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g* Perfect award-winnin Pitch *Society of Professional Journalists’ Best All-Around Non-Daily ‘06 Volume 78, Issue III - Friday, September 28, 2007 6 Verizon FOX NEWS ’ IN S I DE MA N phones in Wallace discusses donation By Jess Hoogendoorn Iraq war, A program founded by a Rider professor that teaches ’08 election the fundamentals of busi- ness to low-income youth in By Steph Mostaccio Trenton recently received a $20,000 donation. As the host of Fox News Verizon donated to the Sunday and a contributor to the Minding Our Business network’s political and election (MOB) program that Dr. news coverage, Chris Wallace Sigfredo Hernandez, a mar- is constantly up-to-date on the keting professor in the College latest news in the nation’s capi- of Business Administration tal and beyond. founded, more than 10 years His job even affords him ago. conversations with the presi- “With the help of others, dent about the hottest political I developed the Minding Our issues. Photo by Barak Inbal Fox News journalist Chris Wallace autographs a poster of himself at the Bart Luedeke Center on Business Spring Program,” “One of the great perks said Hernandez. “It’s a ser- Tuesday night. He is currently the host of Fox News Sunday. of my job is that occasionally vice-learning program where the White House invites the has to say,” said Wallace. Bush. during his last meeting with Rider students guide teams of evening news anchors and the In his speech “A View from Wallace noted that there Bush, Wallace said the presi- Trenton kids through the pro- hosts of the Sunday talk shows Washington,” given to the Rider is overwhelming opposition dent was more optimistic than cess of starting and running a — there are about 10 of us community Tuesday night, the from the general public, as well usual. business.” — to come over to the White veteran journalist shared some as from many Democrats and “The president was as bull- Hernandez said that House to have lunch with the of what he learned during a some Republicans in Congress, ish, as combative as I’ve ever $20,000 is the largest donation president and to hear what he recent lunch with President to the war in Iraq. However, See Wallace, p. 4 MOB has ever received. It will be used in the expansion of the program that is intended to Kiosks serve up take place in 2008. According to Hernandez, the expansion is expected to cost $75,000 fries, long lines and will double the program’s size from 125 to 250 Trenton By Jeff Frankel order from the individual sta- tions. During peak times, this students, from two to four would cause lines to swell. Trenton schools, and from 30 The new kiosks for order- “During the first week, to 50 Rider mentors. ing food at the Bronc Diner we had a lot of problems,” “One of the major and Cranberry’s have been slow Friedman-Krupnick said. expenses is, for the first time, and regularly shut down, but Long lines and queue times we’re employing somebody to plans are in the works to fix for food took well over a half- help us run the programs,” them, an administrator said. hour, even more during peak said Hernandez. “It’s a part- Several food products pop- times, said one student order- time program administrator. ular with students last year, such ing late-night food at the Bronc That person alone is going to as half of a Philly cheesesteak, Diner. cost $20,000 a year. With the were missing from the system, “It’s a school night and we’re Verizon money, we’ll be able but were quickly added once still waiting,” said sophomore to pay that person.” students requested it, said Jan Katie Malanak. “At Cranberry’s The Verizon donation Friedman-Krupnick, associate they [take] too long.” was first mentioned in 2005 vice president of student affairs, Malanak’s friend, senior when MOB held its 10th at Tuesday’s Lawrenceville SGA Taylor Billook, who is a wait- anniversary fundraiser in meeting. ress and is trained to use kiosks Trenton. Invitations were sent “I think we responded at her work, agreed. She thinks to the Metropolitan Trenton very quickly to that,” she said. customers need to be trained African American Chamber of “There’s bumps when you Photo by Edgar Merino first. Commerce (MTAACC). One install it.” “It’s like waiting at Wawa Slow kiosk ordering creates a line of students in Cranberry’s. of the members of MTAACC In recent weeks, units in was the director of external rela- for a sub,” said Billook. for their food. He had noted he “It was fast for the amount both locations occasionally shut tions for Verizon. Hernandez Then again, some like ate lunch at Cranberry’s during of people [ordering],” he said. down and had to be rebooted. said the member was familiar freshman Mike Berry, had no a peak hour and only waited to Certain features, like online Customers would then have to problems ordering or waiting pay, he said. See Kiosk, p. 4 See Verizon, p. 3 Visit the new Rider News Web site at www.theridernews.com 2 Friday, September 28, 2007 SECURITY BRIEF S Faculty lecture series serves as forum By Julia Ernst are welcome to attend. about 1905 to 1930 to describe crowds: They became highly "The point of it is so that movie audiences as if they had influenced by outside sugges- Drunk in public Every time students walk the faculty can get to know each the characteristics that the the- tion and emotional control. ‘Pullquote etc. etc.’ into a classroom at Rider, they other better and learn about ory attributed to crowds,” said Radio listeners were much have the opportunity to learn - Source Name An underage student was each other's research," said Dr. Butsch. calmer and more intellectual. nabbed for public intoxica- something about their profes- Richard Butsch of the Sociology During his presentation “I began researching the tion at the Bronc Diner. On sor's area of study and the field department. “There are Rider Butsch shared some history representation of media audi- Sunday, Sept. 23, at 2:09 to which he or she chose to faculty who are deeply com- about audiences. He noted that ences after I completed my a.m., Public Safety observed dedicate a lifetime to. mitted to their research, as well in Elizabethan times, a crowd earlier book on the compo- a male student allegedly However, this isn't always as their teaching, but there has was loud, chaotic and existed sition and behavior of actual stumble out of the bathroom the case for professors. They been little opportunity to share without constraint. In 1849, audiences,” said Butsch. “In in Daly’s Dining Hall. Upon spend so much time on their that with each other. I think it’s militia killed 20 people at the the research for that book, I questioning, the student said own research, their own course- a terrific idea.” New York Aster Place Opera became aware of certain imag- he had not been drinking, work and their own education Butsch presented a speech House for behavior that esca- es of audiences that appeared but the smell of alcohol could that it's often hard to know to an audience of colleagues lated out of control. This event, repeatedly.” be detected. The Lawrence what kind of work their col- and several students in Sweigart he explained, marked the turn- At the conclusion of his Township Police Department leagues are doing. room 110. Called Citizen ing point in the behavior of speech, Butsch received a round (LTPD) also responded and This year, the Faculty Audience’s: Crowds, Publics, audiences and the way they of applause from his colleagues. the male said he had been Lecture Series (FLS) is hop- and Individuals, he spoke about were controlled. Responses to both the speech drinking off-campus. LTPD ing to change that. FLS is a how the audience is portrayed The sociology professor and the FLS were positive. conducted a field sobriety program through the College in American media and the also discussed the fact that other "I think it's great that we test, which he failed. of Liberal Arts and Sciences effects of different media. media, like television and radio, have a forum where we can He was carted off to an that allows professors to make “I study how crowd psy- affected audiences. Television learn from each other," said Dr. area hospital by ambulance presentations on their areas of chology, a turn-of-the-20th- viewers responded in ways simi- Barry Truchil, chairperson of because of the amount of study and research. All faculty century theory, was used from lar to that of early Elizabethan the Sociology department. alcohol he had been drink- members, as well as students, ing. He has been charged by LTPD for underage drinking and by Rider for violating Local firefighters respond twice in one week the alcohol code. The matter By Jeff Frankel but later released. opened and the interior flared coming from the Phi Sigma has been sent to the Office of The fire was first discovered up. The flames were put out Sigma sorority house Community Standards. when Public Safety observed a by Public Safety with a fire The emergency genera- Local fire departments were “smoky haze” emanating from extinguisher, and Lawrenceville tor in the boiler room in the called to the University twice the clothes dryer exhaust vent and Lawrence Road Fire basement overheated, causing Burglary this week to handle a small fire but saw no visible fire, she Departments responded to the the room to fill with smoke and a smoky condition.