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“A constructive relationship includes talking very frankly about those areas where we do not agree, including humans rights.” OPINION -Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on human rights issues with China Saying goodbye to passions that led to career choices

Ryan Wronkowicz. a lot from Paul, and my experience and is reading these stories. fun. It’s been really fun.” I would not have been as suc- here would not have been the same It has been a great ride, and I cessful or intelligent in my report- without him. again thank everyone for making he views expressed are those of ing if not for people like Aaron and Next, thank you to all the teams, this such a cool experience. As one the writer and not necessarily those Ryan. hey have helped me ill in a coaches and players I have had the of my best friends from high school of he Torch. Contact Chris Klein- lot of blanks, taught me some tricks pleasure to cover. used to say, “It’s been real; it’s been hans-Schulz at [email protected]. Every May, most seniors real- of the trade and they have also put his includes not only he Torch ize that there is at least one thing up with a lot of badgering from me but also WVUR-FM and VUTV, they are doing now that they might on a regular basis. where I have worked and followed never do again. Maybe these op- Aaron and Ryan are not always the ups and downs of Crusader ath- portunities come again in the “real visible to people outside the ath- letics. world,” but it probably will not be letic department and the media, but I give my regards to all the pro- anything like how it is they are inte- grams, but I would like to especially at Valparaiso Univer- gral to any- thank Carin Avery and the volley- sity. Through good and thing I have ball team, John Marovich and the With this column, bad moments, I ever wanted women’s soccer team, former coach I end my two-and-a- to do at VU. Keith Freeman and the women’s half year stint with this have picked up a lot For arranging basketball team and Jordan Stevens newspaper. I could that will make my interviews, and the sotball team for making easily do more writing professional media answering my this past year so entertaining and in the future for an- questions and rewarding. other publication, but career easier. for simply Also, thanks to every one of my it will not be the same being good colleagues in campus media. Other as writing for he friends, I writers, on-air personalities, man- Torch. A weekly paper at a school wholeheartedly thank Aaron and agers and everyone else have all had like this has made writing here a Ryan. a big inluence on me. very special experience. I have to also thank Professor hrough good and bad mo- I have many people to thank for Paul Oren many times over because ments, I have picked up a lot that their assistance, inspiration and he is a large reason why I am here. will make my professional media support during my college career in He made me feel at home since my career easier. sports media. irst visit, and because of that, it was In closing, I have to thank you, I hope to address everyone in very easy to choose VU over the the readers, for reading my work. some shape or form, but I cannot other schools I visited. You have the choice to read this, do this without irst giving my un- Paul was also a constant source and any of the other articles I have dying gratitude to sports informa- of help for me as a teacher and a fel- written, and it gives me great satis- tion directors Aaron Leavitt and low member of the media. I learned faction knowing that someone has MCT

Like...seriously....anyone at all.... anybody? come on! -May 2 Remembered dates held for relection

I know this week is stressful, but alone, walking the white sands circle. that doesn’t mean half the campus beneath brilliant, night-blue stars. So much of my existence needs to take up smoking. C’mon, hat night I knew the power of revolves around dates and guys. experience. experience and memory. Memory -May 2 Professor Crawford irst forms the reward of experience and listened to me describe that story dates their grounding in life. I can’t Good thing Kretzman has A/C Last Christmas, I wrote a on March 22. We sat in his oice, express just how much of my life for Pres. Heckler. Can’t be relective column about a meeting I having just discussed the idea of has been shaped by this place, by uncomfortable. once had with Professor Crawford. liturgy as it applies to T. S. Eliot. professors like Jason Crawford, now FLICKER -May 3 he piece, which I called “Chapel Ater I told him the beach story, he Dr. Crawford. hough my future Greens,” was published under suggested I read is still somewhat I thought lake afect stuf only the title, “Wave Goodbye, Winter Wallace Steven’s hazy, I can fare Hi! I’m Flicker, the true voice of pertained to the snow, what is this? Woes.” Perhaps I should have poem, “he Though my future is onward with -May 3 known better than to consider such Idea of Order at conidence in my BECAUSE EVERYONE HAS AN OPINION a topic “opinion,” but I nevertheless Key West.” His still somewhat hazy, past experience, in stand by the sentiments expressed suggestion was I can fare onward the arsenal of dates Valparaiso University. Something in that piece published Dec. 2, 2011, fruitful. Steven’s at my disposal, bothering you? Send me an AOL precisely one year ater the meeting poem inspired with conidence in memories to make Instant Message or Skype at it described. my writing for my past experience, sense of time still VUTorch. Hey VU! Flicker is now on Professor Crawford moved the rest of the in the arsenal of to come. Twitter. Tweet the Torch @ away last summer. He now teaches summer. dates at my disposal, I have dates. On I’ll make sure it shows up on the ValpoTorch and I’ll make English full-time in Jackson, Tenn. hat day March 23, I was Opinion pages every week. And sure they get in print! he Medieval Literature course in Uptown I memories to make the exact age of don’t worry, it’s anonymous. he once taught remains one of gave Professor sense of time still to Stephen Dedalus the most signiicant learning Crawford a in “Ulysses.” On New Welcome Center, isn’t that experiences of my tenure here at copy of a poem come. September 20, I why we have the Union? Valparaiso University. I had written began to write “he -April 30 Professor Crawford and I last about Florida, Light Bucket.” On met on June 16, 2011. We had irst drated on May 15, one month June 28, I was alone in Georgia. On Has anyone igured out whose lunch together at Uptown Cafe earlier. Time and experience March 31, we wandered through the mustache that is? I swear it’s not around 1 p.m. that day. I ordered seemed to have come full circle. We woods. On April 14, we browsed even real, this is all just crazy stuf. a turkey avocado sandwich, he ate were both appreciative. Hyde Brothers Books. On January -May 1 a California wrap. I drank black June 16, as I said, was the date of 5, we ate at Five Guys Burgers cofee, he sipped black tea. hat our lunch: Bloomsday, the very date and Fries. March 18: February 19: meeting, still vivid in memory, on which James Joyce set his end- February 2. Dated. remains a itting farewell. all novel, “Ulysses.” his fact was And on this day in 1939, James Professor Crawford and I lost neither on me nor Professor Joyce published his inal and most discussed the sea. I shared with Crawford. It was Crawford who infamous-yet-ininitely-intriguing THE TORCH him my experiences traveling encouraged me to continue reading novel, “Finnegans Wake.” So now, THE TORCH with Chorale down the East Coast that book long ater I had given up. on this newest May 4, I feel there is VALPARAISO UNIVERSITY’S STUDENT NEWSPAPER Vol. 105, Issue 28, Friday, May 4, 2012 last spring, singing in churches, hat discussion happened in his no iner time for the river to run, at sleeping in church-goers’ homes. oice around sunset on Dec. 10, last, to its end. Natalie Zibolski Editor in Chief On March 5, 2011, I saw the Gulf 2010: a snow-fallen, peaceful night. of Mexico for the irst time since And there we were in Uptown Cafe, he views expressed are those of Jake Stefan Assistant Editor infancy. hat evening, chance six months later, summertime, my the writer and not necessarily those found me back on that same life indelibly altered for having of he Torch. Contact Ethan Grant Chris Likeness, News Editor Katja Krasnovsky, Assistant News Editor Angela Misso, Opinion Editor Rachel Rahn, Copy Editor stretch of beach in Naples, Fla., pushed through “Ulysses.” Full at [email protected]. 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