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EMILY SILBER the Blue Cafe. "By telling were "kind and goodhearted people, whole quote. My mother went on to get married and she said, .good.' I CONTRIBUTOR my story I give my students permis- without much respect for reason ," a say that I have a chip on my shoulder married a man who wouldn't put up sion to trust me." quality that she valued most of all. about sex and drugs." with my drinking. He didn't even Blanche Boyd is the first to admit Boyd. who is now the Roman and "My mother used to say. 'you're She began her academic journey at let me have a television. He told me that hers is an unlikely story. from Tatiana Weller Professor of English too smart for your own good' and Duke University in Durham, North to get serious, get a job and get my the depths of addiction to the solid and Writer-in-Residence at Connect- I thought, what could that possibly Carolina, where she received a C+ life together. I had never been able stability of life as a wife, mother icut College, was born in Charleston, mean? I sent her The Redneck Way of in English her first semester before to listen to anyone before. He was a and college professor. But she has South Carolina to a family of "overt Knowledge one time and she left me being more or less asked to leave. smart, stable, nice man and we loved harnessed that journey into a life.of racists" which inspired one of her a message saying that I turned out to "I was drunk all the time," Boyd each other." writing and storytelling. "My life books, The Redneck Way of Knowl- be a better writer than she thought." explains, "and a trouble maker. I has been so wild, with such painful edge. Even with their discriminatory Boyd pauses and laughs a little be- used to hypnotize people. I told the passages in it," she says as she sits undertones, Boyd admits that they fore saying, "Although that's not the Dean I was going to quit school and down across from me at a booth in CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 A Poetic Analysis of "Boyfriend" by the illustrious wordsmith justin Bieber AYLA ZURAW-FRIEDLAND SENIOR STAF WR TE _,,,,,,,..,attem!""-"to- wO

HEATHER HOLMES SENIOR STAFF WRITER UDude, it's beef!" Governor Perry is half right-pink slime "Pink slime." The name itself is enough to was beef at one point, but after the ammo- cause a stomachache. But if you eat - nium hydroxide process, the most gener- and you most likely do-then you've almost ous possible description for the substance certainly eaten pink slime, too. According is "meat substitute." Recently, several fast to ABC News, pink slime, or "lean finely food chains and supermarkets have come textured beef' (LFI'B) refers to "waste forth with a promise to ban meat products trimmings" cooked at low heat, separated that contain LFI'B. In the frenzy following by a centrifuge and "sprayed with the recent media coverage of pink slime, gas to kill ." Are you hungry yet? some products now specify that they do Dig in, because pink slime is an additive in not contain pink slime. However, the vast roughly 70% of all American supermarket majority of containing the ground beef. waste trimmings goes unlabeled as such. has existed for thou- Ammonium hydroxide gas is considered a sands of years in the form of methods such "processing aid," according to Food Safety as and salting. Defenders of pink News-something that aids food produc- slime would argue that ammonia-treated tion, but does not merit inclusion on the list beef belongs in the same benign category. of ingredients (even when it's a component It's just the wave of'the future, after all. of one of the main ingredients, as is the case , accompanied by several other here!) governors, recently took a tour of a Inc. plant and donned a bright yel- CONTINUED ON PAGE 10 low t-shirt with an unforgettable slogan:

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SOUTHEAST ASIA THE AMERICAS PAKISTAN - A Pakistani military base in the UNITED STATES- An anonymous business- Himalayan Mountains is still recovering from a' man from Vietnam bought a one-persoo town devastating avalanche that hit earlier this week.' in Wyoming. During his first visit to the US, end. Of the 135 people reported missing, none the Vietnamese businessman went to Wyoming had been found as of late Saturday. Officials to purchase the one-person town for $900.000. assume that they are trapped beneath 70 feet of He bought the town after winning the auction snow, close to the Indian border. that was between five other people. The bid- ding started from $100,000, and ended with the businessman's proposal.

AUSTRALIA

AUSTRALIA-- The Easler Bunny has been replaced in Australia. Conservationists in the land down under have been trying to get the country to adopt the Easter Bilby rather than the classic Easter mascot. A bilby is a rare marsupial native to Australia, whereas are considered pests aod unwanted. The larg- est Australian chocolate , Darrell Lea, has already adopted the Easter Bilby and is urging others to do the same.

AFRICA EUROP'E LIBYA's former dictator Gaddafi's son, Saif al-Islam, f SWiTZERLAND_ A village in the Swiss Al- has been charged with his failure to buy a license pines Just found at least a billion dollars worth for the that he owns. He was capturet1 by the gold nune. However, unlike any other potential International Criminal Court of Justice in November co~ntry where this might have occurred, the' 20 II and has been arrested with the charges of crimes SWISSare not overly celehratory about this. against humanity. However, right now his only legal The villagers that live in the area were offered charges remain as failure to provide his camels with a share of the fortune that remains under- license and not anything related to the crimes he com- ground, but they deny letting company's mine mitted during his fathers rule. 10 their. land . As a resu J t, th e VIllagers . reject to receive millions of dollars that would be given to them by the mining companiies,

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 in Vietnam while living in a com- the best books to read for rock and It took Boyd six months to get end best thing that ever happened mune called Mayday. "In Vermont roll. She laughs and explains, "It completely clean during which she to me, and I have to say second be- there were a lot of so-called revo- was a ridiculous piece of crap and During the seven years she was recollects that, "it was in a way cause without sobriety I would have lutionaries, all white of course, that the more I said I didn't know about married, Boyd attended Pomona harder to quit drugs than alcohol. never had a family of my own. I thought the revolution was going to music the more people thought 1 had College in larernont , California At one point I remember picking still go to AA almost every day and start in Vermont, which was ridicu- integrity." Her publicist spoiled her as • "high risk student." Ironically, up the furniture like I was the Hulk owe my life and Success as a per- lous. This was during the time of with booze and concert tickets, and he graduated with high honor and and smashing it in my apartment." son and a writer to my sobriety. I the Civil Rights Movement and the on receiving a bottle of Jack Dan- was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She On May 19, 1981, Boyd laid down never thought I would love anybody Black Panther Party, and there were iels, Boyd remembers she thought soon received a writing grant to go drugs and alcohol and hasn't had ei- or anything the way I love my chil- only like ten blacks in Vermont," she had "died and gone to heaven ." to Stanford and attended the univer- ther since, changing her life utterly. dren. All I have to do is see them to Boyd explains sarcastically. "The sity with her husband between 1967 After her fling with the rock and After just two weeks of sobriety, be happy." fact that they thought something roll scene, Boyd moved back home and 1970. Boyd came to Connecticut College Currently, Boyd teaches three cre- was going to happen in this back- where she fell in with a group of where she had her interview for a "I started doing drugs with people ative writing courses: Writing the water state was absurd, and I only drug-abusing rich kids. "I finally hit position as a one-semester teach- at the writing center. and the short Short Story, Narrative Non-Fiction stayed there for about a year and a bottom" Boyd says, and was only er. She worked part time for about version is. I discovered I was a les- and the Seminar in Fiction, and has half. , did a lot of drug and eventu- shaken out of her addiction when three years while becoming a bet- bian and my alcoholism came back successfully published four novels: ally got arrested." One of her friends, who was also an in full force," says Boyd. "In those ter and better writer. She was Soon Nerves, Mourning the Death of Mag- With only a suitcase in hand, addict, shot herself with a shotgun known nationally and publishing in years, being a radical lesbian and ie, The Revolution of Little Girls, a radical feminist were pretty syn- Boyd moved to New York where she in J 980. "I was there. I saw it hap- high profile magazines. and Terminal Velocity. In addition, bought a mattress and a fifty-dollar pen. There were pieces of her body 1'1 believed in what I was doing, onymous. I thought I was making she is working On the last book of a a choice but years later I found out refrigerator that she held together on the wall, and she was conscious. and knew I was a good teacher." It with a piece of wire. "I also had a trilogy titled Children of Nod, and I wasn't making a choice. just rec- It was horrible. It was One of those wasn't long before Boyd was pro- typewriter" Boyd adds, "and set out has many published articles and es- ognizing myself. After that, I went moments where you know your life moted to a full professor in the Eng- says under her name, including The through a lot of homophobia with to be a writer. During those years has changed but you don't know lish department and she admits, "I Redneck Way of Knowledge. myself. I thought if I could write a my drinking and drugging kind of how, and I realized that she was was astounded. [ tell my students "My goal is to go to bed at night novel, everything would be beauti- leveled out. It was like being on an more honest than me. We weren't that if I'm a person in a position of feeling like I'm part of what's good ful and sad. So I wrote a n vel and escalator that only went down. So cool; we were dying and I didn't authority, then anything can hap- in the world. When I got clean I it wasn't: it didn't change anything. I thought the solution was to write know who I was or what I was do- pen." Went in a flash from being danger- So I left my husband and joined the another novel. I did but it wasn't ing. I think sanity is a really fragile In the late '90s, Boyd met a wom- ous to colorful, from being part of revolution," any different. Then I accidentally thing, and that drugs and alcohol an that she "didn't screw things up the problem to being part of the so- The revolution brought Boyd to became a rock and roll critic, which become easily abused." The woman with" and they've been together for was hysterical," lution. I feel like God's final joke Vermont where she spent the next who shot herself survived and has fourteen years with two twelve-year is that I've turned out to be such a stage of her life protesting the war During this time, the second piece been in a nursing home since she old twins. happy functional person." • Boyd wrote ended up on a list of was the age of forty. "My wife and children are the sec-

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A To-Do List 1. Redefine Progress 2. Rethink Collaboration 3. Re-Energize our Community

CATHERINE MONAHON respective. fi ieId s to rae kl e an d re d e- t hi15 TED X POSSI ible. S' panning across delusion or fantasy). The inclusive, democratic process CONTRIBUTOR fine the concept of progress. majors. college campuses, state lines [0 TEDx, progress will be exam- is furthered by the way the team Three of the speakers are Con- and even continents, Conn's TEDx ined through over a dozen lenses chose speakers: the initial TEDx "TED," which stands for Technol- necticut College professor: social. team has spent the past year network- _ the more angles, the clearer the group compiled a speaker recom- ogy, Entertainment and Design, is ogy professor Afshan Jafar, who will ing in diverse avenues of academia, picture. The multimedia dynamic of rnendation form for students to fill a global non-profit that celebrates speak on women's bodies, religious working with the college and collab- the talks enhances this process; for out online. Hamal explained, "It innovation, creativity and learning studies profe sor Eugene Gallagher orating with other student groups to instance, a performance piece called wasn't just the team choosing, it was through an array of talks given by who will lecture on American reli- bring TEDx to our campus. "Eco-cenrric" aims at "rethinking us, professors, students, friends of experts from all walks of life. Found- gious culture and millennialism and The idea began when Aditya they way we connect and interact friends, people in the community." ed in California in the 1980s. recent philosophy professor Lawrence Vo- Harnal 'II met a TED founder at a with the earth," The organizing group saw TEDx conference themes in lude Radical gel, who will discuss the origins of conference and discovered that or- Seniors Savltri Arvey and Kath- as a way to "stimulate a con versa- Opennes, Redi overing Wonder, modern progress. ganizations, groups and students erine Shabb emphasized the multi- tion that would turn to action," Ar- What The World Need Now. and Because progress can be viewed could put on a TED event at their media, engaging nature of TEDx, vey points out that "there's really no The Substance of Things Not Seen - from many different angles, this pro- own college under the auspices of The talk is not a speech; it is not an forum on campus that brings people fascinating titles that house hundreds cess of re-thinking deserves an in- the TEDx program. I was especially hour-long slide show or lengthy sem- together on campus from different of addictive talks which are acces- terdisciplinary approach. TEDx or- excited to learn that the theme, Re- inar. The talks are eighteen minutes, fields to sit down, listen discuss and sible online. ganizers have tracked down thirteen defining Progress, was neither the broken up into clusters to encnurage be inspired," While Conn has inter- Originally based on the West prestigious and unique speakers for brainchild of TED nor the plan of a discussion and interaction with the disciplinary majors and centers, Coast, TEO ha expanded to the in- an event teeming with intellectual specific individual: when Hamal re- speakers and performers. All partici-" there isn't a place where all majors temational stage, hosting conferenc- possibility. turned to Conn for the 20Ll-12 year, pants are given a badge that reads, are invited to convene, even for a es across the world, Intellectuals of To risk overwhelming you with h. pitched TEDx to his peers. Inter- "Talk to me about _," The blank day, to inspire activism, create con- all trades. ages and nationalities are nections, and invited to re- strengthen the

~ai: kt~~:~iil~; X = independently organized TED event ~:n~a:~~~~~!: to the over- vironment. arching theme of the conference - excitement, I will simpl,y say: a phi- est grew and after a bout of brain- can be filled by an interest, a person, The organizers also spoke of new performing, speaking, philosophiz- losopher. a filmmaker, a cancer re- storming a group of students, many a historical event, or a specific field. connections with professors, new ing and engaging the audiences for search scientist, an anthropologist, involved with CISLA, chose to focus These badges inspire discussion, and skills they learned from their peers, eighteen minutes in an interactive, a sustainable food entrepreneur, a on progress and modernity. spark much more conversation than and a new TEDx community as the multimedia conference. sustainable architect, a sociologist, a Hamel explained how "Visiting the standard "Hello My Name Is most positive aspects of their expe- TEDx includes all the above char- religious studies expert, an extreme Professor [and CISLA fellow] Nau- Yolanda." rience of putting the conference to- acteristics, but with a twist: inde- sports photographer, a non-verbal man Naqvi in particular inspired us "It's creative, it's witty, it's vi- gether. pendently licensed. TEDx are events performance artist, a venture-cap- to question the idea of progress." sual, it's engaging," Shabb explains. "People have volunteered their developed, planned and hosted by an italist, a historian and a bioethicist Naqvi emphasized in their class how "Those badges create connection." time and their skills," Hamal said, independent group with permission will all be on the same stage, progress implicitly drives individu- In addition to the intellectual con- grinning as Shabb added, "Web-de- from TED headquarters, That being said, clearly all mem- als; progress is our ever-constant nections at the actual event, TED x signers, film students, art students In the case of Connecticut Col- bers of the campus community, re- (and ever-unreachable) goal, yet we has created a team and community of - this has been a collaborative pro- lege's TEDx event, the independent gardless of major, minor or favorite have taken the definition and the per- its own. cess!" They mentioned one expe- group responsible for the event is the color, can benefit from engaging spectives on progress for granted." When I asked about the evolution rience in particular, the communal college's students themselves. with this exciting event. The students decided that the topic ofTEDx at Conn, Hamal, Arvey and effort in building the giant TED x This student-run collaborative I had the opportunity to sit down was "relevant enough to question Shabb emphasized how many people letters which have emblazoned the project, in development since the fall with a handful of the TEDx organiz- progress through a variety of fields" came together to make this Satur- courtyard by Cummings as well as efved last year, will culmi- ers - I say handful because they re- and "bread enough to allow speaK- aay s event possible. People eager the arfabee green, deSIgned by nate on April 14 in Evans Hall for peatedly emphasized that there were ers to play around with it." Sustain- to attend, help and participate in- sculpture student Rose Wall '12, an all-cay event, lunch, snacks and many more college students, profes- ability, another focus of TEDx. is clude students from neighboring col- "We built those letters together!" brain-food included, Thirteen di- sors, New Londoners, out-of-town- undeniably intertwined with prog- leges, New Londoners, high school Arvey proudly said, her peers nod- ver e speakers will draw from their ers and friends of friends who made ress (though some still declare it is a students and professors. ding alongside her, • Weaving the Safety Net Potential budget cuts threaten on-campus sexual violence awareness programs

AMBER VILLANUEVA arching program which includes Green Dot and different members of the campus community, all expenses. Anyone in the community can put STAFF WRITER Safety Net) along with informal conversations ranging from deans to campus safety officers, in a request, but it is harder to fund a recurring with Folsom helped them address those prob- to technioal trainings every six months. She has request like fixing Darcie's position. However, April is Sexual Assult Awarenes Month-a lems in their life. Her goal is to increase educa- been on the committee to change Conn's policy those requests are also most important because fact which many students at Connecticut Col- tion, reduce stigma and to create an atmosphere for dealing with issues of domestic violence, they affect the college in a permanent way." lege know thanks primarily to Darcie Folsom's of students openly talking about these issues. sexual assault and stalking. This past year she "Darcie's position is one of the many re- work a the Coordinator of Sexual Violence According to Folsom, the Green Dot pro- was part of a stalking policy review committee quests we've seen go through the ACL pro- Education and Advocacy on campus. gram began a year and a half ago and although and participated in creating a specific stalking cess," Stock says. "From what I've heard, there Before this position had existed at Conn, there were only nine students in the first train- pnlicy - since stalking had previously fallen is a broad consensus on people's views that the most of the work urrounding sexual violence ing, now there are almost 200 students who under a broader sexual harassment policy. position is important to the college." education and advocacy was left to Director have undergone the six-hour program. The technical trainings required for the grant Stock emphasized that all deliberations of of Student Wellnes CC Curtiss, who educates The first Green Dot participants at Conn have helped revise the schools policies and the committee remain confidential. students on drug and alcohol consumption. were members of SGA, floor governors and procedures, and even demonstrated how ahead Students who have worked with Folsom rec- Curtiss had limited time and re ources but was members of Safety Net, bUI now it includes progressive Conn's policies are as compared to ognize her work as an indispensable addition to still able to host Take Back the Night and work people from different clubs, sports and orga- those at other schools. the Conn community. with students for their needs concerning issues nizations on campus. The number of people in However, the position of Coordinator of Alia Roth '14 feels that "throughout my year of sexual violence. attendance at the sessions continues to grow as Sexual Violence Education and Advocacy is as an intern [working with Folsom], people However, nearly three years ago the college students become interested in learning how to not fixed-it is supported by a three-year grant have become much more aware and support- received an almost $300,000 grant from the be proactive in preventing domestic violence, that will end in October. The college has reap- ive of our work. The events have become more U,S, Department of Justice's Office on Vio- sexual a sault and stalking. plied for the grant and will find out in the fall if popular and these issues are finally being talk- lence Against Women that enabled the school Folsom expressed the hope that when new they will receive it again. Because the grant is ed about in a constructive way that really im- to temporarily fund the position of coordinator students get involved with Safety Net, more not permanent, many people have advocated to pacts our campus. Darcie has brought aware- for sexual violence education and advocacy. entertaining and creative approaches to the is- the Priorities, Planning and Budget Committee ness, education and support to Our community The result ha been a change in the discourse sues will emerge. As an example, Folsom men- for the coordinator position to be made perma- regarding these issues in ways that no one else at Connecticut College about sexual education tioned the discussion by Shannon Keating '13 nent, a proposal currently being discussed by c~n, She is a friendly face to all, never passing and awareness of is ues like sexual violence, on domestic violence and stalking in Twilight the Committee. a Judgment on anyone which allows students to Thanks to the grant, Folsom has been able which timed perfectly with the movie release, The Priorities, Planning and Budget Com- feel comfortable working with her, and confid- to instate the highly successful and growing making it a very well-attended and informative mittee (PPBC) advises the President of the ing in her ... Darcie is an activist, an educator Green Dot program, SafetyNet and the Think event. college on how to spend the Above Current and a friend to all; she has easily become one S,A,F,E, program. These programs promote Because of Folsom's support "students feel' Level (money left over after paying the college of the most influential people in my time at proactive prevention, education and raising inspired to create their own thing. I value their expenses), and is composed of three faculty Connecticut College thus far," awareness in the Conn community, input and let them run with their ideas." Hav- members, three students, two staff members Keating expressed that her "experience at Folsom believes that making these diffieult ing an open environment allows for creativity, and representatives of the Senior administra- Connecticut College would not have been the subjects more approachable. helping students and along with the suggestions from someone tors. same WIthout Darcie, Even though she deals feel comfortable about them and raising aware- with experience they are able to host a success- Professor Catherine Stock, the faculty ad- With one of the toughest and most horrible ness encourages tudents to be more likely ful and educational event. viser to the men's hockey team and the chair of subjects, she brightens campus every day with to disclose their experiences and file reports, Moreover, students are reaching out to Fol- the Priorities, Planning and Budget Cpmmittee her wonderful attitude and spirit. I look at the Furthermore, the programs empower students sorn in order to raise awareness themselves. explained the process. world differently because of her know led through the Green Dot work hop and by allow- According to Folsom, "A lot of people thought ' d. ge, "First, Paul Maroni, the Vice President of paSSIOnan kindness. Her work in challenging ing them to create their wn programming as a I was the one to approach the hockey team for Finance, evaluates the budget expenses tells sexual assault on this campus head 0 . . Think S.A.F.E. intern. causing more students to the Green Dot , but the captain came to us how much surplus there will be in the cur- diispensable." , n, IS 10- become proactive in preventing vi lence. talk to me-they were the ones to take initia- rent year left over to allocate to anything that Many other students, as well as faculty and Folsom explains that many students have ad- tive. They were able to gather a lot of aware- is brought to the committee. They are the advi- staff, who understand how the Think SAFE. mitted to her that lhey did not realize they were ness from groups who might not have previ- sory to the president of the college on how to Program and Folsom's personal work have af- in an unhealthy relationship until some form of ously been informed," . allocate funds from the Current Above Current fected the college hope that the PPBC fi Think SAF Project programming (the over- can ind As part of the grant, Folsom has gone with Level (ACL), The ACL is the money left after a way to make her position permanent. • -----

6------·· APRIL9, 2012 Editors: 8hon Harfenist&Jerell Mays O InlOnS opinlons@thecol!egevoice.org THE COLLEGE VOICE Where's the Beef? Is pink slime safe?

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 nated with E. coli, , and/ This is horrifying. This stuff meat or vegetarian diet have been eat a mostly vegetarian diet punctu- or other bacteria from exposure to sounds like a seventh-grade science slammed for .sounding bourgeois and ated by small amounts of grass-fed Proponents of pink slime argue that feces. This contamination is espe- project gone wrong, and it's being naive, since apparently not everyone meat products, For those who still the filler is not only safe to consume, cially dangerous in a factory farming upheld as "nutritious," "lean," and can afford such a diet. However, as find this classist, I would urge you but also an economic necessity: less environment, where cows quite lit- even "resourceful." I'll also clarify the price of meat steadily climbs and to think of meat and clothing in expensive meat is more accessible to erally stand around in shit. Up until that though you may be ingesting health care becomes unavailable for the same way. Buy higher-quality, the general public, and if companies now, this meat has usually been ren- pink slime, it's not really your fault many Americans, eating cheap meat slightly more expensive products in- like Beef Products Inc. did frequently instead of low- not use cow scraps in their quality, cheap products on products, tons and tons of a regular basis. In the end, meat product would go to the investment will prob- waste. However" the real- ably save you money; in ity is so simple that the the case of meat, it will argument feels tired: this almost certainly be health- cheap "beef' is a short- ier. term solution that cause Those who argue on be- long-term problems. Pink half of pink slime-which slime is symptomatic of they would prefer to call the bigger issue that is LFTB - harken back to a American factory farming time when it was noble to and the way it depletes the consume or otherwise use earth of biodiversity and every part of the· animal natural resources, and is after it had been killed. I a breeding ground for dis- do not advocate wasteful- ease and pollution. ness, but the only reason Pink slime i outlawed some consumers don't in Canada and the UK, but take issue with consum- it seems that Americans ing pink slime is because either don't know about it many Americans are ac- or are willing to ingest it customed to eating beef at because it's much cheaper least once or twice a day. than organic, grass-fed This kind of consumption beef, even when such a is not sustainable, but if choice can lead to major Americans want cheap health repercussions. Ac- meat, they will be deluded cording to The Gotharnist , into thinking that the pro- ammonium hydroxide duction and consumption isn't the only chemi- of meat scraps is part of cal in most supermarket the American' tradition of -chlorine dioxide, resourcefulness. calcium hypochlorite and hypobro- dered for use in dog food-it's not at all. This is another prime example products no longer seems worth h- We need to reduce the amount of mous acid are also additives found designed for human consumption. of our nation's obsession with the it's a danger the price tag on we eat. isn't in these products. After the ammonia treatment, Beef cheapest possible product, whether beef doesn't take into account. At even necessary if we can manage to There are also quite a few sani- Products Inc. was so sure of the ef- it's technology, clothing or the sub- the end of the day, certain vegetar- eat beef only once or twice a week. tation problems associated with fectiveness of the process that it ne- stances we put in our bodies. ian staples like rice and beans will Until then, we will continue to de- processing the pink slime. First of glected to test for contamination. Yet So, is an anti-slime stance always be among the cheapest and plete natural resources in the name all, the pink slime process uses the much of the pink slime produced was radical? I'd say no. Still, on online most nourishing products in the of one-dollar hamburgers. Is it worth parts of ttle cow t\lat are closest ,to found to contain E. coli and salmo- forums, some commenters who have aisles. it? •, the hide, which are often contami- nella even after the chemical bath! advocated 011. behalf of a reduced- Realistically, my suggestion is this: The Entitlement Generation

MELANIE THIBEAULT ARTS EDITOR for any amount of time without complaining become spoiled. days: to do things effortlessly, to be good at or getting visibly annoyed at the hardworking It doesn't help that our generation has been anything they set their minds to, to have any- This past weekend, I was asked by my Relay employees. taught that we can do anything. While it's a thing they want at the snap of a finger and to for Life team leader to volunteer with a group We've been dubbed the Millennials, the wonderful sentiment echoed by our parents, never have to be in an annoying or uncomfort- at a fundraiser to try and raise more money able situation for longer than five minutes. before the walk this Friday. The concept: play Back in January, Daniel Radcliffe hosted an Rebecca Black's atrocious song "Friday" non- episode of SNL and starred in a sketch entitled stop for two hours Or until we raised $100. It "You Can Do Anything," which poked fun at sounded relatively ea y. I thought if enough our generation's inflated sense of self-worth. people were annoyed (like I wa ) they would As 's character called it: "The willingly throw dollars our way. I wanted it to only show that celebrates the incredibly high rain money, but as with every dream 1 have, self-esteem of the YouTube Generation." On roadblocks presented themselves. the show, Taran Killam's character threw ten While a good number of people filtering in bowling pins into the air to try and "juggle" and out of Cro that evening stopped to donate when he had never before juggled in his life, money or laugh and sing along with the song, and exclaimed, "I juggled" when they all came there were a few people who expressed, what crashing down around him. Bin Hader's char- I would term, disrespect for our event. Now, I acter, co-host of the show, told Killam that he understand that playing any song on repeat is could now say he was a juggler, to which Kil- infuriating to listen to, and that hearing "Fri- lam replied, "Because I have no shame or self- day" for two hours without stop is probably awareness." Touche, SNL. the equivalent of getting a root canal (without This sketch sought to point out the disillu- Novocain). But I don't think this event, which sioned attitude that many of Our generation was approved by the necessary heads of event possess. We pick up a guitar, playa few chords planning, warranted the negativity that it did, and suddenly we can add singer-songwriter to I don't think it was necessary to yell at us to our resumes, We pick up some bowling pins, "turn the music off" without first bothering to throw them in the air and we're a juggler. ee what our cause wa . I don't think it was Maybe this idea stems from the practice of respectful or productive to unplug our speak- iGeneration, the YouTube Generation and so teachers and coaches, it's instilled an exagger- wntmg everything we ever did in our lives on ers in the middle of our fundraiser because the on, because of our technology-driven life- ated sense of self-worth and confidence that our resumes for college applications, "I played mu ic was disrupting the "quiet" Thursday styles, We've grown up with computers and may actually be hindering our progress rather the recorder once in fourth grade" does not evening at Oasis. cell phones, things that our parents and grand- than helping us. A lot of pressure has been put translate to "I'm a musical prodigy," just like Since it was a Thursday night, I'm willing to parents didn't have. We Facebook, tweet, G- on us to receive excellent marks in school, score attending math camp for a week doesn't make bet that some alcohol or other substances may chat, Tumble, text and all sorts of other verbs high on the SAT or ACT, get into top-notch uni- you a mathematical genius. These thoughts are have been involved in the antics. But upon that didn't exist twenty years ago. We're con- versities and be the best athlete, musician, ac- delusional, and need to stop before we poison further thought, I realized that this behavior stantly con- tivist, writer, future generations with this "do everything, may be the result of a greater problem that ex- nected to the No wonder we have large egos: we've thespian, or excel at everything" attitude. ists among members of our age group. I think world around whatever, we Maybe we need to stop pressuring kids by our general ion has developed a toxic sense of us via these been told our whole lives that we can do can possibly entitlement and an undeserving expectation devices. It's telling them that they can all be the next Pres- be. So much ident of the United States; maybe they need for instant gratification. If an annoying song impossible anything we want, while the reality is, pressure has a dose of reality every now and then to keep started playing on your iPod, you could al- to walk into been placed them gr~unded. In a society where we value way hit "next" and listen to something else. Harris and we can't. on us to suc- connections Over hard work to launch us into Back: when your parents or grandparents sat not see peo- ceed, to go careers: it's no wonder OUr generation has around and listened to the radio and Rebecca ple pl~ying forth and some kind of superiority-complex. We're told Black started playing, they would just suf- with their phones or computers. It wouldn't change the world, to be the leaders of tomor- to market ourselves, to make ourselves look fer through it and wait for the next song to surprise me if we were all diagnosed with ADD row. No wonder we have large egos: we've the best we can possibly be. Naturally we start come on-hopefully something by the Biebs. in ten years; I've discovered that my attention been told our whole lives that we can do any- to think we're hot sh t hen !: But seriously, in a world where we can watch span while reading books has decreased since thing we want, while the reality is, we can't, . as w en III reality, most ?f .us are Just average people, trying to make TV on Our computers, send ernails from our the creation of and the 140 character America's in an economic recession and it's phones and turn on our car's heater with an It to the world. And that's riot really so bad limit. We're addicted to technology, whether not that easy to find jobs right now. It's not IS It? • ' app, wc can't handle waiting more than five we'd like to admit it or not, and because of the impossible, but it's not going to be effortless, minutes for our food at Oasis or stand in line instant gratification it provides us with, we've which is what a lot of people expect nowa- THE G:)LlEGE von 7 A Jew's Lament on the Commercialization of Passover SPENCER FRANCUS the Old Testament tells us, the Hebrews did not STAFF WRITER for-Passover options to alleviate the burden of is a holiday to remember our past, where we have enough time to wait for their bread to rise cutting out leavened carbohydrates from their Came from and our family traditions. On the when leaving Egypt. So because the Hebrews Sometime~ when I think about Passover I get diets. Rather than use regular leavening agents other hand, if your family's Passover celebra- did not wait for their bread to rise, Jews today frustrated. LIke many holidays observed by the like baking soda, baking powder or yeast, ko- tions have unraveled into feasting on deca- world's popular religions, Passover has become keep the tradition of not eating bread and other, sher- for-Passover foods rise from the proteins dent kosher-far-Passover cupcakes with cream prone to the powers of widespread commer- leavened foods to pay spiritual tribute to our in egg whites, carbonation from seltzers, and cheese frosting and chocolate chips, what are enslaved forefathers. cialization. What was meant to be a week-long other alternative leavening ingredients to pro- you to do? Do you reject your family's tradition remembrance of the Hebrews' exodus from However, what frustrates me about this tradi- vide the cakey, fluffy consistency that matzoh of eating elaborate alternatively-leavened food slavery in ancient Egypt has transformed into tion is the wide availability of kosher-for Pass- leaves us craving. options, or indulge in something your enslaved a competition whose focus lies on finding the over breads, cookies, cakes and other treats that, But it seems this craving is what we are sac- ancestors certainly would not have waited to let for all intents and purposes, are plain leavened best kosher-for-Passover treats. As you can al- rificing by cutting out all leavened breads from bake when quickly running from their Egyptian re~dy guess, ~y qualms with Passover begin foods. It seems the secret to keeping Passover our diets during the observance of Passover. overlords? with the evasion we call "keeping kosher-for- isn't about substituting your bread for matzoh, When we say that all we're sacrificing for our J don't have the exact answer, and I wouldn't Passover," and the frenzy of media and com- but about keeping up your normal eating habits enslaved ancestors is the satisfaction of leav- trust anyone who says he does. But what I hope mercial outlets appealing to, and profiting off by finding evasive ways of substituting stan- ened carbohydrates it certainly doesn't seem to communicate is that oftentimes we forget of, this ritual tradition. Historically, keeping dard leavened products with the commercial- like much. This week-long sacrifice we Jews why we do what we do. In arenas as influential kosher-far-Passover meant not eating breads ized kosher-for-Passover version. Companies make, in fact, is the least we could do to pay and dogmatic as religion, the meaning of tradi- like Manischewitz undoubtedly widen their and other foods that have been leavened, or respect to Our shackled forefathers. So why do tion becomes lost in arbitrary rhetoric the mo- belts around the Passover season, simply be- had time to rise in the oven. As the story from we find ways to evade our responsibility rather ment we start to blindly follow laws and orders cause of how many Jews look to their kosher- than embrace it? On the one hand, Passover without asking the pivotal question of why .• The.End of Times (As We Know It)

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ETHAN HARFENIST Why would they? Why constantly fold the new: maintaining a printed product continue to enjoy their Times experi- considered a right rather than an en- OPINIONS EDITOR pages and hide your entire midsection while attempting to bolster its online ence without interruption. At the same titlement. According to Times colum- and head when you can read articles presence and generate enough revenue time, the change provides us with an nist Brian Stelter, we are living in an on a sleek tablet and watch videos to The Times has decided to further to survive in a world where informa- opportunity to convince another seg- . age that will be viewed as an anomaly refine its online subscription proto- accompany your news? The answer is, tion is considered a god-given right ment of our audience that what The in the future- "remember that time col: instead of twenty free articles per put s[mply, you wouldli't.Tf you own rather th1an a privilege to be paid for. Times has to offer is worth paying for. when all news on the Internet was month, we (the internet-surfing, infor- an iPad and still read the print edition The Times is presently in a unique po- It appears as if the Times is attempt- free?" If reliable and time-honored pa- mation-hording public) are now only of or any other sition: it is constantly trying to prove ing to do what NPR has been doing of pers such as the New York Times are entitled to ten. To this I say: whatev- newspaper, Ihave to assume a) you're to its readers that it 'is worth paying late: providing free access to what it going to survive the test of digitaliza- er. I know how to break the paywall doing it ironically, b) you are in love for; that the quality of journalism it considers the general public (i.e. those tion (and so far, they are doing better and I can always access articles from with the nostalgia and the concept of provides is of the highest caliber and who visit the website infrequently and than most every other newspaper), third party websites such as Twitter reading the morning paper or c) your that those other free websites are sim- most likely wouldn't surpass ten ar- seasoned patrons are going to need to and Facebook and not have it affect fingers don't generate enough heat to ply off-shoots of it and second-rate. ticles per month) while convincing the keep it afloat. operate a touch screen. my monthly count. But what does this The New York Times, despite putting diehard readers to donate to the cause Perhaps sometime in the near future, mean for other people who are mildly Print journalism is dying, though up its easily maneuverable paywall, in order to keep the paper up and run- when I have my own money to spend ethical? Or for people who read eleven it's experiencing a slow and painful still attracts thirty million visitors to ning. So is this ten-article limit really and don't feel a rush from cyber- articles per month? The Times' pay- death, akin to the victim who shudder-s its website per month. One receives necessary? stealing and crushing paywalls, I will wall experiment has officially entered on the noose after the floor drops out full access to the website if he or she I believe the shift toward less free gladly give my money to the New York its second phase as of April I, and no, from under him or her for upwards of is subscribed to the print edition or content is more symbolic than any- Times. To me, the paper represents an they aren't messing with you. five minutes. Soon, all of our "news- pays a reasonable monthly fee. Why thing else. Nobody who reads the American institution that has helped We have been hearing about the papers" will be on digital screens, the the change from twenty to ten articles, Times in any form is going to be truly open up our society. By publishing demise of print journalism for quite glowing hue of our computers and tab- though? According to the Times' web- up in arms about this reduction of free things such as the Pentagon Papers in some time now. With the advent of lets destroying our retinas as we read site: monthly articles. Rather, this lessen- 1971 or even the Wikileaks diplomatic the iPhone and the iPad (with hon- about President Santorum bombing We think 10 articles a month, plus ing serves as a call to those who use cables in 2010, the Times remains on orable mention to Galaxies and An- Iran. For now, we have to deal with free access to our home page, strikes the website frequently and aren't con- the cutting-edge of news in America. droids), it seems that nobody wants the duality of our favorite periodicals a better balance between visiting and tributing (like myself). Never before Until then, though, I will soak in all of to read a bulky newspaper anymore. trying to balance the traditional with subscribing. Most of our readers will in human history has information been the free content Ican .• No Fun Raised

JERELLMAYS into this, but I'm not interested." Be- misguided beliefs, and in the long run the song makes people want to leap giving you money. This certainly OPINIONS EDITOR cause our communication-saturated that does more harm than good. off of things, and this was key to the wasn't coercion in the traditional culture grows more capable of ac- I'm not accusing anybody here of strategy of the people at the booth. sense; there was no threat of physi- I should start this by saying that I cessing massive audiences each day, doing anything half as traumatic as Several signs had been set up pro- cal violence and we weren't yelled at sympathize with the people who set Ibelieve that some general confusion what PETA sometimes dreams up, claiming things like, "Black Friday!" or treated (particularly) rudely, but up tables in Cro and Harris in order to has formed in regards to how being a and the obvious solution for most as well as another, which stated that the point i that my friends and I had promote events, sell things, run fund- part of a cause authorizes one to be- people is simply to avoid tables or the song "Friday" would be played to leave Cro once the music became raisers, etc. We've all probably been have. Yes, you are allowed to adver- booths that don't appeal to them. De- repeatedly until a donation goal of too much. We hould never have had in charge of a table at some point in tise your cause and fight for it all you spite this mentality, I still somehow $100 was met. When I arrived, they to do that, and nobody else should our lives, and I'm well acquainted want; I'm all for that. However, gath- managed to clash with the Relay for had about $40. They didn't look hap- have had to put up with it either. I un- with the tense air that an "unsuccess- ering donations does not give you the Life table at Cro last Thursday. py, which was totally understandable, derstand that the people running the ful" bonth can emanate. After all, it right to: Now, I'm a reasonable guy, which since they had all listened to "Friday" booth bad the be t intentions-I'm is somewhat awkward to see dozens A. Send everybody who doesn't means [ obviously had no intention of no less than sixty times without a sure they thought playing the song of people in Cro shuffling around a empty his or her pockets off on a guilt antagonizing a group of people who break. would be hilarious-and conceptu- cookie sale without anybody actually trip. are fighting cancer. I don't like can- I remember standing in front of the ally, it is a rather funny, clever idea buying anything, especially when B. Use coercive and/or disruptive cer; nothing about fighting it irritates booth and feeling baffled. If the goal to get people to give money. But the the vendors are probably people you methods in a public space (or any me. What WAS irksome was the fact was to retrieve donations quickly and reality is genuinely upsetting. know. I'm totally guilty of this my- space at all, for that matter) in order that an iPod dock was obnoxiously efficiently, why would they try to I'm trying my best not to sound like self; I can't even recall how many to garner more money. blasting Rebecca Black's "Friday" achieve this end by annoying as many the quintessential over-privileged times I've briskly approached a booth What did he say about causes?! at a relatively high volume. I use the people at once as possible, inevitably Conn kid who would rather people only to realize I either have no money He doesn't support causes? Causes word "relatively" because it wasn't driving them away from the booth died of cancer than put up with Re- or interest in the product or promo- get things done! Calm down, invis- so loud that people couldn't hear (un- and Cro altogether? becca Black a few more times, so I tion. Then I have to look into the an- ible dissenter. This article isn't about less you were standing in front of the I considered the music to be a dis- don't want people misinterpreting ticipating eyes of whoever's sitting the effectiveness or ineffectiveness table, of course), but it was certainly traction and, being with a couple of what I mean. Here's what I mean: there and conjure up some ridiculous of your cause; it's about the loss of loud enough that everybody in the friends who felt the same way, we ap- this isn't a huge school. We have to excuse like "Oh I left my wallet in my certain social courtesies in the face of area had to put up with it. proached the booth and asked them share the space we have. Disrupting room otherwise I would," or, "The fervent activism. For example, I don't First of all, I'm sick of "Friday" -it if they could possibly turn the music the lives of others, regardless of the event' is Saturday at 6 PM? I've got care how much you desire to love and went viral, it was funny, it got annoy- down. An onlooker told us, flatly, cause, is wrong. Refusing to cooper- something scheduled then, sorry!" protect animals-if you throw a buck- ing and then we all moved on. Now, "no," and suggested that if we didn't ate with others who try to negotiate Why the heck are we so afraid to et of cow's blood on somebody, they here I was in Cro and the song was like the music then we could either a compromise during squabbles over just say no? Why is it so rude to say, aren't going to change their minds everywhere, bouncing off the walls donate, or leave. public space is wrong. It doe noth- "No, I don't wish to donate money and agree with you. Instead, they're and digging its way back into my ear- No. I don't think so. I don't care ing other than arbitrarily ostracize at this time, regardless of how awe- going to associate your cause with drums, settling inside the comfort- if gelling to $100 means the cure people based on their per onal deci- Some the cause is," or "Yes, I know being annoyed and/or humiliated and able groove that it had once occupied will materialize out of thin air-you sions and beliefs, and it i n't fair to .you guys are putting a lot of work retreat deeper into their own possibly roughly a year ago. It's no secret that aren't allowed to coerce people into anybody who attends this school. •

------~------~------8 APRIL9, 2012 Editor: Melanie Thibeault Arts Entertainment arlS@lhecollegevoice,org THE COLLEGE VOICE

A Poetic Analysis of "Boyfriend," by the Illustrious Wordsmith Justin Bieber

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 bolical plan. However. the next lines If I was YOllr boyfriend I'd never be my girlfriend the insight to know that they emit a that include the words "Swag swag let yOIl go ... " YOIl could be my girlfriend until certain glow. The last few lines give swag. on you" cause much confu- the upper world ends the distinct feeling of losing control si n. The dictionary definition of As of now our disturbed youth Make yOIl dance do a spin and a However, by closer anatysis. we with his "voice gain' crazy on this the term "swag" is as follows: "a is threatening this young lady, in twirl and sec the beginning of a chronicle hook like a whirlwind." As he does suspended wreath. garland. drapery the middle of the forest. to be with Voice goin' cra::.)' on this hook like written by a very disturbed youth. this. an echo from the beginning or the like. fastened up at or near him forever, never out of his sight. a whirlwind The use of the conditi nal "if' of the song returns with a form of each end and hang 109 down in the Throughout the song he becomes Swaggie." throughout implies thaI he will only "swag~". It is likely that he has pro- middle: fe roon." Another definition more and more controlling. One can be kind 10 her if she bend. to hi' ceeded In draping her in foliage for IS to "move heavily or unsteadily almost picture the desperation of the It's clear that our friend Mr. Bieber will - n t an auspi IOU' beginning. some unknown, disturbing Canadian from side t side," J surmise that he poor young lass! The second verse is out of his right mind because his He al 0 pr mL es to take her places ritual. intends to throw foliage upon her in becomes nearly incomprehensible: heightened sexual state has caused "you ain't never been before." Ob- This song is only one of the many the form f an attack. a certain amount of heat that is too viously this blatant affront 10 the examples of how dose reading can The chorus of this so-called song "Tell me what you like yeah tell much for his Canadian structure to rules of basic grammar and senten e f~rever change the meaning of a offer no redeeming qualities to his me what you don '1 handle. The problem of his Canadi- structure is being used as a tool to piece of art. Now the innocence of character. I could be your BlI::'::' Ligtuvear fly an-hood is evident again in the lines lower his threat level 10 hi' mate: juvenile girls dancing and declaring across the globe "Imma make you shine bright like who can be een in a serious light their undying love to the haunting "If J weI.\' vour boyfriend. never let l don " never wanna fight yeah, you're laying in the snow .... Burr." If he lack' the ability 10 form the lyrics that are the result of this dis- YOII 80 you already know There are not many who are famil- mcst basic of statements? Aln" thIS turbed young man's mental fantasy Keep YOl' 011 mv arm girl, you'd Inuna make you shine bright like iar with the sight of SOmeone lying erves as a lure to "take her place seems misplaced and horrific. This never be a/one you're laying in the snow in the snow. dying of hypothermia; he ain't never been" Mo't likely. can only be another sad example of I C:(In he a gentleman. unvthing however, Mr. Bieber's Canadian the dark silence of a forcst where Burr the pressures of fame causing mental you want background has evidently given him he may delve deeper into hi' din Girlfriend, girlfriend, yOIl could instability in a young star .• THE COLLEGE VOla 9 Wron Direction?

Can the latest British boy band One Direction reach *NSYNC status? FRANCESCA VOLPE song, "Forever Young" was leaked single, "One Thing," One Direction Despite the group's recent sue- when channels like MTV and VH I STAFF WRITER onto the Internet. After the show, signed a record deal with Colum- cesses and meeting all the boy actually played music. TRL wa in the group (now dubbed One Direc- What do you get when you add bia Records in the U.S. The band is band standards, I don't believe that its heyday and had its finger on the tion) signed a two-million pound together five pretty guys, sappy lyr- still going strong with performances . they're capable of creating the mass pulse of the pop culture industry. (about three-million dollar) contract ics and the simplest possible beats? on the Today Show and The Kids' spectacle that the boy bands of the The music industry is not depen- with Syco Records. They released You get a boy band. Just when we all Choice Awards. They are also set to '90s generated. Fueled by the over- dent on television anymore. Today, their debut single, "What Makes thought the days of *NSYNC, Back- appear on and exposure of acts such as Madonna everything is produced quickly to You Beautiful," on September II, street Boys and 98 Degrees were an episode of iCarly. and Duran Duran, the early '90s keep up with the fast-paced society over, One Direction makes their de- 2011. It displayed on the UK Singles In America there is a huge demand turned to more bitter genres such in which we live. Everyone wants but. €-harr- at number one with-ever one for this kind of music- One Direc- as grunge, gangsta rap and alterna- I.. -eeeeme rieh and famous quick- hundred thousand sales within the The English/Irish boy band was tion is in the first stages of its ca- tive. With the arrival of *NSYNC ly. Becoming a "celebrity" today is formed in the seventh season of The . first week. The band released their reer where every song compliments and Backstreet Boys, a new wave of as easy as clicking upload, Send a X Factor, a televised British music second single, "Gotta Be You," in a girl. Like all boy bands, One Di- teeny boppers was born. The bubble video to MTV of a person acting stu- competition. Members Niall Horan, November 20 II, which peaked at rection is mass-produced. They gum stylings and songs about puppy pidly and chances are that that per- Liam Payne. Louis Tomlinson. Zayn number three. The second single was perform and make appearances in love and heartbreak made thirteen- son will appear on the next season of Malik and Harry Styles all applied followed by One Direction's first coordinated outfits. Their hair is art- year-old girls and advertisers across Jersey Shore. I'm not saying that the as single contestants for the show studio album Up All Night, which fully moussed into a messy mop of the world scream in joy. members of One Direction are idi- but didn't qualify for the "Boys" debuted at number two on the UK bedhead. Their sound is like fluffy To most companies, boy bands ots, but they are a perfect example grouping. The' five were formed Albums Chart. In September 2011, 'pop music with some electronic equal dollar signs. Corporations of the phrase "overnight sensation." into a band, as suggested hy judge the band announced their UK tour, beats thrown in for an edge. They like Pepsi and Nickelodeon flocked Yes, the band members may be cute. Nicole Scherzinger, and then quali- the Up All Night Tour, which sold meet the major boy band require- towards these groups to help them Yes, their music may be catchy. fied for the "Groups" category. The out in a matter of minutes. One Di- ment of having boyish good looks sell their products, and these boy However, catchy is not synonymous band came in third place and their rection also revealed that they would with their bright eyes and straight, bands generated a lot of merchandis- with timeless .• be touring the U.S. After another white smiles. ing power. The '90s was also a time The Latest Endangered Species How the rise of online music sites has affected CD sales

MARK FERREIRA moves into the digital realm. In 20 II, software like Bit Torrent and sites ed list or the amount of YouTube hits A survey of a few Conn tudents STAFF WRITER digital music sales surpassed physi- like The Pirate Bay provide easy ac- a song gathers, people lose interest reveals the different feelings that cal media for the first time. Digital cess to illegal music downloads. In in buying complete albums and col- As I. stepped through the door, I people have toward the music indus- sales accounted for 50.3% of all mu- response, many free-streaming ser- lect singles instead. For example, saw a multitude of escalators car- try today. One Conn student said that sic purchases, leaving 49.7% to phys- vices have been created in order to LMFAO's "Party Rock Anthem" cur- rying excited and eager customers he only buys CDs made by his favor- ical media. Furthermore, digital sales provide a legal means for consumers rently has 414,350,064 views, mak- toward their destination, Above me ite band. For the rest of his music, he rose by 8.4% while physical sales fell to listen and enjoy free music. Pan- ing it the second most viewed music hung several large posters with pop uses illegal downloading sites Orbor- by 5%. While digital media surpassed dora, Spotify and Last.fm all enable video in 20 II. "Party Rock Anthem" 'culture references and events printed rows CDs from his friends. Another physical by only a margin of 0.3%, people to control what they listen to also came in second for overall digi- student said that he buys music from on them. On my visit to New York the shift in physical sales points to a tal sales in 20 II. iTunes in order to support a band he City in 2008, the Virgin Megastore in Compact disks, like vinyl significant trend. This year Billboard decided to thinks needs the money. However, if Times Square exemplified the ability Small and large CD and record records before them, are on consider the download of ten digital the band is popular, he does not buy for a music store to make an impact stores continue to face difficulties tracks as an album. This classification their music, One student usually tries on consumers and tourists. Amidst all the steady path to extinction trying to combat the shift to digital showed that for the first time since to buy most of his music in the CD the large video screens and flashing music. World Entertainment Corp., as consumption of music 2004 albums sales increased. Surpris- format because he feels that the art- lights, the red logo of the Virgin Me- the company that owns the FYE (For ingly, vinyl record sales increased as ists deserve to be paid for their work gastore seemed to have an intrinsic moves into the digital realm Your Entertainment) chain of mu- well by 36.3%. In order to promote and dedication. value on the landscape surrounding sic stores, claimed they would close for free. Unlike other Internet radio the growth of smaller artists, the mu- Luckily, the market for music is not 42nd Street. The next time I visited fifty-two stores after another holiday stations that cycle through random sic industry needs the profits gener- disappearing; it is just shifting from the store a year later, it was having a season with falling sales. Even more songs limited to similar artists or ated by well-known artists to lessen one platform to another. Just like tape going-out-of-business sale. No post- startling: over 3,000 independent re- genres, Spotify, the newest streaming the risk associated with signing a new cassettes and vinyl, the CD might ers hung from the ceiling, and the cord stores have closed in the United service, works almost like an online band. Hopefully, the increase in mu- slowly fade out without completely aisles that once were full of records States over the past decade, version of i'Iunes. This platform pro- sic sales continues throughout 2012 disappearing. A few persistent record and CDs appeared vacant. The issue of Internet piracy also vides listeners with a wide array of and helps restore some of the physi- and CD stores will linger to provide Compact disks, like vinyl records aids in the decline of music sales. Al- complete albums and artists to enjoy. cal sales of CDs. If vinyl and CD their services to those who seek a lit- before them, are on the steady path to though the U.S. courts shut down the As more emphasis is put on criteria sales can increase, maybe the record tle-known artist r album .• extinction as consumption of 'music P2P (peer to peer) service LimeWire, such as the iTunes top ten-download- store can be saved from extinction. ~UI- tjd-Uti T;Hn 207 Bank Street New London 7;11061*, ~~Utpr www.spiritgallerytattoo.com "?trij ?~ 860-443-0484 P-~~ 'i7"""'-- S ,a Q lO---==T=--hi~s--=-W~e-e::---k~in-A~t~h~le~ti~cs--

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AMANDA NADILE first pitch. The Red Sox defeated the New York Highlanders scoreboard is still manually updated through innings. Most SPORTS EDITOR (renamed the Yankees the following year) in what was prob- people might remember this for that time Manny Ramirez ca- For the past two years, Connecticut College has been busy ably tbe win tbat started the unprecedented rival tbat still ex- sually went inside of the so called Green Monster during an prepanng for and celebrating the centennial year. Since most ists today. Unfortunately, the opening day did not get much inning to use the bathroom, only to realize the inning had of Conn's students are from the New England area, there is coverage because the Titanic had sunk a few days prior. De- resumed without him. another centennial birthday that must be Another well-known area is "The Tri- applauded: Fenway Park. Home to the Bos- angle" out in center field, witb the top ton Red Sox, Fenway Park has served as the of the triangle being the deepest point home ballpark for the team since it opened in the park. The triangle is known for in 1912. producing some horrible ricochets that Whether or not you are a Red Sox fan, end up in left-field lind completely out you know that there is something special of the reach of Jacoby ElIsbury-- tbat about this well-decorated stadium. Coined is, if he hasn't laid out to make the "America's Most Beloved Ballpark," it is catch. Pesky's pole, the right field foul also one the most well-known sports venues line, Is another important venue land- in the world. Fenway is currently the oldest mark. Despite popular belief, homeruns venue being used by a sports team, and it in this area are relatively rare. The pole is also just one of two "classic" ballparks was named after one-time shortstop and in use, next to the Chicago Cubs' Wrigley coach Johnny Pesky, who still gracious- Field. ly attends all home games. As baseball has expanded and as the Red For many Red Sox fans, Fenway Sox have gained popularity, there have been Park bas grown to become a favorite many talks about moving the stadium out of place. There is something about the at- the densely-populated Kenmore area. Fans mosphere that just puts you in a good did not take this news whole-heartedly, as mood-- and as long as the Sox win, that demolishing'Fenway would be like demol- mood usually resonates. ishing some type of holy land. However, in- Even if you root for some other team, stead of replacing history, the organization Fenway Park is definitely a place to decided to simply renovate. In 2011, after watch a summer baseball game. The $285 million worth of improvements, team park has sold out a record-setting 631 President Larry Lucchino announced that consecutive garnes: even if the Sox all renovations were complete. aren't winning, there is reason to visit With forty to fifty years left in its struc- this amazing place. On March 7, 2012, ture, Fenway Park has a long future ahead. Fenway was be added to the National While it is exciting to think about what Register of Historic Places. is next, the centennial year prompts us to Despite tbe uncertainty of the success commemorate where it all began. Ground the Red Sox will find this year, there is broke in Boston's Fenway neighborhood reason to celebrate. On April 20, 2012, in September 1911, right around the time I will sit in the stands of Fenway Park, Conn was opening its doors to a league of 100 years after something amazing be- women. Created by owner John I. Taylor, gan. I am expecting Jerry Remy and the park was partially created by filling in Don Orsillo to be more nostalgic than marshlands, or "fens," an early indication ever, Sweet Caroline to be sang more of its namesake. Built on an asymmetrical loudly than ever and Red Sox Nation to block, the field was consequently designed be more proud than ever. Tune in April with asymmetrical dimensions, with the short right field di- spite the lack of press, the team survived. 20th to say "Cheers to 100 Years" to another great establish- mensions making Fenway- . well-known 'hittep's ballpark." _When you think of Fenway Park, there are many features ment. And for exeryone who lives right outside of Boston, The first game sprayed A"'.I"'2'O', " ~Willi John 'iF.- tli'arcome tolffinll'.-P'al'l- onne original construction onne the bmmtay ~nway Park is even more on !'elISon to say Kennedy's grandfather, John F. Fitzgerald, throwing out the ballpark in 1912, the original wood wall was covered in con- "Boston, You're My Home." • crete when the scoreboard was added in 1934. To date, the Conn College Sailing: A Breeze ·Ahead

JEFF BELING SPORTS EDITOR the regatta, and the point totals are only counted at the end ceives very little attention on campus. Conn's athletic pro- You see and hear about it around campus. A mention on of the regatta by an officiating body known as the race com- gram is buoyed by the continued success of the sailing pro- a tour, a t-shirt of a popular beer brand modified to include mittee. The uncertainty can lead to exciting finishes and race gram. Next time that there is a regatta bosted by Conn, plot a the words "CAMEL SAILING" emblazoned on the front. Yet strategy. Each tearn can only be represented by one boat, but course down to the boathouse to watch some of the best teams in spite of this apparent knowledge across campus that our the team crewing that boat may change throughout the course in the country do battle with Conn's best sailors .• incredibly impressive competitive women's and co-ed sailing of the regatta. Strong teams may go towards the beginning or teams exist, very little is known about the sport, how it works, at the end, depending on how many points the team needs as who does it, and what it's like, and, frankly how good our the regatta progresses. team at Connecticut College truly has been over the years and The race courses themselves are of- hopefully into the future. ten set up on a windward/leeward angle, Last week I was down by Dawley field in the pouring rain, where the boats start off upwind to a cer- and as I ran past our section of Thames-side waterfront, I no- tain point, turn" around that marker, sail ticed that there was a wide variety of vans from schools up and downwind back towards the start, turn down the East Coast. Teams like Yale, Brown, the US Naval around another point, and make that lap Academy and Roger Williams, all flocked to the regatta be- a few times, depending on the regatta and ing held right in front of the athletic center. 1 was impressed, course. As simple as this may sound to and from that point on I realized that sailing at the collegiate someone like me, a non-sailor, it is much level is no joke, especially when you have a team as good as more difficult than one might think. Wind Conn's. I also realized that although we know that we have a is not always uniform, and with a number great team; many membersof the student body have no clue, of boats all heading for the same point in myself included, how it works at all. the water, there are puff of wind that only There are two types of boats that the sailing teams use, the certain boats are able to catch. A skipper FJ and the 420, the latter being narned for the length in centi- must read the water and the wind to be able meters of the vessel. Each boat is crewed by two people: the to catch these bursts of wind early enough skipper, who steers the boat and operates the main sail, and in the race to stay ahead of the pack of the crew member, who operates the jib, the smaller sail. The boats behind them. Whole portions of the skipper sits in the back of the boat in order to steer while the race course could have no wind at all, so the foresight that the skip- crew member sits per displays throughout tbe further forward I also realized that although' we know that race is inherently important in order to oper- we have a great team; many members of the to the overall position of ate the jib. The the boat. 223 Thames Street two must work in student body have no clue, myself included, Luckily for the Connect- harmony in order how it works at all, icut College teams, there to complete the Groton, CT are plenty of able skippers race, which is and crew members to pro- very simple in nature: get to the finish line the fas,test. pel the Camel fleet to the top of the pack . .Connecticut College has two tearns: a women s team and Last week, the women's team consisting of 11 AM - 9 PM 3' co-ed team. The women's team goes to women's regattas All-American Atlantic Brugman '13, Liz across the country, and this squad consists of the top four Wilsterman '12, Bitsy Wbipple '12, and w men sailors along with two alternates for the tearn. The Kim Bolick '15, came in 4th in an inter- Tuesday-Sunday co~ed team ent~rs in co-ed regattas of varying levels of com- . . E ch weekend there are events on all levels of com- sectional at Brown University. The co-ed pennon. a tearn found its strengtb in Kevin Martland petition. '14 and Peter Miller' 13 along witb Ben www.paulspastashop.com The courses for the regattas can be circular or can be races Bainbridge' 12, Grace Medley' IS, Marina f . t to another. The first place boat scores one rom one poin - S '1' . Gluckman '12, and Katie Andril '13. . h d place boat two points and so on. ai 109 IS 860-445-5276 point, t e secon ' These teams at Connecticut College are scored much like cross-country running and golf, where the . However there are many races throughout filled with hard-working, skilled atbletes Iow score wins. , that put time and love into a sport tbat reo ______-'2 APRIL 9, 2012 Snort s 6diro~ Amanda Nadile & Jeff Bel~g ------...,;;=T!:f20LLEGE vOla sportsothecoleg .....ol