onnectionThe Schoolcraft VolumeC 25 Issue 05 Serving the Schoolcraft Community for 25 years November 7, 2011 SC men's soccer The script flips settles an old score By Mandy Getschman were looking to settle a time winding down, it was Layout & Design Editor year-old score. Cincinnati State’s turn to During the first half feel the pressure of facing On Halloween of 2010, of play, Schoolcraft goal- a top-ranked opponent. Schoolcraft College, keeper Scott Shewfelt Only moments after the th ranked 4 in the nation, misplayed a ball in the 37th Lobo goal, another Surge faced Cincinnati State minute leading to an easy player was hit with a Technical & Community Surge score. It would be red card and sent to the rd College, then ranked 3 , the only mistake Shewfelt bench. The Ocelots held in the Region 12 cham- would make. a two-man advantage pionship game. During “This team has a lot of heading into overtime. that game, Schoolcraft pride and resiliency,” said During the first over- took a first half lead only Ocelot Coach Rick Larson. time period, Cincinnati to have the Cincinnati Trailing in the second began to crack under State Surge score twice half, Schoolcraft pressed the strain of a sustained in the second half and the attack. Ocelot players Ocelot attack as yet end the Ocelots’ season. grew frustrated as their another player was ejected Cincinnati State would shots continued to sail via a red card. By the go on to finish second wide of the net. Those that time the second over- Photos by Mandy Getschman overall in the Div. I with a made it on net were harm- time period started, the After seizing the loss in the national cham- lessly turned away by the Surge were desperate to pionship. Surge goalkeeper. avoid losing. Down three title of Region 12 Flash forward to the Tension continued to players, the inevitable champions, the present and it was the mount until, in the 61st happened when Lobo took victorious Ocelots Ocelots once again minute, a Cincinnati State a Brent McIntosh pass continue to focus squaring off with the player was red carded and and scored in the fourth on protecting Surge in the Region 12 ejected from the game. minute of the second over- their unblemished championship game. This Even with a one-player time period. Schoolcraft record. time Schoolcraft came in advantage, the Surge con- College won the Region ranked #1 in the nation tinued to foil the Ocelot 12 championship 2-1 and perfect at 20-0 in attack. The Ocelots finally and avenged their bitter News .......................2 the regular season while pulled even when mid- Halloween defeat from the Editorials ...............12 Cincinnati State boasted fielder Marco Lobo – the year prior. Campus Life ...........8 a 16-5 record and a lone SC scorer in the 2010 “They take pride in ranking of #12 nationally. championship game – winning,” said Larson. A&E ....................... 18 While Cincinnati State took a pass from Jonathon Schoolcraft College will Sports ....................24 players were looking for Heslop and tied the game advance to the NJCAA INSIDE a return to the national st Diversions .............28 CONTACT US in the 81 minute. North Central District [email protected] tournament, the Ocelots With the game tied and finals on Nov. 5. Photo Story ...........32 734-462-4422 2 the Schoolcraft connection N ews November 7, 2011 Crisis averted The story of how Netflix split... and then didn't By Ramon Razo News Editor shows directly to customers PCs, Wii, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The video rental world was in an It would seem that Netflix had a uproar when DVD-by-mail company good thing going. With a huge follow- Netflix announced it was splitting its ing, and a plethora of DVD titles in its subscription plans, requiring subscrib- library, Netflix was an ever expanding ers to shell out double the money they wealth of entertainment. Hastings was used to. Shortly afterward, Netflix considered by many to be a marketing announced that they were splitting genius. Then, out of nowhere, some- into two different companies which thing happened. would require subscribers to maintain two separate accounts, one for DVDs One company, two directions by mail and another for streaming In an email sent out in July, custom- movies. Customers and pundits were ers were informed that, instead of disappointed and confused by the paying $8 each month for streaming announcements. movies and an additional $2 for each Then Netflix announced they were DVD delivered, subscribers would now well as the rise in competition. Looking of the single website and the single not going to split. be required to pay $8 for streaming to get out of the business of mailing service,” said Steve Swasey, a Netflix So what now? Will subscribers still and $8 for DVDs, a total of $16 a month. DVDs, Hastings sent out an email to spokesperson. subscribers informing them that Netflix be required to pay for two different This angered a lot of Netflix customers. Going forward accounts? How much will each plan be? would be splitting into two services, Some feel Netflix created a monopoly In a press release, Hastings said With this inconvenient new plan, will with Netflix being the streaming service on the video rental business. “They’ve he believes that “there is a differ- the “watch instantly” video library be and Qwikster being the service that almost run all the other rental places ence between moving quickly […] and expanded? What is the future of Netflix? out of business and now they have the handled the DVDs by mail. However, Qwikster never saw the light of day. The moving too fast, which is what we did freedom to raise their prices however in this case.” Success of a vision high they want,” said Lori McDonough, company experienced immediate back- Netflix was established in the late lash and a loss of 800,000 subscribers in Some of the details of flip-flop split a Schoolcraft student. are still up for grabs. There were talks ‘90s. Co-founder Reed Hastings was Many considered returning to the third quarter of 2011. With no end motivated to start the business after of the exodus in sight, Hastings had to about Qwikster potentially offering alternative sources, like Red Box and video game rentals as well. Swasey returning his copy of “Apollo 13” to a traditional video stores. Netflix has backtrack. video rental store and being charged “It is clear that for many of our says this is still to be determined. affected brick-and-mortar stores but As Netflix tries to press forward, a late fee. Fast forward to 2009 and not to the degree people would think. members, two websites would make Netflix was boasting a whopping things more difficult, so we are going some things good and bad are seen “Out of all the video stores, we’re it its future. This winter, Netflix is 100,000 titles and well over 10 million doing the best,” said Amanda Allie, to keep Netflix as one place to go for subscribers. Customers make a list, streaming and DVDs,” wrote Hastings expecting to remove Disney and Sony an employee at the Farmington Hills owned films from their library, due to or queue, of movies they want to see. Family Video. on Netflix’s blog, Oct. 10. “This means Each time the subscriber sends back no change: one website, one account, failed negotiations with channel Starz. one DVD, the next in the list is sent The fallout one password … in other words, no However, Netflix has worked through out. Customers can also keep the Those at Netflix have sighted the Qwikster. While the July price change a deal with DreamWorks animation, as DVDs as long as they want. Netflix increase in price as an attempt to was necessary, we are now done with well as a deal allowing them to stream also features the ability to stream a combat the ever-escalating cost of price changes.” shows from AMC Networks. There are wide library of movies and television streaming content from film studios, as “We underestimated the appeal also talks of Netflix starting its own original programming. Clean kilowatts Solar Ypsi promotes local renewable energy By Ashi Arora & Ramon Razo Staff Writer & News Editor The debate between using renew- (a personal friend of Strenski’s) won usage of the solar able, clean energy sources versus a grant from the State of Michigan to energy. So far, the non- renewable fossil fuels is a hot put a solar installation on the build- website boasts button issue these days. A big part of ing. Strenski admits that he didn’t just over $1200 President Obama’s original campaign know anything about solar panels dollars saved. promise was to invest $150 billion over before he and the volunteers went to The goal of the next 10 years in the research and work on the food co-op. With the help SolarYpsi is the implementing of green jobs. There of DTE, they were able to get all the to make a are many nations that already use hardware necessary to install of the majority of both fossil and alternative fuels. It has panels. Ypsilanti a become apparent, with the amount “In Michigan … the sun is right “solar destina- of fossil fuels on Earth decreasing, over you’re panels, perpendicular, tion.” that alternative sources of power for four hours a day,” said Strenksi “If you did an are needed. By finding renewable demonstrating the sun’s trajectory Internet search in resources, the United States could over the state.