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Merrimack College Merrimack ScholarWorks The Beacon College Publications & Events 4-12-2013 The Beacon - Vol 11 No. 9 - April 12, 2013 Merrimack College Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.merrimack.edu/beacon Part of the Communication Commons Recommended Citation Merrimack College (2013). The Beacon - Vol 11 No. 9 - April 12, 2013. Available at: https://scholarworks.merrimack.edu/beacon/53 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 The Band Perry 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 record label 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 country music 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. EDGY DOuBLE DOwN warmups Police: Student fends off Softball 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. lacrosse 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. 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