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This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the University Archives at DigitalCommons@URI. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Good 5 Cent Cigar (Student Newspaper) by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@URI. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND STUDENT NEWSPAPER SINCE 1971 Volume 62 'Just what this country needs ' Friday Issue 5 www.ramcigar.com Se tember 14, 2012 URI lacrosse player·hopes to Library holds tour for soon start slam poetry club faculty and students BY AUDREY O'NEIL senting with fellow classc News Reporter ALLISON FARRELLY mates. ' poetry," a form of free verse officially apply to be a club, " Contribu.ting News Reporter Senior ' communications writing intended to be pre- · and I only have four or five Faculty members and .. . sented out loud. He finds right now." students at the University of' major, Steve Durkin, has A University of Rhode worked for the Circulation· poetry to be a release, a way Gemmell explained why Rhode Island joined together Island student hopes to share of dealing with things that are he would like to start a slam Thursday to celebrat¢ the Desk at the library for three his unconventional way of bothering him and letting poetry club. open house of the new semes.ters and is enjoy¢g the dealing with stress with oth them go, a release he wants to "My main goal is to create Learning Commons at the recent changes thq.t have been ers. made. ' share with his fellow stu a judgment free environment Robert L. Carothers Library. Junior mechanical engi dents. where you can just be your At the open house, stu "I think it's great to have neering maj.or, Kevin "It's a form of poetry self," Gemmell said. dents and faculty were given the new study rooms and Gemmell, is a lacrosse player that's more trying to convey a "Everyone has [a] story, and I a tour of the new learning places, to lounge, ¢specially and like most people, has a message, I'd say," Gemmell want to hear their stories. I commons. Faculty members with alf the new pl'aces to sit" soft side. When some people said. "Everyone has a story want to hear what's bothering who attended the open house Durkin said, "It has . reaJly have a rough day, they work made it a chiller atmosphere and everyone has their own you." included URI Presideilt"David out. Others "stress-eat," experiences like romance, He said he wants students M. Dooley and former presi and is a lot quieter than last watch TV, even listen to or relationships, school, or poli to be able to write, "because it dent Robert Carothers. year". music. Gemmell, however, The· new equipment avail tics to talk about." really is painful to have an The Learning Commons deals with his rough days a Slam poetry is "a form of · untold story inside of you and have made the library a more able to students includes little differently; he writes poetry that's more trying to to not be able to tell it." comfortable and casual place rollin!? · mol).itors, laptops and poetry. convey a message," Gemmell Slam poetry is also an for students to go and study. computers. Students are able .,1 started about three to said, ''I've been writing for a excellent way for students to New additions include an use the computer lounge years ago/' Gemmell said. "It few years now, but I've never improve their overall writing, improved study area for stu and can also rent the laptops was my senior year of high taken a poetry class. It's just according to Gemmell. "It dents with study pods, booths, for personal use. Adjunct school and my good friends something I picked up really improves every aspect and couches. There are avail librarian, Ida D. McGhee, is and I would always . have because I wanted to do it." of your writing from your cre able study group rooms avail looking forward to the stu talks about life and stuff that Gemmell is on a mission ative writing to how to con able for private group study dents using the Learning was bothering us. One day we to start a slam poetry club at vey what you want to say. ing which include whiteboards Commons." stumbled across a few videos URI. [This is why] writir:g papers on the walls for note taking. There have been really of people-·performin:g -poetry "it [hasn't] officiaily.star t isn't hard for me anymore/' Students now also have access good changes and betterment and from there we started ed yet. I'm still in the process he explained. to a video and power point of students, especially for the writing our own stuff." of getting it going," Gemmell presentation practice room in Gemmell Writes "slam said. "I need 10 people · to Continued on page 2 which they can practice pre- Continued on page 2 Heal·th studies student talks experience, career goals, provides advice for students searching for internships
BY JULIE DAWSON · technicians, labs; everything her decide what she wanted Contributing News Reporter is in one building and every· to do after graduation. thing is car.eer potential," "If there was a possibility Meet Alexis Durfee Alexis said. to work for Health Services Durfee said the best part after graduation I would take A senior health studies of her internship was being · it in a heartbeat," Durfee said. major at the University of able to interact with staff from "I plan on pursuing more of a Rhode Island stayed within all the different departments. degree in clinical health care. the campus for an internship "Meeting so many differ "There's nothing that I this past spring. ent people in so inany careers would have changed or didn't Alexis Durfee became each week ... talking to doc like about it. My supervisor interested in working for tors, nurses, x-ray techni was awesome and I got so URI's Health Services when cians, I was never limited to much exp'erience from it. an internship opening was one part of health care," There were ~o regrets. I loved brought to her attention by Durfee said. all of it." ! the director of health studies. Durfee said she not only Her advice .for other stu Durfee had dreamed about a learned more about heath care dents trying to find an intern future career in health care administration, but also ship is to "definitely go out administration, so she learned more about herself. there and look out for some jumped at the opportunity. "After my internship I real thing that interests you. It . While interning at, she Courtesy of Alexis Durfee Alexis Durfee in a Student Alumni Association polo. ized I am more of a people will confirm that this is defi said she got a feel for person. I love interacting with nitely the job you want to do "absolutely everything." One ------·-- people," she said. · and help you reevaluate what of the things she liked most The internship at URI you want to do. Either way, it about her internship is how unique health services is than United States. any other health center in the "Doctors, nurses, x-ray Health Service& also helped is such a great opportunity,"
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BY HENSLEY CARRASCO Bronson told HipHopDX. Editor-in-Chief BY CO NOR FAGAN In a different light, Entertainment Writer Bronson said he is beginning Arian "Action Bronson" to get tired of being compared The live incarnation of Bon Asllani has been slowly, bvt because he wants to be Iver, the rock orchestra sur steadily, making his way known as Action Bronson and rounding W~scon si n singer through the ranks of the not someone. that sounds like songwriter Justin Vernon, con underground hip-h op scene Ghostface Killah. This is not tains a total .of thre~ guitarists, in order to make his name to say he hasn't worked with two keyboardjst, two drum more notorious. Ghostface. In 2011, .Bronson mers, a full brass section and Bronson, a Jewish- linked up with Termanology quite a few beards. It'.s stunning Albanian chef-turned-rapper (rapper) and Ghostface Killah to think that that the indie-folk from Flushing, Queens, isn't on a song called "Meteor act was once a one-man b~nq a ' another rapper from New Hammer," which is found on mere three years ago. York. Bronson, 27, studied in their 2011 album "Legendary - The ragged, burlap tapes the culinary program at the Weapons." tries that lay draped over the r ------'I Art Institute of New York Bronson' s n ame is gold-etched columns of the I 1 City before "working at innu derived from gangster Providence Performing Arts l merable steakhouses, a vege- I William "Action" Jackson, Center began to wav~ and tarian restaurant in down- student who was tortured to death by shake when the echo of the I 1 town Manhattan-and Citi discount members of his gang because intra riff of "Perth" rang out I I Field, where he helped pre- 10°/o they thought he betrayed across the opera hall and the I 1 pare post-game meals for the them, and Charles Bronson, a band took the stage. Vernon, an Mets," according to Rolling I popular actor in the 1960s. artist who began his commer Stone. His chef-side is evident I If you're not familiar with cial career with an album self I in many of his songs as he fre- I . what Bronson looks like, produced frail acoustic ballads I 1 quently raps about all kinds think of a Caucasian Rick in 2008, brought the songs of I 1 of food. Ross with a Freeway-esque, his 2011 self"titled LP to life A consistent theme in red beard. A quick Google with unprecedented fervor. I Bronson's delivery is the idea I image search reveals Bronson The horn players were I plus $5.00 off purchases of $25 he sounds similar-or identi- I has no fear in letting the guns without a doubt one of the and up with coupon ca l ~to another New York I 1 out. His pictures with well shows brightest musical high I 1 rapper, Ghostface Killah. known photographer Terry lights, it brought a new, ener Bronson has been quoted as Richardson prove that point. getic life to the ethereal R&B ----· saying he thinks being com On March 15, 2011, sections of "Minnesota, WI" pared to Gh ostface is "all Bronson released his debut along with the organ-washed good" because he finds studio album "Dr. Lecter," an outro of "Beth, Rest." The band Ghostface as being one of the album that was entirely pro- beautifully fleshed out the son1r greatest rappers alive, "so if I sound similar to the best rap Continued on page 2 Continued on page 2 per alive, then that is fine," H.ip-Hop: passing fad or way of life?
(NewsUSA) - In the 30 years since hip-hop devel oped from basement jams and Bronx block parties, it has run the gamut from fame (and The Good s< Cigar- There's an app for that! infamy) in the late '70s through the '90s, to a some what recent fall from grace Rhode Island aad every stop in between. But rap is not dead. One has only to look at artists ·like DMX and the Beastie Boys -- both of whom September 2012 are dropping new albums this University of Rhode Island year -- to know that hip hop is alive and well and enjoying something of a rebirth. Blood Drive Dates The point is underscored bl noting that the Beastie Tuesday, September 1 8th Boys were inducted into the Se tember 1 9th Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this year and that the 40-year Thursday. September 20th old X, who was recently Rapper E.arl ..DMX" Simmons. AH drives will be held from 11am - 6pm released from an almost one hop's most beloved and influ platinum-selling records, and in the Memorial Union Atriums year stint in prison in ential people," said Shapiro. being the only artist in Arizona, is releasing his sev "He embodies everything that Billboard history to reach . Sponsored by: The Clearinghouse for Volunteers enth album. and the URI Panhellenic Council is hip-hop -- an amalgam of number one with five consec This, said Jake Shapiro, barking and rhyming in loud utive albums. COO of Big Jake Music, a Los bursts of manic ... energy." Even with various legal FREE PIZZA courtesy of &ive rrofe. Angeles-based indie record Born Earl Simmons in woes and drug problems label that represents DMX, is December 1970, DMX was plaguing him over the last ~~ &ive U{e. a testament to the fact that hip signed by a subsidiary of decade, his supporters are not hop may have started back in ~ZA C:Jive ~food Columbia Records at the age about to count him out. the '70s as a popular trend, of 22 and has enjoyed almost "We're thrilled to be www.ribc.org but is still relevant today. Please remember to hydrate a.nd ea.t before donating! 800·283·8385 two decades of honors and working with DMX," said "Artists, like X, are hip- accolades, including multi- Shapiro."His fan base contin- Page 4 • The Good Five Cent Cigar • Frisday, September 14, 2012
URI baseball team gets locally involved, Golf using ~xperience to hopeful for another successful season help trairi new members BY COLIN HOWARTH an average73.5 per round, Contributing Sports Reporter over the course of 28 rounds BY JONATHAN SHIDELER record and was named the top "He really came out of his Sports Staff Reporter played. Last year Chicorka team in the region bythe New shell. I'm glad to see he had The University of Rhode had seven top-five finishes. England Intercollegiate as good of a summer as he Summer may be over and Island golf team may be Another URI golfer who Baseball Association. Juniors did. He is a great ballplayer young, but their goals are was honored by the New spring may seem far away, Joe Landi and Jeff Roy along and a great kid." but do not tell that to the high. England Division I Coaches with senior Kevin Stenhouse Roy was selected to the "Our goal is to be the best was junior Jared Adams. University of Rhode Island were all recognized this sum New England Collegiate baseball team. in New England," second year Adams ~as selected for the mer in- their respective wood Baseball League's first team. head coach Gregg Burke said. New Epgland . All-Rookie The Rhody baseball team en bat leagues for their out He led the North Adams began fall practices this week Burke took over the head team. He will return this year standing play. Steeplecats in hits (48), runs coaching duties last year fol- after shooting an average of and has oeen extremely active Stenhouse received three (40), doubles (11), triples (3) in local communities, lowing Tom Drennan's retire- 75.8, the second lowest on the significant awards in the and stolen bases where he ment after ~2 ,years at the team. attempting to spread the Futures Collegiate Baseball stole 24 out of 25 bases. Roy word of their upcoming and helm. In those 22 years; In the spring, Adams fin League. He was named the batted .333 on the season, Drennan helped URI win five' ished seventh at the New promising spring season. league's most valuable player, which was second highest on Atlantic 10 Championships, England D-1 championships. "Giving back to the com and won the batting title with the team. munity is really important for 10 New England In seven tournaments he fin- a .393 batting average; the Landi was also a first 1 n t e r c o l 1 e g i a t e ished in the top 20, providing the team." head coach Jim next closest player batted team selection in the Perfe ct Foster said. Championships, seven New .. the Rams som'e consistency. .356. Be also was honored Game Collegiate Baseball England Division-! titles, and The third _golfer who Last Friday the team par with the Adam Keenan League. Landi who does it all ticipated in the Galilee 5K was inducted into the Golf played at least 10 events last Sportsmanship & Scholarship for Rhody, spent the bulk of Coaches Association Hall of year was junior Andrew Road Race for Autism Award. The lefty had 64 hits, his summer playing third Awareness, and all proceeds Fame. Fiorenzano, who could poten- 40 runs scored and 13 dou base for the Newark Pilots. The Rams only have three tially give Adams a run for the went to the Autism Project. bles; Stenhouse also led the He stole 31 of 32 bases, which On Oct. 13, the team will par golfers returning who played number two spot. Fiorenzano FCBL in on-base percentage was second overall in the at least 10 events last year. tied for fifth at the Atlantic-10 take in an Autism Walk. (.495) and OPS (1.059). league. He also batted .329 Various players will also be One of these golfers is senior Championship, only three Stenhouse gave all the and knocked in 35 runs and Branden Chicorka, the team's strokes back from first. reading in local schools and credit to his great teammates, had a .423 on-base percent working as mentors in pro top returning player. "The freshmen are really coaches, and also the excep age. Landi also contributed CJlicorka was named to good this year," Burke said. grams with inner city kids. tional facilities that were 4.1 innings of relief work This past Tuesday all of the PING 0-1 All-Region team "One or two could play in the available to him whenever he allowing no runs on just three this past year. He was the first first tournament." the Rams went door to door needed to take some extra hits. Rhody golfer since 2009 to be One of these freshmen in Newport, Wakefield, "hacks." Practices are held week Scarborough, Galilee and selected. He also finished includes Nick Celestino, win "I just kept working days from 3-6 p.m .. , and third at the New England ner of the 41st annual Sarasota other South County commu hard," Stenhouse said. "I was Saturdays 9 a.m, to 1 p.m .. nities handing out rosters and Championships. Men's City Championship, able to play free and loose Intra~squad games will be schedules for their upcoming "Branden returns as a top- one of the top men's amateur this summer and that's when held every Friday and three [golfer] in New England tournaments in southwest season. I play my best. That team and . Saturday leading up to a best- "We want to do our best and works hard enough to be Florida. Another freshman league were a ·great fit for of-five fall World Series in the the best in New England," that could help the Rams this to get the word out for the me." third weekend of October. program," Foster said. "We Burke said. year is Nick Fairweather of Foster is anxious to see Foster invites all URI students Chicorka was one of ten New Hampshire. want to build this program what Stenhouse can con and faculty to Bill Beck field into the next big thing. We other golfers to be on the All- Fairweather was the Division tribute to the team this year. to come out and support their New England team chosen by 11 champion for Windham want people to get excited ''I'm extremely excited team year round. and come out to the games." the New England Division 1 ~igh School this past fall, about the summer Golf Coaches. He led all URI Rhody baseball finished [Stenhouse] had," Foster said. golfers in stroke average, with Continued on page 2 last season with a 33-25-1 Fencing club accepting .additional members, prepares for intercollegia-te comp,etitions
BY MIKE ABELSON weapon and be like 'hey Ricci, a double major in out and try a sport that "is Sports Editor guys."' history and secondary educa boxing like a sir. " Wolk, a mechanical engi-. tion, grew up fencing in his "What I particularly like The airport lounge is neering major, acts as the hometown of Portsmouth, RI about [the] fencing [club] is nearly empty,but there is still team;s armorer (a fencing but had to give up the sport in that we' re not particularly a cacophony of sounds bounc repairman if you will). high school before coming mandatory; we don't make ing around the walls of the Wolk fences in the epee back to it last year. His older everyone show up to every Memorial Union. style. Epee is one of the freest brother, Ben, is the captain of. meeting," Wolk said. "If you The slaps of metal on forms of fencing because the team. show up once a month I metal echoing about can only strikes are allowed on.- · any Ricci competes in foil believe that makes you a mean one thing: the fencing part of the body as long' it is which is much more deHber member. If that's all you can club is. back in session. the tip of the blade, and not ate than epee and has a much make that's fine; we just ask · The fencing club, a recog the side, that strikes an oppo smaller area where you can that people sho-w up." nized club sport, started its nent. strike an opponent, but Ricci For more follow Mike on 2012-2013 season on Monday. ''Basically it's whoever said he loves the tactical Twitter ®TheMikeAbelson Every Monday and hits the other person first gets nature of foil. Thursday between 5 and 8 the point," Wolk said. "It "I am interested mainly in p .m ., several dozen students doesn't matter who hits what the strategy of it;" Ricci said. gather in the Rainville when." ''You can really judge another Ballroom to engage in bouts The team is co-ed and person's moves, their .charac across all three fencing disci does compete in intercolle ter, their strategy and build plines (saber, foil and epee). giate events. Sophomore your own strategy exactly to Junior David Wolk Jacob Ricci said that the team that effect and it changes with summed up the sport in one will compete at events at each bout." word. Smith Colleg.e and the Wolk said that the club's "It's awesome," Wolk University of Ne~ Hampshire schedule is very flexible and said. "i mean, you get to walk later this year. encouraged that student come around with a mask and a