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Westminster’s Student Newspaper - Since 1884
volume CXXX
Friday, September 27, 2013
12 pages
Sorority promotes anti-hazing message
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Sisters of Phi Mu sorority worked all week to educate campus on the dangers and ramifications of hazing activities within
organizations, both Greek and non-Greek
By: Raychel Webster
Staff Writer
Phi Mu Sorority hosted
Anti-Hazing
Prevention
Week Sept. 23-27.
Throughout the week,
the sisters worked to promote awareness of what
hazing is and how to prevent it from happening
within the organization and
throughout campus.
Hazing is defined as the
practice of rituals involving
humiliation, abuse or harassment as a way of initiating a person into a group.
Hazing can be something as
simple as an older member
in an organization asking a
newer member to perform
a task, such as driving them
somewhere or getting them
food.
People who are hazed
may deal with severe consequences. On the individual
level, a person can experience emotional distress or
even physical harm. The
reputation of an organization can be damaged, and
it can face legal sanctions.
The ramifications can also
hurt the community.
Sarah Waszyn, Phi Mu
Social/Risk Chair, planned
the
awareness
week.
Throughout the week, stu-
dents had the opportunity
to sign a pledge against
hazing, and “titans don’t
haze” bracelets were given
out. Phi Mu also hosted
an event the evening of the
Sept. 26 where Gina Vance
and Scott “Scooter” Renninger spoke on the topic
of hazing.
“Sometimes you don’t
realize you’re being hazed,
so it is important to make
sure everyone knows what
this means,” Waszyn said.
“Students need to know
that hazing is not on the
agenda here on campus.
Waszyn explained that
the emphasis placed on
anti-hazing is essential to
maintaining the community aspect. It is important
that freshmen and independents know that this is a
safe place, she stressed.
“We treat new members the same way that we
expect to be treated; with
friendship and respect,”
Waszyn said. “If they experience something that
causes them to feel uncomfortable, it needs to be reported.”
Teresa Whetstone holds
the position of Phi Director and is responsible for
assisting provisional members through the process of
becoming initiated sisters.
New members, while encouraged, are not required
to attend meetings and
events so as to remove any
type of pressure that can be
associated with joining a
new organization.
“As a campus community we have a responsibility
to each other to recognize
and stop hazing wherever
we may witness it, and to
be able to do that, we must
be able to recognize it first,”
Whetstone said. “Joining
a group such as a sorority,
fraternity or sports team is
about inclusions and being
a part of something that is
larger than you.”
Whetstone also notes
that it is important for
older members to be aware
that newer members should
be treated with the utmost
respect.
Fraternities on campus
also agree that hazing is an
issue that must be treated
with importance.
“Hazing is something
that a lot of people tend to
overlook or underestimate,
and that is a serious problem,” Adam Stahon, Alpha
Sigs President, said. “One
of the main benefits to joining a fraternity is the idea of
brotherhood; and brotherhood and hazing do not go
together.”
Stahon noted the nega-
tive results of hazing.
“Hazing causes feelings of resentment and distrust and those feelings are
in direct conflict with our
mission to create a chapter
built of cooperation and
brotherhood,” Stahon said.
“One way that we combat
this is by respecting each
other and honors each person’s dignity regardless of
whether they are a pledge
or a brother.”
President of the IFC
and brother of Sigma Phi
Epsilon, Rocky Radeff
stressed how Greek life on
campus is different than
what most people think.
“There is a huge stigma
that Greek life is all about
partying and drinking,”
Radeff said. “Since Greek
life is a huge part of the social scene on campus, it is
an assumption that in order
to fit in, you must be a part
of the party scene.”
Organizations on campus strive to promote fair
treatment of their members
and focus on the common
goal of benefiting others.
“Being in a fraternity,
we’re the first thing that
comes to mind when people think of hazing,” Radeff
said. “But being a part of
an organization is about
giving back to campus, the
community and bringing
people together.”
Students "drink" in new winery Ceiling falls
in Art Dept.
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By: Karen Evans
Staff Writer
There is now a winery
within walking distance
from the college for those
of legal drinking age. The
Fractured Grape is New
Wilmington’s new winery.
It is located centrally
on Neshannock Ave and S.
Market St. and has seemingly already brought in a
steady flow of townsfolk
and even some students
since their opening on
Sept. 6.
The winery offers a
special deal are turning
21 soon; your first glass of
wine is $1 at the winery as
long as you take your Titan
card and ID. Also, West-
In this
edition...
minster staff gets free tastings of all wines.
Taylor Craig, sales and
marketing supervisor of the
winery, is a Westminster
alumnus.
“Westminster was good
to me when I was there so I
want to hook people from
Westminster up, give back
to them,” Craig said.
The store is set up so
that people can go, grab
a glass of wine and relax.
There are tables and chairs
set up inside the winery as
well as a patio area where
people can sit outside.
“You can easily go
down there and just chat
and hang out with a friend
and catch up, which I think
is a nice atmosphere,” se-
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nior Amber Hill said.
The chairs are comfortable enough to study in or
maybe stay and write a paper in.
“People will start coming in at 4pm because they’ll
want to have a glass of wine
and write a paper or something,” Craig said. “That’s
something you can’t get at
the library or you can’t get
at Mugsies. Frankly when I
was in college, wine was the
last thing on my mind, but
then again we didn’t have a
winery.”
With the slogan “Drink
for the Cure”, the winery
donates towards a different charity for each bottle
of wine ranging from heart
disease and hospice to the
country’s veterans. About
two dollars for every bottle
goes toward the designated
charity.
“You take something
that a lot of people look at
as being bad, drinking all
the time, and you turn it
into ‘well, if they’re going to
buy it anyway, why not take
a percentage of what they
spend on that and donate it
to charity,’” senior Brandon
Mosley said.
They only sell seven different wines right now, each
with a fun name to accompany the medical theme.
Students’ favorite wines are
Resuscitation, Relaxation,
and Mediation. To taste
the wines, there is a limit
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By: Kendall Williams
Staff Writer
At the beginning of the
year, a classroom ceiling
in the art department collapsed.
Senior fine arts major
Steve Totin witnessed the
incident.
“I went in there [the
art classroom] at night and
a good portion was falling
in,” Totin said.
The lower-hanging tiled
ceiling is supported by metal wiring, which is attached
to the actual ceiling above
it. The upper section of the
ceiling only becomes visible
if one were to remove the
tile directly below it. According to Physical Plant
director, Owen Wagner, the
wiring came loose, causing
the ceiling to collapse.
“The wire support
above a portion of the ceiling came loose from the
ceiling above it,” Wagner
said.
The situation was
quickly looked into and repaired by individuals at the
Physical Plant.
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Heavy smoke rose from
the Westgate Mall in Nairobi Kenya Monday Sept.
23 2013. Multiple large
blasts have rocked the mall
where a hostage siege is in
its third day. Associated
Press reporters on the scene
heard multiple blasts and a
barrage of gunfire. Security
forces have been attempting to rescue an unknown
number of hostages inside
the mall held by al-Qaidalinked terrorists.
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Perspectives
Breaking the mold Life at the crossroads
A column of one's own
Melissa Dubrawka
Editor-in-Chief
We are all under an extreme amount of pressure.
Whether it be from
schoolwork, extracurriculars, or social engagements
things can start to add up
for all of us. Eventually the
stress begins to mount as we
take on more obligations.
But what if there was
one pressure that we didn’t
have to undergo on a daily basis? What if we could
wake up every morning and
not have to worry about
what our bodies looked
like? What if we didn’t put
such a focus on what size
our jeans were and how
many slices of pizza we can
have at lunchtime?
Folks, what I’m talking about is the pressure to
have the “perfect body,” the
pressure to look a certain
way because there is some
unspoken rule in our society that if we even have the
slightest pocket of fat then
we are not normal.
I’d just like to put a
disclaimer here that I am
not telling you to stop
working out or going to
your Zumba classes. I respect people that have that
drive and ambition to keep
themselves healthy. I am
not anti-fitness. And I do
understand that obesity is
now technically considered
a medical disease and is not
something we should strive
for.
What I am against is the
idea that we all have to fit
like them because we are
supposed to understand
them as the accepted standard of beauty. Celebrities
are constantly criticized in
the media for their weight
gains, when they really just
gain enough weight to look
like girls like me (Kelly
Clarkson, for example—
leave her alone! She is beautiful!).
Take the show, Say Yes
to the Dress (forgive me,
it’s a guilty pleasure). It’s
a show about shopping for
wedding dress on TLC. It
has a spin-off show called
Say Yes to the Dress: Big Bliss.
You guessed it, this show is
where they feature the plussized brides and their hunt
for the wedding dress. Is
this really necessary? Why
do we need the separation?
Don’t these women
have the same shopping
experiences as smaller-sized
women when trying to find
the perfect dress? Yes. Do
they have different kind of
weddings? No. Do they fall
in love differently? I really
don’t think so.
This blatant separation
of what is considered “normal,” compared to what
is “special interest” or out
of the norm demonstrates
how our society considers
people who are larger to be
un-human. So much that
they can’t even be on the
same show as the “normal”
people.
This doesn’t just go for
women either. Men face the
pressures to be thin or muscular and fit certain standards as well. I don’t notice
it as much because as a
woman I am biased toward
my sex, but truly we are all
victim to these pressures.
So next time you look
in the mirror and frown,
remember that it doesn’t
have to be that way. Confidence is the most beautiful feature anyone can have.
You don’t have to fit a mold.
Just be you. If you keep this
in mind and emulate it,
people might just start to
believe it too.
Redefine beauty everywhere you go, and you
might just begin to redefine
yourself. I know I’ll be trying to.
into a certain mold when
it comes to our bodies. We
all can’t be size twos or be
so ripped that we can tear
a phonebook in half. So
many of us obsess over the
way our bodies are shaped,
wishing we could lose that
extra ten pounds or fit into
the next pant size down.
And most of the time, the
way our bodies are shaped
is perfectly fine.
I’ll be the first to admit
that I fall victim to this anxiety too. Some mornings I’ll
spend 20 minutes to a half
hour trying to figure out
to wear. I’ll stare at myself
the mirror with each outfit on and fret that I don’t
look good enough. It’s a
frustrating process, and I
usually end up being late to
anywhere I have to be that
morning.
This is something I’m
trying to overcome, and
I’m slowing getting there. I
know I will probably never
be impossibly thin, and I’m
becoming comfortable with
that. I never was that way,
and things have been fine
for me so far. I mean let’s
face it, the last time I was a
size two was probably when
I was age two.
But accepting yourself
is a difficult process when
we have so many factors
telling us that we shouldn’t
be okay with the way we’re
shaped.
Magazines and television ads are riddled with
Melissa is a senior
impossibly thin models English major with a mi(whose bodies have been nor in public relations.
airbrushed, might I add) She does not drink coffee.
that taunt us into looking
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Real Talk
Alexandra Pasquarelli
Photography Editor
There are three things
I remember most vividly
from the movie Castaway.
One, Tom Hanks’ dramatic
weight loss; two, the famous “WILSON!!!” scene,
in which Tom Hanks professes his love for a friendly
volleyball; and three, the
ending that still has me
thinking.
Sorry for the spoiler,
but this ending gives us
no closure, as we see Tom
Hanks return to his home
after being rescued and left
at a literal crossroads to decide where to move next
with his life. He is essentially starting fresh—a new
man with a new life ahead
of him.
But what does he decide to do? We will never
know, as the movie ends
before we see him make
his decision. So, what does
this say about decisiveness?
I want to know where Tom
Hanks goes. I want to know
if he made the right decision. I want some answers!
Of course, I’m getting
fired up about this because
the crossroads are not only
reserved for men who return home after four years
of being shipwrecked and
now have to decide what
to do with their lives after
rejoining society. The crossroads are very real to us too.
As young adults, we’re at
an age where almost every
moment in life puts us at a
crossroads because there is
still so much to figure out.
Now, some crossroads are
more important than others. Like the crossroads of
post-grad life—those are
pretty important. It’s where
we decide what we want
to do with “the rest of our
lives” and “who we want to
become.” Lots of pressure, I
know, but it’s unavoidable.
What I’m getting down
to here is the idea we all
fear—the unknown. Like
Tom Hanks, we will all
eventually be left at the
crossroads. Though our
crossroads are a result of
graduation, and his were
a result of being at sea for
years, it’s the same deal. The
crossroads represent several different options for us,
each one being something
uncertain because we never
really know what lies at the
end of the path until we
venture down it.
So it becomes rather
scary when we realize that
we can’t sit at the crossroads forever—we have to
choose where to go from
there. We’re faced with so
many questions:
“what
path do I choose?” “What
if I’m unhappy with the
decision I make?” “What
do I do now??” But here’s
something to think about:
what’s to stop us from turning back if we don’t like the
path?
Though I’m super
scared of reaching the postgrad crossroads, I know
that there’s a very slim
chance that I’ll go down
the wrong path when I get
there because there really is
no wrong path to take. The
beautiful thing about making choices is that we can
try something that we think
we like, realize we don’t
like it, and then choose to
move on. We can go down
any path we want, as many
times as we want.
I’m not saying this will
be an easy feat. Decisions
are big stuff reserved for the
grown-up world that we
don’t like to talk about. But
we’ve got to start making
them sometime. The movie
ended before we saw it, but
we know that Tom Hanks
had to make some sort of
decision toward his future.
It’s the only way.
So when my time comes
at the crossroads, I’ll boldly
make a decision about
where my life will lead. I
may like it, and I may not.
But I know I can always try
another path if I can’t find
happiness down the first.
And, if all else fails, at least
I’ll have a volleyball in the
passenger’s seat to keep me
company.
Alex is a junior English major and PR minor,
and, while she loves Castaway, her favorite Tom
Hanks film is Saving Private Ryan.
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Campus News
Theatre Westminster hosts festival
By: Pano Constantine
Staff Writer
Theatre Westminster
is performing its inaugural
10-Minute Play Festival
on Oct. 3-6. This festival
consists of eight 10-minute
plays that will be performed
one after another.
Typically, at this point
of the year, the theater department will put on a musical. However, they opted
in favor of something new
this semester. The eight
plays they are doing are:
“I love you, I love you”
by Josh Levine, “Fight or
Flight” by Rey Binstock,
“Candy likes your status”
by Matthew Henderson, “I
got you babe” by Nik Nemec, “iPride” by Marina Marcello, “Nothing to keep ya”
by Matthew Bickley Smith,
“Oedipus, the prequel”
by Matt Fotis, and “Short
memory” by David Meyers.
While 10-minute play
festivals are new to campus,
they are by no means a new
phenomenon. Terry Jachimiak, Assistant Professor
of Theatre and Faculty Designer explained that there
have been a lot of changes
in the theater department
and that they plan to host
a 10-minute festival every
other year. During the off
year, the plan would be to
perform a musical.
The theater department sent out requests for
10 minute plays all over the
country. A large number of
playwrights responded, and
a total of 49 plays were sent
in. After this, the department selected six professors and faculty members
to read all of the plays and
rank their top 15. After the
top 15 were selected, they
were sent to Terry Jachimiak where he whittled down
the number to eight.
The festival has already
been a success in theater
terms because 35 students
showed interest and auditioned for parts in the
plays. Thirty-five is the
largest number of students
who have tried ever for a
production before.
Jachimiak has high
hopes from this production.
“Hopefully
students
will see the festival as a way
of having their plays performed,” Jachimiak said.
In fact, before sending
out requests for plays all
over the country, the theater department first sent
out requests for plays within the Westminster community.
There are many reasons
to attend this festival, but
Dr. Andrew Ade, professor
of English, can come up
with one reason.
“The actors play juicy
roles, fun roles…it makes
for a fun experience,” Ade
said.
He jokingly explained
that attending the festival
satisfies a co-curricular for
first year Inquiry classes.
“A lot of the plays relate
to the age group,” Jackimiak said.
For example, “Candy
likes your status” is the story
of two girls who communicate to each other through
their Facebook statuses. “I
got you babe” is about two
women who are at an abortion clinic.
Dr. Ade, who was one
of the professors who read
the plays, explained they
are geared toward a younger
generation.
This illustrates how
relevant the themes are to
college students in general.
The playwrights are relatively young authors as well.
There will be variety in
the 10 Minute Play Festival.
Contributed photo
Instead of Theatre Westminster's typical fall musical, a 10-Minute Play Festival will
be put on, offering the audience a variety of short acts with modern themes.
Not only that, but if the attendees do not like a play,
they know it will be over in
10 minutes, and the plays
will keep starting afresh.
Whether
students co-curriculars, the 10 Minwould go for the sheer love ute Play Festival promises
of theater and the arts or to be a good time for all.
because they need to find a
way to satisfy their Inquiry
Professor shares creative work
By: Maggie Hess
News Editor
Students and faculty
spent an hour captivated
by the reading of several
creative pieces written by
Dr. David Swerdlow at
the Bleasby Colloquium in
Mueller Theater on Thursday, Sept. 19.
The Department of
English and public relations
hosts monthly colloquiums
throughout the school year,
allowing any interested
members of the campus or
community to attend presentations on a variety of
literary subjects. Swerdlow,
chair of the department,
kicked off this year’s Bleasby series by reading several
poems and excerpts from an
unpublished novel.
Dr. Kristianne Vaccaro,
associate professor of Eng-
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lish, introduced her former
writing professor with anecdotes from her time as his
student and a litany of just
a few his accomplishments.
“I’ll admit that I was
initially stumped about
what to say in my introduction,” Vaccaro said. “But
soon enough, I realized that
I needed to convey how important Dr. Swerdlow has
been to my ongoing reflections on language. He is,
more often than not, both
inspired and inspiring.”
When
Swerdlow
stepped in front of his sizable audience, he commanded all attentions with
an explanation of his personal motivation for writing.
“As a poet, I try to sing
in the dark,” Swerdlow said.
“Singing in the dark”
is Swerdlow’s way of mak-
ing sense of life. He elaborated on his statement,
saying that the phrase was
a criticism he had given to
another author; he believes
writers actually speak about
themselves when they try to
speak about other writers.
In order to demonstrate
his meaning, Swerdlow read
a couple of his own poems.
Some were from his published collection, and some
were part of a collection
that may be published in
the future. One was even
an example of what he
called bad poetry, and he
described it simply but assuredly.
“It stinks,” Swerdlow
said. “It’s not good.”
With the same amount
of confidence, Swerdlow
presented excerpts from a
novel-in-process that actually stemmed from his bad
poem. Having never shared
his prose in a public reading, Swerdlow debuted his
creative writing to the privileged attendees that night.
“It was my first poetry
reading, so I didn’t really
know what to expect,” firstyear Erin Hassett said.
Hassett stayed for the
entire colloquium and tried
to get a feel for the reading.
“It’s not my kind of poetry, but he was really good
at presenting it,” Hassett
said. “I liked his confidence
at reading what he wrote
and his honesty with his
stories.”
First-years and faculty
alike were able to benefit
from this night of literary exposure and will have
more opportunities to repeat the experience at the
Bleasby Colloquiums in
coming months.
Senior class gift committe begins fundraising
By: Rachel Shussett
Staff Writer
The
“Westminster
Way” is constantly referenced in casual conversation on campus, and a true
embodiment of it can be
seen through the Senior
Class Gift.
Senior Kalaway Voss
and Marissa Cozza co-chair
the Senior Class Gift Committee, and Amber Scalfari,
a Westminster alumna, advises it. There are currently
twelve students committed
to the SCGC and, according to Scalfari, they are all
amazing, hardworking students. This sentiment was
shown through committee
member Greg McClelland.
“I want one hundred
percent participation from
my group,” McClelland
stated.
The Senior Class Gift is
a fund that goes straight to
helping the school continue
running. Tuition only covers about 70% of what is
needed to continue the Titan legacy, so donations are
incredibly important. They
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allow the school to grant
scholarships.
“A big part of giving
back is enabling people
to start pursuing their
dreams,” Scalfari said. “Being financially burdened
holds you back.”
To keep the tradition
alive, the Senior Class Gift
was created to allow for
scholarships to exist, for departments to continue running and to prevent debts
from piling up too high.
When seniors make donations, they count as their
first alumni gift to the college. In making a donation,
seniors are enabling future
students to pursue their
studies.
When donating, there
are a number of tracks that
money can be designated
to. This year’s SCGC has
chosen the Drinko Center,
which helps to fund undergraduate research for students. Other designations
students can choose from
are The Audio Visual Department, different departments such as biology and
modern languages, athletic
teams, Titan Radio, and
McGill Library. Gifts can
also be made in memory or
in honor of someone that
impacted the giving senior.
Each of the 12 seniors on the committee
have committed to getting
a minimum of 25 gifts,
equaling out to $125 from
each of them. However, in
the long run, there will be
even more money than this
being donated to the Senior
Class Gift. Each committee member is being paired
with an alumnus who will
match whatever amount
the member of the SCGC
raises. The committee will
make double what it could
raise.
“It’s all about what you
can give,” Voss said.
Another goal that has
been set in place by the
committee is that 70% of
donations are made by the
time of the “100 Days until
Graduation Party.” Past SCGCs have not started truly
advertising their cause until the party, but this year’s
committee is being incredibly proactive and making
the majority of donations
occur prior to the party in
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order to maximize their
time and resources.
A perk to making donations is that for every dollar
given, the senior giving will
receive a ticket towards a
raffle for the “100 Days until Graduation Party.” The
raffle winner will receive a
free cap and gown for graduation.
Additionally,
when
students give, they will get
a shout out from @motherfair, the Twitter account
that has been created to
keep students up-to-date
on all the philanthropies
supported by various organizations across campus.
The more money that
is donated, the better the
school looks. In the Phonea-Thon room, there is a
poster with these words
written upon it: “High
alumni giving helps Westminster rank higher in U.S.
News and World Report.
Giving reflects on YOU.”
This sentiment ought to
push seniors to give as
much as they can, in order
to help our school continue
the legacy that makes every
student proud.
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"Muggles" play Quidditch for a cause
By: Laura Seiple
Copy Editor
Broomsticks will soon
fill the quad once more as
Kappa Delta and Phi Kappa Tau gear up to co-host
their second annual Quidditch for the Kids event.
The event, which gives
students the chance to
compete in tournament
style rounds of the classic
Harry Potter game, Quidditch, is scheduled for
Thursday, Oct. 3 at 5 p.m.
Teams of six to eight players may sign up Monday,
Sept. 30 and Tuesday, Oct.
1 in the TUB. Cost is $5
per player.
Played via broomstick,
the object of Quidditch is
to score the most points
before the coveted Golden
Snitch is caught and ends
the game. Players may
earn these points by either
shooting the soccer ball
sized Quaffle into the opposing team’s goals (located
at either side of the pitch)
or by capturing the Golden
Snitch, a tiny, winged ball
worth 150 points. In doing
so, however, players must
simultaneously keep an
eye out for Bludgers, balls
used by the opposing team
to temporarily incapacitate
their rivals and keep them
from scoring.
“It’s kind of like a [combination] of dodge ball,
capture the flag, and…ultimate Frisbee,” Stephanie
Burkus, Kappa Delta’s Vice
President of Community
Service, said.
Phi Kappa Tau President Nicholas Pizzuto said
that the two organizations
were encouraged to bring
back their version of the
game, which differs from
Harry’s only in that it involves less flying and a less
mobile Snitch, after students began expressing re-
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Last year's Quidditch for the Kids event, hosted by Kappa Delta sorority and Phi Kappa
Tau fraternity, was so popular among students that they decided host it again this year.
gret for not participating
the previous year.
“As we were playing
[last year], a lot of people
would come over and just
watch the game and they
would be like, ‘Wow, I really wish that I had signed up
now,’” said Pizzuto. “People
kind of regretted not making a team and joining in
on the fun.”
Kappa Delta President,
Christy Basso, said the organizations would like to
see their numbers double
this year.
“I think our goal, reasonably, was to get 10 teams
signed up,” Basso said. “Because last year, I think we
maybe had 5 teams signed
up altogether, and I think
a couple—I think maybe
two or three of them—were
Kappa Delta and Phi Tau
teams. So we want to get,
ideally, 10 teams. That’s
about where we’re thinking
we want to go.”
At the same time, however, Pizzuto explained that,
while they would like to see
as many participants turn
out and earn as much as
possible for their respective
causes, the numbers are not
altogether that important.
“I mean, the money
definitely goes to a good
cause and, however much
we make, it’s…gonna go
to a great place,” Pizzuto
said. “So, it’s not so much
about the money and more
so about everyone having
a good time, and knowing
that they’re having a good
time for a great cause.”
All proceeds from the
tournament will be split
equally between the organizations’ respective philanthropies. Kappa Delta’s
earnings will benefit Prevent Child Abuse America,
while Phi Kappa Tau’s will
go towards the SeriousFun
Children’s Network, which
hosts camps and programs
designed for children with
serious illnesses.
Pizzuto also noted that
one does not necessarily
need to participate in the
tournament to have a good
time.
“I was unable to participate [last year] because of
work,” Pizzuto said. “But
from what I saw when I
went to go visit, everyone
was just hanging out, having a good time and just
honestly catching up with
each other.”
Senior Melissa Williams would seem to agree.
While Williams did participate in the tournament
last year, she also observed
that spectators, despite not
playing, seemed to get just
as much enjoyment out of
the games as those participating.
“People cheer from the
sidelines too,” Williams
said. “It’s not like you’re
just playing against another
team…The audience gets
into it just as much as the
players.”
Those not playing need
not worry about missing
out on donating to the cause
either. Kappa Delta and Phi
Kappa Tau also plan on
selling Butterbeer, another
(non-alcoholic) Harry Potter staple, throughout the
tournament for a small fee.
The proceeds of which will
also benefit PCAA and the
SeriousFun camps.
The event promises to
be a truly magical evening,
one that all students should
feel encouraged to attend,
whether they choose to
mount broomsticks themselves or simply cheer on
their friends from the sidelines.
SGA prepares to give
back to students
By: Marisa Toensing
Campus Writer
Each semester, Student
Government Association
fills a day with events for
the student body to show
their appreciation.
This event is known as
SGA Day. SGA is the student government association that performs tasks for
the student body and is the
voice on campus.
“We use this day to
show the students that we
appreciate them,” SGA
President Emily Wiest said.
On this day, SGA gives
out free food such as donuts
and coffee for breakfast and
pizza for lunch, and even
offers students free golf cart
rides to classes.
“I like the golf cart
rides because my classes
are on the opposite side of
campus,” sophomore Rachel Hill said. “It’s a day
where I don’t have to walk
as much.”
SGA usually tries to
find new events for SGA
Day to keep students interested. Last semester, they
had deep fried Oreos and
bungee trampolines. This
year, that is not the case.
Golf cart rides and free
food will continue, but as
for new events, there will
not be any due to budget
issues.
SGA planned on having more events, but campus had a lower enrollment
than last year (1,500 down
to 1,200), so they could not
afford it.
SGA Day is a big day
for campus with many
events, but SGA senators
say it isn’t stressful to put
together.
“When everyone is doing their part it goes very
smoothly,”
sophomore
SGA Paul Carswell said.
The students generally enjoy SGA Day and its
many events.
“Last year was pretty
fun because they had a lot
of stuff to do, and they kept
us busy,” Hill said.
Students have been
thinking of events that SGA
could use for the next SGA
day that would include the
entire campus.
“I would like to see
maybe a campus-wide water balloon or paint fight,”
Hill said. “That way the
whole campus would be involved.”
SGA expects a big reception of this event especially because of the free
food, Carswell noted.
SGA day will be on
Oct. 4 from 8 a.m. to 4
p.m.
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Honor society reaches out to campus
By: Emily Williams
Staff Writer
Sigma Tau Delta, the
English honors society,
hosted an all-English social
on Thursday, Sept. 26 at 6
p.m. in the Watto Room.
The event was the first of
its kind.
“English students had an
opportunity to get to know
their professors and peers
outside of the classroom
setting, which will hopefully establish stronger relationships within the department,” President Melissa
Williams said. “We wanted
to focus on strengthening
our own community and
we figured that this was the
best way to do it.”
At the social, everyone
played games such as Blurt
and Taboo in a laidback setting with faculty and fellow
students. There were also
snacks and casual chitchat
throughout the night.
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of free tastings before
you make a decision and
then it is fifty cents for each
additional taste.
“The fact that I only
had to walk down the street
to do it was nice,” Mosley
said. “There are those times
that you really want to have
a drink but the closest place
you have to go is to drive
out to New Castle.”
One of the things about
living in a small town is that
you have to travel at least
ten minutes to grab a sixpack or a bottle of wine. A
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Sigma Tau Delta is the international English honor society. To join, one must be an English
major or minor, have sophomore status, and have a certain cumulative GPA.
English majors and minors mingled during the
night, making new friendships and getting to know
their professors outside of
the classroom.
“Basically, it was just a
party for people who obviously like English,” Vice
President Laura Seiple said.
Dr. Kristianne Kalata
Vaccaro, Assistant Professor of English, was excited
about the social as well.
“It was a great place for
people to meet in a setting
that’ll be much more comfortable, less formal, and
it cultivates a community
for English majors and minors,” Vaccaro said.
As a young organization
on campus, reaching out
to other students can be an
obstacle.
“We are really trying to
think outside of the box,”
winery in such close proximity allows you to buy a
bottle of wine and sit and
enjoy a glass before you go
as well.
“It’s also a lot safer than
driving to a bar to have a
drink,” senior Melissa Dubrawka said. “You can just
walk to a winery and the
wine’s really good, so it’s really convenient.”
The winery is central to
many fraternity houses and
apartments. During the
majority of the week they
are open until ten at night
to by on the way home or
after class. Not only is the
new location convenient,
but it leads to potentially
better life choices such as
not driving drunk.
the year, and they finished
relatively quickly.
Totin frequently uses
these classrooms and is displeased with instability of
the ceiling.
“It looked like either
really cheap ceiling or whoever put it up didn’t install
it right, or maybe a combination of both,” Totin said.
“It’s interesting, because
they [Physical Plant] just
re-did those ceilings.”
Olivia Martin is distressed by the current situation as well.
“I’ve seen construction
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While there was no
physical damage to speak
of, several art students are
less than pleased with this
current situation.
According to Totin, individuals from the Physical
Plant were working on the
ceiling in one of the classrooms at the beginning of
Williams said. “We want
to better the Westminster
English community—and
Westminster campus as
a whole—one event at a
time.”
Especially since it is an
all English exclusive honors society, only English
majors and minors can be
members. Also, to become
a member, a certain GPA
has to be obtained, and
then potential members get
letters in their mailboxes to
invite them to join.
This year, STD’s main
objective is to reach out to
the campus.
“This year so far we've
made great strides in setting
a goal of one campus event
and one fundraising event
each semester,” Williams
said. “We just want to keep
moving forward and bringing awareness of Sigma Tau
Delta on campus.”
They plan on having
more events this year, some
all campus and some just
English or Sigma Tau Delta
related. The organization
plans on having the Poetry
Slam again this year.
“We really liked that so
we want to bring it back,”
Seiple said.
Another idea they are
thinking about doing that
was done last year was go
once a month to a spoken
word café in Pittsburgh,
and may even open that
up to campus. No official
events are set in stone; however, they have other events
and fundraising ideas to get
the whole campus involved
along with the English department.
“As an annual event, we
are hoping it (the All-English Social) will become a
major part of the English
major and minor experience, and may even draw
prospective English students to Westminster campus,” Williams said.
going on in the past couple
weeks but I don’t know anything beyond that,” Martin
said. “The studios are in disrepair and are a semi-awful
work environment.”
According to Wagner
no individuals or artwork
was endangered, and art
classes were not affected.
Wagner said that the
main reason that no artwork was affected was due
to the area in which the
ceiling tiles fell. They had
fallen in such a way that the
only way for an individual
or piece of artwork could
have been affected by them
would be for them to be
positioned in the back corner of the classroom as the
event was occurring.
Art classes are able to
still continue in the classroom in question.
“It’s kind of…sketchy
now. If the ceiling fell down
[once], what if I’m in here
working and it falls down
on me,” Totin said. “One
or two tiles aren’t going to
hurt you, but if the whole
ceiling fell, that could cause
some damage.”
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Lady Titans begin year undefeated
By: Frank Maira
Sports Editor
The Titan women's
tennis team tied with Grove
City with 88 points to finish second in the Presidents'
Athletic Conference, according to the league's annual preseason coaches poll.
Coach Scott Renninger , who is a thirty six
year veteran of the Department of Athletics, leads
the team. This is his ninth
season as women’s tennis
coach. His squad was able
to garner three first-place
votes, as they were crowned
co-champions with Saint
Vincent at last season’s PAC
Women’s Tennis Championship with each team
totaling 49 points for the
season.
The Titans opened up
their season on Aug. 31
when they traveled to Chatham blanking the Cougars,
9-0. Westminster senior
Caitie Hosler turned in an
outstanding performance,
winning a complete shutout at no. 1 singles with a
score of 6-0, 6-0. Also earning a complete shutout for
the Titans was the no. 2
doubles team consisting of
senior Heather Santa and
junior Lauren Fling, who
won 8-0.
With the loss of top seniors Alex Bailey and Jane
Larson, the Titans were in
need of new leaders to step
up. Fling explains who the
girls have been leaning on
to begin the year.
“As a whole we’ve
been determined and willing to put in the work to
bring back another PAC
championship,” Fling said.
“But Caitie has definitely
stepped up into more of a
leadership role this season,
and her play has done the
talking as she was recognized by the PAC for being
the top player of the week
earlier this month.”
Going into Tailgate
Day this past Sunday, the
Lady Titans were able to
start off their season 6-0
overall and 5-0 in PAC play
before facing off against
Thomas More. The Titans
were once again paced by
Catie Hosler who won no.1
singles 6-1, 6-1. Hosler
teamed up with freshman
Mariah Turiano for Westminster’s lone shutout in
doubles with an 8-0 win.
Coach Renninger explains their impact for the
2013 season.
“We lost our 1 and 3
players in Bailey and Larsen
from a year ago, to replace
their production we needed some of the returns to
step it up,” Renninger said.
“We’ve also been able to
throw freshmen out there
and they’ve performed
swimmingly.”
With the win over the
Thomas More Saints, the
Titans remained unbeaten
going into this past Tuesday match with the toughest test to date with a home
match against the 3-2
Grove City Wolverines.
“We will definitely see
what were made of against
Grove City,” Renninger
said. “The girls have worked
extremely hard to start the
season as they’ve put the
time and energy and there
record shows. The key
though is to continue rising
to the occasion.”
That’s exactly what the
Titans did as they defeated
the Wolverines 7-2. With
their latest victory, the Lady
Titans are now in sole possession of first place with a
7-0 record in the PAC and
8-0 overall. Their next conference game could be the
most important, as with a
win over Saint Vincent on
Saturday would have the
Titans sitting pretty atop
the conference going into
the PAC Championship in
October.
Frank is a senior
broadcast
communications major.
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Men's and Women's Soccer battle non-conference schedule
By: Anthony Thomas
Sports Writer
The men’s and women’s
soccer teams continued
nonconference play this
week.
The men’s team competed in two games earning
a 1-1 record. The team was
defeated by Laroche 4-0
in a physical battle. Head
Coach Girish Takar said
was disappointed in the defensive lapse in the second
half.
“ We played well in the
first half,” Takar said. “We
were very aggressive, and in
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Maggie Nikituk sets up to cross to one of her teammates.
the second half they came
out and shifted the momentum of the game.”
All four of the LaRoche
goals were surrendered in
the second half. Sophomore
forward Ethan McCarthy
said he was disappointed
in the loss but believes the
team can move past it.
“It was a tough loss,
but we were able to put that
game in the past, and we
came out and pulled out a
much needed win against
Franciscan,”
McCarthy
said.
The team defeated
Franciscan on the road 4-3
in an offensive battle.
“We know we can score
goals, but we need to stay
more focused on the defensive end and not have as
many lapses,” Takar said.
As the team continues
to prepare for conference
play, McCarthy believes the
team is headed in the right
direction.
“This week was just
another beneficial week to
continue getting better and
preparing us for conference
play,” McCarthy said.
The women’s team
competed in three matchups, earning a 1-2 record
for the week. The team had
a challenging week playing
hard-hitting nonconference
opponents. Coach Takar
believes having tougher
nonconference opponents
will really help out for PAC
play.
“Playing tough schools
like Buffalo State, which is
a larger state school, is beneficial,” Takar said. “They
have very strong and quick
athletes, and the girls did
a very good job compet-
Before
the
games
against Ohio-Wesleyan and
Allegheny, some of the tactics mentioned by Swearingen were once again ball
control and the attitude of
the team heading into the
contests.
“The upbeat mood that
the team has this year has
been benefitting,” Swearingen said. “They’ve been
easy to coach and they have
that desire and motivation
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ing, only surrendering one
goal.”
The team was defeated
by Buffalo State 1-0 and
lost to Franciscan 2-1. The
team defeated LaRoche 1-0.
Senior midfielder Maggie
Nikituk is excited about the
progress the team is making
and believes the team has a
shot at the playoffs.
“We are having stronger performances each
game and achieving better
team chemistry with the
new freshmen class,” Nikituk said. “We are looking
forward to the PAC games
and are aiming towards
making an appearance in
the playoffs this year.”
Volleyball team stays motivated for PAC play
By: Corey Benedict
Sports Writer
If there were such a
thing as a perfect start,
the Titan Volleyball team
would come pretty close.
The Titans’ record so
far in the volleyball season
is 12-3 overall and 3-1 in
PAC play. To put their fast
start in perspective, out of
the 12 games the women
have won, nine the Titans
swept the sets 3-0, and three
against PAC opponents.
In their recent contests, the Titans beat the
Waynesburg Yellow Jackets, the Chatham Cougars,
the Ohio-Wesleyan Bishops
and the Allegheny Gators
three sets to none.
One of the stars during this streak was Megan
Romocean, as she totaled
double digit kills against
the Yellow Jackets and the
Cougars along with 14 kills
against the Bishops. She
capped it all off with 13
kills against the Gators.
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Rebecca Reimer also
totaled double digit kills
against Waynesburg and
Chatham, while she finished seven kills against Allegheny.
Titan head volleyball
coach, Tammy Swearingen,
had positive things to say
about the team while also
explaining why the Titans
have done so well during
the first month of the season, saying ball control was
the key to the success.
“The players have done
a great job with ball control,” Swearingen said.
“We’ve been able to run our
offense and that’s why we’ve
been able to do so well.”
Swearingen said it was
really hard to pick just one
player who impressed her
the most.
“In the game of volleyball, they are all crucial,”
Swearingen said. “Nothing
works well without each
person doing their job.
They’re all in this together.”
to go out there and play
hard,”
The Titans faced the
Chatham Cougars and the
Geneva Golden Tornadoes
again this Tuesday at home
to resume PAC play.
Look for the Titans to
come out fired up as they
look to continue their hot
streak in pursuit of a PAC
title and number four under the coaching of Tammy
Swearingen.
Upcoming sports
events:
9/28
Women's Tennis vs. Thomas More --- 11 a.m.
Football @ Saint Vincent --- 1 p.m.
Men's Cross Country @ Chatham --- TBA
Women's Cross Country @ Chatham --- TBA
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Women's Golf @ PAC Fall Tournament (Oak
Hill Country Club) --- 1 p.m.
Women's Tennis @ Muskingum --- 4 p.m.
Men's Golf @ PAC Fall Championship (Oak
Tree G.C.) --- TBA
10/1
Women's Soccer vs. Juniata --- 4:30 p.m.
Volleyball vs. Bethany --- 7 p.m.
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Titans fall short to Thomas More
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By: Zach Nedley
Sports Writer
The Titan football
team squared off against
the Thomas More Saints
Saturday night at Harold
Burry Stadium.
The Titans fell short
31-0 in their home opener
and move to 0-2 on the season.
The Saints were the
first to put up points on
the scoreboard finishing off
a four-play, 45-yard drive
with a touchdown pass
from Jensen Gebhardt to
Bobby Leonard with 6:52
left in the first quarter. The
Titans responded on the
following drive with a 44yard pass completion when
Senior Dak Britt found
teammate Collin Wallace.
However, the Titans were
unable to put up any points
after failing a 37-yard field
goal attempt.
The Saints capitalized three plays later on a
40-yard touchdown pass
from Gebhardt to Winkler.
Thomas More led Westminster with 3:17 left in
the first quarter.
Westminster was on
Thomas More’s own 35yard line after a 12 play, 50
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Megan
Romocean
Volleyball
Megan Romocean and the Titans went
a perfect 4-0 last week, with each of
those four victories coming in straight
sets. She finished with a team-high 42
kills in her nine sets played. Romocean
was tabbed the Presidents' Athletics
Conference Volleyball Player of the
Week for her efforts.
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yard drive with 12:08 left
in the half. However, the
Titans were unable to convert after turning over the
ball on an incompletion on
fourth and 8.
The Titan defense held
the Saints to a field goal
after they drove down the
field 64-yards on 10 plays.
The Titans then drove
down the field 66-yards but
were unable to convert on
another field goal attempt
as time ran out in the half.
Josh Beistel, one of the
leaders of Titan defense,
tried to rally his team together in the locker room
at halftime.
“We need to come out
fired up and have it in our
heads that we are going to
win no matter what,” Beistel said. “We knew it was
going to be tough, so now
we have to work even harder to make it happen this
half.”
The Saints scored on
their second possession of
the second half when Dominique Hayden punched it
in after a 71-yard rush. The
Saints then led Westminster
24-0 in the third quarter.
Two possessions later,
the Saints took a 31-0 lead
when Gebhardt found
Winkler again for a 27-yard
touchdown pass. Thomas
More won Saturdays contest with a final score of
31-0.
Beistel led the Titan
defense with a team-high
eight tackles, followed by
Nate Moot with seven
tackles.
On offense, Wallace
led the Titans with a carrier
high 139 yards on eight receptions. Britt had a team
high 32 rushing yards and
went 22-36 for 239 yards
in the air.
“We have to continue
to work hard together as a
team and keep our heads
held high because there are
plenty of games left this
season,” Wallace said. “We
have a lot of time to make
some noise in the PAC this
year. We just have to keep
practicing hard every day
and things will turn around
for us this year.”
The Titans will travel to
Saint Vincent on Saturday
to take on the Bearcats in
their third game of the season.
Pirates raise the Jolly Roger in Pittsburgh
By: Jarred Treshok
Sports Writer
The Pittsburgh Pirates
make history each season,
but this season they are finally making history for a
good reason.
The Pirates finally ended twenty years of misery by
eclipsing the 82 win mark
this season. For non-baseball fans, that is how many
wins you need to reach for
a winning season in Major
League Baseball. The Pirates have done it at last.
Can I just say that again?
The Pirates finally have a
winning season after twenty
years. That is the first time
in most of this generation’s
lifetimes!
With October almost
upon us, the question that
everyone is asking is whether or not the Pirates will
finally make the playoffs?
The answer is yes. With a
2-1 win at Chicago on Sept.
23 and a loss by the Washington Nationals that same
day, the Pirates clinched a
playoff berth for the first
time in twenty years. The
last time they made the
playoffs was in 1992.
Currently, it is a threeteam race for the National
League Central Title between the Pirates, the Cincinnati Reds, and the St.
Louis Cardinals. The Pirates have a chance at the
division title, but at the
very least will have a wildcard spot.
And it might be the first
time in twenty years that we
have seen intense, meaningful baseball played in Pittsburgh. This season was the
first time in a long time that
PNC Park was filled to capacity consistently. It’s no
surprise that fans are taking notice around campus
as well.
“I’ve been waiting my
whole life for this,” firstyear Danny Owoc said.
“I’ve never seen a winning
season in my life. It’s the
same for my whole generation. It’s great to see it finally happening.”
Playoffs are no different. Pirate fans want more
than just a winning season.
“You can’t be satisfied
with the just a winning season if you are the Pirates or
a fan,” junior Laura Mink
said. “They have come way
too far to not be satisfied.
Playoffs are here and I can’t
wait for them to start.”
I admit, I had my
doubts for this Pirate team.
The Pirates had a chance
at a winning a record for
the first time last season.
They were eighteen games
AP
over .500 on Aug. 18.
They ended up going on a
12 game losing streak and
finished the season under.
500. With most of the roster coming back for this
season, it seemed that the
team lost a lot of wind out
of its sails.
I am glad to say I was
wrong. The Pirates came out
strong and continued winning. By the end of June,
they were twenty games
over .500 and maintained
that pace throughout the
regular season. There was
no second half collapse this
time around. Lead by AllStar Centerfielder Andrew
McCutchen and hometown favorite A.J. Burnett,
the Pirates kept on rolling.
Finally there’s a difference in the city of Pittsburgh. Fans have been used
to numerous winning seasons from The Steelers and
The Penguins, and no it’s
time for a change.
“The Steelers and Penguins have had their time,”
senior Chelsea Gaab said.
“I am so glad to finally see
the third team in Pittsburgh win. It just adds to
the excitement in the city
of champions.”
So raise the Jolly Roger
and enjoy it everyone; there
will be baseball in October.
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My Sweater Weather Playlist: Autumn 2013
By: Marissa Cozza
A&E Editor
Ahhh, sweater weather,
falling leaves, chilly mornings and pumpkin-spiced
you name it. Everyone loves
fall. There’s nothing quite
like watching the leaves
change from your window
while listening to the perfect indie autumn playlist.
Here are some musical artists that I added to my “Fall
2013” playlist.
The first artist on my
fall playlist is Lorde. Spotify describes Lorde as “a
stylish mix of arty, confessional bedroom pop and
club-ready electro-rock.”
If you enjoy listening to
Grimes or Lana Del Rey,
you should make a spot for
Lorde on your fall playlist. You’ve probably heard
Lorde’s debut single, “Royals” on the radio, which
already has more than 12
million hits on YouTube.
Next on my playlist is
the indie electro pop band,
Capital Cities. Interestingly, the duo that started
the group, Ryan Merchant
and Sebu Simonian started
working together as jingle
writers. Their popular single, “Safe and Sound” offers
upbeat tempos and positive
lyrics. Many of their songs
lack depth, but their tracks
are irresistibly catchy. “Safe
and Sound” and “Kangaroo
Court” both landed a spot
on my fall playlist.
The Lumineers come
from Denver, Co. They
are a folk-rock trio that
has
acoustic/Americana
sounds. Spotify argues that
their sound touches upon “a
lot of stylistics bases, from
folk to gospel to heartland
rock…all with interesting
rhythmic twists and turns.”
You’ve certainly heard “Ho
Hey,” the band’s popular
single that has a staggering
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101 million hits on Spotify.
Once you get past the, “I
belong with you; you belong with me” happiness,
The Lumineers’ lyrics are
actually remarkably sad.
But isn’t sad music the best
music? That’s why “Slow It
Down” has made its way
onto my autumn playlist.
Avicii also earned a
spot on my playlist. Tim
Berg, aka Avicii, started
making music when he
was only 18. Influenced
mainly by Daft Punk, Avicii created his own unique
Swedish house sounds.
Avicii has recently gained a
massive following with his
current smash, “Wake Me
Up,” which has more than
96 million hits on Spotify.
Another favorite track of
mine, “Levels” has reached
more than 126 million hits.
You can definitely find both
of these upbeat tracks on
my autumn playlist.
I discovered The Vespers earlier this semester.
They are an Americana folk/
roots band from Nashville,
Tn. Two pairs of folkster
brothers and sisters make
up this indie group. The
group’s sounds include an
upright bass, banjo, ukulele, mandolin, guitar, drums
and occasionally accordion.
The band is not as popular
as some of the other groups
on my playlist, but you can
find their tracks on Spotify.
Benjamin
Francis
Leftwich is next on my
playlist. Leftwich gives us
soothing acoustic folkpop sounds. If you like the
group Iron and Wine, give
Leftwich a listen. Leftwich
taught himself guitar at the
age of ten and enjoyed listening to Bruce Springsteen
as a boy.
Joshua Radin. Most of
Radin’s music features only
delicate vocals, soft melodies of a guitar, keys and
occasional string accompaniment. His acoustic song
“Winter” distinctly reminds
me of fall. I want to take a
walk with my beau while I
watch the leaves fall when I
hear these lyrics: “And I remember the sound of your
November downtown. I remember the truth−a warm
December with you.”
Young the Giant. Although Young the Giant
hasn’t come out with a new
album very recently, they
just performed a benefit
concert at Stage AE in Pittsburgh. The band doesn’t
offer the folksy sounds as
some of the other bands on
my list, but they would be
considered eclectic indie
rock. “Strings” and “12 Fingers” have chill sounds that
remind me of fall.
Whitley. Whitley has
acoustic melodic sounds
that will mellow in your
soul.
Brighten. This band
sounds very similar to Bon
Iver.
Angus & Julia Stone.
Okay, fine. I’m a sucker for
folk music. This brother
and sister pair grew up in
Sydney, Australia. The title
track of their 2011 EP Big
Jet Plane [EP] makes its way
onto my autumn playlist
for its catchy harmony and
its soothing string instrumentals.
Marissa is a senior
English major with a concentration in religion.
She loves crunchy fall
leaves, and she can't wait
to watch hockey all winter
long.
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Sweater Weather
"The Love Club" - Lorde
"Team" - Lorde
"Safe and Sound" - Capital Cities
"Kangaroo Court" - Capital Cities
"Slow it Down" - The Lumineers
"Classy Girls" - The Lumineers
"Wake Me Up" - Avicii
"Levels" - Avicii
"Better Now" - The Vespers
"Box of Stones" - Benjamin Leftwich
"Snowship" - Benjamin Leftwich
"Winter" - Joshua Radin
"Today" - Joshua Radin
"12 Fingers" - Young the Giant
"Strings" - Young the Giant
"I Remember" - Whitley
"More than Life" - Whitley
"Little Locket" - Brighten"
"Big Jet Plane" - Angus & Julia Stone
5 Reasons to Watch Season 5 of Breaking Bad
By: Hillary Leslie
A&E Writer
The season five finale
of Breaking Bad is drawing
near, along with the demise
of Walter White's drug empire. As one of the most
critically acclaimed TV
shows of the past decade,
AMC's Breaking Bad gathers unexpected fans for notso unexpected reasons.
As much as I hate to
admit it, I'm a TV junkie.
When I was first told about
Breaking Bad, I was skeptical about its quality, uninterested in a show that
appeared to only involve
chemistry and the desert.
Then I watched the first
episode and, well, the rest is
history.
So why is Breaking Bad
just as addicting as Heisenberg and Pinkman's blue
meth? And why did the
wait between part one and
part two of season five feel
like going through a drug
withdrawal? Here are five
reasons why you should
watch the show if it isn't
already on your Netflix
queue.
5.Character
Development
In TV shows, it's easy
to forget how drastically
the characters change from
start to finish. Character
development was essential
to the Breaking Bad's plot
development. Every character's dialogue and movements were precise and intentional in order to create
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personal involvement.
The transformation of
cancer-ridden family man,
Walter White (Bryan Cranston), turned drug lord,
“Heisenberg”, was essentially the opposite of his
former student and partner-in-crime Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul). The
noticeable deterioration of
Walter was no doubt due to
Cranston's impeccable acting, showcasing the desperateness felt by a dying man.
Pinkman, on the other
hand, increased the audience's sympathy as they
watched him struggle with
what was right and what
was wrong. While Walter
slowly killed his conscience,
Pinkman found his.
Cranston and Paul's
characters have been heartbreaking to watch, but
Anna Gunn acting as Skyler White and Dean Norris
as Hank Schrader also performed incredibly on the
set.
4. Cinematography
The beauty of Breaking Bad is how it uses a low
budget while still managing to be visually appealing.
The quiet, vast and dry desert of New Mexico compliments the loud, compact
and bloody fight scenes.
Every scene is intentional,
not excessive, and aims to
reach one creative goal.
The simplicity of the show's
setting makes the story
more believable, and the
multiple point of view shots
play into the show's goal of
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personal investment. The
material shines on its own
because of the lack of flashy
stylistic elements in the cinematography.
"[The shots are] like
simple black dresses. . .not
complicated. . .just properly placed, and the camera
is often times really just in
the right place to tell the
story, that's all" (Michael
Slovis Interview with Dave
Bunting).
3. Craving
When a TV show leaves
the audience sitting on
the edge of their couches,
white-knuckling the cushions, the directors and producers know they've struck
gold.
Suspense is a key element in Breaking Bad, evi-
denced by the unbelievable
cliff hangers at the end of
every season. They are so
intense that it makes perfect sense why a lot of viewers choose to wait until the
end of a season to stream it
online. Panic, worry and
fear are common feelings
felt by fans during the six
day period of Breaking Bad
withdrawal.
2. Reality
One of the scariest elements of Breaking Bad
is the reality of the show's
scenario. The crystal meth
business is no fabrication,
and the events in the show
are not far from drug cartel
activity that happens in hidden corners of the world.
It's easy to tell yourself that
Breaking Bad is just a story,
but it's also a nod to real
life situations that aren't
often discussed. Breaking
Bad gives an accurate depiction of what that world
could feel like. This reality
is another reason identifying with various characters
is easy; it portrays how a
seemingly normal life can
change drastically.
1. Morality
When do we humans
cross the line? Is it when
we break the law, or when
we break the moral codes
embedded in our culture?
How do we justify what is
right from what is wrong?
It always seems like we find
a way to explain that our
dirty deeds aren't all that
bad, just like Walter White.
Breaking Bad show-
cases how easily something
wrong can feel so right, and
how the objects of money
and power can take over.
Walter doesn't cook meth
just once to make a little
money; he keeps going,
creating within himself a
frenzied, out-of-control superiority complex. Walter
shows how easily we can become slaves to our desires,
and in his case, its his love
of control.
Breaking Bad seasons
one through four are currently on Netflix, and the
last episode of the series
can be seen on Sept. 29 at
10 pm on AMC. I highly
encourage all of the skeptics
to give this show a try; you
won't regret it.
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Arts & Entertainment
th
65 Annual Primetime Emmy Awards
emmys.tv
The Winners & Losers
By: Jordan Locke
A&E Writer
Sunday’s Emmy Awards
had its fair share of predictable winners, most notably Breaking Bad for Best
Drama.
Surprisingly, it
was the first time the show
won, despite being nominated every year since its
beginning in 2007. The
perennial comedy heavyweight Modern Family won
Best Comedy Series for the
fourth straight year, shocking no one.
But this year’s awards
didn’t see the kind of domination by a single show that
has come to be expected in
recent years, perhaps due to
the strength of television’s
current offerings.
There were plenty of
surprises, especially in the
Best Actor, Drama Series
that saw Jeff Daniels of the
underachieving show The
Newsroom take home the
prize despite stiff competition from Mad Men’s Jon
Hamm and Breaking Bad’s
Bryan Cranston, who many
thought was most deserving
of the prize.
Only one show, Behind the Candelabra, Steven
Soderbergh’s brilliant HBO
movie about the secret love
life of closeted gay performing Liberace, received more
than three awards. In fact,
one of the biggest losers of
the night were the many
Hollywood executives that
passed on the project believing it was too racy and
polarizing for theaters.
Another surprise, although completely deserved, was Anna Gunn’s
win for Best Suporting Actress in a Drama Series for
her role as Skyler White
on Breaking Bad. Her role
has been the target of so
much abuse and criticisms
over the years. So much so,
that she penned a New York
Times op-ed about it.
Take a look at the full
list of winners to see if your
favorite show took home an
award:
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DRAMA SERIES
Breaking Bad (AMC)
ACTOR IN A DRAMA
Jeff Daniels (The Newsroom)
ACTRESS IN A DRAMA
Claire Danes (Homeland)
WRITING FOR A DRAMA
Henry Bromell (Homeland)
DIRECTING FOR A DRAMA
David Fincher (House of Cards)
SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA
Bobby Cannavale (Boardwalk Empire)
SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA
Anna Gunn (Breaking Bad)
COMEDY SERIES
Modern Family (ABC)
ACTOR IN A COMEDY
Jim Parsons (The Big Bang Theory)
ACTRESS IN A COMEDY
Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Veep)
WRITING FOR A COMEDY
Tina Fey and Tracey Wigfield (30 Rock)
DIRECTING FOR A COMEDY
Gail Mancuso (Modern Family)
SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY
Tony Hale (Veep)
SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY
Merritt Wever (Nurse Jackie)
MINISERIES OR MOVIE
Behind the Candelabra (HBO)
ACTOR IN A MINISERIES OR MOVIE
Michael Douglas (Behind the Candelabra)
ACTRESS IN A MINISERIES OR MOVIE
Laura Linney (The Big C: Hereafter)
WRITING FOR A MINISERIES OR MOVIE
Abi Morgan (The Hour)
DIRECTING FOR A MINISERIES OR
MOVIE
Steven Soderbergh (Behind the Candelabra)
SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A MINISERIES
OR MOVIE
James Cromwell (American Horror Story)
SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN MINISERIES
OR MOVIE
Ellen Burstyn (Political Animals)
OUTSTANDING REALITY-COMPETITION
PROGRAM
The Voice
Street Artist KAWS Redesigns MTV Moonman
By: Steve Totin
A&E Writer
As
a
mischievous
teenager, Brian Donnelly
crept through back alleys,
hopped fences and climbed
billboards to spray-paint
his moniker, "KAWS" all
over the streets of New York
City. At the time, he probably never dreamed that his
illegal activity would someday lead to art world success.
But now, at the age of
39, KAWS has harnessed
and transformed his rebellious teenage creativity into
popular artwork and major
design commissions. Some
of his latest work includes
hip-hop album covers, a
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day
parade balloon and even
the set and award trophy
for the MTV Video Music
Awards.
KAWS began his career by adorning walls, billboards, bus stop advertisements and subway trains
with KAWS and his trademark skull and crossbones
character. His work, rich in
color and simple in design,
is influenced by pop art
and culture. KAWS studied illustration in college
and worked for MTV and
Jungle Pictures. Disney
purchased Jungle Pictures
allowing him to work for
them for a short period of
time as well.
KAWS left Disney to
pursue a career as a professional artist. He started out
by creating small plastic
toys of original characters.
To create his figures, KAWS
appropriates popular iconography and mixes it with
his skull and crossbones
character. His first, character created in 1999, "Companion," is composed of the
body of Disney’s Steamboat
Willie with the trademark
scull and crossbones head.
His playful characters carry innocence about
them and have the ability to
evoke childhood nostalgia.
Some other familiar characters KAWS has reworked
include The Smurfs, The
Simpsons, Star Wars characters, Disney Characters
and even the Michelin
Man. KAWS enjoys taking
what pop culture presents
to him, reworking it, and
then releasing it back to the
public as something recognizable, yet also new.
Many people have
probably seen KAWS'
work without even realizing it. Anyone who has
seen Kanye West’s album,
808s & Heartbreak has seen
his work. KAWS designed
the two different album
covers for Kanye and has
also worked on designs for
Pharrell Williams. Pharrell
also commissioned KAWS
to create numerous pieces
to fill the walls, floors and
staircase of his house.
If being commissioned
by some of hip-hop’s biggest stars wasn’t a milestone
in KAWS’ career, being
asked by Macy’s to design
the logos for the Thanksgiving Day parade definitely
was. The Executive Producer of Events for Macy’s
was fascinated by KAWS’
work. The logos KAWS
created for the event were
worked into advertisements that were plastered
about the city of New York.
Some of KAWS’ logos even
covered the sides of subway
cars, a very ironic act, being
that his career began illegally on the sides of subway
cars over 20 years prior.
KAWS didn’t stop at
just designing the advertisement logos; he also created a parade balloon that
featured his first character
“Companion.” “Companion” came to life in time for
the parade and followed the
lead parade balloon, Papa
Smurf.
Since
the
parade,
KAWS has not slowed
down. MTV saw his tal-
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ent, creativity and perseverance and let it all run free
on the design of the 2013
MTV Video Music Awards.
KAWS’ designs can be seen
in many aspects of the
award show, from the stage
design, to the 60 foot tall
balloon of the moon man/
KAWS mash up and even
the award statuette itself.
It would be impossible for
anyone to watch the award
show without seeing a part
that KAWS designed.
Allowing for KAWS to
have a hand in creating the
award show not only helps
to propel the importance of
street art, but it also allows
for collaboration between
two art forms that have
similar cultural roots. With
so many major successes already, it will be interesting
to see what KAWS can contribute his creative forces to
next.
Why it's Worthwhile to Become Addicted to Craftgawker.com
By: Laura Chambers
A&E Writer
I go there to check
out everything: from craft
and food tutorials, to outfit ideas and beauty tips.
It is there that I create the
ultimate “wish list” for my
life. I love everything about
Pinterest, especially the way
that I can customize my
boards and organize all the
information that I gather.
You could say that I’m addicted. Although, as much
as I love Pinterest, my craft
DIY addiction began with
Craftgawker.com.
Craftgawker.com—
the URL even sounds like
fun. The layout of this site
is very similar to Pinterest,
with virtual icons of each
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craft and a brief blurb about
what it is. A click of the
mouse on the picture leads
you directly to the tutorial,
exactly like Pinterest. If you
prefer to look through each
craft individually, you can
click on a button that gives
you the icon, share links,
and a “more like this” section that has related crafts.
This option allows you
to click on the forward or
backward arrow to scroll
through the picture icons.
To bookmark a particular DIY, hit the heart icon
to add the link to your favorites. You can access your
favorites from your personal profile. The CraftGawker
header toolbar allows you
to search via different categories and a search bar. As
a blog follower, I can search
for DIY posted from a specific blog. It’s a craft nerd’s
dream.
Let’s get to the bottom
line here. Why should you
cheat on Pinterest with this
site?
I love it because it has
new ideas. On Pinterest, I
tend to get tired of seeing
the same pins circulating a
million times. Craftgawker
has, well, more “gawk-able”
DIYs that probably aren’t as
practical but are unique, inspiring and beautiful. I also
like that I can easily scroll
through as a non-member.
Sometimes it’s helpful just
to get ideas about a project without committing to
“pinning” it to your board.
In addition, the visual
pictures are stunning. You
don’t come across many
amateur craft photos on
Craftgawker. The pictures
alone are beautiful and are
“gawk-able” (I just wanted
to use that word again.) I
also like that this website
is dedicated to crafts. The
category searches are much
more specific than the “DIY
& Crafts” category on Pinterest. There are categories
dedicated to printables,
ceramics, even needlecraft
and woodworking.
I haven’t even shared
the best part about this
website: it has other “gawker”
siblings—DwellingGawker.com, FoodGawker.
com,
StyleGawker.com,
and WeddingGawker.com.
These sites are created spe-
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cifically for interior design,
food and gourmet cuisine,
fashion and wedding inspiration. So, if you aren’t
a craft nerd, but your food
board on Pinterest is full to
the brim, you might want
to check out FoodGawker.
com. The same is true for
each of the other websites
available. I guarantee you
that you may find tutorials
that you have never pinned
before.
I still love Pinterest,
and it will always be my primary source of inspiration.
However, I will never forget
my first love, CraftGawker.
com. I encourage you to
check it out and form your
own opinion. Download
the app on your smartphone or plug in the URL
and try it out for yourself!
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11:40 AM - 12:10
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Volleyball @ Grove
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City*
11:45 AM - 12:45 PM
Faires Faculty Forum 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Green Party Meeting
8:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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Horoscopes
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). If you find yourself full of doubts this week, it's actually a good thing -- it's a sign that you are intelligent, that you care and that you want
something from the situation that you don't feel completely entitled to. Entitlement
breeds an off-putting sort of confidence. Your humility and vulnerability are part of
what makes you great.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You could really use a stellar idea. That's why too much
time spent giving your attention to entertainment, games and devices is dangerous
this week. In order to get your good idea, you need mental space and maybe some
boredom, too. How are you going to get any ideas if you don't let yourself daydream?
CANCER (June 22-July 22). Psychological studies suggest that women are generally
better at picking up nonverbal cues than men, but this week gender won't seem to
matter as much as astrological sign. You're a nonverbal cue master, and everyone else is
relatively clueless. To communicate well, you'll have to spell everything out.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Much growth comes of your journey this week. You'll realize
there's something you haven't totally accepted and that it is indeed acceptable. On the
other side of this hurdle, you'll find a sense of identity. You'll see how your parents'
beliefs have imprinted on you, and you'll also understand how to exert your free will.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). In some religions, serious devotees give up their past
identities to start anew in the religion. That is an easier way to change than trying to
promote continuity with the past without letting it trap you in your old self. A breakthrough in your personal life will make you feel like you can finally move forward.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Most people believe they smile more than they actually
do. You're different, and that's why someone falls in love with your smile and then
with you. You don't wait for the right time to project magnetism and heart. Any old
time is good enough for you, especially when you feel as happy as you do this week.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). This week you experience events differently from the
way the others involved experience them. An objective witness would say that your
way is factually accurate, but that doesn't matter in the least to the others, each being
invested in his or her own point of view. Getting along is more important than being
right.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Because your mind is so curious and your love of
learning so deep, you will always have more questions than answers. But that doesn't
mean you're not qualified to teach what you already know. You will be exceedingly
lucky this week when you share your considerable knowledge and wisdom.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). The rules of right and wrong do not seem as clearcut to you this week as they did last week, and this might be confusing. If you think
of morality in terms of helping and harming, decisions might be easier for you to
make. Know who might be helped and/or harmed before you make your move.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You want everyone to be honest and do the right
thing, especially yourself. You don't have the stomach to be "bad," because you'll
always get caught (by yourself!), and it's just not worth it to you. Just know that not
everyone thinks like this. This week you'll figure out whom you can and can't trust.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You know when a person is humoring you. That quality of attention can be more undermining to your self-esteem than outright rejection.
But take heart, because in the end those who don't take you seriously will be sorry.
You'll put your ideas into action and see winning results that include more money and
friends.
THIS WEEK'S BIRTHDAYS: You have greater control over your time this month,
which allows you to focus on what you want instead of on what your boss requires
and other responsibilities. An adventure in November is intellectual -- your mind
goes first, and later you'll physically travel to a similar place. You will pay off a debt in
February, which is a relief and the start of a financial turnaround. March and June are
your best times to heal relationships, especially the one that's captivated so much of
your emotion for years now.
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What's your fantasy? Tuning into friendship
THE STRUGGLE
By: Tricia Johnston
The Struggling Columnist
Whether you like
watching football or not,
there is no denying that
everyone gets their fill of
it every week. How many
of you have been extremely
annoyed to see a Facebook
post about how this year
is the Browns’ year? How
about a tweet justifying why
the Steelers lost this week? I
know that I have been that
aggravating person, especially when it comes to the
part of football that I love
to hate.
If you follow me on
Twitter (if you don’t, you
should: @t_sleazy), you
may know what I am talking about. Every Sunday I
obnoxiously tweet about
it and even sometimes on
Monday and Thursday, if
you are lucky. Fantasy Football is what I am referring
to, and it is both exciting
and infuriating.
I began playing Fantasy
Football three seasons ago,
and it has been nothing but
a headache since. Originally
I thought, “Yeah, this will
be fun. I’ll get enjoyment
out of every game now instead of just watching the
Steelers” (Let’s be clear that
I do not enjoy watching
the Steelers this year. Now
I know how Browns fans
feel).
Anyway, I was wrong.
For three years now, I have
found myself watching
more games, but my relaxing Sundays have turned
into nothing more than a
spike in my blood pressure
and broken dreams.
This frustration begins
with the draft. Each year I
feel prepared and ready to
pick the best team. Unfortunately, each year I pull a
sub-par draft number and
then somehow forget what
I am even doing there.
To add to my dismay, I
have been in the same fantasy league every year, and
the people in it have yet to
forget anything that I have
ever said. Just because I
picked Jay Cutler one year
because “he’s cute” does
not mean that it wasn’t a
good pick (Then he married Kristin Cavallari and
went downhill. Get it,
downHILL. I’m not funny?
Okay, you’re right.). But no,
I am consistently chastised
for each and every pick no
matter what.
This year I felt confident with my picks though.
I have Aaron Rodgers as
my quarterback, and well,
that is about it. The rest
of my team is a band of
misfits who sometimes do
okay and other times not so
much. Nonetheless, here I
sit in going into week three
2-1. Regardless, I know
what my fate is. It seems
that I have a two-win maximum no matter how many
people I am in a league with
or who is on my team.
So if it stresses me out
so much and I am so awful
at it, why do I do it? The
best answer I have for that
is Fantasy Football makes
me feel like I am a part of
it all. I feel that somehow
I have an impact on what
happens in each game. This
is horribly wrong though.
The fact that I have Brandon Pettigrew on my team
does not make him score
any more Fantasy points or
play like an NFL worthy
tight end.
It is apparent that the
only thing I accomplish
with Fantasy Football is losing Twitter followers and
crying myself to sleep. The
struggle is real.
By: Haley Barger
Philosophical Columnist
From the very beginning, there was constantly
music around me.
My mother was a Dave
Matthews fanatic who also
loved classical, swing and
folk. I listened to Glenn
Miller, U2 and Joan Baez
in the house, Talking Heads
in the car and Vivaldi everywhere else. Eventually,
in the eighth grade, I developed an unhealthy obsession with the Beatles. It
lasted about a year, during
which I accumulated their
entire discography and
eventually had to limit myself due to lack of socialization (they’re just that good).
While my obsession
with this wonderful group
of men did not encourage
me to break my habit of being introverted, it did lead
me to discover more genres
of music. I slowly worked
my way backward through
recent musical history. I
learned to dig the jams of
Buddy Holly and am still
in the middle of a five-year
love affair with doo-wop.
It was during this time
that I discovered the music blog Pitchfork and became an indie-snob, defined by Urban Dictionary
as “Someone who thinks a
band is automatically ‘bad’
or ‘uncool’ as soon as they
receive the tiniest bit of success.” Once I got over being
pretentious in the twelfth
grade, I realized how cool
Oasis, Nirvana and Radiohead were and found new
music to lose sleep over.
When I first became
obsessed with music, I often wondered if there was
anyone else out there like
me, who had an indescribable love of music. I soon
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found my friend, Alexandra
Pasquarelli.
One night in our freshman hall, I was sitting alone
in the study room with the
door shut. Alex came in and
heard the Ramones coming
from my laptop. She said to
me, “Oh, I remember when
I was obsessed with the
Ramones. Judy is a Punk.”
We talked until five in the
morning about our past
and (then current) music
obsessions.
To this day, I look to
Alex for new music that
I can become infatuated
with, and tunes remain a
cornerstone of our conversations. Her current musical alliances lie with the
Arctic Monkeys and “becoming re-obsessed with
the Smiths, Buddy Holly
and George Harrison”.
We play album tag,
each of us introducing the
other to new material; we
bond over obscure tracks.
Alex and I also collect vinyl, and both of us have
turntables. We often utter
the phrase, “Come over and
listen to records.” Alex’s favorite in my collection is a
mixed tape from Detroit’s
WMXD radio station in
the early 1960’s, as well
as Simon and Garfunkel’s
“Bookends.”
Our bond goes beyond
music as we also obsess over
film and literature. We do
not always agree and occasionally engage in heated
arguments about both subjects. Our love of music began long before we met and
helped to bring us together,
but without Westminster
we would not have met
and one “non-philistine”
(as Alex puts it) would not
have the other.
I leave you with this:
when somebody sits down
next to you, let him or her.
You may make a life-long
friend and learn important
truths about yourself and
the world. Tune in next
time for more Tales of Interest!
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Wetzel Around the World
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Children in of Sabaneta de Yásica, Dominican Rebuplic stand outside their school that used to be a brothel.
By: Rachael Wetzel
Cultural Columnist
Caribbean condensation drips down my neck as
I clamber out of the white
surplus van. The old man
with paper bag skin leans
against the block and metal
wall closing in the living
space. He offers up the blue
plastic chair because there is
nothing else, just a bed and
a kitchen unit. The plastic sinks into the muddy
earth that carpets the floor,
asking to sigh deeper into
somewhere cool, even if it
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is suffocating. Twig-fingers
clench the window frame
for balance and comfort because of the rain.
Constant rain sprays
onto his shoulder, muscled
from necessity, and pools
in the concaved hole that
used to be a rib cage. That
is where the metal machine
did its work, carving out
what little comfort that
nameless man had in this
town. He seems to blend
into the background as he
told me that the truck had
run him over and driven
away. From time to time,
the old man sees the driver
at the cervecería (the bar)
but he has never said anything more than “excuse
me.”
As he stares out of his
open wall, smelling of
sweat, banana leaves and
wet firewood, he notices the
rain has begun to eat away
the wooden panel holding back the parasitical vat
that is waiting to burst. He
points to the village’s water source and says he better start walking to town.
I grab the man’s hand and
ask him to ride with us, so
he can stop by the clinic
for pain medicine. Smiling, he kisses my cheek and
tells me he will be around
tomorrow, but right now he
must go. The contaminated water had been trickling
into the homes for a while,
causing a murky slick to
accumulate in every corner of Villa Progreso. I kiss
him back and get into the
van, the sharp blast of airconditioning hits my arms
like fractured glass.
Sucking in a labored
breath, he walks with his
leather feet down the stolen
path to the square. That was
where it had happened, the
tar-hot pavement cracked
and covered in migrated
trash. Children and dogs
melt together in the heat as
they run to different locations, only to turn around
and run back. The discolored van exhaust blushes
the face of the man as he
steps on a Bohemia cap and
rocks his way into the allpurpose store.
A young man in a grey
shirt working at the counter leans his forearms on
the display case, glistening
with pineapple juice, and
wonders to himself if the
rain was ever going to wash
his little town off the hill
and into the ocean below.
“Maybe it will crash and
destroy one of the resorts,”
he thinks with a smug
twitch of his upper lip. The
old man, clutching his collapsed lungs, asks for an old
piece of wood. The boy
unsticks his arm and points
to a heap in the back of the
store. Slowly tugging the
wood, the old man loses his
balance and catches himself
on a sheet of metal. He
wipes the blood on his once
white pants and continues
to pull.
Using the splintered
board like a crutch, the
nameless man avoids the
motorbikes by walking
two-feet deep in the street
runoff. His eyes have a new
glow to them, but his body
aches and tugs at his skin,
pulling it down. “Maybe
this board will hold longer than the last one.” He
coughs out something that
tastes like mosquitos as he
pulls himself up the pathway to the house, and better yet, to his blue plastic
chair.
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So what's your excuse? Dear App-ey
Students get creative with reasons for forgetfulness & procrastination
By: A'Lanna Wells
Staff Writer
We all have one. My
computer crashed, my
alarm clock didn’t wake me
up in time or even the classic my dog ate my homework line. These are the excuses we tell our professors
when we try to explain why
we didn’t show up to class
or turn in an assignment.
Some excuses, like your
computer crashing and being sick are understandable,
but saying that you’re on a
family vacation or out saving a stray dog is out of the
ordinary to say the least.
Surprisingly, students have
come up with more creative
excuses in recent years, and
they keep getting better
and better.
Dr. Sherri Pataki, an associate professor of psychology, has worked on
campus for 10 years and
recalls one instance in
which her student gave her
a crazy excuse.
“A student I was supposed to meet for research
missed one of her meetings,” Pataki said. “When I
confronted her about it, she
swore that she was at that
meeting even though I
knew she wasn’t there. Then
she told me that she must
have dreamt that we met
that day.”
According to Pataki,
she and the student laughed
about the ordeal, though
the student still believed
that she and Pataki met in
her dreams.
“Needless to say, she
didn’t miss any more meetings after that,” Pataki said.
Mrs. Evann Garrison, a
lecturer of English and
public relations, often hears
the same excuses from her
students, but sometimes
the excuses happen too often.
“I once had a student
whose computer died three
times that semester,” Garrison said. “What baffled me
is that he never had backups for his work, so he always turned his assignments in late.”
Garrison also gets excuses from students who
choose not to complete
their work because they do
not understand it.
“Some students get
confused about what to do
for an assignment, and because they’re not sure how
to complete it, they just
won’t do it,” Garrison said.
Though her students
were lucky enough not to
have their computers crash
three times in a row, Dr.
Brittany Rowe-Cernevicius,
an assistant professor of
English and public relations, has had her share of
outrageous excuses.
“One student told me
that he didn’t show up to
class because he left early
and was on vacation with
his family,” Cernevicius
said.
Another unique story
comes from Mrs. Natale, a
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lecturer of English and
public relations. She remembers an unbelievable
excuse that her student gave
her for missing class last
year.
“The student called my
office phone from his car
and told me that he missed
class that day because he
saw a stray dog and turned
around to rescue it,” Natale
said. “The next time we
met, he told me the dog
was doing fine at the animal shelter.”
The professors aren’t
the only ones talking about
crazy excuses. Students often share excuse stories with
their friends. Megan Wetzel, a senior English and
music double major keeps a
music journal where she
often writes excuses explaining why she failed to
Answers:
practice her violin.
“I write a lot of things
in there like ‘I tried to practice today but I felt my
motivation leave my right
arm’,” Wetzel said.
Other excuses that
Wetzel writes about in her
music journal include her
violin being sick, someone
already practicing in her
practice room and being
unable to play because her
shirt was too small.
“When my professor
reads it, she always laughs,”
Wetzel said.
It is clear from these
stories that students no longer limit themselves to the
same old excuses and, considering how inventive their
excuses have gotten, it’s safe
to say that professors can
expect to hear more crazy
tales in the future.
In this week’s edition
of Dear App-ey, we have
Notability, an app that allows you not only to take
notes, but also to personalize them with a number
of features, such as illustrations, different fonts,
audio recordings and captured pictures. Notability
revolutionizes digital note
taking by making it incredibly customizable. It
also allows you to share
your thoughts with other
users over the Cloud,
making
collaborating
very simple.
This app is especially
useful for those who need
to take handwritten
notes, such as those taking science or math classes that include long equations. The capability to
annotate PDFs is something that would not be
possible in a traditional
word processor.
Notability is a must
for Katie Bittner, Assistant Director of Audio
Visual Services. She attends many meetings, so
she must be able to quickly take detailed notes on
her iPad. Notability is the
perfect fit for her.
“Notability is a valuable tool that I use almost
every day,” Bittner said.
“I love that is takes recordings of the meetings
while you type, so you
can go back and listen to
a section through your
notes. It’s a great tool
that everyone, especially
college students can use.”
Do you have a task
that you need to accomplish or an app you
would like to have researched? Contact AV at
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a v s t a f f @ w e s t m i n s t e r.
edu with your recommendations.
Classic Joke
of the week!
Why is Peter Pan
always flying?
He Neverlands.
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Say What?
By: Emily Martin
Features Editor
An extension of the
wizarding world! Its finally
happening!
As I discovered last
week, J.K. Rowling is coming out with another wonderful set of books from the
wizarding world. Although
these books will have nothing to do with any of the
Harry Potter characters, I
still get a little “fan girl-ish”
because its simply from the
magical world.
Harry Potter was my
childhood. Sadly, I’m still
waiting on my Hogwarts
letter. I refuse to believe
that I wasn’t accepted when
I was eleven years old.
Anyways, even without going to Hogwarts, I will still
get to learn all about witchcraft and wizardry because
Rowling’s new book will be
the story about the author
of a Hogwarts textbook!
The fictitious author of
Fantastic Beasts and Where
to Find Them is Newt Scamander. I’ve been waiting a
few years for an announcement like this, and although
it’s not a prequel or a sequel
to the Harry Potter series
and none of the characters
that are so well known will
be included, its still something. This story is taking
place seventy years prior to
Harry, so we’re talking even
before Voldemort!
When I first heard
that Rowling was coming
out with a new book that
was before Harry’s time, I
thought it might be about
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the Riddle family and how
Voldemort was raised, the
relationship with his mother and his muggle grandparents, but that is apparently not the case this time.
Although most people
probably don’t remember
who Newt Scamander was,
he was actually a headmaster at Hogwarts. J.K.
Rowling had mentioned in
an interview that she had
such an attachment to this
almost invisible character
that she brought his grandson, Rolf, into the picture
to marry one of Rowling’s
favorite characters, Luna
Lovegood.
Hopefully the series
will continue on to maybe
get us all to the Harry Potter world again? I would
be doing some serious fan
girling if that were the case.
One of the exciting
things of this story, however, is that it is set to take
place in New York! Warner Brothers has already
pitched their ideas to Rowling and maybe a movie will
come out of this after all!
New York is a lot closer to
get to than London!
My magical mind is
freaking out with excitement just thinking about it!
So as I sit and wait, not so
patiently, for any new news
on the matter, I’ll just have
my little fan girl moments
and fantasize about all the
amazing magical things to
come.
Until then, “Mischief
managed”.
By: Troy Abbott
Staff Writer
Our campus is among
the safest in the nation. A
big reason for our safety is
the outstanding work the
Public Safety officers do on
a daily basis. One might
think their only duties are
to shut down parties and
give out parking tickets,
but their jobs involve much
more.
At least one Public
Safety officer is patrolling
the campus 24 hours for
365 days in the year
through a rotation of shifts.
This rotation allows officers
to keep a close watch on
campus and be accessible at
all times.
“A Public Safety officer
should be on patrol at all
times,” William Brandt,
Head of Security, said.
“During the school year,
the way our shifts run, we
have the daylight shift
which runs from 8:00 a.m.
to 4:00 p.m. and then we
have a supervisor and I
working Monday through
Friday. On the weekends
we have at least one guy on
at all times as well as someone on party patrol; he’ll
make the rounds at the fraternity houses. Then, we
have a guy who works at
night for lockdown which
is usually around 10:00
p.m. to 2:00 a.m.”
Brandt, who oversees
most of the Public Safety’s
actions, has been on the job
since 2001. Prior to working on campus, Brandt was
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Head of Security Bill Brandt has worked with the college's Public Safety since 2001.
an officer for the State police for over 31 years, stationed in Beaver and Lawrence counties as well as in
Williamsport.
“I mainly worked on
patrol and supervision, but
also dealt with investigations,” Brandt said. “After
retiring, I came to Westminster in 2001 and became the supervisor of the
Public Safety. When my
predecessor left as the director, I stepped into the position of Head of Security in
2008.”
The Public Safety on
campus strives to be accessible at all times. Not only
do the officers enforce parking regulations and patrol
parties, but they are also
help out with any problem,
no matter how minor.
“We receive frequent
calls from students locked
out of their dorms or other
buildings on campus and
we are more than willing to
help,” Brandt said. “If a first
year student who must park
in the lower lot behind the
football field feels uncomfortable walking late at
night back to their dorm,
they can give us a call and
we will go down and give
them a ride their residence
halls.”
One problem that has
arisen recently is the appearance of bats in Browne
Hall. Public Safety officers
have been trying to clear
the creatures from the
building.
“Browne still gets bats,
although less frequent than
it used to be,” Brandt said.
“Hillside also has a tendency to get bats which is another thing we often take
care of.”
Public Safety not only
deals with the minor problems on campus but also
takes care of the major incidents as well. If a major
problem were to arise, the
officers would work closely
with the police department.
The police department will
take over the investigation
because the officers on
campus do not have arresting powers.
“If it’s a serious incident, and there’s a possibility of someone being arrested, we will ask the
police to come in and conduct the investigation and
pursue any criminal charges,” Brandt said. “If the incident is able to be handled
within the college, we will
do that judicially through
our offices.”
The main goal of Public Safety is to keep the student body safe. Many officers work long hours to
accomplish this goal and do
a great job keeping incidents to a minimum. If a
problem ever arises, no
matter how minor, feel free
to contact the Public Safety
on campus, and they will
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do with Harry Potter.
She would gladly do
nothing for a week except read the books and
watch all of the movies.
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Joanne Rowling, author of the world-famous Harry Potter
book series recently announced a new way in which fans can
indulge in the wizarding world.
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I still love y'all! <3
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You don't need to be
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You don't need to be drunk to
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