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The Guardian, October 31, 2012 Wright State University CORE Scholar The Guardian Student Newspaper Student Activities 10-31-2012 The Guardian, October 31, 2012 Wright State University Student Body Follow this and additional works at: https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/guardian Part of the Mass Communication Commons Repository Citation Wright State University Student Body (2012). The Guardian, October 31, 2012. : Wright State University. This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Activities at CORE Scholar. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Guardian Student Newspaper by an authorized administrator of CORE Scholar. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 1111 1112 11/3 THU FRI SAT STATE E AM Clguds/ Partly Partly W IGHT UNIVERSllY PM t;un Cloudy Cloudy DUNBAR LIBRARY OCT 3 2012 48°32· WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY'S CAMPUS NEWSPAPER ober 31, 2012 Issue No. 10 Vol 49 An SMA All-American Newspaper Illustration by .Jonathon Waters/The Guardian 2 The Guardian October 31., 2012 E • Wind Down: 2-3 p.m. 148 Millett Hall Editor-in-Chief Advertising Representatives 0 (.) CAMPUS International Coffee Hour- Indoor Phone: 77 5-5534 Phone: 775-5537 <1i c: Games: 3-4 p.m. E190 Stl:ldent Union Chelsea Hall David McNeely • WSU Men's Basketball vs. Central Matthew Fisher State (Exhibition): 7-9 p.m. Nutter News Editor ~ EVENTS Kelsey Buettner ~ ............................. Center Chelsea Burns aJ ::s • "She's a Bad Mama Jamma" Zeta Phi Fax: 775-5535 'OD Beta Informational: 7:15-9 p.m. E163 F~atures Editor ~ Wednesday, Oct. 31 ...... A Student Union Megan Constable • Global Matrix Ill: An International ~ "Funny Girl": 8-11 p.m. Festival 3: Print Exhibition: now until Dec. 9, Sports Editor The Guardian is printed weekly during Playhouse, CAC Robert and Elaine Stein Galleries, Joe Kennard the regular school year. It is published CAC by students of Wright State university in Photography Editor "Funny Girl": 7-10 p.m. Festival Saturday, Nov. 3 Dayton, Ohio. Editorials without bylines Playhouse, CAC • WSU Swimming & Diving vs. Oakland: Lisa Morriss reflect the majority opinion of the edito­ rial board. Views expressed in columns S.A.F.E. Trianing: 7-9 p.m. E156 2-4 p.m. WSU Natatorium Web Editor Student Union • "Funny Girl": 2-5 p.m. and 8-11 p.m . cartoons and advertisements are those of Festival Playhouse, CAC Kaycee Hallett the writers, artists, and advertisers. Thursday, Nov. 1 • Junior Recital: Emily Schulte, soprano News Writers The Guardian reserves the right to & Ruth Mappes, soprano: 8 p.m. Bolinga Game Night: 5-9 p.m. Jessica Schirtzinger censor or reject advertising copy in accor­ Recital Hall, CAC Bolinga Center Brandon Semler dance with any present or future advertis­ • "Let's Talk About Sex": 6:15-8 p.m . ing acceptance rules established by The Features Writer 066 University Hall Sunday, Nov. 4 Guardian. All contents contained herein • "Funny Girl": 7-10 p.m. Festival • "Funny Girl": 2-5 p.m. Festival Kristina Thomas are the express property of The Guardian. Copyright privileges revert to the writ- Playhouse, CAC Playhouse, CAC Sports Writer • Global Matrix Ill Opening and Gallery ers, artists and photographers of specific • IFC Karaoke: 7-10 p.m. Student Charles Grove Union Atrium Talk with Craig Martin of Purdue works after publication. Copyright 2012 • WSU Women's Basketball vs . University Photographer The Guardian, Wright State University. All Indianapolis (Exhibition): 7-9 p.m. • WSU Women's Basketball vs . Jason Baldwin rights reserved. Nutter Center Cedarville (Exhibition): 3-5 p.m. Nutter • Invisible Children: 7:30-9:30 p.m . Center Graphics Manager 120 Medical Science Building • Gold Plus Series: Holidays in the Jonathon Waters Heartland: 7:30 p.m. Benjamin and • Ladies Appreciation: 7:30-9:30 p.m . Business Manager E163 Student Union Marion Schuster Performing Arts Center, Dayton Jared Holloway Friday, Nov. 2 Distribution Manager Tuesday, Nov. 6 • Rec Fit Happy Hour: 11 a.m.-2 p.m . Erin Hoffman ASSOCIATED Theta Phi Alpha's Blood Drive: 10 Rec Center, Student Union • COLLEGIATE a.m.-2 p.m. Student Union Atrium Marketing/Promotions Manager • WSU Service Knitting Circle: 12-1 PRESS p.m: 162 Millett Hall Elizabeth Marshall Student shares musical talent New exhibit opens in CAC Evie M. Warner "I was like, really? It's a library!" Evie M. Warner Contributing Writer Newman said. "It's kind of loud." Contributing Writer [email protected] "I was the first to call him Accordion [email protected] Kid," Neroscience Professor Thomas L. Brown, Ph.D, said. He knows Newman Some people play guitar, others like A new exhibit will bring international from his work in the labs in the Health to play piano. For one graduate student art to WSU. The Robert and Elaine Stein Sciences building and as an occasional in pharmacology and toxicology, he likes Galleries in the Creative Arts Center will mentor. the accordion. host the exhibit, called "Global Matrix However, there is more to Newman than Mackey Newman took up the Ill: An International Print Exhibition." just one of the three accordions he likes to instrument as an undergraduate The exhibit is in partnership with Purdue tinker with and occasionally stroll around student to impress a girl. Today, he University Galleries of West Lafayette, campus wearing. He also plays the piano. takes it with him all over campus, even Indiana. He owns nearly a hundred keyboards of into the nearby Meijer.He never ceases "We have two different things going on," various sizes, guitars, basses, a ukulele, to be amused when people stop and Michelle Anthony, graduate assistant for pan flutes and a clarinet. ask hrm to play his accordion. However, the WSU gallery, said. "I just got a trombone," Newman said. when a Dunbar library worker asked him Anthony explained that in addition to "No idea how to work that; but trying it." to play something, it came as a shock. displaying local artists print creations and international artist such as Jaana Paulus Newman got the collecting bug from his the international print pieces that are of Finland, Yuji Hiratsuka of the United dad who collected guitars. When asked if a part of Purdue's traveling exhibit, the States arid Eva Pietzcker of Germany. he might be obsessed, Newman played it gallery still has the experimental gallery "We try as best as we can to get our down. He is more than willing to sell his that displays artwork by students. Anthony name out there and tell people we're musical collection to any interested parties said every exhibjt put in the gallery is here," Anthony said. "But when we're open and would like to do so on Ebay. free and open to the public. Professor of we still get people that say, 'I've been here Also, twice a year his parents put on a Art and Art History Kim Vito curate9 the for three years and didn't even know you guitar convention where people can sell exhibit. were here."' - or buy their guitars, amps, effects, etc. Purdue's pamphlet describes the Global Newman takes his keyboards purchased Matrix as a contemporary review of fine For more information on the from a local Goodwill and re-sells them at art printmaking in media from around new exhibitR:o to the event. the world. The prints on display include The Guardian Online. Newman invites Wright State students to check out what the convention has to offer. The next Ohio Guitar Show is in January. For more information go to http:// www.ohioguitarshows.com/. To subscribe to their quarterly magazine go to http:// Mackey Newman photobyEvieM. WarnerContributingWriter www.guitardigest.com. The Guardian 3 October 31, 2012 E 0 (.) a.) ·=c they stand NEWS -~ Where .............................. "E ca ::::s Kaycee Hallett 'OJ) jobs ~... Web Editor • Eliminate tax breaks for companies :1E ha llett. [email protected] hat outsource jobs overseas and ~ provide incentives for companies that The President of the United States create American jobs defines our relations with the world and • Permanent middle class tax cuts influences where America will go and what • Double exports and create one we will do in the next four years. That's million new manufacturingjobs why it is important for voters to make an • Create a new network of 15-20 informed decision about whom they vote manufacturing innovation institutes to into office. bring together business and research There are some major issues at work universities to ensure the next in this election and with all the political generation of products are invented and jargon being bounced back and forth made in America from both Presidential candidates it can • Calling on Congress to build on be hard to keep track of where either of our success as the world's leading them stand on the issues. Provided here manufacturer in high tech batteries and is a detailed look on where President to extend tax credits that support clean Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney energy manufacturing stand on some of the key issues of this • Standing up for American campaign. workers and businesses in the global Mitt Romney Americans to compete and succeed. His spurious litigation marketplace, taking on China's unfair *Education: steps to do this are: Stop Runaway Federal Barack Obama trade practices through a new trade • Allow low income and special needs Spending and Debt; Reform the Nation's *Education: enforcement unit to level the playing students to choose which school to attend Tax Code to Increase Growth and Job • Reward responsible students by field by making Title I and IDEA funds portable Creation; Reform Entitlement Programs to fighting
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