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This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the College Publications & Events at Merrimack ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Beacon by an authorized administrator of Merrimack ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Vol. XI Number 9 Friday, April 12, 2013 www.merrimacknewspaper.com MC Slams ‘Crushes’ College: Twitter Feed Offended Students Patrick Lawlor ’13 who were offended by some tweets came Editor in Chief forward to administrators. “This is an institution that cares about Merrimack Crushes — a Twitter ac - people and is made up of people that care count that listed the fantasies and crushes about each other,” said Jeff Doggett, Pres - between students — was taken down late ident Christopher Hopey’s chief of staff. He last week after the college said it would said the college wants people to feel safe. punish students involved in the site. “The college community will always In an email to student leaders, orienta - have an expectation that people are kind, tion leaders, resident advisors and ath - and we all have a right to not feel ha - letes, college officials asked students who rassed,” Doggett said. follow the Merrimack Crushes account “It’s strange when colleges resort to cen - “unfollow” the account as to not support or sorship first, when education is what condone its tweets. they’re good at,” Adam Goldstein an attor - The Twitter account was taken down ney with the Student Press Law Center last week. But the attempt to control and told The Beacon. The center is a nonprofit influence the content by which a student legal assistance agency devoted to educat - can view on Twitter was criticized by ing student journalists about rights and re - many, raising questions as to how far the sponsibilities. college could go in content control. “This is a mild form of censorship, but The college, however, said that students it’s legal,” said Goldstein. A Race For Life Perry Tickets Selling Fast Jillian Toce ‘13 By Nicole Meaney ’13 Grammy-nominated group. When they ap - News Editor Staff Writer pear April 19 at Lawler Rink, there will be hundreds of fans in attendance. Over 380 people participated in Merrimack College’s an - When the announcement was made that The country group is made up of the nual Relay for Life event on April 5. Opening speaker Chris was coming to Merrimack three Perry siblings: Reid, Neil, and Kim - Hart ’15 shared the inspiring story of his personal battle with College, there was an uproar of excitement. berly. Upon signing a with Re - cancer. According to the college, “The Relay for Life event runs In a switch from previous years, which public Nashville, they began recording through the night with the notion that ‘cancer never sleeps.’ have included spring concert performances music in 2009. Their first album, titled Teams walk together to celebrate the lives of survivors, re - by LMFAO, Ludicrous, and Girl Talk, The “The Band Perry,” hit the airwaves in 2010 member those who have lost their lives, and to fight back Band Perry is a concert ap - and made a splash with their hit singles “If against the disease.” proach that will transition Merrimack into I Die Young” and “Postcard from Paris.” Becca Ryan, ‘13 said, “The American Cancer Society set a spring. Since its release, the album has sold over goal for our school of $35,000, which we far exceeded. We had Since the announcement, tickets have one million copies. set a personal goal of at least one year in tuition, room and been for sale on Main Street. Students In correlation with the timing of this board, and fees at MC, which is $45,610 this year. So far we have jumped at the chance to see this concert at Merrimack is the release of have raised $44,859.70 and fundraising continues past the The Band Perry’s sophomore album, “Pi - event all the way through August, so we are confident!” oneer.” This album was released April 2, The luminaria ceremony was an emotional and touching and it will be a treat for Merrimack to part of the event. People were able to buy luminaria bags for see the Perry’s play some of their brand $5. Many of the bags included messages such as, “I relay be - new songs live. Their current single cause …” or “In honor/memory of …” The bags, with glow “Done” debuted at no. 23 on the U.S. sticks inside, were put around the track where people walked. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Jon For the ceremony, the lights in the MPR were dimmed and Freeman of Country Weekly called the Meghan Reynolds ’16 and Jess Gurka ’13 talked about their album “time well spent,” which leads to parents, who are currently fighting cancer. Ryan said, “There the band on furthering their “stadium- was a faculty team called the “Road Warriors,” headed by Pro - sized auditions.” fessor Warren and Nancy Kay, who ran around the track for Merrimack will be one of the first sta - 24 hours ... This was one of my favorite aspects of this year's diums to host the band as they play Relay because it was motivating to look up and see them work - songs from their new album. If you have ing hard for a good cause.” not yet purchased your tickets, there is Mackapella and the Merrimack College Dance Team per - still time. For students, guests and the formed at the event, which also featured a musical chairs scav - general public, tickets are available on enger hunt, zumba, yoga, and other activities to keep Main Street. participants awake.

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Police: Student fends off goes 2-3 Photos show spring four knife-wielding attackers for weekend arrives on campus Page 3 Page 12 Page 6 Page 2 The Beacon April 12 , 2013

Editorial Board Editor in Chief Questions on the Quad Patrick Lawlor By Agata Adamczuk ’13 Associate What Will Be Your Hardest Final? Editor in Chief Joan Corcoran

News Editor Jill Toce

Sports Editor Mike Romanella

Media Editor Agata Adamczuk

Features Editor Melissa Doran '15 Sam Novicki and Colin Hay '14 Krista Ippolito '14 Siobhan Licudine "Statistical Methods in Psychology" "Ethics and Social Responsibility, "Foundations of Mathematics" together, we can do it!" Design Editor Jess Raver

Finance Editors Vince Bellino Rafael Cabral staff

Terence Barclay Patrick Bradley Sarah Buckwald James Callens Molly Canyes Mike Enright '14 George Swartz '13 Matt Donarumo '16 Helen Gillis "Investing" "Asian Philosophy" "Calculus" Andrew Hurd Kara-Marie Joyce Alexandra Maas Roger McCormack Nicole Meaney Police Log Evan Mercier Kerry Phelan March 17 hurt in a fight behind the March 30 was set off by dust from new Brittany Reissfelder Police received a com - apartments, reporting in - Student from the construction. Brianna Trabucco plaint of a “hall party” on juries to the male’s face. team called Police Kali Tudisco the first floor of Monican Dispatch called Andover Services requesting a April 4 Alicia Unis West Wing. Officers found Fire Department. Officer trainer for a player who Male reported an armed no one in the area. reported the male was may have suffered a con - robbery. Officers investi - N Harry Mullin, Distribution taken to Lawrence General cussion and was in front of gated. Townhouse RA called Hospital with a large lacer - Volpe somewhat disori - O Police Services requesting ation to the head. ented. North Andover Fire REWARD

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she was stumbling around requested an ambulance for April 1 N.H., the night of the services and not making sense. a 19-year-old male, very in - Report received of ciga - Merrimack/UNH hockey E Advertising Dispatch asked Andover toxicated, vomiting, and not rette smoke in Monican. Of - game. One suspect wore The Beacon is the best and most effi - Fire Department for an responding to verbal com - ficer finds no issues. white, one yellow possi - H cient way to reach the Merrimack ambulance. Female re - munication. Dispatch called bly with cauliflower ear.

T College Community. To place a fused medical treatment North Andover Fire Depart - April 2 Victim was sucker Classified, Print Advertisement, or and signed a medical ment for an ambulance. Unresponsive female punched unconscious Online Advertisement please contact us at waiver. transported to the hospital and his leg was stomped [email protected] March 20 by Andover Fire Depart - on and broken. Please Corrections Apartment RAs reported Student came into Police ment ambulance. reply to STRICTLYCON - The Beacon is committed to provid - a fight near K-Tower. Offi - Services to report her wallet FIDENTIAL e-mail: ing its readers with thorough, accu - cer requested an ambu - was stolen from her vehicle. April 3 [email protected] rate, and balanced news coverage. If lance for a male student Officer took a report. Fire alarm at the Volpe OM you believe we have made an error in reporting or have questions con - cerning any of our issues please contact us at Mack Tweets [email protected] @mscarlysullivan @nattydaddysam Contact us Gotta love sing-a-longs to 80s music I always thought that dogs laid @MPBtweets during relay for life #merrimack eggs There’s a karaoke in Augie’s on The Beacon Friday night. We think everyone c/o Student Involvement @Karamarie_Joyce @Auts10 should go. @MPBLateNight 315 Turnpike St. The only part I don't like about per - Everyone tweet about where North Andover, MA 01845 fectos is the part where my sandwich they’re living next year. I wanna @BrianaDevx Phone:(978)-837-3562 ends creep When a kid at the table next to [email protected] me is watching a video and chomp - www.merrimacknewspaper.com @Apeymarie28 @kayyylamariex3 ing on food with his mouth open on Realizing the true definition of a Happy Housing! May the odds be the quiet floor in the library << #fml NARP #sore4day ever in your favor #housingselection April 12 , 2013 The Beacon Page 3

Spring Activities to Fill Entire Week s

Alicia Unis ’13 Natalie and her band have a unique varying forms of stereotyping. c Staff Writer sound, as they incorporate the fiddle and perform covers of classic rock and country Friday, April 19, 2013 As coats are replaced with cutoffs and songs. The Band Perry with Joel Crouse shoes with sandals, with more furniture Lawler Arena, doors open at 7 p.m., h on the lawn than in the building, and our Silent Demonstration in Honor of the showtime at 8 p.m. grassy, green grounds decorated with a Day of Silence & Breaking the Silence Cer - This popular country band will be per - spattering of red Solo cups, it is clear: emony forming a concert with opener Joel Springapalooza is in the air. Sak Patio, 5-6:30 p.m. Crouse. Tickets are currently sold out. The annual “Spring Weekend” tradi - The Day of Silence is a student-led na - o tion at Merrimack has evolved from a tional movement to take a vow of silence Saturday April 20, 2013 simple weekend into a weeklong celebra - in the effort to increase awareness and Softball Tournament tion. It is a series of events commemorat - support for anti-bullying and harassment Volpe Field, 8 a.m.

ing the arrival of spring, and the final in schools for all sexual orientations, and In this annual single-elimination soft - o party culminating the last semester of gender identities and expressions. ball tournament, there can be up to 16 this academic year. These events cele - players on a team, all teams must be cap - brate the warm weather, giving students Thursday April 18 tained by a senior and made up of approx - the opportunity to get out from behind Cash Cab imately 50 percent seniors. Each team those books and into the sunlight. It pro - Campus-wide, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. must also have a minimum of three l vides an alluring distraction and needed The Merrimack Planning Board will be women on the field at all times.

break in a time of increasing academic using a Merrimack van as a “Cash Cab,” stress.Spring Weekend chair Tyler Mc - re-enacting the television game show in Heart and Soul Night Carthy said, “We want people to take ad - which students can take a ride in the van Sak Patio, 9 p.m. N vantage of the events that are being and will be asked a series of questions, In this block-party type outdoors event offered and we worked really hard to cater and if answered correctly, they win prizes. you can spread a blanket out on the grass them to what students want. They are and listen to the sounds of the steel drum ‘come and go,’ relaxing events. And food 3v3 Tournament (Merri - band The Gentleman’s Outfit that per - — there’s always free food.” mack Women’s Basketball Fundraiser) forms a blend of reggae/Jack Johnson-

And to give you a little taste of what Volpe Gym, 5:30-6 p.m. Check-In style music, with food, novelty giveaways, e the events — and the food — will be like: and the possible presence of a beer tent. Stereotyped 101 Wednesday April 17 Library Auditorium, 8 p.m. If you are interested in joining the Mer -

Natalie Stovall A comedian uses humor to promote rimack Planning Board, you can contact w MPR, 8 p.m. awareness of the presence and impact of Rose Dolan at [email protected]. BC Students Test Limits Police: Student With Condom Handouts s Joan Corcoran ’13 buzzing about this topic. “The Fought Off Associate Editor-in-Chief college has to evolve with the changing times and cannot re - Sexual health is a topic at all strict safe sex practices. Not Four Robbers universities, given the age everyone who goes here is a prac - range and common activities of ticing Catholic,” said Rather. Pat Lawlor students, but how it factors into “They should be able to cater to Editor-in-Chief Catholic colleges is another their diverse student population” story. Boston College’s current Clashes between a modern On Sunday, Apr. 7, at 12:03 a.m., Police Services disagreement with some stu - college lifestyle and Catholic was notified of an attempted robbery of a Merrimack dents over distribution of con - values are becoming more student at knifepoint. doms on campus could be prevalent. Students who attend The student, according to a campus-wide state - happening at any Catholic col - state and even private universi - ment released by Police Services, was able to defend lege in the nation. ties have free, easy access to himself and described the assailants as three white When a group of students birth control, condoms and test - males and one black male. wanted to spread awareness ing for STDs. The primary assailant, who was brandishing a about sexual health and safe Students at Catholic univer - knife, was described to police as six feet, one, wear - sex, they knew the school would sities cannot get contraceptives ing jeans and a grey hooded sweatshirt. The knife not be cooperative — contracep - from their college — at Merri - he was carrying was described as six inches in tion is forbidden by the Catholic mack, contraception is not per - length. A black male at the same height was also Church. The students claimed mitted at Hamel Health Center described, wearing a black hooded sweatshirt. space on a sidewalk that is not — and are encouraged to ab - Two other white males were involved and report - technically BC property, but is stain from sex in order to have edly sustained facial injuries in result of the alter - owned by the city of Newton. good sexual health. cation. These students not only passed When opting to attend these On Tuesday Apr. 9, at Lone Star Community Col - out condoms and information Catholic institutions, students lege’s CyFair campus in Cypress Texas a student al - there, but also would go to cer - may be opting out of an open and legedly stabbed up to 14 people on he campus. The tain dorms. realistic college community. On suspect, who was subdued by campus police, was de - These students are now pro - one hand students get all the scribed as someone who normally carries around a hibited from passing out safe sex benefits of Catholic values and stuffed monkey, according to one witness who spoke materials in the dorms, and only commitment to education; on the to CNN Tuesday afternoon. occupy the sidewalk on Fridays. other they are restrained from The incident comes just two months after a shoot - Molly Rather, a BC junior, openness to safer sexual health, ing incident at another Lone Star Community Col - said the campus has been unless they take to the sidewalks. lege site. Page 4 The Beacon April 12 , 2013 Seven Confirmed in MC Ceremony

Molly Canyes ’15 said. Phelan considered that this journey has Staff Writer However, “it is a process that you have to been really interesting since September but commit to,” she said. also not what she had expected. On Apr. 7, seven Merrimack College stu - Morley chose to become a Catholic because Cote said she is excited to have been con - dents received the Sacrament of Confirmation her father’s family is Catholic. “I have been firmed. “It is a way for me become a more ac - while others received their First Communion. asked this question before and for some rea - tive member in the church. Being confirmed These students met 20 times since last Sep - son and it’s hard to put in words why I chose gives me the chance to choose for myself and tember and worked with Fr. Bill Waters on to become Catholic,” she said. “For much of my so I took the initiative,” she said. completing their long journey of faith. They life, I haven’t been religious but I believed in She recommends this process to anyone who have met on Sunday nights and worked with God. Coming to Merrimack, taking religion is interested in receiving any of the Sacra - Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley, archbishop of classes gave me a feeling that this is the right ments of Initiation. Boston, for the Rite of Election in Boston this time.” Andrew Suttle ’15, and Benjamin Knox ’13 past February. On Apr. 6 the group met for six Morley said she has been excited through - both received First Communion and were bap - hours for a day of recollection. out this process and that Apr. 7 was always tized. Suttle said he was not religious by any Maria Arzu ’15 and Hannah Morley ’13 had the end goal for her and for the other six stu - means while growing up, and being a part of already been baptized. Morley was baptized as dents. the Catholic faith did not really occur to him a Methodist and Arzu as a Catholic. Both stu - “It’s been an educational experience and until beginning this journey. dents received their First Communion and one that I am truly thankful for — this process “It is a huge commitment and the process Confirmation. has educated me on what it really means to be since September has been very difficult but “After being confirmed and receiving my Catholic and what the Catholic Church stands worth it,” he said. “With soccer and homework First Communion I know that I have created a for. Even though this process is long and over - it has been difficult and I knew this coming personal relationship with God and that this whelming at many points, I am truly thankful into this process that meeting every Sunday whole process has been very informative, rich, for the experience and the knowledge because night would not be easy.” fun and we’ve all became friends since Sep - I know that it will make me a better Catholic,” Suttle noted he was never baptized or con - tember,” said Arzu. “I have always wanted to she said. firmed when he was growing up, though he be confirmed and receive my First Commun - Kerry Phelan ’16 and Maegan Cote ’16 were had wanted to be for quite some time; he never ion and I had no idea that we could get an op - also confirmed. Phelan said she was finally be knew the process for doing so until coming to portunity to do this here on campus. able to embrace her Catholic faith. Merrimack College. “I took it upon myself to sit down and speak “It means that I am officially a part of the “I felt like something was not complete and to Fr. Bill about it. I encourage others to in - Catholic Church and the community I have al - so I chose to do this now because I can put the vest their time to do this because you learn a ways grown up with. It is my way of sealing pieces together,” he said. “At this age I feel lot and build relationships with others who my faith with God and saying yes to the mis - like I can gather more knowledge and know are going through this process as well,” she sion he has set for me,” she said. more about the religion.”

Join the discussion ... www.merrimacknewspaper.com April 12 , 2013 The Beacon Page 5 Many at Merrimack Student-Run Gallery Seek Master’s in Ed to Open at Augie’s Pub Molly Canyes ‘ 15 end up in elementary schools, Staff Writer middle schools, and high schools. Sarah Buckwald ’14 It all depends on their specific Staff Writer The graduate program at Mer - field. rimack College integrates the The Fellowship program offers Paulina Amato, who recently graduated from Merrimack, had the idea last highest level of scholarship with a three fellowships: teacher educa - semester of opening a student run art gallery. This month, that idea will be - welcoming community and power - tion, higher education, and com - come a reality. ful, real-world possibilities. Within munity engagement. The The gallery will reside in Augie’s Pub, which will give students many oppor - five years students can earn their Fellowship program has become tunities to get involved. bachelor’s and master’s degrees. more popular over the last year. “I believe that this gallery will be influential in attracting new students to the These programs prepare students It went from 17 enrolled students school as well as help promote and celebrate the diversity and talent of our to meet the diverse demands of to 91. This program links theory peers,” Amato said. their careers. Over the past three with action and classroom with Students will be able to hold art workshops as well as create their own pieces years the masters program has en - real-world learning experience. of art without having to worry about rolled 250 students. 75 percent of Thirty alumni can get accepted as the price of materials. ‘This gallery will be them are going for a masters in ed - well as a full tuition and a free The pub not only has a wonderful ucation. According to Dan Butin, masters degree. atmosphere, and will also give stu - influential in attracting associate professor and founding The Teacher Education Fellow - dents a sense of community while new students to the dean, “there is a huge interest in ship consists of taking summer browsing the artwork. the field of education.” courses to prepare for residency The art gallery will be open dur - school, as well as help While classroom learning is a and then transition to evening ing lunch and dinner for students to vital part of the graduate pro - classes while participating in view exquisite displays of art by promote and celebrate gram, real-world experiences are their classrooms. After complet - their talented peers. the diversity and talent just as important. The School of ing their coursework, residency, Amato describes her goal as pro - Education offers opportunities to and a portfolio project, Teacher moting the collaboration of students of our peers.’ gain practical experience, conduct Education Fellows graduate with with different majors within the vi - original research, and refine a master of education (M.Ed.) and sual and performing arts department, while giving students a chance to expe - skills in hands-on settings. “We a licensure in their area of spe - rience and learn about the workings of an art gallery. enroll students who we think cialization. To be a fellow, stu - This gallery will be a great opportunity for students to advertise their work would work well here at Merri - dents must have a GPA of 3.5, an in a gallery setting as well as interact with peers, Amato said. The gallery will mack” Butin said. essay, letters of recommendation, be accommodating to new ideas from the students and alumni who contribute It has been harder for gradu - and an interview. The program their art as well. ate students to find jobs in this does not require GRE’s. Amato earned her bachelor’s degree in art history. econfeel that once they have their Beth Beringer is a current Since her graduation last semester, she has passed along the gallery idea to degree, there is a job with their graduate student enrolled in the Merrimack students Jaclyn Caruso, Rachel Mueller and Molly Caynes. name on it waiting for them. Community Engagement Fellow - However, it is easier said then ship Masters Program in the done. School of Education. “I especially Some MC graduate students appreciate the structure of the have ended up working at Merri - fellowship program which has al - mack College, Northern Essex lowed me to gain practical experi - Community College, and UMass ence during the day while I’m Lowell or at another higher edu - taking classes in the evening,” cation institution. Students also Beringer said. Alternative Spring Break Lets Students Do a World of Good

Kerry Phelan ‘16 Along with his group of 10 stu - Staff Writer dents, the group was able to work with Habitat from Humanity in This year, 40 Merrimack stu - building a home with a family af - dents and eight advisors were fected by Hurricane Katrina. given the opportunity to provide In New York, ASB co-leaders service over Spring break, in the Courtney Gray and Claire Wisley college’s annual Alternative described their time as an “amaz - Spring Break program. ing experience.” The students split into four dif - Stationed in the Bronx, their ferent locations in Bronx, N.Y., group of 10 was able to serve at Camden, N.J., Durbin W.Va., and multiple locations including an New Orleans. Services included immigration center, a shelter for building houses, distributing women and children, a soup meals at local shelters, providing kitchen, daycare center, and even childcare, and serving the elderly. a popular food bank. According to Brian SuehsVas - “We had a great time interact - sel, assistant director of campus ing with the staff and serving ministry, the department that fa - over 400 hot meals to the people cilitates the service trip, the goal of the Bronx” said Gray. of Alternative Spring Break is “to With another successful spring provide students with the oppor - break trip completed, SuehsVas - tunity to serve others and grow sel would like to remind all stu - spiritually while experiencing the dents that all Campus Ministry joy of the community.” trips are open to everyone. From the feedback of the stu - Despite the work, Provost and dents, the trip did not fall short of other students explain that these these goals. trips are not only fun, but also “The NOLA [New Orleans] meaningful for all involved. group worked really well together “Hearing how appreciative and managed to laugh a lot while they were of our service made we were working,” said ASB New everything worthwhile,” said Orleans leader Chris Provost, ‘13. Provost. Page 6 The Beacon April 12 , 2013 Signs of Things Changing...

Spring photos by Patrick Lawlor and Jessica Raver April 12 , 2013 The Beacon Page 7 mErrImaCK’s mOsT INTErEsTING pErsON Benjamin Knox

KaraMarie Joyce ’15 Since arriving back to school this Staff writer September, the Relay for Life event was one of Ben’s main priorities. Ben This week I had the pleasure of in - as well as the other three chairs for terviewing a very driven and goal-ori - Relay, Becca Ryan, Jess Gurka, and ented gentleman from the junior Bridget Gilroy put much of their time class, Benjamin Knox. and effort into making sure this year’s This class act came into the world event was a success. The event was on Aug. 31, 1992, and spent his child - held April 5 in Sakowich Campus hood in Hingham, Mass. While at - Center of Merrimack College. The 37 tending Hingham High School he teams and 380 members registered to became a very active member of his participate in the event brought a student body, and created his high huge success to The Relay raising school’s chapter of Relay for Life, $37,414.70 this amount doesn’t in - which raises money for cancer re - clude all of the donations that were search. Ben’s guidance counselor received the final amount raised is ex - thought that his leadership skills pected to be around $45,000. could be put to great use at a small The top participants in the event school, and pointed him to the direc - ‘I look forward to were Alyssa Alt who raised $2,118, tion of Merrimack College. Bridget Gilroy with $1,830, and Upon becoming a member of the making next year Leanne McAuliffe raising $1,555. The student body here, Ben surely teams that raised the most money at brought those leadership skills with just as memorable’ the event were Rucking for a Cure, him. As a junior, Ben is vice president working in public relations working $4,003; Fight Like A Girl, $3,653; and of the Merrimack Planning Board and for either the Dana Farber Cancer In - Prove People Wrong, $3,385. an orientation leader, as well as being stitute or the American Cancer Soci - “ All in all it was one of the most re - elected one of the four Relay for Life ety. The root of his passion comes against breast cancer. He has a strong warding experiences I’ve had at Mer - chairs. from the loss of his mother; when Ben passion and gives much support to rimack thus far, and I look forward to Ben is an organizational communi - was 10 years old, his mother passed help promote and fundraise for cancer making next year just as memorable,” cation major; his dream job would be away after a long and arduous battle research organizations. he said. Drink of the Week Brianna Trabucco ’12 Staff Writer

April Shower 1 ounce brandy 1/4 ounce Yellow Chartreuse 1 ounce orange juice

The Merrimack Beacon urges students to drink responsibly and legally. The legal drinking age in all U.S. states is 21. Page 8 The Beacon April 12 , 2013 My Time With The Beacon By Patrick Lawlor ’13 Salvucci ’11, who in my eyes is the pa - did, but also asked the same of them. Editor in Chief triarch of The Beacon operation, I From student activities staffers, to stu - picked up some knowledge of what The dent government officers, to the dean of When it’s 4 a.m., and the last cup of Beacon was about. Salvucci gave us the campus life, to the chief of staff and the coffee is wearing off, you begin to won - confidence to chase a story, to develop president of the college, all brought their der what you are doing and where you some journalistic integrity. I made some share of complaints to my desk, and in are headed. I had that feeling more pretty big mis - nearly every situation, justifiably so. But O than once over the last four years in the takes that what I take away from every time I get newsroom. year. Letting a tongue-lashing, is this: “People care The Beacon has been, for better or for major errors what we are writing about.” I have been worse, an enormous part of my life for get sent to the cornered in the Den, and criticized on that period. It started in September of printer, writing Facebook for story coverage, still I told my freshman year. I had picked up an articles way myself: “They wouldn’t complain if they p edition of The Beacon that had a fea - above my pay didn’t think we mattered” ture on a new staff member; it was full grade — in my It hasn’t all been complaints. We of errors, even spelling “Merrimack” in - defense, we helped re-shape dining on campus with correctly. Because I’m cynical and crit - were just learn - our articles on lackluster food service, ical and everything in between, I gave ing. we helped make physical plant workers i flack to Ashley Sarris, ’12, who at the Later in the spring, news came that feel as if their jobs were safe, we wrote time was a Beacon writer and cross- The Beacon would be somehow incorpo - about our beloved food service workers, n country teammate of mine. She sug - rated into a class, giving us a faculty ad - administrators who were pushed out of gested I join the paper if I was so visor. This is when I first met Professor office, and students who shone on and unhappy with it. Deborah Burns, who led the interview off the field, We revitalized the impor - Two issues later, with a bizarre col - process that eventually gave us Jim tance of the campus newspaper, some - umn about dogs’ control of their masters, Chiavelli, who would literally be the sav - thing that wasn’t done since the ’70s. i I was a staff writer. It was on page seven ior of student journalism at Merrimack. Walking into the Sakowich Center of the Oct. 9, 2009 issue, just below the I had absolutely no idea what being a and seeing someone reading The Beacon o column “Inside College Sex, Love and journalist was like until Jim’s direction, is an honor, to this day. To know you Dating,” which used to run on a regular and boy, did Jim not know what he was helped people become informed, to know basis. When I handed my mother a copy getting into. Someone supposed to be they’re actually reading what you wrote of the rag and told her to turn to page here three hours a week turned into the is a great feeling. I always think to my - seven, she nearly froze — until she found newsroom’s therapist, guidance coun - self “wow, I put that in their hands.” n my column at the bottom. selor, life coach, and tale-teller. And I suppose that makes up for all A few issues later, Sarris would be Rising up the ranks, I quickly realized the times throughout the years I have elected editor in chief, and I would be that taking heat is part of the job as an he ard, “Nobody reads The Beacon.” elected associate editor in chief, a new po - editor. Ultimately the editors are re - This is my 39th edition as a staff sition focused on management of the sponsible for everything that gets member of The Beacon. When we wrap paper. I mean, what I know about run - printed, and sometimes that’s an unset - things up I will have been on staff for 40 ning a college paper — a media business? tling feeling. I always promised to de - issues. All very different, but the level of Under the leadership of Mike fend my writers, no matter what they pride in each of them was the same. Merrimack Take-Homes, Beyond the Education By Chloe Rothman ’15 Staff Writer

Let’s face it, this school makes a big hit on the pocket change, more so than other schools in this area. If all you get out of it is an education, that seems a bit like a robbery to me. We, obviously including the parents here, work hard for our money (most of the time). We deserve to get back in re - turn the utmost resources possible. Well, good news: Merrimack does this without even try - ing. The college gives back to the students what the students have given to it (oh so much cash), and what the students have really given is “essentials” for the future. I’m a young sophomore and am surely not wise enough to just might have to be on the floor when it comes to the cafe - compile the full list of these treasures, so I turned to the stu - teria between 5 and 6 p.m. on weekdays, or the library from dent body for help. Any fears you had that you’d made an 6 to 11 p.m. during finals week. atrocious and irreversible financial decision by coming to Discomfort Year-Round Merrimack will rapidly diminish after reading the list they Did you spend a bunch of bucks to experience the beauti - compiled! ful four seasons of good ol’ New England? Well Merrimack Free Ts went out of its way to isolate two out of the four, right in your Want to leave this school with something really special? Sim - very own room. Experience “hot as hell” and “cold as an ice - ply show up to any Merrimack sporting event and that “in-debt box”. The best part is, you never know which one you’ll get. frown” is turned upside down. If you really dedicate yourself to Get Your Feet Wet this, come senior year, you’ll have a new wardrobe of vibrant T- Luckily for us, some of our tuition money has gone to not shirts sponsored by Orthopedic Northeast! Just make sure if one, but two pools at Merrimack. Mendel Pond and Gati it’s a hockey game, you show up an hour early. Pond provide a much-needed filler to our dry afternoons. Z-Packs For Dayzzz Note to readers: Gati Pond is only available after monsoons. Why go off campus to seek medical help? Get all you can So fellow students, I ask of you: Please do not sob over this out of your college costs and hit up Hamel Health for a fun Z- economical imbalance after graduating. Look past the edu - Pack to fix all your worries. The doctor is available a full cation and realize you got hooked up with new clothes, the hour a day. best medical care around, ample seating, an extended camp - Musical Chairs ing trip through the sporadic two seasons of North Andover, You know Merrimack’s doing something right when every - and the confidence of Michael Phelps (before his drug bust) one gets a seat. Nothing is better than having seating op - when it comes to swimming. Don’t worry; it was worth every tions, so you can sit when you want and where you want. It penny you spent. April 12 , 2013 The Beacon Page 9 Rights stopped, minorities frisked in NYC Roger McCormack ’14 NYPD’s inaccurate training has taught officers Dark Thirty,” Robert Ethan Saylor, a man with Staff writer the following lesson: Stop and question first, de - Down syndrome, died after being roughly hand - velop reasonable suspicion later,” according to cuffed and thrown to the ground by police. The New York City Police Commissioner Raymond U.S. Judge Shira A. Scheindlen. The case Ligon gross sin committed was disobeying theater em - Kelly, in a 2010 meeting on the NYPD’s contro - v. City of New York focused on police hired to pa - ployees who asked him to leave. Disgust and versial “stop, question and frisk” program in trol private residences for trespassers, a ruling loathing is further roused at the police response: which police may stop individu - that may be a harbinger for the broader policy finding no criminal fault with officers’ actions. A als in they have “reasonable” throughout the city. Noting special hostility lawyer said the officers “did what was necessary suspicion of criminality, cat - shown to young black men by police, the judge under the circumstances, and they did what alyzed the arguments of critics ruled the necessity for reasonable suspicion prior their training dictated that they do.” Inexplica - alleging the policy disparately to police examination was being flouted. ble is what this training could be, or the obvi - targeted minorities. State Sen. Alarming is the lack of checks on police power ousness that disabled persons require a differing Eric Adams alleged that the level of treatment by police. commissioner said “he wanted Police departments across the country have to instill fear in them, every responses to abuse analogous to certain policies time they leave their home they of the Catholic Church, in which policemen could be stopped by the police,” in relation to rarely face justice for abuses of power. black and minority residents of New York City. In many cases allowed to lie, police have en - The NYPD’s policy sheds light on the difficult abled the burden of maintaining innocence to demarcation between individuals civil liberties vastly increase among citizens targeted in heav - and the safety of society at large. Coupled with ily policed areas. In New York City in 2011 the often brutal tactics exhibited by the power - alone, hundreds of narcotics cases were thrown ful, Roman poet Juvenal’s aphorism, “Quis cus - out of court after various police officers were al - todiet ipsos custodes?” (who watches the leged to be involved in the corruption of evidence, watchmen?) suggests the danger that institu - often in the form of planting drugs on a target. tions wielding significant power can easily lapse The war on drugs is partly responsible for the ve - into corruptibility. nality; funds are often awarded to police depart - The New York Civil Liberties Union’s sum - ments based on volume of arrests, as opposed to mary of stop and frisk statistics from 2011 docu - good police work. Poor policy and laws often ments the following: breed the nefarious corruption that is easily • “Young black and Latino men were the tar - wielded once money gains ingress among de - gets of a hugely disproportionate number of partments, providing odious motivations for offi - stops. Though they account for only 4.7 percent cers. Police utilization of confiscated property of the city’s population, black and Latino males from drug cases likewise provides seedy motiva - between the ages of 14 and 24 accounted for 41.6 tions in choosing which cases to investigate and percent of stops in 2011. The number of stops of prosecute. Fear of running afoul of superiors young black men exceeded the entire city popu - stimulates a situation in which punishment is lation of young black men (168,126 as compared meted out in greater measure among those who to 158,406). Ninety percent of young black and fail to conform to a department’s standards than Latino men stopped were innocent.” those who rough up a young black man for • “Black and Latino New Yorkers were more “furtive movements.” likely to be frisked than whites and, among those While these policies appear suggestive of quo - frisked, were less likely to be found with a tas officers must meet, police commissioners vig - weapon.” orously deny their existence. Illegal under New • “In 2011 as compared to 2003 (the earliest York State law and repudiated by Kelly, quotes year a gun recovery figure is available), the are nevertheless revealed by some rank and file NYPD conducted 524,873 more stops but recov - officers. In 2010, The New York Times reports, ered only 176 more guns. This amounts to an ad - an NYPD officer, Adil Polanco, said that “our pri - ditional recovery rate of three one-hundredths of mary job is not to help anybody, our primary job one percent.” is not to assist anybody, our primary job is to get Unsurprisingly, citizens in heavily policed those numbers and come back with them.” precincts report unwillingness to report crimes, “At the end of the night you have to come back fear of police, and the anxiety produced by pro - with something. You have to write somebody, voking officer’s animus. In tandem with this is a you have to arrest somebody — even if the crime gruff police force, habitually using fierce arrest is not committed, the number’s there. So our tactics. Similar with the stop and frisk statistics, choice is to come up with the number,” he said. roughness is often meted out on minorities, sel - The scourge of the policy is best represented dom on white criminals. in the overflow of nonviolent drug offenders in New York has seen a vast drop in crime since U.S. prisons, with 2011 statistics showing the program’s birth in 2002, but the returns from 300,000 drug offenders are currently serving stop and frisk have fallen into near obsolescence. prior to the court’s intervention, lending cre - sentences, many for nonviolent offenses. The dif - A study by Center for Constitutional Rights, dence to critics of the city’s stop and frisk pro - ficulty of an equitable defense against the word taken from January 2010 through June 2012 gram, noting the racial disparity in stops as well of a police officer exacerbates these trends, par - records scants gains, with a mere 6 percent of as Fourth Amendment violations. The duty to ticularly among minorities who are unlikely to stops resulting in arrest, 1.8 percent in appro - defend the populace against “unreasonable be fully aware of their rights. priation of contraband , and .12 percent in search and seizure” bluntly collides with a pol - Michelle Alexander, author of “The New Jim firearms confiscation. Despite this, prejudice re - icy by which, according to Salon magazine, in 5 Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color - mains a large part of the neo-tribalism on dis - million searches under the governance of Mayor blindness,” observes that “The criminal justice play in the NYPD’s policies. Michael Bloomberg, more than 86 percent tar - system was strategically employed to force The NYPD’s policy is especially scarring to the geted black and Latino persons. Elucidating African-Americans back into a system of extreme communities it is intended to protect, sowing what constitutes “reasonable search and seizure” repression and control, a tactic that would con - mistrust with heavy-handed tactics. A Bronx among members of the NYPD, The New York tinue to prove successful for generations to resident, Christopher Graham, was frisked while Daily News notes reliance on indications as come.” Floyd v. City of New York, a suit raised by leaving a friend’s apartment and smashed into flimsy as “furtive movements,” a perverse crite - 11 black and biracial men and a Hispanic the wall of the apartment for verbally protesting rion for abrogating civil liberties. woman, is currently being heard in U.S. District and “flinching.” A report from 2010 said police The statistics belie the purported judicious - Court in Manhattan. The lead plaintiff, David used force in six out of 10 stops in certain ness of the program, garnering rave encomium Floyd, a Bronx medical student who was stopped precincts in the Bronx, rates analogous in the from both Bloomberg and Kelly, with The New twice by police — once while helping a neighbor 32nd in Harlem, though arrest rates for stops York Times reporting that among 700,000 stops, into her home — depicts the plight of innumer - utilizing force were less than 13 percent. This a vast majority of citizens were innocent of crim - able individuals guilty only of race and circum - means that the violent stops are rarely purpo - inality. Leaving aside unconstitutionality, it is stance. sive — exuding more Mafia-like menace than the significant that procedures of police officers Hopefully, the federal court unequivocally behavior of police who respect the rule of law. across the country are far less benign. strikes down the policy, enabling justice to sur - A federal court recently declared elements of A recent atrocity In Frederick County, Mary - pass the machinations of degenerate institutions stop and frisk unconstitutional, citing evidence land affirms this abominable behavior is not al - and the relentless penetration of the state. that “strengthens the conclusion that the ways limited to New York. At a showing of “Zero Page 10 The Beacon April 12 , 2013 Yale Students Brunco, Russo Ask Support Find Key to To Lead SGA The Student Government Brain Recovery Association (SGA), the student group charged with representing James Callens ’14 the interests of the student body is Staff Writer holding elections for president. Both candidates currently serve Those studying biology and psychology might al - on the executive board of SGA; An - ready know that neuronal development is character - thony Brunco ’14, the current vice ized by a period of exuberant synaptic growth. In other president and Maria Russo ’14, the words, the juvenile brain is much more malleable than member-at-large. the adult brain. Thus, it is able to recover more quickly Russo and Brunco presented from trauma than the more stable adult brain. their candidacies to students in Obviously, a slower working brain gives clarity to the Warrior’s Den on Tuesday reason why there is such a decline in mental acuity night. as we age. But, wouldn’t it nice to “flip the switch” SGA, in addition to represent - and be young again? ing fellow students to the college Over recent months, Yale Medical School students administration is also tasked with were able to identify the gene responsible for sup - overseeing clubs and student pressing the high level of plasticity of an adolescent organizations. SGA approves club brain. They declared that the Nogo Receptor gene 1 charters and funding for student (NRG-1) is responsible for brain maturation. In re - organizations. sponse to these findings, the researchers were able Elections are open on to recreate youthful brains, in adult mice, that facil - Blackboard until Monday, Apr. 15 itated learning and healing. at 11:59 p.m. The NRG-1 was previously known to just block Photos by Alex Maas ’14 axon regeneration following an injury and stabilize the neuronal wiring of an adult brain. But researchers realized that it is also found in dendrites of postsynaptic neurons acting as a barrier Them’s the (Spring) Breaks to limit the number of excitatory potentials in the synapse. Brittany Reissfelder ’13 dents were able to catch some sun and relax, When researchers used mice in their study that Staff Writer and that left them rejuvenated and ready to had no NRG-1, the mice were able to retain their ju - finish the semester. venile-like brain all through adulthood. In older As students came back last week from Nick Simmons ’15, was one who had no mice, the NRG-1 was inhibited and researchers re - spring break, the question most commonly luck. “I was very sick, but I was wishing I was ceived the same results. Also, the NRG-1 was found heard on campus was: What did you do on in Florida,” she said. Even though he missed to slow the loss of memory. Mice without the NGR-1 spring break? out on spring break fun, he is very excited for lost stressful memories more quickly than mice with Spring break for many college students the warm weather ahead. a normal functioning NRG-1. means a time to go with friends to a warm Some students said that as much as they Yale student and primary researcher Feras Akbik place, and forget about the cold weather, and enjoyed their break, they’re excited to be back stated that “…this raises the potential that manipu - of course your classes. Many students have on campus and give a strong finish to the se - lating the Nogo Receptor in humans might accelerate this vision, but only the lucky ones get to fol - mester. With Spring Weekend approaching and magnify rehabilitation after brain injuries like low through on the dream without other com - and the Band Perry visiting, there will be a lot strokes and even PTSD.” mitments breaking in. of fun on campus throughout the last few The study was funded by the National Institute of Many students, like Kyley Murphy ’13, weeks. Health and the company Strittmatter is currently in - worked through their break — but wish they Overall, there were many students who vestigating applications of NRG-1 to repair spinal could have made it to a warm, relaxing place! were able to relax and enjoy their vacation, cord damage. Kathleen Mondo ’13, was one of the lucky few, and many others who had many other com - Hopefully in the future many people, especially and spent the week enjoying Jamaica with her mitments to attend to; but as Merrimack stu - sports players and the elderly, can look forward to a family. dents are now back on campus, there is hope faster recovery process from an injury. Even without leaving the state, many stu - that warm weather will strike soon. Job Hunt: Salary Only Part of the Deal

Colin McCarthy ‘13 panies have traditionally offered mutual funds as the primary investment Staff Writer choices. Mutual funds offer investors immediate diversification by allo - cating investor money between numerous holdings, and often provide ex - Many Merrimack graduates will be entering the workforce this upcom - posure to different asset classes such as stocks and bonds. ing summer. As you look for that perfect job to start your career and get Now, as young individuals with many years until retirement, soon-to- that coveted offer letter, it is important to understand what the company be-grads should consider the mantra of “take risks when you’re young” is offering in its entirety. when choosing how to allocate their investments. The risk-tolerant in - Oftentimes students compare only the base salaries of different oppor - vestor can look for aggressive growth or high yielding mutual funds as tunities in their job search. However it is also prudent to consider the ben - they tend to offer higher return (with more risk). Even if the market heads efits packages that companies offer their employees – the cost savings south, graduates just entering the workforce will generally have between and long-term investment advantages these packages provide may well 30 to 40 years to make that money back. make up for the difference in salaries between the various positions. If you are more risk-averse, on the other hand, conservative strategies One benefit that is often overlooked is a company’s 401(k), an invest - can help protect your investment from a sharp market correction down - ment vehicle that allows employees to save for retirement by making con - ward. And there are several “conservative” strategies that still offer at - tributions directly from their paychecks. Many companies will match a tractive returns with lower risk by implementing sophisticated percentage of the money that you contribute to your 401(k), which gives diversification techniques such as international exposure and hedging you an immediate return on your investment and amplifies future gains. through derivatives (financial instruments which derive their value from A 401(k) also gives you the ability to lower your taxable income because the changes in value of other financial instruments such as stocks and the money is contributed to the account before taxes are applied to your bonds). paycheck, which gives more money to individuals in the present. Addi - 401(k) plans are of great value to employees as they offer an attractive tionally, employees who hold their contributions past age 60 can withdraw way to save for retirement without the hassle of handling it themselves. It the money without being taxed. is important to understand all the benefits that a company is offering be - One thing to keep in mind, however, is that contribution limits exist to fore you decide on a position, as the benefits a company offers can more ensure that Uncle Sam get his fair share of tax revenue from each citizen. than make up the lower base salary. Another unique feature is that you have the opportunity to allocate spe - For more information, see: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/money - cific percentages of contributions to different investment vehicles. Com - mag/money101/lesson23/index.htm April 12 , 2013 The Beacon Page 11 warrIOr spOTLIGHT Jenn Pino and Kristin Elliot

Michael Romanella ’13 Staff Writer

This week we look at two of the Merrimack women’s lacrosse team’s best players — one from each side of the field. Jenn Pino and Kristin El - liot have dominated and helped Merri - mack become one of the best teams in the Northeast-10. Pino is currently second on the team with 29 points, 22 goals, and 7 assists. El - liot is a crucial part of the Warriors defense, which ranks sixth in the conference in goals against.

Jenn Pino – Offense

Q: What’s your favorite warmup song? A: “Drop the World” by Li’l Wayne & .

Q: Who is your favorite professional athlete? A: Dustin Pedroia.

Q: How is this season going to be different from the last seasons? A: We are a close-knit team on and off the field. We have a young team but everyone steps up and does their job. Jenn Pino, left, and Kristin Elliot

Q: Do you have any pre-game rituals? A: Win in overtime vs. Dowling Q: Describe your thoughts on your season so far. A: I always put on eye black right before my A: The season didn’t start the way I hoped for coach comes in the locker room. Kristin Elliot — Defense my senior year. Having a lost a good amount of games was hard to overcome. It took a lot of work Q: What personal goals do you have for your - Q: What’s your favorite warmup song? mentally to get over all the losses and I wasn’t self this season? A: “Jump Around” by House of Pain. sure if we were going to turn it around. But after A: To be a leader that my teammates respect having our first win at home against the no. 7 and look up to and to be a top scorer in the Q: Who is your favorite professional athlete? Dowling, I knew that our team was capable of league. A:Well, since it’s hockey season, I would go winning. with Nathan Horton. Q: Describe your thoughts on your season so far. Q: Why do you prefer defense over offense? A: We have one of the toughest schedules in Q: How is this season going to be different A: The concepts of defense have always made the league. We had a rough start but are looking from the last seasons? sense to me in any sport. Being able to anticipate forward to turn the season around and fight for A: We have a very young team. In years past your opponent’s next move and causing a playoff spot. players who saw time were mainly upperclass - turnovers is one of the best parts of playing de - men and only a few underclassmen would get fense. A strong and aggressive defense can Q: Why do you prefer defense over offense? playing time. This year many underclassmen are change the pace of the game. A: I like to be the playmaker and score goals. stepping up and getting time out on the field. I think it’s fun to test the defense and see what Q: What is your major? plays we can run. Q: Do you have any pre-game rituals? A: Electrical engineering. A: I have to have my teammate Milly braid my Q: What is your major? hair. One braid in the front and one in the back. Q: What do you want to do after college? A: Business, sports management. A: I plan on working for an electrical engi - Q: What personal goals do you have this season? neering company and I hope to keep myself in - Q: What do you want to do after college? A: This season I want to push my teammates volved with sports. A: Work for a professional team. to work hard for the two hours of the day we have lacrosse. I want to set the standards high to Q: What was your favorite win at Merrimack? Q: What was your favorite win at Merrimack? make them work that much harder each day. A: Dowling in overtime. Reed Wins Medal

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The women's golf team took home a second place finish at the Dr. Edwin B. www.merrimacknewspaper.com Cottrell Invite hosted by West Chester University. The Warriors had a two-day combined score of 713. Ali Reed took home medalist honors after firing 79 on day one and 86 on day two. From left are Jaclyn Drew, Louise McGillivray, coach Nick Crovetti, Reed, Bethany Arnold. Page 12 The Beacon April 12 , 2013 S Double Headers Wound Warriors

Terence Barclay ’13 p Staff Writer

The Merrimack softball team moved to 8-14 on the season after a 2-3 week - o end. The Warriors hosted Southern New Hampshire University on April 5, a double-header against New Haven on Saturday, and a double-header against

Southern State University r on Sunday. Southern New Hampshire scored six of its seven runs in the top of the second t inning, and that proved to be the differ - ence in the game, as the Warriors ral - s lied with four out of the game’s final five runs but ultimately fell, 7-5, in the War - riors’ home opener on Friday afternoon at the Warrior Softball Diamond. After the visiting Penmen took a 6-1 lead after two innings, the Warriors clawed to within one run in the bottom of the fifth thanks to a three-run homer off the bat of Keaira Monet Perry ’14. Southern New Hampshire added a late insurance run on an infield single in the top of the sixth inning, and reliever Ali Maloof sealed the deal in the late in - nings to preserve the win for the Pen - Sophomore Lindsay Gibbs hit a hom run vs. SCSU. men. homer to cap off a five-run bottom of the Warriors held on to earn the game one On Saturday, the Warriors earned a fourth, as Merrimack went on to earn victory. In game two of the afternoon, double-header split as they played host the double-header split with a 6-1 vic - Merrimack held the lead, 3-2, in the top to the New Haven Chargers. Trailing by tory over New Haven in game two. of the sixth. a 6-0 deficit heading into its final at-bat On Sunday, the Warriors played host That lead evaporated as Southern in game one, the Warriors rallied for five to a double-header against the Southern Connecticut returned the favor with a runs and had the tying run in scoring Connecticut State Owls. In game one of game-changing two-run homer, as the position, but starter Micah Stonesifer the afternoon, SCSU came to within one Warriors dropped game two, 5-3, to set - shut the door by striking out the final run after four innings, but Lindsay tle for the double-header split. batter of the game, as the Chargers held Gibbs ’15 and Keira Perry connected on Freshman Alexis Perry had a lead late on to hand Merrimack a 6-5 defeat to back-to-back solo home runs to put the in the game after entering the game in start the afternoon. Down by a run in game out of reach, as the Warriors took the top of the second, but the rookie al - the bottom of the fourth in the second game one, 6-2, over the Owls. Southern lowed a two-run, go-ahead homer and game of the afternoon, Ashley Perry ‘14 Connecticut would have no answers in one further score in the sixth to put the sparked the Warriors with a two-run the sixth and seventh innings, as the Owls ahead by two. Gears Up for Another Busy Weekend By Helen Gillis ’13 Staff Writer

The Merrimack College Baseball team had a busy weekend, with two games on April 6 and two on April 7. On April 6 the Warriors (18-8 overall, 9-3 conference, 4-0 di - vision) had conference games against (18-9 overall, 9-4 conference, 4-1 division) and came up big with two wins. The first game, against the visiting Setters, ended with a score of 9-6. Junior Casey Cotter had three doubles and sen - ior Joe Mantoni had a three-run home run to help the Warriors to victory. well. About half way through and our record is 18-8. Most im - The second game of the day the Warriors shut out Pace with portantly we are 4-0 in division play. Our goal as a club is to a score of 5-0. Sophomore right-handed pitcher, Joe Carnevale make the playoffs and winning the division game is what is pitched a total of 7 innings, only allowing four hits. Junior left- going to get us where we want to be, which is playing base - handed pitcher, Conner McMahon, came in as first relief and ball long into May.” threw for one inning. To close the game, right-handed pitcher The Warriors will travel this weekend to face the Penmen of Tyler Cuming, a junior, came in the ninth inning. Southern New Hampshire University (20-10 overall, 6-7 con - The next day, the Warriors hosted the Panthers of Adelphi ference, 3-3 division). Senior Joe Mantoni shared his thoughts University (13-14-1 overall, 5-8 conference, 3-2 division), but on the rest of the season, “The upcoming schedule is difficult came up short in both conference games losing the first 1-0 but if we pitch well, play good defense and have timely hitting and the second 12-3. Right-handed pitcher Alek Morency ’14 we will be very successful.” pitched all nine innings for Merrimack, giving up five hits. Merrimack has three division games this weekend, two to - When asked on how the season has gone thus far, senior morrow (noon and 3 p.m.) and one on Sunday (1 p.m.) all at Alan Pastyrnak Jr. said, “The season has been going really Southern New Hampshire University.