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This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the "The oV ice" Student Newspaper Collection at Open Works, a service of The oC llege of Wooster Libraries. It has been accepted for inclusion in The oV ice: 2001-2011 by an authorized administrator of Open Works. For more information, please contact [email protected]. vol. CXXlii, Issue i Friday, September 8, 2006 "And do you remember how the excitement of that beginning, of that first day of school, always got the best of some kid's stomach, and how the classroom smelled for days? Are these not wonderful memories?!" R. Stanton Hales, 2006 Convocation Address Wooster SSa accused of neg no

SGA-sponsor- this Student Government President Jonathan Hartschuh '07 responds to student concern over items damaged in ed summer storage. AlexCacioppo logged and even ruined. inventory of who stored what. "We Kirby's hallmate, Abigail Knapp '08, News Editor Regularly soggy Midwest weather had no idea whose items were dam- also found her belongings not as she Week is largely to blame by any measure, aged." He added that his organization left them"I had three boxes ... and my and damages were isolated among has not "really taken claims" for any refrigerator," Knapp said. "My refrig- Over the summer, most students some students, according to SGA damages. erator was flipped to its side, and I (Hd-n- 't who stored their clothes, furniture, president John Hartschuh '07. Claire Kirby '09 said that she had no think of anything of it. I got back televisions and other items found However, more than a few students idea "SGA storage floods periodically," and I plugged it in, and I realized that them in good shape as they retreived claim that the SGA was negligent in listing her down vest as well as sheets ... the wires had come undone." She their stuff out of the Holden Hall its handling of the flooding, and some and towels as damaged goods she had added that she dare not let its setting basement, as a part of a program were visibly angry that the SGA had to throw away. "The entire box was get past anything "higher than one," sponsored by the Student not notified anyone about the incident. cemented to the floor," she said. "The or else "everything starts exploding." Government Association (SGA). "We didn't notify students over the clothes were all completely ruined. "I open the refrigerator and the cans However, an unlucky few discovered summer," Hartschuh said, suggesting Some of it might have been sewer arebusted open," jfhe said. their effects in a lesser state, water--. that it was a matter of not keeping an water." See "Storage " page 2 The construction of Gault Holmes: Class of 2010 is energetic, positive Manor has been halted until fall 2007. Find out what's happening on page 2.

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' .1 I - i . I S'. . H- i- in II in Li. ,J a. .Sjf.: - - . First-year students walk through the Kauke Arch, as is part of Student Resident Director Elizabeth Wojtowicz '07 (right) helps Students come back from the Wooster tradition, and go on down the green (Photo cour- out an incoming student with his belongings. There were sever- Italy with 'smiles" and tesy OPI). - - al assistants on hand through the week (Photo courtesy OPI). tokens of appreciation. has to offer. v common refrain, Chris Malone '10, a in the College's history, walked This year's first year class is See page 5 for more. In essence, it appears that while resident of Wagner, said that the instead through a cardboard scaled-dow- n in also featured a story by' some students thought it interesting whole process "was too long," and felt replica of the Arch as Kauke Jonah Comstock '10 in this and useful, the consensus is that it was that there was simply "too much to underwent reconstruction last year. week's Features section. The much too long. do." One of the rumored innovations u Jessica Neff '10, who lives in the' Another reflected on it with relief. with this orientation was an increased story highlights the record-breakin- g first-ye-ar residence hall Holden "A lot of it was really boring," said underscoring of responsible drinking, number of internation- Annex, took much away from orienta- Adam Miller '10, who also lives in the as a countermeasure to last year's al students in the class of 2010. tion and found it a positive experience. Annex. noted excesses. See page 5 for more details. Neff described it in sum as "really "I was just really glad when it was "The fall of 2005 was ... a hard good," namely how the College "had all over, and I didn't have to go around semester for alcohol abuse and mis- v Alex Cacioppo everything mapped out for you." She to a million different places a day," he use," said Dean of Students Kurt News Editor added, "It was really easy to follow." added. Holmes, referring to the Class of Others were not so enthused, feeling .The intinerary for the new class 2009. He does not, however, "think we Last week, on the eve of courses instead that it was tasking, even com- during those four days, according to actually have a greater emphasis on commencing, the Class of 2010 completely uninteresting. the New Student Orientation pam- alcohol," though he noted, "We were ' The College's Art Museum pleted a four-da- y series of seminars, Some students expressed their sen- phlet, ranged from the two Becoming able to move the No Means No session is exhibiting a new gallery, lectures and sessions collectively timent more curtly. 'They kept us a Student seminars to the procession to earlier in the schedule." known as first-year orientation, which busy," said Brenna Reynolds '10, who through the newly renovated Kauke Holmes added that the mandatory including a lite-bri- te like is meant to direct the new first-year lives in Compton. Hall Arch. student-ru- n performance intended to creation by artist Hiraki toward what the College of Wooster Keeping up what appears to be the The Class of 2009, for the first time See "Orientation," page 2 Sawa. His collection is entitled "Going Places, Sitting Down." See page 4. Residence Life pairs up with personality tests

Laura McHugh "Not everyone buys into Myers-Briggs- ," said Holmes. Critics of Staff Writer Senior MBTI claim that the creators of the Of all the big uncertainties on the test, Katherine Cook Briggs and tninds of incoming first-year students, Isabel Briggs Myers, lacked any sci-

worrying about who their roommate , entific, medical, psychiatric or psy- will be and whether they will get along chological qualifications. well together is at the top of the list. Critics also state that the MBTI This year, in an effort to counter terminology is vague and complicat- V-'- " ; this uncertainty and form more suc- ed, allowing any kind of behavior to J - - o cessful roommate pairings, the fit any personality type. College's Office of the Dean of Nonetheless, MBTI is used by com-

first-ye- ' The College of Wooster Students required all incoming ar panies and other institutions world- V j J students to fill out a personality wide to help people understand and women's soccer team trait screening device called the match up to their strongest traits; defeated Washington and Myers-Brig- gs Type Indicator Holmes is a believer, saying the Jefferson's 3-- 0 in a tr- (MBTI). MBTI was successful when used at iumphant bout; In existence since World War II, colleges he worked at before, coming see more on the back page. the MBTI is a personality test that to Wooster. classifies peoples' preferred traits on The MBTI is only the first part of a scale of four areas known as a three-part process the Office of the Incoming (left) Lindsey "dichotomies." These are listed as Dean of Students used to make students Megan Palicka '10 and extroversion vs. introversion, sens- roommate pairings. Stout '10 (right) lounge in their dormroom (Photo by Karin ' News , 2 ing vs. intuition, thinking vs. feeling "We've extended the six basic Johnson). Viewpoints 3 and judging vs. perceiving. questions," said Holmes. In the past, "We don't want one to be known as been a death in the family that the Features 4 Participants respond to a series of students were asked, as a part of the the short one or the tall one ... student did not mention in the questions and are given a four-letter Housing Application for New they're individuals, not labels," he Housing Application, but did men- Arts .6 acronym that indicates how they prefer Students basic questions about their added. tion in the letter of recommendation. Sports 7 to deal with situations and make deci- music, sleep patterns and smoking The third part of the process The Myers-Brig- gs Type Indicator MEMBER sions. Using Myers-Brigg- s, a person preferences. involved Holmes' staff reading the is also used in the areas of pedagogy, might be determined to be an "ESTJ," In the new application, it is not first-ye-ar students' letters of recom- leadership and employee training,

meaning that they tend toward extro- required, but students are asked per- mendation. "We . look through the and personal development. Upper version, sensing, thinking and judging. sonal information such as religious admissions folder heavily," said class students can ask for the MBTI l The Indicator is not only being affiliation, height and weight. "We Holmes. in the Career Services Office, com- O used to make successful roommate use the information that you can't The reason for this, he added, was plete it at leisure, and then schedule ASSOCIATED pairings, but also to make successful ask for in the admissions office," said to find any important information an appointment to discuss the results. COLLEGIATE halls. "We want balanced halls of Holmes. "We won't put two students the student might have left out in the The purvey itself takes about an PRESS introverts and extroverts," said Dean together who have an 18-in- ch height housing application. The example hour to complete, with results avail-

2006-0- 7 of Students Kurt Holmes. difference between.' Holmes gave was there might have able ten working days later. Friday, Voice Section Editor: 2 September 8 Nvuiteews Alex Cacioppo Gault Manor construction halted until 2007 CAMPUS how many rooms the Manor will have; Grace Lynch the hall will have 74 beds, 65 beds or Nafisi opens 2006 Voice Staff Writer room for 60 students (according to Wooster's Institutional Profile, and a Wooster Forum Since 2003 Wooster has worked to WSiKF $T or press release written by John Hopkins update and improve the college as part from June 4, 2005, respectively). The 2006 Wooster Forum Series of its Independent Minds campaign. GAULT The number of students who will opens 'with Azar Nafisi, the author of One of the projects this campaign has be able to live in the Manor appears to ' in the air, as does the Reading Lolita in Tehran, visiting undertaken is the construction of a !' if. MANOR remain up gener- professor and director of the Dialogue new residence hall. al layout of the building. Patton says, m m im ft is bid, we Project at the Foreign Polixy Institute Gault Manor will be located on the I nt WUMA. K HWtiiK "Until the project really of Johns Hopkins University's School corner of Wayne Avenue and Beall J, can't discuss specifics ... because it's of Advanced International in Avenue, possible that we still want to make Studies the former home of Safety and TDDCONX07' Washington, D.C. Security, across the street from modifications." Nafisi will be hosting a discussion Bornhuetter Hall. The one downside Nothing more has been released as on her best-selling book, which was to this addition to the Wooster campus to what the residence hall will look required reading for the Class of is that construction, which began early like. Many are disappointed that the 2010. First-year students engaged in this summer, was suddenly halted for building will not be completed in time fall discussions on the text on the last unknown reasons. Wooster adminis- . for the start of the next semester. scheduled day of their orientation. tration reports the cause for the Students are left wondering what The Forum Series, which brought to change in the construction schedule The future site of Gault Manor. The above rendering is in front Gault Manor will look like, although Wooster speakers such as Michael was due to the increased price of con- of the proposed construction grounds (Photo by Mac Buehler). the student body appears to be mainly Moore and Jane Goodall, is entitled this struction during the summer months. indifferent to the construction of the year Piety and Heresy: Conforming to Once Safety and Security (Culberson Manor. and Transcending One's Culture. House) was moved, the location was put off until spring of 2007 because, bid the project this winter with the The Gault Manor project is funded Nafisi will be speaking in McGaw cleared and the space was ready for according to Vice President for idea that construction will begin in the through a donation from Stanley and Chapel at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday. construction to commence. But it did Development Sara Patton, the con- spring of 2007." Flo K. Gault. "Stan (Trustee Emeritus) The next forum event will take not. Gault Manor was slated for com- struction costs "came in too high. Very few specifics have been released and Flo Gault and their family have place on Thursday, Sept. 28 as DJ pletion by the fall of 2007. Spring and summer is a very busy time on the hall itself. The Wooster Web made a very generous gift for the full Spooky takes the stage in McGaw However, the construction will be for contractors so we're going to re-- site has conflicting numbers relating to cost of the residence hall," Patton said. Chapel. An electronic musician, DJ Spooky will present "Rebirth of a Nation," a remix of the 1915 D.W Incoming class brings new internationalprospects Griffith film "Birth of a Nation." m i Orientation STATE continued from page 1 Hepatitis hits warn against rape and sexual assault scare was usually "on Friday night" and by Kent State then, "many students had already 1- made choices about alcohol and run f - - The Plain Dealer reported into sexual situations." ', ' ' that a , , .. :. - - " the shape Wednesday female student 1 Deniographically, of this - ' I 4 attending Kent State University did ' , . ",T , year's first-year class is somewhat dif- not in fact contract the Hepatitis A ferent from past classes. For instance, virus. according to statistics provided by Health concerns were raised regard- Director of Institutional Research ing a worker with Kent State's food ... Michael Thompson, there are 1.05 service division contracted the virus. men for every woman, respectively 254 Over 460 students have been inoculat- to 242 out of the total enrolled class of ed since the disclosure. 496 first-year- s. Though this may seem NATION statistically insignificant, the above fig- 1 1 'I m ure is unusually lopsided, given that President Bush the ratio is usually about even. WL--. The College of Wooster's commit- acknowledges CIA BE ment to diversity is clearly demon- r--v strated by the 16 Asians, 11 Hispanics secret prisons "I and two American Indians represent- ed in the 2010 class. For the first time, President Bush Also, there are slightly more inter- has publicly acknowledged the exis- national students (29) than African-America- ns tence of so-called black sites pris- (or (27), In addition, 82 per- ons) in Eastern Europe, according to a cent of the enrolled class is Caucasian, BBC The CIA been dispatch. has using with only 38 percent of the total class them to hold suspected terrorists, coming from Ohio. , . which was revealed in a press disclo-- " "The Class of '10 isf energetic and sure that the White House had origi- look move-i- n Another at day, this time outside of Bornhuetter Hall (Photo courtesy OPI): positive," Holmes concluded. . nally condemned. September 11th nears Students upset over Wilson, Dooley promoted fifth anniversary The fifth anniversary of the 9 1 1 SGA storage damage to differentpositions attacks arrives with a slew of TV Sheila Wilson, former assistant to the dean of the faculty, has been appointed miniseries, documentaries and public Hartschuh highlighted. ' SGA secrtary of The College of Wooster's Board of Trustees. Wilson worked in a remembrances. The White House "The number students of affected clerical issued its statement regarding the CIA similarly role at Southern Illinois University at Carbondalebefore mov- continued from p. 1 was not as high as you might expect," ing to Wooster, where she served as the administrative assistant in the office of prisons (above) as a part of an overall he said. "Unfortunately, the people public relations international agriculture. attempt to rigorously Jordan Smith '09 of Xi Chi Psi who were affected by it tended to have She succeeds Anne M. Gates '83. defend anti-terr- or Bush's policies as lamented the situation, claiming that more things that were damaged." In other promotion news, the Longbrake Student Wellness Center raised Beau the day approaches. the SGA placed his sopping fraterni- Students were presented with the Dooley from the level of Alcohol, Tobacco and SGA-sponsor- Other Drug Prevention ty's apparel in plastic bags, thus pro- - ed summer storage, Specialist to a more general Health Promotion Coordinator. While serving as WORLD the Prevention Specialist, Dooley struck an emphasis on nutritional health and eating disorders students. is "But to take people's stuff, mess it up and pre- among He also a part of the American College Winner declared in Health Association (ACHA), which sponsored last year's Eating' Disorders tend like nothing happened or not to have the Awareness Week. Mexican election Reports compiled by Alex Cacioppo decency to tell me that you messed it up when The highest electoral court in the

ess come back?" United States of Mexico declared pro-busin- you Scots start the new with candidate Felipe Calderon the " Jordan Smith year spirit victor in a bitterly disputed election Class of 2009 that polarized the country. The opponent, socialist runner-u- p Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, ducing mold. "I've heard that Holden which was one of the more talked vowed to not cease his obstructionist floods all the time, alright it floods, about options. Digging deeper, some tactics and declared the results illegit- that's one thing," he said. "Shit hap- found other ways to keep their things

imate. Calderon won the election, as pens. But to take people's stuff, mess safe, such as Various self-storage loca- the court unanimously stated, by a it up and then pretend like nothing tions around Wooster. In years past, as razor-thi-n margin. ' happened or not to have the decency Hartschuh explained, summer storage to tell me that you messed it up solutions included a trailer outside of Middle East update: when ybu come back?" Smith added the Security building, which did not

that he was offered a TV that had been prove to be "the most cost-effecti- ve Israel lifts military damaged. thing," he said. Storage has since been Roland Falcon '09, however, did not moved to Holden basement, which is blockade on Lebanon encounter any problems whatsoever. cheaper. A bulletin from the New York "I had this big, blue ... 45-gall- on giant Students who signed up for the pro- Times reports that Israel has trunk and I had that," pointing to a gram signed a liability waiver, a point announced a total cessation of its mil- foot locker, "big trunk right there, the Hartschuh emphasized. He noted, itary blockade by sea and air over rack and my fridge was all in there." "Their receipt ... had a statement on it h UN-back- His trunk appeared to be made out of understood Lebanon. Meanwhile, a ed stating that they that we r. hard plastic, while his other belong- were not, and the " --w-. w i I yj international force seems ready to put College was not, . IVI WIMII IUIV into effect the disarmament of the ter- ings were metal. liable for any damage or anything like Frisbee club (pictured above) was just one of the many rorist Hezbollah militia. "They're actually all in pretty good it." participants in the 2006 Scot Spirit Day. The event, which condition," Falcon said. "None of my Hartschuh added that he personally took place last Friday on Lowry Patio, showcased campus stuff looked affected at all." However, found out about the flooding during Although we at the Voice strive for he also noted that he had "heard some the summer. organizations and included entertainment from W0091. It excellence, at times we may fall short horror stories from the past." For the "At that point there wasn't a whole was followed by a picnic-styl-e dinner.in Lowry Dining Hall of this lofty ideal. Please send correc- most part, however, such stories lot we could do about it," he said. "It's (Photo by Karin Johnson). tions to voicewooster.edu. appear to be the exception, which Ohio. Basements flood." Section Editor: . Voice Friday, Brian Frederico viewpoints September 8 3 The Wooster Voice The College of Wooster's Student Newspaper Since 1883 Published Weekly on Fridays Liz Miller

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EDITORIAL BOARD Sara Taggart, Managing Editor Katie Foulds, Managing Editor Alex Cacioppo, News Editor Chris Sweeney, Sports Editor Brian Frederico, Viewpoints Editor Nick Holt, Assistant Sports Editor Molly Lehman, Features Editor Mac Buehler, Photography Editor Justine McCullough, Arts Editor Andrew Maloney, Photography Editor Julia V. Hendrickson, Lead Illustrator Karin Johnson, Senior Photographer Laura Mchugh, Senior Staff Writer mlhika chatterjee, business manager whitney louderback, production assistant Rachel Grinnan, Production Assistant Megan Connor, Production Assistant Jonah Comstock, Production Assistant Andrew Vogel, Production Assistant Grace Lynch, Production Assistant Caitlin Gillette, Production Assistant

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us Democracy may be one of the ests can be ignored by elected lead- participate in the process. Of course, cop-conscio- when partying most incredible forms of govern- ers. Obviously, no one wants to be it is harder to do so from a college As the first week of classes came to security exploring noise complaints, it ment to exist in the course of human ignored by the very people who potentially thousands of miles away an end, perhaps serendipitously coin- is always important to note with history. Finally, after thousands of should be representing him; but by from home, but it's not impossible; it ciding with Labor Day weekend and caution that just because we are col- years of dictatorship, monarchies choosing not to vote, these people just requires a little bit of effort. the first (victorious) football game, joy- lege students on a private campus, we and oppression, are seen by candidates as irrelevant Considering hundreds of thousands ful parties were in the making. Amid are not impervious to the arm of the ordinary people to the system and can safely ignore of Americans have died defending stumbling drunks and vibrant music, local law. have the power to their concerns and issues. our right to self government, the however, came lights and sounds that As adults in an academic setting, we choose their own For example, college students who time it takes to call a town hall to are not foreign to the campus, but are at the Voice encourage you to be respon- leaders. The only do nothing but attend classes and request an absentee ballot doesn't certainly thought of as strange. sible when drinking. This means more requirements are spend the rest of their time locked seem like all that much of a pain. Police cars the real ones than not driving and not getting too citizenship, which away in their rooms are not really a The participation of eligible voters sought out the College campus last intoxicated. Before you and your brianfrederico you get (or free part of the whole college process. of all ages is absolutely necessary to-th- e

Friday and Saturday, and they were friends decide to leave whatever now-la- me upon being born in the United By ignoring the system and isolating survival of the system. By not successful at freaking out students who party you're attending in search of States, and that you be 18 years of themselves they are largely ignored participating you're disempowering gave them good reason to do so. the next place to spend some hours, and age, which you can achieve without by the community and the governing yourself and enabling leaders to What makes underage students before you pick up a bottle at all, use any effort, just as ignore your concerns. walk blithely out of a party with a those brain cells that are slowly declin- long as you con- "The greatest freedoms of speech, expres- The mid-ter- m elec- beer in their hands? What makes those ing in count. Remember the law once tinue breathing. sion and within the hands of the tions are just as who are overage do it, too? We all you decide to use alcohol, or any other That sounds easy power rest important as the know or we should know that it drug, to embrace your free time. enough. ordinary citizen,yet only a pathetic 60 per-- presidential elections, is illegal to carry an open alcohol con- Keep your sobriety level, your age The greatest as they give voters tainer in public, as is being publicly and your should-b- e responsibility in freedoms 0f cent of the eligible population chose to vote the opportunity' to intoxicated. These are laws that pay mind. And don't be so surprised when speech, expression m tne iast presidential election. elect state governors no heed to age, but if you are under you see officers out doing their jobs. arm powernnupp restrocfr and legislators. cit- is the legal drinking age of 21, the fault , Despite what may be seen by some as within the hands of the ordinary apparatuses. If they are not The last day to register to vote is even more serious. an unnecessary level of enforcement, it izen, yet only a pathetic 60 percent of involved in the process decisions are Oct. 10 so there's still time. I We are intelligent individuals. We is legal enforcement nonetheless, and, the eligible population chose to vote made without their input and they encourage all eligible voters on cam- know it's plainly stupid to get caught in the end, only for the safety of every- in the last presidential election. An have made themselves powerless. :, pus to make the effort toet involved ...... I- I in an illegal act. And as much fun as one involved. Keep yourself and your even more pathetic 48 percent of eli- Democracy isthe sacred duty of Willi- yuurA puuucai IHhLU.xysiem. llM.n.k.ivv iieiucr we have on weekends at Wooster, and friends out of trouble; if you refuse to gible young voters aged 1 8-- 29 actu- - , all Americans to uphold. It requires you are Democrat p,r Republican, as much as we know the inevitability steer clear of the laws, at least steer ally voted. Those are statistics for a the participation of the voters. democracy is distinctly American of underage drinking and of campus clear of those enforcing it. presidential election. The statistics Without them there is no point to and requires your participation to for mid-ter- m elections are even more democracy. As people disfranchise succeed and continue to guide our dismal. themselves and remove themselves politics in the future.

1 Wooster students must Americans need to become. . from the process they can be ignored is the editor the involved in the political process. By and America moves closer to the . Brian Viewpoints of isolating themselves from the politi-- dark abyss that is dictatorship, Voice. He can be reachedfor comment at break out of the bubble cal process, these non-voters' inter- - All Americans need to step up and bfrederico09wooster.edu Welcome back to the Wooster Bubble. what parties are happening on Saturday Online registration implies selling your soul For some of you, this is your last year as night, what that idiot editor-in-chi-ef a College of Wooster student; others of wrote this week in The Wooster Voice. It began as an e-m-ail. ("Use the arena scheduling, of course. "Arena," developed language skills, for you are experiencing life here for the This summer I lived in a suburb of attached instructions to access the the Roman word for the sand used to instance, that limit our caveman first time. Seattle, Wash., where I absorbed the Scotweb. Select appropriate' courses soak up blood after combat, seems behavior to some extent. But aspects The Bubble isolates us from every- news cycle much differently. and then schedule your advising con- strangely appropriate to describe the of arena scheduling are dependent on thing that is not CNN, Fox News and My workplace was just two blocks ference ...") Then The Packet arrived madcap battle that takes place every this ability as well. Want to schedule the like. away from a bloody shooting at the in campus mail. semester. It's loud, it's chaotic, it's a class that's full? Talk to the teacher. All of us will Seattle Jewish Federation. It was the ("You are author- stressful. It can be frustrating, espe- He's right there. Arena scheduling is more than likely latest act of brutality in a series of ized to register cially when you ask for a label for personal attention combined with experience the killings that plagued the greater using ScotWeb...") Basic Chemistry and are offered common sense and academic savvy, Bubble effect at Seattle area. When the final e-m-ail Major Epochs of German Literature three reasons most of us would cite as least once over the In all, by the time I left Seattle at the arrived instead. It can be dangerous, espe- precisely why we're each paying over be course of the 2006-20- 07 end of July, at least nine people were i ("Don't forget to cially when you're sprinting to fill the 37,000 dollars to here. Why give lizmiller academic year. dead as a result of what seemed to be mollylehman f,n 0ut the feed- last slot in the 11 a.m. Abnormal up that privilege? It has already happened to me. Just random violence. ' back form when you have completed Psychology class and, incidentally, so The tendency of most people is to last week, the mayor of my native I don't expect much of this to mean registration...") it felt like the final is the senior linebacker. see online registration as the solution Pittsburgh died of a heart attack after anything to members of the College of nail in the coffin. But that's the kind of stress and to everything that is tiresome about only eight months in office. I heard Wooster community. After all, we are Online registration. It feels so mod- danger people love. It gets our adren- scheduling. The trouble is, our expec- about the death of Steve Irwin, the quite the drive from the Emerald City. ern, doesn't it? So sleek. So stream- aline roaring when we're unleashed in tations of technology are usually Crocodile Hunter, before I heard about The thing is, I doubt that I would be so lined. Technologically advanced and as a crowded gym and told to go for ridiculous. former Mayor O'Connor's passing. conscious of the same things occurring non-interact- ive as possible. It con- blood. It's reverting back to the days The Internet does not magically Such is the nature of the news cycle even in the nearby metropolis of jures up images of hundreds of stu of the cavemen and the fight for sur- - make classes more available. Nor ' when we get sucked into the Bubble. Cleveland as I sit in my desk chair at dents at their lap- does it make regis Facebook told me about Irwin. (The The College of Wooster. tops, pecking away "Essentially, online scheduling streamlines by tering any less of a pain. It doesn't News Feed feature makes it relatively If I would have just navigated away at keyboards as all the about arena impossible for one to have missed his from Facebook to the homepage of a class rosters flash removing of good points make the game any death, with over ten memorial groups Pittsburgh daily, I would have most on the screens. scheduling and pitching them out the window. easier to win; it just popping up within hours of his death.) likely found out about O'Connor's Registration moves the playing A friend in Bloomington, Ind., had to death. becomes one-stop shopping between vival, back to the primal hunt. Kill or field so that we stagger around like

five-year-o- tell me about O'Connor. Perhaps I would be more sensitive Facebook and e-m- ail. Simple? be killed. It's stimulating. It's sexy. lds at their first soccer I wish Facebook's News Feed could about news in Cleveland if I read The Sounds like it. Impressive? Hell yes. It's thrilling. We howl like she-wolv- es practice. be as efficient in telling me about what Plain Dealer every now and then (as But what does going online for over a freshly caught primary-choi- ce Essentially, online scheduling was going on in the world as it was long as I have a little extra change in something like this say about. our course. streamlines by removing all of the about telling me that the relationship my pocket). As Wooster students, we character? For me, it's comparable to Now, of course, those days are good points about arena scheduling status of my friend Anne from middle owe it to ourselves and to the commu- those MySpace romances where peo- gone. Our main competitor, the line- and pitching them out the window. school has changed from "single" to "in nities we come from to break out of the ple date each other based on personal- backer, vanishes. He is replaced by Common sense? Individual considera-

instant-messagi- ng and unceremoni- a, relationship." Bubble once in a while. ity profiles and the skinny, pale computer hack. Class tion? Disregarded As college students, we don't look far skills. We're obviously losing some lists are determined by the speed of ously replaced with usernames, pass

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I : i Kauke reopens renovations t It'. Hall after a year of tion still contains Old Main bricks. It funds, capital funds and endowment," With $18 million, you can do an was designed to last: the floorboards said Sara Patton, vice president for awful lot, and the College did. "We are four inches thick and the exterior development. "The Kauke renovation, completely reconfigured the inside," is a combination of brick, terra cotta at $18 million, is the largest project in said Patton. "It's basically the same on and Ohio limestone. the capital component." In fact, the the outside, except that the stairs on In the 1960s, Kauke Hall was reno- Kauke renovation is the largest capital the south side have been taken out and vated and updated in the style of the project The College of Wooster has you now go in at grade level. But on started teaching at Wooster back in decade. The 1962 Kauke Hall's hall- ever taken on. the inside, all the faculty offices are on Molly Lehman the '70s," remarked Charles Hurst, ways, office, classrooms and even heat- The magnitude of the project the west side and the classrooms are Features Editor professor of sociology. "It's markedly ing units were painted pale green. required some generous gifts. Much on the east side. Common areas and different, of course: there were peel- The heart of campus, Kauke Hall The tile, too, was green, and so were of Kauke's renovation was paid for the Old Main cafe are in the middle." ing walls that were painted a sort of has stood as a symbol for The College the plastic chairs and desk seats. The through a challenge issued by the The pale-green '60s decor was sickly green institutional color and of Wooster for over 100 years. It has classrooms were done in light beige, Walton family in January 2004. redone as well. The woodwork was leaky windows. It's much more spa- seen thousands of students pass and doors had a plastic wood-gra- in The Waltons, best known as the restored with a dark Victorian finish. cious and grander now. I feel like I've through its arch and It is at the center finish. The ceilings were lowered and reigning family of the Wal-Ma- rt "The false ceilings were all removed, come full circle." of some of the College's most revered the tall windows partially obscured. empire, announced that they would restoring the high ceilings," said "We are absolutely traditions. Its twin match every dollar the College of delighted with the towers are part of Wooster raised, up to $8 million, result," said Patton. ' the Wooster land- between January 2004 and March f-- "We had wonderful scape and are on the 2005.. The offer was later augmented architects ... They College flag. It is by an offer by the" 1525 Foundation of C were just terrific. frequently described Cleveland, which announced in "I Everyone we've as a literal Ivory November that they would donate the f talked to, I think.it's Tower, an emblem of last $500,000 after the College had just exceeded their academic pursuits "1 raise million. managed to $7.5 1 expectations." and liberal arts edu- By March, the campaign had man- I ! Kauke continues cation. aged to meet both challenges with to be a symbol for This year, Kauke gifts from over 600 alumni and 35 intellectual excel- Hall ' reopened its organizations and corporations. The lence at The College doors after extensive "bricks for Kauke" program, which

- of Wooster, and its renovations that commemorated donations with deco- renovation has began in the summer rative bricks on the lower wall of only heightened the com - - - ' of 2005. Kauke's south side, were part of the - -- " -- " ....- - ' parisons. Mo longer are In recent years, it had become final push for funding. With million-dollar Patton. "They also uncovered all of iaukes foundations hidden behind plaster HISTORY apparent that Kauke was due for a gifts . from both the Timken the high windows, letting in more walls that crumble from moisture The renovation of Kauke is not the remodeling.' In addition tq being out- Foundation and Stanley and Flo Gault Jight." In addition, the technological trapped behind; they are for all to 40-year-- out only one in its long history: in fact, dated, the old architecture of Wooster in March, the total was abilities of the building was view," said President of the College R. this is the third "new" Kauke to appear was beginning to fall apart. Parts of brought to $18 million and the fund- redesigned and every classroom is Stanton Hales in this year's convoca- on campus. the ceiling leaked, and the plaster was ing for Kauke was complete. wired for computers. In December 1901, "Old Main," the starting to crumble. Classes were held tion speech. "Likewise, we must always see it that the foundations of an College's original main academic in storage rooms, and the building was THE RESULT THE UNVEILING to building, was destroyed in a fire. inadequate education at Wooster are equally visi- for increasing 1 Reactions to the new ble: both in the words we use to Exactly one year later, four new aca- technology needs. Kauke have been over- describe this education in mission demic buildings had been built to whelmingly positive. On statements and beyond and in the replace it: Scovel, Severance, Taylor THE CAMPAIGN the College Web site, 84.5 practices we employ to that and Kauke Halls. Independent Minds: The percent of students polled pursue mission and implement that educa- Kauke Hall was built from the ashes Campaign for Wooster was gave the renovation an "A." ' tion." . of Old Main. In fact, Kauke's founda launched by the College in Faculty, too, has plenty of July of 2000. The theme for praise to offer. "It's like two the campaign, "Independent different buildings," said Minds," WaS chosen in trib- Mark Graham, assistant ute to the Independent professor of. religious stud- 'Study program and unique ies. "Before, Kauke was j academic environment at kind of crumbling around Wooster. us. I think this is a really

well-design- The campaign is the ed building." largest fundraising event in "Kauke was initially Wooster's history. It's goal disorienting, but in an is to raise $122 million by exhilarating way," -- said June zwi. ou iaij $110.0 if Nancy Grace, professor of million has been raised m English. "It's spacious and I 1 1 1 luwai us uuu gum. Ill 1 t J clean." "The program is divided S : 4 y " . ' It's funny, I'm in the L rt ... . - , . ... tfi tl into three parts: operating Tjsame office I was in when I All phOtOS by Karifl JohnSOfl. First-yea- r class crosses the globe to come to Wooster Incoming class has record-breaki- ng number of international students & W I Jonah Comstock Voice Staff really blessed this year because all of "It's tough because a lot of what we Peter Gitika our students from China, for example, do on the domestic side is geared A week before most of the first-year got their visas. That just hasn't hap- toward bringing students to campus Mulder Mohta students passed through the Kauke pened for many years, and so we were and then we hope that the campus and arch into the world of Wooster, a thrilled about it," said K. Edwards. our faculty and our students will sell handful of students were already mov- Having the right mix of American itself," said J. Edwards. "On the inter- ing in. These' students weren't coming and International students is impor- national side we don't have that. It's all Country of Origin: The Netherlands Country of Origin: India Ohio from or the Midwest, or even tant to the College, which has set a done pretty much through correspon- California. They were flying for days goal of seven percent for international dence, or through travel that I do Why did you choose to come to Why did you decide to study .here? from countries as far away as enrollment. The school is currently where I meet students early on in the Wooster? Studying in the- - United States offers Jamaica, I Myanmar, Ethiopia or the just under that goal. "I think that at had not been to the U.S. to check flexibility in terms of courses and I had process their schools or meet their

I Netherlands. seven 10 is ideal universities, so had to use the Web Ino idea what I wanted to pursue to percent because it counselors at conferences I go to." site, and it looked really good and tnave an interest in the humanities as) A total of 28 international students means that there's an established inter- Edwards is working on an informa- was really highly rated. well as math. Doing a combination on are a part of this year's first-yearicla- ss, national presence on campus," said K. tional DVD that he'll be able to send to both math and history and art and eco as well as nine global nomads (U.S. cit- Edwards. "Those students have a sup- international students in the future, What are some differences that' nomics would be impossible in my izens who have been living abroad) and port system in that there's other peo- and many students make great use of you've noticed between America country, as well as in other countries five exchange students who will stay at ple like them going through the same the Internet to learn about Wooster. and the Netherlands? such as the United Kingdom because the College for one year. This is a thing. It's a large enough population "I think one of the things now Food. You guys eat a lot, but your you have to be predecided about what we're large class size compared to the last that they won't be isolated." looking at are publications," said K. pod's pretty good. It contains a lot of you want to do. You don't get this lib- few years, but not in the context of the Of course, an American education is fat but it's good. Another thing is eral arts education anywhere else ... In Edwards, "Do you put a football player College's history. as much stu- social activity. You guys are much one semester I can do something like of an advantage for the on the front or do you put a soccer more open and spontaneous, and it's astronomy with art or philosophy with "Last year, international enroll- dents as international students are for player or do you put a cricket player? way different in Holland. Even if you Latin. ment was about 16 or 18, but in past the College. Students choose to study And those sorts of decisions have a big kion't know someone nice you're really years we've always gotten around 30 in America for many reasons, but chief effect. We also did some things I think (0 them. It's a really good thing. The How do America India differ? and or 40 or so," said International Student among them are that America has a that were positive as far as how we campus is really beautiful, and in Actually, if you look at it, everything is Admissions Counselor Jonathan strong reputation for good schools and communicated with students, in terms Holland that's not the case. You just different. It's very vibrant here. Every Edwards, "When I first started it was that it's one of the only places in the of helping them with the visa inter- have buildings separated in the city, moment you have something to learn around 50." 1-- 40 or world with liberal arts colleges. view, and helping them 901, so the whole concept of like a campus prom the people around you. If I'm sit with the The rise that international enroll- "Liberal is unique is is really cool. king in the hallway and I'm just talking arts pretty to the which a form they have to fill out and seems be is real- U.S. Ro people it's something new I'm learn ment to experiencing A lot of the higher-e- d systems a fee they have to pay prior to the visa How was the trip? fng about them ... I'm walking on a ly just the second part of a U-cur- ve are geared toward a particular job - to application. This year we sent, I felt, I went to Moldova last summer and I street and it's just entirely different the college has been experiencing for become an accountant or become an the best materials we ever had in terms lost my luggage. That was not too p'm looking at shops, I'm looking all the past few years, said Karen Edwards engineer. For instance, in Japan the of helping them through that process. much fun. But my trip to the United I'm looking at buildings, I'm! people, of the Office of International Student universities get funding from compa- We try to have a lot of contact with States went very well, other than that looking at vegetation that doesn't even Affairs. Edwards believes that the nies to train their management. It's a those students over the summer." I arrived at 3 a.m. because I missed exist back there. So everything is dif all-ti- issues affecting international recruit- very different sort of idea," said J. It may not be an me high, but Ihe plane. It was overbooked so I had ferent. And everything is really acces ment are bigger than just The College Edwards. enrollment is on the rise and the staff to fly like nine hours later. But it went pible here, that's the best thing of Wooster itself. Both well. (Anything you need is almost at your Jon and Karen Edwards are at Wooster is eager to help it up. "I poorstep, a stone's throw away on "There's no doubt that international constantly working with their depart- don't want to be overzealous and say What do you think about the expe- bomething. There's no shortage of student recruitment since 9 1 1 has ments to improve the international that it was a fantastic year," said K. rience overall? anything. You get sick of the food at been more difficult, not just from the student experience, as well as their Edwards, "because I want it to keep I it I like a lot. like it just to be away Rimes, but there's not a lack of it perspective of recruitment per se, but numbers. They're employing several getting better. Last year was a real from home and to meet people. (There's almost a surplus. from the perspective of world econo- different methods that might account low year for us, and this year went well, my and regulatory issues. We've felt for the recent increase in enrollment. sd we're hoping that that's a trend." The Wooster Voice Friday, September 8, 2006 5 Baby monkey born this summer Newest addition makes five capuchins in the College's colony Kate McGauahev Voice Staff the smartest types of New World beginning to understand what feeding '- monkeys. Their native habitat is the or grooming is," said Thompson. 7 - rainforests of Central and South The monkeys have their own. space The stork visited The College of America, but all of The College of in Morgan Hall, and aside from when Wooster last summer, bearing-- a very Wooster's monkeys were bred in cap- student caretakers enter to clean and unique package. A baby was born to tivity. Capuchin monkeys are not an feed, their independent space is well Riley and Alex, two of the College's endangered species. respected. "We take really good care capuchin monkeys, on June 22. As the , "At this point, we're watching for of our animals," said Michelson. The gender of the baby has not been iden- developmental milestones," said capuchin monkeys live in a zoo-like tified yet, it remains unnamed. Thompson. Baby capuchin monkeys enclosure complete with chains for The College has a total of five mon- don't move on their own until they are climbing, natural light, a monkey keys. It is uncommon for undergradu- about six months old. Until that time, house and many toys for enrichment. ! ate institutions to have primates. "We f A the baby's natural clinging instinct A lot of care is put into their well-being ff are have rf. very lucky to them, because and the mother's cradling make the and outside visitation is kept to of their high cognitive abilities," said two inseparable. a minimum. "Noise from the observa- head caretaker Leah Michelson '08. Developmental milestones are mention room is audible," said student Professor of psychology Claudia tal practices which are observed in the caretaker Jessica Winchell '09. "If Thompson, who researches the mon- baby's growth process. "It's learning riles them up," keys, notes that having them here is how to pay attention, perceive and Six capuchin monkeys came to The entirely due to a deep commitment by fff, remember things. It focuses on other College of Wooster in 1983 as a gift kA the students who care for them. -- v,v monkeys' hands, eyes and mouths, from The University of Chicago. Capuchins, or Cebus apella, are one of and can pay attention. Maybe it's Now in their third generation, ! ! Ml '1 n icapuchins have iii it been used for a r. n,,w r v m hi observational I ft jstudies by (Thompson, her research assistants, and seniors 2 --I L ; Illustration by Andy Maloney. i interested in studying the Banthia '08. monkeys include the dominant male cognitive The capuchin monkeys play and run Alex, who was endearingly described processes of pri- around like primates, but have human by Banthia as "goofy." Jake is a smart x mates for expressions as well. "They do very but shy female, and the other female,

and is ," Independent human tilings, that's fun to see," Gizmo, a "hyperactive space-cadet- said Winchell. Study projects. , said Michelson. Wooster's mon- Like all animals, they have good and Wooster's monkeys display a lot of v keys have bad days, and research with them can be affection for one another. "For me, recently partici- slow. Working with the monkeys that's the most important thing, pated in studies requires "a lot of patience," according because that's the most important concerning tool to Banthia, because "everything is on thing for them. It keeps them happy," use, handedness, their schedule." said Thompson. She and the students pointing and Wooster's monkeys are a friendly work closely with them and have imitation. and stable social group. The new become very attached. "Since the baby mother, Riley, is "mischievous, but "I've been working with them for 25 born, we very outgoing and extroverted," years and my affection and fascination Iwashaven't even according to Michelson. She is a very for them has never diminished. There i good mother as well, because she are so many tilings that we still want New mother Riley enjoys a snack in the capuchin habitat in Morgan Hall (Photo . . r said research keeps the baby close to her and con- to understand," she said. . courtesy of Leah Michelson). ,i,t.nt Akhil stantly supports its head. The other Fantastico! Summer trip to Tuscany a success these courses the students grow very fast aid directions to real tourists." seemed, the stu- encounter challenges ... we were not Siena became not just a classroom in dents were happy just passing through. It was like we the end, and not even just a home. It

life-chang- to find their lessons lived there and had to adapt," she said became a ing experience for intertwining and with reminiscence. 'That's what made the students. They're all back at

life-changin- leading them into a this trip g." Wooster eager to make a lifestyle deeper understand- It was this aspect of the trip, of liv- change, whether, as in Lipner's case, ing of Medieval ing in a different culture and having to that means taking some different class- Tuscany. adapt that made the trip so memorable es in the coming years to expand her "Siena is an for the students. In the walled city of knowledge; or as in Stimson's and above-groun- d Siena, they traveled by foot, as in Kerr's cases, thinking more about the archaeological lab," Medieval culture. They lived in apart- history of the things around them and ?$h. err- - said Hettinger. ments, not hotels. They cooked their acknowledging the relative "newness" These students' own food, learned their own Italian of Wooster. In Mattson's and courses were not and spent nights in II Campo, the city's Hettinger's cases, they're taking a cue just sterile slide main square, soaking in Italian culture from the Italians to experience life at a shows. Hettinger so that by the end of June, the students slower pace. need only point scoffed at the American tourists pass- Whether through a window sill

,- - .vr ' . .1, - around her to high- ing through. "Siena became my third mishap or an evening in II Campo, the light an important home," said Rachel Lipner '09, a bio- Summer in Tuscany program gave religious monu- chemistry major. "I want to go back Wooster students the opportunity of a I ' ment or evidence of and take my family. felt like a lifetime to learn and to grow. l "3 :. s the plague's devas- townsperson, even enough to give Pirl Drau I nAnn Marllaw I wnatta MoHenn Porhal I inner Rsrhol I ihhon .Qarah Mauri tation. Their desks were on the of Kim Mayo, Dayna Vimont, Kat Brausch; Middle Row: Heather Wolff, Elizabeth Kerr, Emily stePs RGCYCiGCI PGrCUSSIOIl TdttlGS MCGdW i : c-n- t Dm... DnKr4 UnMincnn the Duomo, Siena s iuny, r-- ciiiic iy.krxiuuiid, oaiano,k oiiiiiauu,e;nn vscunyotk, d.rauiaun,,ir,. riuiu iuvi. ixuucn i iimoui i, . iuii stunted but beauti Tom Hull, Angela Starkey, Lizzie Eckel (Photo courtesy of Madonna Hettinger). ful cathedral, and ing away from home, not to mention an their classroom was the Tuscan coun- Keli Hortori opportunity to share her own wealth of tryside. One night as the class studied Voice Staff . knowledge of Medieval history. chiaroscuro, the play of light and dark "You always worry whether you'll in Medieval art and architecture, on. If the survival guide to Italy con- spend too much time traveling and the steps of the Duomo, the sun was tained the phrase, "Excuse me, sir, my miss the work or spend too much time setting, casting shadows across the pants are on your window sill," all in class and miss the experience," said city as an illustration of chiaroscuro would be right with the world. Sarah Stimson '08, a history minor. coming to life. "We were really experi- Consequentially, since the omniscient "That didn't happen at all." The stu- encing the lesson," said Mattson. have decided Although each course gods of tour guides not dents spent their days taking two accentuating irHj, - on-site ltflA, ti as of yet to include this rather useful courses titled "Plague in the Towns of with experience was a goal in uj tidbit of information, Elizabeth Kerr Tuscany" a study of the Black Death's and of itself, Hettinger had another '07, Lynette Mattson '08 and her impact on medieval communities; and goal in mind. "My husband and I roommates from Wooster's Summer in "Mystics, Popes and Pilgrims," a have traveled most of our lives. This Tuscany program had to fend for course studying the popularity of program gave us the opportunity to themselves. She and her fellow stu- extreme fo'rms of religious devotion in share the experience of living in dents, along with Professor of History the area. However seemingly separate another culture. We watched them

Madonna Hettinger and hei husband & .- - George Vermander, spent a summer within the walls of Siena, Italy, in close proximity to its residents, its culture, its window sills and its rich history. "I designed this program in response t to the need for a program that would allow students who couldn't take the - N' ,1- - whole semester off and wanted a v fr U study abroad experience to have one," ' stated Hettinger with conviction from t. behind her desk. For many students, namely science majors, a traditional On Aug. 29, the four-ma- n show Recycled Percussion study abroad experience is out of the descended on McGaw Chapel and performed its unique question. This sparked Hettinger's brand of "junk rock" for Wooster students and community interest in providing an opportunity masterful for students from different back- members alike. The group paired percussion skills grounds of study and with a desire to with unusual instruments, including aluminum ladders, buck- travel to spend time living and learn F5hoto courtesy of Madonna Hettinger. ets and fifty-gall- on drums (Photo by Karin Johnson). SECTION EDITOR: Friday, JUSTINE MCCULLOUGH Arts september 8 6 Acts from rap to rock mix it up on the Green 1 : What's on I I I SO 0

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Last Monday, my cell phone rang during class. No big deal, right? Public Cell Phone Ringing (PCPR) is one faux pas that is becoming more and more socially acceptable each day. ft So thanks to my one-ti-me negli- gence in following that crucial classroom etiquette rule turn off your C..t damn cell phone I've f - joined the ranks of Rapper Gyfted (above left) and the band GreenStreet (above right) are two of the performance acts booked for next Friday's the inconsiderate on headlining is chatterboxes who Party the Green. The act the band Domestic Problems (Photos courtesy Gyfted and GreenStreet). "1 ' actually answer their phones mid- - Rachel Grinnan experience," he added. from New York City to Los Angeles. out what the best bands were for iusiiiwmccullough . lecture and the Voice Staff Other band members include Bill They have only been together for Party on the Green," he added. music elitists who pride themselves ' Kenny (trumpet, mandolin and gui- - two years, but have been touring all Also. in previous years, WAC has on downloading an obscure Modest The annual event Party on the tar), Job Grotsky (saxophones, flute over the country since then. brought only one type of genre to Mouse track (so hipster) or the very Green, sponsored by the Wooster and tin whistle),. John Niedzielski GreenStreet consists of Matt our campus. This year Behnke and latest Justin Timberlake hit. Activities Crew (WAC), is coming (guitars, and vocals) Matt Fouts Kysia (vocals and rhythm guitar), Henry wanted to reach more than Unfortunately for me, however, I once again to the College of (bass and vocals) and Reggie Ness Mike Vendittelli (lead guitar and one type of audience. am part of neither aforementioned Wooster. WAC has announced three (drums). vocals), Scott Poloney (drums and Party on the Green starts at 7 category. musical guests that will be perform- This year's opening act, Gyfted, is percussion) and Matt Vendittelli p.m. next Friday, Sept. 15 on the res-

ing hip-h-op This girl needs a BlackBerry. ing on the residential quad on cam- - an up-and-ris- singer (bass and vocals). idential quad near Douglass Hall. Anyway. My ringtone, as played pus next rriday, - In the past Students have free admission with earlier this week to Nancy Grace's Sept. 15, at 7 p.m. "I want people to feel that there s something tan-- WAC has brought their student I.D.s, and they may Beat Literature class (which is, also The headliner -- i i i j.u: i popular headlin- - bring one guest for a charge of five tiiiiif- - m 11 1111 fi r rriiivif vfiriiMiiiiriir npin p "J r 1 unfortunately, the largest class I've for Party on the ers such as dollars. encountered at Wooster) is Paris Green is a band grab on to and take with them." Something The Underground will be provid- Hilton's "Stars are Blind." that came togeth- . ,, Corporate and ing alcohol for those 21 years of age Andy Honestly, I'm a bit over Paris's first er from the Grand Holtgrieve BieSSid union of or older bring two forms of iden- single. Must be time for a new ring-ton- e, Rapids, Mich, Domestic Problems Souls to the tification (student I.D. and driver's

perhaps Hilton's "Fightin' Over area, Domestic . College of license) if you wish to drink.

Me." Problems. from Columbus, Ohio. Wooster. There will also be non-alcoho- lic

You may say Hilton's a spoiled brat, Since forming in college, Domestic "Rap music," Gyfted explains, "can This year, however, co-musical beverages available at this event, slut, a snob. But dumb? I say she's Problems has released seven inde- be both positive and appealing by chairs Billy Behnke '07 and Howard which will conclude no later than dumb like a fox not to mention pendent albums and performed over blending inspirational lyrics and Henry '08 did their research to find midnight.

heavy-hittin- ing -- laughing all the way to the bank in 200 shows per year. unique style on top of g up-and-com- acts for the annual For more information about the her Jimmy Choos. "I want people to feel that there's production." event. entertainment acts and to preview Now THAT'S hot. something tangible about our music, Following Gyfted will be the band . "Even though these bands are not what you may be hearing next Since my deepest and darkest something that people can grab on GreenStreet. These bandmates have known nationally," Behnke Friday, check out their Web sites at secret has been revealed, I may as to and take with them,"' said Andy known one another since they were explained, "they will put on a great http:www.domesticproblems.com, well just make like Lance Bass and Holtgrieve, lead singer. children growing up in the suburbs show." , http:gyfted.com and 'fess up. I'm not gay, but I do have a "It's a pretty magical and uplifting of Detroit; now their band tours "We did a lot of research to finju http:greenstreetband.com. habitual problem that consists of scouring style magazines for the latest fashions and reading, no devouring gossip Web sites. Time, technology: ijoinPlacesSittmgi9own (Personal faves include

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I'll share with you a portion of my back-to-school list: Black fingernail polish, this season's version of the iconic Chanel "Vamp"? Check.

Sky-high wooden platforms v.r-r--1 .1 adorned with grommets? Check.

A design-your-o- wn one-of-a-kind 1 tote from Freddy&Ma that's perfect for hauling books around campus? (I'll hopefully check that one off now ( that I've received my last summer paycheck...) Gel pens (and those great ruched Caitlin Gillette concept of a loss of information due leggings!) in every color? Check. Voice Staff to an over-relian- ce on technology, Check. challenging' the viewers to piece Wait a minute, you think. What is The College of Wooster Art together the obscured images. this rubbish? Why do I care what Museum is currently featuring two Hiraki Sawa, Wooster's other fea- some chick thinks about Nicole digital art exhibits by artists Jim tured artist, also explores memory, Ritchie's alleged weight problem, Campbell and Hiraki Sawa, which but his digitally animated videos also Britney's style disaster or the new will be on display until Oct. 22 in the delve into childhood imagination. black? Isn't there a new black each Burton D. Morgan and Sussel Originally from Japan, Sawa is a season? And speaking of black fin- Galleries in Ebert Art Center. graduate of the Slade School of Fine gernails, OH MY GOD. Did you SEE Jim Campbell, a San Francisco-base- d Art in London, where he now Lindsay Lohan's "accidental" flash on artist, explores the idea of resides. the Perez?! memory while using low-fidel- ity His exhibit, entitled "Going You may also be wondering what technology to represent images. ' Places, Sitting Down" features three happened to SCENE columns of yes- Campbell, a graduate of panels of separate video footage teryear. You know, those columns Massachusetts Institute of which inspire viewers to appreciate that offered a lighthearted "snapshot Technology, combines his two pas- detail and resort back to childhood of life all wrapped up neatly into a sions of engineering and art, memories. Sawa's videos are 500-word story quite different explaining that "engineering is about extremely calming and have been

than this ridiculous rant that's actual- solving problems, and art is about described as a "self-enclos- ed poetic Delve into the childhood imagination and a ly more like a "Devil Wears Prada" creating them." dreamscape" by Susan Edwards, take magical ride

ng while sitting with version of Nick Cross's Sports The exhibit utilizes light-emitti- Executive Director of The Frist down Sawa's exhibit at top middle. mixed-medi- Boxers column that was so popular diodes, mixed-media and blurry or Center for the Visual Arts. The Campbell's a images (above) encourage viewers last year. partial images, allowing viewers to videos are eight minute, 40 second to consider the technological world surrounding them (Photos I might not write about personal question their over-depende-nce on loops of footage that include various courtesy Ebert Art Center). issues such as disgust with "the fami- technology and memory. calming images such as rocking work,v ly farm" (hell, I lived on one for 18 "My Campbell says, "is horses and flowing water. together, Zurko explained that the A gallery talk about Campbell's years) or first experience with about our (or my) psychological rela- my Kitty McManus Zurko, Director artists explore the idea, of creation exhibit will be held on Oct. 3 at 7 shaving my head, but if I ever get tionship to time and loss (or perhaps, and Curator of the College of of memory through time. She added p.m. in Room 223 of Ebert. those Ashlee Simpson-esqu- e hair even our morality) through memory." Wooster Art Museum, is pleased to that Campbell and Sawa explore The College of Wooster Art I've been custom-designed "high-calib- er extensions practically Through Campbell's have two .contempo- "humane and gentle concepts that Museum is open to the campus com- drooling over, you can expect a col- pieces, he addresses familiar rary artists" featured in the art gal- would not exist without technology." munity and the general public umn about that. I'll write about what technology and creates ambiguity, leries this fall. Both exhibits will receive an open- between Tuesday and Friday from I know love in and best celebrities tying themes of time and memory. Though at first it may not be ing reception this Thursday, Sept. 7 10:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. and Saturday and fashion, basically deal- These pieces especially address the 6-- anything apparent why the artists are paired from 8 p.m. in Ebert Art Center. and Sunday from 1 - 5 p.m. ing with entertainment. I'm not exactly sure why it's entertaining that Beyonce's latest

album was a total flop ("B-Day- "?

"D-Da- Should've named it y") or that Senior Happy Hour Don't Throw Shoes Rock 'n Bowl 8:15 p.m. Pete Doherty and Kate Moss finally 98 98 98 Shoolroy Theatre broke 6-- up. Wait. They're back togeth- 9 p.m. 8:30 p.m. 7 p.m. To reserve tickets for the theatre er? Oh it was Jessica yeah, Simpson The Underground Scheide Music Center Scot Lanes and Lowry back patio department's first production of the and John Mayer who broke but improvisa-tional 330-263-22- up, Start off senior year with a brew (or booster's hilarious student year, call 41. then again, we didn't even know they two!) and receive a complimentary theater group is back with their Nocturne Wooster students each receive one free were dating. "Seniors '07" cup. No cover charge. first performance of the year. 915-91- 6 ticket with COM card. section editors: Friday, chris Sweeney Voice m 1 M September 8 Nicholas Holt ports 7 Field Hockey still optimistic at ,500 Legends Losers, Dancers Andrew Vogel 1 Voice Staff Writer Welcome to Wooster everyone I rushed the field. You may say this was would like to start off the year by mak an inappropriate reaction but come on, Wooster's field hockey team has a ing a pledge to you. they'd proved they weren't the worst pretty good streak going. Over the past I will never in any team, they even get to have a winning five years, the team has finished in the rrr column make men record for a week. Texas versus Ohio top two in the North. Coast Athletic tion of a certain State will be another battle of 1 vs. 2 Conference each year. However, if the Cowboys receive, or this weekend, but it doesn't even com- team can play the rest of the season the Giant's slugger pare because the loser won't be the like it did in its season, opener against with the nickholt giant nog- worst team for the rest of the season. the University of the South, the team gin. I personally Speaking of this week's big game I can do much more than just finish in would rather be tied down and forced to think it will be no contest. Texas may the conference's top two. ' listen to Paris Hilton's album on repeat be returning most of its players from After a convincing 5- -0 win against while getting a bikini wax than watch last season, but when I watched Texas the University of the South on Sept. another ESPN report on either individ- games I noticed two players, Michael 2, the Scots look to remain in the hunt ual. Speaking of bikini waxes, am I the Huff and Vince Young. The Longhorns for the NCAC title. Signs of optimism only, one who gets curious when he were not the best team in the country rotate around five seniors and an watches UFC and sees one first-ye- guy wrap his last year and anyone who watched the impressive ar class that will smooth silky upper thighs around Championship game knows that Young play an integral role if the team is to another guy's body? alone carried them to victory. They compete for its first outright confer- Anyway, football is back so there's a should not be ranked second. ence title since 2001. lot to cover and I might as well get Meanwhile Ohio State has Ted Ginn Anlyn Addis '07, who was named to started, but first I discovered . All-NC- (through Jr. and Troy Smith. Sure most of the last year's AC first team last several e-thr- eats) that I offended some Buckeyes defense from last season is in season, returns as the team's leading Bo Sox fans with a column I wrote last the NFL, but they get great recruiting scorer. Addis will probably play a big I would year. like to offer an olive classes every year. I'd bet my left arm role on offense, especially in the sea- branch to all those in the Red Sox that the Buckeyes win this week. son's early games, as only 35 percent nation. Unfortunately, the team has My television moment of the week of last season's goal scoring returns. played so terribly lately, choking and was watching the Andre Agassi, Although after seeing the team's taking themselves out of the playoffs Marcos last Baghdatis match Thursday performance this past weekend, one Kaitlin Toner '09 leads the Wooster offense down the field. while battling a slew of injuries, that night. Nobody thought that Agassi would have to think that scoring Wooster got off to a 2-- 2 start, but continues to have high there isn't really anything nice you can could match up with the ninth ranked won't be a problem. In the season say about this rapidly aging team who's player in the world, but somehow opener last Saturday, Addis and hopes (Photo by Karin Johnson). pitchers look like they're serving up BP Agassi outlasted him and won. Agassi Brittany Montgomery '10 each scored Varitek. But without hey, they unloaded won not on talent but on grit as he lim- two goals apiece, as Amanda Artman with just over 17 minutes to play on a big goal for us," said Addis. David Wells which has to count for ited his unforced errors while his oppo- '10 also added another in the 5- -0 rout penalty corner. While Wooster had a The players agree the talent is something. nent had sudden issues first-yea- cramping every of Sewanee. Of the team's six total . slight advantage in shots on goal, there. If rs Montgomery and

first-year- As the college football season started time he made s. 1- a mistake. Sure Agassi goals, four were scored by 2 -9, Centre really won the game on Artman are able to complement last weekend the media seemed to focus lost his next match, but in his final tour- "In both games, we started out strong. penalty corners, leading 12- -4 in that Addis on offense and the defense on two games Tennessee vs. Cal and nament he made a sports moment that I saw a lot of potential in what our department. plays like it did in the first two games, Florida State vs. "the U." In the end Cal any sports could enjoy. Watching that team can do. I felt good that the fresh- weekend the a The opening split , did team could indeed make run at showed that there is no West Coast bias match was amazing because it was a men stepped up," said Addis. inspire a great deal of optimism its first outright conference title since while teams the Florida proved that rare thing, a time where an aging super- The team could not quite get it though. Players already think this 2001. V they are no longer elite programs. I star went out with a bang. Those done the following day against Centre team has more offensive firepower "The whole team talks about how knew better though and listened to the moments make players immortal. This College. The team opened a lead early, than last year's squad ever did. Not to we're so much further along at this real game of the week online on is why John Elway and Lance as Artman scored the game's first mention, these seniors would like to point in the season than they were Thursday night: Buffalo vs. Temple. I Armstrong are loved and flooded with goal of an Addis pass within the end their careers the way it started, last year," said Artman. was not disappointed. The game fea- endorsement money while Jerry Rice game's first 15 minutes. Centre later when they tied for a conference cham- At the very least, the team should tured the two worst teams in all of Div. and Emmitt Smith try ballroom danc- tied the game with a little less than pionship. be able to stretch its streak of top IA. The two teams had just one win ing. Fans need to see their idols be seven minutes left in the first half on "We're hungry for the outright two conference finishes to six. combined last season, this was their great one last time. I hope-- Brett. Favre a shot that just snuck past goalie win. Even though we tied for first our However, if this weekend is any indi- ' Superbowl, their one chance this season was taking notes. Anne Leigh '07. Defense dominated freshman year, we didn't win our con- cation, much more can be expected. to get a victory. Buffalo ended up win- You can contact Nick at the second half, although the Colonels ference tournament, which sends you The Scots begin conference play

9-- ning 3 in triple overtime and the fans NHoU08wooster.edu eventually scored the go-ahead goal to nationals. So going to nationals is a tomorrow, away agajnst, Earlham. Wooster's fall teams aim for NCAC glory " Cross: Voice Sports Staff number of younger players will be placed in starting positions and see fre- Fall is here, and with it comes a wave quent play time. The Scots begin country of Wooster sports. All of them are NCAC play on the road on Sept. 23 looking towards very optimistic sea- against Earlham. sons. Here is the rundown: Women's Soccer Football Sarah Schostarez '07 and Erin Lustic starts easy Wooster football retains much expe- '07 look to end Wooster's two year rience after a depressing 6-- 4 2005 sea- NCAC tournament drought. Chris Sweeney son. On offensive the Scots return nine Lustic, who transferred to Wooster, Sports Editor of their starters from last year, includ- has played 33 games, with 14 goals and ing the heartbeat of the offense quar- 16 assists. Schostarez brings equally The College of Wooster Cross terback Justin Shafer '07. impressive numbers to the field, with Country team kicked off the fall sea- Wooster's defense returns four 55 games, 14 goals and 17 assists. son with the Denison Fall Classic, a starters from the NCAC championship The Lady Scots' also have a deep non-scoring competition held at team. The Scots have what may be the freshman class, with nine girls vying Denison University. Kenyon, Denison NCAC's best tandem of ends in Andy for spots on the field. With this help, r V and Wooster competed in four events: Mizak '07 and Evan Watson '07. Mizak plus a talented and deep returning men's and women's 3200 meters and

Ail-Ameri- is a fourth year starter and was an can team, the Scots look to improve upon a men's and women's 5000 K.

honorable mention in 2004 9-6- -3 overall record, and a 4-3- -1 record Nicole Calderone '08 highlighted after recording a Wooster record 15 in the NCAC. - the results with her second place fin- sacks. . Volleyball ish in the Women's 3200 posting a

After their amazing 1 1- -1 season in Last year, the volleyball team rallied time of 12:48. Ashley Zervos '06 2004 the Scots failed to defend their off seven straight victories en route to took forth place coming in at 13:10 NCAC title in 2005, finishing 6-- 4 after a 25--6 overall record and fourth place Carolyn Ciregio '08 (Photo Courtesy of OPI). and Emily Elderbrock '09 came in at losing four of their final six games. The finish in the NCAC at 5-- 3 only to fall 13:21. No Scots competed in the fifth place finish only gives Wooster short in the semifinals to top seeded Wooster will have to rebound from her to place 54th. women's 5000 K. extra motivation to take the NCAC Hiram in straight sets ending their best losing four of its five leading scorers In addition to this, the Scots have On the men's side, Rudi Gillman title back. season in 21 years. from last years team. However, hav- many other runners who are poised to '07 and Dave Thomas '07 each post- Men's Soccer This year, the Scots must overcome ing a core of five experienced seniors improve on the squads seventh place ed top ten finishes in the 5000 K. With strong returns, new players, the loss of Tiffany Rice '06 who was and an impressive first-year class, the NCAC finish. The lady Scots retain Gillman took fifth with a time of and an extremely experienced coaching the centerpiece of the Scots teams for Scots have a real shot at winning most of their core runners in Cara 16:54 and Thomas tenth with a time staff, Wooster's men's soccer team the last four years, leading them to their first outright NCAC title since Stoddard '08, Nicole Calderone '08, of 17:28. Zane Shelter '10 also fin- hopes to reclaim their title as the most three 20-w- in seasons. 2001. Emily Racklcy '07 and Erin Fortin '08. ished in 13th place with a time of powerful team in the North Coast Rice led the league in kills both in Cross Country The men however, look to build for 17:31.-N- o Scots competed in the Atlantic Conference (NCAC). 2004 and 2005 with 4.33 and 4.75 kills Wooster cross-country could be in the future as they lose their top two men's 3200 meters. The Scots will have to overcome the per game (kpg). She also holds the for a historical season, as Katie runners Taylor Delhage '06 and Colin The Scots will compete place in the loss of eight seniors from last year, school record for kills at 1,750. Wieferich '07 looks to not only defend Turner '06. Still the Scots have people Great Lakes Colleges Association including Brian Conaway '06, who Field Hockey her NCAC title but to finish in the top who are capable of filling the void Championships; instead they will scored 12 of the team's 21 goals and "The Scots look to duplicate the suc- 10 of all Div. III. Last year, her magnif- such "as Rudy. Gilman '07, Michael take their off-week and return to assisted five more. cess of last season, in which they icent season came crashing down last Cynkar '09, Mark DeWine '09, Bryan competition on Sept. 16 at Marietta

With 1 1 incoming players to help found themselves one win away from year with an injury that hindered her Loy '09, Erik Ramstad '09 and Paul College's Carl Broughton balance the team's field positions, a an NCAC tournament title. for the Div. Ill national meet, causing Thompson '09. Invitational.

Fall NCAC Pre-Seas- on Rankings & Upcoming Games

Volleyball X-Coun- try Football (Coacnes) Mens Soccer . Mens Upcoming (James 1.) Wabash (8) 98 1.) Ohio Wesleyan (8) 86 1.) Wittenberg (5) 77 1.) Allegheny (10) 100 Football (1-0- ): 2.) Ohio Wesleyan 78 B.) Wittenberg (1)76 12.) Hiram (4) 76 2. ) Denison 90 at Wayncsberg (Sept. 9) 3. ) Wooster (2) 77 B.) Allegheny 75 p.) Denison 60 3. ) Wabash 75

k.) (2-0- ): 4. ) Wittenberg 76 Oberlin 61 k.) Wooster 55 4. ) Ohio Wesleyan 67 Mens Soccer 5.) Allegheny 62 S.) Denison 54 15.) Allegheny 45 5. ) Oberlin 57 irs. Otterbein (Sept. 9) 6. ) Kenyon 47 5.) Wooster 38 fc.) Ohio Wesleyan 36 5.) Kenyon 51 vs. Marietta (Sept. 12) 7. ) Denison 45 7.) Kenyon 37 b.) Earlham 27 7. ) Earlham 42

8. 33 17 8. ) (2-1- ): B.) Oberlin 27 ) Hiram B.) Oberlin . Wooster 32 Womens Soccer ' p.) Earlham 26 .) Wabash 21 p.) Kenyon 12 9. ) Wittenberg 20 re. Case (Sept. 9) 10.) Hiram 14 10.) Earlham 14 10.) Hiram 11 re. Marietta (Sept. 13)

Foootball (Media) Volleyball (2-2- ):

X-Cou- 1.) Wabash (24) 264 Womens Soccer Field Hockey Womens ntry Kilt Classic (Sept. 8 & 9) 2. ) Wooster (1)213 1.) Denison (7) 79 l.)Obelin(4)41 . , I .) Oberlin (5) 73 3.) Ohio Wesleyan (I) 208 2.) Ohio Wesleyan (2) 59 E.) Wooster (1) 35 1.) Denison (4) 73 Field Hockey (1-1- ): 4.) Wittenberg 193 B.) Wittenberg 59 B.) Wittenberg (1) 30 3.) Allegheny 61 it Earlham (Sept. 9) 5.) Kenyon (1) (4.) Kenyon 49 4. ) Kenyon (1)29 3.) Ohio Wesleyan 61 re. Transylvania (Sept. 10) 5.) Allegheny (1) M.) Wooster 49 5. ) Denison 27 5.) Kenyon 47 7.) Denison fc.) Allegheny 40 5.) Ohio Wesleyan 20 5.) Wooster 33 Cross Country: Oberlin 7.)Earlham30 .... . 7.) Earlham 14 7.) Earlham 28 at Carl Broughton Invitational (Sept. 16) f.) ' 8. Oberlin 17 20 ) Earlham , ) B.) Wittenberg 10.) Hiram . .) Hiram 11 'Hiram & Allegheny do not play Field Hockey B.) Hiram 10 'Indicates NCAC Game 8 Friday, September 8, 2006 The Wooster Voice Football dominates, then sweats in 30-2- 2 win over JCU

.muimui .. n i i I i ..jbuu -: -- Chris Sweeney - inmmw: ,Am,w. rti- J ..mJi m The next touchdown came off of a Sports Editor nine-pla- y 40-yard drive by Wooster that culminated in a Shafer 11-yard After a dominant first half, The pass to Greg Peltz '07. College of Wooster football team The victory marks the ninth time witnessed quite a scare as they saw in ten years the Scots have started off their 24--0 halftime lead dwindle their season with a win. down to ten until Jordan Ferns "09 "It was definitely a focus point to ran back a kickoff 85-yards for what get the season out on the right foot," would be the decisive touchdown in said Ferns. Wooster's 30-2-2 victory over John Schafer completed 14 of 23 passes Carroll University. for 132 yards, two touchdons and one "That was my first kick return for interception. Schafer was second in a touchdown. I just didn't want the rushing with 46 yards and a touch- kicker to catch me," said Ferns. downs. Ahead of Schafer was tail- Wooster missed the extra point, back Orlando Jones '09 with 48 yards but extended their lead to 30-1-4. on the ground. John Carroll would not go quietly Ferns and Peltz led the team in into the night as they added another recieving yards with 63 and 35 yards eight points off of an 11-play, 71 respectively. Each also caught a yard drive that would take up the touchdown pass. first five minutes of the final quarter. The win puts Wooster at 1- -0 on Their successful two-point conver- the season as they begin their quest sion cut the once 24-point Wooster to take back the NCAC title from lead down to eight. .t Wabash. John Carroll would get the ball "We just want to play more mista- back with eight minutes left and ke-free football," said Ferns. "We drove all the way down to Wooster's have a lot to improve, we played well, 24-y- ard line. But Josh Feesler '07 but there is still a lot to work on." forced an interception -- giving Jeff Geffert '08 returns an interception 17 yards to the John Carroll 36 yard line. The pick sets Wooster received five votes in the Wooster the ball back with 5:35 left. up a successful 32-yard field goal by Andy Milligan '08 and an eventual Wooster victory Dsfootball.com national poll for Div. The Scots would run the clock down . (Photo by Karin Johnson). o Ill football. NCAC foe and confer- to 1:31, sealing the game for the ence frontrunner Wabash dropped to Scots.' a John Carroll offense that finished with a 42-yard pass. Shafer also yard drive off of an interception by number 22 in the nation, receiving "We came out a little complacent," the first half with minus-tw- o yards rushed for 17-yards on the drive Deron Boyd '08 that resulted in a 117 votes. NCAC rival Wittenberg

a one-yard nine-yar- said Ferns. "They also put in new of total offense and one first down in including the run for . the d touchdown pass from was dropped 57-- 7 by Capitol, who is quarterback and he turned things the first half compared to Wooster's opening touchdown. Schafer to Ferns. ranked fifth in the nation. around for them." 160 yards and ten first downs. In the second quarter, the Scots Another interception forced by Jeff The Scots look to continue their The new John Carroll quarterback, The Scots opened the game with jumped on the Blue Streaks with 17 Geffert '08 set up the Scots for an winning ways as they head on the

Mark Petruziello, a transfer from an impressive drive that saw quarter- points, most off of turnovers. The eventual successful 32-yard field goal road tomorrow to Waynesburg for a Div. I Ohio University, lit a fire under back Justin Schafer '07 hit Ferns first touchdown was a three-pla-y 1 1- - by Andy Milligan '08. 1:30 kickoff time. Lady Scots start strong Mens soccer starts Chris Sweeney, Nick Holt and Andrew Vogel pick the biggest college and pro games of the week. Their off with a close one records will be tracked throughout the year. Feel free to contact them at Johann Weber Schott '07. voicesportszvooster.edu. The team lost eight letterwinners to Voice Staff-Write- r graduation last year, but has picked up C Chris, N Nick, A Andrew Doubtless, any sports team likes to a large number of talented freshman. All Everyone begin their season with victories. Early "We are young in the experience victories can the boost entire team's area, but our underclassmen are very . College confidence, and create momentum that talented and will be essential to this Saturday Sept. 9 can launch them to championships. But team's success," said Schott.. (C,N)1 OSU at 2 Texas (A) to call last Friday's Men's Soccer home Warren Swegal '08 adds wise words 1 9 PSU at 3 Notre Dame (All) game against Heidelberg a victor, of caution, noting, "Coming out of (C, A) 1 8 Clemson at. BC (N) would be neglecting a timber of cru- preseason with two wins, the team is (Al) 12 peprgia at South Carolina cial facts. It would not include Steve excited and we know we can go far, but (N) 20 Oregon at Fresno St. (C, A) Fracasso's 09 amazing winning goal, we have to be cautious. We can not take which he scored by kicking the ball any game lightly. Every match will be NFL over the entirety of both teams and the tough." Thursday Sept. 7 Heidelberg goalie, with twenty-eight The Scots are preparing for their (All) Miami at Pittsburgh minutes left. It would not include Scots next games, which include a game Coach Graham Ford's colorful refer- Sept.. 9 against Otterbein at home at Sunday Sept. 10 ences to player injuries. And it would 3:30pm, and a game next Tuesday, (A) Atlanta at Carolina (C, N) not include the across-the-board amaz- Sept. 12 against Marietta. Their first Baltimore at Tampa Bay (All) ing performances of Wooster's conference game is Sept. 23, against (N) Buffalo at New England (C, A) 1 1 superbly talented 2006 soccer team. Earlham college. (N, A) Cincinnati at Kansas City (C) Wooster then followed the win The team's aspirations are under- (All) Denver at St. Louis Erin Lustic '07 is part of an experienced team who has high against Heidelberg with a 1- -0 defeat of standably high, but they know they'll (A) New Orleans at Cleveland (C, N) NCAC aspirations (Photo Courtesy of OPI). Lake Erie, powered by Nate Florian '09 have to fight for each victory against N.Y. Jets at Tennessee (All) and his twelfth minute goal, and their conference opponents. Last (C N) Philadelphia at Houston (A) Jessica Sender Presidents in the goalie position, defended by Erik Larson '08, who year's defending champion Ohio (C N) Seattle at Detroit (A) Voice Staff Writer deflecting five shots on the day. Alario recorded his first shutout of the sea- Wesleyan will be facing a younger, (C, A) Chicago at Green Bay (N) was challenged by one that came dan- son. Though neither game was by any more cohesive team. (C, A) Dallas at Jacksonville (N) It was gray and drizzling at the start gerously close to the goal, requiring a stretch flawless, it's the result which "Team confidence and moral is high San Francisco at Arizona (All) the second half of of the Wooster diving save from Alario. Wooster out matters most. with captains encouraging and pushing (N, A) Indianapolis at N.Y. Giants (C) Women's soccer game on Tuesday. shot Washington and Jefferson 19-- 7. "Certainly there are always areas on every player," says goalkeeper However, the dreary weather didn't The also week- which Scots played over the we can improve, but getting that Benjamin Williams '07. Monday Sept. 1 1 keep the Scots back as they handed end, competing at the RIT victory, coupled with another good out- The North Coast Atlantic Minnesota at Washington (All) Washington and Jefferson their first Tournament in New York. They took come against Lake Erie, helps to build a Conference boasts some very talented (All) San Diego at Oakland loss of the season, beating the third place, losing to Cortland State, young team's confidence," Says Steven teams, but that includes Wooster. Presidents 3-- 0. but winning against the host team, The shutout began early, with Rochester Institute of Technology. Winnie Adrien "10 scoring off a corner Lustic and Alice Baumann '10 com- Scots kick. 2-- split Capitol The Scots had other scoring bined their efforts to defeat RIT 1 on at Invitational

all-tourna- opportunities early, with ball bounc- ment a Sunday. Nick Holt and earned herself a spot on the the challenge stating, "I haven't real- ing off the post and another hitting Bauman's first career goal came off team. On the weekend ly ever been a setter which makes my the Sports Editor crossbar within the first fifteen an assist by Lustic. The only loss of the Ciriegio averaged 2.47 kills per game job a little bit more rewarding. It is minutes. weekend came SUNY Cortland, y against The College of Wooster's volley- with a 0.230 attack percentage. like learning to walk all over again."-Case- At halftime, the score was 1- -0, but who beat the Scots 4--3. The Scots put ball team began their season Mast Ciriegio was also impressive defen- did not look like a first time the Scots took control of the second forth a valiant effort, with Lustic and weekend with four matches at the sively with 34 digs and 6 blocks. setter as she totaled 101 assists in 3 half, scoring twice. The first goal pf Adrien scoring early in the first half. Capital Invitational in Columbus; Erin Schaffner '07 was a powerful games (assists were not kept in the the second half was off an assist by Sarah Schostarez '07 responded to Ohio. The Scots started and finished presence in the middle racking up 52 DePauw contest). Ciriegio was Erin Lustic '07 and was headed in by two goals by the Red Dragons to tie it well with wins against DePauw (30-2- 8, kills for a 3.06 kills per game average. impressed: "Abbie Casey played Kelly Goss '08. second goal 2-- 22-3- 0, 19-3- 0, 30-2-4, 15-- 5) The of the up to 2 going into the second half. and The tournament gave Scots' fans extremely well in both the Friday half and the final goal the (20-3- 0, 34-3- 24-3- 30-1- of game The last goal of the game for the Scots Otterbein 2, 0, 7, their first chance to see their new set- and Saturday games; she played very came at 63 minutes in, off a shot by was made by Adrien and the Scots 15-1- 3). Unfortunately, the Scot's ter Abbie Casey '08, a transfer from solid volleyball and is a great asset to Sara Dresser '09. Lustic attained her weren't able to hold off the Dragons. did poorly in between losing to Div. I Charleston Southern our team."

50th off the assist, becom- (30-2- 2, 30-1-1, 11-3- career point The Scots play next at Case Western Capital in four 0, University. This was not pnly The back row did their part to ease ing only the eighth Scot in team histo- non-conference 30-2- 1) (30-2- 8, Reserve University, continuing and Heidelberg in three Casey's first game as a Fighting Scot, Casey's burden, by consistently put-

30-21,30-- ry to accomplish such a feat. play. The game will take 24). but it was also her first at the setter ting the ball right on top of her. Alarid 1 Staci '09 held off the place at p.m. on Sunday. Carolyn Ciriegio .'08 led the Scots position. Casey seemed to welcome Leading the back row was Ali Drushal '09 who totaled 90 digs on the weekend. Ashley Quisenberry Need help with that pesky paper? '07 also played well, registering 53 digs, including 17 and 19 in the two The Center is the wins. Casey was quick to credit her Writing place for you teammates saying, "There aren't many times when I have to move to 00 far to get a good set ...the back r W Located in the basement of Andrews row gave me some great passes." O o The Scots will play their home X EL oo n Library, tutors are always available. opener today as they host the Kilt Classic. They will be in Pool A with On O o o Bluffton University, Malone College Make an and and Roberts Wesleyan. Pool B will appointment ace that, be made up of Mt. Union, St. paper at extension 2205. Vincent, Urbana and Waynesburg. The tournament will finish up tomorrow.