March 23, 2012

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Canisius College, Buffalo, NY

Friday, March 23, 2012

Volume LXXXII Number 18

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Record heat wave welcomes start of spring

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OPINION

Why we care about Snooki @ 6 Editorial: Buffalo teachers @ 6 A note to seniors @ 7

KellyJordan,ChelseaPolanski,ChristinaWittmeyer,DanielleStevensandNathanOlszewskienjoythesunshine in the quad Thursday afternoon.

smoothiesalesspikedthisweek.Whenasked ifalotofstudentswerecominginforicecream she let out a big sigh and said,“You can’t even imagine.”Inonedayalonetheywentthrough 18 gallons of ice cream, that’s six of the big containers under the cooler window.

Professors aren’t immune to the nice weathereither.Someclasseshavebeenrelocated to the quad or the lawn outside Lyons Hall.SophomoreMollyRutter’soralcommunicationclasswasmovedoutsideLyons.Ratherthangivingimpromptuspeechesinastuffy classroom, they just took them outdoors.

Other professors have taken it a step further, letting classes out early or canceling thementirely.BothjuniorJacquieKrajnikand sophomoreNickPalamarapostedonTwitter yesterdayafternoonthattheirclasseswerelet out 45 minutes early specifically because of the weather. One of my professors sent out an email canceling class earlier in the week, notjustbecauseoftheweather,butcitingthe “lovely day” as one of the factors.

The professors’laid-back disposition is nothing compared to what many students havebeenfeeling.Thehightemperaturesand sunshinegivetheimpressionthatthesemester is drawing to a close; however, there are still sixweeksofclassesremaining.Whenaskedif theweatherwaskeepingstudentsfromfocusingontheirschoolwork,mostgroaned,“Yes,” without any hesitation.

By Hannah Alt News Editor

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Mr. Canisius profiles @ 8 Shea’s 2012-13 preview @ 9 From FIT a taste of luxury @ 11

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Men’s lax drops two @ Back Don’t pencil the Bills in for the Super Bowl just yet @ 14 Nick writes about the NCAA tournament, Ralph Wilson and Tim Tebow @ 15

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AsthecityofBuffaloreachedrecordtemperaturesthisweek,CanisiusCollegerodethe unseasonableheatwavewiththefeelingthat summerhadalreadyarrived.Therarityofthe scenes taking place across campus is made moreevidentbytheyellowhuesthathighlight thegrassacrosscampus.Studentspouredinto the quad playing Kan Jam, football, soccer, volleyball and Frisbee on lawns that haven’t even had the chance to bloom. Others took advantage of the early sun by getting a head startontheirtan.Therewasalsotheoccasionaldedicatedstudentstudyingatatableoutside Palisano Pavilion or under a tree.

Walkingthroughthestreetssurrounding thecampus,resimuterporcheswerepopulatedwithstudentslateintothenight,tryingnot towasteevenanhourofthisbeautifulweather.

“Perfect day to relax on the roof,”senior Mary Kate Sidoti shared on her Facebook page.

More people could be seen jogging, riding theirbikesandheadingovertoDelawarePark.

Peopleallovercampushavedugtheirsandals andshortsoutoftheirclosetsandarereaching forthosesummerytreatsthataretuckedaway during the winter months.

OneoftheemployeesatStreetSideCafé toldTheGriffinthaticecream,milkshakeand

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“Second semester senioritis plus nice weatherequalszeroproductivity,”saidsenior NathanOlszewskiwhilelyinginthequadwith friends yesterday.

Others took to Facebook with similar comments. On Tuesday, Junior Nick Veronica posted,“Maybe it’s a good thing to go to school in a cold city like Buffalo. If it was this nice all year I’d never get any work done.”

“It’ssohardtogetmotivatedwithweather like this,” posted junior Adrienne Fortini.

Whileithasbeenaniceat-homevacation of sorts, it also came as a shock. The first day ofspringwastechnicallythisweek,butother than the limited leavesand budson the trees lining the sidewalk, it hardly feels like March.

“Remember spring? Neither do I,” said seniorChristopherHyzyjokinglywhilesoaking up some rays on Tuesday. This March in generalhasbeenallovertheboardwithhighs of 20s and 30s jumping into the 60s in a matter of a couple days. During Canisius’spring break,thetemperaturesslowlyclimbedreachingasteady70degreesplusduringSt.Patrick’s Day weekend. Since St. Patrick’s Day, Buffalo has broken daily record highs every day.The BuffaloNewsreportedthatwhenitreached80 degreesonTuesday,itmarkedtheearliestday oftheyearthatBuffalohaseverhitthatmark.

Temperaturesareexpectedtosettleintomore normal ranges by next week so students are enjoying every minute while it lasts.

Canisius denies Baron contract report ity, we would absolutely consider it.”

Baron turned 58 on Tuesday and has taken teams to the NCAATournament twice – St. Francis in 1991 and St. Bonaventure in 2000 – but never with Atlantic 10 member Rhode Island, which was a key factor in his firing.

Baron has a career record of 390-367 (.515) and was 184-165 at URI (83-93 in conference) and taking the team to the NIT five times.

He would replace Tom Parrotta, who compiled a 64-121 record in six years at Canisius,whichwashisfirsthead-coachingjob.

Canisius College is rumored to be severalmilliondollarsinthered,andBaronlikely wouldn’tcomecheap.AreportfromDecemberaboutBaron’scontractatURIsaidhisbase

By Nick Veronica Sports Editor

Though multiple sources reported this morningthatJimBaronhasbeenofferedthe headcoachingpositionofCanisiusCollege’s men’s basketball team, the school says it absolutely has not made anyone an offer at this point.

Baronwasfiredafter11seasonsatRhode Island University following a 7-24 record this year. He has Western New York ties, having served as the head coach at St. Bonaventure from 1992 to 2001.

Canisius athleticdirectorBill Maherwas previouslyaskedifhewaslookingintohiring Baron,towhichhereplied,“Ifthat’sapossibil-

salarywasnearly$350,000andcouldalmost doublebasedonincentives.Thatbasesalary alonewouldmakehimthehighest-paidemployee at Canisius, according to the most recent tax documents available.

TheBuffaloNewsreportedthatCanisius is still entertaining other potential coaches while it waitstohear fromBaron.Jayson Gee, assistant coach at Cleveland State; Anthony Evans, head coach at Norfolk State; and Bob Walsh, head coach at Rhode Island College, different fromRhode Island University,were named specifically in the report.

Canisius was formerly rumored to be after Bobby Hurley, but he decided to stay on asanassistantunderhisbrotherDan,whoreplaced Baron at URI this week.

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Big prizes spark interest in bingo

By Morgan Culhane News Writer

The Student Programming Boardwillhosttheirlarge-scaleBingo Night this Sunday from 7-9 p.m. in Montante Cultural Center. This eventwillserveasareplacementfor the big-name comedian that they had planned to host earlier in the year.

With only a couple of weeks to plan the event, SPB is confident thattheyhaveplannedsomething that will appeal to a majority of the studentbody.JuniorJanelleKaczor, oneofSPB’seventcoordinators,said thatthenightwillbefilledwithwinning prizes, eating food and enjoying some laughs with Eric O’Shae, a comedianwhoshouldbeappealing to students.

Studentswhoattendtheevent willreceivea raffleticket and be entered for a chance to win big-ticket items such as an iPad,TV, Xbox and other prizes. Raffles will take place throughoutthenightasstudentsenjoy pizza and refreshments, a comedyroutinebyO’Shaeandmultiple

roundsofbingo,duringwhichthey can also win prizes.

Whilemanystudentsareskepticalabouthavingfunplayingbingo, forothers,theappealoftheprizesis enough to draw them in.

“I want to go because I have a feeling not many people will be there, so my chances to win a prize are high,”said freshman Amy Brooks.

“I’m going. I like bingo and I like free stuff,” said junior Bryan Murzynowski.

Despite the time constraints that SPB found themselves under, Kaczor assured that immediately afterthedeterminationthatacomedian was no longer an option SPB, started the planning process.

The idea for Bingo Night was suggested by Beth Griffith, one of SPB’sgraduateassistants,afterseeing the event’s success at her alma mater, St. John Fisher College. SPB thought the event sounded like a great idea as it was something they couldtakeinnumerousdirections.

“We didn’t really have any guidelinesforwhattheeventcould be, so we wanted to make it as big and appealing as possible,”Kaczor said.“We knew it was a set back for

not having a big-name comedian.”

DespitethefactthatSPBcould not get a big-name comedian to come to Canisius, they still wanted to get someone similar to host the event. The club decided on Eric O’Shae, a comedian known on the collegecircuit,whoonlycostabout $4,000 to emcee.

After returning the $54,393 to theUndergraduateStudentAssociationallocationpool,theyrequested a much smaller budget for Bingo Night, closer to $10,000. AccordingtoKaczor,theclubhasspentapproximately$7,000sofarandplans to spend more on decorations and additional prizes.

SPB urges students to come check out the event this Sunday night.

“Students should come becausethere’satonofchancestowin greatprizes,andit’sgoingtobefunny,” Kaczor added. “I’ve seen Eric O’Shae before and I couldn’t stop laughing at his comedy routine.”

Why should students come to this event? Kaczor makes a valid argument in saying,“The event’s on a Sundaynight;whatelseisanybody doing on a Sunday night?”

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March 26 – 12 PM (MCC) Meet-the-Faculty -- Cristen Gregory, soprano; Bryan Eckenrode, cello; Jane Cary, harpsichord March 27 – 7:30 PM (MCC) Composer-in-Residence -- 10th Annual WNY Student Composers’DayPersisVehar,composer;WinnersoftheSecondAnnual“PersisVeharCompetition for Excellence in Composition” April 20 – 5-7 PM (Library) Library Art Reception -- Rebekah Champ April 20 – 7 PM (MCC) Student Performance -- 2012 Ignatian Scholarship Day Concert CanisiusConcertBand;PaulD.Biddle,director;CanisiusJazzEnsemble;DaveSchiavone, director April 21 – 7 PM (MCC) Special Event -- A prizewinner of the Stecher and Horowitz New York International Piano Competition

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JosephModicaandErinGiangrecoatthe2011Hollywood-themed Relay for Life.

Annual cancer fundraising underway

By Amy Brooks News Writer

This past Thursday the quad wasdecoratedwithpurpleribbons to raise awareness for the upcoming Relay For Life. This event will be held from 4 p.m. on April 13 to 4 a.m. on April 14 in the Koessler AthleticCenter.Therelayissetupto raise money for the American CancerSocietyandalsocelebratepeople andfamiliesofthosewhohavewon the fight against cancer.

“Relay For Life is the major fundraiserfortheAmericanCancer Societywhichworkstoraisecancer awareness,promotehealthychoices, and collect and allocate funds for canceradvocacy,education,patient servicesandresearch,”explainedJoe Modica, president of the Colleges Against Cancer club.

For Relay, teams of students are currently and will continue to registeronlineandthenworktocollect donations. During Relay, the teamswillgeta“campsite”andhave an onsite fundraiser where participantscaneatgrilledcheeseandtomatosoup,rideamechanicalbull,or even jump in a bounce house.

“There will be a lot of laughs,” assured Taylor Klun, chair of marketingandadvertisingfortheevent.

“Adding to the excitement is the‘relay at Relay’where people maketeamsanddosackraces,crab races, and the like,” Modica said.

There is a track set up in the gym that members of each team are supposed to walk on continuously throughout the night. “In theory,

one person from each team would be on the track at all times,”he said.

There is also a more solemn side to Relay. It starts out with a speechaboutcanceranditseffects on those who have it, and those around them. Then, cancer survivors, and people who are still fightingcancertakealapbeforeeveryone joins to show their support.

“It’s really cool to come together as a community and show how everyone is affected by [cancer],” said Modica.

Family and friends are invited to join, especially if they have been affected by cancer. Survivors get free admission as well as a specialgift.Peoplewhoarestillfighting cancerasalsoconsideredsurvivors, Modicaexplained,becausetheyare surviving every day.

“Students can make or join a team on the Relay For LifeWeb site, www.relayforlife.org/CanisiusCollege,”said Klun.“It is super easy and fast to register! Students can then fundraise, get donations, and get in the spirit for Relay on April 13, which is Holiday themed.”

If you are unable to be a part of the event, you can help out by donatingtoateam,orattendingTri Beta’sNiteOut,atalentshowbeing held tonight at 7 p.m in Montante.

Nite Out is a verity show with 13 actsfromdancecrewstocomedians.

“Even some professors are involved,” Modica said. The show is three dollars for students and the proceeds will go to Relay. There will also be a table in Old Main on Thursdays selling Relay shirts and water bottles.

NEWS

Friday, March 23, 2012

Russell detained after testing out invisible clothing

By Sam Scarcello Editor in Chief

War broke out on the Internet last week. A 30-minute video produced by the Invisible Children foundation went viral, shooting fromafewthousandviewstonearly 100 million within days. Facebook newsfeedswereclutteredwithpleas to not only view the video, but to pass it along to friends and colleagues as well. It shined a light on thecrimesandinjusticescommitted bywarlordJosephKonyinUganda.

Butdespiteitsattemptstohighlight a world long forgotten, or at least ignoredbyWesterncivilization,the focus shifted to the shady tactics of thefoundationresponsibleforitand therealizationthatnothingpositive wouldtrulycomeoftheirsocialmedia domination.

In a matter of days, sides were taken, arguments were made, friends became enemies and enemies remained enemies that just shared a common opinion. And once the dust and memes settled, thoseleftstandingmovedintocol-

lect their fallen comrades. The war, it seemed, was all but over, and the invisible children that were supposed to be helped by all of it were nowmoretranslucentthanever.For days,therewasn’tasinglemention of Kony, Uganda or Invisible Children on Facebook. It was apparent that the experiment had died as quicklyasitcame.Thensomething happenedthatnobodycouldhave predicted.

No, Joseph Kony was not tried andconvictedforhiscrimesagainst humanity; it was something even less likely than that. Jason Russell, 33-year-old co-founder of Invisible Children and producer of the video that started all of this, lost his marbles.Actually,hedidn’tsomuch losethemashejustpulledthemout and put them on display for San Diego’s rush hour traffic.

On Thursday, March 15, Russellwasdetainedforbehavingerratically,shoutingprofanities,smacking thepavementandmakinginappropriategesturesallwhilebeingcompletely nude. Video that surfaced shortly after, via gossip site TMZ, confirmed the bizarre reports.

Russell has since been hospitalized on a 5150 psychiatric hold soauthoritiescanassesshismental state, which, according to Gawker. com, was the same hold used on BritneySpearsfollowingumbrellagate.

Itisunlikelythatthisbodeswell forthecredibilityofanorganization that is staring down accusations of mishandlingfundsmeantfordisadvantaged,desperatechildren.Invisible Children’s website states, “50 percentofourprogrammingbudget is utilized in bringing awareness to thesituationandpromotinginternationalsupportofthepeaceprocess takingplace.Atthesametime,there is a dire need for relief in northern Uganda, especially when it comes totheregion’syouth.Theremaining 50 percent of our budget provides top-notchprogrammingforaffected children and their families.”

Programming includes educational scholarships, mentorship and the rebuilding of secondary academic institutions. However, recentallegationsclaimthatonly33 percentofdonationsreceivedbyInvisibleChildrengoestowardefforts

in Uganda. The rest allegedly goes to the founders and the filmmakingbudget,whichappearstobethe “bringingawareness”aspectofthe campaign.Oneformerprogramrun

by IC, Schools for Schools, aimed to use90percentoffundingraisedfor “directimplication.”Thatcampaign is inactive now.

Inthewakeoftheincident,the remaining sane co-founders of IC andRussell’swifehavesprungtohis defensecitingexhaustion,dehydrationandmalnutritionasthecauses ofhisbreakdown,aswellasnegative feedback from the film.

Astatementfromhiswife,Danica read, “We thought a few thousandpeoplewouldseethefilm,but in less than a week, millions of people around the world saw it. While that attention was great for raising awarenessaboutJosephKony,italso brought a lot of attention to Jason and, because of how personal the film is, many of the attacks against itwerealsoverypersonal,andJason took them very hard.”

The most notable part of Dan-

ica’sstatementisthefirstsentence.

IC is a major organization that has been operating in some capacity since 2003. When I upload a video takenonmyphoneofmydogwalking into a glass door, I anticipate nothing less than a million views.

These guys have massive amounts ofmoney,high-techequipmentand are covering a controversial, gutwrenching topic. To expect only a “fewthousandpeople”toviewyour film is illogical. The response may havebeenlargerthananyonecould have hoped for, but it sounds like they are making excuses to elicit sympathy for Russell.

It appears that Russell will remainunderhospitalcareforseveral weeks, and according to his wife, it could be months before he steps backintohispositionwithInvisible Children. Perhapssome time away from the spotlight is exactly what he needs, as his 15 minutes barely started before it all became too overwhelming for Russell. But let’s notforget,thefocusisstillDarfuror UgandaorwhereverFacebooksaid.

NEW REGISTRATION LOGIN PROCEDURES FOR THE FALL 2012 REGISTRATION CYCLE Login to myCanisius with your Canisius username and password.  Open Schedule and Registration folder.  Click on Manage My Registration.  You will now have to login to the self-service system.  Login again with your username and password.  Select Student Services menu option.  Then select Registration option.  Select Add or Drop Classes option.  Select Fall 2012 from the drop down box.  Enter your Registration PIN. DO NOT go any further until 9:00 am or you will get an error message stating “You are not permitted to register at this time”.  At 9:00 am continue with your registration by entering the CRNs for the classes you want to register for.  Submit your changes.  Review your classes and resolve any registration errors listed. 

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You can login as early as 20 minutes prior to the 9:00 am start.

If you login too early the time out period is set for 30 minutes for security purposes.

Please contact the Student Records Office at 888-2990 if you have any questions.

The office will be open on registration Saturdays from 8:30 am – 11:30 am.

You can also stop by the office for assistance on how to use the system.

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News Of The Weird FLORIDA – John Morgan, 34, was charged in February in Port St. Lucie with embezzling over $40,000 from a trust fund that had been established for his daughter, who has special needsbecauseofcerebralpalsy.

Because of the theft, she is unabletohavedentalworknecessitatedbecauseacareprovider failed to lock her wheelchair, sendinghersprawlingface-first.

Friday, March 23, 2012

Motown grooves into student center

By Tori Clafin News Writer

ThemusicofMotowninvaded the Regis Room South on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. leaving those in attendance blown away with smiles and nostalgia by Indiana University’s Soul Revue. The Motown Story – Lecture and Performance, was welcomed to Canisius College by ALANA Student Center and a host of other sponsors.

Inadditiontotheperformances madebytheIUSoulRevue,Indiana University’s African American Arts InstituteexecutivedirectorCharles Sykespresentedaseriesoflectureperformances,showingtheimpact of Motown music on our culture.

From Marvin Gaye’s“What’s Going

On” to Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition,” the crowd learned that perhapsourgenerationisn’tasdifferent from the Motown era as we think it is.

“While we’re living in a different generation, some of the same things that they’re talking about – love and the problems of being in a relationship – are very relevant still,”Sykes said.“The music nowadays speaks with sort of a different tone, but the subject matter is still prettymuchthesame.”Sykesmakes itapparentthatMotowngivesusall somethingtoenjoy,nomatterhow longagoitmayhavebeenrecorded.

Thenight’spresentationwent inchronologicalorderfromthefirst musicians of the Motown era in the 1960s to the end of the era in 1971.

NEW YORK – Ms. Fausat Ogunbayo, 46, filed a federal lawsuit against NewYork City’s Administration for Children’s Services becauseithadtakenawayherkids (ages13and10)in2008forquestionsaboutOgunbayo’smental stability. The lawsuit, for “recklessly disregard(ing)”her“right to family integrity,”asks the city topayher$900,000,000,000,000 (trillion).

THAILAND – In Thailand, the endangeredstatusofcrocodiles andelephantsislargelyignored by the public, who are instead enthralled with the giant pandas and their cub on loan from China.(Thereisevena24-hour cable TV “panda channel.”) At several of the country’s zoos, officials now regularly paint theircrocodilesandelephants in panda colors (with harmlessly washable paint) to call attention to their plight. Even though the paint must be reapplied daily, “It’s impossible not to do it now,”said one croc handler for a December Wall StreetJournaldispatch.“People expect it.”

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‘Ooo Baby Baby.’”

The high level of interest for the Soul Revue to return was also evidentbythenumberofquestions asked at the end of the night.

To conclude the event, the audience got the chance to learn the Temptation dance. Most did not think twice before getting up to dance. When the music was over, people left with a good feeling, like that of when you see an old friend.

“Motownbringsanewvoiceto musicthatwedon’thearasmuchin our lives anymore, but it’s still good to hear,”said senior Davidlee Klimchuk.

Missedtheeventbutstillwant togettheMotownspirit?Beloware thetop10Motownsongsaccording to digitaldreamdoor.com.

Top 10 Motown songs: 1. I Heard it Through the Grapevine – Marvin Gaye 2. My Girl – The Temptations 3. Reach Out I’ll Be There – The Four Tops 4. Where Did Our Love Go? – The Supremes 5. What’s Goin’ On – Marvin Gaye 6. Dancing in the Street – Martha and the Vandellas 7. I Want You Back – The Jackson Five 8. Superstition – Stevie Wonder 9. Please Mr. Postman – The Marvelettes 10. My Guy – Mary Wells

TEXAS – In Frisco, in January, boutique owner Marian Chadwick,whowasabouttoberobbed atgunpointbyahoodedintruder, pointed her finger at him and said:“In the name of Jesus, you get out of my store. I bind you by the power of the Holy Spirit.”

Themanappearedstunned,then turned and walked out emptyhanded, cursing.

TEXAS – LaDondrell Montgomery,36,hadbeensentenced in November in Houston to life in prison for armed robbery despite his vigorous protestationsofinnocence,andabouta weeklater,inDecember,hewas exonerated. Although he had testified at his trial, he had not mentionedthathehadanironcladalibi,thathehadbeeninjail duringthetimetherobberywas committed. Once jail records were reviewed, Montgomery wasfreed.Theprosecutorhadn’t checkedtherecordsbeforetrial, andneitherhadMontgomery’s attorney, but then neither had Montgomeryevermentioned it(because,hehadtoldhislawyers, he had been in and out of jailsomanytimesinhislifethat hejustcouldnotrememberifhe hadbeenlockedupatthetime of the armed robbery).

Sykes shared the history of each MotownmusicianonaPowerPoint slide. The information regarding each musician ranged from basic facts like when the band started playing,toaspersonalastheirinfluenceonthemusicworld.Eachslide wasaccompaniedbythemusician’s greatest hit.

What made Tuesday night’s event special was that groups of all agesenjoyedtheevent.Anyobserverwalkingbycouldseetheaudience dancing quietly or bobbing their head when recognizing a classic such as “War” by Edwin Starr.

“I really would love it if they came back next year,”said Delethia Pope, a freshman at Canisius. “My favorite part was when they sang SmokeyRobinsonandtheMiracles’,

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Friday, March 23, 2012

Alternative Spring Break 2012 Joe Van Volkenburg

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Rebecca Krakowiak takes a break to play with Otto at the Appalachian Catholic Worker Farm in West Virginia.

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StudentstraveledtoHarpersFerry,WV,andtrekkedtoMarylandHeights,overlookingtheShenandoahand Potomac Rivers.

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Buffalo Teachers Federation fails its students A few weeks ago it was reported that the Buffalo Teachers Federation turned down millions of dollars in federal funding for its schools.

What could have been the resources needed to literally turn the public school system around, was rejected because of the stipulation requiring a new evaluation system. The prerequisite required a new evaluation system that includes the performances of chronically absent students. This condition has already been accepted by other urban teachers unions around the state, but not the BTF. It would make more sense if the percentage of teachers’ evaluations were well over 50 percent, however the condition requires that only 20 percent of teachers’ evaluations be taken into account. That percentage is far less than threatening to most of the teachers in the

Buffalo Public School system.

While being judged based on the students who consistently do not show up is a hard stipulation, the alternative – letting those students fall under the radar, labeled as lost causes – is just unacceptable. What the BTF does not realize is that including the performances of absentee students gives incentives to school districts to fix the absentee problem. It would also mean that teachers would step up their game in making sure students are engaged and performing to their fullest potential, instead of riding a failing school system in order to get a paycheck.

The federal funding could not have come at a better time. The Buffalo Public School

Take the spotlight off Snooki Jacquie Krajnik Snooki from Jersey Shore is pregnant.

I’m not even going to take the time to explain who Snooki is because, unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past two years, you know exactly who she is. If you search her name on Google, you’ll be faced with 51.5 million hits in about one tenth of a second.

She was in the infamous “smush room” at least once every episode talking about how she wanted to have sex with her boyfriend. And then she got pregnant. Is that really so surprising? No. It was only a matter of time before it happened.

All that I’m saying is can we please get over it? I don’t need an emergency news broadcast when she decides what she is going to name her offspring. I don’t want to have my Twitter feed clogged with tweets discussing her next doctor’s appointment, or why she is going out in Mexico during her second trimester. I don’t care to see commercials on MTV advertising an interview with her where she’ll discuss her pregnancy and recent engagement. All I’m hearing is “Snooki this” and “Snooki that” and I just want it to stop!

There is no need for all of these interviews and exclusives. There are much more important things going on in the world that we should be educating ourselves about.

But we’d rather sit here and call her future child names and make fun of her future family.

I’m happy for her. I think this will be a good thing for her; she needs to start acting her age and taking responsibility for her ac-

tions. However, I don’t want or need to be filled in on every aspect of this part of her life, and I don’t think anyone else does either. Let her live this part of her life on her own instead of insisting that we need to be there for every single moment. She is a big girl and should be able to make her own decisions without the constant criticism of the public eye.

People complain about how much attention these reality stars get and how famous they are when they haven’t done anything besides drink and party. Well, how about we stop giving them all of this attention? Problem solved.

They’re the ones that perform these actions, but ultimately we’re the ones that tune in week after week to give the show its sky-high ratings. We’re the ones constantly looking their names up on the Internet to make sure that we’re filled in on the latest developments in their lives. Why? Why do we feel the need to be a part of every move they make? Why do we feel we have the authority to pass judgment on the actions they take? There are a lot of people out there that do worse things, they just aren’t being caught on camera. With Jersey Shore being renewed for a sixth season and producers hoping Snooki will stay on for ratings, this cycle is guaranteed to continue.

Just take a step back, let people live their lives and get back to living your own, because while you’re busy constantly updating yourself on what is going on in other people’s lives, your own life is passing you right on by. krajnik1@canisius.edu

system, faced with deficits, budget caps and reduced state funding, could receive help in reducing, if not eliminating, a huge portion of layoffs that are sure to occur otherwise.

While the dilemma continues to be just that, many see a silver lining in the future. Absenteeism in Buffalo schools along with the controversy surrounding the rejection of millions of dollars in aid, has many believing that the district needs to tackle the problem head on.

Since absenteeism is a problem that makes performance poorer, many members of the BTF hope teachers will lead a crusade in order to right this wrong.

There is a possibility that the state could weigh the performances of chronically absent

students differently from the rest. This motion would no doubt cast an even greater light on the problem of absenteeism and force action to be taken. It would also call upon action from parents who are solely responsible for whether or not their children are attending school.

Since the problem does not rest solely in the hands of the BTF or the teachers, it still does not look favorably upon the Buffalo Public School system when millions of dollars are shrugged off as no big deal. But it is a big deal.

That money could have helped revitalize the Buffalo Public School system and help thousands of students as well.

With the reputation that the BTF has created for itself in the past several years, we are all skeptical to whether they can act in the best interest of the children.

A word of advice to seniors, and to those not far behind Diana Miceli

DISCLAIMER: This article might be the epitome of cliché, but it turns out everything we’ve been told about how fast life goes by (thank you Ferris Bueller) is frighteningly true.

Random waves of sheer panic. A desk cluttered with grad school applications and a computer that’s got Monster.com saved in Favorites. Welcome to the world of the typical college senior, whose looming graduation date and need for a plan are about to smack them in the face after nearly three and a half years of denial. These last two months are the home stretch, and always present in the back of one’s mind are questions that once seemed so far away and unnecessary to think about: “What do I do with my degree?” “How do I even look for a job?” And what used to be, “What do I want to be when I grow up?” has become, “What do I want to be now that I am grown up?”

During a time when all students are overloaded with exams and papers, questions this intense and life changing serve as the book being added to the top of an already dangerously high stack, wobbling and on the verge of falling. I feel the pressure too; we are all caught in an overwhelming balancing act, attempting to get through school and plan for the future while trying to enjoy this exciting time in our lives.

Many seniors are already on the road to continuing the pursuit of their passion, accepting job offers and taking that next step into the “real world” (which, might I say, has recently become an incredibly terrifying term to me why working adults don’t stay up until

4 a.m. and survive on a diet of Jim’s Steak Out is beyond me). While some of us are moving forward with a plan, I find myself among those who have no idea what lies in the future.

Maybe we have so many options that it feels like too many; with the level of education and range of opportunities available at Canisius, and our feet firmly planted in the prime of our lives, the number of doors open to us is plentiful, and that can be just as scary as having them slammed in your face.

Seniors, despite the frustration and stress you are feeling now, trust in this: whether you have the next five years planned to the day, or are in line at Tim Horton’s and haven’t even thought about what you want to order yet, you will be all right. It sounds simple and overly optimistic, but if we all take that next step into the scary “real world” knowing that we are not alone, and open ourselves up to the possibilities, there’s a good chance we will find ourselves exactly where we want to be.

And now a word of advice to those of you who are still a few years away from those panicky conversations about life, and that oddly strong desire to relive your dorm room years.

Don’t wish it all away.

That excruciating 8 a.m. class you dread will come to an end soon enough; if nothing else, try to relish in your misery together.

There is something to be said for the value of those terrible days when you wish graduation was tomorrow. All of your memories, good and bad, will mesh together to form the best four years of your life, and these are what you will reflect on when you find yourself having those panicky conversations about life – when you reach this point in your life.

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GRIFFBITS What’s your favorite book?

Sam, junior

Lauren, senior

Chelsea, junior

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Justine, Senior

Early Childhood Childhood Education

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“The Harry Potter series.”

“The Hunger Games.”

“The Lucky One.”

“Tuesdays with Morrie.”

OPINION

Friday, march 23, 2012

Cartoon Corner

Michele Binkowski Taylor Allison Emily Smith

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What is Abortion?

Aidan Ryan It is telling that in a career of controversy spanning four decades, cartoonist Gary Trudeau and his famous comic strip, “Doonesbury,” have never been able to raise such a ruckus as this past week’s story, tackling the Texas law requiring all abortion-seeking women to undergo an invasive sonogram. In a country divided by so many ideological lines, there is perhaps no subject more inflammatory.

Several groups have tried to distort the issue to fit their various agendas. One of the reasons that we have such trouble coming to a consensus on abortion is that no one can agree on what the issue is really about. One online commenter on a Washington Post interview with Trudeau stated, “The goal [of the Texas state legislation] is ostensibly to protect fetuses but the real underlying force is protecting men’s power to get women pregnant and to prevent women from having the power to stop that.”

Unsurprisingly, the commenter posted under the name “Ilikemyprivacy,” and I can’t blame him or her. If I was that much of an idiot, I’d like my privacy too. More surprising was the fact that the comment was given a thumbs-up by 86 readers – meaning that 86 literate Americans think a hidden plank of the GOP’s platform is the protection of men’s unalienable right to impregnate women.

A more popular trend exists which attempts to hijack the issue and absorb it into the hazy world of feminism. For example, comiclover Connie Schwartz shared her thoughts on “Doonesbury’s” Slate page, saying, “Until I see

a guy waddling around pregnant I don’t want to hear a word from them about how abortion is wrong.” While I wouldn’t dare to speak for the entire feminist movement, I will say that this comment beautifully displays all the flaws latent in the feminist take on abortion.

First, it tends to ignore the many women who find abortion fundamentally wrong. Second, and more importantly, it reveals the root cause for the vast majority of abortions conducted within the United States: convenience.

Don’t think I’m making this up; you can double-check the facts. While many attempt to justify abortion because it can prevent pregnancies which would jeopardize the mother’s life, this argument became irrelevant several decades ago. We don’t live in the Middle Ages.

To fully grasp the absurdity of this argument, one need only compare the number of abortions performed in this country to the number of life-threatening pregnancies. (According to Planned Parenthood, in the year 2000 three percent of all abortions were related to maternal health risk.) Of course, I’m not saying that this is impossible. However, the rarity of such cases cannot justify legal abortion, and such situations can be eradicated completely by investing Federal dollars in medical research to this end.

Schwartz’s comment is the perfect example. She claims that men shouldn’t be able to voice their opinions about abortion because they are unable to become pregnant and will never experience the many discomforts of pregnancy. As a man, I will never fully understand the terrors of pregnancy. However, I will point out that the universal rights at the beginning

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of the Declaration of Independence are listed in order of descending importance. While a woman may be put through nine months of incredible strain, neither her “pursuit of happiness” nor her “liberty” can be put before a human life.

Of course, the obvious Pro-Choice counterpoint exists: the fetus is not a human child, as it cannot support itself outside the womb.

Unfortunately, because no one agrees on what constitutes a human, the opposing sides of this debate will continue to argue until they’re blue in the face. The only definitions that carry any serious weight are on the opposite ends of the spectrum: either a human exists from the moment of conception, or a human exists when the organism is able to support itself outside the womb. Pro-Choicers should tread carefully here; few dare to follow this line of thinking to its logical conclusion because of the obvious fact that while a fetus in its second trimester couldn’t support itself outside of the womb, neither could a newborn. Ethicist Peter Singer has famously advocated infanticide, as babies are not self-aware until at least 30 days after birth; therefore, mothers should have the right to kill their children up until this time. ProChoicers who do not embrace Peter Singer’s philosophy but still use this line of reasoning must be summarily dismissed.

Some actually have the gall to demand that abortions be permitted on the grounds that children with severe mental or physical handicaps ought not be brought into this world.

Others, in a last ditch effort, will claim that if parents are legitimately unable to support the child, they should have the option of aborting

their fetus rather than consigning it to the terrible and overcrowded world of orphanages and foster homes. The problem here is not that this child was conceived; the problem is the condition of orphanages in America. Of course this is entirely hypothetical, but I would venture to guess that most of these hypocritical would-be parents would choose to live in an orphanage rather than be aborted. What astounds me is that, while there are plenty of advocates ready to line up in support of the “woman’s choice,” few voices have suggested taking Federal funds used to pay for abortions and directing them towards improving American orphanages and reforming the adoption system.

For the record, I found Gary Trudeau’s controversial strips rather hilarious. The fact is that the Texas law subjecting abortion-seeking women to a vaginal probing with a “10-inch shaming wand” is not only comical but wrong.

While calling this “rape” cheapens what should be a very serious word, comedy must often go “too far” in order to bring light to serious issues. Of course, I disagree with Trudeau on a fundamental level. The Texas legislature has continued the American practice of addressing symptoms while ignoring the root of the problem. Federal dollars should be directed towards medical research to prevent pregnancy-related deaths and toward improving the adoption system (perhaps even toward contraceptives). But the tragicomic practice of abortion, in the 21st century, should receive neither funding nor legal status.

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Friday, March 23, 2012

Mr. Canisius 2012

What do you have that your competitors don’t?

Alex Simon ‘13

Mr. Balanced Man

Matt Heilemann ‘13

Mr. John Lennon

What made you run for Mr. Canisius?

“Sig Ep pressured me because I won the Dance Griffs competition .”

-Alex Simon “Peer pressure mostly... and my mom wanted me to.”

-Mike Heilemann “To raise awareness for Matts’ Mission.”

-Matt Gorczyca “I’m all about achieveing great things and this is just another great thing to add to the list.”

-Nick Wiltsie

“I definitely bring a lot of soul that comes with putting in the work. Plus, I have fun!”

“The smile.”

Neil Savoy ‘15

Matt Gorczyca ‘13

Spencer Thomas ‘15

“My natural exuberance.”

“Great flow, good looks, charm, sex appeal and a great jawline.”

“I’m very confident and experienced with dance. I bring the moves.”

Nate Olszewkski ‘12

Nick Wiltsie ‘13

Mr. Au Naturale

as a freshman, are you intimidated by some of your older competitors?

Mr. Man on a Mission

Mr. Beta King

Mr. Know-it-All

Mr. Kairos

“I would be lying to say I’m not.”

-Neil Savoy “Not even a little, especially after watching them dance.”

-Spencer Thomas are you confident going into this competition?

“May God have mercy on the competitors’ souls.”

-Nate Olszewski

“Intelligence, besides Heilemann, charisma and energy. These clowns don’t stand a chance.”

“I’m deep, loving, compassionate and have a love for Canisius that no one can match.”

Tomorrow, seven men will compete for the coveted title of Mr. Canisius 2012. This year’s contestants include: Mr. Balanced Man, Mr. John Lennon, Mr. Au Naturale, Mr. Man on a Mission, Mr. Know-it-All, Mr. Beta Kingand Mr. Kairos. The show, sponsored by the Residence Hall Assocation, will begin with the highly anticipated opening dance number choreographed by the Dance Griffs. Contestants will then compete in multiple categories such as sleepwear, talent, formalwear, improvisation and a Q&A with the judges. The show will be co-hosted by Ray Kleinfelder, last year’s winner, and Nick Tomkins.

Although, the crowning of the winner is up to judges, Ben Macaluso, Carolyn Birner and Christine Blum, the honor of Mr. Congeniality is entirely up to the audience. Each audience member will receive a ballot to cast a vote for his or her favorite contestant. Tickets are $3 at the door and proceeds will benefit the Campus Ministry international service immersion trips. The competition begins at 7pm in the Montante Cultural Center.

Come find out who will be crowned this year’s Mr. Canisius.

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Friday, March 23, 2012

Bravo for Shea’s upcoming season

By Hannah Alt News Editor

Buffalo is buzzing about Shea’s Performing Arts Center and its upcoming 25th year of Broadway musicals. A gold mine of stops for touring shows like The Addams Family this past October, which set a record in ticket sales for the production, and Les Misérables in February, selling out four weeks in advance, Shea’s is the place to be for big-time Broadway musicals – and that’s exactly what is coming next season.

Calls and inquiries have already begun pouring in about the headlining musical, The Book of Mormon, Broadway’s newest smash hit. From the creators of the television series South Park and the musical Avenue Q, the show is a religious satire about two Mormon missionaries sent to Uganda to spread the mission of the Church of Latter Day Saints.

The topic may seem controversial and unconventional, but the style is that of a classic, timeless musical.

The Book of Mormon has received endless amounts of praise since its debut in March 2011, including nine Tony Awards.

Jon Stewart, host of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, told the creators that they “have somehow managed to satirize religion while simultaneously almost celebrating it.” CBS’s “60 Minutes” said that it “ridicules the silliness of religious dogma while still being uplifting and pro-faith.” People interested in seeing the show on Broadway are encouraged to

purchase tickets as much as a year in advance due to such high demand. At the Shea’s season announcement March 15, Artvoice critic and guest announcer Anthony Chase turned to Shea’s CEO and president Anthony Conte, exclaiming, “How did you get this?” before revealing the title to the eagerly awaiting audience.

As The Book of Mormon prepares to launch its first tour, Shea’s was able to secure one of only two one-week engagements.

Coming to Shea’s more than a year from now, in June of 2013, patrons are already eager to purchase tickets. An on-sale date has yet to be determined.

While fans wait for the Mormons to knock on Buffalo’s door, Shea’s will have plenty to keep everyone entertained. The season opens September 25 with Tony Award winning Billy Elliot, the inspiring story of the young boxer who discovers a passion for ballet, with a score by Elton John. In October, a new production of Jekyll & Hyde, starring American Idol’s Constantine Maroulis, will hit the stage.

Just in time for the holidays, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas will make an appearance in December. Based on the 1954 film that starred Bing Crosby, it is about two Army veterans who bring a big Broadway show to a small New England town and features classic Christmas tunes.

In February, Priscilla, Queen of the Desert will strut into Buffalo, highlighting wellknown pop songs such as “I Will Survive” and “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.” The musical is

about two drag queens and a transsexual travelling across the Australian desert and all of the adventures and hilarity that ensue.

Rounding out the six shows in the Broadway series will be Sister Act in March. Based on the film of the same name starring Whoopie Goldberg, the musical follows a lounge singer forced into hiding in a convent where she improves the gospel choir and learns about herself in the process.

The upcoming season looks promising, as long as you can secure a ticket. With over 13,000 season subscribers during the 2011-12 season, the upcoming line-up is sure to raise that number, making getting a single ticket more difficult than ever. Season subscriptions are currently on sale and range from $199 to $435 per ticket.

In addition to the Broadway series, Shea’s announced a few of its planned special engagements. Returning to Buffalo for three weeks in May 2013 is the musical based on Frankie Vallie and the Four Seasons, Jersey Boys. Also announced were performances of The Nutcracker, and Blue Man Group.

While the theatre is eagerly promoting next year already, you don’t have to wait until then to visit the historic theater. Still left this year is Monty Python’s Spamalot, March 30 and 31, Stomp, April 13-15, South Pacific, May 1-6, and Memphis, June 5-10, as well a variety of concerts and other special events. For a full calendar of events and more information visit www.sheas.org or stop in at the box office located next to Shea’s on Main Street.

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Paul Oakenfold sent house heads on a trip

By Alicia Greco

Life and Arts editor Black chandeliers were suspended over the long, rectangular dance floor, and the flashing lights lit up the fancy attire of those who filled Rendezvous Niteclub. A few screens surrounding the DJ set projected the crisp Factory Nightlife logo while deep house kept a continuous feel-good groove.

The venue was dripping with elegance. The sophisticated decor of Statler City and the club itself was breathtaking. Each room had personality and an atmosphere that breathed sleekness.

Jarvis and Angelo Petrucci warmed up the crowd until legendary DJ and producer Paul Oakenfold took the stage. The floor quickly filled with dancing people and became progressively compact and sweaty, but from what I saw no one seemed to mind. Oakenfold's set was flawless. Playing well-paced house and trance, Oakenfold kept the mood appropriately peaking and dipping.

Since Oakenfold’s career began in the late 1970s, he has continuously helped to form and progress the Electronic Dance Music scene.

He has dipped his hand into almost every aspect of media, including television, films, commercials and Dance Dance Revolution. A native of London, England, Oakenfold has traveled worldwide in the decades of his career whether he was touring or hitting festivals for performances. He has done production work with artists of almost every genre, including Nelly Furtado, Shifty, Ice Cube and Jane’s Addiction. He has remixed tracks ranging from Madonna and Radiohead, to tunes featured in Pirate’s of the Car-

ribean.

The genres that have influenced his work are vast; electronic dance, Goa trance, progressive house, progressive trance, acid house, drum and bass, breakbeats, experimental and Balearic beat. By the year 2000, Oakenfold began to incorporate inspiration from jazz, soul and Goa based. Goa music, a form of electronic music that originated in Goa, India in the late 1980s, became a major form of inspiration for Oakenfold in the early ‘90s. The genre, similar to psytrance, uses unique sounds to evoke emotion, often using declarative spoken words of existential value for vocals with an overall spacey feel.

I closed my eyes many times during the show and entered my own world. I left the world behind me and moved fluidly, feeling the music as it came. This is my ritual at mind-traveling shows such as this. Living purely in the moment with nothing but darkness and the emotions evoked by the four-onthe-floor beats and angelic vocals instantly brings up those memories that hide in the darkest parts of my mind and my heart - the ones that hide in the crevices, waiting for a moment of safety to resurface. This was that moment. When the song finished its build, I opened my eyes.

Entering a new world, my energy burst higher once again. Images of women dressed in white danced on a beach as the Above & Beyond track continued; my heart soared.

During his entire set the screens were projected with mesmerizing, morphing geometrical patterns and trippy visuals. That night, Oakenfold brought a perfect mental journey for the trance and house heads.

It was a set that had the ability to reach the core of your soul.

Zadie Smith Offers Interesting Perspectives on Writing

By Matthew DiStasio Life and Arts Writer

Wednesday evening the Buffalo literary crowd was charmed

by British writer Zadie Smith, one of the four authors to visit Buffalo in this year’s Babel Literary series, which is in its fifth year. Smith, born to a Jamaican mother and British father, has published three novels: White Teeth (2000) The Autograph Man (2002) and On Beauty (2005). More recently she has published a book of essays about writing titled Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays (2009). She practically became an overnight literary sensation at the age of 24 with the publication of White Teeth, which received multiple literary prizes and was included in Time Magazine’s TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923-2005. Legendary post-colonial writer Salman Rushdie called the novel “an astonishingly assured debut, funny and serious, and the voice has real writerly idiosyncrasy, I was delighted and often impressed. It has…bite.”

The anticipation within Kleinhans grew as high school and college students, writers, literary enthusiasts and yearly Babel patrons gradually flooded the auditorium, clumsily trudging in circles in search of seats and greeting their fellow lecture attendees to pass the minutes standing between them and the beginning of the event. After a brief introduction Smith walked on stage, stylishly clad in an eccentric bright yellow dress, a red

scarf covering her hair and the ubiquitous hipster-style glasses.

The exotic-looking writer began to speak in her cute British accent with a subtle lisp.

From the moment she began, Zadie Smith’s wit, charm, intelligence and talent permeated the auditorium. She opened with a clever description of the experience of an audience attending a lecture by a literary writer, which was interesting and drew in the attention of the eager fans. Her description of audience members shuffling around in their uncomfortable chairs, being distracted by the contrast between the writer’s appearance and preconceived expectations and losing track of what the writer is saying from the very beginning filled the crowd with appreciative laughter. This introduction, although spoken, sounded more like prose.

The lecture she gave was entitled “Why Write?” – appropriate for the ever increasing number of writers and creative writing students. She expressed that the craft of writing has become more difficult for the writer in an age when copyright is ceasing to exist, Internet criticism is unlimited and a powerful industry of audio and visual media makes it difficult to find a large enough audience. Throughout, she referenced the lectures of many other writers, including English poet Alexander Pope, who looked at a life dedicated to writing as one of misguided energy and misery but also as something he could not help but do himself.

Smith continued to reference other writers including Vladimir Nabokov, further observing that

writing could serve as an attempt to find identity or one’s voice, but speculating whether or not this voice is consistent throughout a writer’s life.

Smith then discussed four great motives writers have, as outlined by George Orwell in an essay: sheer egoism, aesthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse and political purpose. She eloquently described how a new world has changed these motives. In a world where egoism is seen as a right and everyone has a need for recognition, it’s important that writers see themselves as craftsmen trying to visualize things as they are or how things could be better. She concluded by saying that all a writer can do to push through the pointlessness and absurdity of the task is to take one sentence at a time, caring about each detail and each page.

Writing is empowering and allows a writer to do incredible things that his or her subjective existence may limit.

An interesting question and answer discussion following the lecture provided more details about Smith’s personal life and her novel White Teeth. She expressed that it was accidental in many ways - that she never intended it to be read by such a large audience, and that she still strives to write a great novel.

Smith also commented on a new novel she has been working on, which will be shorter and different from her other pieces of work.

The final writer of this season’s Babel series is Scottish writer Alexander McCall Smith.

He will be lecturing at Kleinhans at 8 p.m. April 12.

LIFE & ARTS

Friday, MArch 23, 2012

Trainspotting: Not what you would expect

By A.C. LaFlore

Life and Arts Writer Don’t fret - this movie is not scene after scene of trains going by. I’ve seen Trainspotting at least eight times, and I still have no clue what the meaning of the title might be, especially since the plot (which is based on Irvine Welsh’s novel by the same name) has absolutely nothing to do with trains or spotting of any kind.

Trainspotting is a Scottish movie that is – hold on, it’s Scottish...what else needs to be said? Without even considering the plot of the movie, anyone can enjoy the Scottish accents of Ewan McGregor (Obi-Wan Kenobi in the modern trilogy of Star Wars and Christian in Moulin Rouge!) and the rest of the quite eccentric cast of characters in this movie. Trainspotting is about a young Scottish man, Mark Renton (played by McGregor), and his circle of friends, which mainly consists of heroin addicts, psychopaths and drunkards. Throughout the movie, the viewers are invited into the mind of Renton aka Rents and his drug-infused life in an impoverished area of Edinburgh. This includes doing heroin, coming down from heroin, withdrawal cravings for heroin, robbing and stealing to get money for heroin, quitting heroin, relapsing on heroin, overdosing on heroin and finally selling heroin.

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balancing all his friends and all of their problems as well. Each one of Renton’s friends (Sick Boy, nicknamed due to his constant withdrawal symptoms; Begbie, a drunkard and violent psychopath; Spud, the helpless imbecile; and finally Tommy, the good-natured, honest friend) run into a significant problem and look to Renton for help. Sick Boy has a death in the family, Begbie needs to hide from the police, Spud needs somewhere to go after he gets out of jail, and Tommy needs a cure for his disease.

(You’ll get a taste of the irony when you watch the film.) This would annoy anybody besides Ghandi, right? In the movie, all of these problems being thrown at Rents seem to be the reason behind his heroin addiction. For he, it’s all about taking the easy way out, but as Renton soon discovers, being a heroin addict is

a difficult life.

Despite the mass drug consumption in this movie, Trainspotting is about so much more. It’s about life, making decisions, loyalty to friends, maturity and doing the right thing. In the words of Rent himself, “Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family, choose a f**cking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin openers. I chose not to choose life: I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who need reasons when you’ve got heroin?” This quotation from the opening monologue reappears in the ending scene with a few slight changes to frame and put into perspective the journey of maturation in Renton’s life.

One of my favorite moments is a scene directly after Renton decides to

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quit his drug use. He and his closest friend, Sick Boy, meet in a park with a BB gun and discuss philosophy. Before any dialogue, Rents explains that Sick Boy also decided to quit heroin “not because he wanted to.

Just to piss me off. Just to show me how easily he could do it, undermining my own struggle. Sneaky f**cker, right?” To make this scene even better, Rents and Sick Boy go back and forth quoting their favorite James Bond movie as they pick out targets to snipe with their BB gun.

Trainspotting received some solid ratings from critics when it first came out, with almost all of the reviewers being able to embrace the true nature of Mark Renton’s journey through a heroin induced life.

The one thing Trainspotting did receive some negative responses about was that it supposedly “promotes heroin and drug abuse.” In the words of Begbie, “Well ain’t that a laugh.” Despite the fact that heroin is the driving force behind the plot of the movie, it is also the cause of every single dilemma poor Rent Boy and his friends face. One of them gets arrested for heroin, one dies from it, one has a family member die, and Rents finally gets it together when he quits using heroin for good. The critics who think Trainspotting promotes heroin must be… well, high on heroin.

Every scene in Trainspotting is absolutely wonderful, humorous, relatable and insightful. A few final tips for viewing this movie: watch, enjoy and learn from it. Most importantly, discover that inside each and every one of us is a Scottish, heroin-addicted, philosophizing thief, and that is a wonderful thing.

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Friday, March 23, 2012

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A Taste for Luxury

By Carly Hall

Life and Arts Writer Carly Hall is a Canisius student studying Fashion Merchandising at FIT. To my surprise and what I expect will be a surprise to many other Buffalo bargainistas, it turns out we are dishing out major dough for designer merchandise more than ever. The economic shortfall has not stopped consumers from splurging on those must-have designer items. Coming from my perspective as a busy senior in college with an unpaid internship and a bank-full of loan debt and credit card payments, I’ll admit that I still find the resources to make a humble sanity investment each week at the nearest H&M. But according to the reporters at FashionUnited, shoppers are embracing the luxury lifestyle with designer name items such as Michael Kors, Calvin Klein, Coach, Louis

Vuitton, etc. That puts my measly shopping trips to shame. Everyone seems to be finding their Zen in Manolo Blahnik and Saks lately!

Not to worry, coupon clippers; thanks to everadvancing technology motivating accessibility to merchandise commerce, there are ample quantities of fashion discount sites where your next well-deserved luxury treat can be found at a more dignified price. Try Bluefly.com, gilt.com or even eBay. Better yet, try downloading one of their free apps to your smart phone and make purchases while you’re making that hard-earned income at work. Apparently most of you already do; according to recent statistics we spent over $200 billion in online shopping in 2011. It must have been all those designer shoes and handbags!

On a global note, Brazil’s Rio de Janiero and Sao Paulo have welcomed a wave of new designer shops including Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Hermes, Burberry, Carolina Herrera, Marc Jacobs and Jimmy Choo, to name a few. China and several other Asian and Middle Eastern countries are

seeing an inflow of luxury stores in response to their growing middle-class markets. The world, as we all well know, is more connected now than it has ever been, and subsequently, people are more aware of the big names in fashion.

Why do I find this topic interesting, you might ask? Well my fellow fashion friends, it dawned on me that we apparently have some closet splurgers hiding in our midst... AND IT’S OKAY! It’s time to come out of the closet and be proud that you spent your entire paycheck on a Coach clutch. Here’s an idea: invest your Big Ben’s in classic pieces that you will get plenty of use out of over the years. View these investments as milestone accomplishments. Indulge in a chic 100% leather messenger bag for all of the necessary day-to-day trinkets or authentic, durable boots for the unpredictable weather we get in Western New York. Definitely make an exception for those Tori Burch flats or a pair of Prada sunglasses. We don’t judge you, and you look fabulous for it. As Gaga sings, “Ohh la la la, we love designer!”

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Put That Record On music critiques by Timothy Gaughan

The Men- Open Your Heart

Neil Young- Tonight’s The Night

The Men’s second LP is a bit less heavy on the noise rock than their first release. On Open Your Heart, the band trades in aggression for more tune, although there are still plenty of hardcore vocals to be found. The Men sound like a small to mid-sized venue booked band, keeping things traditional at the beginning of the show. THey move into slightly offkilter noise jam interludes that last for about 5 to 8 minutes before delving into some very recognizable hits – the top songs in the iTunes store for example. I must admit I’m a sucker for indie rock bands who have a certain ethos to them. Take, for instance, the first two songs on the album being sing-alongs and then the next ten minutes being instrumentals. These guys want you to know they’re a bit more than your typical indie rock band. Basically this release is, at it’s core, considered club rock; its only other listening context would be driving or a group hangout that requires friendly but authentic music. What I feel and think about when I listen to this album is standing in an odd-smelling venue, surrounded by old Starter caps (now known as snapbacks) and tired legs as the somewhat-thin crowd of silhouettes in front of me is passively acknowledged by my retinas while watching The Men. Best song reccomendation: “Candy.”

B+ [Released 2012 on Sacred Bones]

Tonight’s The Night is my favorite rock album and probably my favorite album of all time. It’s the final album in the “ditch trilogy” of Neil Young’s career, which also included Time Never Fades and On The Beach, a period of bitterness and depression with regard to the fame Young’s music had been bringing him.

The “ditch” period albums were not received well critically at first; they were a huge drop-off in terms of being radio friendly, but they are, in my opinion, the albums that cement Young as the greatest songwriter who ever lived. The recording of these albums was fueled by heavy alcohol use and a concoction of marijuana and honey called “honey slides.” What I like about Tonight’s The Night is the rawness. All the songs sound sloppy as if they were done in one take, which they were. But the content itself is beautiful. Look at the line from “Mellow My Mind” where Young’s voice gives and squeaks, “Lonesome whistle on a railroad line/ain’t got nothin’ on those feelings.” It’s the sound of a man sad and defeated and playing music, which in this case, yields one of the most authentically great songs I’ve ever heard.

A+ [Released 1975 on Reprise]

A$AP Rocky- LiveLoveA$ap

Lil Ugly Mane- Mista ThugIsolation

I slept on this when everyone told me to listen to it last summer, I guess because I am sick of flavor-of-the-month hip-hop. Of course I was wrong, and it turned out to be great - not just because of the good production, but because of the solid no-frills rapping of A$AP Rocky and his crew. Mostly it’s just honest and easy to like, especially considering how disappointing Tyler, the Creator’s Goblin, was. I suppose if the A$AP crew never release anything noteworthy again, I’m glad I’ll always be aware of this gem.

A[Self released 2011]

An anonymous affiliate of SpaceGhostPurrp, having appeared on Blvcklvnd Rvdix 66.6, Lil Ugly Mane’s album of satanic trill-hop plays as homage to early Three 6 Mafia tapes, like many of the contemporary cloud rappers today. The surprisingly diverse beats are impressive (courtesy of Shawn Kemp), but lyrically it falls flat, making it a prime album for Internet seekers. It would be a good soundtrack for what “Radiation (Lung Pollution)” suggests – of course, probably equipped with syrup and with nobody around.

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Her Ph.D Dissertation is a study of the poetry of Louise Bogan, and she has written extensively on Bogan’s poetry. She has been writing poetry herself for a number of years, interrupted at various times by marriage, children, school, singing and music. She has divided her life between Chicago (where she grew up); rural Connecticut (where she raised her three children, a variety of dogs, tended a lot of perennial gardens, and earned BA, MA, and Ph.D degrees at the University of Connecticut, in Storrs); and, for the past twenty-three years, Buffalo, as a faculty member at Canisius College.

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Friday, March 23, 2012

baseball

Griffs’ long road trip not lacking dramatic flair

By Ed Lupien Sports Writer

Sophomore shortstop Ronnie Bernick went 2-for-3 with two RBIs to lead the baseball team 9-5 overtheDaytonFlyers Saturdayafternoon in Dayton, Ohio as part of athree-teamweekendtournament in which the Griffs finished with a record of 2-2.

Canisiusgarnereda5-0leadby thetopofthesixthinningbeforethe Flyers scored a pair of runs in the bottomoftheinningandcontinued to chip away at the lead, eventually tyingthescoreinthebottom of the ninth.

The score remained 5-5 until theGriffsbrokeoutofamini-slump in the top of the 12th inning, with Bernickscoringthego-aheadrunon a sacrifice fly by senior third baseman Drew Pettit. Later in the inning, freshman first baseman Connor Panas added some insurance with a two-RBI double to give Canisius a four-run lead.

The victory came a day after the Griffs snappeda five-game losing streak with a 5-3 win over Oakland University. Overall, the Griffs generated a record of 2-7 over the ten-day road trip.

“The trip was certainly full of some ups and downs,”head coach Mike McRae said. “I don’t think weplayedgreatbaseballandwe’re certainly paying for the mistakes we make. On the flipside however, I think it’s always a benefit to your teamwhenyou’reinvolvedinclose ballgamesandextrainningopportunitiesbecauseIthinkithelpsprepare you for situations later in the year.”

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Junior Chris Gruarin (31) and other Canisius players hope to cross the plate again this weekend in a three-game set vs. Siena.

Thefive-gamelosingstreakwas theteam’slongestofitsseason.Three defeatscameduringtheweekendof March 9-11 in Lexington, Ky. at the handsoftheundefeatedUniversity of KentuckyWildcats, who are currently ranked No. 2 in the country.

Despite losing the games by a combinedscoreof31-18,theGriffs appearedtoholdtheirownagainst the SEC-powerhouse at times, droppingSunday’scontest5-4and

holdingaleadoverthethen-No.23 Wildcatsinaslateastheseventhinning.

SophomorefirstbasemanJimmyLuppensledtheupset-minded offensive attack going 3-for-4 with an RBI. Coach McRae noted that he values trips to bigger schools like Kentuckyandconsidersthemlearning experiences.

“I like exposing our players to

differentplacesanddifferentparts of the country,” McRae said. “I love howbaseballisavehicleforthat.Ido think that these SEC, ACC baseball culturesareuniqueandit’sexciting for them to see and be a part of.”

One of the losses on the weekend was earned in heartbreaking fashionasan8.2inning,oneearned runpitchingperformancebysophomore Garrett Cortright was ultimately wasted by the Griffs, who

could not solve Oakland pitcher Hayden Fox. Fox held Canisius without a hit until the seventh inning and struck out nine hitters as the Griffs lost 1-0.

“He has a good arm and threw the ballwellthat daybut I alsodon’t thinkwehadqualityat-batsoravery goodapproachattheplate,”McRae said.

McRae was not surprised by the outing of Cortright who has a 4.75 ERA this season.

“We’ve seen that before from himandweknowthathe’sgotsome electric stuff and has the ability to dominate a ballgame,”McRae said.

“He certainly did that day. That’s whatweexpectfromhimeverytime he takes the mound.”

The Griffs return home this weekend to open conference play withathree-gameseriesagainstSiena.

The teams will play a doubleheader slated for 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. onFridayandanooncontestonSaturday at the Demske Sports Complex. Nine of the next ten games for the Griffs will be played at home.

“The road takes its toll on our players and we’re all glad to be home,”McCrae said.“They’re really excited about how warm it is. The only place we go on the road in the next two and a half weeks is Saint Bonaventure,whichisaprettyshort drive.

“I think our players are looking forwardtothishomestretchandwe need to capitalize off of it and get things going in the right direction.”

@elupien lupiene@canisius.edu

SPORTS NFl commentary

Super Mario picks Bills

By Nathan Barillari Sports Writer

Slow down, Buffalo.The Bills haven’t accomplished anything yet.

They did do something pretty big, signing the second biggest free agent (regards to Peyton Manning) available, but I’ve been hearing people say – whether serious or not – that the Bills can win the Super Bowl.

Just because Mario Williams is a BuffaloBilldoesn’tmeanthatthisteamisready yet. Ever since former Bills defensive end Aaron Schobel retired prior to the 2010 season, the Bills have lacked any real passrush threat. The reality of the situation is that while the Bills filled a huge void by signingWilliams, they still have needs, albeit not as many as past offseasons.

As of early this week, the Bills have one left tackle on their roster: former fourth round pick Chris Hairston. I believe Hairston can be a starter, but I am not comfortable knowing that he has no competition right now.

TheBillsresignedwidereceiverStevie Johnson a couple of weeks ago and have eightotherreceiversontheroster.Noneof them are proven starters.

The roster has a lot of interesting optionsatcornerback,butwhoknowswhothe starters will be. Drayton Florence can be a solidplayer,butstruggleddownthestretch in 2011.Terrence McGee restructured his contract so he likely isn’t going anywhere, buthasn’tstayedhealthy.LeodisMcKelvin will get his last chance to become an efficientandconsistentplayer.AaronWilliams andJustinRogershaveshownpotentialbut neither player has earned his spot yet.

IbelievethatgeneralmanagerBuddy NixwilladdressalltheseneedsonApril2628 during the NFL draft. Until then, I can’t begin to predict what will happen to the Bills this season.

The Bills need to prove their talent on the field before they can be picked to even make the playoffs. This team already has chemistry, but it has to mesh with Mario Williams, Mark Anderson and whatever new pieces will be added during the draft.

Don’tgetmewrong,thisisallexciting.

Never have I witnessed such a big-name free agent sign with any Buffalo sports franchise.WhenTerrell Owens signed, the circumstancesweremuchdifferent;Owens had limited options while Williams had plenty.

A legitimate pass-rushing threat has been needed in Buffalo for years. Rushing thequarterbackisjustasimportantashaving one. Like it or not, the Bills have invested in Ryan Fitzpatrick as their quarterback for right now and it looks like they are serious about building a team around him.

EarlylastThursdayeveningwasoneof the most relieving times – both as a sports fanandasanaspiringjournalist–thatIever experienced.Beingsickforallthreedaysof “Mario Party” was a blessing in disguise; I never had an excuse to pull myself away from the radio, the TV, or from to stop following the story. Once it finally happened it seemed all my hard“work”had paid off.

Embrace this, Bills fans. Mario Williams chose Buffalo. MarioWilliams chose this fanbase to play in front of for the next six years. Will the Bills win a Super Bowl in that time span? I don’t know. I do know, however, that this city needed this to happenandIverymuchlookforwardtowatching Bills football in 2012. @NBarillari33 barilla1@canisius.edu

Friday, March 23, 2012

synchronized swimming

Synchronized swimmers unhappy with championship result

By Nick Veronica Sports Editor

Svetlana Ponkratova andVictoria Mintz were named All-Americans at the U.S. CollegiateSynchronizedSwimmingChampionships in Gainesville, Fla. last weekend in an event thatproducedotherwisedisappointingresults for the Canisius synchro team.

TheGriffshadhighexpectationsheading into the weekend and hoped to finish among the top three schools nationally, but came in fifth place with a team total of 61 points.

Reigning champion Ohio State won the event for the 28th time in its school history, finishingwith93points,whileIncarnateWord came in second (88 points), Lindenwood was third (68.5) and Stanford was fourth (66).

Synchronizedswimmingteamsareatthe mercyofthejudges,manyofwhomhaveconnections to the teams they score. The word “bias”appears ten times in the FINA synchronizedswimmingmanualforjudgesandcoaches,andstudieshavebeendonetryingtoprove favoritism in the scoring system. Swimmers acrossthecountrysuspectthatcouldinfluence scoring,andCanisiusswimmersarenoexception.

“I feel pretty sad about [my results in] this competition,”saidPonkratova,theteam’sbest swimmer who came to Canisius from Himki, Russia.“I’veneverseenthisbigdifferencesbetween semifinals scores and final scores.”

The Griffs sat in fifth place in the preliminaryroundintheteameventandthoughtthey were in good shape to make a push to finish in the top three. Ponkratova’s solo was also in fourth place andher“artistic impression”por-

tion of the score was the highest of any swimmer.

“We were in a really good position for semifinals,”Mintz said.“When we were looking at the overall [score] … we had to improve in one event. It could have been solo, could havebeenduet,couldhavebeentrio.Weneeded one event to move up a spot, in order to move our overall placing as a school up, so we thought that’s not a problem.”

But it turned out to be a bigger issue than theteamthought.Swimmerssaidtheydidnot get the scores they felt they deserved when it came to the final round.

“Especially this year, our extra routines (solo, duet and trio) looked much better, and we’veseenvideobeforeandworkedharder,especiallyinduetroutine…”Ponkratovatrailed off.

“So we just naturally assumed her solo would move up a spot, or our duet,” Mintz added,finishingthesentence.“Itwasnoquestion.It’snotevenassumingwe’regreat;wesaw in comparison to all the other routines and whatthejudgesweregivingusfeedbackonaftersemifinalsthatwehadachancetomakeup this point in this category. And then, all of the sudden, we get to finals and our duet moved fromfourthspottosixth.Triostayedthesame.

[Ponkratova’s] solo moved from fourth to [fifth] and our team stayed the same in fifth.

“That’s too big of a drop or a gain in such a short [time]. It was a day later.”

Losingathletescanbequicktoblameofficiating,butthereissomemerittotheseclaims, considering that the Griffs were extremely pleased with their final swims.

Thoughswimmersperformthesameroutine in each round, the same set of judges can

only score it once. In the duet event, for instance,thejudgesscoringthefinalroundgenerallygavelowerscoresthanthejudgesinthe semifinals, but Canisius’duet of Ponkratova and Mintz went down from an 86.4500 to an 84.3667,nearlytwiceaslargeofadrop-offthan any other top tandem.

Ponkratova’ssoloalsohadthelargestreductionofanytop-tierswimmer,falling1.8500 points from the semifinals, from 87.8167 to 85.9667, while four swimmers passed her in artistic impression.

“Wetooktheroutinestothenextleveland we tried to find ways and find things that the judgesarereallylookingfor,andwefoundthat wegotthereanditstillwasn’tenoughforthem, andthat’swhatthemostfrustratingthingwas,” Mintz said.“We swam our routine really well.

We’vewatcheditanditwasgreat.Itwasn’tlike we made a huge mistake.We feel great about howweswamandwe’rereallyhappy.Itwasjust thefactthatweputallthisworkinanditdidn’t pay off.”

ThoughPonkratovaadmittedit’shardto stay motivated when it can feel like her hard work won’t matter in the end, the women are already thinking about next season and how things might be different. They are already planning for different approaches with new themes that the judges might like.

“We’regoingtohavetoletgoofthiseventually,”Mintz said.“We just move on and go in with a better, more positive outlook for next season.”

@NickVeronica veronicn@canisius.edu

softball

Softball team heads south for spring, but returns with mixed results

By Jourdon LaBarber Sports Writer

As students were preparing for a variety of spring break plans at Canisius College just twoweeksago,theschool’ssoftballteamwas heading into a stretch that would include 13 games played in the sunny state of Florida.

What the Griffs weren’t expecting, however, was that they would return to Buffalo with only two wins to show for it and an overall record of 4-17.

The break began at the annual USF Under Armour Showcase on Friday, March 9 when the Griffs dropped both parts of a daynightdouble-headeragainstToledoandEast Tennessee State at the Eddie C. Moore Complex in Clearwater, Fla. – each one run losses.

Canisius dropped a tight pitcher’s duel behind senior pitcher Caroline Main in the 1-0 loss to the Rockets, and then followed with a comeback that just fell short in the 6-5 defeat at the hands of ETSU. The following day, the Griffs would capture their only two victories of the road-trip as they swept a double-header againstWisconsin-GreenBayandClevelandState–both teams with records below .500.

A five-run second inning would give Canisiustheupper-handinthefirstgameagainst Green Bay, allowing Main to pick up her third win of the season as well as the first save of 2012 for sophomore pitcher Jen Consaul in the 7-5 victory.

Consaul would also pick up her first win of the season in the following game against Cleveland State, as the Griffs would defeat theVikings 10-6 behind the freshman bats of Robin Kennery, Erica Afandor and Michelle DelPrince.

From that point on, things would get ugly. The Griffs finished off the Under Ar-

mourShowcasethefollowingdaywithafiveinningshutoutlossatthehandsofIowaState, who beat Canisius 8-0.

TheythentraveledtoFortMeyers,where they would drop both halves of a doubleheader against Northern Illinois, 4-12, and Florida Gulf Coast (0-9 in five innings). From there they advanced to Tampa, where Main was able to hold the 24th-ranked team in the nation in South Florida to only one run – an unearned run, at that – in six innings of work.

However,theteamwouldloseyetagainasthe Griffs could not cross the plate in the 1-0 defeat.

The team capped off the trip back in Clearwater at the USF Invite that weekend, beginningwithadouble-headeragainstChattanoogaandMaryland,bothwhichresultedin five-inning,8-0losses.Theteamthendropped bothpartsoftheirnextdouble-headeragainst Long Island and Bryant by scores of 9-3 and 7-3, and finished off the weekend with a 7-5 loss to Towson, extending the Griffs’ losing streak to nine in a row.

Surely a losing streak of such magnitude was not in the Griffs or coach Mike Rappl’s plans going into this season, nor was their record that stands at 13 games below .500.

Weatherhaskepttheteamfromseeingmuch practice time outside of the Koessler Athletic Center(theteamwentdownsouthwhileBuffaloexperiencedwarmtemperatures)andthe rain has even followed the team around in their early schedule, washing out a stretch of games in a two-week period. But the players themselvesalsohavenothelpedthesituation.

They’velostinblowoutsandthey’velost in barnburners. Their offense has failed on days where their pitchers have been on, and thoseonthemoundhavestruggledingames when the offense was scoring. Leads have been blown late, and great comebacks have fallen short: all culminating in this tough be-

ginning to the 2012 campaign.

“Obviously it’s frustrating to everybody becausewedidanticipateabetterstarttothe season,”Rappl said.“If we get healthy we can make a run in the MAAC and that’s our focus right now.”

On the offensive side of the ball,Canisius struggles have been apparent. Only two batters – Lauryn Chris and Lauren Falzone – are batting.300orabove,andtheteamasawhole is being outscored by its opponents 132-62.

“We’ve had alot of time where we played very well ... we have a lot of potential but we need to be healthy,” Rappl said of his team, which has suffered injuries throughout the startingline-up,certainlyaffectingitsproduction this season.

However,there isstillroomfor optimism this season. The Griffs have seen their starters pitch well in stretches this season, and the lineuphasseengreatcontributionsfromDelPrince, who is on a three-game hitting streak, and Kennery, who leads the team with four doubles and 10 RBIs. And, as coach Rappl has said, every team in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference is still0-0inconferenceplay,whichreallydetermines post-season berthing.

The team will resume action this weekend in Syracuse, N.Y., when it will play the first-ever softballgamestotake place in Syracuse University’s Carrier Dome – the home of several fabled college basketball memories.

After their double-header against Colgate and Syracuse on Saturday, the team will takeonBuffaloWednesdaynightbeforehosting Mount St. Mary’s for aThursday doubleheader that willmarkthe season’sfirst games at the Demske Sports Complex. @jourdonlabarber labarbej@canisius.edu

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Friday, March 23, 2012

On the Wing: Tournament provides coaching insight

By Nick Veronica Sports Editor

Isatonthebluereclinerinmy livingroomlastweekandwatched college basketball for hours on end. It was a great time, really. As hard as I can be on Canisius, I owe someone credit for scheduling springbreakduringthefirstweek of the NCAA Tournament. Welldone.

Itsavedprofessorsfromcallinginsickandsavedstudentsfrom skipping class or setting up their laptops while grabbing a seat in thebackrow(whowoulddosuch a thing?). Maybe the idea was to makesuretheGriffsdidn’thaveto worryaboutmissingclasseswhile they traveled to their first-round tournament site, but I don’t think we’llhavetoworryaboutthatjust yet.

The team still doesn’t have a coach, but the wheels are in motionandanofficialannouncement couldcomewithinthenextweek or two. It’s not a done deal, contrarytoreportscirculatingThursday.

I thought a lot about coaching while I watched the tournament. I don’t think anybody is going to say Lehigh’s Brett Reed isabettercoachthanDuke’sMike Krzyzewski,eventhoughforafew hours last week, he might have been.

Coach K is the whole package.He’sgottheX’sandO’sdown,

he wins, he gets the recruits and he has kids who respect him. If he canmanagetheegosonTeamUSA andgetthoseguysplayingtogether, a bunch of 19- and 20-year-olds should be no problem.

Then I think about Creighton coach Greg McDermott. When 6-foot-9, 270-pound big man Gregory Echenique checked out ofthegamewithdefeatimminent, he wrapped his arms around the coachcriedintohischest.Whoever was producing the game for CBS kept that shot on the screen for an extendedperiodoftime,maybeto showoutragedfansinCarolinaBlue that the ogre who put down Tyler Zeller has feelings after all.

That bond between coach and player reminded me of Tom Parrotta and the love his players had for him. In a world of win-winwin,it’sagreatthingwhentheycan have that type of relationship. But partofmewouldmuchratherhave the embrace going on in the other locker room – an emotionless but businesslikehigh-fiveorhandshake thatsaysnicejob,nowlet’sgetback to work.

There’s no rule that says the playershavetolikethecoach.They cancoexistwithmutualrespect.I’ve played for coaches I didn’t care for, just like every athlete has. The key isgettingoveryourselfandputting yourdisagreementsasideinorderto accomplish the larger goal.

Rulingthroughfearisn’tnecessarily a bad policy either, as long as you’regettingresults.Butthat’sthe thing:Canisiusdoesn’texactlywin.

Ever.

There wasn’t very much success under Parrotta and it’s been over a decade since Canisius’ last

winningseason,butit’snotexactly like his reign was a huge drop off in the culture of Griffs basketball.

Mike MacDonald before him was a good character guy who also didn’t win a ton (108-153). He had one 20-win season in 2000-01 with Brian Dux and Clive Bentick, but if you want to nitpick, that was really a17-10teamthatwonthreemorein the conference tournament.

John Beilein had two 20-win teams in the 90s and Nick Macarchuk had two in the 80s, and those spurtscameonlywhenCanisiushad some of the best players in school history: Ray Hall and Mike Smrek in the 80s and Craig Wise, Michael Meeks and Darrell Barley in the 90s.

There’s no history of success or true Golden Age; rather it seems Canisius has only won when it suited uponce-in-a-generation-typeplayers.

Fans are definitely not out of linetoaskforsomewinningseasons, but unless Canisius really makes a bold hire or can find another John Beilein,historyseemstobeapretty goodexpectationofwhatcanbeexpected.

moves have been for RalphWilson.

What’sgottenintohim?Ralphis93.

BabeRuthwasontheRedSoxwhen hewasborn.Mostpeopledon’tlive that long. I hate to say it, but it almostseemslikeRalphissensingthe end of the road and he’s making a push to win the Super Bowl before he goes.

Here’swhatRalphtoldtheBuffaloNews’MarkGaughanlastweek: “I’d like to see us make the playoffs and possibly the Super Bowl while I’m around … I don’t expect to be around that many years.”

From a pure I-wish-we-hada-better-teamstandpoint,whoever the doctor was that put a scare into Wilson should have done it years ago. But from a people standpoint, there’s something sad about it.

Ralph was one of the most influential people in the creation of the NFL and he’s never won the big one. It’s almost like a scene from a movie,wherethelittleoldmantries rightsomewrongsbeforetheendof his life.What’s really sad is that if the last 20 years growing up in Buffalo have taught me anything, I feel like wealreadyknowhowthisoneends.

I LOVE the free agency moves by the Bills. In any other offseason, I’d be pumped to get DE Mark Andersoncomingofftheedge.Butafter signingMarioWilliams,Andersonis justanafterthought.Andyouknow thingsareimprovingwhenBuffalo fans aren’t making a big deal about signing someone.

The moves give Buffalo one of thebestdefensivelinesintheleague, and on top of it,Williams seems like a really cool guy.

Thepartthat’smostinteresting tomeishowout-of-characterthese

NIAGARA announced Monday that it is dropping its Division I women’s hockey program, effective immediately. On Tuesday, RIT made the jump from D-III, filling thevoidleftbyNUandkeepingCollegeHockeyAmericaatfourteams.

If you’re gettingyour hopesupthat Canisiusmightbenexttoaddwomen’s hockey, well, don’t. From what I’ve heard, that’s an uphill battle to say the least.

TIM TEBOW is about as interestingasitgets.Iwatchedthelastsix

orsevengamesheplayedthisyear, andonethingI’mcertainofisthat he still needs a ton of work as a quarterback. But other than that I flat out love the guy. I want him to be in the league forever … you know, starting for someone else.

Imagine Tebow praying for Denver to get better – and his prayergettingansweredbyPeyton Manningtakinghisspot.Becareful what you wish for.

Butthewayhistradeunfolded was different. He was going to theJets.Thentherewasaproblem withhiscontractandthedealwas goingtogetreversed.Thenhewas going to be able to pick between the Jets and Jaguars, and then he ended up back in Jets.

It must be a great week to be aheadlinewriterfortheNewYork Post.Whysettleforonebelow-averagequarterbackwhenyoucould have two?

THIS WEATHER is great.

Before break, the baseball team had its earliest home opener in school history. It was so nice out, the Griffs called up UB and said let’s play a game this week. The onlypersonwholikesthetemperatures more than Mike McRae is probablyMarioWilliams’fiancée.

Seriously,couldshehavepickeda better week to visit?

OH, and I heard the bookstore is running a promotion where the winner gets a $25 gift certificate.Great,Ialwayswanted half a t-shirt. @NickVeronica veronicn@canisius.edu

women’s lacrosse

Quinn, Oosting light up scoreboard

By Hayden Ristevski Sports Writer

Carly Quinn scored four goals for the women’s lacrosse team Wednesday at the Demske Sports Complex as the Griffs knocked off St.Bonaventure,20-8,toendafivegame losing streak.

The team also fought hard againstthenationally-rankedOhio State Buckeyes on Sunday, March 18 at the DSC, but couldn’t hold on to capture a victory, falling to the Buckeyes 14-11.

The team is also 0-13 all-time against nationally-ranked opponents,butthiswasoneoftheclosest losses yet.

The Griffs began strong, picking up a three-goal lead within the first seven minutes of play. Ohio Statewasabletocatchup,tyingthe game at four, but the Griffs came backstrongtoholdtheirlargestlead of the game making it 8-5.

Ohio State began to defend in its end and managed to hold off Canisius to gain a lead and end the first half out in front with a score of 9-8. The Buckeyes continued their strongdefensiveplayinthesecond half, allowing their offense to score goals to give them a hefty lead. Despite a hard effort from the Griffs, theBuckeyescameoutontopatthe end of 60 minutes of play.

CanisiusseniorMeganOosting led the team by matching a careerhigh with five goals. Oosting holds many records, including one for mostdrawcontrolsinasinglegame.

She came one draw control shy of matching this record which she set in the 2011 season.

Oosting was honored with the MAAC Offensive Player of the Week accolade after leading the Griffsagainstnationally-rankedopponents.

“Ohio State was a good game.

We needed to come back after our Cornell game, that wasn’t so good,”

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Freshman goalkeeper Kayla Scully made 10 saves in her first career win.

Oosting said. “We played for the whole60minutes,whichwasgood.

Startingfromthedefenserightupto the attack, it was a full team effort.”

Inregardstoherpersonaleffort

during the game, Oosting seemed somewhatunimpressedwithherself andattributedmostofhersuccessto the help of her teammates.

“I just wanted to go out and

playhard.Ihaven’tbeentooconsistent yet this year, so that was a big thing for me, to play the entire 60 minutes. But I wouldn’t have been able to do it without the help of the team,” Oosting said.

The Griffs take their first MAAC foe on Saturday, March 31 versus Manhattan. As the reigning MAAC champions, the Griffs will try to defend their title this season.

“We’re out to win. We’re not going to take anything lightly. We knowthatwecancompeteagainst these top 20 teams we’ve played in our last three games, so if we know thatwecancompeteagainstthem, thenthere’snothingholdingusback in these MAAC games,” Oosting said.

This season’s MAAC action starts at 11 a.m. at the Demske Sports Complex and as Oosting said, the Griffs are out to win. @haydennnr ristevsf@canisius.edu

Golf: Carrig says Southern grass has effect on game Continued from Back

Akron. That enabled the golfers to getacclimatedtohittingoffgrassinstead of mats.

The Pete Dye Course (site of the tournament) was designed by world-renownedgolfcoursedesigner Pete Dye himself, who is known forhisinnovativeandenvironmentally friendly designs. Carrig, who saidthecoursewasthesecond-hardesthehasplayedincollege(behind

Turning Stone in Verona, N.Y.) said thatthecoursebroughtadditional obstacles for the Griffs, not only withbunkers,lakebarriersandtrees, but with different types of grass.

“It was definitely a challenge just because hitting off Bermuda grass is a lot different than hitting off of Bent grass, which we have up here,” Carrig said. “It’s a whole differentballgameanditwasdefinitely difficult to get started on a course likethat,butwewantedasbigachal-

lenge as we can get and we got it.”

William Woods University, who took first place in the tournament with a team score of 597, was led by the top two golfers in the tournament, J.D. Nash and Julian Taylor. Nash and Taylor both shot 146inthetworoundsofthetournament and were involved in a threeman playoff with Long Island University-Brooklyn’s Obediah Ayton.

Nashbirdiedthesecondholetowin the individual title.WilliamWoods

finished the fall season ranked No. 16 in the Golf World Coaches Poll.

The other competing teams were Indianapolis, Rutgers, Siena and the University of Rhode Island.

Rhode Island’s Branden Chirorka had the best single-round score of anygolferinthetournamentwhen he shot a 2-under-par 70 in the second round of the invitational.

The golf team returns to the links March 30-April 1 at the FirelineTowson Invitational in Grason-

ville, Md. “It was just good to get things started last week,”Carrig said.“Not only did we play the tournament, but we were down there almost a week and we were able to get into theswingofthings.InMaryland,we justhopetokeepimprovingonwhat we’vebeendoinginFloridaandjust keepbuildingtowardstheMAACs.” @RichLunghino lunghinr@canisius.edu

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Women’s Lacrosse • Pg. 15 Mar. 13: Cornell 21, Canisius 7 Mar. 18: Ohio St. 14, Canisius 11 Mar. 21: Canisius 20, St. Bona 8

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men’s lacrosse

Detroit, Hobart take down men’s lax

Men’s Lacrosse • Back Mar. 10: Canisius 13, Albany 10 Mar. 17: Detroit 17, Canisius 12 Mar. 20: Hobart 11, Canisius 6 Baseball • Pg. 13 Mar. 16: Canisius 5, Oakland 3 Mar. 17: Oakland 1, Canisius 0

Canisius 9, Dayton 5 (12) Mar. 18: Dayton 8, Canisius 7 (10) Softball • Pg. 14 Mar. 16: Chattanooga 8, Canisius 0 Mar. 17: Long Island 9, Canisius 3

Bryant 7, Canisius 3 Mar. 18: Towson 7, Canisius 5 Golf • Back Mar. 16-17 at Port St. Lucie, Fla. T-25: Mike Carrig 80 T-25: Mike Spiotta 81 T-30: Stephen Seeler 79 33: Joe Vogl 83 T-38: Scott Moser 85 T-40: Pat Fahey

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Golf

Golf places seventh

By Rich Lunghino Sports Copy Editor

Juniors Mike Carrig and Mike Spiotta shot158andtiedfor25thplaceastheCanisius College golf team started its spring season withaseventh-placefinishattheHomewood Suites/Siena Invitational in Port St. Lucie, Fla. on March 16-17.

Spiotta had the best single-round total for the Griffs, shooting a 77 in the second round on March 17. Senior Stephen Seeler had the best score for Canisius in the first round,shooting79,andfinishedtwostrokes behind Spiotta and Carrig with a 160. Junior Joe Vogl finished just behind with a 161 and senior Scott Moser had a two-round total of 165whilefreshmanPatFaheyfinishedwitha score of 166. The Griffs finished with a team score of 636.

Carrig said the start of the spring season ismuchdifferentfromstartingthefallportion of the golf team’s year.

“Thefalliskindofnicebecauseyoucome off of a whole summer of playing in amateur events and stuff like that,” Carrig said. “The spring semester you just kind of start from scratch. Most of us up here in Buffalo haven’t played at all in the winter. This year’s kind of theexceptionthatwegottoplayafewrounds before we went down to Florida.”

BeforethetripdowntoPortSt.Lucie,the team was able to play atTerry Hills in Batavia, Glen Oaks in Amherst and Arrowhead in See Golf, page 15

Freshman Cody Gould looks to make a play against Hobart. Gould would score the Griffs’ third goal in the contest.

metakis scored a quick hat trick and Haney added a goal and an assist, pushing his point total to a career-best five on the day.

Thestringofsuccessendedjustasquickly as it started for the Griffs, and Detroit began its game-sealing run towards the end of the third with goals from Tim Lehto and Shayne Adams. Detriot scored the next four goals in the fourth quarter before Gibbons finallymanagedtosealhissecondcareerhat trick, moving the score to 16-12 in favor of theTitans. Joel Matthews scored his seventh goal of the day to make it 17-12.

In the final scoring stretch, the Titans wonfiveofsevenfaceoffsandtheGriffswere not able to gain offensive possession in their zone. Both teams combined for 55 turnovers.The loss for Canisius marks the fourth straight season that the Griffs have dropped their MAAC opener.

“It was a tough go against Detroit. It was a game of runs, where we couldn’t counter their last one,”junior midfielder Joe Rautenstrauch said.“We showed a lot of heart, and weneedtobringthat…Saturdayagainstour rival Manhattan. Our offense has been playing great, now it’s time to tighten up defensively and put a winning streak together.”

Canisius fell again Tuesday evening against Hobart in front of a capacity crowd at the Demske Sports Complex, 11-6. The dreadedthreatofscoringrunsiswhatdidthe Griffsinonceagain,givingupfivegoalsatthe beginning of the fourth quarter.

The Statesmen never looked back and managed to seal a road victory to move their mark to 2-4 on the season. Edwards led the team with three points, one goal and two assists. Gibbons continued his strong season with two scores while Giourmetakis, freshman Cody Gould and Brandon Bull all con-

By Brady Phelps Sports Writer

The Detroit MercyTitans beat Canisius’ men’s lacrosse team by one goal in overtime last year en route to an appearance in the MAAC Championship. Last Saturday, the gorgeous St. Patrick’s Day festivities were hampered by Detroit once again, as the Titanstookadvantageoffastbreaksthatledto a 17-12 victory over the Griffs.

“We didn’t play smart, it wasn’t lack of effort or heart,”senior defenseman Brendan Murphy said. “We just panicked at times. It was very uncharacteristic from the previous week against Albany. Six-on-six we handled them,butourtransitiondefenseisnotwhere it needs to be. We have to play better than that to win conference games.”

Detroit made their moves early and often offensively, scoring four times in the openingfourandahalfminutes.Canisiusanswered with a run of its own, taking a 5-4 lead intothebeginningofthesecondquarter.SeniorattackmanJimmyHaneyscoredthreeof his four goals on the day during the stretch, with fellow senior Travis Gibbons adding one as well as freshman Tim Edwards.

TheDetroitspeedreallystartedtoshow in the second as they responded to Canisius’ scoring burst with a number of transition goals. The Titans scored two goals before senior Simon Giourmetakis found the back of the net. Another two goals from Detroit made the score 8-6 before Gibbons added a tally to draw the Griffs to within one before halftime, 8-7.

Detroit scored two goals fresh out of intermission before Haney and Giourmetakis tookituponthemselvestodraweven.Giour-

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tributed a goal as well. Bull’s was the first of his collegiate career.

The Griffs will take on Manhattan this weekend, with faceoff at the Demske set for 10:45 a.m.They are now 1-2 overall within a conference record of 0-1.

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Senior Simon Giourmetakis leads Canisius in scoring this season with 11 goals and was named to the Preseason All-MAAC Team.

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