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College Voice Vol. 35 No. 8

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This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Newspapers at Digital Commons @ Connecticut College. It has been accepted for inclusion in 2010-2011 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Connecticut College. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author. Dancers perform at this weekends Fusion: Asian Cultures Exposed,fivm the Connecticut College Asian Students Association. Riding High on the Trestle Meet the cast and crew of Conn's upcoming intimate mainstage play

KIEFER ROBERTS The cast is comprised of Ben with a smaller cast, fewer cos- Zacharia '13, Emily Lake 'll, STAFF WRITER tumes and changes, and a much Logan Keeler 'll, Kristin Kerr simpler set. After Our Town ear- 'll and Ben Yahle "l'l , In addi- Last week, while being shocked lier this semester, the same can President Higdon steps out in Freeman on Saturday night. into the slushy-white realization tion, there's director Nancy Hoff- be said of Trestle; with a cast of that winter ·is definitely upon us, man of the Theater Department, five consistent characters and a eight individuals were bracing stage manager Mikey Harris '11 setting as bleak as the description themselves for their last week of and student lighting designer "generic town" can describe, the rehearsal before tech week. In ad- Andy Smith ' 11. Trestle is being play makes sense all the while Digital Signage dition to the stress of midterms produced so quickly due to the maintaining incredibly interest- and the dreaded tests, papers and way that the arts calendar falls ing characters and situations. presentations that come too soon this year. Since the Performing The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek SGAproposes a new way to access after midterms, these individuals Arts departments share many of is a play written by Naomi Wal- have bad the added pressure of the same resources, the calendar lace, and is set in the U.S. in 1936 campus information intensely-focused rehearsals from year is broken down to best ac- in the midst of the Great Depres- 6:30 to 10:30 Monday through commodate all shows and itjust sion. The play follows the lives NORA SWENSON garding the term frequently used Thursday. Think your month has so happened that this year, three and actions of Pace and Dalton, STAFPWRITER to characterize Conn students. been exhausting? Try putting up weeks was all the calendar had to two teenagers engaged in the not- Rather, he believes that in most SGA President Nathan Cornell offer. so-typical angst of growing up cases, it's a lack of awareness a contextually complex, main- '11 is spearheading a proposal stage play in just three weeks. As some will recall from last while dealing with death, loneli- and ineffective distribution of in- for digital signage on campus, year, after putting up a spectacle ness and tragedy, and struggling formation that leads to poorly at- Ladies and Gentlemen, meet along with the support of a Stu- the size and effort (costumes, 'set to find excitement and existential tended events on campus. the cast and crew of The Tres- dent Government Association- design, lighting, energy, etc.) of meaning in a time of greater dif- Cornell proposed that by tle at Pope Lick Creek, Conn's run digital signage task force that Mainstage show premiering this The Tempest, the theater depart- ficulty. streamlining the information in ment opted to follow up with includes Class of 20 II President a captivating way, community Thursday evening. Annie Match, Lambdin Senator the play Doubt, a change of pace CONTINUED ON PAGE 9 awareness and engagement would Breanne Timura '12,and Hark- inevitably increase. Currently, OPINION ness Senator William Hardy' 14. clubs and events utilize plenty of Cornell presented the issue at forms of media to get the word last Thursday's SGA meeting out: the internet (e-rnails, Face- A Letter to the Disappointed Democrats in Ernst Common Room, with book events), physical signage a PowerPoint presentation fol- (posters or slips of paper disttib- SHANNON KEATING Cave, entitled "Generation 0 lowed by questions. bone of the movement, carrying uted to mailboxes), and word of CONTRIBUTOR Faults Obama for Lack of Con- trays of appetizers for Demo- "Digital signage" is the industry mouth. Despite these attempts, tact: Young voters say they feel cratic conventions, manning the term for any use of digital display My Halloween this year start- it's not guaranteed that students abandoned." phones at campaign offices and technology, primarily of LCD, ed on a sour note, and I blame will show up to any of the events Of course we all remember hanging voter reminders on door- Plasma and LED materials, com- the New York Times. Mini po- hosted in a given week. 2008, back when politics were knobs at 5 AM on that historical municates information to with an tato pancakes at Harris were not A recent survey sent out over cool. President Obama was elect- November morning. We were audience. Though "interactive" enough to assuage the dissatis- e-mail asked students to respond ed into office with 66 percent passionate, we were devoted and signs that permit the use of touch faction curdling in my stomach to a few questions about aware- of the eighteen-to-twenty-nine- we were hopeful. screen, barcode scanning, card regarding an article by Damien ness levels of events on campus, year-old vote. We were the back- CONTINUED ON PAGE 7 swiping and other input devices and whether or not digital signage exist, if digital signage is imple- could improve the current situa- mented at Connecticut College, tion. Of the approximate 400 who it will be of the "non-interactive" responded, 14% felt they were variety, with the primary task of informed of events, while 74% breaking through what Cornell felt somewhat informed, and the suggested to be information over- remaining 12% felt uninformed. load, and engaging an audience in Anonymous comments for the the Connecticut College commu- survey indicated that many stu- nity at large. dents were inundated with too Cornell discussed the Student many e-mails to be able to realis- Government Association's "Is- tically read them all. sues Project" for the 2010-2011 Students said they typi- school year, listing proposed cally refer to posters, the Daily tasks such as inspiring a more ac- CONNtact, Facebook and SGA tive student body, fostering stron- on the Can for information, each ger relationships between faculty, category with 24%, 24%, 23% administration and students and and 22%, respectively. A mere 6% "'- strengthening SGNs role and im- ANDREW NATHANSON I CONTRtBUTOR go to CamelWeb in their quest for age on campus. He elaborated on campus events and only I% ad- Art students take on an eight hour long drawing marathon in Cummings on Saturday. For more the issue of inspiring a more ac- photos of the event, visit thecollegevoice.org mitted to using CollegiateLink for tive student body. "Apathy isn't a the purpose. word I like to hear," he said, re- CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 IN THIS ISSUE NEWS OPINIONS ARTS SPORTS 1-':;~ -, _ ,(:; -"A -...,J5':-F'

• Taking the "Huh?" Representing the Garden State' page 6 Last Five Years' page 10 • Out of lVriting Prompts' page 3 'j! Fall Athlete Profiles. page 12 ..• 2------THE COLLEGE VOla EDITORIALS/LETTERS NOVEMBER 15. 2010 contact@thecolle evoice.or THE COLLEGE VOICE Editorial "The views and opinions expressed in The College Voice, as in all student publications, are strictly those of the student authors, and not Last spring I took an Advanced Essay Writing class with eigl of Connecticut College. All content and editorial decisions remain students and Professor John Gordon. Each week, we were asker to write one nonfiction essay and edit three of our peers'. The in the hands of the students; neither the College's administration nor audience was c1ear-Gordon and my classmates-and the es- its faculty exercise control over the content." says were open-ended: memoir, argument, review, et cetera Our writing was read in class. forcing us to face each wore EDITOR·IN·CHlEF choice in public after handing it in. We strove to improve and t( Lilah Raptopoulos impress each other. It was a consuming, self-exposing class that mad- me a better writer. MANAGING EDITOR One day toward the end of the semester, classmate Jazmine Hughe John Sherman called across the table, "Beardface! Will you have us over for dinner?" H looked at us, mystified, as our eyes widened. Ifwe'd had tails, they would EDITORIAL BOARD have wagged. So he agreed, and invited us to his house in Mystic the next week. We drove up in two cars and saw him leaning on the doorframe of his gingerbread house. He gave us News Editors Sports Editors a tour of the first floor, warmly lit and smelling delicious. His wife was in the kitchen among shelves of Jazmine Hughes Nick Woolf spices and jars, moving casserole dishes from the oven to the counter- •• ~ Meredith Boyle Mike Flint top. The floorboards creaked. The boys ducked their ~ heads to enter rooms. Professor Gordon showed us his office, a small shed in the backyard, filled floor-to- A+E Editors Opinions Editor ceiling with books, where he spent evenings writing Racine Oxtoby JohnDodig his Dickens manuscript. As we ate dinner, we talked Matthew Gentile about our futures ("Marriage advicefor men: pick the Head Copy Editors right woman, then give up"), his childhood (" Well, now that we're on the subject, J have to tell you all the Anna Mernbrino story of my conception. "), and how he and his wife met ("Did he have a beard then?" Rebecca Reel "Since the womb. "). In retrospect, it was a night that has marked some meffahle land- mark of my college experience. We shook his hand, hugged his wife, and took a few cookies for the road. VISUAL DEPARTMENT This is not as common an experience at Connecticut Col- Photo Editors Creative Director lege as it once was-until recently, most faculty members lived in or around New London. The Ammiratis, Dean of Studies Theresa and physics professor Tanaha Simon Julie McMahon Tom, moved into River Ridge in the early '70s with other young, reproducing Duncan Spaulding faculty couples; the trend earned the apartments the nickname Fertility Flats. Winchester Housing was also built for professors and their families. Faculty often hired students living in Abbey House to look after their children-Dean BUSINESS DEPARTMENT Ammirati suggested that these babysitters became part of the family. Nelly Murstein, Professor Emeritus of French, had her seminar classes around her Advertising Manager Public Relations Director dining room table at her Winchester house in the early '60s. Her older daugh- Rebecca Heupel Rachel Blitzer ter, around nine at the time, would walk around the table and pour tea for students during their breaks. Today, young faculty mem- bers choose to live in cities like New Haven, Providence, even Boston instead WEB STAFF of sleepy New London, making casual interactions like these few and far between. Web Content Editor Webmaster I walked into Ernst Common room on Wednes- Ellie Benner AyanoElson day for a Writing Center event on effective essay prompts, and sat at one of four tables of students and professors. The conversation initially revolved STAFF around identifying the types of essays students feel motivated to write for class, and those that profes- sors are excited to read. Ultimately, students wanted assignments on topics that Writers Copy Editors intrigued them, that gave them clear expectations and freedom to explore. Pro- Clara Chaisson Brittany Armstrong fessors liked pieces that took risks, that didn't regurgitate their lectures, and that read with authority, clar- Julia Cristofano Christina Fogarasi ity, and creative thought. Philosophy professor Simon Feldman said, "Often students want me to give them Cole Delbyck Jerell Mays exact criteria they can follow to get an A." To which Writer-in-Residence Sarah Kosofsky Annie Mitchell Blanche Boyd replied, "I know what it is. It's Eli Mangold David Shanfield 'impress me." Jerell Mays Melanie Thibeault The issue is bigger than the wording of Matt Mitchell prompts: it's about getting students excited Sam Norcross about writing and leaming. How do you get a Kiefer Roberts Photographers student to want to impress you? Impress them. Katherine Sartiano Hadley Brooks Throughout high school, I saw my teachers in Alex Schwartzburg Cecelia Brown one context only-nothing challenged my as- David Shanfield Nevena Deligineva sumption that they planned, taugbt, graded, and Amelia Smith Hoitt McAllister lived at school, subsisting on coffee and muffins from the teachers' lounge. ~ Nora Swenson Hannah Plishtin If college has taught me anything, it's that my mother is a real person, not Melanie Thibeault Miguel Salcedo . some all-knowing Elder who birthed me and taught me right and wrong, Amelia Smith and that at the end of the day my professors go home to boyfriends, wives, dinner parties, and unfinished Kira Turnbull manuscripts. llIustrators If we can't have these familial conversations with our professors, there's another important context Emily Bernstein we can see them in, Getting students excited about writing and learning has a lot to do with professors Alicia Toldi showing passion for what they teach. In many of our courses, class work can become mechanical. We go Contact Us to class, study and write in pre-due-date frenzies and [email protected] drop our papers in a pile on a professor's desk, only (860) 439-5437 to have them shot hack at us without a word the next 270 Mohegan Avenue week. Ifwe don't know our professors, we don't know our audience. It's as if we're writing to no one at all. New London. CT 06320 If our work doesn't get acknowledged beyond its letter grade stamp, it can be easily thrown behind us, leaving . ..- us with no motivation to take meaningful ownership of it. No wonder, as Jeff Lee suggested in his op-ed last week, classrooms are so often filled with glassy FREE·'·SPEECH stares and awkward silences. No wonder professors gets essays that, as Feldman says, "Are not written "" ..~t,.. . like they're meant to be read by a human being." A close friend of mine has always researched his professors-he looks them up on academic databases or buys their books. John Gordon is a James Joyce scholar. He is one of four people in the world who has deigned to publish a plot summary of the almost incomprehensible Finnegans Wake (a sample sentence: "Naw, yer maggers, aw war jist a cotchin 0 on thon bluggy earwuggers") and he teaches a 120 class to students looking to fill a requirement-s-do .they know? Assistant Professor of English Courtney Baker, To the Editor: wrote a dissertation titled "Misrecognized: Looking at lmages of Black Suf- fering and Death," that focused on what it means to bear witness firsthand I am writing this aftcr reading Kiefer or otherwise, to racialized violence. She mentioned in class, after a bit of Roberts' "Don't Do That!" letter to Cam- prodding, that she studied "dead bodies," and left it there, hanging, for the pus Safety in last week's issue of The Col- rest of the semester. I took a course called "Eco- lege Voice. He brought up giving citizens- nomics of War Among Nations" with professor arrest tickets to those cars that "creepily Edward McKenna my freshman year. I knew he drive behind us on the walking paths". I am gave brilliant lectures without using any notes; one of those "creepy" people. The reason I didn't know he had six articles on JSTOR someone is driving behind you is because about post-Keynesian economics until five minutes ago. Maybe professors it seems you don't know enough to move think students don't care. I am daring to suggest we do. to one side of the walkway to let us go by. 1ass~ellit's unthcom,fortablefor professors to enItera classroom and discuss their achievements. One ar- You don't even have to move onto the grass, gument 10 ows at It s poor taste to assign your c ass your own writing. But here we are entering ld just move slightly to one side-either side. bigger than our hometowns, knowing vaguely that this school is "important" because wesit in m ~Iwor _ Believe me, its not fun driving on the side- bers and "develop relationships" in classes fully taught by published and PhD'd professors OS artmnum .. I tho hb hb . epa ents walk when classes are changing. I arrange bnng in thspeoklersto ectur ebon . ell resthe",:c, ut w at edtterthan to have the writer of a text we study right approximately fifty events in the Music De- there 10 e c assroom, e al orating on err own stones, iscussmg the process of creating a pi f k partment a year, which sometimes includes . hat i b d di d . ? Aft h . ieee 0 wor Sh°thwmgdwat It meanhsto e ledreate to a tOPIC;" ther ea~g a professor give an animated talk in c1as~ shopping and then unloading everything on eir issertation, ow cou we contmue to otrer at pro lessor regurgitated work? . into my office in Cummings. Thus, driving Pro~dessors,~~ ,blest thing you canI offelr you; students is a look into your intellectual lives. We'll know on the sidewalk is necessary at times. our au renee. we seel you as rea peop e we re wntmg to, or battling a topic with not as v Charli Let's be a little more sympathetic to each Brown characters with deadlines, chalk and bad ' ague arlie others lives and situations, ok? handwriting. We want to be engaged. From our baby five-page essays, simple lab Terry Wisniewski reports and IS-photo portfolios, professors want Academic Assistant ownership and unique thought. Teaching and Music Department learning should happen on both sides of the desk. Show us what ownership and unique thought means, and the rest will hopefully COme.

, • - Lilah aptopoulos J THECXXLEGEVOICE·NOVEMBER15.2010------_ 3 THS WEEK ON CAMPUS NEW LONDON

Lecture: Frederico Garcia Lorca and the Poet- ~cs of the 'Known' Homosexuals and the 'Vis- ible Black,' featuring author Robert Reid Pharr --1 4:30 pm monday ~bea Chu Reading Room, Shain Library OF

Monday nights @ Bean & Leaf features CBYD Jazz Quartet 8PM Bean & Leaf (13 Washington St) Zumba Class with Amanda Florian' 14. 5 pm, Athletic Center Studio 2

Mictchell College presents Taped to the Wall A Mitchell College digital photography class will have their 14th annual group exhibition of photographs, titled Taped to the Wall, on display from 6-8 PM. wednesday Hygienic Gallery (79 Bank St)

Free Ynga at New London Pub- lic Library President Higdon Comes to Windham 6;30 to 7:45 pm 7:30 pm - 8;30pm 860.447.1411, extension 3 to register Come to the Windham common room for some quality time with President Higdon. Pizza and 63 Huntington Street, Community desserts will be served. Room

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 12:00am Friday Morning SAC has rented a theater in Regal Cinemas for the Flavours of Life Five Years on Bank opening night, midnight showing of Harry Potter and Celebration the Deathly Hallows! Tickets can be purchased in the 5:30 PM- 8;30 PM Office of Student Life beginning Tuesday, Nov. 16 at The celebration wilI include a poetry reading by I :00 p.m. and continued all day Wednesday, Nov. 17 local poet Rhonda Ward and an invocation and and Thursday, Nov. 18.Tickets are $6. blessing by Reverend Claudia Highbaugh, dean of religious and spiritual life at Conn. thu rs day Flavours of Life Fair Trade Store (86 Bank Conn Coil Oxfam Night Help Fight World Hunger 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm Help support Oxfam Inter- .>: national by donating your dinner meal on Thursday J til 8. Learn more and sign up to donate your meal outside Harris and JA dining Thirsty Thursday Party halls from 11/14 to 11117 !0:00pm - 2:00am CRO 1941 Thames River Wine & Spirits: Weekly Wine Tasting Arabic Dinner Catered by Pita Spot Featuring DJ Empez, DJ E@ZY, Every Friday night features a weekly wine tasting with four Thursday, November 18· 5:30pm -7:30pm and DJ Twenty2 great wines in our one-of-a-kind wine cellar. Free. Hood Dining Room in Blaustien. All Pro- ceeds go to Enlightenment through Books: 6 - 9 PM, Thames River Wine & Spirits (84 Bank St) Building a School in Pakistan.

The Stepklds Drag & Kink: An eve- FNL: Shake the Baron Bee-gees style four part harmonies, atstronaut suits, and 10:30pm - 1:30am soul-drenched melodies. ning with NY Filmmak- 9:30 PM Cro's Nest er Jennie Livingston The Oasis Pub (16 Bank St) 6:00 pm - 9;30 pm Jennie Livingston is an esteemed director and a visiting professor at Conn. friday Her most well-known and celebrated film "Paris is Burning". A reception in Cummings will be followed by a screening and Q&A with Livingston.

Lecture: Bill Mcklbben 3:30 PM Evans Hall Time magazine described him as "The world's best green journalist". The Bos- ton Globe called him "The nation's leading environmentalist". Bill McKibben has been at the forefront of the climate movement for over two decades. His first book The End of Nature, published in 1989,is regarded as the first book for a general audience about climate change. Vocalist Margaux Hayes & Friends 8:00p.m. ,- Jazz Underground at Hot Rod's Downstairs Lounge. Tickets $8 Hot Rod', (114 Bank Street) UPRIGHT ---I - Eastern Connecticut Symphony Concert CITIZENS satu rday 8:00p.m. BRIGADE The Eastern Connecticut Symphony concert series continues at the Garde Arts Center. The performance Upright Citizens Brigade Comedy Show conducted by ECSO Music Director, Toshiyuki (Toshi) 8:00pm-II:00pm Shimada, features guest artist, Mikhail Ovrutsky,playing Sibelius Violin Concerto in D minor. The other works Upright Citizens Brigade, nationally famous improv comedy group, will be on the program are: Schnittke's Ritual; Van de Vate's performing in Cummings. Conn's own N20 will open with an improv perfor- Gemma Jawa (Echoes of Java); and Dvofak's Symphony No.8. mance. Garde Arts Center (325 State Street) all week A Sense of Place: Painters of Matunuck, RJ "The Trestle At Pope Lick Creek" 1873 - 1941 8 pm and 2 pm Each of these painters interpreted the Matunuck THE landscape in a personal way, yet among t~em they. TRE\TLE By Naomi Wallace,directed by Nancy Hoffman, It's 1936America. encompass most of the major trends defining ~mencan AT there are few jobs and less money. Two teens face a train across a ' painting of the late nineteenth and early ~entleth ceururies-c-Barbizon School, impreSSIonism, post- POPE trestle, sprinting for all they're worth to prove they'll not succumb to the abyss their parents rail against each day. impressionism, tonalisrn and plein-air painting. Lie K eRE E K November 18, 19, 20 at 8:00 pm, and matinee November 20 & 21 at Lyman Allyn Art Museum 2:00 pm, Connecticut College, Tansill Theater open Toes-Sat 10-5, Sun 1-5 HA,OMI WA,ll"(, .. Tickets $6.00 for students

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NEWS [email protected] NOVE/V\BER 15. 2010 Editors Jazmine Hughes & Meredith Boyle Taking the "Huh?"Out of Writing Prompts Students and faculty discuss the issues in both reading and writing essays

and that most professors will not EMMA WITTENBERG gives me too many issues to ad- professor's prompt or a student's on writing papers. "What I try to punish a student for taking risks CONTRIBUTOR dress in the prompt," he said. "I assignment. The responses were do is sit down and write about want to be able to take an idea and then shared within each table 400 words of an introduction, in their writing. The dialogue served as a suc- What does it really mean to develop it myself without being group. and then go back the next day "critically analyze?" Students and fed the answer." "What I find discouraging," and write a second, completely cessful beginning to increasing profes ors constantly struggle to No matter the preference, ev- said Professnr Stanton Ching of new introduction," said Jazmine understanding between profes- discover what exactly makes a eryone seems to agree that per- the Chemistry Department, "is Hughes' 12. "Then I can compare sors and students, on the quest to good writing assignment. This sonal investment in the topic is when a student is on his or ber them and decide which I like bet- make writing assignments more Tuesday, Smith House house- important. second or third draft and is still ter." enjoyable to both write and read. fellow Anna Membrino 'II and "[fa professor gives me no way only changing the specific areas Forster, Ching, and many other "I mean, what's really the point Writing Center director Steve of molding the paper into some- that I have edited, without taking faculty members agreed that we of writing a paper if you aren't Shoemaker carne to the rescue thing I am truly interested in writ- my advice and applying it to the as students must remember to learning something from the pro- by co-sponsoring a Dessert and ing about, there is no way that entire paper. I shouldn't have to consider their audience. cess?" said Molly Pistrang '13. Dialogue to allow professors and I can create a good paper," said correct every single sentence for "I often feel that my students Membrino was pleased with students to discuss what works Bienenfeld. you before you understand what don't remember that they are the results. "This is definitely a and what doesn't when it comes What can professors do to make aspects need to be changed." writing for another human," said great starting point. I'm really to writing assignments. assignments more appealing to Ching and history professor philosophy professor Simon happy that we got such a great Students have varying opinions their students? How can students Marc Forster vigorously jotted Feldman. turnout," said Membrino. "Un- about what makes an effective make sure that they are handing down student suggestions about Forster suggested that faculty fortunately, the type of professors assignment. "1 really appreciate in the most clear and thoughtful new interdisciplinary approaches can be ambiguous about assign- who come to events like this are when a professor includes differ- assignment possible? These were to assignments, and explained ments: "In writing prompts, detail the ones who are already aware of ent questions within the prompt to the burning questions that were that professors actually do enjoy is not the same as clarity," he said. the problem. It's a bit frustrating get me thinking about what issues addressed over red vel vet cake reading controversial opinions. It Students made clear that pro- that we couldn't communicate the to address," said Anna Williams and coffee on Tuesday evening. suggested that Professors aren't fessors should expect convoluted problem to all faculty on campus; '13. "Without specific questions I As everyone found their seats in trying to find ways to make stu- arguments if their prompts are this is definitely a dialogue we are think I would feel overwhelmed." Ernst Common Room, each per- dent papers fit a stifling mold: equally confusing. But professors looking to continue." Sam Bienfeld '13 felt different- son was asked to write down what they only want to make us think maintained that students have the ly. "I hate it when my professor they find most encouraging and deeper and write stronger. freedom to find ways to tailor most frustrating about either a Students also shared their tips prompts to individual interests, With Our Powers Combined: Chair of D&Ebuilds diversity committee

RAYMOND PALMER grounds to pursue their goals on campus, as well as CONTRIBUTOR have louder voices in SGA. By creating this coali- tion, Turillo hopes to create a network among these Pablo Tutillo, SGA Chair of Diversity and Eq- various clubs, and to give them a stronger pres- uity, has a lot in mind for diversifying our cam- ence in SGA through facilitating communication pus. His job as Chair makes him and inter-club collaboration. responsible for overseeing and Tutillo thinks the coalition promoting diversity on campus, will create networks to en- and he is taking a new step in ac- courage clubs and groups to complishing this by working to collaborate with each other, create a coalition of underrepre- which would then help to sented clubs and groups on cam- create a livelier presence of pus into an overarching Diversity these clubs and groups both Committee. on campus and in SGA. Tutillo greeted me at an Oa- "When you're alone it's sis booth in Cro with a friendly hard to do things - but when but determined smile. Late night you can collaborate with Cro was active and bristling with other groups, it makes it a conversation, but Tutillo's voice bit easier," he said. THE BRYANl carried well as soon as he started Tutillo is excited to see GRADUATE PROGRAMS talking, clearly becoming excited what the coalition brings. "I about this coalition. want to see more collabora- The members of this coalition include "under- tion on events that can reach out to a greater part of The Bryant Unlwrsity Graduatll Sdrool of Hu sinen represented groups and clubs on campus," which the student body," he told me eagerly, pointing out prepal1l5 studenm for 81Ilcfuture, and • Dis-Inel IJusi'nHe slIillo far lang-term SGADigital Signage carl!er BU~M • &Iter IIId pnlgJl!l!ll through th2 program with a .uppanlve telIID. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 would depend on maintenance, ware that would be implemented including making sure the mes- in Conn's digital signage would • Build}'Our netWOtk while

The Voice Recommends ... The most intruiging Spring 2011 course offerings

ELLIE BENNER WEB CONTENT EDITOR

hoosing cia ses for the next semester is always an intimidating process: that blue packet of classes is much desired but overly confusing, meet- ing with your advisor is a confusing twenty minute appointment, and for some reason. the course offerings in the spring always involve more words like "ecofcminisrn" and "supernatural." Based on this overwhelming number of compelling classes to take next semester, the Voice did a little bit of detective work to tigure out what i behind such titles as "Mapping Bodies" and "Flowers frnm the Volcano." We hope that this guide to next semester's most intriguing cia ses will interest all majors, prospective majors, and interested parties alike.

Jeffrey Cole, JuliaKushigian Gretchen Heefner Worlds of Food (ANT 350) "Flowersfrom the Volcano" Americansinthe World: Trade, Imperial Discourse,Ecofeminism, Traveland Diplomacysincethe 1890s (HIS265) Cole's goal for the class is to "change the way students and Resistancein the Americas think about food:' The course fits into the anthropology (SPA305) Heefner said that some readings in the class will include department through a focus on the role food plays in dif- "memoirs from people who have traveled to/from the US, ferent cultures, as food "addresses a key component of "The Spanish conquest forever changed America and including radical anarchist Emma Goldman, poet Langs- every human society:' Cole said he became interested in created a 'new world.' Imperial discourses collided with ton Hughes, and the contemporary handbook for Ameri- thc meeting of food and anthropology while writing his resistance movements and the emerging voices of op- cans going to study abroad:' A potential assignment for dissertation in Sicily, where he "was struck by the cen- pressed indigenous peoples, women, and mestizos," said the class will be for the students to "craft (in words, video trality of food to Sicily life. Mnst Sicilians still tend or Kushigian. "Tbls course traces tbe tensions between their or pictures) a contemporary portrait of the 'ugly Amen- have access to property, and many of my friends [were] discourses from the colonial period to the present, inter- can."' In a time where our nation's reputation is improv- proud to serve up olive oil and winc from their own land." rogating related struggles for land and self" The course ing, but still looked at particularly unfavorably in some This connection of food, wherc it comes from, and how wc is also cross-listed with the Gender and Women's Studies parts of the world, it would be incredibly interesting to find think about eating is one that is being debated all over the department, as it will look at "what it means to character- out what exactly shapes our identity in this country as well world, and next semester it will be debated twice a week ize women as sacred custodians of the earth, and how this as around the globe. in this class. role limits or empowers women today."

Tennyson Wellman Eugene Gallagher Lina Wilder Supernatural in American Cults and Conversion in Modern Shakespeare's Brain, Pop Culture (REL219) America (REL346) Shakespeare's Body (ENG 494Y)

While this class may seem most appropriateforTwilight Gallagher says his interest in this subject came from de- Wilder's idea behind the course is to insert Shake- or True Blood fans, the class addresses much bigger is- velopments in the 1970s and early 1980s, where "promi- speare's plays into a historical context of science and med- sues than simply the popularity oftbe books. Wellman de- nent grnups included the Unification Churcb, People's icine. "Ideas about botb brain and body from tbis period cribes one theme of the class as "what you can tell about Temple (most of whom perisbed at Jonestown in 1978) are deeply weird," sbe said. "For example, most physiolo- our culture from reading/watching programs that deal witb and the Church of Scientology." He wanted to develop a gists in Shakespeare's time agree tbat thought takes place the supernatural, like the ways that modem vampire erot- course that examined those contemporary trends and took in a fluid medium called the 'animal spirits,' a substance ica gives folks the chance to vicariously work out issues the new groups as examples for the general study of re- distilled out of the blood that is then further distilled to about sex, gender roles, and violence." The course does ligion. The course has evolved over the years to include become semen." In comparison to other courses on Shake- not only tackle the popularity of vampires in our culture, new religious phenomena, especially such controversial speare, Prof. Wilder believes the course will answer "what but also werewolves, zombies, supernatural beings, and topics as "conversion, inter-religious conflict, and social it means, on Shakespeare's stage, to be a thinker with a much of the undead. reactions to minority religious groups." This course is a body:' chance to learn the real story behind cults, not what over dramatized television specials have taught us.

Caroleen Sayej Kamran Javadizadeh Michael James Iraq War: Causes and 9/11 and Literature (ENG 112) Education and the Revolutionary

Consequences (GOV 320) Javadizadeh's fascination with the subject stems from Proied in Latin America (EDU 350) bis interest in "thinking about bow literature and life each Sayej's background in the subjcet comes from a book transform, and are in tum transformed by, the other." Not This course is currently being spearbeaded in Oaxaca, she helped write with several of her colleagues on the Iraq all of the works of literature read in the class will be di- Mexico, wbere James is spending the semester with the War, specifically around the theme of "preemption:' Their rectly about September 11, but texts that are importantly first SATA Oaxaca program. The course is based on the research, now known as "The Iraq Papers:' was publisbed influenced by this day in history. Javadizadeh plans to ad- work of the "Brazilian radical educator Paulo Freire, in January. Her goals for this class are to "debate whether dress "how does fiction structure the way we understand [which provides] a theoretical template to assist us as we the Iraq War is a new kind of war - or whether it is in line and even experience such an event? How does our self- study schooling within the revolutions of Mexico, Cuba with Ll.S, foreign policy over time." This course, along positioning (geographically, historically, politically, etc.) and Nicaragua." Students studying in Oaxaca currently are with a multitude of other Government courses in Middle condition the production and reception of those fictions? creating "a film documentary of tbe teachers' strike com- Eastern studies, is inspiring greater interest in the region Anotber thing people liked to say in those days was tbat piled from a series of interviews they are doing in the city among Conn students as well as being "part of a bigger irony had died. Had it, even if only temporarily?" Prof and its surrounding pueblos which we hope to show when college initiative to launch a program-- the Islamic World Javadizadeb's class will also read works such as Jonathan we return next semester." The course is also cross-listed Studies Program. We hope it will be an interdisciplinary Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close or with Gender and Women's Studies, American Studies, and center that will offer at least a minor in Middle Eastern Don DeLilln's Falling Man. This class will address many the Comparative Race and Ethnicity, Studies." issues that have faced both American society and literature over the past ten years.

Stephen Loomis Ruth Grahn James Wilson Tropical Biology (BIO 320) Drugs and Behavior (PSY212) Ethnomusicology (MUS 229)

This course, which has been taught in various forms Grahn stated that her interest in the course stemmed This class will be supported by the Sherman Fairchild since 19 4, has a TRlP component - the students in this from her observations of "the impact of medications on grant, which is currently funding several classes in the arts clas will study in Belize during spring break. Because of people [she] knew who were experiencing depression this semester. The class is designed to present the history tbis exciting field researcb opportunity, Loomis has divid- or anxiety, and [she] was fascinated by how a chemical and current state of etbnomusicology and conclude with a ed the course into tbree parts, beginning witb preparation could change a person's life so much." She describes one student-designed project that involves ethnomusicological for the trip tbrougb tbc study of tropical ecosystems. Dur- of the most interesting aspects of the class: "Each person tield work: "Students conduct their own fieldwork project ing the trip to Belize, students visit a rain forest site and is unique in their response to a drug, both in how it affects bere in New London -- some students have done projects then an island n the barrierreef. "After the trip, we study their behavior, and how it alters their brain." about local bands, orchestras, or church/religious groups some of the interesting observations that we made while in -- everything from band bells to rock bands." Belize in more dctail and the students write their research in a publishable format," said Loomis.

Maureen McCabe Voice Tipsfor Registration REGISTRATION Collage and Mixed Media Monday: Return to College (ART229) 1. Pay your bills at the Accounting Office Tuesday: Seniors This art course allows students to use materials they never thought they would use to portray deeply emotional Wednesday: Juniors projects. McCabe says that the unit she learns the most from is the autobingrapbical unit: "The visual project re- 2. Feel free to get drunk the night sults from this unit are often very moving - ranging in sub- Thursday: Sophomores ject matter from anorexia, alcoholism in families, gender before registration and don't let issues and cultural isolation." Friday: Freshmen anyone tell you otherwise, 7.30 AM 3. Remain calm.

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6--...,...------THECOLLEGE VOla OPNONS NOVEMBER 15.2010 Editor: John Dodig oplnions@thecollegevoice,org The Battle of the Bottles ADAM MILLER tap water tastes like chlorine and STAFF WRITER hard metals and is unappealing. Says Sehwartzburg, "The non- Alex Schwartzburg '12 sits in bottled water sources available his room in Freeman late on a on campus tend to be pretty dis- Wednesday night. Wann, bronze gusting." Many students do drink light glows from incandescent it anyway. Evan Bragdon '12 lamps. Piles of papers surround says, "I don't care if I can't buy his laptop as he plugs away at an bottled water. I always just grab essay. As I walk in, he motions a cup and go to the sink." And, to toward a tower of three twenty- be honest, there is nothing wrong four-packs of bottled water that with us tip-toeing into our bath- lean against the wali next to his rooms late at night to lean over a door. He offer me one and I de- Ramen-caked sink bowl and take cline. I notice multiple empty a few swigs out of the faucet ("It's bottles arc strewn across his desk. no dirtier than beer pong!" a stu- "Stocking up?" I ask, knowing dent might say in defense). How- that Schwartz burg has recently ever, as Kipke points out, there is learned about the proposed ban always the difference between the on the sale of bottled water on environmental sacrifices we make campus. chwartzburg laughs, in our private, not-worthy-of-a- "You could say that." This scene picture-in-the-alumni-magazine says ali that needs to be said about lives, and those we make (or don't Schwartzburg's feelings about the make) when we are selling our recent environmental initiative, a school to parents or prospective Bottled waler on sale in Oasis Snack Shop. feeling shared by many other stu- students. dents. Kipke says, 'There is a need as Schwartzburg and many other "It gets that weird smell in it. I because Cro is convenient; we I caught up with Larrabee for water, on tours and such. It students already do, and carry read somewhere that those water buy bottled water at Cro because House Senator Allisop Kipke '13 would look bizarre if we didn't those bottles around with them bottles promote bacteria growth." bottled water is convenient. Ifwe to discuss this proposed ban, since sell water." Kipke makes a strong during the day. In that case, not Schwartzburg is technically can find a way to bottle water in it was a topic of conversation argument. Unless we add at least only are our on campus vendors correct (though he'd be hard a more environmentally friendly in SGA last week. When asked one water fountain to every major pressed to find a disposable plas- way (we already have) and rigor- whether she supports or opposes building, including all dorms (no We don't buy bottled tic water bottle without bacteria ously promote the use of this new the ban, Kipke responded, "I per- small undertaking), our visitors water at Cro because growth), but it is more likely that technology, and that is what is sonaliy see both sides. Becoming won't remember our beautiful his attitude represents an aversion key now, the sale of bottled water more informed is a better way to green or our tasty camel cookies. Cro is convenient; we to change, to forming new rou- will decline on its own. approach this. How the campus is They'll remember that they felt buy bottled water at tines and habits, such as having to Ultimately, students must de- set up, we could not ban the sale dehydrated while they were here scrub out a reusable water bottle cide to stop buying bottled water of water." Undoubtedly, Kipke and couldn't wait to get off cam- Cro because bottled every night, than a disgust with both on campus and off campus is correct. Banning the sale of pus to buy some water. water is convenient. germs. Fortunately, our school rather than having the new policy bottled water is a noble cause, as Another reason to oppose the has, for several years now, made legislated into existence before water bottles either end up as non- ban on the sale of bottled water losing money to Wal-Mart and a wise and generous decision in we are prepared for it as a com- biodegradable waste or consume on campus is simply that it won't Target, but the waste created is providing every matriculating munity. We have all been given large amounts of energy in order actually save enough waste to be equal to or greater than that cre- student with a brand new Con- free water bottles, so we have no to be recycled and cooverted into worth the trouble of implement- ated by selling the plastic water necticut College water bottle. excuse. Let's not ban bottled wa- new water bottles or other plastic ing it. The ban is not a ban on the bottles on campus to begin with. This is a much better way to ter, but let's raise awareness of the items. Having said this, it is not a possession of plastic water bot- The clear answer to the dilem- approach the issue than to ban issue so that the day comes when practical course of action for our tles, simply their sale on campus. ma, aside from the mass installa- the sale of bottled water on cam-: those cold bottles of Aquafina campus right now. Bringing us back to Schwartz- tion of gleaming new water foun- pus. It gets us in the habit of us- are sitting un-bought for weeks The main issue with banning burg, the ban docs not change at- tains, is for students to purchase ing and cleaning reusable water and months in the refrigerator in the sale of water on our campus titudcs; it changes where we can Brita pitchers and reusable plastic bottles, and, more importantly, it Oasis or the vending machine in is the lack of water fountains. get our water. Therefore, students or metal water bottles. Schwartz- addresses the issue at the heart of Harris, rather than for decades While sinks arc a totally safe, vi- can purchase bulk packages of burg sums up his attitude toward our bottled water addiction: We and centuries in a landfill. • able option for drinking water, water bottles at local retailers, reusable water bottles by saying, don't buy bottled water at Cro The Signs, They Are a-Changin'

JERELL MAYS wear chrome all you want, just be large, wide, rectangular and it was happening? I haven't, so I living somewhere off the coast of STAFF WRITER don't expect a social life in return. expensive flat screen televisions asked a couple of students if they New Zealand, you can bet some- What I'm trying to say is that yes- most likely put up in Cro and Har- had. body will have a problem with it, Back in the eighties, people terday's possible has become the ris. They would probably be set Some gave me a flat "no." One and with an overall college sus- thought that by the year 2000 probable, but there are many cas- to a channel that would probably student, however, told me that she tainability report of B+ (gasp!), everyone would own jetpacks, es (sec above: Skype) when tech- play a ticker of upcoming cam- had missed a club hockey game that somebody may actually have hovererafts would replace auto- nology advances beyond itself, or pus events and news twenty-four that she would've liked to have a point. mobiles and we would all wear at least beyond the realm of the hours a day, seven days a week. attended simply because there These screens could actually chrome. Now it's easy to point currently necessary. Do we need this? Let's tunc out was nothing about it posted any- save quite a bit of poster paper, so to the past, laugh and say to each If you check all of your e-mail the initial obligatory outcry of the where (that she could see). This in another sense, they might actu- other, "Wow, people were so stu- every day, then you may be aware energy-obsessed environmental- could mean two things: it could ally be environmentally friendly. pid then." What's jarring is that of the Student Govemment Asso- ists for two seconds and consider mean that she wasn't looking hard It all depends on how you look it participants in this hypothetical ciation's (SGA) plan to bring digi- what deficiency these screens enough, or it could mean that club at. Speaking of looking at it, one conversation make eye contact tal signs to parts of the campus in would fill: a deficiency ofpromo- hockey didn't promote their game of my biggest worries is that these from thousand of miles away order to better promote events. tion. particularly well, which is also a screens will go largely ignored. I via Skype while simultaneously Sounds like a harmless enough Docs the college have a defi- possibility. hope whoever places these things surfing the Internet from virtually idea, but in a school where we lit- ciency of promotion? In addition I myself have been told to pro- is smart enough to do it in

Potential announcements to be displayed OnSGAs proposed digital signage. OPI~,[email protected] ... THE COLLEGE VOICE • NOVEMBER 15. 2010------0PNONS. 7 I Live Here. So please stop taking down our posters. SIRRY, NO SIGNS

To put a sian on the marble -II, Above: Marble wall in Cro teems with student activity. Left: Double irony. or to book any advenlzillll spac>e Go To Co!!eRIab.Unk ucation need grant me, a student The requirement to reserve which have already happened, and a club leader, permission of and simply Min the form In 'campus IInIcs' space in order to hang posters is and one of which is being put any kind to do anything. 1 live at odds with the essential concept on by the Office of Student En- here. of a poster. Posters are not official gagement and Leadership Edu- Student clubs at Connecticut announcements or administrative cation itself. Today alone I've College are autooomous by de- missives-these messages have been invited to four upcoming sign. We don't need faculty ad- other ways of reaching the col- events via Faccbook, and before visors; we only need each other. lege community, not the least of the weekend I expect to be inun- JOHN SHERMAN and shrink before the self-im- SGA allots funding to student which is email. Posters arc inher- dated with at lea t another dozen. portantly inkjetted "SORRY, NO MANAGING EDITOR groups by means of a Fi- The nearly bare wall oppo- SIGNS" sign taped up behind the nance Committee com- Bureaucracy doesn't take root site era's fancy new doors, starkly bare Info Desk-c-offering, prised of SGA members Why, at our own school, for overnight. It grows slowly, desk' not to mention the entirely ironically, no information, and students-at-large, who which we pay a much-discussed, by desk, until things just sort of bare Office of Student En- More than anything, I have to divvy up a lump sum of potentially much-inflated price, run themselves, and no one can gagement and Leadership ask: Why? Why no signs? Why, available money at none but remember when all this was put are we not permitted to Education official bulletin at our own school, for which we their collective discretion. board, belies the ac- in place. Point-blank, no one opts advertise events organized and jrue pay a much-discussed, potential- At a school so professedly tivity of this student body. for control over freedom. Would attended by US? ly much-inflated price, are we not invested in shared gover- Oddly, the office formerly you like your activities to be reg- permitted to advertise events or- nance (see also: Covenant known as Student Life has ulated and monitored? No, thank ganized and attended by us? The on Shared Governance) and fi- ently guerrilla, vying for atten- masked ours entirely. you. sign behind the Info Desk forbids nancially supportive of student tion with loud colors and all-caps This arrangement flies in the The massive, public misfire of vigilante signage, stipulating that organizations, the sort of red- inquisitions against a flurry of face every new media develop- CoJlegiate Link has been paraded space must be reserved ahead of tape parenting now practiced by competing visual noise, To what ment of our gcncraticn-c-Face- ad nauseam in front ofthe coJlege time, through CollegiateLink. the Office of Student Engage- end is this being restricted? book, Twitter, YouTubc, Blogger, community, and yet we've done Mother, may I? How degrading. ment and Leadership Education At time of press, sixteen post- WordPress-which lay publish- nothing but aJlow our homemade I see absolutely no reason that is not merely unnecessary, but an ers hang on the huge marble wall ing power solely at the feet of banners and posters to be tom the barely-functional website of affront to the very independence in Cro (not counting the poster users, rather than broadcasters. down by Jeanette WiJliams, cru- the hypertitled Office of Student with which we've been entrust- forbidding posters), advertis- We are the users; let's not stop sader for needless bureaucracy, Engagement and Leadership Ed- ed. ing a total of ten events, two of broadcasting .• A Letter to Disappointed Democrats CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Once, we were the "young recession and pressing historic ten years). people who rejected the myth reform bills through Congress, Additionally, of their generation's apathy," a among other underappreciated Obama's student feat for which we were praised in things .. loan reform was a our president's victory speech on And why are older voters a remarkable piece of election night. Half a term later, legislative priority? legislation which we have infuriatingly succwnbed Why are we even asking this saves our country to the rampant ambivalence for question? more than sixty which we are infamous. Because of historic health care billion dollars in The Times article referenced reform, our generation will reap the next decade ~ some of the faults young voters the benefits of remaining secure- by eliminating have found with the man they "ly under our parents' insurance subsidies to private ~ once idolized: why didn't he ap- until we are twenty-six, which lenders, while also s pear on The Daily Show ear1i~r increasing the Pell Q than he did? Why are older I refuse to acknowledge that Grant so that more voters the apparent priority? President Obama has been kids can go to ~ college. There are ~ Why didn't more happen? ignoring us; to do so would I get that the glamour of the students at Conn campaign trail is a lot more ap- be to refute incontrovertible who would not be ~ pealing than policy-slowly evidence to the contrary. here without this S grinding through the sputter- loan reform. ;: ing machine that is our gov- Still think we Current House Minority Leader 101m Boehner (R-OH) is set to replace Nancy Pelosi as ernment. To hear about this crip- means thatwhile we scrounge for have been aban- Speaker oj the House when the new Congress takes office in January. pling bout of indifference that food on entry-level salaries, we doned? I'm of grips our stigmatized generation, don't have to go without glasses course omitting steep. We may not get there in envelop the country to erase the however, is nothing short oftrau- or check-ups. Not to mention dozens more examples. one year, or even in one term." plight of minorities, abolish even matizing to me. . millions of previously uninsured And the last, perbaps most I acknowledge that we are far the remnants of our two wars and So, why didn't the president children are now covered. (And prevalent question: "Why didn't from meeting all of our goals reverse the trends toward a globe spend airtime with Jon Stewart for those of you about to gripe more happen?" as Democrats, and with that the in peril-the GOP has saturated on The Daily Show a dozen or about the cost: according to the Obama answered that for us, in president and r are in agreement. I the House and gained in the Sen- so times before his debut? I'm Congressional Budget office, the his victory speech, before all of acknowledge that (in his first two ate. guessing he was busy bustling reform bill will not only pay for this even started. years in office) he did not speak If you thought that there has around Washington bailing a itself, but reduce the deficit by "The road ahead will be long," to us as directly as he could have, not been enough Democratic tri- debt-swamped nation out of a 143 billion dollars over the next he told us. "Our climb will be and that he had a responsibility umph midway through Obama' to publicize the achievements of first term and you abandoned his party more effectively than your party out of pettiness or he did. And 1 acknowledge, just spite, I hope you are looking for- as he does, that he is not a per- ward to the reign of Republicans fect president. I refuse, however, and Tea Partiers in Congress. to acknowledge that he has been (Now all your political aspira- ignoring us; to do so would be to tions are sure to be fulfilled.) refute incontrovertible evidence I am disappointed in you, fel- to the contrary, low young Democrats, but I do Two years ago, our new leader not mean to berate you. Wh t I warned us to avoid the "partisan- want is for you to stop brooding, ship and pettiness and immatu- to read newspapers, to remain rity that has poisoned our politics informed and to stay involved, for so long." If only he saw then Failing to care because govern- what we see now, in our politics ment, this country, and President and in our people. Obama arc not completely fault- It's too late to point fingers less is a cop-out. now, but since young and old Refuse to be ignorant. Recog- Democrats alike decided to sit nize all we have achieved, and do out these midterm elections-be- not give up the fight before it's cause a New Liberalism did not finished .• 8------_ ll-IE ffiLLEGE VOU . NOVEMBER 15.2010 Representing the Garden State . SARAH WEISS group, population or in this case base, yes, there is garbage. But make it true. Sure, tbere are prob- way Jon Stewart, Tbomas EdI- STAFF WRITER state. Now with the rise of reality my backyard is not dirty, and my ably members of the mafia living son 'and Albert Einstein were all television, the entire country has hometown does not smell. I used in Jersey (Real Housewife Teresa either born or lived in New Jerse~ Iam from Ncw Jersey and Iam taken Jersey ridicule and kicked to go running at Garret Mountain, Giudice's husband, I'm looking for a significant portion of their pr ud of it. While I can cnjoy a it up a notch, a nature preserve in the midst of at you), but again, no, we are lives. . good Jersey joke as much as the Here I preseot a defense of the major Nortb Jersey cities, and not all in the mob. And for that 9) lnteresting fact: In tbe Unit- next pers n, s metimes I fccllike New Jersey: it is beautiful, clean and smells matter, no we are not all Ital- ed States version of the board en ugh is en ugh. Now even my I) We're not all guidos.l really the way a mountain should, New ian. game Monopoly the propert,es pr fessors at onn arc using New enjoy the show Jersey Shore, and Jersey is called tbe Garden State 6) Jersey girls don't pump gas. are named after streets in Atlantic Jersey as a punch line. I think most people understand for a reason. Along with the large This one is true. Before com- City, New Jersey (dating back to I have lived in New Jersey all that the ridiculous characters on urban community, a good portion ing to college, I never pumped original version the Parker Broth- my life and when Icame to C n- the show aren't an actual repre- of Jersey is still fannland, Beauty my own gas, New Jersey is one ers bougbt the rights to in 1935). necricut ollege I was surprised scntation of the shore or the en- of the two states in the country 10) New Jersey is the most to find out h w much the rest of tire state (especially since only ~ 'tHE S1'A wbere there are no self-service densely populated state in tbe the country tigmatizes my h me one cast member is actually from 0 «J"~ gas punaps (Oregon is tbe otber country. So it seems people keep state. I first experienced this New Jersey ix are from New iY 0 state). Along with this con- on coming. Stigmas be damned. "hating" n cw Jersey during York). But in case you don't ,.<;g . ~ venience, New Jersey also And wby sbouldn't they? With my freshman year, well before get that, we're not all gui- -.J "f. boasts tbe cbeapest gas pric- the perks of being close to New sh ws like Jersey Shore and The dos. New Jersey is actually !;: tn es in the country. York City, the abundance of Real Housewives of New Jersey one of the most ethnically ~ ~ 7) New Jersey is known beaches (yes, I do go down the even existed, While most of the diverse states in the coun- ~ for many things besides shore, a common vacation hot college seemed to be fr m New try. C? the negative stereotypes. spot for families long before tbe England (with a number of New 2) The entire state does ~ Like our bagels in North television show), and the rich Y rkcrs and splashes of students not smell, This myth comes ~ Jersey and OUItomatoes in culture and bistory, New Jersey representing nearly everywhere from thc New Jersey Tum- «' South Jersey. Go try them. is a wonderful place to visit and else), I n ticed a lack of students pike, one of the central high- Our pizza is just as good as live. from ew Jersey. Was this be- ways in the state, which does New York's. Then there are I now know tbat there are plen- cause once people left New Jer- in fact tink in some locations. New Jersey diners. It's been ty of people at Conn from New sey they were embarrassed to This may be due to the fact that called the diner capital of the Jersey (although it's always excit- admit where they were from? In many students' only experience IMAGE FROM WIKIMEDIA COMMONS world, and that's because you ing to find one), but just because the beginning, when a ked that with the state has come while can't go far without finding one. there are more of us doesn't stop question, 1 too said "just outside passing through on the turnpike. in Jersey is as abundant as it is It's a stereotype we're proud of. the criticism. Yes, the South Park of New York ity," to avoid the New Jersey is a leading industrial anywhere else. 8) Many famous people come episode wbere the state of New accusations, state, and sometimes factories 4) No, we are not all in the from New Jersey, and I don't just Jersey tries to take over the wbole "Dirty Jersey! Noo Joisey! Jer- in the proximity of the highway mob. The television drama The mean Real Housewife Danielle country was funny. But New Jer- sey mell terrible! It's all guide ! give off a foul odor, just like in Sopranos belped propagate this Staub. Just to name a few: Frank sey isn't just a punch line. It's You're all in the mafia!" These any other state. idea, and while it was exciting Sinatra, Bruce Springsteen, Gro- my home and I love it. So here's were stereotypes I had heard, 3) The entire state is not dirty. when they filmed scenes at my ver Cleveland, Zach Braff, Kris- to New Jersey, a small state that but hadn't actually experienced (This includes both actual cleanli- high scbool or when the final ten Dunst, Meryl Streep, Tara makes a big impression! • before college because they just ne s and sexual promiscuity-not scene of the show took place at Reid, The Jonas Brothers, Lea aren't true. Like any stereotype, all Jersey girls are trashy). Again, Holsten's, an ice cream place in Michelle, Judy Blume, Buzz AI- you cannot generalize an entire like any state with a large urban my neighboring town, it doesn't drin, John Travolta, Anne Hatha- Man Your Stations: It's Time for Registration MELANIE THIBEAULT It's seven o'clock in the morning and Form,' which your adviser signed (which Chinese pbilosophy and recommended tbe STAFF WRITER alarms are simultaneously ringing around is never submitted to anyone and therefore class, and after yOUIcomputer freezes' and It's that wonderful time of year again. Conn, creating enough noise to wake any- serves little purpose) you begin to grow reboots itself (for apparently no reason), No, not the holiday sea on. This is an event one within a ten-mile radius except, for impatient as your computer takes forever you try again and score a spot. You're fin- more dreadful than that time Uncle Earl some reason, you. Call it bad luck or a very to boot up. ished. You have four (random) classes for had one too many glasses of wine and tried honed skill to ignore the annoying chime of The clock says it's 7:20 AM, and you've next semester. It's already 7:50 and you to usc the turkey to play football with the your clock (which sounds a bit like an air finally signed into the website. After a few have an eigbt o'clock class. Crawl back neighborhood kids. Put the sniffing down raid drill). You don't wake up for anotber attempts to log in, hoping tbere is a fluke in into bed? Check. and brace yourselves: it's time to register fifteen minutes. the system, you sit and wait for hours, or No, that wasn't a bad dream. That was for spring seme ter classes. After a profuse amount of cursing and so it feels like. If you're feeling ambitious, a somewhat true story based on most stu- Remember what happened last time you stumbling to find your glasses on the desk you might attempt to memorize the CRNs dents' accounts of registering for classes. had to register for classes? You probably beside you, you start up your computer. to speed up the typing and submitting pro- (Sometimes, laptops are actually thrown don't because you tried to block out all of Grabbing the list of classes you compiled cess. You start to think about wbat will across donn rooms.) Hopefully, next week, th sc memories or had them erased Eter- last week and the accompanying course happen if you don't make it into your first things will run more smoothly. But they nal Stili hine of the Spotless Mind-style. If regi tration numbers, department codes, choice classes and immediately dismiss the probably won't Not everyone will be ad- that's the case, let me tell you a little story course numbers, credit hours, days and crazy thought. mitted into all of their first choice classes, to remind you. times on the "Preregistration Advising It's now 7:30. You almost fall out of and computers will freeze more than you your chair as you scramble to did last night wben your roommate left the type in the first class and bit window open and it snowed. I can't help Informotion Services News Events submit. The computer freezes. with those issues, but Ican point out some and There are too many people on classes you may want to keep in mind as the system at once and all hell back-ups. • ., breaks loose. You keep hitting Interested in the supernatural?Vampires, w y I submit. This does absolutely Miracles, Gbosts and God(s): Tbe Super- • nothing, so you hit refresb, and natural in American Popular Culture sounds the number is erased from the like an interesting course. Described in the H ve Fun, Frazzle Free rea • box. You consider throwing course catalog as "a study of popular cul- your laptop out the window, ture from the 1960s to the present," the flnHIIlllaRiIIIIR dropping out of college and class explores "how Americans use super- joining the indie rock scene. natural and religious beings, events, sym- Then the rational side of you bols and ideas to think about complex is- (or your very concerned room- sues and identities." But be warned Twilight mate) tells you to try again. fans: Meyer's series, while not containing You do, and it goes through. nearly enough complexity to be studied in And ... success! Congratula- a college course, will be read. While we're tions, you received the last spot on the subject, let's be serious. If the Cul- in introduction to Mathemati- lens' only reason for not going out into the cal Thought. Your roommate sunlight is because they sparkle, they were is pissed that there is no more never real vampires anyway. room in the class. Have you ever been in a situation where One down, three to go. You you couldn't decide which was better-the type in the second number on Louvre or the Waffle House Museum in your list, and a warning pops Decatur, Georgia? Lucky for you, all your up: "Unfortunately, this class troubles will be over if you sign up for De- ..... is already full. You were too baring Museums, an art history course. The slow. Better luck next time" course includes "selected case studies of (or something like that). You controversial museums and exhibitions, in- really wanted to take that Japa- cludingtopics on censorship, pornography, nese history class, even though discrimination, racism, nationalism" and you're going to be a phys- a few other topics. So maybe tbe WafIle ics and gender and women's House Museum or the Hobo Museum in studies double major. Now 1 Updo. your Opllfolj"Q $y .... m Iowa won't make it into class discussions what? Guess you could sign but it still sounds like a fascinating class. ' up for "Flowers From The 2. Update ,,1'1tt dttlm.tiorn. Yoo "._ know ""lMlt -I 0111 h.r•. Last on the list of potential back-ups: ev- Volcano": Imperial Discourse, eryone's favorite folk singer Bob Dylan bas 3. 6aekup y04l, dolo, Anything you wanllo • p i1 we-I bockup. Eco-Feminism and Resistance a whole class dedicated to him. Thankfull in the Americas. Just kidding. ~. fro "'9f Do Not C edt Your lop~pA! 1l0990gel the course will be taught in Standard En;: It's taught in Spanish (you've lish, not tbe drunken growls and wheezes 5. Do Nol l...,,,,, Y04J,loplap Unott.nded. laken French and elementary that Dylan IS so accustomed to nowada Gennan) and you realize you Thougb, having a whole class taught in ~h~ Sa..... $impl .. f II is have no idea what ceo-fem- style of Dylan's gibberish would be quite inism could possibly mean. the adventure. If you can't understand the People around here seem to lecture, your grades will be a-ehangin' and Inlcrmotlon S..""le:e, like international politics, probably not for the better. so you sign up· for a section Ip D.1l Hopefully my suggestions bave proven of that. It works. Next, you belpful, but as is usually tbe caSe d ' EJdenwon 4357 1hf,lpl stick with your strong points b . d·f ' on t e surpnse I these classes fill up before and sign up for Experimental your computer decides to let you 10 h.1p . eCMWlcoll, ..du g on. Physics 1. Now you have one Remember to set your alanns and r . spot left and a general educa- . emam calm... under the tntense amount of pressure tion requirement to fill. You thiS mornIng w,lI cause you And on ., . ce It s Eel ell COl r F. IE type in tbe number for Daoist over, you always have those crazy h I·d c ... 1 0 I ay Traditions because your Scot- ,est,v'lIes to ook forward to. Just keep Earl tish friend is obsessed with away from the punch bowl. THE COLLEGE VOla ------9

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE~~~th~~~d~!~~n'~~i~~i~te!fn!~!! 1 e Much of the play is t . and the I .no PartICularly easy to work through a la an~uage - With Wallace having been a poet before thP ~g t - IS densely concentrated with meaning yet e cas eels that they've really been able to get a hold on things. b Last w~ekTh'director Hoffman said that rehearsals "have

eeo. grea . e actors have been wonderful II lth f: such loaded language, Kerr admitted the difficulty a : matenal the cast had three weeks to extrapolate say- g m ~he first time I read the play I found it a challe~ging readd ut all of my perceptions changed once I took the war s off the pag Thi . , . e. IS IS one of those plays you really can t SIt down and enjoy like a novel." Kerr plays Gin Chance, a character she describes as worn out but hopeful, an example of life imitating art per- haps? Yet h ful i h ' . '.. ope IS ow the cast members remain; ever opt~mlshc, Keeler speaks for the group in saying, "I don't beheve the experience and understanding will be different between actor and audience member. Sure, [the cast has] had three weeks on the script while the audience gets an hour and a half, But on stage it's not just the words, it's the ~lvu:.gbreathing experience that gives those words mean- mg. Making Trestle all the more interesting an experience is the actor Ben Yahle. Ifhis name doesn't immediately ring a bell, that's because Yahle is a 1st-class Cadet (Senior) at the Coast Guard Academy. Co-President of the Drama Club there, Yahle has directed plays (specifically 1 Hate Hamlet) with and for his fellow cadets at the Academy. Vahle's first real experience on our campus was to see the play Language of Angels, which Hoffman also direct- TOP; Ben Yahle rehearses with Ben Zacharaia during Technical Week. ed. After developing a taste for theater at the tail end of BOTTOM: Zacharia and Emily Lake rehearse. high school, and with cadets only being allowed so many electives, Yahle patiently waited four years and decided to something that really needs to be done with take an acting class with Hoffman. Then, on a whim, he the whole cast, not individually." .decided to audition for the play after she mentioned it in In between some extreme balancing acts, class and prepared a monologue in a day. surprise spitting and a few Office-style jokes, "Ben is great," Lake said. "He's extremely talented and this group of thespians has worked really hard fun to be around. [The cast] actually went bowling at the to create a world that we're just as immersed Coast Guard Academy and that was really fun. It allowed in as they've found themselves and done so us to spend time together and be silly outside of rehears- over the last three weeks. These students have als. " created an experience that they're ready to Discussing recent events between our institutions and share with two communities so close and so underlying tension, I asked Yahle if he thought it was dif- far apart, and in speaking with the cast, there ficult or weird being so engaged in the Conn community. seems to be a common thread of collected "I don't think [the tension] comes out of a genuine dislike cool. "I know that everyone's going to bring of people, I think it's just the fact that you don't know. And their A game, so I'm not worried about only there are so many restrictions on [Coast Guard Academy having three weeks at all," Yahle said. Students]. .. that we don't get out enough to come over Heavily relying on each other, it seems three here really often. So I found out about the class, love act- weeks, an immense amount of dedication and ing, and thought it'd be a good thing to do," Yahle said. desire have helped their characters take form. With some of the cadets having really taken to the fact As Lake said, "I think it's really an impressive that Yahle will be performing at Conn, there's some an- piece and we've definitely thought long and ticipation that CGA will let students come and see him in hard about each of our characters." the show this week. Through the Great Depression and the Hoffman said, HI chose the actors because sport of bowling, it seems Conn and Coast Guard Acad- I think they're good and right for the part and emy are growing closer rather than apart. that they're also they're brave enough and In speaking with most of the cast members, it appears they bring a lot of integrity to the material, TANAHA SIMON I PHOTO EDITOR getting through the three week rehearsal process has been because it's challenging material, but they've all almost entirely a group effort. Keeler said, "[The play's] done an amazing job ... so I'm not worried at all. I'm not really poetic and cryptic and by digging around it and try- worried at all. I've been really impressed." ing everything, we have, at least in our minds, really dis- From speaking with the stars, s,o am I,and I believe you . covered what's under the skin of these characters ... this is all will be as well .. Taking Care of Business Take Care, a Conn student's band, takes risks on new demo

ERIK CALDARONE some of my favorite hand claps CONTRIBUTOR in music (second only to Chick Corea's "Spain.") Take Care's three-song demo "Trips" is a tune that starts as ushers in a new sound for the ethereally a it ends. With tombs group as well as the indie rock and an intriguing rattling sound, scene as a whole. If you consider the groove is put in place, A very "Halfway House", "Flow Rush", musical 5/4, the groove make and "Trips" as an intimation of your head bob in a plea ingly what is to come, then any and all haphazard manner as you quick- fans of music are in for quite the ly become comfortable with the ride. rhythms, Joseph's vocals layer in Take Care takes risks, Some- after the alto sax and you are at times a listener can lose sight of home, this when they find themselves There is a certain point in every singing the chorus' to "Flow great vocalists range where the Rush," or yelling along WIt?, timbre produced can be described the "ohs" of' Halfway House, as "buttery." That is just what I'll but Take Care has found a way say about the vocals in trips. But- to synthesize the complexity of tery. And not the fake junk either. odd time signatures, electromc We're talking Grade A Land 0' sounds and a hom section with Lakes stuff here. And just when the si~plicity of brilliant lyrics you think you are beginning to that elicit real emotional respons- want something more, the horns es. . come in after an overdriven gui- This ever-present element ill PHOTO FROM WEB tar and you are rockin'. The en- their music is what has caused so ergy escalates and escalates with many of their fans, including my- mouth. It's natural, it's real, and them and enhancing them from in all of the best ways. Many the vocals until the horns take it self to get a massive bram cramp. most of all its him. After three start to finish. From the tasteful times, the tunes that find their away. As promised, the tune ends Wh~t do I call Take Care? How words, you know the lyrics are use of glockenspiel, to the octave way into your head become a nui- as Joseph utters with the com- do I describe them when I tell going to take you on a ride, and doubling in the vocal line, to the mand of every conceivable emo- NEED to hsten sance, but not Halfway House. myfri ensd they '1 you have never been so ready. changing time signatures, Take With every "oh" you become tion at his disposal, "shed your to this demo? Well, with a htt, e With a chorus that makes you Care clearly composes with open, more in love with the tune and skin I breathe with me." "Trips" is luck and a lot of listening, we II want to be spontaneous and ad- well informed minds. When a more connected to the message, just that for the listener: an emo- be able to wrap our minds around venturous, and verses that make band of this caliber has this kind which is more philosophical than tional trip. the new tunes this band lS glVlng you listen intently as the story command over lyrics and music, anyone can realize on a first lis- Spare fifteen minutes of your out for free on takecareband.com unfolds, an entire new avenue of musical tening. The chorus catches you time for Take Care's demo and become captured by music and (Sneaky, eh)? d Take Care's "Flow Rush" is one of the possibility opens up. on the first listen, but it is the well The minute I hear . tunes that only comes around emotion at the highest level, Lend g If! could describe to you in two thought out lyrics that eventually front man Kyle Joseph, 'IthZ,sfjm every once in a great while. The words why you need to see Take your ears, and get ready to feel rrdown." e nrs t make you truly fall in love with the phrase "take It a , . bands understanding of musical Care live, [ would say "Halfway the tune, Again, Take Care shows everything all at once. Until next line of "Flow Rush," I was ~:: space and timbral diversity shines House." Halfway House has a off their musicality with tasteful time, peace and love, folks .. w diately struck b)'.ho mU~om his through he lyrics, supporting way of belhg stuck in your head trumpets, well places triplets, and lieved the words commg 10.ARTS------NOVEMBER15.2010'THECOLLEGEvon In the Next Three Weeks Comes The Last Five Years Wig & Candle to present two-person musical for Conn community

BAILEY BENNETT pUI in that time and effort." subsequent marriage and divorce, CONTRIBUTOR The two soon brought the idea relying almost entirely on music A brain hild over nine months to the Wig and Candle Theater to convey the story, "The music in the making. Jason Robert Society, as both Curtin and Ja- is some of the greatest I have Brown's The Last Five Years will coby serve on the group's board. ever experienced," said Curtin. be performed on campus next Molly Clifford '13 was soon ap- "I think it's really a testament to month. The two person show proached about directing the a show when, even after months stars Grant Jacoby '13 and Talia piece. "Grant and Talia came to of listening to and working on the Curtin'13. both of whom have Wig and Candle in its very early music, you are still able to find been following the musical into stages with this idea and were in- new and unbelievable things in fruition since last year. terested in me as a director. After the notes and lyrics." Jacoby explained. "The idea reading the script and listening to Through the music. the char- began as a casual discussion be- the music, I decided it would be acters bring to life an interesting tween Talia and me last spring. manageable and definitely some- story of love and loss, as the man but we soon realized that the thing I would want to do," said begins the musical at the begin- show was something we really Clifford. ning of their relationship and wanted to do. It is a show that All three agree that the show's moves forward, while the woman requires a great amount of dedica- strong music and themes made starts from the sorrowful end and tion from both cast members nod ir a hard project to ignore. The works backward toward the be- we knew we would be willing to musical revolves around one CQU- ginning, meeting only briefly in the middle. Rehearsals focus on the inter- mingling of solo moments and subtle interactions. Jacoby ex- plained, "The other character may knew the songs coming into the we are able to drive the show on be on the same stage with you but process so we could start working our own." they are like a ghost. Although on their interactions right away." Clifford said, "It feels like Talia and I may not actually see The process also has a slightly there is a lot riding on this pro- each other, we have learned to different feel because it is com- duction because so many people interact just the same." Clifford pletely student produced. Curtin are involved in the process and said, "We have to focus on how said, "In a Mainstage produc- are working so hard. However. these two people become so close tion, the director, usually a fac- the experience has been great so but are still unable to connect." ulty member, has a vision for the far and I am very appreciative to Ben Zacharia '13 acts as the show, knows what they want, and all members of the team," Grant show's musical director, helping this is the direction the show will added, "1 have no doubts whatso- to bring the two together on stage go in. However, with The Last ever about this piece. I have faith as well as with the five-piece Five Years. we are producing a that everyone involved will rise band. He described his respon- show among peers so we have to the occasion and create a won- sibilities as "rehearsing with the the flexibility to discuss what we derful show." band, accompanying the actors all want the show to become." The Last Five Years will be per- on the piano during early rehears- Jacoby added, "When you have formed in Palmer room 202 on als and connecting the singers faculty members, there is a sense December 2, 3 and 4 .• and the band together in the end." of security and relief that failure He continued, "Although I've is not an option. With student worked with them on a few spots theater there is less certainty, but DUNCAN SPAULDINGIPHOTO EDITOR in the music, both Grant and Talia because everyone is so passionate The Power of the Fan I'm With Coco Lupe's Lasers Gets a Release Date Conan O'Brien returns to the air- waves with the' aptly-named Conan

RACINE OXTOBY Comedy always appreciates the music industry tum into a single- ARTS EDITOR underdog, and Conan O'Brien producing machine, but it's easier has always been, and always will to stomach if you learn to give in be. an underdog of lale-night comedy. Even when he helmed The Good albums aren 't marketabl..!'~-- Tonight Show for seven monlhs, mass audiences never quite found anymore without pop singles, bu themselves hooked to his absurdist ways, his old-tirney sensibilities, pop singles rarely come from good or his Masturbating Bear. He's a cult icon, one who amassed a horde albums. The latest in a long strin of Coco worshippers and who managed to sell out thirty cities-worth of victims of this issue is Chicago's of variety show tickets in mere minutes with a single Tweet. His Lupe Fiasco, the Atlantic Records dreams of hosting the gig Carson once held were crushed by NBC's represented college favorite whos~ .....-, head honchos, yet he still managed to look like the best man without highly-anticipated third album La people feeling sorry for him by holding bis fat Irish head high. sers was shelved over the summe Now he's back with a much-publicized new show on TBS called, for its failure to spawn a popu! simply, Conan. His first week was ------met with great expectations, with single. However. .. not much seems all Back in 2006, his debut Food & - hilarious, awkward and hilariously awkward sight gags and self-depre- that fresh and new than how it Liquor got a release date with just was on NBC the mild crossover success of his cating humor. single "Kick, Push" (which peaked The cold opening which preceded at #78 on the Billboard Hot 100) the first show was one of the fun- Today, his present-day, similarl niest sketches I had ever seen, rife with references to the demise of unpopular (by today's standards Sonny Corleone, a cameo appearance by Don Draper and Conan's . single "Shining Down." featurin sorry attempts at life outside of late-night hosting jobs. A picture- Matthew Santos (of "Superstar' in-picture of a Kanye West press conference highlighted Thursday fame - Lupe's top ten hit from Th night's opening monologue, with Conan occasionally checking back Cool) forced Atlantic to shut dow in to see if West was sli11talking about himself. And frequent-guest the project entirely. Tom Hanks is always up for some sort of mutilation, whether it's get- This decision infuriated thou- ting hit with a boulder on The Tonight Show or being drenched by a sands of devout Lupe fans across whale's breaching on last Tuesday's episode. the globe who started a petition for However, besides the absence of Max on the drums and the addi- the album, which generated over tion of a depression beard I not much seems fresher and newer than it 28.000 signatures. After staging a was on NBC. The jokes are the same (albeit more scathing towards protest outside the Atlantic Records his former network lifestyle), the layout of the show is unchanged offices in New York. the A&Rs fi- PHOTO FROM WEB and even the first week's guests are regulars on the show. Sidekick nally gave in. and thus Lupe has a with a palette that other conscious rappers like Andy Richter seems underused already. While a visit from Tom new ingle and a new release date set for next year. Talib Kweli and Mos Def would never dip into. Hanks is never unnecessary (seriously, why isn't this guy in more "The how Goes On" is an anthem for hip-hop's Yet Lupe's fierce optimism separates him from the comedies?). wasn't the Nicest Guy in Hollywood Conan's second- positive value, in which Lupe holds back much pack because of his fierce optimism - in this day day guest on his last sbow too? of his anger against the industry in exchange for a and age it's too easy to write about struggle, and And while I understand that Conan is excited to be back on the air song about perseverance. Lupe knows this well enough to ditch his anger in can he stop kissing TBS's ass already? I understand his elation b ; While he open clearly frustrated, with lines like the first four bars of his songs, instead channeling he's mentioning his ordeal with NBC nearly every night. Wouidn~t "They treat you like a slave/Put chains all on your it into a more productive and memorable fashion. he want to p~t it behind him in an attempt to start fresh with his new soul, and pUIwhips up on your back/They be lying What is also interesting about this song's produc- show?" I don t want to see a still-bitter Conan on TV. I want toseeth e through their teeth, hope you slip up off your path," tion is that it is not entirely distinguishable from JOyous, eccentric Conan I grew to love on Late Night. he progresse to uplifting messages, ending his sec- Lil Wayne and Drake's "Right Above It" (also pro- But I'm bei~g too blunt. I still love Coco dearly. I love his awk- ond verse with "Say hip-hop only destroy, tell them duced by Kane Beatz), which features the same set ward Spontan~lty, the way that he's not afraid to seem creepy and that look at me, boy/l hope your son don't have a gun of horns with just a slightly different chord progres- he wasn't afraid to defend an institution he loved and desired e if . I" u"'" , yen 1 and never be ad-boy," Lupe's raps are set atop a sion. Unlike that song, in which the chorus repeats, It meant os.mg Its hosting job after years of fighting for it. glo sy, triumphant, horn-driven production by the "You know we at the top and only heaven's right Maybe I Just expected more from Conan, especially with all of the Altanta-based Kane Beatz, along with an obvious above it," Lupe's lyrics seem to matter. Put the hype and promotions that has been circulating the media for the past but well-utilized sample of Modest Mouse's break- songs side by side and they are both equally catchy, few months (such as commercials with Conan driving an ex I . ked' P osrve- out 2004 hit "Aoat On," yet Lupe manages to slip in some intelligence and p~c ~~ off a .chff or traveling to India for the perfect silk for Hip-hop has been commercially successful for optimism. his studio s curtains). I wanted crazy stunts like shooting b d figures of Tom Cruise and Henry Winkler out of circus canna wax much of its existence. but never before has there So why, for a record company, is Lupe Fiasco a ons or been so much tension between the socially-con- risk and LiJ' Wayne an asset? Because more people maki ngAnd y drink a shot of bacon-flavored vodka.

scious and the popular. Only in the past half decade I know I'm being too impatient - there's stilltl'me C C are buying Lil' Wayne records, and my guess is that .I. lor onan to has an entirely new generation of artists spawned. it has someth.ing to do with who his audience is. start going p aces. WIth no late-night figure precedin Con treading this line so carefully between being impor- LimeWire may finally be gone, but the age of free he ISin no worry of gelling bumped back to any frusrr:ti .an now, tant and being successful. music is only beginning - meaning, feel no shame (unless TBS suddenly gets a craving for more G Long timeslots eekni hts) AF. I' eorge pez on their Lupe is one of the best in this category, in that in swiping a new Lil Wayne cut from a blog site, w ig . ong as his core audience stays f tl think Conan - and Conan _ is here to stay tho .erven y devoted, I he finds a way to sell while never undermining bUI let's do ourselves a favor and drop the dollars •.. IS tune .• his creativity. Part of that is certainly his choice of for the stuff that's really worth it. Maybe then Lupe production. Kane Beatz, Mike Shinoda and long- Fiasco and OUf other favorites can continue their ca- time produc r Soundtrakk have provided Lupe ""ers delay-free .• THECOLLEGEVOCE· NOVEMBER15,20101--- SPORTS. 11 Women's Basketball Looking Conn Skiers Prepare to Hit the Slopes Forward to a New Season MIKE FLINT A profile of Ski Club and Ski Team SPORTS EDITOR The winter sport season get underway just before Thanksgiv- NICK WOOLF (GS) and slalom events against ing, so I sat down with two wom- SPORTS EDITOR several schools, including BU, en's basketball players, Taylor Trinity, Tufts, Amherst, and WPI. Sawatzki ' 12 and Kim Home' 12, Every winter, two groups of to talk about preseason and their dedicated Conn skiers tra I t Apparently, WPI-wbo Smith . ve 0 described as our "unofficial ri- expectations going into the year. mount~ms ~n northern New Eng- The Camels are boping to im- land WIth dIfferent goals in mind val"-is a lot more serious about their preparation and presenta- prove from their 8-16 record last One group, Ski Team, bopes t~ year and make a name for them- best other college teams from tion than any of the other teams, which often annoys other, less selves in the conference. With a all over the Northeast in friendl .. y intense teams. Smith explained talented crop of new freshmen competrtions The other group, that the WPI skiers "go up and set players, the young Conn tearn Ski Club, seeks to enjoy the Sport is excited heading into their first in a more leisurely manner. up a tent at the top of the moun- tain and they have an expensive games of the year. Many students on campus have drill system for waxing their skis. beard about Ski Team, often be- Tbey sbarpen up their edges right How did last season go? cause of their wildly popular Har- before they go, and we're like Sawatzki: Urn... vestfest flannel shirts. Last year 'come on guys, just get in line Horne: Last season was a rough Alex Marcus '10 helped mak~ and run your race; do the best one. this fundraising idea a reality you can, '" Conn's team certainly Sawatzki: It was, Imean, that's by contactlllg an embroiderer in isn't lazy or careless about their oat really a secret. It was rough. Middleboro, Massachusetts about preparation, but tbey do just as We were all really good, but we the shirt design and purchase, The well without sucb intricate prepa- didn't click well as a tearn. flannels have sold extremely well rations. Horne: We had the talent, we over the past two years; the team Ski Club is the other skiing just didn't play together. has had to put several customers group on campus, but they in- on a waiting list botb years. vite snowboarders to join them So, how does the team feel With all of this successful fund- as well. According to member this year? raising, the team seems to be in a Maggie Shea ' 11, "a lot of kids Sawatzki: It feels a lot better. good position financially. A lot of on ski club used to ski competi- Everyone seems to be working this money will go towards rent- tively, but now they want a differ- well, and the freshman are all re- ing houses near the mountains the ent outlet to enjoy the sport." The ally good, team visits during training weeks club's main goal is to maximize Home: I think we worked bard- and competition weekends. tbe amount of skiing/snowboard- er this preseason than we have The team has already begun ing time they have during eacb any other preseason. their preseason preparations. Ac- of tbe five weekends they visit Sawatzki: Definitely. cording to captain Matt Smith Sugarbush Mountain in Warren, , 11, the team has to do "a lot of Vermont. What are your hopes for this Junior Kim Horne drives the lane. organizing to get houses for train- Like Ski Team, Ski Club must season? ing week and getting our race also rent houses for their lodging Home: We want to make the schedule ... and then we try to get NESCAC Tournament for the during the weekend. The money Sawatzki: It was a fun game ... the team together for team-build- first time ... about seven bealtby bodies, then they earn through fundraising to cheer for. ing exercises." These exercises All: Ever, we'd bave three people wbo are goes toward this expense. Horne: (Laughs) Just forget it. often include "dry land training," Sawatzki: In the history of balf-bealtby. Althougb Ski Club has bad a Sawatzki: Yeah, bave Kim an- which includes running or play- women's basketball at Conn Col- Sawatzki: Literally, like four bad reputation in past years as swer the questions. ing ultimate frisbee. lege (laughing), And, we want to people bave not been injured this a rowdy group, Shea says this year. So far. The training that involves actu- be at least .500. I think it's a very year's members are "a great Do you get hurt a lot? al skiing begins in the first week achievable goal. group of skiers and snowboard- Sawatzki: I have so many of January, when the team heads When's your home opener? ers who want to change the club's things wrong with me it's not Sawatzki: Next Tuesday, No- up to either Vermont or New perception on campus." Who's going to be sick In NE- even funny, vember 23 against Nicbols at Hampshire (this year's mountain SCAC? Botb skiing groups on campus Home: Yeab. It's like we bave 5:30. hasy..et to be continued). Tbe first look forward to hitring the slopes Home: Amherst is really good, the Curse of the Camels. In tbe Anything else you want me to J....-r.lce will be in Maine at the end of Sawatzki: Ialways like playing and are no doubt awaiting news past three years, there have been say? training week, and races occur on of the first snowstorm in New Tufts. Tufts is a fun game. a huge number of injuries on our Horne: I'd say, "Come support a weekly basis thereafter. England this winter .• team. women's basketball!" Conn races in the giant slalom Why are they particularly fun? Sawatzki: Yeah, that's a good Did you coin that term on Sawatzki: I don't koow. one. your own? They're always really good .. .1 Horne: Someone ... said that don't koow, Ican't really say any- Conn opens their season on once .. .it wasn't me. thing because I've never played Saturday, November 20 in a tour- Sawatzki: You just made tbat in a NESCAC game. I've been nament at Brandeis University, up, injured for about two years, Their first NESCAC game is 1I0t Horne: It's like our team is very Home: (Laughing) Yeab, wby until January /4 when they take injury-prone. did you pick Tufts? all Amherst, a Division III NCAA Sawatzki: I koow, that's very Tournament finalist lasl season, true, it is. So if you've never played in the Lupe Field House .. Home: It's one of our chal- Tufts, how do you have fun lenges we're facing. We'd have playing Tufts?

IIII'II~:~I)O"TI~llIlilNI{IN C.S m., "i, COIIPILIlD BY TBI TIJFI'S DAILY Abby Hine, Field Hockey After a lhird-placeshowingin the final NESCACPowerRanking> forthe fallseason.WtIliams began thewinteron a high note and isthetop finisherintheseason'spreseason standings. Thanks 10 a unanimous firstplacerank inmen'sbasketball and top-fourphtcingsintheremaining three sports, WtIliamsmovedahead of Amherst. the fall'stop finisher, Batesmade the biggestleap, thanks inlarge pan 10thefactthat theBobcatsdon'tparticipate inmen'sand women'shockey,moving from 10th in thefallrankings 10 fifth inthewinterstandings. Tufts, on theother hand, fellthefurthest, thanks 10 a last-placeshowingfrom men'sbasketball and a middJ<>.of-the-packfinish formen'shockey, and now sitsat ninlh overall. Amherst earned a unanimous firstinboIh women'sbasketball and women'shockey, I MEN'S WOMEN'S I MEN'S WOMEN'S FAlL TIllS SCHOOL BASKElBALL,BASKBTBALL. HOCKEY HOCKEY AVERAGE flNlSH

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7.75 8.00 tOOO 9.00 8.69 Abby Hine '11 ~~::AN techniques and they really have to be indi- I CONTINUED FROM PAGE 12 I vidual to each team and pertaining to that II CONN. COLLEGE' 9.25 10.00 85.Q 7.00 8.69 team's needs. I get pumped by my team- .L athlete, I want my coacb to be some kin~ mates; I think: we motivate each other in The poll was devised as follows: Each voter ranked all NESCAC scbools in each sport, of a role model for the playerSt~~~~I;:t the locker room. We usually do some kind and those scores were averagedto create a composite ranking for each spon. The composites to be there as a good coa~~ro~e atbletes. of psych-up, we'll create skits or raps or were then averaged to determine each school's overall ranking. Note that Hamilton does not also as a support system anything you could imagine. We've sbot compete in men's and women's basketba1l in the NESCAC. Bates does not complete in men's and women's hockey and Tufts does notcompete in women's. darts at pictures of the other teams' faces. What is the most effective way to get a This week's listwasdetermined by polling Mike flint and Nick Woolf(Conn. College Voice). We do a buncb of different psych ups and Katie Siegner(Middlebury Campus),Ann Cortis & EmilyGittleman(Trinity Tripod) and Alex team pumped up before a game? b it's the morale of the team that really gets Prewitt (Tufts Daily). Both coachdes an~ t~::;~::e~:na g~/ o~ me ready to face a game .• OSSION BY S'rnVEN SMJTWn1fTS OA.fl.Y team purnpe up. ,. 12------_ THE COLlEGE VOla SPORTS NOVEMBER 15,2010 Editors: NiCk Woolf & Mike Flint [email protected] 2010 Fall Athletes of the Year Abby Hine '11 and Trevor Prophet '11 talk about tgeir careers as Conn athletes

II: ~ OJ 1C z>- 8 ii1 ~ W 0: ;! Z :J:: o.., Abby Hine, Field Hockey Trevor Prophet, Men's Soccer

MIKE FLINT JEFF BAIRD I mostly just tried to focus on my play SPORTS EDITOR FICTION EDITOR Is there a lot of trash talk in the NE- without paying much attention to breaking SCAC? How was your last game? Was it weird the record. Although, the thought was defi- If you're an avid reader of the Voice, After the penalty kick at Wesleyan, to know it was your final game as a Cam- nitely on my mind as soon as I realized my you 've likely come across senior Trevor one of the players said "Why don't you el? dream could be a reality, and so I fought and Prophet's name many times. A star two- dive again?" because he thought I dove Well, just never thought I was going to fought until I beat it. r sport athlete, Trevor is one of Conn's in the play. He'd do that every time I got have a last game. Our team was ready to most active members (also serving as the the ball. He was just slower than the rest go all the way. Unfortunately, due to some How did it feel to break the record? head of the Student Athletic Advisory of us. I love talking back to people too. horrific reffing and unfortunate mistakes, I was in shock that I actually did it. I am Board and Freeman Housefellow), and we didn't come out on top. Even though definitely proud of how hard I've worked just finished up his senior season of soc- Was Sam Adams as bad a soccer OUf season is over, [ know the sport of field and how much I put into my four years as an cer after a heartbreaking loss in overtime player as he is a rapper? (Note: Sam hockey will never leave me entirely. I hope athlete at Conn. It was definitely bittersweet at Wesleyan. Though the team failed to Adams was the captain of Trinity's to coach after college and always have the to know my career was coming to an end, make the playoffs, Trevor finished at the team) game as a part of my life. but I am very happy it ended the way it did. top of the NESCAC in points and points He was good, but he was a bitch. Just I am so proud of our team and all the accom- per game, and made the NESCAC First like his rap. How do you feel now that your Conn plishments we've made this year as a group. Team All-Conference for the third year in career is over? a row. He finished his Conn career with What is it like to not drink in sea- It's definitely hard knowing my field Was it a goal of yours coming into Conn 28 goals, 7 assists and 63 total points. son? hockey career is over. 1 put everything I as a freshman? Did you expect to have as Socially it was pretty easy, because be- possibly could into that sport and it is heart- much success here as you have? Mike asked me to get some sappy ing a Housefellow I wouldn't have gone breaking to know that 1 can't ever play in It wasn't a goal of mine coming into Conn stnff, so here we go. How did it feel to nuts anyway. But it definitely changes another college game. I really define myself because I really had no idea I would even have the season end so abruptly after what I do, where I won't see people a lot as an athlete and would definitely tum to come close to achieving something like this. losing the Wesleyan game? of nights in the fall. But I definitely come field hockey as my outlet in life. Thankfully, I didn't really realize that I had the opportu- It was tough because now I'm not do- out more after soccer. It's very rewarding however, I'm captain of the ice hockey team nity until late in my junior year. Once I heard ing what I love to do everyday. There when you're doing well, and I don't need as well and I'm looking forward to a great I was in the running, I became determined to are a lot of things I like to do and I'll still to drink to have tim. season. achieve this goal I set for myself. I never ex- have fun these next two semesters, but pected to have this kind of success, and I've my best memories and my college love What's your worst injury been? What will you miss most? learned a lot about myself as a person. [will will always be soccer. A bruise. I'll miss the camaraderie ofthe team most. never underestimate myself or leave myself 1 loved just coming down to practice every- short-handed because I now know how hard What kept the team from being as What's the next step in your soccer day and having my teammates to laugh with work can payoff. It's a great feeling. good as it could have been this year? career? and enjoy each other's company. We pushed We didn't have the experience we've Hopefully semi-pro in Africa, or may- each other every day on the field but we also What allowed you to have such a suc- had in past years. We had a better team, be Australia. But I'd like to play at a became like family. cessful career? more commitment, but we made some good level My teammates, coaches and family. They untimely mistakes. It was definitely the somewhere else and make enough to Have you had time to reflect on your ca- make me work harder and push me to have best team I've support myself and have some tim. reer much? What are some of your favor- the drive that I have. A lot of people say I played for, though. ite memories? push myself harder than anyone they've Anything else? I haven't really had much time to reflect, ever seen, and I think its because I never What have you been doing to stay See y'all on the sidelines next year .• however I have memories that I know 1 will want to let anyone down. I want to do it for busy since the season have for a lifetime. I have to say my best the people who I know believe in me. ended? memory is probably the goal against Trin- Doing everything I can. ity in which I broke the school record. It 'WiII you continue to play field hockey Club basketball, running, was an incredible mixture of excitement, after you graduate? What are your direct climbing everything I see. joy, accomplishment, as well as relief. I was plans after you graduate? so proud to be a part of such an incredible I will definitely play after I graduate. I How true for you has team and to have my teammates to help me know there are leagues around for "oldies" the "score today, score achieve this goal. and I can't wait to play some pick-up. I am tonight" claim been? hoping to coach in prep school. I don't think Let's just say I'm con- Can you tell the story of your record- I could find anything more rewarding than fident on and off the field. hreaking goal against Trinity? to give hack to kids what has been offered It was about three and a half minutes into to me as an athlete. I really feel like this is What are your hest the game and it was taken on a penalty cor- just a start to a new heginning for me. Field locker room memories? ner, which was inserted from the end line hockey is always going to be a huge part of "The soap man" and and passed out to the end of the circle where my life. bull-frogging. More de- it was stopped and then it was a direct shot tails in person. right into the pocket of the net. I felt ex- You mentioned you want to coach in the tremely proud of myself and my team and future. What would you do as a coach-is What's your favorite I was definitely relieved in a way, because it there anything you wish your coaches had cheer heard while play- had been a goal of mine for the season and done that you will incorporate into your ing? I wanted to accomplish it and get it done. It coaching? An Amherst fan once was exhilarating. I think I would have my own kind of style, said, "Trevor why do you it wouldn't be exactly the same as the way love Delonte West?" I In terms of the scoring record, were you they coacbed me but they have taught me a don't know how he knew conscious of it? lot about what it means to be a good that I loved him, but he's my favorite player in the NBA. I was laughing on the field.

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