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By Hanna Lee By rachael sanguinetti Contributing Writer editor-in-chief UR SEGway, a survivor Sigma Alpha Mu, currently empowerment group dedicated housed on the Fraternity to bringing awareness to issues Quadrangle, is currently facing such as sexual assault and charges of hazing. A decision domestic violence on campus, will be made at a hearing on hosted its first “Walk a Mile in Friday, March 28. Public Safety Her Shoes” event in Rettner and Communications were Hall this past Saturday, March unable to comment because of 8. the ongoing investigation. Students were welcomed According to Samuel*, a to attend this international pledging member of the frat, a campaign and learn about the few of the pledge brothers chose resources available to them on to drink before and after the campus. evening’s pledging activities on Various speakers from UR the Friday prior to break. The SEGway’s planning committee students supposedly consumed introduced the cause to over too much alcohol over the course 200 attendees. Participants then of the evening and passed out. walked around the Fraternity Concerned students called the Quad to show support. Medical Emergency Response Both men and women were Team (MERT), who responded encouraged to wear high heels to the scene. to shed light on the saying, “You *Names left anonymous at cannot understand someone parsa lofti / photo editor students’ requests. Students walk to raise awareness about rape and sexual assault in SEGway’s first “Walk a Mile in Her Shoes” event this past Sat- See segway page 4 See fraternity page 5 Trustee funds renovation of Morey Hall By Julianne Mcadams woodwork characterizing the News Editor space. Overall, the entire space will University Trustee Ronald Rettner be refurbished with fresh paint, budget proposal on Tuesday, has created the Ronald Rettner contemporary light fixtures, March 4. Campus Improvement Fund to improved ventilation systems, and Vice President for Public Affairs refurbish and renovate existing air conditioning, as most rooms in for the AAU Barry Toiv discussed buildings on campus. Construction Morey currently rely on opening the goals of the video. on the third floor of Morey Hall will the windows for circulation. “We hope that the video will begin this summer. “The goal here is to bring it up draw additional attention to this Plans include restoring the to more contemporary standards in issue and encourage those who are original structure of Morey Hall, terms of lighting and heating and interested to let Congress know which used to have a large foyer ventilation,” Fernandez said. how important it is to provide acting as a public leisure space at Fernandez said that the true strong funding for research and the main entrance. Currently, fve value of the project lies with the higher education,” Toiv said. The offces stand in place of this lobby. opportunity Morey presents in overall purpose of the video was to The walls will be removed and the terms of the historical integrity acknowledge the topic and make offces relocated to different floors of UR. it easily understandable to any as a part of construction. “What’s really precious about audience. Executive Director of Campus Morey is that it hasn’t seen a lot The video, narrated by Executive Planning Design and Construction of renovations, so a lot of the old Director of Public Affairs and Management Jose Fernandez character is still there and intact,” Communications for CSU Mike said the goal for the new space he said. Hooker, says, “More than half is to imitate the atmosphere of UR President Joel Seligman also our country’s economic growth in Courtesy of HOLT architects the popular Welles-Brown room noted this in a press release from recent decades has been thanks to The renovation of the third floor of Morey Hall this summer will include the creation of a lounge space at the main entrance that was in Rush Rhees Library, with UR Communications. innovation.” a part of the original construction when the building was first opened. comfortable seating and enhanced See Renovation page 5 It refers to the investment in research and higher education as an plain white t’s foreign focus Indie with an edge investment in “great minds.” Inside concert review THIS CT Read a review of this past Learn about one student’s study Read about one freshman’s weekend’s Plain White T’s abroad experience in Athens, disposition to all things “indie.” concert. Greece.

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Aaron Schaffer / Photo Editor by Rei Ramos Intoxicated man solicits Music Memory and History on the Frontlines of Apartheid Staff writer money and cigarettes Speakers, including History professor at University of California Santa Barbara Mhoze Chikoweru (above) reflect on the connection between music, history, and popular culture. 1. On Sunday, March 23, at 3. On Friday, March 14, at 5:23pm, a Public Safety Officer 4:55pm, Public Safety Officers observed a man walking along responded to Java’s after the bike path near the footbridge. receiving reports of a publicly this week on campus The man was observed via intoxicated man outside of the security camera urinating along shop. Staff reported that the thursday the bike path. Officers made man was soliciting passerby March 27 contact with the unaffiliated for money and cigarettes. The man who was cooperative but man was located, and officers Women’s History Month Film Series: Active Minds Film Series - “Here One agitated. The man admitted Maidentrip observed that he had trouble Day” that he was intoxicated. Officers standing and was slurring his The Little Theatre, 240 East Ave, 7:00 - 9:00 PM Hoyt Auditorium, 7:30 - 9:30 PM A documentary featuring the story of Laura Dekker, the The film shares the story of a woman coping with mental secured the man and checked for speech. Rural/Metro Medical youngest person ever to sail around the world alone. The illness and the impact of her suicide on her family. Panelists any weapons, finding knives on Services and Rochester Police film series is open to the public. Admission is $5. The series from UCC, NAMI, and Active Minds will lead a discussion his person. Rochester Police and were called to the scene. The is supported by a grant from the New York Council for the after the screening. The film is free and open to the public. Rural/Metro Medical Services man became combative with Humanities. were called to the scene. The Rochester Police Officers and friday male was transported to Strong had to be pepper sprayed. The March 28 Emergency Department for man was then taken into custody treatment. No charges were filed. by RPD and transported to Afrikanzaa Prevent a Meltdown Fundraiser the hospital by ambulance for May Room - Wilson Commons, 6:00 - 8:00 PM Coldstone Creamery, Mt. Hope Avenue, 2:00 - 10:00 PM Woman arrested for treatment. The event is sponsored by the Pan-African Students’ Association. Bring one of the flyers posted on campus to Coldstone breaking windshield Tickets are $8 for UR students and $11 for the general public. Creamery, and Active Minds will receive a percentage of wiper Student injured the proceeds to support their mission of fighting stigma on footpath associated with mental illness. 2. On Sunday, March 23, at 7:52pm, Public Safety Officers 4. On Sunday, Mar. 16, at Saturday were approached by a staff 9:31pm, Public Safety Officers March 29 member on campus near Goergen responded to the rear of Susan Athletic Center. The staff member B. Anthony Hall foot path after Mela Mela Dinner reported that a woman with no receiving reports of an injured Strong Auditorium, 4:00 - 6:00 PM Douglass Dining Center, 7:00 - 9:00 PM affiliation with the University undergraduate. Officers found Enjoy a unique and entertaining show that highlights the cultural diversity The annual Mela dinner will feature traditional Indian cuisine. a student being treated by River of South Asia. The event will feature a variety of performances by student had broken the windshield wiper The event is open to the public. Tickets will be available at off his car parked in the nearby Campus MERT for abrasions groups, including the University’s own Bhangra and Raas teams. the Common Market and at the door. area. The woman was observed to his face, hands and knee. The by officers driving away from the student stated he was riding a Sunday area. Officers went to look for skateboard on the path behind March 30 the woman in question, but she the residential hall when he was not located. When officers fell. Rural/Metro Medical Jazz Combo Concert returned to speak to the staff Services quickly responded. Strong Lower Auditorium, 7:00 - 9:00 PM Mark Kraszewski, director. The event is free and open to the public. Sponsored member, the woman had returned The student was taken to the by the Department of Music. to the scene. Officers spoke to Strong Memorial Emergency both parties and determined that Department for treatment. there had been a dispute earlier Ramos is a member of in the day. The woman admitted the class of 2015. Campus Times to damaging the vehicle and was Information provided by Serving the University of Rochester community since 1873 arrested for the damages. UR Public Safety. 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Thursday, March 27, 2014 / news campustimes.org / page 3 Nigel Maister receives Russel and Ruth UR completes self-study by will o'brien and goals, faculty, and general Peck Artistic Directorship Staff writer education. The 161-page document was submitted for plays will be put on at UR each He has been very involved in the by sam passanisi review, and the Evaluation semester and personally directs at Theatre Program, teaching classes UR reached a major milestone Staff writer Team will be visiting UR from least two of them. in English and medieval theatre as this past week in its successful May 1—3. Maister is originally from South well as being one of the founders review for reaccreditation. Every A new directorship in the UR T h e M i d d l e S t a t e s Africa but came to the U.S. to of Drama House in 1972. ten years, UR, along with many Theatre Department was awarded to Commission on Higher study directing at Carnegie Mellon In honor of these and other other colleges and universities, Artistic Director of the International Education oversees the University. contributions to UR by Professor must undergo a reaccreditation Theatre Program Nigel Maister on accreditation process in “Through a series of coincidences Peck and his wife Ruth, UR alumni process in order to maintain February 28. The new award was the Middle States region – I ended up coming to UR, first as Joseph Willett ’75 and Janice good standing as an institution established by alumni last month Delaware, The District of a guest artist and then, after that Willett ’78 recently decided to of higher education. in honor of long-standing professor Columbia, Maryland, New went well, the following year I was establish the Russell and Ruth Peck The completion of the of English and John Hall Deane Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, hired as the Associate Director,” Artistic Directorship. University’s Middle States Professor of Rhetoric and Poetry Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Maister said. Janice Willett said of the award, Self-Study, titled The Meliora Russell Peck and his wife Ruth. Virgin Islands. The Secretary Maister was promoted to Artistic “Especially now, when support for Imperative, is the result of the Maister is the first recipient of Education has granted the Director six years later, a position the arts is under fire, it is important efforts and collaboration of of the Ruth and Russell Commission the ability to do he has held ever since. He will to recognize the importance of the numerous UR faculty members Peck Artistic Directorship. so since 1919. UR was one of remain Artistic Director of the liberal arts and to make sure they that were part of the Self-Study “The choice was made in the first institutions to receive International Theatre Program in receive the funding they deserve.” committees. Included in the acknowledgement of the splendid accreditation in 1921. addition to his new position as Maister and Peck also had praise Executive Committee are UR work Nigel Maister has done over This milestone is one of the the Russell and Ruth Peck Artistic for the Theatre Program. President Joel Seligman, Provost the years in developing the UR final steps in the reaccreditation Director. “The Theatre Program is a really Peter Lennie, General Secretary International Theatre Program to its process. Following the visit from Maister said of the award, “It is, vibrant, open, and exciting part of and Chief of Staff Lamar current shining status,” Peck said. the Evaluation Team, they will principally, an honor. I won’t have this university,” Master said. Murphy, Dean of the College Currently, as the artistic director of submit a report to the Middle any additional duties, though I will Peck expressed similar sentiments, Richard Feldman, and Associate the International Theatre Program, States Commission with regards have to live up to Professor Peck saying, “[Students] are missing Dean of Academic and Student Maister has a wide range of jobs to the self-study and the official (and his wife Ruth’s) extraordinary out on some of the greatest Affairs at The Eastman School of and responsibilities. He supervises visit. The Committees, headed contributions to this university and opportunities that UR has to offer Music, Donna Brink Fox. all Theatre Department faculty and by Seligman, expect to hear a its students.” if they are not attending all current The team of faculty members students, oversees Drama House, response from the commission Peck is a professor of English who, Todd productions.” conducted a comprehensive decides the class schedule that will some time during the Fall 2014 in his 53-year career at UR, has Passanisi is a member of study of fourteen different be offered each semester, and designs semester. taught classes in poetry, medieval the class of 2017. performance standards, the posters for all Theatre Program O’Brien is a member of studies, Shakespeare, and theatre. including University mission Plays. Maister also chooses which the class of 2016. Professor wins inaugural history professorship in honor of UR alumnus by Hayden Freedman She has published two books, Staff writer the second of which, The Making of Middlebrow Culture, is widely Professor of American Cultural read in the field of American History Joan Rubin accepted Cultural studies. She is currently the inaugural Dexter Perkins Director of Graduate Studies in Professorship in History on the history department. Thursday, March 6. The purpose Upon receiving the award, of the Professorship is to honor Rubin expressed deep admiration the memory of Dexter Perkins, for Perkins’ work. She discussed a well-known historian and UR how the field of history and the alumnus, and to emphasize the history department have changed importance of teaching the next since his time. generation. She noted that in Perkins’ The Professorship was funded day, the department consisted mostly by two entirely of men. alumni of the Rubin is a highly Today, diversity University, Robert is an important Kirkwood ’56 and respected historical concern, though Francis Grebe ’54. scholar, specializing Rubin said that More than fifty “we could do other alumni also in Middlebrow better”. contributed. Rubin also said “I am deeply culture. that historians honored to be used to only focus the inaugural incumbent of the on the most important politicians, Dexter Perkins Professorship in whereas now there is an emphasis History,” Rubin said, “especially on the common citizen. courtesy of UR communications because the chair is named for Another difference she Provost Peter Lennie, Dean Joanna Olmsted, Francis R. Grebe ’54, Professor Joan Shelley Rubin and President Joel such a distinguished member of mentioned was the old assumption Seligman my own discipline.” that objectivity could and should Perkins was one of the leading be attained through historical authorities on American history research. during his time as Chairman of the “We recognize […] that Department of American History objectivity is illusory,” Rubin said. for UR. He was instrumental in “For my generation of scholars, creating the graduate program in the ideal stance of the historian history and served as a City of is not neutral detachment, but Rochester Historian from 1936 to rather the recognition of the 1948. He was also the President of inherently and laudably political the Rochester Association for the implications of our work.” United Nations. Perkins passed She finished her speech by away in 1984 at age ninety-four. recognizing the continued Rubin is a highly-respected relevance of the American historical scholar, specializing in historian. Middlebrow culture. She has been “Perkins articulated a vision with UR since 1995 and serves as of the scholar that remains Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford inspiring,” Rubin said. Encyclopedia of American Cultural Freedman is a member of the and Intellectual History. class of 2016. page 4 / campustimes.org news / Thursday, march 27, 2014 Kiplinger rates UR as one of best college values in the Mid-Atlantic raaga kanakam yields and test scores — graduation in other college ranking lists as staff writer rates, for four-year and five-year well e.g. ranking 32 overall in U.S. students, and academic support, News National College Rankings UR was ranked eigth in list in 2014. Kiplinger’s 30 Best College Values which takes into account freshman retention rates and student-faculty The class of 2017 had an average in the Mid-Atlantic for Private unweighted GPA of 3.67, average Colleges for 2014. ratio. For affordibility, Kiplinger looks at overall cost and financial SAT score of 1993, and average Kiplinger uses two basic criteria ACT score of 31. On the River to assign a rank to a college or aid and student debt, as well as how well colleges help students Campus, the incoming freshmen university: academic quality and class includes more than 1,300 affordability. “Quality accounts for with financial support. UR also ranked 30 overall in students, according to the UR 56.25% and cost factors account website. Only 36% of 14,987 for 43.75%,” reads Kiplinger’s Best College Values for Private Universities in 2014. This is applicants were accepted for this website. class year. For quality, the subcategories up from 36 in 2013 and 42 in Kanakam is a member of include competitiveness — which 2012. the class of 2017. includes admission rates and UR has maintained top positions New student loan policy promotes non-profit schools

by jared smith student debt after graduating loans are limited to 10% of of payments, if students have on an increase in tuition for the senior staff college is $23,000. This their income above the basic not yet paid off their loans, the 2014-2015 academic year. number is realistically higher, living allowance. This will remainder of their debt will Tuition alone will increase The Obama Administration since roughly 1/3rd of students reduce the payments, which be forgiven. In order to entice 3.5 percent to $46,150. is considering new policies take no loans at all. With a students into public service Tuition, room and board which would target for-profit number of students taking positions, students who enter After 20 years combined will total $59,788, low-paying jobs or unable to Currently, the dangerously close to $60,000. Payments for find work at all, this figure can of payments, if This figure is a 60 percent easily be overwhelming. average student jump from the cost 10 years student loans are “Too many of the programs students have debt after ago. limited to 10% of failed to provide proper not yet paid off According to inflation rates, training and do it at taxpayers’ graduating college if UR had pegged tuition, their income above expense,” Education Secretary their loans, the room, and board to inflation, Arne Duncan said. is $23,000. the total cost would be set at the basic living T h e n e w l a w s w o u l d remainder of $46,000. allowance. demand that programs clearly their debt will be such positions will have their These regulations, facing provide their participants loans forgiven after 10 years a vicious fight from the for- with sufficient training and forgiven. of on-time payments. profit college lobby, would not colleges and protect students knowledge needed to find a These reforms will be sorely take effect until 2016. from amassing unpayable job that will provide for them were previously set at 15% of necessary for many future UR Smith is a member of amounts of debt. and allow them to pay off their up to one million borrowers. students as the University has the class of 2014. Currently, the average debt. Payments for student Additionally, after 20 years recently released information SEGway leads walk to end harrassment segway from page 1 ‘Stop. Ask. Clarify.’ campaign, until you put yourself in his or the College Feminists, and her shoes.” many Greek organizations Freshman Emily Indriolo, an came out to support the event,” attendee, believes she “not only Anand said. “It couldn’t have gained a better understanding been possible without the of the issues” but “thoroughly support of so many groups.” enjoyed” the creative booths UR SEGway President and that were stationed around the Sophomore Emily Sumner room. shared the same postive sentiments. “We hosted this event to ‘We hosted this raise awareness and to provide event to raise comfort for survivors of sexual assault so they know they are awareness and to not alone,” Sumner said, “and I think we successfully did provide comfort for that.” survivors of sexual Students can get involved in various ways, such as assault so they participating in health fairs, hosting professor panels, know they are not and participating in free hug alone.’ campaigns. Sumner encourages UR students to collaborate in People at the event were able diminishing sexual assault and to watch performances by the domestic violence. Midnight Ramblers and the “UR SEGway is so unique Sihir Bellydancing Ensemble, because we do more than just as well as play trivia games and weekly discussions,” Sumner use a photo booth. said. “[We] are an activist UR SEGway Secretary and organization. The University sophomore Celine Anand said has great resources for survivors she believes the event was a that not all students are aware of success. […] we hope that more students “The booths are the main focus will utilize those resources.” point. The Gandhi Institute, Lee is a member of Photos by parsa lofti / photo editor University Health Services’ the class of 2017. Students walked around the Fraternity Quad and made signs to support awareness of sexual harrassment. Thursday, March 27, 2014 / news campustimes.org / page 5 Sigma Alpha Mu defends against hazing allegations fraternity from page 1 you to sign it as your words many of them are police or peace can be considered innocuous in labs, or recitations. Instead of The same student reported that a without the option of having a officers,” he said. “I can say that other contexts can be considered them working around our class few days later, pledges and brothers lawyer present even if there is I don’t use those techniques. [A hazing,” he said. schedules, we must work around of the fraternity were brought in self-incriminating information meeting with me] is more like a The trial on Friday will be theirs.” to the public safety office for in the statement.” conversation. I’m not saying that presided over by a panel selected Pledges of the fraternity make it questioning. He said he believed their tactic is good or bad. That’s by Orbin. “It’s odd to me that clear that the pledging process was that students of the fraternity ‘The University’s what they choose to do.” the school chooses to have their about team building and learning and the pledging brothers were “I stuck to the truth,” Samuel* own way of handling rule and the history of the fraternity. unfairly questioned. problem with hazing said. “I wouldn’t let them try law breaking differently than “I think a lot of people imagine, “He came in there and they is that some very to convince me [...] because I when they think of hazing, [...] started questioning him about knew they did stuff like this. He said he believed people being forced to down the pledge process and what he minor things that The problem that I have is that entire pitchers of beer, and it that students of the had been made to do during the can be considered they are using police tactics and doesn’t happen like that,” Samuel* pledge process,” he said. “They misleading investigatory practices fraternity and the said. “It’s more of an amicable were telling him that, ‘We have innocuous in other that police use all the time, but thing. People drink at frat events, already interviewed all of your the police also Mirandize and tell pledging brothers it happens.” other pledge brothers. We have the contexts can be people they have the right to have “It’s been a really fun time,” he were unfairly right to take disciplinary action.’ considered hazing.’ a lawyer present. They said none continued when talking about the They were threatening him with of this to my pledge brothers.” questioned. frat pledging process. “If I were expulsion and suspension.” Samuel* made it clear that he to compare the process of getting “I think they are all According to Director of had not felt pressured to make into college with the process of unnecessarily harsh with threats Center for Student Conflict unsafe or illegal decisions at any the way law enforcement does,” pledging a fraternity, I would say and accusations,” brother of the Management Kyle Orton, the point in the pledging process. Adam* said. “It’s also confusing getting into college is infinitely fraternity Adam* said. “After the University does not have a “The University’s problem to me that on the day of a harder.” interrogation, the investigator policy in place for interrogation with fraternities is that there is hearing, students and professors Sanguinetti is a member of writes up his interpretation of methods. “[Public Safety] uses such a broad definition of hazing are asked to miss all classes the class of 2015. your statements then encourages more police-like tactics because that some very minor things that even if they are required classes,

aaron schaffer / photo editor Sigma Alpha Mu is currently under investigation for hazing of their pledge class. Trials are scheduled for Friday, March 28. Rettner funds renovation of Morey renovation from page 1 With regards to Morey’s “They’re fundamentally tired “A project such as this is especially functional relatedness to Rettner buildings, and he wants to give Paola’s important because it helps preserve Hall and the new Digital Media them a fresh look,” Fernandez said. the historical foundation of our Studies major, Fernandez said Other renovation projects have University,” said Seligman. they do not have any plans past been taking place on UR’s campus BURRITO PLACE The plan is to complete revitalizing the basic infrastructure recently, with the creation of Rettner of Morey Hall, but that “if Rettner MEXICAN GRILL construction by the start of the Hall, the new plans for Fauver BURRITOS, ENCHILLADAS, Fall 2014 semester, but Fernandez [Hall] becomes more successful Stadium, and the refurbishing of QUESADIAS & TACOS conceded that it may run into [...] we would grow some of those the Fraternity Quadrangle this past September as they are getting to a programs into Morey over time, summer. relatively late start. and as we do that, we would Other projects in the works are

With regards to interference bring that kind of technology into the building of a new classroom with student life, Fernandez said Morey”. and new bathrooms in Gavett Hall that by September most of the Fernandez noted Rettner’s and refurbishing the Dewey 101 construction still taking place will investment in already-existing classroom. Open 7 days a week 1011 Culver Rd. 585-270-5961 be low-impact, namely the final buildings. He said many investors in “I believe that we’re constantly Mon. – Sat. 11am---9pm Sunday 11am---4pm college campuses across the country painting and carpeting. The bulk reinvesting in our buildings [...],” of the highest-impact activities, are interested in giving gifts to new Fernandez said of these changes. centered mostly around the removal buildings, but “[Rettner] talks a lot “They need a face lift to continue to ½ price for 1 pound BURRITO of walls, asbestos abatement, and about revitalizing neighborhoods make them relevant and useful.” When you buy 1 pound Burrito at Regular Price ventilation installation, will be by taking old buildings and making McAdams is a member of Coupon valid at both locations and through April 6, 2014 completed in June and July. improvements”. the class of 2017. page 6 / campustimes.org opinions / Thursday, March 27, 2014 Opinions EDITORIAL cartoon EDITORIAL BOARD Everyone should utilize the Athletic Center

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What about opportunity to socialize with would be assigned a point value in outside appearance. Whether if you have trouble falling asleep fellow students. Finding a according to their class year, one wants to show off that at night? Well, by working out weekly workout partner, or and then based on your point increased muscle mass or is a few hours before lights out, even a workout group, can value, you would be assigned a improving physical appearance you will find that sleep comes a help to strengthen friendships random lottery number. Then, simply for one’s own personal little more easily. That’s because while physically strengthening on the day for which your gain, the gym is the place working out raises your body’s one’s bodies. Or, if one doesn’t by Dani Douglass lottery number was scheduled, to go. But beyond physical temperature, and when your bring a group with them, the Features editor students would attend “room appearance, there are important temperature starts trekking back gym can be a place to find a As a freshman entering the draw sessions”, where they health benefits to such activities down, it brings you down from new friend. housing lottery for the first would wait in line and then as well. While one works out to wakeful to sleepful as well. Overall, the gym is a fantastic time, I have only heard the most physically choose the room in a song, or a humorous podcast, And while these physiological place to physically, mentally, daunting of rumors. It’s been which they would live. It was they are working towards a reasons for mental health and socially improve. Every said that “it’s one of the most literally a hands-on experience. decreased risk of heart disease improvement are great, a student at UR should take stressful times of the year,” and But starting last year, the and lower levels of cholesterol. workout also offers a fairly advantage of GAC. that “you’ll be lucky if you don’t entire system was moved online. lose a friend in the process”. Now, we fill out an online All of this negative hype contract and then wait. Weeks Explore a balanced forces you to imagine the later, we receive our scheduled worst possible scenarios: time, and then we wait some being separated from your more. Finally, once the day potential suitemates, ending of the “drawing” arrives, we life at UR up in Southside, or worst wait for the exact two-minute of all, being left dorm-less. interval to which we were “What’s the value of a college that they will never be again: the Soon, life can become By going into any situation assigned and then scramble as education?” We’ve heard this career center, University Health an academic rollar coaster with a negative mindset, you are fast as we can to search through question countless times, often Services, Georgen Athletic of chemistry labs, biology setting yourself up for misery. all of the remaining vacant linked to statistics about salary Center, expansive libraries workshops, and papers. Or, The student population is rooms to make our selection. and quality of life when teachers, staffed with highly qualified the weekly routine can be an growing. The Class of 2017 Even though it is designed to be college reps, and parents have librarians, hundreds of clubs and extracurricular juggling act of consists of 150 more students “instantaneous”, the procedure made the pitch about the social activities meeting within Mock Trial, College Democrats, than the Admissions Office still seems painstakingly benefits of higher learning. 10 minutes of our residence halls, Student Senate, and Meliora had initially intended, and the slow. Then, maybe if we’re But when we consider the pros and for some of us, unlimited Capital. Soon, whatever the amount of yearly freshman lucky, we will end up in the of college, perhaps we should access to a buffet of food. respective focus of one’s routine, applications has been steadily on right place at the right time. instead ask ourselves, “What’s In theory, we want to take the daily grind can become the rise. This poses the potential Is all of this sitting, the value of a college experience?” advantage of all that college an extreme, a rutt, and very for a severe housing crisis. waiting, and wishing worth Sure, earning a degree will life has to offer. Four years quickly something impossible. But it’s not as though we’re the stress? It is just a room. probably make it a lot easier to get go by fleetingly, and getting The solution – balance. being left on the streets. The We all try to convince ourselves a higher paying job, particularly the most out of the tuition is College is a plethora of options, university administration is that it really doesn’t matter. if you’re like many UR students certainly something to aspire and if we only take advantage of making a concerted effort This is true: it isn’t the physical and medicine or engineering is to. But for many students, any single aspect, we’re selling to create a process that location of the building or the your ideal profession. But our taking a balanced approach to ourselves short. These are the is as painless as possible. room number or the color of tuition, what we’re paying for college life can be challenging years to mold ourselves into the O’Brien Hall was newly the carpets that makes a home; here, is a whole lot more than and for some nearly impossible. people we will become, and while constructed in 2012 and it is what you do with the space. just access to professors and Many of us find our niche early we have all clearly opted out of Brooks Crossing is scheduled After all, your friend is still a diploma that “proves” we’re on. Whether it be academics, a liberal arts education, there’s to be completed in time for your friend, whether or not you thoroughly educated in our field. athletics, extracurriculars, or still something to be said about next semester. Not only do share a bathroom, a door, or a This is a time like no other our social life, we get used being a well-rounded person. these options increase the poster. Save the stressful energy, in our lives – we’re surrounded to a particular routine that We have the rest of our lives on campus student housing the drama, and the worry that by people our own age who typically favors a specific sphere to be specialized, to focus on our capacity, but they will also open is being focused on the housing are passionate about learning, of college life. Eventually, individual careers or personal life up more “first choice” options lottery and re-concentrate it hopeful for the future, and ready the myriad of options that missions. But college is a place for underclassmen students on something that matters for what life throws at them. We seem to overwhelm freshmen where it’s important to explore as upperclassmen, who have more. A two-minute walk have endless opportunities and becomes more background everything, do everything, and priority, rush to fill in the newer between buildings or up that resources at our disposal in a way noise than anything else. work towards a balanced life. and more coveted buildings. extra flight of stairs may even The above two editorials are published with the consent of a majority of the editorial board: Rachael Sanguinetti In 2013, the entire housing strengthen your friendship. (Editor-in-Chief), Jonah Jeng (Managing Editor), Jason Altabet (Opinions Editor), Jamie Rudd (Features Editor), lottery was shifted online. This Douglass is a member of and Julianne McAdams (News Editor). The Editor-in-Chief and the Editorial Board make themselves available to essentially eliminated the entire the Class of 2017. the UR community’s ideas and concerns. Email [email protected]. Thursday, March 27, 2014 / opinions campustimes.org / page 7 Animal testing needs to go By Simone Arnold the ethics and necessity of using fined $5,000 and the return poisoning, mutilating, crippling, protests, legal petitions, collaborations animals in other spheres like of $65,000 worth of federal and otherwise harming animals with experts, scientific research, he controversy sur- scientific and medical research. grant money. As a result of the in experiments for any reason lobbying, corporate outreach, and rounding animal testing Is it ever morally acceptable to campaign, the lab in question was is unethical because they are media campaigns, Goodman’s T has recently become a ma- subject animals to experiments, shut down. At PETA, Goodman intelligent individuals just like us work at PETA aims to end the jor international news story with and what are the alternatives? now leads a team of researchers, who feel pain and pleasure, have use of animals in experiments the European Union, India, and Justin Goodman, Director scientists, and attorneys that likes and dislikes, and care about and promote the use of research Israel banning animal testing for of Laboratory Investigation at successfully work to end the use one another, and it is unjustifiable methods that leave animals out cosmetics and the revelation that People for the Ethical Treatment of animals in experiments, drug to harm them in experiments of the equation and have been China has quietly been requiring of Animals (PETA), has spent and chemical tests, and medical just because they look different proven to be more effective. cosmetic tests that poison, burn, the last decade working to expose training and are weaker than humans. PETA also funds and promotes the and blind animals even though and end the abuse of animals in Not only do many development and implementation superior methods not requiring experiments. He got his start people feel of non-animal research methods animal testing are now available. when he was a graduate student t h a t like systems using human cells and The debate in the U.S. is even at the University of Connecticut tissues, sophisticated computer more heated since legislation and discovered that there models, and lifelike human has just been introduced in the was a laboratory on campus patient simulators. PETA’s work House that would ban testing where monkeys were being with universities, government cosmetics on animals. While subjected to invasive agencies, and private companies the focus of these international brain experiments. The has replaced the use of millions experiments—similar of animals in experiments Experiments... to those currently with non-animal methods included drilling holes being conducted that are humane, cheaper, on monkeys at faster, and actually into the heads of the U R — i n c l u d e d applicable to humans. drilling holes into the Justin Goodman and other primates, injecting heads of the primates, animal rights advocates believe their brains with injecting their brains with that ending experimentation acid, bolting various on animals is not only the right acid...and implanting devices to their heads, thing to do for animals but will

and implanting electrodes Alex Kurland / staff Illustrator improve research to help humans, electrodes in their in their brains and stainless courses around the world. too. For more information on brain. steel coils into their eyeballs. Goodman, PETA, and a experimenting on animals is the ethics of animal experiments In addition to organizing events growing proportion of the morally wrong, but research and alternatives to animal discussions has been primarily on to educate students and the public—more than 40 percent increasingly shows that tests on testing come listen to Justin consumer products like shampoo, community about the experiments, of all adults and more than half animals do not translate to humans. Goodman’s lecture in Gowen soap, and makeup, where there using the Freedom of Information of college-aged adults, according The FDA itself reports that 9 out Room in Wilson Commons seems to be a consensus that Act, Goodman uncovered over to a 2013 Gallup poll—now of 10 experimental drugs that work on March 27th at 4:30pm. animal testing is unjust. Such 20 Animal Welfare Act violations oppose medical testing on in animals fail in human trials. Arnold is a member of dialouges raise questions about that lead to the University being animals. Goodman believes that Through undercover investigations, the class of 2016 Come to oppose the Common Core By Ty-Lucas Kelley ill Gates has called it a On the surface, Common Core test so schools can appear to be economics are no longer a fixture incorporating basic computer “big win for education”. sounds like a natural step towards better-performing; in reality, they in most American schools. I do and entrepreneurship skills into BIts website prominently improving American education are simply drilling disinterested not bring this up as an attack public classrooms is so crucial. displays the noble mission of for generations to come. students with definitions and on the liberal arts or traditional Helping students become more “preparing America’s students However, it is below the surface equations that most will surely science and math classes; they independent through project- for success”. U.S. Secretary where things begin to sour. quickly forget. Rather, schools are valuable and should remain a based learning and developing of Education Arne Duncan “I have a Ph.D., and I have no should move in the opposite part of the American education. their own ideas would empower claims that it will “set loose idea what is supposed to be done direction, encouraging teachers However, wouldn’t it make sense them more than any initiative or the creativity and innovation with this homework assignment,” to take creative freedom in to evolve school to help students awareness campaign could ever of educators at the local level”. one frustrated parent told the the way that they present prepare for the modern workforce? dream to. And no, it wouldn’t be What am I talking about? That Daily Caller, referring to a topics to their students. I think the answer is obvious, that expensive. Companies like would be “Common Core”, the Common Core-aligned worksheet All of these issues are important especially when we are told so Google, Facebook, and Microsoft new set of U.S. guidelines for his five-year-old brought home and need to be considered before often about the successes of those have vested interests in promoting K-12 education. Introduced in from school one day. He’s Common Core is implemented. in the tech industry. a more modern education. After 2009, Common Core provides not the only one to express Alas, 45 states have already The internet age all, they have to hire people, standards for the nation’s math frustration with the standards; committed to the new has enabled and there simply aren’t enough and English programs to meet, parents everywhere have taken to standards despite a America’s qualified college graduates to with the goal of raising the bar for Twitter to post pictures of bizarre majority of people youth to fill the spots that tech companies American schools that generally assignments and tests that they knowing very pursue big have open. For all the talk about lag behind their international are struggling to understand. So little about them. ideas with striving to improve minority and counterparts. Even better, its for what reasons, other than the However, there is a little to women’s representation in the designers claim that Common odd homework assignments, are perplexing issue that no money computer industry, a vast majority Core was “developed by building more and more people voicing needs to be addresed b e h i n d of tech CEOs, be it Google’s or on the best state standards in opposition to the new standards? which transcends them. In the average college startup’s, are For many, the botched Common Core. reality, all it white males that have had the Schools should implementation makes for an Why, given the chance takes to make advantage of supportive families easy way to criticize Common to reinvent education Liz Beson / staff Illustrator a million doll and access to outside resources move in the opposite Core. Some also fear the potential for the 21st century, ars in this day and to gain the skills they needed. direction, encouraging Common Core brings for a federal have we instead decided to age is an idea, motivation, and This could be all be changed takeover of education. At the very settle for more of the same? programming skills. Ask Larry with the introduction of a more teachers to take least, this is a very powerful talking The world moves at a brisk pace. Ellison, the modern embodiment modern and modular curriculum point that resonates strongly Technology has changed nearly of the rags-to-riches story that we in our public schools. Steps are creative freedom in with the American people. every aspect of our lives; most of all love to hear. Unfortunately, being made to slowly integrate the way that they Additionally, many parents and us would probably go to Google Ellison is an anomaly in the technology into classrooms, but educators are concerned that for the answers to our everyday tech industry, because the skills unless it is forcefully advocated present topics. powerful organizations such as questions before a friend, and the needed to make it in the software for and funded by the federal, College Board have much to gain combination of text messaging, world are not taught in public state, and local government, the United States”. Common if they can create and administer email, and social media have schools. As a result, most of as well as corporations, and Core has also gained praise and (read: charge students to take) new blurred the lines between work today’s prominent people in tech is combined with a lessened support from many in high standardized tests for elementary, and home life. Yet, our schools come from relatively privileged focus on standardized testing, places. The Bill and Melinda middle, and high schools. Worse have remained fixed in the past. backgrounds where they have it will be a long time before Gates Foundation, for example, yet, contrary to claims of “setting We have clung to the same, tired private schooling or family American schools can truly live has donated upwards of $150 loose the creativity and innovation liberal arts education for the past members to teach them about up to their goal of preparing million to the government and of educators”, Common Core 50 years. In fact, we have arguably business and programming. students for the real world. educational institutions, to aid encourages not creativity but worse programs of study today, Many in America are Kelley is a member of in implementing the standards. simply more teaching for the since subjects such as civics and not so blessed. That is why the class of 2017. Page 8 / campustimes.org Thursday, march 27, 2014 Humor ‘Indie’ kid gets WRUR show SAT-irical Advice for

By Aaron schaffer 1:01 for Pitchfork reviews to Only two people retweeted the College Board photo editor go online, and spends just four him. By chris horgan If a student is an aspiring minutes perusing the articles for According to staff writer doctor, then they can opt out of On Thursday, March 20, buzzwords like “edgy”, “post- medical school depending on UR’s on-campus radio station, consumer”, and “relevant”. an anonymous I was going to write about a their performance in the game WRUR, announced that they Then, he falls asleep, attempting psychic named Dan, but then I “Operation.” would be giving UR freshman to enter a state of emotional and source, Miyazo is heard him tell me not to before Next, students would be placed on Otto Miyazo a radio show on physical purity. a member of the I even asked. Anyhow, in light of a remote island with three vending “The Sting”, an online radio On the off chance that Miyazo College Board announcing that subsidiary of WRUR. This is desires to play “obscure shit”, Sweater Collective, new SAT tests will cut obscure The first student to latest step in a series of steps he has an SA-allocated budget vocabulary words, I have decided bring the pogo ball that WRUR has done in order to for “cassettes, vinyl, and other an underground to make a few suggestions to really become more ‘indie’, at least in forms of ‘experimental media’”. collective mostly allow the SAT test to determine into the house loses, the face of rising criticism against SA, which has among its loyal which students possess the most mainstream and Top 40 radio. supporters various members of made up of members potential. and subsequently fails According to leaked documents Miyazo does not shy of the Sigma Phi The first three hour section would the entire section. A acquired from the station, consist of ten opinionated True or Miyazo’s show will be exclusively away from criticism. Epsilon fraternity. False questions. Such as, “English is point is deducted for and excessively streaming from better than science,” “Tupac is still Bandcamp, a popular source of He recently tweeted, They were both South African alive,” or “Tuna is disgusting.” Next, every knee scraped music distribution for unsigned “Dude. My last.fm post-consumer troubadours students would have to complete a and bone broken. artists. who were self-described (at required set of writing questions. In Miyazo, a freshman, stands page has the most least in their About sections) this section, every response must Temptation will also tall at 5’3’’, and his black, thick- “nihilists.”. be written in the form of a haiku be included in this rimmed glasses only accentuate obscure music on According to an anonymous or in iambic pentameter. It would his curves. the planet: Japanese source, Miyazo is a member be easy, if every person studied, part. Miyazo describes himself as of the Sweater Collective, an this was a haiku. Part three would “indie with an edge”. He does proto-punk, North underound collective mostly include questions in which none machines that don’t give change in not deny reading Pitchfork, a made up of members of the of the choices are correct, which, return (keep in mind that change popular (mostly) indie music Korean folk, Chilean Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. as recent studies suggest, increases is inevitable in life, except from blog, but not for the experience. reggae. #2Indie5You” They reportedly talk about the level of difficulty in choosing vending machines). They would “It’s become my life,” he admits. “all things tweed and suede.” the correct answer. Also, this style stocked with a limited amount of the indie establishment (some Representatives of Sigma Phi of question would eliminate the ramen noodles, a microwave, and Miyazo, a freshman, of whom have Bandcamps Epsilon had no comment. possibility of a student guessing the a sheet of tin foil. If a week passes themselves), is likely to increase In a long series of tweets correct answer. A food and dining and the tin foil has not found its way stands tall at 5’3’’, his budget to include “sound art” Monday night, Miyazo tried to section would prompt students to into the microwave, then you can and his black, thick- and “anti-music”. justify himself in the face of the identify key ingredients in special call these students “readily prepared Miyazo does not shy away “mainstream machine.” cuisine, such as the garbage plate, for college.” rimmed glasses only from criticism. “Dude. My last. “What if we’re all just one big The longest section involves Next, students would accentuate his curves. fm page has the most obscure animal collective,” he asked. students staying inside for two music on the planet: Japanese “Would that make me a panda be placed on a remote months without sunlight. If the Miyazo describes a lifestyle proto-punk, North Korean folk, bear?” individual makes it through this where he goes to bed at 1:05 Chilean reggae. #2Indie5You,” Schaffer is a member of island with three two-month period without any every night. He waits until he tweeted. the class of 2016. sunlight, then they are prepared vending machines to either attend a university in the that don’t give change Northeast or audition for the role of A reply to the man who is stranded an earthworm in the new National in return (keep in Geographic documentary. Discipline will be measured on a boat: I found your letter mind that change through a series of difficult tasks. The first task gives all of the students By chris horgan just watched “Castaway” for basketball has left millions of is inevitable in life, staff writer the first time. I thought it was Americans totally prepared except from vending The final part of the amazing, but honestly I feel like to take full credit for pure Hello Herman, I just wanted the only chance a person would guesses on their brackets. Who test is an essay, in to let you that I found your have for survival would be if would’ve guessed your favorite fondue, or bouillabaisse. The math which the question bottle. Thanks a lot for ripping they were in a movie. There’s team—seeded 13th—would questions would be based more on the wrapper off the bottle so I just no possible way a person advance four rounds all because speed than accuracy. Students must asks “What does couldn’t redeem it for five cents. could survive, alone, with no of full-court buzzer beaters? answer simple arithmetic while Never mind that. I don’t really one to love or to be loved by. I A 4.4-magnitude earthquake YOLO mean to you?” sprinting a 40-yard dash. However, have too much experience being don’t know about them, but I woke up the Los Angeles area. these questions would only give an stranded in the middle of the think I would lose hope really Fortunately, there aren’t any estimate to how a person could deal Pogo Balls from the ‘80s. The first ocean, so I suppose the best quickly. reports of serious damage, with the academic part of college. student to bring the pogo ball into thing for me to tell you is to Since you haven’t been in but the people do seem to be I have suggestions to test whether the house loses, and subsequently keep your head up. Literally, if contact with the outside world, a little shaken. Also, a Utah applying students could survive fails the entire section. A point is you let it go below the surface I think it would be good if I mother bought all of a store’s college life outside of academics. deducted for every knee scraped and you will die. I hate to be a kept you up to date. Here it indecent clothing. I think this Instead of normal questions, bone broken. Temptation will also pessimist, but your odds aren’t goes. Recently, Justin Bieber is ironic because thanks to her, I think it would be important to be included in this part. As students looking that good. By the way, was arrested twice in one week, the people who bought clothing present students with different attempt to fill out an important if you are reading this, Herman, proving to be a solid role model from the store will have nothing situations to see how they react. For document, a laptop with the latest this will be quite phenomenal for dog feces everywhere. Some to wear. The 76ers have lost 25 example, family board games. The BuzzFeed article will be placed in because I wrote a letter, put it say Bieber will never clean games in a row. At least they are board game part of the test would front of them. in a bottle, and threw it into up his act, to which Justin consistent. require students to play the game The final part of the test is an the ocean hoping that it would serenades “ne-never say never”. In conclusion, J.R.R. Tolkien of “Sorry!” with fellow test-takers essay, in which the question asks eventually reach you on your Why couldn’t he have been once said, “not all those who without sounding sarcastic. No one “What does YOLO mean to little raft. If it does make it to on your raft instead of you? wander are lost.” Sadly, you are is ever sorry for kicking someone you?” It is an important factor that you, there should be some torn Belgian soccer club FC Racing lost Herman. I went online to see off the game board. A game like should not be underestimated. Are up pieces of bread in it. If not, Boxberg successfully signed a if I could find an inspirational The Settlers of Catan would help you an, “I am not going to do my it’s for the birds. In your letter, 20-month-old boy. All they quote for you. I couldn’t. I determine the level of patience a homework, YOLO” type of person, it said you had lost a foot. When need to do is sign a phlebotomist saw a few about “hoping for person has, since being peaceful or are you an, “I am going to talk you said this, did you mean you to complete the old adage; the a brighter future”. Maybe the with friends is an important skill to my professor about research got shorter, or that you lost one players will provide the sweat, sun will come out tomorrow. needed for college. If the students opportunities, YOLO” kind of of your two feet? Either way, the phlebotomist the blood, and Best of luck! don’t break out in an all-out verbal person? I’ve included a twelve-inch tall the baby the tears. Selection Horgan is a member of fight, then they will have successfully Horgan is a member of prosthetic foot in the bottle. I Sunday for March Madness the class of 2017. passed the section. the class of 2017. Thursday, march 27, 2014 campustimes.org / Page 9 M. Night: Meaty Monday: accidental master of meta? an interview By casey gould postmodern. camera. “Trusting me? Depending By ben mitchell The secret is my original recipe’s senior staff Shyamlan’s casting choice of real- on me, thinking I could do this?” staff writer secret sauce, a creamy yet salty blend life father and son, for instance, Intended to mimic Cypher’s of flavors that will make your mouth To celebrate the 15th anniversary blurs the line between story and perspective via the ship’s video feed, One of Rochester’s greatest water. Another big difference is in of M. Night Shyamalan’s Oscar storyteller; actor Will Smith, who the shot appears to momentarily treasures is its hot dogs. They the preparation; most people tend nomination for Best Director, and served as a producer for “After break the fourth wall, with Kitai come in many forms such as white to grill their dogs, but I prefer to to demonstrate just how far the Earth,” also produced his co-star, seemingly addressing both his father hots, red hots, garbage plates, and bake them. It tends to keep them filmmaker has fallen from grace, I literally. This disintegration of and the viewer. This simultaneity many dog breeds at Dog Town, softer and juicier. On top of that, my present the following review of 2013’s narrative and authorship functions juxtaposes Kitai’s desire to gain his and are considered a cornerstone expanded wiener restaurant includes “After Earth.” beyond the film’s diegesis, however, father’s approval with Shyamalan’s of Rochester cuisine. As a budding all-new menu options that titillate It’s easy to dismiss “After Earth” addressing also the underlying own attempt to salvage his tarnished college journalist, I went on vacation the senses. as the latest flop in the downward ontology of digital cinema as an reputation as a director. in search of food and adventure. I What new options are on your spiral that is director M. Night artistic vehicle. As literary critic The scene’s remarkable self- travelled down south and was met menu? Shyamalan’s once-promising career. Fredric Jameson outlined, the referentiality later resurfaces when with many different styles of hot From the micro wiener to the In what is ostensibly a coming-of- self-referential aesthetic reflects a Kitai wakes up from a self-induced dogs, such as alligator sausages, blackened foot-long wiener, I have age story, Will and Jaden Smith singular modernity wherein the coma. and decided to treat myself to one them in all shapes and sizes. If it’s too respectively play legendary general viewer becomes acutely aware of the oft-overlooked dog. dry, we got plenty of ketchup and Cypher Raige and his less talented film’s intrinsic artifice. In this case, Kitai: Hey … I sat down with Florence Pan, mustard to moisten up my wieners. I son Kitai, who dreams of becoming Cypher and Kitai’s heavy reliance Cypher: Hey … the owner of a prominent dog have a whole selection of condiments a ranger like his dad. Their estranged on digital video technologies to Kitai: That sucked. restaurant. Pan is a simple southern you can slip on my wieners, from rib relationship is tested after the communicate with each other, Cypher: That is correct. chef who prides herself on her sauce to red hot, we’ve got everything two are shipwrecked on Earth, albeit futuristic, signifies a sort of cooking, specifically her hot dogs. your wiener could want. I even have a millennium after catastrophic digital realism. Using these devices Rooted in the tradition of She is a true expert at handling meat, a dessert wiener topped with fudge events have forced humanity to as a visual trope, Shyamalan thus postmodernism, not only are the ever since she first picked it up at a and nuts. No matter what your find a new home. establishes an indexical relationship characters’ story functions mutable, young age. preference, a Flo P. wiener will rub Indeed, at face value, “After between film and filmmaker. but their non-diegetic purports When did you first notice your you the right way. Earth” is largely derivative, seem plasmatic as well. Shyamalan growing passion for wieners? Why are wieners so special to Cypher [to Kitai]: Recognize your is represented here by neither My momma taught me how to you? Indeed, at face value, power. This will be your creation. Kitai nor Cypher, whose shared treat a sausage right. She always It brings me tears of joy when “After Earth” is sentiment that “that sucked” instead taught me that the key to a tasty people bite my wieners. I just can’t According to Jameson, the chaotic reflects the film’s poor reception wiener is firmly molding it in your wait for them to shove ‘em down their largely derivative, bricolage of the film —that is, the amongst critics. Similarly, the hand, keeping it rigid before cutting throat, ‘cause I know they’re gonna deconstruction of dialogue, as seen aforementioned coma foreshadows off the tip of the wrapper. I always want to swallow every last bit of my generously borrowing in the line above wherein Cypher the viewing experience of “After enjoyed squeezing out new wieners wiener. At Flo P. Wieners everything generic conventions explains to Kitai the consequences Earth” — a tedious, drawn-out with my ma, so it was a simple step is handmade to a T. Every wiener of “throwing a rock at a wild ordeal that can also cause a loss of to want to make a living out of it. I is heated to perfection; I never take from other (read: monkey” — is thus recreated with consciousness. began cooking professionally when them out prematurely. It gets busy little regard to context, continuity, Moments like these testify I partnered with a local convenience though with the constant influx of better) sci-fi flicks. and other conventions of good to Shyamalan’s undeniable, if store selling my wieners in the back. I patrons. There’s always a bun in the cinema. unintentional, mastery of meta. didn’t make a lot of money at first but oven here, because it’s so important generously borrowing generic In this way, the film is not Though unlikely, it’s possible that got enough tips to stay in business. to me that I get every part of the job conventions from other (read: simply a cautionary tale about Shyamalan is himself unaware of All sorts of people would come for right so your experience doesn’t end better) sci-fi flicks. Yet such an globality, urban sprawl, and their “After Earth” as postmodernism. a wiener in the rear, they loved it. in disappointment. What’s a wiener examination fails to acknowledge environmental implications. “After Early in the film, Cypher tells his It was so successful I moved on to if it isn’t right smack in the middle that “After Earth” more importantly Earth” as postmodernism transcends wife that after the mission to Iphitos expand my business and am now of a good ol’ set of buns? marks a dramatic departure from allegory and provides a biting is completed, “I’m announcing the proud owner of the restaurant Where do you see yourself going Shyamalan’s film oeuvre. Unlike the metacommentary or nonallegory my retirement.” A postmodern you sit in today, Flo P. Wieners, a in the future? synchronic modernity characteristic about Shyamalan himself. Consider reading of this line is both telling full store front with both sit-down I want to expand the business, of its predecessors, “After Earth” the scene where Kitai questions his and prophetic: perhaps Shyamalan service in the front, and takeout in there’re a lotta untouched wiener establishes a distinctly self- father’s orders to abort the mission. should do likewise. the rear. markets out there, and I believe referential, meta style that demands “What was your mistake?” Kitait Gould is a member of What made your wiener so that everyone should get a taste of it be appreciated as diachronically asks into his jumpsuit’s built-in the class of 2014. different from everyone else’s? my wieners. Making fun of the news UR student

By chris horgan old holding on to a rope on the school fire drill. nonchalantly places staff writer side of a cliff. After being asked “Will you marry 5. New York City recently me?,” the woman replied, “Shh, no order at The Pit while 1. A family in North Dakota opened up their first cupcake talking, we’re in a fire drill.” found, raised, then released vending machine. 7. A radio station in Canada two bunnies into the wild after Yet another invention helping angered its listeners after burning wearing earbuds finding them parentless in their heart surgeons $5,000 dollars in cash. backyard. everywhere be This is also known as buying By Aaron Schaffer cutting edge, like The Strokes “We’ll take it from here,” said a season tickets for the Photo editor or Jet. Joe listens to obscure hawk and two foxes. Philadelphia 76ers music like that,” said Smith’s 2. Three rogue elephants in St. basketball team. On Monday, UR Freshman Joe friend Andrew Webster, who was Louis reportedly damaged a car 8. A woman with the Smith left food service workers sending a snapchat before Smith after escaping from a circus. same name as famous and students in awe as he coolly commanded the food court’s I suggest that they assemble a pilot Amelia Earhart ordered a Greek chicken pita from attention. “Who knows, really. It team of highly trained mice to has intentions of the Common Grill. Sources say all happened so fast before he took keep these beasts in check. flying a plane around Smith’s impressive command of the off, like a majestic bird of flight.” 3. 14 cocaine-filled condoms the world. social situation stemmed from the Webster reports that as Smith were intercepted on the way to If at first you fact that he was listening to music made his way toward the cashier the Vatican. don’t succeed, just through his earbuds while placing to swipe his declining, he didn’t My message to the busted wait a century until his order. have to awkwardly sidestep his condom dealers—no matter someone with the same “He just exuded confidence way around anyone. Webster adds, how you interpret it, even a name as you tries again. and social awareness,” reports an “Those earbuds really gave him little crack in a condom won’t 9. A Floridian claims anonymous Pit worker, “and he the air of control. He was just so end well. to have had $2,000 dollars wasn’t cagey at all when I had to cognizant of his surroundings.” 4. Two Massachusetts firefighters in goldfish stolen. ask him for the third time if he Insider sources indicate that wanted tzatziki sauce.” Smith could make his next sang Frozen’s hit song, “Let it liz beson / Illustrator I don’t have too many details for Go” to calm a girl stuck in an this, but the whole thing sounds Smith has left UR musing over appearance at The Pit wearing elevator. prosperous. kind of fishy. what he could have been listening over-the-ear headphones. This approach proved less effective 6. An Ohio firefighter proposed Horgan is a member of to when he placed the order. “It Schaffer is a member of while trying to save a twenty-year- to his sweetheart during a staged the class of 2017. was probably something really the class of 2016. page 10 / campustimes.org Features/Thursday, March 27, 2014 Features Airplane disasters Foreign Focus: Athens, Greece bring An exploration of study abroad experiences By raaga kanakam Empire was a course that legislative staff writer encompassed the entire span Athens, Greece. As one of of the Byzantine Empire with a change the world’s oldest cities and focus on Ottoman Conquest. By Angela kluzniak the largest in Greece, Athens Religion and Myth in staff writer is filled with beautiful temple, Ancient Greece, which talked historical sites, picturesque about different festivals and Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, beaches and streets full of shops. encompassed the religious which took off on March 8 from It’s a worthwhile and fulfilling sphere of ancient life, also Beijing Capital International study abroad destination brought students on various Airport, has now been missing for because of all that it has to field trips to ancient sanctuaries over two weeks. To our current offer any student, domestic or knowledge, the plane went and other historical sites. down with its 227 passengers international. The Middle Eastern Affairs somewhere in the southern Senior Morgan Ward class, Ward’s favorite course Indian Ocean, killing everyone studied abroad in Athens in that she took while in Athens courtesy of morgan ward onboard. Although none of examined the time period from The healing sanctuary of Asclepius in Epidaurus. the information is certain, this the Abbasid caliphate to the to say on all of it.” theory seems to be the most present, hilighting important and churches as well. “[…]It Her fourth class was plausible out of the many that historical events. was a really intimate level of have been proposed over the last “[Middle Eastern Affairs] was Comparative Religion, which learning,” Ward said. two weeks. examined three Abrahamic In addition to her schoolwork, Even so, the plane has yet to […] my favorite class because I felt like I had a much better religions: Judaism, Christianity, Ward went on two weeklong be recovered. trips with her CYA group. courtesy of morgan ward understanding of the Middle and Islam. This brings up a major During her first trip to Crete, The Byzantine Middle Age Castle. East and it really opened The courses were very hands- question: how does the airplane the group hiked the Samaria industry ensure that it doesn’t my eyes,” Ward said. “From on. For example, throughout Gorge, toured Peloponnesus, lose track of a 112-ton airplane the fall semester of 2012 as a religious conflicts to water Comparative Religion, her class and visited Olympia, Delphi, and hundreds of people ever participant in the College Year wars, this class had something took trips to a few monasteries again? It is not an easy question in Athens (CYA) program. and various ancient ruins to answer, but one thing is The program offers classes such as Malia, Gournia, and certain: changes will and must in various disciplines, ranging Konosos. be made. from Art & Archaeology In addition, she visited Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 to Environmental Studies, Santorini and visited many has people worrying about the sites on the Island, including safety of planes. Nearly everyone Ethnography to History. Students also have the Akrotiri, or “the Bronze flies, including UR students who age Pompeii,” with some of come from all over and travel opportunity to study Literature, home quite frequently. Each Philosophy, Political Science her classmates. While in the and every passenger wants to and International Relations, Peloponnesian mountains, she know that he or she will be safe Religion, and Foreign was fortunate enough to go throughout the duration of his Languages which include rock climbing and explored or her travels. Ancient Greek, Latin and ruins left by Philip II of The airplane industry wants to Modern Greek. Macedon. quell these fears for its personal Ward chose to take four Ward was lucky to spend a benefit and for the benefit of all lot of time exploring Athens as of its users; it is looking to make classes in history and religion. History of the Byzantine courtesy of morgan ward well. any improvements necessary. Ward visited the Fortess of Palamidi while in Peloponnesia. See greece page 12 This is not the first time that a plane tragedy has forced legislative and safety changes. Osteria Rocco, Italian Cuisine: A Review The following three airplane By Nicholas Mavrelis accidents are key turning points The ricotta fatta in casa was of complexity to the dish, and reasonably priced if it were located Staff writer in the implementation of delicious – not only were the the tomato sauce was surprisingly elsewhere. The bill, not including instrumental changes. On Monroe Avenue, there ricotta and bread homemade, but sweet. tip, came to about $55 for two 1. TWA Flight 800 lies a small, quaint, and classic the luscious contrast in texture Lastly, the brasato al valpolicella people. Coming from NYC, I What Happened: The Italian restaurant: Osteria Rocco. between the two added to the was good but not the best. The consider this price, for the quality National Transportation Safety beef was of the food, the service, and the Board (NTSB) Accident Report I walked in on a Tuesday night, said that the airplane exploded and, to my dismay, found out w e l l - décor, to be reasonable. However, in midair and fell into the water that I needed a reservation. On a Rochester is not NYC. outside of New York City only Tuesday night! I was pretty surprised that minutes after takeoff on July So before my next visit, I made everything about the restaurant 17, 1996. It caused the death of the reservation two weeks in was generally very good to everyone onboard. advance, and here’s what I have excellent, but I was equally “TWA Flight 800 in-flight to say: the service is great, the surprised that the bill came to breakup was initiated by a fuel/ restaurant’s décor and atmosphere $55. air explosion in the center wind are appropriate, and the food is Despite the relatively high fuel tank,” the NTSB reported. prices, this place is great for a Sparking wires that ignited the incredibly tasty, but unfortunately fuel tanks were deemed the most not that modestly priced. date because of the service and probable cause of an explosion. When my friend and I sat down, the atmosphere. The seats are Results: The report a waiter immediately greeted us positioned close to each other at recommended that the Federal with a pretty convincing Italian roughly ninety-degree angles with Aviation Administration (FAA) accent, providing us the specials a table in between, which creates examine the design of the fuel of the day, which sounded a more romantic atmosphere. In tanks. Later, a design for new yummy. Of course, when I asked addition, the dim candles and planes was created that greatly him where he was from, he told the faint Italian music make you reduced the likelihood that the me Buffalo, NY. Regardless, we Alex Kurland / Illustrator feel that you are secluded from fuel tanks would catch fire and boldness of everyone else in the restaurant. explode. ordered the ricotta fatta in casa 2. Air Canada Flight 797 (ricotta on charred bread with the dish. cooked, the cabbage was I would recommend this What Happened: In the olive oil), the lasagne alla pizzaiola The lasagne alla pizzaiola satisfactory, and the roasted restaurant if you want to have a middle of a flight headed from (lasagna with three cheeses), and was probably one of the best potatoes were very good. However, fancy date, or if you are craving Dallas to Montreal with a the brasato al valpolicella (braised lasagna dishes I have ever had. I felt that the beef could have been delicious Italian food and have scheduled layover in Toronto, beef with cabbage and roasted Not only was everything in the better seasoned. some cash to spare. the cabin crew discovered that a potatoes). dish homemade, but the three Overall, the meal was very Mavrelis is a member of See Disasters page 13 cheeses each added a new level good and would even have been the class of 2017. Thursday, march 27, 2014 / features campustimes.org / page 11 Club Spotlight Students Helping Honduras: Making an impact locally and abroad

By Jamie rudd and we go to Honduras on speakers. While a good portion things like that,” Cedarbaum tells Junior member Shanna features Editor annual service trips, and also of SHH members have some me. “Some of our most active Cleveland has joined us to weigh a local component where we background in Spanish, “a lot of members were getting $400 in with her views on SHH. “You I make my way down to the first do local community service in members don’t really speak it at all towards their trip fees.” rarely get to see where your money floor of Wilson Commons with the Rochester community,” – you don’t need it to tutor with us While in Honduras, SHH is going,” she tells me. “We’re junior Vanessa Cedarbaum. We Cedarbaum explains. or go to Honduras,” Cedarbaum volunteers stay in either SHH sitting here selling cupcakes and approach a table where freshman SHH members travel to public assures me. lodging or local hotels and it’s hard to visualize – why am I Ellen Kim and junior Caroline schools 33 and 12 five times a In addition to tutoring, SHH spend their days at construction sitting here at this table?” She Cheung sit, selling cupcakes to week to tutor children in bilingual plans to make their spring break sites building schools from the looks over to where Kim and raise funds for their next service ground up. “We were working Cheung sit, gesturing at their table. trip. on building classrooms…” Kim “We’ve been building a school All three girls – along with 16 explains. “This involved literally that cupcakes have funded,” she other UR students – spent their moving cinder blocks, making exclaims. “One cupcake at a spring break in the village of cement with shovels, digging dirt time,” she laughs. Pánchame, Honduras, building out of certain areas... It’s definitely “A lot of people just write checks a middle school for children a lot of work especially in 90 to organizations and they don’t who currently only have access degree weather, but it’s a lot of fun really know where it’s going,” to elementary education. They because you get to work with the Cleveland continues, explaining are members of UR’s Students Honduran workers,” how cool it is to be part of club Helping Honduras (SHH), one Cheung, who attended both where you get to see where your of the many college and high SHH’s service trip last summer money is actually going. “It makes school chapters of the national and the recent spring break trip, us come back and be a lot more non-profit organization founded reflects on her two experiences. excited to sell cupcakes and get by then college student Shin “It was the first place that I felt all our friends to sell cupcakes Fuliyama in 2007. that passion and purpose were and then go back to Honduras Today, these members have put together…. your passion again.” agreed to share their experiences Courtesy of Isabelle Chu had a purpose and your purpose In regards to the club’s future, in SHH, a new club that’s gained Junior Vanessa Cedarbaum and freshman Sam Passanisi play with local children. built more passion,” she recounts. Cedarbaum hopes for growth. much attention for its unique classrooms. These classes combine service trips an annual event. “When I went back two weeks “I just want more people to mission and activities. kids whose first language was Starting last year, members have ago, it hit me then that it just gets have that experience and have After participating in her English, gaining exposure to also traveled to Honduras for a stronger… I think a lot of times in that opportunity to become so high school’s chapter of SHH, Spanish at a young age, with kids summer leadership summit and Cedarbaum founded UR’s whose first language was Spanish additional volunteering. The program – gaining SA recognition and are working on their English group fundraises throughout the last February – with the help skills. school year to pay for their SHH of fellow junior Maria Salas. “The classes are taught more trip fees that makes their work An international student from in Spanish and their homework possible. Mexico, Salas was also interested is in Spanish but a lot of the kids “It’s a $650 fee and $250 of that goes to things for you [food and lodging] and the other $400 is to basically keep SHH running… we can go down and work on a school but we can only do that if there are supplies,” Cedarbaum explains, noting that a large portion of their money goes toward building supplies. “It helps us get there, but then it’s doing good as well.” To raise money this year, SHH has done a variety of events Courtesy of isabelle chu including a benefit dinner, UR’s chapter of SHH sent 19 students to Pánchame, Honduras over spring break. Pictures with Santa, the “Aca- life you get used to things and they passionate about something,” she Olympics”, and of course, cupcake become normal but something tells me. “We already expanded the sales. All together, the group has like this doesn’t.” SHH idea by including tutoring raised approximately $2,200 from Cheung also noted how and there are definitely places it fundraisers, receiving an additional impressed she is with the can go from there too… any new $1,500 bonus from the national organization’s efficiency. “They organization has a lot of freedom, SHH organization for requiting have all the logistics down way but when you have people that Courtesy of Isabelle chu new members and bus tickets to ahead of time so once [the are so excited about it, that’s when Freshman Giovanna Braganza and junior Shanna Cleveland work on a support beam. NYC – where the group caught a schools are] up, people are in it things can actually happen.” in helping the local Hispanic are primarily English speakers,” direct flight to Honduras – paid and it’s actually being used for its For more information on the community. Cedarbaum tells me. SHH for by the University. purpose,” she tells me. During the Students Helping Honduras “Our version of SHH is kind volunteers primarily help with Members get a certain amount winter trips, the SHH worksites organization and their story, visit of a combination of this normal reading and writing, skills that of their trip fees covered based on get help from 200-300 volunteers http://ceciskids.org. Students Helping Honduras can be challenging even for kids their hours. “We keep track of how a week, allowing them to build Rudd is a member of chapter where we fundraise who grew up as fluent Spanish much time they spend tabling and schools very quickly. the class of 2017.

Liz beson / Illustrator UR opinion “This past week, twitter was banned in Turkey. by Dani douglas & Parsa Lotfi Features editor & photo editor which Social network would you ban?”

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“Tumblr.” “Tinder.” “Reddit.” “Vine.” “Myspace.” “Facebook.” page 12 / campustimes.org FEATURES / Thursday, march 27, 2014 Student Ask Estrada: Hookups, immersed relationships, and great expectations in Athenian By Marie-joelle estrada condition that the BBC estimates comes first” offers some great invasive, especially if the two of Columnist affects 1 in 200 men. game plans in terms of reworking you haven’t been romantically culture In terms of physical sensations your sexual script, for example attached. Think about how you’d greece From page 10 however, the most sensitive suggesting that activities that were feel if you knew that another “I made friends with some aspects of the women’s equipment previously considered “foreplay” students there and it was cool to tend to be the clitoris, which be reframed as “coreplay” – i.e. I’d suggest that get a perspective of the riots and is often missed during penile occupying a central role. things going on in the country penetration, and the first inch or Many times, concerns about you stop sharing from someone my age,” she said. so of the vaginal canal. For this size are also confounded with your fantasies with “I also went to a few protests reason, many women argue that skills, but given the choice, most myself, to observe.” She, along girth (width) of a man’s member women would prefer a man with anyone other than a with a few other students, took may be more important than the a smaller penis who had good part in a peace demonstration length. skills in the bedroom to a well- sexual partner who is organized by EGAM (European Our sexual scripts are very endowed man who knew or interested and asking Grassroots Antiracist Movement, much centered around a man’s cared little about how to please “a french-based activist group”). penis so it’s not surprising that his partners. In fact, I’ve heard questions about them. “It was an amazing experience many men and women put a colloquially that some women as people from all over the lot of importance on its size and prefer a man with a small penis make it the focus of sex (e.g. sex because it helps foster creativity person that you never thought EU came in support of the begins with penile penetration and a variety of appreciated of in a sexual context – the bus movement.” and ends with the man’s orgasm). skills. Sadly, some men who are driver, the person who serves you She also volunteered at the My boyfriend’s penis is only In reality, intercourse shouldn’t be well-endowed have the mistaken lunch in the Pit – was pleasuring Athens Classic Marathon. 2.5 inches long. I’m used to the be-all and end-all, especially notion that the equipment they him/herself to your pictures? She still keeps in touch with longer penises than this, but I have is all they need. Essentially, it forces you to think the people she met there and love him so much I don’t want the My friend told a girl on about a sexual context with a plans to use these connections him to know he’s so small. Is “Sex campus that I masturbate person that you hadn’t freely to go back to Greece and teach there any way I can fix this & ” to her Facebook pictures. I chosen, which understandably English. and make my sex life more CT thought she’d be turned on can be uncomfortable and pleasurable? Let Sex & the CT help you by that but she confronted me possibly scary. For this reason, I’m not sure whether the “2.5 through your most about it and told me to stop, I’d suggest that you stop sharing inches long” refers to an erect or awkward sexual years. but I don’t want to. Can I get your fantasies with anyone other flaccid (non-erect) penis. Most in trouble? than a sexual partner who is research suggests that the average since it rarely results in an orgasm Fantasies are by nature personal, interested and asking questions length of a non-erect penis is 3.5 for a woman. and whatever thoughts you choose about them. inches and the average length of Truthfully, the majority of to have when masturbating are Truthfully, I’m guessing an erect penis is approximately sexual satisfaction you experience entirely your own to explore and fantasizing and masturbating to 6 inches. Penises can also vary a has little to do with your enjoy in your mind. This is why any public photographs is very lot in terms of how much they boyfriend’s size, but rather how when you inadvertently make common, although most people change when erect; that is, some he chooses to be attentive to your them public by sharing with a less probably don’t share this with alex kurland / Illustrator increase very little in size when needs. Many other factors such than trustworthy source, it can the target out of embarrassment. erect (“showers”) whereas some as adequate foreplay and sensitive backfire and create an awkward Really though, given all the other “Study Abroad was an increase a lot (“growers”). That clitoral stimulation will go a long situation. different options out there, I’d amazing experience and I would being said, if you’re referring to a way to increase your arousal and Although I’m sure you thought suggest simply finding a new and man who is 2.5 inches erect, this result in much more satisfying you were paying this girl a high exciting target to fantasize about encourage anyone and everyone does qualify as a micro-penis, a sex. Ian Kerner’s book “She compliment, it can come off as privately instead. to at least look into it,” she says. Estrada is a visiting assistant “It’s an experience of a lifetime, professor in the Department of and you learn so much about Clinical & Social Psychology. yourself and the world around you when you are taken out of To submit an anonymous your comfort zone.” question, visit Kanakam is a member of sex-thect.tumblr.com/ask. the class of 2017.

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By Lucian Copeland stumble. paced motion is the norm and Zuckerberg said in a public disorientation and sickness that Staff writer Every user that put on persistent nausea from a gaming statement. “Imagine enjoying come with mismatches between our Rift made at least one session would be predictably a courtside seat at a game, real and virtual motion. About a week ago, one of my attempt to balance themselves unwelcome. studying in a classroom of Rather than being just cohorts in a virtual reality (VR) on a virtual object that only But motion sickness from the students and teachers all over another means of getting online project called me aside in the they could see, flailing their latest FPS (first person shooter) the world or consulting with and blowing up aliens, VR lab to show me a special piece arms wildly amid the ensuing may not be such an issue for a doctor face-to-face — just could be the way you visit your of equipment that had just laughter before several amused the Rift’s unexpected new by putting on goggles in your family or check-in with your arrived for our project. After boss on a sick day, successful in a dramatic pause, I opened ways that teleconferencing and the door to our workshop video chat cannot be. area and was greeted by the Not everyone is happy about simple, angular, black headset the change, and the purchase of an Oculus Rift lying on my brought some developers to workstation table. drop support of the platform At this point, I am told, I on hearing of the reduced made a noise comparable to focus on gaming. But luckily “several district’s worth of dog for those who might doubt kennels being simultaneously Facebook’s motives, the market electrocuted”, and the rest of is rapidly expanding. my team had to be submitted Sony has recently announced for inner ear reconstruction. the Project Morpheus headset Hyperbole aside, getting a as a direct competitor to the chance to work with an Oculus Rift, and accessories and is pretty exciting. Seeing innovations for VR continue the device in the news or on to expand. YouTube does the product a It’s possible that virtual disservice – the experience is reality may become the next not one that can represented motion control for gaming, properly in the third person. universally distributed to every From the moment you put it household with a console. But on, the Rift is a very personal VR is one of the first gaming product – the environment technologies that has the you perceive, delivered via two potential to be more than a screens for the offset 3D effect Alex Kurland / Illustrator toy – virtual spaces not just for to each eye, is not one that helpers rushed in to rebalance owner: Facebook. The social entertainment, but for social you can share with the people them. Unfortunately, another media giant announced the home.” and business environments as around you. universal but less desired effect two billion dollar purchase of It’s a sensible move by a well. Instead, they have to wait of using the Rift is that of the VR company this Tuesday, company seeking to establish Hopefully we’ll have the patiently for their turn to get motion sickness – every single voicing their hopes that virtual themselves as a universal means common sense to keep ourselves back in on the action, smiling one of us got nauseatingly sick reality will usher in a new era of communication. Virtual reined in, lest our streets and wryly as you blunder around for about half an hour after of interactive communication reality is the perfect way to offices be filled with blind in your own little reverie. The putting it on. between people across the share a private or public virtual zombies in goofy headsets, experience of suddenly entering This disorientation could globe. space with someone across the wildly flapping their arms in a an entirely new virtual space make the device a hard sell to “We’re going to make Oculus globe, and the absence of the game only they can see. just by putting on a headset its intended audience in the a platform for many other physical demands of gaming Copeland is a member of is disorienting, so you will gaming market, where fast- experiences [than gaming],” could avoid the feelings of the Class of 2015. Aviation incidents See Disasters page 10 bound. fire had started in one of the At about 10:30 am, the planes airplane’s lavatories. intersected each other’s paths The plane then began to descend for an emergency above the Grand Canyon as landing in Cincinnati, Ohio. By TWA Flight 2’s propeller ripped the time the plane reached the through UA Flight 718’s fuselage runway, firefighters were already and rear cabin. Neither plane waiting on the runway, ready to was expecting to cross paths. extinguish the fire. Unfortunately, no one survived According to the NTSB, half the crash. the people onboard the plane Results: This accident led to were able to escape before the the Air Traffic Control system cabin “burst into flames” only being revamped so that pilots ninety seconds after landing. would have a better idea of where Results: The flammable other planes were around them. materials on board were what It also led to the creation of the made it easy for the fire to FAA. They are responsible for travel the length of the plane ensuring airplane travel safety. TUFTS SUMMER SESSION 2014 and reduce it to a skeleton. Without these notable changes, As a consequence, regulations we would still be flying home PREPARE. EXPAND. DEVELOP. were created that required signs for summer break in “fatigued”, prohibiting smoking, automatic ready-to-explode, flammable, School of Arts and Sciences | School of Engineering fire extinguishers, and smoke blind death traps. detectors to be installed on all It is unfortunate that the most THREE SESSIONS: planes. influential cause of aviation safety MAY 21–JUNE 27 | JULY 1–AUGUST 8 | MAY 21–AUGUST 8 3. United Airlines Flight improvement is through disasters 718 and loss of life. The tragedy of go.tufts.edu/summer What Happened: On the Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 morning of June 30, 1956, will undoubtedly motivate College and Pre-College Programs United Airlines Flight 718 and change and improvement in the TWA Flight 2 both took off out way planes are tracked and how Day & Evening Classes of L.A. International Airport, the black box system works, but Affordable Tuition only three minutes apart from it can never bring back the people Outstanding Tufts Faculty one another. UA Flight 718 who were lost on the flight. was headed for Chicago, while Kluxniak is a member of Online Courses TWA Flight 2 was Kansas City the Class of 2017. Page 14 / campustimes.org A&E / THURSDAY, March 27, 2014 arts & entertainment Plain White T’s exceed campus expectations

By trace maddox contributing writer

If Facebook feeds and snippets of overheard conversation are accurate sources, then it’s safe to say that campus was less than brimming with excitement over last week’s Plain White T’s concert. Even without a rabid fan-base, the lack of enthusiasm seemed somewhat underwhelming in light of the fact that Grammy-nominees would soon be playing in the same place many students eat lunch. The concert was held in Douglass dining hall where, past a surprising amount of security, a full stage was erected for the occasion, complete with those cool lights that change colors. Opening for the “T’s” was Rhode Island singer-songwriter Will Evans, joined by one of our own Yellow Jackets – freshman Jeff Howard – in a fantastically engaging performance which all but stole the thunder from The Plain White T’s played Douglass Dining center on Friday, March 21. Parsa Lotfi / Photo Editor the main attraction. The duo performed several of Evans’ own member, the Plain White T’s did audience interactions – at one off the night well with favorites the response from the crowd was pieces, as well as a few terrific not in fact wear plain white tees. point, a student handed Tom a like, “Hey There Delilah”, “1234”, overwhelmingly positive. covers, including a well-received The band more than compensated guitar pick, which he immediately and “Should’ve Gone to Bed.” Although an exact number of rendition of Lorde’s “Royals”, for this fashion oversight, however declared to be magical. Later, It’s a well-known fact that many tickets sold was not immediately before bowing out. – and certainly exceeded the guitarist Tim Lopez gave a shoutout bands sound better on the iPod available from UR Concerts, Following the opening act lukewarm expectations of the to an Instagram follower and, after than they ever will live. Autotune Douglass was, if not packed to and after a torturously long campus community – by putting a brief audience panic that the and professional recording studios bursting, certainly well-filled for break during which the author on a darn good show. show had ended prematurely, Tom can leave us feeling cheated after what amounted to an exciting repeatedly debated whether or Led by the energetic and returned for some “private time” finally hearing an artist in person. and enjoyable Friday night that not he had time to pee, the main somewhat elfin lead singer, Tom with the audience – the concert At Friday’s concert, however, there exemplified the many exciting event commenced. Higgenson, the group dominated consisted mostly of the group’s was certainly no disappointment – events open to UR students. Much to the shock and the stage for about an hour. Along lesser-known songs (“the Giving every song was spot-on and just as Maddox is a member of vexation of at least one audience with several fun, impromptu Tree”, “Body Parts”) but rounded good as could be hoped. Moreover, the class of 2017. EMERGENCY USA concert highlights urgent cause

BY MEGAN KIBLER An overwhelming 90 percent noted that “EMERGENCY is emphasizes that it is “still a fun it is incredible to accomplish contributing writer of the victims are civilians, funded 70% by private donors group on campus”. As a result, that just by playing music”. and one in three are children. like us”. Therefore, public the concert accomplished a The night concluded with an When reaching out to EMERGENCY operates awareness of the group reasonable balance of being energetic dance routine from people in need, music is a clinics in Afghanistan, informative yet entertaining. UR Bhangra. Brian Chang, timeless, powerful way to Cambodia, Iraq, Sudan, and The Yellowjackets got the a member of the group, express the benefits of caring various other countries. crowd on their feet for others. The UR Chapter They provide medical with a fun rendition EMERGENCY operates of EMERGENCY USA held care to patients of “Wavin’ Flag/ their first annual concert free of charge Wakka Wakka” in clinics in Afghanistan, in hopes of not only raising and since their contrast to Vocal Cambodia, Iraq, Sudan funds for their cause but establishment Point’s stirring also increasing awareness in 1994 r e n d i t i o n and various other of their organization. They have given of “Barton also provided a night of fun t re a t m e n t Hollow”. Off countries. An overwhelming 90 to 16 Broadway on expressed “Dancing for charity m i l l i o n Campus also is something that we as a team percent of the victims p e o p l e . per formed and as individual dancers, are T h e a scene. are civilians, and one in committed to doing, so we proceeds The show just try to serve whenever we three are children. collected at additionally can.” Rochester featured solo Overall, the concert was entertainment for the audience, d i r e c t l y performances successful in expressing featuring performances from fund the from Thomas EMERGENCY’s mission. the YellowJackets and Vocal construction Varner and Point to a dance routine from a n d Andy Brink. If you’re interested in UR Bhangra. It resulted in m a i n t e n a n c e Varner’s acoustic contributing to this cause, an eclectic mix of high-energy of these medical and vocal set featured donations can be given to the performances, all who had clinics. Specifically, the two original songs, Rochester chapter or online at volunteered to showcase their proceeds from the concert which he chose specifically www.emergencyusa.org. If you will help fund orthopedic talents for the cause. Liz Benson / Illustrator for the venue, aiming for desire to join the group or want EMERGENCY USA is an nails, or binding for casts, “upbeat songs about change to find out more information, organization that focuses on in the Sierra Leone and is crucial for its continued and progress”. He noted that meetings are held on Tuesdays raising funds to support the Afghanistan clinics. Daria success. “it is always satisfying to raise at 6 in Dewey 2-110. establishment of international Nicol, President of the UR Although EMERGENCY’s money for something that will Kibler is a member of hospitals to aid victims of war. chapter of the organization, cause is a serious one, Nicol do the world a bit of good, and the class of 2017. thursday March 27, 2014 / A&E campustimes.org / Page 15 X Ambassadors: taking from the past, looking to the future by jeff howard influence on this EP. But with these songs, I want to try to get any of it in the studio – it was thing to hear. A lot of people in a&E Editor Sam Cooke and Marvin Gaye the point across to everyone all done in hotel rooms, laptops the world go for these dreams there’s just this simple kind and to really connect with a live in our rehearsal space, on tour and don’t succeed for one reason Somewhere along its backstage. It’s cool how it all or another, and it’s not because development, the pop- came together. It turned out to they didn’t try hard enough. It’s industrial-complex bred the be pretty exciting. not because they didn’t put the notion that music’s quality JH: You talk about using time in. There’s an X-factor that positively correlates to the pop music to expand from a exists. There’s a luck factor. We amount of styles it incorporates. smaller world. I was reading all know tons of talented people Rubbish. It’s not that genre- on your website that your new who just never got a break. I mixing is a bad practice – it’s EP touches upon themes of wanted them to feel empowered just that all too frequently, moving on and new beginnings. too. I wanted to write something people assign the “eclectic” label I also watched a music video for them – for my friends. to an album that channels trap- of “Unconsolable” off of “Love JH: That’s cool – I like how beat-inducing debauchery on Songs Drug Songs”. It seems this is like a concept EP. one track and piano drenched like you guys are really rooted SH: Yeah, it’s totally a concept heartbreak on the next. This in everyday life and moving EP. I want people to know that is how commercial pop stars beyond it. Did that come from there are other people out there sell albums: appeal to the basic personal experience? who are going through similar emotions of the lowest common SH: Yeah. Again, growing hard times. So are we. This denominator, even if their up in a small town had a huge whole music industry is so coexistence yields the feelings impact on me as a songwriter. unpredictable these days; we just equivalent of a Frankenstein. In terms of the theme of the chose to dive headfirst into it. I The X Ambassadors, an EP, the EP is really a narrative. think a big part of why I decided Ithaca-based alt rock collective, It’s actually a story from start to to write about this stuff is that combine country stomp, hip- finish of this guy looking back I’m scared of failing too. I was hop swagger, stadium-sized rock on his life. You go back in time thinking to myself, “Wow, we euphoria and piano-arpeggio- with him, starting with “Free and just signed a major label, we’re backed melancholy all in one Lonely”, and he’s looking back really going to start and try to song – but it’s magnificent. The at his time as a free person in the push this band. This is really band, through its high-level world with no responsibilities, happening right now – what if musicianship and inventive but he had to settle down. Life it all goes wrong?” That was a approach to songwriting, is not what he expected it to be. big thing that was on my mind captures nuggets of authenticity And then, with “The Business”, when I was writing this whole from the modern pop world we go back and we see him at a EP. Again, I chose to write about and fuses them into something point when he’s finally deciding it – I sort of chose to and it sort captivating, cohesive, and to give up his dreams and move of happened. “The Business” original. Turns out, embracing on and do something different, was the first one that really came pop styles really can be eclectic. I and how that’s okay. It’s not about. I just had that hook, “I’m had the pleasure of speaking with actually bad, that’s why the song gonna give up the business”. the X Ambassador’s front man, is celebratory. And then we go Its about giving up the record guitarist, and saxophonist Sam Liz Beson / Illustrator back further, to “Giants”, where industry, the “what if”. What if Harris, where we discussed the of songwriting that I’m most audience. Again, we grew up in he’s a teenager and the world is I had to do that? What if I chose musical influences, production, attracted to right now. a small town and the music that still full of possibilities. When I to walk away from it? Or, what if and what it means to start all JH: I felt that – your songs felt we made is inherently striving to was a kid, growing up in Ithaca, it just didn’t work out and I was over again. very urgent. Now, I know you be bigger – to break free from I would dream of being able to forced to walk away from it? It guys have done tour dates with its tiny world. So the pop thing pursue a career as a musician. grew from there, and because this JH: Let’s talk about your new Imagine Dragons and Panic! has always attracted us. That The world seemed so full of was a thing I felt uncomfortable EP, “The Reason EP”, which at the Disco. Those are both said, we really love the fact that possibilities, and it was exciting talking about – failure – it was came out this year. There was a pretty poppy bands – Imagine we have started to create this and dangerous and scary. And all the more important that I country vibe to it, but it also had Dragons is definitely on the sound that’s really unique but then it goes back even further, to wrote about it. It’s the reason elements of trap music, indie- more commercial end of indie- yet poppy at the same time. “Unsteady”, where the guy is a why “Unsteady” came about. I pop. It was pretty interesting. pop. How was it to play with That’s what we strive towards: kid and his parents are divorced, never saw my parents’ divorce SH: I’m glad you noticed the those guys? something that’s different. If and we see his parents are having as anything worth writing about country influence; I don’t think we’re looking at what everybody a similar midlife crisis as he’s and not coming off as whiny or many people pick up on that. We have always tried to else is doing – which we try not having at the beginning. So the too emo. No matter what the JH: Yeah, well even in the incorporate elements of to do, we try to keep our heads story in “Free and Lonely” kind situation is, it’s always a difficult lyrics and themes, it was rooted down and focus on what we’re of comes full circle like that. It thing, for all parties involved, to in the everyday grind, which has hip-hop into our music doing – but if we are looking came from a place of wanting go through. I wanted to write a country thing to it. From your at what everybody else is doing to write about things I knew about it. point of view, what musical without becoming like in the music world, we try to my friends were going through. JH: You guys are playing at influences do you and the band Linkin’ Park. do somewhat of the opposite, I always really strive to write Rochester’s “Bug Jar” on April take from this EP? or take what they’re doing and about everyday things that we all 8. Are you guys looking forward SH: You know, it’s funny – SH: It’s great. They’re both make it our own. go through and that sometimes to playing there? a lot of the influences that we incredible bands. Imagine JH: I definitely felt that with aren’t the most glamorous things SH: Yeah, we’re looking draw upon are contemporary Dragons in particular have been what I listened to. It’s tough to talk about or sometime they’re forward to playing in upstate influences. A lot of those are a big help for us in our careers to bridge that gap between uncomfortable to talk about, but New York. That’s our home turf hip-hop based. In terms of the and they’re good friends of ours. that makes them all the more – building a fan base up there, production, we’re really big on a Dan Reynolds, the lead singer, If we are looking at what important. For instance, with a we’re really excited about it. lot of the hip-hop producers like actually executive produced everybody else is doing lot of people I went to school JH: Is there anything you Just Blaze, No I.D., and guys both of our EP’s. He’s got a with who wanted to be actors, guys want to include before we like that. Those are the dudes great ear and he’s really helped in the music world, we directors, musicians, artists or finish? we look up to, like J. Dilla. The us out a lot. You know, we all try to do somewhat of dancers, life kind of happens. SH: The tour goes from the trouble is, we’re a rock band. We love pop music. We grew up I’m 25 now, so I’ve been out of beginning of April until the 20. have always tried to incorporate in Ithaca, New York, upstate, the opposite, or take college for about four years, and Buy your tickets now because it’s elements of hip-hop into our near Rochester – when we were a lot of my friends have been selling out pretty quickly. Come music without becoming like growing up, we weren’t exposed what they’re doing and out of college for that amount out to the Rochester show, it’s Linkin’ Park. That’s always to a lot of the cool indie music make it our own. of time or longer, and they’re going to be a lot of fun. Pick up been a big thing, getting the that was going on in New York, realizing that they’re dreams the new EP, it’s on iTunes and groove right and the vibe right Chicago, Philly, and California. ambition and accessibility, but I aren’t going to come true and Spotify. Follow us on Twitter, @ and having it be a little weird. We heard what was on the radio, definitely noticed that you guys they’re going to have to figure xambassadors is the handle on In terms of songwriting, I grew and my favorite rock bands took from a lot of popular music out something else to do. Life both Facebook and Twitter – or up listening to a lot of classic were alternative rock bands elements, like, as I said before, kind of happens. It’s a little bit Facebook.com/XAmbassadors. songwriters and a lot of soul and like the Red Hot Chili Peppers the trap music vibe. Also, the of a scary thing, but it’s kind of Keep spreading the good word. R&B. I love Lauryn Hill, I love and Coldplay. That was what I production on what I listened not that bad, and that’s what I X Ambassadors will be playing Bruce Springsteen – a lot of the listened to for the most part. So to was spacious, clear, and wanted to get across with these at Rochester’s “Bug Jar” on April songwriters that touch through that’s still kind of ingrained in colorful – I thought it was really songs. These are things that 8. For more information on the the bullshit. I love that kind of us. As years have gone on I’ve awesome. people go through too. Again, band and its tour dates visit style. I really wanted to make been exposed to tons of great SH: Thank you. Yeah, we take we listen to a lot of hip-hop, www.xambassadors.com. sure that I was getting the point indie musicians and songwriters a lot of pride in our production. and a big part of it is starting across with all of these songs. I like James Murphy and the Essentially all of this EP was with nothing and building an Howard is a member of think Bruce Springsteen’s a big dude from The National. With done on the road. We didn’t do empire, a really empowering the class of 2017. thursday March 27, 2014 / A&E campustimes.org / Page 16 Local Artist Spotlight: Ahzay - ‘The Routine: A Long Story Short’ by justin fraumeni ultra-relatable study-party-regret towards religion; he is forced Kanye in particular—which is all should be all too familiar for the A&E editor cycle of the average undergrad. to face the hypocrisy of being a the more impressive when you average UR student. Notably, Ahzay manages to strike a “Sunday Christian” firsthand. discover that “The Routine” was he draws parallels between the UR is not known for its rappers. balance on “The Routine” by The fact that “The Routine” recorded predominantly in dorm female physique and polynomials Research, yes. Rappers, no. It’s tying fun, party-rap singles like was produced by a plethora of rooms around UR. The album is (“More curves than a calc class”) probably safe to say that we’re “uLike” and “Show Me” in with a individuals aids it in avoiding what a genuine celebration of campus and on “All Nighter,” probably not alone. Despite some notable serious overarching album theme: might plague many homegrown talent, and features so many one of the only rap songs ever exceptions (Kanye West, J. Cole, recorded about studying, he name Lil Wayne), hip-hop has never drops Webwork of all things. really been a product of academia At the end of the fourteen-track and rarely embraces it as typical romp, Ahzay offers his gratitude; subject matter. UR’s own Ahzay, while confirming our suspicions; on the other hand, is not the typical we’ve been immersed in a true- rapper, and his debut release “The to-life college experience: “For all Routine: A Long Story Short” of you who were able to make it is not the typical rap album. through, I thank you, because you There are no hookers, no gun lived my life for sixty minutes.” violence, and no hardcore drug Liz Beson / Illustrator peddling. “The Routine” stays regrets about overindulgence. rap efforts: redundancy. The contributions from UR musicians “The Routine” can be true to its title: it’s evident from This is the same delicate combo different creative visions of that its track list seems more like streamed at www.Ahzay.com. the onset that this is an honest Kendrick Lamar nailed on “Good the respective producers on the lineup of a Meliora Weekend Check out Ahzay live at album about the collegiate weekly Kid, M.A.A.D. City”, and the the album make for no stale performance than a solo rap album. Boulder Coffee on April grind, and this isn’t a rapper trying unnamed character we follow on beats and no soggy sampling. And it’s not just the local artistry 11th, and on May 23rd at the to be someone he’s not. “The “Routine” faces a similar reality For an amateur rapper, Ahzay’s that should make the album California brew Haus at 7:00 pm. Routine” is a concept album, to Kendrick’s: throughout all vocal style is remarkably established so relatable to UR students. not about the cycle of violence the partying and debauchery, and at times bears hints of spooky Throughout the album Ahzay Fraumeni is a member of in the slums, but about the there remains a gravitation resemblance to the greats— makes references to subjects that the class of 2017. Foster the People showcase songwriting expertise on ‘Supermodel’ by jeff howard shame because, for what it is, unashamedly insipid. On “Are conscious bite. frequencies clash. Distinct A&E editor “Supermodel” is quite excellent. You What You Want to Be?” The list goes on. As Foster the harmonic and dynamic shifts It’s not like on “Supermodel” the vocal hook shines with an People executes what’s essentially highlight verses from choruses, Like big-brand sodas of the Foster the People radically deviates ornate complexity that channels a set of songs best suited for and many of the track’s bridges “real cane sugar” variety, Foster from the formula that made “Surf’s Up”-era Beach Boys. Converse sneaker commercials, go down chordal avenues that are the People radiates authenticity “Pumped up Kicks” such a success. Impressive. Add to that the track they do so with the tact of learned, spine-tingling even after several to the everyman who already The album’s opening track, “Are “Nevermind”, which through its seasoned songwriters. Throughout listens. While on “Supermodel” finds cosmic delight in the most You What You Want to Be?” labyrinthine use of mode mixture “Supermodel”, polyrhythms Foster the People’s music very much accessible cultural products. In sparkles with the kind of watery conjures derivative hipster ethos between the bass and vocals retains the commercial varnish of 2011, the band’s debut single guitar stabs and upbeat vocal in a way that’s more harmonically create an intricate sonic weave. its debut album, the band reflects “Pumped Up Kicks” caught sensibilities that so many music titillating than the entirety of Instrumentation is arranged an unorthodox appreciation for mainstream attention with its reviewers tag with the infamous Lorde’s “Pure Heroine”. Turns in such a way that none of the the elements of fine composition cutesy swagger and mildly socially “sun-drenched” descriptor. But as out a little chromaticism goes a that even alternative music’s conscious edge. Times have Foster the People celebrates self- long way – even when it’s at the heavy-hitters like Arcade Fire changed since 2011, and as the empowerment over a chorus of expense of and Daft Punk overlook (listen bearers of pedestrian ambition, “na na na na / na na na na na na”, s o c i a l l y to “Reflektor” again and notice Foster the People faces a more the band demonstrates a capacity how the low frequencies clash scrupulous cultural climate for refreshingly exquisite pop on “It’s Never Over”. Farty.) in 2014 with the release of its songwriting, even While Foster the People’s debut sophomore LP, “Supermodel”. when the track’s was playful but forgettable, on its As we enter the mid 2010’s, emotions sophomore LP the band affords the blogosphere empowers the are so as much room for showcasing people with an unprecedentedly its songwriting prowess as it does diverse musical palette at its for its fun-loving spirit. As a fingertips, elevating the express- result, Foster the People presents your-individuality rat race to new listeners with an album that, levels of hyper-zeal. If Rolling while still flourishing at backyard Stone magazine’s dismissal of pool parties, warrants more than a “Supermodel” as “halfhearted” couple of personal listens as well. is any indication, lite hipster Howard is a member of fodder just doesn’t cut it with the the class of 2017. masses like it used to. It’s a crying Liz Beson / Illustrator

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CLIKK HERE 4 CT MAD LuLZZ!!11! Everything about “Femme Fatale” warrants the “hyper-” prefix – the lyrics are hyper-moronic, the vocals hyper-processed, the music a hyper-insult to the listener’s intelligence. This is what makes the Britney spears - album so brilliant – it absurdly exaggerates everything that makes pop music profane, and in doing so turns modern pabulum into an art piece of Michaelangelo-sized proportions. “femme fatale” Admittedly, “Femme Fatale”’s charm lies entirely in its production, which surely can be credited to an exhaustive list of engineers, producers, songwriters, co-songwriters and co-co-songwriters. Yes, Britney had minimal hand in the album’s creative direction, but good music is good music even if its goodness comes from a faceless, omnipotent cloud of high-level executives. by jeff howard Texturally, “Femme Fatale” pops, bounces, and rumbles. On the track “How I Roll”, minimalist A&E Editor 808 beats, OutKast-esque blips and beeps, computerized vocals, and neon synths mesh into a neo- primal, interplanetary ritual for the gods that somehow complements the lyric, “I got nine lives like a kitty cat.” Literally every track on the album is a party for the synapses. The synthesizers you can touch, taste, and see. It’s just really, really fun to listen to – trust me. Page 17 / campustimes.org A&E / THURSDAY, March 27, 2014 ‘Kid Tiger’ mixes a laid-back attitude with roaring musicianship By rachael sanguinetti so it was, in Joel’s words, “a little bit more of a mixed bag”. editor in chief “We love the first record,” Even though “Kid Tiger”, the Joel said in a recent interview. sophomore album from Daniel “But we’re super excited Ellsworth and the Great Lakes about this one just because came out on March 4, I would it’s much more a collaborative bet that a lot of Rochester effort as far as variety goes.” hasn’t bought it yet, though I got to chat with the band anyone who does not have this as they drove towards Chicago album as part of their playlist is in their van earlier in the definitely missing out. This up- month. They seemed like a and-coming indie-rock band down-to-earth bunch that has something that seems to fit love making music together the R ochester and are humbled by their music scene: it’s laid-back fans and success thus far. but focused instrumentally, When asked about their with quality vocals and writing songs as a team vs. lyrics that require multiple writing alone, the consensus listens to fully appreciate. was writing as a team is far The first song on the new better. “It’s great writing with album was one of my favorites. three other guys that are just The piano solo at the beginning as into it and committed caught me off guard but was a as everyone else,” Joel said. smooth way to introduce the Press releases compare the Courtesy of oliviamanagement.com Daniel Ellsworth and the Great Lakes, looking suave on the cover of their sophomore album “Kid Tiger”. group to Passion Pit, Cold War This up and coming Kids, and Walk the Moon. indie-rock band has The rest of the album Marshall, and Joel really know degrees from respected music When asked what makes them follows suit, presenting song what they are doing when it schools: Belmont, Berklee, different from these groups, something in it that after song that exhibits smooth comes to composition and their and Ohio State. Luckily, all Daniel had an honest answer. harmonies and great lyrics. There are too many were in Nashville at the same “We never think about [other] seems to fit with with the “Little Light”, which is tenth time and, through mutual groups when we’re writing,” Rochester music scene: on the album, shows off their popular artists that friends, came together. he said. “We just try and musicianship, beginning with The group’s success with think about...[trying] to make it’s laid back but focused tight harmonies then moving could not handle 5/4 their first album, “Civilized something that we would instrumentally with on to mixed meters of five-then- time, not to mention Man”, was enough to gain listen to. If people compare us six that are further energized them recognition; they topped to other bands that are good, quality vocals and lyrics by the song’s changing tempos. switching to 6 and back Amazon’s mp3 album sales it’s always a compliment.” Too many popular artists chart and were named one of This album – which was that require multiple today cannot even handle 5/4 again. the “15 Bands to Watch in inspired by drawings of listens through. time, let alone switching to 2014” by Esquire magazine. animals, good mustaches, six and back again. Hearing instruments; Daniel Ellsworth This didn’t come without hard moderately priced whiskey, song. The drums come in a this rhythmic virtuosity on and the Great Lakes isn’t your work and touring night after and doughnuts, according to few measures later with a beat their album got to the core of run-of-the-mill band based in night to get their name out. their Facebook page – is worth that perfectly fits the theme what makes the band great; someone’s garage, not to say According to the band, their every cent of the $12 it costs that the piano introduced. it’s a group that comprises good music has never come first album was definitely a to buy it from their online Coupled with beautiful, talented people who can make out of a garage or been written group effort but a somewhat store. That’s a cheap bottle of soft lead vocals and great great music, plain and simple. by a self-taught musician. But less cohesive one. Daniel had whiskey or two-dozen donuts. harmonies from the backup It’s clear to me that band it came as no surprise that written some of the songs Sanguinetti is a member of vocals, what’s not to love? members Daniel, Timon, all four members have music before the band had formed the class of 2015. Top ten BUSINESS AT RENSSELAER debut albums by jeff howard A&E Editor

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LAST WEEK'S SCORES from the pressbox The Toronto Raptors: Scoreboard Rise of Ruse? • Women’s Lacrosse vs. SUNY Geneseo–L 2-10 by Max Eber whether the Raptors can hold up staff writer in a seven game series. It is hard • Baseball vs. St. Lawrence University–L 3-4 to judge the actual quality of the The Toronto Raptors currently team, as they do have a variety of hold the third seed in the Eastern quality players but cannot seem • Baseball vs. St. Lawrence University–W 3-0 Conference, which may sound to win consistently against big impressive, but what does it mean matchups. DeMar DeRozan, • Women’s Lacrosse vs. Nazareth College–W 7-6 in reality? At 37 wins and 29 Terrence Ross, Kyle Lowry, John losses, they lead their division and Salmons, and others, amount to are top three in the conference • Women’s Swimming and Diving NCAA Division III Championships–Day 4 more than enough raw talent to but would not even make the comprise an extremely talented ball playoffs in the west. The drastic team, but it’s a matter of fitting the • Baseball vs St. Lawrence University–L 6-7 imbalance in team quality between the two conferences is no secret, pieces together that can truly make but regardless, the Raptors have the machine work to perfection. secured their place in the Eastern Toronto fans haven’t had much to playoff picture. cheer about over the past few years Does this mean that they truly as the team went through major have a chance at making any sort rebuilding, but the cycle is coming of run though? It seems unlikely, around and the team now has an especially with their inability to beat extremely young group of players teams that should be easier victories. who may be able to carry the team Recently they’ve had losses dealt by into serious contending. Whether t h a t i s This WEek's Schedule going to h a p p e n . this year is hard to say; Thursday, March 27 my guess would be • Men’s Tennis vs. Nazareth College–4:00 PM they do not • Softball vs. St. John Fisher College–5:00 PM yet have e n o u g h Friday, March 28 to truly • Men’s Track and Field–North Carolina State Raleigh Relays10:00 AM–Raleigh, NC compete with the • Women’s Track and Field–North Carolina State Raleigh Relays10:00 AM–Raleigh, NC talent of • Baseball vs. Medaille College–4:30 PM the East, let alone the Saturday, March 29 West. But • Women’s Rowing vs. St. John Fisher/St. Lawrence–8:00 AM with that said, I do • Men’s Track and Field–North Carolina State Raleigh Relays–10:00 AM The Raptors have had a rise in fortunes lately. think Toronto, • Women’s Track and Field–North Carolina State Raleigh Relays–10:00 AM the Brooklyn Nets, the Washington with young talent • Men’s Golf–McDaniel College Spring Invitational–12:00 PM Wizards, and the Atlanta Hawks, and a highly energetic fan base, • Baseball–Rochester Institute of Technology–1:00 PM all teams that sit below them in have many exciting and successful • Women’s Lacrosse vs. Rochester Institute of Technology–2:00 PM the conference standings. This is years in their near future. • Baseball–Rochester Institute of Technology–3:30 PM not to say that they cannot beat these teams, as they have beaten Eber is a member of all of them earlier in the season, the class of 2017. but it is a slight concern as to Thursday, March 27, 2014 campustimes.org / page 19 sports Women’s Lacrosse Impresses With Season Thus Far

by John CHtchekine Sports Editor

Women’s Lacrosse has started their season strong by winning every game thus far with the exception of a disappointing loss versus #9 ranked Geneseo. They started their season in early March with a game at Fauver Stadium against Medaille College of Buffalo, NY. The Yellowjackets were already up eight goals by the 15 minute mark of the first half and finished the game by routing their opponents with a 19-2 score line. It was an all round team effort #7Jamie Wallisch receives a pass in Rochester’s loss versus #11 Brittany Garrison cradles the ball versus Elmira. as ten different Yellowjackets Geneseo. got on the score sheet wih Smith College in Bryn Mawr, Campus Times’ Athlete Of the College with the closest scoreline four recording hat tricks. The Pennsylvannia. Despite lacking Week, scored four and had so far 7-6. The Yellowjackets Yellowjackets season slowed the home advantage they had five assists. The Yellowjackets fell to their latest opponents, down with a game postponement against Medaille, Rochester still proceeded to another two Geneseo, to give them an against 18th ranked Ithaca managed to score a couple of outstanding wins, one against incredible winning percentage of photos courtesy of UR athletics- College, but resumed its normal goals, 17 to be exact. The game Elmira College, which ended .800 and a 4-1 overall record. #14 Mara Karpp in Rochester’s win pace after spring break with ended with another impressive with a 14-4 scoreline, and the Chtchekine is a member of over Nazareth. an impressive outing against score line of 17-5. Mara Karpp, other one against Nazareth the class of 2016.

Draft tracker: Defensive Tackle prospects

passes; he racked up 11 pass in college. He is also fast, with a deflections in college. He does 5.05 40 time and strong with 32 need a little more mass, as he reps on the bench, which were can’t overpower strong blockers the third most of any defensive or get past double teams. He is tackle. He uses his speed and a great athlete, though, and his strength to charge into blockers, potential is enormous even if pushing them all the back into his frame isn’t. the quarterback. He causes quite The second best defensive a few holding penalties just by tackle is Florida State’s Timmy using his 6’6’’ 310 lbs. body. Jernigan. His 5.06 second 40 He is, however, bad at reading time and 27 reps are respectable, blocking schemes and looks like but watching his tape really a bull trying to get at a matador underscores how athletic he is. on some plays. He is not the He is a very powerful tackler, most agile player and will need especially if he has time to pick to work on using his hands and up steam. Seriously, I feel bad hips more effectively. He is also for any running backs coming not very good at disengaging and his way. He demonstrates good going up against skilled offensive use of hands and hips to get linemen. Anyone who watches past blockers, exploding off the his sacks and forced fumbles will line with swim moves. He is realize how vicious of a tackler he fast and gets at the quarterback, is, and in my opinion that makes disrupting play after play. His up for some of his shortcomings stats, which reflect only 8.5 in my opinion. sacks in college, are not a true The Giants should take testament to his potential. One Donald with the 12th overall issue is his size, as he can be pick, since he is a natural taken out of the game if a large leader with good character and blocker is assigned to him. He could be moved to defensive is also not the best in pursuit on end, thus replacing veteran run plays. MCL and meniscus Justin Tuck, who just signed tears have led to durability with the Oakland Raiders. The courtesy of cowboysblog.dallasnews.com Pittsburgh Defensive Lineman Aaron Donald in action against Syracuse. concerns among some scouts, Pittsburgh Steelers may take him but I think using a first round if the Giants pass. The Dallas pick on Jernigan is a gamble Cowboys are projected to claim by Adam Ondo and plays sloppy. So, that’s why His 66 tackles for a loss, 29.5 worth taking. Jernigan, which makes sense senior staff I’m disagreeing with most other sacks, and six forced fumbles Minnesota’s Ra’Shede seeing as they let veteran pass Defensive Tackle Prospects analysts when it comes to Nix. attest to his ability to wrap up Hageman is the only other rusher DeMarcus Ware sign with There are more than a dozen The best defensive tackle in targets or lay them out with hard defensive tackle that should go the Denver Broncos last week. defensive tackles worth taking the draft has to be Pittsburgh’s hits. He works blockers with his by the end of the first round. I think either New England before the fourth round of the Aaron Donald. He amazed hands and extends his arms well, Hageman’s 35.5 inch vertical or Denver will take Hageman, draft, but only three are worth everyone at the combine when while at the same time using was the best of any defensive because both of those teams a first-round pick. Before we he, a 285 lbs. lineman, ran a 4.68 his hips and feet to perform tackle at the NFL combine prefer using picks on players get started, I’m going to explain second 40-yard dash. He also spin moves. This is why he is and he usually has his hands up who are talented, even if they why Notre Dame’s Louis Nix managed 35 reps on the bench, good at shooting gaps and will on pass plays, allowing him to don’t necessarily fill a position III is not worth a first-round which was the second best for be a superb pass rusher in the disrupt passes and pick the ball, of need. pick. It all boils down to his defensive tackles. His vertical NFL. His vertical and arm span as evidenced by his 10 passes Ondo is a member of lack of consistency. He is slow of 32 inches was the third best. is also useful for batting down defended and one interception the class of 2014. Thursday, March 27, 2014 / Sports campustimes.org / page 20 Commemorating Jane Possee

by JOhn chtchekine and Basketball teams.After SPORTS EDITOR the passage of Title IX, she expanded her impact by starting the Women’s Lacrosse team and This past Saturday, March helped bring all three teams to 22, female athletes, alumni, the competitive Division III and administrators all gathered level. to commemorate someone In honor of her contributions who has contributed an to Women’s athletics, UR incredible amount of effort established an endowment in and commitment to the UR’s Possee’s name in order to fund Women’s athletics program. miscellaneous expenses of the Jane Possee, the current women’s athletics program and administrator of the Goergen to extend opportunities offered Athletic Center, was originally to female athletes at UR. hired by UR to coach the Chtchekine is a member of Women’s Field Hockey the class of 2016.

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