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In a photo originally taken in May 1953, Commencement Marshal and Professor of English George C. Curtiss walked toward “toting mace for the last time.” Approximately 11 faculty members have been Commencement Marshal since 1935. PHOTO COURTESY OF ROCHESTER REVIEW AND RIVER CAMPUS LIBRARIES PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY AARON SCHAFFER / EDITOR-IN-CHIEF PAGE 2 / campustimes.org NEWS / SUNDAY, MAY 17, 2015 Commencement Ceremonies

THE SCHOOL OF NURSING THE COLLEGE OF ARTS, SCIENCES & ENGINEERING FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1:00 P.M. THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE & DENTISTRY SUNDAY, MAY 17, 9:00 A.M. HALL, MASTER’S DEGREE EASTMAN QUADRANGLE, RIVER CAMPUS SATURDAY, MAY 16, 12:15 P.M. KILBOURN HALL, EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC THE EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE & DENTISTRY SUNDAY, MAY 17, 11:15 A.M. FRIDAY, MAY 15, 4:00 P.M. KODAK HALL, EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC KODAK HALL, EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC THE MARGARET WARNER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT SATURDAY, MAY 16, 2:30 P.M. THE WILLIAM E. SIMON SCHOOL DOCTORAL DEGREE CEREMONY KODAK HALL, EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION SATURDAY, MAY 16, 9:30 A.M. SUNDAY, JUNE 7, 10:00 A.M. KODAK HALL, EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC KODAK HALL, EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC

College Diploma Ceremonies

DEPARTMENT LOCATION TIME (SUNDAY, MAY 17) African and African-American Studies Gamble Room 2:00 P.M. American Sign Language Lander Auditorium, Hutchison Hall 1:15 P.M. Anthropology Lander Auditorium, Hutchison Hall 11:15 A.M. Archaeology, Technology and Historical Structures Sloan Auditorium. Goergen Hall 12:45 P.M. Art and Art History M&T Bank Ballroom, 11:30 A.M. Audio and Music Engineering Kodak Hall at , Eastman School of Music 2:30 P.M. Biochemistry 1962 Auditorium, Arthur Kornberg Medical Research Building 11:15 A.M. Biology Palestra, Goergen Athletic Center 11:00 A.M. Biomedical Engineering Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, Eastman School of Music 2:30 P.M. Brain and Cognitive Sciences Palestra, Goergen Athletic Center 1:15 P.M. Business Hubbell Auditorium, Hutchinson Hall 1:15 P.M. Chemistry May Room, Wilson Commons 2:00 P.M. Chemical Engineering Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, Eastman School of Music 2:30 P.M. Computer Science Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, Eastman School of Music 2:30 P.M. Digital Media Studies Rettner Atrium, Rettner Hall 12:45 P.M. Earth and Environmental Sciences Hoyt Auditorium, Hoyt Hall 1:15 P.M. Economics Strong Auditorium, Upper Level 11:15 A.M. Electrical and Computer Engineering Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, Eastman School of Music 2:30 P.M. Engineering Science Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, Eastman School of Music 2:30 P.M. English Hubbell Auditorium, Hutchison Hall 3:30 P.M. Film & Media Studies Hawkins-Carlson Room, Rush Rhees Library 2:00 P.M. Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, Eastman School of Music 2:30 P.M. History Hubbell Auditorium, Hutchison Hall 11:15 A.M. Individualized Interdepartmental Studies Room 2-162, Dewey Hall 12:45 P.M. Integrated Sciences Room 2-162, Dewey Hall 12:45 P.M. Linguistics Lower Level, Interfaith Chapel 2:30 P.M. Mathematics Sanctuary, Interfaith Chapel 3:30 P.M. Mechanical Engineering Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, Eastman School of Music 2:30 P.M. Microbiology 1962 Auditorium, Arthur Kornberg Medical Research Building 1:15 P.M. Modern Languages & Cultures Lower Level, Interfaith Chapel 11:15 A.M. Music Hawkins-Carlson Room, Rush Rhees Library 11:15 A.M. Neuroscience Palestra, Goergen Athletic Center 3:30 P.M. Optics/Optical Engineering Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, Eastman School of Music 2:30 P.M. Philosophy Sanctuary, Interfaith Chapel Sanctuary 11:15 A.M. Physics & Astronomy Hoyt Auditorium, Hoyt Hall 11:15 A.M. Political Science & International Relations Strong Auditorium, Upper Level 1:15 P.M. Psychology Strong Auditorium, Upper Level 3:30 P.M. Public Health - Related Programs Sanctuary, Interfaith Chapel 2:00 P.M. Religion & Classics May Room, Wilson Commons 11:15 A.M. Women’s Studies Welles-Brown Room, Rush Rhees Library 1:15 P.M.

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SUNDAY, MAY 17, 2015 / NEWS campustimes.org / PAGE 3 Posse Foundation seeks to promote college access BY SAM PASSANISI the Foundation last year, accepting “Pre-Collegiate Training (PCT) and anyone with an interest in freshmen inclucing Aguilar, Lara, NEWS EDITOR its first group of Posse Scholars into aimed to prepare scholars for the topic to join. The theme Leonardo Bonilla, Josue Hernandez, the class of 2018. possible academic and personal for the retreat was the criminal Kavon Holley, Mohamed Keita, On Sunday, May 17, education “Posse 1”, the first group of Posse challenges they may face during their justice system and “how crime and Lamek Kahsay, Amber Hudson, strategist and Posse Foundation students to attend UR, is made up of college career,” Posse Scholar and punishment has manifested in the Courtney Thomas and Kristi founder Deborah Bial will give ten students from the organization’s freshman Marisela Lara said. “PCT ,” Lara explained. Thomas. The Posse Foundation the commencement address for Washington, D.C. branch, which aimed to better inform our cohort Aguilar said the retreat was a will continue its mission at UR in UR’s class of 2015. Bial is known encompasses Virginia, Maryland on the goals of the Posse Foundation success, and that it will be an annual the coming years, with the second for supporting diversity in higher and Washington, D.C. Exceptional and our role on campus.” event with a new topic each year. The group of 10 scholars, “Posse 2”, to education, and her nonprofit Posse students are nominated by their high In addition to receiving an size of the event will likely grow as join the class of 2019 in August. Foundation has just concluded its school classmates in their senior education, Posse Scholars are also more Posse scholars come to UR. “We are excited to have another first year of partnership with UR. year, and then go on to apply for a tasked with assuming leadership The Posse Foundation has a high group of 10 brilliant and inspiring The University’s commencement Posse spot. roles on their college campuses. success rate, with over 90% of Posse students as part of Posse next fall,” website describes the Posse Posse Scholar and freshman Debie Lara explained that one goal of Scholars graduating from their Aguilar said. “There will be more Foundation as “a youth leadership Aguilar described the selection each Posse group is to help their respective colleges. Posse Scholars to come.” development and college access process. university “build more interactive who attend UR have a support By the time “Posse 1” graduates, organization.” “Each year, Posse D.C. receives campus envirnoments so that network to help them succeed: the there will be 40 Posse Scholars Founded by Bial in 1989, the thousands of nominations from they can become more welcoming group meets each week with Posse enrolled at UR, and this number Posse Foundation, according to students in the Washington D.C., institutions for people from all mentor and CETL co-director Terry should remain constant from 2018 its website, sends teams of 10 to Maryland, and Virginia area,” backgrounds.” This requires that the Platt. Many of the Posse Scholars are onward. 12 “public high school students Aguilar said. “Every single nominee Posse Scholars become involved in also David T. Kearns Scholars, part “Posse 1” will welcome Bial with extraordinary academic and is brought in to meet the team and clubs and extracurricular activities of UR’s program for first-generation to campus at a dinner with UR leadership potential who may be get to know what Posse is all about.” on campus. The Posse group at UR college students who are seeking President . Aguilar overlooked by traditional college After the first round of interviews, participated in a poster session at doctoral degrees. noted that a few Posse Scholars selection processes” to top colleges some nominees are chosen to UR’s annual Diversity Conference They also work with one another will also be able to attend the each year. Since its inception, continue the application process. on April 17, in order to spread to become more involved on commencement address. the program has produced over These applicants are interviewed awareness about Posse’s goals in campus. Posse Scholars are members Bial will be awarded an honorary 2,600 college graduates from by Posse staff and choose which of Rochester. of many student groups, including Doctorate of Humane Letters from more than fifty schools, including the partner universities they would In February, members of “Posse 1” the National Society of Black the University on Sunday. Boston University; Syracuse most like to attend. hosted the first Rochester Posse Plus Engineers, the Spanish and Latino The address will take place on the University; Dartmouth College; After the ten scholars in UR’s Retreat, where they invited members Student Organization, the Minority Eastman Quadrangle during the the University of California, Los “Posse 1” were chosen, there was of the university community to a Student Advisory Board and commencement ceremony at 9 a.m. Angeles; Brandeis University and eight months of training to prepare weekend discussion. Posse Scholars Indulgence Dance Team. Passanisi is a member of Texas A&M University. UR joined them for the campus environment. invited friends, classmates, faculty The members of “Posse 1” are all the class of 2017. Diversity report published Seniors adjust goal BY ANGELA LAI which the report calls the “biggest and “have had a dramatic impact, BY SAM PASSANISI regarding the change prior to the NEWS EDITOR event of the year for the Office with students graduating in NEWS EDITOR Campus Times print deadline late of Faculty Development and significantly higher percentages May 13. UR President Joel Seligman’s Diversity.” The conference took (96%) than the institutional The annual Senior Class Gift drive The campaign officially ends on ninth annual diversity report, place on April 17, featuring average (84%),” according to is underway, with the 2015 Class May 17. The website notes that which was released this May, noted Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist the report. The Center also Council soliciting donations to the alumni giving is factored into the that the University continued to Jose Antonio Vargas as its keynote offers tutoring and mentoring University from graudating seniors. University’s standing in college make steady progress with its speaker and offering 18 workshops opportunities for UR students A website for the drive encourages rankings such as those published diversity initiatives. The report ‘A diverse faculty in through programs for Rochester seniors to donate to any of a number by U.S. News & World Report, summarized efforts to create City School District students. of campus organizations and and encourages seniors to donate in a more diverse and inclusive every sense including The percentages of UR students funds, which include individual order to raise the school’s national community over the 2014-15 identifying as members of an academic departments, athletic ranking. The website also notes that academic year, showing marked race, gender, sexual underrepresented racial or ethnic teams, the River Campus Libraries, alumni gifts are a major source of changes since the first diversity orientation [and] minority (URM) in fall 2014 scholarships, and the Medical funding for financial aid. report was published in June have risen at the College of Arts Center among many others. All senior donations count 2007. intellectual belief is & Sciences, the Hajim School Last May, 56% of the class of 2014 toward the Class Gift total, as well 33.9% of UR faculty were of Engineering and Applied donated to the previous class gift. as toward the University’s Meliora women in fall 2014, an increase most likely to help Sciences, Eastman School of The 2015 Class Council originally Challenge fundraising effort. from fall 2006 when women made our students by Music, School of Medicine aimed to break this record with a Seniors who contribute will also up 28.6% of faculty members. & Dentistry and the Warner goal of 60% participation, which receive an invitation to a donor Similarly, the percentage of faculty word and example Graduate School of Education would have required 687 members event hosted by Gwen M. Greene. members identifying themselves when compared to percentages of the class of 2015 to donate. The 2015 Senior Class Gift was as part of an underrepresented best appreciate in fall 2006. At the Simon School At press time, 356 seniors had organized by Senior Class Council racial minority group rose from the complex and of Business Administration and participated in the drive, raising Administrative Chairs Alap Patel 2.6% in fall 2006 to 3.9% in the School of Nursing, however, $3,420 toward the Class Council’s and Katherine Wegman. fall 2014. increasingly global percentages of URM students original fundraising goal of $7,500. According to Wegman, Class “A diverse faculty in every sense world in which they were lower in fall 2014 than in The goal shown on the website was Council works closely with the including race, gender, sexual fall 2006. changed to $5,500 on Wednesday, Office of Alumni Relations and orientation [and] intellectual will work and live’ This academic year, the May 13. Advancement. belief is most likely to help our University also became one of No class council representative Passanisi is a member of students by word and example led by members of the University several research partners with could be reached for comment the class of 2017. best appreciate the complex community as well as presenters Xavier University of Louisiana, and increasingly global world in from organizations like Metro a historically black liberal arts which they will work and live,” Justice and the M.K. Gandhi college, through a program funded Seligman said in an email.“The Institute for Nonviolence. It set by the National Institute of General commitment to diversity a new record for the number of Medical Sciences. This means that preceded my arrival here, but the people in attendance with over Xavier University of Louisiana’s 700 registrants. undergraduate students will have ‘...the ways in which Another standout event, new opportunities to work with we now focus on Seligman noted, was Dean of UR faculty and work on research Diversity Initiatives in Arts, projects at UR. being inclusive Sciences & Engineering Beth Further, the Diversity Initiative Olivares being named as one of for The Meliora Challenge and welcoming 15 recipients of the Presidential exceeded its original fundraising have significantly Award for Excellence in Science, goal of five million dollars. Deputy Mathematics and Engineering to the President and Vice Provost increased’ Mentoring in 2015. for Faculty Development and Programs at the Kearns Diversity Vivian Lewis “and the ways in which we now focus on Center, where Olivares serves as volunteer leadership dedicated to being inclusive and welcoming Executive Director, focus on the this initiative are determined to go have significantly increased.” educational goals of “low-income, further,” Seligman said. He highlighted UR’s sixth underrepresented minority and Lai is a member of annual Diversity Conference, first-generation college students,” the class of 2018. PAGE 4 / campustimes.org NEWS / SUNDAY, MAY 17, 2015

The University of Rochester Celebrates Faculty and Student Honors 2014–15

The University of Rochester is proud to congratulate those faculty and students who have earned national recognition and University awards during the past academic year through May 1, 2015.

National Faculty Awards Best Paper Award COUNCIL OF ACADEMIC FAMILY MEDICINE KOSCIUSZKO FOUNDATION COLLEGIUM Gerald Gamm, Associate Professor Chair OF EMINENT SCIENTISTS ACCREDITATION COUNCIL FOR GRADUATE of Political Science and History Thomas Campbell, Professor and William Distinguished Fellow MEDICAL EDUCATION Leon Weaver Award Rocktaschel Chair in Family Medicine Roman Sobolewski, Professor of Board of Directors G. Bingham Powell Jr., Marie C. Electrical and Computer Engineering and Se- Diane Hartmann, Senior Associate Dean, Wilson and Joseph C. Wilson CUNNIFF-DIXON FOUNDATION nior Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics Graduate Medical Education; Professor of Political Science Senior Physician Award Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology Lijphart/Przeworski/Verba Dataset Award David Korones, Professor of Pediatrics, KYOTO UNIVERSITY, JAPAN Hein Goemans, Associate Professor Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Fulbright Award in Palliative Care/Global Health ALFRED P. SLOAN FOUNDATION of Political Science Hospice and Palliative Care Robert Gramling, Associate Sloan Research Fellow Professor of Family Medicine Michael Neidig, Assistant Professor of AMERICAN PROSTHODONTICS SOCIETY DERMATOLOGY FOUNDATION Chemistry Golden Medallion Award Research Career Development Award LICHTENBERG KOLLEG, UNIVERSITY Gerald Graser, Professor of Anna DeBenedetto, Instructor in OF GOTTINGEN ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCIATION Prosthodontics, Eastman Institute Dermatology Senior Research Fellowship International Research Award for Oral Health Dorinda Outram, Professor of History Feng Vankee Lin, Assistant Professor, School DREYFUS FOUNDATION of Nursing AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award MACHINIMA EXPO President Daniel Weix, Associate Professor Grand Prize AMERICAN ACADEMY OF HOSPICE AND Susan McDaniel, Director, Institute for the of Chemistry Sarah Higley, Professor of English PALLIATIVE MEDICINE Family Fellow EARLY MUSIC AMERICA MARKETING SCIENCE INSTITUTE Ronald Epstein, Professor of Family Medicine, AMERICAN SOCIETY OF BONE AND MINERAL 2015 Thomas Binkley Award Young Scholar Psychiatry, Oncology and Nursing; Director, RESEARCH Paul O’Dette, Professor of Lute and of Mitch Lovett, Assistant Professor of Center for Communication and Disparities Council Member Conducting and Ensembles; Director of Marketing, Simon Research Laura Calvi, Professor of Medicine, Early Music, Eastman School of Music Endocrine/Metabolism Christel Thielmann, Assistant Professor of MEDIEVAL ACADEMY AMERICAN ACADEMY OF NEUROLOGY Conducting and Ensembles; 2015 Robert L. Kindrick-CARA Award for Mitchell B. Max Award for AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR CLINICAL Codirector Eastman Collegium Outstanding Service to Medieval Studies Neuropathic Pain INVESTIGATION Musicum, Eastman School of Music Russell Peck, the John Hall Deane Professor Robert Dworkin, Professor of Anesthesiology, Member of English Neurology, and Psychiatry Jennifer Anolik, Associate Professor of Medi- EASTERN NURSING RESEARCH SOCIETY Fellow cine, Allergy/Immunology and Rheumatology Top 20 Sustained Leaders Award Richard Kaeuper, Professor of History AMERICAN ACADEMY OF NURSING Margaret Kearney, Professor, School Fellow AMERICAN SOCIETY OF COMPOSERS, AUTHORS, of Nursing MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY FOUNDATION Mary Carey, Associate Professor, AND PUBLISHERS Outstanding Research Achievement Award School of Nursing 2014 Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award ELSEVIER Richard Moxley, Helen Aresty Fine and Daryl Sharp, Professor of Clinical Nursing, Michael Alan Anderson, Associate Professor Young Investigator Award Irving Fine Professor of Neurology School of Nursing of Musicology, Eastman School of Music Duje Tadin, Associate Professor Charles Thornton, Saunders Family of Brain and Cognitive Sciences Distinguished Professor in AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF GASTROINTESTINAL Neuromuscular Research, Department ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE ENDOSCOPY FORBES of Neurology 2014 Newcomb Cleveland Prize Fellow “30 Under 30 in Science” Maiken Nedergaard, Codirector, Vivek Kaul, Segal-Watson Professor Elika Bergelson, Research Assistant Professor NATIONAL ACADEMIES OF PRACTICE Center for Translational Neuromedicine of Medicine; Chief, Division of of Brain and Cognitive Sciences Distinguished Practitioner and Fellow Gastroenterology and Hepatology Tobie Olsan, Professor of Clinical AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR DENTAL RESEARCH GAIRDNER AWARDS (CANADA) Nursing, School of Nursing Irwin D. Mandel Distinguished AMERICAN UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS OF 2015 Gairdner International Award Mentoring Award OPHTHALMOLOGY Lynne Maquat, J. Lowell Orbison Endowed NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES William Bowen, Professor Emeritus, Eastman Executive Vice President Chair and Professor of Biochemistry and U.S. Kavli Frontiers of Sciences Fellow Institute for Oral Health, Microbiology and Steven Feldon, Professor of Ophthalmology; Biophysics John Kessler, Associate Professor of Earth and Immunology, Environmental Medicine Director, Flaum Eye Institute Environmental Sciences GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA AMERICAN COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS ASSOCIATION OF BONE AND JOINT Outstanding Publication Award NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH Mastership Recognition SURGEONS AND THE ORTHOPAEDIC John Tarduno, Professor of Earth and Early Independence Award Robert McCann, Chief of Medicine, Highland RESEARCH SOCIETY Environmental Sciences Elika Bergelson, Research Assistant Professor Hospital; Professor of Medicine Richard A. Brand Award for Outstanding of Brain and Cognitive Sciences Research GERONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA NIH Director’s New Innovators Award AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS Christopher Beck, Associate Professor of Fellow Michelle Janelsins-Benton, Assistant Fellow Orthopaedics, Yeates Conwell, Professor of Psychiatry Professor, Department of Surgery Guilherme Christiano, Assistant John Daiss, Research Associate Christopher Seplaki, Assistant Professor of Surgery and Plastic Surgery Professor of Orthopaedics Professor of Public Health Sciences NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION Rachel Farkas, Assistant Professor Stephen Kates, Hansjorg Wyss Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) of Surgery and Oncology Professor of Orthopaedics GRAMMY AWARDS Award Kohei Nishitani, Postdoctoral Fellow Best Opera Recording AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES Antonio Badolato, Assistant Professor in Orthopaedics Paul O’Dette, Professor of Lute and of Physics Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program Studies Alexander Rosenberg, Director of Bioin- of Conducting and Ensembles; Director of Danielle Benoit, Assistant Professor of Postdoctoral Fellowship formatics and Research Assistant Professor Early Music, Eastman School of Music Biomedical Engineering and Chemical John Osburg, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Allergy and Immunology and Engineering of Anthropology Rheumatology HOLOCAUST EDUCATION FOUNDATION Michael Neidig, Assistant Professor Collaborative Research Fellowship Edward Schwarz, Richard and Margaret Bur- Summer Institute Fellowship of Chemistry Joshua Dubler, Assistant Professor ton Distinguished Professor in Orthopaedics; June Hwang, Associate Professor CRII (Pre-CAREER) Award of Religion and Classics Director, Center for Musculoskeletal Research of German Ehsan Hoque, Assistant Professor Fellowship of Computer Science Supritha Rajan, Assistant Professor ASSOCIATION OF FAMILY MEDICINE HONG KONG INSTITUTE FOR MONETARY of English RESIDENCY DIRECTORS RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED Rachel Haidu, Associate Professor Gold Program Directors Recognition Award Research Fellow STUDIES of Art and Art History Stephen Schultz, Associate Professor of Family Dan Lu, Assistant Professor of Economics Fellow Medicine Harry Reis, Professor of Clinical and Social AMERICAN DANCE THERAPY ASSOCIATION JAPAN CANCER INSTITUTE Sciences in Psychology Excellence in Education Award ASSOCIATION FOR WOMEN IN MATHEMATICS Prince Hitachi Prize Danielle Fraenkel, Instructor, Program of Vera Gorbunova, Doris Johns Cherry NORTH AMERICAN CHINESE CLINICAL CHEMISTS Dance and Movement Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prize Professor, Department of Biology ASSOCIATION Sema Salur, Associate Professor of Andrei Seluanov, Professor of Biology President AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL AND Mathematics Victoria Zhang, Assistant Professor of BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING IEEE (INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL AND Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Fellow BREAD LOAF WRITERS’ CONFERENCE ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS) Hani Awad, Professor of Biomedical Shane Stevens Fellowship in the Novel Technical Excellence Award NATIONAL WOMEN’S HALL OF FAME Engineering Stephen Schottenfeld, James P. Wilmot Greg Gdowski, Associate Professor of Biomed- Elected Member James McGrath, Professor of Assistant Professor of English ical Engineering and Executive Director of the Barbara Iglewski, Professor Emeritus Biomedical Engineering Center for Medical Technology & Innovation CHICAGO TRIBUNE of Microbiology and Immunology AMERICAN JEWISH ARCHIVES Best Suspense Novel IEEE PHOTONICS SOCIETY NOVARTIS Bernard and Audre Rapoport Fellow Joanna Scott, Roswell Smith Burrows 2014 Quantum Electronics Award Early Career Award in Organic Chemistry Aaron Hughes, Professor of Religion and Professor of English Robert Boyd, Professor of Optics Daniel Weix, Associate Professor Classics of Chemistry CHINESE AMERICAN PATHOLOGY JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY ASSOCIATION Merentibus Medal OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA Fellow President-elect (2017-18) Ralph Jozefowicz, Professor of Esther Hoffman Beller Medal Ping Tang, Allan Greenleaf, Professor of Mathematics Professor of Pathology and Neurology and Medicine Govind Agrawal, James C. Wyant Professor Laboratory Medicine of Optics AMERICAN MUSICOLOGICAL SOCIETY JOHN A. HARTFORD FOUNDATION CIES FULBRIGHT Fellow Einstein Award Center of Excellence Scholars Award Christophe Dorrer, Senior Scientist, Melina Esse, Associate Professor of Fulbright Grant to Brazil Tim Holahan, Clinical Instructor of Medicine Daniel Reichman, Laboratory for Laser Energetics Musicology, Eastman School of Music Associate Professor of Sarah Howd, Instructor of Medicine John Howell, Professor of Physics and Anthropology Adina Jucan, Assistant Professor of Clinical Astronomy AMERICAN NEUROTOLOGY SOCIETY Fulbright Visiting Scholar Dentistry Todd Krauss, Professor of Chemistry Nicolas Torok Vestibular Award Martin Lynch, Associate Professor, Warner Allison Magnuson, Senior Instructor 2014 Nick Holonyak Jr. Award Benjamin Crane, Associate Professor School of Education of Medicine Ching Tang, Professor of Chemical of Otolaryngology Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Engineering CONFERENCE ON COLLEGE COMPOSITION AND Faculty Scholar AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE COMMUNICATION Sarah Peyre, Associate Professor, RE:GENDER (NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR RESEARCH ASSOCIATION Outstanding Book Award Department of Surgery ON WOMEN) Virginia Gray Best Book Award David Bleich, Professor of English Community Innovations Fellowship Lynda Powell, Professor of Political Science Angela Clark-Taylor, Program Manager, Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies SUNDAY, MAY 17, 2015 / FEATURES campustimes.org / PAGE 5

ST. ANDREWS INSTITUTE OF MEDIEVAL STUDIES Jonathan Pakianathan, Associate CHAMBER MUSIC YELLOW SPRINGS East End Saxophone Quartet, Eastman Donald Bullough Fellow Professor of Mathematics COMPETITION School of Music Richard Kaeuper, Professor of History First Prize Matthew Amedio, Master’s Student, JAMES M. STEWART TEACHING AWARD East End Saxophone Quartet, Eastman Saxophone SIMONS FOUNDATION Joel Shamaskin, Associate Professor School Myles Boothroyd, Master’s Student, Simons Fellow in Theoretical Physics of Clinical Medicine Matthew Amedio, Master’s Student, Saxophone Eric Blackman, Professor of Physics and Saxophone Timothy Harris, Master’s Student, Astronomy UNIVERSITY TEACHING AWARDS FOR Myles Boothroyd, Master’s Student, Saxophone Fellowship EXCELLENCE (2014) Saxophone Jonathan Wintringham, Doctoral Student, Alan Greanleaf, Professor of Mathematics Lifetime Achievement Award in Graduate Timothy Harris, Master’s Student, Saxophone Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Award in Education Saxophone the Neurosciences Ralph Locke, Professor of Musicology, Jonathan Wintringham, Doctoral Student, National Competition—First Prize Woodwinds Ben Hayden, Assistant Professor of Brain and Eastman School Saxophone Category Cognitive Sciences William H. Riker University Award for Excellence Myles Boothroyd, Master’s Student, in Graduate Teaching CRITICAL LANGUAGE SCHOLARSHIP Saxophone, Eastman School of Music SOCIETY FOR ADOLESCENT HEALTH AND Randall Stone, Professor of Political Science Aaron Schaffer ’16, Rochester; MEDICINE Edward Peck Curtis Award for Excellence in International Relations NASA Hilary E.C. Millar Award for Undergraduate Teaching Scholarship Plus Initiative Award Innovative Approaches to Adolescent Health Care William FitzPatrick, Gideon Webster DAAD-RISE SCHOLARSHIP Aaron Lim ’17, Jamesville, N.Y.; Suzanne Piotrowski, Clinical Associate Burbank Professor of Intellectual and Moral Luke Daily ’16, Lake Grove, N.Y.; Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor in the Department of Family Philosophy Biomedical Engineering Jeremy Warner ’15, Riverhead, N.Y.; Electrical Medicine and Director of the UR Teen G. Graydon ’58 and Jane W. Curtis Award for Claire Kaiser ’17, Lake Forest Park, Wash.; and Computer Engineering Health and Success Partnership Nontenured Faculty Biomedical Engineering Fellow Teaching Excellence. Tianyi (Linda) Liu ’16, Haikou, China; NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN’S STUDIES Mechanical Engineering Kim Urbach, Associate Professor of Clinical Nickolas Vamivakas, Assistant Professor of Cochair of the Mentoring Project Optics and Physics Zhaoyu Nie ’17, Wuhan, China; Optics Angela Clark-Taylor, Doctoral Student, Nursing, School-Based Health Centers Nathaniel Potrepka ’17, Silver Spring, Md.; Program Manager, School of Nursing Warner School of Education Computer Science and Audio and Music SOCIETY OF BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE National Student Awards Engineering NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION Zhenzhi (Jane) Xia ’16, Wuxi, China; Optical Citation Award Graduate Research Fellowship ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA Engineering Emily Greenwood, Psychology Michelle Janelsins-Benton, Assistant Robert W. Young Award for So Han Florence Yip ’17, Hong Kong, China; Professor, Department of Surgery Keywan Johnson, Chemistry Undergraduate Student Research Mechanical Engineering Evan Ranken, Physics in Acoustics SOCIETY OF BREAST IMAGING DAVIS PEACE GRANT Tessa Woodruff, Chemistry Fellow Jonathan Macoskey ’15, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Biomedical Engineering Fellow NATIONAL TRUMPET COMPETITION Avice O’Connell, Professor of Clinical Imag- Eyram Adedze ’16, Kasoa, Ghana; Economics ing Sciences and Director of Women’s Imaging First Place, Graduate Division COSIDA CAPITAL ONE ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICA and Psychology Steven Felix, Master’s Student, TEAM Rose Mbaye ’16, Dakar, Senegal; Trumpet; Eastman School of Music SOCIETY FOR EXPERIMENTAL SOCIAL Biomedical Engineering PSYCHOLOGY Lauren Bailey ’15, Ossining, N.Y.; Chemical Engineering (Women’s Swimming) Mame Coumba Mbodji ’17, Dakar, Senegal; Member BUSINESS PLAN COMPETITION Griffin Drake ’15, Indianapolis; Political Business Finalists Jeremy Jamieson, Assistant Professor Science and Philosophy (Men’s Soccer) Zanga Ben Ouattara ’16, Ouagadougou, of Clinical and Social Sciences Burkina Faso; Computer Science Seth Reining ’15 (MS); Rochester Matt Mender ’16, Glens Falls, N.Y.; Anthony Yee ’15 (MS) and doctoral Biomedical Engineering (Football) SOCIETY FOR RESEARCH ON NICOTINE AND DOWNBEAT STUDENT MUSIC AWARDS candidate, Optics; Oakland, Calif. Alex Swanger ’15, Penfield, N.Y.; Xiangzhi Yu, TOBACCO Financial Economics (Men’s Soccer) Undergraduate College Original Composition, doctoral candidate, President Small Ensemble Mechanical Engineering; Dexing, China Yang Zhao, doctoral candidate, Optics; Deborah Ossip, Professor of Public Health ALL-AMERICAN HONORS Garret Reynolds ’16, Moorpark, CA; Jazz Sciences and Oncology Wuhan, China Lauren Bailey ’15, Ossining, N.Y.; Chemical Trumpet, Eastman School of Music Brian Ayers ’16S (MBA) and MD Engineering (Women’s Swimming) Undergraduate College Outstanding Arrangement candidate; Southborough, Mass SOCIETY OF TOXICOLOGY Neil Cordell ’16, York, United Kingdom; Brendan Lanighan ’15, Williamsville, NY, 2014 Special Recognition Award, 2015 Merit Eryn Fennig, doctoral candidate, Political Science (Squash) Jazz Trombone & Music Optics; Trafalgar, Ind. Award Tomotaka Endo ’18, Kawasaki, Japan; Education, Eastman School of Music Gunter Oberdörster, Professor Sarah Walters ’15 (MS) and doctoral Molecular Genetics (Squash) Graduate College Outstanding candidate, Optics; Webster, N.Y. Emeritus of Environmental Medicine Ryosei Kobayashi ’17, Yokohama, Japan; Ensemble Arrangement Business (Squash) Gabe Condon, Master’s Student, Jazz Writing, SOCIETY FOR PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL NORTH ATLANTIC REGION ASSOCIATION FOR Tara Lamberti ’16, Penfield, N.Y.; Eastman School of Music COUNSELOR EDUCATION AND SUPERVISION PSYCHOLOGY Psychology (Field Hockey) Julian Tanaka, Master’s Student, Jazz Writing, Incoming Chair of the Research Interest Network Distinguished Scholar Award Alexandra Leslie ’18, Lancaster, Pa.; Eastman School of Music Edward Deci, Gowen Professor in the Social Psychology (Women’s Basketball) Atiya Smith, Doctoral Student, Sciences and Professor of Clinical and Social Vicky Luan ’16, Surrey, Canada; Warner School of Education EMPIRE STATE COMPETITION 2014 Emerging Leaders Fellow Sciences in Psychology Chemistry (Women’s Swimming) First Prize Collegiate Category Michelle Relin ’16, Lititz, Pa.; Optics Hennessey Lustica, Doctoral Student, Warner Tim Padget ’17, St. Louis, Mo., School of Education TEMPLETON FOUNDATION (Field Hockey) Percussion, Eastman School of Music Fellowship Emily Simon ’17, Olean, N.Y.; Biology PRINCETON IN ASIA Ben Hayden, Assistant Professor of Brain and (Women’s Swimming) FULBRIGHT U.S. STUDENT GRANT PROGRAM Fellow Cognitive Sciences Khamai Simpson ’17, Cutler Bay, Fla.;Health, Kathryn F. Conheady ’15 (Germany), Behavior, & Society (Women’s Swimming) Ben Van Son, Master’s Student, Rochester; History Warner School of Education THOMSON REUTERS Mario Yanez Tapia ’17, Aguascalientes, Jacek Blaszkiewicz (France), Graduate Citation Laureate Mexico; Business (Squash) Student, Eastman, Staten Island, N.Y.; SMART (SCIENCE, MATHEMATICS, & RESEARCH Stephen Jacobs, Professor of Optics and Senior Musicology TRANSFORMATION) SCHOLARSHIP Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics AMERICAN BRAIN TUMOR ASSOCIATION Lauren Kee ’15 (Philippines), Ian Gabalski ’16, Webster, N.Y.; Physics Young Investigators Award Newton Center, Mass.; Economics UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO Michael Feldman ’15M (MD), Chevy Chase, Benjamin E. Landwersiek ’15 (Spain), Md. SYDNEY AUSTRALIA INTERNATIONAL ORGAN 150th Anniversary Alumni Excellence Award Phoenix, N.Y.; Neuroscience and Spanish COMPETITION Margaret Kearney, Professor, School Melissa Zgouridi ’14E/’15 (T5)(Austria), First Prize of Nursing AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL STUDIES Fullerton, CA.; Applied Music and Musical ASSOCIATION Arts Thomas Gaynor, Doctoral Student, Organ, UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU-NATAL Taylor and Francis Outstanding Graduate Student Samantha Whalen ’15 (Malaysia), Wilton, Eastman School of Music Honorary Professor Research Award N.Y.; Anthropology Tomás Boatwright, Doctoral Student, VANDOREN EMERGING ARTIST COMPETITION John Tarduno, Professor of Earth and First Prize Environmental Sciences Warner School of Education GOLDWATER SCHOLARSHIP Brian McDonald ’16, Carmel, Ind.; Math Tyler Wiessner ’15, Ellicott City, Md.; PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AMERICAN SOCIETY OF COMPOSERS, AUTHORS, Steven Torrisi ’16, Tivoli, N.Y.; Physics and Saxophone & Music Education, Champion of Change AND PUBLISHERS FOUNDATION Mathematics Eastman School of Music 2015 Morton Gould Young Composer Award Ray Dorsey, David M. Levy Professor in WHITAKER INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP Neurology and Director of the Center for Erin Graham ’17, Lewisburg, Pa., GREAT LAKES GUITAR FESTIVAL & Composition and Percussion, Eastman School COMPETITION Michael Silverstein ’15, Sharon, Mass.; Human Experimental Therapeutics Biomedical Engineering Presidential Award for Excellence of Music First Prize Jason Thorpe Buchanan, Doctoral Austin Wahl ’15, Minneapolis; Guitar, Namita Sarraf ’15, Pittsford, N.Y.; Biomedical in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Engineering Mentoring Student, Composition, Eastman School of Eastman School of Music Music Beth Olivares, Dean for Second Prize WHITE HOUSE Charles Pfeifer ’16, North Granby, Diversity Initiatives in Arts, Sciences AMGEN SCHOLARS PROGRAM Latino Educator Champion of Change & Engineering Conn.; Guitar, Eastman School of Music Scholar Anibal Soler Jr., Doctoral Student, Warner Justin Delafontaine ’16, Rye Brook, N.Y.; GRIEG FESTIVAL YOUNG ARTIST School of Education Biomedical Engineering COMPETITION University Teaching Awards WILSON CENTER GUITAR COMPETITION First Prize BRIAN P. FLANAGAN RESIDENT TEACHING ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF HIGHER First Place EDUCATION Daniel Baer, Doctoral Student, Piano, Eastman AWARD School of Music Gabriel Condon, Master’s Student, Jazz Mary Gail Mercurio, Professor of Dermatol- Bobby Wright Dissertation of the Year Award Guitar, Eastman School of Music ogy and of Obstetrics and Gynecology Amalia Dache-Gerbino, Doctoral HANDEL SOCIETY WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION Student, Warner School of Education Handel Research Prize DEAN’S AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN World Health Organization Research Fellowship BENJAMIN A. GILMAN INTERNATIONAL Regina Compton, Doctoral Student, Program TEACHING, SCHOOL OF NURSING Musicology, Eastman School of Music Irena Pesis-Katz, Associate Professor of SCHOLARSHIP Stacy Salerno ’15M (MD), Rochester Clinical Nursing and Public Health Sciences, Nathalia Botero ’16, Spring Hill, Fla.; HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE School of Nursing Molecular Genetics Janelia Research Fellows Program Eric Chen ’16, Hackensack, N.J., Student Teaching Awards DEAN’S FACULTY TEACHING AWARD Molecular Genetics Benjamin Cocanougher ’15M (MD) , Ky. Erin Denney-Koelsch, Assistant Claude Galette ’16, Eagle Lake, Fla.; Springfield 2015 EDWARD PECK CURTIS AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING BY A GRADUATE Professor of Medicine, Department Psychology IEEE POWER & ENERGY SOCIETY of Medicine Angel Huang ’16, Fresh Meadows, N.Y.; STUDENT Robert Horowitz, Associate Professor of Psychology Astronaut Scholarship Foundation Award Stephen Burger, Doctoral Student, English Clinical Medicine Charlotte Humes ’16, Bardstown, Ky.; Math William Green 16, Baiting Hollow, N.Y.; Esteban Buz, Doctoral Student, Brain and Jenna Register ’16, Buffalo; Brain and Mechanical Engineering Cognitive Sciences EISENHART AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN Cognitive Sciences Matthew Johnson, Doctoral Student, Biology TEACHING Matthew Sisto ’16, Rochester; History and INTERNATIONAL SAXOPHONE SYMPOSIUM AND Aaron James, Doctoral Student, Eastman COMPETITION (ISSAC) Eastman School of Music Recipient (2013-14) Japanese School of Music Jonathan Baldo, Professor of English Victoria Stepanova ’15, Brooklyn; Health, First Prize Dev Ashish Khaitan, Doctoral Student, Behavior and Society Katherine Weintraub, Doctoral Student, Physics GOERGEN AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE IN Cinthia E. Welch ’15, Fairport, N.Y.; Japanese Saxophone, Eastman School of Music Patrick Papadopulos, Doctoral Student, UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING (2014) and Health, Behavior and Society Mathematics Julie Bentley, Associate Professor, MUSIC TEACHERS NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Brian Sheldon, Doctoral Student, Chemistry Institute of Optics BOREN SCHOLARSHIP National Chamber Music Grayson Sipe, Doctoral Student, Neuroscience Jeffrey Tucker, Associate Professor Christian Wooddell ’17, Farmington, Mo.; Competition—First Prize Chamber Music Wind Michael Skibo, Doctoral Student, of English Anthropology Category Developmental Psychology David Slichter, Doctoral Student, Economics PAGE 6 / campustimes.org FEATURES / SUNDAY, MAY 17, 2015 FEATURES stepping is not lost on the faculty member who will fill it, professor Joan Rubin. Legacy of “I’m well aware of what an honor [it] is,” Rubin said. “It’s tinged with sadness because Professor Moore was marshal for many, many years. I can’t fill his shoes. I am very the marshal cognizant of the tradition in which I’m going to be serving.” Like Moore, Rubin shares a love of academic traditions. Since 1935, at least 11 faculty members have “It’s my love of academic rituals that got me into [commencement] carried a symbolic mace at commencement. in the first place,” she described. “I This is their story. like the rituals of commencement, and I love the part when we lead BY ANGELA REMUS the procession of students through the faculty line. They cheer for the PUBLISHER students who of course deserve the cheers of the faculty.” The four-foot mahogany and and philosophy that expanded Rubin laughed, exclaiming silver pole—bedecked with the the strength of his dissertation on that, despite her love of the COURTESY OF ROCHESTER REVIEW AND RIVER CAMPUS LIBRARIES University seal, past University the aesthetics of music of African- ceremony, she’s nervous for this University marshal and professor George C. Curtiss (pictured on right) leads UR presidents’ names and dandelion Americans. As Burgett recalls, after year’s ceremony. She will not President during his 1951 investiture ceremony, where he was designs—is a symbol of the the dissertation defense, “Professor only carry the mace and lead the presented with the insignia of his office. graduation ceremony. The UR Moore […] extended his hand procession, but will also hood the commencement brochure states and said, ‘Congratulations, Dr. honorary degree recipients and sit that “the mace has become a Burgett,’” becoming the first on the platform for the ceremony. symbol of authority and dignity person to call Burgett by his new There is no doubt she’s prepared: in academic ceremonies.” But, title. “I’m sprucing up my cap and gown its carrier, the University grand Beyond the important and putting another hook in it,” marshal, is also a symbol of connection Burgett formed with she said. “I’m going to bobby pin authority and dignity in academia. Moore, his interaction with my cap to my head.” Robed while sporting a colorful the new Dr. Burgett perhaps Beyond the humorous hood and stole, the University reflects Moore’s respect for the practicalities are the marshal is as symbolic as the tradition associated with academia; accomplishments that likely led mace itself, leading a procession of “bestowing” Burgett with his new Rubin to selection by Provost and soon-to-be college graduates down title, in a sense, reflects the similar Dean of the Faculty of the School the Eastman Quadrangle while passion Moore demonstrated of Arts, Sciences and Engineering carrying the mace. Since 1990— years later when he first served as Peter Lennie: Rubin is the newly save the 1994 graduation— University marshal in 1990. appointed Director of Humanities, Professor Emeritus of History “He loved the University so has spent the last two years as chair Jesse T. Moore carried the mace. much, and being able to be the of the steering committee of the Following his passing last month, marshal of the institution meant Faculty Council in the School of Dexter Perkins Professor in History […] so much to him,” Burgett said. Arts, Sciences and Engineering and Joan Rubin will be the new grand Moore’s commitment was has served as a “faculty marshal” in marshal, carrying the mace and unwavering. Even after officially the commencement ceremony for leading president Joel Seligman retiring, he continued to carry the last four years. as well as the procession of faculty, the mace at graduations. When She also takes her role seriously, trustees and students. the graduation ceremony was stating that “I do feel that I have Moore is certainly a symbol divided from one large ceremony large responsibilities, and I want to of authority and dignity in the on Fauver Field into a general make sure that I carry them out.” tradition of University marshals. ceremony and eight school-specific Beyond the commencement Having carried the mace in 23 ceremonies soon after Seligman ceremony itself, Rubin also has graduation ceremonies between became president, Moore carried fond memories of Moore, the 1990 and 2014, Moore is certainly the mace for all of them. figurehead into whose role she is emblematic of this tradition. He is “I don’t know how he did it, but stepping. Both professors in the seconded by Professor of Chemical he loved it,” Burgett said. History Department, Rubin met Engineering Richard Eisenberg in Before each commencement, him in her first days working at terms of the number of graduations as faculty donned robes, caps and the University. presided over. Eisenberg carried stoles in Schlegel Hall, Moore was “He was very kind to me when the mace between 1973 and 1987. known to deliver his trademark I first arrived and ever since,” she COURTESY OF ROCHESTER REVIEW AND RIVER CAMPUS LIBRARIES Each are members of an exclusive “inspirational soliloquy,” as Burgett said. At the October 22, 1994 inauguration of Thomas H. Jackson as UR president, group of one of approximately 11 described it, on the importance of In some ways, though, Moore’s grand marshal and professor Jesse Moore bestowed a hood upon Douglas G. professors who have carried the the academic experience and the legacy will be unmatched. Baird, dean of the University of Chicago law school. mace since it was commissioned ceremonial trappings that brought “We simply thought of Professor and first used in 1935. students’ academic years to their Moore as the marshal, and it just As University Dean, Vice conclusion. continued, year-in and year-out,” President, and Senior Advisor “We all felt really good about Burgett said. to the President Paul Burgett what we were about to do,” Burgett Now, each school selects a described, “the marshal is the said, describing the start of the marshal that will lead their ceremonial point-person for the commencement procession which ceremony, appointed for a period commencement exercise.” followed Moore’s speech. of one to three years. Rubin will But, more important than It was at one commencement, serve this year as the University just as a point-person, Moore soon after President Seligman marshal at the general ceremony. was a mentor, a figurehead and assumed the role, that Burgett “He was a very kind and emblematic of the University’s recalls a special title given to Moore. thoughtful person, who loved legacy. Few are more familiar with As Burgett recounts, Seligman said, the university, loved students and that reality than Burgett. “Professor Moore, you’re not just was absolutely the right person Burgett met Moore in the the University Marshal, you’re the to be university marshal for so early 1970s while working on his grand marshal.” many years,” Rubin concluded. dissertation at the Eastman School And so the terminology of Now, as she steps into his shoes, of Music. As the only African- grand marshal was born, and with she continues Moore’s legacy of American faculty member at the it a heightened awareness of the love for academic ceremony and University, Moore was able to unique and prestigious role Moore appreciation for the University. COURTESY OF ROCHESTER REVIEW AND RIVER CAMPUS LIBRARIES provide the then-doctoral student played. The tradition in which Remus is a member of From left: Grand marshal and professor Jesse Moore leads professor Frederike Burgett with readings on history this year’s grand marshal will be the class of 2016. Seligman, newly-inaugurated UR President Joel Seligman and Board of Trustees Chairman G. Robert Witmer outside of Eastman Theater on October 23, 2005. SUNDAY, MAY 17, 2015 / FEATURES campustimes.org / PAGE 7 For Meridians, storytelling makes all the difference BY JUSTIN TROMBLY Society]. Tere are three rounds: in every other week. Te system the participants is just as important things to say about the school, and OPINIONS EDITOR the frst is just the application, the emphasizes constant education— as the experience of the guides. you can’t say all of it on tour, so think second is a group interview and the there is always new information “Te biggest thing we look for in about what is going to be the most David Weinberg loves show and third is a presentation. After each to learn about the school—and a Meridian is someone who can tell relevant to this person; what is going tell—but not the kind with teddy round, we cut down people, so we mentorship. stories,” he said. to make them the most interested bears and house pets. Instead, he have about 30-35.” In their frst semesters as hires, new Te organization cares less about about the school; how can I share loves sharing his stories, especially When the second half of the Meridians participate in workshops memorized statistics and more the aspects of the school that I think when they get him talking about school year rolls around, Weinberg with returning members of the about giving substance to their they’ll be excited about,” Weinberg his experiences at UR. It may switches from recruiting Meridians group and begin by shadowing tours, leaving the best possible exclaimed, animated. come as no surprise, then, that of to teaching them. “In the spring, current Meridians as they give tours. impression on their visitors. “Te And the Meridians’ strategies all the extracurricular activities he’s which is the other half of my job, is “On your tour shift, for the frst reason I think being a Meridian is work. “I’ve had kids on accepted participated in during his four years the training,” he said. Te demands three weeks, you don’t speak—you so successful is because you’re not a students days —immediately after at UR, the Meridian Society has of the training sessions aren’t for the just listen,” Weinberg explained. website [...] [People] come on a tour the tour—enroll in the school, and been his favorite. faint-hearted—the group meets After tagging along silently for three because they want to hear student that’s the best feeling in the whole As Weinberg said, sitting outside once a week for about nine weeks, weeks, new members are able to perspectives, and so we look for world: to know that you had such a of Starbucks, his excitement evident each time crawling out of bed and start taking more prominent roles in people who can give that, who can big part, that you personally played amid the post-fnals calm of the showing up bright and early to learn tours, progressively speaking more say, ‘Here’s my story. Here’s why I such a big part, in their decision to lounge, Meridians are “tasked with at 8 a.m. “We teach them, basically, and more as the weeks pass. Tis enroll,” Weinberg said. “Tat’s the giving tours to prospective students, facts about the school, myths that graduated system dismays many of ‘The biggest thing greatest feeling.” mostly, but [also] to potential you might think are true but are the new Meridians, Weinberg said, After two years of walking employees, new hires, sometimes not actually true at all [and] how mostly because there is so much we look for in a backward, Weinberg is looking donors [and] legacies.” On any given to answer tough questions from content to master before they can Meridian is someone forward to the future: he’s graduating day—but particularly in the spring, parents,” Weinberg explained. properly lead tours, regardless of with degrees in Business and English when fowers bloom and campus While rigorous, the training how confdent they may be entering who can tell stories’ and is moving to . explodes in life—you can see the sessions aren’t as bland as they might the job. But, even with a new chapter in Meridians guiding groups around seem—the group is constantly “Tat was hard for me because love the school so much.’” his life approaching, Weinberg campus. Tey’re easy to spot, too: looking for new ways to keep their I was so excited to be hired,” It is this—a focus on creating will never forget his beginnings just look for their trademark blue members stimulated. “We try Weinberg said. “After I started engaging experiences—that drives with the Meridian Society. As jackets and backward walking— to make it really fun,” Weinberg watching people on my tour shifts much of what Meridians strive to he refected on what lead him something that is treated more as said. “It is intense, but I think it’s start giving tours, I was like, ‘Oh, do: connecting with the people they to apply, he highlighted again an art than a skill. enjoyable. We bring in a lot of I actually am not ready to give a guide about campus. “Kids in high just how important storytelling Weinberg’s role extends beyond diferent speakers from diferent tour yet.’” school [...] really want to hear what and communication are to the that of just a tour guide: he is also parts of the school.” Tese speakers To Weinberg, the best parts about is it like to be a college student, from organization. the co-recruitment and training give Meridians frsthand insights being a Meridian and giving tours a college student,” he said. Even though he eventually leader of the organization. As the on the departments and programs involve basic elements of storytelling What sets a Meridian tour apart became a leader in the group, title implies, his role is twofold, split they spend their days discussing, and show and tell, especially is that they start by asking their Weinberg didn’t even know it between semesters. enriching their education so that audience engagement. guests questions. “Tere’s way too existed as a freshman. It was only In the fall, Weinberg occupies they can better excite and engage “Being able to, once a week, share much about the school to say on when, as a sophomore, a senior himself with encouraging people visitors. Tis year, the Meridian my story about the school, just to a tour,” Weinberg said, which is Meridian brother of his fraternity to apply to the Meridian Society Society hosted a speaker from be able to talk to people who are why Meridians narrow the scope encouraged him to apply that he and, later, sifting through applicants one of the school’s newest majors, as excited about the school as I of conversation right of the bat by found out about the organization. to fnd the best individuals for the Audio and Music Engineering, an am—since I’m passionate about discovering what their audience As soon as his friend explained what job. “It is my job to—in the fall achievement Weinberg beamed the school and they want to be likes and is interested in. Tis was involved, Weinberg was hooked. fyer—get people to apply, to get about. passionate about the school, it’s just method helps them emphasize “Tat is perfect for me,” he recalls people aware of what the Meridian Te meetings are structured so fun,” he said. topics relevant to the visitors. “You thinking. Evidently, it was. Society is,” he explained. “I oversee that new Meridians attend every But Meridian tours are a two-way have one hour to talk, and there’s Trombly is a member of the hiring process of [the Meridian week, while current Meridians come experience, and the enjoyment of way more than an hour’s worth of the class of 2018. Seniors surprised by wine tour availability

BY ANGELA REMUS over 50 tickets left, and the event PUBLISHER didn’t sell out until after 3 p.m. “We anticipated that they would By noon on Tursday, April 30, sell out early, so it was a little the Wilson Quadrangle was littered surprising [that they didn’t],” Senior with folding chairs, blankets and Class Council Administrative water bottles: the result of hundreds Chair KatherineWegman said. of students camping out, waiting to Others were surprised, too. purchase a coveted wine tour ticket. “I rolled up at 2 p.m. and got a In the days leading up to the event, ticket,” Senior Amanda Brady said, students planned their strategies: laughing. “I was waiting for other getting in line as early as 4 a.m.; tickets and heard someone else ask bringing bag chairs and snacks; if there were wine tour tickets.” and sitting with a group of friends. Ballou, speaking rapidly as she For students, the 15-year Finger prepared to head to ITS to load YOU LOVE COLLEGE. Lakes wine tour tradition merits an students on buses, summed up the early arrival. reality of ticket sales: “I’m glad that “We were on the corner of the the event is really popular,” she said. NOW MAKE IT A CAREER. [Wilson Commons] patio,” senior “Some students are really more in Aubrey Jaicks said, explaining that love with the idea of getting up early Earn an M.S. You were involved. You were a student leader. You liked being in a leadership role. she and several friends had arrived at than the necessity of it.” Imagine doing the same kind of thing as a career. Maybe you were an RA or student around 4 a.m. to wait. “We brought Despite the irony of having spent in Education in senator, or established a student club or organization. Maybe you spent as much games and blankets.” hours waiting in the wee hours of College Student time in your co-curricular activities as you did in the classroom. If that sounds thrilling, Based on previous years’ ticket the morning for Wilson Commons Services our master’s degree is for you. sales, Jaicks and her friends—as well to open when tickets were still Our 36-credit graduate program will provide you with the skills for career opportunities as the dozens of other early risers— available at a comfortable mid- Administration at a broad range of colleges and universities including community colleges, large weren’t completely unreasonable afternoon hour, Ballou’s comment (CSSA) public research universities, and small private institutions. in their ticket-purchasing strategy. seems to hold true. But this year, according to Director “We had a lot of fun,” Jaicks of Wilson Commons Laura Ballou, said, laughing with two friends as Take that next important step. the Senior Class Council increased they walked past the clock tower Make a personal appointment today. Contact us at 1-800-637-8556 ext. 2 or at [email protected]. the number of tickets available to Tuesday morning, heading for 360, the highest amount ever. By the buses. “We were with a lot of the time the original line on the friends. I don’t regret waiting.” Wilson Quad had died down—at Remus is a member of WWW.STROSE.EDU/CSSA around 10:30 a.m.—there were still the class of 2016. PAGE 8 / campustimes.org FEATURES / SUNDAY, MAY 17, 2015 Alumni support student athletics, on and off the field BY ALYSSA ARRE SENIOR STAFF

Being on a sports team has a number of obvious benefits for when students are here on campus: as an incoming freshman it means instant friends, but later, your teammates are also there to eat with you in the dining halls, can help with problem sets and studying, and are always ready to offer a shoulder to cry on or overzealous celebration when something exciting happens in your life. Luckily, the benefits of being on a sports team last long after graduation, and, at the University of Rochester, include some unexpected pay-offs. Senior members of the cross country and track and field teams have reflected upon their experiences.

Support at meets and games Typically the loudest people cheering at sporting events are the athletes’ parents, but alumni definitely take a close second. “Alumni are really engaging and encouraging when it comes to championship meets especially,” ALYSSA ARRE / SENIOR STAFF said senior Victoria Stepanova, Jason Zayak ‘12 and Andrew Fleisher ‘12 show their support at the NCAA Atlantic Regional Cross Country Meet, which occurred on October 27, 2012. noting a particular instance a few years ago when the cross country teams held the NCAA Atlantic UR athletic facilities including the delicate balance in their coaches attest to the passion that Being a member of a team means Regional at Genesee Valley Fauver Stadium, the baseball own years as an undergraduate. UR athletes feel for the school joining an expansive network of Park. A handful of alumni drove field, the outdoor tennis courts, “[Director of Track and Field and the athletic department as people. “So many alumni travel up to Rochester for the day, and team practice areas. Prince Sam Albert] understands the a whole. Their passion for their to see us compete at meets, return dressing up in blue and yellow was a member of the men’s academic pressure that students respective teams and the school is for alumni events, and meet up and cheering extra loud. “They soccer team and hoped with experience,” said Stepanova, truly inspiring. outside of the academic year,” give you something to run for,” his donation to help Rochester “It also helps because he knows Overall, all those interviewed said Mistler-Ferguson. “It really added senior and captain Mark Athletics “evolve into one of what’s best for the team and acknowledged one commonality– has made me feel like I’m part of Rollfs, “It makes me feel good to the elite Division III programs he’s easy to talk to in terms of the feeling that being part of a something really special.” run well and let them know that in the country.” Other alumni planning.” sports team meant much more Arre is a member of the team is doing well since they donations that are designated for The large number of alumni than they originally expected. the class of 2015. left.” a single team help to fund special Other current members noted trips. For the past few years, the that camaraderie extends beyond track and field team has traveled what is typically expected. to compete at a Division I meet “Alumni that I’ve never even in the early outdoor season. This known have come out and opportunity for athletes to get cheered for us,” said senior top-notch competition in their Andrew Zeccola. “Regardless of events often times pushes them where we are, there always seem towards qualifing marks for to be alumni in that city or area championship season. that stop by just to show their For the varsity cross country support.” He noted a particular and track teams, this year was meet this past outdoor track a special occasion in particular season where four local alumni because long-time cross country came to the meet even though coach John Izzo retired after 15 the weather was less than ideal years of service to the University of –20 degrees Farenheight. Rochester. Senior Ethan Pacheck In many cases, the support was one of many current and extends far beyond the playing past team members who helped field. Said senior Connie Mistler- orchestrate an effort to raise Ferguson, “UR alumni as a whole money from alumni for a special have a unique ability to empathize retirement gift. “The alumni were and support us as current student very approachable, even some of athletes, pushing us to dream and whom I haven’t talked to in years achieve bigger goals on the track, or wasn’t even on the team with,” in the classroom, and out in the said Pacheck. “Some donated but real world.” Mistler-Ferguson is others were just really invested a four-year member of the track in what gift we chose for coach. and field team, and added that Even if they couldn’t make a alumni are genuinely invested monetary contribution they were in the track program and its still interested in the process of continued success. picking something out for him.” Donations to UR Athletics and Coaches within the department sports teams Another enormous advantage Sometimes, support comes in to students within the athletic other forms, such as a monetary department is the large number gift to the athletic department of alumni who come back or toward a certain sports team. to coach. Thirteen of the Generous gifts from athletic varsity athletic coaches are also alumni have helped fund a undergraduate alumni from number of projects over the UR. Alumni coaches understand years. Most recently, Brian F. the challenge of being a student Prince ‘86, ‘89 (MBA) made a athlete at the University of gift to the university to update Rochester, having practiced SUNDAY, MAY 17, 2015 / OPINIONS campustimes.org / PAGE 9 OPINIONS EDITORIAL OBSERVER OP-ED The places you’ll go 2015: A momentous year

teach and live. International feet dedicated to children and students in the 165th graduation students are returning to homes their families. ceremony at the University. all over the world. Fellowship Starting in July, the Te Simon School of Business recipients are travelling to University—led by the Warner commencement occurs later on Europe, the Philippines and School of Education—will June 7. We have come a long way Malaysia. assume supervision of East High since 1851, when we graduated “You’ll come down from the School with a plan to signifcantly 10 students. Lurch with an unpleasant bump. improve student achievement Deborah Bial, founder and And the chances are, then, that and double graduation rates over president of the Posse Foundation, you’ll be in a Slump.” the next seven years. will receive an honorary doctor of Seuss doesn’t sugarcoat the Tis year we launched several humane letters degree and deliver BY JOEL SELIGMAN BY ANGELA REMUS challenges of leaving the happy key projects which will help us the College’s commencement PUBLISHER place that is the college bubble. focus our eforts on reaching the address on May 17. At the Te very bubble that you may Tis has been a momentous “Next Level,” including initiatives College ceremony, we will present In the words of Dr. Seuss’s have railed against in your four year. in Data Science, Neuroscience honorary degrees to Porter W. “Oh, Te Places You’ll Go:” years here—seeking of-campus At the end of April, the and Neuromedicine, the Anderson, professor emeritus “Congratulations! Today is your cofee shops and nights out on community celebrated the grand Humanities and the Performing of pediatrics at the School of day. You’re of to Great Places! the town as relief—is no longer opening of College Town, which Arts, and the Revitalization of Medicine and Dentistry; Robert You’re of and away!” a bufer between you and the now boasts approximately 20 our Community. Dufy, president and chief Congratulations, class of big, wide world. No more will retail facilities, including Barnes For example, plans for our executive ofcer of the Rochester 2015! Te author of your friendly librarians feed you & Noble, the Corner Bakery new Goergen Institute for Data Business Alliance who previously childhood wrote a book gifted to during a rough week of fnals Cafe, Constantino’s Market, Science also are progressing, served as New York lieutenant graduates across the country, and studying. No more will you have Breathe Yoga, Insomnia Cookies, thanks to signifcant charitable governor and as Rochester his rhyming words ring simple declining dollars to call “not Jimmy John’s and many others. gifts as well as capital support mayor; and Richard Rashid, chief but true. real money.” But, as you know, In March, we surpassed from New York state. We will technology ofcer of Microsoft’s “You have brains in your head. the real-world Lurches and the our initial $1.2 billion goal in aim to achieve best in class Applications and Sciences You have feet in your shoes. You Slumps that result are worth it! Te Meliora Challenge capital programs in the domains of Division. can steer yourself any direction you “With banner fip-fapping, campaign, providing more than Predictive Health Analytics, We will also recognize the choose.” once more you’ll ride high! Ready $200 million in student support. Cognitive Systems and Artifcial outstanding contributions Your prospects must be for anything under the sky. Ready Dean of the School of Arts Intelligence, and Analytics on of distinguished leaders and promising. Some of you are because you’re that kind of a guy!” & Sciences Gloria Culver Demand. Te Goergen Institute scholars by bestowing the steering yourself to graduate You’re armed with a degree and announced recently that we will plans to dedicate its new home in Eastman and Hutchison Medals school or medical school, others with knowledge, with four years establish a Humanities Center to fall 2016 and move in by winter for exemplary service, as well are entering the working world, of experiences at our Rochester be located in Rush Rhees Library. 2017. as awards for scholarship and some are completing fellowships home—four years of friendships, Dean Culver also announced the Renovations will begin soon teaching. Howard Zemsky, and an unsung number of you of hard work, of sweat (in the formation of our new Institute in Douglass Dining Hall to President and CEO of Empire are charting your own path, Periodical Reading Room), for Performing Arts. improve dining facilities, create State Development and disregarding the conventions to tears (from one too many hours Joe Testani joins us next event space and expand space for Commissioner of the New York which others adhere. looking at the computer screen) month as assistant dean and student organizations. State Department of Economic “You’ll be on your way up! You’ll and bonds (of both friendship executive director of the Gwen We will continue to make Development, will be the be seeing great sights! You’ll join and organic chemistry). You’re M. Greene Career and Internship progress on the Brian F. Prince speaker for the Simon School’s the high fiers who soar to high ready for anything under the sky, Center. In October, Jessica Athletic Complex. Very commencement ceremony. heights.” whether it be a Rochester winter Guzman-Rea was named director signifcantly, this year we He will be recognized for his An estimated 40% of you are or the new trail you’re blazing. of what is now the Paul J. Burgett committed to the construction of distinguished record in business moving on to graduate studies; “You’re of to Great Places! Intercultural Center. a new dormitory overlooking our and public service with the another 40% have accepted Today is your day! Your mountain On May 27, we will dedicate football stadium that will include Simon Distinguished Alumnus job or fellowship ofers. Quite is waiting. So...get on your way!” the largest individual construction additional space for athletics. Award. literally, many of you will be Best wishes, class of 2015, project in our history, the Te best part of May is I wish all of you the happiest high-fiers: fying across the from the Campus Times to you! new Golisano Children’s graduation. Between May 15 possible graduation week. country to jobs and internships, Remus is a member of Hospital, with eight foors and and 17, our schools will graduate Seligman is the and across oceans to research, the class of 2016. approximately 245,000 square more than 3,000 exceptional President of the University.

OP-ED We’re on the rise When I frst visited campus, like many of us probably do right packed with bright students and learning to love. Te people I’ve the tower almost beckoned to now. My breathing quickened, swinging hammocks, playing met here and the lessons I’ve me. It was so regal, so powerful, my thoughts exploded, my heart in the sun. I see long walks learned are all wrapped up in such a monument to the started racing. And I looked up. freshman year, struggling to fnd that tower, every time I look at knowledge I would learn here. And I saw the Rush Rhees tower. our way back from Southside, it. It’s going to be so hard to leave Although it sits atop the library, And I felt great. Te tower wasn’t stopping to chase rabbits at 2 it behind. its presence extends much farther looming; it was uplifting. I felt a.m. and meeting new friends. But, we’re on the rise: all of all throughout campus. It’s like powerful and confdent and at I see the tower on my diploma us and our University too. Our the tower knew we wouldn’t just home. frame that will hopefully hang community goes far beyond learn in the library. Anyone who knows me in every ofce I ever work; I campus and I know this. Our BY ANTOINETTE ESCE I still remember my frst night knows I’m not one for cheesy see times when school was too experience here will go far on campus. I was here early for stories, so believe me when I hard, too much, walking out of beyond the physical view of the You can see the tower of Rush UR Foot, and campus was pretty say I’m not embellishing all a fnal exam and straight back to tower and I know this too. I Rhees Library from almost empty. I was excited to be here. that much. Whenever I look up bed, and then realizing it wasn’t know this is not the end of our anywhere on campus. I think I could feel the potential around at that tower now, I have that so bad when I woke up. I see time as Yellowjackets, but just there’s one spot—if you stand me, and it made me nervous. I same feeling of content—not long nights in Goergen, with the beginning. directly in front of the Frederick was walking back from Danforth complacent content, but the white boards, notes, dry erase You can see the Rush Rhees Douglass Building—where you Dining Center alone, and, at burning happiness that inspires markers and wonderful people. tower from almost anywhere on can’t see it. Other than that, it’s one point, it became too much. so much. I always smile. I see the tower on t-shirts—all campus. I’m fairly convinced, visible from basically everywhere, I don’t usually get nervous, so Tat frst night here, it was a around the country, all around however, that I’ll be able to see it including inside some buildings my confusion at the nervousness symbol of what could be of my the world—on the backs of my from just about anywhere in the and within a decent radius of was compounding the anxiety. I time on campus. Now, as I look fellow ‘Jackets; I see times when world. campus. Tere’s been a number of was thinking about all the things back, it’s a symbol of all that our community had troubles, Esce is a member of times when it’s guided me home in my life; all the things that had has been of my time on campus when I needed a reminder of the class of 2015, from somewhere, lit my path been my life; all the things my and a symbol of what my life what we were fghting for; I is the outgoing back from a late night of studying life was going to be. It was dark will be beyond it. I see the see brisk, breezy nights, sitting Students’ Association President or been a steady, comforting sight and the place was new and I felt frst day of warm weather every by the river, sharing secrets and and is a former in a moment of need. like I was on a precipice, much spring, with the Eastman Quad more, making lifelong friends, Campus Times Editor-in-Chief. PAGE 10 / campustimes.org A&E / SUNDAY, MAY 17, 2015 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Your summer television A show that promotes binge-watching guide farewell, not goodbye

BY SCOTT ABRAMS the devoted sister fighting for partners, especially as the show BY LUCAS TROADEC in the Farewell Concert: one of COPY EDITOR her brother’s release. Adelaide begins to resemble a two-woman STAFF WRITER them, “The Music Box,” was Clemens, as Daniel’ sister-in-law, play in its second season. choreographed by Firestone OK, guys: summer’s here. You especially shines; her character Choice Line: “It’s not easy to Senior Week celebrates the hard herself, who specifically expresses know what that means! Time adds intersesting shades to the say this, but I lied to you guys. A work and dedication of its senior her excitement to “share the stage to spend some nice time in the typical “Good Christian Woman” lot. Even about stuff I din’t have class. During this week, the tough with some of her closest friends great indoors catching up on the stereotype when her faith begins to. And I’m not proud about that. times of finals, midterms and all- one last time” under such special television you’ve missed over the to waver. The show never answers I mean, I’m proud of how well- nighters are forgotten in favor of circumstances. “It is an honor year! Without further ado, here’s the question of Daniel’s guilt, crafted the lies were. Because, the amazing memories that four to perform with these amazing a list of some potentially off-the- preferring to focus most of its y’know, doing anything well is years of college provide. During dancers,” she said. radar shows I deem most worthy time on his reintroduction back its own reward.”- Bonnie’s attempt Senior Week, this group of students The Senior Farewell Concert is, of your viewing. to a world he believed to have left at an apology. who grew together—from their however, not just an experience “Veep” behind. Available On: CBS.com very first steps as freshman to their for seniors only. Ava Sauer, a HBO’s brutal, profanity-laden Choice Line: “Does it matter if “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” last ones on the Commencement rising sophomore and member of political satire features America’s I’m guilty or not?”- Daniel With this series–which is ceremony stage—will be celebrated Trebellious, UR’s newest a cappella first female Vice President basically a darker version of “30 as part of the UR family. group, reflected upon the impact (played by the astonishing Julia ‘The series has Rock”- creators Tina Fey and What is celebrated is the the senior members of her group Louis-Dreyfus) as she deals with Robert Carlock have delivered community: its cultural diversity, have had on her overall college all of the mundane trials and become one of the something unique: a show as its talents, its brilliance and its experience. Although she has tribulations brought on by her most beautiful socially relevant as it is weird. uniqueness. To do so, what only had a year to get to know seemingly meaningless gig as After being held captive in an could be a better way than the the seniors in Trebellious, she second-in-command. Dreyfus mediations on religion underground doomsday cult for Senior Farewell Concert, which considers herself “close with all of has won three Emmy awards for 15 years, Kimmy Schmidt (Ellie illustrates with music and dance them,” and “even best friends with her role as the eternally frustrated and spirituality I’ve Kemper) decides to start her life the singularity of the college some.” Sauer sees their presence (but not necessarily incompetent) ever seen.’ over in New York City. The show experience? as a positive influence that will be Selina Meyer, who can never seem finds its strength in its refusal The concert, taking place in missed. She says that they brought to accomplish anything with her Available On: Netflix to allow Kimmy’s victimization Strong Auditorium on Saturday musical talent and experience to dignity intact. “Mom” to define her. With her gay May 16, will be the last chance the group of singers. Choice Line: “I can’t identify This CBS sitcom hails from roommate, Titus,(Tituss Burgess), for all cultural and artistic student “Their spark and creative energy” as a woman! People can’t know Chuck Lorre, the producer of such shallow boss (“30 Rock”s Jane groups to pay tribute to the is what will be missed the most by that!”- Selina, after being told to shows as “The Big Bang Theory” Krakowksi, playing what initially graduating seniors and for the Sauer, adding that senior members add the phrase, “as a woman,” to and “Two and a Half Men.” While seems to be the same character seniors themselves to perform with “were not only important to the her speech on birth control. not the ratings juggernaut of those here) and free-spirited landlord the groups that have defined their group but to her personally.” Available On: HBOGO two shows, “Mom” is playing a (Carol Kane), Kimmy strives to college experiences. Starring the Letting them go is a necessity, “Rectify” much different game: Christy find a life for herself beyond her , Trebellious, no matter how painful it is—a This series, from the Sundance Plunkett (Anna Faris) is recently past. Stick around for Tina Fey’s Louvre, the Ballet Performance fact that Sauer, like everyone else, Channel, may seem like quite a sober, working at a restaurant to hilarious guest appearance as a Group (BPG), Sihir Bellydance understands. downer from afar. Daniel Holden support her two children. When clueless lawyer clearly based on Ensemble, Celtic and many “I’m equally sad to see them (Aden Young), a man on death her vulgar, estranged mother Marcia Clark, the prosecutor who others, the show will highlight go and happy to celebrate their row for the rape and murder of Bonnie (Allison Janney, who botched the O.J. Simpson trial. the impressive collection of skills successful completion of college,” his girlfriend twenty years prior, won an Emmy for the role last Choice Line: “I’ve decided to and talents that UR students have, she said. is released from prison after new year) comes back into her life to live as a werewolf.”- Titus, on beyond those evidenced in the Of course, this is the ultimate DNA evidence offers doubt to make amends, she must let go of discovering that he gets treated diplomas they will receive the next meaning of the Farewell Concert: his guilt. Quite astonishingly, her anger. Unlike most sitcoms substantially better when dressed day. the celebration of a class, of the series has become one of of its type, the show consistently in a werewolf costume than as an Senior Melanie Firestone is a community, of friends and the most beautiful mediations balances humor with drama, as African-American man. one such talented individual talented individuals, whose roles on religion and spirituality I’ve the family deals with addiction, Available On: Netflix and has been dancing with BPG we as underclassmen will have to ever seen. Young is great in the grief and abandonment. Faris and Abrams is a member of since her freshman year. BPG fill soon enough. lead, as is Abigail Spencer as Janney make magnificent screen the class of 2018. will be performing two pieces Troadec is a member of Persistence pays in arts internships BY JULIANNE MCADAMS with a concentration in Language, As far as financial assistance goes, gotten interviews and offers by an internship fair where she MANAGING EDITOR Media and Communications Varga stressed that while many utilizing job board websites. met Green Lifestyles Network (LMC), will be a Literary arts internships are unpaid, UR Kushner said getting your representatives, and they contacted “What are you doing this Management intern at Geva offers funding opportunities for “dream job” is more about the her within a few days with the job summer?” That is the question Theatre in Rochester this summer. internships. Last summer, Varga process and networking than offer. we are asked more and more Located on Woodbury Blvd., the worked at a theater in Connecticut it is about landing “big name” Perez’s advice is to not stress as the school year comes to a red line passes Geva on its way to through funding provided by the companies right off the bat. out. She offered similar advice to close. For those of us interested Eastman. Tanenbaum Scholarship, which “Every job is helpful, so even Kushner about not being too set in internships related to the arts, Varga said she anticipates is awarded to English majors if you do not get your dream on what you initially intended it can seem difficult at times to assisting the Literary Department interning at related venues. This internship right away, your next to do. Perez said, “Expand your lock something down, and yet it by preparing dramaturgical summer, Varga will be in Rochester job will take you a step closer,” horizons, because you might not is evermore crucial to highlight materials for the approaching with REACH funding. Kushner said. “I just remind get what you want exactly from that hands-on experience in a season and working in the Varga said that informing myself that there are a number of the very beginning, but experience resume. Many positions are highly decision-making processes for the prospective employers that you are different ways to get to the same is experience, and anything with competitive, while some more acceptance of new plays which applying for UR funding further place and each one is right; it just the arts will be fun.” viable options can remain hidden have been submitted. shows interest and can actually depends on the person.” All three UR students worked without some digging. “I was especially excited by the make you a stronger applicant. “It Perez, an English LMC major hard to get these internships in To highlight some UR students idea of working with Geva because also puts some pressure on them who aspires to work in the editing arts and media through an open who were successful in getting arts I’d be able to stay in Rochester for to let you know if they’ve decided and publishing business post- mindset and persistence. “All in and entertainment internships this the summer, and because I love to give you an internship,” Varga graduation, will be a blogger for all, the best thing to do is what you summer, and to hopefully allay the attention they give to new, said. Green Lifestyles Network. She will can,” Kushner concluded. “Meet anxieties and offer advice to UR developing plays,” Varga said. Kushner, a Film and Media be writing monthly articles geared everyone you can, make a good students attempting to find arts- She advised students interested Studies major, is currently interning toward college students about impression and use your new skills related summer jobs, I spoke to in landing internships to be as a Script Reader for Eclectic how to be “green on campus and to get you to the next place you rising Take Five Scholar Katherine persistent with emailing and Pictures and is interviewing for why they should care about their want to be. Every job is a helpful Varga, graduating senior Madeline reaching out to places they are another position in Los Angeles. resource usage.” step and will teach you something Kushner and rising senior Lauren interested in working for. Much “I am looking at positions related Like Varga and Kushner, Perez you did not know before.” Perez. of the time, success is about to film/ TV production or actively pursued internship McAdams is a member of Varga, who is an English major initiative. producing,” Kushner said. She has opportunities. She attended the class of 2017. SUNDAY, MAY 17, 2015 / HUMOR campustimes.org / PAGE 11 HUMOR The end of an era Humor Editors BY NATE KUHRT think of in my life are the horns grass was almost always covered considering campaign STAFF WRITER on the bulls in cattle farms which in snow. If physics and chemistry are driven by once in a blue moon. have taught me anything, I think BY CHRIS HORGAN of interest, Chiodo quickly and As the semester comes to an end Being realistic, if the endgame of it has to be that Schrodinger HUMOR EDITOR wittily remarked, “Let’s see, we’re and our beloved mascots begin this nice little bit called college was would assume the grass to be half interested in being elected, and to become a nuisance to campus to work with bulls and try to take living—or green—and half dead. Humor Editors and sophomores we also conveniently write for picnics, two things are clear: them by their horns, I feel like there If we can’t even determine how Chris Horgan and Erik Chiodo the paper, so we don’t see how the weather is too hot (I never are easier ways to accomplish this. green our own grass is, how can recently acknowledged the that conflicts with any of our thought I’d say that in Rochester), I mean, I guess if you’re really into we determine if someone else’s possibility of pursuing political interests.” and a senior class will retire from cattle farming it’s a solid option, grass is greener? Also, referencing power in the near future. Horgan then moved to its undergraduate college days but personally I’m probably allergic an art class I took once in middle “We didn’t win this election readdress and clarify what Chiodo to make room for incoming to hay, cattle and maybe pollen— school, I think that green is just a for a couple of reasons,” Horgan had intended. freshmen. Now if you’re anything but that’s besides the point. I think combination of blue and yellow. stated. “I think what ultimately “We want what’s best for like me, which I’m assuming you better advice would be to try and And realistically, it is subjectively prevented us from accumulating everyone. And [Chiodo] and I are but not really for any specific really conquer whatever challenges a mass number of votes was our are part of everyone. So how can reason, you are reflecting on the life throws at you. Everyone always failure to tell anyone we had the we do what’s best for everyone past year wondering where the Someone once told me to shoot seems to think intention of running or perhaps without doing what’s best for us, time went. Well, analyzing the for the stars, and, if worse comes even our failure to enter the too?” past is a little bit of pain since I to worst, you’ll hit the moon. A that the grass is election process. We tried to carry Midway through the interview, have found it really, really hard to couple of thoughts come to mind out as many Chiodo’s as we could, the duo began to watch clips from change. So moving forward, for when thinking about this: why much greener on but that was a Chiodon’t.” both their original and present some of us more than others— do I want to be among the stars the other side. If Chiodo agreed to decline to campaigns. specifically those graduating—I or on the moon? I feel like it’d get comment but then disagreed “I’d say the evolution of our figured it’s time for some slightly lonely in space, and I am pretty this past winter with his agreement to decline to campaign has really become credible advice from a graduate of happy on Earth. Additionally, comment. apparent to us and our two years (of high school). what exactly is being shot? If it’s was an indicator “Going in, we wanted to do constituents. At first, we were I remember that in the movie me personally, one would have of anything, this two things: make a difference in encouraged to make our campaign CHRISTIAN CIERI / ILLUSTRATOR “Dodgeball,” White Goodman to imagine that traveling at such people’s lives and also six more slogan something like, ‘Less high velocities to break Earth’s cannot possibly be really nice things.” Homework,’ and ‘Free French I figured it’s time gravitational field must cause The duo spent numerous Fries.’ But, then, we realized that all kinds of troubles with one’s known. minutes preparing for the last our constituents were a bunch of for some slightly sinuses and such. Personally, I am and objectively true that coming election and truly foresee success middle schoolers, so we had to going to stick right here on Earth from UR has already set you up in upcoming campus elections. mix things up,” Chiodo noted. credible advice and just try accomplish the most I with the best shades of yellow “We wanted to be the first to Horgan ended by nodding at from a graduate of can on land, like with oxygen. and blue. So, the grass—moving ever win an election without Chiodo and issuing the following A final thought is relating or forward—will definitely be green. actually running or receiving any statement: “After speaking with two years (of high attempting to relate unknown It’s weird to think about how votes, and we just fell short. We a few members of our team, school) experiences to the ones which next October, when graduating didn’t exactly understand the rules we have decided that we will, individuals are living. Everyone seniors and senior citizens alike of an election,” Horgan stated. in 2016, be playing intramural talked about his painting and always seems to think that the grass visit for a weekend, you will both Chiodo and Horgan recently basketball. Just kidding, I realize explained that he liked to take life is much greener on the other side. be classified the same: alumni. denied allegations that accused the I’ve got the wrong team. I would by the horns. Moving forward, I If this past winter was an indicator Good luck to the class of 2015. duo of a conflict of interest. The like to make it public, we will don’t really know if that’s the best of anything, this cannot possibly Kuhrt is a member of two recently ran an endorsement officially be considering thinking advice: the only horns I really can be known. Think about it: our the class of 2017. in the Campus Times Humor about possibly running for the section, endorsing readers to vote track team.” for “Chiodo and Horgan.” Horgan is a member of Advice for those who need it When asked about the conflict the class of 2017. BY CHRIS HORGAN wonder, does this mean that and take out their favorite Parents unappreciative HUMOR EDITOR if I work lazy my nightmares colored Bics. will come true instead? I think 6. Love means never having to say Right now, a bunch of seniors the last thing I’d want would you’re sorry. of UR wordplay are preparing to graduate, want to come true would be the This is definitely true. It BY NATE KUHRT always stuck with after Halloween and they are probably asking nightmare in which I get stuck means that people like Lance STAFF WRITER now? This better not mean he is themselves, “Where did the time behind five people trying to Armstrong, Alex Rodriguez or moving home.” go?” This is a good question. A buy tickets from the Common pretty much any athlete to ever With this most recent school Another concerned mother also question they probably aren’t Market. use performance enhancing year concluding, college and the commented on her worries about asking is, “Hey, I wonder if drugs really, really loves us. opportunities it presents appear to her daughter “taking five.” Chris has any advice for the real ...be careful when 7. Actions speak louder than words. be winding down for the majority “What changed this past year world?” Well, if you didn’t ask assuming that all So, if you ever see someone of graduates. For example, just with [name redacted]? She used to be that question, then I have some about to walk over a cliff with these past couple of weeks, I saw so focused and had her heart set on advice for you; be careful when advice is good their back turned to you, don’t numerous students finishingmedical school. Now any time I ask assuming that all advice is good scream at them; try to wave them their research regarding what that her about what is next after college, advice. advice. down. bright ball of light in the sky was; she tells me, ‘I’m ‘taking five.’’ I don’t 1. The best things in life are free. 8. If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. it is confirmed to be the sun, a think asking about her future is too The best things in life are 3. “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give So, if you plan on becoming rare sight in Rochester during the difficult, especially after funding free. They also say that college a damn.” a Buffalo Sabres fan, this means school year, to say the least. But, years of education. Why does she includes some of the best days This quote, I believe, is more being a fan of every other team moving forward, many graduates need to take five minutes every of your life. But, college isn’t free of a financial warning if anything in the NHL. will be capitalizing on what the single time I ask?” ,so whomever said that the best else. Don’t go spending your 9. No man is an island. University of Rochester calls a Yet another mother, who preferred things in life are free was wrong. money on extravagant and This one is a real statement of “Take Five.” This result has led to to remain anonymous, had one I think I could come up with an ridiculous items. Why would any the obvious, but I figure I put a surplus of concerned mothers, question which no one seemed entire list of things in life that senseless person buy a dam and it in here just in case you ever worrying about their babies’ to answer, “What is my baby boy are free that absolutely no one then consider giving it away? confuse a man with being an futures. ‘taking five’ of? I didn’t raise a thief.” wants. Infectious diseases are 4. Smooth seas do not make skillful island. When asking a concerned With ongoing misunderstandings free, and no one ever says those sailors. 10. Better to be poor and honest, mother for her thoughts on her about the Rochester definition are the best things in life. Jury But they do keep them alive. than to be rich and dishonest. baby “taking five,” she responded, of “Take Five,” more and more duty? Old age? I’d like to correct 5. The pen is mightier than the So, essentially, it’s honestly best “I can’t believe this is where my son mothers and fathers have growing this statement to something like sword. to be rich. is going after four years of higher worries, the most common being this; some of the best things in I don’t know how much I 11. Time is money. education. All this time the school whether or not graduates will be life are free. believe in this one. I can only Time is not money, because I has claimed to be ‘preparing him moving back home. Hopefully 2. Work hard and your dreams will imagine Mel Gibson giving a ran out of declining with about for the future,’ and now any time this information asymmetry will come true. moving speech to his Scottish two weeks left in the semester. I ask him what he wants to do, he be clarified in the near future. I’ve had some pretty wacky underdogs before commanding Horgan is a member of tells me he is ‘taking five.’ Why is he Kuhrt is a member of dreams, and this makes me everyone to drop their swords the class of 2017. only referencing the candy bar I am the class of 2017. PAGE 12 / campustimes.org SUNDAY, MAY 17, 2015 / SPORTS SPORTS Seven athletes honored for top achievements in sports BY BEN SHAPIRO III Championships in 2014. and has been named an All- top teams in college squash. made it all the way to the SENIOR STAFF She was also named the 2015 American Honorable Mention Te three time All-American NCAA quarterfnals in 2012. Liberty League Player of the six times for her performance from York, England has been Te two-time captain was Te UR Athletic Year. in the pool during the NCAA a leader for the team since his also named to the All-Liberty Department held its annual Lauren Bailey was also a co- championships. arrival and was named a team League team twice. awards banquet on Tursday, recipient of the Merle Spurrier Junior Neil Cordell’s earned captain after his freshman year. Senior Ethan Pacheck April 30, honoring seven received the Peter DiPasquale student-athletes—six seniors Award for the top male student and one junior—for their athlete who also serves as a role accomplishments during their model to others, only a year time at UR. after his brother Adam won Senior Alex Swanger from the award. Te distance runner Penfeld, N.Y. received the competed for both the track Louis A. Alexander Alumni and cross-country teams in Award, which is given to addition to pursuing a degree the male senior athlete who in Chemical Engineering, has contributed the most excelling in both felds. Among to the life of the college his athletic accomplishments through their athletic and are the school record he helped academic achievements. to set in the in the Distance Among the soccer player’s Medley Relay. Academically, accomplishments are being he currently holds a GPA of named an all-UAA selection 3.93. all four years, as well as the Senior Kailee Zornow was 2014 UAA Player of the Year named the recipient of the and twice earning Academic Female Scholar Athlete Award All-American status. thanks to her performance as a Senior Brittany Grage was member of the soccer team as a co-recipient of the Merle well as her excellence in pursuit Spurrier Award, given to the PHOTO COURTESY OF UR ATHLETICS of a degree in Microbiology. The award winners after receiving their awards. Te defender was named an female senior athlete who From left: Bailey, Keil, Grage, Pacheck, Swanger, Zornow and Cordell. has contributed the most All-UAA honorable mention to women’s sports through Award. Te senior from the John Vitone Award, which Senior Megan Keil was in 2012 and was a captain qualities such as leadership Ossining, N.Y. was named is presented to the male student presented the Sylvia Fabricant during both her junior and and enthusiasm as well as Liberty League Swimmer of athlete who displays the most Award, given to the female senior seasons. She was named their athletic performance. the Year for the past three outstanding sportsmanship. athlete with the most Academic All-District the past Te native of Pittsford, N.Y. years and was also honored For three years Cordell has outstanding sportsmanship. two years and will graduate excelled both as a pitcher and as an Academic All-American been playing in the top third Te Syracuse native was a four- with a GPA of 3.88. hitter, and helped the team last year. She holds numerous of the Yellowjacket squash year starter for an improving Shapiro is a member of reach the NCAA Division Rochester swimming records team, consistently one of the ‘Jacket feld hockey team that the class of 2016. All-Americans named BY DANI DOUGLAS in March, the 200-freestyle as basketball, soccer and freshman Al Leslie of women’s “It takes a lot of work SPORTS EDITOR women’s relay team consisted of feld hockey, the allocation basketball was one of 30 named to balance athletics and Bailey, junior Vicky Luan and of these awards is also based as All-American Honorable schoolwork,” Mender said. “I Even before the end of the sophomores Khamei Simpson on both individual and team Mention. think that what has helped me spring seasons, 11 UR athletes and Emily Simon. Te team performance to ensure that “It is something that I have the most is being genuinely across a wide range of sports placed tenth in the nation, those who are qualifed for always personally wanted to interested in what I am have been honored as Division earning them each an All- consideration are also part of accomplish in my time here as an studying, which makes the long III All-Americans, and three American honor. the most successful teams. athlete,” Relin said, who helped hours of work not so bad.” athletes have been named All-American nominations However, the selection lead the team to the Liberty As a biomedical engineering to Academic All-American for individual sports such as process varies from sport to League Championships after major and electrical and teams—with the possibility swimming, cross-country, track sport. Coaches are frst asked scoring 45 goals throughout the computer engineering minor, that more will be recognized amd feld, tennis and squash to nominate players that they season. “I am humbled by the Mender hopes to work with within the coming weeks. are dependent on performance believe should be named to the award, and am very honored to advanced prosthetics and neural After an intensive voting at national championships. All-Region Team. Rochester is join great players under such a engineering. process involving coaches and Athletes are only eligible to included in the Eastern Region, title.” “I think that sports information directors participate in these events if which encompasses all of New In addition to being talented accomplishments, whether from around the nation, they have had outstanding York State. Based on the selected Division III athletes, these All-American or Academic All-American athletes are performances throughout the individuals are frst and foremost All-American[…] [are] good determined to be the most regular season and qualifying ‘It’s based on students, and each season, the recognition for the school talented competitors from the competitions. a combination College Sports Information and something that we try to most prestigious teams in their UR squash competes in Directors of America nominates trumpet,” O’Connell said. sport, representing Division III both team and individual of athletic skill, an Academic All-American team Te end of the nominating schools from across the nation. championships, and this year, for each sport. Tis year, junior process for the year is Each year, UR prides itself on four members of the ‘Jackets academic prowess Matthew Mender of football currently underway. Track having a notable number of All- squad were celebrated for their and extracurricular and seniors Alex Swanger and and feld considerations will Americans, with an impressive exemplary performances after Grifn Drake of men’s soccer be made once UR competes 16 athletes in the 2013-2014 the team fnished ffth overall in participation.’ were honored as part of the in the NCAA Division III year alone. the College Squash Association’s Capital One Academic All- Championships at the end of “Te award defnitely boosted Potter Cup, the national team America Division III Teams. the month. UR baseball seniors my competitiveness,” senior championships. Sophomores All-Region team, a smaller “It’s based on a combination Sam Slutsky and Josh Schulman All-American swimmer Lauren Ryosei Kobayashi and Mario committee made up of 25 of athletic skill, academic and softball sophomore Shelby Bailey said. “Receiving an All- Yanez Tapia became 1st Team Sports Information Directors prowess and extracurricular Corning have just earned American honor is a great feeling All-Americans, respectively from various colleges then vote participation,” Director of Academic All-District honors, and made me feel very proud fnishing third and tenth in in order to come to the fnal Athletic Communications at meaning that they will now be of what I have accomplished. individual championships. In All-American selections. UR Dennis O’Connell said. considered candidates for the Having swimmers achieve addition, Freshman Tomotaka Tis year, juniors Michelle To even be eligible for the Academic All-American Team. [these] honors reinforces the Endo placed 16th and junior Relin and Tara Lamberti of the award, student athletes must Tese athletes continue to bring idea that the team is headed in Neil Cordell slotted 18th feld hockey team were two of have a minimum GPA of 3.30 prestige to UR, even as the the right direction.” to become 2nd Team All- 16 feld hockey players from and are selected through a spring season comes to a close. At the NCAA Division III Americans. around the nation recognized as similar process to All-American Douglas is a member of Championships that took place Among team sports such 2nd Team All-Americans, and athletes. the class of 2017.