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Charger Bulletin The official student newspaper of the University of New Haven since 1938. Volume 94, Issue 12 | December 5, 2012
UNH The Entertainment Issue Awarded $600,000
National Science Foundation Grant for Engineering
CAMPUS Feng Shui for your dorm room? UNH students study the ancient Chinese practice during Health and Wellness Month. Patricia Oprea clues you in to some important tips!
By KAREN GRAVA
DIRECTOR OF MEDIA RELATIONS
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SPORTS
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UNH Women’s Basketball topped LeMoyne in Syracuse, New York last Saturday 80-72. Go Chargers! SEE PAGE 12
Chargers Win NCAA Division II East Region Championship A CHARGER ATHLETICS PRESS RELEASE
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ENTERTAINMENT The Nathan Ward band is literally taking the campus by storm! Check out a review of their latest album, Yesterday Meets Today. SEE PAGE 7
Is Mickey Mouse going to ruin the Star Wars franchise? Don’t worry. Cameron Hines puts your mind at ease.
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OPINION Is campus security effective in keeping unwanted persons out of residence halls?
WEST HAVEN, Conn. – The University of New Haven women’s volleyball team advanced to the 2012 NCAA Division II Elite Eight Championship with a 3-2 win over Bridgeport on Saturday evening in the NCAA East Region Championship Match. The Chargers advance to the Elite Eight for the 12th time in program history. New Haven won the match by set scores of 25-16, 20-25, 25-13, 20-25 and 18-16. New Haven, which returns to the Elite Eight for the first time since 2008, improves the nation’s best record to 30-1 with its 27th consecutive victory. The Northeast-10 Conference Champion and top-seeded Chargers reach the 30-win plateau for the 20th time in the program’s 37-year history. Second-seeded Bridgeport – the East Coast Conference Champions – ends its season at 27-5. Kristy Atufunwa (Denver, Colo./Denver East) and Keidy Candelaria (Vega Baja, Puerto Rico/Bayamon Military Acade-
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match – including three of Candelaria’s four service aces – en route to a wire-to-wire, 25-16 set-one win. The Purple Knights responded it set two, breaking a 20-20 deadlock by winning the final five points to take a 25-20 decision and knot the match at 1-1. In the third set, the Chargers once again never trailed. New Haven fought off four early ties but, following a 9-9 stalemate, finished the frame on a 16-4 run to earn a 25-13 win and pull within one set of the East Region Championship. Set four was much like the previous frame, though this time it was Bridgeport that claimed the advantage out of an early tie. The Purple Knights put together seven consecutive points in the middle of the frame and never looked back en route to a 25-20 win that pushed the match to a deciding fifth set. For the second straight match, the Chargers found themselves trailing 5-1 in set five and cut the deficit to 8-6 at the turn. New Haven continued the rally to take a 12-11 lead before the Purple Knights won three consecutive points to earn the first match point.
obligation and financial issues. The audience is presented a storyline; after the scene ends, audience members must choose which character whose personality they would like to change the most. After the character is “changed,” the scenario is replayed with the applied changes to see how the situation can be mediated. Before the scene took place, however, the DramaWorks members had the audience stand and do warm up exercises to get everyone more comfortable with each other. The first exercise was called “tune in;” during this exercise, students and faculty had to breathe in deeply. Upon exhaling, they had to release noises relating to how they felt that day. Several individuals expressed sighs of relaxation while others grumbled with frustration. This was a way for participants to set aside their emotions and really become observant of what was going on around them. On the second breath, audience members were
told to try matching their vocals everyone else. By the third and final breath, most voices were in unison and melodically complimented one another. The second exercise was associometric; this required participants to take a stand on a particular issue. The topic involved whether the audience believed big changes would take place in the next few years, and if those changes would drastically alter people’s way of life within the country. Two DramaWorks members stood on either side of the Alumni Lounge, one of them representing “no change” and the other “complete change.” Participants were then asked to stand somewhere on the invisible line separating the two opinions; this reflected their position on the level of change they expected in the near future. Many audience members shifted toward the middle of the line, agreeing that some change would occur but not on such a drastic scale.
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“How Resilient Are You?”
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Hey, you! Did you realize that we have the greatest staff ever? Listen to me gush over them.
my) shared the match high with 15 kills apiece. Amber Cannady (Yonkers, N.Y./Charles E. Gorton) added 14 finishers, and Kristen Lee (Colorado Springs, Colo./Liberty) posted 10. Ashley Dalton (Helena, Mont./ Capital / Northern Arizona) contributed four kills, and KeaMarie Olaso (Kailua, Hawai’i/ Le Jardin Academy) notched one. Kaulana Ane (Paia, Hawaii/Kamehameha) distributed 49 assists with five kills of her own for New Haven, which collectively hit .171 (64-30-199). Defensively, Olaso registered 28 kills, and Bai Zhang (China/ Shan Dong Zi Bo No. 10 / China Shan Dong Normal University) had 13 from the back row. Ane, Lee and Candelaria all completed double-doubles with 12, 11 and 10 digs, respectively. At the net, Atufunwa had a hand in five of the Chargers’ eight blocks, helping to limit the Purple Knights to a .144 hitting percentage (55-29-180). Ying Shen (12 kills, 20 digs), Biljana Savic (14 kills, 11 digs) and Fernanda Silva (46 assists, 12 digs) all recorded doubledoubles for Bridgeport. Taylor McBeth led all players with 33 digs. New Haven started off strong with the first five points of the
By LIANA TEIXEIRA ASSISTANT EDITOR
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As part of the University of New Haven’s 30 Days of Wellness program, the Center for Family Business put on the event titled “How Resilient Are You?” on Tuesday, Nov. 27. Chairs were arranged in a circle around the Alumni Lounge, with four additional chairs at the center of the set up. A videographer documented the presentation. Paul Sessions, the director of the Center for Family Business came forward to introduce DramaWorks Interactive, a company whose members go into organizations and communities to “make the invisible visible.” “We wanted to give something back to the university,” Sessions said. DramaWorks Interactive consists of improvisational actors and actresses who act out a variety of scenes on topics most people do not normally think about, including family
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UNH has been awarded a $600,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to boost engineering student retention rates. The five-year grant permits the University’s Tagliatela College of Engineering to participate in A Scholarship Program to Increase Retention in Engineering (ASPIRE), an NSF initiative to increase the retention rate of engineering students, especially those from underrepresented groups and with financial needs. The program will permit the University to provide scholarships to sophomore- and junior-level students who have both financial need and have demonstrated merit. UNH will also award scholarships to community-college transfer students, and provide support services including engineering tutors and mentors to guide the students. “One of the benefits of awarding scholarships to these students is that they will gain confidence and more time to participate in the extracurricular programs, including service, internships and other activities that the college has to offer, reducing the need to work to support their studies,” said Ronald Harichandran, dean of the Tagliatela College. “Our data shows that 85 percent of UNH students need financial aid. However, the university cannot fully meet all of their needs. The average gap between financial aid and what is still needed for engineering students enrolled in 2010-11 was $7,400, which makes it very difficult for students with families – particularly women – to complete their degrees on time.” Many students in the UNH engineering program must work at least part time, the dean noted, and each year more than 20 percent reduce their course load to part time so they can work more hours. Benefits of the program will include allowing some of those students to remain as full time, improving academic performance, allowing students to graduate in a shorter amount of time, and helping students focus more on academics during their sophomore and junior years. “The scholarship program also will encourage students to complete the engineering internship requirement of the college during the summer while they are not taking a full course load,” said Jean NocitoGobel, professor of civil and environmental engineering at UNH and principal investigator on the grant.