THE RETRIEVER WEEKLY UMBC’s Student Newspaper

Volume 41, Issue 05 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250 September 26, 2006

Dogs Through the Decades UMBC celebrates 40 years

BRIAN WHIPPO Retriever Weekly Editorial Staff

The UMBC Commons was fi lled with the din of anticipation as thousands of students, staff, faculty, alumni, and other special guests fi lled the building in honor of our school’s 40th birthday celebration. Black, yellow, and silver balloons lined the area outside the bookstore where a crowd formed around a table of dogs. The dogs were cakes, artfully crafted by UMBC Class of ‘97 alum Duff Goldman, owner of Charm City Cakes and star of his own television show, Ace of Cakes, on the Food Network. Each of the fi ve cakes was an edible recreation of Tru Grit, UMBC’s Chesapeake Bay Retriever mascot, decorated with symbols of the fi ve decades during which UMBC has existed. Patricia Davila [Retriever Staff] And, not to be outdone, three live Duff’z Dawgz: Chef Duff Goldman puts the fi nishing touches on fresh cakes baked the night before as a crowd forms Chesapeake Bay Retrievers toured to admire canine creations. the crowd with their owners. was razed to build the Commons. on four decades of UMBC’s history, candles were lit, the Camerata sang Glass cases lined one wall, fi lled At noon UMBC President he said, “Be inspired by the mission a beautifully harmonized “Happy with various memorabilia collected Freeman Hrabowski wove through of the university. Our whole mission Birthday,” and the cakes were served over the past 40 years, including the crowd and grabbed a microphone of being here is to touch lives. Each to everyone in attendance. course catalogs, Residential Life to welcome everyone to the of you has the potential to touch Later that afternoon, Dr. Lee Five cakes were rules booklets, and even a brick celebration and deliver the keynote thousands of lives...we will have an Shulman, President of the Carnegie from the old Gym 1 building that speech of the afternoon. Refl ecting impact on millions of people.” Foundation for the Advancement of crafted in the shape Jordan Hadfi eld, President Teaching spoke in Lecture Hall 7 of UMBC’s mascot, of the Student Government about his research into the quality True Grit, who is a Association, and Naresh Sunkara, of teaching and teacher education, Chesapeake Bay Vice President of the Graduate knowledge grown among those Retriever. Each of the Student Association, also spoke learning to teach, and the quality of fi ve dogs was dressed glowingly of UMBC and its teaching in higher education. achievements in only forty years of To wrap up the day, President up and accessorized establishment. and Mrs. Freeman Hrabowski to represent one of In true school spirit, the recognized achievements of both the last fi ve decades. Maryland Camerata, directed by faculty and staff at a reception in David Smith, sang a brand new alma the University Center Ballroom. mater written by Jari Villanueva, For more information about Director of Bands, for the fi rst time UMBC’s 40th Birthday and the ever. After hearing “Our UMBC” upcoming Anniversary Celebration once, the crowd was invited to in October, visit http://www.umbc. sing along using lyrics handed out edu/40th/events.html. before the event began. Finally,

Newsroom ...... 410.455.1260 Mondatory fees questioned at annual forum Advertising ...... 410.455.1261 Editor in Chief ...... 410.455.1262 The fiscal year (FY) 2008 they were proposing a fee increase Schaefer noted that the fee supports Business Fax ...... 410.455.1265 On the Web ...... trw.umbc.edu ELIZABETH SILBERHOLZ mandatory student fees proposal for FY 2008, and if so, what purpose three categories: transportation Retriever Weekly Editorial Staff is projected to increase by $82, the extra money would serve. shuttle services, construction an almost 4% fee change from For the remainder of the forum, services, and maintenance of It was standing room only at FY 2007. Overall, full-time the floor was opened for students the university’s parking system. the Student Fee Forum, held in undergraduate students pay more to ask the fee holders questions. In the summer of 2009, when the Student Organizations area than $2200 in mandatory student Lynne Schaefer, vice president construction of the new Fine Arts trw.umbc.edu of the Commons last Wednesday fees per year. of administration and finance, building begins, UMBC will lose 410.455.1260 during free hour. The annual event The hour-long event permitted explained the university parking and parking lots 9, 9A, and 16. Thus, aims to make mandatory fees more every fee holder to make an transportation mandatory student the transportation fee will increase ETRIEVER transparent and to provide students approximately five minute-long fee. A $30 increase, the largest over the next few years to finance RTHE WEEKLY with an opportunity to speak presentation. Each group explained fee increase this year, will bring directly with fee holders. what their area’s current fee was, if the total fee to $308 in FY 2008. see FEES, page 5. 2 News September 26, 2006 THE RETRIEVER WEEKLY

BehindtheScenes College News Stu Eisenman: Collector and professor institutions,” he added. long as the good Lord lets me.” BRIAN WHIPPO But accounting sometimes takes a “As we came up on our 40th year [at Regents approve Retriever Weekly Editorial Staff back seat to teaching students how to UMBC], I realized my age and how, even University Studies pursue their careers. He explained, “I like as an adult, I have grown with the campus,” AMMAD KHAN to teach a career strategy course to show he reflected. He enjoys the campus and feels degree Retriever Weekly Contributing Writer students the proper way to create a really the new buildings made students feel like good resume and interview tactics, as well they’re really in college, not an extended theeagle.com — Texas A&M University Professor Stu Eisenman, M.Ed., as where to find great job leads.” version of high school. system regents signed off Friday on a new collects die-cast cars and cowboy artifacts, Part of being a teacher, however, is And Professor Eisenman’s family has interdisciplinary degree plan that could but in his spare time he is an accountant furthering the field in which one teaches. grown significantly since he first came to allow Aggies to begin majoring in University and a college professor. A graduate of both Eisenman has taught education courses at UMBC. Now he is happily married and Studies as early as next fall. University of Maryland, Baltimore County other campuses to help train new teachers. has two children and two grandchildren A&M President Robert Gates said and College Park, he spent two decades He described how he likes “to show new whom he adores. the plan is designed for students in good working as a federal accountant until he teachers how to manage a classroom, Determined to help students much like standing with diverse, interdisciplinary retired early and transitioned into teaching build a good lesson plan, and take part in his grandchildren, Eisenman participates interests but no specifi c major. That includes his profession here at UMBC. curriculum development.” in various youth group activities designed students who, for whatever reason, cannot Eisenman has been teaching accounting “Curriculum development is an to help guide and direct young people get into their chosen degree program, as well for 30 years, and for the past three important part of one’s educational field,” into college or training schools. His as those who cannot decide upon a fi eld of semesters has been at the head of a class Eisenman said, speaking as a veteran advice to students is “Keep your nose to study, he said. that bridges the gap between accounting accounting teacher. He described his peers the grindstone. It is to your benefit to It calls for students to declare an area and information systems. “I have taught in the Information Systems department pay attention to instructors and respect of concentration - or “super minor” as he business management and other computer as well as the administration here as “top them.” described it - and two minors, he said. science related courses at other educational notch.” And, he says, he’ll stay here “as “Many students fi nd they are forced into a degree program distant from their interest and passion,” Gates said as he explained to regents the need for the degree plan. Janitorial staff at UMBC claims unethical If approved by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, the new degree could be offered by next fall. treatment; UMBC staff responds University offi cials said they expect about 200 University Studies students during the letters written by the employees indicate according to Gustafson, “[OneSource] fi rst year and as many as 800 students within STEPHEN THOMPSON that there is much to be unhappy about. provide[s] a toll-free phone number for fi ve years. Retriever Weekly Contributing Writer However, this might only be a fraction of employees to anonymously report violations Gates described University Studies as a the new problems brought to UMBC by of OneSource’s Code of Business Conduct “21st-century degree” and said the new plan GRACE M. LO PORTO OneSource. One employee who was laid-off & Ethics; alternatively employees can report would help ensure graduating students are Retriever Weekly Contributing Writer said she was told she would only receive a violations anonymously through www. ready for a range of employment options or paycheck if she signed papers saying that she ethicspoint.com. Information regarding this further education. The cleaning staff recently slipped had recieved safety and sexual harassment hotline/website is provided to all employees some urgent requests for help, addressed training that she had in fact never recieved. in their new hire paperwork as well as being to UMBC as a whole, under The Retriever The people who wrote these letters face posted in our office on UMBC’s campus.” Firm gives $925K for Weekly office door. The letters paint a considerable risk to their jobs as a result. The number for calling in complaints to pretty bleak picture: in addition to other Packets given to employees by OneSource OneSource is 1-866-294-0988. As of press college ethics courses complaints, many employees have had explicitly prohibit “communication with time, they had not received any calls from ROCKFORD (Rockford Register their workload doubled. The situation was tenants on any work related matters.” UMBC. Star)--Rockford College will use a $925,000 previously described by Sergio Espana in The Employees have also said that they have In addition, according to Gustafson, grant to fund a new Center for Ethics and Retriever Weekly, Volume 41, Issue 3. He been told in meetings not to converse with “Buildings are staffed, whenever possible, Entrepreneurship. discussed the precarious situation in which students. Some who have spoken out have with one man and one woman so restrooms It is an unusual gift--one of the largest many UMBC janitors found themselves been fired. Employees have also been told to can be serviced and restocked without having corporate gifts in Rockford College history- after the university ended its contract with report anyone that they see discussing work to close them.” They did not receive enough -and comes from the charitable arm of Abacus Corporation in favor of OneSource. with students, creating an atmosphere of notice to give the exact amount of cleaning Winston-Salem, N.C.-based BB&T Corp. OneSource was contracted to clean almost as distrust and uncertainty. The rules prohibit personnel assigned to each building. Philosophy departments typically do many buildings as Abacus, and has kept only employees from discussing work-related According to Lynne Schaefer, UMBC’s not get grants from private corporations like half of the original Abacus employees and a matters with anyone other than supervisors; VP of administration and finance, UMBC this, Rockford College President Richard small amount of new staff. thus, employees are only allowed to complain was told by an outside consultant that it had a Kneedler said, because it is often diffi cult to As the lay-offs continue, it remains to the people who have the power to fire “very high” staffing level “relative to national show how humanities programs align with unclear just how well the new arrangement others. When some employees asked how norms.” The consultant recommended that corporate goals. is working. Some staff, such as Mike Carlin to file an official complaint, they did not UMBC switch to a performance-based “I’ve never seen a private corporation in OIT, are more than satisfied with the receive a response. contract instead of one based on the number give a grant of this sort in my entire academic current level of cleaning. However, in private OneSource headquarters has responded of cleaning staff. “He recommended that we career,” Kneedler said. “I think it is just conversations with students and the letters to the letters left at the Retriever office. achieve a higher level of cleanliness across absolutely astonishing and wonderful.” left at the Retriever office door, OneSource According to Angela Gustafson, the the campus by using this performance-based BB&T Corp. is a fi nancial holding employees overwhelmingly have given a Vice President of Marketing Services at approach” rather than just paying for a certain company with $116 billion in assets, negative assessment. They are “underpaid OneSource’s headquarters in Atlanta, number of staff people. They expected that employing 29,000 people in 11 states and and overworked,” as the author of one of “OneSource acknowledges that there has the contract would require some lay-offs, the District of Columbia. More importantly, the letters put it. The letters allege that been uncertainty in regards to employee since, according to the consultant, UMBC CEO John Allison IV reads philosophic OneSource is “trying to put one woman and vacation, sick and holiday pay benefits. had too many employees to start with. journals. one man in the buildings. One woman and These benefits were not specifically addressed However, the new contract was actually Allison told college offi cials he one man can’t do the building, because it in the original contract...The university supposed to improve conditions for UMBC’s contacted the private liberal arts school too much work for one woman and one man is in the process of finalizing a contract remaining employees. “We wanted to require about the funding because he was impressed to do. Some of the building have 5, 6, 12 addendum which addresses vacation, sick a living wage for our custodial staff. Under by articles Rockford College philosophy floors in them for the employees to clean.” and holiday pay benefits for the OneSource Abacus, the average contract wage was $7.80 department chairman and professor Stephen Employees are also having trouble getting service workers at UMBC...Next week, all an hour. We put in a new requirement that Hicks wrote. information about their benefits. According OneSource employees at UMBC will receive it be $9.30 an hour.” They also “required to the letters, they “have asked several times a communication clearly outlining vacation, [in the contract] that employees get paid about health insurance, vacation time, sick sick and holiday pay benefits.” time, and have receive[d] no answer.” The In regards to the complaints, also see ONESOURCE, page 3. THE RETRIEVER WEEKLY September 26, 2006 News 3 OneSource employees seek help for alleged unfair treament

from ONESOURCE, page 2 it would take some time to fill it.” In reference to the letter you [received] The contract with OneSource allows about UMBC’s housekeeping department. for ten holidays, similar to what university UMBC to terminate the contract “whenever Here are a few other things you may need employees get.” With the new requirements, the University shall determine that such to know World News OneSource was the best affordable option; termination is in the best interest of the 1. One source night manager told they underbid Abacus by about one million University.” Right now, the one problem employee’s there was a freeze on hiring, and Nuclear talks with dollars. According to the consultant, Jim that would cause a contract termination laid off 11 people or more...but then in turn Moran, there were actually two other is “nonperformance,” i.e. failure to clean, 3 working days later 3 new people [were] Iran may start cheaper companies that were passed over, according to Schaefer. “Certainly it’s in our hired (Hispanic). Make [you] say hmmm? partly because their cuts to employment best interest to work with them, to make 2. Management said they should get without U.S. were expected to be so high. One wanted to this relationship work well. We’ve put a huge extra pay for extra work. They are currently BERLIN, Sept 23 (Reuters) - France, use robots and 30 employees. investment into evaluating our needs, going doing the work of 3 people, and not being Britain and Germany would be willing “Think of it this way,” said Schaefer. through the procurement process, going compensated. to begin talks with Iran even if it has not “The people who worked for Abacus, they through this transition process—we want 3. The employees are coming to work suspended its nuclear enrichment program lost their job...some people then were hired OneSource to be successful.” On the other not knowing if they will have a job the next fi rst, but Washington would not take part, a by OneSource. That’s like taking a new job. So hand, “there are a whole bunch of things day. German magazine reported on Saturday. you go to a new job, you have to go according that would be outlined in the contract, and 4. The employees have asked several So far Iran has refused to suspend its to their rules, requirements, regulations, you legal issues and things that would not be times about health insurance, vacation time, uranium enrichment program, which could have to get onto their payroll system instead specified in the contract [that could result in sick time, and have receive no answer. What refi ne uranium for atom bombs, saying its of the old payroll system.” Moran also said termination].” is so hard about answering simple questions? nuclear fuel ambitions are limited to fuelling that some equipment which OneSource Wher[e] is [their] professionalism. power stations. Western countries suspect uses is actually more efficient than Abacus’s 5. Is One Sour[c]e trying to run there Tehran wants to produce weapons. equipment. The equipment is supposed to The Letters from the employees out to hire new ones (Hispanic)? Citing unnamed German diplomatic allow employees to clean much more in a 6. The employees that are left are sources, weekly Der Spiegel said the goal of shorter period of time. The employees only Janitors standing strong. this new strategy would be to lure Tehran just received the newer equipment, and to the negotiating table to discuss a package claim that as of yet they have not received If there is anybody that can help. Please of incentives offered by six world powers in adequate training. First Letter help. June in exchange for a suspension of Iran’s “Right now,” Schaefer said, “we’re in a Help!!! To the paper, I hope this is a story that uranium enrichment program. transitionary period. I think we all recognized Attention: UMBC Administration, you can print in your paper. The six powers that made the offer to that it would take some time to move such a Staff, and Students. Have you noticed Iran -- the United States, France, Russia, large operation from one company to another the difference in your buildings with the P.S. The housekeeping number China, Britain and Germany -- said the company. We were giving ourselves about 90 cleaning? Well you have OneSource to was changed and [t]he employees had package was negotiable but conditioned any days, for them to finish their hiring, to get thank for that... Not in a good way, but knowledge negotiations on a suspension of enrichment, their systems in place, to get the equipment in a bad way. OneSource has replaced of this change. What’s up with One a process of purifying uranium for use as in place.” The contract began on August 1. Abacus Corporations and has done so far a Source[?] fuel in nuclear power plants or atomic “They still have a little bit of time in that terrible job with the buildings and with it’s weapons. In a preview of an article to appear first period to get to the levels that we want employees. OneSource plans on getting rid Third Letter on Sunday, the magazine said a decision by to get to. We’re not where we expect to be of more than 50% of it’s employees. That the “EU3” to begin preliminary talks with at the end of this transitionary period; I means less workers + improperly cleaned One Source 9-17-06 Iran would require a positive outcome think that the levels of cleanliness that we’re buildings = unhappy staff, students and The UMBC camp[us] is going down of discussions between European Union expecting and that OneSource is obligated parents. OneSource is making Big mistakes quick, fast, and [in] a hurry. That’s if you foreign policy chief Javier Solana and Iran’s to provide to us, we’re not quite there yet, by laying off hard working employees who of UMBC don’t get rid of OneSource. Now chief nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani. but we expect to get there.” Four percent have given this Campus of UMBC their they want us to wear backpacks, to clean the of the contract total will be withheld from 110% each and every year!! OneSource floors. Now they have a stick with solution OneSource until they meet the standards. is putting one man and one woman in in the middle of it, and expect us to use it on Scholar: N. Korea In addition, OneSource and Abacus, each building. Impossible for buildings the floors, which [is] not going to work. Then she said, are outside contractors, completely to get cleaned properly. The employees they said there will be no more stripping and speeds up nuclear separate from UMBC. Thus, UMBC is not of OneSource only have OneSource of waxing in the buildings at all. The buffers, bomb plan directly in charge of dictating how they treat surviving this and that is the support of burnasters are not working right. They [are] employees. “It’s not our role to get in that the staff, students and administration. The trying to put one woman and one man in the BEIJING, China (CNN) -- A senior relationship between the employee and the employees of OneSource have lives too. They buildings. One woman and one man can’t do North Korean offi cial said his country plans employer. We have conveyed to OneSource have bills, families and responsibilities also. the building, because it [is] too much work to unload fuel rods from its nuclear reactor the values that we have on our campus Did OneSource under bid their contract? for one woman and one man to do. and “reprocess the fuel into plutonium to community of being respectful and getting Maybe, but what do the employees have Some of the building[s] have 5, 6, 12 make nuclear weapons” as a way to leverage required information to those employees, to do with that. It’s not fair to the former floors in them for the employees to clean, a return to bilateral talks with the United and we know that OneSource has committed employees of Abacus Corporation to suffer. [we] can’t get the work done it[‘s] impossible. States, American scholar Selig Harrison to doing that.” If there is someone, anyone, out there who [They’re] getting more complaints in UMBC told reporters at a Beijing news conference At present, according to Lynne Schaefer, cares and can Help. Please do so before the and don’t care about it. One Source has Saturday. 65 non-management staff are employed by appearance, dignity, and wonderful rep of [underbid] Abacus. That[‘s] why Abacus Harrison, one of the few U.S. scholars OneSource. Of that number, 55 used to UMBC goes down the drain. left in the first [place]. The employees who granted access to senior North Korean work for Abacus. “I think the number in Underpaid and over worked. are left out at UMBC want Abacus back to offi cials, said he spoke with Vice Foreign the [earlier] contract [with Abacus] was 120, Help!! UMBC. Minister Kim Kye-Gwan who told him but there was usually about 80-85% of that Pyongyang planned to unload the rods from because of turnover...people left the job, and Second Letter the Yongbyon reactor. Kim reportedly said the government had been “unhappy with the fi nancial sanctions the U.S. has imposed,” but was New gate policy protects pedestrians eager to negotiate with the U.S. and return the loading docks along the road. campus walkways and roads,” Garland added. to the six-party talks. The talks include BRIAN WHIPPO “The university is putting in place Though the gate was actually constructed Russia, China, Japan, South Korea, North Retriever Weekly Editorial Staff designated locations for deliveries and a policy two years ago, until now no policy existed Korea and the United States. on when access is granted to gate restricted on how it was to be used. Now that a policy “The fi nancial sanction policy is Parking Services has enacted a new policy areas on campus,” explained Helen Garland, exists and the gate’s mechanical and electronic working against the very objective that we for using the gate on Service Road 220 designed Manager of Parking Services. problems have been resolved, it will serve to say we have with North Korea, which is to to minimize vehicle traffi c where thousands of The only other way the gate will open is protect pedestrians who walk on the road. get them to open up to the outside world,” students walk every day. The road, which runs if the University Police manually override the Facilities Management will also be Harrison said. in front of the ITE, Engineering, and Fine Arts gate access control system to lift the gates in the constructing bollards at the opposite end of the buildings, will now be closed starting Monday, event of an emergency. service road where a parked pickup truck has September 25, to all but emergency vehicles and “Part of the overall university operations is been the only barrier to vehicles. trucks making preauthorized bulk deliveries to to provide a safe environment for pedestrians on 4 News September 26, 2006 THE RETRIEVER WEEKLY Police Log

Accidental Fire Walker Avenue at Lot 6 Offbeat News September 12, 2006 Fine Arts Building entrance A fi re alarm was received from the Fine An offi cer observed someone carrying an Man strolling with Arts Building. Offi cers responded and found open can of beer. The person was questioned Act of Intolerance the third fl oor fi lled with heavy smoke. by the offi cer and found to be an underage pot plants busted Harbor Hall Baltimore County fi re fi ghters responded UMBC student. The student was issued a DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Aaron and extinguished the fi re. An old 16MM Judicial Referral for Possession of Alcohol by Janssen made it way too easy. Janssen, A Community Director reported that fi lm editing machine caught fi re. The fi re a Minor. 36, was arrested on marijuana charges person(s) unknown had vandalized a poster in was deemed accidental. Four windows were Thursday, after he was spotted taking the elevator with derogatory words. broken by BCFD to ventilate smoke from the Theft from Auto a leisurely stroll through downtown, building. carrying his recently harvested pot plants. Lot 7 rear Erickson Hall Polk County Chief Deputy Mark Sick Person A UMBC student reported that she Burdock said he did a double-take when September 13, 2006 parked her vehicle and carried several items he looked out his offi ce window at the Dining Hall into her apartment and when she returned to county jail and saw Janssen walking A Sodexho employee was transported to her vehicle 2-4 minutes later the passenger down the sidewalk, carrying his freshly Sick Student the hospital by ambulance due to an asthma side window had been broken and her purse harvested crop. University Health Services attack. and its contents stolen from the vehicle. “I look out the window ... , and I see him walking north carrying a green A UMBC student went to UHS leafy substance, all pulled up by its roots,” complaining of stomach pains and a fever. September 15, 2006 Burdock said. “He was carrying it like An ambulance responded and transported the September 17, 2006 you’d carry a bundle of presents. It was student to hospital for treatment. Theft from Building tall enough where he was looking over Act of Intolerance the top of them, and he’s just walking like Retriever Athletic Center nothing’s going on.” A UMBC student reported that he placed Erickson Hall Burdock said he went outside and September 14, 2006 personal items in a locked locker and when he A UMBC student reported that person(s) yelled at Janssen, who walked right over returned to retrieve them, he discovered that unknown had written obscene, sexual and to him, still carrying the plants. person(s) unknown had removed the lock and intimidating words and images on a Happy Janssen said the plants were part of Telephone Misuse stolen his personal items. Birthday banner attached to a dorm door. his marijuana grown near the Des Moines Potomac Hall River, but wouldn’t say exactly where, Act of Intolerance Suspicious Condition Burdock said. Two UMBC students reported that they Deputies also found two two-pound received an obscene phone call to their dorm Erickson Hall Commons Garage, fi rst level bags of processed marijuana strapped to room in Potomac Hall. A UMBC student reported that person(s) near change machine. each of Janssen’s legs, and a third wrapped unknown wrote derogatory comments on the in a sweater. Theft from Building student’s door name tag. While checking the Commons Garage Burdock said the marijuana had an an offi cer observed a white vehicle parked on estimated street value of about $2,000. Wye Apartments the lowest level of the garage with a full hand A UMBC student reported that person(s) print on the passenger side door. The hand unknown stole her cellular phone and made September 16, 2006 print was made with a red substance that had Cambodians Have several calls from it. the appearance of blood. A motorcycle parked Underage Possession of next to the vehicle also had the red substance ‘Formula 1’ Buffalo spattered on it. Race Alcoholic Beverage (AP) Residents of a village near Cambodia’s capital staged a “Formula 1” race Friday to mark the end of the annual Panel discusses costs of war during fourth honoring of deceased relatives. The contest wasn’t between cars, but water Iraq forum at UMBC buffaloes. Each year, millions of Cambodians military lifestyle. By his mid-twenties, after became one of the cofounders of Iraq visit Buddhist temples across the country MIA BROWN living a rather rough life, he felt he needed Veterans Against War (IVAW). This group’s to honor deceased loved ones during a Retriever Weekly Contributing Writer to do something else so he turned back to a main objective is to bring the American 15-day period commonly known as the career in the military. troops in Iraq back to the United States, Festival of the Dead. Members of the UMBC community He then received training in Fort allow for active duty members and But in Vihear Suor village, about came together on Wednesday, September 20 Knox, Kentucky, before serving in Kosovo. servicemen and women to speak out about 22 miles northeast of the capital, Phnom in the Commons Skylight Room to hold the After nine months, the monotony became their experiences and to support those who Penh, citizens each year wrap up the fourth forum on selected topics concerning unbearable along with the fact that all his refuse to participate in the war. festival with a water buffalo race to the war in Iraq. Sponsored by UMBC friends had already left for Kuwait instead of Tia Steele discussed afterwards her entertain visitors and honor a pledge Conversations on Iraq, the panel consisted him. He soon ended up training in secluded experiences with losing a stepson in the war made hundreds of years ago. of four people who were closely connected mountains where he was to become a sniper. in Iraq. Her stepson, David Branning, died Pok Thiva, an organizer, said there to the war. A member of the 3rd Infantry Division, he on November 12, 2004 in Iraq, a short time was a time when many village cattle which The main guest speakers were Garett was deployed to go to Kuwait and then to after the most recent presidential elections. provide rural Cambodians with muscle to Rapenhagen, an Iraq War veteran; Thomas Iraq in 2004. He served in the Marine Corps starting from plow their fi elds and transport agricultural Schaller of UMBC’s Political Science As he talked about his experiences 2003. His tour started in the Pacific, but products died from an unknown disease. department; Tia Steele, stepmother of a of being a sniper and fighting in Iraq he then he was transferred to Kuwait and later He said the villagers prayed to a spirit fallen U.S. soldier; and an Iraqi woman described his job with, “We had all the to Iraq. Steele went on to discuss the horror to help save their animals from the disease who prefers not to disclose her identity to intention of building schools and installing and the emotional aspects of having a loved and promised to show their gratitude by the public. After being introduced, each electricity but all we had time to do was save one die in the war. She says she was lucky holding a buffalo race each year on the last member of the panel gave a brief lecture on ourselves.” to have the chance to say goodbye to him, day of P’chum Ben, the festival’s name in their backgrounds in relation to the war and He reiterated his idea that it was “very unlike so many other families. Cambodian. how their opinions formed from firsthand uneasy to shoot a human, it’s either fight or She quit her job because she felt she had “I’ve seen the real Formula 1, but this experiences. flight.” He stated that one of his concerns to do something about this. Now she is a buffalo race is the Formula 1 we have in Having grown up on different military while there was “fighting Iraqi people for Gold Star Mother and a Member of Military our village every year,” Pok Thiva said. bases, Garett Rapenhagen is the son of a Iraq.” The soldiers would begin asking Families Speak Out. “You’re not going Vietnam veteran. When he was thirteen his themselves “why?” see IRAQ, page 5. father died, leading him to escape from his After serving in Iraq, Rapenhagen THE RETRIEVER WEEKLY September 26, 2006 News 5 Students, staff discuss mandatory fee increases at annual Fee Forum Though Brown said from FEES, page 1 UMBC athletics has the construction of 1000 to 1500 new parking second lowest fees in the spaces on campus. According to Schaefer, the America East Conference department wishes to invest extra money in and that “current fees order to build parking decks which will help are in line or low for to maintain green space on campus. These Maryland,” he was decks will contain a mixture of free student bombarded by questions parking and metered spots. by both undergraduate Director of the Commons Joe Regier and graduate students added during the question session that fees seeking to learn how have been used to obtain twelve full-sized athletic fees are being buses. Regier said that a long-term plan is used. in place to replenish buses as they age so the Graduate students transportation department is never “in a very were unhappy that their tight spot” like last year again. Regier predicts athletics and recreation that with the larger fleet, UMBC will be able fee has increased; a general to begin offering charter bus services. consensus amongst A majority of the fee forum was spent those graduate students questioning the athletics and recreation fee attending the forum increases proposed by director of athletics Dr. indicated that they used Charles Brown. The athletics and recreation the RAC infrequently, if fee was already the largest mandatory fee in at all. When they asked FY 2007; after a proposed $28 increase, this Brown how many of the Mark Perdomo [Retriever Staff] Crunching Numbers: Students and staff packed the Student Orgs space to discuss proposed fee increases. fee will cost UMBC undergraduates $698 approximately 15,000 next year. students who use the According to Brown, fees are greatly RAC every week were graduate students, Fey, who spoke about the Commons fee, which though the student activities fee is in its fifth needed to not only sustain NCAA teams, he simply stated, “We cannot tell with the will increase by $18 for a total fee of $488 in year without an increase, it will be raised recreational sports groups, and physical current card swipe system.” FY 2008, mentioned that the changes in this next year. The fee holder noted, “We’ve been education courses at UMBC, but also to Students on club sports teams were fee are “rather unremarkable.” Fey merely doing more with less,” but that they need an support the school’s sports facilities. Brown unhappy because they claimed not enough of stated that these funds, which cover office increase next year to continue to properly said, “Our facilities are the weakest [in the the athletics and recreation fee is being used and Commons operations, increase because support the 235 student organizations on America East Conference] with a few minor to support club sports. They did not seem of wage hikes and heightened utilities costs. campus. exceptions...our arena is the smallest and heartened when Brown said that he was not Vice president for information technology SGA president Jordan Hadfield was clearly in much need of repair...Reality is, sure how much of the athletics fee this year Jack Seuss explained the technology fee, pleased with the number of people who here at UMBC, the facilities haven’t met our would be used for club sports. which is charted to increase by $6 in FY attended the forum. He said, “It seemed as on-campus and off-campus needs.” Vice president for student affairs Charlie 2008 to create a total fee of $182. Seuss said though we had 200-250 students, faculty, that the fees will be used staff, and administrators...Hopefully, every to target departmental year the crowd will get even larger and more computers on a four-year informed. This year, we made sure everyone cycle to ensure that they attending had a packet with information are upgraded properly about the fee changes. This made for a very and do not negatively informed crowd!” affect teaching. According to Hadfield, the SGA will Since there will be meet with “the fee holders, Lynne Schaefer, no change in the $78 and the President’s Council in the next week student activities fee or so to discuss any revisions or changes [to or the $466 auxiliary the fee proposal].” facilities fee, not much A copy of the FY 2008 proposed student was said about these fees may be found by visiting www.sga.umbc.

Elizabeth Silberholz [Retriever Staff] two areas. However, it edu. Hadfield encouraged all students to e- Fee Breakdown: Distibution of fiscal year 2008’s $2200 in students fees across six categories. was made clear that even mail questions about mandatory student fees Students converse with panel about Iraq War

from IRAQ, page 4 One of the biggest problems she stated was the ever-growing separation between Sunni to change unless you have some personal and Shiites as the Iraq War began to escalate. experience,” she said on the question of why She said this problem was never looked upon she chose what she decided to do about it. before because she had both Shiite and Sunni “We’re all more the same than we are parents. Another argument she focused on different, and I ask you to vote and act in a was the Iraqi people who had to learn to peaceful way.” survive through what is going on. “No one The next speaker, Thomas Schaller, really thinks of those poor Iraqi people who a professor in UMBC’s Political Science are just defending their home.” department, was there to give his professional After the panel section, the forum ended opinion as a political scientist. He has done with an open discussion about the war, during many talk radio shows and has argued with which the audience could ask and comment a wide range of people. Some of the main on topics already discussed or bring up new points he discussed reflected his opinion on ones. Many of the questions touched on the the people and actions taken for the war in panels opinion of whether the troops should Iraq. He explained that “when you add in be immediately brought back, and all agreed contractors in Iraq, you add in more deaths” to one extent or another. Others, including and “Saddam did not sponsor the September representatives from UMBC organizations 11th attacks.” such as UMBC Students Against War in Iraq, The panel discussion concluded with asked simply how they could become more an Iraqi woman who was able to give her involved in movements to bring soldiers Matt Eller [Retriever Staff] opinion on the war itself. She grew up in home from the war. Speaking Out: A veteran, a scholar, the mother of a soldier, and an Iraqi woman told of their Iraq as a child and moved to the U.S. later. experience with the war in Iraq. 6 News September 26, 2006 THE RETRIEVER WEEKLY David Kipen: Getting the country to read books less than half of the public AMMAD KHAN has opened a book for fun Retriever Weekly Staff Writer with the last year. As the Director of Literature of the In 1965, a new public agency dedicated NEA, I feel embarrassed to strengthening the artistic life of the country and determined to double known as the National Endowment to the Arts that figure as fast as I was created. The NEA helps artists and creates possibly can. programs to help the public come to appreciate RW: Now around for and enjoy the many forms of art. Recently, they 40 years, how do you feel have created a new program known as The Big the NEA has done so far as Read, designed to revitalize the role of literature a “public agency dedicated in American popular culture and bring the to strengthening the artistic transformative power of literature into the lives life of this country?” of its citizens. The Literature department of the Kipen: I like to think NEA is handling this task, and at its head is David that we have enough to Kipen. show for the last 40 years. Kipen visited UMBC last Wednesday. I It’s funny how UMBC attended both the lunch that he was having with and the NEA were both a small group of students and teachers and the founded within a year of lecture he gave on criticism, during which he each other. Near as I can drew on his experience working as a critic for tell, and I’m not a historian the San Francisco Chronicle. After his excellent by any means “ I’ve only speech, Kipen signed copies of his new book, The been there for a year -- on [Courtesy of David Kipen] Constructive Criticism: A former San Francisco Chronicle literary critic, David Kipen now works for the NEA to promote Schreiber Theory: A Radical Rewrite of American the whole, I think its effect reading literature in America. Film History. Below is my interview with him. on the artistic life of the Retriever Weekly: So, Dave, tell us about country has been really favorable. More often as CDs and reader’s guides. Also, give money to the limit. We can recommend anything, and as working for the Chronicle. Did it have an than not, the writers that we give a grant to, not people to advertise a little, so that if someone’s not long as our taste is good, there’s no telling what agenda? only do they win prestigious prizes -- Pulitzer reading the book, they’re ashamed. You could take new writers we can expose people to. Kipen: The San Francisco Chronicle had Prize, National Book Critics Circle award, etc -- that peer pressure that drives people to movies on RW: Explain your line, “Literature is a great an agenda maybe on the editorial page. I think it happens ten years later! We spot them first, we Friday nights and use a bit of that to get people to ice breaker and social glue.” newspapers should, it’s part of their duty. You can give them the free time to develop their gift and pay attention to books for a change. The best of Kipen: You meet a stranger. What do agree with it or disagree with it. But in other parts of eventually the country notices, and great writers books have hit ice that things like movies haven’t you talk to them about? What do you have in the paper, certainly in the entertainments section I and reputations are made. That’s why I was a even come near yet. common? Well, maybe the weather, but it’s not a was writing for, the agenda of every newspaper you critic: to try and get good writers and good readers RW: “...an ambitious national publicity very interesting subject. Two guys can talk about were writing for was to sell enough advertising to together in the same room, because it’s so hard for campaign...” sports for a little while. Don’t know how far that come out again tomorrow. What opinions people one to find the other. In a way, what I do at the Kipen: We want people to know that this can get you. But if everyone on campus is reading have are cancelled out by the need to preserve NEA is just an extension of that: trying to find is happening. You can’t get people to read if they the same book, it’s an automatic thing to talk their jobs in an industry. That’s basically like a readers for the writers who deserve them. don’t know about books, yet there’s billions of about, something to discuss... Before you know melting ice flow getting smaller and smaller as it’s RW: Who started The Big Read, how did it dollars spent to get you to pay attention to every it, you got this whole conversation going. This trying to stay afloat and there is more and more get started, and how do you feel about it? other art form. Publishing is a lost leader. You look program, The Big Read, has two goals. One is to competition on all sides. I found journalism to be Kipen: Dana Gioia (NEA Chairman), who at the balance sheets of some of these enormous get America reading again. One is to get America a surprisingly honorable profession and I might was a poet from California. We commissioned media conglomerates and publishing is like half talking again! go back to it at some point. the Reading at Risk report, and of course when of a percent, and it’s so important. It’s one of the RW: I’m going to be the devil’s advocate RW: What does your job entail as head they covered it on the front page of the New York ways we first started telling stories. here. You say that “critics kiss the frogs that you of the Literature department in the National Times, everybody’s second question after this RW: You are going to have community don’t want to kiss.” Maybe we don’t need critics, Endowment for the Arts, and what exactly does happened was “well what are we supposed to do events like book readings and discussions. Aren’t as they could be the reason why people’s tastes are the department do? about it?” He had to come up with something, you afraid that the only people that will attend becoming homogeneous. Maybe we should let Kipen: Well the Literature department, and his best bet was to find the one thing that these will be of that minority that is interested in people explore literature, good or bad, without historically, gives grants to writers so they don’t seemed to be working already on a smaller scale, literature in the first place? trying to sway their opinion. That way, their tastes have to work as hard at jobs that have nothing to and try growing it on a larger scale, which is these Kipen: It’s a good question. Yeah, I am. I’m can grow and differ from one another, whether or do with writing, and get that next book out faster. one city-one book programs. When they’re done terrified. We’re not asking Congress for millions of not they’re taking risks in the books they choose Also, it develops audiences for those writers so right, they really seem to work and the trick is just dollars so that we can get people already reading to read. when they get those books out there’s somebody getting them to work everywhere the way that to read something else. We don’t want to preach Kipen: Well I mean, if there were only one around to read them. We help people put out they work well in a couple of places. Meeting cities to the converted here; we want to awaken the critic that might be a risk. The prospect of one book festivals, help people publish small presses, halfway is not making the mayor’s office come up love of reading in millions of Americans, who, for person setting a cultural agenda for the whole create journals, that kind of thing. Basically, the with a reader’s guide when its got its hands full whatever reason, have not discovered it yet. We’re country is terrifying. But, if you have no critics, idea is to help the art form grow. We don’t have an picking up the trash on time. It’s giving them that coming at them not just in libraries, where readers you’re looking for a needle in a haystack trying enormous budget to do it with. We try to leverage reader’s guide, giving them a little money that they hang out. We’re coming after them on television to find a great book. If you have one critic, then it so that if we find someone and then give them can do a program with so they can do it as well as and in the radio because you got to fish where the she has too much power, but if you have a lot of a buck, other people are likelier to come around the New Student Book Experience can do it. fish are. critics then people can shop around, browse until and give them ten bucks. RW: According to the website, in answer to RW: The initial featured books of your Pilot they find a critic that usually agrees with them I help run the grant programs. I help run the declining literacy rate, The Big Read “aims Phase you have listed, while they are classics, they or at least says interesting things. And then, it’s The Big Read. I want writers to know that they to address the crisis squarely and effectively. It are the same ones that people have been seeing over just a more efficient way of finding your way to have a friend in Washington, readers and writers provides citizens with the opportunity to read and the years. Won’t there be the chance that people the books you’re going to like. So I think critics both. discuss a single book within their communities.” will ignore the program/books then if nothing is perform a useful function but they are means to RW: So if any writer came to you with a There is a list of things in your initiative, and I offered that is new or never before seen? an end. You don’t want a critic’s opinion to take manuscript and you liked it, you’d help them wanted to get your take on each of the four. Kipen: That’s the risk we take. Our early the place of your own; you just want them to out? Kipen: Okay. books are wonderful books. Nobody in their right make the process of finding a good book easier. Kipen: It’s more complicated than that. We RW: “The initiative includes innovative mind would question the quality of books such as The ultimate responsibility still rests with each have panels, and tastes aren’t supposed to enter reading programs in selected cities and town...” The Great Gatsby. This is a risk: someone looking individual reader. into it. There are deadlines, and applications. To Kipen: You can see it right here on campus. at us and telling us, “This is a new program? RW: Any advice to for UMBC students who a certain extent, I’m the traffic cop getting the If this idea of the New Student Book Experience We needed you to tell us The Great Gatsby want to write literature? applications in front of the panelists, and with any were stale and did the same book every year, it was a masterpiece?” But, you want to start with Kipen: My advice would be to read as much luck, they’ll like them. There are a whole lot of wouldn’t be the kind of campus phenomenon that bulletproof books, books no one in their right as you can. It makes you a better person, a better rules and protocols, which belong there, because was being envied by other campuses. You want to mind would second guess. We want to be so writer -- not a whole lot of ways it can’t help. otherwise favoritism can screw it all up. do something fresh every year. careful to get things right in the initial stage. Once Beyond that, write as much as you can. Writers RW: A 2004 report created by the NEA RW: “...comprehensive resources for you’ve got that, then you’ve got a lot more latitude. are your best teacher, practice is your second best entitled Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary discussing classic literature...” Then you can come at them with a new book, a teacher. Make time to write as much as possible. Reading in America states now only 47% of Kipen: It’s probably naive to think that the book of poetry, nonfiction, a nineteenth-century Find readers that you respect. Keep at it, don’t let America has opened a piece of literature for book, on its own, can open itself, crawl into the novel. You can come at them with any number of people tell you you stink because even if you do, pleasure within the last year. How do you feel lap of somebody who is not a habitual reader, things, but because they already trust you, then you’ll get better. personally about this? and make them into a dedicated reader. You need they’ll follow you everywhere. If we could win the Kipen: As an American, I feel terrified that resources, something to sweeten the pot, such trust of readers, Congress, and parents, the sky’s THE RETRIEVER WEEKLY September 26, 2006 News 7

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Thai coup09 Immigration reform10 Opinion The Pope controversy11 Staff Editorial: New SGA incentives may be in Students should communicate line with students their feelings the SGA are working to provide services such as daily This week’s paper was originally going to feature an article discussing an ADRIENNE HAWKINS informational pamphlets. Information about the SGA is overreaching school policy banning hookahs in the Office of Residential Life’s Retriever Weekly Contributing Writer also available on the homepage of the myUMBC website, code of student conduct. When a reporter contacted Residential Life, they were such as minutes from the meetings of different bodies, informed that, in fact, this policy and another were being revised, and that a note Over the summer, members of the UMBC SGA met SGA announcements, and a link to the SGA website. Last would be sent to residents about this in the coming week. The other policy? The for a retreat at Mar-Lu Ridge. Amidst the discussion of week, the SGA hosted a fee forum to review the proposed now-infamous ban on a single student possessing multiple quarts of alcohol. Both the lofty goals that the each member had for SGA, the increases to undergraduate and graduate student fees. of these policies were hasty additions to preexisting rules. Often, students will hear SGA came up with three main initiatives: to plan a formal There was a decent turnout of about 217 attendees. The about a rule and get angry. They’ll even break the rule if it seems arbitrary enough, dance that the entire campus is invited to, to connect the SGA would like to be viewed less like just another student and though civil disobedience has its place, this is not really an effective way to SGA with students by providing information, and to organization and more like representatives to the entire deal with near prohibition. If more students took the time to call Residential Life inform students about the implementation of the new student population. or a representative of the school’s administration in order to address policies with smoking policy. The third initiative is designed to help students and which they don’t agree, then at least the school would know how students feel. In Members of the SGA felt that these three initiatives faculty become acclimated to some of the new policies that the case of the hookah and multiple quart bans, Residential Life revised their rule best represented ways to serve the student population. UMBC is implementing this year, like the new smoking books. It should be reassuring to students that individuals in the Residential Life The first initiative, a formal dance, speaks to the concern policy. The SGA felt that this policy in particular was office reacted to the two rules like this. It is worth the time and energy to share that many UMBC students have that there is no social important to publicize because whether you are a smoker, your opinion with the people making decisions that will affect your life, even if life at UMBC. Last year, UMBC did have a homecoming non-smoker, student, faculty, or staff, the policy will you believe that they don’t agree with your position. Every student should make a dance that very few students attended. This year, no such affect you. The new smoking policy will carry fines and habit of communicating with those who hold power over them whenever possible. events are planned. There seems to be a vicious cycle possible judiciary action if the policy is broken. The SGA You may find they care more about you than you think. with UMBC on campus life. Case in point: a couple of feels that they are best serving the interests of the student weekends ago, SEB threw a free party. For almost two body by keeping them informed of this policy. hours, the party was empty because a large portion of These are the three main projects that the entire students went home for the weekend. Then these same SGA is working on across all three of its bodies. Though students will come back, feel like there’s nothing to do, the SGA is ostensibly working to serve the interests of the and continue to go home for the weekend. I know that students, how do the students feel? Will students support THE RETRIEVER promotion wasn’t the issue, because I personally saw the a formal dance put on by the SGA? Do students care to president of SEB outside of the dining hall passing out know what the SGA is doing on a day to day basis? Are WEEKLY flyers. In planning a formal dance, SGA hopes to not students already aware of new policies being enacted by UMBC’s Student Newspaper only provide students with incentive to stay on campus, UMBC? The only way that UMBC students can hold the Editor in Chief ...... Elizabeth Silberholz but start a social tradition that students can look forward SGA accountable is to let the SGA know how they feel Managing Editor ...... Dave Iden Business Manager ...... Anshuman Jangi to each year. Planning for this event has already begun; about the measures that SGA is taking on their behalf. Advertising Manager ...... Kyle Clelan the dance is expected to take place during the spring SGA meetings are open to the general student population, News Editor ...... Brian Whippo semester. and the SGA office in the Student Organizations space Assistant News Editor ...... Jenni Choi The second initiative addresses the issue of how usually has members of the SGA in it at any given time. Opinion Editor ...... Ian Logsdon connected the SGA is with the student body that it serves. Assistant Opinion Editor...... Aaron Ludensky Many members feel that the general student population Adrienne Hawkins is a Retriever Weekly Contributing Features Editor ...... Kate Nunley is not as informed about the goals and actions of the SGA Writer and can be reached for comment at ahaw1@umbc. Assistant Features Editor ...... Michael Reid as they should be. To alleviate this concern, members of edu. Sports Editor ...... Alexander Pyles Assistant Sports Editor ...... Ashley Benitez Photography Editor ...... Stephanie Potter Assistant Photography Editor ...... Mark Perdomo Letters to the Editor Production Manager ...... Christian Brown Production Assistant ...... Oluwabenga Ajoukaye To the editor: Production Assistant ...... Danny Greenwald My issue is this: In the current paper, volume 40 issue 03, the Quotes from the Quad section is highly distasteful. Steve Production Assistant ...... Carly Wilkins Irwin’s death should not be insulted in this way. Death is a sensitive subject, and to joke about it, especially the death of such a Production Assistant ...... Helen Zhang well-loved and respected celebrity such as Irwin, is not only insulting to the deceased’s family, but also to our entire community. Illustrator ...... John Guiles This sort of childish journalism does extreme discredit to The Retriever Weekly’s image. Illustrator ...... Robert Jones Technology Manager ...... Matt Basch Webmaster ...... Alice Rhodes Thank you, Circulation Manager ...... Ray Moore Matthew Dolamore Assistant Circulation Manager ...... Robert Moore Junior, Modern Languages and Linguistics Faculty Adviser ...... Christopher Corbett Administrative Adviser ...... Dr. Patty Perillo To the editor: Layout Design Concept ...... Brandon Gilbertson May I take a moment to comment on your Opinion article, Campus Card requirement probably illegal. The Comm_Store (post office) you reference in your article is not a federal Post Office. It is part of the UMBC Check us out online: trw.umbc.edu Department of Communications Services and exists to serve the needs of the UMBC community. It was established as a result of the President’s Task Force On Student Life, a study several years ago that clarified areas of need on the student side. The Editorial Policy Comm_Store provides a variety of services besides US Postal Service offerings, including FedEx shipping, packaging materials, The Retriever Weekly staff editorials reflect the views of the editorial personal mail boxes, fax send/receive, copier/printer/scanning and notary public. board; signed columns and advertisements represent the opinions of the With respect to “cashless” operations, you note a central tenet, “The responsibility of those providing a service is to do it individual writers and advertisers, respectively, and do not necessarily as efficiently as possible”. You also conclude that “Apparently it makes things easier for those doing the bean counting to just reflect those of The Retriever Weekly or the University of Maryland keep all the money on an internal system.” While there are various reasons a department may choose to go cashless, a common Baltimore County. theme certainly does revolve around accounting needs. What may not be obvious is the fact that the handling of cash carries a The Retriever Weekly publishes weekly on Tuesdays during the regular high overhead with respect to meeting mandated audit requirements. This overhead includes such elements as daily closeout school year. Editors can be reached at (410) 455-1260 during normal routines, reconciliation, oversight, processing and depositing... elements that require a significant amount of resources (staff) business hours or at University Center 214; 1000 Hilltop Circle; UMBC; and time; elements that carry a significant cost that must be recovered. As a service provider, I feel that my responsibility to Baltimore, MD 21250. The Retriever Weekly is an equal opportunity provide efficient service to customers whom, as you note, often do not have much money, mandates that I offer those services employer. as inexpensively as possible. see LETTERS, page 11 THE RETRIEVER WEEKLY September 26, 2006 9 Opinion Thai coup a step in the right direction out. There haven’t been any counter-coups by democratization in the world if the high road is either the military or of Shinawatra in the lead-up GREG DEWEY Shinawatra’s supporters. The coup has essentially taken. Why would anyone want to be a democracy to the coup, I feel it is necessary to take a look at Retriever Weekly Staff Writer pitted the poor supporters of Shinawatra against after seeing the problems that affl ict our country? other countries and note their desire for freedom the educated elite and the middle classes who have Partisan politics, extreme poverty and extreme from corrupt governments and take from that I’m jealous of the Thais. They have the balls demonstrated for change in the way the country’s privilege are rampant. The Thai coup, in a nutshell, the ways in which it can be done if a populace is to roll their tanks into town and depose the Prime run. is the type of popular action that brought about willing. A government is only in power because of Minister. We just get to wait two more years Self-determination takes many forms and many countries including our own. To point to it the people and when the people feel that they are before we can get a new leader. It doesn’t matter in this case the Thai people have chosen their as a case of military subversion is narrow-minded not being treated fairly they can take the power that many Thais are happy with the situation. course. The military has promised to appoint a and incorrect. Furthermore, the goals to eliminate back. Now this is an ideal that few in power Thaksin Shinawatra was not a popular leader new Prime Minister within the next two weeks. corruption that was rampant under Shinawatra share as they become infl ated with their position. in Thailand but ironically, was democratically A coup that is designed to maximize the power of are admirable and long overdue. Shinawatra’s However, with people power, there is no limit elected. And that’s all that matters. Remember, the military would not involve a step such as this. family is under investigation for tax avoidance to what can be accomplished. While the people the policy and ideology of the U.S. government It seems strange that the Western countries will on a $1.9 billion sale of a company he founded. did not have the coup, they did not oppose the is to spread democracy and democracy is the best not accept this turn of events. If corruption such as this was this prevalent actions of their military in taking the government form of government, damn the consequences of a Of course those in power have a tendency to everywhere else in the world, the global economy and setting up a new government. And with the corrupt leader. try to keep fellow leaders in power. For instance, would be in shambles. Of course there have been king’s approval, most Thais will fall in line, and Now I’m not usually a proponent of tank the U.S. supported the Shah of Iran and we know the requisite bans on certain civil liberties such as Thailand will be done with the strife that has diplomacy. But this warrants it. The Thai Prime how that turned out for us. You would think that political gatherings with over fi ve people and the gripped the country during Shinawatra’s time in Minister has been unpopular for quite some time. our leaders would take a page from history and transmission of information that might be used power. The king of Thailand has expressed the need for let countries have the right to self-determination; in a counter-coup. But I do not doubt that these calm and endorsed the coup. Since most Thai of course we don’t really have that here. Need I will be lifted once a new government and Prime Greg Dewey is a Retriever Weekly Staff Writer citizens revere the king, there isn’t any real problem mention Florida? Minister have been put into place. and is sure the Thai coup somehow involves Reslife. with the method in which the coup was carried The U.S. can only hope to achieve While I’m not apologizing for the actions of He can be reached at [email protected].

Quotesfrom theQuad photos by Patricia Davila With UMBC turning 40, do you think it is over the hill?

Chris Seaborn Uwemedimo G. Eshietedoho Junior, Sociology Sophomore, Interdisc. Studies “No, this campus has a lot “No, we’re still a baby.” of potential and can really be one of the elite campuses in Maryland.” Territa Givens Senior, American Studies “No, because 40 is your prime, especially if you’re a woman... and UMBC is a woman.”

Eddie Shum Freshman, Undecided “No, 40 is still a really young age in terms of universities.”

Muhmad Faggi Sophomore, Computer Science “No, ‘cos it’s still not as well known as a lot of other schools.” 10 Opinion September 26, 2006 THE RETRIEVER WEEKLY Point Counterpoint Immigration reform Immigration reform misses inadequate the mark completely

citizenship will become productive, taxpaying So what, you ask, does this have to do RYAN WALDEN members of our society. IAN LOGSDON with the illegal immigration problem? Well, it Retriever Weekly Contributing Writer Guest worker programs are also a major Retriever Weekly Editorial Staff is undeniable that Mexican men and women part of the broad immigration reform that we can make more money in America than in After hundreds of hours of debate on need. According to a New York Times report Last week, the House of Representatives Mexico, so they come over, legally or illegally, the floors of Congress, thousands of hours of last Friday, fruit growers all around the country, passed a bill dealing with border enforcement in order to provide for their families. Pundits debate in the public sphere, and numerous from California to New York to Washington along the Mexican border, included in it was can argue about the policies all they want, the protests promoting both sides of the issue, it State, have lost tons of fruit because there funding for a 700 mile fence. The fence is, of fact remains that these people are watching finally appears that the Republican-controlled are too few pickers available to pick the fruit. course, not simply a wall, it involves some points their families starve to death, and when faced Congress might finally get something done We have would-be guest workers that need which have physical barriers, and others which with the choice, they will take drastic actions. regarding the immigration issue. The only work and we have companies needing labor. use surveillance and detection technology. Because of this situation, any immigration problem is it’s just a fence. While the Republicans With a guest worker program, it would be a The money is also intended to accommodate reform or enforcement that does not account in Washington will try to convince us that they win-win situation for both parties. Without a aerial drones that will patrol along the border. for the causes will fail. People who are desperate have made enough progress regarding this issue guest worker program, our economy suffers. This money is necessary, as border security is will always find a way to survive, and in a way to warrant them another two years in control Congress appears to have given up on the guest important to knowing who is coming into this this potential is lost when we erect barriers to of Congress, they fall far short of providing worker program. While a fence might help the country and why, but the bill itself isn’t going to stop the natural flow of workers. These people, this country with the reform needed to fix our physical security problems, it does not deal with help with the problems that already exist, and as they are risking life and limb to come here in immigration problems. the economic problems we have with so many likely it won’t address illegal immigration at all. order to work, are dedicated and industrious. While the Senate was able to pass a companies relying on immigrant labor. While an increase in security will naturally force Their skills would serve America well if we made reasonable and broad piece of immigration In a perfect world, there would have been the flow of immigration to decrease somewhat, the necessary changes to allow more of them reform, their bill did not punish illegal no illegal immigration in the first place. But it there is another more important question: to travel here. What I disagree with, however, immigrants enough to satisfy House does exist and needs to be dealt with in a fair could this money be better spent? There are is the temporary worker program. When you Republicans. With no compromise in sight, and reasonable manner. We cannot just turn useful provisions, including the one which will create a class of people who are not citizens Republicans in Congress are trying to salvage back the clock to a time before we had millions enforce laws requiring businesses to check for a and cannot become citizens, you tax them and something by passing small measures, instead of of illegal immigrants. Many of them have person’s legal status before hiring. However, the keep them in your country without the same the broad reforms needed. What we really need been able to stay in America for a long time money going to secure the border is basically rights, there is a ghettoization. This very policy is for the House to get its act together and start and have started families and their children worthless without further reform. Simply is what led to riots all across France last year. considering the fair and reasonable bi-partisan are U.S. citizens. Deportation of these families making it harder to get across will not stop What we need is a sensible change providing reforms passed by the Senate. People on the means that we either deport U.S. citizens or we illegal immigration, there are two factors that two avenues of reform, on one end a way to far-right are telling House Republicans to enact break up families. This is unacceptable -- strong drive the current problem. One is that there keep the Mexican economy self sufficient, if harsh punishments to illegal immigrants and families are at the core of the American spirit. is a need for workers to do jobs that are not necessary making amendments to NAFTA to anyone who helps them. However, common We should never forget that we are most filled. I don’t personally believe the President’s deal with the effects the agreement has had on sense tells these House members something certainly a country of immigrants. In the short assertion that those are jobs Americans “don’t Mexican agriculture. The other reform would else. run, immigrants can be a hassle -- they’re want to do,” but the fact remains that there is a be to allow more green cards for workers along Just like taking away the driver’s license unfamiliar with the country, the language, larger market for unskilled labor than there is a the Mexican border, coupled with an increase would be too harsh a punishment for getting a and the culture. In the long run, however, workforce for whatever reason. The other factor in security, basically making it easier to get in speeding ticket, deportation of all unauthorized immigrants are what make this country is that the Mexican economy is in dire shape for legally than illegally. These two approaches immigrants is too severe. While some call this great, both culturally and economically. In the average Mexican. Agriculture was a major are the only way to fix the problem and avoid approach “amnesty”, the Senate bill’s approach addition to ensuring that illegal immigration is source of income for the poorest Mexicans, humanitarian disaster in Mexico. The House allows citizenship only after back taxes and drastically reduced in the future, create policies but since the adoption of NAFTA, subsidized bill doesn’t address these issues and thusly will a fine are paid. While we call them “illegal that can give all current immigrants a chance of crops from America have wreaked havoc on the do nothing to solve the problem. immigrants”, most of them share plenty in prosperity in this country. Mexican farmer. This, coupled with a general common with the average American -- most depression of wages comming from having such Ian Logsdon is the President of the Campus are simply hardworking people trying to earn Ryan Walden is president of the UMBC a large unemployed or underemployed class Green Party and the Retriever Weekly Opinion a better life for themselves and their families. College Democrats. He can be reached for comment has led to a stagnant economy with little to no Editor. He can be reached for comment at If illegal immigrants cost us tax-payers money, at [email protected]. room for social mobility or even the ability to [email protected]. then illegal immigrants given a path to care for one’s family. Ban on bounty hunting compromises justice

and the United States government acted equally. Mexico has nothing to gain by bringing MATT MAINEN shamefully by arresting him. We have asked Mexico for far too long to Chapman to trial other than a short-lived political Retriever Weekly Contributing Writer One could make the argument that the cooperate more in curbing illegal immigration and victory. Moreover, it is questionable whether United States has an extradition treaty with the flow of drugs into the United States. At best, or not Mexico’s ban on bounty hunting is just. On September 14, celebrity bounty Mexico, and it would make the United States look Mexico has made small to moderate efforts. But We enter into extradition treaties under the hunter Duane “Dog” Chapman, along with unreliable were it not to live up to its obligations. when Mexico asks us to arrest a man who placed a impression that our partner will put just as much two associates, was arrested by the United This is certainly true; however, we need not serial rapist in jail, we get right to it. Something just effort into catching our criminals as we put into States Marshals Service at the request of the assume that breaking our obligations under the doesn’t seem right. Why should we so quickly act catching theirs. Chapman was just doing the job Mexican government. His crime? “Illegally” treaty is the only way to prevent Chapman from for Mexico on such a trivial issue when Mexico fails that the Mexican authorities failed to perform. Is detaining an individual and thus depriving being extradited. We can always try to “convince” to act on issues of the utmost importance? There Mexico concerned with ensuring that it is not a him of his human rights in Mexico. In 2003, Mexico to drop the charges. I am not suggesting are very rare times when the United States should haven for runaway American criminals or not? Chapman captured fugitive Max Factor and that we bully our neighbor to the south, but it exert its dominance as opposed to conforming to Yes, Chapman broke Mexican law, but it does heir Andrew Luster who was hiding in Mexico is clear that Mexico is the subordinate partner in expectation and agreement. This should only be not follow that he broke a good law, a law that to avoid prosecution for raping three women. the relationship. For example, we generously gave done though, if it is without serious detriment is for the benefit of society. The only people who Thanks to Chapman, Luster is now serving a Mexico hundreds of millions of dollars during to the best interest of the United Sates. We do benefit from Mexico’s ban on bounty hunting are de facto life sentence. It should also be noted their financial crisis to prevent its economy from not want our extradition treaty with Mexico to criminals avoiding prosecution. This is not an that while in Mexico, it appears that Luster collapsing. Of course, we had a vested interest in crumble. At the same time, however, we must ask issue of denying criminals their guaranteed civil was making plans to kill the women he raped stabilizing the Mexican economy, but this does not if it is just to allow an arguably morally innocent liberties or due process. This is an issue of Mexico for testifying against him. This of course detract from the point that Mexico is dependent man to suffer for a political stunt on the part of needlessly complicating justice, and the United means little to Mexico, who as we know, on us. Without the support of the United States, it the Mexican government. Luckily, our position States should not play along with Mexico’s little scrupulously abides by agreements with the seems likely that the Mexican government would allows us to influence Mexico in a way so as to game. United States. After all, Mexico has done have collapsed in one way or another. Without maintain the effectiveness of the extradition treaty so much to halt illegal immigration and the being a bully, we need to remind Mexico that it while preventing Chapman from being extradited. Matt Mainen is a Retriever Weekly illicit drug trade...not. Chapman’s potential is not an equal partner. This is simply a fact of Carrot, sticks, and a mixture of the two is the Contributing Writer. He can be reached for comment extradition to Mexico is a travesty of justice, international politics; all countries are not born proper diplomatic approach in this situation. at [email protected]. THE RETRIEVER WEEKLY September 26, 2006 Opinion 11 ResLife fails with roomate selection process blanket but hey what can you do? In return for longer assist you, they send you to the Committee shoving every article of dirty laundry into the JESSICA BLITZ meticulously answering these questions, I received Director. When the CD can do nothing about the corner and placing a blanket over the vile cocktail. Retriever Weekly Contributing Writer one roommate, who parties 24/7, smokes, but roommate issue, more and more talks occur until The same mess that is slowly developing into a don’t worry, she doesn’t smoke cigarettes, and you’re ready to pull your hair out and go postal sentient creature bent on masking the entire room I am here to voice the woes of some of whose idea of an early bedtime ranges from 2-3 on the local community. Remember dears, fingers in filth. Now after all this madness I just want some UMBC’s residents within a college dorm room, in the morning. Thanks ResLife, I am perfectly are never pointed, and that’s a big no-no in the relief, but I won’t be getting any until I can cough drawing from my own experience. I prefer quiet. satisfied that my requests were fulfilled to the best mediation department, though there is clearly a up enough cash to rent an apartment or purchase A nice little sanctuary from the “bustle” of the of your abilities. culprit at fault for your massacred sleeping schedule a gas-chugging vehicle of my own. college campus, and I filled out that lovely little Now I know I’m not the only one suffering and total lack of peace whilst in the dorm. Right now, there isn’t a way to get some personality profile at the beginning of the summer from the utter failure of matchmaking. I would One word is repeated mercilessly: forward action on roommate applications, but stay detailing my nocturnal habits and quirks. To love to tell you that there’s an easy button to press, COMPROMISE. I compromised when I the hand that holds the swatter. This pest problem what use? To match me up with some idealistic that in seconds you’ll receive the perfect roommate, moved in and shared a room for the first time. I can be aided by any others who have problems freshman like myself who would soon be sharing a and all your woes and noise pollution-induced compromised when I gave up the coherence that with the system and want to fix it. Speak out! tiny dorm avec moi. headaches -- from that roommate who has never accompanies a decent amount of sleep at night This is where the fairy tale ends. I clearly heard of volume control -- will disappear, but I’d because she has never heard of “turning in early.” Jessica Blitz is a Retriever Weekly Contributing stated that I disliked smoke, loud music, and be lying to you. If you have a problem they tell you I compromised when I discovered that I have to Writer. She can be reached for comment at nix the party-girl persona--yes I am a bit of a wet to go to a Resident Assistant. When the RA can no tolerate a person whose idea of tidying up involves [email protected].

Letters to the Editor, continued

from LETTERS, page 8.

As you note, good service also means convenience for the customer. Perhaps the effort of adding Respectfully submitted, value to the Card does represent an extra step that, realistically or philosophically, is inconvenient. My George M. Vitak, Director of Communication Services personal belief is that a customer should never intentionally be inconvenienced. Towards that end, any customer at The Comm_Store who does not have their Card with them or only has coins or has some To the editor: reason that they can not add value to their Card is accommodated if they note their need. While use I have mixed thoughts on the Campus Card as debit card issue with some of my concerns shadowing of the Card is preferred, the staff maintain a store “guest card” and will take the offered cash or coin, yours. Just one quick point you might want to follow-up on. I’m guessing (this is my first semester here completing the transaction using that guest card. No customer has ever been turned away because they after moving to MD) the post office in the UC isn’t actually a U.S. Post Office but is a contract vendor could not use their Card. We also maintain a Cash-2-Card machine, a terminal for myUMBC deposits of some sort that can set their own rules. and bill exchangers to facilitate use of the Card in the Store. We try to offer whatever is needed at the Print/copy cards at my last school got to be a pain too but they weren’t nearly the same type of card. lowest cost. In exchange we ask that the customer, as much as is possible, use the Card as the payment I’m sure I still have a couple of bucks left on my copy card from there as well as the public library copy method. card in South Carolina. Marriott (pre-Sodexho) when I was at Georgetown just out of high school had From a professional perspective, I believe there is value in keeping costs as low as possible and something called Munch Money that was kept up with by the magnetic stripe on your ID along with providing needed services that simply may not be reasonably sustainable if burdened with a high overhead your meal plan... it was good at the food court on campus much like the Campus Card here but they due to the handling of cash. From a personal perspective, I find benefit in the time saved in a long line had a side deal with a few other local places like Domino’s - in that respect it’s been around at least since situation by using the Card and the availability of on-campus spending information through myUMBC. the early 90s. I am a service provider, a customer, an alumnus and a long time member of the UMBC community. I I’m not exactly a typical student here since I’m over 30, married and I work, but anything that also value and realize the need for opinion and guidance from the customers we serve. Only by working challenges people on campus to actually think about things like your column did is a good thing - since together can true service be provided. Anyone, even TRW editorial staff, are welcome to visit me and most of the people just out of high school probably don’t think about things like that. learn more about the Campus Card and The Comm_Store to facilitate an understanding of how and why UMBC services operate the way they do. Dialogue is essential to community and to understanding Thanks again for the column, how we can best support those we are here to serve. Jeff Quinton, Junior, Computer Engineering

Rethinking the Pope’s words Editorial Cartoon Cartoon by: John Guiles

Seven of this series of dialogs, the Emperor CHAD ZIK engages the Persian scholar regarding so-called Retriever Weekly Contributing Writer “forced conversions.” Indeed, the rest of the quotation reads, “God is not pleased by blood JEFF HARTLINE - and not acting reasonably is contrary to Retriever Weekly Staff Writer God’s nature. Faith is born of the soul, not the body. Whoever would lead someone to faith While giving a speech at the University needs the ability to speak well and to reason of Regensberg on the relationship between properly, without violence and threats... faith and reason, the Pope asserted that To convince a reasonable soul, one does not violence is never an appropriate way to spread need a strong arm, or weapons of any kind, one’s religion since violence is in opposition or any other means of threatening a person to reason. However, let’s move onto the gist with death.” The Emperor seems to not be of the controversy. During his comments, condemning Islam, but the practice of forced Pope Benedict said the following, “Show me conversions which he believed was practiced just what Muhammad brought that was new by adherents of Islam. and there you will find things only evil and Benedict’s or Manuel’s remarks created a inhuman, such as his command to spread by furor in the Islamic world. Instead of disproving the sword the faith he preached.” Of course the point that Manuel made in the 14th this statement was controversial and was century, some extremists indirectly validated bound to stir up a fair amount of excitement, the Byzantine Emperor by their conduct after but it’s important to understand the context of the papal statements. In Palestine, churches the comment. This particular sentence came were bombed. A nun was shot in Somalia. from a three-paragraph portion of the speech Muslim protesters in London called for the which, according to various media outlets, execution of Benedict. The murderous thugs covered a broad number of religious practices who comprise the insurgent group in Iraq (including Islam, Protestant Christianity, known as the Mujahideen Shura Council atheism, etc.). wrote, “You and the West are doomed as you Indeed, the quotation which set the can see from the defeat in Iraq, Afghanistan, Islamic world ablaze was not even from the Chechnya, and elsewhere...We will break Pope himself. He was quoting a late Byzantine up the cross, spill the liquor and impose the emperor by the jaunty name of Manuel II jizya tax, then the only thing acceptable is a Palaiologos. The exact quote deals with a conversion (to Islam) or (being killed by) the series of dialogs between the Emperor and an sword...God enable us to slit their throats, unknown Persian Islamic scholar recorded in Twenty-Six Dialogs with a Persian. In Book see POPE, page 12. 12 Opinion September 26, 2006 THE RETRIEVER WEEKLY Campus ministry deserves more respect than students give drive the point home, the speaker paints simplistic decide to follow through with my attack; I’m going It’s hard to realize that the members of this MATTHEW MAINEN paintings having something to do with the topic of under the radar. I innocently inquire about what ministry are soft human beings deep down inside, Retriever Weekly Contributing Writer discussion. I myself admit that like many students, he is doing (as if I didn’t already know) and feign especially when they so brashly and arrogantly tell I have spent my fair share of time sarcastically interest. His eyes light up. I’ve got the sucker. He us that we are all going to hell. It’s easy to get pissed Last week, everyone’s favorite Jesus freaks prodding God’s humble servants on campus, but draws a cross and asks me if I know what that is. I off at them, but if we think about it, can we really returned to campus to spread the love of the eventually it just got old. Moreover my morality pause as if I am thinking. “Hmmm, I think that is blame them for how they carry themselves? They Gospels via stunning visual representations and got the best of me; arguing with these people is the symbol the Knights Templar wore when they are doing the best they can to make sense of a scary engaging conversation. If you don’t know what equivalent to bullying. killed all the Muslims. I could be wrong though.” and chaotic world. The only thing people like Jim I am talking about, then you are missing out. In My change of heart occurred last semester He stutters and timidly looks over my shoulder. have to make life worth living is their belief in the first few weeks of every semester, members of a with the introduction of a new character to the Victory. That sure was easy. I then look back and God. We should respect that even if Jim doesn’t campus ministry stand in the middle of Academic ministry: the middle aged, skinny, gray-haired realize why he is looking over my shoulder: he is respect our beliefs. After all, we have the luxury of Row asking students such questions as “have you man with the bushy mustache. I’m not sure what being watched, no critiqued, by a higher ranking changing our beliefs via logical inquiry. Jim cannot ever told a lie,” or “have you ever lustfully looked at his name is, so I am just going to call him Jim. member of the ministry. I look back into Jim’s eyes. say the same. a member of the opposite sex?” By answering “yes” My encounter with Jim is as follows: I am He looks lost and scared. I have a feeling that he to one of these questions, you are informed that one of the first people to arrive as Jim prepares is going to get yelled at for his poor performance. Matthew Mainen is a Retriever Weekly you are doomed to eternal damnation if you do for his presentation. His hands are shaking and he Feeling incredibly guilty, I tell him that I am just Contributing Writer. He can be reached for comment not repent and give your life to Jesus. In order to is breathing heavily; he’s nervous. Nonetheless, I joking, shake his hand, and walk away. at [email protected]. OneSource takeover a mishandled mistake two outstanding research professors away from about *Brian, who worked upstairs near the Heck, I’ve even written columns stating that MATT MORRISON become elite. The Athletic Department’s buses grill. He had just gotten married, and decided the Maryland School System is epitome of the Retriever Weekly Contributing Writer could really use an upgrade. Those bands and to forego his honeymoon in order to help with word ‘insanity’ when they raise tuition every comedians that perform during Homecoming the transition between Abacus and OneSource. year. But that I wrote that because I observed When I was in the Navy, I received and QuadMania do not come cheaply. He was going to take his wife to the Dominican a decades-long breakdown of communication an amazing bit of advice from a Marine In the end, the University was in a no- Republic in November after the semester began between the state and the school system. Every named Gunnery Sergeant Kobb. He told me, win situation. If you raise tuition, students and to settle down. I never see him anymore; he was time the state and university budgets did not “when you reach a new duty station, be sure parents will complain that you do not care about a victim of the massive janitorial payroll cut. He match-up, they raised tuition. But this is to befriend all of the janitors. They are the their financial burden. If you slash payroll, you told me that everything would be fine, and that different; I would be the first person in line to backbone of everything we do, and they are are labeled as a “heartless corporation” who he had another job lined up. But I was upset pay that extra $108.34 to keep the janitorial amazing people.” During the summer, I had does not care about the little people. They that this man had sacrificed his honeymoon so staff intact. In this instance, I would have been the opportunity to get to know the members had to make a difficult decision. If I were in that he could help the university, and we did willing to eat last. of the Commons janitorial staff. Every day, I their position, and somebody told me that they nothing for him. When I was in the Navy, I I hope that OneSource learns that lesson got to shake hands with *Jason, *Bryan, *Paul, could provide janitorial services for a $1 million learned a saying which truly exemplifies how as well. They are eating first, and hardly leaving and *Mrs. Sarah, and learn about their lives. discount, I would be very tempted. to be an excellent leader: “Officers eat last.” food for anyone else. And Gunny Kobb was right; I got to meet Unfortunately, I can not say the same for You have to place the needs of the men and some amazing individuals. On August 1, OneSource. They demonstrated a complete lack women who work for you before your very Matt Morrison is a Retriever Weekly UMBC contracted their janitorial services to of commitment to the current employees. First, own. I am student who pays his own tuition, Contributing Writer and can be reached for OneSource, which supplied a bid which was by laying off a majority of the work force, they and has struggled to make ends meet at times. comment at [email protected]. over $1 million less than the current contract have taken a “profit-over-people” approach. holder, Abacus. OneSource promptly laid off They have also failed, by all accounts, to create many workers, including most of the janitors viable lines of communication to ask for help YOU’RE INVITED TO A I had befriended over the summer. And the or file grievances. When I managed a CVS in manner in which OneSource has treated the Wheaton, I learned that, in order to improve janitors is, in no uncertain terms, abhorrent. morale and prevent turnover, that you must Don’t get me wrong; I do not believe explain to each employee what is expected SPECIAL that UMBC signed this contract so that they of them. They need to know how they will could conveniently slash payroll. UMBC could be compensated (pay, benefits, vacation, sick RACTICE EST VENT use the $1 million saved by switching from days), and you must let each other know how P T E Abacus to OneSource in a plethora of ways. you are doing in meeting those goals. The If you prorate that money over the 9,230 only way to accomplish this is by establishing undergraduate and graduate students that effective two-way communication. Employees GRE LSAT MCAT DAT PCAT attend this institution, the tuitional burden for should never feel intimidated or that they may each student could be softened by $108.34. not bring a complaint, as the janitors at UMBC One million dollars could go a long way in clearly have expressed. helping a struggling department that is one or While I wrote this article, I kept thinking Take a FREE practice test at UMBC this October! Pope doesn’t have anything Saturday, October 7th to apologize for UMBC Amidst the hate and growing distrust from POPE, page 11 between Muslims and Christians, we should Sponsored by UMBC Golden Key and make their money and descendants the ask, what is the solution to the problem? bounty of the Mujahideen.” Similarly, some of Further bloodshed and hatred that has • Experience exam conditions the highest religious leaders in Turkey called characterized the relationship between these for the Pope’s arrest when he visits the country two religions for centuries is clearly not the • Receive detailed analysis in late 2006. answer. Perhaps the best way can be found in • Learn exclusive strategies However, one should not take the the words of Jesus in the book of Matthew extremist position on this issue and attempt to when he says, “Love your enemies, bless those paint all Muslims with a broad stroke. The vast who curse you, do good to those you hate you, majority of Muslims may have been upset by and pray for those who despitefully use you, the remarks, but in no way did they seek violent and persecute you.” This was best exemplified retaliation. Regardless, moderate Muslims by the nun who was shot in Somalia. According ENROLL TODAY face the probability of being associated with to witnesses, her last words to her assailants extremist Muslims if they do not condemn were, “I forgive, I forgive.” the outbursts of rage which have emanated Limited seats are available. from extremists in their community. While Jeff Hartline is not a bleeding heart, Call 1-800-KAP-TEST or the Pope’s remarks may have come across as unlike his co-author. He can be reached at insensitive to many Muslims, moderates bear a [email protected]. Chad Zik is a bleeding visit kaptest.com/practice. responsibility to show stronger disapproval for heart. 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Damon and Dicaprio Interviewed Relax with Good Study Music16 . Arts& Gridiron Gang Disappoints16 Entertainment 19 Raymond Loewy’s art exhibition displays one man’s genius...and cups and saucers and cars IVA PATEL Retriever Weekly Staff Writer the broiler-rotisserie that sits in most classic you want lounging outside homes. “That Coca-Cola glass!” your door. Besides cars and rockets, he We are such slaves of exclaimed senior Mark Hummon, also designed ships for Virginia Ferry consumerism—not just you and pointing toward the wide-mouthed and for the Panama line—“the world I, all of us, humans—that we have stubby glass with “Coca-Cola” etched of tomorrow” ships that, as their flyer developed an urge. “The constant in white and a gigantic 1947 Coca- boasts, are “snug, yet sprightly; very American urge to replace,” says John Cola dispenser. “I’ve seen it all my modern, yet very cozy...with a well- Kobler in May 2, 1949 issue of Life, life! I just didn’t know who designed stocked cellar.” Models of trains are “the psychological compulsion to keep it.” also displayed. up with the other fellow.” Raymond The items displayed here relate This is a very laid-back Loewy: Designs for a Consumer to us all in some way or another. exhibition. You could walk in wearing Culture, an exhibition at the Center The streamlined pencil sharpener is sweatpants and still not feel like you for Arts and Visual Culture (CAVC) very much like the manual handle are offending the mighty artist. In centers around a man who made rotating sharpeners we used in middle fact, if Loewy were to see a few of us this human “compulsion” his work’s schools, and the Frigidaire appliances enter a gallery-like setting in sweats, objective. are definitely predecessors to our he would pull out his sketchpad, or “Aloof, soft-voiced, exquisitely Kenmores. “The neatest part is the borrow your pen and start sketching tailored and barbered man of French logos,” said senior Brittany McGuire. on the walls, the “New Cozy Look birth,” Kobler writes in the same issue Logos of Air Force One, a Greyhound for the Chilly Winter.” He’d picture of Life, Loewy “translates passion scenic cruiser, Pennsylvania railroad fashion divas catwalking in bleached for agreeable shapes into anything menus, a John F. Kennedy memorial or patched or beaded sweatpants, and from trucks to toothbrushes. Result: stamp, NASA’s Skylab, Esso (now envision our consumption-oriented beauty and big sales.” Exxon), BP, Colibriata toilet soap, populace rushing out to buy them. Designs for a Consumer Culture Lucky “It’s toasted” Cigarettes, Royal “I like this better than other displays these results: Designs of Pudding, and Aunt Jemima products exhibitions we’ve had,” says McGuire. things that surround people. It line the walls of the exhibition. Believe her words and take a detour showcases lithographs, pictures, And the cars: The ’50 by the Fine Arts building. Worst that sketches, note cards, models, or final Studebaker Command “Starliner” could happen is for Loewy’s portrait products of things ranging from and ’51 Champion “Bullet-nose”, the to scoff at you, as if saying: “Ha! automobiles, electric razors, and ’65 Fastback, Hawk sports cars, and Here walks in another consumeristic wristwatches to china, lipsticks, and the ’26 Speed-Stamina-Smartness mortal!” women’s clothing. Renault. Man, oh man! The beauties Raymond Loewy: Designs for The appealing factor is that sketched on paper and made into a Consumer Culture will continue everyday appliances are arranged clay models still do not do justice through November 25 at the Center in a chic red and black gallery-style to the real product. If you passed by for Arts and Visual Culture located setting with the face of their designer the CAVC last Thursday evening, in the Fine Arts building. looking in from the center of the [Courtesy of Raymond Loewy] you must have seen the infamous Iva Patel is a Staff Writer for The room. There is the egg-beater that Consumer Art: (top) 1951 “bullet-nose” studebaker champion model (bottom) Studebaker Avanti parked in all its Retriever Weekly. She can be reached you still see at Wal-mart or Sears and 1954 Broil-Quik Super Chef brioler-rotisserie. green glory. Now that is the kind of for comment at [email protected]. Pimlico’s Virgin Fest breaks ground in Baltimore

same year. Baltimore and Toronto the festival. Surprisingly, over 5,000 Yeah. The indoor stage (“The Dark minute version of “Pinball Wizard,” BRAD SCHLEICHER were the lucky recipients. Concert of the attendees were same-day Horse Dance Tent”) featured well- chock full of guitar solos. Now if Retriever Weekly Contributing Writer goers deemed the Toronto V Festival, ticket buyers. The crowd was filled established DJs such as RJD2, John they keep from killing each other, which took place on September 9th with high school- and college-aged Digweed, and Carl Cox, who spun Daltry, Townshend, and their band When one thinks of a music and 10th, a general success despite kids with the occasional middle- live versions of their techno and mates should have a successful tour festival, the last thing that comes bitter cold temperatures. Baltimore’s aged couple peppered into the trance albums. this fall. to mind is Pimlico racetrack, home V Festival ran phenomenally. Maybe crowd. Everyone seemed to get According to most concertgoers The Red Hot Chili Peppers of the Preakness, one of Maryland’s the warm weather had something along together with the exception and musical artists alike, The Who closed out the Festival. Throwing a most beloved events. Surprisingly, to do with it. Or maybe it was the of disagreements and a few choice were by far the most celebrated band wrench into the traditional live show, Pimlico was in fact the site picked rather tame crowds. words concerning beer spilled down at the Virgin Festival. Even at ages the Chilis tied together songs with to host the first year of The Virgin For a freshman music festival, a person’s back. sixty and sixty-one respectively, Pete improvised jam sessions, sometimes Music Festival on Saturday, Sept. one would expect a much different Baltimore’s V Festival featured Townshend and Roger Daltry put lasting up to ten minutes. Regardless 23, 2006. picture than what was featured last over twenty different musical on one spectacular live show. One of their age, the Chilis have yet to Don’t be confused, this isn’t Saturday. Apart from the occasional acts on three stages. Each stage would think that without the likes pass their prime instrumentally. the first year Virgin Mobile has crowd surfing, the mood of the represented a different realm of of John Entwistle on bass or Keith Guitarist John Frusciante and sponsored an event of this size. The Festival was very lax, low-key, and music. The main stage (“The Moon on drums, The Who could bassist “Flea” took part in many Virgin Festival first began in England comfortable for most of the day. Grandstand Stage”) featured a great never be as good as they once were. creative solos and duets, backed up in 1996. England’s “V” Festival was People lounged on the grass, paying collection mainstream artists such On the contrary, the rhythm section by ever-solid drummer Chad Smith. the first music festival of its kind to little attention to any of the bands as The Who, The Red Hot Chili of today is surprisingly solid. Using Anthony Keidis, the Chilis’ lead sponsor two concerts simultaneously, playing in the early afternoon. Peppers, The Killers, and Gnarls his trademark swinging arm to strum singer, seemed to struggle with a few each in different cities. On the tenth No mosh pits erupted and no one Barkley. A slightly smaller stage his epic guitar riffs, Townshend of the songs. His voice was muffled anniversary, Virgin Mobile was rushed the stage in anticipation (“The Clubhouse Stage”) featured along with Daltry and their talented and at times inaudible. Perhaps it was ambitious enough to bring The V for Brandon Flowers (the Killers’ more independent and unpublicized replacement bandmates performed see VIRGIN FEST, page 18. Festival across the pond to not one, eyeliner-sporting lead singer). artists like The Flaming Lips, Scissor hits such as “Teenage Wasteland,” but two different cities within the Over 40,000 people attended Sisters, and Clap Your Hands Say “Who are You,” and a twenty- THE RETRIEVER WEEKLY September 26, 2006 15 Arts & Entertainment Gym Class Heroes and Olympus Fashion Week Cobra Starship rock Sonar presents new trends

by the second chorus of every song. not recommend wearing them with denim GABY AREVALO But the real standouts of this show were easily MALISSA CARROLL skirts as this look was worn out over this past Retriever Weekly Staff Writer the Gym Class Heroes. Their highly original blend Retriever Weekly Contributing Writer summer. In addition, be on the lookout for of hip-hop, rap, and rock results in an ingenious the stylish comeback of both the wide leg jean On Wednesday night, Gym Class Heroes, new genre of music that the Gym Class Heroes are Ever since I can remember, fall has always and skinny jean, though the latter should be with the help of Cobra Starship, brought the house currently dominating. Their set started out with been my favorite season of the year. Watching attempted only by the bravest fashionistas down in front of a sold-out crowd at Sonar. With front man Travis McCoy telling the audience that the leaves change color on the trees that among us, as it seems only celebrities and Gym Class Heroes’ innovative musical style and he “knows [the audience] hear a lot of garbage-ass line the street in front of my house, walking models have been able to pull it off in the Cobra Starship’s infectious energy, the show was a music being made today” stating that he was glad through the park while the autumn breeze past. non-stop thrill ride. the audience came out for a Gym Class Heroes playfully tosses my hair about are just a few Two more classic trends that also found Cobra Starship, the band behind the theme show, then kicking it off with the band’s current things that come to mind as thoughts of the their way back onto New York runways were song for Snakes on a Plane, were seamless in what single, “The Queen and I.” Highly energetic season now fill my head. However, although animal prints and plaid. Those looking to pick was only their eighth live performance. Though throughout the show, the Gym Class Heroes cozy as these thoughts may be, I firmly believe up the animal print trend must be careful to the band is a newcomer to the music scene, its masterfully intermixed songs from their new CD, the best thing about this wonderful season not overdo it -- leopard print jump suit, think members are not. Fronted by Gabe Saporta, the As Cruel As School Children and their most well is undeniably the unveiling of new fashion again, and try pairing animal print shoes with former singer of Midtown, the band consists of known album, The Papercut Chronicles. One of trends at New York City’s Olympus Fashion an awesome pair of jeans for a trendy twist. Alex Suarez and Ryland Blackinton from The the most known songs in the GCH repertoire is Week. Likewise, people inspired by plaid should try Ivy League, Armor For Sleep’s drum tech Nate “Taxidriver,” in which the lyrics are composed of After the end of this enormous event on to use this trend for accessorizing purposes Navarro, and Elisa Schwartz on keytar. Throughout the names of emo bands, so it seemed only fitting September 15, 2006, reviews of the upcoming only; wear a Burberry scarf to compliment their set, Cobra Starship were vibrant with synth that leading into that song, Gym Class Heroes season’s trends started being released showing your outfit on these chilly autumn mornings. beats and the charming vocals of Saporta (who has played the intro of “Dance Dance” by Fall Out a revival of much more elegant 1920s-inspired Now onto my personal favorite topic of pledged to be my best friend forever due to our Boy. Another amazing performance for the Gym fashions as opposed to the hippie bohemian fashion...SHOES! This season chunky shoes, almost identical first names, but I digress). Cobra Class Heroes was definitely the encore of their set, styles that have overpowered the runways of both open and closed toe, are in. The best Starship’s catchy guitar hooks are impossible to when Travis literally walked into the middle of the past seasons. The most notable trend this way to pull off this trend is to wear a cute resist, to the point that during their set, every audience, and performed a cover of The Red Hot season is the return of leggings. Cute and pair of wedges with a wide leg jean. Likewise, single person in the venue was dancing, or at the Chili Peppers’ “Under The Bridge.” Although it flirty pieces of fashion, leggings can add a while we’re on the topic of shoes, Ugg boots very least, fighting the urge to. With easy to learn fresh look to an old mini dress, but Crystal see CONCERT, page 17. see FASHION, page 18. lyrics, Cobra Starship had the crowd singing along Coons of Teen Fashion at About.com does Birds in Fall offers more than just a clever title

RYAN DORRILL to the location of the crash. On the island, Retriever Weekly Staff Writer she settles into a small inn with the families of the other victims and broods over the final Every summer I search for some good moments of her husband’s life. The story is books to read, accepting recommendations sad but engaging; Kessler cleverly weaves in from friends, family, and professors. Mostly, anecdotes from Ana’s work as an ornithologist I read pulp fiction or gritty sci-fi novels, while she and the other family members but every once in a while I try to slip in wander the chilly Canadian beaches in search something classy: the kind of book you can of answers. discuss over a glass of wine. This summer, The supporting characters are also a at the recommendation of my old creative credit to the book’s subtly brilliant craft. writing professor, I picked up Birds in Fall, The first ones we’re introduced to are the a new novel by Brad Kessler. I was excited, innkeepers Kevin and Douglas, whose because usually my idea of “contemporary” relationship is frayed in the aftermath of the literary fiction involves Hemingway or Joseph crash. Later, Kessler introduces the victims’ Heller. However, once the book arrived via families: Pars Mansoor, a gentle Iranian man UPS and I actually read the jacket, I was a who acts as Ana’s confidant throughout the little dismayed. A plane crash and an inn full novel, the Laings, a Taiwanese couple who lost of grieving family members wasn’t my idea of their daughter, and the deJongs, two Dutch casual summer reading. teenagers who lost their parents. Disparate, The first chapter was unsettling, but forlorn, and distant, the characters transcend gripping. In just eight pages, narrator and obvious stereotypes and surprise with their ornithologist Russell Gathreaux describes his uniqueness. final moments aboard the crashing jetliner. From a withering garden, to windy Right away, I could tell Birds in Fall wasn’t beaches, and candle-lit libraries, the settings an ordinary novel. The crash felt real, but are almost as diverse as the characters, though not melodramatic. Rather than focusing on most of the book takes place on Trachis Island. screaming babies and nuns praying final “Our Nothing about the locales is fantastic, but the Fathers,” Kessler describes Russell’s nervous terse descriptions make them come alive with small talk with the cellist sitting next to him. sight, scent, and feeling. As the lights flicker out and the plane hurtles Birds in Fall is a credit to Brad Kessler’s for the ocean, Russell and his companion growing reputation. The author was listen to one last, soothing note from the cello. recently rewarded a grant from the National The rest is darkness. Endowment for the Arts and is also an award- The next chapter is the true beginning winning children’s book author. He had one of the rest of the novel, a modern retelling of other novel published, Lick Creek, which I the Greek myth of Ceyx and Alcyone. In the have yet to read, and is apparently working on myth, Ceyx and Alcyone are happily married a third. If you’re interested in something fresh until Ceyx dies in a shipwreck. Afterwards, and thought-provoking, consider curling up Alcyone is so torn with grief that she throws with Birds in Fall. It’s available in the library, herself into the sea. However, the gods take bookstore, or for cheap on Amazon.com if you pity on the lost lovers and change them into don’t mind buying it used. Halcyon birds. In Birds in Fall, Russell’s wife Ana is Ryan Dorrill is a Staff Writer for The the modern day Alcyone. Struggling to cope Retriever Weekly. He can be reached for [Courtesy of Simon & Schuster Trade] with the death of her husband, Ana travels to An Engaging Read: Birds in Fall is a good diversion while you wait for the next Harry Potter book. comment at [email protected]. Trachis Island in Nova Scotia, the closest spot 16 September 26, 2006 THE RETRIEVER WEEKLY Arts & Entertainment The Retriever dials in to chat with Damon and DiCaprio

KATE NUNLEY Retriever Weekly Editorial Staff

This weekend, Martin Scorcese’s new crime drama The Departed will debut in theatres around the country. The film, set in Boston, focuses on two men from opposite sides of the law going undercover. The Departed’s all- star cast includes Jack Nicholson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon and Mark Wahlberg. The movie was originally a huge hit in Hong Kong titled Internal Affairs. The Retriever Weekly was given the opportunity to participate in a teleconference with Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio. The plot, in a nutshell, is based around secret identities. Young cop Billy Costigan (DiCaprio) has gone undercover inside the Irish mob run by Frank Costello (Nicholson). Meanwhile, Colin Sullivan (Damon) is a criminal working as a mole inside the police department. Both men become engrossed by their respective double lives as they gather information. However, it soon becomes obvious to both the police department and the mob that they each have a spy working from within their organization. Costigan and Sullivan are thrown into a race to discover the identity of their counterpart in order to avoid self-destruction. The Warner Brothers teleconference began on a Friday around noon and an admittedly [Courtesy of Warner Brothers] nervous Retriever Weekly staff member dialed Face Off: Colin Sullivan (Damon) and Billy Costigan (Dicaprio) race to discover one anothers’ identities. in. I was told that only five representatives from different college newspapers would be over just about anything and generally, that’s Monahan’s script and from Marty.” there, and spent all his time with him and then participating, but it turned out to be far more, the marketing machines behind all the movies Damon and DiCaprio also expanded on took the accent home with him. So that he probably at least a dozen. If a student wanted just all talking to each other. It’s definitely, I the experience of preparing for such demanding didn’t stop, if you went out to dinner with him, to ask a question, they would press a particular can say, speaking for myself and at the risk of and specific roles. Damon did research with the he was still talking in the accent. And that’s one combination of buttons and be put in the queue speaking for Leo, not something that we set state police, riding along with them during of the reasons it works in the movie and he’s to speak directly with Damon and DiCaprio. out to do, ever. If you’re going for this kind their rounds. “You remember that movie The totally believable is because he didn’t try to do Scorcese and DiCaprio have worked of result-oriented approach, you’re in deep Hard Way, with Michael J. Fox? I was kind of what usually you end up sometimes having to together previously on Gangs of New York and crap. We just try to make the right choices... like Michael J. Fox, like ‘Hey guys, can I get a do, which is get a dialect coach.” The Aviator. A reporter asked if Scorcese was So trying to make decisions that keep you with gun?’ And they were like, ‘Shut-up, no.’ That Damon and DiCaprio provided a unique still able to challenge DiCaprio as an actor. great directors and in roles that are interesting was kind of what I did. So I got to go on a drug inside look at Scorcese’s newest work. The DiCaprio responded with admiration: “There’s and scripts and stories that are good, that in raid of a crack house and listen on a wire and Departed will be in theatres Friday, October such a respect level for him, the films that he’s itself is enough of a challenge. The rest of it is put on a bulletproof vest and they didn’t give me 6. With Scorcese leading such a talented cast, done in the past, and his knowledge of cinema pretty much b.s.” a gun, luckily for all of us. And it was just more hopefully The Departed will live up to everyone’s and almost everyone that works with him really Both DiCaprio and Damon have watched about understanding that culture and those expectations. looks at him as a mentor, I believe.” Scorcese the Hong Kong hit which The Departed is guys, so that I could kind of render a faithful and DiCaprio are rumored to be developing a based on. Although the story is borrowed, and believable portrait of one of them.” Kate Nunley is the Arts & Entertainment fourth film about Theodore Roosevelt. Damon stressed that, “the background and the Meanwhile, DiCaprio had to fully master Editor for The Retriever Weekly. She can be Another reporter questioned the actors cultural aspects of Boston and the relationships the Boston accent. Damon talked about how reached for comment at [email protected]. about the Oscar buzz surrounding The Departed and the Irish mob and even Nicholson being an DiCaprio achieved this through immersion, edu. to which Damon replied, “There’s Oscar buzz FBI informant, all of that stuff came from Bill “[Leo] found this guy that really was from Hit the books with some great study music

KATRINA COHEN in 2006 on Filter US Recordings. Their song than Without Gravity’s Tenderfoot, released by Lights’s self-titled debut, released in 2006 on Bar Retriever Weekly Contributing Writer “Just One Breath” was featured on season One Little Indian in 2005. The Icelandic band None Records, rounds out this trio of musical two of “Grey’s Anatomy,” so you may have is the collaboration of male leader singer Kalli study-buddies. Singer Darren Jessee, former If you’re anything like me, finding great inadvertently heard them in the background (if and bandmates Konni, Grismi and Helgi to Ben Folds Five drummer, leads the quartet. As study music isn’t easy. But when you’re tired, you weren’t too distracted by Dr. McDreamy, create pretty and poignant with skillful acoustic the introductory selection, “You Come and I the whir of the air vents and soft tapping of that is). Devics is a duo; vocalist Sara Lov and guitar and downplayed drum-and-cymbal Go” sets up, the songs wind down a beneath of others’ fingers on keyboards are just enough instrumentalist-singer Duston O’Halloran flourishes. Several songs tell stories, like the beginnings and endings. Whether embracing to lull you off to dreamland. So, you need integrate piano, strings and percussion in their opener “Beautiful Son’ which asks, “where did the serenity of morning in “AM Slow Golden something to subtly jolt your brain back in ambling, whimsical melodies. Lov’s voice is you go / what have you done / my beautiful Hit” or the decision to move on in “Follow to some semblance of consciousness, but this sweet and at turns haunting, and O’Halloran’s son?” giving the album a sometimes-folksy Through,” the album is sure to evoke memories elusive musical selection can’t be too peppy or is a pleasant complement. Each song blends feel. The feel-good summertime sentiments of all the places you’ve been to and left, only to powerful so as to become distracting. (If you’re easily into the next, but stand-outs include the of “Country,” the romantic question of -- maybe -- return again. anything like me, you spend a bit too much accordion and type-writer beats of “A Secret “Blue Bird,” and the ode to getting away So next time you’re bogged down with time focusing on these concerns). Message to You,” the dedication to a peaceful from it all “Moving On Backwards” -- which reading, grab a mug of your favorite coffee or The albums I’ve found to help keep me dreamer in “A Song for a Sleeping Girl,” the implores, “sail away / while you still can” -- tea, crank up the iPod (but not too loud), and alert without leading me astray are mellow emotional plea for happiness of “If We Cannot are sure to please. Kalli’s smooth voice, often let Devics, Without Gravity, and Hotel Lights and soothing on their own; they also happen See,” and the unrequited love of “Moments,” stretched with emotion, is easy on the ears and guide you to studying bliss...or about as close to come courtesy of little-known artists who whose piano conveys the staccato beats of many enchanting; on “Teardrops” he reaches a Bono- as you can get. would be thrilled to know their names were lost chances. Not only will you study well, esque plane but with all the subtlety Without even being typed in to an iTunes Music Store you’ll find yourself humming the chorus lines Gravity embodies. “Tenderfoot” easily becomes Katrina Cohen is a Contributing Writer for search, let alone that their albums were being the next day. not only an inspiration to hit the books, but a The Retriever Weekly. She can be reached for thoughtfully purchased (hint, hint). If your brain is searching for something favorite chill-out album. comment at [email protected]. First up is Devics’s Push the Heart, released with a few more classic roots, search no further Atmospheric and thoughtful, Hotel THE RETRIEVER WEEKLY September 26, 2006 17 Arts & Entertainment Events Happening Throughout the Greater Baltimore-Washington Area Incidentally... Events Happening On and Around the UMBC Campus Beginning [September 26] aroundtown Microsoft Information Session as part of the ongoing, award-winning Beginning [September 26] Open to all interested students. SEB Cinema Series. The showing will be Microsoft will be on campus on Thursday followed by a discussion to allow students For those about to rock... we salute 9/28 from 12-1 in ITE 456 to share to share their thoughts about the film and you Baltimore Book Festival details about their organizations and their the issues that surround it. The film will be On Wednesday, September 27th, Sonar The 11th annual Baltimore Book positions. They will follow up by being on shown in the Commons Skylight Room on in Baltimore will present UNEARTH with Festival features over 200 authors, cooking campus to conduct interviews for full-time September 26th from 8-11 pm. Bleeding Through, Terror, Through the Eyes demonstrations, children’s writers, live music, positions on 10/19 & 10/20 and also on of the Dead, and Animosity. These are some food and over 75 exhibits and vendors. 11/13 & 11/14. Information sessions are Reflections from the Heart: of the finest metal and hardcore acts out there Includes Hill Harper from the CBS series “CSI: a great opportunity to meet face-to-face Photographs by David Seymour today, so don’t miss it! This is an all-ages show; NY,” actress and civil rights activist Ruby Dee, with recruiters, to network, and to gather From September 11th to December tickets are $20, and doors open at 6 pm. To Kevin Clash (the voice behind the “Sesame information on potential employers. 10th, the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery purchase tickets or for more information, visit Street” character Elmo), international best- Apply for on-campus interviews via will present Reflections from the Heart: Sonar’s website at www.sonarbaltimore.com. seller Sebastian Junger and Black Playwright UMBCworks. This event is sponsored by Photographs by David Seymour. The of the Year winner J. California Cooper. The Career Services Center (MP204, x52216, project will celebrate the innovative life Now you can play D&D outside Walters Art Museum will host many of the [email protected]). work of photojournalist David Seymour The Maryland Renaissance Festival talks and readings advertised. The music stage and emphasize the symbolism and artistic will be held every weekend from now until will feature regional bands ranging from Afro- SEB presents a big crazy Saturday roots of his photographs. The gallery will October 22nd. You can find a 16th-century funk to blues to indie rock. The festival is held Spotlight be open Monday through Friday, noon to English village minutes away from Annapolis. in Mount Vernon Square from on September Don’t have any plans this Saturday? 4:30 pm and Saturday and Sunday from It is 1539 and Henry VIII is searching for a 29, 30 and October 1, 2006, Friday 5-9 p.m., SEB has you covered! On September 1 to 5 pm. On Wednesday, September foreign bride. The king and his court make Saturday & Sunday 11 a.m.-7 p.m. This event 30th, from 8 pm-1 am, chill and relax in 27th at 4 pm the AOK Library will host daily appearances while visitors enjoy great is FREE. Visit www.baltimorebookfestival.com the Commons with a variety of activities. three 30-minute presentations on the work food, music, shops, performers, and artisans. for more information. The game room will have free pool, and of David Seymour followed by a public Grab a mug of ale and a huge turkey leg for Flat Tuesdays will feature a live band. At reception. Admission is free. For more lunch and then watch the combat joust. The Learn about Baltimore AND get some 10 pm, Ty Barnett from “Last Comic information call 410-455-2270. faire is in operation from 10 am until 7 pm. exercise! Standing” will perform a stand-up routine The weekend of September 23rd and 24th is Heritage Walk is a 3.2 mile walking trail in the Sports Zone. At midnight, SEB will SEB showings of Pirates of the Pirate themed. Dress up, you could win a prize! that begins at the Inner Harbor Visitors Center even serve you breakfast. The best part? It’s Caribbean II! On the final weekend, October 21st and 22nd, and leads visitors through some of Baltimore’s all free! For more information, visit SEB’s Bring some friends and popcorn for a final jousting competition will determine who great neighborhoods including Little Italy, website at http://www.umbc.edu/seb. the weekly movie brought to you by the is the bravest knight in the kingdom. For more Historic Jonestown and City Center. Guided Student Events Board. This week’s movie information check out www.rennfest.com. tours will be offered from the Inner Harbor Raymond Loewy: Designs for a is Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Visitors center to help tourists and residents Consumer Culture Chest! Showing on Thursday at 7:30 pm Free Art Museum Admission! explore four hundred years of Baltimore The Center for Art and Visual Culture and 10 pm and Friday at 8 pm in Lecture Beginning on October 1st, the Walters History. A map and guide will be available presents a new exhibit featuring the work Hall 1 for $2. Also showing on Saturday in Art Museum and the Baltimore Museum of Art for those who prefer to take the walk on their of Raymond Loewy, possibly the most Erickson Field for free starting at dusk. The will stop charging admission and become free own. Guided tours will be offered at 10 a.m. prominent industrial designer of the 20th field is located between The Commons and to the public for the first time in nearly a quarter and 12 p.m. on weekends and will be offered century. His concepts have ranged from Erickson Hall. In the case of bad weather, century. The Walters Art Museum hours will daily at 10 a.m. and 12 p.m. beginning April lipsticks to automotives. The exhibition the movie will be shown in Lecture Hall 1 be 11 am – 5 pm Wednesday-Sunday and 11 24, 2006. Tours begin at the Inner Harbor includes an array of original drawings, starting at 8 pm. You must pay for movies am - 8 pm on Friday. You can find the Walters Visitors Center and will be offered on a daily models, products, advertisements, with campus card. No cash! in Baltimore’s historic Mount Vernon Cultural basis through November 5, 2006. For more photographs, and rare film footage of District at North Charles and Centre Streets. information, please visit www.baltimore.org. the designer at work. Admission to the Library Media The Walters showcases a history of art ranging exhibition and reception are FREE. The Did you know that UMBC Library from the third millennium B.C. to the early Volunteer Opportunities at the Center for Arts and Visual Culture is open Media has thousands of CDs, DVDs, 20th century. Its Egyptian, Greek and Roman, Humane Society Tuesday through Saturday from 10 am and videos for UMBC students to borrow Byzantine, Ethiopian, and western medieval art Do you like animals? Need something to 5 pm and is located in the Fine Arts for free? The collection has been growing collections are among the best in the country. for your resume? The Humane Society of building. For more information call 410- considerably over the past few years. The The BMA will be open Wednesday-Friday Baltimore County needs volunteers to help 455-3188. department, along with SGA and GSA, 11 am – 5 pm; Saturday and Sunday, 11 am with walking dogs, grooming cats, feeding has bought thousands of dollars worth of - 6 pm and during the first Thursday of every animals, and assisting with fund raising and SEB Cinema Series: Good Night, and feature films and contemporary music. month, 11 am – 9 pm. Founded in 1914, the special events. Volunteers must be at least 18 Good Luck. BMA is known for 19th-century, modern and year olds and attend a two-hour orientation On Tuesday, September 26, the contemporary art including works by Henri session. The next orientation will be held on Student Events Board will present a free Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cézanne, and Saturday, October 21 from 2 p.m – 4 p.m. showing of Good Night, and Good Luck. Vincent van Gogh. The change in admission in the Windswept Building on the grounds policy is in conjunction with the launch of Free of the Human Society at 1601 Nicodemus Fall Baltimore, a citywide initiative throughout Road, Reisterstown. To register or get more October and November to make the arts information call (410) 833-2387 or e-mail available to all. For more information visit [email protected]. www.artbma.org and www.thewalters.org. Gym Class Heroes gets the crowd going in Baltimore from CONCERT, page 15. in the overall tone of the album, the first one is apparent not only during the set onstage, but also time out to talk to the fans, both the Gym Class really personal, in terms of Travis going through a after the show. All of the bands stuck around Heroes and Cobra Starship turned an amazing was very easy to tell which Gym Class Heroes lot of stuff, there are dark undertones; it’s a lot of after their sets, not to just sign autographs and performance into an unforgettable experience. songs were from which album, they still blended what he was going through at the time, and over take pictures, but to genuinely talk to their fans. well into an excellent show. As Disashi, the guitarist the last two years of touring it’s gotten to the point Even two hours after the show had wrapped up, Gaby Arevalo is a Staff Writer for The from the band stated, “The Papercut Chronicles in our lives and careers where we just want to have the members of Cobra Starship and Gym Class Retriever Weekly. She can be reached for comment was made in four days...but on this last record we fun right now and that really shines through in the Heroes were engaging in conversations with fans, at [email protected]. had three months.” There is a definite difference new record.” talking about upcoming shows and trading war between the two albums, “not only lyrically, but That fun-loving outlook on life was noticeably stories about past performances. By taking the 18 Arts & Entertainment September 26, 2006 THE RETRIEVER WEEKLY

Q. I’m a freshman and I was randomly and not mid-fool. Questions assigned a roommate. He seems like a nice guy As far as her not leaving, there may have been a good reason for it, as awkward as it but he plays World of Warcraft all day long and was at the time. She does have as much right to be in the room as you do, so if you know for Quinn he doesn’t shower. The smell is getting pretty rank there is going to be a stretch of time you need to be alone with your boyfriend to “study” (sort of like pickles). I feel too weird to just come or “watch a movie,” give your roommate advanced warning. That way she can plan to have out and say “Dude, you smell.” How can I solve whatever is needed with her for that span of time. If it is a spur of the moment thing, see this problem? if you can work out a code with your roommate once she is speaking to you again. A tie A. I would like to introduce you to your new best friend: air freshener. Unfortunately, or sock on the door handle is classic, but personally I prefer uniqueness -- use an umbrella there isn’t a lot you can do about the gaming; there is a reason it is occasionally referred to or write a Post-It note. Most of all, try to sort things out with your roommate; boyfriends as World of War-”crack.” But if your roommate leaves on rare instances to go to class or come and go, but you have to live with her for a year. eat food, you have your opportunity: Febreze everything. It is rather unlikely that he will Q. The pond by academic row is filthy and disgusting. I catch a nauseating whiff be annoyed that his things no longer smell like kosher dill. of sewage every time I walk by. Who can I complain to in order to get the pond If it gets so bad that you can’t clean or disguise the stench anymore, talk to your RA cleaned? about how to bring the subject up with your roommate. Part of their job is to help with A. Honestly, I have no idea. I’ve heard plenty of students complaining about Library those awkward strangers-living-together situations. Last of all, don’t lose hope. You could Pond, but I highly doubt anyone has actually lodged a complaint. Write a letter to the get lucky and he will meet people to hang out with (even a girlfriend!) through WoW. No editor of the Retriever (shameless plug for the paper, I know, but deal with it) and send comment needed on the likelihood of that happening, but anything’s possible. copies to whatever organizations you can think of. I would recommend the Office of Q. Recently I was fooling around with my boyfriend in my dorm room and Student Life, SGA, Student Affairs and the general administration off the top of my head. my roommate walked in on us. To make things even more awkward, she neglected With a little bit of luck, someone will eventually respond with 1) a solution, 2) the correct to leave. I tried to talk to her about it later but she refused. How can I make this place to talk to, or 3) the answer that nothing can be done. I would guess a probability of situation better? #3, 2 and 1 in that order. Of course, if all of this seems like far too much work, you can A. If she won’t talk about it, there isn’t a lot that you can do at this point except learn just sit back and tolerate the view as you speed-walk past the pond like everyone else. to lock your door. It gives you at least an extra thirty seconds from the first sound of the handle until the door actually opens to make sure all parties involved are decently covered Please send your Questions for Quinn to [email protected].

Variety of bands perform at Fascinating fashions debut Virgin Festival for Fall 2006

from VIRGIN FEST, page 14. from vendors featuring five dollar ice teas, from FASHION, page 15. Klein’s much more edgy fashions definitely seven dollar slices of pizza and eight dollar took over the spotlight during Fashion draft beers, the alternative entertainment was Week. Klein added noticeable volume to his caused by bad sound engineering or perhaps anything but pricey and tasteless. The Charm are now officially out of style. Because I was dresses and fluffed up his oversized parkas, the band’s countless years of debauchery have City Roller Girls, Baltimore’s premiere never a really big fan of this particular trend, while Lauren and Karan leaned more toward caught up with Keidis’ vocal chords. All in all, all-woman, flat track roller derby league I cannot say that it saddens me to report the elegant and sleek silhouetted fashions. the Chilis performed an outstanding show. performed live bouts against one another. this. Having a generic fashion sense is so last An epic improvised jam session by the Chilis One could see women dressed in their Three of the most notable designers to season, so stand out from the crowd this fall closed the Virgin Festival in great fashion. team uniforms throughout the day, labeled embrace and embellish these trends on the and choose some new trends to add to your Another common trend among musical with stage names such as “Frenzy Lohan,” runways of Olympus Fashion Week were wardrobe. Though since a lot of these trends artists was the act of performing cover songs “Cheetah Torpeda,” “Dr. Scabs,” and “Mibbs Ralph Lauren, Donna Karan, and Calvin come from classical inspiration, you may quite tastefully. Earlier in the afternoon, the breakin Ribs.” The Virgin Mobile Tent was Klein. From looking at Ralph Lauren’s find that you already have what it takes to Raconteurs, led by Jack White (formerly of a circus sideshow of bizarre performances runway show, we can see that he gave this pull off a new look for the season hanging the White Stripes), performed a raw and including a burlesque show, fire jugglers, and season’s traditional black, white, and neutral in back of your closet. Just know that distorted version of Nancy Sinatra’s “Bang “The Cowboy Roper.” palettes a modern twist by incorporating his whichever trends you revive this upcoming Bang.” The toga and gold armor-donning In the end, the Virgin Festival truly new North African theme into his clothing, season, keep your style simple and polished Gnarls Barkley put a fresh and soulful spin delivered in its first year of operation. If resulting in what Fashion Week Daily notes to ensure that you avoid any major fashion on the Violent Femmes classic “Gone Daddy Virgin can manage to organize a list of artists as “subtle, soft desert tones.” Donna Karan, disasters. Gone,” which is actually featured on Gnarls’ as talented and reputable as they did for who recently rocked the fashion world new album, “St. Elsewhere.” Chili Peppers their first year, one can guarantee that Virgin with her glam image of the typical business Malissa Carroll is a Contributing Writer guitarist John Frusciante even covered a Festival will be around for quite a while. woman, stepped away from her traditional for The Retriever Weekly. She can be reached shortened version of Elton John’s “Tiny form-fitting designs and used the hot animal for comment at [email protected]. Dancer” in between songs. Brad Schleicher is a Contributing Writer print trend to show off her new loose and Virgin Festival didn’t stop at simply for The Retriever Weekly. He can be reached airy style. In contrast, though using the same providing a wide range of musical acts. Apart for comment at [email protected]. color palette as Lauren and Karan, Calvin Library media: Home to UMBC’s CDs, DVDs, and videos

catalog (catalogusmai) allows one to located contains works by seminal directors like umbc.edu/media/recent/, the database extends JOE CLARK specific titles and genres, and is accessible Alfred Hitchcock, the Coen Brothers, back to July 2006 and compliments the Digital and Audiovisual Media Librarian from the library’s homepage (www.umbc. Stanley Kubrick, Akira Kurosawa, Clint two display cases Library Media uses in the edu/library). Eastwood, Woody Allen, and Baltimore’s library that sometime feature new titles. Located on the second floor of the The Student Government Association, own John Waters. SGA and GSA are All non-reserve items circulate for seven Albin O. Kuhn Library, Library Media the Graduate Student Association, and currently choosing titles to purchase this days to UMBC staff, faculty, and students at houses over 5,000 CDs and almost 7,500 the Friends of the Library contributed year, and you may make suggestions to the no charge. Library Media is located on the videos and DVDs. While supporting the thousands of dollars for the purchase of Media Librarian. second floor of the Albin O. Kuhn Library. academic and research goals of the university, recreational and culturally important DVDs The compact disc collection contains Hours are Monday through Thursday from the department also owns hundreds of during the last three years. Donated titles an assortment of musical genres, including 8:30 am to 10:00 pm, Friday 8:30 am to recreational DVDs, videos, and CDs that cover just about every genre imaginable, world music, jazz, classical, rock, classical, 6:00 pm, Saturday noon to 6:00 pm, and circulate to the UMBC community. As word including drama, action, romance, comedy, blues, and sound effects. The varied Sunday noon to 10:00 pm. The department spreads about this valuable campus resource, musicals, samurai adventures, television collection includes artists such as The Police, provides video and audio equipment for activity and circulation in the department sitcoms, art house, film-noir, foreign, and Pink Floyd, Public Enemy, The Clash, The in-house use, has a group viewing room continues to increase dramatically. blockbusters. Several HBO series are also Beatles, Bob Marley, Miles Davis, John for parties of three or more, and 11 cable Over two years ago Library Media well-represented, including Sex and the City, Coltrane, Howlin’ Wolf, Beethoven, Mozart, televisions for individual use. Come by and began shifting items to open stacks, which Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Wire, and The and John Cage. CDs are also housed in the check it out! enables patrons to browse the collection. Sopranos. Samples of other popular titles open stacks. Currently all non-reserve DVDs and CDs are include television shows such as Lost, The A new service the department recently Joe Clark is the Digital and Audiovisual browsable, and all popular VHS tapes reside Simpsons, Family Guy, Seinfeld, and CSI as debuted is the New Media Acquisitions Media Librarian at the Albin O. Kuhn in the open stacks. The open stacks not only well as feature films like The Incredibles, Database, which allows one to view new Library. He can be reached for comment at create awareness of the collection but allow Napolean Dynamite, Bridget Jones Diary, and acquisitions to the collection by month and [email protected]. serendipitous searches. The library’s online the Lord of the Rings trilogy. The collection format. Located online at http://aok2.lib. THE RETRIEVER WEEKLY September 26, 2006 Arts & Entertainment 19 Gridiron Gang is one big violent Hallmark card

SCOTT MEIXEL Retriever Weekly Contributing Writer

Every year we seem to be subjected to a new sports drama where we learn that all of the problems that today’s youth face can be solved by football. Sometimes there are small variations, such as in The Mighty Ducks where they played hockey, but usually every movie in this genre is one of those feel-goodish, cliche-ridden films about triumphing over adversity, if you’ll excuse that cliche. Sean Porter (The Rock) and Malcolm Moore (Xzibit) are juvenile detention center counselors who, upon learning of the death of one of their former inmates, decide to start a football team. The idea being that we have tried everything else, we should try to teach discipline and teamwork through sports. The team joins in with a Christian school league to try and compete for the championship. As expected, this movie is one big Hallmark card. That being said, it is one gritty and violent Hallmark card. There are plenty of pseudo- inspirational speeches throughout, but to get to them you first have to go through two drive- bys, a kid getting run over by a car, and another shooting. All of this takes place within the first 20 minutes of the film, right after the first speech by Porter in which he tells an inmate on his last night in jail that if he does not wise up, he’ll be [Couresty of Columbia Pictures] dead. Pimp My Gang: Sean Porter (The Rock) and Malcolm Moore (XZibit) put together a ragtag football team. This kind of violence takes Gridiron Gang to near R-rated territory, but is quickly replaced Along with giving crappy speeches, Coach the audience’s intelligence is the soundtrack. If this play.” by the cliches and sappiness promised by the Porter seems to come up with the most inane you’ve ever seen “Project Runway” and you hear So if you have seen Remember the Titans, trailer. Virtually every expected sports movie ways to motivate his team. In one scene, he the same stupid music at the end of each episode Varsity Blues, Friday Night Lights, The Waterboy, scene and subplot is represented in this film. needs to build confidence in Willie Weathers that lets you know they’re either announcing either version of The Longest Yard, Brian’s Song, There are two big rivalries, one between teams, (Jade Yorker), his star running back, so Porter the winner, or kicking someone off, you can or the episode of “South Park” where the kids go the other between two players in opposing decides to dress in full pads and tell Willie to get the gist of the Gridiron Gang score. There skiing in Aspen, don’t see Gridiron Gang. You’ve gangs. The standard character who can’t play but run through him. Now, Porter is played by The are basically two tracks being played during actually already seen it, many, many times. really wants to play is here, except they took that Rock, a former wrestler. When he comes out the whole movie: one for “oh man, we suck!” concept and created three characters out of it. in those pads, he looks bigger than God, let moments, and one for “oh man, we’re awesome!” Scott Meixel is a Contributing Writer for The Dozens of other sports movie cliches are in this alone most football players. Willie is a skinny moments. The former is played throughout the Retriever Weekly. He can be reached for comment movie. So many that if you have seen enough high schooler. What kind of sick coach builds film, but as soon as the sound person changes at [email protected]. movies, you can probably guess how each scene confidence this way? that music file, nobody in the audience is sitting will unfold, and how the movie will end. But where the movie really takes a dump on there thinking, “They’re not going to score on

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Come to The Retriever Weekly’s FunFest on the Commons Terrace during free hour on Wednesday, September 27th and you could win a pass (good for two) to an advance screening. Passes and prizes are available while supplies last. No purchase necessary. Limit one per person. Employees of Lionsgate, The Retriever Weekly and UMBC are not eligible. Rated PG-13 for crude and sexual humor, and language. IN THEATRES OCTOBER 6th! THE RETRIEVER WEEKLY September 26, 2006 23 Sports Men’s and women’s XC off to This Week in Sports great start “They’re having fun, and communicating well Tuesday, September 26, 2006 TIM CONWAY with me, and they all came in very fit,” he said. Field Hockey vs. Georgetown at 3:30 pm Retriever Weekly Staff Writer Davis feels just as strongly about the men’s team, the defending America East Conference With the 2006 America East Cross Country Championships champions. Wednesday, September 27, 2006 about a month away, UMBC head coach Murray Davis has a “They’re a little bit better than last year [at Women’s Soccer vs. Howard (Away) at 3:00 pm positive outlook for both his men’s and women’s teams. this time],” he claimed. “They have much more Men’s Soccer vs. Albany (Away) at 4:00 pm The women, led by senior captains Kathleen Galan and confidence.” Morgan Little, are off to their best start in years after opening And to have more confidence after losing their the season 3-1 at the Mount St. Mary’s Invitational on Sept. all-star runner Izudin Mehmedovic, who placed Friday, September 29, 2006 1. They would follow that success up with a fifth place finish fourth at last year’s conference championships, is Cross Country @ Lehigh Paul Short Run at 2:00 pm at the Navy Invitational two weeks later, against some hard even more impressive. Volleyball vs. Hartford (Away) at 6:00 pm competition from University of Richmond, Loyola University, “Losing Izzy was a big deal,” said Davis. “But American University, and the Naval Academy. if we’re healthy and do what we’re supposed to do, In comparing this year to last year, the women scored 34 someone is going to have to take it [the conference Saturday, September 30, 2006 points at the 2005 meet at Mount St. Mary’s as opposed to 18 title] from us. We’re not going to give it away. If Field Hockey vs. Vermont at 12:00 pm points this year. Cross country competition uses a scoring system somebody else wants it, they’re going to have to earn Men’s Soccer vs. Vermont at 1:00 pm that champions low scores over high, so 18 is significantly better it.” than 34. Apparently, the America East coaches don’t The best finish the Retriever women have had since entering think it will be that hard to take it away, as UMBC Sunday October 1, 2006 the America East Conference is seventh, which came in the 2003 was picked third in the preseason poll, behind Women’s Soccer vs. Stony Brook at 1:00 pm and 2004 seasons. Not making any promises, Davis said with a favorite Maine and New Hampshire. UMBC, Volleyball vs. Albany (Away) at 2:00 pm laugh, “They’re gonna do better than last year.” however, was picked fifth last year in the preseason They may have lost Stephanie Thomas to graduation last poll, a voting process in which a coach cannot vote year, who placed 20th at the conference championships, but they for his own team, and ended up taking home the have gained freshmen standouts Suzanne Gabriel and Mairin America East crown. Brady, a native of Toms River, NJ ran a personal best time Leahy. Gabriel has stepped in to replace Thomas, finishing Leading the men are senior captains J.J. Wetzel and of 27:24.74 in the 8K at the Navy Invitational, dropping 16 as the top Retriever at both Mount St. Mary’s and Navy, with Blake Davis, who finished 8th and 16th at the conference seconds off his best 8K time and over one minute off his best fourth and 13th places respectively. Leahy has broken into the championships last year. Stepping up to fill the void left by time on the Naval Academy course. top five scorers for the women in both meets so far this season the loss of Mehmedovic is sophomore Anthony Kelhower, who All in all, Davis says the 2006 men’s and women’s teams and looks to be a big contributor at the end of the year. has taken the top Retriever spot in the past two meets as well are “the best group I’ve had yet. It could turn out to be the best The Retrievers also return key runners and captains Galan as senior Shahin Shokry, and newcomers Matt Cowhey and group as a whole performance wise.” and Little who Davis says he is very impressed with so far Andrew Madison. The Retrievers return to competition this Friday, Sept. 29, this season. Galan finished just behind Thomas at last year’s One Retriever that has stood back in the shadows and has as they compete in the Paul Short Run at Lehigh University. championship, coming in 26th place. really shown himself to be a competitor this year is senior Mike Davis sees great things for this year’s women, claiming that Brady. “He’s completely different this year,” said Davis. “His Contact Staff Writer Tim Conway at [email protected]. he likes this team more any other women’s team he has had in prospects are great. Out of all the guys that raced [at Navy], the past. Mike’s was the most impressive. V-ball freshmen are fantastic, but fail to finish in front

telltale signs of a team that is still growing, a group with a lot are less important than the “L” next to UMBC in the box score. MATT HARMON of youth infused with the experience of few veterans. However, Coach Ian Blanchard recognized his team’s effort tonight on the Retriever Weekly Staff Writer despite their loss to Morgan State the freshmen still had a very road. respectable showing, with two of them leading the Retrievers in “We’ve got to be able to put together a more consistent Down 0-2 after two games 24 to 30 and 28 to 30, the kills. Freshman outside hitter Ashley Oscars led the team with effort, we’re young, and I don’t want to underestimate how well Retrievers were up against the ropes. However, the Dogs 23 to go along with six digs and a service ace, while freshman we played tonight at times, but when it came to crunch time we managed to muster enough energy to make the opposing coach outside hitter Sarah Fillmore contributed with 20 kills, three came a little bit short, we just need to get better,” he said. have to worry by winning the next two sets 30-26 and 30-27, digs, and a service ace as well. Finishing the game with a perfect The team will hit the road to play Hartford University (6-5) respectively. After missing six match points in the final game, hitting percentage was another freshman, libero Pam Jarrett, on September 29th next week. The Hawks have the best record UMBC was defeated in the fifth set by a score of 20-22 and lost who had five kills in five attempts. in the America East Conference and may pose a challenge for to Morgan State for the first time in the nine occasions they have UMBC had a higher hitting percentage (.281 to .235), the Retrievers. been pitted against each other. Their record now lies at six wins more blocks (3 to 2), more kills (79 to 74), and fewer service and eight losses. errors (24 to 30). Drawing conclusions from numbers alone, it Contact Staff Writer Matt Harmon at [email protected]. Losing in the final set and missing key match points are seems the ladies were on the right track. However, those statistics Club Sports Notebook: Shortfield Soccer 7’s begins play

20 and won by forfeit against the ELC Football Club (0-1-0) on standings at 3-0-0, with a victory against the Slackers (1-1-0) by TIM CONWAY Friday, Sept. 22. Shawyah opened their season with an impressive a score of 5-1 on Wednesday, Sept. 20, the Bollocks (1-1-0) by a Retriever Weekly Staff Writer 8-1 victory over Peefa (0-1-0) on Wednesday, Sept. 20 and then score of 2-1 on Thursday, Sept. 21, and a win by forfeit over the shut out the Futbolers (1-1-0) 4-0 on Friday, Sept. 22. Chrust Punchers (0-1-0 on Friday, Sept. 22. Competition for UMBC Intramurals’ Shortfield Soccer 7’s In the Men’s Rec League, UF UMBC and Pi Kappa Phi The games that were scheduled for Monday, Sept. 18 have began last week for the Men’s Premier, Men’s Recreational, and are tied for first place with a 1-0-0 record after the first week. been rescheduled for Monday Oct. 2 and the match-ups and Coed Leagues. Pi Kappa Phi won by forfeit against Team OJ (0-1-0) on complete schedule can be viewed at http://www.umbc.edu/ Taking an early lead in the Premier League are SAE and Wednesday, Sept. 20, while UF UMBC defeated KTF (0-1-0) athletics/Recreation/Intramurals. Shawyah, who are both 2-0-0 after the first week of play. SAE 4-3 on Thursday, Sept. 21. defeated Liverpool (0-2-0) by a score of 3-0 on Wednesday, Sept. Finally, in the Coed League, Don’t Kick Me tops the Contact Staff Writer Tim Conway at [email protected]. 24 Sports September 26, 2006 THE RETRIEVER WEEKLY The Lighter Side of Sports: Running around in circles National Sports Wrap Brunell sets new NFL record made me wonder whether they ever got JOE PALMER bored, and what they talk about. I know Mark Brunell set a new NFL record Sunday as the Washington Redskins Retriever Weekly Staff Writer that I get bored running around the loop for picked up their first win of the season by defeating the Houston Texans 31-15. 15 minutes, and couldn’t even think about Brunell connected 22 consecutive passes which put him past Rich Gannon’s old You’ve all seen them as you drive around running and occupying myself for seven record of 21 straight within a single game in 2002. Brunell finished 24-of-27 the loop endlessly searching for that elusive times as long. for 261 yards, coming into the game with a 57 percent completion rate. Clinton parking spot close to your building. You Captain J.J. Wetzel said, “During races Portis had his first start of the season and recorded two touchdowns, having 16 recognize them by their patented short shorts. you are focused on the race, you get into a carries for 86 yards, and two receptions for 78 yards. That’s right, I am talking about the UMBC zone in order to run your race. However, cross country team. I recently sat down with when we’re training we talk about anything 4 guys on the cross country team and “ran” that you would talk about at the lunch table Protestors walk out on O’s game through a course of questions to help me get with your friends. We get pretty creative, the inside the mind of a runner. topics vary.” A group of protestors walked out during the fourth inning as the Orioles I couldn’t understand what would One topic that isn’t a big deal to them, played the Minnesota Twins last week. The group of nearly a thousand people, possess anyone to run 12 to 20 miles per day but is often the focus of onlookers, is their some wearing “FREE THE BIRDS” t-shirts, left at precisely 5:08 pm, honoring for a total of approximately 70 to 100 miles short shorts. Never backing down from a former Oriole players Brooks Robinson (5) and Cal Ripken (8). The demonstration per week. In all honesty, I don’t even drive topic, the Lighter Side had to ask, why the was held at Thursday’s game in order to show dissatisfaction with Peter Angelos, 100 miles per week. short shorts? Do they increase the ventilation the team’s owner since 1993. The Orioles are finsihing their ninth consecutive But after talking to them I discovered that and cross breeze down low? losing season and many fans are frustrated at the way Angelos has been running camaraderie in this largely individual sport Without missing a step, freshmen the team. runs deep, according to Paul Boardman. runner Matt Cowhey joked, “The fact of “It’s called the ‘trial of miles’. You know the matter is cross breeze, is that a factor. that every person next to you is willing to Maybe? But what do I really want? I really Simms has spleen removed put themselves through the same mental and want somebody staring at me and saying ‘I physical pain that you are going through in already know what he looks like naked.’” In Tampa Bay quarterback Chris Simms had his spleen removed after a rough order to train and win.” all seriousness, they all agreed that the shorts 26-24 loss to the Panthers Sunday afternoon. Simms took several hard hits during “We train hard because the clock were just very comfortable, lightweight, and the game and left for a brief time before coming back in the fourth quarter. Team doesn’t lie,” said Anthony Kelhower. This is frictionless. spokesman Jeff Kamis told reporters that the quarterback was taken to St. Joseph’s very true--the clock never has a bad day of The only other essential equipment in a Hospital, a few blocks from Raymond James Stadium. Kamis however declined to competition. cross country runner’s arsenal are his shoes. comment on Simms current condition but says he is resting comfortably. Simms The runners on the team have to not only Wetzel said, “I rotate between two pairs of was 13-for-24 with one touchdown and one interception in the loss. train hard but also commit to the lifestyle shoes and each have over 500 miles on them. of a cross country runner. They constantly The general rule of thumb is to change wear down their bodies and therefore need shoes between 400 and 500 miles because to get enough sleep and eat right to allow they loose cushion, but as college students try not to stare at the short shorts. Second, [email protected]. But remember we are their bodies time to recover. And, as you can we try to push a little more out of them. At now you know what they are going through. The Lighter Side of Sports not the gross, sick imagine, with school work and dining hall $80-$120 they aren’t cheap. I go through And third, give them a honk and a wave of and perverted side of sports and my mom reads food, sleeping and eating right are pretty approximately 8 pairs a year. The progression support, they are competing for you and our everything that I write so please keep your difficult. of my shoes is running shoes to casual shoes school. questions respectful. Joe Palmer reminding you Naturally, if you are going to spend 100 to lawn mowing shoes.” to stay on the lighter side, wear sunscreen. miles per week with someone you need to So when you are driving your car around If you have any sports questions that you enjoy their company. Some training runs last the loop or through Arbutus and see one of would like to have answered in “The Lighter upwards of 1 hour and 45 minutes, which UMBC’s finest runners training hard: First, Side of Sports” please contact me via email at Women’s soccer shut out for third straight game

1-0 AE), have been shutout their past three the teams, with the Mount St. Mary’s victory The Retrievers conclude their away game TIM CONWAY games, having not scored a goal in over 270 as the first in the history of play between the streak at Howard University in Washington, Retriever Weekly Staff Writer minutes of play. schools. D.C. tomorrow, Sept. 27 at 3:00 pm before UMBC senior goalkeeper Carly Agro In the game against New Hampshire, returning to the UMBC Soccer Stadium on The UMBC women’s soccer team made her first career start for the Retrievers senior goalkeeper Robin Babaris tallied nine Sunday, Oct. 1 for a conference match up picked up two more losses this past week, against Mount St. Mary’s, but let in three saves in ninety minutes of play, matching her against Stony Brook University. falling to Mount St. Mary’s, 4-0, on Sept. goals in just under 29 minutes before being season high total. The Wildcats improved 21 and conference foe University of New relieved by sophomore Catie Bukowski. The to (3-5-0) and (1-0-0) in the America East Contact Staff Writer Tim Conway at Hampshire, 1-0. The Retrievers (3-6-1, 0- game marked the twelfth meeting between Conference. [email protected]. Athlete of the Week: Kevin Mezzadra

would the holes be filled, especially in the Conference All Rooke Team after being his versatility by playing defense in the ALEXANDER PYLES leadership department? converted from striker, which he played at second half, with UMBC tying conference Retriever Weekly Editorial Staff Just halfway through the season, Loyola High School, to center midfielder. rival Boston University 1-1. midfielder Kevin Mezzadra has shown Mezzadra was also a Second Team All- THIS WEEK: Mezzadra and UMBC For fans of UMBC soccer, the end of that he is capable of leading the Retrievers America East selection last season. soccer hit the road again, traveling to last season—a successful one, ending one back to the conference tournament. After At Loyola, where Mezzadra holds the conference foe Albany on Wednesday, game short of the America East Conference scoring a career-and-team-high six goals school record with 71 career goals, he was before returning home to face Vermont on championship game—was the start of an last season, Mezzadra has already surpassed an All-Conference, All-Metro, All-State, Saturday. off-season of questions. that total in 2006, with seven balls finding and All-Region selection. With the loss of defensive stalwarts the net through ten games. LAST WEEK: Mezzadra scored his Alexander Pyles is the Sports Editor for Marcus Gross and Matt McGowan to Mezzadra’s outstanding start is no first career hat trick last Wednesday, The Retriever Weekly. He can be reached for graduation, as well as the loss of two-time surprise to those who have watched him scoring three goals against Howard, whom comment at [email protected]. A. East Midfielder of the Year Matt Watson over the last three years. As a freshman in UMBC beat 3-1. With UMBC playing a after he agreed to play professionally, how 2003, Mezzadra was named to the A. East man down on Saturday, Mezzadra showed THE RETRIEVER WEEKLY September 26, 2006 Sports 25 America East Standings As of Sept. 24 League Leaders Men’s Soccer Standings Men’s Soccer America East Overall GOALS PER GAME School W L T Pts. W L T % ## Player-Team GP No. Avg/G Vermont 1 0 0 3 4 4 2 .500 ------1.Kevin Mezzadra-UMBC 10 7 0.70 Albany 1 0 0 3 3 4 2 .444 Chris Banks-NEWHAMPS 10 7 0.70 Binghamton 1 0 0 3 3 5 3 .409 3.Petur Sigurdsson-BOSTON 9 4 0.44 Boston U. 0 0 1 1 5 1 4 .700 Adam Ciklic-STONYBRO 9 4 0.44 UMBC 0 0 1 1 3 5 2 .400 5.Jordan Crasilneck-VERMONT 10 4 0.40 New Hamp 0 1 0 0 5 3 2 .600 Tyler Hasman-VERMONT 10 4 0.40 David Feazell-UMBC 10 4 0.40 Hartford 0 1 0 0 2 3 4 .444 8.Kenniel Martin-HARTFORD 8 3 0.38 Maine 0 1 0 0 0 9 0 .000 9.Cody Germain-BINGHAMT 6 2 0.33 Stony Brook 0 0 0 0 3 7 0 .300 10.Yan Gbolo-ALBANY 9 2 0.22 T.J. Gore-VERMONT 9 2 0.22 Gary Muir-HARTFORD 9 2 0.22 Women’s Soccer Standings Cooper Friend-MAINE 9 2 0.22

America East Overall GOALS AGAINST AVG ## Player-Team GP GA Mins GaAvg School W L T Pts. W L T % ------Boston U. 1 0 0 3 7 2 1 .750 1.Zach Riffett-BOSTONUN 10 6 997:18 0.54 Vermont 1 0 0 3 3 5 1 .389 2.Brian Levey-NEWHAMPS 10 7 962:20 0.65 3.Roger Scully-VERMONT 8 8 741:11 0.97 New Hamp 1 0 0 3 3 5 0 .375 4.Jason Stenta-BINGHAMT 7 8 674:13 1.07 Hartford 1 0 0 3 2 8 0 .200 5.Matt Glaeser-HARTFORD 9 13 845:16 1.38 Maine 0 0 0 0 8 0 1 .944 6.Steward Ceus-ALBANY 9 13 841:11 1.39 Stony Brook 0 1 0 0 5 4 1 .550 7.Steve King-UMBC 10 15 940:00 1.44 8.EJ Xikis-STONYBRO 9 14 820:00 1.54 Binghamton 0 1 0 0 3 5 2 .400 9.Ryan Bertoni-BINGHAMT 4 7 380:00 1.66 UMBC 0 1 0 0 3 5 2 .364 10.Giacomo Brunino-MAINE 8 20 663:49 2.71 Albany 0 1 0 0 3 7 1 .318 Women’s Soccer Field Hockey Standings GOALS PER GAME America East Overall ## Player-Team GP No. Avg/G ------School W L % W L % 1.Laura Harper-MAINE 9 6 0.67 Albany 0 0 .000 7 3 .700 Jamie Dougherty-ALBANY 6 4 0.67 Boston U. 0 0 .000 5 4 .556 3.Brooke Barbuto-STONYBRO 10 6 0.60 4.Jessica Young-UMBC 10 5 0.50 Vermont 0 0 .000 5 4 .556 5.Jaclyn Rosada-ALBANY 11 5 0.45 Maine 0 0 .000 3 7 .300 6.Diana Barrera-ALBANY 10 4 0.40 UMBC 0 0 .000 1 7 .125 7.Kim Povill-BINGHAMT 8 3 0.38 New Hamp 0 0 .000 1 8 .111 Sara Hourihan-NEWHAMPS 8 3 0.38 9.Tricia Reed-BINGHAMT 9 3 0.33 Lexie Kaknes-VERMONT 9 3 0.33 Veronique Fleury-MAINE 9 3 0.33 Volleyball Standings America East Overall GOALS AGAINST AVG ## Player-Team GP GA Mins GaAvg School W L % W L % ------1.Jasmine Phillips-MAINE 9 3 845:38 0.32 Hartford 0 0 .000 6 5 .545 2.Stephanie Dreyer-BOSTONU 9 4 833:27 0.43 Albany 0 0 .000 6 7 .462 3.Marisa Viola-STONYBRO 10 11 959:11 1.03 UMBC 0 0 .000 6 8 .429 4.Lynn Gugliuzza-NEWHAMPS 8 11 720:00 1.38 5.Eliza Bradley-VERMONT 8 12 742:33 1.45 Stony Brook 0 0 .000 6 10 .375 6.Liz Cook-HARTFORD 10 15 900:00 1.50 Binghamton 0 0 .000 5 12 .294 7.Kristie Bowers-BINGHAMT 10 18 894:35 1.81 New Hamp 0 0 .000 3 19 .231 8.Robin Babaris-UMBC 4 7 299:53 2.10 Maine 0 0 .000 2 11 .154 9.Maria Liguori-ALBANY 9 13 548:58 2.13 10.Catie Bukowski-UMBC 5 8 302:39 2.38 26 September 26, 2006 THE RETRIEVER WEEKLY Classifieds

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Club Sports Notebook23 Women’s Soccer shutout again24 Sports League leaders and A-East Standings25 Soccer defeats Howard, ties Boston in return to Baltimore went past King for the score. scares, UMBC clung to a 1-0 ZAK BRATCHER Awakened by the equalizer, UMBC quickly lead heading into halftime. Retriever Weekly Staff Writer responded with a goal of their own less than one The Retrievers dug in minute later. Freshman forward Dan Maudslay for a defensive second half as After nearly a month on the road, the UMBC hustled down sophomore midfielder Kevin head coach Pete Caringi opted men’s soccer team returned home to Baltimore for Gnatico’s pass and saved it from going across the to move midfielder Mezzadra two matches this past week. In their final tune-up touch line. Maudslay’s feed found a streaking back to bolster the defensive before America East Conference play, the Retrievers Mezzadra, who tucked the ball just off the left line, thus shifting the team upended the Howard Bison 3-1 on Wednesday post and into the net from six yards out for the to a predominately one- behind senior midfielder Kevin Mezzadra’s hat score. The Retrievers took a 2-1 lead with the attacker formation. Boston trick. On Saturday afternoon, UMBC began in- goal, as Howard struggled to regain momentum. accumulated nine second half conference competition with a 1-1 tie against the Finally, in the 83rd minute, Mezzadra capped off shots compared to UMBC’s visiting Boston Terriers, playing the majority of the an impressive individual offensive performance zero. Finally capitalizing on match with a one-man disadvantage. with his third goal of the afternoon. This time, their one-man advantage, UMBC started their opening match of the he fielded Gnatico’s ball inside the six yard line Boston broke through the week against Howard in dominant fashion. The with a defender at his back. A quick juke and a tight Retriever defense with a Retrievers were able to control time of possession powerful blast off his right foot gave the All- nifty give-and-go. Freshman of the ball and set the tempo in the first half against Conference midfielder his seventh goal of the year midfielder Samuel Appiah the Bison, who committed 16 fouls and only and, more importantly, ensured a 3-1 victory for placed the ball just by managed a single shot on goal. Not surprisingly, the Retrievers. goalkeeper King, tying the UMBC’s first-period persistence paid off in the On Saturday afternoon, UMBC competed game at 1-1. 23rd minute when sophomore midfielder Dan admirably in their first America East match of the Both teams battled for Bulls was fouled just outside the top left corner year against a highly talented Boston Terrier squad. the remainder of the second of the penalty box. On the ensuing free kick, In an opening half most noted for its conservative half and for two overtime junior defender Brian Moffa touched the ball off play by both teams, UMBC struck first with a goal periods to no avail. UMBC’s to Mezzadra who unleashed a 21-yard rocket past from freshman forward Andrew Gillis. In the 38th Gillis actually had the best a helpless goalkeeper into the upper right-hand minute, Gillis took a chipped pass from Maudslay chance to score for either team Mark Perdomo [Retriever Staff] corner of the net. The Retrievers took their 1-0 and was able to find the back of the net, giving the in overtime, but his bending Using your head : David Feazell (8) goes up for a header as Jovan lead into halftime. Retrievers a 1-0 lead. Any momentum gained from shot from inside the penalty Petrovic (6) looks on. At the start of the second half, the game’s the score was negated in 42nd minute, however, box just missed the right side The Retrievers return home to do battle with the tempo reversed as Howard stepped up their level as Moffa received his second yellow card of the of the goal. Alas, the game went final at 1-1. Vermont Catamounts (4-4-2, 1-0-0 AEC) on of play, pressing the young UMBC defense and match, resulting in early dismissal for the defender With the victory and the tie over the week, Saturday afternoon at UMBC Soccer Stadium. sophomore goalkeeper Steve King. The Bison and a short-handed UMBC squad. Boston quickly UMBC improves to 3-5-2, including 0-0-1 in the finally broke through and tied the match at one increased their offensive pressure in the waning America East Conference. On Wednesday this Contact Staff Writer Zak Bratcher at goal a piece in the 63rd minute. Senior midfielder minutes of the first half as consecutive shots on week, UMBC travels to Albany to take on the [email protected]. Marcel Storer ripped a shot from 30 yards out that goal deflected off the posts. Despite the scoring conference rival Great Danes (3-4-2, 1-0-0 AEC). Bad starts doom field hockey in winless weekend now, I can’t name a starter. We’re taking it on a sometimes,” added Fuchs. “We’re thinking too landed and had the wind knocked out of me.” ALEXANDER PYLES practice-by-practice basis.” much, we need to be more aggressive and work Midway through the season and with Retriever Weekly Editorial Staff While the Lady Retrievers have had troubles on our vision and awareness when we’re on the conference play about to start, coach Fuchs, in her defensively, the offense has struggled so far this field.” first year at UMBC, isn’t giving up. If scoring didn’t count until the first 10 season as well. It seemed the offense would come Perhaps in what has been a microcosm of “We just have to stay disciplined. We keep minutes of a game elapsed, UMBC field hockey untracked Friday, when the Retrievers responded the early season, even when the Retrievers did getting better. I’m proud of the way they played would have been in good shape this past weekend. to Longwood with two goals in the first half-- something right, it ended badly. Midway through out there today,” said Fuchs after the 4-1 loss. Dreadful starts against Longwood on Friday and including one by freshman Kate Garnet, her first the second half, Allyson Carter weaved into traffic Unfortunately for the Retrievers, any Rider on Sunday doomed the Lady Retrievers, as career goal. around the net and scored UMBC’s only goal of improvement has yet to show in the conference they lost both games and saw their record drop to “It was just a rebound off the goalie, and I was the game but was injured on the play when she standings. 1-7. at the right place at the right time,” said Garnet. landed hard on her chest. Part of the problem for a Retriever defense Longwood’s defense clamped down, however, “I’m hurting a little bit right now, but Alexander Pyles is the Sports Editor for The that was left reeling after early lapses in weekend the Retrievers were shut out the rest of the way. I’ll recover,” said Carter, who plays with an Retriever Weekly. He can be reached for comment at games can be traced to the lack of continuity at Sunday was more of the same, with Rider inflammatory chest condition. “I just kind of [email protected]. the goalkeeper position. While the offense has scoring two quick goals in the first half. Poor had difficulty executing on attack plays, the team execution throughout the first half doomed the has also struggled to find a full-time starter at Retriever offense, and Rider’s disciplined approach goal, where a goalie-by-committee approach has around the goal proved to be more than a run- been used for the past two weeks, with displaced ragged defense and the two-headed goalie of Tag senior goalkeeper Kat Tag sharing time with junior and Benitez could handle. Ashley Benitez. Even when the Retrievers had opportunities, Despite wishing for the luxury of a full-time they were unable to capitalize. UMBC had a goalie, head coach Lauren Fuchs does not see the chance to change the momentum of the game late position as fixed right now. in the first half when forward Rebekah Krolus had “Both [Tag and Benitez] are very good goalies, one defender to beat for a one-on-one opportunity each with their own strengths and weaknesses,” with the goalie. The junior could not control the said Fuchs after Sunday’s game. “I’d like one to ball, however, and Rider senior goalkeeper Krysta step up, but that hasn’t happened yet.” Bearish safely kicked the shot away. Julie Moore Tag had started every game this season at goal would have a chance a little later. “We’re getting until Sunday, when Benitez was tabbed for the plenty of opportunities, it’s just up to us to finish,” start. The junior was forced to leave the game in said senior captain Julie Moore. the first half after becoming ill. Fuchs echoed her player’s attitude. Matt Eller [Retriever Staff] “It’s a shame because we would have liked to “We have chances, but we have lots of Ball Control: Sophomore Emily Smith (15) was unable to slow the Longwood and Rider offense last weekend. get a longer look at her,” said Fuchs. “As of right young players that get caught up in the moment