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Tracking Keith Green The cops followed Green. We followed the cops.

Here’s what happened.

Alert system facilitates campus response

By CHELSEA FLEISCHMAN News Co-Editor fleiscc@allegheny.edu

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The search for Keith Green took police all over Meadville. Green escaped capture. Reporters from The Campus followed the search from early afternoon until late at night, when police gave up the search for the day. Using eyewitness reports as well as information from the authorities, we’ve plotted Green’s alleged path on this map.

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11:30 a.m.: Meadville police surround 671 Park Avenue, where Green is believed to be hiding out after finding a car linked to suspect. Green flees.

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8:30 p.m.: Police set up perimeter on corner of Limber and Hamilton Roads.

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Police pursue Green and see a back door kicked in on Loomis Street.

Officers surround the house, but find no one inside

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9:50 p.m.: Police receive reports that suspect fitting Green’s description was spotted near Ben Avon and Meadow Streets. They begin searching outlined areas from cars and on foot. Police disperse around 10:30 p.m.

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1:15 p.m.: Police receive report of a man fitting Green’s description near Greendale Cemetery. They form a perimeter around the ravine between the cemetery and Route 77 while a group searches the surrounded area.

Police call off search at approximately 4 p.m. when no one is found.

Search called off for suspect

By ELAINA MERCATORIS and DAN BAUER News Co-Editor Editor-in-Chief of Web mercate@allegheny.edu bauerd@allegheny.edu

Following the initial fivehour chase yesterday of an armed and dangerous suspect, the City of Meadville Police will not continue searching unless the man is sighted in the area, according to Thomas Liscinski, assistant chief of police.

Keith Green, 35, is wanted

by the Ashtabula Country Sheriff ’s Office in Ohio for drug charges, burglary and theft, according to a report by the City of Meadville Police Department.

“Unfortunately, he eluded everything we did yesterday,” Liscinski said. “From that point on, we turn everything back to Ohio authorities and they take it from there.”

The last time law enforcement caught sight of the suspect was before four o’clock

yesterday.

Allegheny resumed classes today following a campus-wide email sent at 6:03 a.m. Thursday from the Office of Safety and Security.

“The immediate threat is over,” said Jeff Schneider, director of Safety and Security.

“It’s highly doubtful he’ll come back to the area, so he’s got to go somewhere else.”

After Ohio authorities initially issued a warrant for Green, he fled Ohio. They no-

tified Meadville Police to be on the lookout for Green and a car registered to a woman in Meadville. Police located the car and began to surround a house on Park Avenue when Green escaped out of the back door yesterday, beginning the five-hour long chase through Meadville streets and wooded areas.

Following a call last night about a man fitting Green’s description, the police resumed the search near Allegheny and

Baldwin streets. Law enforcement never caught sight of the suspect.

Because there are no charges pending from this area, the search will be shifted back to Ohio, according to Liscinski.

“The only thing we’re going to be doing is following up on leads,” he said. “As far as the magnitude of yesterday, we will not be doing that unless there is a positive sighting of him.”

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Forty to fifty percent of the college community, including students, faculty and staff, received the e2Campus alert text on Wednesday morning according to Jeff Schneider, director of the Office of Safety and Security.

Schneider said that Safety and Security heard about the fugitive chase advancing toward campus from their police scanner and immediately reacted.

“I called the Dean’s office and said, ‘you better get down here, we have to get some crime alerts out and this is what we have unfolding before us,’” he said.

Schneider said that they followed protocol as planned by the Administrative Executive Committee and that the executive committee met to discuss how to proceed.

Dean of Students Joe DiChristina said that the emergency protocols were last revised in 2007, but that they are reviewed and amended each summer.

“Yesterday, we employed our protocols,” he said in an email. “Jeff Schneider is in command during incidents such as these and staff from Residence Life and Dean of Students office assist.”

DiChristina said the assisting staff manage communication systems to campus, respond to inquiries, communicate with the police, allocate and direct resources, and provide for general safety to the community.

“This is the first time we had to employ our response team for an incident such as this,” DiChristina said. “We had to coordinate responses for weather related issues but not this type of incident.”

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Lockdown provides one-day boom to local pizza restaurants

By KATIE McHUGH Features Co-Editor mchughk@allegheny.edu

Local pizza sales spiked due to the campus-wide lock downwhile City of Meadville Police pursued fugitive Keith Green around town Wednesday afternoon.

Vocelli’s Pizza earned over $2,400 in profit, selling 86 large pizzas and filling many other orders after the lockdown began. The business’s four phone lines rang nonstop from the start of the lockdown to clos-

ing time at 11 p.m.

Students were still trying to place orders after Vocelli’s closed, according to manager Joan Luce.

Luce heard of the lockdown while driving back to Meadville from a conference in Pittsburgh. She quickly called the number listed on the college’s homepage to see if it was safe to deliver pizzas to campus.

“I did call campus to make sure it was okay with them,” said Luce. “And [the woman on the line] said, ‘Well, you can do

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it at your own risk,’ and I didn’t know why. [...] So I called the police.”

After Meadville police assured her Green was no longer near campus, Luce gave her drivers the go-ahead to deliver orders.

“My drivers kept their doors locked and did not keep their cars running whenever they were delivering,” said Luce.

“And I told any driver that did not feel safe did not have to deliver.”

No drivers hesitated to de-

liver orders, however.

“I actually had three more people come in to help with the rush,” Luce said.

Deliverywoman Darcy Nunemaker arrived at work around 2:30 p.m. to help Vocelli’s manage the sudden uptick in orders.

“I actually just got done at the gym, and I came in my sweatpants and everything to help because they were really busy,” said Nunemaker. “I ended up taking four deliveries [...] all at the same time.”

“I didn’t feel in danger,” she added.

Another Vocelli’s driver delivered 24 orders and made $123 within a single sevenhour shift.

Domino’s Pizza placed 106 orders after the lockdown began, doubling their usual sales.

“We actually had a record Wednesday,” said manager Brenda Corner. “It was just like ‘ba-boom’ and we did a thousand dollars in two hours.”

Like Vocelli’s, Domino’s seized the opportunity for in-

creased sales.

“I thought it was pretty much safe,” Corner said.

“There were tons of cops, there was a photo out of the guy. The drivers seemed to be okay with it and got there quick and safe and back and safe.”

Students ordered pizza for lunch and to gauge the severity of the lockdown.

“The whole reason we even called [Vocelli’s] was to see if they even were [delivering]

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► EDITORIAL

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The Campus assesses Allegheny’s response to Wednesday’s lockdown before and after 5 p.m.

What did students do to endure the lockdown? Cornhole, inclass movies and pizza delivery were just a few boredom busters.

Members of the women’s golf team posted two top-10 finishes at the Ohio Wesleyan Invitational this past weekend.

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As for the college campus, Safety and Security returned to normal protocol promoting campus safety, according to Schneider.

He said the suspect’s objective was just to get away and the lockdown was a precaution according to protocol.

“College campuses are ungated communities,” he said.

“That’s why I’ve been promoting the CCTV (Closed Circuit Television) system because

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Schneider said they were unsure whether the suspect ever set foot inside campus, but they took precautions because he was on the surrounding city streets.

“The consternation that exists now is just human nature,” he said. “We just have to work with people to make them feel safe again.”

Some students criticized the

PROTOCOL dent where a serious, dangerous person was being pursued in the immediate area.

The e2Campus alert text is a part of a national system. The text was received at 11:44 a.m., and an email alert at 11:58 a.m.

“Typically the cell phone one comes across a lot sooner than does the e-mail and I don’t know why that is,” he said.

Tavita Garrett, ’12, said that she immediately forwarded the text to her friends when she received it.

“I know no one signs up for that stuff,” she said of the e2Campus alert texts.

The texts were only sent to the 40 to 50 percent of the campus community that enrolled in the service, which requires users to renew their registration at the beginning of every year.

DiChristina said that when the College purchased the e2Campus alert system, they did so with the hope that 50 percent of the community would sign up.

“Our data shows that to be the case,” he said. “Each year we send a message for people to sign up and they can choose or not. Based on this incident, we plan to send another reminder in case people wish to do so now.”

Wednesday’s security alerts were comprised of three elements. In addition to the e2Campus alert system, a KBOX alert message appeared

administration’s response to the situation.

“Allegheny security is not updating at all,” tweeted Mack Flaherty, ’14. “The administration is nowhere to be found.

This is unacceptable.”

“Words of hate written in chalk receive more warning emails than the #ACgunman,” tweeted Jordan Borst, ’15.

“What an efficient security system we have.”

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in the bottom right corner of all college-owned computers.

There were also six campus alert or update emails that everyone received between Wednesday and Thursday.

These messages were sent to the Office of Public Relations to then be posted on the web.

Once Safety and Security received word that the suspect was being pursued on foot, had an issued felony arrest warrant and could be armed and dangerous, they began closing buildings.

Matthew Turner, ’15, was enrolled in the e2Campus alert system for texts. He thought that the campus’ reaction was rather calm.

“I don’t think there was much panic, but there didn’t seem to be much enforcement of the ‘stay inside’ that I saw because there were a lot of people outside afterwards, at least a few hours after the first text,” he said.

Schneider said that Safety and Security communicated with the city personnel, police dispatch, and the Meadville Police Department assistant chief. Aside from opening the dining halls, all buildings were on lockdown until 6:30 a.m.

Thursday morning. Security guards were posted at Brooks.

“We wanted them to have a visible presence during dining hours,” he said. “People had questions and that sort of thing.”

H I S T O RY According to College Historian Jonathan Helmreich, Wednesday was the first time classes have been cancelled in more than 30 years. > During a severe 1977 blizzard, the governor asked that all public institutions shut down to preserve natural gas supplies. > Helmreich couldn’t recall any closings since then, but remembered another blizzard in the 1940s that closed the school.

Desiree Evanson, ’13, noticed that there were College personnel around to answer questions, but it seemed to her that the amount of available information was limited.

“The initial response is usually within the first 15 to 20 minutes and that’s what we did down at the observatory at the Safety and Security office,” Schneider said. “Those are the critical moments when we have to get the message out.”

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EDITORIAL We commend the Office of Safety and Security for their handling of Wednesday’s lockdown up until 5 p.m.

After that, we’re skeptical.

Safety and Security did well to send an e2Campus alert, and an email soon after, as soon as they heard of a potentially dangerous situation near campus.

“City police report a suspicious WM, armed and considered dangerous in the city.

Please remain indoors,” the alert said.

About fifteen minutes after the initial alert, all members of the campus community received Safety and Security’s first of five campus-wide emails in the day about the suspect, Keith Green.

Safety and Security sent their last email of the day at 4:16 p.m. stating: “The suspicious person sought by the police has not yet been apprehended, although the search continues to focus on areas other than the Allegheny campus.”

Safety and Security’s last email of the day gave the impression that things were more or less okay. They asked students to continue the lock-

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down throughout the night.

At the same time, they suggested going out in groups, implying that the campus was safe. The dining halls remained open so people could leave their rooms to get dinner. Students began walking around campus again.

The police had called off the search before five o’clock but began patrolling areas near campus again by 8:30 p.m.

The Campus wouldn’t have known if we hadn’t had access to police scanner. We continued reporting until the police left the area. We were updating students on Twitter and via our website articles.

When one student called Safety and Security concerned for her own safety, she was met with rudeness and nonchalance.

After Caitlyn Fuoco, ’13, read a tweet that said a man in a white shirt resembling the description of suspect Green was heading toward North Main St., she got concerned considering the last thing she heard from security was around four o’clock.

So Fuoco called Safety and Security a little before ten o’clock to ask if they could send

out another alert informing students of the current situation. She was answered by a staffer who did not mirror her concern. “‘We sent the email out earlier,’” Fuoco said, recounting the staffer’s response. “‘I am not their mother. And they can make their own choices.’”

Therefore, Safety and Security never sent out another email Wednesday night alerting students that police were patrolling the area around Allegheny St., which borders campus to the north, around 10 p.m.

“The Office of Campus Safety provides protection...to the Allegheny community,” according to the Safety and Security website.

Safety and Security did not protect students Wednesday night after business hours.

If Safety and Security didn’t know the police were near campus again, they seem negligent; if they did know and decided not to notify students, they seem incompetent.

Without any sort of official dispatch updating students of the situation, the only way students might know if there were a fugitive in their back-

yard is if they found a fugitive in their backyard.

Even a quick update that the search for Green had again come close to campus would have re-informed students and reinforced the lockdown.

Over 27 hours after the emergency alert, the administration finally released a statement yesterday from President James Mullen, their first campus wide email, thanking students and other campus community members for their patience Wednesday. The administration had no presence whatsoever during the chaos, and never attempted to assure or talk to students.

We realize that Safety and Security does not have the means to directly confront a potentially armed fugitive.

That goes double for President Mullen.

Their responsibility in situations like this is not law enforcement so much as communication, reassurance and protection.

By checking out after 5 p.m. and dismissing student concerns, they failed at all three.

“He said he heard the guy was walking down by our house,” said Grego. “I said I was sorry but I think it was pretty funny, and he started laughing, too, so it didn’t seem like there

were any hard feelings.”

“I hope I wasn’t putting him in danger,” said Maya Jones, ’14, who lives in the same house as Grego. “[The police] had taken the block off our street.”

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because we didn’t know,” said Brittany Rung, ’13. “I wasn’t sure if they would. And he said it was completely fine to order, so we figured it was fine.”

Other deliverymen were

apprehensive. Clay Grego, ’13, said the Pizza Hut driver he spoke with wasn’t sure if he should be down there because he was afraid Green was still in the area.

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Features Editors: Molly Duerig, Katie McHugh

Students react to Bubble tea gives campus lockdown back to Allegheny

By MOLLY DUERIG Features Co-Editor duerigm@allegheny.edu

It was 11:55 a.m., and a class of Psych Stats was running exactly five minutes too late. As students twitched and jerked their feet anxiously, waiting to be released, a knock sounded at the door. It was Professor Brian Saltsman, a fellow parttime resident of Carnegie Hall.

“Did you get the notice?” he asked Professor Aimee Knupsky.

Knupsky, who had been teaching for the past hour, had understandably not received the e-mail Saltsman was referring to, which alerted the campus community to the presence of an armed man wanted in Ohio.

Saltsman conveyed to the class the details of the message, which instructed everyone on campus to stay indoors until further notice regarding the whereabouts of the wanted man, who we all later learned is named Keith Green and had been involved in an incident involving gunfire with some policemen in Ohio.

Confused, students wandered in various directions— some toward the Carnegie computer lab, others toward classrooms to meet up with friends.

Emily Divins, ’13, called her workplace on the phone to let them know she’d be late for her one o’clock shift.

At that moment, she didn’t know that she wouldn’t be able to come in at all.

Many students all over campus thought the threat wouldn’t turn out to be nearly as serious as it did.

“I thought it was going to blow over,” said Emily Eckert, ’14, who was just finishing her work shift at the Financial Aid Office when she learned about the fugitive.

“I was packed up and about to walk to Brooks, knowing he was on Loomis, but my bosses wouldn’t let me leave. I stayed at work until 3:30.” Eckert’s shift normally ends at noon.

It was hard for many students to take the campus-wide alerts seriously at first.

Mike Oliphant, ’13, said he was not initially sure how to react to the warnings.

“At first I was caught up in the absurdity of the moment,” said Oliphant. “A fugitive kicking in doors, cops with guns a street over waiting for a showdown. It didn’t feel quite like Meadville.”

All over campus, students were instructed to stay where they were.

Jordan Abbott, ’12, was walking on campus when he was instructed to get inside.

“I snuck out the back door of Brooks [Dining Hall] and was walking over to the Murray area, when some woman inside of Murray yelled for me to get in the building,” Abbott

said. “I kind of followed suit, seeing as I was pretty much the only person out and about.”

Abbott’s comp oral, which was supposed to take place Wednesday, was re-scheduled due to the incident. He wasn’t the only student who enjoyed deadline extensions on academic assignments.

“I had a huge Con Law test to study for, but the test ended up getting canceled,” said Caitlyn McNamee, ’14, who said she’d taken off work for the day to study. “I spent the day watching The Office and following what people were saying about what was happening on Facebook.”

For the next three hours, students that had been told to remain in locations other than their own rooms all over campus entertained themselves as best as they could.

Taisha Thomas, ’13, spent her afternoon in the Vukovich Center.

“We were in the best room possible, because you need a code to get in, and you can’t even access it from the outside,” she said. “We watched Edward Scissorhands.”

Thomas added that Professor Coddington, the father of a classmate, brought in pizza for the whole class to eat.

Many hungry students ordered pizza throughout the afternoon. Food was the main thing on most people’s minds after they’d been sequestered for so long since lunch time.

After being stuck in Steffee Hall for awhile, Will Tolliver, ’13, got tired—and hungry. He decided to exit the building before being instructed to.

“There was no food, and I was starving,” he said. “So I left, ordered Domino’s and enjoyed there being no class.”

Tolliver said that the faculty at Steffee was not very diligent about keeping students from exiting the building.

“They didn’t say anything [about the alert]. The secretary locked the doors and then there was no one monitoring them or anything like that,” he said.

Some other students also said they left their respective locations before being given the go-ahead.

“I snuck out of Montgomery Gym around 2 p.m.,” said Anais Schindler, ’13. “They had us hide out in the basement, because there’s no windows down there.”

Despite the fact that the Vukovich has lots of windows, Kelonte Adams, ’13, wasn’t worried about being stuck there. “I didn’t hide. I didn’t think [Green] would hide in a glass building, if you ask me,” he said.

Adams said he and a few other students periodically went up to the garden on top of the Vukovich to check out the helicopters that were hovering above campus.

After most of the excitement had died down and he felt safe enough, Adams went to McKinley’s to get some food.

Numerous other students also said they did not feel frightened about the situation.

“To be quite honest, the gunman, the police and the chase all felt pretty far away from me,” said Mike Oliphant, ’13. “At times, it almost felt like students created the chase as something much larger than it was through Twitter and Facebook.”

“After awhile, I think he just laid in a ditch to wait it out and everyone’s minds ran wild,” he added.

Other students felt worried enough to heed the campuswide alerts, and stayed indoors for the entire day. McNamee, who lives in Brooks, said she only left her room once to eat at Brooks Dining Hall.

Noreen Chatta, who also lives in Brooks and ate in the dining hall to avoid going outside, said she’d been in her room in Brooks since 11 a.m. after getting out of class. and remained inside the building until she went to bed that night.

“I’ve been inside for twelve hours now,” said Chatta, as the lights in Brooks hall flickered ominously.

Marianna Kreidler, an Allegheny alumna from 2011 and current staff member, was on campus waiting to attend a play rehearsal that never happened when she heard that the gunman was last seen near Baldwin Street, where she lives.

Kreidler decided to spend the night in Brooks with a friend instead of going home that night.

Robert Patterson, ’13, said his friends in England were very scared to learn about what had happened in Meadville.

“I told them, ‘This is why America shouldn’t have guns!’”

Patterson said.

Mickey Bouffard, ’14, argued with Patterson, saying, “No one should have guns.”

Bouffard said she ventured into town in the middle of the afternoon and was surprised to learn that many townspeople were unaware of the situation.

“They were like, ‘Lockdown? What lockdown?’”

Bouffard said.

Numerous students expressed their concern about the lack of response from Safety and Security.

“My mom has been asking about what Security’s doing, and I haven’t told her that they aren’t doing anything because I don’t want her to be worried,” said Kerri Barron, ‘14.

Abbott said he didn’t feel as though students’ criticism of Security was fair.

“They’re unarmed, and they weren’t leading the investigation,” he said.

Loren Horst, ’12, made a meme for Allegheny College Memes during the pursuit.

By LORI JONES and MOLLY DUERIG Contributing Writer and Features Co-Editor jonesd@allegheny.edu duerigm@allegheny.edu

The Laughing Buddha Bubble Tea Company won second prize last weekend in the Gator Innovation Challenge, Allegheny’s annual business plan competition.

The company was started by the ten students of this year’s Economics 390: Economics of Entrepreneurship 2 class, taught by Chris Allison, entrepreneur-in-residence and part-time professor of economics. Professor of Economics John Golden assists Allison in teaching the class.

The course, which required students to start their own small business, aimed to teach business planning and marketing strategies. It originated in 2007, but has evolved quite a bit since then, according to Allison.

Allison provided the students with $2600 out of his own pocket in the beginning of the semester, as start-up capital for their future business. This was the first year Allison has done this, and he said he would like to continue to do it in the future.

“It allows the students to generate money for themselves as well as others,” said Allison, explaining that the group members will divide up half of whatever profit their business yield between one another. The other half of the profits are to be donated to an annual fund for scholarships for Allegheny students.

Allison, a member of the

Board of Trustees, explained that although he is not a professional academic, he is very committed to Allegheny.

“This is my way of giving back,” he said. The students also feel as if they are making a contribution with their business.

“A big part of what we are doing is giving back to our community so that students, or anyone, whoever buys our tea, will be helping to fund students’ education,” said the company’s chief logistics officer Anulekha Venkatram, ’13.

Allison explained that the course is designed to help students start a real-life business.

They are graded on how much profit their business ultimately yields.

“This isn’t a simulation,” he said. “When my students go to class, they’re basically going to work. The classes are set up like management meetings. I spend half the class teaching students how to run a management meeting, then I let them run it.”

Students are expected to work through all the operational and managerial challenges that go along with running a business.

“We knew coming into the class that we had to start a business,” said chief executive officer Colin Hartford, ’13. “It was days of brainstorming and looking at what would be the best business opportunity here on campus. Through that process, we came to find bubble tea.”

Chief financial officer Ben Schwartz, ’13, explained how the group decided to make a business out of bubble tea.

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“You need a niche product that’s not being sold on campus,” he said. “This is something new, different to differentiate ourselves from Smoothie Street.”

“What made us want to do something is that a lot of people are dissatisfied with the food here at school. We wanted to provide an alternative,” said chief operating officer Saeed Shomali, ‘13.

Due to rules that prohibit the selling of food on the first floor of the Campus Center, Laughing Buddha will be setting up shop on the second floor instead, selling cups of bubble tea for three dollars during allotted “Bubble Hours” over lunch.

“We’ve decided to do it once a week from noon to one,” Venkatram said, explaining that Bubble Hour will not have a set day. Their first Bubble Hour was held April 12.

The company sells a variety of bubble tea flavors, including mango, strawberry and milk tea. Customers may also mix the flavors in whatever way they like.

Allison said the students’ business was ultimately strengthened by facing realistic problems. “I’ll ask my students: ‘How many of you feel overwhelmed? Good. That’s what work is like.’ I’ll bet them, ‘I bet you can’t get this many orders before next class,” he said.

“My whole goal is to prepare them for battle. When they get off campus, it’s rough out there, so what I’m really trying to do is outfit them with armor,” he said.

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Goalkeeper Minsterman steps up for Gator lacrosse this season

By BRYAN WEISGAL Contributing Writer weisgalb@allegheny.edu

SPORTS INFORMATION Liz Blyth, ’13, carded an 81 for both rounds at the Ohio Wesleyan Invitational last weekend and finished third overall. Blyth has been a consistent force for the Gators all season, according to Head Coach Jeff Groff.

Women’s golf takes first place Gators win third tournament victory this season

By COLLEEN PEGHER Sports Editor pegherc@allegheny.edu

The women’s golf team took first place at the Ohio Wesleyan Invitational last weekend led by Liz Blyth, ’13, and Sarah Vorder Bruegge, ’14, who both finished in the top ten at the tournament.

The six-stroke victory marks the third tournament that the 11th ranked Gators have won this year.

The win represents a solid victory as the Gators head into the end of the season, said Vorder Bruegge.

“This past victory really strengthened our hope for going back to Nationals in May,” said Vorder Bruegge. “I think that if we continue to play like we have been we have a very strong chance of returning.”

Vorder Bruegge finished the tournament in seventh place overall, while Blyth took third.

Head coach Jeff Groff stressed the role the two have played in a successful year for the squad, and credited Blyth for her clutch performances.

“She’s a very talented golfer,” said Groff. “It seems that at the

bigger events she seems to have a knack for stepping up. She’s done that her first two years here and this is her third year now and she seems to play well when it counts.”

The Gators also looked to their seniors for strong showings at the Invitational, with Abby Sorensen finishing in a tie for 16th place and Lauren Hammell ending the day at 19th overall.

Weather proved to be a challenge for the Gators, who battled windy weather conditions on the course this past weekend. Hammell cited the wind as a reason for the increase in scores on day two. The Gators also faced off against a strong field of competition.

“There were 15 teams and they had to come out first over a really good field,” Groff said.

“They got through two pretty tough days in terms of the weather conditions.”

After what has been a successful season thus far for the Gators, Hammell insisted that they have kept humble and focused.

“We played two solid rounds of golf as a team and are

pleased with our performance this past weekend,” said Hammell. “Like I said, we are glad we won, but that is in the past, we need to continue to look ahead and focus on this coming weekend.”

The Gators will kick off conference tournament play Saturday in Meadville. With nationally-ranked 3rd place DePauw on the course, the team is aware of the challenge that awaits them.

“DePauw is an excellent team from top to bottom,” Hammell said. “No matter what golf course they play, they always go out there and play their game and they do it very well.”

Groff plans to keep his team focused on their performance, not the performances of those around them.

“Whether it’s DePauw or Wittenberg or anyone else, golf is a game that is about golfing your own ball and doing the best that you can,” Groff said.

“If we go out as a team and we play well, we know that we can certainly beat them. They’re looking forward to the challenge.”

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Softball Wednesday at Oberlin the Gators split a doubleheader to take control of first place in the NCAC standings. In game one, the Gators dominated the Yeowomen 3-0.

In game two, the Gators fell 2-1. Freshman pitcher Caitlin Nealer earned the victory, in game one bringing her record on the season to 17 wins and four losses.

The Gators have six games remaining in the season and their overall record stands at 21-8-1. They will play DePauw

Track Bobby Over, ’13, won NCAC Distance Athlete of the Week after his record-breaking performance at the 3,000 meter at Bucknell. Over’s time at the Bison Outdoor Classic was the fastest time recorded in Division III this season.

In the recently released NCAA Divison III Track & Field Power Rankings, both the men and women's side rank among the top 50 teams out of 450.

The men are ranked 37th while the women come in at 45th. The men's team has set 44 personal records, with the women at 30.

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Men's Golf The Gators won their first tournament in two years at the Edward Jones Shootout this past weekend at Carnegie Mellon University.

Patrick Fritz took home NCAC Golfer of the Week honors after he tied for third in the individual standings with a two-day total of 148.

Oliver White, ’14, and Rob Hibbert, ’12, also finished in the top 10 this weekend. The Gators will begin conference play in Meadville this Saturday.

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Baseball After a 5-15 start to the season, the Gators have bounced back, winning ten straight.

The Gators topped the Lions of Penn State Behrend 5-3 Tuesday afternoon. The squad came out firing early, taking a 2-0 lead in the top of the third with Eric Hansen, ’14, hitting a two out, two RBI single.

Six different Gator players gave the team eight hits, with Jeff Dassner, ’14, and Aaron Lynch, ’12, earning two each.

Outfielder and pitcher Mike Pezzone, ’14, won NCAC Player of the Week. Pezzone has been on fire behind the plate, hitting .354 on the season.

The Gators will be back in action on Saturday at Kenyon for a back to back doubleheader.

at home in a doubleheader this Saturday at 1 p.m.

STU DIO

By COLLEEN PEGHER Sports Editor pegherc@allegheny.edu

Men's Tennis Last weekend, the men’s tennis team topped the Tomcats of Thiel in a 9-0 sweep. The Gators dominated doubles, dropping only two games in three matches.

The men currently stand at 8-6 overall. Their match at Grove City was cancelled on Wednesday, but the Gators will be back in action in Meadville on Saturday at 1 p.m.

Women's Tennis The women defeated the Fighting Scots of Wooster 9-0 this past weekend. They, like the men, dominated doubles play, dropping only five games in three matches.

Carolyn Shetter, ’14, and Deb Landau, ’12, both won in singles play helping lead the Gators to 8-7 on the season.

They currently sit in a first place tie with Oberlin in the NCAC East Division.

The goalie of the women’s lacrosse team wasn’t always in the net. Carly Minsterman, ’14, who moved to goalie for the Gators this season, has played a major role in their success thus far.

Minsterman, who played multiple positions in the field last season and started in 16 of 18 games, has taken a beating on the field this semester, putting her team before herself.

On her left thigh is a sizeable bruise.

Minsterman laughs at the bruise and explains to senior captain Kiah Voyer-Colbath that the mark is from a practice shot and has been there for over a week.

Minsterman has been a tremendous contributor to the team-first atmosphere that defines Head Coach Stephanie Janice’s program. That dedication is invaluable to a team that had no goalies returning and was already short on players.

With no goalies on her roster, Janice was forced to choose a player to fill the role.

The coaching staff did not have players competing for the job.

The situation called for Janice to choose a player and stick with her.

Janice and other Gators joked that Minsterman’s experience as an intramural deck hockey goalie was a factor that Janice used in selecting her over other players. Janice maintains that Minsterman was the best candidate, and Voyer-Colbath along with cocaptain Kellee Cribby agree that there was no better option than Minsterman.

“Honestly, it is a really tough challenge,” Cribby said.

“She is one of the only people

that could deal with the [posi- most,” Minsterman said. “I also want to keep improving, worktion] change.”

When selected for the po- ing on some of the basic funsition, Minsterman embraced damentals and improving my save percentthe role without age.” complaints.

Although “She just Mi nste r m an’s said, ‘Coach, if 37.8 save perthat is where centage is curyou need me,’” rently below her Janice said. opposition’s 41 “Carly is selfsave percentless, tough and age, she has yet someone that to miss a minute the defense rethis season, and ally takes pride her efforts have in protecting.” helped lead the Headed into this season, the SPORTS INFORMATION Gators to a 6-4 start.

Gators were unWhile she continsure who would fufill ues to improve in the several roles on the net, Minsterman will team. They graduated move back in the field all-conference attacknext season with two er Jensen Paterson, “I want to the lead scorer for the win first and new goalkeepers recruited by Janice comGators in 2011. ing in next year.

Between the un- foremost. I Although all are certainty of replacing also want to aware that MinsterPaterson and Carly’s inexperience in net, keep improv- man will return to the the team had many ing, working field, she remains focused on her current challenges to face berole on the team. fore the season even on some of With a 1-1 record began. the basic in NCAC play, and “We have a completely new team and fundamentals a 7-5 record overall, a completely new and improv- Minsterman is more concerned with the playing style,” Voyering my save success of her team Colbath said.

Not usually a goal- percentage.” than with her position. ie, Minsterman tries “I have a lot more to remain calm and bruises than I would stay focused. She rechave otherwise,” Minognizes her role as the sterman said. “At this last line of defense and Carly its importance to the Minsterman, point though, I am just hoping I can do success of her team. ’14 enough to get us to She also accepts where we want to go.” her new position as a learning experience, and emphasizes winning rather than personal success.

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REVIEW

Watching ‘21 Jump Street’ exactly like watching previews

By BEN DAUBER Movie Reviewer dauberb@allegheny.edu

I honestly struggled in writing this review. Never has a film been so incredibly close to what I thought it would be like after seeing the preview. It was predictable and started a little slowly, which is atypical of a good comedy. But it still delivered some laughs, so it wasn’t a complete waste of time.

However, if you’re debating whether or not to go see it, I suggest waiting ‘til you go home for the summer. Watch it on mom and dad’s cable subscription, rather than paying to see it at the theater.

I think my disappointment stems from the hype. The previews were funny. I had heard it was funny from my friends (who are idiots, a fact I often forget). Basically, I was pretty pumped for it.

Unfortunately, the hype and the previews turned out to be the best part of the film. On that note, the preview itself was not extremely impressive. When I saw the preview I laughed, thought to myself, “Man, that’s probably gonna be solid,” and did not give the movie a moment’s thought after that.

The film is based off the TV show 21 Jump Street that spanned from the late ‘80s to

early ‘90s. The only difference between the two is that the original featured an actor with some serious chops in Johnny Depp (Depp makes a pretty awesome cameo, by the way).

Both the show and the film center around two reject cops that have been kicked off active duty. However, because they look so young, they’re selected to work undercover as high school students in an attempt to bust up a drug ring.

Channing Tatum just a sixpack with a limited capacity for displaying emotion on screen.

He plays the same jock-ass (jock-ass = jock + badass) in almost all of his films.

It’s only when a director wisely chooses not to ask Tatum to be a chiseled jock-ass that his acting can be passable.

This is the case in 21 Jump Street: Tatum at least avoids being the stereotype he usually is, and this is worth a bit of recognition.

Within the past six years, Tatum has been all over the place: he’s acted in Dear John, both G.I. Joe films and Step Up. No one can deny that the guy is good-looking, but his acting in all of these films has been generally average.

Any movie with Jonah Hill (Knocked Up, Get Him To The Greek, Superbad, etc.) is worth at least a few laughs, and this

one is no different.

But although it hurts me to talk a little shnizz on Jonah Hill, at this point I think he is just trying too hard. He’s a very funny man, don’t get me wrong, but if he keeps making B-rated comedies like 21 Jump Street, his loyal fans will be left with nothing to watch but re – runs of Knocked Up and Super Bad. The only truly admirable comedy in this film was thanks to the presence of well-known actors Rob Riggle and Chris Parnell. These guys have been the glue holding together blockbuster comedies such as Anchor Man, Step Brothers, and Hot Rod. Jonah Hill was kinda funny, Channing Tatum avoided being as cheesy as he usually is, and the women were hot. But that is about all the film has going for it.

My review has sounded a bit more disparaging than I intended it to. I’d like to clarify that if you want to see a formulaic comedy on a day when you’re stuck sick at home, this would be the one.

I’m not saying the movie’s bad. It’s just not good enough for me to give a shit.

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Talent show held to benefit charities

By AVA CARVOUR Contributing Writer carvoura@allegheny.edu

Sunday night the Campus Center lobby was jam packed with a crowd of enthusiastic onlookers.

Cheers resounded and hands clapped, as the 2nd annual Kappa Kappa Gamma and Sigma Alpha Epsilon “Do It For the Kids” Talent Show presented an array of entertainment acts along with a Chinese auction.

Kappa and SAE produced the talent show to benefit their two respective charities. Kappa’s philanthropy is Reading is Fundamental, which works to combat childhood illiteracy and SAE’s is Children’s Miracle Network, which raises money for children’s hospitals and promotes awareness of children’s health issues.

While the two Greek organizations teamed up to pull the philanthropy event off, much of the planning and executing fell into the hands of Kappa’s philanthropy chair, Lauren Moore, ’14.

“We’re doing this with the Sigs, though to be honest, they haven’t been as involved in the process as I would have liked, but it’s fine,” said Moore.

Moore found herself pulling off much of the work of staging

the show singlehandedly.

“The process was a little rocky due to the lack of help from the Sig philanthropy chair, but with the help of other brothers, and our own sorority members it was able to get done,” said Moore.

A lack of organization may have been responsible for some of the confusion surrounding the purpose of the talent show.

Diehl Edwards, ’13 came to perform without knowing anything about the Talent Show’s origins or objectives.

“I don’t know what it’s for or who’s putting it on but I know I’m going to be onstage for 2 minutes and 20 seconds throwing blue and white balls around,” he revealed.

Moore worked to ensure that the talent show involved and amused the wider campus community.

“We have baskets, alumni support, and we’ve really involved the community a lot.

I worked with Admissions because I wanted prospective students to know what we can do as a campus. I’m hoping it brings everyone together for a good cause,” Moore said.

Moore emphasized the Talent Show’s philanthropy effort.

“It’s all about the kids,” she said. For much of the audience, the enticement to watch the

Talent Show was more about the live acts and personal connections.

Megan Berta, ’15 attended the show to support friends.

Berta’s friends Gillian Green, ’13, and Hillary Upton, ’12, sang Taylor Swift together.

Peta Henry, ’15, was attracted by a performance by Green, her R.A. “She’s been practicing all week, so she takes it really seriously,” said Henry.

The audience was treated to a range of classmate’s talents, from musical pieces, to juggling, and time sensitive improvisation, playing upon recent episodes of campus harassment.

Ian Colley, ’13, a member of Musicians and Meadville, performed as a result of his near campus celebrity.

“I suppose my reputation as a musician precedes me and I was contacted and asked to perform and I said absolutely,” said Colley.

The performances elicited support and excitement from the crowd, whether they were tantalizingly raunchy or painstakingly sweet.

“It just seems like a better way to spend my Sunday afternoon than sitting alone doing homework,” said Kyrsten Craig, ‘15.

REVIEW

Indie rock legend releases best album in Playshop premieres ‘Museum’ production over a decade

By CODY MILLER Music Reviewer millerc3@allegheny.edu

Courtesy of Mark Cosdon

Caitlyn Fuoco, ‘13, and Maya Jones, ‘14, pose for a publicity photo promoting Playshop Theatre’s latest production, Museum. Tickets may be reserved by calling (814)332-3414.

By AVA CARVOUR Contributing Writer carvoura@allegheny.edu

Museum may be the biggest Playshop Theater production Allegheny has seen in years.

“I don’t think we’ve done a show this big since Pirates of Penzance, way back in, I think 2007,” said stage manager Colleen McCaughey, ’13.

Museum, which is written

by Tina Howe and directed by Beth Watkins, is a comedy on the grand scale. Twenty-five actors, comprised of Allegheny students and a single faculty member, portray 42 different characters.

Watkins chose to stage the play as a challenge.

“The play has all these characters, so you can never do this play anywhere but in a college.

It would be too expensive to produce on Broadway because you couldn’t afford to pay everybody,” said Watkins.

Museum is anything but conventional, not only in size but in substance.

“The play’s written in the style of absurdism, which is this kind of popular movement in the ‘40s and ‘50s,” said Watkins. “There is no real plot.

What it is, is a series of events that happen in a gallery on the last day of a group show by three contemporary artists.”

The play, set in the 1970s, features physical comedy as a security guard attempts to do his job while the patrons of the of art museum run wild.

Smattered throughout are antics involving flying clothespins, out of body experiences and degenerations into madness.

The art museum setting allows for a look into the types of characters that haunt the hallowed halls of featured art, from the museum guard to art aficionados.

On stage, the audience also anticipates an art gallery setting, which was a challenge in its own right, according to scenic designer Brian Wetzel, ’12.

“We wanted to make it seem like a real art gallery, which is pretty challenging for us, a museum space like that is well put together and we were on a pretty tight time budget for this show,” said Wetzel.

“So really, the challenge was to make it look as much like a museum as we can, and of course museums have four

walls and we have only three because we want the audience to be able to see things.”

The art used in Museum was created specifically for the production. Sarena Ferguson, ’12 created sculptures. Blair Hartman, ’14, transformed mannequins, and Professor Mehler contributed three large paintings.

Caitlyn Fuoco, ’13, who portrays a museum-goer and friend of one of the artists, sees the production as an examination of some of the confusion surrounding modern art.

“It manages to comment on a cultural discourse around art, while at the same time being really funny. I think it will be really accessible to a lot of college students,” Fuoco said.

“Museum is just sort of a crazy, hilarious, funny, quirky, and esoteric amalgamation of the most wild characters you could ever meet coming into a museum.”

“I really think the student body will enjoy watching 42 characters run in and out of this stage in under 90 minutes,” said McCaughey.

Sweet Heart, Sweet Light, Spiritualized’s first album in four years, is the first to truly capture that sense of uncompromising ambitious and grandeur that made their 1997 release of Ladies and Gentleman We Are Floating in Space so extraordinary.

Since releasing Ladies and Gentleman, Spiritualized frontman Jason “Spaceman” Pierce has slowly grown into a sort of indie rock legend, and rightfully so.

Ladies and Gentleman was a drug-induced frenzy of raucous rock n’ roll and gigantic gospel-like arrangements under a hypnotic opiate-tinged haze.

In retrospect, it’s one of the best releases of the 1990s.

In the wake of such a masterpiece, it’s almost impossible not to compare each subsequent Spiritualized release to Pierce’s magnum opus.

That might an unfair tendency, but it has certainly cast a shadow on the band’s steady flow of solid spaced-out psychedelia over the past decade.

From the onset, it becomes quite apparent that this is singularly a Spiritualized release.

The opener, “Hey Jane” clocks in at nearly nine minutes long.

This track accomplishes what Pierce does best: contrasting his frail, Lou Reed-like drawl against a wall of abrasive slide guitar, atmospheric noise, and choir-like arrangements.

It’s difficult to ignore Pierce’s personal circumstances when listening to this album.

Spacemen 3, Pierce’s previ-

ous band, sported the motto: “Taking drugs to make music to take drugs to.”

In 2005, Pierce nearly died of pneumonia and plunged down to an alarming 95 pounds.

Recently, he discovered he was suffering from long-term liver disease.

The lead singer, once addicted to heroin, was now dependent on a drug-cocktail of life-saving medication and housebound during his treatment.

It seems as though Pierce has emerged out of these difficulties a stronger man. Sweet Heart shows a wiser artist, who, while jaded by the past, rejoices in the very fact that he is alive.

Perhaps this explains why these are the most engrossing tunes Pierce has released in almost a decade.

Sweet Heart, Sweet Light accomplishes a balance of grace, triumph and aggression.

“Too Late” is a simple pop ballad, underscored by an gorgeous, orchestral arrangement.

“Too late, I’ve made up my mind. Love always shows when there’s eyes it can blind,” Pierce sings. He acknowledges his failures, yet has no regrets.

It is jubilant re-affirmation of his artistic vision, and one of the most beautiful tracks I’ve heard this year.

“I Am What I Am” rings with a Lou Reed-like coolness.

The song places Pierce’s un-tuneful, tiny voice under a desolate soundscape of visceral noise guitar and gospel-like call and response.

While simple and repetitive, it is also irresistible.

Rising out of “Freedom,” the

preceding track, it makes perfect sense both musically and lyrically.

None of these pieces have an extraordinary sense of melody, but that’s not the point. Pierce compensates for his weak voice with a sardonic, jaded moan.

Nevertheless, while Sweet Heart is generally uncompromising and triumphant, it does have its moments of blandness and lost potential. “Freedom” is a ballad, which rings with purpose, but it feels tiring and bland. It fails to hold its own against some of the album’s standout pieces.

Initially, “Mary” brilliantly places the listener into something like a foot-stomping revival meeting, but feels somewhat predictable as it descends into a cacophony of noise.

However, by the album’s closer “So Long You Pretty Thing,” it becomes evident that Pierce has said what has needed to be said.

He leaves no loose ends tied, singing, “All your dreams and diamond rings, and all that rock and roll can bring you, so long, so long.”

This is Pierce waving goodbye to the rock n’ roll dream.

Sweet Heart, Sweet Light is Pierce’s first album since Ladies and Gentleman that says something, and while it is not an earth-shattering masterpiece, it’s the first Spiritualized album that feels courageous, that and it is one of the best albums I’ve reviewed this year.

Pierce takes his experiences and has created a compelling, resonant statement that learns from the past and looks forward to the future.