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semester has by Devin Murphy '10 News Editor angered many Providence College's speaker for the commencement exercises on May 17 was students who announced last week by College Relations and Planning. The speaker will be Martin J. Doblmeier want to know CAMPUS 73- Doblmeier graduated NEWS from the College with a bachelor's degree in theol­ where the ogy. He later obtained a master's degree in broadcast journalism from Boston University in 1977. money will be According to a press release from College Relations and Planning, since going; educa­ graduating from PC, Doblmeier has worked as a producer and director. He now owns his own productions com­ tion majors have pany, Journey Films, Inc., which makes television programs and documentary films devoted to exploring issues been hit espe­ including religion, spirituality, history, and social issues. He started his career in journalism as a cially hard due field producer and director for Evemng/PM Magazine. From Evening/PM Magazine, to their being which he worked for from 1977 to 1979, he became a creator and a senior produc­ er of the television series Real to Reel. Real required to have to Reel was a syndicated program which explored religion. He worked for the program until 1982. cars on campus In 1984 Doblmeier founded Journey Films. Since its conception journey fortheir major. Films has produced many award-win­ SARA 5PIRIT0 '11/The Cowl ning documentaries and films which Students received an e-mail last week informing them of a new parking fee for the include Bonhoeffer, released in 2003, PARKING/Page 6 2009-2010 academic year. SPEAKER/Page 4 New Regulations Tancredo Causes Stir to Promote Safety Outside PC Gates

by Devin Murphy '10 arrested for such things as assaulting by Devin Murphy TO News Editor an officer. News Editor In an e-mail to the student body It has become a tradition for Chris Fortunato, dean of students and Approximately 200 students gath­ ered outside the River Avenue Gates of Providence College students to gath­ associate vice president of Student er outside at midnight on the night Affairs, said that the administration Providence College on Wednesday, before the Development of Western wants to ensure that Civ Scream "will April 29, at 4:30 p.m. to hear Tom Civilization finals on be a safe event focused on the student Tancredo, former con­ CAMPUS the upper quad and community coming together for a fun, CAMPUS gressman of Colorado NEWS together let out a loud stress-relieving study break." NEWS and former presidential scream in celebration According to Fortunato, Civ Scream candidate speak briefly that they are finally done with Civ. was not always the event that it has about Western Civilization. Many stu­ This year's annual Civ Scream will become. It was originally meant to be dents came out in protest of Tancredo be more subdued than in years past. "an opportunity for freshmen and and many came out to support him. During past Civ Screams, the reck­ sophomores to come together to Mixed in with students were journal­ less acts that have occured include relieve some stress the night before the ists, students from other nearby col­ streaking, throwing water balloons out Civ exam." leges and universities, and citizens from the surrounding community. of windows, fencing, and smashing a This year, as a result of concerns SARA SPIRITO '11/The Cowl According to Tim Dionisopoulos printer with baseball bats. Some stu­ from students and faculty, there will be Students gathered for a peaceful dents in years past have also been 'll, head of the chapter of Youth for protest against Tom Tancredo. SCREAM/Page 6 TANCREDO/Page 5 INSIDEtheCOWL Providence College's Student-Run Newspaper Since 1935 World______8 World A&E Sports Commentary______12 -Bombings Former Cowl Editor First Softball No- A&E______16 Continue in Showcases Art Hitter in Seven Portfolio______21 Iraq Thesis Years Sports 27 “ J NEWS briefs 2 The Cowl April 30, 2009 Service Day Atrracts 150 Volunteers for Cleanup weeds with the children who live and play in that area." "The garden and the area surround­ Providence College's First Annual ing it were littered with trash and the Spring into Service Day was held garden itself looked as if it had been Saturday, April 25, from 9:00 a.m. unattended to for quite a while," said until 2:00 p.m. Students walked from Kevin McCarron '11. "With kids from the Huxley gate to nearby Davis the neighborhood, we helped pick up Park. Dunkin' Donuts donated 20 garbage, remove weeds in order to dozen donuts, as well as coffee and plant new flowers, and set up a bake hot chocolate. sale...Beth and I did our best to ward "They were really a big help," said off the neighborhood kids trying to Kathleen Reed '12, who organized the drench us with water." event with the help of Jamie Luedtke "There were 10 groups with 12 to 15 '10 and Caroline Windom '12. people per group," said Reed. "Each The service day was also spon­ group had a site leader." sored in partnership with the Community Congress. According to Reed, the day was organized as part of an assignment for her Foundations of Organizational Service class. "We had about 150 people show up," said Reed. "They could pre-reg­ ister but a lot of people came and signed up." KELLY PHILLIPS '11/The Cowl Volunteers received free t-shirts, Students cleaning up the surrounding neighborhood. Grateful neighbors thanked which were designed by Casey the students for their efforts. Sullivan '10. According to Reed, the participants "This event joined members of the According to Reed, who organized PC community with the surrounding "This included Smith Hill, Chad served at different sites. These included community to make the neighborhood Brown, and the Elmhurst areas," the Smith Hill Library, Tom Twitchell's we share a better place, and to show said Reed. Park, and the St. Charles Soup Kitchen. Participants included students and we care," said Reed. Reed emphasized how the event members of Youth Rap, an afterschool "Our group picked up trash from was more than community service. It program for kids in the area. According Oakland to Huxley," said volunteer united all parts of the neighborhood. to Reed, volunteers painted the soup Carmine Perrotti '11. "The neighbors "We [and the community] are not kitchen. They also pickedup trash and were very grateful. They came out of two separate entities, but rather one recycling from the streets. their houses to thank us." community and one neighborhood," "At my site, we helped clean up the "I thought of the idea and was told said Reed. Smith Hill Library garden," said Beth there was already something similar "Urban Action donated a large per­ centage of the ‘ tools," said Reed. Killian '11. "It was such an incredible KELLY PHILLIPS 'ii/The Cowl scheduled for that day," said Reed. "These included rakes, shovels, and experience because the surrounding "There was no plan for the event, so I Students spent the morning and early anything else we might have needed." community got involved. I pulled stepped in and organized it." afternoon cleaning Davis Park.

Campus Calendar MAY 1 - 7

2 Sat 6 Wed 7 Thurs 4 Mon 1 Fri | icii 3 Sun 5 Tues 8:30 a.m. Celebrating 3:30 p.m. Faculty 8:30 a.m. African 1:00 p.m. Done With 9:00 a.m. National 1:00 p.m. Military 3:00 p.m. Commencement Faculty Research at Senate Meeting, American Alumni of College, Peterson Parks in the New Science Annual Recreation Center, Week Tux Rentals, Providence College, Moore Hall III Providence College England Region Awards Ceremony, Field House and Slavin Center, Phillips Memorial Exhibit, Phillips Exhibit, Phillips Slavin Center, '64 Ground Level. Library, 1st floor 4:00 p.m .Military Memorial Library, 1st Hendricken Field Memorial Library. Hall lobby Science Seminar, floor lobby 7:00 p.m. Irish Dance 4:00 p.m. Senior 12:00 midnight Civ 6:45 p.m. Portuguese Slavin Center, G01 Club Semester Show, Studio Art Thesis Scream, upper quad Club Meeting, Slavin 3:00 p.m. 9:00 a.m. Celebration Smith Center for the Exhibition, Hunt Center, G29 Commencement of Sustainability Arts, Angell Cavanagh Gallery Week Tux Rentals, Week Exhibit, Phillips Blackfriars Theatre Slavin Center, Memorial Library Ground Level A

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Correction: In the April 23, 2009, issue of The Cowl the pull quote attributed to J.T. Scanlan, Ph.D., Department of English, in the article entitled "Forum Debates Civ Model" should have been attributed to an unidentified student.

www.thecowl.com April 30, 2009 _ News The Cowl 3 Students Celebrate Sweat Free PC by Allison O'Connor '10 the money," said Bednarz, who also News Staff mentioned that it will most likely be given to the Workers Rights Consortium. The weather could not have been "The most important thing [of the more perfect for a Sweat Free PC event event] was that we increased our visi­ held on Upper Quad on April 26, 2009. bility on campus," said de Leon. The event was designed to promote and Another main goal of the event was to celebrate Providence to encourage all student organizations SPECIAL College's decision to and clubs to get on board with the EVENT abstain from selling any Sweat Free movement. If all clubs and product made by sweat­ organizations were to join the Sweat shop laborers in the bookstore. Free movement then all t-shirts and "Now all the clothing that we're apparel distributed or purchased by going to be purchasing for the next clubs and organizations would be school year will not be made in sweat­ sweat free. shops," said Catherine Bednarz '09. "I believe we have pledges from "It will be made in factories that have Amnesty, Women's Will, and SHEP­ labor unions and labor laws." ARD saying that they will from now The decision was made official on on only go through Sweat Free compa­ Feb. 20, 2009, by Rev. Brian J. Shanley, nies that support labor and fair trade O.P., president of Providence College, standards," said Bednarz. You don't have to be alone. to affiliate PC with the Workers' Rights The movement was entirely success­ Consortium [WRCJ. Now it is ensured ful in getting the faculty and adminis­ that all of the clothing sold in the tration on board to affiliate with the College's bookstore is guaranteed to be Workers' Rights Consortium. The next "sweat free." goal is to "deepen our roots...to The decision came as a result of increase our visibility through solidi­ ongoing efforts made by a group of fying and consolidating...and making students who enacted a Sweat Free PC [the Sweat Free] organization part of movement on campus last spring everyday life," said de Leon. Now that through a Contemporary Sociological the administration has done every­ Theory class taught by Professor thing in its power to affiliate, the next Cedric de Leon, Ph. D. step is to develop a code of conduct. The Sweat Free PC event on "We have agreed that we're going to Sunday was designed to make the have at least one student and a faculty sweat free movement a true part of member to draft this code of conduct," the campus lifestyle. said de Leon. "We hope to have two The main activity of the celebration students on this committee, one who is involved tie-dying t-shirts that were an upperclassmen and one who is an guaranteed to be sweat free and were underclassmen, so that the knowledge boldly labeled SWEAT FREE. replicates itself." "We had 100 shirts and we sold all of Codes of conduct that are adopted them, which was pretty cool," said de by schools affiliated with the Worker Leon. "Now there are going to be 100 Rights Consortium typically include people walking around campus wear­ provisions affirming the payment of ing tie-dyed Sweat Free PC t-shirts." a living wage for workers, compli­ The event also included food from ance with health and safety stan­ local vendors, including pizza and dards, and freedom of collective bar­ subs, as well as a raffle. gaining, as well as provisions ban­ Originally, a speaker from the ning forced overtime, discrimination United Students Against Sweatshops of any kind, child labor and compli­ was scheduled to attend and to give ance with health and safety stan­ a lecture at the event as well. United dards in the workplace. All of these Students Against Sweatshops elements are in accordance with the [USAS] is a network of students who mission statement of Providence have organized to defend workers' College, therefore making the adop­ rights and to promote solidarity tion of a code of conduct an integral movements and campaigns with gar­ part of the Sweat Free movement. ment workers who produce univer­ Sweat Free . PC is continually sity apparel. Unfortunately, the working to promote awareness on speaker was unable to attend at the campus through events such as this. last minute. However, rather than Additionally, another event was being forced to move indoors for a scheduled for April 29, at 5:00 p.m., presentation, students were provid­ in Moore Hall II. It was "an informa­ ed with more time to tie-dye the pro­ tional event where a former sweat­ motional t-shirts and to enjoy out­ shop worker from Honduras who door activities, such as playing was fired from her position for Frisbee on the quad. unionizing" spoke to students, Sexual abuse is one of the most traumatic events that "The event still went really well," according to Christine Halkett '09. can happen to you. From day one, we are here to help said Bednarz. you overcome the pain, trauma and feeling of isolation so "We ended up making a profit on our that you can move ahead with your life. t-shirts, so we're planning on donating SUMMER EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY!

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underwritten by GTECH ££ Citizens Bank Architects of Gaming Students who are interested in applying must first fill /MS Foundation out an application online at htto://www.providence.edu/Admission/llndergraduate+Fi nancial+Aid/Student+Emolovment/ 4 The Cowl News April 30, 2009 Student Congress Passes New Legislation by Valerie Ferdon '12 This piece of legislation also passed groups obtain 'club status' on campus. this matter. Liane Nadeau '11, the Asst. News Editor unanimously by Congress. The President of the Executive Chair of the Planning and Steering A second proposal by Scambio and Board, Elizabeth Wolf '09, read a state­ Committee, expressed that voting on On Tuesday, April 28, Student the class of 2010 regarding residence ment: "There are a lot of great aspects this piece of legislation should not be Congress met to vote on numerous hall occupancy was that students be of this legislation, especially the pro­ put off any longer: "Even though this pieces of legislation. This meeting allowed to move in two days before posed club status as part of our system is a very long piece of legislation, last included both members of the 59th the beginning of classes at the begin­ in order to recognize shorter-term week we talked about the fact that peo­ Providence College ning of each semester. clubs and building stronger clubs in ple could go back, view the piece STUDENT Student Congress as "This is the second piece of our legisla­ the future. However, I am a little reluc­ online and see if there were things that CONGRESS well as the newley elect tion. It is for allowing students the option tant to vote for this. First, there is some needed to be changed. I think it is ed members of the 60th of moving back into the residence halls, wording that needs to be carefully important that we have faith that our Providence College Student Congress. not necessarily two days before, but one looked at given the length of this piece Congress members are doing what Although the new representatives day, or even a couple hours before the of legislation.. .secondly, there is a little they are here to do and that is to act in could not vote on the proposed legisla­ start of classes. The specific time during discretion as to the Ethics Committee the best interest of the student body. tion, they could speak to these matters that frame is up to the student's discre­ and its role. We have discussed multi­ We hope they would have went back if yielded time by a current member. tion," explained Scambio. ple times this year that we need to and read it." The first item of business was the The second piece of legislation on the reevaluate how we use the Ethics Elian Seidel '10, the Chair of the provision of liquid soap in the tradi­ matter of residence halls passed as well. Committee...Thirdly, while this work Student Life Committee, spoke to the tional residence halls at the expense of The third proposed legislation was is extremely well-done, I would urge necessity of dealing with this piece of leg­ the College proposed by the Class of the amendment of the constitution of you to think to yourselves, 'have we islation before the end of the year: "One 2012 president Taylor O'Brien. the Providence College Dance Club. had enough time to think about and of the biggest issues we have had this While the committee had presented The amendments included redefining debate this legislation?"' year is timeliness. We have constantly this proposal in full during the previ­ the qualifications of membership, The Chair of the Committee on been scrutinized by members of the ous meeting, O'Brien spoke to the instating an attendance policy, redefin­ Clubs and Organizations, Sean Jones administration and study body about the Congress: "My class officers worked ing the role of the publicity officer, and '10, responded with the following: fact that it takes so long for tilings to go very hard on this piece of legislation. It clarifying the electoral process. "While many of the points that Liz through. I cannot even bear the thought is something we feel very passionate Student Congress passed the legisla­ makes are valid, they are not issues of pushing one more things off for anoth­ about, and I hope that we have your tion unanimously. that cannot be solved or discussed er four months. Like Sean said, we support in passing this proposal." The primary focus of the meeting more thoroughly right here and now should really just do this." This piece of proposed legislation was the legislation regarding the on the floor of Student Congress. In Student Congress did vote on this passed unanimously. requirements of clubs and organiza­ terms of there being grammatical issue, and the legislation passed. All The second piece that was dis­ tions to be considered an active group errors, we all know that grammatical except two votes were in favor of cussed by the Student Congress was at Providence College, and therefore, errors can be corrected by friendly this proposal in regard to. clubs and a proposal by Jamie Scambio, presi­ obtain funding from the Student amendments." He then urged the rest organizations. In addition, they dent of the Class of 2010. This pro­ Congress. The Committee of Clubs of the Congress to support this legisla­ voted to place the History Club, posed that students be allowed to and Organizations spent the entire tion, even if it means revising it Anime Club, and PC Republicans on remain in the residence halls until school year writing an amendment to through friendly amendments. probation due to not filling out the 12:00 p.m. on the day after their last this aspect of their existing legislation, Most members responded with proper paperwork needed to main­ final exam of each semester. and it primarily dealt with the way statements similar to Jones regarding tain status as a club on campus. New E-mail System Offers SPEAKER: Doblmeier, Permanent E-mail Accounts by Devin Murphy '10 internet source. Students will also Four Honored Guests News Editor have the option of sharing what they upload. They also have the ability to continued from front page The Office of Information Technology share their projects with certain people received the Presidential Citizens is planning to unveil a new revamped e- if they wish. This will enable students The Power of Forgiveness, released in Medal in 2008, and won the Bradley mail service next year called Live@Edu e- who are working on a group project or 2007, Albert Schweitzer: Called to Africa, Prize for Intellectual and Civic mail. It is currently seek­ paper to have access to it at all times. It released in 2006, and Washington Achievement in 2005. He holds ing feedback from stu- will also be possible to limit who can National Cathedral: A New Century a degrees from Harvard Law School, CAMPUS dents about the new serv- see shared files. New Ceiling, released in 2009. Oxford University, and Swarthmore NEWS ice. A few students have Students will also have a profile on In addition to his films, Doblmeier has College. accounts with the new Live@Edu, much like a facebook page also been the keynote speaker at many Maureen McKenna Goldberg '73, service now and are testing it. for social networking. It will even be events. He has led over 100 discussions J.D., the current chief justice of the One of the new features of possible to import information from a in various places of worship, theaters, Rhode Island Supreme Court, will also Live@Edu is permanent e-mail facebook page. However, unlike face­ and on television programs. And he has receive an honorary degree on May 17. accounts. Students will still have a book the profile page will only be spoken at the United Nations. Goldberg graduated valedictorian providence.edu e-mail account after available to PC students. Doblmeier has also led over 100 from the first co-ed class at PC. After they graduate. When using the old e- The infrastructure of the entire system discussions in various places of wor­ PC she graduated from Suffolk Law mail service graduates lost their will be maintained by Microsoft. According to ship and theaters. He has frequented School in 1978. She was the first female Providence e-mail account three Motin and Paul Fontaine, social network as a guest on many television pro­ assistant attorney general in the state months after graduation. engineer for IT, the new e-mail service will grams. And he has spoken at the of Rhode Island. She also served as "That's the first thing that really cost less money. It will use Microsoft United Nations. administrator of the attorney general's jumped out at us," said Ed Morin, of servers which are redundant and reliable. In addition to Doblmeier there will criminal division in addition to solici­ Information Technology. If there are any problems with the server be four other specially chosen peo­ tor for Kingstown, R.I. and Westerly, Graduates would be able to keep Microsoft will alert IT. It will also be able to ple who will receive honorary R.I. Goldberg became a Rhode Island their same usernames after they grad­ maintain hundreds of thousands of e-mail degrees at graduation. Superior Court Justice in 1990 and uate. However, the address will addresses which the server does not have Sr. Deborah A. Blow '78, O.P,. grad­ went on to become the third woman to change to friars.providence.edu, so a the ability to do now. uated with a bachelor's degree in reli­ serve in the Rhode Island Supreme student's full e-mail address would A major benefit of using Live@Edu gious studies. She received her mas­ Court. She is now Rhode Island's first read [email protected]. e-mail is that it is more cost-effective ter's degree in theology from St. female acting supreme court justice of It is also possible that undergraduates' than the current e-mail system. Michael's College in Winooski, the Supreme Court in Rhode Island. e-mail addresses will change to stu- "It's rare that you can do something Vermont in 1984. She was the princi­ Michael Tranghese will also be receiv­ dents.providence.edu, and will read that has more features and less cost," pal of St. Peter's School in Plattsburgh, ing an honorary degree. He is currently [email protected]. said Fontaine. N.Y. from 1979 to 1995. In addition to the commissioner of the Big East Another new feature of Live@Edu All student e-mail will remain ad- working as a principal Blow also co­ Conference, but will retire in June after e-mail will be the increase the size of free under the new system. Alumni e- founded the Dominican Sisters of 30 years of working for the conference. the inbox. mail is still ad-free now, but Microsoft Hope of Plattsburgh and the Mission He was the first full-time employee of "We're constantly getting calls [ask­ does not guarantee that it will remain of Hope in 1998. She co-founded the the conference. Previous to his job with ing] 'Can you increase this size or that ad-free. However, if it does allow ads Mission of Hope to help the victims of the Big East Conference Tranghese size?"' said Morin. they will be family friendly. Hurricane Mitch in Nicaragua. worked as information director in the The size of the inbox using the sky­ All e-mail will also be moved from Robert P. George, J.D., D.Phil., is a Office of Athletics for seven years. drive will increase by 100 times from the old system to the new system by IT renowned professor and author. He When he was appointed Big East 100Mb to 10Gb. According to Morin, when the switch is finally made. is currently the McCormick Conference commissioner in 1990 he more schools are starting to move in "We're just going to move it for Professor for Jurisprudence and replaced Dave Gavitt '89 Hon, former this direction. you," said Fontaine. director of the James Madison PC Basketball coach. In addition to serv­ The skydrive is another feature of E-mail messages sent to old address­ Program in American Ideals and ing as commissioner of the Big East the new system. It will be accessible es will automatically be forwarded Institutions at Princeton University, Conference Tranghese also "directed from off-campus locations, wherever new address. a member of President Barack and oversaw the creation of Big East there is internet access. It will function Added features to the new system Obama's Council on Bioethics and football, which began in 1991, and later somewhat like ANGEL now but there would include the ability to block e- Council on Foreign Relations. He served as Bowl Championship Series will be much more storage space on it. mail and certain e-mail addresses. was also a presidential appointee coordinator. He also has served as chair­ "We can't change that [ANGEL] "It gives you more control," said presidential appointee to the United man of the NCAA Men's Basketball without it costing a whole lot of Morin. "Which I think becomes even States Commission on Civil Rights Committee and as chair of the Division money," said Morin. more handy after you leave college." and a Judicial Fellow of the U.S. I-A Commissioners and the Collegiate It will have 25 Gb of personal secure Anyone interested in seeing the new Supreme Court. Books he as pub­ Commissioners Association," said a storage space. With this new feature system can visit http://[email protected]. lished include Making Men Moral: press release from College Relations students will be able to upload papers, Civil Liberties and Public Morality and and Planning. group projects, and presentations to In His Defense of Natural Law. George the skydrive and access them from any April 30, 2009______NEWS______The Cowl 5 TANCREDO: Students Respectfully Protest Speech continued from front page aging greater political engagement "I don't think it needs to be revised. grants should learn English when they on campus," according to a state­ I think the people who are actually move to the United States. He also said Western Civilization on campus which ment by Joe Miller '10, president of criticizing it need to actually under­ that "citizenship does matter" and "bor­ sponsored Tancredo's visit. Tancredo PC Libertarians. But they were stand what they are criticizing," he ders matter." According to Tancredo, came just to have a meet and greet with equally unsuccessful. said. "I think that when they see that immigration becomes an issue when students. He also gave a very brief In an e-mail to the student body you're against multi-culturalism it's immigrants do not assimilate into west­ speech on some of his political views. Rev. Brian J. Shanley, O.P., president this knee-jerk reaction, it's this overly ern culture. He said that citizens divid­ Dionisopoulos said that Youth for of Providence College, cited the emotional disposition that people have ing themselves into camps is not good Western Civilization is a national same initial reason for Youth for ready to attack, attack, attack instead for society. right-wing youth group. Western Civilization not being able of willing to talk." After Tancredo finished his short "It's basically to foster a new right­ to reserve space. Students from Amnesty International, speech supporters began chanting wing sub-culture on the basis of "PC Libertarians did not agree to co­ Board of Multicultural Student Affairs, "USA," which then quickly changed to Western identity," said Dionisopoulos. sponsor, help coordinate, or otherwise PC Democrats, and SOAR opposed to chanting "rule of the law." "We call ourselves right-wing as become involved in the event beyond Youth for Western Civilization's philoso­ After the speech Dionisopoulos said opposed to conservative because the using its status as a recognized club to phy held a silent protest while Tancredo that he was happy with the event. gist on campus is much more left­ book a room," said Miller's statement. spoke. Some came dressed in clothing "I don't know why that was so con­ wing, if that is the status quo, and we "Ultimately, this did not take place and which represented their different cul­ troversial for PC to be able to handle. I don't want to preserve the status quo." PC Libertarians played no role in the tures, and help up signs denouncing think it went fantastic," he said. "I According to Dionisopoulos, Youth event other than Uris initial discussion." Youth for Western Civilization. Others think it's better that we had it outside." for Western Civilization is concerned Dionisopoulos said that the commu­ wore homemade masks in all the colors Some students came to the speech with political issues including immi­ nication between himself and SAIL of the rainbow. When Tancredo spoke with no previously formed opinions gration and multiculturalism. Some was not ideal and SAIL took a long about immigration they turned their about Youth for Western Civilization issues that pertain to college campuses time to respond to him. According to backs to show their protest. or Tancredo. that the group is interested in are get­ Dionisopoulos, the group finally Dionisopoulos introduced Tancredo John Cody '12 said that he was dis­ ting equal funding for conservative received a definitive reply from SAIL when he was prepared to speak. appointed in the speech. groups, getting representation in that they would not be able to reserve "We have to remain peaceful and "He didn't say anything controver­ Student Congresses, and enforcing a space on campus, nearly a month after tolerant because we have the cameras sial, and it was generally one-sided," traditional curriculum. the initial request. rolling so you have to practice what said Cody. Dionisopoulus said that Youth for Youth for Western Civilization itself you preach," he said to the audience. Others disagreed. Western Civilization is not interested has been stirring up controversy on Tancredo then took the megaphone to "Obviously it [the speech] was con­ in canvassing for political candidates. campus recently. Many students feel talk briefly about some of his views and troversial," said Jim Cooney '11. Instead they want to preserve Western that the group is a white supremacist Western civilization. He encouraged stu­ Cooney continued, however, "He culture so that when conservative can­ group because of its mission. dents to be open to his views. He pretty explidty said that he's not racist." didates do run for office the dialogue The mission statement for the group acknowledged that Western society is Some wanted to hear more of what that they will engage in is not skewed found on its national Web site reads, not perfect, but he maintained that it is Tancredo had to say. toward a left-wing view point. "Youth for Western Civilization will edu­ the society in which most people want to "I wish it would have went a little Controversy surrounding Tancredo's cate, organize, and train activists on cam­ live. longer," said Jack O'Hara '12. "If he came visit to campus has been brewing puses across the nation to create a culture "There is a great deal of goodness in back to speak I would go see him." recently, but came to a boiling point that will promote the survival of Western Western society," said Tancredo. "If Tom Cotter '10 helped to organize this past week. Youth for Western Civilization and pride in Western her­ you open the gates of the world people, the silent protest, which was put Civilization had planned to bring itage. This movement is focused on the run one way.. .and that's to the west." together on Tuesday night, and said Tancredo to campus to speak to stu­ support of Western history, identity, high He maintained that embracing that he was very happy with the turn­ dents this semester. The group origi­ culture, and pride and opposition to rad­ Western society and culture is not out at the event. nally reserved a space on campus for ical multiculturalism, political correct­ something to be ashamed of. "I just want to say that I've never the event through Internal. ness, racial preferences, mass immigra­ "Diversity is a good thing but it is not been more proud of our campus than I However, the group was ultimately tion, and socialism." the only thing arund which we hang am today," said Cotter. "I think that it unable to reserve space because it When asked if Dionisopoulos thinks aroudn as a society," said Tancredo. was great that he came down...as for was not an officially recognized that the mission statement should be He said that as Americans we should the content of his speech we probably group by Student Congress. PC revised so its use of radical multicul­ understand who we are and our culture would disagree on some things." Libertarians offered to reserve space turalism will not be misinterpreted he first and foremost. Tying that sentiment for the group "in the hope of encour­ said no. into immigration he said that immi­ Attention: Freshmen & Sophomores... Find your “POT OF GOLD” This summer at GOLD MEDAL BAKERY! Earn TOP $$$ as Machine Operator or Shipper

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by Kylie Lacey '11 Warren's goals include making Darfur an important issue. Misbehavior News Staff "After the conflict is resolved, there On April 23, the organizers of needs to be a ballistic solution," he continued from front page Masterpeace Week held an open forum said. "We need elections, democracy, gathering so it does not continue for a at 7:00 p.m. in '64 Hall. Three diverse security, justice. We need America to a concerted effort to ensure that Civ lengthy period of time. The adminis­ genocide experts shared their knowl­ care, and then to understand." i Scream will not escalate out of control. tration said that this is a courtesy to edge and welcomed The next panelist was Shannon Johnson "In recent years, small numbers of those students who are studying or GENOCIDE questions from the audi­ '09, a Political Science and Global Studies students have engaged in dangerous, trying to sleep before the final exam FORUM ence. Victoria Ngare '12 major. She said that even without a family inappropriate, and embarrassing behavior the next day. served as one of the connection to the Holocaust she identified i at the event that has jeopardized the "Last time I went nothing hap­ moderators. Tinacho Chitongo '10 with its victims. i physical safety of students and staff pened," said Steph Trebino '11. organized the forum. "When I was nine, I was obsessed with and threatened the reputation of the In order to draw students back The first panelist to speak was Scott 77k? Diary of Anne Frank," she said. "She student body and the College," said indoors, "study breaks" will be organ­ Warren, a senior at Brown University. was my most intimate friend." Fortunato in his e-mail. "I hope you ized in all underclassmen dorms. The "I have been involved with Darfur She was drawn to the issue of geno­ will agree that it is unacceptable for a study breaks will include refreshments since my senior year of high school," said cide because of the closeness of it to small minority of students to put oth­ from Dunkin' Donuts at will begin at Warren. "It's been great and depressing." her community. ers in harm's way 12:10 a.m. Warren worked as an intern the "There are Burundi Tutsis and and disrupt not only "I think that will summer of 2004 for a committee that Cambodians living in Providence," this tradition, but lure some people focused on Africa. He had already she said. the studying of away but I don't done some research on the Rwandan Through her work in the city of those having to take "It is important that the think people are genocide, and said he wanted to Providence, Johnson met a man named an important exam inappropriate behavior of a going to swarm to believe it would never happen again. Jim from Burundi. He and his mother the next day." few students not jeopardize Dunkin' Donuts," "The year was the 10th anniversary fled to a refugee camp during the geno­ These new rules and said Megan Ross of Rwanda, and now we were focusing cide in Rwanda. They have been in regulations have come safety nor dictate what this '11. "What's the dif­ on Darfur," he said. Rhode Island for six months now. as a result of some event should be about." ference between 10 The United States Congress classi­ "My friendship with Jim has shown meetings Fortunato minutes and 20 fied the conflict in the Darfur as a me that this is right in our community," has had with students Rev. Brian J. Shanley, O.P. minutes?" genocide while it was still occurring, Johnson said. "Genocide is close to us." on campus. During Civ which was unprecedented. All other Johnson's senior thesis is concerned "Over the past Scream no students genocides were only declared after the with discovering how genocide vic­ several weeks, I will be allowed on conflicts had finished. tims deal with their past. and other members the upper quad "Colin Powell said that it is geno­ Professor Paola Cesarini, of the of the administration have reached with backpacks. cide, but that we don't have to do any­ Department of Political Science, began out to student leadership groups in "Obviously the backpack rule is thing," said Warren. her presentation by saying she is one an effort to continue Civ Scream as a ridiculous," said Trebino. "I think The summer before his freshman of the few people on campus who is student generated activity while they mean well by putting restrictions year at Brown, Warren got involved interested in human rights. ensuring the event be held safely on it but they're ruining a tradition by with the Save Darfur Organization. "I come from Italy," she said. "In with less disruptive and embarrass­ taking it another level." "I spent all summer calling churches 1939, they adopted a set of racial laws. j ing behavior," said Fortunato in his The punishments for any violations in Texas telling them about Darfur and Why is it that that is not talked about?" I e-mail. "It is important that the inap­ during Civ Scream this year are much our prayer chain," he said. When she emmigrated to the United ! propriate behavior of a few students harsher than in years past. Any student By then, subgroups of STAND, the States, she researched how international not jeopardize safety nor dictate who jeopardizes the safety of other stu­ student-led division of the" Genocide groups could promote human rights. what this event should be about." dents at Civ Scream will be suspended Intervention Network, had started "I looked through the past," she Not all students are receptive to for one semester and "will likely be springing up across the United said. "I looked at phases of transition­ the new rules, however. arrested by Providence Police." Any stu­ States. Concerned with issues of al justice." "It's ridiculous," said Ciara Pisano dent found drinking or violating any genocide, including Darfur, STAND Transitional justice is the period after '12. "I don't think it's [Civ Scream] is sanctions of the alcohol policy will face seeks to remove the money that col­ human violations have occurred, when endangering anyone in the suspension. Any student who streaks leges, universities, and states have the wrong-doers are punished and a new Providence College community." will face the same punishment. Finally, sent to Africa that has subsequently system in put into place. "It's about relieving stress," said any seniors who break any rules pre­ funded the genocide in Darfur. According to Cesarini, students have Chelsea Bentley '12. scribed by the code of conduct may face Warren joined STAND at Brown, and expressed a desire for a human rights In addition to the usual presence of exclusion from senior week events and with other students, he helped program at the College. In the spring of the Office of Safety and Security, offi­ commencement. divest money from the genocide. 2010, Cesarini will be teaching a human cers from the Providence Police Any student with any comments, "Providence was the first city to divest rights class for the first time at PC. Department will also be on hand for questions, or concerns about Civ money," he said. "It is outstanding what "We can make this school a place where the event. In addition to ensuring the Scream can leave Fortunato a message students have done. We may not be in students care," she said. "I know they care." safety of students the security and on the dean's corner Web page, the streets protesting, but we are actually police officers have been asked to be www.providence.edu/deanscomer. getting things done." mindful of the time and break up the PARKING: New Fee Sparks Student Dissent by Sara Beth Labanara '11 parking fee will be going towards. instituted for future academic years. In aware that a new fee would be imposed, News Staff "Students at least deserve a better comparison to other local schools, how­ we were unable to be proactive and On Tuesday, April 20, Providence explanation than the one provided in ever, the fee at PC is low. include in our AY 2009-2010 budget College students received an e-mail the e-mail as to where their money is "Today, student parking fees are com­ additional funds to cover the costs of from Rev. Brendan Murphy, O.P., vice going," said Valencius. "Also, I can mon at many colleges and universities," shuttle services for juniors and first president of Student Affairs, informing understand a small increase, but from said Murphy. "Brown University, for semester seniors," said Thibodeau. them of a new parking $0 to $200 is a big jump." example, charges undergraduate stu­ The education department has been CAMPUS fee that will be imple­ Murphy admits that the decision to dents $600.00 per academic year for working with the Office of Student NEWS mented in the 2009- implement the fee was a tough one. But parking. Boston College charges under­ Affairs in order to figure out how to 2010 school year. If stu­ he also said that just like students and graduates $960.00 per academic year or deal with this problem. dents choose to park their cars on cam­ their families who are undergoing hard $480.00 per semester." "We are in communication with the pus, they now have to pay $100 per times, PC has been struggling economi­ In addition to the average PC student, office of the Vice President for semester. This fee has caused discon­ cally as well. Murphy hopes that the fee education majors have been bothered Academic Affairs," said Thibodeau. tent among many PC students, includ­ will be able to enhance student life. by the fee due to the travelling they "Before the end of the semester we ing Steve Lynch '11. "The College has certainly been neg­ must complete for student teaching hope to have some guidance as how "I don't think I'll be taking my car to atively affected by the downturn in the assignments and field placements. we might best deal with the situation." school next semester because of this," economy as has so many other colleges Sally Thibodeau, Ph.D, Director of Education major Jacquie DeSisto '10 said Lynch. "Frankly, I can barely and universities," "said Murphy. "The the Secondary Education Program, views the fee as unreasonable. afford to pay for my car insurance, let decision to charge a fee for parking stated that many of her students were "It is especially difficult to see how alone a parking spot." was a very difficult one but was done caught off-guard by the parking fee. the parking fee will benefit [education Murphy has recognized the stu­ in light of the economy as well as to "Education majors are dealing majors] since we will not be using the dents' response to this decision. "I ensure that the College can continue to with a catch 22 because they are college's transportation after paying understand that students are con­ enhance and improve the quality of forced to pay the additional fee only the $200 fee to have our cars available cerned with the decision to imple­ student life on campus in the midst of so they can fulfill a major require­ to us," said DeSisto. ment a student parking fee at so much uncertainty." ment," said Thibodeau. DeSisto and her fellow education Providence College," said Murphy. Murphy said that the fee will go Right now the education department majors are circulating a petition to be "I certainly expected that this would toward supporting and enhancing arranges for a shuttle to bring sophomores exempted from the parking fee due to not be a popular decision for some of transportation offerings. This includes to their teaching assignments and field what they consider the short notice our students, understanding that increased capacity on the neighborhood placements. However, the department and "unfair burden." $200 dollars is a lot of money and shuttle as well as the East Side shuttle was unaware of the fee until students Despite the fact that many students that some of our students' families and the van program that supports resi­ came to them. Thibodeau said that if the and education majors in particular feel are facing difficult financial circum­ dence life, recreational sports, commu­ department knew about the fee before­ caught off-guard and distressed by stances in this economy." nity service, and clubs/organizations hand, they may have been able to provide this new fee, they can be sure that PC Another disgruntled student is programming. shuttle services for upperclassmen. has implemented the fee in order to Mike Valencius '11, who would like Murphy also said that the fee will not "Since no faculty member or depart­ enhance student life. a better explanation of what the be temporary and will be permanently ment chair or program director was April 30, 2009 News The Cowl 7

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The 02908 Club’s Mark Sweeney (left) pictured with Commissioner Ryan Mee, Kieran Reynolds, and Travis Creed at the TD Banknorth Garden in Boston, MA.

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Mark P. Sweeney Managing Partner The 02908 Club “Outstanding Housing for Outstanding Students.” 401.749.1550 [email protected] 10 The Cowl World April 30, 2009 Deadly Flu Hits Mexico, United States by Keiran Whelan '09 Centers for Disease Control and Preven­ swine flu strain while the rest were still of the flu have been young adults, World Staff tion and the WHO said at this point being analyzed. Mr. Cordova also said rather than younger children and the there is still no need to issue an advisory that antiviral drugs had so far proved elderly. Because Mexico City is appar­ for the U.S. or parts of Mexico. Dr. to be effective in fighting the illness, ently the center of the infection, many International Richard Besser, director of the Center for however the WHO has not yet ad­ people have chosen to leave the city. Disease Control and Prevention, said vised beginning to develop a vaccina­ Universities, schools, and many exican authorities closed schools that the preliminary tests on seven of the tion program. According to BBC restaurants and bars will remain closed and other public buildings with in 14 samples from patients in Mexico News correspondent Stephen Gibbs in for several days through Sunday church MMexico City in an attempt to contain a services. Priests have even been asked to new flu virus which has already been place Communion wafers in people's suspected of killing 81 people. According hands rather than on their tongues. to BBC, health experts nave said that tests Correspondent Stephen Gibbs also thus far link this flu with a new swine flu noted that there are many citizens who virus that has been seen in eight cases in have begun to worry about the effects the the southern United States. swine flu will have on their livelihoods Swine flu is a respiratory disease and the Mexican economy in general. which infects pigs and does not nor­ The impending fear of the virus is mally infect humans. However, there expected to persuade many tourists to have been cases that occur in people cancel their holiday vacation plans, who have had close contact with pigs. and Mexican exports have already There have also been rare documented been affected. cases of humans passing the infection Russia banned the imports of pork on to other humans. The head of the products from Mexico as well as Cali­ World Health Organization(WHO) flew fornia, Texas, and Kansas. Several to Geneva to oversee the agency's han­ Asian and Latin American countries dling of the situation and has urged au­ have also begun screening airport pas­ thorities to suspend public events and sengers for various symptoms. encourage residents to wear face masks. The World Bank is providing Mex­ The WHO is also sending top experts ico with over $200 million in loans to to Mexico and the United States. "We help the country deal with the situa­ Associated Press are very, very concerned," said WHO tion. "We're in a period in which the spokesman Thomas Abraham. "We Hiram Diaz, 8, left, gives his six-year-old sister Adely Diaz a ride on the pegs of his ficture is evolving," said Dr. Keiji have what appears to be a novel virus bicycle while both wearing protective masks in Mexico City. ukuda, the deputy director general and it has spread from human to of the WHO. Homeland Security Sec­ human. It's all hands on deck at the mo­ matched the virus found in the Mexico City, the authorities have ob­ retary Janet Napolitano called the ment. "U.S. experts have said that author­ United States. tained over one million doses of such emergency declaration "standard op­ ities are taking the virus very seriously Health Minister Jose Angel Cor­ treatment and are giving them to various erating procedure," and said that she and are working to leam as much as pos­ dova has said that 20 of the 81 dead hospitals throughout the country. Offi­ would rather call it a "declaration of sible about it. However, both the U.S. were confirmed to be from the new cials have said that most of the victims emergency preparedness."

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By Michael Lepri '10 World Staff U.S. Economy: Recession or Depression?

he International Monetary recover. Similarly, the IMF, he also ex­ Fund (IMF) recently published re­ plained that, "Although the odds of searchT explaining that the global depression are now way down, it is economy will most likely contract by wrong to assume the U.S. will neces­ 1.3 percent in 2009. sarily have a normal, brisk post-re- The United States economy is at cession rebound." the center of the downturn and our Recessions usually last less than a economy is expected to fall 2.8 per­ year but just like the Great Depression, cent this year. this downturn spans many different The IMF expects the U.S. economy countries and industries, necessitating to come back in 2010 and grow 1.9 correct actions to be taken for recovery. percent, but cites that this would be Many compare the current reces­ very sluggish compared to past re­ sion to the Depression; however, coveries. The IMF also believes that most people are not aware of how the past recessions have lasted longer be­ economy actually recovered at that cause of delays in finding the "under­ time. The textbook answer is that lying problem." Roosevelt's New Deal and additional The Congressional Budget Office government involvement pulled the (CBO) believes the government stim­ country out of the malaise. ulus plans would succeed in slowly This, sadly, was not the case. Two boosting short term growth and months after the stock market crashed "produce between 1.4 percent and 4.1 in December 1929, the unemploy­ percent higher growth in 2009 than if ment rate was 9 percent and it grad­ there was no action. For 2010, the ually fell to 6.3 percent in June of the plan would boost growth by 1.2 per­ year 1930. cent to 3.6 percent." In that same month, the Smoot- Although short-term benefits may Hawley Tariff Act was passed and it appear in the U.S. economy, the CBO raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 im­ www.politcalhumor.about.com has maintained that the economic re­ ported goods to record levels. In the covery packages will actually dam­ subsequent months, inflation jumped The Great Depression vs. The current recession age the economy more in the long double digits. ficiently healthy state of 'business con­ In the case of recessions and depres­ run than if nothing was done. In the With increased involvement under fidence,' and the Second New Deal rav­ sions, the government's solutions never long run, the stimulus packages will FDR and the New Deal, the rate of un­ aged the requisite confidence." allow businesses the opportunity to re­ create so much government debt that employment hit 16.3 percent in 1931, Government spending "crowded cover themselves and restore confi­ within a few years they will crowd 24.9 percent in 1932, and 25.1 percent out" private investment during the dence in the markets. Out private investment. in 1933. Great Depression, as predicted for our Instead, they find it necessary to This "crowding out" occured be­ Then, according to economic histo­ current situation. nationalize the country for a short cause government borrowing to fi­ rian Robert Higgs, "The economy re­ The combination of high interest period to allow failing companies a nance increased government mained in the Depression as late as rates and low confidence due to the second chance they do not deserve. spending would result in higher in­ 1940, because private investment had high unemployment rate caused a Hence, the economic recovery terest rates, leading to the reduction never recovered...[T]he insufficiency of struggle long after the economy would takes longer because the businesses in private investment. private investment from 1935 through have recovered indejpendently. that could not float without govern­ Harvard economist Kenneth Ro- 1940 reflected a pervasive uncertainty Currently, unemployment of 8.5 per­ ment issued life preservers then goff recently said that it will take among investors...[TJhe willingness of cent is at a 25 year high after increasing drown the rest of the economy. more than a year for the economy to businesspeople to invest requires a suf- from last month's 8.1 percent rate. April 30,2009 World The Cowl 11

Week in The Americas Review Europe

UNITED STATES: Obama Furious After New York ITALY: Pope Benedict Offers Condolences in Italy Plane Plus Over City Pope Benedictt traveled to Italy this past week, President Obama ordered a review on Tuesday touring villages and neighborhoods in central Italy April 28, of the decision to fly a Boeing 747 extremely that were hit with the earthquake. He met many close to the lower Manhattan skyline according to survivors, one of whom was a woman who offered White House press secretary Robert Gibbs. The re­ her child into the Pope's arms for a blessing. view will focus on "why that decision was made and The village of Onna was hit hard by the earth­ to ensure that it never happens again," Gibbs stated. quake, but unfortunately due to the rain, the Pope On Tuesday, Obama tola reports, "It was a mistake. was not able to see it all. He went into L'Aquila and It was something we found out about along with all saw the remains of a student accommodation block. of you. And it will not happen again." Officials said The Pope met with young and old people, "I that when Obama first found out about the incident, share your tears," he said, "and your sadness." Al­ he was "furious." by Ryan McKeon '09 and though Pope Benedict doesn't show his emotions as Fran Townsend, who advised President George W. much ashis predecesor, John Paul II, he was com­ enny rvanaghi '10 Bush for more than three years, called the move J A passionate and at ease with the Italians who are "crass insensitivity" in the wake of September 11. "I'd devastated by this tragedy. call this felony stupidity. This is probably not the right Around 65,000 people are still stranded from job for Caldera to be m if he didn't understand the their homes and about 34,000 are living in what is likely reaction of New Yorkers, of the major," called tent cities. There are about 161 of these tent Townsend said on CNN's "America Morning." cities across the region of Abruzzo. "I would like to Louis Caldera, director of the White House Military meet each of you, go into every tent," said the Pope. Office,quickly apologized for Monday's incident after Middle East the planes caused workers and residents to evacuate buildings in New York and New Jersey/'Last week, I SPAIN: Casino City in Spain approved a mission over New York. I take responsi­ EGYPT: New Burial Tombs Found in Eqypt In Spain, the parliament in the region of Aragon bility for that decision," Caldera said. "While federal Egyptian archaeologists on Sunday discov­ is due to approve a law that would allow the authorities took the proper steps to notify state and ered 53 burial tombs, including a few that are biggest entertainment complex in Europe. The Gran local authorities in New York and New Jersey, it's as many as 4,000 years old. The discovery Scala project proposes building casino-hotels, clear that the mission created confusion and disrup­ was made on a hillside that overlooks the theme parks and a racecourse in the countryside tion." Hopefully, after this dramatic incident for New farming village of Illahun, located in the Fay- near the village of Ontinena. Yorkers, Obama will be more careful to oversee mis­ oum oasis about 50 miles southwest of the According to the BBC, a company called Interna­ sions such as this one. Egyptian capital. Journalists were tional Leisure Development(ILD) drew up the plan granted a rare tour of the ancient burial site. to build an equivalent of Las Vegas in Spain's coun­ PARAGUAY: Senators Call for Lugo to Resign "At the beginning of the excavation I said tryside. This plan is strongly supported by locals; Senators in Paraguay are calling for the resigna­ that we may rewrite the history of the site, 80 percent of the people wno live in the region are tion of President Fernando Lugo who is facing his and I was right," said Abdel-Rahman el- in favor of having more than 30 casino hotels, a con­ third paternity scandal in only one year of office. Ayedi, the deputy secretary of Egypt's vention center, theme parks, golf courses, a race­ Lugo, a former Roman Catholic bishop, asked for Supreme Council of Antiquities who over­ course and a dog track. The whole project would forgiveness on Friday, April 27, acknowedging "per­ saw the dig. take up the size of 1,500 football fields. sonal errors." Three slim wooden sarcophagi believed to Ontinena, in the Spanish region of Aragon, is "I am a human being, and therefore nothing is for­ be holding female mummies were laid out in about a two hour drive from Barcelona and has a eign to me," Lugo said. "Asking forgiveness for one of the tombs. The innermost coffins were population of 600 people. "I think we have every­ these circumstances, I want to stress that my version painted to resemble the deceased using blue, thing to make the cocktail wonderful," Jaime Riera will always be the truth." yellow, rust, and black dyes. and ILD spokesperson stated. The project is sup­ Three different women claim that the former In another tomb, workers discovered a vi­ posed to cost about $20 billion, and according to bishop fathered children with them, though Lugo brant mummy case that el-Ayedi said be­ ILD should be no problem in the economic crisis. only admits to one, a two-year-old boy, with a for­ longed to a woman named Isis Her lb, the mer parishioner. Lugo is adamant that the accusa­ daughter of one of Illahun's mayors nearly tions will not distract his government, and said he 4,000 years ago. El-Ayedi said some of the will not step down from Presidency, but will remain tombs were just 2,800 years old, while others until his term ends in 2013. were from the Middle Kingdom, which dates Lugo resigned as bishop of San Pedro in 2004, a back tobetween 2061 and 1786 B.C. Crovince riddled with poverty. In December 2006, Archaeologists hope to learn about the an­ ugo announced he was renouncing his bishop sta­ cient inhabitants' nutrition, health and cus­ tus to run for president. toms through the study of their bones. "It will help us to follow the development of fu­ UNITED STATES: Tour Bus Crashes in California neral architecture, beliefs and customs of an­ Africa At least five people were killed and dozens were cient Egyptians," he said. "Not only through injured in California when a tour bus carrying artistic motifs and text, but many tests are French tourists overturned on an overpass. Investi­ being done in the lab." gators are still trying to determine the cause of the SOMALIA: Somalia Pirates Hijack Yemeni crash that occurred on Tuesday April 28. Officials Oil Tanker j shut down U.S. 101 for hours in both directions, but On Monday, April 27 the Yemeni Coast Guard it appeared that the tour bus was the only vehicle in­ liberated a hijacked Yemeni oil tanker and arrested volved in the crash. the 11 Somali pirates. It was the first time since pi­ The bus landed on its side after crashing into the rating in the area escalated a year ago that Yemen guard rail on the two-land southbound overpass in forces successfully battled pirates. Soledad, about 100 miles southeast of San Francisco. The vessel had been hijacked early Sunday while A total of 36 people had been on the bus, including 34 sia heading between the two southern Yemeni ports of French tourists, one Canadian tour guide ana an A Mukalla and Aden. American driver, according to the Associated Press. The Coast Guard exchanged gunfire with the pi­ Four of those injured were under the age of 18, in­ THAILAND: Thai Militant Attacks Continue rates and took control of the oil tanker Qana later cluding a 13-year-old girl who was one of the seven to Intensify that day, a security official said. patients airlifted to hospitals in Fresno and the San Last week, about nine more people died in The Gulf of Aden is one of the world's busiest Francisco Bay Area. a series of attacks by suspected Islamic mili­ shipping lanes. In the last year, pirates have hi­ The tour started in San Francisco and was on its tants in southern Thailand. Gunmen stormed jacked more than 100 ships and demanded millions way to Southern California, where the tourists were into a house in Yala province late on Monday, in ransom money. due to fly out of Los Angeles back to France. The tour opening fire on a Muslim family and killing The Yemeni oil tanker was among four vessels group had been in the U.S. since April 19 and made four people. Two men were also found dead under escort by a Yemeni coast guard boat at the stops in Monterey and Carmel just before the crash. outside a nearby mosque.The violence coin­ time. The three other vessels escaped the attack. According to officials, Orion Pacific is a family cides with the fifth anniversary of an attack on owned, luxury charter coach company based in Or­ the Krue Se mosque, which marked a sharp es­ ange. It was not clear, though, who had charted the calation in the separatist conflict. ZIMBABWE: Economic Downturn Hits Zimbabwe bus that crashed in Soledad. It was the first major clash between the se­ As the Zimbabwean economy faces economic curity forces and militants. More than 100 peo­ downturn, it also must contend with the preservation ple died in just one day and about 3,500 people of its elephant population. Human encroachment has have died in total. BOLIVIA AND PARAGUAY: Peace Agreement in driven hundreds of elephants over the Zambezi River South America In 1902, Thailand annexed the three south­ and into the neighboring country of Zambia. Bolivia and Paraguay signed an agreement on ern provinces of Narathiwat, Yala, and Pattani, In Zimbabwe's economic meltdown, "humans are Tuesday, April 28, to settle a border dispute which led but the vast majority of people in these areas encroaching more and more into areas previously re­ are Muslim and speak a Malay dialect, in con­ to war in the 1930s. served for wildlife," the task force said. Elephants are trast to the Buddhist Thai speakers in the rest roaming too close to local villages forcing authorities Bolivian President Evo Morales, who signed the of the country. Insurgents target people they fact in Buenos Aires with Paraguayan counterpart to shoot them before they kill somebody. The task believe to be working with the Bangkok gov­ force and a Zimbabwe animal group received official emando Lugo, described this even as historic. Ar­ ernment, using bomb blasts, beheadings, and gentina helped these two countries resolve the dis­ authority to capture and transport the elephants to shootings. They also try to force Buddhist res­ Chipinda Pools, believed to be their original home­ pute. Morales blamed multi-national oil firms in their idents from the area, with the aim of ultimately quest for natural resources for starting the Chaco War, land about 125 miles south of Zambia. African establishing a separate Islamic state. wildlife is in trouble. which killed 100,000 people. The two big energy com­ "Security forces are taking special precau­ panies operating in the region at the time were U.S. The arid economic climate in Zimbabwe has tions and are on high alert on the Krue Se an­ pushed some people into the business of poaching. Standard Oil, backed by Bolivia, and the Anglo-Dutch niversary," army spokesman Parinya told the Shell Oil Company supported by Paraguay. As food and other resources diminish, many find Associated Press last Tuesday. Human rights themselves with no other option but to kill precious Now, President Lugo expressed much hope that groups argue that the government's failure to natural resources could now "be developed and used wildlife for money. President Robert Mugabe punish any member of the security forces for blames Western sanctions for the economic crisis by both countries without any foreign intervention," abuses against civilians isolated the population according to BBC. that has led to shortages of food, gasoline, and other in Thailand's deep south, according to the BBC. basic goods. The Cowl COMMENTARY Page 12 April 30, 2009 Much Ado A Word to the Wise From Dr. Peach Peach Draws on Experience to Advise Graduating Seniors About who serves up delicious children's That is excellent advice. Continue to by Dr. Andrew Peach fantasies to the public and is hand- pursue the liberal arts throughout Guest Commentary fed pastries by servants, there are your lives, but the life of an aspiring Bathrooms twenty aspiring novelists who are academic is long, poor, powerless, It has come to my attention that serving up Grand Slam Breakfasts and frustrating, not to mention that my previous column in The Cowl by eff ahan '11 for belligerent yet thrifty senior citi­ it usually culminates in a career at J G regarding the College's new policy Commentary Staff zens. Follow your dreams, if you Denny's. But if you do make the on children and pets has brought will, but do so at your own peril. fatal decision to pursue such a offense to a small but vocal minori­ degree, attend the most highly ty of people. This fact saddens me a ranked school you can; the nonsense Due to popular demand, I feel as great deal. When I wrote that col­ about "the proper fit" is a marketing though I am inclined to write anoth­ Everyone has a bad end await­ umn, I had intended to offend a device created by third-rate schools. er article dealing with the many ing him: death. But, as Camus much greater number of people, 4. In his address to the graduating annoyances that occur in public and therefore, I feel compelled to once urged a friend, do not class of Bennington College in 1970, ' bathrooms, specifi­ address the readers of The Cowl behave as it you deserve Kurt Vonnegut told his enthusiastic cally regarding PC. CAMPUS once more in the hopes of hitting this fate. Behave I ike you are audience, "Everything is going to To lead off, I would my target. become unimaginably worse, and like to acknowledge immortal whether you are or As May approaches, Providence never get better again." This state­ Dane Cook's very funny and accu­ not. Never abandon your post College seniors will find themselves ment is not exactly true, but it is rate observance of how, even though increasingly assailed with advice for something more true than false. Everyone has a not a water park, all public bath­ about life after graduation. Eager as trivial as a job or praise. bad end awaiting him: death. But, rooms have water everywhere. professors will offer them guidance as Camus once urged a friend, do Everywhere. Honestly, how is it about graduate schools, anxious par­ not behave as if you deserve this possible that water could be ents will try to direct them into dif­ 2. There is nothing good about the fate. Behave like you are immortal, splashed on every square inch of ferent professions, and commence­ aging of the human body, but there whether you are or not. Never aban­ counter top? Are the sinks just that ment speeches will offer them bro­ is something worse: the attempt to don your post for something as triv­ poorly designed, or do people find mides about "changing the world" hide that aging. If, in the years to ial as a job or praise. There is noth­ time in between classes to have a and "following their dreams." come, you are seriously tempted to ing more loathsome, more unworthy nice little water fight? It is strange to Before the graduation rush begins, I invest in hair plugs, a face-lift, Botox of love, and more unappealing to think that students have time to believe it is imperative that our shots, or any other thing that Joe moviegoers than a coward. have a little water bash between soon-to-be graduates learn the truth Biden has done, remember that, 5. When, in your senior year in classes, and it seems as strange to about life after Providence College. whatever people tell you, you will high school in Boiling Springs, think that our sinks are so insuffi­ So, here is the truth, packaged in look ghoulish and surreal, and even Pennsylvania, your friend Dan cient as to not hold that water convenient, bite-size morsels: small children will run from you in throws a New Year's Eve party poured into them. So why the mess? horror. because his parents are out of town And while on the subject of sinks, 1. Every graduation speech floats 3. When his undergraduate stu­ and you and your girlfriend Becky was I not around when the memo out some version of this howler: dents are thinking of going to gradu­ come to the party together and she came around that they are for more "Follow your dreams and the money ate school for some subject in the tells you that she will love you for­ things than liquids now? I hate to will follow." This inanity is intend­ humanities, one of my favorite pro­ ever as the clock strokes midnight break it to the public, but despite ed to reassure graduating seniors fessors, David Gallagher, gives this and the song "You're the Inspiration" popular belief, the sinks at PC are that, despite all appearances, the advice: "Only go to graduate school by Chicago plays in the background, not equipped with garbage disposal world neatly aligns with their if you cannot imagine yourself doing mechanisms, so after you finish desires. But for every J.K. Rowling, anything else and being happy." your ramen noodles because the PEACH'S POINTS/Page 14 caloric intake is enough to kill a small animal, you should really throw the rest out in the trash, not in the sink. Similarly, how does hair of all sizes get left in the sink? If you The Accidental Debate Over Civ happen to either shave your head, face, or mountain beard, please have right through a reasonable place myopia to muster the kind of vitriol the decency to wash it down the by Jeremiah Begley '10 commensurate with his vitally needed to oppose the very idea of sink afterwards —although it is Commentary Staff important contributions, and now what it means to be an educated per­ quite fun watching toothpaste get resides in the pantheon of American son. "Give me a lever and a place to attacked by hair while making its RELIGION heroes just below Che Guevara and stand," said Archimedes, "and I way down the sink. Barack Hussein Obama. shall move the Earth." What the anti- Western advocates would do is to The persistent dull murmur of dis­ deprive us all, including members of satisfaction with the Development of What the anti-Western advo­ racial, ethnic and religious minori­ Western Civ program has reached a cates would do is to deprive us ties, of our place to stand —the high-pitched ululating whine. It Western tradition that has seems every week heralds the con­ all, including members of racial, inescapably shaped the world in vocation of a new forum to discuss ethnic and rel igious minorities, which we live. the future of Civ and various "alter­ of our place to stand—the There are, however, many such native models," many of which bear Western tradition that has people afflicted with precisely this variety of close-mindedness, and very little resemblance to anything inescapably shaped the world in one could justly call DWC. Amidst they have seized upon the general the chaos, it is easy to assume that which we I ive. hatred of the current Civ program the only square cubit of common and the Hindenberg-like combustion ground on this question between of the latest reform proposal for the any two given faculty members is purpose of fomenting a rebellion that Civ in its current format must This should not be construed as a which they hope will bring down the be sent, so to speak, to sleep with the lack of openness to encountering DWC program entirely. Those weary google images fishes. This is, for the most part, non-white, non-Western figures and and embattled people who have accurate, but surrounding this ker­ cultures on the DWC syllabus. But in spent years attempting to nurse Civ Now, not going into too much nel of truth is a mound of fertilizer this case, as it is all too often, the back to health still express optimism detail, but a quick note on missing. worthy of Squanto himself. campaign to do away with the "cir­ that there still may be a "reboot" of How? To get back on target, literally, Squanto, ' the friendly Patuxet cumscribed geographical circle" in the DWC program; these opponents I find it hard to believe that parents tribesman who taught the Pilgrims which we live is in fact a concerted respond that "We don't want to did not teach their children how to to plant corn at the first effort to sweep away any focus reboot Civ; we want to unplug it." properly use bathroom appliances Thanksgiving, is a good person to whatsoever on the West and its dis­ Although surely unintentional, the and etiquette. For example, I don't bring up at this juncture, because he tinctive heritage and culture. On the shift in metaphorical language from know when it was taught that drink­ could easily symbolize the agenda other hand, the effort on the part of IT jargon to the euphemisms of ing beers while showering and leav­ of Civ's most fervent enemies. The some well-meaning students to euthanasia is telling. The custodians ing the empties in the shower stall self-hatred of former white "take back our country" one core of the program criticize the program was an acceptable means of "clean­ Europeans like us has increased curriculum at a time is precisely the out of love—"I do wish dear old ing up." Is it the mix between the incrementally over the years, and- wrong approach, since the glorious Grandma would stop cussing at the nice hot water coming from the Squanto's status in American histo­ history of the West needs no such night nurse." The critics take the showerhead and the cold beer from ry has increased along with it. He close-mindedness to defend it; on opening and run with it—"Yes, well, Rock's that makes it so enjoyable? has moved up from a position as an the contrary, it takes a particularly BATHROOMS/Page 13 unjustly neglected figure, passed toxic and world-weary kind of WESTERN CIV/Page 14 April 30, 2009 Commentary The Cowl 13

“Everyone has fun at the Civ Scream." BY Isa Ali TO and Joe McMenamin TO Commentary Staff BATHROOMS: Article This Is What YWC No. 2 (Pun Intended) Looks Like continued from page 12 of human socialization. We believe by Tim Dionisopoulos in the customs and traditions of the It's lost on me; however, one cannot needs to go. It's not teatime in there, Guest Commentary Occident and take the ideological deny that this has become a particu­ so get in and get out. End of discus­ position that our country is not just larly strange phenomenon on cam­ sion. Along the same lines, when I cannot dignify the unintelligible a place where random strangers live puses in general. there are multiple stalls or urinals garbage that is the article "This Is but a vibrant nation where a system available, why does someone always What Racism Looks Like" by Jackie of values, heritage, and common pick the closest available one to you? Kramer with an actual rebuttal. history bind us together. In correla­ They are all exactly the same; yet, Rebuttals are for those well versed in tion with our view, the members of There is a time and people have the urge to have a sense intellectual repartee and if an individ­ each succeeding generation are the a place for of closeness while using the bath­ ual posits a substantive analysis as inheritors of an intellectual and historical legacy and that as these everything, and the floor room—an urge that I haven't ever opposed to crass hearsay. Kramer's article should be taken in the same modern stewards it is our responsibility social can occur at felt the need to satisfy while in the bathroom. Could it not wait a cou­ vein as the results of paternity tests on to preserve that which we have. a different point in the day, ple of minutes? There is a time and The Maury Povich Show in that despite We understand we are an exception­ not in the five minute a place for everything, and the floor being highly amusing it was desper­ al society and that the government window before a class. social can occur at a different point ately lacking in the realm of accuracy. through its policies should not allow in the day—not in the five minute We will take it from. Kramer's own for the importation of entire nations window before a class and your try­ words and assume she has no idea worth of individuals who will drasti­ ing to get rid of the faint feeling what she is talking about when she cally change the social and political Continuing with very annoying before sitting through a gruesome openly admits in her article "I am outlook of this country. Unless we things that occur in public bath­ lecture. All in all, these annoyances not the best spokesperson to write have learned nothing from the cultur­ rooms is the notorious rule of thumb in the bathroom have occurred to on this topic." al balkanization of the suicidal immi­ that seemingly everyone breaks from most everyone on campus, so lets do gration policies of our European time to time: There is absolutely no what we can to correct these defi­ brethren, then we should unsurprised talking while using the bathroom. ciencies so as to prevent me from when the violence, chaos and While washing hands or doing laun­ writing a third article on the mat­ upheaval seen on the streets of We take the ideological posi­ Paris, Amsterdam and Glasgow on dry is one thing; however, the whole ter—I would like to try out some dif­ tion that our country is not just social multitasking experience that ferent material in the fall. a daily basis start happening out­ has caused men and women to curl a place where random strangers side our very doors. up with frustration everywhere I ive but a vibrant nation where This college deems it perfectly a system of values, heritage, acceptable to allow the organization of the Afro-American Society, OLAS, and common history bind us MESA, SHEPARD, Women Will, together. SOAR and a slew of other organiza­ tions on campus that celebrate and protect their own cultural and social The Cowl As the leader of Youth for Western values. Yet there are egregious lies Providence College's Student Newspaper since 1935 Civilization on this campus I can posted in the campus publication, assure you we are a far cry from the threats of rowdy protests, online Publisher: Rev. Brendan Murphy, O.P. lurid neo-fascists that the rumor mill harassment, complaints to student has churned our image into. The council lodged and events mysteri­ gestalt of our club is predicated ously canceled when a group of stu- Asst. Sports Editor: John Butler '11 Editor-in-Chief: John Vaghi TO upon the notion that the culture of the West is unique and the pinnacle Associate Editor-in-Chief: Katie Caliva TO Photography Editor: Sara Spirito '11 YWC/Page 15

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continued from page 12 do not believe a word of what she says! Girl" or looking for a monogrammed Got something to say? 6. Have as many children as you sweater for my Jack Russell terrier. possibly can, as early in life as possi­ As our seniors prepare to leave ble. Nothing in my professional, behind these hallowed halls of The Cowl encourages you emotional, or spiritual life has ever Providence College, I hope they will even approached the goodness, cherish these pearls of wisdom, to submit a Letter to the importance, and joy of having chil­ acquired at such a high cost. And I dren. Children are one of the few hope that some day our paths will safeguards in life against complete cross again, and then perhaps, if we Editor or Guest self-absorption and a state of arrest­ are fortunate, we will be able to sit ed adolescent development. If I did­ down for a meal and laugh about the Commentary! n't have children, I would probably good old days and wonder why the be spending my evenings scouring waiter seems to know so much about [email protected] the Internet for reruns of "Gossip The Canterbury Tales. April 30, 2009 Commentary The Cowl15 Letters to the Editor: High Fives & Nose Dives High Five: Verizon and Microsoft team up to create new phone. Step aside, Begley's criticism of Buisness School is unfounded iphone! Here's to yet another arguably unnecessary techno trinket.

As a proud member of the class of Critical Power and Cooling Industry. Nose Dive: Swine Flu claims one life in Texas: The new epidemic is tak­ 2007 I am furious that Jeremiah I would love for Jeremiah to take a ing hold in the States. Cover your mouths. Begley wrote in his article entitled high level marketing class, stand in "Defending PC in a Materialistic front of his peers and present on World" that "marketing and man­ subjects such as marketing analytics, —Maryclaire Dugre '12 agement are utterly worthless internet marketing, consumer majors, unfit for undergraduate behaviors, or create a working web­ study and unworthy of a place in our site for a company in the area. I have curriculum." Who are you to com­ done all of these things and they ment on this? Speaking on subjects have prepared me to have a great job What America Needs: you know nothing about makes you and to get my MBA. Marketing look ignorant. Before commenting alumni hold positions at Fidelity on the majors of many of your peers Investments, RI Monthly, Phillip Obama's Economic Policy and numerous alumni I would Morris, Disney, APC, Cole Haan, research or take a class before saying Pfizer and other incredible compa­ a major is worthless. Marketing nies. What I would like to know is — by Kenneth Woodland '10 FDR's increase in tax rates on the includes many disciplines and appli­ how has our education at Guest Commentary wealthy during the Great cations in the real world. Thanks to Providence College been worthless Depression. This increase turned out my amazing education from the Jeremiah? to be a key implementation in secur­ marketing department I have a sales With Congress looking to come to ing the economic growth of America position at one of the leaders in the —Leanne Orabona '07 an agreement on a final version of during that era. Today, it is hoped President Obama's recently pro­ that this similar policy will stop the Student employee finds no complaints with Sodexo's policies posed budget, intense debates have inequalities in economic trends that emerged as to whether or not these have plagued America for the past new economic policies will pull 30 years. America out of its current economic These historical, economic patterns This is in response to the "PCLA each worker has always been evident. downfall. For those unfamiliar with are very important to be examined Organizes to Help Sodexo Perhaps if the PCLA members the main intentions of the budget, no and compared when looking at this Employees" article published in the actually worked behind the scenes, one can say it better than the current policy. When tax rates were April 23 issue of The Cowl. As a stu­ they would realize that their alle­ President himself. "[The budget] lowest for the lower and middle dent who has had the opportunity to gations are without merit. The . embraces our most fundamental pri­ class and higher for the upper class be employed by Sodexo for the past complaints served are a gross exag­ orities: an energy plan that will end during the period immediately fol­ two years, I find the complaints, par­ geration in a sad attempt to draw our dependence on foreign oil and lowing WW2, the lower class ticularly the allegations of verbal attention to problems that do not spur a new clean energy economy; increased its average income and abuse, to be completely egregious even exist. an education system that will give economic capability more than the and unfounded. Additionally, regarding the issue our children the tools to compete in upper class. This is not to say that Having worked and interacted of cutting hourly shifts, Sodexo is the economy of the 21st century; and the upper class didn't increase at all with various levels within the yet another company struggling in health care reform that finally confronts because they did. It was just at a Sodexo organization from managers the tumultuous economic times the back-breaking costs plaguing fami­ lower rate. This is significant to chefs to dishwashers in locations that our nation is facing, and lies, businesses and government alike." because when the lower and middle across campus such as Ray Cafeteria though unfortunate, they too have class improve at a higher rate than and Alumni Hall, I believe that my to cut corners to ensure their sur­ the upper, it is proven that the econ­ own personal experience, which my vival as a business. omy progresses, improves, and is PCLA friends do not possess, allows I do not disregard the mission Historical evidence of the suf­ the most stable. This is not to men­ me to depict a more truthful assess­ statement of PCLA and I full-heart- tion that historical evidence of the ment of the conditions within the edly acknowledge the "essential dig­ fering economies in suffering economies in European Sodexo work environment. nity, freedom, and equality of all European nations post WWi nations post WWI demonstrated Not once during my work experi­ workers." The key to an amiable and demonstrated how the how the only way out of recession is ence have I witnessed any mistreat­ successful workplace is through the only way out of recession by increasing the deficit and spend­ ment or affront against an individual building of communication and fos­ is by increasing the ing. Logically, when people don't worker's dignity. I can assure the PC tering of relationships among all of deficit and spending. have money, they have nothing to community that all members of its employees, not making outra­ spend.Therefore there is nothing to Sodexo management are responsible, geous claims, which have no basis or stimulate the economy. So unless the respectful individuals who conduct fact, in order to gain attention. money can come from somewhere, themselves with the highest degree of I am proud to be part of the and is in constant circulation, busi­ professionalism. A concern for the Sodexo team. To be more specific, the detailed ness would crumble and no one welfare of employees and a willing­ goals of alternate energy, education would be in a situation where they ness to accommodate the needs of —Jon Dooley '11 improvements, and health care could possibly improve.By imitating reform all aim to improve the eco­ these historical practices, the Obama nomic condition in America in vari­ administration can expect to see a ous ways. For example, one health similar improvement of economic care initiative is to stop Medicare growth over the next few years. from paying for treatment that does­ This budget plan is not only the n't prove to be advancing the health realization of kept promises to ( of the individual in question. As a America during Obama's very suc­ YWC: Group Leader ! direct result of this policy, the gov­ cessful campaign, but also aimed to ernment's deficit would be reduced progress other aspects of the failing as well as private health care prices. economy. These are specifically the Another (educational advancement) problems of unemployment, mort­ Tells it How it Is i example is a proposed increase in gage debt, and repairing the social federal financial aid and simplifica­ institutions that have suffered due to tion of such support programs to budget cuts. The intelligent spend­ help ensure that the decreasing ing and distribution of money attendance and graduation rate of through the economy in this process continued from page 13: college students does not continue in will undoubtedly positively effect America. Lastly, to address the issue social and private institutions in of alternate energy, a policy trying to America today and years to come. dents form together to protect the his­ double standards she can get away be implemented would require a In closing, it is also important to tory that is taught on a daily basis at with nonsensical attacks so long as price on carbon. This would help recognize the fact that this eco­ their small Catholic liberal arts col­ it is masked under the guise of pro­ significantly reduce global warming nomic burden and deficit disaster lege. Its slightly ironic considering tecting the oppressed. effects and also help to decrease the is a problem that President Obama that the Dominicans hold the pursuit The difference between Youth for government's deficit at the same time. and his administration inherited from of the truth as one of their core values Western Civilization and other The plan would also reverse the the irresponsible economic policies of yet such transgressions have all groups of our ilk is that we will not Bush administration's tax code, past administrations. They are using occurred against our burgeoning mem­ let leftists frame the argument nor which stemmed from Reagan-like proven historical trends to imple­ bership and not a word has been said make even the slightest conces­ economics and have dominated the ment the policies and budget on our behalf by the administration. sions to them. We will fight back, economic policies over the past few requirements that will stimulate I encourage Kramer to continue we will preserve our curriculum decades. Now, tax rates for lower the economy, bring Americans her battle against the ghastly and we are determined to save our and middle class families would be back to work, and secure a future specters of racism and oppression cultural heritage from its enemies. decreased, as the rates for the upper for the next generation. The ques­ she claims to see on this campus If Jackie Kramer or anyone else class will increase sharply compared tion, ever since this crisis emerged, as it is usually best to let those on who impedes our path thinks that to the past presidencies. Budget has always been: what does a wild goose chase continue their our knees bend at their smears and : experts have deduced that this prac­ America need to get out of this hunt uninterrupted. Kramer com­ fabrications they can guess again. tice will increase the average income testing situation? The answer: prehends that due to the societal of lower and middle class families Obama's economic policy. by $800 a year. This is also similar to The Cowl Arts and Entertainment Page 16 April 30, 2009 What is Mary Pelletier? A portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman

by Chris Stadolnik ’10 and brick in Ten, which has an aesthetic and in a way that is modem but with a matured as an artist in such a short A&E Staff reminiscent to the back cover photo­ classic sensibility. time. Her senior thesis gallery is what, graph for Abbey Road). This captures Mary's photographs capture what I am sure, is simply the first of more The Art: beautifully not only the juxtaposition of is unique to the photographic medi­ showings to come. The pieces on dis­ Photography as an artistic medium texture and shape but also a unique um. Walter Benjamin wrote, “The play are a prime example of an artist in has certainly suffered in the age of the aspect of her subject, the abandoned camera introduces us to unconscious a state of coming-to-be. And I look for­ Facebook photo album. Suddenly, factories and facades of Providence. optics." Mary's photographs certain­ ward to seeing the fruits of her future everyone with a digital camera is There is something about the shots ly exhibit a situational awareness labors, which I am confident will be Annie Leibovitz. And every down­ that is all at once organic and inorgan­ that we are not privy to except even more well-presented than what is ward angle shot at a grimy neighbor­ ic. The buildings appear simply as life­ through her lens. The visions of her already an impressive first showing by hood pub or black and white picture of less shells of steel and stone, but work are not startling or jarring but a young artist. a random bit of roadside detritus is underneath that exterior of metal and remain emotionally provocative. worthy of public viewing. But there masonry the life that was once inside All of the pieces were framed and are still some photographers, like Ms. them, before the abandonment and mounted by the artist. But neither Pelletier, who take their craft and decay, is visible in shadows and inter­ aspect of the display distracts the view­ Stop by the Hunt-Cavanagh medium seriously. And, in doing so, nal recollections. And you can see, in er from the central focus: the pieces Gallery to see Mary Pelletier’s these photographers have produced some of the pieces, the life that has themselves. The arrangement of light Senior Thesis show the week of some truly worthwhile pieces of art. grown around and on the empty and art provides one the tranquility to April 27-May 2 (Gallery Hours: The photos themselves show a great shells: creating a reef on dry land. It is revel in the minutiae of the works. Monday-Friday 9:00 a.m.-4:00 deal of attention paid to composition, rare that a photograph truly captures I have had the unique privilege of p.m.) with a special reception which is attributable to the large format what is lifeless, living, and lived in a "sneaking peeks" at Mary's photos not scheduled for May 2 from 4:00- as well as the artist's own eye. Many of way that expands our understanding intended for public viewing through­ 6:00 p.m. the pieces incorporate a clever blending of tire passing of an era and the coming out my time here at PC. And I am sin­ of the organic and inorganic (i.e. ivy of its successor. But these pieces do so, cerely astounded at how she has

The Artist shapes and planes in my photographs. feel treads the fine line of trite and Working in large format, which is artistic, in terms of the fact that these CS - What is your favorite color? CS -1 feel a lot like James Lipton right what my thesis show is composed of, sorts of things get photographed MP - Green. I would say black and now, but here goes. What was your allows [me] and forces [me] to spend a often. But I think that there is a varia­ white, but that would be too cutesy; first picture? lot more time composing [my] photo­ tion in my pieces [that prevents them so green. MP - I think it was actually a cribbage graphs than using a 35 millimeter from becoming cliche] in the way that board. I was young and impressionable. [camera] might. I've shot all of these they are not panoramic area shots. CS - What is on your iPod right now? works head-on, and I feel that they are They are focused instead on the MP - A strange mix of Animal CS - Who has been the greatest influ­ very honest because they are so direct. unique, somewhat abstract, and defi­ Collective, Andrew Bird, Of ence on your work? And by using the new camera, I've had nitely forgotten walls. Montreal, the Velvet Underground, MP - On a personal level, Richard the opportunity to compose and in a and early Dylan. Elkington, who was...or was it really sense "collage" these different struc­ CS - Is your intention to attempt to David Allen? No, it was definitely tures upon structures. make a career of artistic photography CS - If you were in a rock band for a Richard Elkington, who was the pho­ after graduation? day, which would it be? tography professor at PC until 2007. CS - Has the city of Providence been a MP - Somewhat — photography is MP - Radiohead, because I firmly He retired in my sophomore year. fertile ground for you to take root as a definitely where my first artistic inter­ believe that they like people. And I'd Should I say much to my chagrin? He young artist? ests lie. But it is becoming more and like to learn how to like people. helped introduce me to a lot of [pho­ MP -1 think that I get a lot of my inspi­ more difficult to function as a success­ tographic] techniques that I was ration to go out and shoot from the city ful showing photographer as the CS - Who is your artistic soul mate? unaware of in high school. I really itself. And I'm not talking about the integrity of the medium itself is being MP - That's tough. I would say began to embrace all of these new people. I really don't like shooting peo­ called into question with technological Franz Klein. methods in my freshman and sopho­ ple. Or at least not now* I'm really advances. Film is where it is at for me more year. By the end of my sopho­ drawn to architecture because of the and the world keeps becoming more CS - Finally, do you have a farewell more year I decided to double major strong lines and the opportunity to and more digitalized. It is still impor­ message you would like to share [in English and photography] document texture on a flat medium tant to me to continue to make images with PC? because I had been spending more and see how that can translate from but for the next two years I'll be study­ MP - Obviously. It's in the time in the in the darkroom than the actual structure to something ing [in England] to earn my master's in Commencement insert. under the fluorescent lights in hanging on a gallery wall. Photographic Studies. Phillips Memorial Library. *A note from The Cowl: This statement CS - So what structures in the city does CS - Alright. Well it's time for the Tiger is not to be understood as Mary CS - From where do you draw your your new gallery consist of mainly? Beat portion of the interview. What is Pelletier's expressed intention to com­ greatest inspiration? MP - My show consists of photo­ your favorite food? mit a homicide. She does not now, nor MP - In terms of my most recent work, graphs that were taken at different MP - Eggplant parmesan. But I really has she ever possessed a firearm. So I focus mainly on the juxtaposition of abandoned factory buildings, which I love Grape Nuts right now. rest easy. April 30, 2009 Arts & Entertainment The Cowl 17 Big Whiskey, Big Shows, Big Sound A sneak peek at DMB's new studio album and what it took to get them there

by John Vaghi '10 "Tripping Billies" in terms of Editor-In-Chief committed to the music and the beau­ ty of what it all can inspire. Clearly, intensity, "Why I Am" is the I was hoping that this would be an Moore's death has brought the band best rocker that we've heard album review. Big Whiskey and the together and made them more focused from DMB in years. Constantly GrooGrux King, Dave Matthews Band's as a group; one set on honoring the referencing "the GrooGrux eighth studio album, was originally set memory of their fallen saxophonist the King" throughout, it is clear to drop on April 14 and coincide with best they could. that the band is in love with the the start of their spring concert tour at During the recording of Big Whiskey, song and they play it with a MSG. Though the album was finished Jeff Coffin (Bela Fleck and the passion and fire that rivals the in early April, the band decided to Flecktones), filled in on saxophone, energy and sound of the famed push the release back until June 2 to recent touring member Rashawn Ross '98 tour. "get it perfect." Big Whiskey is, after blew on the trumpet, and long time So much emotion went into all, a tribute to their fallen band mem­ contributor Tim Reynolds whaled on Big Whiskey that one can't really ber Leroi Moore (aka the GrooGrux electric guitar. The album features a think about it without feeling King or Roi to most). It's also the most lot of Roi's saxophone lines that were the weight of significance that important album they have ever made. recorded before he died, including a this record carries; from the After 2005's Stand Up was widely sax/vocal duet with Dave on a track Dave penned cover art laced considered an uninspired flop, lacking called "Lying in the Hands of God." with blatant and subtle mean­ the musical complexity and depth of Two weeks ago, the band released its ing down to the way that the previous efforts, many felt that Dave first single, the shiny and sprawling music itself speaks so com­ Matthews Band was past its prime. RCA Records "Funny the Way It Is," which paints pletely in homage to Roi. The album art was done by Matthews himself With an abandoned 2007 recording the paradoxes of life in a catchy, radio According to Dave in a recent session and no new studio work in friendly tune: "Somebody's heart is Rolling Stone article, if people don't like that the album's opening of "Grux" three years, 2008 rolled around with broken and it becomes your favorite it "then they just don’t like music." A into "Shake Me Like A Monkey" is rumors that the band was close to call­ song." More layered than anything off bold statement, sure, but with the "easily the best opening track on an ing it quits. Sure, the years had pro­ of Stand Up, "Funny the Way It Is" is a memory of their band-mate resting on album since 'pantala naga pampa' into duced an album's worth of promising promising start to the new album every note, the band really feels that 'Rapunzel' and it may even top that." new live songs ("Shotgun," "#27," even if it may come off as a bit over­ this is the best that they can do. Roi If anything, the record will showcase a "Crazy Easy," "Sugar Will," "Kill the produced and poppy for hardcore even told Dave early in the recording band that has turned tragic loss into King," "Good Good Time"), but none fans (traditionally Dave's radio sin­ sessions that the album was going to inspiration, an idea that transcends of them found their way as a studio gles have been some of the worst be "the best one." music altogether. This is Dave cut. Then, founding member LeRoi songs off of the album). The 13 tracks on Big Whiskey, includ­ Matthews Band's most anticipated Moore, after suffering an ATV accident "Funny," though, has sounded ing a beautiful sax intro by Roi, are no album, it is their most important in June 2008, passed away in mid­ much better the few times it has been doubt going to have a different sound album, it might be a career-defining August. played live and two other Big Whiskey than other albums. Influenced by New album, and it very well could be their Roughly six months later, Dave songs have been debuted on stage as Orleans, where some of the recording last. From what's been heard so far the Matthews Band took the stage at well during the early start of the tour. took place, the cuts are going to be album could be amazing, but regard­ Madison Square Garden and played "Spaceman" is a mellow love song that more musically complex with more of less, fans can appreciate what the band one of their most exciting and antici­ really hits hard and moves with a a rock feel than the band's acoustic jam has done and who they have done it pated sets in years. Not only did this Dispatch-esque twang. The other new sound of the '90s. Dave claims that for. They made an album for the fans, show introduce three new songs from song is "Why I Am," which, according "even people who don’t like DMB will for themselves, but in the end, no mat­ Big Whiskey and resurrect old favorites to Dave, was Roi's "very favorite one" like [Big Whiskey]" and one can only ter what happens, Big Whiskey and the like "Recently" and "Raven," but the of the Big Whiskey songs he had heard. hope that he's right. Antsmarching.org GrooGrux King is first and foremost for concert showcased a band once again Perhaps, a step below fan favorite staff member, Jake Vigliotti, claims LeRoi. Fantastically Flabby Final Fantasy IV is a Flop

by John Mango '10 tech-ware which just so happened to on a quest to redeem himself by slay­ it was no wheres to be found. Not that A&E Editor be a game called Final Fantasy IV. ing a mist dragon (a dragon made of I like playing dress-up, I just, I like to Now, I have never played any of the mist? A missed dragon? I don't know) see the progress I make in well, dress­ I have had a profound regression Final Fantasies before. They always and they decide its best to get some ing my characters up. lately. Not the kind where mom cooks seemed so...unabashedly, garishly and rest. In different beds. Two lovers nice­ To top it off the critically lawded you a PB and J three times a day but grotesquely flamboyant. Like the ly sleeping before a trial of slaughter graphics are bad. I mean for a hand the kind where you end up revisiting commercials that had characters spin­ and brutality. Where is the held they're kinda cool. But they're all of your kiddie passions. Most of ning around and laughing after bash­ Shakespeare in this? This is not good pixilated and choppy and remind you mine tended towards the nerd side of ing some one-eyed bat's face in with a story telling, it feels like it was written more of a zoomed in photo than a mist the tracks. This is found to be purchas­ giant hammer. Seriously? Wouldn't by over-red-bulled nerds with roman­ dragon slaying knight. ing a used GameBoy DS and a hot you be grossed out, or repentant like tic delusions based on their own fail­ All in all, in conclusion, to be done serving of twenty-something shame the age-old American Indians and use ing love lives ("dude, I wouldn't sleep with the damn thing. Avoid this game (seriously, I think I'm the only kid on all its parts for a tent or something? with her before I killed the monster, unless you're a diehard fan who's campus with one of these monsters). Not laugh. It's almost sociopathic that would be unchivilrous and going to write an angry letter, then by And I like RPGs. There, I said it. I like right? Right. Well, this game was just uncool"). Now it is a game, so all of all means do that. It's just so awkward, being involved with long, escapist fan­ full of these little nests of bizarre and this would be excusable if the gaming and un-fun. There are no choices to be tasies with riveting characters, with disturbing realities that ended with me part was, well, fun. But its... eh... its made so you feel more like the last earned abilities and skills, and I like puzzled and searching Ask Jeeves for not fun at all. Maybe it's because I'm a zero in a computation line than a not developing any of these in RL the normal behavioral patterns of newcomer, not used to the hack then choice making moral animal. I wasted besides strong thumbs. humans rather than fully engrossed wait then slash type battle format, or my precious regressive moments on a So I wanted to check out the latest and entertained. maybe its because its actually a poorly game that made me more dumb rather For example, our planned fighting system. You run than doing something cool like watch lead hero, Cecil, a around a screen fighting random bat­ Boy Meets World re-runs. badass knight guy tles a la Pokemon. with sick armor However, with Pokemon there was Not recommended unless you're a (which stinks always the chance you could catch the die-hard. And in that case...well, I'd because there is not monster being fought, get your hands also like to recommend a one-way bus any incentive to on that third Geodude, punch a new ticket to a bad tattoo parlor. improve your Caterpie nearly to death before bag­ armor if it's sick, ging him. Here, the only incentive to spikey, and full of fight the long, long, long battles is the raging masculinity fact a character stat might grow an already) is kicked inch so you can maybe make the long out of his kingdom battles a little less longer. You fight so for questioning his you don't have to fight, as much. king's decision to Now, to be honest I couldn't finish torch a town for the game. Only because it was freaking some crystal, or impossible. My green-haired chick, the some shite. one that could summon an ostrich to Melodramatic peck my enemy for 42 hp points of enough, right? Well damage, died every time a floating then, his lover Rosa amoeba hit her. It also irked me that comes along and she was wearing a nice leather cap I just bought, which seemed to be invisi­ GOOGLE.COM says she loves him The cool guy I expected right before he leaves ble, or hidden under her green locks as 18 The Cowl Arts & Entertainment April 30,2009 PC Performs on the Silverscreen A Steady Start for Providence Stars and Starlets Festival in the depths of the Angell him. All the students put in some long not a fan of the crime drama genre, by -Nahuel Fanjul-Arguijo '11 Blackfriar Theatre. The three-hour days for the making of these films, and but the rock opera part, I couldn't A&E Asst. Editor event was filled with great production, some showed it, but unfortunately, help but love. The last three minutes some shoddy sound, comical actors, some didn't. of Providence Crime Drama/Rock On Tuesday April 18, the and of course, Chris Tompkins' over­ The winner of the festival, and the Opera where the song is acted out Department of Theater, Dance, and sized head covering the sight of some prizewinner of free tickets to the was very well made. Film held its annual Student Film unfortunate attendees sitting behind Rhode Island International Film Other films that made the judge's Festival was Matt Hassan, TO, top-five list were Grandpa Died, pro­ with his film Fiction Fighters. It duced by freshman Collin Kennedy was very well made with some and tied for second place, Zombies 101, intensive graphics, as the which won third place and was pro­ buddy duo traveled through duced by senior Anthony Chieffalo, different genres of movies. A and Complimentary Pie, by senior magic camera they find on Charles Dewey. These were well made lower quad takes them on this films, some really good production, but ridiculous adventure filled they lacked a little something extra to with great humor, some fight get the revered Fr. Gumbert to love it. scenes, and a well-written Junior Patrick Welter produced a plot. great film, The Shrine, but it was rejected Kevin Leonard, '09, sub­ from the top five spots. The production mitted two very funny films was great, but the plot seemed to be for this event, titled Crossing missing a link or two. Some scenes had the Road, which tied for sec­ to be erased from his film, which made ond place, and Murphy's Law. it a little hard to follow along with the The great "why did the chick­ story, but it was definitely worthy of en cross the road" conun­ receiving a top-five spot. drum made a great film of a The event went really well, and chicken who gets into PC and there was a great turn out in the dis­ the documentation of his tant location of the Smith Center for freshman year. It's obvious the Arts. It was another great success what his second film is about, for the Student Film Festival here at but again, filled with Seth Providence College for both the stu­ Rogan-ish humor. dents and the department putting The film by Chris "I'm The this together. And of course I have to Best" Tompkins made my list mention that Chris Tompkins, ex­ of best films for its great pro­ assistant editor to the A&E Staff, is a Ajumping-jovial-PC crowd enjoys the great cinema of our home grown directors! duction and editing. I am horrible actor and Justin Pimentel is amazing at everything. On Tap at the Heartbreak Hotel The Lupo's Line-up

guitars. Their single "Through the take the night off during the reading days studying and three-hour long by -Nahuel Fanjul-Arguijo 'll Fire and Flame" made a huge hit in day and go see Shwayze and Cisco finals, with a great show by the great A&E Asst. Editor the metal scene when it was Adler. And who that man in a black Scottish band, Franz Ferdinand. If released in 2006 and later made Sedan, with two cheap hookers and you are doomed to an unfortunate every Guitar Hero III player cry, a Mexican? Yes, Mickey Avalon will Saturday morning exam, maybe With only a short time left in the while staring at his television also be there. So 1, 2, 3, 4, get your Danny's or Olds might be too much semester, we here at The Cowl have screen, as they try to complete more booty on the dance floor, and let me fun for a study break, while a show compiled for you another list of pro­ than 6 percent of the song. see you do the Jane Fonda all the could calm you down but not fry crastinating events to partake in dur­ way to Lupo's. your brain cells. The show starts at ing these busy study days. We all Shwayze: Tuesday, May 5 nine, so you would be back to your have finals, and some of us lucky We all know the singles "Buzzin"' Franz Ferdinand: Friday, May 8 dorm, or the library, by 12 to finish students are about to take our last and "Corona and Lime," so why not Why not end your week of long up any last-minute studying. Civ exam ever. Still, there is always time for a little fun. If the video game suggestions we gave you were not your style of fun, then here is a list of some concerts that are hap­ pening downtown at Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel during exam week.

Gwar: Sunday, May 3 After canceling their December 19 show, they are coming back to Providence the day before finals week starts. This Grammy nominat­ ed metal band has been together since 1985 and has recorded over a dozen CDs. If you are not a fan of sci-fi or horror films, then I would urge you to stay away from Lupo's that night because the fans of this band might scare your Northface or Uggs right off of you. But hey, if you're a fan, then I know that the Photo Editor here at The Cowl is looking for someone to go with her, she could always use a friend to mosh with.

Dragonforce: Monday, May 4 The English, power-metal band is known for their fast guitar solos and high-pitched singing, and they will be at Lupo's the night of the first final. Their fantasy-based lyrics and videogame sound effects will make anyone at the concert pump their fists and strum their air­ rts ntertainment April 30, 2009 A & E The Cowl 19 Pick Gym Songs to Jam To s of the

by Matthew Frederick '10 labeled anything it would be dance, of the best rappers of late. It was disap­ A&E Staff but I feel like this gives a negative con­ pointing for me when his song, notation to an upbeat performer. I "Superstar" became his anthem on the It's that time of year again where would especially recommend this radio last year because he has had so Week everyone becomes preoccupied with song for any fatiguing runner who is many better songs in the past that getting themselves ready for the beach tired of trying to convince herself that deserved the national attention. His season. Whether it's working out in watching re-runs of Friends on the TV raps are quick which makes them pre­ the gym or just going for a run really does make your run go by faster. fect for running, and most of them around campus, our student body have more meaning than we could seems to be a lot more active as the "Raver's Fantasy"- Tune Up! possibly know. This^song and "The weather gets increasingly pleasant. I If you haven't already noticed, I like Instrumental" are both definitely By Lindsay Sheeban '11 feel confident that you, like me, are a lot of fast beat songs that are consid­ worth adding to your gym playlist. A&E Staff tired of being told to live your life, so ered techno, trance, or dance and this to help motivate you through the one is no exception. It's funny because "Heart of a Champion"- Nelly rough patches in your workout rou­ these songs have no real deep meaning I have no idea how many of you tine, here are some songs that you to the lyrics either. They are all about have heard this song because, while may not have on your iPod. the beat and the different crazy sounds Nelly was a popular rapper at one Movie that a group can synthesize into the point, most of his songs were more "Through the Fire and the Flames"- song. Despite that, this has become suitable for awkward middle school Dragon Force one of my favorites, as of late, to finish dances rather than a gym workout. For those of you who bought into out my run on a good, solid pace. Plus, There are two main reasons why I like Free Willy the Guitar Hero craze, you will recog­ who doesn't love a good rave song? this song so much. First, it is all about Directed by nize this song as the nearly impossible sports, which is awesome. Second, the Simon Wincer finale (for me, anyway) in the third "Hello Zepp"- Charlie Clouser background is the former theme to version of the game. It is a ridiculously Whether you recognize it or not, I NBA basketball on NBC, which Let's bring it back to the '90s when fast-paced song, which is why it is my guarantee that the majority of you reminds me of the days when I loyally family films were all you watched on go-to song when I need to bust out one watched the NBA during the season. middle school weekends. The plot is sim­ Add the fact that he is rapping about ple: a young boy befriends an Orca... a pushing yourself harder athletically, typical activity of our generation. You may not have seen this movie in a while, and you have a perfect gym song. but you most likely bounced around to its theme song, "Will You Be There" by "Beer"- Reel Big Fish Michael Jackson last Friday. Question, if I can't believe I am doing this, but Michael Jackson atteanded PC, which like Asher Roth I am providing you racial statistic would he influence? with a completely cliche college song. Anyways, no matter what age, you will If you can't tell from the title, the song still squeeze out a tear when Willy is is about forgetting all your problems finally freed...that is, if you aren't scared by drinking them all away, which I am for the boy's life as the large mammal jumps over the stone wall in its hallmark sure many of you can all relate to ending. directly. As they say in the song, "if you're drinking well you know that you're my friend." I find this song humorous, especially because it comes from the comedy perfection that is the movie Baseketball. Music "Discotech"- Young Love This song will bring you all the way The Tragically Hip back to Fifa Soccer 2007 (if you can't Yer Favorites already tell, my life revolves around Universal sports). This is my mystery song because I can't really tell you why I like This Canadian rock band from this song that much. Yes, it is a rela­ Kingston, Ontario has been around tively fast-paced song, but I have no since the early '80s. Although they are not popular in PC's Lil Wheezy / Lady clue what it's talking about.When I try Gaga New England culture, cruise past to actually listen, I either can't tell what Upstate New York and this will be all the lyrics are or they don't seem to you hear blaring from our F-150s. make sense to me. That is not the plug Ecstatic to share 'The Hip' (as we fanat­ you were probably looking for, but if it ics call them) with my roommate I was works for me, then maybe it will work utterly disappointed when she shrugged ana said "is this country?" for you. After round housing her face, I made her listen to a couple hits, notably "New Orleans is Sinking," "Nautical Disaster," GOOGLE.COM and "Courage" from the above C.D., Yer Favorites. If you make it to one of their Can you beat Jane Fonda's workout record? Not her record, her record. Like her summer concerts which are mostly actual Guiness Book-set record. Maybe these songs will help. around Syracuse, N.Y. or Montreal, you will run into a crowd of classic and alternative rock music junkies. These more set in the gym. I particularly like have heard this song at some point in guys also made a U.S. debut on this song because you do not have to your life. Plainly put, it is the master­ Saturday Night Live in 1995 and the wait forever to get to the best part. piece, played at the climax of every­ epic Woodstock of '99. Either fast-forward to 20 seconds into body's favorite movie, Saw. Recently I the song or simply wait it out. Trust heard this song used in the back­ me, you will not be disappointed. ground of basketball clips prior to an NBA game on ABC. Clouser does a "Ten Thousand Strong"- Iced Earth great job of building up the suspense If any of you have ever heard of this of the song, much like another classic, song I would be shocked. As you can "Reauiem for a Dream Remix," does. probably tell based on the title and/or The best part about it is that there are Book group, there is nothing normal about no lyrics to take away from Clouser's fear-themed melody. this song. Certain people might find it a bit more intense then they would Angels and Demons "Diary of Jane"- Breaking Benjamin like, but really that is the point of a By Dan Brown You probably have heard a song by good gym playlist. I looked up the this group and did not know it was lyrics to this song and have seen the This is the prequel to the hit novel / them. Like Basshunter, I like every music video. I still to this day could movie The DaVinci Code. Although I song by this band, so this is just one of not tell you what it is about, but I can have not seen or read The DaVinci many suggestions that I could give to tell you that this song gets you Code, I'm sure that Angels and Demons you from their catalog. Selecting this pumped up. Just ask my roommates will suck you into its mystery-thriller song is my attempt to diversify my list from last year who had to hear it every fiction plot just the same. Robert a bit by adding a song that does have Friday morning at 8 a.m. when I woke Langdon, who will be played by Tom deeper lyrical meaning. Note I did say up and got myself ready for my last Hanks once again in its upcoming deeper relative to the repeat chorus classes before the weekend. movie premiere on May 15, is a line techno songs I have mentioned Harvard symbologist who must unrav­ thus far. Still, I highly recommend you el the mysteries of a secret society "Russian Privjet"- Basshunter take a listen to their stuff. called the Illuminati and prevent anni­ I bet a decent amount of you have hilation of the Vatican City in a single heard of the Swedish DJ known as day. Will he succumb to the ever-pres­ Basshunter since he has had some suc­ ent tension of science and religion? cess in the United States. I could have "Go Go Gadget Flow"- Lupe Fiasco Bum bum bum bumm. chosen any of his songs because for This book pleases the pallet of every I have to give a shout out to Lupe some reason, whatever he does is basi­ history buff or conspiracy craver. cally gold. If his songs had to be here because he has silently been one 20 The Cowl Advertisement April 30, 2009 PortfolioThe Cowl The Kettle Maker and His Wife by Lindsey Wengloski '10 "Yes. I do." "I had trouble falling asleep in the house settling. The fan ticking in my Portfolio Staff Silence flickered from comer to cor­ summer. Only a few rooms were air- brother's room. The peep-frogs in the ner in the bam. Isabelle listened to the conditioned, and mine didn't happen swamp, chirping away. It haunted me. In the middle of what appeared to kettle maker hammer away at the han­ to be one of them. I'd lie—you don't All I could imagine were colonial folk­ be a glade was a small, simply-built dle, still red-hot from the fire. care much for this, do you." tales, figures and events living on in cabin of log and flagstone and a free­ He looked up again after a while, It was more of a statement than a the darkness of the forests. Very active standing shed, open on one side. droplets of sweat lacing the lines of his question. The kettle maker gazed up imagination, I suppose. Curious, Isabelle wandered face. He smiled towards the heat-baked from his work, resting his slate eyes on "I visited my Nana often, especially FICTION towards the shed, where an fields, the whizzing cicadas, the over­ the flushed coral of his skin for an to sleep over. Myrtle was often there. occasional hammering green trees, and caught Isabelle's eye. instant. He watched Isabelle as her fin­ We'd retire on the modest side of 11 or sound burst into the clear­ "Tell me about your summers," he gers fidgeted with each other, self-con­ midnight, one by one, each to her own ing. A hefty man stood working on the said, then paused. "Tell me about the scious and embarrassed. room. Nana would be silent and handle of a kettle, his form a perspir­ things you remember." "You find yourself boring," he said, awake, but restful, in the room over­ ing and massive hulk of overheated "From this past July?" bending back down to his work. looking the garden. I often wondered flesh even in the shade of the nearby "No, from when you were young. "Don't you?" Her voice was higher, what she thought of, toothless and oak trees. From when Myrtle was alive." strained tighter than she had expected. alone in the heat of the summer. Was it "Excuse me," she said. The man Isabelle felt her throat tighten at the The man paused again, this time the past? turned toward her, wiping a massive mention of Myrtle Sutton. with a sigh of exasperation. "Myrtle's thoughts—the contents of forearm across his face. "How do you know Myrtle?" "No." A gesture of his open hand them, at least, and what it all meant, "Yes?" The kettle maker brushed her ques­ bade her to continue. were also of interest to me. There I'd "I.. .1 came through the grasses." tion aside with slightly more kindness Settling herself on a stool by the tom be, in a bed too large for me, with a "Ah, yes. She said you would." than one reserves for horseflies. His screen window, she began again. beautiful old lamp with roses painted "Who?" face softened again, his voice gentle. "It was the humidity that did it, on it, lying awake, just as uncomfort­ The man laughed modestly from "Tell me your stories." mostly. I'd lie there, my sheets sticky ably as at home, perhaps more so. A midway up his belly. She looked down, her feet pressing on my skin, the cotton throw too heavy new place. New sounds. Lonely for "Oh, you know." into the dry sawdust of the floor. for me, and hear so many things. The home, lonely on behalf of the women "Myrtle?" near me, each alone with her dream­ "Yeah." thoughts. And then the sounds would "Is this some sort of posthumous seep in. scavenger hunt I'm on?" "The industrial fan funneling hot air "No." His voice and face were out through the attic. The creaking equally serious. He extended one wood floors. The occasional car out­ leather-covered hand."I'm the kettle­ side driving past. The fainter-than-at- maker. My wife is in the house, I think. home peepers flirting from beneath We won't disturb her." the swamp cabbages. And Myrtle's "And I'm Isabelle." snoring. Sometimes I could see her "Isabelle." He sounded out the sylla­ stomach rising and falling, a gray bles slowly out into the humidity of mound moving against the darkness. I the still glade, as luxurious and would try to measure her breaths, Spanish as a siesta. match mine to hers, but seldom could. "She told me a lot about you. Sit She punctuated the entire upstairs down." He gestured to a stool by an with the sound of her dreams. It would open window. get too loud, occasionally, and I would Isabelle waved his offer away and wake her." went to inspect the three or so kettles She looked down again at her that stood, finished with vibrant red hands, dirty with the digging she had bows attached, by the entranceway. done. The kettle-maker was watching "You made these?" her, his eyes looking both at her and He nodded. "It's what I do. Cleansing." through her. "Ah. Even in this hot weather?" "I wondered where she had been, "Well, perhaps not quite so cleans­ just then. What I had brought her ing. They do say sweat is good for back from." your system," he added, almost as an "Why?" His voice was hoarse afterthought. from underuse. "Fair enough. How long do they A smile played in the shadows of take to make?" her face. "Long enough, and yet not long enough. "Sometimes she sounded disap­ It's long and short. You understand." pointed to be awake." She thought about it for a moment. Image from www.imperialtea.com The Heartbreak of a Burnt-Out English Major

By Kaly Thayer '10 going to do on one of them. There his professors all told him so. He put the words, even for the work they Portfolio Staff was a lot of good stuff in this area, effort into everything he did, and every required of him. There really had and the professor had given him paper he'd ever done had come back been, once. He sat in the library and felt the lead some serious help in finding the with the expected letter written on it There had been so much. He of exhaustion sink into his bones. He sources he needed. It was almost somewhere in blue, black, or red ink. thought maybe that his love got lost wasn't actually tired. It hadn't been an fun, this kind of homework. Sometimes there was even a plus sign somewhere between the Mary all-nighter last night; he'd actually got­ It had stopped next to it for Shelley Daniel Defoe papers. Or, it ten most of his work done, being fun when he emphasis. could have been in Shakespeare, including that annoying realized how much FICTION This was the kind of tired And here he was, somewhere among the folds of paper for 18th century lit work like this he'd still tired. cross-dressing male actors' cos­ that didn't seem to want to already done. How that took all the heat out of He could have tumes, writing about the social per­ write itself, no matter what he did. But much he'd already your bones, dumped buck­ gotten up and run a spectives on gender and beauty in he'd wrestled it into submission, and been excited about, mile, or rolled off his the theater, that had taken a lot out even turned it in a few hours early. No, how many times shot in your shoes, and chair and pumped of him. the fatigue he felt had a lot more to do he'd been sitting in wouldn't let you think of out 20 push-ups to His chest started to hurt. This sur­ with his head and his heart than it did this library pouring anything but food or booze get his blood mov­ prised him. with his muscles. over a mountain of ing again and wake His girlfriend had dumped him a Now, he stared at his laptop like it books with a Red or sleep. himself up, but he few months ago. This pain felt simi­ was a bottle Cap on the sidewalk. He Bull close at hand. knew that it would- lar to the one he'd felt the morning looked at it because it was shiny. It How many hours * n't help. This wasn't after the night his friends had taken held his attention longer than the other had he devoted to that kind of tired. him out to get over her, except with­ things around him, but he wasn't real­ this stuff? This was the kind of tired that took all the out the dizziness. ly interested in the thing itself. And he And as he thought about it, he was a heat out of your bones, dumped buck­ The laptop went back in his bag. was especially not interested in the bit taken aback. "Come on, I love this shot in your shoes and wouldn't let you He slung it over his shoulder and next paper he had to start working on. stuff," he said to himself. And he did, he think of anything but food or booze or left with his books still scattered He remembered when he'd first really did. He'd been doing it for three sleep. Not necessarily in that order, either. across the library's study table. He gotten the paper topics. They'd all years now, a junior with his eyes on He closed his laptop and sat back. needed some hot food and a cold sounded good; he'd even gotten a lit­ grad school and some serious plans for There used to be a fire here, he drink, and maybe a vacation. tle excited about the work he was the future. He had some real potential, thought. A passion for the books, for Two heartbreaks were two too many. April 30, 2009 Portfolio The Cowl 22 Perspective Vignettes: Registration Frustration An Unfortunate Registration forTwo by Tom Nailor '12 could, but the feeling of my sweaty "Have you got your Ethernet cord o'clock hits, and then you'll have even Portfolio Staff palm around her wrist made her over there? I'm going to need it." fewer choices for classes." awake with a start, and the groan it "What would you need that for?" So at the moment, it would seem, I awoke suddenly, disoriented as I elicited made me thankful I'm an RA She paused, breathing slowly and rub­ the price for the classes I wanted was always am. I reached up to slap my with a single room. bing her forehead, before responding to either run out the door in my boxers phone, bouncing around on the edge "What time is it?" she groggily "I need to register, obviously." to Accinno, or to dredge this girl's of my desk like a bad dancer, to the asked as I slipped on my glasses. I felt my mouth go slack even as she name up from the depths of my mind floor, and glance across the I responded with a resounding, started banging at the keyboard. before I even started to worry about FICTION room at the microwave "6:52" even as I began to wonder why it "I need to register today, too, what exactly we had done the night clock. I tried to reach for my was that I was up this early, even on a you know." before. I knew before I started that I glasses with my left arm as weekday. Then, as if the 55 had turned "Well, go get another computer wouldn't be able to do that. I started to kick the comforter off of my on a dime and come around for a sec­ then." Her response was quicker this So I rolled over, admitting defeat, lower legs, only to find my left arm ond pass at my forehead, I was up out of time, even as she drew her hair back but deciding that whatever classes trapped between my own chest and bed like a shot. into a ponytail. "You've got at least a were left was not worth arguing with some girl's shoulder. "Registration for classes is today!" dozen guys out on the floor who you this girl anymore, and it was certainly I started up quickly, my right hand The yell made her groan again, keep an eye on every night. They'll let not worth sitting up and listening to coming up to touch my face, to make though I wasn't sure whether because you use theirs." her yell at me for her own mistakes. A sure I wasn't dreaming. The hangover of what it made her realize or because of I groaned before I responded, warm bed and a cold pillow were hit me like the one a.m. RIPTA I took her obviously splitting headache. The "They're not up. If I'm hungover, exactly what I wanted right then. back home the night before, as far as I look on her face as she glanced at the they're sure to be even worse, and I'm Something told me that in the end could remember. I groaned, my lips clock told me that, regardless of initial not going to wake one of them up so I it wouldn't make a difference what dry even as my teeth felt slimy and my reaction, the truth of the situation was can steal his computer. Plus, they'll be classes I ended up taking or who ears rang. I could tell, without touch­ dawning on her. wondering why I need to use it. And if they were with. Part of me felt sure ing it, that my hair was matted and She wrapped my sheet around her­ I tell them, they'll turn me in faster of the fact that regardless of whether greasy with sweat from a night of self like a Roman toga of some sort, and than I can blink. I've written most of or not she got what she wanted, the drinking and dancing. was across the room at my desk as I them up for much less." younger guys would be making fun But the more pressing concern, at yawned and scratched my chest. "Tell you what, if you can tell me my of this girl for years to come when the moment, was the young lady still She opened up my laptop, tapping her name, I'll let you use this damn com­ they saw her, and some of me real­ laying curled up around my waist in foot impatiently, and shouted with a puter first. But if you can't, you've got ized that in the long run, it probably the bed next to me. I tried to lift her voice that would have woken Poseidon, about a minute to get to Accinno and didn't make too much of a difference right arm off of my lap as gently as I God of the Sea, from a deep slumber. get a computer to use before seven either way. Struggling with Cyberfriar by Katie Caliva '10 Providence College Cyberfirar Portfolio Editor Emeritus 6:40 a.m - The phone that I stashed neatly under my pillow last night vibrates, jolting my body from its pleas­ ant state of numbness. I look at the screen, glowing blue and FICTION telling me to get the hell out of bed. I instinctively move for the snooze button, but stop myself. Registration. FML. Login to Secure Area 6:45 - The apartments are supposed to be wireless these days, but PC-Secure Course Catalog doesn't want to connect. It's been a prob­ lem all semester, but trying to be proac­ Semester Course Offerings tive, I spent the last three days on the Searchable view the schedule of desses for the current and future terms. phone with the Help Desk. A delightful gentleman with an Austrian-sounding RELEASE: 7.3 name assured me that I was all set. I don't blame him that I can't connect to the damn network. 6:53 - Network repaired sans break­ ing out the Ethernet cord that's been col­ lecting dust under my bed for eight months. It must be a masochistic streak that makes me struggle with PC-Secure Image from banweb3.pr0vidence.edu three days out of four instead of just giv­ ing in and using a wire. 6:59 - When I was at freshman orien­ tation, I set up a Cyberfriar account complete with a PIN. That was back in August 2006 and never has Cyberfriar ever wanted me to update that pass­ Always Looking OverYour Digital Shoulder word. Not until right now, with a minute to go before registration opens, by Kaly Thayer '10 But of course no one in the tinue to get locked out of registration with me freaking out because there's no Portfolio Staff Registrar's office would listen to me each semester. It would make sense if way in hell I'm going to get into the when I mentioned this brilliant plan to there were server overloads, or that ethics class that I want and I'm trying to What they don't know really can them. Fools. people in only a particular building or graduate a semester early due to the hurt them. After the fiasco that was my second after a particular time got locked out. receding economy and I just really don't Or more specifically, WHO they semester registration, I decided that This is not the case. I am a scalpel, not | want to take an 8:30 class on Fridays as don't know can hurt them. this madness had to stop. I could not a chainsaw. a bloody senior. I learned it all the hard live allowing my genius to atrophy, The administration might have Breathe. FICTION way when I was a fresh­ languishing in Psych 101 and Intro to something to say about it, but if tech 7:03 -1 changed my password. Now man. Ok, fine, I can go Lit. So instead of permitting the sys­ support can't understand it, can't all there is left is to put in a bunch of along with the idea that tem to enslave me, command my intel­ discover my artful machinations, CRNs and pray to the god of the seniors get to register first because ligence, herd me like one among so then how could those stiffs? I mean I Internet that the network doesn't time they've been here long enough, and many dumb cattle to the academic come on, they don't even know the out while processing my request. Does then juniors after them and so on. On slaughterhouse, I rebelled. difference between Ubuntu and Al Gore listen to general intercessions? paper, that system makes sense. Now I enslave the system. Solaris. Please. 7:05 - Damn you, Al Gore. I'm going But anyone who's ever actually had Do you remember that time in Civ Now, I am the master, and you all to bum some greenhouse gasses just to a "drawing board" knows that nothing when you made fun of my glasses? dance at the end of my many fiber­ spite you. Even better, I'll bum Tipper. on paper ever works like it's supposed And you, do you remember that time optic puppet strings. You will live in 7:09 - My second attempt is sucess- to in the real world. in Ray when you saw me sitting in fear, never knowing if that nerd in ful. Thanks, Al. I take back the bit The better model would be to let class­ the corner, working on my laptop, the corner is the one who could per­ about your wife. es out for a day, open the campus servers and laughed at me? Now, do you manently prevent you from taking 7:15 - I crawl back into my bed, wak­ at 5:00 a.m., and put each student remember getting locked out of that any of the classes you so deeply ing up my roommate in the process. through an intellectual obstacle course. really juicy history course last week? desire. Would you like to be stuck Yesterday she registered with nary a Those who complete it the fastest are Do you? taking 8:30 marathons for the rest of care, snagging spots in every class that likely the smartest and so deserve to have Revenge is sweeter than week-old your tenure at Providence College? I she wanted. Through half-opened eyes the privilege of first selection of courses. Mountain Dew. didn't think so. she asks me how it went. Those who aren't so quick...tough luck. Tech support can't understand why Phear, minion. PH34R!!! I groan, pull the covers over my A Darwinian approach to registration. so strange a smattering of people con­ head. It's going to be a long day. 23 The Cowl Portfolio April 30, 2009 When It's All Said and Done, It's Not Easy Being a Writer by Daniel James '11 loathing, frustration, suppressed you I'd stare at you dumbfounded dark, because that's when the honesty Portfolio Staff emotions, and absurd situations. before trying to change the subject, but comes out. But I've also learned that I hate myself sometimes. There's no it's there. There's always a reason to get even the dark guarantees another day I'm sitting on a cliff overlooking a rhyme or reason to why I do, or how I up in the morning, and even if I don't in some way. quarry in my previous college town feel about myself, but I'm trying to be know what it is, I'm still going to wake It's never easy being a writer. watching the sun set on the horizon. better. I'm learning to let go of the up and try to figure it out. There are things I have to do and My fraternity brothers have been call­ petty things. Life is bad enough at I still want you in my life. I'm say that I don't always like. ing me and asking me if I'm times to carry additional weight, but if sorry I haven't made more of an Sometimes I have to make you cry. FICTION going to be around tonight, you're able to find the good in the effort to keep you in it lately. As time Sometimes I have to make you since I'm visiting for the moment then that should be enough. I goes on and things get busy, it's hard depressed. Sometimes I need you to first time in a while and guess you could say that right now I'm to always be in constant touch. You hate me. It's a career hazard, but it's they want me to come see them. I reas­ at a point in my life where I'm learning and I both know that. But I'd be one I knew was coming when I took sure them that I will be there, but that to try and find the good. It's not always lying if I said that I didn't want you the job. The most important thing I I will be out for a while. In truth, I have easy to find, even with all that I'm in my life, through thick and thin. can do for you through all of this is no idea how long I'll be gone, or when blessed with. More often than not, I'm I have a lot of problems in my life. make you think. I can pointlessly I'll be back. All I have is the present in weighed down by my own personal Those demons have shown themselves tug at emotional topics all day, but if which to exist. Despite that, I can't help problems that are eating at me from throughout the course of my writing. I I haven't at least provoked some but dwell on the past. the inside like a black hole. I'm learn­ know it scares you, and that some­ level of thought, I've failed you. I've had hard times opening up, ing that, even though I may always times it sounds like I'm writing to glo­ I love you all. I can't dedicate but despite that, I've never lied in struggle to see whatever light there rify it, but I'm not. These are things every word I write to you guys, and my writing. I think about this as I sit may be, there is always something to that consume my life. My biggest fear I can't promise that I'll ever find the on the ledge, listening to the wind smile about. is not dying prematurely, but drown­ words to properly express the grati­ whip through the trees and cause the Sometimes it's you. ing in a sea of apathy that's drifted me tude for everything you've all done water in the quarry to splash against Sometimes I can't help but wake up so far away from you all that we don't for me. But I can say that, sitting the cliff. I always felt that honesty is in the morning, rubbing my head, even recognize each other. But I'm here alone watching the sun sink, I the only way to truly write well, wishing that I had a better reason to going to change, slowly but surely. I do realize it. I do see everything you because if you're not honest, even in get out of bed other than my pestering see your hand extended to keep me all do for me, and I promise that it the most abstract of fiction, you're alarm. Sometimes I wake up in love from floating away, and believe me won't go unrequited. I will always be wasting time. Writing is meant to be with life. Sometimes I wake up with when I say that in my own style, I'm there, and I will never forget what something personal that you share my head throbbing and little to no reaching out to grab it. you've done for me. When it's all with the world. If you're lying in memory. But regardless of how I wake The sun is setting right now. I can said and done though, all I want is your writing, you're lying to your­ up, I'm still going to get out of bed and watch it sink on the horizon, signal­ for you guys to be happy and here self. Even in my most insane fiction carry on with the day because there is ing an invitation for the night to with me. pieces, I've never lied. That's why a reason I'm here. I don't know what it appear. Even though Hemingway people read stories about self is and if you asked me to explain it to taught me that it's hard to hide in the A Piece of History by Nicole Amaral '10 His son, Benjamin, easily dominates April Clipshow Portfolio Editor the plot, as his headstone is twice the by Bobby Bretz '12 size of the rest. Perhaps he was a bit Portfolio Staff I share my front yard with some hill of himself? interesting folks. They're a quiet and There are a few stones with nothing unassuming group, modest and dig­ on them but a name. Money must have nified, gazing at me indifferently been tight then. And as a sobering Zoo, zoo, I went to the zoo every time I pull into my reminder of the realities of life in the Today, and saw a tree kangaroo ESSAY driveway. I'm not talking 18th century, there are a few very And a binturong too. about a group of well- small, scattered stones with nothing mannered squatters, but written on them at all. These were rather an old graveyard. some of the Munro children. When I waked I cried to dream again This little plot belonged to the Some might think that living so The masquerade so well made in my head Munro family, who owned the land close to a graveyard is creepy, but I've That when I waked I cried to dream again. mine and my neighbors' houses cur­ never felt that way. Maybe I'm just rently sit on in used to it. If And when she spake I tried to see again the late 18th and there are ghosts A soldier once, and old, but not yet dead early 19th cen­ around, they've For when she spake I tried to see again. turies. Tucked in never bothered the front comer of me. They There's a waiting list my yard, it's often haven't seemed the first thing At the Belvedere; to mind us kids Her name's not on it, people notice running amok upon coming to on their former She's already here. my house. property over And she's a free spirit The family is the years, or- my (An alcoholic), of no relation cats who often A work of art to mine, and nap in the shade (A Jackson Pollock). technically the of the stones in graveyard is not nicole amaral'io/The Cowl the summer. Sabbath morn upon the quad part of our property, even though it's The family didn’t stay for long after In post-apocalyptia inside the stone wall that surrounds Benjamin and his wife died in the my yard. About once a summer, the 1830s. They packed up and moved to We pilgrims stumble sticky-shod Public Works Department will send a Iowa, where Benjamin's son became a Awaiting ghost Carpathia. guy with a weed whacker to clean the prosperous farmer. place up, but that’s usually unneces­ My connection with the family So pick me up from off the floor, sary because my dad often does that continues in a more real way than I'm in an Oxford coma; himself, as well as keeping the old just sharing the front yard. On three Pass the pitcher, pour some more, stones from falling over, as they some­ separate occasions, a Munro descen­ We're all in Oxford comas. times do. My family has developed a dent has shown up at my house and rather strange affection for our "neigh­ asked to look around the graveyard. And lay me down among the blows, bors" over the years. One of them had uncovered I'm in an Oxford coma; I took the graveyard for granted Benjamin's son's diary, which record­ We can't wait for the encore show, until about the sixth grade, when the ed in meticulous detail the daily history geek gene that runs way back activities of his life on the Iowa farm. We're all in Oxford comas! in my family finally kicked in. Before From this, she was able to write a that, it was just a convenient setting for book on early 19th century farm life, So we sing through the night my childhood Halloween parties. as well as on her own family history. Of the Gaspee surprise, Sometime after learning about the While it might just be me and my Of the fires and lights American Revolution for the umpteenth inner nerd that finds the Munro In the whites of their eyes, time, I noticed some of the famous dates graveyard cool and not creepy, I From the hills and the vales of the war and dates on the gravestones can't help but be fascinated by these All the gales and cries corresponded. Knowing these people people and make up stories about Of the sails, of the sails, were alive then made history seem real their life and relationships, the Of the sails. to me for the first time. things their few records don't fill in. John Munro was the family patri­ For as long as my family continues Went to the city arch, dying in 1793 at the ripe old age to live where we do, we'll take care To stand in the crowd of 91. His stone has an angel perched of the Munros, because, after all, at the top, looking down at his name. I they're pretty good "neighbors": And watch the scene in silence. like imagine him as a happy old they're quiet, they keep to them­ Don't interview me, geezer, especially loved by his grand­ selves, and always make for an inter­ I don't have no beliefs— children. He must have been doing esting conversation starter. I simply came for the violence. something right in order to have lived so long back then. April 30, 2009 Portfolio The Cowl 24 On Mortality: A Celestial Chasing God Away Perspective by Conor Leary 'll Portfolio Staff by Alex BetGeorge 'ii Portfolio Staff Author's Note: The following is the introduction to a novel entitled We [It is said that one dies twice. The first Chased God Away death is that of the body. The second is when others' memories of oneself Our Father who art not in Heaven. Where have you gone? vanish, or worse: become obscure.] The dawn was tired. The earth Emma Lou yawned a gaping horizon as dry light stares down from her place spilled through the dusty air. It fizzled at the spherical plane like snow on a broken television, any of atmosphere binding the earth channels of interest and while cradled in the spooned slope FICTION entertainment disconnect­ of a lunar crater, ed for an unknown amount one of many whose of time. No heat changed shadows mar the moon's night into day for the sun and its stretching rays rose behind an iron Image from whiskeysierragraphics.com fullness, but curtain, the layer of smog finger-paint­ from the brim of the cowboy hat make the Man's face. ed by some eccentric artist. It had been covering his skull. Teardrops freezing to her face, too long since he had seen the sun's Their costume was similar Emma Lou gazes through space ampleness, the wanderer stopped on a although the companion wore through nonexistent molecules hill to watch black brighten into gray. tighter jeans dyed pure black, the in the black vacuum He had not shaved and he was sur­ silky material of a black shirt dan­ between herself and prised that his jacketed chin and jaw gling over his torso. He held his the contents of that spherical plane. lines grew a brown beard. It used to arms robustly over his chest and take him weeks to sprout stubble, they pulled the beaten leather of his And the latter include when his boyish features made him coat around him. A depressing her image gliding over Father's seem younger than he actually was. shawl hung over his grizzly fea­ Boyish used to be a good term. vacant eyes. tures, but the dawn light scratched He stood as straight as possible, his crow's feet and wrinkles about his One might say his heavy-lidded eyes shoulders crooked beneath a beaten forehead, eyes, and mouth. The trap the wisdom of age behind them, coat, his body trembling within leather wanderer did not know his age, but as not to share it with the world. skin as it suffered to stop the continu­ their journey obliterated identities One might say his tightly drawn I ips ous, routine exercise of walking. His by lending no aid to the senses. The —crinkled by time's spider webs— legs had driven over broken tracks companion was as battered and withhold that wisdom dragging Levi anchors and old boots beaten as he and yet the wanderer Father struggles not to utter. that were victims to stumbling. His could only be sure of the digits that But if one knew, he would say torso twitched as he breathed in the air had been counted since his birth. these things were the mannerisms and the air spread throughout his dis­ The companion's reflection like the mal anatomy. It prickled and whistled of a man, made lunatic wanderer's when he peered into a a cold wind out of his nostrils, his still puddle of water did not reveal from excess time: mouth, and the ducts of his eyes. His his age. living years past his expected death date eyes stared weakly. They searched for "He gave no word if he'd be gone and years past his wife's death. light and watched from afar as the when we awoke?" Emma Lou knows light became gray. It was the scoff that caused the wan­ her image is preserved in a He carried a bag. It hung like a derer to move after his question left his mad-man's half gone mind. swing burdening the limb of a front lips. His knee bent at the exhalation yard tree and slanted his posture to the companion released, a seethe like If she peers long enough the left. His concentration counted the forgotten jackal's snicker. He into his vacant pupils, cans of food hidden beneath the turned his vision away, his broken eye­ she sees the reflection of flap along with utensils and little lids sealing for a moment over his tubes and containers of hygienic her once childlike face, shadowy eyes. materials. He checked off the sup­ "When does the shepherd ever which then lost plies in his mind. The numbers reveal his plans to leave us? He its girlish softness changed with each picture of nox­ promises to always go and return, as it waned into maturity. ious dawn, always depleting and but why should we have faith? He And that is almost all that changed: littering the pathways at his back. said it himself; it doesn't belong in The bag still bulged at the bottom this world anymore." You see, like the gullet of a choking monster The wanderer watched the compan­ by her teens, the old suffering its avarice, strangled by ion drift carefully away. man traipsed about the whole meal twisted in its throat. The incline led to a ravaged ghet­ the house's creaking floors, The material had been broken in and to, transportable and founded for indented, always to bewitch the dull the single night the shepherd had reduced to stofnach with a venomous joke. He told them they would be staying. uttering, muttering, murmuring weighed it as he lingered, counting The wanderer never wandered very delirious witticisms. its contents like seconds slipping far from the small contingent of sur­ She knew he could continue sand-like beyond its fraying threads. vivors. They were all outcasts trav­ uttering, muttering, murmuring He never looked back to see the sup­ eling through the desolate world, and maintain a self-sufficient existence, plies disappear. six left. but instead she chose The companion joined the wan­ The shepherd had a way of forcing to build herself a high, wired derer and relayed into the wind them to listen to his command with­ fence of denial obsolete words. Swears, curses, and out there being dominance. He was -that penned her in an malignant inventions of the archaic not king for his philosophy told that language no longer disturbed the enduring solitude. any man who wished to rule the wanderer. They became meaningless -that kept out the world's world in its current state was mad. and mute. Their severity floated Tension always existed; However, on remainder—being everything but through the dead atmosphere and mornings the survivors would awak­ the flowers and trees to whom intermingled with the specks of dust en and find his tarp empty, no pres­ she told her secrets. without disturbing their swirling ence beneath its protection rising But flora have descents. Even though the wanderer like a petrified corpse. no memories had stopped to pray, had risen earli­ The wanderer listened to the that cleave to them er than the companion to take in the scratching wind as it fed the dam­ season to season damning sight with a particle of age to the earth, drowning in the hope, he was still unaffected. The violent cracks all around and suck­ In the end, companion had come up to swear. ling the lukewarm temperature. It her life was shortened There was no way to identify who was nothing like a spring day, but said what. never a swelter or a plummeting of by the Whatever, Whoever that rules "Where do you think he has gone?" degrees that would leave his the universe on the day The companion spoke in the same bruised bones frozen. that fair-skinned angel slurred spew he had littered the pol­ Something had happened to the with fiery hair luted air with. weather when the world had decid­ took Emma Lou up, The wanderer remained entranced, ed to die before many qf its inhabi­ away from there. ignorantly watching the same dust tants. The wanderer had imagined And on that day, pellets float amongst the gray land­ Hell to spring up from the ground as she died twice: scape. He examined the compan­ punishment. He imagined the Once, when her heart ion's unturned face. He too showed decapitating loss would be cold, that his eyes the vile picture, the oven ceased to beat. being so far away would bring ice baked sky soaked by asphyxiating into his very veins. But the world Again, as all smoke. They were sunken in shad­ remained a cool place, perfect to that remained was ow, blackness erasing attractive wear a light windbreaker every day, Father's warped memory hues surrounding the central pupils. when it chased God away. of that diligent housekeeper, He craved the shadows, it seemed, that dutiful wife. for a blindfold of shade reached 25 The Cowl Portfolio April 30, 2009 Getting Around Campus on the "Friarbolt" by Tom Nailor '12 I write this essay merely to outline ting to Civ about two minutes faster enough will tell you, I am a particu­ Portfolio Staff for all of you out there why it is that I than usual walking pace makes quite larly ridiciulous person; I'm always am so inclined to ride "The Friarbolt," the difference when Father Terence tripping over my own two feet, my If you are reading this right now, as it has been affectionately called by Keegan is lecturing on the Council of laugh is obnoxious at best, and I'm then you probably already know who some, around PC's campus. Trent at 8:30 and I drag myself out of always saying exactly what's on my I am. On the other hand, maybe you First and foremost, there is the obvi­ bed at 8:29. mind, as soon as it pops up. What bet­ are sitting in Ray right now, ous aspect of speed. Regardless of how In addition, there is the obvious ter mode of transportation to let peo­ ESSAY Poking down at a plate of ridiculous I appear while doing so, value inherent in riding anything ple know all of that, than with my scrambled eggs with a side there is no argument against the fact faster than the general population: good old Razor scooter from (the now of soggy Cheerios, wonder­ that I can now get myself from people turn to look. Regardless of how defunct) Sharper Image. ing just how much money you spent at McDermott Hall down past Ray, across many people know who I am on cam­ More importantly is the fact that, Clubbies last night and why you chose Huxley, and down to the Smith Center pus, upon being introduced to some­ while feeling however many pairs of to register for Civ first thing in the for rehearsal in less time than it takes one, I have gotten on at least a few eyes turn to watch me weave in morning. If it is the latter, or some vari­ Pete Townsend to sing "Let My Love occasions an enthusiastic (or even between crowds as I zoom by, bopping ation of that, then you might not know Open the Door." For those less-than- aghast) response of '*Oh, you're my head to whatever sort of insanity who I am. enthusiastic Townsend fans (few as Scooter Kid!" Now, while I would my iPod has chosen as the theme music Maybe you just flipped open The there may be,) that means I can get never describe myself as someone who for that day, I get to experience the Cowl and decided to browse through there in less than two minutes and 45 needs the attention, it's always nice to wind in my face, the warmth of the sun, the Portfolio section. And if that's the seconds. Now, I cannot argue that it be noticed for something. and a general feeling of freedom. I case, then you might not recognize the does not work as uphill, but still—get­ Now, as anyone who knows me well never really experience that walking for byline. I can't really expect you to, whatever reason, but scootering cer­ since the number next to it means that tainly lets me. "The Friarbolt" gets me I'm just finishing my first year at PC where I am going, and I think it makes with this short essay. However, I can at least a few people around campus think of one thing that you've proba­ chuckle either with me or at me. bly seen me doing as you walked In the end, I can only hope that this around campus. Even if you don't article has helped some people to rec­ know my name, you've probably seen ognize why I've chosen the scooter, a spiky-haired someone scooter by most ridiculous of vehicles, as my quickly, weaving to avoid knocking mode of transportation. If I scooter by, into people or almost giving himself a earphones in, and I don't respond to concussion when he hops off and spins your greeting, it's not anything against said scooter over his left shoulder. Just you. I'm most likely just running in case you haven't already guessed, behind for class, or just enjoying the that someone would be me. feeling of the wind in my face. I sup­ Now why would I scooter around pose that if, as an Argentinean proverb campus, you might be asking yourself? I read in the New Yorker last week says, What would possess a young man of 19 "A small town is a vast Hell," and, if as years to choose such a ridiculous form I do, we can consider Providence of conveyance, when there are so many College a small town, I am just going others: A bicycle for example, even a to keep scootering in between the lakes skateboard if I wanted to go for a cer­ of fire, the mountains of sulphur, and tain image, or, as everyone else seems ride past Satan himself for the next few to prefer, my own two feet? weeks as we finish out the year. TOM NAILOR '12/The Cowl

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stable place, one letter at a time . . .

Dear Brad, Dear Bro-Bra, First of all, there's It's a good thing no shame in not that you haven't wanting to gradu­ spent your whole ate. It's always year not saying the annoying to have a "g-word," because Debbie Downer in This Week... frankly, if you the group, but a haven't received the healthy respect for gift of gonorrhea the end of an era is once during your not wrong. Get it Out of Your System Now college career then What might be wrong is displacing you are not quite ready for graduation. your angst about graduating on to You're still a fledgling senior if you this girl. I like a fling as much as the haven't made that awkward ride to the next gal but the timing for this one is doctor's. It's a step in every man's life that questionable. What if you weren't should be taken before you start trekking graduating and were hypothetically to more sophisticated and expensive bars. going to be in college with her forev­ You know what I'm talking about, the er? Would you still want to make a ones where beers cost about six dollars move then? Dear Tiffany and Earl, and it costs about $40 to get a girl back to If your only motivation for finally your apartment. acting on your feelings is that you're I'm not the type of senior who spent the whole year not saying To answer your question as quickly as never going to see her again, you're a the "g-word" or pointing out to my friends that we were possible, so that I can spend the rest of my coward at best. time debating the credibility of my part­ I also take some issue with putting a quickly losing time to cross things off of our PC bucket list. But ner there to my left: yes, go for it. If she is living, breathing human being on your now, with commencement looming, I am sort of worried about as promiscuous as the young and impres­ bucket list. Bucket lists should have the state of my bucket list. sionable Tiff, then she will not reject a lin­ bars and restaurants, and crazy antics gering eye or even a nice grab on the bum like swan diving in to Narragansett Mainly there's a girl that I've had a thing for since freshman as she begins her walk of shame out of Bay. Not girls. It's a level of misogynis­ Civ. How much of a jerk would I be if I went for her right now? your dorm. tic objectification that I can't handle. So As for adding a living, breathing girl to I'm going to go ahead and assume that I mean, it'd be just be a pre-graduation fling. No harm, right? your bucket list congrats on figuring out you were kidding, or just used the this puzzle so early in your existence. My bucket list as a cute segue because you —Bro Bradley bucket list is duttered with people who were scared to come out and present are in dire need of a mustache ride, bullet your vulnerability. It's okay, most guys to the brain, or an Ed Gein-esque mount­ are like that. ing on my studio wall. So, you want to go for her and noth­ Try to start adding buildings and ing I can say will change it. If you're places to your bucket list. This will make determined to do it, do it right. for entertaining weekends as you pass Be honest with her; don't feed her Write to Tiffany and Earl! those establishments that you're not too any nonsense, even if you do decide at fond of. There are many places that have the end of Senior Week that your feel­ AskTiffanyEarl@yahoo. com walls yet to be urinated on, bathrooms yet ings for her are legitimate. to be defiled, or windows that need a Have fun, be safe, and don't be a cad. mysterious hand grenade thrown through them.gARL 26The Cowl Advertisement April 30, 2009 April 30, 2009 Seqris. The Cowl 27 Friars Scoreboard

Scores — Standings — Statistics -- Schedules -- Standouts Standouts

Charles Dewey Danielle Bertolette Men's Track Softball Senior—Worcester, Mass. Junior—Temecula, Calif.

Dewey posted the fastest time in the 800- Bertolette pitched a no-hitter in a 10-0 win meter leg of the Distance Medley at the against St. John's on Sunday, April 26. It was Penn Relays. only the third no-hitter in PC's history. Scores Schedules Thursday, 4/23 Thursday, 4/30 Women's Track at Penn Relays Individual Results Softball vs. Notre Dame 1:00 p.m. Men's Track at Penn Relays Individual Results Softball vs. Notre Dame 3:30 p.m.

Friday, 4/24 Friday, 5/1 Softball at South Florida L, 6-1 Lacrosse vs. Siena (MAAC Tournament) 1:30 p.m. Softball at South Florida L, 5-4 Women's Track at Penn Relays Individual Results Saturday, 5/2 Men's Track at Penn Relays Individual Results Softball at Connecticut Noon

Saturday, 4/25 Sunday, 5/3 Lacrosse vs. Siena L, 8-5 Lacrosse vs. TBA (MAAC Tournament) Noon Women's Track at Penn Relays Individual Results Men's Track at Tenn Relays Individual Results

Sunday, 4/26 Softball at St. John's W, 3-1 Softball at St. John's W, 10-0 Women's Track at Brown Inv. Individual Results Men's Track at Brown Inv. Individual Results

Standings Big East Softball(Top 10) (4/30) MAAC Lacrosse (4/30)

Big East Overall Big East Overall Team W L w L Team w L w L DePaul 18 3 34 11 Siena 8 0 10 5 Notre Dame 15 3 34 14 Manhattan 5 3 9 7 Louisville 18 4 44 7 Providence 5 3 6 9 USF 11 9 32 20 Mount St. Mary's 5 3 5 9 Syracuse 11 9 28 18 Saint Joseph's 4 4 6 9 St. John's 11 11 24 22 Marist 4 4 4 9 Connecticut 10 11 28 18 Canisius 3 5 4 9 Providence 8 11 16 31 VMI 2 6 3 11 Seton Hall 10 14 24 30 Wagner 0 8 1 15 Pittsburgh 7 13 21 22 28 The Cowl Sports April 30, 2009 SOFTBALL: In the Hunt LAX: Four Seniors Will for a Tourney Berth Graduate this Season continued from back page continued from back page showed that it is a force to be reckoned managed to rally and score five runs to first face-off and sprinted down the Bryan, Labadini, Dan Ryan, and John with, especially given the team's .960 ultimately defeat the Friars. In game field to bounce a shot past Siena's goal­ Tunney. The team will not simply be fielding percentage. one, Grosso and senior Alisha Levin keeper and tie the score at two. With losing four seniors, but also a two-sea- The Friars got on the board early split the pitching duties, three innings 7:31 left in the third quarter, Labadini son captain, a four-year starter, a lead thanks to some crafty running by apiece. Grosso gave up six earned runs, scored off an on-target feed from attacker, and an incredible goalkeeper. Huber, who drew a base on balls. The but Levin came in for three innings of freshman Pete Wujciak. Positions that are not easy to fill. rookie right fielder then stole second, scoreless relief. However, the Friar Two straight goals for Siena put the "All four guys contribute something and subsequently advanced to third offense could not gain any momentum, Saints ahead 5-3 with 1:27 remaining special to the team every time they on a wild pitch. She scored on another and only put one run on the board in in the third. As time started to run out, step out onto the field," said Burdick. wild pitch to put the Friars on top 1-0. the fifth thanks to a double by Sheehy Sienna notched one more goal at the "It has been a pleasure coaching these Insurance came in the Providence that scored Revens. 12:13 mark of the final quarter, to give four seniors and watch them as they fifth by way of a Sheehy double that Providence, now at 7-11 in the Big the Saints a 6-3 advantage. win games and face adversity." sent Huber and Revens home. The hit East and in seventh place in the stand­ In the next six minutes, the deter­ For these four seniors, their last test was Sheehy's team-leading 10th on the ings, will return to Raymond Field for mined Friars got back in the game with at battling adversity on the lacrosse season, and helped to boost her lofty the final home doubleheader of the two goals from Tigh. Catching the field will come this weekend at the batting average to .375. But the entire season against Notre Dame on opponent off guard, Tigh scored his MAAC Championship Tournament. Providence batting order has been pro­ Thursday, April 30. The Friars con­ second goal off a lengthy downfield Burdick feels that if the team does not ducing when called upon, which is clude the regular season with a road pass from PC's senior goal keeper, give up too many critical possessions good news heading into the most criti­ doubleheader against Connecticut on Robert Bryan, and during a PC penal­ and maintains the tempo of the game, cal part of the season. Saturday, May 2. Tournament play ty. This goal marked the team's first then the Friars will come out on top in "We're strong in the lineup one commences on Thursday, May 7 in man-down goal of the season. their upcoming post-season contest. through nine, and we have players Louisville, Ky. Unfortunately, Providence could not "Having lost the last three games, it who can pinch hit, who have added If the momentum from the St. John's move any closer than one, and man­ could be easy to pack up and ship depth offensively," said Coach doubleheader can be carried over into aged to let the game slip away from out," said Burdick. Jacklets. "We've been getting better at- this week's play, there are seemingly them. Siena's final two goals secured However, Burdick is confident that bats because we've been talking about no limits to the success that this team the Saints the 8-5 win. the Friars will respond positively in getting scrappy, doing the little things seems poised and eager to achieve. As always, the end of the regular sea­ Friday's competition. that are a part of the game." "We could [do very well this week] son signifies change and adjustment as "They have the ability to play with To that end, the Friars will be suc­ if we play like we played Sunday," the team prepares to transition not only Sienna. The outcome of this game will cessful if they can effectively bunt, and said Coach Jacklets. "It's about believ­ into post-season play, but begins to look be determined by how well they han­ draw walks when necessary—two ele­ ing in what you can do, and in what ahead to next year. Last Saturday's dle this opportunity." ments of their game which were in full we know we can do." game marked PC's final MAAC regular force against St. John's. "We're really coming into these last season game before the Friars move The doubleheader against USF was a four games on a high note," said into the extremely competitive Big East frustrating outing for Providence, par­ Bertolette. "We just want to play well Conference next season. ticularly game two, which the Friars led and make the [Big East] Tournament." In addition, the squad will also be www.TheCowl.com through the seventh inning, 4-0. USF graduating four seniors, including

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continued from back page ( The athletics staff, especially Arthur Parks, and the rest of the Sports Info team, has done so much to make our broadcasts possible. WEEI, who has the rights to the games, and their broadcasters John Rooke and Joe Hassett, have been incredibly supportive as well. Without their permission, we could have never done this. John and Joe, who have been calling Friar games for the past 20 years, gave us some good pointers as well. Everyone at Providence.Scout.com has also been incredibly supportive. Rich Coren and Steve Hartnett run a great Web site, the best place to get all the Friar talk anyone could possibly want. The great DJs of WDOM and its executive board have been vital to our success as well. Without them, we would never be on the air; thanks to all the DJs who allowed their shows to be preempt­ ed. Thanks to all of my friends on the board who moved this process forward. And, finally, thanks to my family and friends and all of those who lis­ tened in, and thank you for reading this and the many articles over the years. It's been a great time.

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Join the Sports Staff of TteCcmL Pick up an application in Slavin G05. 30 The Cowl Sports April 30,2009 Bruins Advance to Friars Claim Bronze Conference Semifinals by Al Daniel '11 Medal at Penn Relays Sports Staff 1999- left a drop pass in the high slot for Shane Hnidy to reel home goal. by Chris torello '11 just behind the leaders. I was able to In the initial aftermath of Andrei Ryder—who was unceremoniously Sports Staff give us the lead as I kicked for home Kostitsyn's icebreaker—a simple snap­ discharged by the Canadiens and with about 700 meters to go in my leg The Providence Men's Track Team com­ and handed it off to Dominic. He ran a per from the near circle top that floated claimed as a free agent last summer to be peted at the 115th running of the Penn over Bruins' goaltender Tim Thomas' reunited with former coach Claude great leg for a freshman, having no Relays held at Franklin Field at the experience, but the other teams like glove a mere 39 seconds Julien—unleashed a carbonated lust for University of Pennsylvania from NHL h>to the game—the desper­ vengeance in stoking a second period Arkansas, who would go on to win the Thursday through Saturday, race, just had the stronger runners on ate Montreal Canadiens scoring outburst to wrest Game 2 out of April 23-25. The event began wasted no time sculpting a reach. He assisted on Marc Savard's TRACK & the third leg. Hayden grabbed the FIELD back in 1895 and has grown baton for the final leg and made a fair 14-4 edge in the shooting gallery in a power play connection at 8:13 and then to have thousands of entries matter of 12 minutes. For all of their busi­ caught his old associates "sleepskating" bit of ground on both the Virginia and each year and brings out Arkansas runners to close the gap nesslike vows to promptly put their in the waning seconds to deliver a high­ competitors of all ages. adversaries away, it appeared as though flying wrist shot that finalized a 5-1 down the stretch." The Friars began their run last The Friars finished third, earning Boston had stashed its series-long pas­ knockout.kn< Thursday night in the individual dis­ sion in a sauna behind their dressing Back in the oft-treacherous Montreal them a bronze medal in the event. "We tance events, where junior Tom Webb were delighted to get third, which room to start Game 4 of the Eastern mansion for Game 3, the Bruins initially placed second in the 5,000 meters by Conference quarterfinals. spilled a 1-0 deficit in the 12th minute of gives us great confidence for next year running a personal-best time of and we will be going back with every Turns out it was just temporarily the opening frame. But a freak home­ 14:22.56. Webb's time qualifies him for veiled by the corrupted Canadiens' ward bound tip-in via Phil Kessel with 85 intention of winning," said McCarthy. the Big East and IC4A races. The Friars will compete during this expectable sugar rush. And as long as seconds till intermission revitalized their "The race went much better than I never-exhausting cliches are being emit­ command. Foil-fisted forward Shawn had expected," said Webb. "I felt great ted during postgame interviews, it might Thornton's slot shot at 3:36 of the second throughout the race and with the pre­ as well be noted that solid starts take a enhanced it; and none other than Ryder fect running conditions everything perennial backseat to furious finishes. cemented it when he slugged home the came together for me. I went out there The Bruins reiterated that notion once eventual game-winner at 17:21, some 12 with the goals of qualifying for the more en route to a 4-1 triumph that pol­ minutes after Yannick Weber had at least IC4A's and the Big East 5k and knew ished off the four-game sweep of the pulled the Habs even again. that I was in great shape for this race Canadiens last Wednesday, April 22, at Even before the superficially climactic and went out there to see what I could Montreal's Bell Centre. Before the hostile third period of both road games, the do and got the job done." masses could let the vision of a comeback Bruins were emitting a vibe of cast-iron Sophomore Nicholas Barao also ran sit and solidify during intermission, momentum. It showed in Game 3 as they a personal-best in the 5,000 meters, as Boston linemates David Krejci and toned down the offensive flair and he finished in a time of 14:55.01. Michael Ryder collaborated on two scor­ focused on confining Montreal's offense On Friday, the men's team competed ing plays at 17:27 and 19:25 to swiftly to five shots on net within the last twen­ in the distance medley race. The four- swipe away the lead. ty minutes. Meantime, Chuck Kobasew man squad was comprised of junior Such was the chief motif of this series. took their seventh registered shoot of the Hayden McLaren, sophomore Thomas Beyond Game 1, a 4-2 decision at TD period into a vacant cage to close out a 4- Manglavitti, senior Charles Dewey, Banknorth Garden that was plainly the 2 victory. and sophomore David McCarthy. The most competitive contest of all, the Habs And in the finale, Kessel and Ryder team ran well and placed fourth in the could not tune the Bruins' mesh without had already swollen the score from 2-1 to Championship of America race with a undergoing a response before the next 4-1 on two fleeting rushes at 11:58 and time of 9:37.76. buzzer. In the latter three games, Boston 12:43 of the second, respectively. Now Saturday, the final day of competi­ COURTESY OF SPORTS INFO scored the lone third period goal (an faced with a much more harrowing tion, the Friars competed in the 4 x Senior Richard Yeates ran the first leg empty netter in Game 3), certifying them deficit, Montreal devoted the last 27-odd Mile Championship of America. The 4- as the superiors in a series of practical 40- minutes primarily to absorbing ven­ of the Friars' 4 x Mile Championship of man team, the flying Europeans, were America team which took third place. minute contests. omous feedback from their followers. made up of senior Richard Yeates, From a Montreal standpoint, Game 2 One Hab, Mike Komisarek, sworn per­ McCarthy, freshman Dominic upcoming weekend as both the men offered one bite-size, five-minute piece of sonal enemy of bouncy Bruin Milan Channon, and McLaren. and women will take to the track at the assurance. With a 4-on-4 segment carry­ Ludc, escaped the bulk of the booing. He "It's a bit of a shock to the system Big East Championships held at the ing over from the first period, scoring was tagged for a major and ejected for when you first step out onto the track," University of Villanova on May 1-3. beacon Alex Kovalev made good of the clipping Ludc in the mug after absorbing commented McCarthy. "Your eyes can't "Our team looks very strong," com­ slick, less-occupied ice to saw the differ­ a routine bodycheck with 7:21 to spare. help but wander all over the stadium at mented Webb. "We have a number of ence to 2-1 at 0:46 of the middle frame. By then, though, Boston had no need the roars and chants from the people. It guys going to be running the 1500 It took the Bruins a mere 4:59 to renew to cash in on the five-minute, all-you- gets your adrenaline going and you are meters this weekend. Workouts are their multi-goal edge. Grizzled grinder can-score power play. They had had their filled with great excitement." going well, everyone is injury free, and P.J. Axelsson—the lone man left over fill of French cuisine and can now whet And as for the race, "We began the the nice weather just enhances our train­ from the team's last playoff series win in their appetites for Elite Eight action. •race with Richie [Yeates] running a ing. 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Doing so The Cowl Sports Staff to move more, eat better, stress less, much, so fast, so often that she has and strive toward healthy living, this earned the nickname "Speedy Friede." Have the NBA playoffs or the NHL playoffs been more exciting up to this point? article of appeal will be my last. Given Watching for hummingbirds at her feed­ that, as well as the fact er. Keeping a rose next to the framed pic­ To admit that I am a casual hockey LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony, that I will soon be a col­ ture of her late husband, always. HEALTH & fan is an overstatement. I normally do Kobe Bryant, Chris Paul, and Dwayne lege graduate and am With her enchanting accent (a cross FITNESS not tune in during the regular season, Wade. These names alone are reason now " presumably between her native German and the nor do I follow one team religiously. enough why the NBA playoffs have been "older and wiser," I feel British English she was taught), Friede However, when the fight for Lord more engaging this year than ever before. as though I'm expected to say some­ makes everything sound beautiful. In Stanley's Cup begins, I start to pay Combine that with unanticipated parity thing profound. I'll make no promises, fact, inspired by the name of her apart­ attention more closely. The NBA play­ across the league and this postseason is but here it goes. ment building, Buckingham, in an offs are too long and dull. More often shaping up to be an event you can't miss. This column aims to guide you, the apartment complex called London than not the team with home-court The NBA has traditionally been a reader, towards making healthy deci­ Square she has answered her phone advantage wins the series. The NHL league where top seeds advance and sions for a more physically gratify­ every Saturday morning since I can playoffs are different than other pro­ drama is nonexistent. 2009, however, is a ing, emotionally satisfying, happier remember with "Buckingham Palace, fessional leagues because of the parity. far different year. Besides LA, Denver, lifestyle. While I hope that you have Queen Friede Speaking!" How can Rarely does the NHL have games and Cleveland, each series has been a benefited from my tips and tricks for that not make you smile? handicapped by a home-ice advan­ back and forth affair. In the East, Chicago how to best fuel your body, as well as Whether it be a sunny day, a flock of tage. Instead, the team with the hottest has pushed Boston to the brink. Third my suggestions on how to fine tune birds or a delicious meal, when asked goalie is most dangerous and has the seeded Orlando was expected to domi­ your mind at an otherwise chaotic how she's doing Friede's retort is potential to make a deep run. nate Philadelphia, but has its hands full time in your life, I must confess that always "I'm on cloud nine," and insists The NHL playoffs are off to a hot start, with Andre Iguodala and the 76ers, who my expertise ends with those tips that everything is "Juzzzt Vonderful." already marked by two exciting Game 7s. find themselves in a 3-2 hole. Atlanta and and tricks. She is a woman who doesn't just The Capitals' win over the Rangers Miami continue their battle, locked up at I can tell you how many calories you embrace each day of her life, she revels marked a dramatic comeback in the two games apiece. Out West, Dallas should eat, how many miles you should in it; grateful each morning when the series for the Caps, who were down 3-1. pulled the upset of a perennial power­ run and how many yoga classes you sun rises for the opportunity to do so The Canes perseverance over the Devils house, upending third seeded San should attend, that part is easy. When it once again. was shocking to say the least. The Devils Antonio in five, and Houston is primed comes to revealing "the secret" to a Among the many ways she has held a one goal lead with the greatest to take out fourth seeded Portland. happy, healthy lifestyle, I (like many) impacted my life is my (arguably goalkeeper ever, Martin Brodeur, in net, This postseason has seen remarkable am still trying to figure that out. annoying to some) insistence of sleep­ but somehow found themselves elimi­ performances unlike any other. Dwight Maybe you'll stop reading here, ing with the blinds open. Friede taught nated after giving up two goals in the Howard is averaging 24 points and in because you think I'm a fraud; that I me to sleep with the blinds up, so I can final minute. President Trophy winners, his series against Philly. Derrick Rose don't know what I'm talking about. wake up to the sunshine in the morn­ the San Jose Sharks, were knocked out of dropped 36 points and 11 assists in Maybe what I have to say won't ing: a reflection of my own whole­ the first round by the No. 8 seed game 1 against Boston, only to be out­ impact your life, or even your day. hearted aspiration to mimic her posi­ Anaheim Ducks. Comparatively, the done by Pierce the rest of the series. Fans Maybe it will. tivity. Through her, I have learned that NBA No. 1 seeds handily won their series have responded to this new look of the I may not have yet attained it, but I there is unparalleled value in being and are prohibitive favorites to advance NBA playoffs—as both attendance and have seen what the "happy and healthy" hopeful, finding beauty and genuinely to the NBA Finals. Thus far only the television ratings have spiked. Tell that looks like, so I'll share the wealth. appreciating the people you meet and Celtics-Bulls and Magic-76ers matchups to the NHL, which has boasted only four You'll be surprised to hear that the the places you go during your lifetime. have offered overtime thrillers and of its forty four Stanley Cup playoff happy and healthy I know, aspire to Over her 90 years, she has felt loss, buzzer beaters. At this point, it is a crap­ games on national television. and hope to share with you doesn't suffered hardship, struggled with lone­ shoot to predict who might faceoff in the This is just the beginning for the look the way you might expect it to; liness, and wanted to give up as will Stanley Cup Finals. NBA, as the potential match ups are fresh faced, fit and fabulous. To me, you and I. Queen though she may be, Round 2 has the potential to be even great. Conference title battles might happy and healthy looks a lot like my she is still, after all, human. Even on the more exciting. The highly anticipated include a Celtics-Cavaliers rematch. grandma; "a 90-year-old Queen." darkest of days, however, Friede knows matchup between the faces of the NHL, And nothing would cap the postsea­ She may be my grandma, but the life that there is always beauty to admire, Sidney Crosby and Alexander son better than a Kobe-LeBron show­ lessons Friede (pronounced free-dee) love to feel, someone to make smile and Ovechkin, could provide an offensive down in the final. I'd like to see the emanates just by being who she is are that, my friends, is her secret. By frenzy, while the Ducks and Canes will NHL try and top that. universally inspiring and relatable. An diverting her own attention to some­ attempt to pull off another upset against English-speaking German Olympic- thing more productive, a sight more the Red Wings and Bruins, respectively. level swimmer who found herself beautiful, someone, else that might just - Chris Crawford '10 - Anthony Valetino '09 engrossed in a no-kidding-fairy-tale­ be a little worse off than she, Friede love-story with an American soldier lives what looks like to me, the happiest during WWII, Friede (like many of her and healthiest life possible. generation) has certainly seen and felt So no, maybe I'm not an expert who a lot of life. can rattle off the trick to quick fix fit­ She has had the best of the best: ness, long lasting weight loss, or a enduring love, talented kids, four stress free finals week. I am, however, grandchildren, family vacations etc. smart enough to know, that even if I She has also had some of the worst. A could do so, those things would not loss of her home and belongings bring me, or you, any closer to living because of the ravages of wartime vio­ a more fulfilling life. Health and fit­ lence, discrimination after WWII due to ness are certainly crucial components her nationality, the abrupt ending to her to a satisfying lifestyle, but it's all rel­ fairy-tale when she lost her American ative. People like Friede aren't who soldier husband at age 50 to heart dis­ they are or where they are in this ease, forty years of living alone. world because they do floor crunches Despite hardships, Friede has and bicep curls all day, every day for CASH PAID remained a constant embodiment of radi­ 90 years. ance, appreciation and optimism; evi­ So my last words to you, my pro­ dence that being happy and healthy truly found statement, my grand exit? Sleep is a worthy and attainable aspiration. with your blinds open tonight. Stop Her secrets? 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32 The Cowl April 30, 2009 Sports Boss: Friars Looking to Avenge Siena Loss

Four Years of by Mollie Quinn '09 Asst. Sports Editor Emeritus Friar Sports The Providence College Lacrosse Team is confident they can beat Siena. by Ryan Holt '09 So, after a disappointing loss to the Sports Staff Saints last Saturday, April 25, the Friars will be hungrier This will be the last time I will be LACROSSE than ever as they get a writing to you. It has been a tremen­ second bite at the apple dous opportunity to be able to share on Friday, May 1. In my take on sports for The Cowl. this must-win game Attending PC gave me against Sienna, the Friars will be bat­ the chance to cover Friar tling for a ticket to the MAAC OPINION Men's Basketball, the Tournament Championship Final on team I grew up watching. Sunday, May 3. Although Sienna Growing up just a short enters the tournament with a perfect 8- walk from campus I remember hang­ 0 record in the MAAC, Providence is ing around Alumni Hall trying to certain they can correct their mistakes catch a glimpse of practice or shoot a from their previous match-up and be few baskets. I remember going to ready for a strong Saints attack. COURTESY OF SPORTS INFO games at the Dunk, missing only a "The two teams are pretty evenly Senior goal keeper Robert Bryan sent junior Col in Tigh a long pass against Siena handful in the past decade. My dream matched," said Head Coach Chris was to play for the Friars, but very Burdick. "It's not like we're facing on Saturday, April 25, which led to the Friars'first man-down goal of the year. soon I knew that was not a reality. North Carolina. I'm not one to down­ Bryan had nine saves in the loss. Going to PC gave me the next best play opponents, but I think we have opportunity. I've been able to write what it takes to beat this team." Junior Colin Tigh continued to lead assist from junior Jackson Fallon. about the team in this paper, and In their last game of the regular sea­ Providence with an outstanding per­ Unfortunately, the Saints responded broadcast the games on WDOM. I son, the Friars fell to Sienna by a score formance, contributing three goals to with two goals to pull ahead, 2-1, with couldn't have asked for much more. of 8-5. With 5:11 remaining in'the the Friar effort. Senior Bobby Labadini 9:11 remaining in the second quarter. PC athletics has undergone a trans­ game, the Friars closed the gap to just finished off his regular season career Neither team scored in the remaining formation in the past few years. The one, moving the score to 6-5. as a PC lacrosse player by adding two nine minutes of the period and Sienna current administration clearly has "It was really a 6-5 game, but we points on a goal and an assist. was able to ride their 2-1 advantage out their eyes on moving this school for- j just let the last two get away from us," The Friars attacked first, putting the for the rest of the half. ward. There is a serious commitment ■ said Burdick. "Our biggest problem ball in the back of the net at the 13:39 In the opening seconds of the second to athletics. Athletics Director Bob was that we didn't do a good job with minute mark of the opening quarter. half, sophomore Mike Bowler won the Driscoll has revitalized the athletics shot placement." The goal was scored by Tigh off an LAX/Page 28 program during his tenure. A new fit­ ness center, the renovated Dunkin' Donuts Center, better practice facili­ ties, and an increased focus on athlet­ ics giving have emerged. PC is moving Bertolette Tosses No-Hitter for Friars to compete with the best. With contin­ ued hard work and a little luck, the by John Butler '11 Friars will be able to run with anyone. Asst. Sports Editor There is, as you know, a new coach This past Sunday, the chips were here as well. Keno Davis is clearly the down for the Providence College right man for the job. We haven't yet Softball Team. The Friars had just been seen him play his style of basketball. swept on Friday in a disappointing Once he has his recruits, and he sure road doubleheader has a lot coming in this fall, I think we against the University of will all be satisfied. SOFTBALL South Florida with There are memories I will never for­ scores of 6-1 and 5-4. get. There was that Syracuse game in They were staring anoth­ 2007. It was senior day for Herb Hill, er road doubleheader against St. John's the ESPN cameras were here, and the square in the eye. They were looking to Dunk was packed. Yeah, the Friars maintain their hold on a coveted spot in may have lost that day, but it was a the Big East Tournament. great game, and the atmosphere was And they responded. Indeed, when amazing. Then there was 2008, when the hour was seemingly the darkest, they defeated the hated Huskies of the Friars answered with a full-throttle UConn not once, but twice. I remem­ attack on the Red Storm that included ber almost being stampeded at my two wins, a no-hitter by junior hurler table when everyone rushed the court. Danielle Bertolette, a gem of an outing Then, of course, there was this year's by freshman pitcher Alicia Grosso, ana Pittsburgh game. In all my years going 20 hits total for the Friar bats. to games, I do not think I've ever been "We saw [against St. John's] the as excited. We saw something people team we have put together all season," here haven't seen in over 30 years. said Friars Head Coach Kerri Jacklets. COURTESY OF SPORTS INFO It hasn't been a perfect time at PC. "The pitching was tremendous. The Junior right hander Danielle Bertolette earned the first no-hitter of her collegiate There wasn't a trip to the NCAAs, for defense was incredible—they made career on Sunday, April 26 against St. John's. The Friars went on to win the game instance. But, what can you do? They'll the kind of plays you see on with a score of 10-0. be there sooner rather than later. SportsCenter all day. The offense Not only has it been fun writing to wouldn't stop. When you put those right stuff and pitched out for us, Sheehy and junior Christy Becker in you, but I have also enjoyed being able three together, I would take that over which is what we have been talking the first inning. They added insurance to broadcast the games on WDOM. It everything we've seen this season." about all along. The offense helped her later on off of a Becker double that was something that was not done here The story of the day was Bertolette's to just pitch out, to go out there and scored junior Katelyn Revens and at PC when I arrived. I worked with a first career no-no, the first for the Friars throw pitches without having to think freshman Michelle Huber. great team, Nick Hemond doing play- in more than seven years. The right about anything else." Two more runs in the sixth from dou­ by-play, and Chris Torello who did our hander threw seven solid innings, earn­ For Bertolette, however, she bles by senior Gina Rossi and freshman halftime and pre- and post- game ing two strikeouts, and giving up just approached the game like any other, Jen Abrams, and an explosive four-run shows. Thanks, guys. two walks along the way. and did not focus on throwing a no- seventh inning sealed the deal for the There also were a great number of peo­ Bertolette encountered the most hitter; her focus was throwing strikes. girls from Smith Hill in what was a ple who made everything possible. trouble in the second inning after put­ "I just didn't think about it," said decisive 10-0 shutout victory. Former Friar Coach Tim Welsh led the ting runners at first and second fol­ Bertolette. "We were concerned with "As a team, we really stepped up for charge over two years ago. He made the lowing a hit batsman and a fielder's winning, and we go out there to do the game and the defense was amaz­ suggestion we do this, and it was with his choice to third. But she settled in and whatever it takes to win." ing," said Bertolette. "It was a quality support that we were able to do so. AD got the Red Storm to pop out twice to A 10-run showing by the batting game overall." Bob Driscoll was also very supportive. end the inning. order provided the comfort that any The matinee for Bertolette's stellar Not only did he do his best to help us out, "[The no-hitter] was a full team pitcher working toward a no-hitter outing was a grand showing by but he also was a guest on the broadcast effort," said Coach Jacklets. would kill for. The Friars never looked Grosso, who gave up just one Red several times, and I appreciate that. "[Bertolette] brought a presence which back after a double by junior Jenna Storm run on four hits. The defense correlated to the defense. She had the HOLT/Page 29 Garcia that scored senior Mary Rose SOFTBALL/Page 28