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CAMPUS TIMES
VOLUME 132, NUMBER 18
INSIDE
Printing costs rise
Printing costs across campus
have increased for everyone.
Read about the reasons for
the changes and overall
student reactions.
See story, Page 9.
Presidential alum
Daan Braveman graduated
from UR in 1969. Last weekend he was inaugurated as
the president of Nazareth
College.
See story, Page 4.
Strong rated No. 1
Have you been to Strong and
marvelled in the great service you were getting ? That’s
why Strong is ranked No. 1
in the Rochester area.
See story, Page 3.
Rare books shine
Ever been to the Rare Books
Library? Get ready to dive
into UR’s past and get to
see some of the works from
our most popular historical
celebrities.
See story, Page 12.
Serving the University of Rochester community since 1873
WebMail
software
updated
BY MATT MAJARIAN
Within three weeks, the
WebMail application will
be replaced with a new version promising more convenience, greater speed and
a friendlier user interface.
This new version is already
available as a pilot alongside
the existing version.
“The overriding factor
in the development of the
new WebMail system is
performance,” Information
Technology Services analyst
and programmer Steve Song
said. “We really feel that the
priorities are speed, accessibility, reliability and the
ability to use attachments
successfully. We wanted to
make sure that these features work faster than the
current WebMail.”
The current WebMail system is widely used among the
student population.
“I use it at least four
times a day,” junior Neethi
Venkateswaran said.
WebMail’s importance to
the student community is
evident in the Rush Rhees
reference section, where
one of the few bookmarks
on the public computers’
web browsers leads to the
WebMail site.
The importance of the
system makes any upgrade
a delicate endeavor. In developing the new WebMail
application, ITS started
with one version from the
software vendor NetWin,
customized it to UR standards and prepared it for an
August release.
“Just when we were about
to release it, a new version
came out that had some
improvements,” Song said.
This caused the project to be
delayed while ITS customized the new version of the
software.
NetWin, an internet application developer located
in Auckland, New Zealand,
also released the version of
WebMail currently used by
UR. NetWin’s other customers include the University of
Southampton and Tellurian
Networks, among others.
ITS is optimistic that they
will be able to tweak the
WebMail interface to better
serve students, faculty and
staff in the future.
“Before, we were not able
to make many changes to
the WebMail system because
of copyright restrictions,”
Song said. “Now, we hope
to change the system to
respond to feedback from
users.”
Throughout the extended pilot program for the
new system, ITS relied
on user feedback to gauge
reactions to the new software. Over 200 faulty, staff,
and students participated.
SEE WEBMAIL, PAGE 4
LAURA BALLOU
Yesterday’s “Harvest of Rochester” meal reflected the changes that Dining Services
has made to feature more local foods, including milk from upstate New York.
Local farms supported
BY EMILY PARET
CAMPUS TIMES STAFF
Wilson Commons Wednesday featured the “Harvest of
Rochester,” which reflected
the changes that Dining
Services has made in an effort to achieve their goal of
sustainability.
“On a number of fronts,
we are working on taking
a larger role in the issue
of sustainability,” Director
of Campus Dining Services
Cameron Schauf said. “This
Wilson Commons Wednesday featured local products
and those partnerships.”
Roasted turkey with cranberry relish, roasted carrots and sautéed spaghetti
squash were featured and
free apples from local farmers were handed out. This
meal represents the progress
that has been made through
partnership with the Farm
to School Program. This
program is nationwide, with
a goal of partnering local
farmers with colleges and
dining programs to work together to build an economic
relationship.
“We figured we have a
great resource here in Upstate New York,” Aramark
Guest Service Manager
David Feist said. “Not only
are we going to be doing
this for special events, but
we want to put a local food
area somewhere on campus,
like Danforth.”
Students really enjoyed
the local produce featured.
“All the food featured was
so good,” sophomore Emily
Dunstan said. “I think the
sustainability program is a
really good initiative that
students will respond really
well to.”
Dining Services is in the
process of developing a
sustainability mission statement.
“As a department, we
are currently writing what
our goals are,” Schauf said.
“Overall, we’re looking at
the big issues — becoming
greener and how we can
become more involved in
buying locally.”
This mission statement
will provide the framework
to make important decisions
regarding sustainability.
“We have already increased
the level of organic foods,
we offer fair trade coffees
and we now have the mug
refill program,” Schauf said.
SEE HARVEST, PAGE 5
Student
plays on
‘Jeopardy’
Last wish
A hard core fan of the Notre
Dame Fighting Irish had
been plagued with a tumor,
and he was only 10-years-old.
Find out what Notre Dame
head coach Charlie Weis
promised the child in order
to fulfill his wish.
See story, Page 23.
Rockin’ on the cello
For those who don’t have
enough pizzicato in their
heavy metal or power chords
in their string quartets,
Break of Reality’s got it!
See story, Page 15.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2005
JASON FREIDMAN • CAMPUS TIMES STAFF
CLASHING WITH THE RAMBLERS
The Yellowjackets paired up with the Midnight Ramblers to sing in the “Clash of the Titans” on Saturday.
BY MARTIN FERNANDEZ
CAMPUS TIMES STAFF
Senior Colin Brown represented UR as a contestant
on the “Jeopardy!” College
Tournament last weekend
in Raleigh, N.C.
“Going into the auditions,
I really did not have any
expectations,” Brown said.
“I thought it was impossible
to get on the show.”
Brown, who admits he
does not watch “Jeopardy!”
at school because he doesn’t
have a TV at UR, responded
to a contestant search last
May and was called back for
an interview in late July.
“The reason I tried out
for the show was because I
was going to be a senior.”
SEE JEOPARDY, PAGE 5
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Thursday, October 6, 2005
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Partly cloudy skies
for much of the day
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High 83, low 58.
Partly cloudy with
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Campus Briefs
Union talks
stall, deadline
expires
Contracts for service union employees expired
Saturday as negotiations between the university
and local chapters of the Service Employees
International Union continue.
The groups have not agreed on a contract
extension, as the university wanted to extend
the contracts for a month, while the unions
were willing to extend current contracts for
only two weeks.
About 200 River Campus service workers are
members of SEIU Local 200United, primarily
personnel in food and building service positions.
The Medical Center and Strong Memorial Hospital have about 1,000 employees belonging to
SEIU Local 1199 in patient care, surgical support, patient transport, supply and distribution,
housekeeping, and other service positions.
“Talks will continue as long as they are
productive,” SEIU Local 1199 Vice-President
Bruce Popper said. “The workers are taking a
picket or strike vote next Tuesday, Oct 11. A
Federal mediator may join the talks.” Popper
serves as chief negotiator for both SEIU Local
200United and SEIU Local 1199.
Continuing, Popper said, “[Our goals are] to
preserve the workers’ family health insurance
benefits, to stop UR from reducing the wages of
future workers in these jobs [and] modest wage
increases,” Popper said.
Representatives from UR Human Resources
declined to comment at this time. UR’s negotiating team is led by Associate Vice President
for Human Resources Charles Murphy and
composed of a committee of department-level
managers.
Further negotiations took place on Monday
and Tuesday. Talks will resume Thursday morning at the Medical Center, and are expected to
continue on Friday.
“There is no reason why New York’s most
profitable hospital and the region’s largest
TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE NICE WEATHER
Senior David Ladon leads a discussion outside about anthropology.
employer cannot continue to provide health
and income security to its lowest paid hourly
employees,” Popper said.
Senate moves $10,000 to
supplemental equipment fund
The Students’ Association’s Senate appropriated the surplus funds from last year at its
weekly meeting on Monday.
From last year’s budget, $25,000 remained.
On Monday, the senate approved a transfer of
$10,000 of that surplus to the SA equipment
supplemental fund. The fund is available to
student groups for items not accounted for in
their initial budgets.
The remaining $15,000 of the budget was
moved into the reserve fund.
This weeks’ meeting was shortened due to
absences for religious holidays.
Exactly two-thirds of the senate was present,
just enough to vote on a decision. The vote
passed unanimously.
The senate is also working on creating a
committee to examine the campus’s general
atmosphere outside of academics.
SA Vice President and senior Katherine DelBalso is heading the efforts of The Committee
on Examining and Evaluating Student Engagements, Opportunities and Social Atmosphere.
This would be the first student generated
assessment of the social opportunities and
atmosphere on campus.
“In the last several years, there have been
several significant and positive developments
within the Students’ Association, such as internal restructuring of the cabinet and senate
committees and the recent ratification of a new
SA constitution and bylaws,” SA President and
senior Matt Goldblatt said. “Now I feel the
next step for student government is to go more
external by affecting the campus as a whole and
this new committee and its findings is a perfect
example of us heading in that direction.”
Reporting b
by Andrew Bruml.
Security Update
RPD arrest man for assault at Psi Upsilon
BY JACKIE BORCHARDT
CAMPUS TIMES STAFF
Mike Lockett, 20, of Henrietta,
was arrested on assault charges
after punching a student in the Psi
Upsilon fraternity house at 2:50
a.m. on Sunday, according to Security Investigator Dan Lafferty.
The victim was trying to clear the
house, asking people to leave.
The suspect became angered,
pushed the victim and then
punched him in the face.
The suspect admitted to UR Security officers that he had punched
the victim.
The Rochester Police Department was called and the suspect
was arrested. The victim was transported to the Strong Memorial
Hospital Emergency Department
for evaluation and treatment of
facial and jaw injuries, according
to Lafferty
Lafferty.
Couple argues
outside Lovejoy Hall
Two students reported a couple
arguing outside Lovejoy Hall on
Fraternity Road at 3:16 a.m. on
Sunday.
As the students tried to calm
those arguing, one of the participants threatened to kill them with
a knife, according to Lafferty.
There was no weapon displayed
or used, and the person making
the threat then punched the wall
of the building so hard he may
have broken his hand, according
to UR Security.
The suspect was thought to have
been intoxicated and was last seen
entering Lovejoy Hall, according
to Lafferty.
The surrounding areas were
searched with negative results,
according to UR Security
Security.
Laptop stolen from
Sigma Chi house
A student residing in the Sigma
Chi fraternity house reported a
laptop computer stolen between
midnight and 3 a.m. Sunday.
The victim reports seeing an
individual exiting his room, who
he had encountered earlier in the
evening.
The person then left the house,
walking in the direction of Wilson
Commons. No police report has
been filed at this time, according
to UR Security
Security.
Individual falls asleep
outside Burton
An individual was found sleeping
on the exterior steps of Burton Hall
at 9:53 a.m. Sunday.
He was identified and found to
have no affiliation with the uni-
versity, according to Lafferty. The
person told UR Security officers
that he had been walking along the
river, sat down to rest and must
have fallen asleep.
The person was warned and
advised not to return. He left the
property without incident.
Grilled cheese
sets off fire alarm
UR Security responded to a fire
alarm on the 6th floor in Anderson
Tower at 9:14 a.m. on Friday. The
cause was determined to be a burnt
grilled cheese sandwich, according
to Lafferty.
The area was ventilated and
the system reset upon the fire
department’s all clear
clear.
Information provided
by UR Security.
Borchardt can be reached at
jborchardt@campustimes.org.
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Strong rated No. 1
in Rochester area
ADITI members served dinner on “Be the Change Day” — a day which honored Gandhi’s memory.
Service honors Gandhi
BY AADHAVI SRIDHARAN
CAMPUS TIMES STAFF
Originally titled “Gandhi Day” in
honor of the world-famous leader
Mohandas K. Gandhi, “Be The
Change Day,” held on Saturday,
was an opportunity for students to
get involved in various communitybased activities.
“‘Be the Change Day’ is an annual national volunteer day inspired
by Mahatma Gandhi, that people
all around the nation get together
and help out their communities,”
ADITI President and senior Princy
Thottathil said.
UR has been participating in
this national day of service since
1999.
This year, the event was coorganized by ADITI, Sigma Beta
Rho Fraternity, Inc., Charles Drew
Pre-Health Society, the Interfaith
Chapel, the UR Medical Center’s
Asian Pacific American Medical Student Association and the
Rochester Center for Community
Leadership.
“The name change was orchestrated in order to appeal to many
cultures, besides just Indian, which
was the original target audience
of the event,” ΣΒΡ President and
senior Dana Eisenberg said.
Students signed up at the Wilson
Commons Common Connection to
volunteer at the events.
Approximately 70 students
helped out at several sites, including the Salvation Army’s Rochester
Headquarters, Cobblestone School,
19th Ward Community Association
and one of the Neighborhood Empowerment Team offices, starting
at noon on Saturday.
“ΣΒΡ participated in both 19th
Ward House tours as well as in
the 19th Ward Community Center — we helped clean up the
neighborhood across the bridge,”
Eisenberg said.
In addition to doing the community service, the students also
spent some time reflecting on the
community-based activities.
“This year’s goal was more than
just doing community service — we
also wanted to educate the volunteers and foster thoughts about
community and taking strong
leadership,” Thottathil said. “Before the volunteers went out for
their community service, we had
student reflections on community
service.”
The community service activities
were then followed by a cultural
dinner, catered by the Thali of India
Restaurant, held in Douglass Dining Center. Profits from the dinner
tickets were donated to the Hurricane Katrina Relief Fund.
Guest Speaker Hanif Abdul-Wahid, community liaison to Neighborhood Initiatives for the Monroe
County Department of Planning
and Development, lectured about
the responsibilities of community
leaders and the accomplishments of
such community-based efforts.
“We had about 154 people attend
the dinner,” Rochester Center for
Community Leadership member
and senior Julia Shmoys said. “A lot
of people worked around the clock
behind the scenes, but considering
this event was planned in a very
short time frame — the planning
committee only started meeting
nine days before the event. I think
the event was a huge success.”
Those who participated agreed.
“I thought Gandhi Day was a huge
success and a lot of fun,” freshman
Puja Sood said. “It was nice to
spend time with other members of
the organization and at the same
time help out in the community.
The speaker was brief, but spoke
very well and related some interesting anecdotes from his life.”
While the turnout this year was
better than previous years due
to the collaborative efforts of the
various organizations, next year’s
turnout is expected to be better,
since some of the planning for next
year has already started.
“Hopefully next year there will
be over 100 volunteers helping
our community — we all owe our
services to the neighborhoods we
live around and benefit from,”
Eisenberg said.
“It was great to see that so many
students made time in their busy
schedules and came out to support the cause,” Thottathil said.
“Every volunteer who participated
this past Saturday helped make a
change for the better in the Rochester community. Their time and
their work were truly appreciated.
Saturday was proof that students
can do so much. They not only
joined fellow Rochester students,
but students and volunteers across
the the nation in one simple mission
— be the change that you wish to
see in the world.”
Sridharan can be reached at
asridharan@campustimes.org.
BY BONNIE JARRETT
needs to go to the hospital, they
CAMPUS TIMES STAFF
are taken to Strong.
The Modern Healthcare Maga“A lot of the reasoning behind
zine published the winners of the that is that our security officers
10th annual National Research are there and students get a ride
Corporation’s Consumer Choice back from security,” MERT DirecAward on Thursday.
tor of Operations Joshua Brown
Strong Memorial Hospital was said. “Also, our health insurance is
among the winners for the 10th accepted over there. If I was to be
straight year. The award is given cared for anywhere, Strong would
to the hospitals chosen by patients be far and away my top choice. I’m
who have the highest quality and originally from Buffalo, and I would
image in 180 markets throughout say it is one of the premiere hospithe U.S., according to Strong’s tals in Western New York.”
Web site.
Freshman John Monna, who
“This award is
recently received
based on intercare at Strong,
views that the Na‘We hope to be agreed.
tional Research
“They were
able to keep our very nice and
Corporation does
with consumers
helpful, and I
record going.
in our market,”
didn’t have to
Strong has won
UR Medical Cenwait too long in
ter Director of
this award for ten the emergency
Public Relations
room,” he said.
years now.’
Teri D’Agostino
“They take good
— TERI D’AGOSTINO care of their pasaid.
director
di
rector of public relations
E v e r y y e a r,
tients.”
the National ReBeyond treatsearch Corporaing students at
tion receives quality and image UR, Strong is owned by the univerratings of hospitals throughout sity and is part of the UR Medical
the country from consumers in Center.
the healthcare industry. They then
“Medical students at UR do most
use these ratings to determine of their clinical rotations through
what the consumers feel are the the hospital,” UR School of Medibest hospitals in 180 areas of the cine and Dentistry Associate Dean
United States.
of Admissions John Hanson said.
“It’s particularly gratifying to “Because Strong is a research and
win this award because this re- teaching institution, it has a lot of
flects what our consumers think,” resources and it uses them effecD’Agostino said.
tively. Their focus is on patient care
The patients at Strong Memorial and improving that care. Strong
Hospital come from a wide range has the resources to make those
of areas.
kind of improvements.”
“Strong treats more than half
As for next year’s Consumer
the residents who live in Monroe Choice Awards, D’Agostino expects
County,” D’Agostino said. “It is Strong to continue its winning
also a major referral center, so streak.
we do transplants and children’s
“We hope we’re able to keep our
heart surgery for patients from as record going, we’ve won it for 10
far as Northern Pennsylvania and years now,” she said. “Customer
Cleveland.”
service and patient care improveThe hospital is also the main ment are top on our list here at
caregiver for students at UR.
Strong Memorial Hospital.”
If a student calls the Medical
Jarrett can be reached at
Emergency Response Team and
bjarrett@campustimes.org.
Please write for news. call x 5-5942.
CAMPUS TIMES
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Braveman begins
as Nazareth
BY EMILY PARET
finally, we have to be committed to
CAMPUS TIMES STAFF
celebrating the achievements of
Chosen for his upbeat personal- people on campus.”
ity and experience, UR graduate
Being available to students on
Daan Braveman was inaugurated campus is also one of his major
as the ninth president of Nazareth goals. He spends Monday and
College on Saturday.
Thursday afternoons going for runs
“Inauguration is a nice time to with students and enjoys sharing
celebrate the college,” he said. “It meals with students to find out
is more about school than person what their concerns are.
[being inaugurated].”
He has held town meetings
Braveman
with all the dorchose the theme
mitories, during
“Making a Difhe listened
‘It’s important to which
ference” for his
to the opinions of
inauguration. He
be out there and 400 students.
describes “Mak“It’s important
visible. A lot of
ing a Difference”
to be out there
students stop me and visible,” he
as “something as
small as helping
said. “A lot of
and say thank
a friend carry his
students stop me
you.’
or her books, or
and say ‘thank
something as big
— DAAN BRAVEMAN you.’0 It is an
as opening our
advantage that
nazareth college president
doors to students
I am at a small
displaced by a
school like this.”
natural disaster or tutoring inner Nazareth has 1,800 undergraduate
city children just learning to read,” students.
according to the Making A DifferBraveman spent eight years as
ence Web site.
the dean of the Syracuse University
During his speech, Braveman College of Law.
outlined his goals as president and
“When I was dean of the law
noted that he wants to have a strong school, we expanded the diversity
impact on the community.
of the student body, expanded the
“There are a number of goals and interdisciplinary programming,
challenges with the college,” Brave- developed clinics and built a new
man said. “The first is to develop a building,” Braveman said. “We
community-wide strategic plan for had a lot going on in those eight
the college. Nazareth has grown years.”
significantly and now we need to
Braveman graduated from UR
step back and manage that growth in 1969. “I thought I got a great
to see where we want to head.”
education at UR,” he said.
In 2003, a $45 million plan was
His son, Adam, graduated last
put into action and the college was May. “I am extremely proud and
expanded by 73 acres. In addition, excited for my dad,” Adam Bravea new residence hall and a stadium man said. “This is something that
complex were built.
he has always wanted, and now
“There are four areas that I feel he’s got the chance and he’s going
strongly about, that I spoke about to do a great job. His style is very
at inauguration,” he said. “We have hands-on, very visible and I know
a commitment to learning, discov- students will appreciate that.”
ery, inclusion, civic engagement
Paret can be reached at
— tying service into learning — and
eparet@campustimes.org.
COURTESY OF NAZARETH COLLEGE
Daan Braveman was inaugurated as the president of Nazareth College this weekend. Braveman graduated from UR in 1969.
This new WebMail interface is currently being piloted and will be fully operational in a couple weeks.
WebMail: Changes aim to improve service
cording to Song, is the ability to
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“We did a sort of Google rollout,” sustain more users than the old
Song said of the program. “We version.
Since the new interface is more
wanted to tell users ‘Hey, here’s a
new pilot — invite your friends to graphically simple, it should cut
down on the number of outages and
check it out.’”
A link to the under-development slowdowns that were seen in the
old version.
WebMail interface
This, coupled
was also available
with an updated
on the original ‘We already have
mail storage sysWebMail site.
over a thousand tem, should allow
The objective
a greater number
of the pilot propeople using
of users to be
gram was to make
the pilot. All the
more efficient in
WebMail a more
sending, receivstreamlined apfeedback is
ing and storing
plication.
positive.’
mail.
“We tried to
— STEVE SONG
Although
scale everything
many students
down,” Song said. ITS analyst and programmer
use WebMail dai“We did not want
ly, some remain
anything to hurt
[WebMail’s] performance. We skeptical about it.
“I use Gmail,” senior Phil
could have included pictures and
graphics, and we may still do that, Reichenberger said. “It gives me
but for now we want to make it as a lot more space to store my mail
simple as possible so that when and it is very reliable.”
Others use their UR e-mail admany people are using the server,
dresses but turn to other mail proit will still work.”
One of the most important grams such as Microsoft Outlook
features of the new WebMail, ac- or Novell GroupWise to open and
manage their mail.
The new WebMail interface
sports visual upgrades, including a
new blue color scheme and easierto-read buttons.
“The aesthetic far surpasses that
of its predecessor,” Chelis said.
In designing the new WebMail,
special emphasis was placed on
both ease of use and visual refinement.
“The original logout button in
the new interface was on the bottom corner of the page,” Song said.
“We moved it to the top so that it is
much more user friendly.” Acording
to users of the system, this is one
of the improvements inherent to
the new version.
ITS hopes that their new system
will be a success, but if the current
status of the pilot program is any
indication, there should be no
problem at all.
“At this point, we already have
over a thousand people using the
pilot,” Song said. “All of the feedback that we have received so far
is positive.”
Majarian can be reached at
mmajarian@campustimes.org.
CAMPUS TIMES
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Harvest: Local foods used Jeopardy: Senior competes on game show
started — which is when many of
The Farm to School Program is not these changes began.
“A month ago, they started putonly focused on buying more loting us in touch
cal products, but
with local farmalso on educating
ers,” Feist said.
customers about
‘We need to
“Another part
the program and
meet the needs of sustainability
its goals to promote healthy eatof our generation is the farmers
working with us.
ing and improved
without
For example, if
nutrition.
we know we’re
A table was set
compromising
going to have a
up in Wilson Comthe future.’
huge calling for
mons yesterday to
— CAMERON SCHAUF carrots we can
provide students
director of dining services
ask them to plant
with educational
more. It is a give
fliers about susand take relatainability.
“For us, it’s an evolving thing,” tionship.”
This is an issue that will continue
Schauf said. “It is hard to say sustainability isn’t a big issue, because to develop as Dining Services builds
it is. We need to meet the needs of on their relationship with local
the present generation without farmers.
“This is not just encompassing
compromising the needs of future
generations. This is not just a little Dining Services, but the whole
program we do on the side to keep realm of UR,” Feist said. “With
the local farmers and businesses,
people happy.”
This summer, Dining Services we have a great market to expand
met with representatives from the on this.”
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“It was my last chance to be on the
college tournament,” Brown said.
“I really had nothing to lose.”
At the interview, candidates
were given a series of 50 questions
to answer and were allotted eight
seconds for each question. Of the
160 candidates that took the quiz in
Cleveland, 14 scored the minimum
of 35 questions to advance to the
next round. Those who remained
played a round of mock “Jeopardy!”
with actual buzzer units so that the
show’s executives could analyze
each participant’s personality.
In September, Brown received a
call from Sony executive Bob Ettinger, who offered him a spot in
the college tournament. “I did not
believe him at first — it was ridiculously exciting,” Brown said.
In the weeks before the taping,
Brown did not study because he
was unsure of the topics that he
would be tested on. “Looking back,
I can think of things I could have
studied, but at the time I did not
want to stress about it,” Brown
said. “I just wanted to go there
and have fun.”
On the first day of taping, contestants met the show’s host, Alex
Trebek, to tape promotional segments for WROC TV and for each
contestant’s local station. “Alex is a
lot less serious in real life than he is
on the show — you see him joking
around a lot,” Brown said.
The 15 contestants competed in
five quarter-final games.
The winner of each game, along
with the four highest-scoring contestants, advanced to the three
games of the semi-finals.
In total, 10 episodes were taped
in front of four different audiences.
On the day of the taping, all of
the contestants were sequestered
in a room in order to prevent
contestants participating in later
episodes from having an unfair
advantage.
The producers called them up
three at a time to tape the episode.
As of printing, Brown could
not reveal many details about the
episodes so as to not give away
the results. His opponents came
from Stanford University and Uni-
versity of Michigan at Dearborn.
Several of his friends and family
were in the audience.
Every contestant was guaranteed a prize — $5000 for the
quarter-finals and $10,000 for the
semi-finals. As for the three finalists, third place received $25,000,
second place $50,000 and first place
received $100,000.
Even so, there was not a sense
of competition amongst the contestants. “After the show everyone
went out to play pool and have
drinks together,” Brown said.
Contestants came from New
York University, Boston University,
Gonzaga University, Washington
University, Princeton University,
Stanford University and different
colleges in the Raleigh area.
The tournament will air for two
weeks starting Nov. 7 on CBS.
Brown will appear on the Nov. 12
episode and in the following week,
if he advances to the semi-finals
and the final.
“It’s hard to fathom how big the
experience was,” Brown said.
Fernandez can be reached at
mfernandez@campustimes.org.
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EDITORIAL BOARD
JACKIE BORCHARDT • ANDREW HOLLINGER • TONY SCOTT
ANDREW BRUML • JOHN SERAFINI
The editor-in-chief and the editorial board make themselves available to the UR
communityʼs ideas and concerns. Appointments can be arranged by calling x5-5942
or by e-mail at editor@campustimes.org.
Nominee disturbs
Harriet Miers’ Supreme Court nomination continues the
pattern of toying with the American public that President
George W. Bush began with his nomination of Justice John
Roberts.
Her razor thin résumé speaks for itself — the absence of
judicial experience and published legal articles or reviews portrays President Bush’s candidate as an individual devoid of
perspective or opinion on key issues.
Like Roberts, Miers’ future decisions as a possible Supreme
Court Justice cannot be based on her predilections because
they’re obscure and ambiguous at best.
The only way that we can accurately discern Miers’ views is
through her work with President Bush, who has retained her
as his personal counsel for the better part of two decades.
However, this information is privileged — preventing senators and their constituents from having any information from
which to assess the impact she will have on America’s future.
The Senate Judiciary Committee, entrusted with investigating Miers, needs sufficient information with which to decide
whether she is the best candidate for their constituency.
Since Miers’ judgment embodies only vague descriptions,
the Senate Judiciary Committee will not be able to serve their
constituents if the candidate has no record to scrutinize.
The role of the Judiciary Committee has never been more
important. The Roberts nomination moved too smoothly, without addressing concerns held by American people regarding
his legal perspective.
The committee can assuage these fears by rejecting Miers
based on the premise that her inexperience and shallow
perspective do not belong on a court responsible for guiding
America.
This rejection sends the message to President Bush that the
public wants a nominee whose résumé is based on unbiased
events, like history, not someone’s personal guarantee.
FROM THE EDITOR
Claim ownership of the news
“Join the Campus Times.”
Past members of CT staff have
used the phrase as a scapegoat to
deal with criticism of the paper.
True, editorial staff members
understand the time and work
that go into maintaining a writing staff, editing articles and
laying out each page, but realistically, one reader with a specific
complaint is not going to become
a diehard CT-er.
Rather, I invite you to join the
CT community — simply give us
some feedback and constructive
criticism.
As the student newspaper, the
CT has two jobs — accurately
represent the UR community
as an open forum and serve as
a tool for those interested in
writing. If we’re falling short of
accomplishing either goal, please
let us know.
Call the office, write a letter to
the editor, e-mail the section editor — the current CT masthead
has been working to improve
relations with members of the
UR community since January.
In my second semester as editor-in-chief, I’ve chosen the word
JACKIE
BORCHARDT
•
EDITOR-INCHIEF
“voices” to be a guiding phrase
for each section editor. In addition to critically assessing the
voice of the writer, each editor
seeks out diverse voices.
Differing opinions routinely
enter the paper through letters
to the editor, the web poll and
UR Opinion. Letters to the editor
are not dead ends — I read them,
respond and often print them in
the opinions section.
Correctly representing the UR
community requires its voices to
appear throughout the CT — not
just in the opinions pages. Since
the staff changes each semester,
diversifying in-house cannot be
the only method of finding these
voices.
Students, faculty and staff are
always welcome to write — just
contact the appropriate editor. If
there’s something happening on
campus, let us know. Press notification forms can be found in the
CT office, Wilson Commons 102.
Last spring, the CT asked
the Minority Students Advisory
Board, Students’ Association
government, Pride Network,
other student groups and campus
offices to appoint representatives
to an advisory board.
Weekly meetings were set up,
and unfortunately, only a couple
members took the opportunity
to have such an impact on the
newspaper. The board, continuing this semester, gives feedback
on the week’s issue as well as
potentially controversial submissions.
The annual “CT
CT Community
Dialogue” discussion panel will
be held in November. The onetime commitment gives readers
the chance to question the CT
and continue conversations beyond the “Letters to the Editor.”
The CT aims to be an open
forum, but we cannot succeed
without the help of an active
readership.
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jborchardt@campustimes.org.
Improvements made
Aiming to improve UR’s e-mail service, Information Technology Services developed a new layout for the WebMail program. Other campus services should look to ITS as an example
of introducing improvements.
College e-mail users need to be able to fully utilize their mail
account from anywhere. The older version of the WebMail
application complicated sending and receiving e-mail, which is
the fundamental purpose of an e-mail application.
The interface was confusing, with unintuitive buttons and
slow-loading pop-up windows and frames. Difficulties drove
many users to other e-mail services and clients, such as Gmail
and Microsoft Outlook.
The new pilot program addresses user complaints. Additionally, rather than implementing the changes overnight, a demo
version was made available for users to test over a period of
time. The test period provided ample time for bugs to be fixed
and user-found improvements to be made. With a convenient
link on the WebMail Web site, everyone was able to evaluate
the changes. Future changes to Internet services should be
employed in the same way.
A flashy interface improves the e-mail experience for current
WebMail users, but will not bring back those who have forwarded their accounts.
In addition, knowing your account expires after graduation
deters students from ever using university accounts, sparing
them from having to transfer addresses and saved e-mails to a
new account.
Although they can register for a permanent forwarding
e-mail address with the Alumni Online Community, alumni
should have the option to forward mail from their undergraduate addresses to other accounts — ITS need not reserve server
space for graduates, but instead turn e-mail accounts into
aliases for forwarding purposes.
Although students’ concerns are being heard, more improvements can be made to the UR e-mail services.
Full responsibility for the material that appears in this publication rests with the editor-in-chief. Opinions expressed
in columns, letters or comics are not necessarily the views of the editors or the University of Rochester. Editorials appearing in the Campus Times are published with the express consent of a majority of the editorial board. The editorial
board consists of the editor-in-chief, the managing editor, the opinions editor and two other editors elected by a majority
of the editorial staff. The Campus Times is printed weekly on Thursdays throughout the academic year, except around
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CANDACE CHAO • CAMPUS TIMES STAFF
EDITORIAL OBSERVER
OʼBrien excites viewers
When I was little, I used to
think of reasons for an extended
bedtime. The best one I could
think of was the privilege to
watch late night television.
“Daddy, I want to watch the
great comedians that inhabit the
realm of late night television. I
would like to laugh so hard that
my pants fall off. Is there a late
night talk show host that can do
this for me?” Since Johnny Carson was off the air by this point,
my father responded that no,
there was no man that could fill
this void.
David Letterman, though he is
quite clever, comes off so intense
and anxious that you feel as if
you need open heart surgery. Jay
Leno — well, I guess he appeals
more to the simple, west coast
non-existent sense of humor.
I wanted a man who not only
had the stunning intellect of a
Harvard educated man, but also
possessed the staggering creativity that would produce the sheer
genius concoction of vomiting
kermit.
I did not expect that this man
would come in the shape and
form of Conan O’Brien, but I
MEREDITH
LEPORE
•
FEATURES
EDITOR
am eternally grateful that he
did. After being president of the
Harvard Lampoon for two years,
he then went on to be a writer
for Saturday Night Live. In 1993,
producer Lorne Michaels offered
Conan his own late night talk
show and, luckily for the world’s
sake, the freakishly white giant
of a man with an eccentric quaff
of red hair took the offer.
The show had a famously
rough start in which it was
threatened with cancellation,
week after week, due to low ratings. Conan really had to prove
himself as a comedian, unlike
Letterman and Leno, who had
been stand-up comics for years.
I did not enter the “Cone
Zone” until my junior year of
high school, which I believe is
when Conan really began to hit
a stride with his audience. With
his mix of unforgettable charac-
ters, the raunchy banter with his
band — the Max Weinberg Seven
— and his hilarious on-location
interactions with “real” people,
he truly has the best late night
talk show on television.
O’Brien brings out the disgusting juvenile inside all of us. His
self-loathing attitude is also quite
refreshing in a world of flawless
celebrities. Leno and Letterman
have become used to yakking
it up with celebrities, because
they themselves are millionaire
celebrities. Conan, however, still
doesn’t feel that he has reached
that high level of status, which
makes him more appealing. You
get the sense that when he is not
on camera, he is just a regular,
extremely funny guy.
I am literally counting the
minutes until Conan takes over
for Leno at “The Tonight Show”
in 2009. Other girls may like
boys they can actually see outside of the television box, but
until I get on the show — and oh
yes, I will be on the show someday — that precious hour will
have to do.
Lepore can be reached at
mlepore@campustimes.org.
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“If you want to kiss the sky, better learn how to kneel.” — ‘Mysterious Ways,’ U2
Opposition voiced to letter
BY GREG MEDITZ
On Sept. 26, the Students’ Association
Senate approved a letter to President
Seligman asking him to support Katrina
relief efforts by matching any funds the
school raised with university funds.
In a 15 to two vote, I was outvoted. Despite this, I remain confident in my position due to the many underlying factors
not considered in this issue.
The Katrina Letter was originally a
method of having the SA take a supportive
position toward afflicted citizens. This
intention was soon twisted and altered
from its original purpose of showing
student support, to asking our school to
do more because it hadn’t done enough.
Not only do I disagree with the notion
that our school hasn’t done enough, but
I also believe the senate made a mistake
in supporting this statement. Accepting
displaced students, proposed alternative
spring breaks to afflicted areas and student supported fundraisers are only a bit
of our school’s support.
One inherent issue behind the letter
is discovering who is going to pay. Monetary support would have to come from
somewhere, and I doubt it would be the
Some have argued that a university
president’s paycheck.
donation will increase the reputation of
Instead, it would be sapping the reUR and make us look great in the eyes of
sources of our endowment, money intendthe public. If we take this position, we are
ed for our education.
then contributing to
I believe it is not fair
relief efforts not beto take money from
cause we want to supeducational resources
port those in need, but
The senate is
we paid for in order to
instead, for personal
give to those who are
gain.
making a mistake
in need of financial
As many senators
in supporting the
support.
and students would
statement that UR is probably agree, that is
This issue segues
into the problem of the
exact opposite of
not doing enough the
university using our
where our intentions
for Katrina relief
money to contribute to
lie.
a private organization.
The points I have
efforts.
When a student pays
raised influenced me
for tuition, they are
to vote down the Kapaying for an educatrina Letter. I cannot
tion. When a student
let these questions fall
contributes to the American Red Cross,
to the wayside because we are looking to
they are paying for relief. When a student
take a stance on this issue. Even if Presipays for his education and the school
dent Seligman chooses to reject this letter,
takes his money and contributes it to an
I know that through student support, we
organization they may not want to supcan make a difference.
port, the student is being deceived and
Meditz can be reached at
cheated out of their money.
gmeditz@campustimes.org.
GOP embroiled in ethical scandals
BY NEETA DAGA
denied that there is a conflict of interest
CAMPUS TIMES STAFF
between his holdings and votes on healthAccording to superstition, bad things
care matters. After almost 11 years of
happen in threes. I’m sure the Republican
being a Senator with these holdings, Frist
Party only wishes that were true, because
suddenly decided that there was a conflict
as of last week, they are now dealing with
of interest and promptly sold all of his
four ethics problems.
stock. The timing of
Most recently, House
this sale was quite susMajority Leader Tom
pect, as shortly after
DeLay has been inthe sale the stock price
DeLay is not the
dicted on charges that
fell nine percent.
only liability to the
he had violated state
His conflict of intercampaign finance laws.
‘Party of Morals,’
est defense is a bit
DeLay is being accused
confusing because the
as Senate Majority
of funneling corporate
conflict has existed for
Leader Bill Frist is
donations to individual
over a decade and now
candidates, which is
under investigation Frist is in his last year
illegal under Texas law.
of being a Senator.
as well.
DeLay’s defense is that
As if having both
the $190,000 he gave to
Majority Leaders
these candidates is not
in trouble was not
the same $190,000 he
enough, special prosreceived from corporations.
ecutor Patrick Fitzgerald seems to be
Since DeLay does not have much of a
making progress in the Valerie Plame
defense, he has resorted to typical Repubcase. Two years ago someone leaked the
lican tactics, such as trying to undermine
secret agent’s name, blowing her cover, in
anyone who appears against him. In this
an effort to take revenge on her husband,
case, DeLay has called Travis County
Joseph Wilson, for speaking out against
District Attorney Ronnie Earle — who
the Bush Administration. Recently, Dick
is prosecuting DeLay — a
Cheney’s Chief of Staff, I. Lewis “Scooter”
“partisan fanatic.” While
Libby admitted to being reporter Judith
it is true that Earle is a
Miller’s confidential source, after Miller
Democrat, he is hardly a
had spent the past three months in jail
fanatic. In fact, throughout
protecting his identity. Currently, Fitzgerhis career, Earle has prosald’s investigation focuses on Libby as
ecuted more Democrats
well as Karl Rove, though both have
than Republicans of
denied leaking Plame’s name
violations by a 12-3
to anyone.
margin. Earle even
prosecuted himself
once for failing to
report a contribution on time and
paid a fine of over
$200.
Additionally, DeLay
— a.k.a. “The Hammer”— is under investigation by the House Ethics
Committee for improperly
accepting gifts from lobbyists.
DeLay does not seem
to be the only liability to
the “Party of Morals,” as
Senate Majority Leader
Bill Frist is under investigation as well. Frist had
millions of dollars in holdings in the Hospital Corporation of America, a giant
hospital chain founded by
his family. Frist has always
The fourth concern for Republicans
is the indictment of prominent lobbyist
Jack Abramoff. He is under investigation
for several different crimes, the main
allegation being that he bilked Native
American tribes out of tens of million of
dollars. Abramoff was being paid to lobby
for legalized gambling for the tribes, but
was actually working against their causes
at the same time. Abramoff, who is under
investigation for other federal fraud and
conspiracy crimes, has close connections
with DeLay and Republican Representative Bob Ney of Ohio. DeLay even referred
to Abramoff as a “close friend” and the
two have taken several trips together,
including a golf outing in Scotland.
Furthermore, former White House
official David Safavian has been arrested
and charged with making false statements
and obstructing a federal investigation in
relation to the aforementioned golf trip in
Scotland. Perhaps if the Republican Party
had more prominent members who actually embodied the morals they preach, then
they could spend less time worrying about
ethics scandals and more time governing
effectively.
Daga can be reached at
ndaga@campsutimes.org.
Role models
engineer trail
BY KELLY TOWNSEND
This week at the Biomedical Engineering Society Conference, I found a female
mentor in engineering. It only took until
my senior year of college. This made me
question, why is it so hard for young women like me to find women to look up to?
The field of engineering is going
through great changes. The “good ol’
boy” engineers are retiring and more and
more women are choosing engineering as
a path. These changes appear in both the
industrial and academic fields. From 1983
to 2000, the percent of females among employed engineers rose from 5.8 percent to
10.6 percent. Within academia, women are
rising to prominent positions. Women are
receiving 11 percent of doctoral degrees in
engineering, an increase from two percent
received in 1975. These increases have
been substantial, though the numbers are
still low. Engineering is becoming a more
female-friendly field, especially with the
growth of disciplines like biomedical engineering.
Another positive sign for women in scientific careers is the uproar that was generated over Harvard University President
Lawrence Summers’ comment that innate differences may be the reason fewer
women succeed in scientific and technical
careers. The same comment made in the
1970s would never have made national
news because the virtually all-male group
of professors wouldn’t have paid it much
attention. The very few people who would
have disagreed would have stayed quiet
to protect their jobs. The fact that people
everywhere, men and women, have been
upset by this comment is indicative of
the changes in the public view of women
in technical fields — the general public
is not just accepting the idea of women
as engineers, they are encouraging it by
standing up and saying Summers was not
appropriate.
The problem remains, though, while
women are beginning to trickle up from
the bottom, they still have few women
to look up to. Some women are OK with
being trailblazers, being the only woman
in a sea of male engineers. However, most
young women need role models — women
who have gone before and excelled in
engineering, while maintaining a family
if they so desire. Twenty-one percent of
women engineers and scientists identified balancing work and family as a career
obstacle compared to just 2.8 percent of
men. In order to get women into mentorship roles, they need built-in support
systems to handle this problem, such as
childcare at the workplace.
Another problem is that, once women
work their way to upper-level positions,
they try to blend in and just be one of the
guys. This tends to isolate them from the
other women in the workplace. Instead,
why not create webs of support for one
another? Engineering is tough day-to-day
work for anyone, and women who make it
to high positions often try to go at it alone,
to prove that they’re worthy as engineers.
However, that makes it harder for others
to consult with them about experiences.
The reason women are not flowing
into technical fields at a high rate is not
because of biological differences. It is
because it is hard to go into uncharted
territory where you have no role models.
This isn’t a problem that will be fixed
overnight, but numbers of women in engineering can increase if support is made
for them in the workplace and networking
between young engineers and mentors can
take place.
Townsend can be reached at
ktownsend@campustimes.org.
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Iraq war undermines national security
BY ANDREW MCGAFFEY
CAMPUS TIMES STAFF
When I wrote this article, President
George W. Bush’s adventure in Iraq cost
this country over $198 billion, 1,935
lives and 14,641 wounded. Nearly 30,000
Iraqi civilians
have also lost
their lives.
In return, we
have located,
let alone eliminated, zero
weapons of
mass destruction,
estab-
lished a training and recruitment center
for terrorists and created a country rife
with sectarian violence. Prince Saud alFaisal, Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister,
believes that Iraq is headed for full-scale
civil war. In “Dirty Harry,” Clint Eastwood levels his gun at a criminal and says,
“Did [I] fire six shots or only five? You’ve
got to ask yourself a question — Do I feel
lucky?” The United States Armed Forces
is the most powerful military instrument
ever to exist, but the world now knows
that the chamber is empty.
The Army is entangled in the Iraqi
quagmire and cannot be used to defend
American interests in the rest of the
world. This is why Iran feels free to defy
the world and continue their nuclear
weapons program. This is
why North Korea
is able and willing to make and
break diplomatic
agreements within the six nation talks.
These punks, these rogue nations, do
indeed feel lucky.
President Bush’s foreign policy, like his
domestic agenda, is driven by blind ideolo-
gy. Reality and rational thought cannot be
launching a preemptive invasion of a sovallowed to stand in the way of his dream
ereign country in defiance of the United
of spreading democracy through the barNations, it was credible that a true coalirel of a gun.
tion would be brought to bear upon terrorIn the world of realpolitik, there is
ist havens and rogue nations. Now the evil
no room for such famen of the world can
naticism. The threat
act free from the fear
of force is more imporof punishment.
tant than the use of
President Bush’s
The Army is
force.
obsession with demonAll the good that has
entangled in the
strating his strength
come from President
Iraqi quagmire and and resolve has left his
Bush’s more aggresnation weaker, less secannot be used to cure and more reviled
sive foreign policy following September 11
by the greater world
defend American
— and I’ll admit that
community.
interests in the rest
there has been some
I can only hope
— could have been acthat his regard for a
of the world.
complished at a much
positive legacy and his
lower cost to this naplummeting approval
tion and to the world.
ratings will force him
Invading Afghanito use a more cautious
stan was all the display of resolve we
policy in the future.
needed. The threat of force had already
If it does not, I fear that the United
been enough to force Iraq to let in weapStates will be dragged into a war it cannot
ons inspectors, force Iran to back off of
win.
their nuclear program and bring North
McGaffey can be reached at
Korea to the bargaining table. Before
amcgaffey@campustimes.org.
Concept of smoking evolves on college campus
BY ANDREW FORD
Because you should try new things in
So, at midnight, I sat, ready to write.
college! So, buy your cigarettes by the galI had to pluck an opinion from my mind,
lon. Smoke buckets of tobacco a day!
plaster my horrible thoughts onto paper
You may die wishing for air, carting lifeand send them spinning through the jitter- support everywhere you go, clutching two
ing electronic landscape
canes to support your
until hopefully they
frail rasping body, but
would infest newspaper
at least you’ve devoted a
pages. What did I pluck
lifetime to experiencing
Smokers are
— stupid smokers.
the addiction of smoking
sophisticated
Walking the campus, I
two packs a day.
dodge throngs of smokfreedom fighters,
Smoking, I will aders smoldering on black
mit, harbors an image
battling a lost
metal benches, blowing
— Humphrey Bogart
war against
their cancerous clouds a
wooing love-torn damrebellious 29 feet from
capitalism from a sels in Casablanca and
buildings. After countangst-ridden teenagsmoke-filled ditch. ers with greased-back
less middle school health
classes and ads spread
waves of hair. I imagine
across buses, the sheer
idolized writers such as
number of smokers
E.B. White filling their
astonishes me. Why hold burning paper
New York skyscraper offices with smoke
inches away from your face? Why char
to whittle away the uninspired daylight,
such a necessary organ as the lungs? Why
occasionally pecking old typewriters. But
consciously embark on a mission of self-de- black cigarette ash clogs even the most dustruction, choking yourself with black tar
rable typewriter keys. Typewriters, unlike
until you cough it up? Why gulp the River
lungs, may be shaken over a wastebasket
Styx, purging health from your gasping
to free the accumulated grimy black ash.
body?
Fire is fun. I enjoy fire. A liar may claim
otherwise, but primeval instincts prevail.
I’ve considered smoking simply to play
with those classy Zippo lighters. I could
teach myself all sorts of tricks — spinning
it with my toes and lighting my hair on
fire.
Unfortunately, people glare suspiciously
at those with an innocent desire to toy
with open flame. Produce a cigarette,
prove your lighters are carried in reason
and fears melt to sympathetic water.
At an institution of higher learning and
bursting with bright scholars, I find it
doubtful that many fall into the “smoking
is cool” ditch.
In middle school it may have been cool
to smoke. Rebel against the institution!
But the institution, the system, it wants
you to smoke. It wants to burn your pocket-money and disease your body to fuel
a mammoth industry dedicated to evil.
Smoking supports “the man.”
Aided by shoddy meditation and Talking Heads on my headphones — late at
night, of course — I discovered a truth!
Smokers are not the seemingly mindless
pawns of the big tobacco industry. They
are sophisticated freedom fighters battling a lost war from a smoke-filled ditch,
dodging capitalism’s wicked mortar shells.
They have merely reached a higher plane,
a plateau, of rebellion. They have admitted the futility of the fight.
Vonnegut called smoking Pall Malls a
“classy way to commit suicide.” But it’s
more than a noble suicide. It’s a kamikaze attack. Smokers are pilots — smoke
billowing from their damaged planes,
intent on sinking mammoth industry. It’s
the ultimate protest. Immediate suicide
wouldn’t do. Lingering long past health,
smokers are smoldering totems. Smokers
are ceaseless martyrs.
So, if you aren’t a smoker yet, join the
army. At least, make a contribution. Start
out slow with a few packs a day. Purposeful addiction has never been easier. Cremate your body for a just cause. What is
your life anyway compared to the support
of a whole system, a whole industry or
even one company that employs and feeds
thousands? Every time you don’t smoke
a cigarette, Camel lays off a worker and a
child starves in Connecticut. And if you’ve
been smoking for the wrong reasons, just
pretend. No one will know the difference.
Ford can be reached at
aford@campustimes.org.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Wegmans should adopt
cage-free policy
While the University of Rochester is
proving to be a leader on farm animal
welfare, Wegmans seems to be headed in
the opposite direction (“Wegmans should
follow UR’s example,” Sept. 29).
Wegmans is refusing to follow the lead
of University of Rochester and discontinue
its sale of eggs from caged birds. These
hens are confined in cages so packed they
can’t even spread their wings. They never
touch the ground, nest or even breathe
fresh air.
Students at UR should be thrilled that
their school has taken a stand against
farm animal abuse. Wegmans customers
should request that their store act in a
socially responsible manner and end its
sale of eggs from caged birds.
—PAUL SHAPIRO
HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES
Sansky deemed too
inflammatory
Eric Sansky’s article, while providing an interesting alternative perspective
on absence of Democratic leadership at
the recent protest, crossed the line from
rhetoric to inflammatory polemic in two
important respects. The first is that Cindy
Sheehan was referred to as “the ditch
witch.” This description was distractingly
offensive and seems designed merely to
glibly entertain those who agree and infuriate those who do not.
The second, and, I think more problematic issue is the attribution of the Tom
Andrews quote. He is cited as “[running]
the leftist lie machine Win Without War.”
To accuse Tom Andrews of operating a
fraudulent organization is a substantive allegation, and while that accusation
would be acceptable in the context of an
article arguing that Win Without War
promotes inaccuracies and lies, it is utterly
inappropriate to print the accusation without any support.
Apart from it being an unrelated and
unsubstantiated attack, it is simply unproductive for Sansky to try and discredit
Andrews, since he is quoting something
Andrews said in support of his point.
—LEWIS POWELL
CLASS OF 2005
Mourning deserves
respect
I find the vast majority of Eric Sansky’s thoughts on the Democratic party
both hilarious and inaccurate, highlighted
by his snide, know-it-all tone.
But I won’t even get into that. What I
am deeply offended by is his belief that
there is such a thing as a way “to mourn
properly and respectfully.” How dare you
suggest that your idea of mourning is the
only acceptable way.
Grief is a personal, painful thing, and
the circumstances surrounding the death
of an individual impact how their loved
ones react.
Certainly a young soldier being killed in
combat versus an elderly person dying of
natural causes are going to leave friends
and family filled with different thoughts
and feelings.
What one grieving mother chooses to do
in the face of the untimely death of her 24
year old son is, quite frankly, none of your
business.
Just as it is no one’s business to critique
your choice to mourn “properly and respectfully” the death of a loved one. We do
not live in a world that is black and white.
In many instances, “right” and “wrong”
can be found somewhere in between, in
the many shades of grey that are present
in all issues.
There is no room in grief and mourning for partisan politics and close minded
opinions from anyone. Regardless of political views, those who have lost loved ones
in any circumstances — war, hurricane,
terrorist attack or terminal illness — have
the right to honor that loss however they
see fit.
I hope that he can at least rethink this
opinion on death and the grieving process
and extricate it from his politics. The rest
of his politics are best filed under “lost
cause.”
—LAUREN J. GAFFNEY
CLASS OF 2001
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Explore the influence of
“Napoleon Dynamite”
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MEREDITH LEPORE
I wonder if, when Johannes Gutenberg invented the first printing press in 1436
in Germany, he could imagine that someday, in the year 2005, the average college stu-
stone tablets and carving out our words like they did in biblical times. I mean it worked for
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Get To Know
BY JASON BUITRAGO
CAMPUS TIMES STAFF
Who is she?
Mona Koda is a senior who is a dual
major in chemistry and Japanese.
She was born in our very own Strong
Memorial Hospital, but has traveled
the northeast coast quite extensively.
She, along with other students, has
started one of the newest groups on
campus, Yosakoi.
After performing at both the Diversity Night program during Orientation week and JAMbalaya two weeks
ago, the club is beginning to quickly
pick up momentum on campus as the
next up-and-coming group.
What is Yosakoi?
The literal translation is “gathering
fish.”
What is its history?
Yosakoi is a traditional fishermen’s
dance. The fishermen would dance in
order to entertain themselves as well
as call upon the Shinto gods to give
them a good haul. It has now turned
into a nationwide phenomenon in
Japan and is spreading globally. There
are many competitions for the modernized version. There are several
other dance forms that the club can
practice and perform.
Mona
Me: Koda
How did she start the club?
She gathered together some of her
friends who were interested in creating
the group. They learned the dance steps
and practiced over the summer. Currently,
she is working alongside the Students’ Association in order to officially make Yosakoi an SA recognized and funded group on
campus.
Why should people join?
Just from the looks of it, Yosakoi is a
physically demanding dance. The thrusts
and hip gyrations exhibited during previous performances highlight the body parts
necessary for the dance, which are most of
them. It’s an excellent workout, considering you’ll probably be much more flexible
after a few sessions. Also, at meetings,
members expand their own intellect by
discussing the history and significance of
the dances.
When do members of Yosakoi meet?
Yosakoi meets on Sundays from 8 to 10
p.m. Locations are TBA, however, feel free
to e-mail Mona Koda at mk002m@mail.
rochester.edu for more information and
meeting locations.
Where else have you seen Mona?
She is involved with many campus organizations. She is the chairperson for the
UR Cinema Group and the annual Boar’s
Head Dinner event chair for the Campus
Activities Board. She works at the
Residential Life Quad Office and at the
UR Medical Center.
Why are these activities important?
The groups and clubs she is involved
in bring the campus together and let
the students have fun. It gives the students an opportunity to take a break
from their heavy coursework.
What can we expect of Mona in
the future?
Although she is applying to medical
school in the coming months, she feels
she will be a part of Rochester for years
to come.
Buitrago can be reached at
jbuitrago@campustimes.org.
Abusive relationship scars masculinity
My girlfriend is always ragging
on me and it makes me feel like
crap. I would love to get her to
stop but I don’t want to sound like
a wimp. She can be really mean
and I’m afraid if I tell her how I
feel it will only get worse. I really
don’t want to make trouble. I don’t
need my friends knowing I can’t
take a joke.
~Bummed Boy in Burton
Dear Bummed,
If your feelings are as strong as you
indicate, then your desperate attempts
to be tough are in vain. Hurt feelings
don’t make anyone a wimp, and your
wish to express this to your misguided
girl is well-placed.
There is a prevailing attitude that
boys play with blue and never cry or
admit injury. To be vulnerable is the
antithesis of being masculine. Unfortunately, this is both inaccurate and
damaging. While the reported abuse by
men is smaller than women, numbers
still hold that around 835,000 men are
abused every year. It is often forgotten
how deeply troubling and dangerous
verbal abuse can be to the individual.
trouble, it exists. Ignoring the white
I am not suggesting that your girlelephant only serves to displace reality.
friend’s diatribes constitute verbal abuse,
That elephant will still leave a huge
but even if they do not, constant joking
pile of dung whether you acknowledge
that makes you feel uncomfortable or init or not.
jured is not acceptable. It is detrimental to
Telling her is the tough part, but it’s
your psyche and you should not do yoursure better than sitting admist a pile
self a disservice by just “taking it.”
of dung. I suggest neutral territory,
Although telling your girlfriend to cut
perhaps even a restaurant. It stops her
the jokes may be a scary place to go, it
from making it worse, as most indiis absolutely necessary
viduals will save face
to maintain your own
in public.
health as well as that of
As far as your
your relationship. If the
friends, you have to
is a column that provides a
situation were reversed
take care of yourself
common-sense, and often huand you made hurtful
and hopefully they will
morous, answer to all your love
jokes toward your girlrespect your decision.
and relationship problems.
friend, you would want
Too often masculinity
to know. Hopefully, she is
means shutting up and
just unaware and oblivious to your disputting up. A real man respects himself
comfort. If it is intentional, then making
enough to draw a line. If your friends
her aware that you are hurt may verbaltease you, just remind them that being
ize something she has not yet wanted to
beat by words is just as bad as fists.
acknowledge.
Real men will agree.
To put it plainly, hurting your partner is
Got a love and relationship question
not cool and asking for relief is more than
that’s literally, ummm ... burning? Ask
macho.
the Love Goddess Robyn Tanner, at
Even though you do not want to make
ctfeats@hotmail.com.
“Sex&the
CT”
ur opinion
H S
OR COE
O P
BY JON LAX
MR. BIG STUFF
Aries (March 21–April 19) — If you find a
four-leaf clover, dry it, press it and turn it
into a necklace. Do this because the week
after is going to suck, and you’re going to
want that luck with you.
Taurus (April 20–May 20) — So what! So
what? So what. Do what you’re told and
listen to others — you’re not always right.
Give someone else a chance to be wrong.
Easy on the ego buster.
Gemini (May 21–June 21) — Red oranges yell
graciously before imminent vultures. Roy G.
Biv pretty much has all the answers you’ll
need. Look to the sky when it’s raining and
sunny — there is a pot of gold somewhere.
Cancer (June 22–July 22) — Have goals.
Goals are really important in life — set them
and conquer them. A goal for you this week
is not to get hit in the head with a brick.
Leo (July 23–Aug. 22) — I can tell you like
all kinds of bears — koala, polar, panda,
brown, black, what have you. Penguins are
not bears, but they are cool too, just like you.
Sit back and enjoy the scenery.
Virgo (Aug. 23–Sept. 22) — You need a new
hobby to spice up your life. Try collecting
butterflies or writing plays. Write a play
about collecting butterflies. When are the
auditions? I want to be the butterfly.
Libra (Sept. 23–Oct . 22) — You’ve got a
good foundation, kid. Your trusses need a
little work though. Fix yourself up from
deep within. Not a building? Have a cup of
tea — I like Raspberry Zinger.
Scorpio (Oct. 23–Nov. 21) — Don’t be mad
— there’s no need for it. It requires more
muscles in your face to frown than it does to
smile. Turn that frown upside-down because
you’re a winner! Also, wash your feet.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22–Dec. 21) — Think your
teacher is overweight? Tell your teacher
you’re in love with her and that she’s going
to need an animal tranquilizer and those pet
detectives on television to pry your claws out
of her back. Watch your teacher run a few
miles every time she sees you — the pounds
just come dripping off.
Capricorn (Dec. 22–Jan. 19) — Wear headphones and sing to the music in them. The
trick — don’t connect an iPod to them.
Aquarius (Jan. 20–Feb. 18) — Roses are red,
violets are blue, I like to — wait a second.
Aren’t violets violet? Isn’t that why they’re
called violets? Bluelets are blue and violets
are violet. Beat up a florist this week.
Pisces (Feb. 19–March 20) — Here, fishy,
fishy. Come eat your food, fishy, fishy. Don’t
eat everything on your plate — that’s how
fish explode, fishy, fishy.
(IF YOU ACTUALLY BELIEVE THIS, THEN YOU REALLY
THOUGHT KATIE HOLMES WOULDNʼT BE PREGNANT
BEFORE SHE MARRIED TOM CRUISE.)
BY CHRIS TICE AND JASON FREIDMAN
CAMPUS TIMES STAFF
What are you doing for Fall Break?
Krystal Hooper
Matt Schurin ’06
Geraldine Yu ’09
Amos Rosenstein ’06
Diana Vidal ’07
Brandon Smoller ’08
“Studying for a test.”
“I mi
“I
might
ght go to Toronto or
go to see friends at University of West Virginia.”
“I’ll probably stay here
because the drive home is
too long.”
“Cobbling, studying and
rocking.”
“Working.”
“I’m going home [to Long
Island] and hanging out
with friends.”
CAMPUS TIMES
Off-campus living casts roles
BY DAN RUDOLPH
CAMPUS TIMES STAFF
When it’s cold outside, your
room is warm. All those living
in the dorms have got us beat
there. Living off campus, we
freeze our asses off the whole
winter. You don’t have to pay for
heating and you don’t have to
trudge through the snow to get
to class in the morning. Well,
at least you can trudge through
significantly less snow.
You can leave the lights on all
the time and have your computers running solely to operate
your away messages. Hell, it
doesn’t change your term bill
anyway. Sorry, Grassroots, oncampus sustainability doesn’t
have to be sexy — sometimes
sustainability is just a pain in
the ass.
But it’s not just the bigger
beds that make living off-campus more attractive. It’s the
chance to grab four good friends
— or in some cases, four reluctant accomplices — to love you
like your mother and father
never did.
In fourth grade, we called it
“House.” And today, well, we’re
still working on a more mature
name for it. But in essence, it’s
all the same thing — everyone
assumes their designated role
and acts accordingly. Just like
“Family Matters,” the father
pays the bills, the mother cooks
and cleans, the children get into
various half-hour shenanigans
that are resolved in the last two
minutes of the show and Urkel
— every family needs to hate
someone.
As we all can remember from
our days on the playground,
the “good parts” get swiped up
quickly. Baby, Dog, Crazy Uncle
— all hot commodities in the
“House” game. Entering my new
living situation this year, I was
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DAN RUDOLPH • CAMPUS TIMES STAFF
Junior Adam Machson-Carter, an off-campus resident, avidly performs
the chore of chopping wood for his “family.”
fully aware of this fact.
“I come home everyday to
In a sociological assessment
chop wood and keep my [family]
of my housemates and I, senior
warm for the night,” MachsonSarah Rastegar — another offCarter said.
campus dweller — decided that
He also does a fair amount
I was quick to establish myself
of dishes to keep Dashkoff’s
as the child of his off-campus
house running smoothly. Chores
family.
are a small price to pay for the
“Whiny, sarcastic and moody
joy that comes from learning
— in a way that is often conself-reliance, responsibility and
fused with “PMS” — Dan exhibcooperation. But the real beauty
its all the angst of a 12-year-old
comes from breaking away from
girl who listens to way too many
the ironfist of the RAs and whoDashboard Confessional songs,”
ever the hell a Graduate Head
she said.
Resident is.
Senior Jon Dashkoff is usually
Not only are we able to host
content with being the boss of
dinner parties without being
the house. “I think everything is
molested by over-zealous univergreat, except when Adam leaves
sity authority figures, but living
clumps of hair all around,”
off-campus also costs less than
Dashkoff said.
half of what you pay to live in
In instances such as this,
the dorms.
Dashkoff relishes the chance to
Friendships develop with
discipline his children.
your housemates based on co-de“When them there youngins
pendence and not just superficial
git outta line, I take off this
similarity.
there belt and I give ’em their
But who are we kidding? The
comeuppance,” Dashkoff said.
real reason we live off-campus is
One of Jon’s “youngings,”
because that extra $400 a month
junior Adam Machson-Carter
buys a lot of alcohol, not to mensometimes feels threatened by
tion condoms — lots of condoms.
his “father figure’s” displays of
Rudolph can be reached at
anger.
drudolph@campustimes.org.
Health
Watch
rectly to the skin as it can cause
BY JOY NEWMAN
frostbite.
CAMPUS TIMES STAFF
Protect your skin with a light
During a recent dinner concoating of oil — regular kitchen
versation, a friend casually
oil will do — or by wrapping ice
informed me of the perils of her
in a cloth, such as flannel. Ice
dorm shower. Apparently, if one
should be left on the affected
forgets to place both shower
site for approximately 20 to 30
curtains inside the shower, the
minutes. Little benefit is gained
bathroom floor turns into a lake.
by leaving ice on longer and the
Subsequently, when one walks
user runs the risk of skin damthrough this lake with flip flops,
age. Ice can be applied every two
one is almost guaranteed to go
to three hours for the first 24 to
waterskiing into the hall, at
48 hours after an injury.
which point a hilarious feet-inHeat, such as soaking in a
the-air fall is almost inevitable.
hot tub, using heat lamps, hot
As someone who does not have
water bottles, deep heat creams
this shower curtain dilemma, I
or heating pads should not be
found the situation hilarious. It
used on any new injury as heat
played directly into the theme of
will increase bleeding and swellthis week’s Health Watch, which
ing, thereby making the problem
is — drum roll please — how to
worse. After
appropriately
48 hours, heat
use heat and
may be applied.
ice, whether
If one forgets
Heat causes
after a comical
the blood vesshower curto place both
sels to dilate
tain mishap or
shower curtains
— open wide
perhaps just
because.
inside the shower, — which brings
more blood into
The benthe bathroom
the area and
efits of ice are
thereby procountless. Ice
floor turns
motes healing.
reduces bleedinto a lake.
Heat can also
ing into tissues,
help to reduce
prevents and/or
pain and/or
reduces swellmuscle spasm.
ing, reduces
As treatment may vary by
muscle spasms and reduces pain
individual — i.e. someone with
— both by numbing the area,
Reynaud’s phenomenon — may
as well as by preventing and/or
be instructed to use ice sparingly
reducing the aforementioned
or not at all.
potential problems.
Always consult a physician if
Ice is ideal in both the imyou have any questions or conmediate treatment of soft tissue
cerns about an injury or illness.
injuries as well as in later rehaI’d say “happy fall,” but let’s
bilitation. Ice is also excellent
settle for “happy autumn.”
as a functional treatment. By
Newman works in the
reducing pain, muscle spasms
Health Promotion Office of
and swelling, one is more able
the University Health Serto use the joint/muscle, which
vice and can be reached at
thereby increases functionality.
jnewman@campustimes.org.
Ice should never be applied di-
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CAMPUS TIMES
Courtship secrets amaze Rare books exposed
I have
learned
many important
things in
college,
but I think
the most
crucial
thing I’ve
observed is
LEAH
the imporKAMINSKY
tance of the
•
first month
BOTTLED
of school to
PSYCHOSIS
that classic
collegiate interest — finding booty. During this time, the college
campus seems to transform into
one giant street corner — upon
which everybody is either selling
a product or looking to buy one.
This is my theory.
Over summer break, school
relationships dissolve and students become newly single in an
atmosphere in which single people their own age are not readily
available.
This means that once we get
back to school, the following
equation applies — deprivation
+ break-up + re-introduced
social atmosphere = woohoo!
Subsequently, during the first
month of school, everyone tries
to hook up with everyone else
before this time period is up,
because once that first month is
gone, people have either found
relationships or are too stressed
out or too cold to venture out of
their rooms to seek booty.
This means that if you don’t
find a relationship during the
first month of school, you’re
pretty much screwed — either
way — until the weather warms
up and people reemerge from
their rooms again, which in
Rochester, often means that your
sexual dry spell will run until the
middle April.
After discussing my observations with my best friend — who
we shall call here “The Vixen of
ready? Once upon a time … there
Burton” — we decided to take
wasn’t one! LOL OMG!” Perhaps
action to ensure that we obthis wasn’t the best of pick-up
tained some sort of permanent
lines — and perhaps I didn’t
booty call before Oct. 1. Thus, we do enough to help the situation
instituted the 28 Days of Male— but I find that even when I’m
Female Interconnectedness, a
completely trashed, I am still
concentrated effort on both our
incredibly uncomfortable on the
parts to bring out our “A-games,” frat quad.
and “get some” before it was too
The end result generally tends
late.
to be that I ignore all attempts
We told all of our friends about
guys make to hit on me, opting
our pact, and before we knew it,
instead to squeeze as many anxeveryone was in on it. Everyone
ious and un-sexy jokes into one
wanted “some” in the most biblisentence and then run off somecal of ways. There was only one
where to sing the Captain Planet
rule — make out with someone
song, or do the robot.
before Oct. 1.
In any case, the Vixen and
Sounds simple, right? One
I returned home a bit defeated
would think so! But alas, I feared after that first night. However, I
that after having written an
must admit, I came closer than
article in the Campus Times in
she did to obtaining our goal.
which I referred to myself as the
While I was walking up to my
“metamucilized flatmate,” guys
building in Hill Court, a trashed
wouldn’t find me sexually attracboy on the second floor baltive.
cony drunkenly
Fearing that
called to me,
my friends
slurring his
would find
syllables, “Hey
The
he first month of
success before
Red, come here,
school is insane.
I did, I quickly
I have someEveryone is trying thing to tell
put up an away
message in
you.” He then
to hook up with
which I pleaded
proceeded to
everyone else
with my online
fall out of his
buddies to find
chair.
before this first
at least one of
At first, I
month is up.
the two things
wondered what
I was presently
the devil the
missing in my
poor chap could
life — hot man
want at such
candy and tuna salad. One of my
an ungodly hour of the night and
friends promptly responded with
if perhaps I shouldn’t inquire as
a link to a case of tuna and told
to his motivations for initiating
me, “It’s a whole case! How could such a conversation.
you go wrong?” Indeed, how
Ultimately, I decided to climb
could I go wrong?
up to my loft and wallow in postOn the first night of our exteenaged angst until my eyes fell
periment, I wore a tight red shirt
shut from the pressure of my
and the Vixen wore a backless
own self-pity.
one. This gave me the excuse to
Would the signers of the pact
run up to guys I didn’t know on
ultimately achieve booty success?
the frat quad and say, “Hi! Let
Tune in next week to see.
me tell you a story about the
Kaminsky can be reached at
back of my friend’s shirt! Okay,
lkaminsky@campustimes.org.
BY MADELINE WOO
CAMPUS TIMES STAFF
If the different libraries at UR
were teenagers in high school,
Rush Rhees Library would be the
rich popular kid — people always
flock to him and he owns most of
the stuff people want and need.
Carlson Science and Engineering
Library would be the best friend
— best with one-on-one contact
and can handle a more serious
relationship.
The Art and Music Library is
the free spirit, art devotee, who
constantly changes the color of
his hair. And the Rare Books,
Special Collections, Preservation Library is the quiet kid who
is always obsessively collecting
unique and obscure collectables
— the Magic cardplayer who no
one really knows, and does not
think that they’ll like. But when
they do get to know him, he
turns out to be pretty amazing.
The Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation Library is not exactly well known
on campus, and its existence is
sometimes not even easily recognized.
“I’ve heard of the Rare Books
Library,” senior Nathaniel Speer
said. “But I’ve never needed anything from it. I know that they
have rare books there.”
However, some students have
taken advantage of the massive
amount of resources available in
the Rare Books Library.
“I have seen the photographs
and documents of the old
school,” junior Lauren Selby
said. “It was really cool what the
old university looked like.”
The Rare Books, Special
Collections and Preservation
Library contains more than old,
out-of-print books lying on dusty
shelves.
“We have the papers of past
presidents [of the university],
many photographs and papers
from both professors and students,” Digital and Visual Resources librarian Melissa Mead
said.
Walking into the library, I was
drawn into the different items on
display. There were political cartoons from World War II hanging
on the wall to my right, and then
there were letters from soldiers
and badges won in battle filling
the glass cases located around
the main room. Exhibits are a
large part of how the library
showcases its artifacts and those
of other people.
“Exhibits are another part of
our educational program,” modern English literature librarian
Phyllis Andrews said. “They are
meant to highlight some of the
strengths of our collection and
are meant to coincide with some
of the academic calendar.”
The exhibits were fascinating
to me, but perhaps I’m just too
much of a museum buff.
Another exciting aspect is that
students can create and curate
their own exhibits of the Rare
Book Library.
Past exhibits have included
former UR President Thomas
Jackson’s own photography, as
well as that of a student who
explored the life behind an unknown woman’s journal, eventually identifying her.
It doesn’t stop there. Not only
does the Rare Books Library
have interesting exhibits, but
the artifacts in its possession are
interesting as well.
The Rare Books Library has an
amazing collection of Frederick
Douglass’ documents, including a pass for the Underground
Railroad — written to a family
in Rochester by Douglass himself. The Rare Books Library
also owns a copy of the original
Pledge of Allegiance — handwritten by Francis Bellamy, an 1876
UR alumnus, before the words
“under God” and “the United
States of America” were added.
Some of the library’s items are
more unusual, including the boot
hooks of President Martin B.
Anderson, or the leather jacket
that author John Gardner wore
the day he died.
Students are welcome to look
at the artifacts and are even allowed to work with the Douglass
papers and other original documents for class projects.
The Rare Books, Special
Collections and Preservation
Library may be shy and easily
overlooked, but if you take just a
moment to get to know it, you’ll
find a fascinating and fun place
to explore, and don’t worry — he
won’t make you play Magic with
him.
Woo can be reached at
mwoo@campustimes.org.
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‘Pedro’ reveals impact of movie
BY SAMANTHA LEWIS
CAMPUS TIMES STAFF
In late July of 2004, people of all ages
everywhere experienced what was to be
a motion picture phenomenon. The title
“Napoleon Dynamite” was quickly replaced with “The Funniest Movie of All
Time.”
A slow and seemingly boring movie,
“Napoleon Dynamite,” came fullyequipped with the hilarious catchphrases
— “Gosh!,” “Nunchuck skills,” “I caught
you a delicious bass” and “Vote for Pedro”— and characters that we all fell
in love with almost instantly. Since the
release of the movie, the actors have been
busy touring the country in an effort to
raise money for schools everywhere to
encourage the importance of education.
Along their seemingly endless tour is a
visit to the River Campus.
Efren Ramirez, who plays Pedro, took
some time off this leg of the tour to talk to
the Campus Times about this past year in
addition to the excitement and craziness
of newfound fame.
Ramirez has been involved in the acting business for years, but didn’t see his
real breakthrough until the release of
“Napoleon Dynamite.” With roles in TV
shows like “Boston Public” and “Judging Amy,” Ramirez knew that he wanted
to make it big time in the industry, but
little steps would be what took him there.
Around the time that he was offered a role
in “Napoleon Dynamite,” an offer came
through for the big-time Hollywood movie
“The Alamo.”
“I read scripts for both ‘Napoleon Dynamite’ and ‘The Alamo’ around the same
time,” Ramirez said. “What appealed to
me most about ‘Napoleon [Dynamite]’
as I read the script was that it gave me
a chance to have a lead in a movie that
would generate some interesting hype. So
I took it.”
Like many fans, Ramirez was shocked
at the success of the movie.
“I thought it might go on DVD. I generally try to focus more on the work than on
Tuned
In
Doug Allard
Franz Ferdinand rocks
with new album
Efren Ramirez and Aaron Ruell discuss the making and success of “Napoleon Dynamite” in Strong Auditorium, sponsored by the Outside Speakers Committee.
the result, but suddenly this movie was
a giant success. No matter where I went
— the supermarket, the bank, the airport
— people stopped me and said things like,
‘Do you have any skills?’”
Growing up in Burbank, Calif., childhood for Ramirez was, in a sense, similar
to that of Pedro Sanchez. He was the guy
who sat in the back, quietly reading poetry and answering only when called on.
“People are shocked sometimes when
they realize that we are not actually who
we played in the movie,” he said. “This
is a movie about high school misfits just
looking to find their way in an image-obsessed world. They want to know that it
is okay to be that loser handing out lanyards, so that people will vote for them as
class president.”
Since the release of the movie, some
of the actors, specifically Jon Heder, who
played the title role of Napoleon Dynamite, have found themselves landing big
roles in mainstream Hollywood movies.
Since many of these actors found their
starts in “Napoleon Dynamite,” it is hard
to see them as characters other than the
ones that we first knew and loved.
Now that the hype over the movie has
slowly started to die down, Ramirez is
busy working on his upcoming projects.
“This movie opened so many doors for
me,” he said. “I have been working nonstop for quite some time now — I have a
TV show and many movies lined up.”
He continued, “All of them are different
kinds of roles that will give me the chance
to prove myself as an actor. I don’t want
to be type-casted and I think I have done
a good job of that.”
A good-humored guy who could not
be more grateful for his place in this
business, Ramirez wanted to leave UR
with one very important piece of advice
— “Vote for Pedro and all of your wildest
dreams will come true.”
Lewis can be reached at
slewis@campustimes.org.
Indie film ʻDrivers Wantedʼ hits Regal
driver. Head of marketing and distribuBY JENNA KATZ
tion for their future projects Rich Angell,
CAMPUS TIMES STAFF
likes the character of “Friendly” the best.
“Drivers Wanted” first premiered at in“He represents the person who’s truly
dependent theaters five years ago and had
friendly but finds himself in positions
a successful two week run at the Little
where he is not friendly anymore,” he
Theatre this summer, but now after being
said.
picked up by Regal theaters, director Tim
Both Beideck and Angell have ties to
Beideck hopes that the film will amass a
Rochester, as Beideck is
greater following.
a native and Angell at“I think that they will
tended the Margaret E.
think it’s something that
‘I look at it like
Warner Graduate School
they haven’t seen before
of Education and Human
a war movie.
and will see a different
Development. After two
approach of telling a
It’s the war that
years of college at the
story,” he said in a recent
nobody sees,
School of Visual Arts in
interview with the CamYork City, Beideck
pus Times.
except that it’s a New
dropped out, as he realBeideck made the film
funny war.’
ized that having a degree
on his own, as he wrote
the script and music, pro— TIM BEIDECK probably wouldn’t help
him make films. In referduced, edited and acted as
director
ence to making “Drivthe marketing director.
ers Wanted,” Beideck
The story follows seven
said that “being away from New York
pizza delivery drivers — Sheldon, FriendCity helped. You think in terms of what’s
ly, Mang, Rupert, Tyler, Little Debbie and
around you, so I would have never written
Peter — who represent the different ways
a story about pizza delivery drivers if I
that people react to the job. With about
were there.”
three years of delivery experience before
“Drivers Wanted” is appropriately set in
writing the script, Beideck was wellRochester, as Beideck felt that it provided
versed in the plight of the pizza delivery
the perfect backdrop for a movie about
delivery drivers.
“I think that it has everything that you
need visually,” Beideck said .
“I wanted the area to have a lot of different things — the city and a more rural
area like the beach. I wanted [someplace]
that had a lot going on in a two mile
radius, an area that would be an actual
setting for a pizza delivery guy.”
The characters in the film work for
Bob’s Pizza, which is set in an actual
Pontillo’s Pizza shop. But, once the delivery drivers leave Bob’s Pizza, they are
exposed to a different world.
“I look at it like a war movie, “Beideck
said. “[It’s] the war that nobody sees,
except that it’s a funny war.”
Angell agrees and feels that everyone
can relate to it on some level.
“If you have ever had a job that you
didn’t like, then you will connect with
it and will be laughing out loud,” Angell
said. “It’s entertaining, it’s relatable, it’s
a good night out and it’s novel.”
Catch the Regal premiere of “Drivers
Wanted” on Friday and get a glimpse into
the entertaining world of pizza delivery.
Katz can be reached at
jkatz@campustimes.org.
Follow-up albums are the truth
teller of the status of any band.
There is always pressure to not only
duplicate the success of the bands
debut, but expand on it as well. They
can take one record wonders and put
them on the path to super-stardom
or they can force an artist into extinction.
Franz Ferdinand was a band in
such a dilemma. How would they
repeat their self-titled debut of last
summer that sounded like no other
record out at the time? Would they
follow the same formula of cocky
energized guitar driven pop rock or
would they try a new sound?
On their new record, “You Could
Have It So Much Better,” released
in the United States on Tuesday, the
Scottish hipsters answered just about
every applicable question with a
resounding yes.
The record has everything their
debut album had, with a few twists
and turns even that the band’s most
diehard fans couldn’t have seen coming. Overall, the band’s main goal
since its formation — getting girls to
dance to their music — was definitely
achieved.
Songs like “Do You Want To” nod
to their previous success. Smooth
guitar riffs? Yes. Cocky and at times
both self-effacing and self-indulging? You Bet. Hedonist song themes?
Check. Ass-shaking bass lines? Uh
huh. And, is it still damn catchy? Of
course.
Unlike other sophomore efforts,
this record enters previously uncharted territory for these lads.
Tracks such as “Walk Away” are
indie at times, but also contain some
straight up soul chops that many
listeners would probably not expect.
One may call it a love song, but unlike the band’s other love songs —
the upbeat “Michael,” for example,
with its allusions to the lead singer’s
gay desires — this one features references to Hitler in addition to Mao
Tse-Tung.
The band shows knowledge of
rock’s forefathers with the track
“Eleanor Put Your Boots On.” Its
Beatlesque melodies coupled with
borderline folk inspired lyrics — à la
Bob Dylan — make for a song that
goes beyond the band’s normal poppy
dance beats.
So, with the second effort, Franz
Ferdinand has managed a difficult
one-two punch — maintaining their
popular effortless dancy sound that
got them to where they are, but they
also still managed to push the envelope, developing space for the band’s
evolution.
And, with a strong affirmation,
this record, like their freshman debut, will still make all the girls just
want to dance.
Allard can be reached at
dallard@campustimes.org.
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ImageOut celebrates 13th anniversary
BY JENNA KATZ
CAMPUS TIMES STAFF
ImageOut, the Rochester Lesbian & Gay Film & Video Festival will celebrate its 13th anniversary between Oct. 7 and 16, as
it showcases 41 films and videos
during its 10-day span.
This year, ImageOut will present for the first time the ImageMaker Award to “recognize a
unique individual’s courageous
artistic vision and overall contribution to the arts, through
his or her life and work.” The
award will be received by Charles
Busch, who has proven his
dedication to the arts as a playwright, screenwriter, film director, actor, novelist and drag artist. He has also been nominated
for a Tony Award and is a Sundance Film Festival Award Winner. He will receive his award on
Oct. 8 following the screening of
“The Lady in Question is Charles
Busch,” in which he stars.
Below are brief descriptions of
four movies playing at ImageOut,
which may be of interest to you
— “WTC View,” “Left Lane,”
“Desperate Homos” and “Summer Storm.”
“WTC View”
“WTC View” follows the plight
of a young gay man who places
an ad in the Village Voice on
Sept. 10, 2001 for a roommate
with whom he can share his
SoHo apartment. The film de-
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picts his emotions and search for
stability following the September
11 attacks, while also featuring
the respondents to his ad. Writer,
director and producer Brian
Sloan will attend the film screening at the Little Theatre.
“Left Lane”
“Left Lane” is a documentary
featuring the work of self-proclaimed “lesbian, feminist, atheist and socialist” Alix Olson on
one of her recent tours, in which
she preaches her social beliefs.
The film traces her appearances
at poetry workshops, music festivals and at high schools, while
also providing a glimpse into
her personal life between these
performances. Olson will be performing on the River Campus on
Oct. 6 prior to the Oct. 15 screening of “Left Lane” at the Little
Theatre.
“Desperate Homos”
“Desperate Homos” takes a
different direction in revealing
the plight of the homosexual by
piecing together different short
movies. Curated by Michael
Gamilla, the film lasts about an
hour and a half and proves that
“gay boys lead very complicated
lives.”
The films —“Lonely 15,” “The
Homolulu Show,” “Starcrossed,”
“Postmortem,” “dare,” “The
Last Night,” “Mostly Willing”
and “Bikini” — range in origin
from Norway, the United States,
• Jason Mraz
• Every Time I Die
• Vocal Point
• Darien Lake Trip
• Senior at McQuaid Jesuit
H.S. Teddy Geiger will perform
at Water Street Music Hall at 1
p.m. Tickets cost $10.
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
UR Cinema Group
Fri., Oct. 7
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
7:00 p.m., 9:30, 12:00 a.m.
Sat., Oct. 8
Murderball
7:00 p.m., 9:00, 11:00
All films will be shown in Hoyt
Auditorium.
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900 East Ave. • 271-3361
Fri., Oct. 7
Reds
Sun., Oct. 9
The Tin Drum (7 p.m.)
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The boys wait on the rowing dock at camp in “Summer Storm.”
Canada and France. Both “The
Last Night” and “Mostly Willing” are in French with English
subtitles. The different films give
respective insights into dating,
coming out, sexual escapades and
the ménage à trios.
If you have a hard time following one film for too long and
are looking for a different way of
watching a story develop, I recommend you check out “Desperate Homos.”
“Summer Storm”
“Summer Storm” is a German
drama that traces the friendship
between two male best friends
who attend summer camp together. When a young gay rowing team
arrives at camp, they are forced
to face their prejudices and perhaps their sexual feelings for one
another. It is a sensitive comingof-age story, but lacks the cliché
devices illustrated in most films of
this genre.
You can catch the above films
and others at the Dryden Theatre, the Little Theatre and the
Cinema Theatre. Visit http://www.
imageout.org for show times and
locations.
Katz can be reached at
jkatz@campustimes.org.
Events of the Week
•Activist, poet and filmaker Alix
Olson will speak and perform
some of her work in the May
Room at 6 p.m., $3.
• D.C. Malone will perform at
the Comix Cafe with special
guest Dave Ing.
• Tickets cost $7, 8:30 p.m.
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Band mixes cello with hard rock
BY KATIE HILER
On Oct. 9, classical music buffs
and heavy metal groupies may
find themselves cheering and
clapping to music that caters to
both their styles. This strange,
harmonious phenomenon is the
result of student-created rock
band Break of Reality, who will
be the first ever rock band in
recent memory to grace the renowned Kilbourn Hall.
“We intend to take this classical venue and rock it out,” junior
and founding member Patrick
Laird said.
He and his four other bandmates — juniors Erin Keesecker,
Jeff Hood, Andrew Larson and
senior Ivan Trevino — promise
an intense concert Friday. Their
repertoire includes covers of
Metallica, System of a Down,
Tool and other bands of the like,
as well as original compositions.
The instrumentation is simple
— four cellos and a drum set.
After hearing this, a vision
comes to mind of Eastman
School of Music concert regulars
gawking at an “unsophisticated”
ensemble and rock lovers trashtalking the “wannabe” heavy
metal band of string players.
But, after a brief discourse with
Laird, four sound clips and a
tour of the band’s Web site,
http://www.breakofreality.com, I
can now vouch for the legitimacy
of these budding rock stars.
In fall 2003, Laird, then a
freshman, decided he wanted his
classical music talent to cater to
his other passion — heavy metal
rock music.
“I was greatly inspired by the
Thursday Oct. 6
Thursday,
• 8 p.m.
Kilbourn Hall
Ossia performs Ades’s “Living Toys” as well as the North
American premiere of Furrer’s
“Nuun.”
Friday, Oct. 7
Friday
• 8 p.m.
Kilbourn Hall
Musica Nova presents some
contemporary pieces with
Scatterday conducting.
ANDREW SLOMINSKI• CAMPUS TIMES STAFF
Break of Reality performs heavy metal covers from bands like Metallica and Tool as well as originals.
Finnish cello quartet Apocalyptica,” Laird said. There are more
groups like these, and Laird’s role
model happens to be a pretty famous one. The three other freshman cellists soon joined along
with Laird.
“After we read together, we decided that we all wanted to take
the group a little more seriously,”
Laird recalled.
Regular rehearsals encouraged
the bold move toward purchasing
amplifying equipment, which led
to the acquisition of the band’s
drummer, Ivan Trevino. Their
debut concert was at Java’s
Cafe, a regular hang-out spot for
students and a springboard from
which Break of Reality would
leap to future success.
Some skeptics may ask, “How
can you ‘rock out’ on a cello, a
traditionally classical instrument?” Laird is prepared to
provide an earful of reasons.
“The cello is much more powerful than your standard guitar
or bass, but one would not normally realize this simply because
a cello has the handicap of being
primarily an acoustic instrument, whereas guitars and basses
utilize amplifiers and distortion,”
Laird said. “So what happens
when you put that on cello? The
answer is Break of Reality.”
It is obvious that this hard
rock aficionado feels his band
does justice to the genre. As for
the other side of the spectrum,
classical music fans looking for
a pure string sound won’t cringe
upon hearing the music.
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Concert exhibits famous Russian composers
BY OMAR FIGUEREDO
CAMPUS TIMES STAFF
While some sang along to
the emo sounds and awkward
guitar-tunings of Dashboard
Confessional at the concert at
the Palestra on Sept. 30, others
were taken on a journey through
the passionate, intense sounds of
Russia.
Neil Varon guided the Eastman Philharmonia, or “Phil”
as it is affectionately called,
through an amazing performance
featuring the music by three of
Russia’s most renowned composers — Mikhail Glinka, Piotr
Tchaikovsky and Dmitri Shostakovich. Contrary to the responses from their original debuts,
the works received enthusiastic
applause from the audience.
The themes from Shostakovich’s ninth symphony and Tchaikovsky’s violin concerto buzzed
through my head throughout the
rest of the night. They resonated
alongside the images of violinists straining every muscle in
their arms to execute each note
with the necessary passion and
intensity.
The evening started with an
overture from one of Glinka’s
most famous opera compositions
“Russlan and Ludmilla,” which
is based on a poem by another fa-
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The Eastman Phil featured three of Russia’s renowned composers.
mous Russian — poet Alexander
Pushkin. The unbelievably fast
runs performed by the violins in
a piano dynamic were some of the
most impressive sections of the
performance. At times, the fast
tempo seemed too difficult for the
orchestra to keep up with, but
seemed to mirror the adventurous tale of Russlan chasing after
his beloved Ludmilla.
The overture demanded the
participation of an active audience that would listen through
the thick and heavy phrases.
That wouldn’t be surprising
considering the composer, who is
identified as one of “The Mighty
Handful,” or “The Five” — a
group of Russian composers who
endeavored toward producing
distinctive Russian music.
The heavy, quarter-notedriven first statement of
Shostakovich’s ninth symphony
never fails to evoke a nationalistic pride in whomever listens
to it. The timpani, of course,
are also instrumental — no pun
intended — to the heavy texture
of this piece. After settling into
their seats from the previous
pieces, the public was once again
stirred from their seats by the
Phil’s intense presentation of
the orchestral work.
However, the most exhilarating section of the entire concert
had to be Tchaikovksy’s violin
concerto with senior Matt Zerweck, who was chosen out of five
other violinists for the solo.
“Its easy to be inspired when
there is an immense world of
timbre opening up around you,
helping to create the long lines
and ever-building tension that’s
necessary for the Tchaikovsky
[violin concerto] to be successful,” Zerweck said of his experience. “To actually feel the immense physical power of the tutti
section is exhilarating.”
The audience was noticeably moved by his performance,
congratulating him with an
extensive standing ovation that
seemed to be an addition to the
concert’s program. Zerweck
mentioned his surprise at being
recognized and congratulated
by Rochesterians outside Java’s
even after the performance.
Save for the few awkward
entrances from the horn section
and subtle imbalances in dynamics between the strings and
Zerweck during his concerto, the
Eastman Phil delivered an amazing performance that showcased
some of the most prominent
musical works by 19th and 20th
century Russian composers.
Figueredo can be reached at
ofigueredo@campustimes.org.
Saturday Oct. 8
Saturday,
• 7 p.m.
MAG, Fountain Court
Guest artists perform Monterverdi’s “Vespers” with
Eastman’s newly-acquired Italian Baroque organ. Tickets are
$50 from RPO Box Office with
limited seating.
Sunday Oct. 9
Sunday,
• 3 p.m.
Kilbourn Hall
The Mendelssohn String
Quartet will perform works by
Mendelssohn, Verdi and Ligeti.
Tickets are $15, $12, $10 and $5 .
• 8 p.m.
Kilbourn Hall
Heavy metal band Break of
Reality performs covers and
original compositions on four
cellos and a drumset.
Tuesday Oct. 11
Tuesday,
• 8 p.m.
Kilbourn Hall
Lionheart, a male a cappella
ensemble, performs “My Fayre
Ladye: Images of Women in
Medieval England” as part of
the Kilbourn Concert Series.
Tickets are $15, $12, $10 and $5 .
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Untitled
Andrew Newman
Brad Taylor
The Bands Word Find
Connie Shieh
Abba
Coheed and Cambria
Gorillaz
Social Distortion
Air
Coldplay
Green Day
Source
Alien Ant Farm
Counting Crows
LCD Soundsystem
Spoon
Atmosphere
Daft Punk
Nickelback
Stereolab
Backstreet Boys
Darkness
Ozomatli
Sugarcult
Beach Boys
Dave Matthews
Postal Service
Switchfoot
Beastie Boys
Decemberists
Queen
Telepopmusik
Beatles
Doves
Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Meters
Ben Folds Five
Edens Crush
Rusted Root
Thievery Corporation
Black Crowes
Fischerspooner
Savage Garden
Turbonegro
Black Eyed Peas
Fishbone
Shins
White Stripes
Black Keys
Franz Ferdinand Simon and Garfunkel
Yellowcard
Bugles
Frou Frou
Sixpence None the Richer
Clientele
Gang of Four
Steam
Monday
Answers to last week’s
Hollywood Word Find
The Nugget that Could
Emily Paret
J. Sliwoski
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Dashboard delights, a Capella excites
Dashboard Confessional performed for a large
audience of students Friday at the Palestra.
Lead singer of Dashboard Confessional, Chris
Carrabba, performs an acoustic piece.
Lead guitarist of Dashboard Confessional,
Scott Shoenbeck, sings along.
Carrabba and Shoenback play side by side during
the song “Hands Down.”
Carrabba frequently pushed aside his guitar to sing during
emotionally moving parts of a song.
The Midnight Ramblers and the Yellowjackets tangle during the
“Clash of the Titans” concert last Saturday at Strong Auditorium.
PHOTO AND DESIGN BY
CHRIS TICE AND
JASON FREIDMAN
CAMPUS TIMES STAFF
Director of the Yellowjackets and junior Jake Grantier sings
“Up the Ladder” by The Nylons.
Junior Jeff Le of the Midnight Ramblers sings a solo to
“Beautiful Soul” by Jesse McCartney while juniors
Matt Roe and Kenny Lotito sing backup.
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CAMPUS TIMES
Soccer remains hot Uglies fight back in
with a perfect 9-0 second half to win
BY MIKE ROVINSKY
CAMPUS TIMES STAFF
The men’s soccer team passed
their first big test of the year. Led
by seniors Nate Micklos and Gary
Stom, the Yellowjackets shut out
their conference rivals, the New
York University Violets, 3-0.
The Yellowjackets have an unbroken streak of 19 wins dating
back to last season.
Both teams entered the game
nationally ranked. Micklos scored
two goals and Stom cashed in on
the third goal to give UR the offense
it needed to get the win.
UR took control of the game early
on as Micklos and Stom scored five
minutes apart midway through the
first half.
Halfway through the first half,
Micklos tried to cut around the
Violets’ Nick Katsanos just outside
the left edge of the penalty area.
He was pulled down, earning the
Yellowjacket a free kick.
Senior Colin Fernie took the
free kick and found Micklos in the
center of the box where Micklos
found the net.
“It was a great ball from Fernie,”
Micklos said. “We talked about getting good runs through the box.”
Five minutes later, Stom used
his quick feet to get into the Violet
defense and hammered home UR’s
second goal.
Micklos sealed the deal with his
second goal of the game to give the
Yellowjackets an impressive win
over a good Violets team.
After a few days of rest, UR
took on the Rochester Institute
of Technology on Tuesday. Both
teams took to the field on a warm,
picturesque fall night.
Before the game, Fernie com-
mented on his team’s success. “The right side of the net, hit directly off
most important factor for us is to the left goal post, then bounced off
keep our focus and come out sharp,” of RIT’s goalie for the score, giving
she said. “This is a mid-week game UR a 2-0 lead that they would not
between two conference games, and relinquish.
also going against a local team, we
Defensively, sophomore Paco
definitely need to play up to our Corbalan made one save in goal.
potential.”
With the help of Paco’s defense
Fernie’s presence and leadership and the senior duo of Micklos and
rubbed off on his teammates and Stom, UR improved to a perfect 9-0
most importantly, the younger this season with a final score of 2-0
players.
against RIT at Fauver Stadium on
He is a player who understands Tuesday evening.
the game, and works hard to help
On a side note, Micklos was
his team improve on their strengths named Offensive Player of the Week
and weaknesses. Fernie’s role for men’s soccer by the University
will be critical for
Athletic AssociaUR to keep that
tion. While on the
goose egg in the
other side of the
‘The most
loss column.
ball, sophomore
important factor Eric Meister was
“We need to
come out sharp
Defensive Player
for us is to keep
and focused,” Ferof the Week.
our focus and
nie said. That’s
UR will travel
exactly what UR
for
the next three
come out sharp
did. Right from
games against
for this week.’
the get-go, the
three conference
Ye l l o w j a c k e t s
— COLIN FERNIE foes — Brandeis
fired shot after
University on
senior
shot at the RIT
Sunday, the Unigoal.
versity of Chicago
The offense stayed persistent, Oct. 14 and closing out the road
but the key was their intensity trip at Washington University in
— Stom was the energizer bunny, St. Louis Oct. 16.
flying around the field, weaving in
The team will return home on
and out of the defense and sacrific- Oct. 7, in time for Meliora Weeking his little frame to add pressure end and will engage in a highly
to the RIT defense.
anticipated game against SUNY
His play ignited the 10 other Cortland.
Yellowjackets. Stom dribbled in
Come out and support the
close to the box and made a nice men’s soccer team during Meliora
sweeping pass to his buddy Mick- Weekend and show the alumni
los resulting in the first goal of how proud we are to have a team
the game.
ranked fifth nationally in Division
UR’s second and final goal came III soccer.
from senior Steve Maltzman.
Rovinsky can be reached at
Maltzman’s goal — kicked from the
mrovinsky@campustimes.org.
BY COLIN EDWARDS
CAMPUS TIMES STAFF
UR club rugby fought back from
a huge half-time deficit to defeat
SUNY Geneseo on Saturday. The
undefeated Uglies entered the
game knowing it would be a battle
and gave their fans nothing less.
“I would say that this week we
had an uphill battle from the start
and proved that we have what it
takes to be champions,” senior
captain and flyhalf Matt Venzin
said. “We continue to play as a
team when the chips are down
rather than relying on individual
efforts.”
The Uglies’ strong start, with
a try by Venzin, was quickly suppressed by Geneseo’s four consecutive unanswered tries, along with
Venzin leaving due to a head injury
just before halftime.
However, the scoreboard was
not the only enemy of the Uglies.
After the Uglies had been penalized five times in the first half,
they had quickly accumulated a
23-point deficit.
The Uglies started to respond to
the dismal first half by picking it
up in the second. The unrelenting
Uglies began to quickly wear down
the larger SUNY Geneseo team
through continuous action. Senior
Barry Gomoll points to the injury
of captain Venzin as the turning
point for the Uglies.
“I think the turning point was
when Venzin got hurt — it just fired
everybody up,” Gomoll said, who
went on to score four consecutive
tries in the second half. “It’s mostly
that I just saw the opportunity to
score and I took it — a couple of
the tries came off the rolling mauls
from lineouts which we had been
working on.”
In the first minutes of the second
half, the Uglies pinned Geneseo
down in their own end after a
perfect kick and lineout. Uglies
would dominate for the rest of
the game.
Winning eight out of their nine
scrums, as opposed to Geneseo’s
two out of nine, the Uglies once
again sealed the victory through
a solid pack performance.
Conditioning has proven to be
an extremely important asset to
the Uglies, who simply outlasted
Geneseo’s larger pack. The key to
the team’s success, however, has
undoubtedly come from having
backs that can finish the job when
they need to.
“We had a serious size disadvantage against Geneseo, but it’s
not anything we aren’t used to,”
sophomore and prop Steve Goff
said. “We always seem to find a
way around our size and today it
was conditioning and smart play
which came through in the second
half.”
After taking charge in the second
half, the Uglies came down to the
last three minutes of play, still
down 24-28.
Gomoll, in his normal form,
scored a clutch which finally
brought the Uglies into the lead,
31-28, in stunning fashion.
After defeating the runner up
for the state championship in
Geneseo, they travel to Fredonia
this weekend to take on the only
other team that is still undefeated
in the Uglies’ division.
“They are another team that beat
us last year,” sophomore and wing
Kenneth Gayles said. “We know
they have yet another strong pack
— we will just play our game, it’s
what’s brought us to this point.”
Edwards can be reached at
cedwards@campustimes.org.
Cello: Innovative rock style
effective on the cello. As for voCONTINUED FROM PAGE 15
cals, the band’s 2004 release of
They incorporate traditional
their debut album “Voiceless,”
string effects, like pizzacato,
says it all.
which result in a unique string
“We can only express ourselves
sound within a rock context.
through music, not lyrics,” Laird
Commenting on the classical/
said. “We use the beauty of the
rock fusion, Laird said, “What
cello and oftentimes you will
we are trying to do is combine
hear a very melodic line, much
the energy of today’s rock music
like that of a singer, over a heavy
with the versatility, pitch, range
and rapid riff.”
and beauty of the cello. It’s a
The presence of this humanvery clean and thick sound that
like singing voice is a perfect
normal rock instruments cannot
compliment and
emulate.”
the real thing
But some
still argue that
‘It’s a very clean isn’t missed.
Break of Reality
a rock band is
and thick sound knows how to
not a rock band
unless there are
that normal rock be a synthesis of
both styles — the
guitars, basses,
instruments can- middle ground
vocals and an
between the
MTV music spenot emulate.’
cial. Except for
— PATRICK LAIRD classical doctrine
and the heavy
the MTV special,
junior metal mantra.
Break of Reality
The band
can still match
certainly blurs preconceptions of
or outdo any rock band basics.
this “classical” instrument. Be“The cello can do so many
ing a cellist myself, a scenario I
things a guitar cannot,” he said.
experience at least twice a week
“We have a bow that allows us
comes to mind here. As I study in
to play much more smoothly
my room with the door open to
than [a guitar can]. Oftentimes
enjoy the busy lives of classmates
certain scales or rapid solos are
coming and going, one person or
almost entirely impossible on the
another will walk by and see my
guitar.”
hard, blue cello case standing at
Continuing, he said, “The
the foot of my bed. They inevitafoundation of most of the heavy
bly remark, “That’s a friggin’ big
songs on the radio that hit you
guitar.”
over the head with energy is
“It’s a cello,” I proudly repower chords — simply two
spond.
notes a fifth apart.”
Hiler can be reached at
This technique is something
khiler@campustimes.org.
easily accomplished and strongly
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Tennis scores big at ITA tournament
BY ALEX MOELLER
The men’s tennis team traveled
to Vassar College over the weekend
for the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Northeast Championships,
a two-day tournament that sends
its singles and doubles champions
to the national level.
The Yellowjackets came into
the tournament as the No. 1 seed
in both singles and doubles, with
sophomore Thanos Kantarelis
earning the top spot in the singles
draw. Kantarelis and sophomore
Eric Hansen took the high seed in
doubles as defending champions of
the tournament.
The first day of action sent four
of five UR singles players to the
round of 16. Senior Eric Prince
defeated Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute’s Joe Black, 6-3, 6-2, in
the first round and Lyle Moran of
Ithaca College, 6-3, 6-4.
Senior Josh Bruce-Black steamrolled Allen Cheon of Manhattanville College, 6-1, 6-1, in the
first round, but faced a tougher
challenge against Roger Mosteller
from The College of New Jersey.
Down two set points in the first,
Bruce-Black rallied for a 7-6 (2),
7-5 win.
“I really had to give it my all and
stay mentally strong throughout
the match to advance to the third
round,” Bruce-Black said.
Sophomore Eric Hansen crushed
Chris Seeger of host Vassar College,
6-0, 6-0, and then defeated SUNY
Oneonta’s Eric Bratt, 7-5, 6-4.
Freshmen Jeff Titcombe advanced
to the third round with scores of
6-1, 6-1, and 7-5, 6-1.
The surprising omission from
CHRIS TICE • CAMPUS TIMES STAFF
Sophomore Eric Hansen swings a powerful backhand that helped him reach the third round.
this group was Kantarelis, who
dropped a tough three-set match
to Chris Chang of New York
University in the second round.
After Chang took the first set in a
tiebreaker, Kantarelis roared back
with a convincing 6-1 win in the
second. Chang ended up stealing
a marathon final set by a score
of 11-9.
All three doubles teams posted
two victories on Saturday to move
into the quarterfinals. Titcombe
and sophomore Aaron Gettinger
posted a 9-7 win over Ryan McDonald and Rappaport of Drew
University and followed it up with
an 8-5 victory over St. Lawrence
University’s Matt Dwyer and Jon
Satkowski. The teams of Kantarelis/Hansen and Prince and
junior John Park rolled through
two matches each to round out
day one.
The second day of play produced
somewhat of a surprise for the
Yellowjackets. Bruce-Black, the
team’s fifth singles player, racked
up three straight wins to get to
the finals, where he was beaten
by Mikhail Gurvich of NYU. The
score of the championship match
was 6-1, 6-3.
“I just wanted to go out and
play my game and give everything
I had left,” Bruce-Black said. “I
was disappointed I lost, but I felt
like specifically in the second set
I played very well and fought to
the end.”
To get to the final, he beat Union
College’s Andrew Draznin, 6-1, 23, Chang, 7-5, 6-0, and Skidmore
College’s Greg Sher, 7-5, 6-2.
“I thought I played pretty well
throughout the tournament,”
Bruce-Black said. “I was consistent
and came up with big shots when
I needed them.”
Coach Anna Khvalina commented on Bruce-Black’s performance
as well.
“Josh may have been somewhat
of a surprise to people given that he
was coming in as our fifth player,”
she said. “I think it simply demonstrates the depth of our team, and
it was great to see Josh, who is a
senior, have such success at this
tournament.”
“He did not drop a set on his
way to the final,” she continued.
“His serving all through the
tournament was responsible for
raising his game up a notch. He
hit more aces than I have seen hit
ever before.”
As for the rest of the team, two
singles players made the quarterfinal round. Prince beat Dwyer in a
close three set match, 6-4, 2-6, 7-5,
before being ousted by Sher, 6-2, 62. Titcombe also won a round of 16
match before losing in the quarters
to eventual champion Gurvich, 6-3,
6-4. Hansen lost his first match of
the day to Ian Corn of NYU by a
score of 6-1, 6-3.
All three doubles teams fell in
close quarterfinal matches on Sunday. Titcombe and Gettinger were
defeated 8-5, Prince and Park lost
8-6 to the eventual champions, and
the top seeded team of Kantarelis
and Hansen were beaten by Ciolino
and Flynn of Ithaca College, 8-5.
“The [doubles] draw has 32
teams and it’s an accomplishment
to be seeded No. 1 in that field,”
Khvalina said. “However, with that
comes having every team come at
you with their best shot, which is
what Eric and Thanos had to get
through.”
“They fell short of defending the
title, but I think they’ll be back next
year better prepared for that experience. They are very hard-working
and hopefully this loss will make
them hungry for spring.”
Moeller can be reached at
amoeller@campustimes.org.
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CAMPUS TIMES
Women settle for fifth Men’s XC departs
SUNY with third
BY ERIN PHILBRICK
CAMPUS TIMES STAFF
The Yellowjackets ran a great
race on Saturday at the SUNY
Geneseo Invitational. Although
their first few hundred meters fell
a little short of spectacular, the
women’s cross country team ran
very well under the fierce competition, causing them to place fifth
out of 16 teams.
“Our top group spotted the competition yardage in the first couple
hundred meters,” Hartwig said.
“They competed as well as everyone
else, but we were running amongst
runners slower than us that held
us back early on. Overall, the positives [of our race] outweighed the
negatives.”
The times were fast, the runners made a significant progress
in bringing their personal best
times down and the mile splits
were the most even head coach
Barbara Hartwig has ever seen
from a team at UR.
Senior Jessica Van Binsbergen
led the team, placing 16th in the
172-runner field, with a time of
19:21 for the five-kilometer course.
She was followed closely by teammate sophomore Kellie Hasselwander, finishing in 20th place with a
time of 19:39.
Junior Rebecca Hayes came in
27th with a time of 20:02, then
sophomore Stephanie Holowacz at
34th, with a time of 20:16. Junior
Stacy Allen rounded off the scoring
with a finish in 37th place and a
time of 20:24.
“Jessie ran her best race of the
season, getting back into shape
after taking some time off over the
summer due to injury,” Hartwig
said. “She’s racing smart and
training hard, as is everyone on
the team.”
Once again, the women had a
new order for their top five runners.
“We had our third top runner this
COURTESY OF UR ATHLETICS
Senior Jessica Van Binsberger finishes 16th at SUNY Geneseo.
week,” Hartwig said. “Now we just
need to get everyone to run strongly
on the same day.”
The team worked together to
total a score of 134 points, placing
narrowly behind fourth place Otterbein College with 123 points, but
far surpassing SUNY Fredonia in
sixth place with 206 points. SUNY
Geneseo took the title of their own
invitational with 25 points.
“We just came off a two-week
practice cycle that was very hard,”
Hartwig said. “They competed well
and I’m happy with the results. We
are going to work on getting out
better, maintaining even paces and
continuing to be competitive. It was
a very good field and there were
some fine runners in the race. It
was an excellent test for us.”
This weekend, the Yellowjackets’
top seven runners are headed to
Ohio Wesleyan University for an
invitational on Friday, while the
rest of the runners will stay in
Rochester for an invitational at
Nazareth College.
The race in Ohio is on the same
course as the national championship, so it will be a good preview
for the final meets at the end of
the season, the apple of everyone’s
eye.
“Every week we get closer to our
goal,” Hartwig said. “We want to
place higher at the championship
meets.”
Philbrick can be reached at
ephilbrick@campustimes.org.
BY ERIN PHILBRICK
CAMPUS TIMES STAFF
The Yellowjackets knew their
trip to SUNY Geneseo was going
to be a tough one, but they proved
they were up to the test when
they ran their strongest race of
the season.
On Saturday, the men’s cross
country team participated in their
biggest and most competitive meet
yet. They competed in a field of
extremely talented runners and
against a group of exceptionally
tough teams.
The Yellowjackets weren’t easily
pushed away, they came through
with a third place finish in the
18-team field.
“The meet was very successful
for our team,” senior Kevin McGettrick said. “It served as a huge
confidence boost for everyone that
we’re on the right track to run our
best at the end of the season at the
conference and regional meets.”
Sophomore Mark Stevens was
the individual runner-up among
the 192 runners, clocking a time
of 25:20 for the eight-kilometer
course — approximately five miles
— and finishing just four seconds
behind the first place finisher.
“The course was really quick,”
Stevens said. “I dropped my weekly
mileage to 92 miles the week of
the race and felt pretty good on
Saturday.”
Stevens was backed up by teammates senior Kevin McGettrick,
who came in eighth place with a
time of 26:11, and sophomore Dan
Mueller, who came in 18th with a
time of 26:40.
Junior Joe Lust finished 25th
with a time of 26:58 and freshman
Dan Chebot finished 27th with a
time of 27:03.
The team totaled just 80 points,
finishing behind only Otterbein
College by 17 points and the invitational host and champion, SUNY
Geneseo, who had 56 points.
“This was the first meet that we
got to run against some of the teams
we’ll see at those meets, such as
SUNY Brockport and Geneseo, and
we convincingly beat Brockport
and were within reaching distance
of Geneseo, a nationally rankedteam,” McGettrick said. “Everyone
ran very strongly and nearly ran
their fastest time ever. The course
is fairly flat, and conditions were
good, so that was the cause of such
fast times.”
Despite the impressive performance, Stevens is still looking to
do better.
“I’m happy with the time and
where I am right now, but we all
still need to focus on improving,”
Stevens said. “Hopefully, we’ll
continue to improve once we get
on some other quick courses later
in the year during some of the
championship meets.”
Another key factor to the
Yellowjackets’ performance this
weekend came from the freshmen,
like Chebot.
“Our freshmen have really
stepped up and are a huge factor
in our success,” McGettrick said.
“With that, we have a good mix of
new guys and upperclassmen, and
after this weekend I’m even more
confident in the team achieving
its goals and being successful in
future seasons.”
The Yellowjackets are provided
with a look at the national championship course this weekend as the
top runners travel to Ohio Wesleyan University for the Pre-Nationals
Invitational. This trip should be a
good preview for the Yellowjackets
and should provide them with
some insight for what the race in
November will be like.
“After celebrating a successful
showing, it’s now time to get back
to work with some hard weeks of
practice before we really start to
peak for the championship meets
in November,” McGettrick said.
“We still have a lot of room for
improvement, but we all believe
in our goals and our abilities, so I
know we’ll get to where we want
to be.”
The rest of the team will stay
in Rochester this weekend for an
invitational at Nazareth College.
On Oct. 15, the Yellowjackets will
host the UR Alumni Invitational.
Philbrick can be reached at
ephilbrick@campustimes.org.
CAMPUS TIMES
FROM THE
P
RESSBOX
BY MIKE ROVINSKY
Doing the right thing is not
always easy — whether it’s in
the game of football or in life.
Just ask University of Notre
Dame Head Coach Charlie
Weis. Week in and week out,
Weis makes offensive play calls
looking to exploit weaknesses
in opposing defenses. However,
his toughest play call was one
he never hesitated to make.
Coming off of a tough loss
to Michigan State University,
the Notre Dame Fighting Irish
flew out west to take on the
University of Washington Huskies and their old head coach,
Tyrone Willingham. All the
hype and attention was focused
on Tyrone Willingham coach-
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ing against his old players. The
game featured the flair and intensity of an action thriller, but
ended with a tear and a smile
— it was a warm, touching story
of a boy’s last wish.
Ten-year-old Montana Mazurkiewicz loved watching the
Irish on Saturday afternoons.
Born in Mishawaka, Ind., not
far east of South Bend, Montana
grew up a big Notre Dame fan.
He was even named after
Notre Dame great, Joe Montana,
who happened to be Weis’ roommate.
Weis went to visit Montana
before the Irish left for Washington. The visit was one that
neither will forget.
A few weeks prior, doctors
had told young Montana that
his inoperable brain tumor was
spreading, and his time was
running out. Weis and Montana
talked about Notre Dame football and Montana told Weis how
badly he wanted to live to see
them play on Saturday.
With his mother at his side,
Montana endured the pain. The
day before the visit, Montana
became paralyzed from the waist
down due to the spreading tumor. The weak, but courageous,
boy needed help to throw the
football Weis brought to him, so
Weis climbed into the chair and
helped Montana toss the ball to
his mother, Cathy.
Although Montana gave Weis
some shots about the Michigan
State loss, this visit was more
than a coach and fan chatting
about football. This was coach
and fan bonding with each other.
It was a heart-felt moment for
Weis, Montana and his mother
that touched the soul. A moment of realization that life is
much bigger than a football
game. A moment that a young
dying boy could take with him at
his passing.
Weis signed the football before he left, and wrote, “Live
for today for tomorrow is always another day.” Weis asked
Montana if there was anything
he could do for him. Montana
replied, “Pass right.” Weis made
a promise to pass the ball right
on the first play of the game
against Washington. Sadly,
Montana never got to see the
play. He passed away at home on
Friday, the day before the game.
Weis called Mazurkiewicz that
night and assured her that the
Irish would “pass right” on their
first play.
Washington drove right down
the field on their opening drive,
but fumbled at the one-yardline. With his back against the
wall, Notre Dame quarterback
Brady Quinn lined his team up
facing a rowdy Huskies crowd
and in danger of a safety.
Weis did promise Montana he
would pass right on their first
offensive play. But the risk of
a pass may have resulted in
two points for Washington.
Run the ball off tackle? Call
Quinn’s number for a quarterback sneak?
No, pass right. Weis signaled
the play to Quinn and the Irish
offense executed it perfectly,
gaining a first down. Gutsy
call, but the right one. It was
a call made by a promise — a
promise and call that has Irish
eyes smiling.
Montana’s wish came true.
Weis made a promise and kept
it. He is a man of his word,
which is rare among modern
day college football coaches.
Keeping his promise to a
10-year-old Notre Dame fan,
Weis did the right thing — he
passed to the right. As Touchdown Jesus signaled for a first
down, a special boy clapped
as he watched his play from
the heavens. And this is all
because a special coach did the
right thing. Cheer, Cheer for
Coach Charlie.
Rovinsky can be reached at
mrovinsky@campustimes.org.
Sports Trivia of the Week
Which baseball team drafted John Elway?
Hint: Love ’em
em or hate ’em, they are in the playoffs.
The correct answer to last week’s trivia is...
Just under five million watched game seven of the 1994 Stanley Cup
Finals. The Vancouver Canucks came back from being down against
the New York Rangers, 3-1, forcing a seventh game. The Canucks lost
the game 3-2.
Athletes of the week
Emily Urbanczyk
Joshua Bruce-Black
CLASS: 2007
SPORT: Soccer
HIGH SCHOOL: Williamsville East High School, East
Amherst, N.Y.
MAJOR: Political Science and History
CLASS: 2006
SPORT: Tennis
HIGH SCHOOL: International Academy
Academy, Flint, Mich.
MAJOR: Mechanical Engineering
IDEAL DAY OFF: Sweatpants and a Buffalo Bills game.
FAVORITE OTHER SPORT: Tennis
FAVORITE BOOK: “Catch-22”
FAVORITE FOOD: Cereal
FAVORITE MOVIE: “Primal Fear”
PLANS AFTER COLLEGE: Law school.
EXPECTATIONS FOR THE SEASON: Win
n the U
UAAs and go to the
UAA national tournament.
FAVORITE ATHLETIC MEMORY: Beating Johns Hopkins in overtime
last year.
ear
ear.
WHY EMILY IS THE ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Emily fired a 30-yard
IDEAL DAY OFF: Sleeping in, watching movies and hanging out with
friends.
FAVORITE OTHER SPORT: Football
FAVORITE BOOK: “The Bear Went Over the Mountain”
FAVORITE FOOD: Chicken quesadillas
FAVORITE MOVIE: “The Shawshank Redemption”
PLANS AFTER COLLEGE: Attend graduate school or get a job.
EXPECTATIONS FOR THE SEASON: Top 15 team ranking as well
as winning at least one round at nationals.
FAVORITE ATHLETIC MEMORY: Being a nationally ranked junior in
the finals of a tournament.
WHY JOSHUA IS THE ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Josh entered ITA
This Week in Sports
THURSDAY
NO SPORTING
EVENTS
SCHEDULED
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
• Women’s Cross Country
at Pre-Nationals at Ohio
Wesleyan University, 3:30
p.m.
• Field Hockey vs. Union
College, 4 p.m.
• Men’s Cross Country
at Pre-Nationals at Ohio
Wesleyan University
University, 4:15
p.m.
• Women’s Cross Country
at Nazareth Invitational, 11
a.m.
• Men’s Cross Country at
Nazareth Invitational, 12
p.m.
• Men’s Soccer at Brandeis
University, 12 p.m.
• Football at U.S. Merchant
Marine Academy, 1 p.m.
• Field Hockey vs. Skidmore
College, 2 p.m.
• Volleyball at Elmira College, TBA
SATURDAY (cont’d)
MONDAY
• Women’s Soccer at
Brandeis University, 2:30
p.m.
• Women’s Tennis at Liberty League Championship,
TBA
• Women’s Soccer vs. SUNY
Geneseo, 7 p.m.
SUNDAY
WEDNESDAY
• Golf at Nazareth College
Fall Shootout, TBA
TUESDAY
• Women’s Tennis at Lib• Volleyball at SUNY Generty League Championship, eseo, 7 p.m.
TBA
• Golf at Nazareth College
Fall Shootout, TBA
SPORTS
WEEK
PAGE 24
Field hockey rebounds at Hartwick
BY JENNA ANDERSON
CAMPUS TIMES STAFF
The field hockey team finished last week in third place
in Liberty League play with
a very respectable 6-4 overall
record after falling to the
nationally-ranked William
Smith College Herons last
Wednesday night.
The team, however, salvaged the weekend by defeating Hartwick College on
Saturday.
Wednesday’s game, played
under the lights of Fauver
Stadium, involved a close,
1-0 affair in favor of the
Herons for over 50 minutes
of play.
The Herons pulled ahead
early, scoring off of a penalty
corner less than four minutes into the first half. The
UR defense managed to keep
the Herons at bay until the
second half.
With only 15 minutes
of game time remaining, a
William Smith player netted one, and soon repeated
to score her second goal of
the half.
“The game against William Smith showed us how
strong we are, the importance of capitalizing on opportunities and what a five
minute lapse can do,” head
coach Michelle Andre said.
William Smith scored their
The Yellowjackets rev up for this weekend’s doubleheader to increase their rankings in Liberty League play.
last three goals within seven
minutes of each other, the
final one hitting the back
of the net, unassisted, at
61:29.
Despite the 4-0 lead in
favor of the away team, the
Yellowjackets refused to give
up. With only three minutes
remaining, sophomore Kari
Plewniak scored off of an
assist by junior Kristy Johnson to destroy the Herons’
shutout hopes. The final
score was 4-1.
Sophomore Rachel Cahan
stopped 11 shots although
the Herons got four past her.
William Smith improved to
3-0 in Liberty League play,
while UR fell to 2-1.
O n S a t u r d a y, t h e
Yellowjackets started off
October with an exciting
win against the Hartwick
College Hawks.
Junior Krista Butler assisted fellow junior Revay
Wilson to score the first goal
of the game 20 minutes and
31 seconds into the first half.
Five minutes into the second,
the Hawks retaliated with a
After a weekend full of
more-than-challenging opponents, the team then
pulled out a decisive win
over the Bengals Tuesday
night. Senior Julie Mihalek
saw her first games as the
starting setter, as Carr was
out with an injury.
“Julie has seen game time
at right-side hitter, and during practice she plays setter
for one team [while Carr sets
for the other],” head coach
Linda Downey said. “She did
a very good job stepping up
[in Carr’s absence].”
From the beginning of
the match, it was clear that
UR was the better team,
with the Bengals looking
disorganized.
UR’s usual huge presence
at the net and consistent
ability to get the ball back
with kills gave them an easy
win 30-16, 30-19 and 30-9.
Most of the bench made appearances in the match in
addition to the starters.
Mihalek notched 35 assists
in the match in addition to 10
digs and three aces. Czarniak
led the team in kills with
10 and also had two blocks
and three aces. Sophomore
Kaitlyn Gorczynski added 12
digs while freshman Jessica
Rassmussen had six kills.
Johnson was again a big
contributor, killing nine and
digging out 21. She was also
named the New York State
Women’s Collegiate Athletic
Association Volleyball Player
of the week for her 79 kills,
71 digs, 3 aces and 8 blocks
in her four matches last
week.
This Saturday, the 14-7
Yellowjackets will make the
trek to Elmira College.
Winn can be reached at
mwinn@campustimes.org.
goal of their own, tying the
game at 1-1.
The UR offense came
alive, relentlessly attacking
Hartwick.
Plewniak as well as junior and co-captain Mary
DiMatteo assisted junior
Celi Fletcher to bring the
Yellowjackets into the lead.
Furthermore, senior Court-
ney Nussbaum sealed the
Yellowjackets’ win at 65:44
and netted the team’s third
goal with help from Johnson.
O f f e n s i v e l y,
the
Yellowjackets dominated
the game, outshooting the
Hawks 19-3.
Cahan made two saves
while allowing only one goal
throughout 70 minutes of
play. The final score was
3-1.
“We controlled the flow of
the game against Hartwick,”
Andre said. “When we played
on Saturday, the team was
focused and they were in control of everything, no matter
what was happening within
the game. When Hartwick
tried to mount an attack we
just shut them down.”
The Yellowjackets will
play on Friday and Saturday
against the Union College
Dutchwomen and Skidmore
College Thoroughbreds,
respectively.
As of Sunday, the Dutchwomen were tied with UR in
Liberty League standings,
while the Thoroughbreds
were ranked first with an undefeated 9-0 overall record.
Both games will be played at
Fauver Stadium.
Anderson can be reached at
janderson
@campustimes.org.
Volleyball digs out a win after a fierce weekend
BY MEGAN WINN
After a challenging weekend at last weekend’s University Athletic Association
Round Robin Tournament
at Case Western Reserve
University, the UR volleyball
team bounced back to defeat
the Buffalo State College
Bengals 3-0 Tuesday night
despite missing their starting setter due to injury.
The first opponent the
Yellowjackets faced while
in Cleveland was the host
school, Case Western, whom
they swept, 30-19, 30-21 and
30-25 using the starters as
well as a good portion of
the bench.
However, the Yellowjackets
could not quite match up to
No. 3 Emory University, and
fell to the Eagles 30-21, 30-16
and 30-20.
The final match of the
weekend was against No. 6
New York University. The
Yellowjackets took the first
game from the Violets 31-29,
the only game NYU dropped
the entire weekend, but
ended up losing the last three
games and the match 30-22,
30-19 and 30-26.
Junior captain Susan
Johnson led the team in
kills and digs, with 55 and 50
respectively, and tied senior
Kate Czarniak for second in
blocks with seven.
Czarniak also added 17
kills and eight aces of her
own. Senior Haley Massa led
the team in blocks with 12
and also had 11 kills.
Sophomore Jessica Sorrentino added 11 more kills
to the mix as well as a teamhigh 43 digs.
Junior Sam Carr assisted
on 87 of the team’s kills as
well as digging out 36 of the
opponents’ hits.
Womenʼs XC
Team places sixth in tough competition
The Yellowjackets traveled to SUNY Geneseo this past
weekend to battle 16 teams. Five runners placed in the top
40 among 172 runners to win fifth place. The race was tight
indeed, as the team trailed Oberlin College, the fourth place
winner, by a mere 11 points.
See Page 22.
Senior Julie Mihalek sets the ball for senior Kate Czarniak
for a spike against the Buffalo State Bengals.
Menʼs Tennis
Yellowjacket finishes runner-up
The team entered the regional ITA tournament as the
defending singles and doubles champions. The team still
fared well despite losing key veterans. Three doubles teams
went to the quarterfinals while one singles player failed to
grab the title in the finals.
See Page 21.

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