Vitruvian Issue9

November - 2016 Issue 9 The Vitruvian Lourdes University’s Premier Arts & Sciences Journal November 2016 The Vitruvian Issue 9 Mission Statement As a Lourdes University student organization, we will strive towards the same excellence in written and visual communication that is the goal of the university learning outcomes. The content of the Vitruvian shall reflect the integrity, intellectual curiosity, and service to global society that is inspired by the evangelical pursuit of truth inherent within Franciscan ideology. The Vitruvian is born of the necessity for awareness and will spark interest on campus and ignite global conversation. Purpose The Vitruvian will strive to empower the individual with knowledge of both the local and global communitites and create a stronger individual and community at large. The Vitruvian will create the necessity of awareness and in turn will spark a movement of readers who begin on Lourdes Campus and take their thoughts around the world. The Vitruvian is born of the necessity for awareness and will spark an interest on campus and ignite a global conversation. 1 November 2016 The Vitruvian Issue 9 The 2016 Election and a Just Vote! Rigged System: The Faculty Advisor's Take by Katherine Melick Page 3 by Noah Roderick Page 3 A Different King of Election: A Republican Perspective by John Sco History’s Firsts Page 5 by Dominic Esposito Page 6 Burgers With the Drs by Dominic Esposito Page 6 Pokemon: A History by Kaitlin Schroeder Page 7 The Afterparty Begins: Four Underlooked Wii U Games by Syd Klem Page 8 2 November 2016 The Vitruvian Issue 9 again and again, because there is no effort Just Vote! without error and shortcoming; but who does by Katherine Melick actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devoons; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows As a registered Democrat, I strongly believe that in the end the triumph of high achievement, an Hillary Clinton should be our next president of the and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails United States. She stands as the most qualified and while daring greatly. experienced candidate to have run for this office. Hillary has spent her life and career helping to Therefore, on November 8, 2016 I will improve the lives of children around the world confidently cast my vote for the most qualified through educaon and immunizaons. Hillary has candidate to seek the office of President of the always shaered the glass ceiling for women, proving United States. I will vote for the woman who has me and me again that gender is not a qualificaon spent her life daring greatly, I will VOTE HILLARY! for success. In the words of our First Lady, Michelle Obama, “[Clinton] has more experience and exposure to the presidency than any candidate in our The 2016 Election and a lifeme. Yes, more than Barack, more than Bill. So She is absolutely ready to be Commander in chief on Rigged System: The Faculty day one. And yes, she happens to be a woman.” Advisor's Take by Noah Roderick The Vitruvian is a young publicaon, and we have not been around to cover any previous presidenal elecons. And so we're parcularly excited to have both Republican and Democrac perspecves from Lourdes students in this issue. We're grateful for our contributors, but we would Though the 2016 Presidenal elecon has been love to see more polical wring in the future. mired in negavity. I strongly believe that Hillary Clinton is the best and brightest choice for our future. As faculty advisor to The Vitruvian, it is not my The many problems facing our naon need a highly role to editorialize or to endorse a candidate. In intelligent and a calm and steady hand at the helm. this most contenous of elecons, however, I feel Hillary Clinton by far exceeds these aributes. compelled to offer one endorsement: The Secretary Clinton comes with much controversy, but Vitruvian itself. my concerns were diminished when I reread Theodore Roosevelt's speech known as “The Man in Many people in this elecon cycle—from both the Arena”: the Right and the Le—have been talking about a rigged system. And they're absolutely correct. It is not the cric who counts; not the man who points But to be clear, there is absolutely no evidence of out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer widespread voter fraud, nor is there a shadowy of deeds could have done them beer. The credit cabal of the super-rich pulling all of the strings in belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, the media and government. The truth is whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; infinitely subtler than that. While many of our who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short policies and instuons do indeed favor the most privileged members of our society, the rest of us 3 November 2016 The Vitruvian Issue 9 are also complicit in this rigging every single day. We Educaon), only about 10% of what you'll be complicit whenever we choose the the path of least learning is skills; the rest of it is ideas. Which resistance. The system is rigged to make it easy for us means that if all you have graduated with is a skill to seek refuge from the mounng pressures of set for a job, then somewhere along the way you twenty-first century adult life in our own social will have lost 90% of your university educaon. bubbles and material dreams. In the short term, this That hardly seems fair. That seems rigged. is a much less stressful way to live one's life. But the long term consequences are an increasing feeling of W h e r e a s s k i l l s a r e l e a r n e d t h r o u g h powerlessness and a growing certainty that the demonstraon and repeon, ideas must be system is indeed rigged. culvated far and wide. Skills can be passed down from one person to another, but ideas need Not everyone is lucky enough to aend college, but whole communies in which to grow. And your for those who do have that privilege, it can be a me family, your circle of friends, and your Facebook where one consciously decides whether or not they network cannot be that community. Those will spend the rest of their lives in their comfort groups tend to reinforce what you already know bubbles where their relaonship with wider world and believe—they offer the path of least exists on a need-to-know-only basis. And if you're resistance. They cannot foster the sort of lucky enough to aend Lourdes University, you intellectual curiosity and compeon of ideas should know that the faculty and staff here pour their that come with a real educaon. Your classroom hearts and souls into making sure that you are able to can be that community of ideas, but you need make that decision consciously. more than that. You need to take an acve part in creang the community of ideas. That's where something like a student news publicaon comes in. When you contribute your ideas to a publicaon like The Vitruvian, you get to decide what you want others to know, rather than being told by someone else what you need to know. We happily accept wring on all kinds of subjects, and you do not have to think of yourself as a skilled writer in order to contribute. All that But there again, the system is rigged. Your personal we ask is that, instead of resigning yourself to future is murky; your financial outlook is shaky, and your place in the rigged system, you take the college is more expensive than ever. The path of small but courageous step to dare yourself and least resistance is to think of college as a transacon your community to know. Sapere aude, Lourdes! in which you give your money and your me, and in return you receive skills and a cerficate. But if aer four or five years, all you have are skills and a cerficate, you should demand your money back from the instuon and your me back from yourself. If the authority figures in your life have convinced you that a university educaon is about acquiring skills for one parcular job, then, I am sorry to say, you have been duped. Even in the professional disciplines (e.g. Nursing, Business, 4 November 2016 The Vitruvian Issue 9 A Different Kind of Election: A Hillary Clinton is the Washington establishment's Presidenal candidate but she is marred in Republican Perspective scandal because of her private email server that by John Scott had state department informaon on it and leaked classified emails that give Americans a The elecon of 2016 is unlike any other in history, window into the extent to which this elecon has America will either elect the first female President or been rigged in her favor. Super delegates gave the countries first non-polician to the most Hillary Clinton a massive advantage of over three powerful office in the world. However, what this hundred delegates on Bernie Sanders before the elecon could mean is a fundamental change in primaries even started. Although Bernie Sanders Americas foreign and domesc policy. What the next confirmed himself as a socialist, he ran as a President has to deal with is rising inflaon, crippling democrat and aracted enough people and won debt of more than nineteen trillion dollars, and a enough primaries to come within a stone's throw rising threat from ISIS, so whoever gets elected will of winning the nominaon only a couple of certainly have a tough job to do.

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