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Student’s Story Freshman Dancer Goes Inspires Staff Writer To World Competition by Max Widmer ’12 meticulously made, rests beneath three by Valerie Ferdon ’12 against approximately 100 participants Commentary Staff symmetrically placed martial arts post- News Editor Emeritus in the Ladies 19/20-year- old bracket. ers—all of foreign movies that I haven’t Over 32 countries from around the Student Spotlight heard of —and a full bodied snap shot Campus News world were represented, and Grant of a lunging Bruce Lee. “Ever since I finished 68th, the same spot she has A clear, plastic garbage bag drapes was a kid, being at least a half decent Like many 5-year-old girls, Kristen placed in her two other experiences at over the right side of Ben Almeada-Lo- marital artist was kind of my dream,” Grant ’14 asked her mother to enroll this competition. pez’s motorized wheelchair like a de- he explains, “but you need leg strength her in ballet lessons. Much to her In order to compete in the World flated wing. He tells me it’s drizzling for that.” dismay, she was instead brought to Irish Dance Competition, dancers must out today, so he can’t take risks—and Ben’s half-Filipino and bears a slight an Irish Dance studio. She completed qualify at the national or regional no, he won’t be picking up any gar- resemblance to some of the heroes that the class anyway, and from then on, “I championships. Grant placed within bage. Ben’s wheelchair is battery oper- adorn his wall. He has jet-black hair never looked back,” says Grant. the top 5 in the North England Regional ated and he controls it through a joy- that parts over his glasses, and an hon- The talent that Grant demonstrated Competition in November, and was stick device that his right hand rests est, crooked smile lights up his face. from an early age did not come as a then eligible to travel to Belfast. on. “If it gets wet, it can short out,” He’s upper body is rock solid; evident surprise. Her aunt is an Irish Dance “The feeling of actually getting to he tells me bluntly—because, well, it’s by the muscle definition that makes an teacher with her own studio, and has the airport is the scariest, because you happened before. “You have to hit a impression on his loose long-sleeve- won the regional championship on realize it is actually happening,” says bunch of buttons and just hope it starts shirt. Gray cargo shorts give way to his numerous occasions. Her mother was Grant. “But once you are there you are back up.” Hence, the garbage bag, be- legs—both nested in shin-guard like the first American to compete in the completely surrounded by dancers cause it’s a better solution than getting braces made of carbon fiber. “They’re Oireachtas Rince Na Cruinne (World and you just enter this world of Irish stranded. “And, hey, it’s really stylish,” cutting edge,” he says, patting each Irish Dance Competition), the same Dance. You barely see ‘regular’ Ben says, laughing. one affectionately like an obedient competition that Grant has qualified people during the entire time you We’re sitting in Ben’s dorm room pet, “the doctor was psyched when he for and competed in three years in a are there.” —an extra-large handicap accessible could write a prescription for them.” row. WORLDS / Page 3 triple that’s tucked away at the end of BEN / Page 10 On April 2, Grant traveled to Belfast, the McDermott basement. 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- Arman &Dara Thurs 26 Overlook LoungeOverlook Project, Slavin You Can Play 6:00 p.m. Ground Floor Thursday, Slavin Things for 11:00 a.m. to some DMB on to someDMBon the quad. Iz nice.the quad. Iz Student Cowl . The should bro out should bro out Yo bro, you April 12,2012 , 1 Cowl, The - - - April 19, 2012 NEWS The Cowl 3 Student Congress Hears Four Pieces of Legislation by Christine Rousselle ’13 teach the course. new plan for diversity and would 12. This amendment concerns the News Editor The course would show students introduce non-Western religions to requirements of the officers of the how to get a job, accomplish students on campus. Executive Board of Student Congress, Student Congress objectives, and help students discern It was also pointed out that not and was introduced by Tucker de a future career. The class would be everyone on campus is Catholic, and Villier ’12. This amendment removed graded on a pass/fail basis, and the that there should be understanding article four, section two from the On Tuesday, April 17, the course would not be mandatory for between religious differences. The Student Congress Constitution. 62nd Student Congress met for any particular majors. course was described as comparable None of the new pieces of their weekly meeting. Legislation Sean Aherne ’14 introduced to theology courses at Fairfield legislation were voted upon at the presented included proposed classes the second piece of new business, University. Prior to the introduction meeting. Congress will reconvene at in Career Development and Global recommendation SCRC 62-10, of this legislation, members of 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 24. Catholicism, proposed installation of regarding the installation of blue- Congress looked to Catholic “blue light” security on Eaton Street, lights on Eaton Street. The blue- University of America and their and an amendment to the Student lights would be identical to the religious studies courses. Follow PC Student Congress on Congress constitution. current security system on campus. The next piece of legislation General announcements included Aherne said that he had spoken to was an amendment to the Student Twitter @PC_Congress the upcoming Junior Night in Major Leyden about the possibility Congress constitution, SCA 62- McPhail’s on April 27, which will of installing them off-campus, and be NASCAR-themed, and that bids Leyden thought that there was a for Commencement will be on sale good chance. starting April 19. The library will According to Aherne, the blue- This Week In Congress again be open 24/7 during finals week, lights would be installed outside of and several clubs are under review. the library and outside of the Fennell Vice President of Student Affairs Gates. Aherne said that he sought Old Business Kristine Goodwin addressed the out the approval of Student Congress recent crime alert concerning a before going to the actual city of spiked drink at a nearby nightclub. Providence and seeking permission -No Old Business The student involved was not a to install the security system. Providence College student, but PC The next piece of legislation, SCRC students should still be careful and 62-10, is a proposal for a new theology “be smart” when going out. course concerning global Catholicism. New Business There were no pieces of old The legislation was introduced by business. Pamela Butz ’13 and was described The first piece of new legislation as “semi-controversial.” The course -Proposed Installation of Blue Lights on Eaton was recommendation SCRC 62-09, would examine interfaith relations introduced by Danielle Ladd ’12 and and look at Catholicism in the Street Meg Van Name ’12. It proposed a culture of developing areas of the new, one-credit Career Development world. It would also examine the -Proposed Career Development Class course for the 2013 academic year. commonalities between religions. The course would only last for six It was noted that Providence weeks and would be housed in the College currently only offers one -Proposed Global Catholicism Class Department of Management. Initially, section of a world religions course, the course would be geared towards and that the new Strategic Plan -Changes to the Student Congress Constitution management and accounting majors includes a desire for diversity in but has the potential to be adapted different forms around campus. for other majors. Members of career This new course was described services and a faculty member would as being in accordance with the WORLDS: Grant Places 68th For Third Year Continued from front page This competition takes place on July her schoolwork and still train for 4 in Chicago, Ill. competitions. Given the way the dates of the Grant plans to remain invested “[Irish Dance] really does competition fell in relation to Easter in Irish Dance in the long-run. She consume everything,” says Grant. break, Grant only had to miss one foresees herself competing through “But as long as I continue to keep day of PC classes. This is not to the end of college, and possibly up with my work, I will continue to The Providence say that Irish Dance is not a major taking over her aunt’s school dance.” commitment in other ways. sometime in the future. College Irish “I dance five days a week, and “Once you are invested in this also go to the gym during the week sport, you can’t give it up,” she says. to do weight lifting, stretching, and There is also a lot of financial Dance Club will cardio,” says Grant. “When there is investment required to compete in a competition approaching, I work Irish Dance. Participants must pay out for a total of about four hours a for their own travel and housing be performing day.” while at feiseanna, or Irish Dance She has swipe-access to the competions.Grant adds that she just their spring Guzman Chapel, where she ordered a new dress for Nationals— rehearses in preparation for and it cost $2,500. competitions. This is also where “There is no money [to gain] in show on the Irish Dance Club rehearses, of this sport,” says Grant. “There are which Grant is a member. They are monetary prizes for the top three currently preparing for their May 3 dancers at Regionals, but they are Thursday, May performance on campus. only a few hundred dollars.” “It is a lot of fun being in the She is personally invested in 3 at 8:00 p.m. club,” she says. “[In the club] the the sport as well. She has never dances are a lot simpler, so it’s more gotten hurt during a competition, relaxing. It is also more fun to be and explains that she is “petrified” in the Smith with a bunch of people rather than of doing so. She doesn’t partake dancing by myself.” in many pick-up games that are Center for the Although she rehearses while she commonly played on the quad, and is here at PC, Grant studies Irish if she does, she is very cautious not Dance at her aunt’s school, Clifden to put her body in a compromising Arts. Tickets Academy. This is the third school situation. in which she has studied since she “In high school, my dance began dancing 14 years ago. teacher would not allow me to join are $3 and will “I choreograph my own dances,” the volleyball team because there says Grant. “I write out the steps. I is a pattern of girls spraining their be available at don’t think many other dancers do ankles while playing,” explained that.” Grant. “I just couldn’t risk it.” When she returns to her home Her short-term goals include the door. in Milton, Mass, in May, she will placing first in Regionals, and CONTRIBUTED PHOTO be taking two-hour long classes continuing to dance through college. Grant poses in her competition dress after at Clifden along with four other Despite the time commitment, winning fifth in the New England Regionals, dancers preparing for Nationals. she has been able to keep up with qualifying for Worlds. 4 The Cowl NEWS April 19, 2012 Take Back the Night Addresses Kauffman Hopes to Extend Sexual Violence on Campus Conservative Message to Students by Matt Daniele ’15 Kelly has been a member of Women by Micaela Cameron ’13 Occupy Providence. News Staff Will since freshman year and joined News Staff In February, Kauffmann and because of her passion for bringing three other members of the College attention to the widespread issue. Republicans attended CPAC. At the Campus Events Club President Spotlight Taking a leadership role in recent convention, Kauffmann listened to a years, she is annually surprised at the variety of different politicians speak, her Sexual abuse is something all turnout and positive response among As president of College Republicans, favorite being Marco Rubio, a senator incoming freshmen are lectured on attendees. The greater attendance Shayna Kauffmann ’13 had the from Florida. Kauffmann stated that she during orientation and throughout means more are suffering at the hands opportunity to travel to the Conservative believed in Rubio’s message and was their first year, and the whole of sexual assault, but also that more Political Action Conference (CPAC) this impressed by his resonating passion. student body is constantly reminded light is being shed on the problem. past February where she attended talks Kauffmann was also impressed by those every year of its dangers. Students As for the future of Take Back the presented by Republican politicians in attendance and enjoyed the event may lament at the notification of Night at Providence College, Kelly such as Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, as a networking opportunity. For her, each mandatory abuse seminar. hopes that the event will grow into and Sarah Palin. CPAC was also a chance to be around “Why should we hear the same something greater than storytelling Kauffmann, who currently resides in like-minded individuals, an experience statistics and warnings so often?” in ’64 Hall. It is very possible the Cumberland, R.I., attended New Albany that reassured her that the conservative one may ask. Unfortunately, this event will grow, given that this High School in Ohio before graduating movement is still alive. repetition is due to sexual abuse year’s lasted several hours of student and coming to Providence College in Kauffmann has enjoyed her time thus occuring frequently and a general stories, accompanied by a full house the fall of 2009. far in College lack of acknowledgement outside of of attendees. She would like to see Kauffmann Republicans these seminars. the event occur more than once a joined College and believes To remedy this, Women Will year, including a protest outside Republicans her that being a hosted Take Back the Night this to establish more of a presence on freshman year member of the past Thursday, where students campus and raise awareness. and joined the organization of both genders shared personal In addition, Kelly wants a executive board will be beneficial as president this to her future. As GIVEN THAT ONE IN FOUR WOMEN WILL BE past fall. a management SEXUALLY ASSAULTED...WE ALL KNOW SOMEONE. Kauffmann’s major, stories of sexual abuse or those of a greater male attendance, stressing decision to Kauffmann’s friends.“ The accounts were told in that sexual abuse is not unique to join College presidency has anonymity and aimed to shed light women. Despite gender and personal” Republicans helped her grow on how relevant the issue really is. encounters with the issue, sexual was largely in her leadership Students were also educated about abuse is an issue on our campus and inspired by the capabilities. She the ambiguity as to what actually most students are connected to it, first impression has been able to defines sexual assault, and may see whether to their knowledge or not. she had of realize her own how it varies among victims. “Take Back the Night is an its members. leadership style Take Back the Night is an opportunity every person, regardless She enjoyed and has gained international movement against of personal experience, should [take being around skills she can sexual abuse that has grown to advantage of] at least once within like-minded apply to her different mediums of protest since its their four years or in their lifetime. It conservatives studies. inception in the late ’70s. It is hosted is a powerful and moving experience and was Kauffmann once a year at Providence College, for both survivors and supporters,” comforted by also believes that though the locale varies. Kelly advises. “Given that one the camaraderie NATASHA TREE ’15 / THE COWL it is important Lauren Kelly ’13, vice president in four women will be sexually that those in the for students to of Women Will, elaborated further: assaulted by the time she graduates Kauffmann joined College Republicans as a group shared. freshman and was elected president at the end of be knowledgeable “[It is] a night for people to ‘shatter college, it proves that we all know “Most college her sophomore year. about politics. the silence and stop the violence,’ someone who has been affected. students aren’t “Being on a by sharing their own stories There are often dramatized ideas and outspoken about being conservative. college campus takes us away from and experiences surrounding assumptions about sexual assault Hearing other outspoken conservatives reality sometimes, and once we leave sexual assault and violence in an and rape, and many are unaware of was reassuring,” said Kauffmann. here, we will become so immersed in anonymous, safe, and judgement- what constitutes sexual assault, in College Republicans is part of a reality. Politics are going to come as a free setting. This is both an its varying degrees, and rape. This larger group, the College Republican shock to some people after we graduate opportunity for personal healing and protest offers an opportunity to break Federation of Rhode Island. The chapter and we pay our first taxes. I think people growth, as well as greater awareness down those stigmas and assumptions at the College is one of eight in the state will start to care, assuming most people and understand[ing] of the scope about sexual assault and see what it of Rhode Island. At PC, the College who graduate stay in this country. The and severity of sexual violence.” actually looks like and consists of.” Republicans share a conservative role of government policy will be very ideology and support Republican important when we graduate,” said campaigns and candidates. On campus, Kauffmann. the College Republicans try to play an As president, Kauffmann is currently activist role, expanding their duties trying to expand the group and gain a beyond the purely philosophical. bigger name on campus. She plans to FOLLOW THE COWL Last semester, the College continue publicizing the organization Republicans participated in Freedom through the events hosted and to create Week, building a mock Berlin Wall on a dialogue with others to spread the Slavin Lawn. Students were invited conservative viewpoint throughout the to spray paint the wall in an attempt campus. Kauffmann hopes that she will to replicate the real wall. During this be able to get more people passionate week, the College Republicans hosted about conservatism whether through a speaker who was born in the former more activism on campus, more events, Czechoslovakia and lived under or more speakers. She hopes in the a communist regime. The College upcoming years, the organization will Republicans also sponsored a September continue to change and evolve as well as 11 flag memorial at which they planted grow. With the upcoming election, she flags on the lower campus quad, equal hopes that everyone knows they are able in number to those who lost their lives to vote and that their votes are important. 10 years prior. In her own future, Kauffmann can see The College Republicans also attend herself attending graduate school or events off campus. This past October, working in corporate retail. Kauffmann and the organization had “I love being part of College the opportunity to visit and observe Republicans this year, because this year the Occupy Providence movement is a major turning point for America, downtown in October. At Burnside Park, regardless if [it chooses] to elect Barack the College Republicans were able to Obama again, or [chooses] a Republican @thecowl talk to the protestors and read the many candidate, because it comes down to posters around the park. Kauffmann what this country will be in the future. recalls that those in attendance were all It’s a decision point—do we want there for very different reasons, some more government? Do we want more citing the environment as a motivator freedom? At the end of the day, that’s and others, taxes. what it’s all about,” said Kauffmann. facebook.com/thecowl “They had their own culture; they College Republicans meets would snap if they liked what someone on Wednesdays at 5 p.m. in the else said. It was almost foreign. I Slavin Fishbowl. didn’t feel like I was in America,” said Kauffmann of her experience visiting April 19, 2012 NEWS The Cowl 5 Urinal Pipe Floods Library by Dennis Lynch ’12 method involved was the installation News Staff of a two-foot visqueen tube pumping very dry air into the library. Small i n b r i e f Campus News two-inch holes allowed the dry air to exit the tube, dry air replaced humid air, resulting in lower humidity throughout the building. Disaster was averted in Phillips by Andres Taborda ’15 Memorial Library on the morning of Thanks to the quick response of the Physical Plant and the effective NEWSAsst. News Editor Easter Sunday when a burst pipe was techniques used by Polygon, the discovered in the first floor bathroom. Campus News A high-pressure water pipe leading to library was fairly dry by the time the urinal in the men’s bathroom had classes resumed on Tuesday. The only sprung a leak around 1 a.m., sending signs that there had been any problem gallons of water into the library. were the remaining dehumidifying Future Class of 2016 Welcomed at Family Day The leak was discovered a few hours fans and the dry-air visqueen tubes, which many students attributed to the later and the water in the library was Members accepted to the Providence College Class of 2016 came together shut off to stop the flow of water. By the school trying to keep the library cooler. “Our main priority was to make for the first time this past weekend for Accepted Students Day. The College time the leak was stopped, the water offered different events for potential future students and their families had soaked the carpet of the first floor, sure that students would be able to use the library when they returned ranging from tours to info sessions. A luncheon was also held in the Peterson reaching almost to the front doors. The Recreation Center. Technology played a big role in the success of the weekend water had also made its way down the from Easter break,” says Dr. Donald Russell Bailey, the library director. with the College facilitating the “check-in” option via networks such as stairs to the basement, but the raised Twitter, FourSquare, Facebook, and Instagram, among others. The Information floor of the Tech Hub prevented much “In addition to ensuring the library’s use for students, we knew that we Technology department also had a large display in the Slavin Overlook Lounge flooding there. showcasing the different technological attributes of the College. With the Workers from the Physical Plant had to have the building fully dry by Saturday, when prospective May 1 commitment deadline approaching, the College had its final chance to were called in to remove furniture showcase itself to its incoming class. from the flooded areas to limit the students and families would be damage from the standing water. The touring the school.” school also hired Polygon, a water The library was fully dried by Argument Erupts at Speaker removal company from Andover, the end of the day Thursday, and all drying materials were removed. On Mass., to come in and direct the drying Erika Bachiochi visited Providence College this past weekend to offer a process. The school’s goal was to have Friday, repairs had been completed in the lower-level Tech Hub and lecture on women, sex, and the Church. Sponsored by the Anscombe Society, the library usable by the time classes the Department of Theology, and Campus Ministry, the lecture focused on the started on Tuesday and fully dry by some main-floor baseboards, which had gotten wet. The cause of the leak Church’s positions on women. A former supporter of the pro-choice movement, Accepted Students’ Day on Saturday. Bachiochi went through her journey of conversion and explained her now pro- Polygon workers employed the use is still unknown. Although the damage from the life position to a large crowd in Moore Hall. Following her lecture, a question and of three drying techniques to remove answer session was opened up that brought much debate regarding controversial the water as quickly as possible. flood was limited, the school plans to look into replacing the damaged issues, mainly abortion. Pro-choice attendees publicly questioned Bachiochi’s The first was the use of very high- positions. Supporters of Bachiochi jumped to her defense, often having one-on- capacity dehumidifiers. The second areas of carpeting and molding over the summer, when the work will one debates with those questioning her positions. The lecture served as a basis technique was to use high-energy for good conversation between two sides of an argument. fans to blow over the carpet sending cause minimal interruption in the the moisture into the air. The third library. PC Gets Cultured

Cultural Jamboree brought PC students together once again in a celebration of cultures from all over the globe. The event was sponsored by BMSA and was held in the lower level of the Slavin Center. For $2, attendees had access to unlimited food from all over the world including 100 pounds of pasta, crepes, fried plantains, and much more. The event also highlighted different dance routines from PC’s Irish Step Dance club and a folkloric Portuguese dance company from Our Lady of Fatima church in Cumberland, R.I. Other activities included henna tattoos, arts and crafts, and face painting.

63rd Student Congress Elected

After a week of heavy campaigning, Providence College students headed to the polls to elect new class officers. Students from the Classes of 2013, 2014, and 2015 voted this past Tuesday and Wednesday on Angel to either re-elect their current officers or vote in other candidates for the 63rd Student Congress. With many issues tackled by the 62nd Student Congress, the student body has taken on the democratic process to show their approval or denial of the student-led legislative body on campus.

Want Some Lemonade? COURTESY OF PROVIDENCE.EDU Dehumidifiers were one of the many techniques used to dry out the library after a small flood. On a warm, spring Tuesday, PC for Life and the Veritas Communities refreshed the student body with free ice-cold lemonade from their lemonade stand event. The event took place on the Slavin Lawn where cups of lemonade were handed to students and faculty members passing by. The purpose of the event was to make the campus aware of the visions of the pro-life movement by putting Bible quotes and other prominent pro-life figures like Pope Benedict XVI on the cups. Interested in web design? Passionate about social media?

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by Adam Staropoli ’14 to be released to the public in June World Staff this year. “If the individual mandate is UNITED STATES struck down, we will see a huge expansion of the Medicaid program,” and the enforcement of “tough new rules on insurance companies,” as The Supreme Court has put the defined by the legislation, reports Obama administration on trial in CNN. If this happens, “faced with testing the constitutionality of the big new costs and deprived of their controversial Patient Protection and expected new revenues from the Affordable Care Act. The Affordable mandate, insurance companies will Care Act, more commonly known have to raise prices. Faced with as “Obamacare,” is considered the rising prices, employers will cut signature accomplishment of the back coverage,” says CNN. This will current administration. Political lead to more expensive health care, experts agree that the final decision on less coverage, and an expanded the health care law will have serious coverage through the already budget implications for the President’s constrained Medicaid program, a political future and reelection, as well PHOTO COURTESY OF AP doomsday scenario for the deficit, as the future of the health care system Above, an artist’s rendition of Donald Verrilli’s oral argument before the Supreme Court. many liberals argue. in the United States. Still, the administration (as well as Between March 26 and March will require the American people While Solicitor General Donald ranking members of the party such 28, the Supreme Court heard oral to purchase health insurance or be Verrilli, the man tasked with as Nancy Pelosi) are confident that arguments from both sides of the penalized with a fee. Supporters of presenting the administration’s the law will be upheld. The President issue. The states suing the federal the law argue that since Congress case, has tried to hammer this pro- has highlighted the apparent judicial government over the potential has the long precedent power to Obamacare argument to the Supreme activism that the court seems to be unconstitutional nature of the law regulate interstate commerce, it Court, experts have noted that he employing, but does so with the and the administration defending can enforce the individual mandate has done a poor job defending the confidence that it will make the its legislative initiative as legitimate within an artificially created health case. “He started out so poorly that proper choice in the long tradition of under the United States Constitution. insurance market, which crosses on several occasions, one or more judicial review. However, after six hours of debate state lines. However, opponents of of the court’s four liberal justices, “No one has made any money before the Supreme Court, liberals the law are not arguing against the who are all expected to vote uphold betting on [the] outcome of cases on and those in support of the law are legitimate Commerce Clause, but the law, seemed to feel they had to oral arguments and the questions not so certain that the Affordable are questioning the ability of the guide Verrilli back to his strongest asked,” Vice President Joe Biden said Care Act will survive. government to regulate people’s arguments,” wrote the Daily Beast. in an interview aired Sunday on Central to the debate over the decisions to purchase a service or not. Seeing the weak defense of CBS’s Face the Nation. “We think the constitutionality of the healthcare The primary question is whether the Obamacare, liberals are now faced mandate and the law is constitutional, law is the discussion of whether federal government has the legitimate with the prospect of the individual and we think the court will rule that the federal government has the power to regulate an individual’s mandate or the entire law being way,” continued Politico. right to enforce the “individual ability to refuse participation within stricken down by the Supreme mandate,” the part of the law that a market. Court in its final decision, expected An Unusual Competitor for Miss Universe that long and not being able to look at wonderful and if she doesn’t want to by Naomi Eide ’13 myself in the mirror because I couldn’t compete, because maybe she thinks World Staff stand seeing the other part, it was she can’t win, that’s fine also. I couldn’t actually very rewarding, too.” Her legal care less.” INTERNATIONAL transformation became complete when The president of the Miss Universe she changed her Canadian driver’s Organization, Paula Shugart, said Last week, Jenna Talackova was license, passport, and birth certificate that “We want to give credit where granted permission to enter the to reflect her gender reassignment. She credit is due, and the decision to Miss Universe pageant after initially is now recognized as female by the include transgender women in our being banned because she was not Canadian government, and lives a full beauty competitions is a result of our a “naturally born female.” “I am a life as a heterosexual woman. ongoing discussions with the Gay and woman,” Talackova said last week. Hearing of Talackova’s plight, the Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. “I was devastated, and I felt that famed lawyer Gloria Allred took We have a long history of supporting excluding me for the reason that they her case to appeal to Donald Trump equality for all women, and this was gave was unjust. I have never asked and NBC, the co-owners of the Miss something we took very seriously.” for any special consideration. I only Universe pageant, over the injustice of GLAAD eagerly takes stands against wanted to compete.” banning a transgender from competing acts of discrimination, and their In an interview with Barbara in the competition. “Jenna shared the senior director of programs Herndon Walters, Talackova explained that she same hopes and dreams of every other Graddick stated that “At a time when knew she was “in the wrong body” contestant. She hoped that one day she transgender people are still routinely when she was just a four-year-old boy. would wear the Miss Universe crown denied equal opportunities in housing, At age 14, Talackova began hormone throughout the world,” Allred said. employment and medical care, today’s therapy in an effort to transform herself Donald Trump later allowed her to decision is in line with the growing from a boy named Walter to a woman compete “provided she meets the legal levels of public support for transgender named Jenna. At age 19, she had sexual gender recognition requirements of people across the country.” Talackova reassignment surgery, received breast Canada, and the standards established herself has stated that she wants to use implants, and had her Adam’s apple by other international competitions.” her public role to become an advocate shaved to complete her transformation Clarifying his statement, Trump later for transgender equality. “I feel like the into a woman. Talackova said the said, “She can take her shot, she can universe, the creator just put me in this maybe win and maybe she won’t win. position as an advocate,” she said. “If operation was “terribly painful, but PHOTO COURTESY OF THE VANCOUVER SUN seeing something on your body for There will be no apology whatsoever it’s helping anybody else, my story and and frankly, if she competes, that’s my actions, then I feel great about it.” Jenna Talackova hopes to become Miss Universe.

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by Katie Davenport ’14 sports tattoos and what appears to be World Staff a gold tooth grill. These portrayals, however, sharply contrast the UNITED STATES accounts from his family, friends, and teachers, who described Martin as an average 17-year-old. Trayvon Martin, 17, was shot “He was a shy kid,” declares dead on February 26 in Sanford, Fla., family friend and former football while walking from a convenience coach Jerome Horton. “He didn’t store to his father’s home. George want to be the center of attention; Zimmerman, the man who admitted that’s just not him.” Horton adds shooting Martin, told authorities that that Martin always walked with his he did so in self-defense. Martin’s hoodie and his headphones. Martin’s family, however, believes that family recalls that their teen enjoyed Zimmerman racially profiled the listening to music (R&B was his teen. CNN reports that Zimmerman favorite), going to the movies, and was detained and charged with spending time at the roller rink with second-degree murder on April 11. friends. When Martin entered high “I am Trayvon Martin” has become school, his childhood goal of earning the catchphrase for protestors a football career was replaced with his PHOTO COURTESY OF AP expressing solidarity with Martin dreams of working with airplanes. Above, Martin’s parents, Sybrina and Tracy, attend at a House briefing about hate crimes and and outrage over his killing. Even Martin’s parents separated when racial profiling. President Barack Obama stated, “If I he was 11, but shared custody. In was just an average student. Records attention. Some people believe that had a son, he would look like Trayvon.” the summer of 2009, his parents obtained by the Miami Herald reported the shooting of an unarmed teenager When asked about his thoughts enrolled the 14-year-old Martin in that Martin was suspended three has exposed underlying racism. on Martin’s death, one Providence “Experience Aviation,” a nonprofit times at Krop, once for writing graffiti Others condemn Florida’s self- College junior, wishing to remain program in Opa-Locka, Florida, on a door and another time for school defense statute called “Stand Your anonymous, asks an important that introduces young people to truancy. The third suspension took Ground,” which states that a person question: “Who was Trayvon Martin? aviation. After graduating from the place the week of his death. Martin may use force in self-defense when All the information that we know program, Martin spent the following was suspended for 10 days when drug there is a reasonable belief of threat; about him is from the media. We didn’t summer as a volunteer, assisting residue was found in his backpack. this law had the potential to free know him personally, and although newly enrolled students. During Tracy took Martin to his home in Zimmerman from criminal charges. we all feel awful about the situation high school, Martin also volunteered Sanford so the boy would not be able The recent attention Martin’s death now, eventually we will think about his time at the concession stand to enjoy the company of his hometown has brought to the media is important Martin less frequently—and that is at Forzano Park, where he played friends while on suspension. because laws are not always perfect quite unfortunate because he and his football since age five on a team During his stay, on February 26, and people are not always honest. case have a lot to offer our nation.” coached by Horton and his father. Martin went to the convenience store One truth remains clear though: Many speculators have reported Martin’s mother, Sybrina Fulton, for a bag of Skittles and an iced tea, Martin will be missed. He should not their views about Martin, portraying transferred her son from Miami’s after much pleading with his father. be forgotten. him as a troublesome teen. Some Carol City High School to Dr. On that same day, he was shot and bloggers point to his recent school Michael M. Krop High School, which killed by neighborhood watch captain suspensions. Supposed images of was closer to her home. According to George Zimmerman. The teen’s Martin have also surfaced in which he Martin’s father, Tracy Martin, his son killing has greatly raised the nation’s Rick Santorum Ends His Presidential Bid

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At an impromptu press conference in a Gettysburg hotel room on April 10, Republican Party candidate Rick Santorum announced his decision to leave the presidential race. Citing his three-year-old daughter Bella’s illness, campaign debt, and lack of solid delegates, Santorum delivered his decision by saying: “We made a decision over the weekend that while this presidential race for us is over, for me, and we will suspend our campaign today, we are not done fighting.” Although Santorum did not mention Republican rival Mitt Romney, The New York Times reports three prominent conservatives, Louisiana Governor Jindal, Florida Governor Scott, and Pennsylvania Senator Toomey, extended their PHOTO COURTESY OF AP support for Romney within hours of Rick Santorum found himself too far behind in the delegate count to catch up to frontrunner Mitt Romney. the announcement. Prior to his declaration, Santorum’s the need for financial support in his conservatives and evangelicals going to be a much harder lift to take delegate expert John Yob’s report letter, hoping to extend his campaign remains intact. Social conservative someone who seems like a moderate on future delegate appropriation backing. Romney’s persistent success and paramount strategist Ralph and try to get conservatives excited appeared dim. Most notably, the made fiduciary support more Reed praised Santorum’s decision, about it.” Conservatives emphasize failure of Santorum’s Texas supporters difficult to come by, with Santorum’s calling his exit an important move the need for Romney to convey to to change May’s primary to a ‘winner- advisors concerned about his ability for the Republican Party and his conservatives where he hopes to take take-all’ system proved critical to to move beyond Pennsylvania’s performance thus far “impressive.” the United States in the next four years Santorum’s campaign. In a letter borders. Avoiding a probable loss in Although Santorum’s exit clears if he expects to receive substantial to potential fundraisers, Santorum Pennsylvania (expected to vote April the path for Romney’s nomination, support. Although Santorum’s leave stated: “[Without a ‘winner-take- all’ 24) will be critical for Santorum’s conservative leaders are not confident more clearly solidifies efforts opposing system], I do not see a path forward future, if he intends to continue any Romney will be able to rally support President Barack Obama, far more has that does not risk our shared objective political activity. from Santorum’s advocates. President to be done to prepare the Republican of defeating Barack Obama in Despite his campaign suspension, of the Family Research Council Tony Party for the general election. November”. Santorum emphasized Santorum’s identity as the face of Perkins commented: “I just think it’s

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by John Mihovics ’14 by Andrew Gellert ’13 went on to have three more children World Staff babies of political prisoners from the World Editor before Patrick voluntarily got a defeated Republican side. vasectomy in 2004. SPAIN Today, mothers say that they GERMANY Normally, children who are raised believed their babies were taken by together, like siblings, are prevented religious workers who may have seen from finding each other sexually them as unfit mothers because of their An incestuous German couple attractive through a psychological The expression, “One can never age, poverty, or unmarried status. composed of a man and his sister lost mechanism called the Westermarck escape the past,” took on a new horrific Although they were neither shown a case before the European Court of effect. Scientists hypothesize that meaning in Spain several months ago, a body nor given a proper death Human Rights, which ruled that it the effect is an evolutionary defense when the details of the incredulous certificate, the mothers’ complaints is legal for Germany to ban incest against the deformities that can story of thousands of babies kidnapped were never taken seriously because within its borders. Patrick Stuebing surface in the children of incestuous from their birth mothers, reported the Church and medical profession and Susan Karolewski only met as couples. Generally, any children who dead, and then sold to other parents, are highly respected and Spanish adults—Steubing was adopted, then were raised together between birth slowly unraveled. law does not require the biological tracked down his biological relatives and about age six will experience Now, all eyes are on the 80-year-old mother’s name on the birth certificate. after growing up. The couple now has this effect. However, children raised Spanish nun Maria Gomez Valbuena, “The government will not fail four children. BBC reports that three apart, like adoptees, can undergo who appeared in court Thursday, in its duty. We share the pain of of the children have unspecified genetic sexual attraction. The April 12, to face charges of kidnapping the victims and we will go as far disabilities. The ban on incest in Steubings are the most public case of babies and falsifying documents. She as we can,” said Justice Minister Germany is due to an increased this paradoxical experience. refused to testify before the judge at Alberto Ruiz-Gallardon on the likelihood of birth defects from Patrick Steubing was convicted for Madrid’s Superior Tribunal of Justice, government’s commitment to incestuous couples. incest by Germany. This recent case and was met outside by chants that resolving this problem. Steubing served three years in before the European Human Rights labeled her as “shameless.” The fact that the court of Madrid German jail for incest after the couple Court was his attempt to prove that The Sisters of Charity nun has formally accused Maria Valbuena came to the attention of German his conviction violated his right to represents just one case of over 900 proves that the baby kidnapping authorities. The couple still lives a family. However, the conviction others that are being investigated, as problem that plagued Spain in the together in Germany; three of their was upheld. Susan Steubing has not the Justice Ministry is finally taking 1940s and the following 40 years four children were taken into state received any jailtime, because the allegations of baby stealing seriously. may finally be approaching an end. care, and the Steubings regularly German court rules that she has a Doctors, nurses, and religious It is important now that the proper petition to have custody of the three personality disorder that implies she is workers at both hospitals and clinics measures are taken by the Spanish children returned to them. not fully liable for her actions. in Spain are accused of selling babies government to expose the culprits The pair met when Patrick For now, the two still live in for adoption after telling new mothers and prevent future incidents. Steubing was 23. They became an Germany with their only healthy that their infants had died. intimate couple after their mother child. The case has highlighted human The practice of baby-napping began died. Their first child was born rights issues, and the Steubings have in the 1940s, shortly after the Spanish when Susan was 16. This was also a few supporters, but the law against Civil War, and was initially the work the time when they were discovered incest stands. of the fascist government seizing by the police to be siblings. They

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by Joe Lepri ’12 of the iBookstore in 2012 fostered arrangements among actual World Staff innovation and competition, or potential competitors that breaking Amazon’s monopolistic grip have an impact on price are United States on the publishing industry. Since per se violations.” In a 2007 then customers have benefited from case, “the court said that The Department of Justice’s recent e-books that are more interactive manufacturers can enforce legal action against Apple Inc. for and engaging.” The reason Apple is minimum retail prices, e-book price-fixing is expected to a tough target for the Department which is one aspect of what end in defeat. Legal action was of Justice is due to industry CEOs of publishers are accused of also taken against three large many publishers meeting to discuss doing with e-books.” Since publishers, Hachette, HarperCollins, prices. Apple wasn’t represented at the Supreme Court is likely to and Simon & Schuster, but the charges these meetings. The Department of undo these precedents, Apple have since been settled. Apple and Justice, therefore, has a much stronger will likely be successful fighting some other companies chose to fight case against the publishers who were the charges. It is worth noting that the charges. According to CBS News, known to be involved. Apple’s stock price has dropped “Attorney General Eric Holder said at Dominick Armentano, professor significantly over the past week. a press conference that the settlement emeritus of economics at the After reaching a company high will provide retailers like Amazon University of Hartford, said, “If the $644 early last week, it fell for five and Barnes and Noble the ‘freedom to CEOs of the various publishers got straight days to $580. reduce the prices of their e-book titles together in hotel rooms to discuss in the future.”’ prices, they are sunk,” and might as Apple responded to the antitrust well settle.” A series of U.S. Supreme suit with a statement saying, “The Court precedents are likely to help DoJ’s accusation of collusion against Apple. CBS noted that in a 1979 Apple is simply not true. The launch case, the court ruled that “not all Cowl Portfolio Holdings - YTD %Change (From April 11 to April 19) A ▼5 . 47% VZ —0.00% by Andrew Gellert ’13, World Editor INTC ▼0 .43% PG ▼0 .83% SNDK ▼7. 55% GIS ▲0.28% Starbucks continues to be the brightest spot in The Cowl’s T ▼0 .61% KFT ▲0.53% portfolio. Our tech picks have been a mixed bag, ranging from TXN ▲0.80% SBUX ▲3.70% unchanged week-over-week (Verizon) to down a killer 7.55 percent (SanDisk). We’re trailing the market, and have been since January. Although the portfolio is keeping pace with the S&P, we need to outpace the market to attract investors. Our reliance on tech has undermined our ability to stay competitive. SBUX is the only stock in our portfolio with any significant growth this week, and SanDisk’s drop alone wiped out our gains. Sharp-eyed readers will notice that Arman, longtime World editor, has moved up to Editor-in-Chief. From now on, I’ll be writing the pieces in this space, and starting next semester I’ll also assemble a new portfolio. Readers with an appetite for market advice can also check out the new “Securities with Andrew” feature, taking the place of our old “IPO of the Week” column.

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If you’re feeling optimistic about the market and looking This is a new feature for Business in the World. Here, for a new stock to add to your portfolio, make sure it’s I’ll be explaining some basic aspects of securities trading not Chesapeake Energy Corporation (CHK). Really, this and giving the reader simple tips for improving his or her is a stock you should have dropped years ago. Yet, some portfolio. Each week, I’ll cover a different topic. They will be analysts are still feeling optimistic about CHK, claiming introductory-level topics, but beginner investors should find that it is well-positioned to ride the incoming natural gas it interesting and informative. boom. This is hogwash. If you really feel bullish on natural This week, I’m going to explain what a security is. A gas, buy Haliburton (HAL). security is just a contract with a dollar value. The most HAL has realized revenue growth and profit margin important kinds of securities are stocks and bonds. growth every year since 2009. It has lowered its debt/asset A stock is a chunk of ownership of the institution that and maintained positive cash flows every year since 2009. issues the stock. For example, one share of Microsoft stock is Let’s compare this with CHK. It has also experienced equivalent to a small piece of Microsoft itself. Stocks generally increasing revenues annually since 2009. However, profit have a market value and can be traded, but stock prices can margins were negative in 2009 and they dropped in 2010. be hard to predict. Companies usually issue stocks to raise This means that CHK exhibits a history of being unable to money, giving away some control in exchange for cash. keep costs down. It doesn’t help that CHK’s CEO just took Bonds are actually just loans. Many entities can issue out a $1.1 billion loan against company oil wells. Sure, HAL bonds—like corporations and governments—and bond is trading at about $35/share and CHK is trading at about packages can become quite complex, but in general a bond is $18/share, so there is more room for growth in the event a contract that requires the issuer to pay the holder a series of of a nat-gas boom. However, HAL is more streamlined. payments. When you buy a bond, you are loaning money, so Its profit margins reveal that it will be able to draw larger you get your money back plus interest. A company might sell profits from its income in case of a boom. bonds to raise money now, hoping to make enough money to pay back the loan later and still make a profit. NANNGRONLINE.COM Page 10 Commentary April 19, 2012 Traveling BEN: An Exceptional Student with Alone An Extraordinary Story and “basically rebuilt it from scratch.” To say the least, therapy has been painful. Is Not Last week, Ben pushed himself too far and had to lie down in his bed for three days. I ask him about the severity of the pain and he suddenly becomes a little Awkward embarrassed. He says all the surgeries have raised his tolerance for pain, though. “It’s actually not that great because I’ve wound up getting cut on by Kelly Sullivan ’15 things and bruising myself and not Asst. Commentary Editor knowing until a couple of days later.” I look back at his posters and decide that CAMPUS he’s tougher than any of those guys. And it wouldn’t surprise me in the least if he’s walking across the stage at the Dunkin Donuts Center three years from now, shaking hands with Father Shanley. That awkward moment when Today, Ben feels like an ordinary someone sees you sitting in Ray student at Providence College. He has eating alone. That awkward moment to wake up earlier than most because, when you walk by the same people as he says, “it takes a lot more time multiple times in the library because and energy to do things like picking you’re trying to find somewhere to out clothes and opening the doors,” sit. People have to stop being afraid of but he’s learned to find the fastest way “awkward.” The awkwardness is in to get anywhere on campus without your own head. Nothing is awkward having to take any stairs. He loves until you start saying or thinking it is. how accessible the campus is and is This past weekend, I went to the A continuously blown away by how Cappella Senior Show. I saw a fellow friendly people are on campus. “It does classmate there who had come to the get loud,” he says of McDermott, “but show alone. She arrived, watched I’ve gotten pretty used to it. I’m pretty the show, and left all by herself. She sure I could sleep through a couple of didn’t know anyone in the show, natural disasters by now.” either; she came merely because she Natural disasters and short-circuits wanted to see the performance. aside, what Ben really fears is everyday I felt stupid and immature after socializing—he still gets nervous seeing her. I loved the show. I felt like meeting people for the first time and I was in the middle of a performance views interacting with others as his by Glee’s Warblers. But when I saw her biggest obstacle. “I mean, the chair is there alone, I realized I wouldn’t have really freaking obvious, and it creates a gone to the show at all if one of my distance with people,” he admits. “And friends hadn’t suggested it to me and PHOTO COURTESY OF BENJAMIN ALMEDA ’15 meeting new people and learning to I would never have gone by myself. socialize with them—I’m more afraid Benjamin Almeda-Lopez poses with his father, Mr. Moy Almeda-Lopez, in his dorm room. Why? I would have felt awkward. of that than anything physical.” But People would have judged me. I’d look Ben defines the word “resolute,” and like a loser. I would have missed out on Continued from front page was one day that it really hit me that there’s no doubt in my mind that he’ll something I was so excited for merely this wasn’t going anywhere,” he says, figure out this challenge, too. because I didn’t want to go solo. speaking through a smile. “We had this When discouraging thoughts begin I was really impressed by the girl. Ben didn’t always need the braces, visiting nurse over who was trying to to creep up on him, he thinks back Why shouldn’t she enjoy the show and he didn’t always need the chair. get my muscles working again, and no to a saying his father always taught she wanted to see? No one judged Until he was nine years old, he had the matter how hard I tried to move my legs him, bahala-na—It’s a Filipino adage her, and no one cared that she was necessary leg strength to live like any around, they just wouldn’t respond.” that loosely translates to “whatever there by herself. Here’s a newsflash other boy in Hanover, Mass. A slight Ben remembers how insistent happens, happens.” Ben tells me that for people with my mindset: No one limp was all that differentiated him from the doctors were on trying to use it means being able to “just let go of cares what you’re doing, no one is the other kids. Martial arts was still a technical, Latin language to explain his everything and let life take its course, looking at you, and no one is thinking huge part of his life, and when his friends circumstances. But through nine-year- no matter how stressful it is.” about you. You are not a celebrity, played soccer, he was the goalie. That all old eyes, the sight of a wheelchair and “I say it to myself whenever I feel there is no one watching your every changed when the surgeries started. crutches explained it all. “It was hard to like I might get stressed out. My dad move, too much. Born “significantly prematurely,” understand,” Ben remembers. “It was used to always tell me that if you keep We shouldn’t care what other people Ben was diagnosed early on with kind of a lot.” telling yourself that, you won’t wind think of us. It shouldn’t matter. No one cerebral palsy—a disease caused by All with the end goal of one day being up stressing your heart out,” he said. judged that girl, and why should they lack of oxygen to the brain during or able to get out of the chair. As his legs But if anything, the steel in Ben’s legs have? She wasn’t bothering anyone; shortly after birth. “It’s not a progressive got stronger and the scars from surgery has strengthened his heart—and it her presence did not affect them at disorder, but it can cause secondary dulled, Ben was slowly able to walk doesn’t appear to be in any danger of all. She was just there to enjoy the complications, like your bones becoming on his crutches in short, painful bursts being stressed out anytime soon. show like everyone else. I wish more truncated [too short] or warping out when he felt up to it. In high school, Still, I wonder what Ben will do if he’s people would have the same mindset of shape.” Nine-year-old legs start to Ben made it his goal to walk across the able to walk again, and the chair becomes as this girl. There would be a lot more grow pretty fast when your body moves stage to receive his diploma, and did so obsolete. It’s a hesitant thought, because individuality if people did. into adolescence, and Ben would need to thunderous applause. “There was a if life has taught Ben Almeda-Lopez one By constantly hoping for the surgery—the insertion of strategically little bit of happiness there,” he says. thing, it is that there are no guarantees. approval of others, you’re creating an placed rods and growth plates—to guide “I couldn’t move for a day afterward.” Ben has thought about it, too. unhappy and extremely limited life his bones. “It didn’t go as smoothly as Judging by the look on his face, it’s clear “I’ll just enjoy it,” he says matter-of- for yourself. You are the one putting anyone would like,” Ben says, clearly the price was worth the prize. factly, as if it’s the most obvious answer pressure on yourself to act a certain understating the circumstances that Despite a common misconception, in the whole world. “Hell, I’ll go for a way. The only one missing out is you. changed his life, “and I never really Ben is not paralyzed. He exercises almost walk in the sunshine.” You can’t control what every single pulled out of it.” He hasn’t been able to daily to prevent atrophy, goes to the gym I hardly knew Ben before writing person thinks of you, so live life for walk unassisted since. three times a week, and can walk very this article, but felt his energy and spirit you. Do what you love and follow Ben’s recovery from that surgery is short distances with a dependence on everytime I passed him on campus your own values. That awkward ongoing, and all these years later he still his crutches. He had another landmark while leading tours. I thought that his moment when no one is focused on considers himself to be in rehabilitation. surgery last summer—a necessary “size- sincere personality and engaging story you and nothing is awkward at all… “For a while, I didn’t give up on the up thing for the plates and screws”— was something to be admired and fact that I was getting better, but there where they broke his left leg in five places shared with the student population. April 19, 2012 COMMENTARY The Cowl 11 Tangents& Tirades RED SOX All Eyes On “Glue Men” This Friars’ basketball season, everyone has been excited about Ricardo Ledo and Kris Dunn, two top-ranked recruits who will be setting foot on campus in An Inning by Inning Look into the fall. These two talented guards have dominated recruiting talks and have become a symbol of hope for Providence basketball; they could be the two young stars who lead us to recapturing the glory of the Pitino days. Although the hype is merited, don’t forget about Josh Fortune. While the majority of Providence New England’s Favorite Team fans are anticipating the arrival of Ledo and Dunn, I am getting excited for Josh Fortune. The 6’ 5’’ wing committed to Providence College around the same time as Ledo and Dunn. The senior from Hampton, Va., has the elite size, smooth shot from behind the arc, and power to get to the rim that the Friars need. Fortune has the talent to be a major contributor for the team starting next year. While it is exciting to receive commitments from two high school superstars, it takes more than two guards to win the Big East. It takes glue men, guys who can provide big points when Ledo, Dunn, and Council are struggling. While the rest of the Friar Faithful drool over Ledo and Dunn, Cooley is busy recruiting the athletes we need to be a competitive team, the glue men: Strong bench and role players who will bring all of our talent together. Come late October, don’t be surprised when Josh Fortune starts to put up big numbers and contribute in all the little, integral ways that will aid in the Friars’ return to glory.—Tommy Cody ’13

Check Their Rating Before Registering It’s that time of year again: time to register for classes or visit ratemyprofessors.com. With the simple click of a mouse, students are teleported to a world dominated by their peers gossiping about professors— anonymously. We all know what to look for: A professor who encompasses all the best qualities; specifically, one who possesses numerical ratings close to 5.0. If you’re lucky, maybe you’ll even get a chili pepper thrown in here and there, with hot sauce on the side. In using this method to choose their professors, students accept its shallowness; but the goal is to find the most effective learning environment to fit their needs. It’s a fact of life that some students do poorly on exams, while others have little interest in writing papers. Should students use PHOTO COURTESTY OF WASHINGTONPOST.COM the Web site to select classes that will allow them to avoid their shortcomings, On Sunday, April 15, the players of the Boston Red Sox all wore jerseys bearing No. 42 in tribute or to improve their weaknesses? Obviously it depends on the student, but I do to Jackie Robinson. not think students should be criticized for seeking out classes they will benefit from and enjoy. Each student has his or her opinion of what constitutes an by Jennifer Giffels ’14 Sixth inning: Some rather negative ideal class and professor. In college, students should be able to exercise their Guest Commentary chants about the Rays echo throughout the park. Although lacking respect and freedom and individual preferences. If desired, students should take advantage society of ratemyprofessors.com in order to choose classes that appeal to their own fostering a zero-sum atmosphere of competition, these remarks are largely interests and objectives.—Christina Moazed ’15 dismissed by spectators as harmless fun. Seventh inning: Mike Aviles slams This past Sunday, a group of a home run to center. Lights and words Providence College students traveled flash on the screens, the music blares, to Fenway Park to watch the Boston Red and the crowd erupts like overdue Sox take on the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. lava. Everyone is cheering together in Who Sponsored by BOP, the trip served as celebration of one man’s feat. the perfect ending to one of the last Eighth inning: The fans in the Writes This few weekends of the school year. Ideal bleachers start the famous “wave,” and weather accompanied this group to tens of thousands of arms throughout one of America’s timeless landmarks, the stadium move up and down as the Fenway Park, during the home opener wave passes their section. You rely on the STUFF? series of 2012, its 100-year-anniversary. people that come before you in order to be While the familiarity of this sport may able to participate yourself, and you trust lull fans into a passive observance that the people after you will continue it. (Christina Moazed ’15) of their surroundings, upon closer Ninth inning: The father congratulates observation, seemingly trivial events his daughter on lasting the whole take on new meaning together. All the game, because the previous season she Major: small things are what make baseball could only sit through five innings. Finance universally enjoyed across America. The game ends, but no one says, “The First inning: Before it starts, Red Sox won,” rather, “We won.” the announcer introduces a team Why did I choose to specifically bring Hometown: training to run a marathon. The these seemingly arbitrary aspects of the catch? These people are largely war game to your attention? Only one had an Greenwich, Conn. veterans who have been disabled. impact on the outcome, and only a few Second inning: You notice that every focused on actual players in the field. Where to Find Her: Red Sox and Rays player is introduced It’s because all these parts of the as “number 42.” In honor of the 65th game, which to the accustomed Library anniversary of the day Jackie Robinson viewer often go unacknowledged, are played his first game for the Brooklyn what make baseball a legendary and Dodgers, all players wore his number to timeless American pastime. Tens of Fun Fact: commemorate this hero’s breaking of the thousands of fans become one body Got slimed on Nickelodeon color barrier in Major League Baseball. as they cheer on their favorite home Third inning: The father beside you team. The crowd consists of everyone switches seats with his five-year-old from parents taking their young Favorite Music: daughter so she can see the field better. children to their first game, to old Ketchup meant for her hot dog stains college friends meeting up to spend a Dave Matthews Band her shirt, and remains of an ice cream Sunday in Boston together; from youth cone linger on her face. sports teams in attendance, to the Fourth inning: The announcer recounts husband who proposes to his wife at Annoys Her Most: the events of “This Day in Fenway this memory-filled park. Baseball relies History,” mentioning Andre Dawson’s upon its history, thrives in its present, Only four weeks left of freshman year 400th career home run on April 15th. and always looks forward to another Fifth inning: Patches of fans all over game, another season. the park pull out their best dance moves Most Passionate About: and most enthusiastic cheering in an attempt to get the camera to notice them. Achieving happiness and challenging myself The large screen in the outfield flashes between shots of these boisterous groups. 12 The Cowl COMMENTARY April 19, 2012 Celebrating the Spirit of Joy: CORRValues Embracing the When Uncertainty Strikes, Trust in God Students of RCIA seems, and as much as you love PC by Emily Corr ’13 and your life here, the tick-tock of Commentary Staff the real world clock is pushing you society forward toward that unknown future. So, instead of holding onto today with a death grip, take a leap of faith into the future. The brilliant C.S. Lewis The unknown is a very scary thing. once wrote about the beauty in taking For college students, it is an everyday that risk. “This is, I think, one little reality. Whether it’s uncertainty part of what Christ meant by saying about the future or confusion about that a thing will not really live unless our current lives, it feels as if we’re it first dies. It is simply no good trying constantly devoid of information. to keep any thrill: That is the very Picking a major was difficult worst thing you can do. Let the thrill enough—now, the reality of the job go—let it die away—go on through market has hit full speed. In our fear that period of death into the quieter of the unknown, we latch on to what interest and happiness that follow— we know to be true and real—our and you will find you are living in friends, our loved ones, Providence a world of new thrills all the time.” College. Especially for the Class of God has a plan for you—you just don’t 2012, the “G” word sounds 20 times know it yet. If you’ve learned anything PHOTO COURTESY OF MEGAN DAUGHAN ‘12 more menacing to many of you than during your time at PC, it’s to have RCIA Student Coordinator Meg Daughan ’12 stands with the RCIA students, all of whom received it did when you first entered through faith in God’s divine providence. the PC gates in 2008. But as scary as sacraments of initiation into the Catholic faith on Sunday, April 15. Frs. Ertle (left), Bishop Tobin the future is, as confusing as reality (center), and Cuddy (right) were also present.

by Beatriz Forster ’14 told my friends, who just laughed. Commentary Staff Although I’m not sure that I can ever completely account for how I felt, joy CAMPUS overflowed in my heart. Maybe I felt like I was getting married because by Fr. James Cuddy, O.P. I was stepping on the threshold of an unexplored phase of my faith or Joy is a very singular feeling, distinct it could have been because like in from mere happiness or gladness. marriage, I was adopting a new name. Perhaps the nuance between joy and Confirmation is certainly the apex of these other sensations is difficult to a young person’s faith in which God “Never quite past.” These three there are things in the world and express, but you’ll certainly know it assures us—this time personally—that words haunted me for days after I in our lives that make it downright when you’ve been “surprised by joy.” He will never abandon us. In fact, He’ll read them, and even as I recall them difficult to cozy up to God. Whereas the hope of spring after a best that promise. He’ll provide us with now, they make me tremble. Joseph Yet the act of acknowledging bare, silent winter makes me smile, the means to spread His truth with Cardinal Ratzinger—the man who the doubts and difficulties is not I don’t feel joyful. I would go so far the gifts of wisdom, understanding, would become Pope Benedict XVI— enough. There must be more. as to characterize joy as higher than counsel, knowledge, piety, fortitude, used those words in an interview Because, while there are plenty of happiness because it is truly a moment and fear of the Lord. with a famous journalist who asked reasons to doubt, there are plenty of sublimity, which makes sense since So, what is there left for us to do? him whether he struggled with of reasons to believe as well. There it’s a fruit of the Holy Spirit. We must bolt the doors of that upper doubt. He said that reading the are innumerable signs all around us Although right now we’re still room in which the apostles cringed in newspaper, reflecting upon current that point to God’s existence and his enjoying the beauty and comfort fear before the Risen Christ gave them events, or simply having ordinary providential love. Some are obvious, of Christ’s Resurrection, the Easter hope. We can’t be content to just go life experiences can make the path while others are more subtle. Some season will soon conclude after the through the motions of our faith and of faith a difficult one to walk. The are simple, while others are grand Ascension. It seems gloomy to think grow lukewarm and passive. We must journalist asked, “Is that ever a thing gestures. However they might that the most important liturgical be bold; not because God needs our of the past?” To which Ratzinger manifest themselves, it’s important season of the year will soon end, but love, but because without His grace, responded, “Never quite past.” for us to make an effort to see the news actually isn’t bad at all. Christ we have no joy. Without His Holy The reason that I found those them. They might come through an too, wanted the mirth to endure, so he Spirit, we have nothing. But in order words so troubling was that I experience of the beauty of nature, told His disciples that He would send to fully receive this extraordinary fruit wondered what hope there was for art, or music; They might come them “the Spirit of Truth” to be their of joy, we must actively practice our a poor soul like me. The Cardinal through an encounter of love or advocate. The Holy Spirit provides faith. It’s easy to listen to Scripture and was in his mid-70s when he gave forgiveness with a friend. Whatever us with grace and numerous gifts. think: “That’s a swell idea. Gee, that’s that interview and was renowned they might be, these encounters My favorite one is joy. Have you ever a nice thing to do,” without actually for his holiness. Three years later, point beyond themselves to the considered that before Christ and the modeling our lives on charity. he would be elected Pope. And if person of God. descent of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost, Catholicism isn’t just about agreeing his relationship with God was still So, what are you supposed to there was no such thing as joy in the to an idea on your Confirmation Day, marked by stints of questioning and do with all of this stuff? There are world? This seems ludicrous, since but about saying yes to the person of doubt, then surely I—a young punk reasons to believe all over the place, obviously people were happy before Jesus Christ. Congratulations to the just beginning life as a Dominican— but there are things that make us a carpenter’s son—who turned out to students who said “yes” to Christ this was in deep trouble. question God as well. And this also be the Son of God—suffered His past Sunday at the Rite of Christian But at some point over the last tension is one that lasts a lifetime. Passion, was crucified on a cross, and Initiation of Adults (RCIA) Mass. As 10 years, I had a revelation about What is the proper response? Get in was resurrected for the salvation of our we witness the confirmation of our struggling with darkness that made there and wrestle with it! Let yourself sins. Yes, we were happy on an earthly classmates into the Catholic Church, all the difference in my life. And struggle. Face the difficulties head level, but the joy of the eternal was let us accept God’s grace not just on here it is for you, free of charge: It’s on. Talk to your friends about them. nowhere to be found. Easter Sunday or at the RCIA Mass, okay. It’s okay to doubt. It’s okay to Ask those who have a little more I have experienced the beautiful but always, to be lights of Christ to the struggle with your faith. It’s okay to experience with their faith. Ask the fruit of joy only a few times in my life, world. The more we read, learn, pray, acknowledge that we don’t have all Lord for wisdom. While the times but this paucity has only served to and receive the sacraments, the more of the answers and sometimes we of darkness and doubt might be increase my wonder at the potency of we realize how we’ll never get weary have no idea what the Lord is up “never quite past,” the process of a mere moment of this special Grace. I and that God will always renew His to. It’s all okay. In fact, there would engaging the things that make faith have felt joy when in the company of Grace to us. The fact is that if our faith be something wrong with us if we difficult can ultimately bring us certain people or, when I recall fond is boring, it’s our own faults, because didn’t recognize and admit that closer to God. memories. One particular memory of if we really use the gifts and fruits of joy was when I was confirmed into the Holy Spirit, God will continue to the Catholic Church in eighth grade. “surprise” us with His joy! “I feel like I’m getting married,” I April 19, 2012 April 19, 2012 COMMENTARY The Cowl 13 Praise for PC’s Transformation: A PERSPECTIVE Mission , Campus Grounds ON POLICY

To be Revamped by Genevieve Ilg ’14 Commentary Editor

A Strategic Plan that Misses the Mark The phrase “strategic plan” college of white, upper-middle class has been tossed around in many young adults who wear Uggs and conversations on campus, but for Northface jackets. And although the some students the saying holds little College is correct in recognizing the clout. After some careful research lack of this “skin-color” diversity about the plan, I can’t help but feel on campus, I challenge how the confused about its vision and its school defines the term. In PC’s pillar on diversity. “Statement on Diversity,” it reads, PC became my first choice “Commonalities are celebrated, college because of its institutional and especially those that center values. When I took my tour and on shared commitment to the sat for my interview, Admissions pursuit of truth…diversity in its ambassadors pitched the College to many forms and expressions is me as a leading liberal arts college valued and appreciated.” PC’s in the Northeast. I found nothing attempt to define diversity isa fundamentally wrong with the way counterproductive oxymoron. At the school was run, so I enrolled. this rate, our vision should be, But PC’s vision for the strategic plan “You are unique like everyone else.” discredits my sentiment. As long as PC remains true to its As the plan’s vision states, mission and creates an environment

PHOTO COURTESY OF S/L/A/M COLLABORATIVE “Providence College will be a that is even more representative of nationally recognized, premier the Dominican Order, it will have an S/L/A/M Collaborative’s design for the Ruane Center for the Humanities, one revision Providence Catholic liberal arts institution even harder time appealing to those College is making, is pictured above. of higher education….” Weeks who do not adhere to the doctrines before my deposit was collected, of Christianity. Why would a biracial I was repeatedly told it was. Up liberal atheist want to come here? PC until this semester, I thought PC has many conservative Catholics on was a “nationally recognized” and campus. As a result, the College will by Matt Santos ’14 the newly-accredited business school. “premier” institution. What changed? continue to attract many (not all) Commentary Staff Mounds of dirt on the campus, while With this new vision, five core people with similar belief systems, perhaps a minor aesthetic hindrance values for the plan emerged. ideologies, and schools of thought— CAMPUS in the short-term, are indicative of These values are: 1) “Advancing for they have been influenced in improvements for the long-term. the Catholic and Dominican some capacity by Catholic and Apart from new buildings and a new Mission of Providence College,” 2) Christian doctrines. mission statement, the athletic programs “Enhancing Academic Excellence,” I am neither opposed to the Recently, the Providence College are even contributing to the exciting 3) “Embracing Diversity,” 4) College revising its vision nor community received an e-mail improvement. Ed Cooley, has certainly “Preparing Our Students for Lives do I have second thoughts about containing a draft of a new mission taken the initiative with the basketball of Meaning and Purpose,” and 5) my enrollment. But this strategic statement for the College. The new program in his first year,giving a sense “Building Lifelong Relationships, plan was not well-explained to the statement expanded the original, almost of hope to what has been a struggling Growing Financial Resources, and student body. Although the College doubling it in length and elucidating program. With an incoming recruiting Increasing Overall Institutional has a statement on diversity, it does some of its content. While perhaps class that is sixth-ranked in the country, Effectiveness.” After reading about not clearly define the term. And such a restatement will not affect the over the next four years, the Friars may the pillars, it is clear that they are at $50,000 a year, students have a daily life of students, the self-conscious become legitimate contenders in the strong and admirable—diversity is right to know not how, but why reassessment of what our school plans Big East. I have no doubt that Ricky the only one not directly related to our College is undergoing such a to do with its students reflects a pattern Ledo and Kris Dunn will be electric at the current mission statement. fundamental transformation. of revision. This pattern of revision is Madness next year; the dunk contest will Diversity is more than the color of praise-worthy, as we attempt to steer definitely be exciting to watch. These two a person’s skin. PC is considered a the ship to a greater horizon. young players present the opportunity One of the most significant changes for our school’s most popular sport to in this new mission statement refers also become its the most successful. to what it means to be a Catholic and I can’t help but feel excited for the Dominican institution. In the original improvements and potential for our statement, the reference is a bit vague, school in the coming years. Hopefully, saying that it “emphasizes quality in the remaining time that we will be WANT MORE? teaching and scholarship.” The revised here, we’ll be able to enjoy some of its statement, however, acknowledges benefits. While I’ve just spent the past that this tradition involves “a life 500 words gushing over the progress lived in community and in service of the school, I think it definitely does of the common good.” That sense deserve the attention. I am certainly of community truly makes the PC jealous of all the changes to which experience unique and is conveyed incoming classes will bear witness. We better in the new mission statement. know that we are more than our alcohol Setting forth this new mission rankings in the Princeton Review, or our statement reflects a sense of change that mascot, which was voted the creepiest has certainly been going on at our school. in the country. Now, I can see that In his address this weekend at Accepted our campus will continue to reflect Students Day, Father Shanley told the that, and administrative efforts may incoming freshman class that they would be successful in really improving our be attending school at a construction reputation. Go Friars. site for the next four years. However, the ongoing construction in the school TIFFANY AND EARL would be a minor inconvenience, given the great rewards of a new humanities building, new athletics facility, new ARE COMING TO residence hall, and a building to house 14 The Cowl COMMENTARY April 19, 2012 Letter to the Editor It’s a Drag to Get Old College Policy Prohibtis Effective Abortion Discussion Last Thursday’s guest lecture sponsored by the Anscombe Society, Department of Theology, and Campus Ministry reintroduced students to many Catholics’ don’t land on your lap as a senior. Job by Kerry Vaughan ’12 views on reproductive health and women’s rights issues. Afterwards, the floor was Commentary Staff hunting and applying to grad programs opened for questions and comments. Arguments, albeit mature, but arguments is a drag. E-mails from Career Services, nonetheless broke out. While I myself was a part of these arguments, pointing out CAMPUS résumé, personal statements, changing a likely misinterpretation of data, it certainly occurred to me that a guest lecture your Facebook name for the sake of was anything but an ideal setting for such dialogue. This debate belongs in more your future, interviews, applications, intimate, on-campus, school-sponsored circles. Such contentious issues should be Don’t let the Beach Boys fool you. application fees, realizing you don’t discussed on a level field where, unlike in a guest lecture, no side begins on the There’s nothing particularly nice know what the hell you’re going to defensive. The problem lies in school policy; in order for balanced discussion to about getting older. In fact, when you do with your life, are all part of being take place in an extra-curricular, school-sanctioned setting, student groups with reach the second semester of your a senior. And it’s all a drag. For the varying views on an issue must exist. Yet when it comes to reproductive rights, senior year, you start asking yourself first time in your life you start to get contraception, and unrelated though much debated issues such as marriage things that the Beach Boys never even a glimpse of who you’re going to be equality, Providence College says the following, “no student organization will be considered. Wouldn’t it be nice if we once you leave PC. And while that’s recognized… which is in conflict with the goals of the College or the [College’s] were younger? Then we wouldn’t exciting, the prospect of entering the Catholic atmosphere.” The simple truth is that Providence College suppresses have to go get jobs. And wouldn’t it real world before you even leave this speech by recognizing the voices of some while driving others underground. be nice to live forever, within the PC one is also terrifying. Thursday’s lecture revealed just some of the fallout of such policy. Recognized gates where we belong? If you can But all that aside, you want to know views and the perceived anathema are denied school-sanctioned extra-curricular get past my slightly pathetic attempt what the worst drag is? It’s realizing dialogue. I implore the administration and student interest groups it defends to at mocking the mediocre lyrics of the that you’ll never get this back. It’s not consider; you may deal yourselves a greater disservice than the people whose Beach Boys, you’ll find a simple truth: wanting to go home for breaks. It’s opinions you suppress.—Michael Hagan ’15 Even in his perpetual drug-inspired acknowledging that Senior Nights are state, Mick Jagger is—or at least becoming Junior Nights. It’s coming was—much more in-tune with reality to terms with the fact that after than the Beach Boys. Getting old is a graduation, you’re not just another drag. And it’s a scary drag at that. college kid. It’s actually enjoying class Don’t let the stories fool you. because you realize that there aren’t HUMBLE Senioritis is a drag. But, the glory that many of them left. It’s saying things we tend to bestow upon it is completely your parents say, like: Where does the unfounded and undeserving. I give you time go? It’s envisioning life without the following scenario. It’s 9:30 p.m. the people and the places that you see on a Tuesday evening. You have a six- every day. That’s the biggest drag of IN MY page paper due at midnight, of which them all—fathoming what life will be Opinion... you have only two pages written. You like without the people who made you just got back from your intramural into the person you are today. by Jenn DiPirro ’12 Sorry I’m volleyball team’s third consecutive We all come to Providence College Commentary Editor Emeritus loss. Rather than getting in the shower promised that we’ll be transformed, Not Sorry! or working on your paper, you go and while that might just sound like on Hulu to catch up on your favorite, an empty promise to persuade your highly unrealistic USA show about parents into paying $200,000 for an In my humble opinion, sorry I’m not sorry for partying. Planning for doctors, or lawyers, or mind-reading education, it’s not a drag. I think for the future does not allow you to enjoy the present. Trying to get a job? crime fighters. The 47 minutes fly by, most people, it’s true. And on May 20, Trying to bring your GPA up? Trying to get a date to Commencement? and you rewind to watch the ending’s 2012, when the bubble that we seniors Trying to figure out where you are going to live next year? Trying to get unexpected explosion that really, you have lived in together since August an internship for the summer? Trying to figure out how you are going expected because it’s a show on USA. 2008 finally bursts after four incredible to pay back your loans? Well, are you actually enjoying the beautiful Your roommate comes in and asks. years, we just have to hope that we’ve weather this week? Seniors—are you enjoying your last few weeks? Or, “Aren’t you going to do that paper?” been transformed into people who are are you full of stress and anxiety about the big decisions coming up and To which you reply, “I’m a second capable of making it in that place they saying goodbye to the bubble we have lived in for the past four years? semester senior. I shouldn’t have to.” call the real world—people who can Do me a favor, seniors—step out of the library and spend some time Two minutes later you write your look back on things and realize that with your friends. We are never going to get these moments again. Your mediocre, error-filled paper on which the drag wasn’t much of a drag at all; dream job is not going to come at the age of 22, so stop fretting over it you’ll get a B if you’re lucky. You go it was more like the time of our lives. and live in the moment. This is the last time that we do not have to pay to bed that night without showering. Surely getting older is not completely huge bills, worry about getting fired for taking too long of a lunch break, Senioritis is nothing more than self- painful. Don’t let my article fool you. and depend on our parents to bail us out. You should go to Old’s on a entitled procrastination, and it’s a drag. Tuesday night because life really is too short. Sorry for partying! Don’t let Eileen Wisnewski and her job-alert e-mails fool you. Things Tiffany Earl Making PC an emotionally & stable place one letter at a time

Dear Larva, Dear Buttfly, You’ve unwittingly allowed I’m kind of losing track of your yourself to fall into what I’d like to issue after your first sentence. You call the “anti-party girl” stereotype. have friends. You literally have In choosing to spend every Friday friends who Go Out to Parties. If night in pajamas, you have you want to Go Out to Parties, too, announced to your roommates just put on a short Party Dress and that you are the Lifetime movie- This Week: walk out the door when they do. If watching, ice cream-hoarding homebody. You you seriously imagine everyone at a party has an would rather stay in your safe McVinney cocoon I Don’t Think I Have Friends! invitation, you probably haven’t been to a party than join the short-skirted, high-heeled hussies since you turned eight. You know, that time that crowd into tiny basements with their male nobody came to your Chuck E. Cheese birthday counterparts, the plaid-and-khaki clones whose gathering, you cried all over the mascots, and maturity levels aren’t far above the puberty line. Dear Tiffany and Earl, then someone called in a bomb threat? I might be Clearly, you don’t need to be an Einstein to join Every weekend my girlfriends dress up, and go thinking of Tiff’s eighth birthday, actually. Sorry, the ranks of students headed off campus for the out to parties, while I stay in. I’ve tried to become girl! Your hotter older sister had a better party! night. Put on some stilettos and fall in line. It may more outgoing this year, but no matter how friendly Anyway, I don’t really know why you’re only be one night before you’ve had your fill of I am, I can’t seem to get invited to any parties! With wasting my time. Your problem literally doesn’t the proverbial red solo cup. Or maybe you’ll have the year almost over, how can I become accepted? exist. Walk to a party. Use your legs. that liberating experience your friends have been The best way to get invites is to streak past raving about since freshman orientation. Sincerely, Friars Club tours, true fact. Either way, get ready to spread your wings. Not So Social Butterfly Your closest confidant, Roving

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“Long Island!” “Anywhere with our trophy!” Kelly Leap ’14, Julie Cavicchia ’14 Greg Diciancia ’12, Zach Robbins ’14, Mike Panda ’14, Vincent Golemme ’13

“130 Pinehurst.” “Copenhagen, Denmark.” Colleen Saporito ’12, Maura McCormack ’12 Danielle Norris ’13, Leah Bronstein ’13, Courtney Miller ’13

“The Iowa State Fair.” “The beach with Kwaku Frimpong. ” Meredith Cook ’13, Sarah Henry ’13 Erin Rocha ’14, Kiely Flynn ’13, Allie D’Aprille ’13

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SAADIA AHMAD ’14/ THE COWL JESSICA HO ’14/ THE COWL ABOVE: On Tuesday, April TOP RIGHT: This past Saturday, 14, the Feinstein Institute for BMSA hosted their annual Cultural Public Service brought in a Jamboree event, celebrating panel of speakers to share cultures across the world with their personal experiences food, activities, and artwork. of serving and traveling with AmeriCorps. BOTTOM LEFT: Students in the Public and BELOW: On Sunday evening, Community Service Studies the Student Environmental Department organized an Action Coalition and the event entitled “Can We End Office of Environmental Homelessness?,” featuring Dr. Health and Safety held an Eric Hirsch of the Sociology event celebrating Earth Day, Department and John Joyce featuring a screening of from the Rhode Island Homeless Y.E.R.T., an open mic night, and Advocacy Project, who argued that food from Amos House and ignoring the issue is significantly The Cupcakerie. Earth Day is more expensive than addressing it on Sunday, April 22. with money and resources. The Sea Was Angry That Day, My Friends by Bridget Reed ’12

BILLY NAWROCKI ’12/ THE COWL

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by Sarah O’Brien ’15 Asst. A&E Editor

A few years ago, you might have found them in the dirty basement of a house on Eaton Street, playing Headphones In: music for intoxicated college students. Today, they are competing in a worldwide Battle of the Bands, in the Hard Rock Rising competition, for a chance to play in London with Bruce Springsteen. Four former Friars (PC ’11) have traded old habits for new— practicing almost every night, while each holding a full-time job as well. Undying dedication and a passion for performing has transformed Last One Out from friends who like Local Band Makes It Big to jam together to a success story, Mesite: He had to audition, and then Mesite: Have fun. Gahan: We used to play at parties on an internationally recognized band we asked him to join. Gahan: It’s a lot of work; they have to Eaton Street. Those were the fun gigs of whose talents have been compared to Gahan: We all lived on the same be prepared for that. college, though, so we didn’t take them The Killers and Neon Trees. See them floor, so… Royal: Expect not much support. too seriously. perform and see for yourself—you’ll SO: It would have been awkward There’s no instant success. We were Royal: We were playing just to play. We want to be the last one out. saying no? lucky, but it’s a long road. didn’t consider it a possible career until The band’s members—Scott Royal Gahan: Well we would have seen Bailey: Play as much as possible. the end of senior year. It was a tough (lead singer, keys, synthesizer, auxiliary him every day… SO: I heard you all live together? Ever call., being such a huge risk. percussion), Scott Mesite (guitar, back- Royal: My audition wasn’t… good. I have any fights? Bailey: [Being in a band] takes patience up vocals), Jeff Gahan (bass), and Dustin was basically their only option. Gahan: Oh yeah. more than anything else. That’s the Bailey (drums)—met each other in their SO: I guess it worked out! Has the band Mesite: It’s funny, though. hardest thing. We’re working on freshman year at Providence College. ever had any embarrassing moments? Royal: In retrospect, it’s funny. Like, we developing our sound now. It’s so The band began when Mesite and Royal: You could write a whole just had our EP release, which should rewarding that it’s all worth it. Gahan started to play music together. article on that… We have a way of have been huge… but it wasn’t. As much fun as it was to interview Bailey joined the band by chance. embracing the awkwardness. Gahan: At the time, it was really Last One Out, I had even more fun Near the end of his freshman year, he Mesite: There was a time a fire alarm disappointing, but now we can look watching them perform soon after. decided to tag along with Mesite and went off in the middle of a gig. back and laugh about it. They each immersed themselves in Gahan to the Smith Center, which was Royal: So, everyone walked out. Mesite: That’s why it’s good being in a the music—Royal danced as he sang, where the friends played. He picked up Bailey: All six people walked out… band with friends. Gahan played bass barefoot—all four the drumsticks, and discovered a skill SO: You play at McPhail’s SO: Were you all friends before the looked completely at home onstage. he hadn’t known he had. Royal was sometimes. How do you like that? band, or did you become friends after People watching the show couldn’t the last, but not least, to join Last One Gahan: Depends on the day. Sometimes it started? help but start to bob their heads, tap Out. He auditioned in March 2009, and we’ll get scheduled to play at a bad time, Gahan: We were friends first. their feet, and even get up and dance became lead singer for the band. like the day after Senior Night, and we Royal: Well, everyone except me. to songs. The band modestly admitted Monday night, April 16, I was won’t get a good turnout. Gahan: Yea, Scott is the odd one out. to having a lot of new fans from Spain, able to meet the down-to-earth Royal: Yeah, we call McPhail’s Royal: I’m always the odd one out… and hoped they were listening to the dudes of Last One Out. They were ‘McPhailure’… it can be rough at times. Gahan: Wow, he’s being honest right now. worldwide broadcast. “Thank you all playing (and being broadcasted live SO: Have you ever been asked for Bailey: The truth comes out… for coming out. You’ve been lovely,” worldwide through 990wbob.com) an autograph? Gahan: Scott is the weird one in the said Royal to the audience. “What at The Apartment, a restaurant/bar Mesite: Yea! Especially recently, with group. See how he’s leaning back in his a difference a year has made,” said on Richmond Street, and before they the competition. chair, and we’re all leaning forward? one fan. “They were good before, but went on, they graciously agreed to a Royal: It isn’t just our parents! Our SO: Does it get difficult to balance your now… there is no comparison.” quick interview. Gahan was especially parents got autographs first, though, day jobs and the band? The band is competing in another enthusiastic, since he himself had been hanging on the refrigerator. Royal: When it comes down to it, we contest at Firehouse 13, Thursday, April involved in The Cowl for three years. SO: What was your favorite work two jobs. Between practice, gigs, 19. They will also be performing at the What follows is (more or less) what performance so far? and work… there’s no down time. Hard Move Music Festival in Albany, New was said in the casual, lighthearted Royal: There was nothing like the work pays off, though. York on Saturday, April 21. Check the conversation. Hard Rock Finals in Boston. There Gahan: We’re being pretty negative band out on Facebook and follow them were so many people there, and we tonight, sorry. on Twitter @LastOneOutRI. SO: Hi guys. Why the name Last won… just everything about it. SO: Maybe after you perform, your One Out? SO: How exactly does the mood will change. Gahan: That was a sign in the Smith competition work? Royal: Definitely. There’s no other Center, where we practiced. It said, Royal: There were 250 bands feeling like performing. “Last one out, turn off the lights.” We competing to represent Boston, SO: Who writes the music? Help send Last One Out to were having a conversation about the which was narrowed down online to Mesite: We collaborate on the band name at the time. The sign is still the top 12. instrumental music. We’ll all add in our London! Voting goes until there, actually. Gahan: We won that, and now we’re own melodies and parts. Tuesday, April 24 on SO: So, when you’re famous, competing with bands from all over Gahan: And Scott writes the song people can go see it. It’ll become a the world. The 10 that receive the lyrics, of course. Facebook.com/ tourist destination. most votes online (facebook.com/ Royal: We don’t want to rush what we Mesite: Yea, when we donate our hardrockcafeboston) will move put out to people. We wait till we’re HardRockCafeBoston building… The Last One Out Center… on, and then celebrities choose the done. It takes time to pull each other in Also check out their EP, Bailey: Or the Last One Out dorm winner from those 10. different directions. building. All the suites will be named SO: Hopefully PC students will SO: Anything else you’d like to share? Lover’s Trance, on iTunes. after us. vote! Do you have any advice for Thoughts on PC? SO: Did you make Scott audition or students who aspire to make a Royal: We love PC, because that’s how just ask him to join? career in music themselves? we got here. PHOTO COURTESY OF Last One Out, artwork by Bridget Foster Reed 18 The Cowl ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT April 19, 2012 You Found Me...Getting Cray at The Fray

by Alanna Smith ’14 The concert began with a rendition of A&E Staff “Munich,” a song with a gradual build-up of soaring vocals from the band’s new album. It The atmosphere was charged with excitement then transitioned into “Here We Are,” a much at Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel last Wednesday night more earthy rock song from the album, before (April 11) as people pressed their way through pausing to greet the fans. Everyone cheered the crowds, jostling to get as close to the stage as when Isaac Slade asked how many people there they could—or at least to a spot where they could loved Rhode Island, but he had to laugh after see the stage over the heads of the hundreds of asking, “How many of you aren’t actually from high school and college students in attendance. Rhode Island?” Nearly everyone in the crowd They waited patiently through the soulful tones raised their hands. of the opener Jessie Baylin, knowing that each The first hit of the evening was when Slade of the songs in her seemingly unending set list sat down at the piano and began playing the would bring them closer to the performance that opening chords of “You Found Me”– everyone they were waiting for. Finally, Jessie and her band in Lupo’s began to sing along with the much- left the stage to the sound of polite applause, and loved melody, and one excited fan even pulled a feeling of hushed anticipation came over the out a cigarette lighter and began to sway back crowd as crew members began preparing the and forth with it. The concert continued with stage. After a few minutes, a loud cheer erupted a nice blend of old hits and new songs. One as a weather-beaten upright piano was pushed of the biggest highlights of the night came into the center of the stage. Within moments, the while the band was performing the song band walked on—and the concert began. “Happiness.” Slade, with his microphone in The Fray was formed in 2002 by friends and hand, stepped down from the stage and began schoolmates Isaac Slade and Joe King in Denver, to move through the crowd while still singing, Colo. They later invited Ben Wysocki, a friend not seeming to mind the fan-girls stretching out of Slade’s, to play the drums, and Dave Welsh their arms to touch his jacket. Near the end of to join them on lead guitar. With Slade on lead the concert, Slade joked with the crowd for its vocals and piano, and King on rhythm guitar extreme enthusiasm and obvious enjoyment of and backup vocals, The Fray was officially the performance. “I didn’t even know Rhode formed. It signed with Epic Records near the end Island was here,” he said. of 2004, and released its first albumHow to Save a The final song of the night was a fantastic Life in September of 2005. Its debut album earned rendition of “Heartbeat,” the moving first single it international fame, due especially to the title from the new album. At the insistent pleading of single. They scored two Grammy nominations, the crowd, however, the band came back onstage and was one of the best-selling digital albums of for a two-song encore; one song was an acoustic the decade. The Fray remained in the spotlight guitar and vocal number performed solely by after releasing its second self-titled album in guitarist Joe King, and the other performed by early 2009, which included the hit single “You Slade, on, of all instruments, the accordion. Found Me.” It released its third album Scars & Overall, the concert was a huge success. Stories in February 2012. Many of the songs were Rhode Island fans of The Fray can only hope inspired by the travels abroad, as well as the that the band will continue to write good music personal struggles of the band members. and will return to perform in the Ocean State sometime in the near future.

PHOTO COURTESY OF ALANNA SMITH ‘14 EDITOR VS. EDITOR This Week: Favorite Method of Getting from One Floor to Another Tim Morris Sarah O’Brien Favorite Method: Escalator Favorite Method: Elevator

His Thoughts: For the lover of escalators, Providence Her Thoughts: Call me lazy. Elevators were created to Place Mall is the Garden of Eden. On both ends of the accommodate lazy people like me, and if we don’t use them, shopping center, moving staircases wait to transport the then we’re wasting all those resources. Just trying to save the college students who have enough money to buy both world here. Imagine move-in day without elevators? Carrying clothes and alcohol (if they’re 21 or over, of course). Most seven suitcases up stairs is a great time, of course, but I’ll press of them travel between floors without even recognizing a button and stand on a platform instead, thank you. I laughed the greatness going on underneath their feet. Yes, inside at the 10th floor McVinney girls who gave up the elevator for of the escalator, groups of dwarves are drenched in sweat Lent. You’re a better person than me; I didn’t see 40 days of from hours upon hours of labor. Usually, there are about stairs fitting very well into my consistently lazy lifestyle. Sorry 12 dwarves per escalator. The cranks that they turn give not sorry. And who doesn’t love the Tower of Terror in Disney the escalator its conveyor-like motion. That’s what my World? Would that be possible without elevators? Would Rose grandmother told me when I was a boy, and it’s what I have been able to get to Jack when he was handcuffed to a pole choose to believe now. I might add that I enjoy the visibility on the Titanic? So, basically, my heart will go on for elevators. afforded to those who take the escalator. It’s the perfect way to see and be seen. Her View of Tim: Escalators can be convenient; I’ll give you that. But they can also be extremely obnoxious. Say you’re His View of Sarah: First, let’s break down the words with a huge group of friends (Tim, this may be hard for you to escalator and elevator. Escalator becomes escalate and picture, but I know you have a great imagination). Instead of elevator becomes elevate. Both of these root words have staying together, laughing and joking in a crowded elevator, to do with the action of moving up, but they have slightly you’ll have to stand single-file as you go up an escalator, different meanings. Escalate can be applied to dramatic halting the easy conversation. I also have an aversion to situations where tensions increase and the stakes become escalators due to a certain friend of mine, who feels it’s his higher. To elevate, on the other hand, could mean “to purpose in life to walk up and down, and then back up past boost one’s self-esteem.” Given a choice between the two, our group on escalators. “Excuse me,” he’ll say as he shoves a manly man would avoid the pansy elevate in favor of the past us, laughing at his hilariousness. Not that funny the first more aggressive escalate. Voilà, the escalator becomes the time let alone the fifteenth. And then you get the middle school preferred method of transportation for the true testosterone punks who attempt to go up down escalators and vice versa. types. To take the escalator is to win the game of life; to take Maybe I’m just bitter because I never got the chance to try. the elevator is to lose. PHOTO COURTESY OF NEONSIGNAGESS.COM April 19, 2012 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT The Cowl 19 Let’s Rant Kanye & Kim by Haley Webster ’14 It’s been reported that Kim months old and every other child A&E Staff Kardashian and Kanye West are on earth will be inferior. People together. Being the 12-year-old girl will stop reproducing since their that I am, I have made a list of pros and children will never be as adorable, cons of the relationship. inherently wealthy, or successful, and civilization will end. Speaking Pros: for civilization as a whole, we’re willing to take the hit in order to see Scandal-Proof that precious offspring. Wait, why is Kim Kardashian famous again? Oh yeah, that sex tape Cons: she made. Oops. One sex tape, three reality shows, four perfumes, and Alliteration Couples six failing business enterprises later, Nothing is cheesier than a couple she is one of the most prominent whose names start with the same people in the media. Kim has done so letter. Just imagine the wedding many pointless things that she can’t invitation: “Kimberly and Kanye surprise anyone anymore. Then there’s invite you to join them for...” Gag Kanye, who was rude to America’s me. How am I supposed to make one most beloved star, Taylor Swift. After of those classy relationship tags like public humiliating the queen of all “Bennifer” or “Brangelina” for them things happy and good in the world, if both of their names start with K and there is nothing Kayne could do that have a max of two syllables? Kimye would stun me. Together, Kim and sounds like a type of deadly Japanese Kanye could promote child labor, join liquor, or the martial arts thing that a commune, and run for President (it Father Shanley does. would be like a tag team thing; Kanye would deal with foreign affairs and Another E! Reality Show Kim would take care of the economy), Who needs to watch Kourtney and and nobody would blink an eye. Khloe take Miami when you could watch Kanye and Kim take American Adorable Babies Sanity? It’s a working title; I haven’t I’m borderline aggressive about my pitched it to E! yet, but I think it’s love for cute babies. If Kim and Kanye pretty accurate. Twenty-three minutes can keep it together long enough for a week about their demanding-yet- Kim to get knocked up, that child will glamorous daily lives, five-star dates, be so genetically blessed it will truly and exotic vacations? That’s what I be unfair. If it’s a boy then he will call a confidence boost. marry Blue Ivy Carter when he’s six PHOTO COURTESY OF HUFFINGTONPOST.CO.UK British Television: Bloody Brilliant!* *Title Should be Read in an Accent

by Mary McGreal ’15 A&E Staff

I admit it; I am an aficionado of British television. The theme song of Doctor Who makes me giddy, I cried when Ashes to Ashes ended, and how dare you try to tell me that the American Skins even compared to the U.K. version. Granted, when I say British television, I mean the British television I can get my grubby American hands on. This usually ends up being comedy series, dramas, and sci-fi, which is unfortunate because there are a lot of soaps, reality programs, and talk shows that are not aired in the U.S. What we get in America tends to be of the “cult following” variety—Misfits, The Vicar of Dibley, The Graham Norton Show, Being Human, and Top Gear, to name a PHOTO COURTESY OF FANPOP.COM few. Anglophiles in the U.S. have just so I can watch my programs. No Sherlock is airing in May. the experience more authentically a more difficult time watching fear, though; American television BBC’s Sherlock, created by Steven alternative by informing your friends shows produced “across the pond,” has a redeeming quality, which is Moffat and Mark Gatiss, stars that you will be sitting in your room unless they have access to BBC a little thing called PBS. Thought Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin watching a show they have never heard America, buy the series DVDs, can that the Public Broadcasting Service Freeman as the dashing duo of of, preferably while wearing some find the desired program on Hulu, was only for your grandmother Sherlock Holmes and John Watson. sort of hipster hat and drinking or perhaps choose to travel down a and children under the age of Test of a true Anglophile—you a mocha latte from PC Perk. But I *ahem* slightly less-than-legal route to 12? Think again! PBS has lots of can identify two or more of the digress. Step three: Become madly get their British television fixes. great programming, including aforementioned names. So, how obsessed with all things Sherlock, So, what is a college-aged U.K. Masterpiece, which brings series does one immerse oneself into the start shipping obscenely ridiculous enthusiast to do? It is a bit difficult produced by the BBC and other world of British television? Step pairings, make a Tumblr dedicated for most of us to justify spending stations to the U.S., and some of one: Find a way to watch the first to the show, minimize human money on somewhat frivolous these programs are available to season of Sherlock—there are only contact, never leave your roo—oh, things, such as DVDs of television watch online on the PBS Web site. three episodes. Be creative with this wait, those are the steps to ending shows. Personally, I do not want to And lucky for you, the second one. Step two: Watch the second up forever alone. My bad. risk getting a virus on my computer season of a pretty epic series called season, starting May 6 at 9 p.m. Make It’s worth it, though. 20 The Cowl ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT April 19, 2012 John Carter Spells Trouble For Blockbusters growly voice. His supporting cast offers little support, and even go-to villain Mark Strong lacks his usual enthusiasm. Blockbusters are far too profitable to ever disappear–after all, they’re called blockbusters for a reason. But John Carter proves that it takes more than blood and manly yelling to make a genuine blockbuster. Next year, blockbuster master Gore Verbinski (The Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy) returns with The Lone Ranger, which THE was temporarily shelved because its budget had reached $250 million. BRYANT Does a western really require such a bloated budget? The first Pirates was GRADUATE made for $110 million less, and it was the best of the series. The mere fact that PROGRAMS Johnny Depp will play Tonto might be enough to rake in large returns, but The Bryant University Graduate PHOTO COURTESY OF COLLIDER.COM that won’t necessarily be enough to School of Business prepares distract from a poor, misguided script. students for success in their by Jorge Lucas ’12 lead actor­—but it’s impossible to say A weak box office, might be just the chosen professions. As a A&E Staff for sure why so few people turned sign that Hollywood needs to end the graduate, you will join an up on opening weekend. What I can cycle of expensive, yet soulless, films. impressive alumni community Attempting to create a blockbuster say for sure is that word of mouth Lately, only superhero films that includes industry leaders is a dangerous game. Studios assume didn’t help John Carter. The film is a have carried the weight of summer across the country and around that the more money they pump into a narrative mess with a complicated plot blockbusting, and they satisfy because the world. film, the more money they will earn at of political intrigue and civil war that of their proper scripts. Marvel Studios, the box office. Bigger action sequences is neither simplified from its source in particular, has churned out quality THE BRYANT MBA and better effects should invariably material nor made easy for audiences character pieces (Iron Man, Thor, ONE-YEAR PROGRAM attract the biggest crowds; Disney to follow. Captain America) with directors who invested $250 million dollars into its The fact that we can’t care for the know what they’re doing. May 4’s The Full-time, day program latest adventure flick John Carter and princess’s plight, nor believe in her Avengers, directed by Joss Whedon, for all majors another $100 million into marketing. blossoming relationship with Carter, should be no different. DC Comics has • No professional experience The result was, for a time, the biggest means that all there’s left to do is relied heavily on Christopher Nolan’s necessary box office flop in US history. Its gawk at the visuals. Though many of Batman series, especially after the performance overseas brought back the costumes look like they came out disaster that was Green Lantern, and it • Distinguish yourself in a much greater returns, but John Carter of He-Man, at least the animation is has brought him back to produce Man competitive job market has still only barely broken even. Many detailed and gorgeous. But it’s hardest of Steel. If these studios continue with theories have been thrown about the to watch Carter himself, played by their streaks, superheroes will be our • Gain hands-on experience PHOTO COURTESY OF SARAH O’BRIEN ‘15 Internet as to why this happened–its Taylor Kitsch, who seems to think only hope when it comes to the biggest, with the Business Practicum bland title, the lack of a recognizable that gravitas comes from an affected, baddest summer films. THE BRYANT MASTER OF ROFESSIONAL CCOUNTANCY PHOTO COURTESY OF EXQLUSIV.COM P A (MPAC)

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neck was bent upwards and he placed acceptance, justice, and forgiveness. It is by Conor Leary ’13G shavings as the wind passed by. They his head against it to rest. being produced this weekend at Providence Portfolio Editor Emeritus did not fight to hold their cover, but Bill could not breathe. College by SHEPARD in the John Bowab welcomed the elements against their Dedication—Matthew Shepard was Studio Theatre (Smith Center) on Saturday Fiction deepest layers of skin. a 21-year-old homosexual man killed in 4/21 at 8 p.m. and Sunday 4/22 at 2 p.m. Bill froze—the fence had become Laramie, Wyoming in 1998. His memorial If you can see it, you’ll understand the Bill could not breathe. as much a part of the landscape as the is the fence upon which he was killed. inspiration and hope this crime offered a He had thought the site would be sky, the sun, the ground, the bushes, The Laramie Project, a play by Moises small town in Wyoming, along with the paralyzing, although he wanted to the shrubs, and the trees. It did not cut Kauffman and the Tectonic Theatre rest of the world. vomit at the fact that he could think perilously through the natural scenery. Company, tells his story of suffering, it would affect him like that. He had It had adapted. Its posts were naked, thought his body would react in a lacking any veneer or finish. It was an old very different way. boundary line that no longer drew any He had imagined, before the soles separation between man and nature. The of his loafers had carried him up to barbed wire wrapped around one post Pilate’s License the pilgrimage ridge, that his body and extended to another, and another would convulse with all the anger like vines from a prickled shrub. Bill by Tom Nailor ’12 that had welled up inside him from thought he could reach out and touch Portfolio Staff days at court. He had thought his fists the metal spike, only to have it crumble "Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my would splinter against the fence posts between his fingertips. and shatter them into thousands of It surged through him—the fury. hand?” bloody toothpicks. The blood would His hand paused in its fall towards -Macbeth, Act II Scene 2 run out of his hands and out from the rust of a barb. It kept him from between his fingers, painting over shoving the metal into his palm until “And he said, ‘These are they who have come out of the great his lifelines. He would be too lost in he whipped it around his head and tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in his blind fury, in the destruction, and splintered it. When he found he could in the erratic pain exploding inside move, all he could do was fall forward. the blood of the Lamb.’” his chest, beneath his heart, and A wave of power throttled him around -Revelation 7:14 searing through his arms to notice the neck and shoved salt out of his the red elixir that poured from the eyes with water, too. He was choking The shadow of the tree cuts across me scratches along his wrists and skirted and the wind encouraged the tension Dividing, decrying, vivifying. towards his elbows. He would be around him—“Coward!” “Coward!” too furious and too blind to see that “Coward!”—until he let go of it all. He “Are you the King of the Jews?” the blood sprinkling the dry earth, fell, like a pilgrim, to honor the sanctity The question rings in my ears. the improvised bike path, the burial of the space. He scratched his palms But the cries from far off Cavalry ground, was actually coming from over the earth and dislodged stones, interrupt my concentration the fence posts and from the fractures brush, and small pieces broken off the as Legion pound nails into His feet, into His hands he had caused. fence. He felt his tears soak the dust He would call himself victorious that had been his resting place. The spear-pierced side leaks water, and blood if he had the vigor to destroy it all. “Matthew”—the wind did not and I wash my hands of it. The wind barked at him—“Coward!” assault him with the name of his son’s It stains the Gol’gothan sands below; “Coward!” “Coward!”—in sharp, victim. It had fallen to peace and it had my hands remain sullied. psychotic, grueling screeches that been Bill who, for the first time, spoke I believe that I had power to free or to crucify. sliced through the lobes of his brain the name out loud—“Matthew…” and the nerves connecting his spine Bill McKinney spent his afternoon I cannot blame the people for Barrabas. to his skull. He could not react to at the fence with his face in the My appeals were not enough for this. the pain. He glared, paralyzed, but dirt. Everything he had said to the I can blame no one but Pilate. I am no one. when the intensity of his glare was so reporters, in court, in the last months So recently I decried those fearful Sanhedrin commanded by the site of the fence, of his life had been to protect his son yet their pharasaical concern for cleanliness the effect softened his eyes. He did from the world’s hatred. He went so far not glare for very long and merely as to forget everything that his son was seems all the more real now: stared, paralyzed, with a jagged edge accused of, and that included the boy How can I eat what my wife prepares? of fascination flicking off one of the he had killed. Days later, with blood-soaked hands, fence’s barbs. He was urged to leave by the greater I throw the dinner to the floor, and His lungs stuttered from the cold chill that descended, that he took in and leave my dream-suffering wife, air and produced a deep chill. The shoved out even colder. He trembled color of the sky was magnificent and as he tried to right his posture. His and wander the still-hot streets of Judea. heavenly—the swatch of the world’s knees were scratched and bleeding I hear cries about a torn curtain as first day torn from the Lord’s Book and from the ground, his palms shredded. it begins to rain. The quakes had not yet come… stretched in every cardinal direction. When he pressed to a knee, he could These memories, after that day long ago. It seemed suspended over the place not stand. As the wind barreled down The shadow of a temple now cuts across me like a circus tent. Bill remembered the on him, it seemed no icier than it had circus he might have taken his son to, been, but still cold. He felt the wind a temple to the Goddess of Love; I turn away. but the memory was lost in the image grasp his shoulder and ease him up. Your followers eat your body, drink your blood. he absorbed. He could have taken The intensity of its jeering comments I hear such rituals whispered in the darkness Aaron to a circus so many years ago, was gone. and I wish I to join them. but he could not remember. A small man was standing beside To wash your blood from my hands with your blood, The landscape was tainted him when Bill got to his feet. The grasp Wyoming gold. It was the color of lands on his shoulder was gone and Bill was to wash the invisible with the visible, burned by seasonal sunlight. The rays left with Wyoming before him, as his to have your blood wash my robes clean. expanded like bands over the ground gaze leapt from the fence and beyond. I tell no one, and yet I fear: and wrapped into its cracks, bends, He honored it with another look before Is this my own idea, and valleys. The brush was fire-kissed, considering the new pilgrim who or did others talk to me about you? never burned from actual flames, but had joined him at the site. The small incubated in the earth and sprouting man was gone; he had come with no Why do I come to this new altar? already dry and prickled. It made the footsteps and no words. Bill’s eyes fell What draws me to my knees? bushes and shrubs stand taller, like back to the fence, to where his shadow What is truth? the trees that released their bark in stretched to one post. The shade of his 24 The Cowl PORTFOLIO April 19, 2012 Borrowed Time Fast Fiction Part 2 To My Roommates Who Were Accidentally Woken Up By a Screaming Mob

by Mason Sciotti ’15 Portfolio Staff

I know that what I did was wrong. I’d say that I was sorry, but it was honestly too funny for me to feel remorse. by Bobby Bretz ’12 of the ship continued to rain down Portfolio Staff from orbit, scattering the plain and the mountainside beyond with little FICTION fireballs of debris. The Fugitive When the shower of detritus “So…why are we here?” finally ceased, the group approached by Justin Fernandez ’15 “Great question!” Brick interjected the downed craft. It was massive, before Doctor Vieux could answer. over 400 feet long and 150 feet wide, Asst. Portfolio Editor “In precisely”—he glanced at his and was jet black. Ryla had never watch—“four minutes and seven seen anything like it. seconds, a ship will crash over there.” “What is this?” Now I go once more to a new land. I run from all I know, He pointed in the general direction of “Experimental ship,” said Brick desperately wanting to stay, but always eager to run away. Olympus Mons. “It will come from as they descended into the crater. over there,” he continued, waving his “Military secret. The reactor is arm toward the north, “so we’ll be safe priceless and irreplaceable. One of right here. The ship will be totaled, its designers intended me to get Baby Names: Self-Fulfilling but its reactor will remain intact. It’s my hands on it, though. That’s the a very valuable reactor that doesn’t only explanation for the fact that officially exist. Its soon-to-be former humanity’s greatest invention now Prophecies? owners have encased it in three inches lies smoldering before us.” of ceramic and titanium to ensure its “Should we check for survivors?” by Tom Nailor ’12 survival. Unfortunately for them, they “No need. No one on board.” Portfolio Staff didn’t anticipate us, so by the time “But this ship is enormous! How is they arrive, that titanium box will be it unmanned? And how are we going empty. Ryla, that’s where you come to remove the reactor, let alone carry His name was Brutus, best friend Thomas—people always in. You’re going to shut down and the thing?” disconnect that reactor for me. Then, “Don’t worry, Ryla. As I said reminding you of betrayal, and doubt. Does make you the two of us are going to carry it back before, the reactor is very small. This wonder though… to my ship—don’t worry, it’s not that ship is so massive because that’s what big. Now, Din, attached to this fancy the experiment called for—mass. The little reactor is a dedicated computer reactor manipulates this mass until Confusing Life of the American designed to provide regular feedback the ship has the ballistic traits of a and to keep the thing stable should neutrino. No, better. At full power, the ship, say, crash or something. Once this ship has less mass than a photon.” Teenager we get back to my ship, you’re going “But I thought photons don’t have to hack the computer and copy all of mass,” said Din. by Andrew Gellert ’12 the reactor’s schematics, manuals, and “Exactly. So, what happens if you Guest Portfolio performance data to a portable drive. weigh less than light?” Then, I will pay you two, and we all go “You can…travel faster than She is perfect. My heart pounds and I stammer when our separate ways. Understood?” light?” suggested Din with a rising she’s around. I can’t stop thinking about her. My cousin is Ryla didn’t understand, but she excitement in his voice. so hot. knew what she was expected to “You would think so, wouldn’t do, so she decided to do it and ask you? But no, it is physically questions later. Brick now addressed impossible to travel faster than light. the professor. However, when this ship reaches “Doctor Vieux, I take it you’re already that speed limit, its reactor prevents good friends with my older self?” the ship’s extra kinetic energy from “Oh yes, we’ve known each other becoming additional mass, so it for quite some time now.” continues to accelerate. And when “Excellent.” you can’t possibly go faster in the x, “I must admit I was a bit surprised y, or z directions of three-dimensional “Simple; it powers my ship. I need to “But…how did you know that this when he—I mean, you—arranged this space, naturally, you begin to take it back in time and leave it on my ship would crash here before you little rendezvous with yourself.” accelerate in the t-direction—the proverbial doorstep.” could travel through time?” “Yeah, me too. But this is how it temporal dimension.” “But you can’t do that, can you? “That’s something even I haven’t happens, and we have to stick with it. “Time travel,” said Ryla, the Wouldn’t messing with time this way, figured out,” explained Brick, “but I But I suppose we shouldn’t share much gravity of the suggestion hitting her. I don’t know, destroy the universe or know I will someday. As I mentioned more just now. I’m already on thin ice Brick nodded. “So, how about we something?” before, it was my older self who with all this time paradox crap.” get to work? We don’t have all the “Apparently not ’cause that’s how I brought us together today, with very “Okay, Brick,” the professor gently time in the world…yet. That’s why got the thing.” specific instructions, I might add. So, laughed, “we’ll have plenty of time to we’re here.” “But how did you get here in your at least one of me knows what’s going catch up later.” They reached the reactor’s ship if you haven’t given yourself the on. Anyway, I’d better get going. The No one said another word as they containment shell with a plasma reactor yet?” three of you will find your personal awaited the doomed ship’s arrival. Four cutter and set to work extracting “Well, technically I have. I’m just accounts sufficiently…enhanced by minutes seemed to take an eternity for it safely. It too was jet black, and closing the loop, so to speak.” the time you get back to the city.” He the impatient spectators. Eventually, roughly egg-shaped. Ryla found it “Then why did I copy the schematics stepped into his ship. “Thanks again however, the silence was broken by a remarkably lightweight, and she and if you already have them in your ship?” for all your help, and get home safe.” high-pitched whine. A great, glowing, Brick had no trouble getting it back to chimed in Din. Brick pushed a button on the airlock red object appeared in the sky, burning his ship, where Din quickly extracted “A little time insurance, Din. I want wall and the hatch began to slowly brightly as it careened through the the reactor’s schematics and copied there to be a clean-cut moment when close with a soft hiss. “Oh and Ryla,” thin atmosphere. It grew larger and it to Brick’s pocket drive. Ryla still the schematics are taken off the crashed he added with a mischievous smile, larger as it approached them, until it had a major concern with the whole ship and copied. If that didn’t happen, “see you soon.” finally came down in a violent crash, operation, however. they wouldn’t be on my ship now.” forming a massive impact crater about “Brick, what are you going to do Ryla continued to try and piece 300 yards away from them. Small bits with this reactor?” together this impossible series of events. April 19, 2012 PORTFOLIO The Cowl 25 The Mysterious Disappearance of The Turners: Battle by Emily Goodnow ’14 Part 9 Portfolio Staff

by Kiernan Dunlop ’14 “The Turners, John and Abby You and I will fight Portfolio Staff Turner.” The line was silent for what This battle ‘til it’s through. felt to Annabelle like an eternity. The combat might be brutal FICTION “Annabelle,” the man whispered almost inaudibly. Make you black and blue. Annabelle wasn’t used to making “So, you knew my parents then?” But you and I will find phone calls. The only ones she Annabelle asked, excited at the Solace somewhere. ever made were to her high school prospect that this might not be fruitless I will numb your wounds pretending to be her parents to explain after all. Erase the worry and care. why they hadn’t made it to any parent- “I more than knew them, I knew teacher conferences. She stared down you too, but that was a long time When you are shell-shocked at the phone; her hands were beginning ago.” And bells ring in your head to sweat, so she gripped it tighter to “Who is this?” When no words can heal keep it from falling. As she heard the “I don’t think I should tell you I’ll silently sit instead. phone ring, she felt like she had made that yet. What’s more important is When the invaders enclose you a mistake. why you called in the first place,” Annabelle had found the number the man said. And you sense an advance a long time ago, about a month after “There’s going to be a rebellion I can shelter you her parents disappeared. She had tomorrow, but I don’t think it’s going If you give me the chance. decided to start looking through their to go well. The only chance we have things, thinking they might give her is if the people in the city join with I don’t have the medicine. a clue to where they had gone. She us and start attacking the Compello,” didn’t find much; there were a few Annabelle said, happy to finally say I don’t know the science. family photos with people she had her true feelings about Daniel’s plan But you and I will fight this never met and a few books hidden out loud. With our firm alliance. under a loose floorboard, but nothing “You think that it is going to go that gave a lasting impression. As she badly then?” CORNER POETRY was putting the books back, she saw “I think that either we will be something she hadn’t the first time. brutally beaten along with innocent It was a small wooden box with her civilians or we will be left with a city initials, AVT, engraved into the top. and government in utter chaos.” She opened and found it was empty, “You’re a smart girl,” the man Dreams Drowned except for a small slip of paper with stated with pride. a phone number and a note that said: “So, you agree with me then?” “Call if in trouble.” Annabelle had “Yes, but if the plan for rebellion thought about calling right then, has already progressed this far I in Drink but she wasn’t the one in trouble her don’t know how one girl is going to by Mason Sciotti ’15 parents were. stop it.” She was about to hang up when “So I just have to sit back and let it Portfolio Staff she heard a voice on the other line. happen?” Annabelle asked angrily. She froze; what was she supposed to “You do have to let it happen, but say? That she found their number on no, you won’t be sitting back. You have ’Tis better to have loved and lost the inside of a box hidden under the to get to the State House before it gets But nothing hurts more than a swing-and-a-miss floorboards? They would think she out of hand.” They said to me, “Go friend! Accost! was crazy. The person on the other line “And do what, exactly?” was about to hang up when Annabelle “Just get to the State House. I’ll take And by God’s grace she may deign you a kiss!” said, “Wait, wait, I think you can help it from there.” But friends, noblemen, there’s the rub me. At least I hope you can.” “How do I know I can trust you? I’ll run the bases yet, but fie! “Whoever told you that was I don’t even know who you are.” I’ve got no full bat, only a nub lying,” said a voice that sounded like Annabelle was getting nervous And ’tis womanly nature to liken to lie. an old man’s. about this. “Well, my parents did…I think.” “You will soon enough.” “Who might they be?” the man I’ll don my armor, my brandished sword asked disinterestedly. To be continued… Gleams in the light, a shimmering star But woman, she’ll have none of my word Saying, “Only by action may you prove what you are.” Surfacing “To the bull’s pen!” scream my friends by Justin Fernandez ’15 “And prove to her you’re worth your salt!” Asst. Portfolio Editor Alas, my man, this be my end But pray you! This was not my fault! Like a ship lost to the abyss, I sink into perplexity. I did not get to court nor date her Algae grow from the crevices of my brain For alcohol’s the equivocator. And the metallic railing of my reason But for now, I leave my troubles for later Weakens, rusted, from the marine. And turn to fishing, a master baiter. And sharks stalk the outer ramparts, Guarding my poor sunken secrets. A chest of gold now lost at sea Sleeps within the captain’s chamber Waiting for the great brave pirate To find my lost, hidden treasure. Because this ship can sink but its gold won’t rot. And as the waves consume my frail, broken hull My heart will start to rise again Onto the Elysian shores. 26 The Cowl SAIL DIGEST April 19, 2012 PC STUDENT LEADERSHIP DIGEST Volume 8, Issue 7 April 2012 PC STUDENT LEADERSHIP DIGEST Informing the leaders of today, inspiring the leaders of tomorrow Student Leader of the Month: Jenna Borkoski '12 MAJOR: T POLITICAL SCIENCE & GET KNOW AMERICAN STUDIES o Jenna CAMPUS INVOLVEMENT: President of Student Alumni First organization you joined at Association, Executive PC: Mentoring Program, Intramural College Republicans Softball, College Republicans Biggest challenge as a leader: Increasing the growth of Student Interviewed by Conor Leary '13G Jenna says she will definitely continue to be a PC leader even after graduation and her SAA Alumni Association and working membership will make the transition from leading student to supporting alumni easy to create new and innovative Q. What was your greatest motivation to be as involved as you are on campus? ways of making the organization A. My dad had gone to PC and was very involved as a student, but also has maintained his involvement function better. since his graduation. Before it was even time for me to apply to college, I was ready to become a leader at PC from seeing how much the experience had affected my father. I wanted to get involved as soon as I Childhood activity you want to arrived. When I heard about the Student Alumni Association, I thought it was the best fit for me. start doing again: Playing softball more Q. What do you believe is your greatest accomplishment at PC as a leader? I joined the Student Alumni Association as one of its 32 inaugural members. The next year, it grew to A. 87 members and I believe that making the transition from being a very small organization to having Greatest Inspiration: almost tripled in size required a lot of patience of me and the other executive members. The process My dad—He’s such an active and for applying to be a part of the association requires students to have a letter of recommendation as accepting person. He literally well an individual interview, which I helped with this year. From my experiences in the interviews and never left PC or RI. He’s very with the organization, I realized how enthusiastic PC students are about what the organization has friendly and everyone has the accomplished and what they do. I’m excited and proud that the campus now knows a lot about the utmost respect for him. His association and its personal involvement in the campus community. involvement with PC as an alum Q. What is one attribute that a leader must have to be defined as "great"? has made me want to get as A. I would definitely say patience defines a great leader. As a student leader especially, patience is required involved as he is and be a strong when working with my peers. Being a campus leader puts you in the personal position of organizing leader just like him. students and trying for different alternatives when a club or organization’s growth is not happening. It means instituting new things when others might be used to the old way, and working through the obstacles. Also, in my leadership position, I am working with peers who I see around campus, and must use patience to understand their dedication towards the organization as well as to the rest of their lives. How do you see your leadership style helping you achieve your future pursuits? Q. I will be taking next year off to attend the Graduate Gateway Program at American University, through which I will participate in an internship A. in Washington, D.C. The skills I have developed at PC by working with students and collaborating in groups have helped me to understand how asserting my own opinion really helps drive a group forward. I believe the skills I have learned will also help me complete my goal of attending law school. I feel like you definitely need patience and the strong ability to demonstrate your opinion as a lawyer. Leadership 101: Nine Ways to Skill-Build Over the Summer This may not be what all of our could help with job or internship of Career Services or your high you may also be one step closer to readers want to hear, but summer is prospects for the future. school’s guidance office may help.) obtaining your PC degree! not the “off-season” for current and Read all about it Learn from their career experiences Build a team aspiring student leaders. Leadership They may not be as light as some and areas of responsibility. Recruit friends to participate in skills take a lifetime to build (and “beach reading,” but there are tons Recognize the skills necessary to a sports league, coach a local thankfully all that work tends to pay of books out there about leadership achieve your goals, and make note children’s team, or volunteer to off in the long run). That said, here and building your skill-set. Try of which areas you could improve lead a small service project in your are some ways to continue your The Student Leadership Challenge upon. community. Working as a member quest this summer to be the best (Kouzes and Posner) or Exploring of a group will help you to be both student leaders you can be: Get cultured Leadership (Komives, Lucas and Involve yourself in local cultural a better leader and follower, and Develop your craft McMahon) to get yourself started. activities or groups to improve will keep the skills you have from Let your summer job or internship Get creative your communication skills and get getting rusty. supervisor know if there are specific Do you have skills, but no summer a better idea of how to work with skills that you would like to improve job lined up? Weigh the pros and those from different backgrounds. Budget your time and money upon. More often than not they cons of starting your own small Learn from the experiences of Keep track of both your schedule may be able to find projects or new business doing landscaping, others, and you may find that you and finances this summer and you responsibilities that will help you babysitting, or whatever suits learn a lot about yourself in the could gain valuable insight into develop in those specific areas. you. Some of the most successful process. personal and organizational time Practice networking entrepreneurs started out in similar management and finance. Use Do your homework the skills you gain to help your Use that neighborhood barbecue or situations. Take a course at a local college family dinner party to practice your organizations and fellow leaders Job shadowing or university on a topic such as during the next academic year. networking skills. Introduce yourself Find someone in a leadership leadership, management, public to those in the crowd that you do position in a career field of interest speaking, or writing. Make sure the not already know. Take advantage to shadow (Working with the Office course credit is transferable, and when opportunity knocks - it PC STUDENT LEADERSHIP DIGEST EDITORS For more information about leadership @ PC, check out the SAIL Web page: Conor Leary ’13G, Leslie J. Heller ’02 Produced by the Providence College Office of Student Activities-Involvement-Leadership http://www.providence.edu/student-activities/Pages/Leadership.aspx April 19, 2012 ADVERTISEMENT The Cowl 27 Cheap N’ Easy PC Summer Summer Storage Storage Specials

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Saturday, 4/21 Saturday, 4/14 Softball at Georgetown 12:00 p.m. Softball vs. Seton Hall L, 8-1 Softball at Georgetown 2:30 p.m. Softball vs. Seton Hall W, 2-1 Women’s Soccer vs. Rhode Island 1:00 p.m. Men’s Lacrosse vs. Holy Cross L, 11-8 Men’s Lacrosse at St. John’s 1:00 p.m.

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Big East Overall Big East Overall Team W L T W L T Team W L T W L T Notre Dame 4 0 0 9 1 0 USF 13 1 0 40 6 0 Villanova 4 0 0 8 4 0 Louisville 9 2 0 38 2 0 Syracuse 3 1 0 6 5 0 Syracuse 7 2 0 30 10 0 St. John’s 2 3 0 6 5 0 DePaul 7 2 0 25 13 0 Georgetown 1 3 0 5 6 0 Notre Dame 5 3 0 21 13 0 Rutgers 1 4 0 5 8 0 Connecticut 7 5 0 18 17 0 Providence 0 4 0 1 10 0 Rutgers 8 8 0 20 22 0 Pittsburgh 6 8 0 23 19 0 Providence 5 8 0 14 26 0 St. John’s 3 8 0 15 28 0 Seton Hall 2 9 0 20 22 0 Georgetown 2 9 0 20 22 0 30 The Cowl SPORTS April 19, 2012 Got a Minute? the high school star and then come Conversation here and everyone is a star so you really have to work hard. It is faster If you have any topics for debate, email PCI and more competitive. They expect a [email protected] lot more out of you. Alexis Smith ’12 sits down with AS: How do you prepare for a game? Which Team Will Win the Stanley Cup This Year? Emilie Stehly ’13 from the Field ES: It has changed over the course Hockey Team to talk about of the year. I have to quiet myself Stanley Cup Playoffs. There is The Vancouver Canucks fell a few school, teamwork, and living so and focus in. We do a pregame video nothing quite like it in all of sports. Two- goals short last year at the Cup and were far from home. session the day before and I will read plus months of bone-smashing, jaw- the best team all season in the West. the notes and remind myself of the dropping, grueling hockey. The level The New York Rangers rolled through video and the other team. I just go out of intensity is palpable, leaving fans the East this year and have lit up the Alexis Smith: Why the number seven? there and play my game. everywhere on the edge of their seats. bright lights of Madison Square Garden. Emilie Stehly: Seven is just my lucky AS: Is it tough living so far from home? Last year the Bruins battled their No need to hedge this bet; neither of number. I was born July 7, 7/7. ES: Yes, but we definitely have a family way through the playoffs, winning the them will drink from the Cup this year. AS: What was your greatest moment at on our team and some of the girls’ Eastern Conference before dismantling When they aren’t fighting, the Providence College? parents have kind of adopted me, so the President’s Cup winners, the Philadelphia Flyers have looked like ES: Being a part of something bigger after the games they will always come Vancouver Canucks, in the Finals, the most confident team thus far in the than myself. My freshman year when up. That has made it easier. I have five thereby leaving Vancouver in a state playoffs. There are no Blues in St. Louis we beat No. 4 Princeton after losing younger siblings and one older, so it is of chaotic riot. Indubitably, the key for as they present the league’s stingiest of to UConn really badly the day before, hard being away and not experience the Bruins winning last year was the defenses, and have seen their power but we came back and beat the highest growing up with them. stellar and hot play of Tim Thomas, play improving with each opportunity. ranked team that we have ever beat. AS: Do you have plans for after college? the team’s rock between the pipes. The Los Angeles Kings would be AS: If you weren’t playing field hockey ES: I will definitely go back to Amidst all the high scoring games just another eight seed to make some what would you be doing? California. I am an Elementary/Special (see Flyers vs. Penguins series) and skull- noise in the NHL playoffs; there is ES: I would be playing soccer, definitely. Education major, so I will go back there crushing hits (see every series), the key to seemingly at least one No. 8 seed I would still be playing sports. It is just to teach and coach maybe. We will just winning Lord Stanley’s Cup lies with the to advance every year. Their young a part of who I am. Couldn’t imagine see where God takes me. net minder. That being said, it is tough to goalie, Jonathan Quick, is learning just myself not playing sports. AS: Why did you choose your major? doubt the New York Rangers this season, what his last name means, and has AS: What got you started in field hockey? ES: I feel like teaching has always been led by Henrik Lundqvist in between the everyone in St. Louis singing the Blues. ES: My neighbor had a little thing in my blood. My mom was a teacher pipes. Lundqvist has been near the top The New Jersey Devils have stars in the newspaper and told me that and I just love kids too. I want to help of the league in save percentage the last up and down their bench, including middle school teams were starting up, make people the best that they can be. couple of seasons, recording a spectacular former Providence Friar Mark Fayne. and asked if I wanted to play. So, it AS: How do you keep calm during .930 percentage this season. Lundqvist Their experience in net with Martin was random. a game? has also been a Vezina Trophy finalist the Brodeur makes them a threat to AS: Did you have a role model ES: My coach would laugh at this past three seasons, finishing third each anyone they will face in the playoffs. growing up? question. I really just have to take deep season. This year he is expected to be Because the NHL re-seeds teams ES: I played at the Olympic training breaths and remind myself that I can nominated again, and his performance after each round, it is hard to tell who center in San Diego during high school. do this. My assistant coach Tina, who has helped the Rangers become the will face who in upcoming rounds. I’d The Olympic national team would isn’t here anymore, gave me a green top seed in the Eastern Conference. like the Blues to make it out of the West practice there and coach us, so those sticker to put on my stick to remind The Rangers have scoring as well, led and the Flyers to come out of the East. girls always really inspired me— me to stay calm. I’ve had issues with by Marian Gaborik and Brad Richards. The youth of the Blues is something especially Tiffany Snow who lived being calm. In addition to the Rangers’ abilities, there I admire. They don’t know how well around my area. AS: Best part about being on the team? are several other perennial powers that they are playing, and that is a good AS: Why did you decide to go to PC? ES: All the girls and our coaches. are being beat around in the first round, thing. The Flyers have had everything ES: The field hockey program. I had Meeting the great people that we with the Canucks, the Red Wings, and thrown at them thus far, including never heard of Providence College. have and knowing that everyone is the Penguins all down. And while Philly many left and right hooks. Their brass It was providential, my parents say, so supportive. has been torrent against the Penguins, and bravado would be an interesting because it was so random. AS: What advice would you give badly beating their rivals, their goalie, matchup for a young Blues team with AS: How does it feel going into your next year’s freshmen? Ilya Bryzglaov, is not one to trust as the Cup on the line. I expect the city of senior year? ES: It is a tough transition. But if you the rounds progress and each play Brotherly Love to be anything but that as ES: It flew by; I can’t believe it. It really work hard, balance it all, and just becomes more closely scrutinized. That it makes its way to winning the playoffs. makes you stop and think about how ask questions you’ll do fine. being said, expect the Rangers to be hard you have worked the past three AS: Did you like Civ? raising Lord Stanley’s Cup come June. years. You just have to finish. ES: I actually did; I am kind of a nerd AS: How was your transition going when it comes to that stuff. But I feel -Sean Bailey ’14 -Danny McNamera ’13 from high school to Division I? like it depends on the team. I had a ES: It is a transition. You go from being really good team. COURTESY OF THE PROVIDENCE JOURNAL

THE Announcing the opening of a premium, self-serve frozen yogurt bar featuring fresh fruit and over 40 toppings. DOPE SHEET Serving Fair Trade organic coffee and tea. Ice blended frappes, smoothies and protein shakes. by Bridget Stack ’13 College Men’s and Women’s With many low fat, fat free, low carb and gluten free options. Sports Editor Swimming and Diving Teams capped off their regular season Featuring our delicious signature iced latte. Sports Digest the best way that a team can: with awards. Sam Schlich ’13 received Still Representing. For most the Cindi Luciani Award this year. college athletes graduation This award honors the women’s signifies the end of their their Most Valuable Student-Athlete athletic career. That is not the in meet completion. John Fatigati case for former Friar Dylan ’15 won the Horace Bowden Wykes ’07. This past week, Wykes Award, which honors the Most qualified for the 2012 Summer Valuable Student-Athlete from Olympic Games in London. The the men’s team. Fatigati and Kelly former cross country and track O’Neill ’15 also won the O’Neill standout finished 42 seconds Family Award, which is given under the qualifying time to to the most valuable freshman capture a seventh place finish athletes. Eileen Colliton ’13 and at the Rotterdam Marathon on Connor Lui ’14 were recognized Sunday, April 15, with a time of as the Clara Lamore Walker Most 2:10:47. This time was also the Improved Female and the Jan and second fastest marathon run Brian Larkin Most Improved Male by a Canadian just 38 seconds Athlete respectively. These awards behind the record time of 2:10:09. are given to the student-athletes Providence College will be well who have improved the most over - Visit us online at: www.ilovehotandcold.com - represented at the 2012 Olympic the season. Ben Kardian ’13 and Games, with former Friar Kim Allie Black ’13 were honored with - 895 Smith St. (corner of River Ave) Providence, RI 02908 - Smith ’05 joining Wykes in the Sears Diving Award for the running the Olympic Marathon. divers who make an outstanding - 401.383.9701 - Award Season. The Providence contribution to the sport of diving. April 19, 2012 SPORTS The Cowl 31

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by James Kirby ’15 Newton and Rodgers, both number for one reason: the Madden curse. of the Madden cover may be decided Sports Staff one seeds in their respective regions, As much as a great achievement by who is least popular. It may sound advanced with ease to the Final it is to be on the cover of Madden, crazy, but many fans of the Bears are Commentary Four. Johnson, under-seeded as a statistics and injuries prove that the supporting no other than their number sixth seed, won in a decisive victory Madden curse does exist. Skeptics one public enemy—Aaron Rodgers. Madden Madness—referring, of over Gronkowski to advance to will argue, but it is hard to disagree In my opinion, the winner will course, to the bracket deciding who the matchup against Rodgers. Like when considering the examples. most likely be Rodgers, just based off will win this year’s Madden cover— all good tournaments, we have a Payton Hillis had a hamstring injury general performance and popularity. is heating up. Unlike previous years, Cinderella in 11 seeded Willis. The in 2012 resulting in him missing five Will Rodgers be able to stay healthy fans voted in a bracket formation 49er beat Victor Cruz in the Elite games as well as a significant decline the whole year, avoid off-field run by SportsNation, for who will Eight to face off against Newton. in numbers. Drew Brees saw his controversy, and keep his numbers be the cover boy for Madden 13. It is easy to claim that, since fans interceptions double after his cover up there with the best? No one After tough losses and big upsets, decide, the cover vote is simply a in 2010 and Brett Favre, in a Packers knows, but the moral of the story is the thirty-two man field has been popularity contest but the hard- uniform, saw his stats diminish along that if you thought the Madden cover narrowed down to four players: core Madden and football fans have with his reputation in New York after was just a contest for who is the most Cam Newton, Patrick Willis, Calvin other intentions. Fans are actually his cover selection in 2009. The list popular and deserving of the award, Johnson, and Aaron Rodgers. voting against their own players goes on. As a result of this, the victor you are wrong. The curse shall live on. Friars Finish Miles Ahead Hockey Takes on Softball

by Meg O’Neill ’12 that the team is currently facing a few by Julia Claudy ’13 Sports Staff injuries. David McCarthy ’12 and Quinn Sports Staff are currently facing small injuries. Track “Outdoor season is so short, and Intramurals we’re only two and a half weeks away This past Saturday, the Providence from the conference championship,” The Providence College Men’s Ice College Men’s and Women’s Track he said. “We are hoping they respond Hockey Team had an impressive end Teams ran in the Brown Invitational. to treatment in the next week or to its season, making it all the way The Friars were led by Dominic so and they can get going again.” to the Hockey East semifinals. This Channon ’12 and Liam Hillery ’15, In addition to the runners, the allowed them the opportunity to play who came in first in the mile race field squad has also been performing at the TD Garden in Boston, the home with a time of 4:04.42 and first in the well for the Friars. In fact, Patrick rink of the Bruins. Its season came to 3,000-meter race with a time of 8:31.72, Bowler ’14 has qualified for the Big its close when Boston College, who respectively. On the women’s side, the East Championships for the javelin ended up going on to win the National Friars were led by Charlotte Ffrench throw for the second year in a row. O’Carroll ’12, who ran to a 4:47.79 finish “Javelin is a really tough event,” Hockey Championship in early April, defeated the Friars 4-2. The team in the mile event, and Shelby Greany Treacy stated. “He trains all year COURTESY OF SAADIA AHMAD ’13, who won the 3,000-meter event for the months of April and May gave its all on the ice; although the outcome of the semi-final game was A batter lines up to take a pitch in intramural with a time of 9:47.75. The women and this is a great achievement.” softball. finished with six runners in the top 10 Currently, approximately 22 unfavorable, there were no regrets. in the 3,000-meter event. Other notable Friars have qualified for the Big East Now that the season has officially loved playing as kids. Each season has performers included Laura Isabelle Championships. The team is expecting come to a close, the hockey team is antsy become increasingly more competitive, ’14, who placed third in the 800-meter even more athletes to participate in the to fill all the time spent at practice and especially between the upperclassman with a time of 2:13:89, qualifying for the conference championships and these games during the fall; what better way and underclassman teams. Big East Championships, and Phillip upcoming meets will determine that. to fill that void than with intramurals? Ferullo described the upperclassmen Reid ’15, who finished third in the This weekend, the team will be The hockey team has become as their “rival team,” and their games long jump with a leap of 6.31 meters. competing in the Larry Ellis Invitational especially fond of intramural softball always turn into heated matches. “The The squad is thoroughly represented in Princeton, N.J. Nine runners will be and has separated into two teams of teams are equally talented,” Ferullo by all four classes, including the participating in this competition, and upperclassmen and underclassmen. said. “Last game of the regular season freshmen who have been successfully some of them are trying to qualify for Jamie Ferullo ’14 is part of the we beat them 9-7 with a walk home representing the Friars all season long. the Big East meet. Julian Matthews ’12 underclassmen team along with Derek home run in the bottom of the second.” “This freshman group has competed and Channon are looking to qualify for Army ’14, Kevin Hart ’14, Barrett Kaib Needless to say, these varsity very, very well, especially Shane and the NCAA Tournament. In addition ’15, Ross Mauermann ’15, Zach Longo athletes don’t take competition of any Liam, who have represented the to this meet, Treacy is sending Emily ’14, Steven Shamanski ’14, Damian sort lightly, but in the end, the guys team in cross country and winter Sisson ’14 and Grace Thek ’14 to the Mt. Cross ’15, and Craig Wyszomirski ’15. enjoy the team building and getting track as well,” stated Head Coach SAC Relays in California to participate Ferullo joined intramurals last year to hang out together outside of their Ray Treacy. “All looks well for the in the 5,000-meter event on Friday, organized workouts. “Everyone out future with the group we have.” April 20. Sisson is looking to qualify when he was a freshman in the tradition This past weekend, Treacy believed for the U.S. Olympic Trials, and Thek of the hockey team. When asked why there gets so intense!” laughed Ferullo. that each runner contributed, stating is running to qualify for the NCAA the hockey team chose softball of all “But we always have a good time.” that their performances “were very solid Championships with a regional time. sports to become involved in, he said, “A The regular season of intramurals for this time of the year.” In addition, When asked how it feels to groom these lot of the guys played baseball growing has come to a close with the playoffs he commended Laura Isabelle ’14 and athletes into Olympians, Treacy responded up and their season got cut short starting this week. The teams are Jackie McCarthy ’14 on running great by stating, “That’s the goal of every athlete because of hockey and they couldn’t gearing up to duke it out for the much- races. Overall, Treacy is very pleased that comes in here. You want them to continue playing both.” Intramural cherished PC intramurals champions with his team thus far in the year, but on reach the highest standards they possibly softball allows an outlet for the hockey shirts, and the hockey team is most the side of improvement, he discussed can from the running side of things.” players to reconnect with a sport they definitely looking to win the title. The Cowl 32 Sports April 19, 2012 Former Player of the Year Comes to Coach Friars

by Veronica Lippert ’15 another two made conference all- of the last unknowns left as Providence tries to - deter Sports Staff rookie honors. She was also named mine who’s staying, who’s going, and who’s coming NEC coach of the year in 2011. from St. Francis. Of these assistants, Joe Haigh is Women’s Basketball One of the best judges of a pro- probably the most intriguing. He served as an gram re-builder is how well the old assistant coach for the majority of Robinson Just over a month ago, the former school does the year after he or she Fruchtl’s tenure at St. Francis and has been a head coach of the Providence Col- leaves it. The coaches who do their truly integral part of their success. He has lege Women’s Basketball program, job well can leave without the pro- found his way onto the shortlist for more Phil Seymore, resigned to pursue gram falling apart at the seams. Keep- than a couple mid-major head coaching other options. After a comparative- ing an eye on St. Francis next year vacancies. He has been named the in- ly short vacancy, Susan Robinson could tell us a lot about the future terim head coach at St. Francis, but Fruchtl was officially announced as of the women’s basketball program. if a permanent o f f e r d o e s n ’t the new head coach last Wednesday. Robinson Fruchtl may be coming c o m e s o o n , speculation is that Robinson Fruchtl comes to Provi- from a mid-major school, but this is Haigh will follow his head coach dence from St. Francis University not her first trip to the big leagues. to Providence, which would in Loretto, Penn. St. Francis plays She played collegiate ball at Penn be a nice boost for the Friars. in the NEC and is traditionally one State and is one of the more decorat- The hiring could not have of the better teams in the confer- ed women’s basketball players in the come at a better time for ence. Despite that, Fruchtl had her history of that program. At the top Providence. One of the work cut out for her when she took of the list of her collegiate accolades biggest recruiting week- over in 2007. Before the rebuilding is the 1992 Wade Trophy, women’s ends of the year starts effort began, St. Francis had fallen basketball’s version of the Heisman on the 20th with top- quickly into the basement of the ,and she was also Penn State’s lead- prospect games and NEC, having missed the conference ing scorer until 2004. After gradua- tournaments going on tournament the last couple seasons. tion, she spent eight seasons as an across the country. She turned the program around assistant coach for her alma mater. The immediate goal quickly, and by her second year had “It is an awesome opportunity to for Robinson Fruchtl St. Francis back in the NEC Cham- build a program and coach in the Big is simple, “Get the pionship game. In her five years East. It is one of the premiere staff in place as there, St. Francis made conferences in the na- soon as I can and three NEC Champi- tion and it will pres- get out there on onship games and ent a serious chal- the recruiting won two of them lenge each night we trail,” because the along with the step on the court,” season is about HTTP://WEB-VASSETS.EA.COM NCAA Tourna- Robinson Fruchtl to really pick up. ment AQs that said of the job. If Susan Rob- go with them. She inherits inson Fruchtl can Six times in a program at duplicate the suc- her tenure, Providence that cess she has had a St. Fran- has come a long at St. Francis, cis player way since Sey- bright days are earned NEC more was hired ahead for the Friars. all-confer- but is still not ence hon- where it wants ors, and to be. “It’s a rebuilding, and we’ve done it be- fore and we can do it again,” Robinson Fruchtl said. Provi- dence has for the last couple of years been con- sistently decent, but a team with its history is not content with mediocrity and neither is the Wade Trophy winner. The coaching staff is one

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