Volume 91, Issue 11 | April 20, 2011
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Scientists: Gulf Health Nearly At Pre-Spill -Level
what grade they would give the ecosystem before the spill. And ASSOCIATED PRESS –––––––––––––––––––––––––– it’s an improvement from the 65 given back in October. BAY JIMMY, La. – Scientists At the same time, scientists judge the overall health of the are worried. They cite significant Gulf of Mexico as nearly back declines in key health indicators By CAIN BURDEAU & SETH BORENSTEIN
to normal one year after the BP oil spill, but with glaring blemishes that restrain their optimism about nature’s resiliency, an Associated Press survey of researchers shows. More than three dozen scientists grade the Gulf’s big picture health a 68 on average, using a 1-to-100 scale. What’s remarkable is that that’s just a few points below the 71 the same researchers gave last summer when asked
an Associated Press survey one year after the April 20, 2010, BP oil spill. Third in an occasional series. The survey results mirror impressions Jane Lubchenco, the head of the National Oceanic
–––––––––––––––––––––––––– Despite efforts to satisfy their demands, Libyan rebels rejected a peace plan proposed by the African Union on Monday. The suggested “road map” outlined the steps for making peace with
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their achievement in the field of business or public service comes such as the sea floor, dolphins and oysters. In interviews, doz- and Atmospheric Administra- to campus, where they may visit ens of Gulf experts emphasized tion, gave on the health of the classes, meet with students, factheir concerns, pointing to the Gulf in an interview with the AP ulty, and staff, and deliver a lecture to the entire university commysterious deaths of hundreds Thursday. of young dolphins and turtles, The Gulf is “much better than munity. Bruce Bednarski ’80 strangely stained crabs and dead people feared, but the jury is out B.S. in Business Administration, patches on the sea floor. about what the end result will ’82 M.B.A. was selected as the EDITOR’S NOTE — It will be,” she said. “It’s premature to Spring 2011 Bartels Fellow. Bruce Bednarski is curtake time to see the full effects of conclude that things are good ... the oil spill on the Gulf of Mex- There are surprises coming up rently the senior vice-president ico. Now, scientists grade the — we’re finding dead baby dol- of business development for ecological health of the Gulf in See GULF HEALTH page 5 XipLink, a leader in the telecommunications industry. On Monday, April 11, Bednarski
Libyan Rebels Rejects African Union Peace Plan
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came to campus, where he presented a lecture entitled “From –––––––––––––––––––––––––– the Soccer Field to the Board Room: Lessons Learned Along The Bartels Fellowship was the Way” in Dodds Theater. An established at the University of alumnus of the university, BedNew Haven through the gen- narski was recruited to UNH to erosity of the Bartels family to play soccer and later served as bring individuals of national the captain of the soccer team. stature and prominence to the Initially determined to play in University of New Haven cam- the 1980 Olympics, Bednarski’s pus. Every fall and spring since dream was ended by an unforthe fellowship’s establishment in tunate turn of events along with 1989, an individual selected for the epiphany that his education By ISAAK KIFLE
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Spring 2011 Bartels Lecture
would have a more lasting effect than soccer. Therefore, when presented with the opportunity to play with the Hartford Hellions following graduation, Bednarski instead chose to continue at UNH and earn his MBA while serving as assistant coach of the soccer team. In his lecture, Bednarski categorized his life into three phases: his educational phase, his career management phase where he made his name in the professional world while gaining the skills
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Civil War 150th Anniversary Marked This Week
immediate cease-fire, an end to ELIZABETH FIELD NATO air strikes, and advised By STAFF WRITER that political reform be reached –––––––––––––––––––––––––– through cooperative discussions. Ghadafi, unsurprisingly, supThe 150th anniversary of the ported this proposal, but the rebels were less inclined to accept Civil War was being celebrated its demands as it would seriously nationally last week. From Calicounter their progress against fornia to North Carolina, many state organizations planned Gadhafi’s military.
ums, libraries, historical societies, state, local, and private organizations planned numerous events in order to commemorate the anniversary. On Tuesday April 12, twelve cannons fired from the north lawn of the state capitol in Hartford, marking the beginning of the Civil War
activities. However, no event in Connecticut drew as much attention as the one occurring at the Fort Sumter National Monument in Charleston, South Carolina. The opening salvo of the American Civil war was commemorated in the harbor with a full re-enact-
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Libyan ruler Moammar Gadhafi; however, the rebels made it clear that only Gadhafi’s resignation would suspend their uprisings. “It’s a non-negotiable demand,” U.S. State Department spokesman Mark Toner told reporters at a Monday news briefing. “We believe he needs to depart [from] power.” The agreement called for an
“This proposal did not include the exit of Colonel Gadhafi and his sons and inner circle, and it included reforms within the structure of the Gadhafi regime. This is rejected completely,” said Abdul Hafiz Ghoga, a member of the Transitional National Council (the de facto rebel govSee REBELS page 7
with the Confederate attack on events to observe this momen- Fort Sumter. Central Connectitous occasion. cut State University, along with In the state of Connecticut, the Association for the study of the Connecticut Civil War Com- Connecticut History, played host memoration Commission and a to a series of events including a collaboration of over 60 muse- weekend-long observance and
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ment of the war. Events in Charleston began Monday evening with a late night concert on Charleston’s Battery. Tuesday followed with a pre-dawn candlelight concert See CIVIL WAR page 7
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USGA President’s Corner Fellow UNH students, This week, the annual Last Man Standing competition is being hosted by the USGA. The first place prize is $2,000.00 in Visa Gift Cards, second place prize is $1,000.00 in Visa Gift Cards, and third place prize is $500.00 in Visa Gift Cards. Feel free to come out and watch the events. If you have any questions at all, please feel free to e-mail me at USGAPresident@ newhaven.edu. As a reminder, the Annual Spring Weekend is fast approaching. I would like to thank SCOPE for all of their hard work and planning that has gone on so far. I hope to see everyone out at the concert and the carnival. I encourage any students who have any questions about UNH or how to get involved to come visit the USGA offices located on the third floor of Bartels Hall. Anytime of the day you can find students who will be able to answer your questions or help you any way they can. As always if you have any concerns, log onto www.chargervoice.com and “Let your voice be heard.” Have a great week! Scott Kazar USGA President USGAPresident@newhaven.edu
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SCOPE It Out!
by Michelle Morra
So the last two weeks have had a theme, which were Comedy Week and Rock and Roll Week, and they both were awesome! This past week didn’t have a theme, but it still had some great events, and we gave away great prizes. SCOPE’s Comedy and Lecture Committee had a busy week putting on three events. On Wednesday, they brought The Food Dude Kevin Roberts, who is the host of BBQ Pittmasters and more, to campus to talk about food. He talked about healthy food and foods that were bad for you. Not only did he talk about it, but he also made some food and gave it away. The night ended with a hot sauce drinking contest and giveaways. Thursday night, Comedy and Lecture brought the Kinsey Sicks to the German Club. It was an amazingly funny show with drag queens that made fun of the university and the surrounding towns. On Monday, the Evolution of Dance performed. He talked about the development of some dances and then did his own routine; it was so cool. There were moves in his performance from the 60’s, 70’s, thriller, disco; and more. Please come out for Comedy and Lecture’s last event, “Female O” on Monday, April 25 at 8:00 p.m. in the German Club. The movie this week was The Dilemma, starring Vince Vaughn and Kevin James. It was a hilarious movie, where Vince catches his best friend’s wife cheating and doesn’t know whether he should tell him or not. Vince falls in poisonous flowers, gets beat up, and more debating back and forth. There is another great movie playing this week in Bartels Café on Friday at 9:00 p.m.: The Green Hornet. Come out and see it. Special Events also had a busy week; they put on two events. On Tuesday, they cosponsored with LAU for their Deal or No Deal Game Night. They gave away prizes like gift cards and UNH attire, but the best ones were the 42” TV and Xbox with Kinect and more. Then on Thursday, they put on the last Beanhouse of the year! It was fantastic, because all of the regulars came out and played one last time, and there were some new people, like SCOPE’s very own Assistant Chair Courtney Faber (even though she was forced). It was a good time had by all! And finally Weekend Programming put on some great events this weekend as well. On Friday, there was Graffiti where you could get mugs or basketballs with your name on them, get an airbrushed sweatshirt, or get a license plate in your favorite colors. Students walked away with some great stuff. On Saturday, students took a trip to Six Flags that was ruined by rain but for the time that it didn’t rain, everyone had a great time. This weekend, they are doing Greenheads and Eco-Bracelets on Earth Day, Friday, April 22 in the Programming Space at 6:00 p.m. and on Saturday there will be an Easter Egg Hunt, where you could win some great prizes starting at 4:00 p.m. at the new Bartels Activity Center. And remember, next weekend April 29 to May 1 is Spring Weekend. On Friday, the Spring Concert will be up at North Campus, with doors opening at 7:00 p.m., and the show starts at 8:00 p.m.; tickets will be on sale next week. On Saturday, the Spring Carnival up at North Campus will be from 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., and then at 8:00 p.m., the Spring Comedian, Ralphie Mae, will be making everyone laugh. To end the weekend on Sunday, there will be the Drive-In Movie, Just Go With It, in the quad at 9:00 p.m. Make sure you make room in your calendars!
Did You Know? by Joann Wolwowicz
The Beginning of the Civil War
150 years ago, our nation amidst of tension between the northern and southern United States exploded into the American Civil War over issues involving states’ rights versus federal authority, westward expansion, and slavery. With Abraham Lincoln elected as president in 1860, seven southern states decided to secede from the Union to form the Confederate States of America, because Lincoln was an anti-slavery Republican. After the first shots of the Civil War were fired, four more states seceded. The Civil War quickly became known as the “war between states,” with neighbor against neighbor. Four years of fighting historic battles, ended in Confederate surrender in 1865. To this day, it is the costliest war ever fought on American soil, with 620,000 of 2.4 million soldiers killed, millions injured, and the South devastated. In the mid-19th century, while the United States was experiencing an era of tremendous growth, an economic difference existed between the country’s northern and southern regions. While in the North, manufacturing and industry was well established, and agriculture was mostly limited to small-scale farms, the South’s economy was based on a system of large-scale farming that depended on the labor of black slaves to grow certain crops, especially cotton and tobacco. Growing abolitionist sentiment in the North after the 1830’s and northern opposition to slavery’s extension into the new western territories led many southerners to fear that the existence of slavery in America was in danger. In 1854, the U.S. Congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which opened all new territories to slavery by allowing the rule of popular sovereignty over the state. Opposition to the act in the North led to the formation of the Republican Party, a new political party based on the principle of opposing slavery’s extension into the western territories. After the Supreme Court’s ruling in the Dred Scott case confirmed the legality of slavery in the territories, the abolitionist John Brown’s raid at Harper’s Ferry in 1859 convinced more and more southerners that their northern neighbors were bent on the destruction of the practice that sustained them. Lincoln’s election in November 1860 was the final straw, and within three months seven southern states--South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas--had seceded from the United States. Even as Lincoln took office in March 1861, Confederate forces threatened the federal-held Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. On April 12, after Lincoln ordered a fleet to resupply Sumter, Confederate artillery fired the first shots of the Civil War. Sumter’s commander, Major Robert Anderson, surrendered after less than two days of bombardment, leaving the fort in the hands of Confederate forces under Pierre G.T. Beauregard. Four more southern states--Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina and Tennessee--joined the Confederacy after Fort Sumter. Border slave states like Missouri, Kentucky and Maryland did not secede, but there was much Confederate sympathy among their citizens. Though on the surface the Civil War may have seemed an easy win for the noth, with the 23 states of the Union’s advantage in population, manufacturing (including arms production), and railroad construction, the Confederates also had a strong military tradition, along with some of the best soldiers and commanders in the nation. They also had a cause they believed in: preserving their long-held traditions and institutions, chief among these being slavery. In the First Battle of Bull Run on July 21, 1861, 35,000 Confederate soldiers under the command of Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson forced a greater number of Union forces to retreat towards Washington, D.C., dashing any hopes of a quick Union victory and leading Lincoln to call for 500,000 more recruits. In fact, both sides’ initial call for troops had to be widened after it became clear that the war would not be a limited or short conflict.
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Artificial Dye Deemed Safe by FDA
A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel, which met to consider placing warning labels on foods containing artificial dyes, determined at the end of March that these colorings were safe to eat. The FDA board convened following scientist discoveries that while artificial dyes may not harm typical children, individuals with alreadyestablished behavioral problems could see symptoms worsen. According to CBS News, claims of color additives causing ADHD and hyperactivity have been circulating since the 1970s. The New York Times reported that the committee voted eight to six against requiring warning labels on products with artificial dyes. The added coloring is used in many kid’s favorites, such as Fruit Loops and Kraft Macaroni and Cheese. The Grocery Manufactures Association breathed a sign of relief when the FDA issued its ultimate decision against warning labels. “We agree with today’s FDA’s advisory committee finding which determined that there is insufficient evidence of a causal link between artificial colors and hyperactivity in children,” a spokesperson for the group said. However, the association’s agreement with the FDA could have more to do with sales than with the actual health concerns. The Health Freedom Alliance reported that colored foods are more appealing than those in their natural state. In fact, the article recalls a taste test in which colored Cheetos generated more appeal than their “naked” counterparts. Samantha Shelke, a food chemist from the Institute of Food Technologists, agreed. “Color is such a crucial part of the eating experience that banning dyes would take much of the pleasure out of life,” Shelke claimed. Although the FDA’s conclusion may seem opposed to those fighting against artificial colorings in foods, the advisory panel’s acknowledgement that dyes may affect some children is a big step in raising awareness for the issue.
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Death Toll Climbs to 13 after Belarus Bombing By REBEKAH GORDON STAFF WRITER
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This past Monday, an explosion tore through one of the main subway stations in the Belarusian capital of Minsk during heavy rush hour. President Alexander Lukashenko informed that 11 people were killed as a result of the explosion, and 100 people were injured. There was no immedi-
ate determination of what caused the explosion, but Lukashenko did not discount the possibility of the explosion being an “attack from the outside.” A reporter at the scene recalled heavily injured people being carried out of the Oktyabrskaya station, including a person without legs. The explosion hit just as passengers were stepping off of the 6:00 p.m. train, where Minsks’ two
subway lines intersect. This area was known to be crowded with passengers at the end of their work day. The station is located 100 meters away from the President’s residence and the Palace of the Republic, which is used for government ceremonies. There has been political tension rising in Belarus since December, when a massive demonstration against a disputed presi-
dential election sparked a harsh crackdown by police. There were more than 700 people arrested, including seven presidential candidates. In 2008, a bomb blasted at a concert that Lukashenko attended, injuring about 50 people in Minsk. Lukashenko believes that the subway blast could have been connected to that bombing three years ago.
from the Associated Press. According to the website Financial Times, “from last Monday, a woman wearing a niqab [a veil that completely covers a woman’s face except for her eyes] or the burka [a veil that has a mesh screen over the eyes] outside of her home or car could be detained by police, escorted to a police station, and fined one hundred and fifty euros. Already a few have been detained; many more are ready to engage in civil disobedience and defy the ban.”
Reports of those instances are coming in. Veiled women in front of Notre Dame Cathedral have been detained for participating in unauthorized protests and not vacating when told by officials. They were asserting that the ban infringes on their right of religion and expression. It was noted that the law was worded perfectly and avoided using “women,” “Muslim,” and “veil” in it to avoid legal issues. According to the Associated Press, “the law says
it is illegal to hide the face in the public space.” Moderate religious leaders are saying that it is alright for a woman not to wear a veil for it is not required by Islam; others religious leaders oppose the law completely, but are struggling in what to tell the faithful. However, it is clear how some women feel about the ban. Kenza Drider, for example, calls the ban racist. “I will under no circumstances stop wearing my veil,” she said.
France Bans Face-Covering Islamic Veil
By VANESSA ESTIME STAFF WRITER
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On the eleventh of April, France made history by becoming the first nation to outlaw Islamic veils anywhere in public for French citizens and visitors as well. It all started two years ago when French President Nicolas Sarkozy “set the wheels in motion for the ban, saying the veils imprison women and contradict this secular nation’s values of dignity and equality,” as quoted
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Holocaust Remembrance: Reflections of Sidney Glucksman
By ROSS WEINER
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The University of New Haven will conduct its eighth annual Holocaust Remembrance on Thursday, April 28 at 3:00 p.m. in the Dodds Theater. As part of the ceremony, Mr. Sidney Glucksman, a victim of the Holocaust and New Haven resident, will offer his reflections. Mr. Glucksman was born in Chwonow, Poland in 1927. He was only 12 years old when Germany invaded Poland on Sept. 1, 1939. One day, he was taken from his school by the Nazis, and he never saw his parents or siblings again. He spent the next six years in labor and concentration camps and was on the forced death march from the Gross-Rosen camp to Dachau. "I remember seeing dead bodies piled up in front of me," he told the New Haven Jewish Ledger in 2002. "We had to step over them." Sidney was liberated from Dachau by the U.S. 7th Army. His wife, Libby Malamedik, was born in 1933 in Maniwiche, Poland. As a young child, she was hidden by Gentiles in her town, until her older brother, Jake, who had been working
with the Russian underground, discovered that she was alive and took her to hide in the forest where she worked with the partisans. Following the war, she made her way to a displaced persons camp in Germany where she met Sidney. The couple moved to the U.S. more than 50 years ago, settling in New Haven. Sidney, a fourthgeneration tailor, opened Sidney's Tailoring and Cleaners several decades ago, and Libby has worked by his side ever since. Sidney began speaking to students several years ago about his experience during the Holocaust. "It was very hard for me in the beginning. I almost said no," Sidney remembered. But in the end, he decided he had an obligation to tell his story. "I wanted the children to know about it," he said. "I don't want anyone to forget." In addition to Mr. Glucksman’s remarks, the ceremony will include a tribute to Dr. He FengShan, a Chinese diplomat who helped save thousands of people who were desperate to escape Nazi persecution. So come to Dodds Theater on Thursday, April 28 at 3:00 p.m. for a memorable and moving event.
Protests Continue in Syria as Violence Escalates
event showed the severity of the violence perpetrated ––––––––––––––––––––– at the university. In the video which was posted After prevalent revolu- online, plainclothes secutionary efforts against the rity forces beat protesters government inspired Tuni- and forcefully pulled othsia, Egypt, Libya, and Ye- ers away from the march men to take action, Syria as they expressed unity. now joins these nations in the fight to overthrow its Bashar Al-Assad, who president. In fact, the peo- came into power in 1999, ple of Syria have taken on comes from a long list of protests for the past three family members who have weeks to indicate the need surmounted opposition and for political and social re- maintained absolute sovforms. ereignty for thirty years. At Damascus Universi- With the continuation of ty on April 11, students as- authoritarian dictatorship, sembled together to unite he is responsible for carwith protesters and activ- rying on the Emergency ists calling for freedom and Law, a law that allows for democracy. Throughout government officials to arthe protest, a student was rest people without charge killed by security troops. or reason. In addition, he Though there has been dis- is accused of torturing and pute about how the student killing those who kill and was killed, London-based criticized for economic political activist Ausama oversight, increase of cenMonajed maintains the sorship, and further corstudent was beaten to ruption. death. Meanwhile, Ammar While international atQurabi, the head of Syria’s tention has called for an National Organization for end to the violence and Human Rights, says the emphasis that peace will student was shot by se- only arise when demands curity. Regardless of the for reform are met, nations student’s cause of death, such as France, Germany, See SYRIA page 5 video recording of the By LIZ DE LA TORRE STAFF WRITER
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Wisconsin and the Record of Seven Tornadoes in a Day
By REBEKAH GORDON STAFF WRITER
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Over the past couple weeks, there has been a change in the weather over the Midwest that has brought rain, storms, and tornadoes. A strong low pressure system moved from South Dakota to Northern Wisconsin on Sunday, which moved in warm, moist air followed by a cold front producing severe storms. This then created a possible seven tornadoes, which could be
record breaking, officials stated. Rich Mamrosh, meteorologist for the NWS said, “It’s one of the most significant tornado outbreaks in April. If confirmed, the number of tornadoes on Sunday could have broken a record for a single day in April, which was previously six.” A tornado in Merrill in the northern portion of the state caused widespread damage to businesses and homes, where people needed to be taken to local hospitals. Another storm
destroyed over half the town of Mapleton, but left no serious injuries. There were also storms in Texas with a major hailstorm in Prosper, where golf ball sized hail poured from the sky and left many cars with tremendous damage, along with many houses and businesses missing windows and fences. After the storm front, the weather changed to unseasonably high temperatures, with a new high record of 91 degrees on Saturday.
Radiation Near Japan Reactors Too High for Workers
ed "roadmap" for cleaning up the radiation leak and ––––––––––––––––––––– stabilizing the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant by year's TOKYO – A pair of thin end so they can begin rerobots on treads sent to ex- turning tens of thousands plore buildings inside Ja- of evacuees to their homes. pan's crippled nuclear re"Even I had expected actor came back Monday high radioactivity in those with disheartening news: areas. I'm sure (plant operRadiation levels are far too ator Tokyo Electric Power high for repair crews to go Co.) and other experts inside. have factored in those figNevertheless, officials ures when they compiled remained hopeful they can the roadmap," Chief Cabistick to their freshly mint-
net Secretary Yukio Edano said. Officials announced for the first time Monday that spent fuel rods in Unit 2 were damaged, and contaminated water was discovered in other areas of the plant, underscoring the growing list of challenges facing TEPCO in cleaning up and containing the radiation. They also described in more detail the damage
and the United States have not been quick to censure President Bashar Assad. Instead, they believe that he has been unlawfully confined by surviving members of his father’s cabinet which has left him with no room for political mobility and thus, stability. Actually, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has stated that Assad is a “different leader” and that many Congress members who have vis-
ited Syria “believe he’s a reformer.” Nonetheless, U.S. State Department spokesman Mark Toner has requested the government to rescind limitations on media and “to refrain from any further violence against peaceful protesters.” As for Assad, he blames armed gangs for the violence. He has proposed getting rid of some of the local government officials and giving Kurds, a minority in Syria that has
been excluded for many years, citizenship. He has also ordered 191 detainees who were seized at previous protests to be released. However, none of these moves have been enough to satisfy the demands of the protesters. The struggle for the Syrians to free themselves from President Bashar Al-Assad’s “iron grip” has resulted in a death toll that has, so far, reached more than 170.
ing calculated. The federal government is collecting data on that, but much is kept from outside scientists. So some of the most important details are being held closely like cards in a high-stakes poker game, outside researchers say. Trying to quantify the scale of the injury to the Gulf ecosystem “is absolutely the right question,” said Robert Haddad, who heads the scientific process for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “One of the outcomes from the Exxon Valdez was that they tried to estimate the damage too quickly.” The spill itself lasted nearly three months. Then there was the clean-up. Then federal officials pronounced the oil mostly — but not completely — gone, eaten by microbes, dispersed by chemicals or diluted. Lubchenco told reporters in February that “it’s not a contradiction to say that although most of the oil is gone, there still remains oil out there.” Now, only a year later scientists are starting to see signs — and they are far from conclusive — of possible long-term problems. Florida State University oceanographer Ian MacDonald warned his fellow scientists to be on the watch for deaths of big marine mammals. That was in October. Since January, 155 young or fetal dolphins and small whales have washed up on Gulf beaches — more than four times the typical number — according to NOAA. A new study estimates that for every dead dolphin that washes ashore there are 50 dolphins that are never found. That suggests more than 7,500 dolphin deaths the first three
months of this year alone. Blair Mase, NOAA’s marine mammal stranding coordinator, says dolphin deaths began to rise in February 2010 — before the BP spill. That slowed in November, but in January dolphins began dying at a much faster rate, higher than before the spill. Lubchenco said oil contamination could be the culprit: “It is logical that maybe their moms were affected by the spill.” Other culprits could be algae blooms, temperature changes or other environmental toxins. Fifteen of this year’s dead dolphins had oil on them, and NOAA chemically linked six of those to the BP well. It’s not just dolphins that are dying. NOAA reports in the first few months of this year, 141 endangered sea turtles were stranded _a higher than normal number. On top of that, Monty Graham, a researcher at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab in Alabama, noticed fewer jellyfish last year. “We are looking at how the food web could have shifted in general,” Graham said. “We think we have growing evidence that the system shifted and became starved for food” for larger sea animals. At Tulane University, scientist Caroline Taylor is investigating strange orange droplets inside crab larvae. Her team has taken samples from thousands of crabs, but they have not begun to analyze the abnormalities. Jessica Henkel, a Tulane population ecologist, is spending long days rigging up nets to catch birds for fecal, blood and feather samples, looking for effects that aren’t immediately lethal.
“It’s much easier to see a dead pelican on the beach” than it is to see more chronic populationwide effects, she said. This sounds all too familiar to Craig Matkin, a marine mammals biologist at the North Gulf Oceanic Society in Alaska. He studied what happened to whales in Prince William Sound after the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill. Some whales died immediately after being coated with oil, but then a year later scientists noticed lots of whale deaths — 13 out of 35 of the main whale pod. Matkin said it was likely the whales died from oil ingested over months. Similarly, the herring fishery in the region crashed, not immediately, but over time. “There’s a real tendency to do this out-of-sight, out-of-mind thing until someone shows you that it’s not the truth,” Matkin said. “It doesn’t go away. There are going to be effects down the line.” But John Harding, chief scientist at the Northern Gulf Institute in Mississippi, said, “We’re way better off than the Exxon Valdez. We had the oil-eating microbes.” Larry McKinney, who heads a Gulf research center at Texas A&M University in Corpus Christi, has days when he’s confident in the Gulf’s resilience and days when he’s pessimistic. Somehow he can agree with both Overton and Joye, saying the trouble is that there’s not enough information to get a complete picture. He compares it to people in a dark room trying to describe an elephant that they can feel but not see.
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phins.” Just as it was before the April 20 accident when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, ultimately spewing 172 million gallons of oil, the Gulf continues to be a place of contradictions: The surface looks as if nothing ever happened while potentially big problems are hidden deep below the surface, in hard-to-get-to marshes and in the slow-moving food web. Some may not even be known for years. “When considering the entire Gulf of Mexico, I think the natural restoration of the Gulf is back to close to where it was before the spill,” said Wes Tunnell at Texas A&M University, who wrote a scientific advisory report for the federal arbitrator who is awarding money to residents and businesses because of the oil spill. Tunnell’s grades are typical. He says the Gulf’s overall health before the spill was a 70; he gives it a 69 now. If that pre-spill grade isn’t impressive, it’s because the Gulf has long been an environmental victim_ oil from drilling and natural seepage, overfishing, hurricanes and a huge oxygen-depleted dead zone caused by absorbing 40 percent of America’s farm and urban runoff from the Mississippi River. Today, a dozen scientists give the Gulf as good a grade as they did before the spill. One of those is Louisiana State University professor Ed Overton, a veteran of oil spills. He described a recent trip to Gulf Shores, Ala.: “I walked a half-mile down the beach and there wasn’t a tar ball in sight. It was as pretty as I’ve ever seen it.”
In the survey, some categories, such as red snapper and king mackerel, even average out to higher grades than before the spill, mostly because months of partial fishing bans have helped populations thrive. While that sounds good, the average grades for the sea floor plunged from 68 pre-spill to a failing grade of 57 now. Dolphins initially seemed to be OK, but as more carcasses than usual kept washing up — almost 300 since the spill — the grade fell to 66, compared to a pre-spill 75. Oysters, always under siege, dropped 10 points, crabs dropped 6 points. And the overall food web slid from 70 before the spill to 64 now. “Everything may be fine in some places, but definitely not fine everywhere,” said University of Georgia researcher Samantha Joye who found dead patches of oiled sea bottom in expeditions near the busted well where 11 men lost their lives. “The oil isn’t gone; it’s just not where we can see it.” Joye said before the oil spill she would have given the sea floor an “A” grade of 90. Now she gives it a 30. Overall, Joye, who has been one of the more hands-on researchers exploring Gulf damage, said its health has plunged from an 80 before the spill to a 50 now, but she was the most pessimistic of the researchers. In five different expeditions, the last one in December, she and her colleagues took 250 cores of the sea floor and travelled 2,600 square miles. She says much of the invisible oil in the water and on the sea bottom has been chemically fingerprinted and traced to the BP spill. She
also has pictures of oilchoked bottom-dwelling creatures like crabs and brittle stars — starfish-like critters that are normally bright orange but now are pale and dead. This is hidden from view. Eugene Turner, an LSU wetlands scientist, has looked at marshes in Louisiana’s Barataria basin, and found oil buried in the mud and sand. “You can’t smell it. You can’t see it. It’s not this big black scum out there, but it’s there,” Turner said. At this point, the oil is only obvious in a couple of places — with Bay Jimmy the worst-hit. Today, a crust of oil still lines miles of the outer fringe of marsh in the bay, a remote spot deep visited by the occasional fisherman and oil worker. Still, it’s nothing compared to the black gunk stuck on beaches and marshes last summer or the multi-colored slicks so massive they could be tracked by satellite. Those images, along with the pictures of pelicans and seagulls with gobs of oil oozing down their beaks, are now history. “Even though some coastal areas were hit hard,” says NOAA’s Lubchenco, “the oil did not penetrate as far into the marshes as people feared.” Despite the picture on the surface, Dana Wetzel at the Mote Marine Laboratory in Florida, adds: “Anyone who says the Gulf is fine is being precipitous.... It’s out-ofsight, out-of-mind, but in my humble opinion this is not over.” While BP money has flowed for immediate cleanup and compensation, the bigger bill for environmental damage and federal penalties is still be-
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – State by state, Republicans are moving at light speed on a conservative agenda they would have had no hope of achieving before the big election gains of November. The dividends are apparent after only a few months in office, and they go well beyond the spending cuts forced on states by the fiscal crunch and tea party agitation. Republican governors and state legislators are bringing abortion restrictions into law from Virginia to Arizona, acting swiftly to expand gun rights north and south, pushing polling-station photo ID laws that are anathema to Democrats and taking on public sector unions anywhere they can. All this as Democrats find themselves cowed or outmaneuvered in statehouses where they once put up a fight. In many states, they are unable to do much except hope
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GOP Wave Reshapes Nation’s Agenda State by State that voters will see these actions as an overreach by the Republicans they elected — an accidental revolution to be reversed down the road. A tug to the right was in the cards ever since voters put the GOP in charge of 25 legislatures and 29 governors’ offices in the 2010 elections. That is turning out to be every bit as key to shaping the nation’s ideological direction as anything happening in Washington. A close-up review of the first wave of legislative action by Associated Press statehouse reporters shows the striking degree to which the GOP has been able to break through gridlock and achieve improbable ends. The historic and wildly contentious curbs on public sector bargaining in Wisconsin, quickly followed by similar action in Ohio, were but a signal that the status quo is being challenged on multiple fronts in many places. The realignment in Florida has produced a law imposing more account-
ability on teachers, along rights. with 18 proposed abortion In Virginia, Republi-
restrictions, some bound to become law. Immigration controls are motivating lawmakers far from borders, constitutional amendments against gay marriage are picking up steam, Michigan is shortening the period people can get jobless benefits and Indiana may soon have the broadest school voucher program in the U.S. At least 20 states are going after public-sector benefits, pay or bargaining
cans used a deft legislative maneuver to enact a law that will close the state’s 21 abortion clinics. In Missouri, a presidential swing state where Republicans are at their strongest numbers in decades, a tax cut sought by business for 10 years has been given final legislative approval and Democrats are putting up little resistance to Republican priorities they once tied in knots. “You can’t get up on
every issue when you’re in the minority,” said state
ate separate crimes for the death or injury of a fetus at any stage of development. Republicans have made unexpected progress in giving gun owners more rights to carry concealed pistols. North Carolina is also among nearly a dozen states where an initiative to require photo IDs at polls is getting traction. Democrats and civil libertarians worry photo ID rules would suppress minority and legal immigrant voting. Conservatives welcome the pace and breadth of it all. “When you have one AN AP PHOTO side that’s been put out Sen. Tim in the legislative wilderGreen, a Democrat from ness, there’s a lot of pentSt. Louis. “So you pick the up ideas that are going to ones you’re most passion- move quickly,” said Dallas ate about.” Woodhouse, director of In North Carolina, Americans for Prosperity where Republicans won in North Carolina. control of both legislaEven solidly Demotive levers for the first cratic Vermont is coming time since 1870, the par- up a paler shade of blue ty has secured approval as legislators seek cuts in in at least one chamber spending on the elderly for charter school expan- and disabled after shelving sion, limits on damages in a plan to raise taxes on the medical malpractice suits rich. The squeeze on state See GOP page 7 and a bill that would cre-
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to fuel in three troubled reactors, saying pellets had melted. Angry at the slow response to the nuclear crisis and to the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami that caused it, lawmakers tore into Prime Minister Naoto Kan. "You should be bowing your head in apology. You clearly have no leadership at all," Masashi Waki, a lawmaker from the opposition Liberal Democratic Party, shouted at Kan. "I am sincerely apologizing for what has happened," Kan said, stressing the government was doing all it could to handle the unprecedented disasters. TEPCO's president, Masataka Shimizu, appeared ill at ease as lawmakers heckled and taunted him. Workers have not been able to go inside the reactor buildings at the strick-
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and experience he needed to enter his current and third status, the entrepreneurial phase. He then divulged seven lessons he learned at UNH that he carried with him and hoped the audience would carry with them as well. The first lesson was that learning doesn’t end after college unless you allow it to; don’t be afraid to ask questions or make mistakes. The second lesson was that everything falls back to the team and that
Radiation Near Japan Reactors Too High For Workers
en plant since the first days after the its cooling systems were wrecked by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that left more than 27,000 people dead or missing. Hydrogen explosions in both buildings in the first few days destroyed their roofs and scattered radioactive debris. On Sunday, a plant worker opened an outer door to one of the buildings and two Packbots, which resemble drafting lamps on tank-like treads, entered. After the worker closed the door, one robot opened an inner door and both rolled inside to take readings for temperature, pressure and radioactivity. They later entered a second building. The robots reported radioactivity readings of up to 49 millisieverts per hour inside Unit 1 and up to 57 inside Unit 3, levels too high for workers to realis-
tically enter. "It's a harsh environment for humans to work inside," said Hidehiko Nishiyama of Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency. Japanese authorities more than doubled the legal limit for nuclear workers since the crisis began to 250 millisieverts a year. Workers in the U.S. nuclear industry are allowed an upper limit of 50 millisieverts per year. Doctors say radiation sickness sets in at 1,000 millisieverts and includes nausea and vomiting. The robots, made by Bedford, Massachusetts, company iRobot, which also makes the Roomba vacuum cleaner, explored Unit 2 on Monday, but TEPCO officials had yet to analyze that data. The radioactivity must be reduced, possibly with the removal of contaminated debris and stagnant
water, before repair crews would be allowed inside, said NISA official Masataka Yoshizawa. Sturdier robots can remove some of the debris, but workers are needed to test the integrity of the equipment and carry out electrical repairs needed to restore the cooling systems as called for in the road map, Yoshizawa said. "What robots can do is limited, so eventually, people must enter the buildings," TEPCO official Takeshi Makigami said. The robots, along with remote-controlled miniature drones, have enabled TEPCO to photograph and take measurements of conditions in and around the plant while minimizing workers' exposure to radiation and other hazards. Separately, readings from a water tank in Unit 2 showed a severe spike in radiation that indicates
none of his accomplishments would’ve been possible without his team. The third lesson was to stick to the fundamentals and to always make sure that there is logic supporting your passion. The fourth lesson was to build a winning culture by reinforcing your core values. The fifth lesson was that you can never over-communicate; communication is key to success in any endeavor. The sixth lesson consisted of the personal ones: don’t take yourself too seriously,
be humble, and remember to set personal goals alongside your professional goals. The seventh and final lesson Bednarski gave the audience, especially the students in the audience, was to always pursue your endeavors with passion because alacrity and purpose are contagious or, in other words, “never, never give up!” Following the lecture, Bednarski was honored on behalf of the university by President Kaplan and on behalf of the student body
by Undergraduate Student Government Association (USGA) President Scott Kazar. Lastly, UNH’s director of athletics Deborah Chin and current soccer coach Joshua Krusewski surprised Bednarski by bringing his former soccer coach Joe Machnik and teammates to the stage and presented him with his framed jersey, creating a memorable ending to an inspiring lecture.
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likely damage to the fuel rods inside the spent fuel pool there, TEPCO officials said. That was the first indication of damage to those rods. The radiation was far higher than that measured in the spent fuel pool of Unit 4, suggesting the damage to the fuel in Unit 2 is greater. NISA also sent a report to the government watchdog Nuclear Safety Commission, saying that some fuel pellets and rods in the reactors in Units 1, 2 and 3 had become overheated and melted during the crisis, the first time it had provided details of the damage to the fuel. Nishiyama, said the agency can only say "more than 3 percent" of the fuel rods have melted. A pool of stagnant radioactive water was also discovered in the basement of Unit 4. With evacuees' ordeal stretching into the long-
term, some began moving out of school gymnasiums into temporary housing. Hundreds who have not found apartments or relatives to take them in began filling up inns at hot springs. "The government has asked us to be ready to take in as many as 200 evacuees for the next four months at least," said Masaki Hata, whose family has run the Yoshikawaya Hot Springs Inn on the outskirts of Fukushima for seven generations. Michiaki Niitsuma, a 27-year-old office worker, said he was glad to have a comfortable place to stay while he waited to go home. "My kids got sick in the shelter. It was cold. It's much better here. It's a relief," he said.
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Skin Bleaching in Jamaica: A Serious Growing Problem
By REBEKAH GORDON STAFF WRITER
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In the grimy slums of Jamaica, people have been trying to alter their skin color with chemicals sold on the black market. The skin lightening craze has been growing worse, and doctors now say it has reached dangerous proportions. Most of the Jamaican bleachers are using over the counter creams that
are mostly knockoffs that get imported from West Africa. Long-term use of one of the leading ingredients, hydroquinone, has been linked to ochronosis, which is a disfiguring condition that causes splotchy darkening of the skin. Doctors say abuse of the bleaching lotions can also leave stretch marks across the face. Hydroquinone has been taken out of skin products in Australia, Japan, and Europe due to health risks.
In the U.S, if skin creams contain hydroquinone up to two percent, it is safe. The lightening creams in Jamaica are not regulated, which leaves roadside vendors to sell tubes and plastic bags of powder right out of the box. Most of the tubes do not have the actual ingredients that are in them. There are also extreme bleachers that are using ointments that are illegal, which have been smuggled into the Caribbean;
warnings through television and the radio, along with putting up posters in schools, holding lectures, and handing out pamphlets on the dangers of skin bleaching. The trend is a growing public debate, while reggae hits are celebrating or condemning the practice. Vybz Kartel has had his own complexion change dramatically throughout recent years, and he insists that skin bleaching is simply a personal choice like
tattooing. His song, “Look Pon Me” even contains the line, “…Di girl love off mi brown cute face, di girl dem love off mi bleachout face.” Some doctors and professors believe the skin bleaching is due to an epidemic of color prejudice, but we can never know for sure. For now, it’s the cool and fashionable thing to do, and even the boys are doing it now too.
During a radio interernment based in the east- view in France, Italian ern city of Benghazi), to foreign minister, Franco the McClathy newspaper. Frattini, supported the The African Union is rebels’ position, saying made up of five African that Gadhafi’s resignation countries: South Africa, would have to occur “in Uganda, Mali, Maurita- parallel” with a cease-fire. nia, and Congo-Brazza- “The sons and the family ville. Given that Gadhafi of Gadhafi cannot particireserved a portion of the pate in the political future yearly budget to the Af- of Libya,” Frattini said. rican Union, the plan to The Obama administramaintain Gadhafi’s lead- tion strongly advocates a ership role in Libya was cease-fire, and Secretary largely expected. How- of State Hillary Clinton ever, not everyone agrees said that the United States with the Union’s ruling. also desires Gadhafi forces
to vacate various civilian villages in the west, including the city of Misrata. Any cities forcibly occupied or destroyed by Gadhafi’s military campaign, said Clinton, must be restored with fresh drinking water and electricity. Chris Stevens, the chief U.S. envoy to the Libyan opposition in Benghazi, continues meeting with rebel leaders and discusses how the United States could help during its democratic transition.
Oklahoma, too. In Oklahoma, where the GOP controls both chambers and the governor’s office for the first time in history, Republicans are making sweeping changes to the state’s civil justice system, shoring up the state’s pension system by making workers contribute more and work longer, and aiming to eliminate bargaining rights for municipal workers in the state’s seven largest cities. “They’re power mad,” said Democratic lawmaker Richard Morrissette of Oklahoma City. “They weren’t out there campaigning on the idea of consolidating power. They know they have control of the House, the Senate and the governor’s office, and they’re ramming this stuff through just because they can.” If Republicans are overreaching, it’s also true that
voters did not elect them to govern like Democrats. “All this should come as no surprise to people,” said New Hampshire GOP lawmaker Gene Chandler. With supermajorities in both chambers, giving them a stronger hand against a Democratic governor, GOP legislators in the state have passed bills to shift more public employee pension costs to workers and opt for spending cuts over tax increases. They’ve also approved legislation to expand the right to use deadly force in self-defense. It’s not all coming up tulips for the tea party or the social conservatives, however. New Mexico and Utah are among Republican-led states where governors are bypassing the GOP playbook. The tea party movement is in tatters in Colorado and not much better off in Alaska.
In Montana, Republican leaders are struggling to keep their eye on the big picture — cutting spending, developing natural resources — while the swollen GOP freshman class peppers the debate with calls to nullify federal laws, create an armed citizen’s militia, legalize spear hunting, force FBI agents to get a sheriff’s OK before arresting anyone, and more. “Stop scaring our constituents and stop letting us look like buffoons,” veteran Republican lawmaker Walt McNutt told the aggressive newcomers. Gov. Brian Schweitzer, not one of the Democrats to roll over, came up with a cattle brand that reads “VETO” and seems itching to use it. “Ain’t nobody in the history of Montana has had so many danged ornery critters,” he said.
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cycle is going to be great. It’s going to bring us some new re-enactors, and it’s going to bring us a lot of attention and publicity.” States Sexton stated that he expects an even larger turn out in 2013, when the Gettysburg anniversary could draw as many as 25,000 re-enactors and 100,000 spectators to Pennsylvania.
these contain mercury, which is toxic to humans. Other people use homemade remedies that contain toothpaste or curry powder, that lighten with a yellowish tint. The Jamaican Ministry of Health does not have data on damage caused by skin-bleaching agents, though dermatologists and other health officials say they have been seeing more cases throughout the slums. Health officials have been running
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budgets and the shaky economy are forcing lawmakers of both parties to rethink the usual partisan prescriptions. “In the context of that kind of a fiscal reality, I think agendas become a little bit more polarized and opportunities for finding the kind of adjustments on the margins become less and less,” said political scientist Philip Russo of Ohio’s Miami University. In bellwether Ohio, new Republican Gov. John Kasich burst out of the gate with a plan, now law, to hand over job creation functions from the government to a nonprofit corporation whose board he chairs. Bills that would have met quick death under Democratic control have advanced under Republican majorities — none more apparent than
the law to curtail the collective bargaining rights of more than 350,000 public workers. Democrats in Ohio are complaining about “one-party rule” and want buyer’s remorse legislation that would help voters recall lawmakers who are doing things they didn’t elect them to do. Their chances of getting it are close to zero. So is a conservative tide sweeping the nation? If so, historian Doris Kearns Goodwin sees it as a tide that can wash out as fast as it rushed in. Sitting in the State Room of the Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio, where she had come for a historical event, Goodwin said declining party loyalty has accelerated shifts in public opinion and swings of the pendulum. She recalled the Democratic statehouse gains of
2008, the year of Barack Obama. “We thought in 2008, many pundits did, that that meant a progressive era was coming in; now everybody’s talking about a conservative era in the states and maybe in the nation,” she said. “When one whole party comes in, and they come in having been out before, there’s that flush of victory that makes them think this is our time, whether they’re Democrats or Republicans, to get through what we want to get through.” In South Carolina, where Republicans are fashioning further restrictions to one of the country’s toughest immigration enforcement laws, Democrats have mostly dropped the delaying tactics they once used with relish. The Democratic opposition has essentially vaporized in Tennessee, Kansas and
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and then the recreation of the first cannon shot fired from James Island. A cannon was fired every 15 minutes throughout the day with a bombardment taking place Tuesday evening. Reece Sexton, publisher of the Civil War Courier newspaper, expected to see over 12,000 reenacters participating. “The 150th
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The Bartels Student Activity Center Ribbon Cutting (and some other things) It was great to see the number of people who turned out to see the building, especially students; however, despite the fact that students have been using the area for some time now, I wish that even more had show up to show their appreciation. The Bartels family has been incredibly generous and continues to show their support of UNH, and it is absolutely the least we, as students, can do to show our appreciation by showing up to building dedications to express our gratitude. On a slightly different note, when I first saw the
trellis erected on the stage/ patio of BSAC, I was concerned that the cables put in around it would deter students from sitting at the tables there, but boy was I wrong! On the first really nice day since the tables were added, there were students sitting all over just hanging out enjoying the weather while overlooking the Bixler-Botwinik quad. Additionally, the number of students using the facilities inside the building, whether it’s the Career Development Center, the programming/work/meeting space, or the high tech conference room, has increased recently. I hope to see this number get even
higher in the next few weeks as school comes to a close, since we really do have a great new resource to utilize now. As I mentioned in the previous paragraph, the end of the semester is almost here! There are only two more issues of The Charger Bulletin after this one, and the last day of classes is May 4; can you believe it? I know it can be hard to keep up with end of semester work, but stick it out for a little over three weeks more, and you’ll be done!
case, why are people complaining that there is nothing to do? The answer to this is simple: laziness. I’m sure all of you receive the massive amounts of emails daily for events happening on campus. I’m also sure that most of you are probably annoyed at all of these emails as well. Hence, this is what I figure happens. Each email, unless it’s from a teacher, friend, financial aid, or the bursar’s office, is deleted without ever being opened. Now I understand that you may not be interested in every event that happens on this volved. It may shock some campus, but there has to of you when you hear this, be something that interests but there is actually an ob- you out there. It takes two noxious amount of events seconds to open an email going on each and every to see what it says. Someday. Well then, if that’s the thing might even catch your eye and spark your interest enough so that you actually go to an event for once. Throughout the week and especially on the weekends, there are always shows, trips, come-
dians, magicians, or movies that you can go see on this campus if fun events are the type of events that interest you. If you are someone that enjoys free stuff and novelty items, there is usually something going on during the week that you can get your hands on. Last week I got a free sweatshirt that had my name in graffiti on it. Other items at the event included hats, basketballs, mugs, and dog tags. If it’s free, you should be one of those people on line to get something for yourself. If you enjoy events that are educational in nature, some club or organization is always putting on a lecture with a guest speaker of some sort, putting on programs to raise awareness, or doing trips to places you may not normally visit. It’s not hard to find something to attend. All it takes is for you to open a few emails instead of deleting all of them in one click. I’ve always believed that events do not come to you. If you spend all of your time in your dorm
room, sitting on your bed, playing video games, or watching TV, sure enough you will be bored really quickly. If that’s the case, then sure enough you have nothing to do, because your room isn’t going to be very exciting. Get up, open your email, and check out what is going on this week. Make use of these last few weeks before school ends and go to some of the fantastic events that are coming up, including everything that happens during Spring Weekend. I expect to see more students at events on campus. You pay to go to school here, you pay to attend classes, and you pay to live here. Get the full experience and make sure that your money goes to good use. If you aren’t happy with the events that are being planned, and you cannot find anything of interest to you, then plan something yourself with your club or organization or join an organization, like SCOPE, that has a big part in planning events on campus.
dents who had yet to make it over to the new build––––––––––––––––––––– ing. The ceremony Last Friday, the recent- consisted of rely finished Bartels Student marks by President Activity Center (formerly Kaplan, Samuel S. the Psychology Building) Bergami Jr. (Chairhad its ribbon cutting cer- man of the Board emony. First, if you want of Governors), to see a few pictures of the Philip H. Bartels ceremony, check out the (Vice Chairman second page right below of the Board of “USGA President’s Cor- Governors), John ner!” Moving on, it was M. Picard (the a nice brief little shindig Mayor of West to let the Bartels family Haven), Sandra know that their generosity Vlock (President is greatly appreciated by of Arbonies King the entire campus and to Vlock, the master present the finished proj- planners and archiect to them, as well as to tects of the project), and all faculty, staff, and stu- Scott Kazar (USGA Presi-
dent). Following this, the ribbon was cut, and all the
either way it merits some discussion. As a freshman, I watched as my fellow freshmen were excited to go to events put on by SCOPE and other clubs and organizations. I also watched many who took the opposite route and missed every event they could. As we transitioned into the status of upperclassmen, I watched people’s enthusiasm subside, laziness grow, and heard the complaining worsen. It made for some really happy people to deal with. Many people complain, probably on an hourly basis, that there is “absolutely nothing to do on this campus.” I usually start hearing this from the up-
perclassmen that lose interest in events on campus, followed by freshman who never really tried to get in-
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Hello spring time. Finally, we have beautiful weather again. It’s really nice to see everyone sitting outside, whether it’s just at the tables outside of the dining areas or relaxing in the quad. It’s about time we are allowed to put away our winter clothing and break out the flip flops and shorts. What I am most excited for is that with the beautiful weather come more events being hosted outside, especially in the quad, where everyone can come together before the end of the semester. That being said, I’d like to address one serious complaint I hear more often than not on this campus. It varies between freshman and upperclassmen, but
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One night, at 11:30 p.m., an older African American woman was standing on the side of an Alabama highway trying to endure a lashing rainstorm. Her car had broken down and she desperately needed a ride. Soaking wet, she decided to flag down the next car. A young white man stopped to help her, generally unheard of in those conflict-filled 1960s. The man took her to safety, helped her get assistance and put her into a taxicab. She seemed to be in a big hurry, but wrote down his address and thanked him. Seven days went by and a knock came on the man’s door. To his surprise, a giant console color TV was delivered to his home. A special note was attached. It read: “Thank you so much for assisting me on the highway the other night. The rain drenched not only my clothes, but also my spirits. Then you came along. Because of you, I was able to make it to my dying husband’s bedside just before he passed away. God bless you for helping me and unselfishly serving others.” Sincerely, Mrs. Nat King Cole.
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I know this may be a negative for most people, but I actually greatly enjoy I hate that the week before we have any sort of vacation, teachers decide the rain. It is mostly because it gives me an excuse to sit inside and play some to assign all sorts of homework, projects, and tests. Most of it is either due Black Ops. right before or right after said vacation, and it makes it rather difficult to truly relax and enjoy it. I don’t want to have to do work over the break; it’s I went to the Fire Science Banquet again this year. I’ve been going every called a break for a reason! year since I was a freshman, and I have say as always it was fabulous and a lot of fun. I would suggest to you all to choose at least one event and go to it I know that many students were upset this weekend when there was a every year. It forms a kind of tradition for yourself, and I find that it is a very plethora of accepted students that attended the Accepted Student’s Day important thing to do in life. this Saturday. Many people complained that they are never informed about when these events are happening or when they are going to be taking up the entirety of Bartels.
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I know this is a complaint about admissions not letting students know about an event, but this problem goes farther to the university itself. I feel, and I know there are other students that feel the same way, that the university just does stuff without telling us. We’re not asking you to ask whether it can proceed or not, but at least have the common courtesy to give us a heads up that something is going on.
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By Courtney Faber putative (pyoot’-uh-tive) adj. 1: commonly accepted or supposed. 2: assumed to exist or to have existed. [From Middle English from Late Latin putativus from Latin putatus, from past participle of putare “to think.”] Fact of the week: Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell. Did they seriously just say that? “If it weren’t for electricity, we’d all be watching television by candlelight.” - George Gobel, actor and comedian Weekly Thought: The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. - Eleanor Roosevelt
Edible Opinions Bella’s
By Kait Richmond & Shawn Tremblay
Located at 896 Whalley Ave. is Bella’s, a tiny café in the Westville neighborhood of New Haven. Serving breakfast, brunch and lunch, Bella’s has become a popular spot for locals and can produce a long wait on the weekend mornings. However, it’s certainly worth the wait if you’re looking for more than your typical cheese omelet or french toast. I’ve only been to Bella’s for breakfast, and my first visit left me feeling a little frustrated after waiting outside for over an hour. When we were finally seated in the back next to a drafty corner, it took the wait staff a little while to make their way over to us. It also didn’t help that a party of ten was sitting behind us. We skimmed the regular menu; it all looks good, but the specials were unique, and so we decided we had to try them. I ordered a croque madame panini, which was a ham and cheese panini with a fried egg on top. I was surprised at how tasty it was, and my mood brightened significantly. Everyone else at the table ordered french toast that had a pumpkin flavor to it; a few bites were good, but there was a big possibility of getting too full from it. Last weekend, I attempted to go across the street to Lena’s, but there was a 45 minute wait, so we decided to try Bella’s again. It was around 9:30 a.m., a little earlier than last time we stopped in. We were seated right away, but a wait started to build up a little after we got there. We ordered from the specials again: stuffed french toast with cheese and chocolate, and the omelet du jour (onions, peppers, cheese, chorizo sausage, and plantain – a fruit similar to bananas). The omelet was prepared well, and I would’ve loved to have finished all of it, but the ingredients were so heavy that it was impossible (but delicious, nonetheless). Like last time, the french toast was good but filling, so I only tried a bite; the combination of chocolate and cheese was a little weird to me. My experience at Bella’s has not always been great, but the gourmet breakfasts have been worth it. I probably won’t visit often, but will definitely make my way there again. I especially like that the juice is served in a big glass, as opposed to the many other breakfast places that give you the tiniest glass they can find so you have to keep ordering more. If you want to try Bella’s on the weekend, go on the earlier side. Also, as a common courtesy, don’t go with a big group. The café is entirely too small, and it causes a long wait for everyone else. Finally, be sure to order from the specials, because you won’t find them at any simple breakfast place! Overall: 3 out of 5 stars Category: Breakfast/Brunch/Lunch Service: Not good, not bad Selection: Basic breakfast menu, plenty of omelets, interesting specials Aesthetics: Small, crowded, busy Atmosphere: Family, social
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Wirkus, O’Connell Drive Chargers to 7-6 Victory Over No. 5 Southern Connecticut State A CHARGER ATHLETICS PRESS RELEASE
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Led by a 10th inning RBI by David Wirkus, the University of New Haven baseball team defeated nationally ranked No. 5 Southern Connecticut State University 7-6 Thursday afternoon at the campus of SCSU. With the win the Chargers improved to 17-11 overall and 6-6 in the Northeast-10 Conference, while the Owls suffered just their second loss of the season and now stand at 27-2, 12-2 NE-10. Wirkus opened the top of the first inning for UNH with a leadoff single. After stealing second, Wirkus
gave the Chargers a 1-0 lead off a Shane O’Connell single to left field. Southern threatened in the bottom of the first with one hit and a pair of walks to load the bases with two outs. A strike out helped keep the Chargers ahead through the first. The Chargers would take a 3-0 lead in the top of the third inning off a two RBI single by O’Connell to right field. The Owls scored their first run in the bottom of the third, cutting the UNH lead to 3-1 after three. New Haven then went quiet for four straight innings as the Owls came alive with three runs in three innings to take a 4-3 lead after seven full in-
nings. In the top of the eighth inning, Ryan Brockett led off with a single up the middle. O’Connell then walked to put the go-ahead run on base. The bases were then loaded after a SCSU error. Freshman second baseman Andrew Johnson stepped to the plate and hit a single through the right side to drive in the gametying run. In the next atbat, O’Connell scored the Chargers go-ahead run off a wild pitch which got away from the Owls’ catcher. Trailing 5-4, Southern took the plate in the bottom of the eighth inning and scored two runs off one hit and one error. A ground out ended the in-
ning, but the Owls held on to a 6-5 lead heading into the ninth inning. The Chargers first two batters, Wirkus and Stephen Clout, walked to open the ninth inning with two base runners for UNH. A force out at third base kept runners on first and second with one out as O’Connell stepped to the plate. The sophomore walked and loaded the bases for the Chargers. Jack Heary hit into a fielder’s choice which forced the out as second base and drove in the game-tying run from third base. Freshman pitcher Henry Hirsch stepped to the mount for New Haven in the bottom of the ninth. The rookie shutdown
the Owls, allowing just one base runner before the Charger defense connected on a double play to force extra innings. In the tenth inning, freshman Brendon Buckley led off with a single to right center. Three batters later, Wirkus doubled and drove in Buckley for the game’s winning run. After the Owls led off with a single in the bottom of the 10th, Hirsch shutdown the Owls bats as the Chargers sealed the victory. Wirkus drove in the winning run and scored a game-tying run for the Chargers. He also went 2-for-5 at the plate. O’Connell led the Chargers at the dish with three
RBI’s, one run scored and two walks, while going 3-for-3. Ryan Brockett went 2-for-5 with two runs scored. Hirsch earned the win for UNH in two complete innings. He struck out one and held the fifth ranked team in the nation to two hits. New Haven will return to action on Saturday, April 16 when they host Merrimack College at Frank Vieira Field. The NE-10 doubleheader is set to start at 12 p.m. Live statistics and live audio will be available for the doubleheader. Log on to www.NewHavenChargers.com on Saturday to follow along live.
the 2010-11 Charger Cup standings as of April 14, 2011. The women’s basketball team drops one spot after two consecutive weeks in the lead and is now in second with 301 points while women's soccer ranks third with 292 points. The Charger Cup is a
competition that is played by all the UNH athletic teams as part of the greater NCAA Champs/Life Skills program, in order to provide a means by which student-athletes can compete for points in various life skills categories. These categories focus on servicing the community,
developing leadership, teamwork, supporting fellow student-athletes, and recognizing both academic and athletic achievement. The competition offers an outwardly visible account of our Charger's living by the six NCAA Division II attributes which are: Balance, Service,
Passion, Resourcefulness, Learning, and Sportsmanship. It also holds studentathletes, coaches, and teams as a whole accountable for their point total in various categories, and for the competitive side our student-athletes to be used towards something other than just athletic participa-
tion. At the UNH Department of Athletics annual Awards Banquet at the end of the academic year, the winning team will be placed on the Charger Cup, which is kept in the UNH Department of Athletics trophy case in Charger Gymnasium.
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put the Chargers up 2-0 off an 8-meter goal. New Haven would rattle off another six unanswered goals, including two more from Gabbe and two from Kristine Curry, to take an 8-0 lead. The Yellow Jackets scored their only goal with 3:19 left in the first half to bring the score to 8-1 at the midway point. UNH would score another nine goals in the second half to win the game by a final score of 17-1. The Chargers’ defense held AIC scoreless through the second half and secured their seventh win of the season. Gabbe scored two more second-half goals and finished with five total. The junior also recorded two draw controls. Curry and Carolina Marrero each
added three goals in the win, while Marrero also dished out one assist. Emily Buckley-Matura led the team with four ground balls, while Natalie Lieberman grabbed a teamhigh six draw controls to go with one goal. In the goal for UNH, Maureen Spellman recorded seven saves, while allowing just one goal. As a team, UNH successful on 13-of-15 clear attempts and held a 15-5 edge in draw controls. New Haven’s next game is set for Saturday, April 16 when they travel to Southern New Hampshire University for another NE-10 showdown. Game time in Manchester is set for 1 p.m.
Women's Cross and Country/Track Team Moves into First Place of Charger Cup Standings
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WEST HAVEN, Conn. - Previously ranked 10th, the University of New Haven women’s cross country/track team has jumped nine spots to claim first place with 410 points in
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TALLADEGA, Ala. – Jimmie Johnson won a Talladega two-step Sunday, edging Clint Bowyer by about a foot with a big push from Dale Earnhardt Jr. The official margin was 0.002 seconds, tied for the closest finish in NASCAR Sprint Cup history. The tag-team race came down to an eight-car sprint — actually, four pairs of cars — with only the guys at the front of the duos having a chance to win the Aaron’s 499. After laying back most of the day, five-time series champion Johnson came on strong at the end for his 54th career victory and first of the season. “We were just the lucky guy at the end with a good run,” Johnson said. “We had some big mo on our side, and off we went.” Coming out of the fourth turn, the No. 48 car dipped right next to the yellow line, surged past Hendrick Motorsports teammates Jeff Gordon and Mark Martin and got to the finish line just ahead of Bowyer in a four-wide dash down the long finishing straight at Talladega Superspeedway.
“What a bummer,” said Bowyer, who led a racehigh 38 laps. “I saw him coming.” Earnhardt, the fourth Hendrick driver, finished fourth and essentially gave up a chance to claim his first win since 2008 by deciding he was more comfortable pushing Johnson than getting pushed. “I can’t thank Junior enough,” said Johnson, who gave Earnhardt the checkered flag as a reward for being such a team player. “He made the decision that my car was faster leading. And the way these things are finishing up, the lead car’s going to get the win. In some respects, he was more worried about the team having a good performance than anything.” Kevin Harvick, who was Bowyer’s pusher, wound up fifth. Carl Edwards almost got into the mix as well, going right up against the outside wall with Greg Biffle on his bumper but didn’t have enough room to pull it off, finishing sixth. Biffle was seventh, while Martin dropped back to eighth. The finish matched the closest since NASCAR went to electronic timing — Ricky Craven edging Kurt Busch in 2003 at
Darlington — and made up for a day of lackluster racing with this new tandem style, which the drivers began using at the season-opening Daytona 500 and really perfected at this 2.66-mile trioval. Twenty-six leaders swapped the top spot 88 times, tying the record set in last year’s spring race at Talladega. Many of those changes were carefully choreographed by pairs who were merely trying to stay out of trouble, conserve their cars and give themselves a chance at the end. “If you didn’t like that finish and forget about the race, there’s something wrong with you,” Bowyer said. “It always seems to fix itself at the end of these restrictor-plate races. We always have a hell of a finish.” Hendrick Motorsports claimed the first four spots in qualifying, only the third team in NASCAR history to sweep the first two rows in a Cup race. They were all right there at the end. “With as crazy as it gets in these closing laps, sometimes a third is almost like a victory at these type of race tracks,” Gordon said. The finish overshadSee TALLADEGA page 13
Women’s Lacrosse Cruises Past AIC, 17-1
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WEST HAVEN, Conn. - The University of New Haven women’s lacrosse team, led by a five goal performance by Alexis Gabbe, defeated American International College 17-1 Tuesday afternoon at Kayo Field. With the win the Chargers improved to 7-5 overall and 5-2 in the Northeast-10 Conference. The Yellow Jackets fell to 4-7 on the season and 1-6 in the NE-10. The Chargers jumped out to an early lead at Kayo Field on Tuesday. Sarah Magnone scored a goal from Marissa Fisher just 25 seconds into the opening half. Just over one minute later, Alexis Gabbe
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Celtics Beat Knicks 87-85 on Allen’s 3-Pointer
By HOWARD ULMAN ASSOCIATED PRESS
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BOSTON – Ray Allen hit a go-ahead 3-pointer with 12 seconds left, Paul Pierce shut down Carmelo Anthony and the Boston Celtics rallied to beat the New York Knicks 87-85 in their playoff opener on Sunday night. New York led 85-84 before Anthony was called for an offensive foul for pushing Pierce with 21 seconds remaining. Allen, who led the Celtics with 24 points, sank the decisive basket from beyond the left arc. The Knicks then rushed downcourt and Anthony missed a long 3-point attempt with 2 seconds left. The superstar forward went 1 for 11 from the field in the second half. Amare Stoudemire had 28 points and 11 rebounds for New York, and Anthony finished with 15. Game 2 of the bestof-seven series is set for
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Tuesday night in Boston. Pierce scored 18 points and Kevin Garnett added 15 points and 13 rebounds for Boston. After Anthony’s critical offensive foul, Rajon Rondo lined up to inbound the ball but called timeout. The next time, Allen inbounded from just in front of the halfcourt line on the right side. He threw the ball to Pierce, then circled to the other side of the court, caught Pierce’s pass and fired up the deciding basket. And when Anthony missed and the final seconds ticked away, Celtics coach Doc Rivers highfived fans as he headed to the locker room. Third-seeded Boston got a tough challenge from the Knicks, who allowed 105.7 points per game during the regular season, third-most in the league. Pierce was the defensive star for the Celtics, forcing Anthony to shoot with a hand in his face for
much of the game. With the score tied at 82, Toney Douglas hit a 3-pointer to put the Knicks in front with 38 seconds
Boston trailed 51-39 at halftime but rallied to take a 66-64 lead early in the fourth. Stoudemire then scored 12 of the Knicks’ next 18 points to power them to an 82-78 lead with 2:46 remaining. Pierce followed with a 15-foot fallaway and Jermaine O’Neal scored on a putback, tying it with 1:12 to play. It was a rough night for Anthony from the start. He picked up two quick fouls and went scoreless in the first quarter, but ended the half with 12 points. New York put together a strong defensive effort in the second quarter, outscoring Boston 28-15. The Knicks scored the last six points of the first half on two free throws by AN AP PHOTO Anthony, a powerful dunk to go. The Celtics called The Knicks, in by Stoudemire and two timeout and immediately the playoffs for the first foul shots from Chauncey scored when Rondo tossed time in seven years, have Billups. an alley-oop to Garnett on lost their last three postBoston cut the deficit to the inbounds pass. season series and have five after three and opened The Celtics, who won gone 10 years without a the fourth with a 7-0 run. their NBA-high 17th win in a playoff game. Allen hit a 3-pointer and
Delonte West and Jeff Green followed with 15-footers. The Celtics played without center Shaquille O’Neal, who also is expected to miss Game 2 with a sore right calf. O’Neal, a key to their interior defense, missed 27 games with a sore right leg. He returned on April 4 against Detroit, but quickly left again with the calf problem. He sat out the remaining six games of the regular season. NOTES: During a timeout late in the second quarter, the crowd cheered when New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick was shown on the video scoreboard. He laughed and tipped his cap. But when the camera shifted to a spectator wearing a No. 1 Knicks jersey in the row behind him, the fans booed. ... The Knicks have lost their last three playoff series since beating the Miami Heat in seven games in the Eastern Conference semifinals in 2000.
MVP Josh Hamilton, they begin a 10-game homestand Monday night with a three-game series against the division-rival Angels. "Bring it on," Washington said. Mark Teixeira drew a one-out walk from Rhodes (0-1) in the eighth and Nick Swisher singled with two outs. Chavez, in a lefty-on-lefty matchup, lined a single up the middle and Teixeira scored with a slide ahead of the looping throw from center fielder Julio Borbon. "Arthur was the right guy," Washington said. "You've got to give credit to Eric Chavez." Chavez is 7 for 15 (.467) with three RBIs in his first season with the Yankees. "It was a good pitch, man. It was down and away," Rhodes said. "You've got to tip your hat to the guy when you make a good pitch and he hits it. That was it." Rafael Soriano (1-0) pitched scoreless eighth for his first win with New York and Mariano Rivera got three quick outs for his seventh save in seven chances. All three Yankees hom-
ers came off Ogando, who allowed just four hits over 13 shutout innings in his previous two starts this season. New York leads the majors with 27 home runs, a club record through 14 games. Ogando gave up five runs and six hits in 6 1-3
innings. Going into the game, he had allowed two regular-season homers in 54 2-3 career innings. "He just got it up to them and they hit it," Washington said. "Couldn't go through the whole season without giving up something. The most important thing is, he kept us in the ballgame." Rodriguez sat out because of stiffness in his lower back and side, but
pitch just inside the rightfield foul pole. Jeter leaned left to give it some body english and when the drive stayed fair, New York had a 5-4 lead. Granderson also homered off Ogando in Game 5 of the ALCS last year, the only run that the skinny, long-limbed righthander allowed in five postseason relief appearances. A converted outfielder, the 27-year-old Ogando excelled out of the bullpen last season and was only shifted to the starting rotation when Tommy Hunter strained his groin during the final week of spring training. Beltre hit a two-run shot on a high fastball in the first inning and an on a 57-degree night. RBI single in the fourth, Joba Chamberlain re- both with two strikes. His lieved Yankees ace CC run-scoring double in the Sabathia in the seventh sixth put Texas up 4-3. and immediately walked Moments after right Ian Kinsler on four pitch- fielder Nelson Cruz made es. With two outs, Mi- a diving catch of Jorge chael Young doubled over Posada's shallow fly, MarSwisher's head in right to tin turned on a 94 mph tie it at 5. Chamberlain fastball and sent it into retired Beltre on a come- the left-field stands for his backer to end the inning. fourth homer. He hit five in In the sixth, Derek Jeter 97 games last season with hit a leadoff single and the Los Angeles Dodgers. Granderson pulled a 1-1 Texas came right back
with Young's leadoff single in the sixth and the RBI double by Beltre, who began the night 3 for 22 (.136) against Sabathia with seven strikeouts. "A day like this I'll take it against CC because he's been really tough on me throughout my career," Beltre said. NOTES: Rangers RHP Brandon Webb (shoulder) had a 70-pitch bullpen session and is slated to throw batting practice Friday in Texas. The 2006 NL Cy Young Award winner is trying to come back from shoulder surgery that has prevented him from pitching in the majors since the 2009 opener for Arizona. He is on the disabled list after signing a $3 million, one-year contract with Texas in the offseason. ... RHP Colby Lewis is set to return Monday from baseball's new paternity leave list, so the Rangers will have to make a roster move. Lewis is scheduled to start Tuesday night against the Angels. ... Rangers first base coach Gary Pettis was ejected by umpire Adrian Johnson for arguing a close call at the bag in the seventh.
positions before the driver doing the pushing overheated his car. The most important thing was staying together. During an early pit stop, Johnson stayed in a little longer to make some adjustments on his car. Earnhardt just idled in his box, waiting to go back out with his partner. Of course, bumping cars from behind and pulling off choreographed switches at 190 mph didn’t always go smoothly — especially when the second driver in a tandem can’t see a thing.
Busch can attest to that. He twice got into cars while pushing, totally blind to what was going on in front of him. First, the No. 22 car nudged the rear bumper of Landon Cassill’s machine on lap 28, sending him into Brian Vickers, whose car smashed into the outer wall at the start of the backstretch. Fortunately, Vickers entirely missed a wave of cars bearing down on his sliding vehicle. Busch was at the center of things again on the second crash of the day. He appeared to clip Brad
Keselowski from behind when the lead car slowed, sparking a five-car melee that also took out Daytona 500 winner Trevor Bayne, David Ragan, Marcus Ambrose and Kasey Kahne. “Just one of those deals here at Talladega,” Keselowski said. “I just got on the wrong end of it.” Kahne tried to nurse his smoking car back to pit road, but finally had to bring it to a stop and hustle out. “The car just got some flames in the back because of the oil, I guess,” he said. “I sucked up a little bit of
Bayne said. Another Busch, Kurt’s little brother Kyle, was taken out in a third wreck that was a virtual copy of the first two. Joey Logano bumped the No. 18 car, sending it spinning hard into Matt Kenseth and taking out two other cars, as well. “So much is out of your hands here,” Kenseth said. “It’s a frustrating type of racing, to say the least. It would be nice to be able to see and control your own destiny a little more.”
championship in 2008, are aiming to return to the finals after losing in seven games last year to the Los Angeles Lakers.
Rhodes Gives Up Decisive Hit, Rangers Lose to NYY
By MIKE FITZPATRICK ASSOCIATED PRESS
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NEW YORK – Rangers manager Ron Washington was comfortable with the matchup. It just didn't work out in his favor. Eric Chavez, filling in for an ailing Alex Rodriguez, singled home the tiebreaking run off lefthander Arthur Rhodes in the eighth inning and the New York Yankees hit three homers off previously untouchable Alexi Ogando to beat Texas 6-5 on Sunday night. "We played these guys pretty tough. We've got nothing to hang our heads about," Washington said. "We keep playing like that, we're going to win a lot of ballgames." Robinson Cano, Russell Martin and Curtis Granderson all went deep to help the Yankees take two of three in an early rematch of last year's AL championship series, which Texas won in six games to capture its first pennant. Adrian Beltre homered, doubled and drove in four runs for the Rangers, who have dropped four of five since opening the season 9-1. Missing injured AL
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owed the mundane ridingaround that came before it. Rather than run together in huge drafting packs, which used to be the norm at the restrictorplate tracks, the drivers figured out they can run even faster in pairs. So, everyone cut deals before the race, usually with teammates, and swapped radio frequencies so they could make changes on the fly if needed once the green flag dropped. One guy in the pairing would run out front for a while, then they’d switch
the Yankees flashed plenty of power at the plate in a back-and-forth game that went on uninterrupted through a pair of showers. In the fourth, bright lightning streaked across the sky and booming thunder clapped as fans scurried for cover from the rain
Johnson Edges Bowyer by a Whisker to Win Talladega black smoke, but that was it. I stink, too.” The 20-year-old Bayne had another disappointing finish since his improbable Daytona win in just his second Cup start. The youngster hasn’t finished higher than 17th since then. He certainly had a car that was strong enough to contend at Talladega, qualifying a career-best 11th and running up front three times for five laps. “I thought we were kind of out of harm’s way there but, obviously, we weren’t far enough back out of it,”
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Crispy Gamer
By Robert Errera
Review: “PixelJunk Shooter 2: The Belly of the Beast”
As sequels go, “PixelJunk Shooter 2” excels, bringing the familiar environment from the first game together with new enemies and elements that tweak the experience for the better, all the while continuing the story of the modern 2-D space shooter. Aptly subtitled “The Belly of the Beast,” “PixelJunk Shooter 2” starts your rescue ship off immediately after the end of the first game; the opening of the game’s three areas being (spoilers for the first “PixelJunk Shooter”) the inside of the giant alien worm that swallowed your ship at the end of the last game. But whereas the danger level of the molten planetary core of the original game was high, the sequel proves there are things worse than lava, and the poisonous gas and bile of an alien worm monster is indeed quite deadly. While the first game put you against environmental liquids like lava and oil, which can overheat your ship’s system to the point in which you’d crash and burn, poison screws up your controls and slows your movement, making
sure you can’t evade harm. The only way to combat the effect is to nose dive into a pool of water and wash the stuff off, though the H2O reserves are strategically placed to make that tricky. Like the first game, you’re on a rescue mission. Scientists have been exploring an uncharted planet only to discover hostile alien life that attacked and stranded them. Players must fly their ship, using the left analog stick to move and the right stick to aim, and escape the planet while taking as many people with them as possible. The left triggers expel your grappling, used both to rescue survivors and snag environmental objects, and your right triggers fire. Holding the button down fires a slew of homing missiles, but quickly builds up the overheating meter. Proximity to lava will slowly build your meter, as well, while getting shot will sky rocket the meter. Once full, you’ll lose almost all control of the ship and slowly
fall toward the nearest hard surface. You’ll explode on impact unless you land in water, which has a cooling effect. Back are the suits from the first game, as well as a
your movement is confined to left, right, up, and down spaces instead of the full range of space. The frequency of which this suit comes up in Episode 4 can be frustrating
(“PixelJunk Shooter” contained Episodes 1-3, the sequel ranges from 4-6), but it helps vary the gameplay from the original title early on. The Light Suit is the most interesting of the bunch, though. While Episode 4 has you contend with heavy bedrock and poisonous bile and Episode 5 weathers the extreme elements, Episode 6 pulls you through darkness. This is new to the
series and is a fun surprise two-thirds of the game through. Your ship must navigate through poorly lit caverns, the catch being that if you stay in an unlit area for any amount of time at all, aliens swarm your ship, slow you down and overheat your engines to the point of death. The most effective way to combat this is the Light Suit, which is similar to the AntiMagnet Suit - but instead of becoming invincible to oil, you become invincible to the harm that darkness brings. While “PixelJunk Shooter 2” does a great job of adding new elements to a game that could easily be part of the last one - you might not even notice the separation if played back to back with no title screen - it maintains its old school sensibility. It contains its own brand of environmental puzzles to keep you thinking while blasting away at the ugly threatening to murder the researchers. You might have to cool lava by clearing a path to make water flow, pull a variety of
switches (all at once, sometimes) to release flammable gas that when ignited will burn through ice, or follow a well-planned maze -and all of these puzzles are clever to some degree. “PixelJunk Shooter 2: The Belly of the Beast” is a great sequel to a great game, and will even stand well without knowledge of part one. The variations on levels, enemies and new elements make for a new experience in familiar territory - but that’s a good thing. There’s no re-imagining and no change in art direction for this sequel (I’m looking at you, “Xenosaga: Episode II”), it’s just the kind of straight fun and frustrating challenge you’d find at an arcade machine when you have a sock full of quarters and the entirety of a skipped school day to focus. Pick this one up and tell your friends to do the same. They won’t regret it. For the latest information about videogames, visit http://www.crispygamer. com
couple of interesting additions. While you can still take control of the Inverse Suit (you shoot lava, heat keeps your engines stable, and water harms you) and the Anti-Magnet Suit (deflecting gushes of oil as well as some attacks) the Hunger Suit adds chomping teeth to your ship. While this helps you bite through cave walls you otherwise would not be able to penetrate, your weapons are disabled and
By JEAN H. LEE
serves as a liaison between North Korea and the U.S. and other governments. "Like so many other things, it harkens back to a pre-electronic past when things were much simpler." In fact, North Koreans so love magic that two diplomats dispatched to the United Nations had a special request in 1995 of their American hosts: They wanted to go to Las Vegas to see David Copperfield. Wowed by the worldfamous illusionist, the diplomats were determined to bring Copperfield to Pyongyang. But politics and finances trumped entertainment, and plans to bring the American magician to a nation still technically at war with the United States vanished in the haze of diplomatic tensions. Undeterred, North Korea has kept putting on shows of its own, and it unveiled a massive one Monday at the capital's May Day Stadium. It was designed by Kim Chol, dubbed the "David Copperfield of North Korea," and will include seven performances in all. The show stars Ri Thai Gum, a beefy showman with the extravagant flair — and physique — of a pro wrestler and the skills of Houdini. He whips off his white suit with silversequinned lapels to reveal a tank top and then straps on a gold-appliqued cummerbund onto his hefty waist.
The event was a highlight in a week of festivities surrounding Kim Il Sung's April 15 birthday. Many of the women turned out in festive traditional Korean dresses reserved for special occasions, sparkles sprinkled into their hair and wearing fur-lined vests to keep warm in the spring chill. Outside, pink and yellow lights illuminated a fountain as music played to crowds enjoying an evening out. An advertisement boasts that the show features "aircraft and a large bus appearing and then suddenly disappearing, elephants and other heavy animals appearing mysteriously, a motorcyclist performing fantastic skills, magicians floating in the air as if in a gravity-free space." And it does, adding in a healthy dose of slapstick comedy. The tricks are simple crowd pleasers: A Pyongyang city bus filled with waving passengers appears to levitate and then disappear; an acrobat seems to float through a magical skyscape of clouds. There's the classic magician's assistant dressed in traditional Korean dress who gets into a box and reappears halfway across the stadium. In another trick, a man goes into a box but after a wave of the Korean Houdini's hand, out comes a girl in a short, spangly miniskirt with a prancing baby bear on a leash bowing hello to the audience
The highlight involves a helicopter and a ring of fire that aim to have the clapping audience, mostly Koreans and a smattering of tourists and foreign dancers and musicians visiting the city for an arts festival, on edge. "I thought it was great. The quality of the tricks that they pulled off was really high," said Chris Andrews, a tourist from Sydney, Australia. "That bear trick I thought was one of
the coolest things I've ever seen." Current leader Kim Jong Il is said to have inherited his father's love of the circus and is thought to be the one to push to bring Copperfield to North Korea. Copperfield's stage manager once called North Korea's staging technology "among the most sophisticated in the world," according to Namkung. Namkung, who took the
North Korean diplomats to Vegas and later brought a Copperfield delegation to Pyongyang to discuss a visit, recalled that the time was ripe to bring a big American star to the North Korean capital. The U.S. and North Korea had just signed an agreement for Pyongyang to freeze its nuclear power plants and to replace them with light water reactors less prone to weapons
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North Korea Stages Biggest Magic Show Ever
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PYONGYANG, North Korea – Amid a burst of fireworks and a haze of smoke, a burly showman in a white sequined suit and gold lame cape appears with a flourish. Over the next 45 minutes, he appears to make a Pyongyang bus levitate and wriggles free from a box sent crashing to the stage through a ring of fire. This is magic North Korean-style performed in a show touted as the country's biggest ever and mounted in a city where good, old-fashioned illusion, a dancing bear and a dose of slapstick comedy can still command the biggest crowds of the year. The country's love for magic is a legacy of the circus traditions they inherited decades ago, during an era of Soviet influence. North Korean founder Kim Il Sung ordered the creation of the Pyongyang Circus in 1952 in the middle of the Korean War. The tradition of highly technical stagecraft — including the Arirang mass games, where 100,000 performers move in sync in a feat that has come to embody North Korean discipline and regimentation — still dazzles in a country where high-tech entertainment is scarce. "They love magic shows, together with the circus," said Tony Namkung, a scholar who often
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Dave’s Music Report
In this day and age, it is pretty rare that an epic chart battle is in the cards. However, this week it seems like the stars have aligned and the battle is on! This time, we see the battle of divas, with arguably the four biggest female forces in pop music on three different songs pinned against each other. This one is certainly going
The Diva Battle is ON!
to be a doozey. In one corner we have Katy Perry’s “E.T.,” which has already been number one for the past three weeks. The song is her fourth straight from her Teenage Dream album, a rare feat in music. In another corner, we have the tag-team of Rihanna and Britney Spears on the remix of “S&M,” which was
recently enhanced with a new verse and extra vocals from Ms. Spears. The song has seemingly stalled at number two, but with the release of the new mix, this was almost guaranteed to take over the summit. However, in corner number three, we have Lady Gaga’s new single “Judas,” which could easily be the champion. The
this affair that Geneva is having but instead takes ––––––––––––––––––––– the situation into his own hands. His character is There could be no bet- stubborn, but has good inter title for this movie, es- tentions about finding the pecially since it involves rational way to go about Vince Vaughn’s character Ronny, who is faced with the problem that he has to find a way to tell his best friend Kevin James’s character Nick that his wife is cheating on him with another man. After seeing his best friend’s wife, Winona Ryder (Geneva), with another man, the whole movie is focused around the themes of friendship and what lengths people go to helping out his friend. be honest with one anothThe movie progresses er. However, Ronny does with situation involving not tell anyone else about the two best friends carry-
ing out their professional lives, developing engines, and expanding their romances. It’s not until the very end of the when everything that things get very shaky because Ronny
By CORA ST. MARIE
The Dilemma
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single was set to be released this Tuesday, but was brought up a few days early after an Internet leak. This would give it two and a half days to not only sell enough downloads, but get enough airplay to debut at number one. While this would normally seem next to impossible, if anyone can do it, it’s Lady Gaga. She accomplished this
questions like these in particular. How does a person go about handling a tough situation that could make or break years of friendship? Do you keep something like this to yourself? Do you disguise the situation? Or do you flat out just tell your best friend what’s wrong and only hope for the best? These are the type of questions that the character Ronny is faced with, and audiences of this movie will appreciate how the story plays AN AP PHOTO out. The Dilemma is highly is forced to make a decirecommended if you are sion. I personally appreciate looking for a great comedy a movie that deals with to enjoy.
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proliferation as part of a plan to normalize relations between the longtime enemies. There were high hopes that Copperfield's show — to be broadcast live on state TV in North Korea — could pave the way for a new era in relations between the bitter wartime foes. And in a symbolic show of support for
reunification, Copperfield agreed to travel through the Demilitarized Zone dividing the two Koreas and perform for the South Koreans as well. "This was right after the 'agreed framework' signing at a time when it looked as if the two nations would go down an entirely new path, and the atmosphere in Pyongyang was giddy," said Namkung, who also
serves as a consultant to The Associated Press. Copperfield himself was game, promising to make the city's iconic Juche Tower disappear, just as he did the Great Wall of China and the Statue of Liberty. So seriously did the North Koreans take Copperfield's visit that they staged a private viewing of the circus for his produc-
tion team's visit to Pyongyang and promised to give the illusionist a vast suite once used by former President Jimmy Carter on his visit in 1994, Namkung recalled. But the State Department thought it was too early to back the venture, and the plan eventually foundered over how to finance the trip.
By Dave Iannacone
with her last single “Born This Way,” but with an extra day’s worth of time. All three songs have been number one on downloads this past week, and all three have been getting heavy radio play. It is pretty difficult to predict who will come out on top (especially without any figures,) but it’s pretty safe to say that any one of them could
pull this off. In fact, all of these songs can have their stay at number one over the next few weeks. This just goes to show that pop music is back and stronger than ever! This is certainly one for the books.
Top 12 Movies This Week from RottenTomatoes.com
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Rio Scream 4 Hop Soul Surfer Hanna Arthur Insidious Source Code The Conspirator Your Highness Limitless The Lincoln Lawyer
$40.0M $19.3M $11.2M $7.4M $7.3M $6.9M $6.9M $6.3M $3.9M $3.9M $3.8M $3.0M
In Theaters: Scream 4
The franchise is showing its age, but Scream 4 is undeniably an improvement over its predecessor, with just enough meta humor and clever kills.
Top Pop Singles 1. E.T., Katy Perry, featuring Kanye West, Capitol 2. S&M, Rihanna, Def Jam 3. Just Can’t Get Enough, The Black Eyed Peas, Interscope Records 4. F--k You (Forget You), Cee Lo Green, Elektra/ Asylum 5. Born This Way, Lady Gaga, Interscope Records 6. Look At Me Now, Chris Brown, featuring Lil Wayne & Busta Rhymes, Jive 7. Down on Me, Jeremih, featuring 50 Cent, Def Jam
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8. On the Floor, Jennifer Lopez, featuring Pitbull, Island, Def Jam 9. F--kin’ Perfect, Pink, La Face 10. Rollin’ in the Deep, Adele, Columbia (C) 2011 TRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES, INC.
Liana’s Literary Commentary We’ve all heard the story of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare: two starcrossed lovers destined for each other, yet forbidden from happiness due to family rivalries. The Montagues and the Capulets would never allow their children’s relationship to blossom; this, unfortunately, leads to the suicides of Romeo and Juliet at the finale of the play. The curtain closes, the audience sobs, and two fictional families fi-
Saving Juliet by Suzanne Selfors
nally settle their differences, but at the expense of their children’s lives. But what if the story ended differently? What if Romeo and Juliet isn’t the tragedy everyone expects it to be? At a modern-day center stage enters 17-year old Mimi Wallingford, the lead actress at her mother’s Manhattan Theater. They are putting on the production of the Shakespearian classic, Romeo and Juliet, but Mimi is anything but excited. Mimi loathes her role as
Juliet and is beginning to dislike performing. She feels pressured into acting by her mother in order to save the family theater, not to mention, her Romeo counterpart is being played by Troy Summers, an obnoxious, self-centered, heartthrob for whom Mimi secretly harbors a crush. However, as Mimi rushes out of the theater after her last performance as Juliet, she and Troy find themselves transported into an unusual adaptation
of 1594 Verona. It is not long before Mimi meets Juliet and all the other memorable characters in Shakespeare’s masterpiece. Juliet is free-spirited and dreams of falling in love, and although Mimi knows the true fate of her and Romeo, she is determined to give Juliet the “happy ending” she deserves. But interference with Shakespeare’s plot only creates more trouble for Mimi and Troy, endangering both of their lives in the pro-
By Liana Teixeira
cess. Saving Juliet is a unique adaptation of Shakespeare’s timeless tale of everlasting love. The characters are examined in a new light, exploring their thoughts and dreams, while also creating a personal connection with the reader. One will enjoy learning more about the original characters and their animated (and sometimes shocking) personalities. The author generously includes actual historical background and mixes
it with contemporary ideas and vocabulary, offering a serious tone while also incorporating a wide array of comic relief. Readers will enjoy the solid conclusion of the novel with few loose-ends to piece together. The book is a guaranteed delight for all readers, particularly those who appreciate the works of William Shakespeare.
UNH Earth Week 2011 Wednesday, April 20th: Event: Info Table Time: 11am-3pm Location: Bartels Hall Description: Visit the table to learn more about sustainable green career options, earning a degree in Sustainability or UNH sustainability strategies Event: “Au Naturale: A Four-Course Exploration of Whole and All-Natural Foods at Jeffery’s Fusion Time: During Lunch Service Location: Harugari Hall Reservation Only! Please call 203.479.4998 Event: Strikeout Cancer Day Hosts: Men’s Baseball and Women’s Softball Teams Time: (M) 3:30pm (W) 3pm Location: (M) Vieira Field (W) UNH Softball Field Description: Get outside and enjoy the planet! Support our teams and play ball!
Event: Sodexo Earth Week Celebration Time: During Dinner Hours Location: Bartels Hall Description: Chef's Fare featuring local and regional ingredients & tasting plates as chefs battle it out from local colleges and universities. Vote for your favorite chef during dinner hours!
Event: The Yale Project on Climate Change Presentation: Climate Change in the American Mind Presenter: Nicholas Smith, Yale Date: Wednesday, 4/20 Time: 5:15-6pm/6:00-6:30 Q&A Location: Moulton Lounge Description: This presentation will provide an outline of American public engagement with climate change and identify how Americans feel about climate change, what their beliefs and attitudes are, what knowledge they have about how the climate system works and how likely they are to support or oppose policies designed to mitigate against the threat Thursday, April 21st: Marine Biology Living Learning Community Hosts: Eat This, Not That! Info Table Hosts: Colin Bassett (RA), Residents and Dr. John Kelly (Advisor) Time: 10am-2pm Location: Bartels Information Table Description: Stop by the table and learn from the current residents of the Marine Biology LLC the importance of eating sustainable fish in an "Eat This, Not That!" format. Learn the importance of eating sustainably and protecting our environment
Event: Sodexo Earth Week Celebration: A Sustainable Guide to College Cooking Time: 3-4pm Location: Bartels Hall Glass Walled Dining Room Description: Chefs Nick and Mike will offer a cooking demo on how to incorporate CT produce and ingredients into your daily college life and residence hall room cooking
Event: Zumba in the Quad Time: 5:15pm Host: Beckerman Recreation Center Staff Description: Come out and enjoy the nice weather and burn off that stress! Pre-Education Living and Learning Community Hosts: Sun, Sun, Mr. Golden Sun, Please Shine Down On Me! Hosts: Justine Alvarez (RA) Dr. Amanda Bozak (Advisor) Date: Thursday, 4/21 Time: 9pm Location: Bixler 5th Floor Common Area Description: Join us to plant sunflowers and grow butterflies while we learn about global warming and the effects on plants and animals.
Friday, April 22nd: Event: Sustainable Bracelets, Bamboo and Green Heads Hosts: SCOPE Date: 4/22/11 Time: 6pm Location: Bartels Programming Space Description: Come out and celebrate Earth Week with a fun and interactive program where you can walk away with a free “Green Head” or bamboo!!!
Event: Sodexo Earth Week Celebration Time: Throughout the Day Location: Bartels Hall Description: Free CT grown apples at breakfast! Join us for a sustainable New England Clam Bake @ Chef’s Choice and also partake of the sustainable salad bar options during lunch hours. First 20 customers to the Clam Bake receive a FREE t-shirt! Also, Dinner & A Movie: Farm to Fork Series from 5-7:30pm featuring "The Inconvenient Truth" and a four-course meal for students served in the Faculty Dining Room featuring local and regionally grown & produced ingredients. Reservations strongly suggested due to limited seating Event: A Showing of “Food, Inc.” Time: 9:30pm Host: Late Night Programming Location: Bartels Dining Hall
All Workshops Are FREE. You may attend as many as you wish. Workshops are in Library 213. Please write to CLR@NewHaven.edu, or call (203) 932-7415, to reserve a spot.
Center for Learning Resources Workshops - April 2011 Sunday
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3:30 PM: "RealWorld Math Problems" (Odulo)
7:30 PM: “Strategies for Solving Word Problems” (Zvonarek)
7 PM: "Real-World Math Problems" (Odulo)
4 PM: “MLA Documentation and Format” (Malchodi)
7 PM: “Introduction to Vedic Mathematics” (Zoghb)
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1 PM: “What Is Plagiarism??” (Wu York) 5:30 PM: “What Is Analysis?” (Malewicki)
8 PM: “APA Format: Cracking the Code” (Martin)
8 PM: “Making Fractions Your Friends” (Celone)
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7 PM: “Factoring Trinomials” (Crilley)
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3 PM: “Strategies for Solving Word Problems” (Zvonarek)
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6 PM: “Structuring Your Research Paper” (Malewicki) 7:30 PM: “APA Format: Cracking the code” (Martin)
6:30 PM: “MLA Documentation and Format” (Malchodi)
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11 AM: “Introduction to Vedic Mathematics” (Zoghb)
8 PM: “Strategies for Solving Word Problems” (Zvonarek)
7:30 PM: “Making Fractions Your Friends” (Celone)
8 PM: “Introduction to Vedic Mathematics” (Zoghb)
1 PM: “Factoring Trinomials” (Crilley) 2:30 PM: “What Is Plagiarism? How Do I Avoid It?” (Wu York)
12 PM: “What Is Plagiarism? How Do I Avoid It?” (Wu York)
The CLR and Peer Tutoring are closed for the holiday weekend.
The CLR and Peer Tutoring are closed for the holiday weekend.