New Orleans CUB preview Bonner students help repair Demetri Martin, Brand New and PostSecret Katrina’s damage. all to visit this semester. See Features, page 8 See Arts & Entertainment, page 9 signal-online.net The College of New Jersey Student Newspaper since 1885 January 21, 2009 Vol. CXXX. No. 1. Ludacris and Lupe Fiasco to perform at Spring Concert By Matt Lawyue beginning mid-February, Lady Gaga had Staff Writer already received a bid at another venue and Jimmy Eat World had become unavailable. Grammy Award-winning hip hop art- Fortunately, according to Gkionis, ists Ludacris and Lupe Fiasco will grace Ludacris and Lupe Fiasco both accepted the stage at this yearʼs Spring Concert, bids. scheduled for Feb. 27. The decision to add Lupe Fiasco to the After learning mid-November of R&B bill was a result of the increased Student singer Rihannaʼs decision to decline its Activities Fund (SAF) and CUBʼs desire bid, the College Union Board (CUB) was to build on last yearʼs Third Eye Blind awarded $160,888 by the Student Finance concert, Gkionis said. Board (SFB) to bid for Ludacris, singer/ “Since we received the increase to the songwriter Jason Mraz and, as an opener, (SAF) this summer, we decided that it was pop/techno artist Lady Gaga. time to have a huge concert that would Lupe Fiasco and rock group Jimmy Eat go beyond the Third Eye Blind show last World were alternates. year,” Gkionis said. Mraz, Lady Gaga and Jimmy Eat World Gkionis said with a combined four AP Photo all declined bids to perform. Grammys between them and multiple Hip hop artists Ludacris and Lupe Fiasco accepted the College Union According to CUB director Katerina Board (CUB)ʼs $160,888 bid to perform at this yearʼs Spring Concert. Gkionis, Mraz will be touring in Europe see MUSIC page 2 Princeton Review ranks College ‘Best Value’ By Lauren Gurry colleges in New Jersey on the “Best Opinions Editor Value” list. Princeton University was ranked the third best value for While students at the College private schools and the New Jersey bemoan the costs of tuition Institute of Technology was listed and room and board, they can one of the best values for public take solace in the fact that they institutions. are getting the most for their Overall, the University of money. The College was ranked Virginia ranked first among pub- 10th on the Princeton Reviewʼs lic institutions, and Swarthmore list of 100 “Best Value” col- College was rated the best value leges for 2009, published in for private schools. USA Today. “The new Princeton Review “The College was ranked ranking as a top-10 value college number 10 among all public insti- is very gratifying because it speaks tutions in the nation. That is quite to what makes (the College) an extraordinary recognition of exceptional — the combination the value of the experience at of an exceptional undergradu- the College,” College President ate experience, relatively afford- Barbara R. Gitenstein said. able tuition and financial sup- The Princeton Reviewʼs list port for high-achieving students,” Tim Lee / Photo Editor of “Best Value” schools is made Matthew Golden, Executive up of 50 private and 50 pub- Director of Public Relations and lic schools. The top 10 schools Communications, said. Let it snow, let it snow in each category are ranked and The Princeton Review conduct- Students were welcomed back on campus Monday by a rare snowfall. Here, two the rest of the schools are listed ed between 160,000 and 175,000 students take advantage of the winter weather. alphabetically. The College is one of only three see USA page 2 College environmental center receives grant By Michelle McGuinness projects “which transcend self-interest and The Sustainable Jersey program Senior Editor contribute to a sustainable human society achieves this by providing training and and the environment which shelters it,” resourses for local towns and cities trying Environment-friendly has also proved according to its Web site. to make the switch to a green commnuity. wallet-friendly for the Collegeʼs Municipal The land use centerʼs grant will help “Thereʼs a lot of cool stuff going on,” Land Use Center. support the Sustainable Jersey program, Drewes said. The center received $170,000 this month according to center Community Planner That includes the creation of a munici- from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Donna Drewes. pal government certification program that Tim Lee / Photo Editor The Collegeʼs land use center received which kicked off the new year by doling “Itʼs sort of a soup to nuts how to do will teach local leaders how to maintain out grants to 63 state organizations. The things,” Drewes said. “Weʼre looking to a $170,000 grant this month. foundation has spent 30 years funding create incentives.” see PLANT page 2 Search committee forms Basketball milestone Wrestlers: double victory INSIDE Editorials, Et Cetera 5 for new Business dean Klimowicz Hall of Fame Lions grapplers down Opinions 7 College hires consulting fi rm. bound with 1000th point. ranked foe. Features 8 See page 2 See page 16 See page 16 Arts & Entertainment 9 Funstuff 11 Sports 16 page 2 The Signal January 21, 2009 Music / Spring Concert to be ‘festival-type show’ continued from page 1 the event, a requirement that 625 tickets must be available to non-College students “Billboard Top 100” hits, the rap/hip was set by SFB, Binaco said. CUB will hop duo will set a new standard for the be coordinating with surrounding New College’s future concerts. Jersey colleges to sell these tickets. The “We wanted to create a festival-type remaining 1,875 tickets will be reserved Tim Lee / Photo Editor show and we think that we could defi- for College students only. A search consulting firm has been hired to help the College with the nitely have that with two huge names like “My own personal goal is to sell all search for a new dean of the School of Business. Ludacris and Lupe Fiasco,” Gkionis said. 2,500 tickets,” Binaco said. “I know the An opening act is still to be deter- rest of CUB is on board with that as mined. CUB will be searching in the rock/ well.” Search for Business dean begins pop genre to round out the festival-like “People are hyped about the concert,” atmosphere. Jessica Claar, CUB adviser, said. “We have By Kelli Plasket tants will also handle many of the logistics, Details of the actual performance a lot of positive feedback.” Web Editor including gathering candidate applications are still preliminary. According to Allie Jordan Schoenberg, junior history major, and conducting background checks. Binaco, CUB event coordinator, the opener said he is ecstatic about the concert. The College hired a professional search The final decision on the appointment of will perform on stage for 45 minutes, fol- “It’s one of the biggest events to hit consulting firm to aid a search committee this the new dean will be made by Bresnahan and lowed by a 60-minute set by Lupe Fiasco campus in a long, long time,” he said. semester in finding and assessing candidates College President R. Barbara Gitenstein, and and concluding with a 75-minute Ludacris “No one should underestimate the wide- for a new dean of the School of Business, will be approved by the Board of Trustees, performance. ranging effect this will have not only on Provost and Executive Vice President Carol Pavlovsky said. The College hopes to have The festival will be held in the Student campus life, but also on the entire state.” Bresnahan said in an e-mail. the new dean in place by July 2009. Recreation Center. CUB will have 2,500 Tickets will go on sale at 10 a.m. on Jan. Bresnahan announced the members of the According to Pavlovsky, the search firm tickets available, the maximum capacity of 28 at the Box Office in the Brower Student Search Committee for the School of Business will be able to help the College find strong the building. Center. Tickets are $15 for College stu- Dean Search in a campus-wide e-mail Jan. candidates who are committed to working at When CUB was provided funding for dents and $20 for non-College students. 12. The committee includes two consultants the College for the long term. In the 14 years from the professional search firm Academic Pavlovsky has been at the College, current Search — Tobie van der Vorm and Ron Stead interim dean Jack Kirnan is the fifth to serve — making this the first time the College has as dean of the School of Business, Pavlovsky used a search firm in the process of hiring a said. new dean. The previous dean of the School of “(The College) does not typically use a Business, Emmanuel Osagie, left the College search firm for dean searches,” Bresnahan in January 2007. Kirnan has been serving as said. “However, the importance of getting the interim dean since February 2007. good leadership in this school and the chal- “The rather substantial investment that the lenges that any institution faces in hiring in College is making by hiring a professional this area convinced us to use a search firm in (search firm) for a dean’s search, for the dean this case.” of the School of Business, is, in my opinion, The search committee also includes fac- warranted,” Pavlovsky said. ulty members from the School of Business, Qualifications for the new dean include a as well as student, staff, outside faculty and terminal degree, which is the highest degree in community representatives. Taras Pavlovsky, a field of study, and a background “that would dean of the Library and interim dean of the make the person eligible for appointment as School of Arts and Communications, is serv- a full professor” in the School of Business, ing as committee chair.