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? by Amanda Garganese ’13 News Staff The Double Life campus news That powdery white substance that has been seen at parties lately is probably not leftover sugar, and sniffling students of Dr. Hyde might be up to more than just seasonal allergies. Fall not only brings in a new season and a new school year, but recently by Kathleen McGinty ’16 it has also brought in an increase in drugs both on and off News Staff campus, according to PC Security. Some students have reported seeing casual drug use Faculty profile at parties as of late. Providence College has never been known to have a large drug scene, as the College usually sticks to its Princeton Review number one ranking in hard With the sound of what he calls his “whispering piano solos” alcohol, but it seems as if the College is breaking into the playing softly in his office, discussing his own college experiences, realm of party drugs. and love of the outdoors, Professor Mark Hyde of the Department of Students have been taking their partying to the next level, Political Science may come across differently than his students expect. using various substances such as cocaine, ecstasy, the novelty “I’m really not as hard in class as I appear,” said Hyde lightheartedly, drug “bath salts” which is a form of cathinones that give off “and I don’t really mean it when I yell at them.” the same effect as cocaine or amphetamine, and other various Since he was 25 years old, Hyde has been a professor of political “designer drugs.” The drug scene seems to have emerged at science at Providence College, instructing courses in empirical the College around the time of the spring concert last semester political analysis (required of all political science majors and minors), when guest Avicii performed at Schneider Arena. Students public program evaluation (a class focused on methodology), and took the rave theme a little further than just wearing neon American politics. Upon coming to the College immediately after spandex, and a significant amount of attendees were on completing graduate school, Hyde was not much older than his MDMA, or the pure form of ecstasy known as “Molly.” The students. experimental drug use led to a number of transports to Rhode “I had more in common with the students than the faculty when I Island Hospital on the night of the concert. first started,” he stated. That may still be the case. Some students interviewed felt uncomfortable and Hyde, who grew up in the small mill town of Ware, Mass. has surprised to find out that people were using cocaine and other always been interested in political science. He entered his freshman drugs at parties. A smaller percentage of those students felt year at Williams College in Williamstown, Mass., as a declared ambivalent about being in close proximity to cocaine and felt political science major and continued on to receive his master’s degree that as long as they were not on the drug, they did not care and Ph.D in political science from Michigan State University in East what other students were doing. Lansing, Mich. When asked about the appearance of drugs in the Providence During his undergraduate years, Hyde had what he calls the HYDE/Page 3 COCAINE/Page 6 UNDERtheHOOD Providence Colleges Student-Run Newspaper Since 1935 News 2 Commentary Portfolio Sports World 7 PC Insecure: what’s Check out our new PC hockey team makes a Commentary 10 wrong with our Wi-Fi? feature: Tweets from 7-year-old’s dream come true Roving 13 History A&E 15 Portfolio 20 Page 10 Page 21 Page 28 Sports 26 2 The Cowl October 4, 2012

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by Matthew Daniele ’15 an hour late, but the deadline was amendment would handle the appeal either the CCO or Congress, they must News Staff extended by an hour to compensate. process proposed clubs must go through wait an additional two academic years Approximately 300 students had in order to receive recognition by the before appealing again. Student Congress already voted on the first day. school. After maintaining proposed club The second piece of legislation Next, Congress hosted Patti Goff, status for two consecutive semesters, the was Amendment No. SCA-63-03, also Providence College’s 63rd Student director of the Career Education group is reviewed by the Committee on introduced by Keating, which specifies Congress gathered on Tuesday, Center, as a guest speaker to publicize Clubs and Organizations and Student the manner in which the proposed October 2, to hear new amendments the tools and events that are available Congress to be given a recognized student organizations will appeal for proposed by the Committee on Clubs for new students to use in the Career student organization status. recognition. The Committee will use and Organizations. The proposed Education Center (formerly Career If the club fails to gain recognized a point system that will aid in their legislation would refine the appeal Services). The name was changed by status, they must petition to stay on reviews, and will be determined by process clubs need to go through Goff to better represent the fact that the proposed club list for two extra the chair at the beginning of each in order to gain an official status. they do much more all four years of semesters with the following criteria: academic year. This would help future The meeting was headed by Vice college rather than just get students the group must elect an executive board committees sustain the appeal process President Amy Balfe ’13, because jobs senior year. She hosted a Q&A to of entirely new students with no prior in evaluating clubs. Also, added to the President Justin Gomes ’13 was out receive feedback on ways to improve experience serving on it, they cannot constitution was the condition that due to personal work. accessibility to PC students. Goff request allocations in their second term recognized clubs must be involved The Class of 2013 kicked things off stressed how much they put feedback as a proposed student organization, the in at least one service-related activity by announcing that three forums are into consideration, like the new name committee on Clubs & Organizations every semester and report that activity being held for the student body in and location, so as to make the Center will evaluate the organization after the to the Committee. order to revise the College’s mission more mainstream in Slavin. Many second semester of the second term, and The meeting was adjourned after statement. They will be hosting Senior upcoming events listed from the CEC Congress will vote on whether it has been questions were asked of Keating about Night on Oct. 19 in order to collect were oriented towards liberal arts approved. If the club is not approved by Amendment No. SCA-63-03. money for the Get in Touch foundation majors, which students felt are often for breast cancer prevention. The left out of the opportunities, she said. This Week In Congress Class of 2014 reported that they sold Goff not only challenged liberal arts approximately 411 class rings, the students, who feel they are not able Old Business: profits of which will go into funding to be helped by their services, but Junior Ring Weekend. No class in the guaranteed they will give students the There was no old business. past 10 years has sold over 400 rings. direction they need towards a career. Student Life unveiled their plan for Finally, Congress went straight to two New Business: a new Friar food truck which would be pieces of new business, as there was no selling food like pizza, chips, and coffee old business to discuss. Amendment -SCA-63-02, which concerns the appeals process for student at sporting events. Legislative Affairs No. SCA-63-02 was proposed by organizations who have not been recognized. reported issues on SAKAI with the Meghan Keating, chair of the Committee -SCA-63-03, which specifies the manner for the appeal process. freshman elections. The polls opened on Clubs and Organizations. The HYDE: Professor Has Taught At PC Since He Was 25 Continued from front page in New England, where he wanted to “traditional kinds of fun that most return upon completing his graduate freshmen and sophomores have,” studies at Michigan State. playing sports and immersing himself In addition to his passion for in the social aspect of college. political science, Hyde enjoys “I was concerned more with life spending his time outside of the experiences than I was with my classroom riding his bicycle, hiking, academic career,” Hyde said. “I used going to the beach, and rehabilitating to ride around on [my motorcycle], get old cars and trucks. This past in difficult situations sometimes…I’m summer, he worked as a ranger at not sure how much I should tell you a wildlife refuge on the Martha’s about that,” he added laughingly. Vineyard island of Chappaquiddick, Yet Hyde admitted that he got in helping to maintain the refuge’s trouble with his motorcycle and lost trucks. Hyde said he enjoyed the time his license, granting him a memorable he got to spend both outdoors and on experience after his freshman year the beach. in college. Traveling to Yellowstone Yet now that the academic year National Park to work for the summer has commenced and Hyde has sans motorcycle, Hyde was forced to returned from Martha’s Vineyard, hitchhike alone back to Massachusetts, two other sources of enjoyment have a trip that took him about a month. been restored to Hyde, the first being “That was an interesting experience,” reconvening with his colleagues. Hyde remembered. “I met a lot of “[My colleagues], are great and interesting people who gave me rides.” interesting people,” said Hyde. “You Following his freshman and can’t ask for more than that, to have sophomore years in undergraduate colleagues at work who are bright, school, Hyde buckled down and began interesting, and willing to talk.” to dedicate himself to his studies. The second? Working with his “I became a little more serious about students. my academic work and really began to “I really like watching my students enjoy it,” he said. With his interest in grow up over four years…watching the field of political science growing, them mature, graduate. Then I keep in Hyde knew that he wanted to stay in touch with a lot of my former students, MORGAN PEKERA ’15 / THE COWL college. Becoming a professor seemed so it’s fun to see what they’re doing.” Dr. Mark Hyde has a variety of hobbies and is well known for his Empirical Analysis class. to Hyde like the perfect way to do so, Thus, Professor Hyde must not and PC appealed to him more than really mean it when he yells at them. any other the job offers he received 4 The Cowl NEWS October 4, 2012 Class of 2015 Hosts Forum on JRW longstanding Providence College. to overcrowding or assigned housing, of the class were given the options and by Andres Taborda ’15 “Everyone tells me how huge this rather than the students selecting asked to participate in an online voting Asst. News Editor event is and, as the vice president of where they want to live. Basically, as method to make the decision of when student affairs, I want every student JRW will take place. Campus Events explained at the forum, housing would to go,” said Goodwin. “If it is such become more of a bed availability McGrail said he hopes for over 50 a big event, why should we make a system rather than a choice system. percent participation, but if that is not In response to the Student Congress student choose?” In a lively debate between officers achieved, the class officers will go with meeting on Sept. 25, in which the Goodwin also responded to and members of the class, points whatever results they receive. conflict between Junior Ring Weekend comments about the issue at hand were brought up regarding the When asked what he would like (JRW) and the College’s study abroad being solely related to alcohol by financial burdens of holding JRW and to see happen, McGrail said, “I am was discussed, the Class of 2015 held saying, “I swear to you this has nothing Commencement Week in the same impartial on this matter. I want the a public forum this past Tuesday to to do with the alcohol problem.” year. They also discussed choosing members of our class to get online and discuss the future of JRW. The College’s administration has what semester to go abroad solely on vote, and I want us all to make this Tim McGrail ’15, president of the decided to take no action on the the date of JRW and thoughts about decision.” Class of 2015, called the forum to Class of 2015’s decision. As Goodwin a cap on the spring study abroad Voting ends on Thursday, October 4, order with all other class officials clearly said, “We don’t have a horse backfiring on the College. and the class members will be notified and a substantial amount of students in this race.” In an email from Molly O’Donohue ’15, no later than Friday, October 5 on what present. In attendance were also The real problem addressed at the secretary of the Class of 2015, all members the final decision is. Justin Gomes ’13, president of meeting was regarding housing. With Student Congress, Kristine Goodwin, Dore Hall potentially shutting down as vice president for student affairs, a residence hall and the increasing size Steve Sears, dean of students, and of classes, the College would find itself Mark Caprio ’14, president of the in a predicament for housing students. Class of 2014. Gomes showed a PowerPoint McGrail handed the podium over presentation that detailed the different to Goodwin shortly after the forum options the Class of 2015 had to plan commenced. She then delivered the their JRW. The first option would be to administration’s message to the class move it to the first semester of senior as well as their stance on the situation. year, which would avoid all conflicts The College currently holds an 80:20 previously described. The second ratio when it comes to study abroad, option would be moving JRW to the meaning that 80 percent of students spring semester of junior year, and the who go abroad their junior year do so final option would be to keep it the way in the spring semester, while only 20 it is in the fall semester of junior year. percent go abroad in the fall semester. Repercussions that come with options Goodwin explained that this was more two and three are that the College than likely due to JRW being held in could be faced with putting a cap on the fall semester and members of junior study abroad, and there would be a classes not wanting to miss out on this problem with housing. This could lead MORGAN PEKERA ’15 / THE COWL Members of the Class of 2015 met with Dean Goodwin to discuss JRW. Who Was Fr. T. S. McDermott, O.P.? Cowl Puzzler The Cowl’s series on Providence College’s history continues this week with a look at Things From Chickens the life of Fr. T.S. McDermott, O.P., the namesake of McDermott Hall.

by Jackie McCarthy ’14 During his lengthy position as News Staff Provincial, Fr. McDermott also worked to develop Dominican PC History foundations in the Midwest, giving back to his home region, although McDermott Hall is home to five he was only head of priories east of floors of Providence College’s male the Rocky Mountains. underclassmen. As one of the three After serving his time as Prior buildings that surround the Aquinas Provincial, Fr. McDermott was elected Quad on the upper (West) campus, the temporary leader, or Master McDermott is in a convenient General, of the Dominicans. This location. It is in close proximity to post is considered the second most Raymond Hall, Phillips Memorial influential position in Rome after Library, Albertus Magnus Hall, the Pope. He is the only American to Harkins Hall, and the Slavin Center. have ever held this position. McDermott residents get the best While Fr. McDermott was an of both worlds as they experience influential figure in the Dominican the life of single-sex living, as order, he was also an influential well as being directly across the figure on the Providence College underclassmen females living in campus. Fr. McDermott “led Meagher Hall. PC through 25 years of growth Things From Ducks The resident hall was named and development,” according to archived documents on the for Reverend Terence Stephen Q A O L B G Q Y O Z B D P E V BREAST McDermott, O.P. Fr. McDermott dedication of McDermott Hall. His was a native of Thrall, Iowa and guidance resulted in the expansion A V D E N X G A R L F K C P U CONFIT graduated from the University of of the faculty and curriculum, and A N I N R E Z C I O Z A C X Y CZERNINA Iowa and the Dominican House the addition of five buildings to the N Y T T I X D V I O E O Y N K FAT of Studies. In 1906, McDermott PC campus. Y V B M P G E E W D X F S L N Just as Fr. T. S. McDermott had FOIE GRAS entered the Dominican Order. He Q U L A A R G T S H E T A P F was ordained a priest in 1913 at a long and changing career in his LIVER the Catholic University of America time as a Friar, so has McDermott G T Z V M R D U E S N D J B L ORANGE Hall. It started as a facility used I C K C A O E R T D E M I R L in Washington, and, shortly after, PATE joined the army as an Army Chaplain for classrooms and departmental Y A G S O H T D U A J R B E M during World War I. McDermott offices; it was changed to an all-male O O O D K T S U O D F T P A S PEKING dorm, then a coed dorm, and now it became Rev. Meagher, O.P.’s, N C U R I I A C R R E A G S H PRESSED successor to the position of Prior is an all-male dorm once again. Fr. ROASTED Provincial of St. Joseph in 1930 and McDermott died in April of 1963 at N P B F A P O K T S K S W T F held it for 25 years, becoming the the age of 76 at Lenox Hill Hospital X C N L L N R E J L K H N U F TURDUCKEN only Dominican to hold the position in New York, but his memory lives H O K S U U G N N R J C Y V P for six consecutive four-year terms. on in McDermott Hall. C P E K I N G E E I Y V H V A www.thecowl.comJ October 4, 2012 NEWS The Cowl 5 Freshman Student Congress i n b r i e f Election Results NEWSby Micaela Cameron ’13 by Christine Rousselle ’13 News Staff News Editor Campus News Student Congress PC Hosts Latin American Film Festival The College got a view of Latin America this weekend at the 20th annual Providence Latin American Film Festival (PLAFF) at the Ryan Concert Hall in the Smith Center for the Arts. Six films were shown over the course of the three-day festival. The films ranged from documentaries to films in Spanish with English subtitles. On Friday and Saturday, the films Pelotero and La lucha de Ana were shown with the directors holding discussions afterwards. Liquor Offenses Outnumber Drug Offenses 6:1

How safe is our campus? The College’s annual Security and Fire Safety Report for 2012 was made available to all faculty and students on Friday. The report shows reported crime on and adjacent to campus as well as information about the College’s safety policies. It includes information from 2009 through 2011. In 2011, 355 liquor law violations and 56 drug related violations were reported as a disciplinary referral. Did Your House Get a Sticker?

Those of you who live off campus should be careful; you might be getting a “scarlet letter” on your house. The College was alerted about the Providence Police Department’s intentions to crack down on loud parties. According SAADIA AHMAD ’14 / THE COWL to the “public nuisance ordinance,” off-campus houses that have five or (From left) Aaron Golding ’16, Julie Bash ’16, Kelley Garvey ’16, and Zachary Harvey ’16 are the more rowdy people are in danger of violating the law. If the police have newly elected officers of the Class of 2016. to break a party up, the house will be decorated with a sticker that shows The Class of 2016 elected their new others that the house violated the ordinance. Be careful who you party with! Members of the Class of 2015 met with Dean Goodwin to discuss JRW. in high school, and she said that she president, vice president, secretary, hopes to unify the school. treasurer, and class representatives Elected secretary after running McPhail’s Glow Party a Little Dim on Oct. 2 and 3 on SAKAI. unopposed, Julie Bash ’16 is a native Elected president was Zachary of North Reading, Mass., and comes The reputation of McPhail’s was once again put to the test this past weekend Harvey ’16, an economics major from into the position with four years of with Friday night’s glow party. Despite strict fire code enforcement at the Castleton, Vt. Harvey, who said he secretarial experience in high school. Class of 2013’s senior night, many students still attended the party on Friday. was “humbled” by his election to Bash is currently undeclared. She However, according to some students in attendance, the former glory of the office, says that he hopes to improve hopes to inform her fellow classmates famous McPhail’s glow parties was nowhere to be found. safety on campus, particularly with about the inner goings-on of Student Huxley Avenue. Harvey hopes that Congress and wants to be fully through his position he will be able connected with the class. to install some sort of traffic light Treasurer Aaron Golding ’16, Want to build your resume? Pick up an system, with a push-button “walk” a native of Bridgewater, N.J., is a and “don’t walk” sign. finance major. He hopes that he will application for The Cowl in Slavin LL04! Class of 2016 vice president Kelley be able to host lots of on-campus Garland ’16 is from Wantagh, N.Y., events for his classmates. and is currently undeclared. She ran Andrew Moses ’16, Shane with Harvey as an unofficial ticket. Fitzgerald ’16, Bryan Wenke ’16, Providence College was her first Ryan Walsh ’16, and Christopher choice school, and said that being Mackin ’16 were elected as class elected vice president was “such an representatives. honor.” She comes into this position with prior experience leading clubs Self Defense Class Enters Seventh Semester by Kathleen Sullivan ’14 instructors include a professional Different techniques that the classes they are comfortable with using, that Senior News Writer boxer, Jarrid Tillinghast, and a ju- will touch upon include how to is a success. “It’s about having these jitsu instructor, Samantha Demers. throw a punch “without breaking avenues that they didn’t have before,” Safety and Security Deputy Chief Paul Shanley of Brown your wrist,” how to use your weight He added, “It’s a good way to interact University, the brother of Fr. Shanley, against the attacker, what particular with security.” The ladies at Providence College O.P., teaches the participants martial parts of the body to strike, different This is the seventh semester that have an opportunity to learn how to arts, and retired state trooper, stances, gaining a sense of awareness, the Women’s Self Defense classes have better defend themselves in dangerous Officer Delaney, teaches the students and personal space in relation to been running since its creation as a situations over the next few weeks. about date defense. Date defense reaction time. student project, and between 350 and Sergeant David Marshall of the Office includes methods that can be used Some of the most important and 400 female students have participated of Safety and Security is leading in situations where the attacker is essential lessons this class emphasizes in the class. This is a small budget a Women’s Self Defense class on not a stranger, and what to do if put is to be aware of your surroundings and endeavor with invaluable benefits Wednesday nights from 7-8 p.m. in the in an uncomfortable or dangerous to combat the “it won’t ever happen for the participants and, Marshall Concannon Conference room. The fee situation while on a date. to me” mentality because the danger added, “promos for the instructors.” for the class is $30 and is refundable Marshall explained that each is real. He explained that the lessons This program has also caught the if one attends over half of the eight instructor leads two classes, one of taught in this class are so important attention of other local schools, such classes. There are still about 10 open which is held at PC. The other is held off campus too. Whether “at home, at as Roger Williams University, Brown spots in the class. at an off-campus location. These field the mall, downtown, or as an adult,” it University, Salve Regina University, The first week of the program began trips include a visit to a boxing ring is important “to know how to get the and Bryant University. Marshall has with a lecture by Marshall on the and a ju-jitsu studio. The focus of all person to stop and get away.” Marshall been in contact with the Office of Safety overarching topic of safety and why the classes is to provide the students explained that this class is about and Security for those institutions in the class is important. The following with techniques that will allow them gaining a realistic confidence in the hopes of spreading awareness and weeks will consist of guest instructors to get away from an attacker. face of an attacker. It is understood that giving young women the knowledge giving lessons on different methods “They are taught to strike and get participants will not remember every and techniques they need to protect participants can utilize to protect away. They aren’t going to be boxing move taught in the class, but as long as themselves from harm. themselves from attackers. The guest for twelve rounds,” Marshall affirmed. they know at least one technique that 6 The Cowl NEWS October 4, 2012 Ask PC: Politics “Who do you think won the Oct. 3 debate?”

“Romney. I think that he stood up for himself. Only “I don’t think there’s any “I don’t think anyone in this country do you “The President.” winning in a debate. There did. I think that there have to apologize for past -Nicole Fillion ’13 are certain areas where one was a poor moderation success. I think we’re due had stronger arguments job. He had no control.” for some real change.” than the other.” -Nicole Sadoski ’13 -Brendan Collins ’13 -Anthony Rosenbauer ’14

“No one. I think Jim “President Obama, “I think Romney did.” Lehrer did a poor job as because he actually gave “I’m not well informed -Kerry McCrossen ’16 moderator and the debate straight answers and enough to state my Kasey McCrossen ’16 suffered.” Romney did not.” opinion.” -Anthony Cherry ’14 -Bomi Docanto ’14 -Kate Ryan ’14

COCAINE: Drug Being Spotted Around Campus

Continued from front page having used an illegal drug other than marijuana in the last year, and an even College party scene, the Office of Safety less 3.6% of students admit to being and Security responded that they have current illegal drug users. noticed an increase in student usage of These numbers are relatively low in ecstasy and designer drugs. The Office comparison with other institutions and of Safety and Security also cautioned in relation to the amount of student students to be aware of their drinks observant drug usage recently. The being unknowingly compromised. most frequently reported drugs used There have been incidents in the past in the past 30 days were as follows: in which students have had substances marijuana 18.3%, cocaine 1.7%, and slipped into their drinks. Part of the amphetamines 1.0%. A whopping issue regarding the party scene is that 84.1% of students indicated that students are aware of what is going on they would prefer not to have drugs but are just apathetic to the situation. available at parties they attend. The Core Alcohol and Drug Survey, When PC students were compared founded by the US Department of with a group of students from 118 Education, is intended to survey the other universities on drug usage, drug and alcohol usage and attitudes they were relatively below the mark. of college students. The most recent Providence College students scored survey of PC students was reported a 1.7% usage of cocaine in the past 30 in 2011. According to the survey, days compared to a 1.5% in students 86.5% of students consumed alcohol from other universities, a 1.0% of in the past year, 79.9% of the students amphetamine drugs compared to a consumed alcohol in the past 30 days, 3.0% in outside students, and a .9% 75.7% of underage students consumed of designer drug usage compared to a alcohol in the past 30 days, and 60.7% 1.1% in other students. When surveyed of students reported binge drinking on drug usage over a lifetime, the in the past two weeks. Although College racked up a 4.0% usage for these statistics are not surprising, the cocaine, while outside students had an drug usage statistics are lower than 8.2%, a 3.8% compared to a universal expected. 36.5% of students have used 11.9% for amphetamines, and a 2.4% marijuana in the past year, and 18.3% compared to a universal 7.4% for of the students are current marijuana designer drugs. users. Only 7.1% of students admit to Page 7 World October 4, 2012 PC Speaks: Students Discuss Study Abroad

by Becca Larrivee ’13 and Lynnzie Marinaccio ’13 World Staff

international Study My study abroad experience in Geneva, Switzerland was more This week, from Oct. 1 to Oct. 5, Providence College celebrates International Education Week, in recognition of the many diverse than I ever could have anticipated. opportunities that come with international study, both within this I loved getting to know the country and abroad. From Monday’s Education Abroad Fair to Tuesday’s city and becoming a part of International Meet and Greet, this week has been filled with ways in its international community. which students and faculty can enrich their knowledge of our global Witnessing international society. diplomacy firsthand was Study abroad is an increasingly popular educational path at Providence amazing! Spending time in the College, with 308 students last year participating in fall, spring, summer, UN and various NGOs opened my and full-year programs in more than 25 different countries, making 41% eyes to the kind of work I hope to increase from the previous year. This year, the school expects a 20% do in the future. increase in the number of students who choose to study abroad. In honor —Jenn Bell of International Education Week, we embarked on the challenging task of sharing some of the experiences of the senior class’s returned study abroad students in a one page article. While each returned student could easily fill a book with his or her stories and pictures, this compilation briefly reflects some of the highlights of a few of those students’ trips.

Studying abroad is truly a one- Studying abroad in Cape Town, of-a-kind experience. During South Africa was easily the best my time abroad, I became fluent decision I’ve made at PC. Where in another language, travelled else can you swim with sharks, throughout Europe, experienced pet cheetahs, and waddle around new cultures and made friends with penguins!?!?! I can’t wait from all over the world that I hope to go back. I’ll have forever. My one regret is —Grace Schierberl that I didn’t study for a full year. I wish I could’ve had more time. My only advice is that NOT studying abroad is a mistake—if you have the opportunity, go! It will be the greatest four months of your life. —Olivia Jelenik

People often laugh at the idea that travel can change you. They think you’re coming off as pretentious or as if you’re trying to sound cultured and intelligent. And before I went abroad that’s exactly what I thought. And then I went on Studying in Ireland was, semester at sea, where I traveled through undoubtedly, the best time of 14 different countries, exposed myself to a my life. Exploring my cultural variety of our world’s cultures and fell in heritage, while also meeting love with the wonders that our planet has extended family members, to offer. I came back home, and I realized brought my experience full circle. that I had been changed in countless I recommend studying abroad to ways. My abroad experience allowed me to everyone. The experiences you will get a sense of the poverty in the world and have are irreplaceable. how we all have a responsibility to combat —Pat Bonner it. It also illustrated to me the beauty and the adventure that can be found in faraway destinations. There is no doubt in my mind that my time abroad was the most important few months of my life and it has put me on a path that I want to walk on for the rest of my life. —Nate Holterman

Photos courtesy of the respective students 8 The Cowl WORLD October 4, 2012 “Popcorn Lung,” an Insidious Threat by Ben Remilard ’13 free popcorn, for some questions. does understand the danger she puts changing their formula within the World Staff Emily Hanoian, a senior who herself through at work, Hanoian will next year, Hanoian stated that the new works at McPhail’s, informed us that continue serving the PC student body changes should make popcorn a safe domestic the bar uses Orville Redenbacher, one all the popcorn they can eat. and enjoyable experience for everyone of the brands that will be changing With Orville Redenbacher stating once again. If you have ever felt a debilitating its formula due to the ruling. While that they will be weakness in your lungs after eating they have used other “generic” brands a bag of popcorn, then you may be of popcorn in the past, McPhail’s is suffering from a respiratory problem “sticking with” Orville Redenbacher known as “popcorn lung,” where scar for the time being, after using it on tissue and inflammation block the and off last year. Hanoian told us airways in your lungs. Chances are, that the bar makes between 16- however, that you needed to eat about 20 bags of popcorn per day on two bags of popcorn a day for a decade average, and has been giving to develop this problem. That is exactly out free popcorn since the what Wayne Watson did. bar opened in 2002, adding Watson was recently awarded $7.2 that free popcorn is “a million for his exposure to diacetyl, the McPhail’s staple.” artificial flavoring used to give popcorn Having only worked its buttery taste. Watson claims that on at McPhail’s for about a good day he now only has “about a semester, Hanoian 53% lung capacity.” ABC News reports said that she has not that the condition is commonly found yet felt any negative in workers at popcorn manufacturing effects due to her plants, with workers dying or needing proximity to too lung transplants because of the high much popcorn. She amounts of diacetyl they were exposed told us that she does to. ABC reports that workers recently not know of anyone settled a lawsuit in their favor, proving who complained the risks of the chemical. about popcorn lung- Among the companies sued were like symptoms while Gilster-Mary Lee Corp., The Kroger either working at or Co., and Dillon Companies Inc. attending a McPhail’s Watson claimed that companies never sponsored event in warned consumers that diacetyl was the past. Although she dangerous. Yahoo.com reports that was concerned over the the flavoring has also recently been newfound risks of too much linked to Alzheimer’s. Pop Secret and popcorn, this selfless barkeep Orville Redenbacher, two titans in responded, “It’s more important the popcorn world, have announced that students have an ample supply changes to their formulas as a result of of popcorn” than her own lungs the case. become damaged. She added that the The Cowl stopped by McPhail’s, results show that popcorn is “safe in Providence College’s best source of moderation,” “it’s delicious,” and that she has some “every shift.” While she Protests Erupt in India over Nuclear Plant by Conor McGinley ’15 World Staff

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The Kudankulam Atomic Power Project is nearly operational, but it is far from being received with open arms. The massive nuclear plant, located in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, will be able to produce two gigawatts of electric power, enough to power thousands of homes and businesses. However, it will also produce an immense amount of concern for the inhabitants of the surrounding area. With the horror that was the Fukushima nuclear disaster of Japan still fresh in their minds, the people of southern India fear the possibility of a safety failure, one that has the potential to affect nearly one million people. Those opposed to the project refuse to sit idly by. Every day, thousands of people flock to the rocky shore of the Photo courtesy of Stock.Xchng Bay of Bengal, and stand steadfast in the murky water as Kudankulam 1940s. Undoubtedly, it has had its fair functional without a hitch. energy is an increasingly popular form looms in the distance. With hands share of mishaps. From Chernobyl to This project will undoubtedly of alternative energy and certainly clasped, protesters form what has come Three Mile Island, history has given supply much-needed energy to comes with less baggage than an to be called a “water strike.” Refusing us reason to respect the damage that southern India as well as decrease the atomic alternative. Yet the consistency to withdraw from the premises, they this energy can create. Yet despite the likelihood of devastating power cuts in of nuclear energy is unparalleled, hold picket signs, look towards the fierce exploits of protesters, there is no the area. However, for many, nuclear causing it to be an invaluable means of sky, and say hopeful prayers. The preventing the project’s completion. energy is not the only option. Many energy production. majority of these protesters identify Recently, the National Disaster members of the People’s Movement The Kudankulam Nuclear Power with a group known as The People’s Management Authority declared that look to the success that wind power Plant is set to open before the end Movement Against Nuclear Energy. Kudankulam, along with the rest of has had in Tamil Nadu to refute the of October. Despite the projects Founded in 2003, this collection of nuclear plants in India, are completely need for the plant at Kudankulam. inevitability, the People’s Movement Indian citizens has dedicated years to safe. Although not enough to quell There are currently eight windmills Against Nuclear will not stop fighting stop the construction of Kudankulam the fears of the local populace, this that churn within the grounds of the for what they believe in. And in the and preserve the bay area that they call declaration from the NDMA brings a plant itself. Producing 2,000 megawatts days, weeks and hours that lead to this home. much-needed sense of security to the of energy, the windmills’ tranquility event, the protesters of Tamil Nadu will Nuclear power has been a source of scientific community, and makes it offers a stark contrast to the turmoil continue to brave the unsettled waters debate since its conception in the early certain that the plant will become fully created by the nuclear project. Wind in hope of peace of mind. October 4, 2012 WORLD The Cowl 9

inBusiness theWorld Blood in the Water: Tech Corps Square Off in the Courtroom by Iryna Bocharova ’14 the ruling in the near future when the current legal developments may put World Staff holiday shopping season begins. the Windows Phone 8, which will be Besides the South Korean tech released before the end of 2012, into business giant, Apple also has legal feuds with the spotlight. Microsoft developed an Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. and original mobile OS for it and should be HTC Corp., which, like Samsung, make able to defend it with solid patents. If it Tech giants Apple and Samsung phones running Google’s Android chooses to offer its OS to smartphone have been playing legal battleship system. Observers often comment companies, they may prefer it to the in 10 countries for almost a year and on those trials as “Google cases” or Android OS challenged in the lawsuits. a half, trying to “sink” each other’s “Android wars.” If Apple has such Meanwhile, Apple may choose another tablet and phone sales. Until this week, an urge to attack Google’s Android target for its legal attacks—Amazon. despite Samsung’s promise to appeal operating system, why is it not suing com with its Kindle Fire device running the verdict, Apple had more reasons to Google directly? According to legal Android OS. celebrate the trial results since it was experts’ opinions expressed in The As the Apple-Samsung case persists awarded over $1 billion in restitutions Wall Street Journal, “It is easier to prove for months, Richard Posner, one of the in the US on August 24, 2012. The jury damages against a company that sells judges involved in the Apple-Samsung stated that Samsung violated a number devices to consumers, as opposed to hearings, comments, “Judges have of Apple patents like “bounce back” Google, which gives handset makers difficulty understanding modern scrolling and tapping to zoom. The Android for free.” In addition, Apple technology and jurors have even deadlock on the tablet patent issues, has a chance to offset one possible greater difficulty.” Unfortunately, the however, was broken this Monday, defeat with multiple gains by suing a US Trademark and Patent Office may October 1, with the US court decision number of hardware makers. have the same problems. The long-term to lift the temporary sales ban on In the future Apple may end up court cases fought by the smartphone Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. As Reuters weakening Android OS positions, companies raise serious questions about suggests, Samsung may benefit from but will get another contester. The the patent system and its efficiency.

vs Page 10 Commentary October 4, 2012 PC INSECURE: Wi-Fi Fails Students by Jenn Giffels ’14 We waste so much time waiting for Practically all of our assignments plans to petition the UN to include Commentary Staff the Wi-Fi to restart, we spend more require at least some use of the it in its Universal Declaration of time doodling in our notebooks Internet. Even plugging in an ethernet Human Rights. As one of almost campus than doing homework. When a few cable (which is available only in 4,000 undergraduate students at the tired students trudge their way to the dorms) does not always work. College, I do think we are a large lounge on a Sunday night to finish “PC-Secure stinks.” I kid you not, The first week of the semester I enough audience to ask for a little homework, the last thing they need is my friend just grumbled those exact visited my freshman friend in her better. If it is a money issue, I will for the Internet connection to refuse words as I went to begin this article. dorm, expecting to serve as an infinite politely direct one’s attention to the to work. That often repeated comment is source of upperclassmen wisdom for considerable chunk of change we all I’ll even give you the benefit of precisely why I decided to write this. her and her friends. The first question pay to attend this school and then the doubt and assume you’re not a she asks me? How to connect to PC- to the new touch screen vending procrastinator, in which case you’re Secure. And no, I couldn’t figure it out. machines in Harkins. Here’s to the sitting in the library bright and early The Help Desk was able to quickly day when PC-Secure will live up to on a Saturday morning, all your Civ fix the problem, Cayla Kalinowski its name. papers spread out and a vanilla latte ’16 admits, but should it really be in hand. You open your computer that much of a hassle? “It never made to look up just exactly what Hegel’s any sense to me,” she comments in theory on antithesis, thesis, and regards to why the Internet posed synthesis is again, and you’re greeted such a problem when she first arrived by an exclamation point over the at PC. Internet signal. Don’t tell me you’re Nick Wallace ’14 also finds himself not frustrated. exasperated with the faulty Internet Now what do you do while the connection. “PC-Secure is inconsistent Internet connection frolics in and extremely frustrating. It will work wonderland for a while and then in my common room and then not in follows the yellow brick road a my bedroom. It freezes at the climax little ways? I for one often turn of every football game and is certainly to my phone; text and check not reliable enough to use when pointless posts on Facebook for registering for classes,” he explains. 10 minutes until the Internet Other colleges don’t seem to have decides to rejoin me. scared off their Internet connection quite Work on another as badly as we have. Nina Monestime, assignment while I wait, a junior at Boston University, says her you say? Well let’s see. For college’s wireless works almost all the Spanish I need the online time, and in the few dorms without Wi- dictionary, for Theology I Fi, she can always count on the ethernet need the online textbook, cord. “I don’t really have too many for Global Economy problems,” she assures me, which is I need to stream the quite a different response from the podcast and upload ones you’ll hear from many people on my post to Sakai, PC’s campus. Kevin Giffels, a freshman and…well, you at Babson College, comments, “I have get the idea. Wi-Fi everywhere. Literally.” The right to a secure and reliable Internet connection is not a basic human right, and I have no

Early Decision Betrays Mission of PC The Program Privileges the Already Privileged There is a shameful reality about this Dame, Georgetown, and Holy Cross less competitive, but early decision by Michael Hagan ’15 new admissions program that the when people talk about really good is by no means an ethical solution President’s Cabinet does not want you Catholic schools. Providence College to this problem. Accepting binding to know if, at best, overlooked, or, at is pushing to move up in the higher applications merely manipulates guest commentary worst, embraced. There are dangerous education world. Our school offers statistics to shine a better light on the consequences that put the College far too dynamic of an academic, school. Is that faint light worth the at risk of stumbling in its climb to spiritual, and social experience to dark ethical shadow with which it is Two weeks ago, Providence College achieve regional, racial, and social just lie in the shadow of South Bend inseparably tied? announced its new early decision diversity that the administration either and Chestnut Hill. The College will not become admissions program for prospective is hiding from us, or fails to see. The The guilt is not in this admirable and a nationally recognized flagship students of the Class of 2017. In a short new early decision program will grant ambitious goal; it is in the means by of Catholic higher education in write-up by Liz Kay for PC News, a competitive advantage to wealthier which we are trying to move towards it. the United States until it widens the program is praised for giving to applicants for whom enrollment at a By adopting a program to help ensure its geographical reach to harvest “students who truly want to attend first-choice institution is not contingent that nearly a fifth of incoming students the best and brightest from not Providence College…an opportunity on total awarded financial aid. are affluent enough to commit to a just New England, but around to show that and commit early.” Kay The evidence of the College’s school before considering the dollars the country. Early decision will goes on to write enthusiastically guilt of preferential treatment for the and cents, it takes away acceptance disproportionally represent about the competitive edge early wealthy is not written into PC News, letters from applicants who do not Northeastern applicants most decision applicants will have in the nor is it written into any initiative of have the luxury of assured tuition. familiar with PC. The College must admissions process, “admission the school’s strategic plan; instead, The case is often made for the merit exemplify Catholic social ethics officials expect to accept a higher the writing is on the wall, or walls, if of early decision that schools use it to in all it does. Can alumni donate percentage of students who make you will. The writing is specifically avoid dipping too far into their waiting in entirely good conscience to an the early decision commitment—up on the walls paid for by a robust list when some early action and institution that gives preferential to 70 percent,” and that “even using capital improvements budget. It is regular decision accepted students treatment based on wealth instead conservative estimates…early decision cut into meticulously trimmed lawns inevitably choose another school. Yes, of merit? Early decision is unjust, could yield…nearly 18 percent of the around campus. The words are having to accept larger quantities of manipulative, and unbecoming. It incoming class.” spoken when Fr. Shanley, O.P. once students and then having to pull large betrays the mission and strategic There exists, though, a darker explained to people that he wants to numbers from a waiting list just to plan. As Friars, may we put an end story that PC News fails to report. be in the same sentence with Notre fill spots does make a college appear to it by fall of 2013. October 4, 2012 COMMENTARY The Cowl 11 From Big Screen to Small Campus: A PERSPECTIVE ON Mean Girls Exist at PC by Kaylee Miller ’13 selves to find that there is power in Commentary Staff numbers and it is survival of the fittest. But that is not the way that we should POLICY campus let our emotions play out. When two people come into conflict, the group Please forgive me while I state the should be willing to help rather than by Genevieve Ilg ’14 obvious: girls are mean. Whether it preparing to add more fuel to the fire. Commentary Editor involves a boy, a friend group, or a This is not just a cue I am taking from club, girls can get very nasty towards Mean Girls. As hysterical and edifying one another. And why? When you as that movie is, this is something that think about it, we are all thrown I have come to find over my three years together on this campus with a at PC. I have loved the people that I common goalin mind: to get a great have met and gotten to spend my time education, make great memories, with, but there is also a good number and prepare ourselves for the real of people that I have lost touch with Kudos to Science Majors, Bio Department world. Yet, we concern ourselves far and feel very disappointed about. I too much with the little things in life, can’t say that I hold a grudge against Biology, chemistry, and laboratory—an experience usually ultimately breaking up ourselves and anyone, but I wish that many of these biochemistry majors at Providence restricted to upperclassmen and one another. dramatic, negative, and pointless College have it the hardest. As graduate students. If any girl has gotten through a conflicts had never occurred. There freshmen, they are expected to PC has the reputation for semester, let alone a month without have been far too many tears and juggle Civ, calculus, and two science placing students in post-graduate dealing with some drama, I commend feelings of abandonment over the courses. They have approximately programs at the country’s finest you because that feat seems almost years than I ever would have wished to nine additional hours of class time institutions (Brown Medical impossible to me. Whether it be experience. But maybe this is the point a week for labs, which are taught seems to be a popular placement clothes, roommates, or plans for the of college after all: finding out who in conjunction with the courses’ as two sophomores gained early weekend, there is always something you are and who you want to spend lectures. For the Class of 2016, biology, admission to the medical school that we are nitpicking at one another your time with. I encourage everyone chemistry, and biochemistry majors last semester), while also providing with. As I am preparing for graduation to gain a true sense of self and work have a 15-credit course load, which students with undergraduate in the spring, I’m realizing I am sick towards meeting and spending time is equivalent to the course load of an research opportunities that take of all of the constant drama. We don’t with the people who mean the most upperclassman taking five three-credit them to international conferences. deserve to do this to ourselves, and we to you. There are so many people who courses (the standard). For the rest of This is due in part to the College’s don’t deserve to do it to each other. I wish I could have met sooner in my the article, I will refer to the biology institutional affiliations and strength One example in particular comes college experience, and I am finding department, since my experience has of its faculty. (For example, Dr. from my own personal experience. If now that I might have been too afraid been with that department, but note Pellock, O.P., and Fr. Nic, who are two girls in a group of friends get in or too self-conscious to get involved that students earning biology majors both teaching freshman biology, an argument, it is likely that the rest with the clubs that pushed me towards aren’t alone. While sitting among earned their Ph.D.s from MIT. Dr. of the group will feel obliged to side meeting them. Get to know your likes these students in Fr. Nic’s Introduction Perdue, a new adjunct instructor with one person or the other. Perhaps and dislikes, do not be manipulative or to Biology course for majors, BIO 103, teaching a third section of BIO 103, that is human nature, perhaps we vindictive toward others, and always I realized how admirable it is for a got her doctorate from Cornell.) are channeling our inner Darwinian remain true to yourself. freshman to kick off his PC experience The rigor of our program speaks with the biology department—one to that. For example, an average of the strongest and most saturated accelerated bachelor’s of nursing departments at PC. degree program requires Anatomy A few freshmen have approached and Physiology 1 and 2 and me before and after lecture inquiring Microbiology. At most universities, Tangents Tirades as to how they could thrive at PC. To Anatomy and Physiology is have an upperclassman sitting near taught at the 100 level without a & you could be intimidating; I am, by General Biology prerequisite, and virtue of being in my third year, Microbiology usually requires one Keep the Faith a more seasoned and organized semester of General Biology. At Have you ever tried to recall memories from before your birth? Or wondered student. And after I answered their PC, Microbiology and Anatomy the possible life forms your spirit may have possessed prior to your current questions, I simply explained my and Physiology are all upper level life? Some people claim that they remember their past lives as different people predicament. I took honors bio in my courses—courses in extremely high throughout history. While humans are unable to recollect memories derived freshman year of high school, and it demand. from life before birth, this leads me to believe that life after death will attribute has been five years since I discussed After having casual conversations to the reincarnation among transcending spirits from one physical body into amino acids, five-carbon sugars, with both students and faculty in the another physical form of life. Furthermore, I believe that our spirits do not grant and kinetics. Unlike me, there are biology department, it is clear that individuals the ability to associate the different life forms we acquire. While our Early Decision Betrays Mission of PC students fresh out of high school PC is having a difficult time staffing physical bodies are not able to last infinitely, I do proudly have faith that our that jumped right into research and the curricular demands of the spirits remain fervent and strong. are well ahead of the curve. students within the department. For —Christina Moazed ’15 For the second year now, nearly example, my lab is a double lab, and 20 freshmen were invited to take we have to share our materials while the Phage Hunters course, a new, conducting our experiments. Others alternative biology lab to collect, tell me it’s nearly impossible to get Today Is Perfect to Affirm isolate, and annotate the DNA of registered for particular upper-level This weekend, I received the greatest, kindest gift I have ever been blessed phage—viruses that feed off bacteria electives that are essential for certain with. For my 21st birthday, my roommates and friends compiled a scrapbook and hold promise for the treatment postgraduate programs in the allied filled with affirmations. From my direct roommate to friends I haven’t spoken of antibiotic-resistant diseases. PC health and medical professions. It is with since freshman year, I was warmed and overjoyed with each kind was able to offer Phage Hunters evident that the biology department compliment. It made me realize the importance of the spiritual rejuvenation that because of its membership in the is growing at a rapid rate, and with comes with telling others how much they are appreciated and loved. It doesn’t Science Education Alliance (SEA), the team we have here, I have no need to happen around a special occasion. In fact, embrace today as the perfect created four years ago by the doubt that adjustments will be opportunity to affirm, well, anyone. Who knows? Maybe your kind words will Howard Hughes Medical Institute made to accommodate its dedicated come back around to find you later. (HHMI) to enable undergraduate students. —Emily Corr ’13 educators to present innovative The Department of Health courses and programs. Phage Policy and Management (HPM) Hunters, also known as the National will always be my first love, but I Genomics Research Initiative, is the have gained an incredible amount Please Recycle SEA’s first such program, and 40 of respect for the freshman biology Seeing a plastic bottle or a piece of paper in the trash bothers me. They are colleges and universities nationwide majors over the past few weeks. the most obvious items to be recycled. I’m not extreme when it comes to going have taken part. The laboratory Between lab, assignment deadlines, green, and I often do this too, but where we can help, I think we should. It’s course is taught by Rev. Nicanor Phage Hunters for some, and with probably just a matter of us being too lazy to take the hike to the trash room. Austriaco, O.P., associate professor research opportunities and honor Remember the recycling procedures have changed in Rhode Island. We now use of biology, and Dr. Kathleen A. society inductions abound, I’m still a “single bin system.” We are able to recycle both plastic and paper in any bin, Cornely, professor of chemistry amazed as to how they do it, and regardless of the “paper only” or “plastic only” labels. Do your best to recycle, and biochemisty, who provide the how my friends in the program have please. Mother Nature thanks you. freshmen with the opportunity to survived. —Kelly Sullivan ’15 undertake hands-on research in a 12 The Cowl COMMENTARY October 4, 2012 To Achieve Human Potential by Fr. James Cuddy, O.P. Speak Up in Class Campus Chaplain by Beatriz Forster ’14 in class so that we can regurgitate the Commentary Staff information on tests and in papers. We could be, and there’s no doubt that it’s campus much easier to just show up, sit down, Why Don’t We Do the Right Thing? listen, take notes, and leave day in and day out. The problem is so much One day last week, I woke up, seemed, to me, to be a dare. When Virgil and Dante reach the greater than just losing participation sprang from my bed like it was on Knowing that it probably wasn’t gates of the Inferno in The Divine points—we’re losing life points because fire, and greeted the morning sun in my best interest, I stared Comedy, they pause to behold the we’re diminishing ourselves as human with uncommon enthusiasm. The hypnotically into the flying somber words: “Abandon hope beings by assenting to the proposition day I had been waiting for had sparks that emerged as the beams all ye who enter here.” There are that we’re shiftless animals unable to finally arrived: the steel beams were being inseparably joined. people wailing and shouting. They’re produce a creative thought. were being fitted into the new Walking away later, with retinas causing total cacophony because Some classes lend themselves Ruane Center. intact and satisfied by the show, I of the pain elicited by rejection of better to participation and discussion You might think that’s strange, began to think about my cavalier the Truth and thus of God. Directly than others. I can’t imagine a math but anyone who doesn’t admit disregard for the sign. It occurred between Heaven and Hell is Limbo, class being very controversial, but the that they like to watch thousands to me that we do that kind of stuff which is an extremely undesirable learning of skills still matters—it must, of pounds of steel being carefully all of the time. Life is filled with destination because it’s neither the or else what are you doing sitting placed with pinpoint precision proper warnings, and we know site of the Beatific Vision nor the total around listening? Perhaps you need is just lying. It’s awesome. In no which things we ought to do and repudiation of God’s love. Instead, it’s the math class for a future career you time at all, the construction site which things we ought to avoid. a twisted, ambivalent antechamber. plan on pursuing, so it matters that gets transformed. The beams And yet we ignore the signs. We Virgil explains to his pupil that you approach the class like a thinking frame the whole structure and avoid those things that are good Limbo is reserved for those who were human being who asks questions, the casual observer gets his first for us. (I have a pair of twice-worn indifferent during their earthly lives. makes comments, and realizes that glimpse of what the final product running shoes to attest to that.) The very essence of this new state of once you cultivate indifference, it’s a will look like. And then we do those things that existence is perpetual envy of those tenacious weed to eliminate. So that morning I jumped out are bad for us. (Witness the priest who are stably in Paradise or Hell. The reason why liberal arts colleges of bed, grabbed a quick breakfast, looking directly at the welding.) Whether you’re right about a exist, or at least the justification behind and—channeling my inner Bob And the worst part is that we position you take or not, it’s preferable their founding during the Middle the Builder—made my way over know better! But knowledge often to have an opinion and to defend it. Ages, was to educate a human being to the work site. The experience fails to translate into action. Even Specifically, something that especially who possesses both body and soul. was everything that I expected, when we try and try again, we irks me is when people don’t participate The rationale was that after you had but something curious caught often continue to fall. And if that’s in class. I don’t know if you’re going completed grammar, rhetoric, logic, my eye. There, hanging on the all there was to it, how depressing to Hell or not, but the point is that mathematics, geometry, music, and fence, was a warning sign that life would be. having and living by certain values astronomy, you were ready to ask and read: Danger! Do Not Look But thanks be to God, he does matters. It makes a huge difference if answer the big questions in life. You Directly at Weld! And next to not leave us alone in our lowliness. you ask and answer questions during were ready to respond to what we’re these words of admonition was a St. Thomas Aquinas reminds us class because of what an education doing here, where we’re going, and drawing of something that looked that Christ is our best and wisest connotes. The prominent twentieth how we’ll get there. In other words, like a supernova, suggesting to friend, and this friend sees us in century philosopher Josef Pieper you were finally prepared to study bystanders that a misguided our struggles. This friend knows distinguished between an education philosophy and theology. The very glance towards the construction us better than we know ourselves and mere training. He explained that essence of the medieval universities area might be fatal. and offers us his grace. And that an education nurtures the whole man, was question-asking by students, who After taking a moment to grace is enough to save us and body and soul, while training only would have a back and forth with consider whether “weld” was a help us to do what we could addresses man’s corporal, mechanical their masters. We don’t necessarily real word, I wondered about the never do on our own. And that’s capabilities. always have to do the same nor warning. I probably wouldn’t enough to make us spring out of So why does it matter if you open should we each hope to achieve St. have stared at the unnaturally bed each day with confidence and your mouth in class or not? Certainly, Thomas’ stupendous accomplishment bright light if the sign wasn’t joy, whether new steel is being you’re still receiving the education for of producing the Summa Theologica, there, but the ominous injunction installed or not. which you’re paying so much? Maybe which contains scores of questions not. You see, life is so much more than and answers. What is certain is that we “just showing up.” We’re not just inert shouldn’t have a “whatever” attitude beings who absorb material lectures because the stakes are simply too high. The Debate Continues: Sex and College Life by Stelliana Chalkiadakis ’13 a lifetime. Homosexuals have the same birth control (though a woman or should not be on abstinence but on right to fulfilling sex that heterosexuals couple’s desire to use the Pill as a family safety and the fostering of healthy do, and to say otherwise is to condemn planning device both within and outside relationships (from which everyone guest commentary over four million Americans to a life of marriage should be respected). can have the committed, love-filled, barred from a certain level of deep and Much acne is the result of unstable respectful sex that Corr mentions fulfilling intimacy with their partners. hormones—a problem solved by birth only married couples can have). Just By starting with the phrase “sex Corr then mentions some of control. Birth control protects against because a couple is having sex within is awesome,” Emily Corr again cons the risks of the birth control pill, dysmenorrhea (painful premenstrual a marriage does not mean that they are her readers into assuming that she assuming that those stats will cancel symptoms so serious that they interrupt having fulfilling sex. Information on understands their side of the issue and out my stats about the necessity of daily activity), bone thinning, ectopic the female orgasm and anatomy, how even stands with them. Unfortunately, comprehensive sexual education and pregnancy, cysts in the breasts and to have safer sex, the value of learning she goes on to nullify the idea that the important part that sex plays in ovaries, irregular periods, and ovarian how to say “no,” and positive body sex is so great later with some narrow many relationships. Unfortunately cancers, as noted by WebMd. image are some precursors to a happy understandings of this intimate the Pill, like all medications, may Corr’s information on contraceptives is and healthy sex life. relationship between two people. have some side effects and risks. For irrelevant, though, if her argument is that Interestingly enough, Corr Corr assumes that nobody is comparison, some of the side effects sex should occur only within the confines completes her article with an ironic having meaningful sex outside of of ibuprofen as listed on WebMd are of marriage. The Guttmacher Institute admonition: “Don’t judge others, marriage (“because it is so great, it throwing up, depression, problems notes that contraceptive use is higher because you never know what storm should mean something”). It seems with eyesight, hearing problems, heart among currently married women than they’ve been forced to walk through.” that as an outsider to the world of attack, abnormal heart rhythm, chronic among never-married women (93% vs. I would urge her to do the same. The intimacy, Corr is relegating it all to the heart failure, stroke, stomach ulcer, 82%), a number not addressed by Corr’s assumption that abstinence is the best realm of “one-night stand” or “hook- kidney failure, etc. These side effects article. Birth control will be an important choice for everybody hints at deep up.” Instead of claiming, “Marriage is do not keep many of us from using part of many women’s lives, and it is their judgment, simply displayed in her the right place for [sex],” we should ibuprofen because its benefits, like the right to have all the information. very next sentence: “People who chose be fostering the communication and Pill’s, outweigh the risks. Corr’s ignorance of these applications to be sexually active are not immoral in comfort level necessary for safe sex, Instead of vilifying the Pill, we need and benefits points to the problem that any way, but that doesn’t mean that I am good sex, and consensual sex. This to understand the many reasons why I mentioned two weeks ago: we need going to let them tread in those dangerous isn’t to mention the fact that not all someone (both married and unmarried) comprehensive sexual education. The waters while I fully know there is another Americans are allowed to marry, may use it, beyond their basic peace Guttmacher Institute has found that incredible option just waiting for them which means that Corr has restricted of mind on the subject of pregnancy. 95% of Americans will have sex before [emphasis my own].” them from the sacrosanctity of sex for Its applications are wider than simply marriage. It seems clear that our focus Roving

Page 13 Photography October 4, 2012 Which PC professor would make the best US president?

“Dr. Hyde—he’s the man!” “Dr. Hyde—it is better to be feared Meryl Ertelt ’13 than loved.” Hannah Howroyd ’13

“Dr. Devine—he understands “Dr. Cammarano—because he’s my the American people.” capstone professor (brownie points?)” Josh Cuddy ’13 Gabriella Carbone ’13

“Dr. Reid—with age comes experience.” “Dr. Goodrich—because he’s the president Raymond Oliverio ’15 of Faculty Senate (extra credit?)” Vincent Golemme ’13 “Dr. Grzebien—he knows his stuff and is always smiling.” Matt Iorio ’16 and Ryan Casey ’16 The Cowl 14 Photography October 4, 2012 Compiled by Saadia Ahmad ’14, Photo Editor

ABOVE: SAADIA AHMAD ’14/ THE COWL For the first presidential debate, the College Democrats, College Republicans, and BOP sponsored a “Road to the Future USA“ event in McPhail’s on Wednesday night, showing a screening of The Ides of March before tuning into the first of three debates for the presidential election. There was also an absentee ballot and voter registration drive.

ABOVE: SAADIA AHMAD ’14/ THE COWL The newly elected officers and student representatives for the Class of 2016 will be sworn into Student Congress this upcoming week.

ABOVE: JESSICA HO ’14/ THE COWL This past Tuesday, October 2, the International Student Organization held its International Meet and Greet Dessert Night as part of International Education Week, providing the campus community with the opportunity to enjoy cultural treats and play trivia games.

by Julia Christ ’13

ABOVE: BECCA BROPHY ’13/ THE COWL The Career Education Center held its annual Major/Minor Fair this past Wednesday, October 3, with representatives among students and faculty providing information for each of the College’s academic departments.

ABOVE: SAADIA AHMAD ’14/ THE COWL The College held a Legacy Admission Information Day this ABOVE: SAADIA AHMAD ’14/ THE COWL past Saturday, September 29, inviting the children and The College was introduced to Silent Disco this past Saturday night, in which relatives of alumni to learn more about PC and the general headphones were provided for listeners to choose one of two DJs to tune into. The college application process. event was sponsored by BOP, BMSA, PC After Hours, Residence Life, and WDOM. Arts& Page 15 Entertainment October, 4, 2012 once upon a time by Mary McGreal ’15 from their world and cursed to live...... introduced to some A&E Staff on Earth in stasis and amnesia for new (yet familiar) 28 years. That is, until, a woman characters, such as MUSIC named Emma Swan shows up, lured Sleeping Beauty, by the son she gave up for adoption Prince Phillip, and Once Upon a Time, there was years before. Her son, Henry, tries to Mulan. Swirling this show… convince the skeptical Emma that the rumors suggest It has been almost a year since ABC’s curse is real—and that she is the only that more new Once Upon a Time first aired. This past person who can break it. As the first faces will show up, Sunday marked the beginning of the season progresses, it is revealed that including Captain show’s second season, watched by Emma is the daughter of Snow White, Hook, Aladdin, and approximately 11 million viewers. and that Henry’s adoptive mother Sir Lancelot. Last October, however, no one seemed Regina is actually the evil queen who If you have not already to expect that the show would gain laid the curse on the town. scoured the Internet the following that it did. Penned by It may sound slightly unbelievable for Once Upon a Time the writers of Lost, television critics on paper, but the premise certainly episodes before finishing and watchers expected it to flop— works on screen. The show utilizes the this article, I strongly how could anything live up to Lost? I “flashback” method made popular suggest that you do. It is watched the show’s first episode with by Lost, paralleling the Earthly lives a must-watch for both a similar mindset. After faithfully of the characters with relevant events Disney and Lost fans. watching every single part of Lost’s from their lives in the fairytale world. It blends strong six seasons, I hoped that Once Upon The writers twist the source stories female characters a Time would be a fifth as good as its just enough to make them new and with lots of action predecessor. interesting, but they leave plenty of to appeal to Well, the show huffed and puffed nostalgic tidbits and references to everyone. And, and blew my expectations away. I may both classic Disney films andLost. most importantly, be a college student, but I am a kid at I will try not to drop too many it is a lot of fun. heart. The show appealed to the part of spoilers for those of you who have me that missed sitting down to watch yet to watch it, but season one ended The Wonderful World of Disney with my with a bang. Suffice it to say, magic family every Sunday night. For those was released into the “real world.” of you unfamiliar with Once Upon a The premiere episode of the second Time, here is a quick plot summary to season on Sunday was a pretty solid bring you up to date. follow-up to that finale. We got to see The series is set primarily in a small tearful, joyful reunions between some town called Storybrooke. The residents of our favorite characters, as well as of the town are far from ordinary. some not-so-friendly actions towards They are fairytale characters, forced the “evil queen” Regina. We were also PHOTO COURTESY OF http://www.impawards.com MUMFORD & SONS: BABEL

by Mary McGreal ’15 attention were the sentimental connection between the two is that a subtle nuances of each song might A&E Staff “Babel” and “Lover of the Light,” certain Holland Road is mentioned in not be clear on first listen, but with which advises the listener to “love a cameo of sorts at the beginning of time, Babel is bound to become the one you hold.” “Home.” The band more than made standby favorite of many. MUSIC Unfortunately, one of my up for its omission of “Home” with Don’t Miss: favorite Mumford songs does not the inclusion of “Holland Road.” For “Babel” Last week, almost three years make an appearance on Babel. those hungry for a bit more Mumford, “Lover of the Light” after the release of their first album, Called “Home,” it can be found the deluxe edition of the album “I Will Wait” Sigh No More, Mumford & Sons with a quick YouTube search. It includes the bonus tracks, “For Those “Not With Haste” released their sophomore album, strays from the abovementioned Below,” “The Boxer,” Mumford’s take “Holland Road” Babel. The English folk rock band “formula,” offering up gentle lyrics on the Simon & Garfunkel song, and toured this past summer, stopping and calm instrumentals. Although “Where Are You Now?” As my friend in Providence in early August. In there is no “Home,” on said, Babel is one of those albums you anticipation of the release of their the album, there might have to listen to a few times in album, new music was showcased is “Holland order to fully appreciate it. I have to on the tour. Mumford seems to Road.” The say I agree. The have decided not to stray far from its roots as a folk group, which is understandable, given their great commercial success since the release of their first album. Babel obviously had a lot to live up to, and, in my opinion, it did quite a good job of it. I have never played an instrument and could not carry a tune, but that being said, I think I have the band’s musical formula down. With some exception, most of their songs start out slow, and sometimes soft, and rise into a grand, toe tapping, hand clapping crescendo. Not that there is anything wrong with having a formula, because if it is not broken, why try to fix it? Babel delivers 12 solid songs in the same vein as Sigh No More. My favorite song off the new album is “I Will Wait.” It has high energy and optimism, working its way into an enthusiastic refrain: “And I will wait, I will wait for you.” Other songs that caught my PHOTOS COURTESY OF http://static.nme.com 16 The Cowl ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT October 4, 2012 Let’s Rant by Sarah Dombroski ’13 A&E Editor This Week: Politicians Turned Street Spotlight Personalities

you go mid-day, be prepared to wait by Haley Webster ’14 in a 10-15 minute line, but do not A&E Staff fear, as the twisting line is well worth the wait. Try the pumpkin latte and feature you will not be disappointed.

Just a quick walk up from Kennedy Plaza, Westminster is one of the hidden Clover gems of the Downcity area. The road is Clover features a unique blend of flanked with old brick walkways and casual and sophisticated menswear curtained by stringed lights that make and womenswear that breaks the Let me preface this with the fact that I love SNL, the street glow each and every evening. mold. You will not see these brands and I love Tina Fey more. Tina Fey as Sarah Palin was The combination of small boutiques, or quality at Providence Place. While pure, comic genius:­­­­­­­­­­­ a script that wrote itself, if you will. historical buildings, and looming some of their items are what some However, what I find less-than-kosher are pictures of financial buildings make this pocket of would call “an investment” ($50+ for the President of the United States emerging from the downtown a wanderer’s paradise. Its a top), their jewelry and accessory ocean in his swim trunks all over People Magazine. This location near Thayer Street, Kennedy selection makes Clover the perfect is no fault of the President, but the crossover from pop Plaza, and the State House also make gift-buying destination. The store is culture phenom to presidential candidate is getting too this spot key for people-watching. spacious and stark white, providing blurred. I am not speaking about politics, but about a relaxing and refreshing shopping the political circus. Candidates turned celebrities are Small Point Café environment. If you can get past the launched into this tide pool of cynicism and criticism This little eatery is tucked among prices, then Clover is the go-to for based on concerns about everything but politics. I don’t the mix of high-rise corporate adding pieces to your fall wardrobe. understand it. Yes, the future leader of our country buildings and quaint boutiques that should be judged, but should there be a picture montage encase Westminster Street. The cozy of a family vacation splayed across every newsstand ambiance makes this coffee shop Symposium Books and blog? A waste of ink if I do say so myself. the perfect place to duck in for your Ever notice how there is not a Not only have politics, albeit unwillingly, co-mingled favorite caffeinated beverage or a big-name bookstore in dear old with the rich and famous, but celebrities have come baked good that will most likely be Prov? That is because Barnes and knocking on the White House door. From reality-show as big as your head. If you are not Noble just cannot compete with starlets to Hollywood heavy-hitters, everyone seems to into gorging like me, then you will places like Symposium that offer realize the lucrative aspect of hitching their train to a still find Small Point the perfect a different type of experience for star, but how appropriate are celebrity endorsements in place to fly through some reading, bibliophiles. You will not walk in a presidential race? Is it even appropriate to know who hammer out a paper, or just watch and get flanked by a cardboard Chuck Norris is planning on marking off on his ballot? the characters that wander up this display of The Hunger Games, but Granted, the support of a celebrity could mean big beautiful street. The tempting aroma you will find books on topics like the money for a presidential campaign, but does it cheapen of the fresh baked goods and roasted Kennedy Conspiracy and the best the reputation of the candidate? Some celebrities, like coffee will force you into settling bike paths in Spain. Sort through the Kid Rock, were of a similar mindset until recently. down in one of the window seats. The compact mixed stacks of reasonably During the last presidential race, Rock stated that prices are college-student affordable priced treasures, and you will surely celebrities should keep their political opinions to and are extremely reasonable for the leave with a few eye-openers to themselves. In an interview with CMT Insider, Kid Rock high quality (and fair trade) coffee break up the monotony of your remarked, “I truly believe that people like myself, who that they are constantly brewing. If required course readings. are in a position of entertainers in the limelight, should keep their mouth shut on politics, because at the end of the day, I’m good at writing songs and singing. What I’m not educated in is the field of political science. And so for me to be sharing my views and influencing people of who I think they should be voting for...I think would be very irresponsible on my part.” Rock is now singing a different tune. Recently, Kid Rock rocked out Think we put this ad here just to to “Born Free,” Romney’s official campaign song, at the presidential candidate’s final Michigan rally before the state voted on Feb. 28. take up space? Frankly, I feel that John Mellancamp’s worst moment in his career was when he got political, the same can be said of Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, and the Dixie Chicks (lol,) The bottom line is, stick to what you know. Politicians YOU’RE RIGHT. who gravitate too near to the spotlight are bound to get burned, and the same can be said of celebrities who try to hop on the campaign trail bandwagon. Be careful, We need your articles- Apply to A&E! because you may end up having to write George W. Bush a formal apology letter and never have a good single again (lol).

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by Sarah O’Brien ’15 aspects of the African culture.” future include becoming an official their mission is centered around. Assistant A&E Editor The group emphasizes that anyone club, gaining more participants, and Through their service work and can join; members do not have to have initiating a cultural show to be held expressive dances, members hope to CLUB an African heritage. Only two members each year. “We envision a huge talent shatter some stereotypes that may be of the group are, in fact, international show of sorts at PC. We would love held by students as well. “Just because students. “Motherland is open for to collaborate with groups like OLAS, our skin is dark, doesn’t mean we’re all With Late Night Madness fast everyone, and any background is Asian Am, Afro Am, and Gaelic Society the same,” said Ansah. approaching, students are eagerly welcomed with open arms,” said to pull this together,” said Kamara. “A Look for their number during anticipating dance groups that will Kamara, the head organizer of the lot of colleges have something like this Madness on Oct. 12, during which be performing. Of course, there is the group. “We would really love to have a already, so this would be great to add about ten of the group’s members will annual BMSA versus BOP dance-off, as diverse mix of people involved.” at PC, especially with the new diversity perform. This will mark the group’s first well as numbers from Dance Club and Branica Galeana ’15 does not feel initiative.” performance at PC, and they are excited Dance Team, but this year there will be out of place, despite her non-African Motherland also has plans to exhibit to introduce themselves to the student a new group taking the court. Meet the roots. “I see the group as a chance for their dances at events such as African- body. Kamara, wearing a homemade Motherland Dance Group, made up of me to learn to dance, and as a way to American Society’s annual fashion shirt decorated with African fabric, about 30 members who celebrate the branch out. I’ve made new friends who show and WDOM’s spring concert. The summed up Motherland: “We love our African culture through dance. make it enjoyable,” said Galeana. group also hopes to become heavily culture. This group is about embracing Though not yet an officially Another unique aspect of the involved in community service, since who you are.” recognized club of Providence College, group’s inclusiveness is that every creating a sense of community is what the Motherland dancers have been member has the opportunity to give meeting regularly to fulfill their input on choreography. The result is goals for this year and to spread the a dance number that includes dance word about their mission. They cite styles and techniques crossing a broad this undertaking to be “to build a range of cultures throughout Africa. community on campus that appreciates Taiwo Adefiyiju ‘14 is excited to bea African culture, through social part of this innovative dance club. “I’m activities that engage students in issues happy to show people that there is a lot of Africa and the African Diaspora.” more to African culture than they may Co-creators Jermoh Vainga Kamara ’15 think,” said Adefiyiju. and Precious Ansah ’15 expressed a This student-run group has had feeling of nostalgia for the inclusion of an intensive practice schedule so far, cultural celebration throughout their rehearsing almost every day of the high school years, and decided that week in the Smith Center for the Arts. they had to take advantage of a chance They owe much of their success so far to establish this at PC. to support from several members of “When I was in high school, we faculty. “We are sponsored by Elena had international shows. I felt this Yee and Dr. Oliver from the music and was missing on campus, and last year theatre department. Steve Sears also I didn’t feel completely fulfilled. I’ve helped a lot. We really appreciate their been dancing since I was a kid, so it’s assistance in getting us started,” a part of me,” said Ansah. “We created said Kamara. this group to embrace and showcase The group’s main goals for the PHOTO COURTESY OF Jermoh Kamara ‘15

EDITOR VS. EDITOR This Week: Favorite Way to Spend Columbus Day Sarah O’Brien Sarah Dombroski Favorite Way to Spend Columbus Day: Writing a Civ Paper Favorite Way to Spend Columbus Day: Apple Picking Her Views: Last year, I spent Columbus Day weekend rather suitably—shipping…up to Boston, that is (to find my Her Views: Apple picking is an American wooden leg). This Monday, I will not be gracing the 01801 pastime. Anyone who does not enjoy apple with my presence. Instead, I get to embark on a different picking is un-American. Bold statement, but journey: the writing of a Civ paper. Pretty sure Christopher true. Apple picking yields fruitful memories would be in full support of my spending hours staring at and actual apples (pun intended). Picture this: my computer screen and pondering the development of gleeful children running through an orchard western civilization. Luckily, I LIV for CIV. Got a DWC tattoo carrying bushels on bushels on bushels of over the summer, though I won’t say where. I’m probably apples, and vendors lining up along the gravel naming my future children Niña, Pinta, and Santa María. parking lot vending apple fritters and such. I spend weekend evenings debating the philosophies of Does that not just SHOUT fall?! Flannels, Descartes and Hume over red cups…Kant say I remember denim, boots, these are a few of my favorite all of these discussions, but they were definitely as deep as things… along with happiness, which is one of the ocean blue (which Columbus sailed in 1492). You may the main components of apple picking. think you have exciting Columbus Day plans—visiting your family, or whatever—but if you’re not writing a Civ Her Views on O’Brien: Sarah wrote a “satire” paper, you are not living life to the fullest. Be jealous. on “Civ essays” in order to find some way to get around fighting over apple picking. I mean, her other idea was sleep…so…no, that was a low Her Views on Dombroski: Apple picking? Apple picking? For blow. Sarah, I cannot technically debate a fake those of you who aren’t aware, this activity involves the picking topic, so alas, this much be a draw. Although I of apples. (Not to be confused with Apple® picking, which give you points for creativity and style, content- involves the buying of a Mac or iPhone.) People go to farms wise, I must say you are just not up to par. No and pluck their own apples, when they could easily go down sane human being would ever seek out a Civ the street and pay half the price for none of the effort at Shaw’s. essay, and revel in wordsmithing the heck out of Yeah, it’s cute. If you’re, like, seven. Gonna break out those it. Except for maybe you, or me… pigtails on Monday, Sarah? Who would want to spend a day at a dirty, smelly farm doing manual labor, all for a few apples? I’ll be honest—I would. Call me, maybe? We could play Apples to Apples after, and make an apple pie, and OMG I CAN’T WAIT.

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We were born without vision. Our eyes never saw the New York Skyline from Shining with bright hope from across the river. We never saw the great rise and fall Of the mountains of Galicia, That pave the forested path to Saint James. We never saw the great plantations That our grandfathers’ father, built on Foreign shores, in another time; in another place. History We never saw the Atlantic’s waves #Eden Kiss the coast’s dusty lips with the passionate brush Only_God That carried us off to a new life; to a new world, @AdamsApple @EveNYou don’t touch that tree right Darkened with these unsatisfying illusions there #offlimits Of lust and longing that filled our lungs.

We were born into this world with AdamsApple The expectations of expecting @Only_God a'ight pops #obedience Blind men and women to see. So instead, We now wander through cracks and crevices; SlitherineLover Live in caves, and grope around in the dark for @Only_God lmfao…watch this bro Vain direction. Misled, we wander into @EveNYou how do you like d'em apples? #reddelicious The nests of vipers and cobras, and fall to Their venomous fangs of lies and deceit, EveNYou Buried deep within our feet, always pulling us down @SlitherineLover OMG yes tasty...take a bite And filling our mouths with blood and dirt. @AdamsApple. #yum But still we pick up and move forward; Connected by this line of thread sewn AdamsApple Into our bleeding hearts, we can feel your touch. @EveNYou tastes like heaven…woah I'm #naked So with a little twitch upon the thread, We get up and wander once again. SlitherineLover @Only_God @AdamsApple @EveNYou fruit comes We were born without any vision; before the fall #suckers Immune to the illusion of reality, But victim to the touch of man; Only_God Destined to a search for something more #facepalm... @AdamsApple @EveNYou enjoy work Than blind meanderings in the dark, and labor pains Like a rolling stream through the mountains,

Passing 'round and around the sides Before finally reaching the bottom. SlitherineLover And so, at the bottom of the viper’s den, hahahahaha #ParadiseLost #sorrynotsorry We grab hold of this long thread sewn deep Into our hearts, and follow the great pulls Only_God And slight tremors, until at last we see the end. @SlitherineLover you too slimey. time to slither #handicapspace

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. . . See you on Thursday! 26 The Cowl SPORTS October 4, 2012 Who Will Win the NL CY In the Young Award This Season? Spotlight Men’s Soccer: Soccer’s struggles continued this week, as the Friars dropped R.A. Dickey Craig Kimbrel a tough match against nationally ranked Marquette. The team will look to Besides Johan Santana throwing Many argue that the CY Young regroup on the road, with a match set against Columbia for Saturday. the franchise’s first no-hitter back should be awarded to starting pitchers in June, Mets fans have not had only. However, this year an exception Women’s Soccer: The women entered the week on their first losing streak much to celebrate in a while. R.A. should be made due to the fact that of their season. The Friars finished the week with a 1-1 record, dropping a Dickey intends to change that. The one closer is having a year yet to be tough match at Georgetown 1-0. The team rebounded nicely, with a clutch CY Young Award is the highest seen by anybody. No, this closer is win against DePaul 1-0. Freshman Lauren Elia ’16 netted the lone goal for pitching award one could receive, not fireballer Aroldis Chapman of the Friars, who square off against Marquette Friday at 3 p.m. at Glay Field. and Dickey appears to be leading the Cincinnati Reds; this closer is The week continues with a match against USF at 1 p.m. on Sunday, in what the race. The last Met to win the Craig Kimbrel of the Atlanta Braves. will be the last game at Glay Field. award was legend Dwight Gooden With a fastball in the high 90s and an in 1985. The CY Young winner is unhittable slider, he is on his way to rarely a guaranteed choice. With the equaling the success of closing greats Field Hockey: PC had a tough week, losing both of their games. It started likes of Gio Gonzalez, Matt Cain, Mariano Rivera and Trevor Hoffman. with a 4-2 loss against number five UConn. Then PC had to turn around and and Johny Cueto, this race will be Kimbrel, while pitching a miniscule square off against Dartmouth at home. This affair unfortunately ended with no different. However, the stats do ERA of 1.02, has struck out almost a 3-1 loss for PC. The Friars will look to rebound against Syracuse Saturday not lie; R.A. Dickey should win the half the batters he has faced this year, at noon at home, before traveling on Monday for a game against Vermont. NL CY Young this year. leading to his astonishing strikeouts Dickey is among the top three per nine innings rate of 16.5. No pitcher Cross Country: The Women’s Cross Country Team took sixth place in the in ERA, WHIP, and has the most has ever come close to striking out the recent Paul Short Invitational, with Sarah Collins ’16 placing in third in the strikeouts in the National League. percentage of hitters that Kimbrel has, Gold Race. Shane Quinn ’15 finished in eighth in the Men’s Gold Race. As if you need any more evidence, not to mention that Kimbrel’s batting he has the second most wins in average against, .123, is the lowest ever the entire league at 20. Every by any pitcher with a minimum of 50 knowledgeable fan can tell you innings pitched. One final stat that that wins do not mean anything, should sway voters is that Kimbrel’s In the but when that pitcher is on the WHIP is a ridiculously low 0.65, Mets, it means a great deal. This meaning he lets roughly one runner is the exact same case of “King” on base every two innings. He has only Running the Good Race: On Saturday, Liam Sullivan ’15 and Dean Sears Felix Hernandez who won it in blown three saves this season, making finished first and second in a 5K memorial race in Providence. The race 2010 with a measly record of 13-12. him one of the most reliable and most News was in honor of Steven K. Latimer, a young man who died in a shooting in In fact, Dickey is responsible for shutdown closers not only in recent roughly 28% of the Mets victories. memory, but in major league history. Providence. This race was to raise awareness of the violence which takes Dickey is also second in the league To paraphrase ESPN baseball place in Rhode Island. Sullivan, a member of Student Congress, was one of in innings pitched. analyst Jayson Stark, R.A. Dickey, eight Friars to run in this race. With all things considered, R.A. Clayton Kershaw, Gio Gonzalez, Dickey is the clear favorite for CY and even Chapman are having great Quick to the Podium: Sarah Collins ’16 has added hardware to her dorm Young. Mets fans rejoice. seasons, but none of them can be room, capturing the Big East Women’s Cross Country Athlete of the Week. characterized as “unparalleled” or She clocked a time of 20:23 in a 6K race, good enough to earn her second “historic.” These two words are just the place in the Paul Short Invitational. Her time helped propel the Friars into -James Kirby ’15 words to describe Kimbrel’s season, third place in the Invitational. and two reasons why he should be the NL CY Young winner for 2012. Recruiting Trail: Men’s Basketball has added their first piece to the 2013 -Joey Ciccarello ’16 Recruiting Class, confirming a commitment from Rodney Bullock, a 6-7 forward from Virginia. Bullock rejoins high school teammate Josh Fortune ’16 on the Friars.

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The other day I was doing what I do best when faced with a paper; I went on Facebook and shamelessly stalked my own life, half looking for inspiration, half enjoying recent memories made. In my perusing, I came across pictures of my vacations to Cape Cod. For those of you who are perhaps not from New England, the Cape is New England’s accessible version of the tropics. Looking through pictures, I reminisced on times at the beach and great seafood restaurants. However, the most cherished memory of my years of visiting the Cape is, without a doubt, going to the Cape Cod Baseball League games. The set up of the Cape league contributes significantly to the league’s charm. It consists college baseball players from a diverse range Current Stage of Renovations: of colleges, from the University of Oregon to Boston College. These kids are amongst the best, seeking the Cape league to gather looks from Major League Baseball scouts who scour the games in search of the next superstar. Alumni from the Cape league include Jason Varitek, Nomar Garciapara, Mark Teixeira, Billy Wagner, and former PC baseball player Lou Merloni to name a few. There are 250 Cape League players currently among the ranks of professional baseball. The players are set up with a host family, which takes in the player for the summer. The towns they move to are small and quiet three-fourths of the year, but come summer, they become bustling centers of tourism, of which these players become the epicenter. They all work summer jobs, ranging from fried seafood eateries, to manual labor on the Cape. Then they lace up their cleats at night, taking on other towns’ teams. Games are free, and many families and college kids flock to them after a long day at the beach. There are friendly faces at every corner at

PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY OF PROVIDENCE COLLEGE these games. Who can be mad at the games? The lights sit serenely in the summer air. The neatly-combed field with brown dirt melding into the infield’s grass looks too peaceful. No major stands, just small bleachers set up for fans, Repeat after Me: but most fans bring their own lawn chairs or blankets to lounge on. The atmosphere is a high school game, with Cross Country is Worth the Second Look most of these fields set up at middle and high schools. But it is pro level competition. Did I mention that games are free too? While Fenway is one of by Bridget Stack ’13 it is easily the most successful team kilometer race—slightly over three the most incredible places to catch a Sports Editor in the history of Providence College. miles—in just over 17 minutes. To There is more than enough proof of break that down for you, that is baseball game, it is one of the most column this. Three former Friars made the around a 5-minute mile. The leader expensive day trips you could make. Olympics. The Olympics—the highest on the men’s squad completed the Not to mention the crowds, the traffic, level of sporting competition that eight-kilometer race in a little over and the headache that accompanies Repeat After Me: Cross country exists. There is even a current Friar, 24 minutes. That is a just under a five planning and going to a game. Going to is worth a second look. In actuality, Emily Sisson ’14, who competed in mile race, with the pace being 5:27. Cape games captures all the excitement it is worth the first glance. The these past Olympic Trials. What other Let’s see any other athlete do that. of high-level baseball, for free. Providence College Track and Field sport can boast that fact? Running may not be the most The teams play a full season, and Cross Country teams are the best Cross country comprises runners glamorous sport, nor is it one that playoffs included, before the players on campus. Want to argue with me? from multiple countries: Australia, is often spotlighted, but Providence are required to return to school. Each Just look at the facts: every year, both Ireland, and New Zealand. These College should be proud to boast season has a whole new cast of players, the men’s and women’s teams make runners find their way to Providence some of the best runners in the world keeping the game above the individual. the Big East Tournament—if only College, compete versus the best at the collegiate level. So, once again, No oversized egos poison the Cape or we could say it was a surprise. Also, runners that are currently enrolled in repeat after me: cross country is worth tarnish its clean image. They all have runners from both teams consistently college, and win. People may argue a second look. something to play for as they search make the NCAA tournament. that cross country is not a sport, that for their big break with Major League Why is it that this sport is it is only running. In fact, that is the scouts. overlooked when talking about opposite of the truth. All this makes Cape Cod Baseball Providence athletics? It may not The women’s cross country thecowl.com the Northeast’s Field of Dreams. be the easiest sport to watch, but team has members that run a five The Cowl 28 Sports October 4, 2012 A 7-Year-Old Hockey Star The Newest Member of the Friar Hockey Team Is Battling Cancer

by Sarah Wacik’15 fellow Friars proceeded to show their Impact contacted the men’s team and want Rich to be involved as much as Sports Staff new teammate around Schneider announced that a hockey enthusiast possible. The team can learn as much Arena and the players’ locker room. and grandson of an alumnus would from Rich as Rich can learn from us.” Hockey As the season progresses, this be a fantastic match for the Friars. Rich’s presence at team events will new teammate will continue to Nine players were selected to be a continue to each the players that they make a impact on the team, not on part of a leadership group that would should appreciate their health and The Providence College Men’s the ice, but off. The relationship specifically aim to make Rich feel as hockey careers. Hockey Team introduced a new between Rich and his new welcome as possible to the Friars. player on Sept. 20. This newly teammates is two-fold: Rich will Before this meeting, the team “drafted” Kevin Rich, a seven-year- teach the team what perseverance learned about Rich’s struggles with old boy from Mansfield, Mass., has and strength are, while the team illnesses, especially his battle with struggled with Acute Lymphoblastic will show Rich what it is like to be leukemia, which is the most common Leukemia and other illnesses a member of a winning team. form of cancer discovered in kids. throughout his childhood. Head Coach Nate Leaman explains In addition to cancer, Rich also Team Impact is a non-profit that the team first became aware of experienced two bouts of pancreatitis organization that carefully matches Team Impact during the final regular and four months of vocal cord children facing life-threatening season game against the UMass paralysis. This brave young boy was diseases with college sports teams. Lowell River Hawks. On this day, the diagnosed with leukemia in Sept. This program allows a child to form Friars were moved by a young boy 2009 and endured a two-month stay new friendships and create a positive named Nick, who was present outside in the hospital. He lost 10 pounds environment for moral support of their locker room and performed in 10 days at one point because he during his or her recovery. Currently, a ceremonial puck-drop before the was unable to eat or drink anything. Impact has over 3,000 participants game. The Friars saw this child every After he returned home, Rich was including children, families, time they saw the River Hawks, and required to meet with doctors and student-athletes, and coaches in upon investigation, learned that the undergo steroid, antibiotic, and the northeastern area. On this Providence College Women’s Soccer chemotherapy treatments. special afternoon, Rich was warmly Team had adopted a child named Today, Rich’s prognosis remains welcomed into his new Friar family Julia Castagna through the program positive as he continues to grow stronger at Schneider Arena. At the induction at Team Impact. and transition back into a normal life

ceremony, captains Tim Schaller ’13, STADIUMJOURNEY.COM OF COURTESY PHOTOGRAPHS After the season, Coach Leaman filled with school and sports. Kyle Murphy ’13, and Myles Harvey got in contact with Jay Calnan, the This season, the men’s hockey ’13 presented Rich with an official PC CEO of Team Impact, in order to team looks forward to creating a team jersey, complete with his favorite help the Friars become involved in deeper friendship with Rich. number, 17, on the back. Once he was this organization. In August, Team Coach Leaman explains, “We officially a member of the team, Rich’s