost
all semester? I don’t wear makeup
or indulge in any other physical
embellishments; I’ve owned the
same three containers of hair
products for three or four years.
Painting my nails is the one pampering activity that I actually
enjoy, and I had neglected to take
one hour out of my crazy schedule
to do something to make me feel
good about myself.
As the holidays approach and
the semester ends, it is easy to get
caught up in everything and
everyone else, and even easier to
forget to take care of yourself. It’s
easy to feel selfish when I buy
things for myself or my living
space on Black Friday instead of
perspective. It seems selfish to
give this opportunity less time and
effort than it deserves, yet, how
long can I ignore the rest of my
life and the health of my body?
Sure, I can tell myself that every
little grade doesn’t matter in the
long run. But secretly, I never
believe it.
I wonder when my priorities
turned from a quality social life to
quality school work and work
work. Oh wait, is that what they
call responsibility? Well, I guess it
had to arrive some time. Maybe it
was when I returned to school 5
years ago, or maybe when I signed
a 30-year mortgage, or maybe it
didn’t really exist until I acknowledged it while staring at my pale
blank fingernails.
I have no idea what I think I
need to prove to myself, or anyone
else, but inevitably I always take
on more than is healthy for both
my body and mind. Lack of sleep,
quality work and relaxation time,
and distancing from friends and
you
better not shout, I’m telling you
why Santa Claus is coming to
town” whether you believe in him
or not. So why not embrace commercialism and all that entails,
sing some carols, gather with
friends and family, and most of all
enjoy it, because whatever traditions you celebrate, you believe.
MODEL
continued | page 10
Cedar Crest and my fellow class. It might be that I am hapmates.
pier with my major change or
that I am at a different school.
All I know is that, I am so
much happier as a person since I
started at Cedar Crest College. I
feel as though I can be more open
with people and speak my opinion without being judged. I also
feel as though the professors at
our school are exceedingly intelligent and down to earth, good
people.
They make everyone feel
comfortable no matter who you
are or where you come from.
This school treats us as real people not as a number and gives us
opportunities I never knew existed.
This college should be a
model for all other educational
institutes, of how people can
expand their horizons beyond
their wildest dreams when they
are in an environment that is welcoming and accepting of them.
Cedar Crest is more than just a
place to receive an education, but
a home away from home.
holiday gifts for my family and
friends.
But in reality, there is a huge
difference between being selfish
and healthy. Between school,
work, family, kids, friends, pets,
cooking, laundry, grocery shopping, and every other necessity of
life, it is often hard to find a comfortable balance. As a Life Long
Learning student I often struggle
with balancing this laundry list of
responsibilities, though it seems to
be typical of Cedar Crest College
students to be involved in everything, even if it is physically
impossible to do so.
I often get caught up in the
excitement of being a student
again, but sometimes find it difficult to keep that role of student in
family take a toll on my quality of
life each and every semester. As
soon as the semester is over, I feel
lazy and dream of (note I say
dream, not act upon) the noble
deeds I could be accomplishing
with ALL my free time now that
classes are over. And just when I
get in a comfortable routine
including sufficient sleep, exercise, meditation and quality time
with others, a new semester
begins.
During Interim I plan on
painting my nails often. Oh yeah,
and doing other things like sleeping and cooking real food and
doing my job well and taking care
of my home. Paint your nails
sometime soon, you deserve it.
HOLIDAY SPECIAL
Candy Cane
Coffee
Cakes
Hanukkah: The festival of lights
Rachel Edgar
Staff Writer
2 packages regular or quick
active dry yeast
½ cup warm water (105 to 115
degrees Fahrenheit)
1 ¼ cups buttermilk
2 eggs
5 ½ to 6 cups of flour
½ cup butter or margarine,
softened
½ cup sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
2 teaspoons salt
1 ½ cups chopped dried
apricots
1 ½ cups chopped drained
maraschino cherries
1 ½ Coffee Cake Glaze
Dissolve yeast in warm water in
large bowl. Add buttermilk, sugar,
butter, eggs, baking powder, salt
and 2 ½ cups of flour.
Beat with electric mixer on low
speed 30 seconds, scraping bowl
constantly. Beat on medium speed
2 minutes, scraping bowl occasionally. Stir in enough remaining
flour to make dough easy to handle. (Dough should be soft and
slightly sticky.)
For many students, the holidays mean Christmas trees, scenes
of the Nativity, and a visit from
Santa Claus. But for a handful of
students at Cedar Crest, the holidays mean latkes, dreidels, and a
time to celebrate the Miracle of the
Oil.
Hanukkah, also known as the
festival of lights, begins on the
25th day of the Jewish month of
Kislev. It marks the re-dedication
of the Temple after its desecration
by armies under Antiochus IV,
who oppressed and massacred the
Jewish population and desecrated
the Temple by forcing the sacrifice
of pigs (a non-kosher animal) on
the altar.
According to history, there
was not enough oil left for the
menorah in the temple, which was
supposed to burn during each
night. Although there was only
enough oil left to burn for one day,
the menorah miraculously burned
for eight days, which gave the people enough time to prepare a fresh
supply of oil. An eight-day festival
was declared in honor of the mira-
cle.
The menorah is the focal
point of the holiday, and is probably one of the most recognizable
symbols of Hanukkah. The menorah holds nine candles: one for
each of the eight nights that the oil
burned, and a shamus candle that
is used to light the others. One candle is lit on the first night, and
every night thereafter another candle is lit. Finally, on the eighth
night, all eight candles burn brightly.
“My favorite Hanukkah tradition is lighting the menorah,” says
Caryn Torr, a senior Dance major.
“I love the beauty of the glowing
light and the way the colored wax
drips down onto the menorah.”
It is also traditional to eat
foods that are baked or fried in oil
due to the significance of oil to
Hanukkah. Often times this takes
the form of latkes, which are simple pancakes made of potatoes and
eggs. More elaborate latkes are
sometimes made by adding grated
onion, apples, or cheese to the pancakes. It is also a custom to eat
doughnuts, called sufganiyot,
which are deep-fried in oil and
usually filled with jelly. Angel
Bakeries, the largest bakery in
Mix apricots and chopped cherries. Spread one-third of the apricot mixture in a strip about 2 ½
inches wide lengthwise down
center of rectangle. Make cuts in
dough at ½-inch intervals on both
15-inch sides almost to filling.
Fold strips over filling, overlapping and crossing in center.
Carefully stretch dough until 22
inches long; curve one end to
form top of cane. Repeat with
remaining 2 parts of dough. Cover
and let rise in warm place about 1
hour or until double. Dough is
ready if indentation remains when
touched.
Contributed by
Lauren Sandt
Courtesy of the
Betty Crocker Cookbook
Thejewishmuseum.org
Ashton Sinberg’s
f a v o r i t e
Hanukkah tradition, “because
we get a chance
to get together, laugh, and have
fun.”
Just as the re-dedication of the
Temple served to unify a population, Hanukkah continues to unify
people today. It is a time when
families gather together to celebrate the Miracle of the Oil by
sharing customs and traditions
passed down from generations.
“To me, Hanukkah is a time to
celebrate with family and friends
with lots of food and presents,”
says Torr.
Celebrate Christmas with traditions
Grease 3 cookie sheets. Turn
dough onto well-floured surface;
gently knead about 5 minutes or
until smooth and elastic. Divide
dough into 3 equal parts. Roll one
part into rectangle, 15x9 inches.
Place rectangle on cookie sheet.
Heat oven to 375°F. Bake 20 to 25
minutes or until golden brown.
Drizzle Glaze over warm coffee
cakes. Decorate with cinnamon
candies.
Israel,
suppose d l y
whips up
o v e r
250,000
sufganiyot
every day
during the
eight-day
Hanukkah festival.
A n o t h e r
Hanukkah custom is playing dreidel, which is a
gambling game using a
square top as the game
piece. The game has an
historical significance to
the holiday. During the
oppressive rule of Antiochus IV,
study of the Torah was made illegal. Those who wished to study
Torah would hide their readings by
playing games with a top whenever an official came within sight.
Today, people play the game to
celebrate the miracle of Hanukkah.
In fact, the Hebrew letters
inscribed on the dreidel are Nun,
Gimmel, Heh, and Shin, which
stand for the phrase, “a great miracle happened there.” Playing dreidel is freshman Forensics major
Stacey Solt | Lifestyles Editor
Rachel Edgar
Staff Writer
As students prepare to go
home for winter break, many will
be thinking about family and the
Christmas traditions that make the
holidays a magical time of the
year.
Christmas
incorporates
Christian religious ceremonies
with the traditions of ancient win-
ter festivals such as Yule. This
combination of traditions has created many of the customs we associate with Christmas today. Some
of the most popular Christmas traditions include baking cookies,
picking out and decorating
Christmas trees, and singing
Christmas carols.
Baking Christmas cookies,
traditionally sugar or gingerbread
cookies, is a common custom
among
households
during
Christmastime. One of the most
popular cookies is the Gingerbread
cookie, which probably originated
from a German cookie called
Lebkuchen. This is a traditional
Christmas cookie that was most
likely popularized by medieval
monks in the 13th Century. The
ingredients of Lebkuchen include
honey, spices and nuts, and sometimes almonds or candied fruit.
Leaving cookies and milk for
Santa Claus began in the United
States during the 1930s, and has
been a popular U.S. custom since
then. Jessica Ragan, a freshman
Nursing major, enjoys baking
cookies with her mother each
Christmas. “We make every kind
of cookie imaginable – and we do
it all in one day,” said Ragan.
Although the fir tree has long
been a symbol for Christianity,
legend credits Martin Luther as the
father of Christmas trees. On a
cold Christmas Eve in 1500,
Luther walked through a forest
blanketed with snow and was
struck by the beauty of a group of
evergreen trees. Their branches
glistened with a dusting of fresh
snow. He returned home with a fir
tree so he could share the beauty of
the tree with his children. Then he
decorated it with candles, lighting
them in honor of Christ’s birth.
Picking out and decorating an
evergreen is freshman Becky
Malfaro’s favorite Christmas pastime. “We always get our tree on
Christmas Eve, and no matter
what, my entire family has to go
and pick it out together,” she said.
The tradition of singing
Christmas carols can be traced as
far back as the thirteenth century,
when communal songs were sung
during celebrations such as harvest
tide and Christmas. Traditional
carols require a strong tune and
consist of a verse or chorus for
group singing. Today, carols are
usually sung at religious services
on Christmas Eve or Christmas
Day. It is not uncommon for performers to come and hold caroling
concerts at churches. People in the
audience hold lit candles and join
in singing some of the carols in
accompaniment with the performer.
This is exactly what Jess
Dyszel does with her family on
Christmas Eve. “For the past few
years, our church has invited a
Broadway singer to come in and
sing O Holy Night, and it’s
absolutely amazing to hear him
sing.”
Whatever Christmas customs
families observe, the meaning of
Christmas is always the focal point
of the holiday. Christmas incorporates themes of family, goodwill,
giving, and compassion. “For me,
Christmas is all about giving. I just
love to watch my family open their
gifts,” Malfaro added.
However you choose to celebrate the holiday, The Crestiad
wishes you a safe and happy holiday!
HOLIDAY SPECIAL
Sweet
Potato Pie
Kwanzaa
Celebrating traditions, family and history
Emily Pulham
Columnist
The holiday season is fast
approaching, bringing a time for
celebration and joy, for togetherness and thankfulness. For
Kwanzaa, it is also time for an
anniversary, as 2006 marks the
40th year of its celebration.
Although the tradition of giving thanks for harvests dates back
to the days of the ancient
Egyptians, Kwanzaa was “created”
as an official holiday in 1966 by
Dr. Maulana Karenga. Kwanzaa is
a celebration from African culture
dedicated to giving thanks for the
first harvest. According to the official Kwanzaa website (www.officialkwanzaawebsite.org), the word
“Kwanzaa” is Swahili for “first
fruits.”
There are seven principles of
Kwanzaa, all of which reinforce
family, community and culture
among African American people
and the global African community.
Each night during Kwanzaa, one
of these principles (the “Nguzo
Saba”), is honored. The principles
are Unity, Self-Determination,
Collective
Work
and
Responsibility,
Cooperative
Economics, Purpose, Creativity,
and Faith.
Each of the seven principles is
represented by a colored candle
that is lit on its respective day. Red
candles represent self-determination, cooperative economics, and
creativity; green represents collective responsibility, purpose, and
faith . Unity is represented by a
black candle, and is always lit on
the first night, to symbolize the
unity of the people being the thing
of first-most importance. Ears of
corn, crops, the unity cup, and
beautiful works of African art are
placed out on a mkeka mat to
honor ancestors.
Kwanzaa is celebrated every
December from the 26th until
January 1st. Presents are involved
in Kwanzaa celebrations, but they
tend to be less commercialized and
more artistic, educational, and
meaningful in nature. When giving
gifts for Kwanzaa, creativity is
definitely an important principle.
For those who celebrate
Kwanzaa, the holiday is a time for
appreciating family—with gather-
2 c sweet potatoes, drained
4 T margarine, melted
3 eggs
1 c Sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
¼ tsp grated nutmeg
3/4 c milk
1 tsp vanilla
1 9 inch pie shell, baked
¼ c chopped pecans
Use a food processor or fork to
mash sweet potatoes together
with melted margarine.
Blend in eggs, sugar, cinnamon
and nutmeg. Add milk and vanilla. Pour mixture into baked pie
shell.
Microwave on 70 percent power
(medium high) 7 minutes.
Sprinkle pecans over surface of
pie.
Rotating midway through cooking, microwave on 70 percent
power (medium high) 6 to 8 minutes or until center no longer jiggles.
Africaguide.com
The mat, unity cup, and green red and black candles all play a role in the celebration of Kwanzaa.
ings, celebration, and food. Food
served varies from family to family, but most menus do include such
favorites as Sweet Potato Pie,
black-eyed peas, and a variety of
Okra-themed dishes.
Different families may have
different traditions, different
foods, and different ways of appreciating the seven principles, but
hopefully this year there will be a
blessed Kwanzaa to all.
If you prefer, you can bake it in
the oven at 375 degrees for about
35-45 minutes or until it doesn't
jiggle.
Yield: 8 servings
Contributed by
Emily Pulham
www.theholidayspot.com
Ringing in the new year
Kimberly Baksovich
Staff Writer
“Five, four, three, two, one…
Happy New Year!”
Hundreds of thousands of people shout in unison on the streets of
Times Square in New York, as they
count down the seconds to the coming of a new year. Millions more
watch the festivities broadcasted on
live television. This tradition began
back in 1906, and is just one example of how people celebrate the new
year.
For many people, New Year’s
Day is a way to acknowledge the
passing of time. They spend this day
celebrating with close friends and
family. People approach the new
year reflecting on what has passed
and anticipating what is to be.
The official beginning of the
new year is at midnight on January
1. People stay up late and enjoy good
food, music, and other forms of
entertainment. Many people celebrate this holiday in different ways.
One
freshman,
Amanda
McFaline, shared that one of her
New Year’s traditions is to, “eat
twelve grapes at twelve o’clock.”
This tradition is followed throughout
the world - the twelve grapes are
meant to bring good luck and prosperity in the twelve months to come.
Many people like to come up
with New Year’s resolutions, which
are the plans that people make up for
the New Year. According to a survey
done by the U.S. Government, some
Left:
The New Year’s ball has been lowered
from One Times Square since 1907.
The current ball, which made its maiden decent in 2000, is six feet in diameter and weighs more than 1,070
pounds.
Photo | www.timessquarenyc.org
Below:
Dick Clark and Ryan Seacrest will
once again co-host “Dick Clark’s New
Year’s Rockin’ Eve” on ABC. This
will be Clark’s 35th year as the face
of America’s New Year’s celebrations.
Photo | ABC Network
of the most common American New
Year’s resolutions are to loose
weight, save money, quit smoking,
and get fit.
People from all over spend the
young new year in different locations. Freshman Krystale Maxwell
spends her New Years in the clubs.
Some people go to parties, nice
restaurants, and some people choose
to just enjoy the holiday in the comfort of their homes. No matter where
you choose to celebrate, the New
Year is something that will be welcomed by all.
Recipes
to go...
Peanut
Butter
Pie
If you don’t have access to an
oven this holiday season, this
recipe makes a quick and
easy peanut butter pie. Don’t
expect any leftovers!
Ingredients:
1 8-ounce cream cheese
½ c powdered sugar
2 tbsp milk
½ c peanut butter
1 8-ounce Cool Whip
1 graham cracker pie shell
Combine ingredients one at a
time, in the order that they are
listed. Scoop into pie shell.
Chill and enjoy!
Contributed by the
Solt family
LIFESTYLES
Culture-Shocked
Emily Pulham | Columnist
Come sail away...
“Come sail away…”
Sometimes in life, you quote
pirates. You don’t mean to, but you
do it. With that in mind, I have
something to tell you all.
I’m transferring and moving
back to England.
I am now a student at
Richmond University in London.
Don’t pretend to be surprised —
especially since I spent oh, about
two weeks back in the United
States before applying to go back.
I love it here, I really do, but ever
since I saw what the world had to
offer to me, I’ve been a different
person. And since I’ve come back
here, I feel like I’ve lost that person, and just become a shell of the
girl I loved being.
I miss London every morning
and night. I miss it every time my
boyfriend goes to a soccer game
and I can’t get chips and beer with
him afterwards. I miss it when the
weather gets crisp and cold, and
I’m reminded of standing on train
platforms on winter mornings
wondering if the train will ever
make an appearance. I miss find-
ing myself in a city I
love. After all this
missing and being
miserable and empty,
I had another giant
revelation.
I realized I have never, ever,
wanted anything as badly as I want
to go back. I have never, throughout my whole life, had this great
desire for anything. I’ve never felt
the amount of emptiness and loss
that I did from leaving London. I
can’t function for one day without
feeling empty and lost. I can’t pick
up the pieces of me and pretend I
don’t know that I need to be there.
And with that, I knew I had to do
anything to get back there.
I’m not scared of leaving
America this time. I’m not panicking, because I know I’m doing the
right thing. Last time I was hesitant; I could have lived without
going. I can’t live without it this
time. I’m sure; I’m so sure that I
need to go back.
But even though I know I’m
doing the right thing, I’ll still miss
it here. I can truthfully use the old
“it’s not you, it’s me” line. My situation is kind of like growing
plants. If a plant stays too long in
one pot, its roots grow too big for
it, and there’s no room left for it to
grow. I grew up in Allentown, and
I’m not sure there’s enough room
left here for my roots to grow any
further.
I will, however, take every
single thing that I learned here on
this campus with me. And I know
that no matter where I go, or for
how long I stay there, I will always
consider myself a Cedar Crest student. The thing is, what Cedar
Crest gives us isn’t always
obtained in the set standard of four
years. Some of us will take five
years to get it; and some of us only
need two.
I’ve learned what I’ve needed
to here. I’ve gone from being a
depressed child who saw no visible tomorrow, to a woman who’s
itching to get out and grasp the
world with both hands — to see
and do as much as physically possible until I pass out, exhausted
with breathing the fresh air of the
freedom of all the possibilities
available to me across the world.
I’ve got what the Crest wants
us to have — I received confidence, strength, the ability to
think, and I became a woman. For
the first time in my life I feel like
an adult, and I got that from here. I
can truly say that this place made
me who I am — just in less time
than I imagined.
And when I buy a ring, it will
not be a Richmond one. It will be
from here, a Cedar Crest College
ring. I may graduate from
Richmond, but I went here. I
learned here, I grew here, I loved
here, I laughed here, I cried here. I
went here. And although a piece of
paper I will eventually obtain will
not have Cedar Crest’s name on it,
my heart will always be stamped
with three C’s.
I will miss it here. I will miss
so much about it — especially the
people. All I can offer in return for
the good times I had with all of
you is a thank you --- thank you to
people who smile when you walk
past them on the quad, thank you
to the people I live with, the professors, the students, the people,
and my friends.
I’ll miss it, but I just can’t
bring myself to turn away from
what my heart wants more than
anything - this glorious moviescreen sunset I’m about to sail off
into to explore the great wide
world around me. And hell, why
not quote a pirate at times like
these. In the words of the great
Johnny Depp:
“Now, bring me that horizon.”
INTERNATIONAL CORNER
Smothered by silence
Rape in Nigeria and around the world
Christa Hagan
Copy Editor
In the United States, rape is a
crime that affected more than
64,000 people between 2004 and
2005. However, these numbers
represent only the cases that are
reported. There are many reasons
why rapes go unreported -reporting a crime such as sexual assault
is a fairly daunting task, and the
numbers and facts that follow
regarding punishment and follow
up of the crime are surprising.
According to the Crime
Victims Council of the Lehigh
Valley, “If the rape is reported to
police, there is a 50.8 percent
chance that an arrest will be
made… If an arrest is made, there
is an 80 percent chance of prosecution.”
The United States is not the
only country where the reporting
and prosecution of rape does not
match the incidence rates of rapes.
Currently, Nigeria is in the
news for the amount of rapes per-
formed by government officials.
Human rights-focused organization, Amnesty International,
reported in their article, “Rape the Silent Weapon” that “Nigerian
police force and security forces
commit rape in many different circumstances, both on and off duty.
Rape is at times used strategically
to coerce and intimidate entire
communities.”
Rape is not only an internationally recognized violation of
human rights, but is a violation of
international law as well. Amnesty
International stated that the
“Nigerian government has failed
in its international obligations to
take action against agents of the
state who have committed rape
and sexual abuse, and has failed to
amend discriminatory legislation
that guarantees impunity from
charges of rape.”
The International Society for
Human Rights (ISHR) also posted
an article on Sharia Laws regarding rape. Sharia is the Islamic law.
In the ISHR article, the punishment for rape is addressed. In
order for a rapist (in Nigeria) to be
punished for the rape, the victim
has to prove the rape. “The rape
victim then has to prove that she
really was raped. In case the man -
“If the rape is reported to police, there is a
50.8 percent chance
that an arrest will be
made… If an arrest is
made, there is an 80
percent chance of
prosecution.”
-Crime Victims
Council of the
Lehigh Valley
which is very likely - denies that
he has raped the woman, the
woman has to name four male witnesses to prove the rape. In case
the woman does not find these four
male witnesses - which again is
very likely - she will be charged
with slander.”
If the rape is proven, and the
rapist is unmarried, he is met with
one hundred lashes. If he is married, he is stoned to death. If the
victim is charged with slander
when the accused rape is not
proven, eighty lashes to the victim
are then prescribed.
The Human Rights Watch
also reported the recent increase of
rapes in Nigeria, specifically the
increase of rapes being committed
by men in police or government
official positions. They addressed
the issue as to why the rapes are
going unreported. “It is believed
… that the vast majority of cases
go unreported because of the stigma associated with rape and the
fear of intimidation and reprisals
by the police.”
For more information about
human rights and how to get
active, visit the websites of
Amnesty
International
(www.amnesty.org) and The
Human
Rights
Watch
(www.hrw.org).
Beauty
Works
La Lonnie Moore
Columnist
Makeup:
Part two
It’s time to complete our
wonderful winter facial transition! Let’s get started by getting
to the basics.
Not every color is right for
everyone. The more natural you
go the better you are. Wearing
more subtle tones that blend well
during the day and more eyecatching colors that stand out at
night is the way to go.
Not every woman can wear
red lipstick or colored lip liner.
There are times when you need
to tone it down- try wearing liners that come in various shades
of brown. Blend in your liner
prior to applying lipstick or lipgloss. In the winter months, wear
a darker shade but be sure not to
go so dark that your lips overpower the rest of your face.
When applying blush, apply
it only to the cheekbone area. If
you are puzzled as to where your
cheekbones are, make a fish face
and where the cheeks indent this
is your target area! Blend well
and make sure that the blush you
choose highlights your face.
Fairer skin tones should choose
pinks or corals, darker skin tones
should opt for brown and burgundy tones.
Finally, decide what feature
you want to accentuate and down
play the rest. Bold lips, eyes and
cheeks are just too overpowering.
For eyeshadow choose three
different shades similar in color.
The shade that is medium goes
on the lid, while the darkest
shade goes in the crease. Lastly,
the lightest shade is to highlight
the area under the brow. Apply
eye shadow in a sweeping
upward motion.
Choose a liner/mascara
combination that matches and
stay away from black, which can
look harsh. Dark brown is more
natural. The darker your skin
tone is the darker liner and mascara you should choose.
To complete your look, consider a gloss over lipstick. Colors
that have plum, wine or deep red
undertones, flatter darker skin
tones. While light-brown or
beige with pink or orange undertones complement lighter tones.
Olive skin looks best with a
brownish red, light brown or
raisin shades of lipstick.
The Crestiad - December 11 2006 - Page 15
LIFESTYLES
Fresh off the shelf
You asked
for it...
Victoria’s Secret Very Sexy
Secret Embrace Push-up
Leann Pettit
Staff Writer
The Claim: “One-piece construction that is seam-free, label-free
and stitch-free.” Bra is available in
32A-B, 34A-D, 36A-D and 38AD.
The Very Sexy Secret
Embrace bra offers “deep wavy
scalloped edges” for more cleavage exposure and is convertible
from a regular, two-strap bra, to a
halter and a racer back.
The Results: I will wash laundry
just to wear this bra again! It is so
comfortable. The bra really is
seamless and incredibly comfortable. Tags are usually itchy and
annoying, and get cut off when I
first get home. I forgot I was wearing a bra after putting it on.
The push-up pads were fitted
and not bulky and stiff like many
other push-up bras. The type of
material used to make the bra is
also different from many other
bras - lycra and spandex instead of
the usual lace, cotton, or silk. It
was like adding another layer of
skin to my body, not like adding
another layer of clothing.
Almost as cool as the bra
itself were the patterns of the bra.
The one I got was solid black on
the outside and leopard print on
the inside, but there are many different designs, including red with
cherry blossoms on the inside and
purple with purple zebra stripes on
the inside.
The scalloped edge, while
designed for more cleavage exposure, didn’t do too much for me.
However, they were great when I
was wearing a lower cut shirt,
because you couldn’t see my bra.
The only downside is that when
I adjusted the bra to racer
back, I couldn’t figure out how
to get it on, which was a little
annoying.
Retail cost and
where to find it:
Like all Victoria’s
Secret products,
the Very Sexy
Secret Embrace
push-up can be
found in stores,
online and in the
catalogue and is
$45 for A
through C cup
size, and $48 for
D-cup bras.
Gillian Maffeo
Crestiad Advice Columnists
and
A+
Dear Gillian,
Linda Misiura |
Photo Editor
Eating for the holidays
Opinions Editor
Linda Misiura | Photo Editor
Eat a healthy snack
Drinking your calories
If you eat a small healthy
snack in the morning or afternoon
before a social gathering, you will
tend to eat less and slower at the
party itself. This will help you
maintain portion control and possibly make you steer away from
fattening foods.
While alcohol may be a
prevalent aspect of the holidays,
moderation and healthy choices
are key. Try dryer wines, light
beer, and alcoholic drinks with
diet counterparts. If you are a huge
fan of eggnog, opt for a low fatversion of eggnog rather than the
traditional version.
Portion control
I am concerned about a friend of mine who has
been slacking off in school and doing things that
she shouldn’t do. I feel like I am being dragged
down with her and it is distracting me from my
school work. How should I handle this situation?
Concerned Friend
Dear Concerned,
While many of us cannot wait
until the end of the semester, some
of us may dread the holiday season
for one reason : the weight gain
that sometimes accompanies an
appetite for all those holiday
treats. So how does one eat what
they wish, enjoy numerous holiday parties and get-togethers, and
still manage to not feel guilty
about doing so? Just follow the
tips listed below and the holiday
season can be filled with family,
friends, and great food.
One of the most important
factors of holiday eating is portion
control. Although the food may be
appetizing and tempting, controlling the amount you eat can control the amount of weight you gain
and also the food choices you
make. When you sample smaller
portions of food, you are able to
eat a larger variety of foods and
fulfill more of your holiday cravings.
Louis Mariani
Substitutions
The food you make during the
holidays can be altered so that the
fat and calorie content is made
lower so that consuming the food
is not a guilty pleasure. Try using
low- or no-fat ingredients — family and friends probably won’t
even notice.
Set goals
If you are truly concerned
about gaining weight during the
holiday season, set goals for your-
self and try your hardest to stick to
those goals. Goals may include
limiting your food intake at parties
or exercising more; completing
your goals will make you feel better and begin to counteract the
overabundance of food during the
holiday season.
You have to remember that
this is college and some people
like to go out and have a good
time, but you have to do so in
moderation. Sure, I like to go out
and socialize. But I always tell
myself that I have to get my work
done first, and then I can go out. I
always hear my mother’s words
in the back of my head:
“Everything in moderation,
Gillian!”
College is all about time
management. I am sure that a lot
of people have told you this
before, but you have to organize
your life and your goals. That
doesn’t mean go out and party
every single night.
In regards to your friend, I
would try to talk to her and tell
her how you feel. If she doesn’t
listen, then there really is nothing
you can do. The only thing you
can do is remove yourself from
the situation and think about your
life and the opportunities that are
available for you.
College is a huge experience
in everyone’s life. This is where
we all figure out what we want to
do with our lives, and if you are
going out every night, partying
and not doing your school work,
it is going to be tough on you.
Be strong and independent.
Your friend is going out a lot and
doing things you don’t agree
with, why do you have to accompany her? I know this might
sound selfish, but think about
yourself and your goals. It’s a
competitive world out there, and
if you mess it up in college,
you’re not going to have many
opportunities. So stay focused,
and good luck!
Gillian
Treat yourself
While the holidays may be
stressful when it comes to food
choices, do not deprive yourself of
that rich dessert or tempting food.
As long you practice moderation,
and don’t eat those foods as leftovers for the entire month of
January, splurging for one or two
days will not ruin your figure or
your diet. The holidays are a time
for fun, family, loved ones and
friends — so treat yourself, relax
and enjoy the holiday season.
Happy holidays,and happy
eating!
The Passion.
The Thrill. The Grill!
610-439-6100
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
10 Top
Holiday
Movies
Kelly O’Donnell
A&E Editor
If you don’t know what to
watch this holiday season and
want to curl up with some hot
chocolate and a few good
movies here are the top ten
movies. Remember, many TV
stations will run marathons
including many of these movies
and TBS will play A Christmas
Story on Christmas all day long.
1.) A Christmas Story- A boy,
Ralphie, tries to get a Red
Ryder BB gun that everybody
says he shouldn’t have because
he’ll shoot his eye out.
2.) Love Actually- This movie
shows eight different couples
and the types of relationships
that they experience during the
holiday season
3.) How the Grinch Stole
Christmas (animated or Jim
Carrey version)- The Grinch
tries to steal and ruin Christmas
for Whoville.
4.)The Nightmare Before
Christmas- In this Tim Burton
stop motion animated classic,
the residents of Halloween
Town take on a new challenge
as they try to turn Christmas
into a fright fest.
5.) Rudolph the Red Nose
Reindeer- Rudolph, teased by
the other reindeer, tries to find
friends that who accept him for
who he is, and ends up helping
Santa.
6.) National Lampoon’s
Christmas Vacation- A family
tries to enjoy Christmas, but
many things go wrong along the
way, including a missing bonus
paycheck but in the end all
works out right.
7.) It’s a Wonderful Life- A
man who is upset with life gets
his wish and sees what life
would be like if he hadn’t been
born.
8.) Miracle on 34TH Street- A
man is institutionalized because
he believes that he is Santa
Clause and a lawyer and a little
girl help to prove it in court.
9.) The Muppet Christmas
Carol- The Muppets take on the
old story of a bitter man who
doesn’t celebrate Christmas and
gets visits from a few ghosts
that help him realize the true
meaning of Christmas.
10.) Home Alone- A child gets
left behind when his family
goes on vacation over
Christmas and he realizes the
importance of family in life.
Cedar Crest Dance Company Presents:
Winter Solstice
Brea Barski
Staff Writer
People were dancing on the
stage and in their seats at the
“Winter Solstice” dance concert,
held Dec. 1 and 2. The concert
took place in Samuel’s Theatre,
with about eighty percent of the
seats being filled each night.
The show featured holiday
music. In a positive change from
previous shows, the music had “an
international flair,” featuring
Christmas music, Hanukkah
music, and more, all in various
languages.
The dancing was great, enthusiastic, and with enough variety to
keep the attention in even the
youngest members of the audience. Tap , swing, ballet, and modern dance were featured.
In the first act, a collection of
five pieces entitled “Weihnachten
in Deutschland,” or “Christmas in
Germany,” were performed. The
dancers, choreography, traditional
music, and overall effect were
accentuated by the amazing sets,
designed by junior Melanie
Devlin. The set used pieces of
doors that attached to what
appeared to be a European looking
clock. This portrayed the tiny, animated dancers often found on such
clocks. The clock was beautifully
Courtesy | Kevin Gallagher
designed with a Christmas tree
behind it. The tree was later decorated by the participants of the
show, and brought forward at the
end of the song.
Other highlights of the show
included an upbeat guest appearance by the Steel City Swingers
and a beautifully moving performance of “Eight Candles,” using
boxes and dancers to represent the
time-honored Hanukkah menorah.
Senior Patricia Egner added to the
concert, reading informational
pieces at points throughout the
show, and singing the traditional
Christmas carol “O Tannenbaum.”
The show was brought to a
close with a Latin piece: Paz en la
tierra. Brightly colored skirts
swirled vibrantly as eight Cedar
Crest students masterfully whirled
around the stage, smiling the
whole time.
There are two more dance
concerts scheduled this year at
Cedar Crest. The Student Dance
Concert is March 30 and 31 and
the Spring Dance Concert is April
27 and 28. Cedar Crest faculty,
staff, and students had reduced
admission and in some situations
provided free tickets. If the Winter
Solstice Concert was any indication of what the upcoming concerts will be, I wouldn’t want to
miss them.
Bet You Didn’t Know...
Meet Ryan Kipp in Development
Gillian Maffeo
A&E Editor
Ryan Kipp grew up in Wescosville,
PA with his parents and older
brother Rich. Kipp is the Assistant
Director of Development at Cedar
Crest College.
committee, studied abroad in
Australia at Macquarie University
and played Varsity baseball for the
university.
TC: Why did you choose to work
at Cedar Crest?
RK: I applied to other colleges, but
ects that I am working on that come
out in the spring, the Phonathon which starts in February, and help
raise money for Cedar Crest. I also
attend events that go on at Cedar
Crest and talk to alumni.
TC: What are your typical working
The Crestiad: What aspects of
Cedar Crest do you like the most?
Ryan Kipp: Since I grew up in
Wescosville, PA, which is relatively close to Cedar Crest and attended Muhlenberg, I know this area
really well. I enjoy the students that
attend Cedar Crest. Every one of
them is very nice and seem very
determined in what they want to
do.
TC: Were you involved with any
activities or organizations at
Muhlenberg?
RK: I was in a fraternity, a representative on Student Government
for 3 years, chair of campus safety
TC: What is your favorite part of
the Holiday season?
RK: I go to Florida every year for
Christmas. We have family down
there and we call it the “Beach Boy
Christmas!”
TC: What do you do in your spare
time?
RK: I love to workout and I swim
at the Rodale Aquatic Center on
campus. I also run 5K’s, snowboard, ski, watch football – Giants
are my favorite team, take pictures,
attend concerts, and hang out with
friends.
TC: What did you major and minor
in at Muhlenberg?
RK: I graduated Muhlenberg in
2002 with a BA in Communication
and a minor in Art.
TC: What was your favorite part of
the Communication program at
Muhlenberg?
RK: I really enjoyed audience
analysis class. We studied the theory of how the media affects the
audience.
work on for Cedar Crest, I’ll work
on those.
Courtesy | Ryan Kipp
Cedar Crest had an opening and
since I am from the area it seemed
very convenient. Cedar Crest had a
lot to offer and I felt more comfortable working here. I really enjoy
the people I work with and they are
very respectful.
TC: What is your typical day like
when working in development?
RK: I have to keep up with proj-
hours?
RK: I work from 8:30 am to 4:30
pm. Sometimes I work later
because of events that are taking
place.
TC: What is your typical weekend
like?
RK: I like to visit my friends at
Lehigh University and Kutztown
University. Also, if I have events to
TC: What other qualities or unique
things do you want people to know
about you?
RK: I love the outdoors and I am a
very spiritual person. I love going
to the beach and skydiving. I really
enjoy meeting new people and I am
not shy!
TC: Do you have any suggestions
for graduating students?
RK: Well, I think that everyone
should have an idea of what they
want to do. When you graduate,
everything is so different; it’s a
change of pace. Everyone goes
through stressful times after graduation. Once you find that job, you
also have to realize that you have to
work for what you want in life.
Chitter Chat
The Sound Booth
Everyone’s screaming for LostProphets
Kelly O’Donnell
A&E Editor
Jennifer Aniston and Vince
Vaughn have split. The two
started dating over a year ago
called it quits, after a relationship
full of tabloid comments. In
October, the two visited London
and decided then that they were
going to break up. According to
their representatives, “Jennifer
and Vince mutually agreed to end
their relationship but continue to
be good friends today.” Let’s
hope that this does not become a
trend for Aniston.
Nominations
for
the
Grammys were announced
Thursday and Mary J. Blige
ended up walking away with
eight nominations. Her album
The Breakthrough was nominated for R&B album and Record of
the year. Other nominees include
The Dixie Chicks, James Blunt,
Prince, John Mayer, and Justin
Timberlake. The Red Hot Chili
Peppers received six nominations and Corinne Bailey Rae
was nominated for best new
artist, record, and song of the
year for “Put Your Records On.”
This should be an interesting
award show with so many good
nominees, so stayed tuned next
semester for the winners.
Although Tom Cruise and
Katie Holmes got married in
Italy the newlyweds have decided to throw a party . Cruise and
Holmes
got
married
on
November 18 and many big
celebs were there but the couple
will host a reception/cocktail
party at the their home in Los
Angeles for people who were not
able to attend. Maybe this time
Mr. Big Shot will invite Oprah
and I personally hope she shoots
him down.
George Clooney, recently
named Sexiest Man alive, has
had tragedy befallen upon him.
His pet pig, Max, died at the age
of 19 on December 1. Clooney
had Max for 18 years and this
was not the first time that he was
near death. The pet was run over
by a friend in 2001. He was
nursed back to life by Clooney
and fully recovered.
Our
thoughts are with you Clooney.
R.I.P. Max.
And in a final train of
thought what is with all these
celebrities going around with little skirts, no underwear and then
while trying to get out of a car
but then flashing everyone
because they can’t do it elegantly? Britney Spears, Paris Hilton,
and Lindsey Lohan have been in
this situation. On her website
Britney Spears said “It’s been a
long time since I’ve been out on
the town with friends…and I
probably did take my new found
freedom a little too far.” Yeah, I
would say she did. Just because
she broke it off with her hubbie
doesn’t mean she had to break it
off with her panties. Remember
Britney Spears, little girls looks
up to you. You may not care but
others do.
Amanda Goodman
Opinions Editor
The Lostprophets June 2006
release, Liberation Transmission is
a combination of amazing lyrics,
raw talent, great vocals, and
addicting rock/alternative/new
wave music. The band, comprised
of Ian Watkins (vocals), Jamie
Oliver
(keyboards,
back-up
vocals), Lee Gaze (lead guitar),
Mike Lewis (rhythm guitar), and
Stuart Richardson (bass guitar),
are a Welsh rock band that formed
in 1997. In June 2005, founding
member and drummer Mike
Chiplin left the group, so drummer
John Freese of The Vandals and A
Perfect Circle joined the group for
this album. The band derived its
name from a bootleg recording of a
1988 Duran Duran concert in Italy.
Since 1997, the band has released
numerous demos, three studio
albums and nine singles.
The band has experimented
with a range of sounds from ska to
rock to hip-hop, and their latest
release does not disappoint.
Starting the album in a UK recording studio and eventually completing the album in Hawaii saw a
strong foundation in the way of
producer Bob Rock, who has
worked with Metallica, Bon Jovi,
and Motley Crüe. Liberation
Transmission was the band’s first
album to reach number one in the
UK album charts. The album,
hardest
part
of
moving
forward/are the times where we all
stand alone” as seen in the song
“For All These Times Son, For All
These Times” this album can truly
be the soundtrack to your life. The
which takes inspirations from The
Cure and We Are Scientists, has
the perfect combinations of the
making of a great album.
With lyrics like, “So can u
feel your heartbeat racing/can you
feel the tension rise/can you see
the road you’re walking/are these
signs too hard to recognize/part of
where you’re going/is knowing
where you’re coming from/the
song titles (very similar in fashion
to Fall-Out Boy’s lengthy and
clever song titles) are catchy
(“Everybody’s
Screaming!!!”,
“Broken Hearts, Torn Up Letters
and The Story of a Lonely Girl”)
and truly make you want to hear
the songs based on their titles.
Once you listen to the songs, the
titles do not disappoint. Lead
singer, Ian Watkins voice is amaz-
ing on this album, and shows good
vocal range and has a beautiful
tone. Outstanding tracks on the
album are “Rooftops
(A
Liberation Broadcast)”, “Can’t
Catch Tomorrow (Good Shows
Won’t Save You This Time)”
(which is a amusing take on fashion-victim mentality) and “A Town
Called Hypocrisy.”
The band is currently touring
in Europe and has been touring
since early July 2006 in promotion
of their latest album. At the annual
Kerrang! Awards in 2006, the band
picked up awards for “Best
Album” and “Best British Band.”
According their main site, the band
wishes to start writing their fourth
album in February and March,
record the album in May and June
and release the album by the end of
2007. I highly suggest checking
this band out, especially if you like
the styles of 80s music mixed with
current rock and alternative music.
Their lyrics are raw, the vocals are
amazing, and the music just makes
you want to play the album on
repeat. Check out the band’s
MySpace
page
at
www.myspace.com/lostprophets
to hear some of their singles and be
kept up to date on the latest news.
A
Let’s sing about sex...
Linda Misiura
Managing Editor
Sex, lewd gestures and fourletter words present themselves as
the main characters in Broadway's
newest musical. Prudes be warned:
this is a far cry from Beauty and
the Beast. With a startlingly
straightforward message and
poignant songs, Spring Awakening
lets us know that the problems of
sexuality and abstinence that
plagued our ancestors 100 years
ago are still pertinent today.
Instead of appearing as that
documentary on the Discovery
Channel with the gravelly overtones of a man in his sixties, we
get teenagers rockin' out the longing in their loins and their sexual
knowledge (and lack thereof).
The plot, told through rock
music with the titles My Junk, is
one of a young guy and girl in
1891, a tale of mixed messages,
deception, love, and death.
When Wendla's mother elects
not to tell her the whole story of
the birds and the bees, Wendla
gives into the stirrings of her hormones and emotions, falling in
love and sleeping with the enemy,
Malchior Gabore. Not surprisingly, the teen ends up pregnant.
The argument against abstinence and lack of sex-ed for teens
comes across loud and clear when
Wendla finds herself knocked up,
without realizing how she became
with child. In a great twist of dramatic irony, the audience sees this
moment coming from the begin-
ning when Wendla’s mother tells
her children can only come about
when a woman loves a man very
much, very very much, and they
are married.
Tragedy saves the day, sopping up the massive quantities of
the f-word and the onstage sex to
bring the story round in its emotional ferris wheel.
To be fair, the rock music is
more important than the vulgarity
presented in the musical. Most of
the time, the music is so powerful
that the lewdness is transferred to
the back burner.
The musical, overall, was
amazing. Despite what some might
call over the top, Spring
Awakening manages to tackle the
issues of teenage sex in a healthy
way that will appeal to most undertwentysomethings more than
teachings on abstinence.
Linda Misiura| Managing Editor
Night Life
Jaime Smith
Staff Writer
It was a Sunday night, and for
the first time I was walking into
Montana West. I had never been
there before, though many of my
friends had told me how much fun
it was. Upon entering Montana
West, I had to pay seven dollars,
and my hand was stamped with a
unique Montana West insignia.
Sunday nights are referred to as
‘Family Nights’ at Montana West.
The doors open at 5 pm, and there
is only a one-dollar admission
between 5 and 6 pm. After 6 pm, it
is seven dollars to enter.
As I walked into the club,
crowds of people were dancing on
the enormous dance floor. It was
about 7 pm at the time, and dance
lessons were taking place, as they
do every week.
Beverly
D’Angelo, lead dance instructor,
was teaching many young kids and
adults how to line dance to a few
different country songs. The
December dance of the month is
the popular, "RIO". Now, this
dance is actually the most popular
dance being taught around the
whole world. Montana West’s
website states, “It’s a very well
choreographed Cha Cha and one of
the dancer’s favorites. This is a
dance with staying power and will
be around a long time. Be sure not
to miss this one! It will be taught
December 16 and be reviewed on
the December 23.” Dance lessons
also take place on Thursday nights
at 7pm. Thursdays are another
Country night, but you have to be
18 to enter, and it is a five dollar
admission fee.
Country music is Montana
West’s primary kind of music
played on Sundays, and everyone
mainly line dances. There are a
few exceptions, and that is when
they play songs such as the “Cha
Cha Slide.” This is a very popular
song that many teenagers know
from school dances.
At about 8 pm they did their
normal national anthem, and then
line danced to “Cotton Eyed Joe.”
I enjoyed this because all of the
regulars that go to Montana West
every week participated in dancing. Everyone was pumped up and
having a great time!
On Sunday Night, there were
a different array of people at the
club. I saw so many “cowboy”
types of guys and girls. After living
in Quakertown my whole life, I did
not see that everyday, so it was a
good experience seeing people
who were different than the everyday norm. They were all wearing
their cowboy hats and boots, and
their tights pants.
Another exciting feature at
Montana West is the mechanical
Bull. The charge is 5 dollars for a
ride. I rode it for the first time on
Sunday, and it was so much fun! I
had been on horses before, but this
was nothing compared to that. I
Is ugly
the new
pretty?
Susan Lopez
Staff Writer
September 28, 2006 marked
the premiere of Ugly Betty on ABC.
Ugly Betty is a drama/comedy that
airs Thursday nights at 8:00 pm.
The show stars America Ferrera,
Vanessa Williams, Alan Dale, and
Eric Mabius. The show is based on
a popular Columbian soap opera
“Yo Soy Betty, La Fea” (I am Betty,
the Ugly One).
The concept was adopted for
American television with executive
producer Salma Hayak. Ugly Betty
follows the career of Betty Suarez
at Mode Magazine as assistant to
Daniel Meade, the editor of Mode
Magazine. The show chronicles her
home life in Brooklyn and her
inner struggles with herself. Betty
finds it hard to fit into the fast
paced fashion world with her some
what naive fashion sense, yet finds
a friend in Christina, who works in
the wardrobe department. Though
proving herself to Daniel Meade
seems quite impossible at first,
Betty quickly becomes accepted by
Daniel as an irreplaceable assistant.
This series is something to
look forward to every Thursday.
America Ferra, along with other
stellar cast members, always delivers a hilarious yet refined performance that leaves you wanting more.
Ugly Betty recently won best new
series from Family Television
Awards, received four nominations
from the Satellite Awards, and has
even been nominated for a People’s
Choice Award. The ratings speak
for themselves. Ugly Betty is a hysterical comedy/drama that everyone can enjoy.
So give it a chance if you
already have not and set your TVO
to Ugly Betty Thursday night at
8:00 pm on ABC.
Montana West
Courtesy | www.clubmontanawest.com
had to hold on with my dear life,
and pray that I wouldn’t fall off!
There was an instructor watching
me as I rode the beast, and he was
telling me how to stay on.
On Sundays, children under
12 years of age get to ride the bull
for free, and there are many prizes,
games, and giveaways. I also
found out that kids could eat and
get in free on Sundays! Any child,
12 years of age or younger can
receive a free child meal from their
kids menu for each adult meal pur-
chased.
On April 16, Montana West
had become a non-smoking facility for Sunday nights between 5 and
8 pm. I think that this was a good
idea because there are so many little kids running around. Why fill
the place up with smoke the whole
entire time?
Montana West also has their
Horsepower Grille, with many different options to eat such as burgers, pickens, sandwiches, and
entrees. Every night they have an
“all you can eat” type of food. On
Wednesdays it is pasta, Thursdays
are chicken wings, Fridays are crab
legs, Saturdays are ribs, and
Sundays is fried chicken. They
even host parties and special
events. They cater for all occasions, have pig roasts, BBQs, party
trays, and platters. They also cook
and prepare gourmet dishes.
There are two separate bars
located at Montana West, and they
hold drink specials every night that
they are open. One-dollar drafts
are also sold every night.
Montana West is located at
1030 North West End Blvd in
Quakertown. It is about 20 minutes
south of Cedar Crest College. If
you take 309 south, you will hit
this wonderful club in no time!
College nights are on
Wednesdays, Hip Hop is on
Fridays, and Country is on
Saturdays. You have be 21 to enter
on Friday and Saturday nights. The
Bikini Bull Riding Contests happen on Saturday nights, and you
have to be 21 to enter.
Sam Pfister, who goes to
Montana West every single Sunday
states, “I would not change this
club for anything. I love it here,
and have so much fun when I go.
Everyone is so nice, and I have
made so many friends here within
the past few months. Even when I
am line dancing, I find other kids
trying to help me through it if I get
lost. It’s great!”
Su Doku
Fill in the grid so that every row, every column, and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 through 9
Look for answers to this issue’s puzzle underneath the crossword puzzle
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9
8 4
7
9
3
1
9 4 3
6
7 2
6
6
1 4 7
8
2
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Hint: To start, figure out the number that belongs in the fifth row, fourth column
Special thanks to Dr. Sarver and the Mathematics
Department for their Contribution of the Sudoku Puzzle
Reel Review
Mark Your
Calendars
Tuesday, December 12
Reading Day
Study Session/Ice Cream Party
Moore Lounge
9:30 PM
Wednesday, December 13
Reading Day
Customer Appreciation Day at
the Bookstore: Coffee, tea and
20% off CCC merchandise!
Lambda Pi Eta’s
Communication Party: Join us
for student videos and photographs
TCC, Bistro
5PM -9PM
Thursday, December 15 Monday, December 18
Final Exams
Thursday, December 14 Saturday December 16
Larry Fink: Somewhere There’s
Music
12-9PM
Events & Concerts
Thursday, December 14
Matisyahu
Theatre of Living Arts 9PM
Philadelphia, PA
Friday, December 15
Damien Rice
Town Theatre 8PM
Upper Darby, PA
Saturday, December 16
Reading Symphony Orchestra
Presents The Nutcracker
Sovereign Performing Arts
Center
2PM
Reading, PA
The Killers
The Electric Factory 8PM
Philadelphia, PA
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Tuesday, December 12
Fall Art Exhibition
9AM - 9PM
2 Inability to recognize
writing
3 Cleg
4 Former wound
5 Has 3 identical siblings
6 Vase
7 Relief
8 Toady
9 Northwest by west
10 Playing field
11 Bad (prefix)
12 Airport abbr.
13 Inadequate
21 Change into bone
23 Night bird
25 Make small talk
26 Really cool
28 Came out of sleep
29 Water pitcher
30 Cozy room
32 Bro.'s sibling
35 Constellation
36 Poem
37 Offer as proof
38 Fly alone
39 Related
40 Sisters sibs.
41 Stiff
42 Check
43 American Cancer
Society (abbr.)
45 I want my ___
46 Top of a wall
48 Strap shoe
49 Makes a record of
50 Did hair
52 Comic
56 Eye infection
57 Not that
58 Malt liquor
59 False story
60 Snacked
61 Young woman
63 Dit's partner
64 Hubbub
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Muhlenberg
ACROSS
1 Price sticker
4 Cackle
9 Dubs
14 Wing
15 Peculiarity
16 Anger
17 Pillow place
18 Root beer brand (3 wds.)
19 Hold off
20 Prestigious British
university
22 Small city
24 Fats
25 Gloat
27 Reverent
31 States
32 Shoulder covering
33 To be in debt
34 Book by Homer
36 Similar to oak
38 Most secure
40 Prospect
42 Japanese capital
43 Bowed
44 Boxer Muhammad
45 "The Real __"
47 Avails
51 Stick
53 Throw in the air
54 Slant
55 Please respond
57 Number after nineteen
59 Bundle of sticks
62 North of the Beehive
State
65 New Jersey's neighbor
66 Rome's country
67 Lowest point
68 Be
69 Southern girl
70 Something that haunts
71 Hallucinogen
DOWN
1 No-no's
3
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Off Campus
CROSSWORD PUZZLE
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College closed for winter break
single actor added something valuable to this movie and although I
have not heard about any award
buzz, I definitely think that someone should receive a nomination
for their acting capabilities.
This movie is well worth the
money to see and I would actually
recommend buying the movie on
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December 19
Genre: Drama/History
Rating: Rated R for language, drug content and a scene of violence
Runtime: 120 Minutes
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Midnight Breakfast 11PM
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Frolic
Samuels Theater
9PM
Have you ever watched a
movie and been so touched that
you were amazed a movie could
have been so emotional? Bobby is
one of those movies where you
walk out of the theatre wanting to
watch it all over again. Bobby was
a touching movie not only because
it seemed to truly honor Robert
Kennedy, but because it showed
how he affected so many different
individuals around him.
The movie Bobby is based on
the assassination of Senator Robert
Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel
on June 6, 1968. It is not really a
look at Robert Kennedy’s life, but
the lives of 22 people who were in
the hotel at the time of his assassination, and how they were dealing
with the senator coming to the
area. It shows very different people dealing with varying issues
including racism, sexism, immigration, and even identity issues.
The 60’s were a very trying time
for many people and this is evident
during this film. The film also
does an amazing job of making
you feel connected to Kennedy
and those who felt that this was
their last chance for change, even
if you were not born in the 60’s.
Bobby was directed and written by Emilio Estevez (St. Elmo’s
fire, The Mighty Ducks). The
actors in this film are incredible
and I do not know if I have ever
seen a film with as many famous,
great actors as this one. They range
from veteran actors like Anthony
Hopkins (Hannibal, The Human
Stain) to newcomers such as Nick
Cannon
(Drumline,
Underclassman), each delivering
an inspiring performance. Every
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Monday, December 11
Classes End
Kelly O’Donnell
A&E Editor
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On Campus
Bobby: A genuinely touching film
DVD. I think this movie deserves
to be seen by everyone and it will
help not only to better understand
not only history, but a country at a
time when it was at it’s most vulnerable. Go out and see this movie
right away, or else you’ll be missing out on something big!
A+
SPORTS
Basketball
Results &
Schedule
Falcon
Photo of the Week
Results
Challenges and
competition keep
Campbell going
Jennifer Woytach
Sports Editor
11/30
vs. College Misericordia
87-27 L
12/2
vs. Rosemont College
57-43 L
12/4
vs. Immaculata University
96-56 L
Upcoming games
Wednesday, 1/3
@ FDU-Madison
6:00
Saturday, 1/6
vs. Alvernia College
1:00
Freshman Kelly Oakes (Wilmington, DE/Delcastle) takes a shot during last
Monday’s home game versus Immaculata University, while sophomore
Janelle Morcom (Milford, PA/Delaware Valley) looks on.
Thursday, 1/11
@ Neumann College
6:00
Monday, 1/15
@ Arcadia University
7:00
Thursday, 1/18
vs. Bryn Mawr College
7:00
Saturday, 1/20
vs. Gwynedd-Mercy College
1:00
Monday, 1/22
vs. Cabrini College
7:00
Thursday, 1/25
@ College Misericordia
7:00
Saturday, 1/27
@ Alvernia College
1:00
Morcom leads
Falcons;
named Athlete of
the Week
Jennifer Woytach
Sports Editor
Janelle Morcom led the
Falcons basketball team with 11
points, including two 3-pointers,
during their 47-36 season opening
loss to Penn State University
Abington. For this, Morcom was
named Cedar Crest College’s
Athlete of the Week for the week
ending November 19.
Morcom has been playing
basketball since third grade and
also plays field hockey and softball and did karate for eight years.
“I love the competition. I play for
the challenge of always having
someone who could beat me,”
Morcom said.
Currently second on the team
in scoring with 39 points, including seven 3-pointers, Morcom has
also recorded 17 rebounds this sea-
son. “Watching the team grow has
been memorable. I think learning
about the younger girls and hearing their stories has made it worth
the long pre-season,” Morcom
said, of her most memorable
moment so far this season.
Morcom will be representing
Cedar Crest College at the Lehigh
Valley
Association
of
Intercollegiate Athletics for
Women (LVAIAW) media luncheon tomorrow.
“I think everyone has kept a
good positive outlook,” Morcom
said, adding that the team is
“bonding very nicely.”
“My individual goals are to
stay strong; last year was a challenge for me. This year I want to
be a leader and be able to break my
defensive goals from last year,”
Morcom said. “Team wise, I want
to be just that. A team.”
Sophomore Sarah Campbell
was named Cedar Crest’s Athlete
of the Week for the week ending
December 2. Campbell currently
leads the Falcons with 26 total
rebounds and also has 25 points.
During last Monday’s loss to
Immaculata University, Campbell
made 5 of 7 free throws and
chipped in 5 rebounds. In the
game versus Rosemont College,
Campbell led both teams with 13
rebounds.
Campbell has played basketball since sixth grade, but took off
her senior year of high school and
her freshman year at Cedar Crest.
“I decided to play basketball this
year because I had promised
Coach that I would,” she said. “I
was excited to get back into playing basketball and having fun with
it.”
Recalling the game against
Rosemont, where the Falcons
were unable to capitalize on a 2525 halftime tie, Campbell said:
“Even though we lost, we really
came together in that game and
showed the potential that we have
to become a major force in this
conference in the next couple of
years.”
Campbell’s positive attitude
is highly visible on the court. She
has set goals for herself and the
team for the rest of the season.
“My individual goals this year are
to improve my free throw percentage, watch my fouls, and to dominate the boards with Ashley
Bechtel,” she said. Campbell’s
free throw percentage (68.4) is
currently the team’s best.
“Our team goals are to get
better with each practice, to stick
together, and do our best this year,
so we can be amazing next year,”
she said. “I think our team chemistry is pretty darn good. We can
have our frustrated moments on
the court, but everyone understands that in the end we are all a
team and we need to stick togethThis captain does sometimes
find it difficult to balance both athletics and academic, “but more
often I find that athletics keeps me
on track and makes me do my
work.”
A sophomore from Milford,
PA/Delaware Valley High School,
Morcom is a Biology/Pre-Vet
major. Aside from participating in
Falcon athletics, she will be
involved with HOSA (Health
Occupations Students of America)
next semester and is a part of the
planning team for Relay for Life
next April.
Morcom was the the 2006
Cedar Crest College Rookie of the
Year, the 2006 Most Improved
Player on the softball team, and
was named to the Pennsylvania
Athletic Conference’s All-PAC
Field Hockey Second Team this
past season.
Jennifer Woytach | Sports Editor
er through everything. We are all
there to help each other out and
make each other better.”
Campbell is also aware of the
opportunities she has. “The thing
that motivates me to play sports is
that some people never get the
chance due to illness or something
else, so why should I just throw
away an opportunity to use the talents that God gave me? Not to
mention I love the challenges and
the competition involved.”
A
Biodiversity
and
Conservation Biology major,
Campbell is a native of Easton,
PA. She attended Notre Dame
High School and currently calls
Plainfield, IL home. “It’s not really that hard balancing athletics
and school. I have found that I
plan better when I am playing a
sport because it makes me manage
my time and get things done sooner,” said Campbell, who has also
been playing softball since she
was five and is an outfielder for
the Falcons softball team.
Campbell is also a Big Sis. “I just
want to keep getting better
because I love to win and I want to
contribute in making the team better,” she added.

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