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Tuesday, February 5, 2008 Gbama, Kennedy Make Appearence at XL Center A Peek Hundreds Gather as the Democratic Inside Presidential Hopeful Addresses Key Issues SARAH HARVEY out his speech. He expressed NEWS'EDITOR his belief that all Americans have the capacity for change On Monday, Feb. 5, the eve and hard work and said, "My of Super Tuesday, Democratic faith in the American people presidential candidate Barack has been mitigated because Obama made a final appeal to they have told me that they the voters of Connecticut. By are willing for change." He 2:30 p.m., a repeatedly called for the line of sup- American people to prepare for porters had •iiii the necessary transforma- already Read the Trijjod s tions. wrapped endorsement of Obama gave thanks to the around the Barack Obama in large numbers of college stu- outside of the our Jan. 29, 2008 dents in the audience. He archives. Hartford XL claimed that the response of Center, for- the young people has proven to merly the Hartford Civic be a great help throughout his President Jones Discusses His Personal Life and the Center, and when the doors campaign, highlighting their opened at 3^45 p.m., the arena presence at the polls. He said Real Issues Affecting His Administration This Year quickly filled to above capacity that young people "want their with more than 16,000 people voices to be heard." Later in CARVER DISERENS grossly spoiled. They break all my wife will undoubtedly say, eager to hear Obama's cam- the speech, when Obama STAFF WRJTF.R the residence hall rules, they go "You can not only borrow it, you paign promises of hope and decided to list the changes over for sleepovers all the time. can have it." change. that, ideally, he would like to Carver interviews President Carver- Is anyone besides Carver-1 don't know if you Obama's campaign slogan, make for the American and Trinity College Professor in you allowed to drive the read Ed Walters' piece in the "Change We Can Believe In," the Humanities Dr. James F. Cadillac? most recent Tripod, but in it, he was a common theme through- see DEMOCRATIC on page 8 Jones, Jr. Jimmy- You mean my old says I shouldn't ask you this, car? It's a Packard, a 1954 but, how was your winter Carver Diserens- First of Packard. This is not a subject break? ' \ all, what does the "F1 stand that my wife appreciates, the old ' Jimmy I did read it; Ed is for? car situation. To move my cars a very good friend of mine. My Jimmy Jones' Fleming; whenever we move is a serious winter break was spectacular it's an old Welsh family name. problem. because we went back to Carver- You are from Carver'- I imagine you can't Nepal. Last year we took a : Atlanta, Ga., born and raised? drive all those old cars across group from Trinity and went to Jimmy- Yep. the country. the base camp of Everest. This Carver- I was wondering Jimmy- Some of them you year I wanted to go back and do what I have to do in order to can't drive at all. The Packard the Anhapurna trek. The trip gain the privilege of walking lives on Vernon Street along kind of got out of control your dogs? with the Buick Roadmaster. because we had 37 people that Jimmy'- Call anybody. Then, the first car I ever owned, wanted to go. Both of my sons Call [Assistant to the which I've had since I was 14, is went, along with a whole President] Alice, call my wife, a touring car from 1930, it lives: bunch of people from Trinity call the housekeeper, call me. in Rhode Island. Anytime you who I love a lot. Also, two stu- The dogs have never gotten want to drive one of them, all dents of mine, who were you, at over coming to college to you have to do is go and say, live, because they are "Can I borrow the Packard?" and see PRESIDENT on page 13 in "-•-!'•. In i H' l^1 iv _i • 1 ' 1 - ..p.. .-, Broad, Crescent Face Multiple Demolitions REBECCA BROWN u n d i' r - properties in question are in said Julia Mclnnis '11, a student NEWS CONTRIBUTOR ruling poor repair and have been who resides in Frohman-Robb that vacant for a certain period of Dormitory on Crescent Street. Currently bordering the "the time." Russo also indicated that The work in this area is part Trinity Campus, numbers 1731 a few of the properties will be of Trinity's "Master Plan," a and 1739 Broad St. and 42-44, replaced with parking lots. large project undertaken to 43-45, and 51-53 Crescent St. Parking has recently been at modernize and perfect the cam- are in the process of being the fore of students' minds, par- pus. In 1997, the College began ticularly with the large num- conceptualizing a plan that demolished. The deconstruction ber of members of the Class "enabled the campus to facili- and subsequent work will take a of 2009 residing off- tate and reflect its academic few weeks, and will include impus. mission in a new way." increased noise and traffic in Maximizing Trinity's urban the surrounding area. "I think a few loisy days are a fair location was important, "by Paula Russo, Vice President complementing an inward-look- for Planning, Administration, ;rade for more park- ing spaces and mak- ing orientation fashioned and Affirmative Action and ing Crescent more Associate Professor of attractive and safe," Mathematics, said it was her see MASTER PLAN' on page 9 <)i T>!N»»YOUU<,I IN HASUI-OM), CONN, SSKSSKSSSS rt M$V;$wpff^^^0

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HADYMATAR We were asked to leave tem- exclusion. I remained steadfast OPINIONS CONTRIBUTOR porarily because we had not in my refusal to be suppressed, been cleared by security, but we and was threatened with arrest, Cheating Rampant at Trinity Last Monday, eventually returned. I proceed- to which I reiterated to the man ANONYMOUS Greek organizations. Last Jan. 28, hun- ed to speak in a civilized man- that this was illegal and I would OPINIONS CONTRIBUTOR semester, in this organization, dreds of ner with some of my neighbors. not move. the individuals in charge of Trinity stu- We talked about Senator They balked. Eventually, The focus purchasing alcohol for the dents and Clinton's role as First Lady, and Senator Clinton did come out, of this article house's parties decided that it Hartford resi- how her husband's domestic pol- and, as promised, I listened to is the "what," would be a good idea to pick up dents packed icy made her a bad choice for her, and did not cause a distur- not the "who." a private liquor stash for them- the Commons America. They disagreed. I told bance. However, I learned that I At the very selves. A sound idea in princi- Gymnasium at the Learning them that, hopefully, I would be had made a few friends among end of last ple, but what wasn't sound was Corridor to watch Senator asking her a difficult question the Secret Service and police, as semester, I the fact that they used the Hillary Clinton speak about about this subject. Much to my I was constantly being watched was sitting in house's money, not their own, to why she should be president. I surprise, these pro-democracy by at least one of them. It was the library, grinding my way pay for the purchases. I do not was one of the Trinity students pious Clintonites refused to not by any means conspicuous. through a final paper in the know the exact dollar amount who wanted to go. allow me my question. So they When the crowd stood up, they Grand Reading Room. As I sat that they pocketed, but I've Now, I am not a Hillary fan, went and alerted the Secret moved so they covild keep an eye there, I could very clearly hear heard everything from $1000 to per se. Actually, I'm not going to Service, as if there was some- on me. The proverbial Big some students of a well-known $4000. I was told by a highly he^ I think she would be as bad thing wrong or illegal about Brother had arrived. campus group discussing a reputable source that it is as or worse than George W. what I said. I am currently in the process final they had the next day. around $1500. Bush. Of course, in this great About 10 minutes after of contacting the American Civil Although group study sessions So, what's the point? country of ours, I am entitled to Senator Clinton was supposed Liberties Union of Connecticut are not my preferred method, People don't seem to be fazed my opinion, as the Hillary sup- to appear on stage (she was late to ask for legal assistance in a they work for when they hear some people. porters are entitled to theirs. So, because she was waiting for me case against "Hillary Clinton for Cheating on an assign- about incidents I made a sign to bring to the to leave, the Secret Service told President" for harassment and However, what like the ones event which pointed out that me), a Secret Service member political exclusion. Is this what was unique ment is shrugged off I've mentioned. she voted for both the Iraq War approached me and ordered me our nation has come to? Big about this and considered com- Jimmy Buffet and the Patriot Act, and sup- to leave the section, and he Brother constantly breathing group's session monplace at times. resonates well, ported the North American Free would give me a seat in the back down our necks, finding our- is that they "We are the peo- Trade Agreement and the World of the auditorium. I asked him selves under surveillance for were discussing But where is the line ple our parents Trade Organization. I figured why I was being forced to leave. dissent? Can this political exclu- in great detail between cheating on a warned us that Democrats, anxious to He said that it was his decision, sion possibly be justified? For (and volume) test and cheating on about." I love bring the government back and when I asked him what cri- heaven's sake, I'm 17. I can't the manner in that quotation within its legal bounds, which I terion he used when making his even vote. which they your taxes? and have feel have been breached by our decision, he told me it was the I am writing this commen- planned to cheat always inter- current president, would sup- Hartford Police Chief's choice. I tary because I believe Trinity on their test. "He never walks preted it in a playful manner. port my right to protest Senator took the infamous Ralph Nader students should know how the arovind the back of the class- However, recent developments Clinton. This was the case out- line that it was an unlawful actions of Big Brother are con- room, you can just put your lead me to think about it in a side of the Learning Corridor, order, and a violation of my con- stantly intruding upon our basic cheat sheet on the ground at completely different light. but as soon as I got inside, it stitutional rights (pursuant to civil liberties - our First your feet," I heard one of them Trinity is a college campus and was a different story. Connecticut law, the authority Amendment right to freedom of say. some people are unwilling to My sign was confiscated by of the police department may speech, freedom of assembly, So far this semester, I have recognize the fact that they are security, which is what I had not be misused by a private freedom to petition the govern- been witness to more physical maturing and are required to always expected in my mind, party). I asked if I was a securi- ment for a redress of grievances. altercations on Vernon Street make adult decisions. but what happened after is ty threat (considering I am a Has our political and intellectu- than I ever remember seeing Cheating on an assignment something that has sent me into young Arab male, I halfway al culture been merged with before. I get it boys, it's your is shrugged off and considered a state of disillusion about the expected to hear that I was). that of the Soviet Union? first couple of weeks back, and commonplace at times. But American system of governance. However, he admitted I was not Because it seems that on you're excited to be back at late where is the line between I proceeded to sit behind a security threat, and left me Monday, the CIA and Secret night. Whether it's about a cheating on a test and cheating Senator Clinton with some with the conclusion, as I voiced Service stole a page of their girl, a spilled beer, or getting on your taxes? Getting into Trinity students, a prime spot. to him, that this was a political book from the KGB. into a party, people have been fights on Vernon Street is looking for an excuse to "throw something that, as a friend of down." mine said, "Just happens when Lastly and most egregious - 'dem frat boys get all boozed Raids Terrorize Connecticut Immigrants ly, this past week I was made up." SARAH GARDINER cials. Once the men were in Connecticut, immigrant com- aware of some shady business OPINIONS WRITER custody, they were shipped all munities have been subjected being conducted at one of our see QUESTIONABLE on page 5 over the country (some to as to mass raids which occur in The begin- far away as Texas). During this the early hours of the morning. A ning of this process, their families were not These consist of ICE officials Why the @?# %S hell is semester contacted - essentially, the storming a building (or build- it always so cold on the marks the men had disappeared. ings) where illegal migrants ower long walk? o n e - y e a r This is ille- are suspected of living and anniversary of gal for several In the aftermath of the Stop the Raids reasons. It is arresting any- (STR), an illegal for local raid, the community one without immigrant rights' group found- and federal shut down, as people papers. One warrant will ed by Charlie Fuentes '08. agents to collab- feared to leave their Over the past year, the group orate in a sting serve as a justi- has worked on a variety of operation of this houses lest they be fication for issues surrounding immigra- kind. picked up by ICE on entering a resi- Additionally, dence. Anyone tion, but the focus has been their way to school or primarily on the Immigration there was no else picked up and Customs Enforcement warrant for the work. Local businesses along the way is (ICE) raids that have terror- arrest of these faced the danger of viewed as col- men. They were lateral damage. ized communities in our own closing due to lack of backyard. picked up on the Last semester, basis of their business. ICE raided the The first case that STR race. This par- Brazilian com- chose to focus on was that of ticular aspect of the Danbury munity in Parkville, Conn, the Danbury 11, a group of 11 11 case has repeated itself in (about a mile from Trinity). In Ecuadorian day-laborers who ICE raids across the country, the aftermath of the raid, the were lured into a van by a particularly in factories where community shut down, as peo- Danbury police officer posing a large percentage of the work- ple feared to leave their houses as a contractor. Once the men force are suspected migrants. were in the van, the police offi- Within the State of cer delivered them to ICE offi- see ACTIVISTS on page 5 Copyright Peteat KoMapon 2008. gh« Trinity Cqllsgft The Trinity Tripod Jimmy Patriots Football Far from Perfection The Tripod's first thought that comes to 18-0 in a single season. They Weekly Question MICHAEL CAMPANELLA OPINIONS CONTRIBUTOR mind is the undefeated sports are, in a sense, America - arro- Answered By team that plays in the National gant, cocky, powerful, pretty, President Jones The New Football League (NFL) and that and unstoppable. England have won three Super Bowls in On the surface, everything With, the presidential Patriots. The six years. They have, so the peo- looks great. Brady was even race in full heat, the v • name itself, ple say, the best quarterback in named the world's best-dressed topic of immigration has when taken in the history of the NFL, Tom man. Is there anything else this been hotly contested, espe- the context of Brady, finishing the season with team cannot conquer on their American his- the triple crown of quarterback path to unrivaled and unforget- cially in the Republican tory, points to achievements - number one in table greatness? Much like party. The U. S. is a the first people who began the passing yards, quarterback rat- America, though, there is more -JiS nation of immigrants. fight against the British for our ing, and touchdowns (a league- to what most may see at the How do you feel about independence. They fought for record 50). They have the best surface. Taking a closer look, we the issue? Should we reform the system? If so, freedom from receiver, Randy realize that the Patriots, and how? Amnesty? Deportation of all illegal aliens? oppression, jus- Moss, who broke consequently America, may not tice in the eyes of Is there anything else the single sea- be all they are cracked up to be. tyranny, and for this team cannot con- son touchdown In the first game of the sea- a future demo- quer on their path to record. Their son against the New York Jets, This is obviously a hot-button issue for scores of cratic state head coach, Bill the Patriots were caught cheat- unrivaled and unforget- Americans. I have often wondered if those who are today where everyone Belichick, is ing. Not just cheating, but bla- most rabid about the immigration issue have wondered could be repre- table greatness? [...] touted as a tant, unabashed, and shameful about imposing the more radical "solutions" (deporting all sented equally there is more to what genius, the best spying on the other team's sig- and fairly. since Vince nals. Their opponent, important illegal aliens, for one prominent example) to another time most may see at the Lombardi, or context: say, the middle of the 19th century. One could fast Ultimately, to note, was the less than beginning with surface. Taking a clos- better. Week-to- superb Jets who just so hap- forward H.G. Wells' time machine and ponder who, among the upstart and er look, we realize that week, his game pened to have a head coach that those complaining today, would not even be American citi- zealous militia, plan is impecca- was a former Patriots assistant. zens if the more radical "solutions" had been imposed then. including the the Patriots [...] may ble, strategies Coincidence? Absolutely not. Save for the Native Americans, we are all immigrants or aforementioned not be all they are unthinkable, For anyone to make the claim descended from immigrants. In my view, to impose deporta- Patriots, cracked up to be. weaknesses that the so-called "best team" in tion on those who have come to the United States hoping for American impregnable, NFL history needed to or just a better life would be to rob the country's own future of pos- Independence evolving and began to try this method of sibilities that are probably too immense even to imagine. was won. More importantly, growing faster than any other cheating on a team with a losing team can comprehend. Add to The issue of immigrants came home to me at two distinct America won, would win in the record, and a former employee that the sheer fact that they points of my career. The first was when I was chair of a very future, and got used to winning who obviously knew their meth- at any cost. always win, and never lose, ods, for the first time is border- large and prestigious department at Washington University Presently, however, when marking the first time in NFL for the duration of the 1980s. We had graduate student history that a team has gone applications from, literally, all over the world: first-class one mentions the Patriots, the IMMORAL on page 5 intellectuals who wanted nothing more than to come to America, obtain a doctorate, obtain a Green Card, and stay. Then, when I was Dean of Faculties at Southern Methodist CNN Biased Towards Front-runners University in the early 1990s, I witnessed exactly the same Romney and Arizona Senator runners and some might phenomenon, especially in the graduate programs in the JOETARZI EDITOR-IN-CHIEF John McCain. McCain and argue that they should have sciences. I cannot recall the year right now, but it had to be Romney dominated the CNN been granted more time, but I around 1993 or 1994, and we had 10 new slots in physics; As I'm debate, leaving little screen disagree. First, on the most funded by the university. Of the 10, one went to an writing this time to either Congressman basic issue of equity, we American, and all the rest went to Russian and Asian appli- article, CNN's Ron Paul or former Governor should remember that CNN cants, mostly entering with mathematical skills that made Anderson Mike Huckabee. invited all of the candidates those of our American applicants pale in comparison. Cooper is Part of this can be attrib- and thus all of them should The post-9/11 legislation, supposedly to protect America neck-deep in uted to the candidates them- have been given equal time. from unwanted aliens, has had an effect I doubt that any of his post-show selves. Both McCain and More importantly, however, is the legislators who proposed the legislation could have fore- for the final Romney wasted massive the way in which CNN is seen'- that of discouraging incredibly talented minds from Republican debate prior to the amounts of time debating, as unfairly influencing the elec- coming to the United States to live and work. Super Tuesday elections. I Paul put it, nonsensical "tech- tions. This debate will play a feel that it's always a good nicalities." Additionally, those large part in many voters' Therefore, I would think that our own history as a coun- idea to spy on the enemy and two candidates were far less decisions about who to vote for try could best be our most reliable guide as to how to find the Republican debates are willing to yield to time con- on Super Tuesday - and for some legal process by which our immigration laws can be always quite interesting. It's straints. many it was the improved. The last I knew, the Statue of Liberty does not unfortunate that Rudy However, I The debate, marketed last time they delimit but rather welcomes. Giuliani, the only New Yorker place a majority as a debate between would see the running for President (carpet- of the blame on candidates baggers don't count), dropped the moderator, the four candidates, speak before out of the race — leaving the Cooper, and the focused almost entirely the election. Fuvwy B'\dV\\\dV\-Vs of +V\e debate only to John McCain, obvious guide- on two: [...] Mitt By choosing to Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, and lines that came focus on two Romney and [...] John o you by +V\e Ot>\w'\ov\s Mike Huckabee. Giuliani, down from his candidates, serving unknowingly for the bosses at CNN. McCain. McCain and CNN, not last few months as a parody of Cooper allowed Los Angeles, CA - Disney sensation Miley Cyrus, otherwise Romney dominated America, is himself, always made me both Romney deciding that known as Hannah Montana, has moved beyond the usual tour the CNN debate, leav- laugh. and McCain to their opinions map spanning the United States. You can now see Hannah sing Now, usually I'm a very big speak at length ing little screen time are worth more her heart out about her multiple personalities (she lias CDs fan, not of CNN, but of the without inter- to either [...] Ron Paul than those of released both as Miley Cyrus and— Hannah Montana... are you BBC - however the British ruption — while the non-leading as confused as we are?) on the big screen. Cyrus' concerts have don't really seem to get Huckabee and or [...] Mike Huckabee. candidates. been recorded and can be viewed at movie theaters around the American politics ("What's a Paul received Imagine the world. After reaching the top of the box office "Top 10," it is evi- caucus, gov'ner? Why do they nothing but interruptions, outcry if this were allowed dent that young adolescent girls around the country cannot con- have to go to electrical col- when they were even asked to during a presidential debate. tain their excitement. The Opinions Editors, on the other hand, lege?") and as such, I am participate at all. Huckabee If a candidate in a presiden- can. forced to turn to CNN's usual- even called Cooper out about tial debate were given more ly sufficient political coverage. that on several occasions, ask- screen time simply because Tonight, though, CNN left me ing whether he and Paul they were leading in the polls, Chicago, IL — Sister Jean Kenny announced her prediction for far more disappointed than would be given a fair amount there would be a massive the winner of the Super Bowl: the Patriots. Impressively usual. The debate, marketed of time to debate. He never audit of CNN's journalistic enough, this nun of St. Francis of Borgia has a record that beats as a debate between the four received a straight answer, integrity. Sports Illustrated and eight USA Today sportswriters. However, only empty assurances. candidates, focused almost This is an issue that has to even this holy woman couldn't have foreseen Sunday's Giant entirely on two: former Romney and McCain are, upset. Ouch. Massachusetts Governor Mitt in fact, the perceived front- see NEWS on page 5 February 5, 2008 News Network Missing Activists Protest Illegal Immigrant Raids continued from page 3 gram for illegal immigrants. America in which people do not These raids are not happening disappear in the middle of the Objectivity, Professionalism lest they be picked up by ICE sporadically - they are part of night, ship them around the continued from page 4 in reality, they simply give the on their way to school or work. a wider program coordinated country, and deny them access media the justification they Local businesses faced the at a federal level and are to a lawyer. be solved within CNN and the are looking for in order to shut danger of closing due to lack of affecting our communities at On Wednesday, Feb. 6, STR other news networks. A lower out non-front-runners, thus business. In a city such as home. will join other immigrant polling candidate cannot just increasing ratings. Hartford, which is struggling On Monday, Feb. 4, the rights activists from around demand that a debate give The voice of reason follow- to re-build itself after gang vio- efforts of STR and all those Connecticut in addition to equal time to all candidates ing the debate was neither lence racked the city through- involved with the Danbury 11 those from Danbury, to demon- because the network will sim- Cooper nor the candidates - it out the '90s, this is a doubly case came to a head. The strate against the proposed ply shut him or her out of the was California Governor serious issue. The ICE raids do protest was attended by the 287(G) legislation. If passed, debate and they will get no Arnold Schwarzenegger. The not just affect the immigrant usual core of activists. A judge 287(G) will deputize Danbury time at all. The candidates "Governator" called out the community - they affect any- will soon rule whether or not police officers, legalizing what cannot fix this candidates, of one living in the areas where the Danbury 11 will receive a happened to the Danbury 11, without legisla- The voice of reason fol- course, for bick- they occur. trial. If they are granted this, creating a further atmosphere tion. Only CNN ering, but, more Throughout the past year, ICE will have to appear before of fear within Danbury. The can, and for lowing the debate was importantly, STR and other immigrant the court and justify its uncon- demonstration outside of town CNN to allow neither Cooper nor the scolded Cooper rights groups across the state stitutional policies. Trinity stu- hall promises to be a historic preferential candidates - it was for not asking and country have worked to dents will once again gather in gathering, as close to a thou- treatment the right ques- draw attention to the brutal front the Federal Courthouse sand immigrants and their demonstrates California Governor tions and not and often illegal tactics of ICE. Downtown and call for justice. supporters attended a meeting an amazing Arnold steering the Often, organizing efforts on Along with supporters of about the issue in Danbury lack of disci- Schwarzenegger. debate towards the part of immigrants and the Danbury 11 and other last week. pline and, more the issues, their allies are met with retal- immigrants like them, I You do not have to know importantly, adding that the iatory raids on the part of ICE. believe in rights which tran- how you feel about immigra- professionalism, CNN might debate was full of a lot of A recent e-mail obtained scend nationalities. I believe in tion reform to support the claim that they were simply "missed opportunities." through the Freedom of the right of people everywhere Danbury 11 and demonstrate catering to the American vot- Schwarzenegger seemed gen- Information Act lends credence to work and earn a living for against 287(G). You simply ers, and perhaps they were, uinely disappointed following to the theory that ICE raids themselves and their families. need to be in support of human but the fact is that at that the debate, perhaps as disap- which occurred in New Haven I believe in re-evaluating the rights and the democratic time, no elections had pointed with his selection as during the summer were in power structures which process. At its core, this is a occurred in the states the can- is, I imagine, the rest of his direct response to the city's incriminate people for trying to human rights issue. This didates were aiming their party. Even so, I never choice to adopt an ID card pro- do just that. I believe in an affects us all. debate towards. So, as far as thought I'd see the day when I'm concerned, the candidates the Terminator would make were all equal, all having zero more sense than CNN and the Questionable Behavior Plagues Trinity votes. The presidential elec- slew of Kepublican presiden- continued from page 3 es, "They're good kids, some- to be. tion has become bloated with tial candidates, but, as people times they just..." or, "He's not Nobody starts out a crimi- polls and pundits, all of which keep pointing out, this is a Think again — it's called a bad kid ..." When used in nal career with murder, grand claim to inform the voter, but, unique election. assault and it will generally this setting, there is no phrase larceny, etc. Whether or not earn you about 90 days in jail I despise more in the entirety of they were caught hi the past, and/or an extraordinarily the English language. they had to start somewhere, Immoral Tactics Lead to heavy fine. Taking money Nobody is a "bad kid." somewhere small. A casual set from an organization that Seriously, how many friends or of morals now leads to a casual employs you is called stealing, people on this set of morals more accurately referred to as campus do you Taking money from an later — it's an Lack of Faith in Patriots embezzlement. I do not expect know that are exceedingly slip- continued from page 4 calls, injured opponents, last to see the guilty parties on the honest to good- organization that pery slope. My drives - and one comes to real- cover of The New York Times, ness "bad kids" employs you is called message is sim- line moronic. In the press con- ize that they are not that but what does it take for a theft — kids that stealing, more accu- ple and is best ferences after the incident, the impressive at all. Oftentimes like this to turn into Enron? solely exist to understood by rately referred to as genius Belichick, whose alter- they are actually outplayed, yet This college is an education- rot away the the slogan for ego happens to be that of an they still manage to win. al institution where people moral fiber of embezzlement. I do Diet Pepsi Max: adulterer, acted as though the Apparently, and unfortunately, arrive as carefree adolescents this school? I not expect to see the Wake Up it would appear that winning is and leave as intelligent, (hope- know one crime People. Wake reporters asking him questions guilty parties on the about the accusations had all that matters. fully) informed, capable adults. is not sufficient up. absolutely no right to even Subsequently, it is no won- We are supposed to make mis- evidence to pass cover of The New York I am not think about questioning his and der that, outside of New takes here and learn from judgment on the Times, but what does without sin. England, everyone in the coun- them. Take a look around: character of a That's why this his team's reputation, never it take for a theft like mind addressing some sort of try was rooting for Eli Manning other people are making the human being. is ink and paper, accountability. and the Giants to win the Super mistakes for you. Learn from Nonetheless, if this to turn into not stone. Weeks later, their starting Bowl. In the same light, can the them. these kids aren't Enron? safety, Rodney Harrison, was same be said for America as When I have discussed the the "bad kids," Note: The suspended for four weeks for well? Of course everyone loves aforementioned transgressions who are? And Tripod publish- using illegal performance- winning, but at what point has with various individuals, a where are they hiding? es anonymous articles in cases enhancing supplements. In fact, a person, a team, or a country, common theme has worked its These four years are when revealing the identity oi just after the AFC gone too far? Sure, on paper the way into the dialogue each arguably more important than the author could cause signifi- Championship, the San Diego Patriots may be one of only two time. Those who know the any in your life. You will cant personal detriment to Chargers' center called Richard teams in NFL history to be offenders love to use the phras- become the person you're going him/her. Seymour and the Patriots the undefeated in the regular sea- dirtiest team he has ever played son, and America may be the against. Furthermore, after the most powerful country in the Along the Long Walk AFC Championship against the world, but does that make them the best? Many would say that Indianapolis Colts a few years What was your favorite Super Bowl commercial? the Patriots would have com- ago, the NFL actually had to pleted the perfect season. implement new rules and Clearly, any "perfect" record penalties about what you can that has its base, its first game, and cannot do on defense marred and tainted by the because of the way the Patriots' shadow of cheating is no perfect secondary was tackling the record at all. It is perfectly Colts' receivers before the ball flawed, and that's a fact. was even in the air. Unfortunately, the list goes on It is no stretch, either, to and on. 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IV(,{WTOIH, WMJ;^ Ojiinn, Creen Fcppm, Muilmwini & liecj Ham, GCTM Suianirtrnt Pe««tackle issues such as Robinson added, "We have had trou- campus sustainability, the ongoing hous- ble collecting dues since we lost our ing crisis, and the question of whether or [Allen Place] house about two years not the Student Activities Fund (SAF) ago," which directly affected the frater- will provide for cable TV. nity's ability to pay the National Despite the efforts of the candidates to Council. gain publicity in the form of Facebook In response to the fraternity's cur- groups, posters, and other campaign rent status, Crow President Quinn techniques, some students felt they were Bannon '09 recently attended the 2008 not provided with enough information Winter Conclave at Plymouth Meeting, about the candidates before the election. Penn., on Friday, Feb. 1, and Saturday, When asked about the candidates' Feb. 2, with other members of the lack of exposure, SGA President Andrew brotherhood, including Robinson. "At Pedro '08 explained that there was little the Conlave," Robinson commented, time for campaigning: "We have a busy "we participated in a series of work- semester ahead of us and in order to get shops before meeting with the National Erin Caner the ball rolling in time for our Feb. 3 Council regarding our being under Trinity's chapter of Alpha Chi Rho (Crow) is "under review" by the fraternity's National Council meeting, we really only had about a week for candidates to campaign. And, in our efforts to give as much time for candi- dates to get into the race and have as Addition of Classes Recieves Lukewarm Praise many candidates running as possible, we AMANDA TRAMONT have any problem with it. I think we side is a highly useful skill taught out- unfortunately limited the time between NEWS CONTRIBUTOR are given an adequate amount of time side the classroom. candidate registration and the election. to complete our schedules." Vanessa For a few fortunate freshmen, this Looking ahead, we anticipate a longer For many students, especially Forerro '08 shared Olivia's opinion-' persuasive way of asking paid off very period for candidates to campaign for the underclassmen, advance registration "This semester I registered during the nicely, while others were not so lucky. spring election." and Add/Drop Week can be very confus- early registration period and therefore At this point, Trinity decided to take Several of the elected candidates were ing. Trinity class registration operates didn't need to go through the Add/Drop charge. The plan of attack to win this already well-acquainted with SGA after on a hierarchical system, giving seniors process. In the past I have had to and it "war" on over-enrollment in certain serving in a variety of other positions. For first pick of their classes, followed by isn't a hard or frustrating system. A classes was to add courses. The list example, Litwack who, in a post on the juniors, sophomores, and freshmen. student just has to included a wide variety, SGA's online blog (www.trinitysga.com) obtain signatures and ranging from pledged to "help reevaluate our pre- And while seniors are not complaining "I don't think that about their ability to enroll in classes, hand them in by a cer- "International War and Trinity programs, such as [the multicul- many freshmen found that the classes tain time." most first-year students Security" to "Race and tural pre-orientation program] PRIDE, to they were originally looking to sign up After years of profes- realize the extent to Ethnicity" to "East Asian help them become more effective and able sors realizing Add/Drop International Relations," to reach a wider audience." for were full. which departments Robyn Williams '11, an internation- Week is not an ade- as well as additional sec- Although most of the candidates had al student from Zimbabwe, explained quate answer to perfect- went out of their way tions of popular courses past experience, many lacked exposure to the issue of not being able to enroll in ing every student's to accomodate their already in existence. the Trinity community. While Brianna schedule, faculty mem- Unfortunately, not all Feigon '11 believed that the actual elec- either first choices or even back-up needs." classes. She said, "I had a problem bers are also noticing students found this to be tions were sufficiently publicized, she enrolling in every class I wanted. that more upper-class- Brigitte Schulz the answer to the prob- said, "I felt like I did not really have ade- There were about 10 courses I original- men are taking basic Associate Professor of lem. Some students quate knowledge about each of the candi- introductory courses were not satisfied with dates. Maybe there could be some forum ly wanted to get into, but I couldn't at Political Science the beginning of sign-up. I just had to that are used to fulfill the new options avail- that provides biographies with pictures take other classes that I didn't like." their major require- able. One sophomore, so we can put a face to the name." Jaysen Even if students are initially ment or taking classes used to fulfill who wished to remain anonymous, dis- Lee-St. John '08 agreed. "I didn't think unhappy with a course they have cho- distribution requirements. The effect appointingly stated the following about there was enough information, which led sen, they are given the option to change this is having on freshmen is that the her sociology class, a new course me not to vote." Lee-St. John recommend- these classes during Add/Drop Week. classes they want to take are full. offered by Trinity this spring: "I really ed, 'The Tripod should have articles To explore uncertainty about a class, When trying to find other courses to don't like it at all. I find discussions to about each candidate as opposed to just many students opt for a "hands-on" replace ones they did not get into does be too broad. The class is very contro- saying their name and giving a picture not work, some underclassmen try a approach, which entails attending the versial and seems to be focusing more like they did this time." different approach: they plead with the first few classes to see how they feel on past problems and the ways in However, Kimball-Stanley believes professors. Jillian Steckloff '11 found about both the professor and the mate- which certain groups are to blame that the SGA is getting better and better, this strategy to be quite effective: "I rather than a more forward way of rial the class covers and said, "As far as I can tell, the SGA had to e-mail all my professors and thinking." Other students still find With the exception of freshmen, the has made a real effort to take on the sub- beg." When asked if it worked, she their classes to be too full and do not stantive issues that they ought to be tak- majority of students seems to be rela- nodded enthusiastically. It seems that tively satisfied with Trinity's Add/Drop learning to appeal to a teacher's softer policy. Olivia Merns '10 said, "I don't see REQUIREMENTS on page 9 see SGA on page 9 8 The Trinity Tripod Democratic Candidate Speaks Specifically to College Students continued from page 1 nation's current challenges, en supporter. From that inci- Obama claimed, "we cannot dent, I knew that Senator people, he described a potential afford to wait." Obama was a person I can plan for students to exchange Many Trinity students trust." community service hours for attended the rally; some went Preceding Obama's speech, college tuition money. as volunteers while others took Caroline Kennedy, daughter of Other areas that Obama the Student Government John F. Kennedy, discussed her targeted for improvement Association (SGA) sponsored father's inspiring effect on the included health care, minimum bus. Catherine McNally '10 American people, as well as her wage, education, treatment of liked Obama's focus on change, confidence in the fact that veterans, the environment, and, "how he defended his posi- Obama, like her father, could be and, most importantly, the war tion of being really young" by a president who could "make in Iraq. He stressed that negoti- highlighting the faults of the America believe" in the "lost" ation with other countries was current administration. She American ideals. Her uncle, nothing to be feared, joking, "I also felt as though, "everyone Senator Ted Kennedy, may be skinny, but I'm tough." really liked him," citing one announced his overwhelming Obama also spent much of particular moment when a support for the Illinois senator, his speech acknowledging criti- woman in the audience yelled and then welcomed the arrival cisms made by his opposition. to Obama, "I got your back!" of the "future President of the He began by sharing the Thu Danh '08 emphasized United States." Obama ended response he received when he an interesting moment in to a standing ovation. first announced his candidacy Obama's speech, when he Local politicians also in Springfield, 111. He claimed noticed that an audience mem- expressed their endorsements that, while some found his can- ber had fainted: "He spoke in of Obama. As cheers engulfed didacy to be preemptive in his the microphone asking for the stadium in anticipation, blossoming career, he believes assistance [and] for people to Representative John Larson, that it is "never too early" for clear the way, and at that Representative Rosa DeLauro, America is "at a defining moment Senator Obama tossed and Representative Chris moment." In the face of the a bottle of water to aid the fall- Murphy, all of Connecticut, Jordyn Sims took turns speaking. Larson Obama receives visible support from voters and Congressman John Larson. urged voters to "Barack the Vote," and Murphy proclaimed believes that Obama will fulfill necessary to become president. his faith in Obama. DeLauro, the needs of not only young peo- This common criticism of after welcoming the college stu- ple, but people from every seg- Obama is made by both dents in attendance, shared ment of society. Republicans and Democrats. John F. Kennedy's inspirational However, Larson recom- Obama himself challenged this effect on her early life in the mended that each young voter argument, stating that "the last hope that Obama would have a research every candidate close- thing we need is the same old comparable effect on. the young ly and make a well-informed folks doing the same old things" people in the crowd. decision, urging the undecided in Washington. Obama The importance of young student to, "Use your own head declared that change and voters was also hrought to light and listen to your own heart" hope,are necessary elements of by Connecticut congressman when voting. any viable solu- Larson, who, before the rally Carrie "Together, we will tion to the prob- began, offered some advice to Carpenter '08 transform this nation, lems that the the undecided voters at Trinity. said that while we will transform the nation faces. He He urged them to "take a look she is a support- acknowledged at all the candidates," taking er of Hillary world." the difficulty of into account all aspects of their Clinton, she change, but also campaign. found attending Barack Obama cited historical Larson highlighted the Obama's rally to milestones importance of voting for a can- be a great expe- Presidential Candidate (D) based on the didate who possesses "tran- rience. She said, "imagining" and scendent leadership" and who "I found Obama to be really subsequent "fighting for" will be able to heal the country inspiring. He made you want to change. and send a strong message. He get up out of your seat and do Obama inspirationally con- acknowledged domestic issues, something about the state of cluded, "Together, we will but stressed that the defining our country." transform this nation, we will concerns for him are the war Paul Mounds '07, currently transform the world." The large and foreign policy. the District Press Secretary to majority of the rally's attendees Larson explained his sup- Congressman Larson, echoed certainly seemed to believe that port for Obama, saying that "he that Larson's support of Obama positive change would come in showed good judgment by was based on Obama's ability to the form of Obama, and, as one speaking out against the war." "bring trust and responsibility supporter's sign cleverly He hope for a long-term solu- back into the White House," expressed, everyone appeared tion to the current problems contradicting the claim that ready for Obama to "Barack plaguing the nation, and Obama lacks the experience Our World." Jan. 28 - Feb. 4 THE CAMPUS SAFETY REPORT

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Campus Safety responded to Campus Safety Officers Campus Safety responded the Umoja house on report of responded to a complaint on to a complaint in the North an altercation after several the second floor of Jones Campus Dormitory and dis- non-Trinity students refused Dormitory and discovered a covered students loitering to leave at the close of an party in progress. Several outside a room on the sec- event. Two Trinity students students were found inside ond floor while more stu- were transported to the hos- the room, consuming alco- dents partaking in the con- pital with minor injuries, and hol, and officers ended the sumption of alcoholic bever- Jordyn Sims Hartford police arrested six gathering and confiscated ages inside. Officers confis- to eight individuals. multiple six-packs of beer. Obama spins MTV's popular "Rock the Vote" slogan into, "Barack the Vote." cated the alcohol. WiiBmrnmiiiMiMm February 5, 2008 9 Crow Seizes Opportunity 'Master Plan* Begins with Demolition continued from page 1 includes the construction of a ing more science-oriented new science building on the prospective students, high pri- to 'Turn Things Around' around the cloistered effect of south end of campus. The pro- ority was placed on renovating academic quadrangles with an posed buildings will connect to academic buildings where sci- continued from page 7 members], refocus, and basi- outward-looking engagement the Math Computing and ence is taught. Also designat- cally get organized. We've done of our city and our world, Engineering Center (MCEC). ed as high priorities were the Robinson is extremely con- that, and the future looks while blending renovations to The mission for the new build- recently-completed renovation fident that Crow has been pre- bright. We're expecting a historic buildings with new ing is "to position science and in Mather and the transfor- sented with "a good opportuni- strong pledge class and we will building projects." mathematics as a center of mation of Crescent Street ty to turn things around since continue to be a presence Upcoming projects include intellectual activity at Trinity "into an attractive residential things haven't been great [for socially, in service, and on the renovation of Austin Arts College by creating a commu- area of campus for students, the fraternity] since [they] campus in general." Center and the construction of nity of scholars among these faculty, and staff." were recharted." He stated, "A Alpha Chi Rho's Phi Psi a laboratory arts building. disciplines." Lower priority was given to bunch of people care [about chapter at Trinity College is The Master Plan describes the Other proposed projects in relocation of playing fields, a Crow's fate]. And we especially significant new art building as being "to the Campus Master Plan are parking garage, and landscap- should be throw- -, because it was the arts what laboratories are new and renovated student ing. The group recognized "the ing more parties the brotherhood's to the sciences- a place for arts residential housing, tennis inadequacy of our present and participating original chapter, students." The new building courts, and parking lots, as field house, which appears to in more commu- having been will house the departments of well as a new student center have a negative impact on nity service activ- founded in 1895. Art History, Studio Arts, and called Clement. admissions," but decided they ities now that we Crow Brother Theater and Dance. It will Trinity recently formed a "could not give high priority to have our house Ben Kuehn '08 also include visual art studios, group of trustees, administra- a field house at this time." It order." defined his com- theater and dance studios, tors, and faculty to oversee an was urged, however, that the President mitment, and and technique, materials and up-to-date version of the reno- College continue to look for Bannon agreed, that of his broth- conservation labs." vation plans. opportunities to enhance "We're looking at it as a ers, to the fraternity: Renovations of Austin Arts In May 2005, the group recreation for students in Chance tO reor- www.alp7iacTiirlio.org "Alpha Chi will also include the Goodwin met to look over the possible other ways. ganize and Alpha Chi Rho's coat of arms. Rho has a Theatre and the addition of a projects and judge which were With the Crescent and bring Crow long history recital hall and black box the- of a high priority to the Broad Street demolition under back to Trinity's social scene." at Trinity. As the founding atre. It is the hope of the College,\ and which were not. way, Trinity is one step closer Robinson reiterated, "We chapter, we feel it is our obli- College that the two buildings Priority was judged on how to completion of its renovation needed to make a few cuts [in gation to ensure this history together will comprise an arts potential projects affected the goals, meant to better the aca- terms of our more inactive does not end with us." corridor that is one of the first lives of students, fostered a demics, recreation, and com- views visitors have of the better community, and munity here on campus. All College upon entering its increased the number of members of campus anxiously grounds. potential student applica- await these exciting improve- SGA Elections Follow Another upcoming project tions. In the hopes of attract- ments. Brief Campaign Period BEFORE continued from page 7 reelected to a second semsester One of the houses as senate Parliamentarian said, ing on. As for the elections them- "Last semester was very produc- on Crescent Street, selves, I was very happy to see tive for the Senate, but there is in poor repair and enough students run that there still a lot of work to be done. It is vacant for a long were some actual races. I find it great that the winds of change terribly depressing when less are blowing within the SGA and period of time, people run than there are spots the Trinity community. But before it was demol- available, and everyone just gets what is even better is that I have in. The SGA shouldn't be some- the pleasure of working on these ! ished last week. thing you just sign up for, the issues with some of the most elections should matter." capable individuals that one Many have positive hopes for could ask for." Kirschbaum pre- the upcoming semester. Creator dicts a really great year for the of the new SGA Web site, SGA, as well as for the entire Kirschbaum, who has now been Trinity community.

Requirements Relieved The same house on Crescent Street halfway through its by More New Courses demolition. The continued from page 7 ing to Head of the Political Science Department, Brigitte short term plan for feel as though the additional Schulz. the land includes classes resolved over-enroll- Adding additional courses ment issues. this semester was no easy task additional parking, An anonymous junior who and required dedication and just declared a double major persistence from professors. found herself disappointed "I don't think most first- with the lack of personal atten- year students even realize the tion in her required junior extent to which departments seminar, which is overflowing went out of their way to accom- Intercollegiate Update with 30 students. modate their needs. The Dean of Faculty [Rena Fraden] made Although some students Harvard University Colby & Bowdoin Colleges Connecticut College may have a negative view of extra money available so that these new courses at Trinity these extra courses could be The Hasty Pudding Theatricals Both Bowdoin and Colby College Two Connecticut College alumni offered," stated Schulz. this spring, professors are selected their Man and Woman of have decided to eliminate student were nominated for Academy With the addition of these looking at these new classes in the Year for 2008. Charlize loans from their financial aid pack- Awards, both in the Best) a much more positive light, new classes, Trinity has given Theron, 2004 Oscar winner for ages. Loans for current and new stu- Documentary Feature Category. and they are not the only peo- students the opportunity to ple doing so. Even though a choose more than one path to Best Actress for "Monster," was dents will be replaced by college Sean Fine '96 directed the nomi- few students may not leave fulfill certain requirements chosen as Woman of the Year, and grant money. Both colleges have fol- nated "War Dance" with his wife, their classes wanting more, and explore new interests. 1978 Academy Award winner lowed the suit of larger institutions and Jessie Vogelson '96 produced the enrollment numbers speak And while not every student Christopher Walken was chosen as with massive endowments in an "No End in Sight." Both films for themselves. may be 100 percent satisfied, it Man of the Year. Festivities are effort to maintain commitment to were screened at the 2007 is hard to complain about "These additional courses Feb. 7 and Feb. 15. low-income students. Sundance Film Festival. filled up immediately," accord- being given more choices. NY Football Giants Win Matchup of the Decade has Little to Oi

JAY ACUNZO • SENIOR EDITOR a Super Bowl for the Ages Not having an affiliation to either team during ALEX BURWASSER throughout the drive, pleading the Super Bowl can be liberating and relaxing. It SPORTS CONTRIBUTOR with them not just to want it to can also make the little things extremely entertain- happen, but to believe it could ing. In my case, I survived a slow but shocking In a game that will be happen. game thanks to the latter. viewed as one of the greatest 39 seconds were left on the Around 3 p.m., a friend of mine shot me an and most memorable of all clock. The Giants had a first Instant Message to discuss our small get-together time, the New York Football down on the Patriots' 13-yard Sunday evening. I reassured him, saying, 'Yes, Jon Giants prevailed over the heav- line. The brash, outspoken Fox '08 [this is how I refer to all my friends], ily favored and previously receiver Plaxico Burress had America's finest football-watching accoutrements undefeated New England not attended a single practice are all set for the big game, none finer than the chili Patriots by a score of 17-14. all season due to a multitude of which roommate Jody Mintz '08 and I cooked up." Now, if you are expecting to injuries on his right leg, and Mr. Fox '08 was pleased and said he'd arrive for read a lot of Xs and Os talk, that habit did not change dur- the pregame coverage at six. I informed him that 6 turn to the talking heads at ing Super Bowl preparations. p.m. Sunday made him about two weeks late for the ESPN (who are all eating a lot Burress was held in check all pregame coverage, but since he has a life outside of of crow this week). What I night, with only one reception, watching ESPN, he was less amused than I'd would like to discuss is the tri- yet every Giants fan knew he hoped. umph of one team and one city was getting the ball thrown to 6-00 p.m. Sunday rolls around, and we're all against all odds. him. In an all-out blitz by the treated to a dramatic reading of the Declaration of An epic, nail-biting contest Patriots, Burress was left in Independence by various recognizable football per- essentially came down to the single coverage on Ellis Hobbs. sonae. Despite the emphasis on our nation, media younger Manning being called Noticing the extreme height coverage screamed one thing: "Ladies and gentle- upon to lead the Giants 83 advantage for Burress, men, welcome to the East Coast-Bias Bowl!" yards down the field for the go- Manning lofted a beautifully- (Are you like I am? Did you picture George Bush ahead score with a minute to thrown ball into the corner of watching the Declaration montage in his onesies, go. Throughout his career, the end zone, figuring Burress thinking to himself, "Man, that was a cool poem! I throughout all his struggles would win a jump ball with the need a copy of that!"?) with accuracy and poor deci- dwarfed Hobbs. However, it At 6:30 p.m., FOX's coverage begins. Hurray, the best announcers out there." And Michael sion-making, Eli has had inde- was a lot easier than that, with everybody, it's Joe Buck! On the 50-inch, I swear Strahan may not have the best dentist out there? scribable resolve and determi- Burress torching Hobbs, cut- we could already see the cancer cells on his overly- Really, Joe? nation that all the greats seem ting right then left on his bad baked skin. Thank you, HDTV. With less than nine minutes remaining in the to possess. leg, to sail effortlessly into the After so much hype, the game is finally under- half, Manning has just been sacked, botched a After barely getting enough end zone and send the Giants way, and I can already sense the unwavering confi- hand-off and hurried into throwing a ball to the yards for a couple of close first and their fans into euphoria. dence the Giants fans around me have in their ground on consecutive plays. He looks scared. downs, the Giants faced a third- The New York Giants had quarterback. With less than eight minutes remaining in the and-five with a little over a just won the Super Bowl, and "If Eli Manning doesn't throw," says Mr. Mintz half, Tom Brady has failed to connect deep and has minute to go on their own 44- as I'embraced my parents sev- '08, donning a red Giants beanie, "then he won't be been sacked twice on consecutive plays. He looks yard line. What happened next eral times, letting the water- intercepted." Luckily for him, the Giants look enraged. • will soon be memorialized with works flow, I opened my apart- strong to start the game, and Brandon Jacobs is I think, "There is no way the Patriots can lose a clever catchphrase, but for ment window to hear a barrage running through the Patriots like Willis McGahee this game." After all, New England has been to four now I will call it one of the of unintelligible screams and in Week 13. Super Bowls in the last seven years, the Giants only greatest plays I have ever wit- car horns. The Big Apple had The camera flashes to Bill Belichiek, who has four in their existence. nessed. exploded with unbridled joy, donned a red hooded sweatshirt for the biggest After another sexually safe halftime show in The play e. and people of all backgrounds game of the year rather than his usual gray num- which no partial nudity was even remotely desired o m i z e d and fandoms poured onto the ber. Coach Belichiek has obviously read the (thanks, Tom Petty), sideline reporter Pam Oliver Manning's streets, experiencing the thrill Tripod's fashion articles. (This may explain all his appears onscreen wearing a leopard-print shirt. career, with of a city coming together as one, kill-me-now facial expressions.) I'm not kidding. She then gives her inside scoop on people celebrating a sports champi- FOX breaks for commercial after a Laurence the Patriots' offensive adjustments and Brady's pushin onship for the first time since Maroney touchdown makes it 7-3 Pats. favorite cologne. and 9/11. When they return, Joe Buck finally says what prod On Monday, the Giants everyone in America is thinking: "We may not be see WITHOUT on page 19 ding paraded victoriously him,; * \ down the "Canyon of try-1 Heroes" in Lower ing to \Manhattan. Fittingly, Disappointed with the Game? Skip ESPN bring,*,, it started at Ground KATY NOLIN him .Zero, where so SENIOR EDITOR down .many ultimate Get more online! yet he\ 7heroes sacrificed All football commentary aside (especially emergedj '-' their lives. since I'm a Pats fan), we all know the real reason from the Six and a half to watch the Super Bowl: the commercials. This Read the Tripod's pile to s years after that year, the commercial competitors were almost as complete Super Bowl heave an off- tragic day, the city funny as watching big brother Peyton giving Eli balance throw has recovered in every quarterback advice from the booth and almost as coverage and view 30 yards downj ••! facet of life, except for bad as Paula Abdul's pre-recorded lip-syncing video of the Top Ten the fields, J sports, with each major fiasco in the pre-game show. For those of you where only. Pteam suffering crushing sans televisions or living under a large rock Commercials. David Tyre H% ? defeats, or, as in the somewhere, here's a rundown of the ten funniest could catch it. Knicks'case, a general dis- commercials this year. After 3gard for common 10. Pepsi: The ad featured Justin www.trinitytripod.com miraculous lse. On Timberlake being dragged along to the tune of a effort, the Giants' woman sucking Pepsi from a straw. The guffaw were destined moment came when the pop star's junk (not in a win. The longest- Sunday box) repeatedly hit a mailbox. Amusing, but tenured Giant, Inight, all that" weak. Comic Will Ferrell starred in a Bi M i c h a e fchanged. A team. 9. FedEx: Using pigeons instead of FedEx? S t r a h a n „ defined by th Brilliant. Using giant pigeons that wreak havoc tured the woman from the "LinHicker" Orbit screamed at ^resiliency tha across the city instead of delivering packages? commercials. Clj his team ^characterizes the city it More brilliant. Watching with a sister who has a 7. Vitamin Water: Shaquille O'Neal bei mates "17- represents, had overcome deadly fear of pigeons? Best. Night. Ever. plays a jockey riding a horse named "Chunk of tea 1 4 the greatest of odds, and have 8. Bridgestone: A wayward squirrel finds Love." The oversized basketball star manages to bu repeat- single-handedly completed the himself in death's path as he stops to grab a nut win with a photo finish, obviously thanks to tra e d 1 rebuilding process, showing in the middle of the street. Chaos ensues, as all Vitamin Water. Not funny in itself, but amusing ! that the true of heart of a of Nature begins to scream in panic, and order is if only to see a massive O'Neal attempting to ride sbj champion rests in the heart of only restored when tlie car swerves — safely, of a horse and towering over the other miniscule ly the city. \ course. One notable,star-sighting - the ad fea- jockeys. 1 to :o Offer for Non-NY/NE Football Fans ! Patriots Fans Embrace Sox

MIKE ROBINSON - SENIOR EDITOR When the legendary classic Alien vs. Predator was Motto: Wait Til Next Year released in 2004, it came with the tagline "Whoever BILL COSGROVE Why did Belichick go for it on wins ... we lose." Though that proved to be false as SENIOR EDITOR fourth and thirteen instead of humans did in fact win, a more apt candidate for said kicking a field goal, especially tagline would arrive under four years later: Super Before the Patriots won when Patriots kicker Stephen Bowl XLII. Pitting the despised, cheating Patriots Super Bowl XXXVI in 2002, Gostkowski was lacking 53-yard against the hated Giants, it was truly a no-win situa- Boston sports fans felt a lot like field goals before the game? Why tion for any Trinity student not from New York or Sisyphus — our teams were did Belichick opt for a brand new New England. Most people, even from those regions, either really bad and never won red sweatshirt instead of his cus- would agree that hearing their fans brag or complain anything, or they would get dev tomary grey hoodie? Why did it is pretty much the worst thing you can subject your astatingly close to world champi- take so long for the Pats to adjust ears to other than contemporary pop music. Still, my onships and then to the Giants defen- love of football and of our great nation led me to par- break our hearts. sive line? How did take in our third greatest national holiday (behind Our hopes would The heartbreak that David Tyree make the 4th of July and Thanksgiving) and watch the come crashing Boston fans had that catch? Why game, as I've done every year since birth, with the full back to earth at endured for so long didn't my mom knowledge that my heart would be broken regardless the very moment watch the game in of the outcome. we were within made winning cham- the living room like But I'm no stranger to heartbreak. I am a card inches of immortal- pionships so much she had throughout carrying fan of Philadelphia sports teams, long dis- ity (think of Bill more enjoyable. the entire playoffs? tinguished for their track record of losing and disap- Buckner's error in Why did my friend pointment. Still, the prospect of seeing either the game six of the 1986 World sit on the couch instead of the Patriots or Giants win a world championship was an Series and Aaron Boone's walk- armchair, which is where he sat awful one, not just for me, but for most of the rooting off home run in game seven of for every other game this year? audience. Outside of New England, just about every- the ALCS in 2003). Larry Bird Did the pressure of going unde- one was rooting against the Patriots and their pur- had retired many years ago, the feated finally get to the Pats? suit of perfection. Coached by a smug adulterer from Curse of the Bambino may or Boston fans have no doubt Wesleyan who dresses like a homeless man, they had may not have been real, and the been spoiled rotten in the 21st run up the score in countless games and been caught only two times the Patriots century. Five world champi- cheating to gain an advantage against the woeful reached the Super Bowl they onships in such a short period of Jets. The entire city of Boston has been transformed lost. But when Adam Vinatieri's time is crazy, but a victory the ing in the from "lovable losers" to "obnoxious, ungrateful win- field goal split the uprights and other night would have been botched a ners," fostering the same resentment across the coun- the Pats upset the Rams six amazing. lall to the try that they themselves once harbored for New York years ago, the history of Boston's But the heartbreak that :ared. sports teams. The Giants are even worse in my eyes, sports teams changed forever. Boston fans had endured for so ing in the but that's a personal bias. I grew up watching them That victory set off an unprece- long made winning champi- jp and has win the NFC East and constantly beat my beloved dented run of world champi- onships so much more enjoy- He looks Eagles, so I have a special hatred for them. Up until onships in o\ir sports-crazed city, able in 2002 (Patriots) and 2004 the last month, it hasn't been too hard to hate them with the Pats cement- (Red Sox), and with luck the ;s can lose even without a natural rivalry. They were a bicker- ing their legacy as a devastating loss the other een to four ing, cocky team filled with me-first players like dynasty and the Sox night will make future Hants only Jeremy Shockey, Plaxico Burress, and Michael taking home World\!? championship runs even Strahan, led by a quarterback who looked like he was Series championship in' K enjoyable in the e show in going to cry half the game, and coached by Tom in 2004 and 2007. f':tui\ .yter all, part of sly desired Coughlin, who had garnered up enough dislike But none of thul made 2004 so spe- among his own players that he was constantly on the 'am Oliver All phntn.s courtesy ofsports.yahoo.com. seemed to mat' cial for Sox fans rint shirt, hot seat. One team had to win, however, and I would ter Sunday/ was the way le scoop on Left: The Giants celebrate. have to suffer through watching them bask in sports' night the 2003 sea- id Brady's Above: The game-winning touchdown greatest glory as my team once again sat at home and When the son ended catch by Plaxico Burress. left me clinging to whatever hope a Philadelphian can Giants in New Bottom: A defeated Bill Belichick. made an York. see TEAM on page 18 improb- Although able scor- Sunday ing drive to night's loss take the was awful, 5PN and Watch the Commercials Instead! lead wi things aren't Jackie Moon (for his latest flick Semi-Pro), under a as bad as Ferrell keeps flubbing his promo lines, eventual- minute left they seem. ly just blurting, "Bud Light. Suck It." and Tom Boston is 4. Coca-Cola: A faux political debate show Brady's last still the has Democrat James Carville and Republican pass fell to capital of Bill Frist spending a day together in D.C., over- the turf, it the sports looking their political enmity and unified by a hurt. . world. The mutual love of Coca-Cola. Highbrow comedy, but Everyone in Celtics have for the politically savvy among you, still funny. Boston felt like the best 3. Planters^ A ridiculously unattractive Sisyphus again record in woman strolls down a city street, somehow And that stank. the NBA attracting attention from every man she passes. The Pats were and pitchers Her secret? She uses the scent of a Planters one victory away catchers are Cashew instead of perfume. from an undefeated scheduled to report to 2. Bud Light: Comedian Carlos Mencia season. They set spring training in just tries to give romantic advice - speak with a for- many records and were eight days. And if that eign accent and you will win the ladies. able to win in so many doesn't make everyone Mispronunciation and social awkwardness fol- ways that it's hard to forget the horror of Sunday night, take www.nytinies.com low, but the best lines hands-down were "You fathom how dominant they were as a team all note of this: the Pats starred in a Bud Light commercial, promoting his latest role, Jackie Moon. make sandwich ... I am meat" and "Bood Light" instead of Bud Light. year long. But none of are already favored to that mattered on win the Super Bowl Orbit 6. Budweiser: This classic ad featured a 1. Doritos-' I really was not expecting a Sunday night. The next year, the Celts Clydesdale horse that couldn't make the team funny result from a commercial that began with Giants played harder, are the odds on 'Neal being trained by a Dalmatian, only to make the a man using a Dorito chip to bait a mousetrap. coached better, and?" *7 favorite to win the .nk of However, when a giant man in a mouse costume team again the next year. It was kitschy and cute seemed to want it more * * f NBA championship ges to burst out of the wall and began to beat him silly, 1 but gets major bonus points for the Rocky sound- than the Pats did. The' , ^ this June, and the Sox ks to track in the background. I broke into hysterical laughter. The commercial made absolutely no sense, but, as my dear old Giants deserved to win. are favorites to repeat using 5. Bud Light: Will Ferrell wearing short- as World Series schamps oride shorts has been done before (and will undoubted- father said, was "still funny as hell." I Some questions from Go to www.trinitytripod.com/superbowl to Super Bowl XLII that may this fall. Take that, iscule ly be done again and agaik), but it still manages f New York. to retain its humor. Dressed as basketball player watch each commercial. never be answered include-" FEATURES The Trinity Tripod The Chosen Article Obama Rally Inspires One Jew's View on a Free Excursion to the Holy Land D.C. Democrat Crowd MATTFUENTES the lectern, all of them packed STAFF WRITER shoulderto-shoulder. I pushed through people who were unwill- The event was scheduled to ing to move an inch for fear of begin at 12:15 p.m., and in antic- losing their highly desirable ipation of a large crowd, I woke spot, and eventually I made my up before 8 a.m. A bus ride later, way up to the top of bleachers I arrived outside the American directly to the right of the stage. University indoor arena to find Because I had arrived early, the line stretching far around there was a significant amount the block and an eclectic group of time before the speeches of people finding creative ways began. Yet during an hour and a to pass the time in the frigid half of sitting, the crowd never

L-JIL., -. Lj!... ..JI..!,J winter morning. They were not mellowed, continuously leading Right to left (like Hebrew!), Shon Urbas '06, David Sbtkin '08, Dana Monsky '03, Chelsea Naftelberg '09, and Noah Simcoff' 10 just anticipating a campaign chants such as "O-BAM-A," and rally from Barack Obama, an "Yes we can!" An a cappella NOAH SIMCOFF get cheesy. Yes, we were united, to the Nile. When read literally, occurrence that has been hap- group performed to a boisterous FEATURES CONTRIBUTOR but for many, indeed, most of us, this poses a threat to people pening on a regular basis over audience, and then a young our Judaism was never a who read their ancient scripture the past few months, but also an woman took the stage. A hush This winter break, my defined component of our iden- literally as well. After the endorsement from America's quickly spread over the arena, hereditary frugality, as well as tities. Most kids had had a Bar British helped God give the most historic and storied family, and all in attendance listened my love of traveling, sent me to or Bat Mitzvah, but most did land to Israel in 1948, all hell the Kennedys. Appearing in intently to her every word. She the Holy Land with Mayanot, not believe in the God of broke loose. After almost 60 addition to the presidential can- first introduced the Kennedy an Orthodox Jewish birthright Abraham and Isaac. While in years of continual and perpetu- didate was Senator Ted family to rapidly escalating program. Did I know it was Israel, we rode donkeys, saw al war, God himself gave the Kennedy, the youngest brother applause, and then, in her going to be Orthodox Jewish? the desert, and floated in the people of Israel the land they of America's two most prominent words, "The next president of No. Did it matter who was pay- Dead Sea. However, what live on, according to Orthodox political martyrs, the Senator's the United States, Barack ing for my trip? Not really. The stands out the most was, ulti- Jews. son Patrick Kennedy, and John Obama!" Eoaring applause and fact remains: I got a free trip to mately, surprising to me. This This was my mentality going F. Kennedy's daughter Caroline an immediate standing ovation the frickin' Holy Land. I would was our group's susceptibility to in, skeptical to say the least. I Kennedy, who had published an drowned out the music, and be traveling with four friends — embracing our Jewish identity had fun comparing propaganda editorial supporting Obama in each and every person stretched fellow members of Aleph Chai, and letting it shape our views. use theories with some of my The New York Times the day his or her neck to get a glimpse the Jewish chapter of Cleo Since Mayanot is an other wandering Jews. We before. of the iconic senator. It took Alpha Chi (Cleo). Therefore, I Orthodox Jewish program, we decided that they were sleep After an extended wait, an Patrick Kennedy a few minutes had some degree of social com- ate only Kosher food, attended depriving us, the movies had Egg McMuffin delivered by a to quiet the chanting, and he fort waiting an extra 12 hours Orthodox Jewish gender-sepa- hidden messages, there were friend, and a set of frozen toes, I spoke briefly before introducing at the airport. rate prayer sessions, were drugs in the hummus ... Still, by saw the lengthy line begin to his cousin Caroline Kennedy. The Jews on our trip ranged encouraged not to use electricity the end of our 10 days, we knew shuffle through the security She spoke serenely and elo- from the super-Zionist-ultra- on Shabbat, and our rabbi was each other, we were Jewish, and checkpoint and into the arena. quently, and began with the Orthodox, to the no-Jewish- an eighth-generation Chabad we felt some connection to the Those in the mile-long line who statement, "Over the years, I've upbringing Christmas-ham- rabbi. Some felt immediately state of Israel. Creepy. arrived after 9:15 a.m. were been deeply moved by the people eaters. Some of the Jews on our alienated as this version of Two factors played major denied entrance (NBC's Chris who've told me they wish they trip were Modern Orthodox, Judaism seemed foreign and roles in shaping our little Matthews was also turned away, could feel inspired and hopeful Conservative, Reformed, distant. Personally, I experi- Jewish minds. First, almost a notion that was partially com- about America the way people Cultural, Last-time-I-was-at- mentally embraced an entirely everyone is Jewish in Israel. forting to those who endured the did when my father was synagogue-was-myBar- different way of being. Honestly, You can walk down the street cold for no reason). The arena President." After years of watch- Mitzvah, and the I'm-not-reli- what could they do to me in 10 with one of those little round was pumping lively music ing politics, she said she has gious-I'm-spiritual. days? hats on, and not be a minority. through the sound system, and finally found the candidate who Perhaps you can imagine These Orthodox religious You can speak in the language volunteers passed out blue and best exemplifies the unique the arguments that ensued views hold political implications of ancient Jewish scriptures red signs to people that entered qualities of her father. from throwing 33 Jews togeth- as well. One example is the and be understood. You can eas- the hall. The Scoreboard dis- In stark contrast, Senator er. Still, despite the many debate over Israel's creation ily practice an Orthodox Jewish played the phrase "Change We Ted Kennedy gave an energizing kvetching clashes and various and whether or not that it lifestyle without being ostra- Can Believe In." The home team and bombastic speech in which definitions of what it meant "to should exist. In the Torah, God cized. In other words, unlike panel read "Barack," and the he praised Obama in a way gen- be" Jewish, we were all united specifically outlines to Abraham anywhere else on Earth, you away one "Obama." There was erally reserved only for mem- by our Jewish identity. the dimensions of his land, already a throng of students con- Don't worry, I'm not about to which runs from Mesopotamia see NOAH on page 14 gregated on the floor in front of see MATT on page 14 Visiting Lecturer Barry Schaller Discusses Bioethics and Law ANNE BENJAMIN cine, is one such category. ethical disputes. There are mis- FEATURES EDITOR What he lacked in anima- takes in organ transplants, and tion of speech, he made up for in some institutions are being Connecticut Supreme Court information. Schaller let us into accosted by getting their Justice Barry Schaller spoke as his world - a world consisting of patients to the top of the list. part of the Faculty Research decision-making and research. Some online organ donating Lecture Series on Wednesday, He began the hour by express- (black market) Web sites exist Jan 30. Schaller is a Visiting ing his excitement for speaking, but are not regulated by the Lecturer in Public Policy and saying that "much of [his] own government. Law at Trinity College. His new work is asking questions." In his experience, malprac- book, about which he did not Schaller used his hour to tice cases and insurance compa- speak about at length, is enti- speak on many of the contempo- nies have transformed the field tled A Vision rary aspects of medical law, of bioethics. Schaller also dis- of American including end-of-life decisions cussed stem cells. There was a Law. After col- like the Schiavo case. Schaller major problem associated with lege, Schaller Go to www.trin- also spoke about the contested their retrieval, but now we have went to law coll.edu for a biog- issue of organ allocation, and the technology to acquire stem school to study raphy on Supreme now there is no time for cells in unobjectionable ways. the role of law Court Justice "assault" by the courts in time- Schaller said that bioethics Schallei within other sensitive situations. He laws do not exist explicitly, but cultural explained the current organ that there are many disputes aspects, like law conveyed transplant system that people over ethical and moral issues through literature, Bioethics, get on the waiting list and at times allows for priority-related Jordvn Sims law conveyed through medi- see SCHALLER on page 14 Schaller asks a captive audience to consider general court ethics at his lecture. February 5, 2008 13 President Jones Addresses Campus Issues, Cars, and Concerts continued from page 1 Learning Corridor, you are the Now, do we have more car going to be spectacular! eschewed, we all lose. This is an one who gets the angry letters. break-ins here, than somewhere Carver- Is it going to still be educational institution, though; years ago, were with us, which Is that unfair? in Iowa? Yeah, but we live in a a mess for graduation in May? people will learn lessons from was wonderful. Jimmy- No, it just comes major urban area. The converse Jimmy Well, it won't be the writing shoddy work, then they Carver- I'm not going to lie! with the territory. This is my of that is that last year we land- glorious backdrop because the maybe won't do that as adults. 1 there are some vicious rumors 12th year of being a president. ed four Fulbrights, the highest Long Walk itself will not be put have to say, I thought that the going around that this trip was You need to let the rness roll off. number in the history of the back together again until the Tripod last semester was as some sort of illegal squash You can't internalize it. school. Three of the four came summer. But the gross mess, we good as I have ever seen a cam- recruiting visit. Care to com- Recently, I got lambasted for from Hispanic Studies. If you are almost certain, will be gone. pus newspaper. ment? Trinity's "support" for one presi- read the essays, they talked Carver- As you know, I'm a Carver- Do you think that Jimmy'- I can assure you, I dential candidate. The truth is, about how impor- supporter of the copies of the paper should be tried my best not to look for there is no support of one candi- tant it was to go Carver: Do You campus pub. What banned from the admissions squash players in the upper date. I was asked if I would out into the neigh- think that copies of is its status? office? Himalayas. allow any extra parking on our borhoods and see the paper should be Jimmy- We Jimmy- Nope. Carver' OK, I'll "squash" campus [for Sen. Clinton's staff] the 13 different have to work out Carver'- As we've talked banned from the that rumor. and I said of course. But I Spanish enclaves. the liabilities, but about, your job is a job that, Jimmy- You can do anything would've said yes for any candi- If you're in admissions office? I'm really pushing regardless of performance, is with it that you want; you can date that was having a gather- Grinnell, Iowa you this. It's all about going to attract lots of criticism. ing at the Learning Corridor. "squash" the "squash" rumor. can't go off campus Jimmy: Nope. what we're trying What do you think the Trinity Carver-1 know you travel a You do become the lightning rod'- and find that. to do with campus community thinks of you as a lot to meet alumni and visit you need to understand that Carver: Do you have any climate. We want alternatives president? friends of the College all around you're going to get blamed for control over who comes for to the prevailing culture. The Jimmy-1 would hope people the world. Along with this sort of stuff because people need to Spring Weekend? alternatives are going to be an would say that I work really ambassador roll, what do you have somebody to blame and Jimmy- I have no control international house and an arts hard and am trying to leave the consider to be your most impor- you're the guy in the front office. whatsoever. I am the last person house on Vernon Street, right school better than I found it. 1 tant individual duties as Carver- As our president, I that you should seek counsel near your fraternity [Psi U]. It's wouldn't expect them to approve President of Trinity? have heard complaints that you from in that area. unfair for the fraternities to of every single decision I've Jimmy- To represent the are too one-dimensional with Carver'- The reason I ask is have to bear the brunt. You guys made because that's simply not college 24/7. One of the hard your job. Your work in steward- that my friends and I have got- have got to produce the social going to happen. When you've parts about being the president ship is outstanding and you are ten quite good at Rock Band, outlets. Well, do the arithmetic. been a president as long as ] is, whether you like it or not, you a fine public figure, but when it which is a video game where you It doesn't work. The other thing have, you begin to think about are the window through which comes to day-to-day policies and pretend to play music, so I was that exacerbates Trinity's prob- the type of things that people thousands and thousands of fundamental changes, they are going to shamelessly plug us as lem is that there is no off-cam- are going to put on your grave- people view the school, which not your strengths. Is that an an opening act. pus site for you guys to go to. stone. I would just hope that accurate assessment? If so, is means you can't go to the gro- Jimmy- Well, we should My daughter, who is 32, says they put, "He was a good guy." that essentially your job? Are cery store on Saturday morning have you. that "guys" is a gender-neutral Carver: As president, do day-to-day policies usually left in your soccer clothes, if you Carver- We're called The term; is it? you consider yourself to be a up to the Deans and any major haven't shaved. If you do, half of Fingerblasters. Ed came up Carver: It is. politician? procedural changes up to the the store will look at you and with it. Jimmy All right, I'm trying Jimmy- Well, I think it's Board of Trustees? wonder, "Where did this home- Jimmy- The Fingerblasters! to get the vocabulary down. [A probably one of the most politi- less man come from?" You rep- Jimmy- If you're president, Ed came up with pub] was implemented while I cal roles in American life resent the school to all con- you have to be involved in the Fingerblasters? Fingerblasters was at Washington University because the constituencies are stituencies. At day-to-day poli- is good. I like it, it's got a certain and to this day it is an enormous so different. Trinity, I have "I would rather have cies. And in ring to it. Fingerblasters. success. Sure, we have to worry Carver- What is your found that to be errors and misjudg- today's world, the [Author's Note: e-mail TCAC to about underage drinking, no favorite thing about Trinity, and really a wonder- ments published than only way to do it request us to open for Kanye question about it. But I appreci- you're not allowed to just say ful role. There is is via that West and Journey this Spring ated your support. "the students." I mean specifi- so much love and to have the school machine over Weekend.] Carver- As a staff writer, I cally, what about the school or affection for the ever be in the posi- there [points to Carve? One of the biggest partially represent the interests the students or your job do you school in this criticisms that you and the col- of the Tripod, I know you read it value the most? tion of censor." his computer]. I country, it just mean, I find lege have faced in recent years every week; when (if ever) do Jimmy- The best thing blows me out of myself thinking was our decline in the US News you think it should be censored? about the last 12 years is how the water. People James F. Jones about a deferred and World Report annual col- For example, if a sex column is you people proved me wrong for ask me all the maintenance lege rankings. I read your "Dear published that someone is the previous 18. Because every time, "How in the Trinity College President &. problem in some Jimmy" piece about it when we unhappy with. time a liberal arts college asked world have you Professor in the Humanities boiler on campus pulled out of the rankings [from Jimmy-1 would rather have me to be Dean, President, or managed to raise and you can't neg- Tripods September 11, 2007, errors and misjudgments pub- Provost, I turned them down for or get pledged $125 million on a lect those. But in my case, the issue, go to our fantastic Web lished than to have the school a very long time. Part of it was 350 million dollar campaign in College's single biggest problem site, www.trinitytripod.com]. ever be in the position of censor. my own arrogance. I just didn't 18 months?" Well, people just is the size of the endowment. and I agree with the things you There was one specific incident really ever think of myself in an love Trinity. There is a guy who That is just a fact of Trinity life. said, but if we had been ranked that created problems. environment with only under- graduated in the 80s who has There are always people who as one of top 10 schools in the Carver- The Mitch Merin graduates because I spent most given $3 million to endow the will look at any president, no country, would we still have incident? of my career teaching doctoral ninth chair. When I went to matter how good he or she may dropped out? Jimmy Correct. The low students. Boston to close the conversation be. They will find that the per- Jimmy-1 would have pulled point for me here was the article Carver- This is just a yes-or with him, at the end of the con- son doesn't measure up. out of cooperating with them at about Mitch Merin. It wasn't no question: is there anything versation we shook hands and Carver- Clearly your job is anytime in the past 30 years. At just about the fact checks, it that you would really like to say he said, "Dr. Jones, it's time for extremely stressful, the com- its root, the entire process is wasn't just the fact that his about Trinity, or possibly even me to start paying back the mute alone is a killer. How long flawed. It is impossible to take name was misspelled 14 or 15 scream at the top of your lungs tuition." He was a scholarship do you see yourself in your cur- something as amorphous as a times. It was the aspersion that from the top of the chapel, but r student and he feels such a rent position? school and try to quantify it with was cast on b^ hnivir- , -y-jn't, due to the nature of your sense of payback. Or talk to Mr. Jimmy- The commute is a number. ter. I Paul Raether, the chairman of really hard. The trustees have Carve? I'm going to ask you astounded sii' Jimmy I can't think of any- the board, [Author's Note: also a asked me to stay until 2012, about a couple of things that I ashamed on Hie I'l 1 ike to scream about Psi Upsilon (Psi U) brother] one which is the end of our cam- think the students would like to part of ah u( u-. Trirm» ilut I wouldn't say. of the most incredible people paign. The Chairman of the know the status of. I can hear But it's your :n".',!-• Carver: Do you have a I've met in my life. He talks Board has agreed to stay until the trucks moving outside right paper; it's ln't rav 1 li'iwl prediction for this about his paying back to then and I have given [the now. How is the Jarvis construc- newspaper. Wlii I. Trinity? I mean, he's given the board] my word that I will give tion coming? the high'1-.: Jim my- [Laughs] I'm school $70 million. So, it's easy 1 them everything I've got. Jimmy- We are on time. I standards no about to answer to be the head ambassador here. get a report every week. The of jour- i hat. Carver- You mentioned that Carver- What is one thing scaffolding is down, we've fin- nalism Carver: Do you you are the window through that you are constantly asked ished the cleaning. We're now a t1 have any final mes- which people view the school. about, or criticized for, that you going like gangbusters on the sage that you'd like So, you tend to get all the blame have literally zero control over? insides. But the drainage sys- to share with the for problems that the school Jimmy- That's a really tem collapsed so long ago, Trinity communr has. Whether it's someone com- interesting question. I suppose I underneath the Long Walk, that ty? plaining about a sex column in would say the geographic loca- there isn't even much evidence the Tripod or the fact that there tion of the school. I have no con- Jimmy It's a of the pipes left. We have a sea isn't enough parking or that trol over where Trinity is, but I great school and of mud-" this is a gigantic prob- Hillary Clinton came to the find that the location is an enor- it's a wonderful lem. When it's done though, it's mous positive, not a negative. •7* . i-ime to be here. 14 The Trinity Tripod Matt Fuentes '09 Offers Refreshingly New Opinions on Politics continued from page 12 microphone, the atmosphere in ism. He wound down by saying, character and perceived presi- petitors, but he will most defi- the arena more closely resem- "So make no mistake: the choice dential ability. This rally did not nitely lead it. The energy at the bers of his family. As the face bled a rock concert than a politi- in this election is not between change my mind that Clinton is rally was infectious. At a tune and the masthead of the cal event. He could not help but regions or religions or genders. quite possibly more intelligent, when people would just as soon Democratic Party, he spoke dra- show a modest, almost bashful It's not about rich versus pom-, clearly the one with more experi- elect a candidate and entrust matically and with perfect smile as the crowd, cheering and young versus old, and it is not ence, and likely the more politi- the fate of the country to him or inflections that rivaled the abili- applauding emphatically, placed about black versus white. It's cally savvy of the two. I have no her, Obama has the talent to ties of the best political orators. him on the highest of pedestals. about the past versus the doubt that she is more than incite a nation of people and call He played to the crowd with All those with signs pumped future." The last sentences of his capable of running this country. them to action. Lyndon Johnson lines such as, 'Til support the them vigorously in the air and speech were drowned out by Yet at the rally, I experienced a signed the Civil Rights Act of candidate who inspires me, who screamed and chanted with all thunderous applause, and his bit of a political epiphany, and it 1964 that outlawed segregation, inspires all of us, who can lift the strength they could muster. new campaign theme song, was caused not by any of the but it is unlikely he would have our vision and summon our Though I am quite sure the Stevie Wonder's "Signed, Sealed, speakers, but rather by every done so without the movements hopes and renew our belief that praise that he receives Delivered," came on. I tried most excited, eager, and fervently of social leaders like Martin our country's best days are still inevitably boosts his ego, it is sincerely to fight my way hopeful person in attendance. It Luther King, Jr. People have to come. I've found that candi- clear that he is humbled by the through the masses, and though is precisely that observation been crying out against the date. And it looks to me like you impact he is has on people. A I came within a few feet of the that made me shift my inclina- Bush administration for years, have, too." The last sentence series of thank yous began the Senators, I was not able to per- tions towards Obama. There and electing Barack Obama drew an enthusiastic response speech, and rather than empha- sonally shake either of their were people of all races and eco- gives this nation the potential to from capacity audience, and sizing his political agenda, he hands. nomic backgrounds in atten- heal. Though I have the utmost after a speech filled with JTK spoke very generally. He reiter- For the majority of this pri- dance, and there was a sense of respect for Hillary Clinton, I will comparisons and the potential of ated many of the points that mary season, I have gone unity not just with the candi- cast my vote for Barack Obama America, he finished authorita- Senator Ted Kennedy men- against most of the youth liberal date, but also with each and in the hope that the people of tively and poetically, saying, "It tioned, saying that this election vote and been in favor of Hillary every person around me. A sense this country, and not the govern- is time again for a new genera- is the time in which the torch Clinton. She and Obama have of tangible hope permeated the ment, will take charge of the tion of leadership. It is time now can be passed from Camelot, the similar plans on how to tackle atmosphere. Everyone remained future. for Barack Obama." defining force of the past 45 the issues plaguing our country, standing for the entirety of the Note'- This is not an endorse- As Obama hugged Ted years, to a new era of American and hence I have been judging speeches. Obama will not run ment, nor does it represent the Kennedy and approached the politics and fundamental ideal- this election largely based on the country like some of his com- views of the Tripod. Noah Simcoff i 10 Takes Schaller on Top 5 Chindogu Advantage of Birthright Courtroom (Useless Japanese Inventions) continued from page 12 Jewish beliefs, and then you go to Israel, for free. All of a sud- D • The "Automated Noodle can be Jewish openly and freely. den, within a 10-day period, you Experiences The second factor was our feel what it is to be Jewish and continued from page 12 because burning your taste buds staff. Our two tour guides were to be proud to be Jewish. You so-unnecessary as you slurp away. 22 and 20 years old. Both are included in an ancient tradi- that concern the law. When observed a Modern Orthodox tion in an ancient land. bioethics disputes need to be Jewish lifestyle, held strong I wouldn't say I was brain- decided in court, there are usu- 4* The "Dumbbell Telephone," for Zionist beliefs, and had served washed after coming back. After ally conflicts of interest, but few all your lifting and communication in the army. They lived in a all, I did not want to convert verdicts. Schaller made clear needs. completely different world than and be more observant, nor did that nothing is allowed to go we did and yet, they were so I want to move to Israel and pay unanswered. However, at familiar. They were normal peo- taxes. I had decided I wanted to times, the best thing to do is 3* Grab a set of "Shoe Saves," to pro- ple shaped by, what seemed to raise my kids, Yahweh be not to decide. [Courts are forced tect your precious Manolos from rain! me, extraordinary circum- blessed, as Jews. Not for me, to enforce rules as not much stances. Many of the people on but for the tradition and for the gets decided, although more our trip recognized the differ- children of Israel. Mayanot had regulations do occur because of L* The "Hay Fever Hat," because ences in maturity, but were succeeded. these disputes.] Resulting regu- come allergy season everyone will be taken aback by the ability to But then, as I was walking lations sometimes manifest relate. You could be a "Super- from my friend's apartment to themselves into 29 pages worth sporting rolls of T.P. on their heads. Jew" Israeli and be normal. the subway, I came across a lit- of consent forms. So imagine you're some kid tle old lady approaching a cross- In Schaller's opinion, JL The "Octodog," because who does-! who grew up in a Kosher house- walk. This was my chance^ God bioethics has no place in the hold. Your parents don't believe had given me the chance to help judicial system. There are time n't want their hot dog to have eight in a Jewish God, but you're sent a little old lady cross a street. I constraints which affect the legs? to Hebrew school anyways. Your waited, we crossed, I walked court data collection process. friends at "normal kids school" slowly, I smiled, I looked The legal fact-finding process don't know what keeping around. We got across, I smiled, takes place in one day. But in court system. the impartiality of judges and Kosher is, but it doesn't matter she looked puzzled, I left and the medical technology world, Paternalistic medicine juries alike. Surprisingly, many because you're resilient and then boom! Reality hit me. facts and technology are always issues also come up in court. In people believe that judges are ignorant. You have a Bar I did nothing holy. Israel is changing. In terms of the law, the past, doctors were able to not able to be consistently Mitzvah, have a fun party, and no holier than that crosswalk DNA testing threatens the "rea- make decisions for their impartial. Only one fourth of invite all your "normal" friends and walking next to that lady sonable doubt" legal system. patients, but now they are Americans have served on a who sit through a boring two- was no holier than praying. We The traditional judicial system required to disclose all informa- jury. People do not want to deal hour service, and then party for live in the Promised Land and is based on the idea of certainty tion. Too much information with issues that are determined four hours later that afternoon. every day of our lives in sacred. beyond a reasonable doubt, cripples a patient's ability to by political power. When select- You then go to college and stop Religion puts us in irreconcil- while the DNA testing can be make decisions. ing a jury, the selectors try to keeping Kosher. Other things able boxes and it is time to get sure. So there are many prob- Another topic Schaller not have specialists on the jury like rationality and knowledge out — especially when human lems when the DNA testing brought up was general court that will have too strong an now examine the implications of life is at stake. undermines the traditional ethics. There is a dispute over opinion either way.

Black Eyes and Broken Super Bowl XLII Creates Crime on Summit Party "Blows Up" in Bones are the New Pink War Zone on Crescent Quashed by H.RD. Guests' Faces Fights were popular on AT eagerly looks forward AT received a call from a When AT gets lonely, AT campus this week as AT wit- to the Super Bowl every year, stressed friend who had a near- certainly doesn't look to nessed more than AT's fair but not its aftermath. AT death experience on Summit. inflatable friends for compa- share. The temperature rose noticed multiple brawls on The damsel-in-distress stopped ny. On Saturday night, a frat in some frat basements as Crescent, as well as numer- at a light when the po' pulled fete boasted numbers of these brothers and other Trin ous vandals (read: disturbed up next to her. The cops drew life-like toys. The "guests" campers alike fought for no Pats fans) trashing apart- their guns and aggressively were manhandled and fon- apparent reason. If you were ments on Crescent and set- interrogated the perps in the dled in a most inhospitable out and didn't come home ting off car alarms. Chill, it's car next to her, eventually way. Next time? Flesh and injured, you weren't cool. just a game. arresting the guys, sans fire. blood only. Thanks. ARTS — The Trinity Tripod MOVIE Atonement Friendly Cast of Bowfire Performs in Hartford Falls Short TIARENAKATA • ARTS CONTRIBUTOR e MIKE ROBINSON SENIOR EDITOR Oscar season always comes with a healthy dose of hype. The film that's probably getting the most undeserved hype is Juno, a piece of work that is receiving critical praise and a slew of nom- inations. I'll give credit where it's due. Juno actually gives us developed characters that we can relate to and care about, which is rare nowadays, and its indie flare certainly has charm. It doesn't, however, belong hi Oscar consideration. In many ways, Atonement is the polar opposite of a film like Juno. It has underdeveloped characters that don't register beyond a base level of sympathy and humanity set against an www.kcostv.org epic, beautifully-rendered set- ting. This makes Atonement a t's not often that you hear a fast-paced blend of jazz, classical, bluegrass, Celtic, rock, more traditional candidate for and world music, but that's exactly what Bowfire presents. Bowfire, formed in June Oscar consideration, but it does- I 2000, is composed of a talented group of innovative performers who came to the n't make it any more deserving. Bushnell Theater in Hartford on Tuesday, Jan. 29. The performers captivated audiences by The acting is generally strong playing string instruments that produce a distinctly catchy sound. The majority of the songs and the plot, which should set were arranged and composed by artistic director Lenny Solomon. the film apart from other epic romances, has some interesting There was a meet-and-greet before the show dancer, but later picked up the fiddle. He is now considerations. Unfortunately, in a small candlelit suite above the Bushnell one of the leading names in modern string play- the film ends up being dragged Theater. The ten accomplished and award-win- ing. I had only seen Bowfire briefly broadcast on down by bad pacing and a lack ning musicians (Stephane Allard, Yi-Jia CPTV, and was unfamiliar with the cast and the of compelling material in the Susanne Hou, Bogdan Djukic, Ray Legere, instruments each member played. I asked second act, making for a very Shane Cook, George Gao, Stephanie Cadman, Pilatzke if everyone that danced in the show did pretty misfire. Jon Pilatzke, Kelli Trottier, and Richard Wood) Canadian step-dancing, and he introduced me to The narrative, based on the stepped off the elevator in large groups. They fellow fiddler Cadman as she stepped out of the novel by Ian McEwan, which is signed programs and joked with one another elevator and entered the room. She was warm apparently quite good and will while posing for pictures. Djukic and Allard sat and energetic. Cadman also started dancing at certainly receive a boost in sales at a nearby table playing chess on an iPhone as a very young age, and is an accomplished tap because of the film, centers Trottier joked, "Electronics should be banned dancer, which allows her to showcase her unique around the romance between from meet-and-greets." style in a couple of dance solos. Cadman is Robbie (James McAvoy) and I had an opportunity to briefly sit down with trained in Celtic step-dancing, and ballet, as Cecilia (Keira Knightley), some of the cast and talk about when they first well as Jazz. Trottier, too, began French though the real focus of the story learned to play music and what it's like to be on Canadian step-dancing before learning to play is on Cecilia's sister, Briony tour. Pilatzke is a Canadian Celtic fiddler and the fiddle. She is the only vocalist in the show (played at different ages by step-dancer, nicknamed "Crazy Legs." He is an and sings the songs "The Line" and "Mist Saiorse Ronan, Romola Garai, extremely charismatic and charming person, and Vanessa Redgrave), and is both onstage and off, and was originally a step- see BUSHNELL on page 17 told in three acts. Robbie is working at Cecilia's family's country residence when the two fall for each other. When the rape of a visiting cousin occurs, a jealous Briony, who had seen ABC Hopes to Fight Effects of Strike With 'Lost' Robbie and Cecilia hi a rather JAMES KUKSTIS far more questions than forward instead of the tradition- dreaded island. Chilling, indeed, illicit sex scene and read an NEWS EDITOR answers. And with a show such al flashback, a beloved trade- considering the entire object of equally illicit letter that Robbie as "Lost," where mark of the their time on the island was had mistakenly given to her, the element of show. In all of the being rescued: they are lost no Season four of ABC's hit Season four of ABCs Pegs Robbie for the crime. drama "Lost" returned to the air mystery is an previous more, last Thursday, a breath of fresh, essential part of hit drama "Lost" episodes, scenes But in "Through the Looking see KNIGHTLEY on page 16 new television air hi the midst of the popular returned to the air last of the characters Glass," Jack seemed more lost the seemingly never-ending show's enter- on the mysteri- than ever, somewhere in Thursday, a breath of inside Writers Guild of America strike. tainment value, ous island were between shell-shock and the The first of eight episodes viewers voiced fresh, new television air juxtaposed with throes of guilt. We learned in www.the' ii filmed before the beginning of frustration at in the midst of the scenes of their last week's season four premiere the strike, titled "The Beginning further plot lives before the that overweight, loveable seemingly neverending of the End," kept on track with complications crash of Oceanic Hurley has also been rescued, the revitalized "Lost" that made that did not Writers Guild of Plight 815. and that he, along with Jack and itself evident during season advance the plot America strike. In the season Kate, are among only six that three, after the masterpiece that as much as three finale, were saved. What happened to was season one and the less aggrandize it. though, the final the rest, of course, remains a than stellar season two. While Season three was a crescen- scene revealed Dr. Jack mystery. We know that there is still far more entertaining and do to the shocking end that was Shephard (Matthew Fox) and something that Jack evidently interesting than most well- the series finale, an episode enti- Kate Austen (Evangeline Lilly), does not want Hurley to disclose The evolution of known shows on network televi- tled "Through the Looking home from the island, with Jack to the media, something that Goth rock, p. 17 sion, season two slowed down Glass," which tore up show con- in hysterics, telling Kate that the pace and left us viewers with ventions and featured a flash- they have to go back to the see 'LOST on page 16 16 The Trinity Tripod Knightley* McAvoy Unconvincing in Wright's Epic Romance continued from page 15 young girl who needs to keep everything in control. Garai Robbie is taken to jail with no shows vulnerability and inse- other witnesses to save him. The curity, and her apology res- opening act is the strongest, onates emotionally more than with good chemistry between any other scene in the film. McAvoy and Knightley and an Briony is rightly the center- impressive performance by piece, and her character is Ronan, who plays 13-year-old played very well in all three Briony. A few of the early scenes acts, providing a strong eye- are shown in succession from piece for the thematic drive of the perspective of Briony and the story. Knightley looks from a traditional third person attractive, albeit way too thin. view, which is a bit disorienting She's done a thousand British at first, but ends up working period pieces and seems on well and placing needed impor- cruise-control here, though tance on Briony's character and her character really doesn't her point of view. The nervous have much to do other than advances and bursts of emotion act hurt and lonely. McAvoy between Robbie and Cecilia could definitely become one of seem genuine, if not remarkable, the next great actors, but he and the series of events leading has an equally underdevel- to Robbie's imprisonment are a oped role here and manages to great mix of suspenseful cause- guardian.co.uk; http://dailymail.co.uk turn in a credible perform- and-effect and believable pas- Robbie and Cecilia embrace lovingly (left), and Briony spies on someone (right) in Atonement, directed by Joe Wright. ance. sion. The film is shot beautifully, The second act starts with and an intense face-to-face apol- though lending more atmos- even in the best romantic epics with the British and French Robbie in France after joining ogy from Briony (which may be phere to Robbie's trek, hurt the — is the pacing. The discon- countrysides giving an espe- the British army instead of serv- the best scene in the film), the rest of the film. nect it causes in the second act cially aesthetic treatment that ing his sentence. In a series of distance between Robbie and The third and final act is carries over, making the end- gives the opposing impressions flashbacks, we see the dramatic Cecilia stunts any character short, with venerable actress ing seem tacked on, not tragic of joy and despair that color the last meeting between Cecilia, development and relegates them Redgrave adding some pathos to and emotional. first two acts. However, these who moved to London away to one-dimensional lonely the already deep Briony charac- Given the ending's promi- strengths and the ambitious from her family, and Robbie, romance figures. Robbie's strug- ter. This act also springs the sur- nence, its unconvincing nature of the ending are killed both still very much in love. gles in France are also fairly prise ending on the audience, nature ultimately dooms the by the pacing and the resulting Meanwhile, an older Briony unconvincing — his long trek to though it fails to capitalize on its film, even with its positives. distant characters. This film (Garai) works as a nurse and the coast seems little more than potential. The main reason for The acting ranges from pass- might have been great if it had tries desperately to reconcile a walk through the countryside. the ineffectiveness of the conclu- able to very good, with espe- been told in a more compelling what she did. Though there are Most of the scenes that need to sion — which should be one of its cially strong performances way. Instead, it's just an over some notable scenes, including a establish an emotional connec- strong points as it brings up from Ronan and Garai (the ambitious, aesthetically pleas- sweeping shot of Dunkirk which tion fail to do so, and the plod- interesting questions and two younger Brionys). Ronan ing epic romance that's receiving sets the scope rather effectively ding nature of the events, themes that are seldom seen shows a driven, intelligent too much credit. 'Lost' Keeps Viewers on Edge of Their Seats, Begging for More PEACH PIT Peer Educators Advocating Campus Wealth

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P.E.A.C.H., Peer Educators Advocating Campus Health, is a new student group on campus with a purpose of creating awareness about an array of health issues that may present themselves to a college student population. Their mission includes 1) providing clear and factual information to students so they "Lost" returned for a fourth season, which was a relief to the suffering television industry. may actively consider critical issues influencing their basic health and wellness continued from page 15 freak-outs a small statue of the two let- and 2) promoting student behavior that allows for excellent health and wellness ters can be seen behind him, and when status. By actively advocating for campus health, members of PEACH expect to Jack did wrong. The "Oceanic Six" are Hurley talks about seeing Charlie's ghost help their peers thrive in a healthy and safe community. now celebrities, and at least Jack and for the first time, in a convenience store, Hurley are having trouble dealing with he mentions seeing the apparition next to REACH, is teaming up with SART for a campaign, Pledqe4Aciionm! Every the HoHos, the tubular the readjustment. Hurley student, faculty and staff member is encouraged to pledge to do whatever is (Jorge Garcia) is in a It is this type of subtle, treat. H is the eighth let- mental institution, hav- ter of the alphabet, and 0 possible to prevent and stop violence on campus. We will be in Mather, at ing repeated visions of incredible detail and is the 15th. The flight various WGRAC sponsored events and athletic games. So look for us so you Charlie(Dominic coding that makes that brought them all can sign the Pledge! Monaghan), who died in "Lost" such an crashing to the island? the season three finale Flight 815. Additionally, STD fact Of the Week: Each week we'll highlight one of the Diseases most prevalent in the college aged population. attempting to accelerate enjoyable show. "Ho" is the symbol for rescue. Hurley, upon Holmium, which has This week the highlight is on getting tested. DYK testing is available arrest, requested to go to the mental been used to produce the strongest man- in the Health Center confidentially for $24? (for gonorrhea , institution. We had seen him in a mental made magnetic fields, which could have chlamydia.H.I.V., syphilis) institution during flashbacks in previous to do with the way the plane crashed, episodes, when the dreaded numbers which is, of course, still a mystery. appeared (4 8 15 16 23 42). It is this type of subtle, incredible Interested in joining PEACH? E-mail [email protected] or come to our open meetings, An interesting recurring theme in detail and coding that makes "Lost" such every Friday from 12-1:00 in the Faces Lounge, downstairs in Mather. this episode's details was the appearance an enjoyable show. One needs not follow of the letters "HO." While Jack and all of these to understand or enjoy the Hurley play the basketball game "H-O-R- show at all, but they add certain depth to Jw -mi S-E," Jack gets to H-0. In one of Hurley's each episode and the series as a whole. February 5, 2008 17 I Love You But I've Chosen Darknessi j ™_JE£IDB OF.GOTH The Evolution of Music's Dark Side A Guide to Navigating Goth Music |

SAMYOO out my heart and feed it to any- glory days that Industrial acts English band Bajhaus SENIOR EDITOR one." The album gets even like Nine Inch Nails saw during released their first sin- gloomier from there: "Let's move the 1990s. The band is Goth to gle, "Bela Lugosi's Look at the evolution of to beat/ like we know that it's the core, right down to the band- Dead" in 1979, inspiring counter-culture in the past few over," Smith sings on members' monikers - the found- a new generation of decades^ what do 80s Punks, 90s "Fascination Street." There is a ing members are Nivek Ogre Goth-rockers. Mall Metalheads, and the more difference between depressing (aka Kevin Ogilvie) and cEvin recent Emo Kids and Scenesters and sad; Disintegration is the Key (aka Kevin Crompton). The all have in common (other than latter, and it is probably the sad- 1986 album Mind: Tie wardrobes from Hot Topic)? An dest album ever made. Perpetual Intercourse (1986) is a attitude of rebellion shrouded in good place to start. The tracks varying degrees of darkness. The Jesus and Mary Chain "Dig It," "Chainsaw," and "Deep Blanket generalizations aside, Down Trauma Hounds," are all The darkness of there is no doubt that there is While not necessarily Goth, standard Skinny Puppy - 80s Pornography [ 1982} only one reigning Prince of the music of The Jesus and synth, pounding drum beats, and Disintegration Darkness: Goth music. Don't Mary Chain is heavily tinged and growling vocals. The band (1989) have made worry, Goth is less Marilyn with Goth influences - scream- was also known for using their Robert Smith and The Manson and Satan-worship ing feedback, primitive drum horrifying Creatures of the Cure pioneers of Goth than it is a broad Night image to music, despite their category of music highlight issues lighter works. that spans years of such as animal diversity. Believe it rights and environ- iwv.getten.coni or not, it is possible mental degrada- Skinny Puppy took Goth to listen to Goth tion. Rockers with music in a different direc- music and be well- a conscience (and tion with 1986's Mind: socialized too. Goth street cred, The Perpetual Here's a starter's too). Intercourse, influencing guide of four Goth- '90s Industrial acts like influenced bands Bauhaus Nine Inch Nails. that will help you wean yourself off of No discussion Dave Matthews on Goth music is Band and Phish. complete without Besides, who's British designer Gareth Pugh reinvented the Goth look with his mentionin actually happy all Bauhaus, often the time? sinister Spring 2007 (not so) Ready-to-Wear collection. referred to as the UK Shoegaze band The lesus and beats, swirling dirge-filled dark founding fathers of Goth rock. Mary Chain often veered from The Cure lyrics. Though albums like Bauhaus, led by the brilliant their pop sound to create darker Automatic may subscribe to a vocalist Pete Murphy, were arti- tracks like "Reverence," (off of While "Friday I'm in Love" much more mainstream, pop er than other bands in this cat- 1992's Honey's Dead] which was may not necessarily scream sound, other albums such as egory, much like their name- banned in many places because Goth, The Cure contributed a Honey's Dead fall more into the sake. The bandmembers looked of its provocative lyrics. few darker albums to the early Goth category with sinister like David Bowie's dark acolytes gothic rock scene, namely tracks like "Reverence," banned and even their sound was occa- Pornography (1982) and Dis- for its lyrics ("I want to die like sionally Bowie-esque. Despite integration (1989). Pornography-Jesus Christ/1 want to die and the Bowie influences, Bauhaus is a disturbing look into Robert see paradise/1 want to die like is somewhat of an acquired taste In the early-to-mid nineties, Goth Smith's tortured mind and only JFK/1 want to die on a sunny - start with 80s club hit "BLD" became synonymous with being a slightly less depressing than day"). Underlying subtext aside, and move on to the dark and teen social misfit, like Emily Strange Disintegration, which is pure if singing about wanting to die is brooding "Bela Lugosi's Dead" (top left) and Andrea, the alterna- misery from start to finish. On not dark, I don't know what is. and "Passion of Lovers." Once chick from MTV's animated series the title track "Disintegration," you've sampled these, try the "Daria;" shock-rockers like Marilyn Smith sings "I never said I Skinny Puppy more upbeat, punk-influenced Manson (top right) had a large fol- would stay to the end/1 knew I 'Telegram Sam" and "Dancing." lowing of mainstream Goth youth. would leave you with babies and Canadians are always a step Now you have acquired a gen- Tripod Editor Aileen McBride '09 everything/... / now that I know ahead - Vancouver band Skinny uine taste of Goth music, sans loves Goth music and does not wor- I'm breaking to pieces/ I'll pull Puppy "was the precursor to the satanic rituals. ship satan or shop at Hot Topic. Bushnell Theater Features Outstanding, Diverse Performances continued from page 15 Ceo)," he ended the last note by point- ing to an enthusiastic fan as she Covered Mountains." waved her hands in the air. During I also talked to erhu master Gao. "Klezmer Medley," soloist Hou was He began playing the erhu, a Chinese dancing and heatedly flirting with violin-like instrument, at the age of Djukic. At the last minute, she leaned six. His performance of "Lazy Ray" in into Djukic, then turned away sharply which the bass player, and glided towards the Mele, and Gao both The magic of watching other end of the stage. The rejected Djukic attempt to win the affec- a Bowfire show is that tions of cellist Solomon, faced the audience dis- is lighthearted and when each player or appointed and, without incredibly funny. Gao dancer does his or her missing a beat, Djukic has created new music looked at me and blew solo, he or she brings for the erhu and seam- me a kiss. lessly fuses traditional something new to the The show ended Chinese music with jazz. performance. with a standing ovation, The magic of watch- and Bowfire played an ing a Bowfire show is that when each encore of Led Zeppelin's "Kashmir" player or dancer does his or her solo, that was simply electrifying. Bowfire he or she brings something new to the broadens peoples' view of string performance. I was fortunate to have instruments and inspires many children seats towards the front of the stage, in the audience to go home and take up and witnessed this phenomenon first- music. Bowfire is currently touring www.walkercenteronlino.org hand. When Pilatzke finished his North America, with over 100 perform- dance solo in "Liz Carol (Sean Sa ance dates scheduled for 2008. Bowfire performers come from various backgrounds, like Canadian step-dancers and erhu players. 18 The Trinity Tripod Double Coverages Eli Comes into His Own on Ultimate Stage

GREG AMARRA AND would've been in the same boat Shah: I agree. We shouldn't say advantage, especially when you after another. The Giants organ- SHAH MOMIN as you in terms of how I felt that because he beat Tom Brady have a pocket quarterback like ization stuck by their coach even SPORTS CONTRIBUTORS about Eh' Manning, but after and the Pats in the Super Bowl, Brady who needs time to let it after a slow start to the season seeing how he played in the play- Eli should be crowned as one the fly. It was clear the entire night and he responded well, taking Must Suck To Be Tiki offs, I'm going to have to dis- league's best quarterbacks. We that Brady was rushed. The his team all the way to the It's safe to say that the end- agree. Eli was hands down the all know he's still got a ways to combination of great plays by biggest stage in professional ing of this NFL season was not best quarterback in the playoffs. go before he's going to be men- the Giants defensive line coupled football. what people were expecting. On He took control of a team that's tioned in the same breath as with poor pocket protection by Shah: I'm sure everyone will the biggest stage in sports, Eli been in disarray for sometime Brady and big brother Peyton. the Pats led to the Giants' win. agree that the Pats were a far Manning and the New York and led them to a championship At the same time, I don't think Shah: I'm glad you brought that superior team on paper (better Giants took down the previously victory over your heavily favored we should overlook how easy the up, because it wasn't as though QB, WRs, LBs, DBs, and even undefeated New England Patriots. He's taken a huge step G-Men (insert Chris Berman the Giants were blitzing on OL). The Giants weren't the Patriots. After seeing Sunday's from being the son of Archie and sound effect here) made stopping every play or trying to disguise most talented team in the play- events unfold, we felt it neces- brother of Peyton Manning to the Pats' offense look on Sunday. their coverages like other teams offs, but they were easily the sary to give our take on Super becoming just Eli. They came after Brady all day have done in the past (Ravens, best team in the playoffs. They Bowl XLH. Greg' Eli has impressed me and made his job, as well as that Steelers, etc.). They were able to were able to put everything tremendously during this year's of the Pats' offense as a whole, a go after Brady with just their together and peak at the perfect Greg: Wow. All I can say is wow. playoffs. He's played his best living hell. It doesn't hurt to four linemen, which allowed the time, all of which culminated I never expected Eli Manning football of late and was strong in have two Pro-Bowlers on your D- rest of the defense to shut down with their winning four road and the New York Football the Super Bowl. My question is line (Strahan and Umenyiora), the most prolific passing attack games in a row to capture the Giants to take down the Pats. whether or not he can remain as well as a guy like Justin Tuck (statistically) in NFL history. title. Although this New England loss consistent throughout the course as your backup defensive end. Giants' head coach Tom Greg: A few readers may be was a huge disappointment to of an entire season. There were Greg: Forget about Tom Brady's Coughlin and defensive coordi- familiar with a television charac- me, I'm ecstatic that Michael times during the year in which ankle; his entire body took a nator Steve Spagnuolo just sim- ter named Cousin Oliver. He is Strahan has finally won a Super he had games with a quarter- beating. The Pats outstanding ply out-coached the great Bill infamous because he "killed the Bowl ring. He deserves it. back rating of less than 35, fol- offensive line, which includes Belicheck. Brady Bunch," the immortal Unfortunately, I don't feel the lowing or preceding another Pro-Bowlers Matt Light (who Greg: One wonders if it's even show that some thought would same way about Manning ... game with a quarterback rating had two false starts ... no com- possible for someone to out-coach never end. The perfect family Shah: I think we can all agree of over 100. I think this Super ment there), Logan Mankins, Bill Belichick, let alone a man was perfect no more. Cousin that seeing Strahan win a ring Bowl win could be the start of and Dan Koppen, did a horren- who was nearly fired at the Oliver was a goofy-looking kid was a great image, just as it was great things to come from Eh, dous job of protecting their quar- beginning of the season. whom nobody liked initially. to see Jerome Bettis win it two but until he can prove to be con- terback. Come on, giving up five Coughlin was on the hot seat for Congratulations, Eh Manning: years ago in his hometown of sistent, I wouldn't put him in the sacks in the Super Bowl is not many years in New York, suffer- you are the new Cousin Oliver. Detroit. A couple of weeks ago, I NFL's top five quarterbacks. going to give your team any ing one disappointing season You've killed the Brady Bunch. Squash Wins NESCAC Team Must Win, But Non-Fans Lose continued from page 11 the season. Their offensive line, its greatest. They beat a team which was praised many times that was poised to become the Tournament 9-0, 9-0, 9-0sustain to keep him going. in the weeks leading up the second undefeated team in Worse still, I'd have to hear game, was completely dominat- league history. They were with- continued from page 20 tered, they need to remember about it for months as I attend- ed by the Giants defensive line. out Jeremy Shockey, one of their teammates playing on ed school at a place swarming They rushed for only 45 yards their most dangerous offensive seeded Bowdoin for the semifi- either side." with fans of both sides. and averaged a meager 4.8 weapons, and saw his backup, nals on Saturday evening. Detter Muhwati said that his coach's What I was treated to was a yards per pass. Brady was basically unknown rookie Kevin finished with a 9-4 score after lack of hubris is something that game that I would have enjoyed sacked five times and hit Boss, make an enormous 45 two perfect 9-0 games. Senior co- he appreciates, and is a perspec- very much if the Packers had viciously on several other occa- yard reception on their first captain Simba Muhwati, Jr. tive that rubs off on his team- won the NFC two weeks ago, sions. Randy Moss was basical- scoring drive of the fourth quar- defeated Polar Bear David Funk mates. but instead I had to watch the ly invisible until his fourth ter. When it came time for late 9-5, 9-0, 9-4. "That's how Coach lives his Giants complete their transfor- quarter touchdown. Their game heroics, it was Eli "There's a lot of talk about He. He doesn't walk across cam- mation from constant threat to entire game plan was ineffec- Manning, the man who turned us," said pus like he's meltdown to clutch playoff per- tive, something that rarely hap- the ball over more than anyone Assaiante. the most suc- formers who play hard as a pens with Bill Belicheck else in the league this season, "There's gos- cessful col- team. Shocking is not a good involved. And then, after they who upstaged Brady, a two time sip that goes lege coach of enough word to describe it. This scored to retake the lead late in Super Bowl MVP, to steal the on outside. all time. He's was a team that looked like it the fourth quarter and looked win. David Tyree, a little used People like humble had no business going any- like they were going to pull out receiver, scored his first touch- for you to win about it." where before the last week of another close game, their down of the year and made an once. We as a The the regular season. Then, sud- defense collapsed and let Eli impossible catch, fighting off society love moment that denly, everything clicked. They Manning march down the field Rodney Harrison and trapping to bring peo- helped solid- gave the Patriots the best game for the game winning touch- the ball on his helmet, on the ple down, ify the team they gotten all year in week 17, down. game winning drive after and right as a family nearly pulling out a victory, and An injury to Kevin Faulk, Manning somehow avoided the now we are in happened then slugged their way through probably the most underappre- grasp of several Patriots that phase." Jan. 25 in the NFC playoffs, including a ciated player in the league and defenders. They recovered sev- His phi- Philadelphia. gutsy win at Lambeau Field hi a guy who makes clutch play eral game changing fumbles. losophy There in the sub-zero temperatures. Then, in after clutch play, as well as one The list goes on. toward the city of the Super Bowl, they physically to guard Stephen Neal may While I still hate the Giants sport has not Brotherly beat up the Patriots, shutting have contributed to the Patriot's and their win sent me spiraling changed, Love they down the most prolific offense in struggles, but there are no into a bout of sports depression however, defeated the NFL history and making clutch excuses for their flat play, espe- that will probably last several since he University of plays when it mattered. It's cially since they'd been in pres- years, I have to hand it to them. entered com- Pennsylvania hard to believe that I just typed sure situations so many times They pulled off one of the most petition 35 Quakers, 9- that sentence. before. It has to be devastating improbable wins in Super Bowl years ago. He Hundreds Look on as Trinity defeats Princeton. 0 It was a wacky game, full of for Pats' fans to see their team history after making one of the has coached at West Point and Bamberger accompanied them strange plays and weird play with so little drive, and most improbable turnarounds Williams and was also a club pro- on the trip. bounces. The Giants certainly while I can't say I'm not going to in recent memory. Their quar- fessional player. When the men decided to played with more fire and enjoy the uncertainty and ques- terback shockingly morphed Before the first match of his make the run up the infamous toughness than the Patriots, tions that the offseason will from a soft, turnover prone career as a Trinity coach, he told Philadelphia Art Museum stairs, but, in the end, they won bring them, their team's failure laughingstock into the man. his team "they just have to try Bamberger joined them. because they were on the right opened the door for the Giants Their defense, which included a their best. In a game like squash "Rocky is a movie that moti- end of those plays and bounces. to claim a special win. patchwork secondary, bullied it's easy to get flustered." vates any athlete," said junior That's often the case when one And it was a special win for the best offense ever. And, when Fifteen years later, Assaiante Rushabh Vora of his opportunity team is more talented than the the Giants. They had so many it was all over, they gave their echoed the same thoughts to his to recreate the well-known scene other, but the Patriots less than miraculous plays and completed fan base a set of special memo- current lineup. with the men he has come to see stellar play was troubling on such a turnaround from earlier ries that won't soon be forgot- "Before we played Princeton as family. "It was an amazing several fronts. Tom Brady, this season that this champi- ten. this year, I told them that when experience and something I'll though his stats don't reflect it, onship will surely go down in Problem is, now I have to they got tired, frightened, flus- never forget." played one of his worst games of New York sports lore as one of hear about it. February 5, 2008 19 Bantams Fail to Advance in Standings | Houli Leads Defense DAVID ALLEN stole the ball from Bowdoin's neck and neck with the I SPORTS CONTRIBUTOR Mike Hauser and took it to the Bantams. The Mules lead until hoop to tie the game at 56-56. A the midway point of the half, Charge with Dominates Junior Aaron Westbrooks' last second jump shot by Hasiuk when both teams began to trade three-pointer settled into the net was off target and the game went the lead back in forth. At the as time expired on Saturday, lift- into double overtime. In the sec- three-minute mark the Bantams ing the Trinity College men's ond overtime, the Bantams were found themselves with a 66-62 Two Goals for Hockey basketball team past the Colby outscored 9-4, and the final was lead and a sigh of relief could be College White Mules and sal- 67-62 (2OT) Bowdoin. This loss heard in the gymnasium. This continued from page 20 continued from page 20 vaging what could have been a proved especially disappointing relief was short-lived as Choice crippling weekend in league play. given the multiple chances they scored four unanswered points Although short-handed for put the Bantams ahead in the This crucial weekend started had to knock off the Polar Bears. and the game was suddenly tied most of the remainder of the second period, but not for Friday evening when the 16-2 Robert Taylor finished with a at 66-66. After both sides second period, Trinity contin- long, with the tying goal com- overall, 3-1 NESCAC Bowdoin double-double (12 points, 10 exchanged free throws, the ued to play hard, and with the ing three minutes later to put Polar Bears arrived at Oosting rebounds), and Russ Martin also Bantams found themselves with stellar goaltending of the game at 2-2. Gymnasium. The Bantams had scored 12 points. a 71-70 lead with 0:16 left in reg- Vesprini, the squad went into The Pilgrims scored three been struggling of late coming off The taste of defeat still lin- ulation. The Mules countered the locker room at the end of minutes into the overtime a tough loss to Williams and gered in Oosting Gymnasium on with an Artie Cutrone lay-up the period with a one-goal lead period and walked away with barely escaping Middlebury with Saturday when the much-weak- with 0:03.8 seconds left, and the as the Trinity faithful rose to the win. a three-point victory. This er Colby Mules (10-9 overall, 1-4 Bantams found themselves their feet for a standing ova- Junior forward Michelle matchup certainly caused a stir NESCAC) attempted to upset down 72-71 with mere seconds tion. Chee shared the team's disap- on campus, as fans realized that the weakened Bantams. While on the game clock. This would Finally at even strength, pointed sentiment. this would be the Bantams the Mules are at the bottom of not be an 0-2 weekend for Trinity Trinity exploded onto the ice "The team seemed to show chance to knock off an elite the league, it certainly did not as they were able to get the ball for the third period and a lack of effort with the excep- NESCAC team. appear that way as Colby led for down the court quickly and into pounded the Panthers both tion of the goalie, [freshman] Things got off to a rough start the majority of the first half, the hands of Aaron Westbrooks, physically and on the score- Hilly Novik," who had 30 for Trinity as Bowdoin dominat- leading 36-34 at halftime. The who nailed the game-winning board. Less than five minutes saves in her first full game in ed most of the first half. The Bantams had effective in the three-pointer as time expired. into the final period, Houli a Trinity jersey. Bantams were able to work their first in limiting the scoring Junior Paul Rowe led the team picked up a pass in the neutral Chee, who recently broke way within two by going on an 8- capacity of Colby sophomore with 13 points, and freshman zone and blasted a shot past the program's all-time points 0 run in the final l:05 of the first Adam Choice, who entered the Luke MacDougall scored 12 the Middlebury goaltender to record, went on to say Novik half, resulting in a 26-24 half- game second in the league in points. increase the score to 3-1 in "stopped at least three sepa- time lead for Bowdoin. The key scoring with an average of 17.9 The Bantams' celebration Trinity's favor. Nearly a rate breakaways in the first factor to the Bantams' troubles points. will be short-lived as they pre- minute later, Trinity senior period alone." in the first half was their shoot- In the second half, the Mules, pare to resume their NESCAC forward Matt Crum rippled The Bantams' lackluster ing: Trinity shot 38.5 percent led by a rejuvenated Choice and schedule against Wesleyan the mesh again to expand performance was a wake-up from the field and only 16.7 per- junior Mac Simpson, showed no Friday night at 7:30 p.m. in Trinity's lead to 4-1. call to a team who has had cent from behind the arc. In the sign of disappearing as they kept Middletown, Conn.. In the end, the NESCAC's more than their share of suc- second half, Bowdoin main- top-ranked Middlebury cess recently, being the first tained its momentum, staying in Panthers couldn't match up team in the program's history the lead until the 3:30 mark with the combination of speed to win 10 games while earning when the Bantams knotted it up and physicality that Trinity a national ranking (eighth at at 46-46. Trinity hopes seemed to brought to the rink Saturday press time). rise when senior point guard afternoon. With this stunning Trinity's sophomore net- Patrick Hasiuk drained two free upset, Trinity upped its over- minder Isabel Iwachiw was throws with 0:22 left in the all record to 9-6"2 and expand- one of the many Bantams con- .game, giving the Bantams a 54- ed its NESCAC record to an cerned with the NEC perform- 51 lead, but the momentum was even .500, at 5-5-3. ance. quashed by Andrew Hippert's Next up for the Bantams "Our loss against NEC just trey for the Polar Bears with will be a home game at 7 p.m. goes to show that it's impor- 0;08 left that sent the game into on Tuesday against the tant that we work in every overtime. Wesleyan University game. We have to prove to In overtime, the Bantams L.C. Cjnei Cardinals, followed by a week- other teams that we deserve found themselves down 58-56 Even senior center Steve Dunn's {#31) layup in the first overtime period was not end set away against our national ranking." with 0:46 left when Paul Rowe enough as the men's basketball team fell to the Bowdoin College Polar Bears, 67-62. Connecticut College and Tufts. The team headed into Friday night's game against Sacred Heart on a mission, Without Allegiance, Fans Can Appreciate Game looking to prove to themselves continued from page 10 think Eli Manning just bed. He's had it since 1982, seat following Tyree's ridicu- and to critics that the young showed some emotion. It may and it reads, simply, "FOOT- lous, deep catch against his newcomers deserved every bit (Side note'- Do you think have been gas. Either way, BALL!!!!!" helmet (hands down, the play of respect they had worked so they have sideline reporters this is now an interesting Will Ferrell appears of the game). Manning hard to earn. for Snoop Dogg's annual chil- game. onscreen and states, "Bud promptly throws incomplete Iwachiw recorded 28 saves dren's football game, the FOX takes a break, and the Lite. Suck one!" and is sacked for a loss. Mr. in the game, two more than Snooper Bowl? And is that latest commercial depicts FOX again returns. I lose Kenol is ordered to return to the Sacred Heart goalie, and game in any way affiliated Derek Jeter drinking a new another 20 on the robot, who his seat, ousting a several those two saves made all the with Animal Planet's Puppy low-calorie Gatorade. is tossed away by the thoroughly confused female difference in the 1-0 Trinity Bowl?) Question: Derek Jeter or Tom Terminator. (And the robot fans. win, (Side note number two: Brady? looked so good during the reg- The Giants call their final Kim Weiss '11 netted the FOX actually gave airtime to a Answer^ Charles Barkley. ular season, too. He must timeout with 51 seconds only goal of the game unas- bunch of bananas sitting on FOX returns and flashes have been modeled after remaining. Eventually, FOX sisted on a power play 10:09 the sideline. Credible sources their sponsors alongside their Terrell Owens.) returns. The robot is back and into the first. informed me that their cam- robotic football player, who The next person to appear okay. We were worried. With two full days off this eraman is, in fact, a gorilla.) bounces around holding the is Giants trainer and veritable Somehow, in some way, the past weekend and no games Both teams decide that Lombardi trophy. I just lost fossil John Johnson, who has Giants manage to score and until Friday and Saturday's they don't like scoring points 20-bucks betting that the held the position since 1948. take the lead for good. Brady Connecticut College home anymore, and the fourth quar- robot takes down the Judging by his facial expres- attempts in vain to launch a matchups at 7:30 p.m. and 3 ter begins. Everybody in the Terminator who appears to sion, John Johnson has no Hail Mary towards the end p.m., respectively, the room with me is at least two promote FOX's new show. idea where he is right now. zone. Bantams are looking to use beers deeper than total points At this point, I'm still in Randy Moss finally makes All across America, Pats this time to work hard and scored, but only I'm drunk. shock over the score. "The his presence known and gives fans wonder how this is possi- focus on the games ahead. It's a low-scoring game ... Giants might win the Super the pats a 14-10 lead with just ble. Giants fans wonder how This past week has shown Around 11 minutes left in Bowl," I say. Five hands over two to play. I ask Giants Eli led them to the top. the Bantams that nothing is the game. A touchdown pass immediately knock against fan and fervent Hillary sup- And somewhere, tucked guaranteed, and these • next from Manning to David Tyree the coffee table. porter Josh Schwerin '08 away in his PJs with the feet, two weeks of NESCAC g^mes makes it 10-7. The Giants Jake Wallace '08 discusses about Eli's two-minute drill. George Bush wonders if New will prove more important have the lead in the fourth the Super Bowl logo. Fact: "It's very good because he England is that state next to than any other this season. quarter of the Super Bowl. This year's number (XLII) is doesn't have to think." Cape Cod. [Editor's Note: The author That's right - the New York also the size of the t-shirt Reassuring. Such is this great of this article is affiliated with Giants. In the Super Bowl. I which John Madden wears to Joe Kenol '08 rises from his American holiday. the team.] Inside Sports: Double Coverage, page 18 Men's Basketball, page 19 The Trinity Tripod • February 5, 2008 Ice Hockey Clash of the Titans Splits Weekend MARISSA POWERS SPORTS CONTRIBUTOR

When the Bantams took to the ice this past Tuesday night, it was for the sixth game in a week and a half. The Trinity College women's ice hockey team had swept the NESCAC rival Williams College Ephs for the first time in history, fought two hard games against the best- ranked team in the nation, and won a tough grinding match-up two nights later against the Division I College of the Holy Cross Crusaders. The team was looking to E.G. Caner improve to a 13-2-2 record and Gustav Detter '09, who beat Princeton's eventual four-time national champion Yasser El-Halaby in 2005, defeated Kimlee Wong 3-0 in the second spot. to enjoy a few nights off before traveling to Fairfield, Conn, to Number One Trinity's Home Court Advantage and Superior Play Prove Too Much for play another Division I school in Sacred Heart University for Number Two Princeton as Bantams Beat Tigers, 6-3 a Friday night game. Unfortunately the non- HANNAH CHARRY sure," said Assaiante. "It's a priv- after the Princeton match, which Detter won 9-5, 9-2, 9-1, and NESCAC New England SPORTS EDITOR ilege to feel it. How lucky are we the Bantams won 6-3. The Chaudhry finished with a breezy College Pilgrims had other to be in the middle of that. Tigers' annual visit is an antici- 9-2, 9-2, 9-0 over Mauricio plans. When Sports Illustrated Pressure is a measure of keeping pated challenge to Trinity's first- Sanchez, the top-ranked colle- The Pilgrims took the lead reporter Michael Bamberger emotions in check while compet- place status in the collegiate giate squash player in the coun- halfway through the first after interviewed the Trinity College ing. We do a lot of things to keep squash world, as Princeton is try. a slow start by the Bantams. men's squash team last week, emotions in check." currently ranked second in the The Bantams had two days to First-year defenseman Alexa Head Coach Paul Assaiante said Sophomore Supreet Singh nation. Major news networks in rest before claiming the 2008 Guglielmi got Trinity back in that he felt nervous. learned this firsthand during his attendance included NBC, NPR, NESCAC Championship during it less than a minute later "You work hard and hope win from the sixth spot over The Boston Globe, and The the weekend at home in the with an assist from senior for- that the game of squash will get Princeton's Santiago Imberton Hartford Couxant. Alumni flew Kellner Center. They defeated ward Emmy Handy. A shot more attention, but when you get last Wednesday, Jan. 30. Many in — some on private jets — from Middlebury, Bowdoin, and from the point and a tip from it you wish it weren't happening. considered Singh's match a high- as far away as Buffalo, New Williams 9-0 each for the title. senior left wing Lila Claghorn What if we lose a match next light of the entire competition. York, and Washington, D.C. to During the quarterfinals week after the article comes out? He won 9-4, 9-3, 9-2 after losing witness the win. against Middlebury on Friday, see DEFENSE on page 19 Isn't there such a thing as the both of his first two sets 5-9. He "Princeton was a really fun the Bantams played three hard- S.I. jinx?" joked Assaiante. was down 4-0 in the third before match to be a part of," said junior fought matches through four Bamberger, a senior writer, changing the tide. Charles Tashjian. "They brought sets. Freshman Will Burchfield didn't skip a beat with Ms reply. "1 was a little nervous before 23 players which gave everyone defeated Simon Keyes 10-8, 8-10, "The jinx only applies to the the match because I've never a chance to play. [Freshman] 9-6, 9-3. Senior David cover photo. And in case you did- played in front of such a large Eandy Lim closed out a good McDonough dominated after a n't notice, the Super Bowl is on crowd. Everyone expects a lot player to seal the deal [from the slow start down two sets. He Sunday." from the Trinity squash team. So seventh position on the ladder] posted a 5-9, 1-9, 9-5, 9-5, 9-4 Streak aside, the most out- in the beginning I was cracking, while [sophomore] Baset win. Freshman Ian Brooks tal- standing aspect of this squash but in the third game I relaxed [Chaudhry, who played the top lied 9-2, 9-4,10-8 after losing his team is the mix of humor and and got my confidence back. The spot] and [junior Gustav Detter, first 5-9. humility with which both play- crowd was with me, which made from the second spot] both The Bantams faced fourth- played out of their minds on the Stephanie Apstcin ers and coach view their success. a difference." "We talk a lot about pres- People are certainly talking glass courts." Kim Weiss '11 (#J2)scotedagainstSHU. see SQUASH on page 18 Men's Ice Hockey Shocks Fifth-Ranked Middlebury at Home

KYLENAVIN week's NESCAC Player of the freshman goaltender Wes game swung in the Bantams' limp off the ice following his SPORTS CONTRIBUTOR Week, senior co-captain for- Vesprini with a wrist shot to favor following the penalty kill encounter with Powers' fury. ward Dan Maturi, and fresh- put Middlebury on top 1-0. as Trinity increased its physi- Feeding off Powers' physi- The Trinity College men's man defenseman Regnars Nine minutes later, junior for- cal play. cal play, Trinity was able to ice hockey team went into Alksins. Trinity went into ward Riley Hicks rippled the Notably, Trinity's junior take the lead early on in the Saturday's contest against the Saturday's game as the under- mesh to tie the game at 1-1. defenseman Chris Powers con- second period. On a beautiful Middlebury Panthers after dog, focused on dethroning the The score would remain tied tinuously threw his weight pass from Masucci, Houli Panthers, who sat atop the snapping a two-game losing until the conclusion of the first around the ice as he knocked unleashed a shot that slid streak with a victory against NESCAC standings and had period. Middlebury players off their through the Middlebury goal- the Williams College Ephs on not lost in their previous 12 Trinity opened the second feet and ferociously drove tender's five-hole, making the Friday night. games. period short-handed with the them into the boards. score 2-1. The 2-1 win on Friday was The situation did not look Panthers looking to seize the On one such hit, Powers Following the goal, the offi- spurred by a two-goal per- good for the Bantams in the lead, but a stingy Bantam plowed Middlebury's Jamie cials started to repeatedly formance by junior co-captain early going as Middlebury was defense continually iced the McKenna into the board, near- enforce questionable penalties forward Ryan Masucci, cou- able to score 1:13 into the puck until the penalty had ly knocking him unconscious. against the Bantams. pled by assists from freshman game. Panther defenseman expired. The woozy McKenna needed a forward Adam Houli, this Jed McDonald beat Trinity The momentum of the stoppage of play in order to see HOULI on page 19