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Volume 95, Issue 26 | May 7, 2014 | West Haven, CT

KREWELLA HEADLINES AT THE 2014 SPRING WEEKEND CONCERT AT NORTH CAMPUS (JADAMS PHOTOGRAPHY).

Spring Concert explodes with Krewella

By ASHLEY WINWARD

MUSIC EDITOR AWINW1@UNH.NEWHAVEN.EDU

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his past Saturday, 1,100 Spring Concert attendees were treated to a power-packed concert put on by SCOPE. The Verge Campus Tour has been rolling through over 20 colleges in the past month bringing vendors as well as music.

Verge Campus prides themselves on being “an all-inclusive national

music tour that…is a convergence of different styles, different genres and different worlds in a new, exciting and engaging way.”

Along with the concert that night, a small vendor village was constructed in addition to the spring carnival that included Spotify, Karmaloop, EMUZE, Young & Reckless clothing and more.

Throughout the concert, host Gibran was keeping the crowd excited and giving away lots of free merchandise, including shoes, meet and greets with the artists and

shirts.

Opening the concert was Radical Something, a three piece reggae/ hip hop group from California.

You might have seen Alex “Loggy” Lagemann, “Josh Cocktail” Hallbauer and Michael “Big Red” Constanzo around the carnival at various points of the day. They were very interactive with fans, taking pictures, getting on rides and holding an acoustic set in the vendor village. Their set spanned all three of their albums, We Are Nothing, Summer of Rad and Ride

it Out. The first two can be downloaded for free off of their website, weareradical.com. Closing out their set with two fan favorites, “Be Easy” and “Long Hair Don’t Care” the crowd was dancing along to the very last note.

Next up was Logic, a rapper from Maryland, who has amassed a large following on line over the course of four mixtapes. He’s known by his fans as, “Young Sinatra,” and because of that, has started calling him and his friends the RATT Pack (RATT standing

for “Real All The Time”). His set blended his own personal discography with some covers of hip hop favorites. He brought along some of his entourage on stage and all were very much engaged with the fans, jumping on and off stage much to the dismay of the event security.

Finally the curtains were lifted to reveal Krewella’s “Volcano” stage; a 30-by-18 foot structure made of reflection-mapped crystals as well as LED video screens to produce See SPRING page 2

Gender Neutral Bathr ms

By SAMANTHA MATHEWSON

ASSISTANT EDITOR SMATH3@UNH.NEWHAVEN.EDU

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ender neutrality is a national issue that campuses face when planning accommodations to welcome all prospective students.

At the University of New Haven, “we need to think about being a university welcoming to all students,” said Rebecca Johnson, Associate Vice President of Student Affairs and Dean of Students. “It

is a national issue and we need to respond to it.”

Amber Crow, president of UNH PRIDE, said that establishing gender neutral bathrooms on campus was a combined initiative that started with PRIDE and was pushed through by the Office of Residential Life and the Dean of Students’ Office. Crow explained that during a meeting of the advocacy committee of PRIDE, Mel Vitullo, member of PRIDE, brought up the fact that, in his opinion, UNH wasn’t totally gender neutral and did not cater to students who

don’t identify with the “normal” genders (male and female).

“So when we decided to get the ball rolling on increasing gender neutrality on our campus, we approached our club’s adviser, Dean Baker, about it. He kind of took over from there and really pushed the initiative with Residential Life and Facilities and the many other wonderful offices who were a part of making this happen,” said Crow.

Johnson explained she brought the issue to the facilities committee so that the campus could become a more welcoming environment

for the community and provide options for students that are accessible and safe.

The Facilities Department then conducted a survey of the bathrooms on campus in order to locate

single, one-person bathrooms that can be utilized as gender neutral bathrooms. After evaluating the campus, a list of available unisex bathrooms at UNH was

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created and can be found on the Intercultural Relations website: http://www. newhaven.edu/student-life/ CampusLife_StudentAffairs/ intercultural_relations/safezone.

Some locations of these bathrooms are on the first floor of Kaplan, the first and second floor of Maxcy and on the thrid floor of the Marvin K. Peterson Library.

On May 1, Johnson sent out an email to the university community notifying them of the update, stating, “in an effort to better meet the needs of the University community, attached is a list of restroom facilities on campus that are gender neutral. This means that the facilities may be used by any member of the University community, regardless of gender identity/expression.”

To go along with the gender neutral bathroom initiative, Wanda Tyler, Director of the Office of Intercultural Relations, explained some of the content featured in the Safe Zone training that UNH, along with many other universities nationwide, provides to the campus community.

The mission statement of the UNH Safe Zone Program is to create a safe environment for anyone who is questioning their sexual orientation or wishes to celebrate differences in sexuality, sexual identity, and/or gender identity.

One aspect of the program deals with LGBT (standing for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) issues and how faculty, staff and students can be allies for this community. The training allows participants opportunities for expanding their minds so they can be understanding of the experiences of others.

“For someone who identifies as transgender, decisions about their housing situation and which restroom to use can be challenging to make,” said Tyler.

Transgendered individuals feel, see and associate

themselves as being one sex, while they may have been born a different one.

“When they look in the mirror they may physically be a woman, but have a personal, internal sense that they are male and see something like facial hair,” explained Tyler. “Those of us who are not part of the trans community need to be understanding of what it might be like to be in their shoes and understand the transition some may be undergoing.”

Tyler also explained a word that she was taught that has, in her opinion, cleared things up. “Cisgender is used to describe or label those that are not transgender,” said Tyler who went on to also clarify that “LGB” identifies sexual orientation, while the “T” identifies gender identity where the physical appearance may not match what one feels psychologically.

Mario Pierce, assistant director for housing and operations at the UNH, explained that the exact signage of the bathrooms has not been decided yet, but they are currently distinguished as “unisex” with a male/female figure on the sign. However, the decision has been made to include gender neutral bathrooms in not only the newest residence hall currently being built, but in all buildings from now on.

“We will have to take a look at what is governed by code [regarding sinage for the bathrooms],” said Pierce, “but yes, code now requires unisex (or gender neutral) bathrooms in facilities.”

According to Johnson, as the campus expands and facilities are renovated, the list of gender neutral restrooms on campus will be updated.

Since gender neutrality is a wide spread issue, Johnson also mentioned some other universities that are taking actions to address this issue. The examples she provided included New Mexico State University and Brown University, who have

implemented either, or both, gender neutral bathrooms and housing.

Wesleyan University in Connecticut had a Genderless Restroom movement of their own, where bathroom signs that normally read “Men” or “Women” had been torn down and replaced with a paper sign that read “All Gender Restroom.”

This sign included pictures for everyone. Wesleyan University also has had gender neutral housing for several years.

Caitlin Pereira, Area Coordinator First-Year Areas, agreed with both Johnson and Tyler that gender neutral bathrooms give all students a safe bathroom facility on campus and that, “it is especially important for students who identify as a gender that differs from their biology.”

For UNH, the next step will be gender neutral housing. “I am very optimistic that we will end up with some sort of gender neutral housing in the future,” said Pereira who has done a lot of research on the topic.

“We are at a point nationally where trans issues come up, and having gender neutral housing would provide an inclusive environment.”

PRIDE strives to work with the ORL to implement gender neutral housing for students who require it.

Pereira continued to explain that gender neutral housing would be an option for those students that wish to participate in it because “the comfort level goes both ways.”

“While I personally am not directly affected by gender neutral bathrooms on campus, I am excited for my friends and club members who are. We in PRIDE are very excited about this transition and hope that because of it, our campus will expand on gender neutrality,” said Crow. “My hope is that the introduction of gender neutral bathrooms on our campus will provide a safe environment for UNH students.”

First female wins Last Man Standing

By ALYSSA MACKINNON

CONSTRIBUTING WRITER AMACK2@UNH.NEWHAVEN.EDU

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onday, April 21, a contest was held to find the University of New Haven’s The Last Man Standing.

First prize was $1000, second $500, and third was $250, and over the course of a week 20 people competed to win these prizes.

The first event was bull riding, where the longest time that someone was able to stay riding was 48 seconds, and the bottom two competitors were taken from

various light patterns and display video to work in conjunction with the songs.

When sisters Jahan and Yasmine Yousaf, better known as Krewella, appeared at the top of the volcano, the Charger Gymnasium nearly shook with excitement. Mix-

ing hits off of their album, Get Wet, with dance mixes of fan favorites; We Will Rock You and Jump Around just to name a few, the music never stopped for a second.

One very special moment of the show was when they brought the crowd down for an acoustic performance

of,“Human” as well as dedicating it to a group of friends and family who were brought inside the barricade for the song. Hearing reviews from the crowd, many described the Verge Campus Tour as being the best Spring Weekend concert in years.

and available elements. The last three competitors were eliminated.

The final challenge is traditional; each of the seven remaining contestants precariously stood on a cement block for hours completing varying tasks while remaining standing. Tasks included spinning in circles, lifting a leg with your eyes closed, and standing on one leg.

After nearly three hours of standing, Alyssa MacKinnon was the first female to win the competition in its five years running with Kyle Kostka taking second place and Vince Yau taking third.

One Day Without Shoes raises awareness for impoverished children

By ELISSA SANCI

OPINION EDITOR ESANC2@UNH.NEWHAVEN.EDU

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the game.

The next event was a timed campus knowledge test made harder by planted accomplices in the audience shouting, singing, and pen clicking to distract test takers. The bottom two people were again eliminated.

The third event was an obstacle course involving racing around cones, hoolahooping 15 times, and then racing through an inflatable maze. The fourth day consisted of a challenge in which a shirt was tied in a knot and frozen into a block.

Challengers then had to break the shirt out of the ice using only their body heat

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STUDENT SIGNING TRACED FOOT (PHOTO PROVIDED BY KATELYN CLARK).

n conjunction with TOMS, University of New Haven’s Habitat hosted their annual One Day Without Shoes event April 29 in the Alumni Lounge. UNH Habitat is a student organization focused on providing volunteer opportunities to university students and improving the community.

TOMS Shoes, a for-profit company that designs and sells shoes based on an Argentinian design, started One Day Without Shoes seven years ago. When TOMS sells a pair of shoes, another is given to an impoverished child.

“One Day Without Shoes is the annual day when we take off our shoes to raise global awareness for chil-

dren’s health and education,” states the TOMS website.

Originally, One Day Without Shoes was to take place on the Bartels Patio in the Academic Quad from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. However, due to the weather, the event was relocated in the Alumni Lounge in Bartels.

“I think it’s a really great way to raise awareness, and it’s such an important event on campus, so I’m glad they were able to have it despite the weather,” said sophomore Kaitlin Mahar.

Free t-shirts were given to the first 100 people, and there were multiple chances to win gift cards, including one for TOMS products.

“The event was a good way to celebrate One Day Without Shoes. We didn’t

have the turn out we usually do because the event was moved to the Alumni Lounge, but the participants we did have had a great time,” said Katelyn Clark, UNH Habitat’s Sargent-atArms. She explained the event usually takes place on the BSAC Patio, which garners much foot traffic, but the Alumni Lounge is more tucked away.

“UNH Habitat and the co-sponsors of the event had a great time and we look forward to holding the event again next year,” Clark added.

The event was co-sponsored by SCOPE, EMS Club, PCMA, WNHU and the Photography Club.

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Up in the Woods to Newly renamed Bucknall Theater premiere May 8th

holds first musical, Spring Awakening

By ASHLEY WINWARD

MUSIC EDITOR AWINW1@UNH.NEWHAVEN.EDU

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lumnus William L. Bucknall Jr. was in attendance at a sold out opening night in the theater newly renamed in his honor just a few weeks ago.

In the first major performance since this renaming, the University of New Haven’s Theater Department put on five performances of the rock musical, Spring Awakening. While known for being a controversial musical with a 17+ age recommendation on its publicity, the seats were packed to see some of UNH’s best and brightest perform.

Spring Awakening is based on a play of the same name

by Frank Wedekind, which was banned in Germany for a long time due to its content and portrayal of topics such as abortion, homosexuality, rape, child abuse and suicide. The show tells the tale of a group of adolescents growing up in Germany trying to deal with the trials and tribulations of puberty amongst other feelings new to them. Best friends Melchior Gabor, played by Junior Keith Watford, and Moritz Steifel, played by Junior Zackary Grabko, are the focus of the story, dealing with sexual frustration, intimacy, and love. Steifel is plagued by erotic dreams at night and in trying to help, Gabor writes an essay about his sexual knowledge that makes Steifel even more shaken.

Meanwhile, Wendla, played by both Kiera Terrell

SCENE FROM UP IN THE WOOD (JADAMS PHOTOGRAPHY)

By SCOTT IWANIEC

FILM EDITOR SIWAN1@UNH.NEWHAVEN.EDU

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FINAL SCENE FROM SPRING AWAKENING OF CAST SINGING “THE SONG OF PURPLE SUMMER” (PHOTO PROVIDED BY HEATHER KONISH)

and understudy Amanda Schumacher, is dealing with her own exploration of sexuality, trying to learn where babies come from and battling her inner struggle between love and the ways of the church; a common thread for many characters in the musical.

Through ensemble numbers like “My Junk” and “Touch Me,” each actor and actress truly shined as well as worked together as a cohesive unit. The story has a not so happy ending with the group plagued by death and suicide leaving young Gabor to rethink his views on life entirely.

Being such a heavycontent driven show, it was a difficult performance for actors and audiences alike.

Members of the university’s victimology and counseling staffs were available at each show and informational pamphlets on some of the production’s topics such as rape and abuse were available in the lobby. Also after each performance there was a “talk back,” where the actors came out and answered questions from the audience about putting on the show as well as the various topics in the show.

Five members of the cast and crew have already been

awarded for their participation in the show. Watford and Grabko were nominated for the Irene Ryan acting award at the Kenedy Center College Theatre Festival with additional nominations in musical theatre for Damianis Eusebio (Ilse), Set design for Heather Konish and Alec Smith for Stage Management. The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival is a national program started in 1969 and involving over 600 academic institutions throughout the country.

Up in the Woods, a film written, directed and produced by the fall 2013 Film Production II class, will premiere Thursday, May 8 at 6:30 p.m. in Bucknall Theater.

For the past two semesters, communication students, under the supervision of communication professor Paul Falcone, worked to complete the film. Up in the Woods is an original idea thought up by senior Matt Scripter, who directed, co-wrote and coedited the film.

As part of the course, each student is to come up with an original idea for a film and pitch their idea to the class. Scripter’s idea was picked, and next, he and senior Chelsea Rowan, the first assistant director, wrote the script.

“Once the idea is picked, it moves into pre-production,” said Scripter. “This is when we do the casting and rehearsals, location scouting, and overall preparation for the production weekend. Then we filmed over the course of three 15-hour days. After the filming phase, it moves onto editing

and other post-production things, like composing the music and promoting the premiere.”

The film stars three nonUniversity of New Haven students, one of which only six years old. Filming took three full days of shooting on location, at a cabin in Kent, Conn. Two days of additional shooting were done on Falcone’s property.

“It was a very professional environment,” said senior Joe Adams. “We sent out a casting call, went down to New York and held auditions. We even had a catering tent with breakfast and everything,” he added.

What is significant about this film is that each student in the class worked on the film in some way. “In some way, everyone did something,” Adams said. Adams was one of two camera men.

Making sure to keep quiet on set and to stay on time were some the difficulties Adams said the students encountered why on location shooting the film.

He described the film almost as a psychological thriller with a powerful plot twist. Up in the Woods will be entered in film festivals around the country after its premiere.

UNH dedicates Soundview Hall to Joseph E. Celentano

UNVEILING THE CELENTANO HALL’S SIGN (STAN GODLEWSKI PHOTO)

By SAMANTHA MATHEWSON

ASSISTANT EDITOR SMATH3@UNH.NEWHAVEN.EDU

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The University of New Haven officially dedicated

Celentano Hall to generous donor Joseph E. “Chick” Celentano Sr. for his contributions to the university.

Chick donated land across the street from Bergami Hall and annual scholarships

for West Haven students pursuing a degree in higher education will be given in his name.

Celentano Hall, Chick Hall for short, was formerly known as Soundview Hall.

It is the largest residence hall on campus and features spectacular views of the Long Island Sound. It was also the first “green” residence hall at UNH and has received LEED gold certification status.

Chick is a West Haven native and is a successful businessman. He owns the popular Chick’s drive-in restaurant on Beach Sreet in West Haven, which was founded by his father. Dr. Henry C. Lee recapped his first moments in the U.S. and how Chick’s former hot dog stand was the first place he ate.

Chick also used his restaurant to help UNH students; he would hire them for summer jobs so that they could work and earn money for the following semester. His motto was “give me a day’s work, I’ll give you a day’s pay and we will work as a team.”

Phillip H. Bartels described Chick as a “tireless advocate for his hometown.”

In 1969, Chick received the Outstanding Citizen of West Haven award.

Aside from his deep roots in his family business and his emphasis on giving back, Chick is also a veteran of the

United States Navy and Air Force.

At UNH there are over 200 Veterans. In recognition and admiration for his service,

Justin Farrar, a sophomore at UNH and Air Force Veteran, said, “generous donors teach students the importance of giving back.”

STUDENT HOLDING SIGN AT DEDICATION CEREMONY (SAMANTHA MATHEWSON/CHARGER BULLETIN PHOTO)

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A bittersweet end to my college career

By LIANA TEIXEIRA

OUTGOING EDITOR-IN-CHIEF LTEIX1@UNH.NEWHAVEN.EDU

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hen I entered the Rec Center four years ago for the annual club fair, I had no idea where my life at the University of New Haven would lead.

I walked around each RSO’s table for what seemed like hours, signing my name on countless interest sheets, and hoping to find an organization that piqued my interest. I approached the Charger Bulletin table with hesitancy; I had never written for a school newspaper before, and I had no idea how. Still, when the then Editor-in-Chief Matt DiGiovanni threw a free Charger Bulletin Frisbee my way and encouraged me to sign up, I knew the newspaper was something I’d want to pursue.

After writing my first

article, I felt a sense of fulfillment. I wanted to be a journalist, and I knew The Charger Bulletin was where I belonged. Being elected as Assistant Editor my junior year was a complete whirlwind. Not only did I grow as a writer, but my experiences with the newspaper made me feel closer to the campus community as a whole. The friendships I gained that year through The Charger Bulletin with our neighbors (Chariot Yearbook and SCOPE) and USGA are priceless. The 2012-2013 Editor-in-Chief Elizabeth Field became one of my best friends at UNH, and I have the newspaper to thank for that.

This year, I assumed the role of Editor-in-Chief, and I can’t believe how quickly this year has flown by. It seems like yesterday I arrived at the Student Activities Office ready to start the first September issue. Now, I graduate in less than two weeks and I cannot say enough how much I will miss this place, my job and the people I have gotten to know. Samantha Mathewson, the current Assistant Editor, has not only helped me keep my sanity on those long Monday nights editing in the office, but she’s also proved to be one of the

most dedicated and talented people I’ve ever worked with. I am confident she will do an excellent job as the incoming Editor-in-Chief.

Taking her place as Assistant Editor will be Elissa Sanci. I met Elissa two years ago during her freshman year. The first thing Elissa wrote for The Charger Bulletin was an article on marijuana use on campus. I remember this article so vividly because it was incredibly well-written, especially for a first-time writer. I immediately saw great potential in Elissa, and know she is the right person for the Assistant Editor job next year.

Fifty-two issues later, writing my last editorial feels rather bittersweet. I cannot express how important it is to share your opinions, whether it is through an editorial or an article. I hope the newspaper has provided you all with a well-rounded forum to openly express your thoughts. I’ll miss every opportunity The Charger Bulletin has offered me, and I’m eager to see what life has in store.

Farewell readers, and good luck to all graduating seniors. For those returning next year, don’t forget to pick up the first issue of The Charger Bulletin!

End of the Year

By ELISSA SANCI

INCOMING ASSISTANT EDITOR ESANC2@UNH.NEWHAVEN.EDU

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t’s the end of the year already? It’s hard to believe my sophomore year of college is coming to an end. Just yesterday it felt as though I was a freshman, writing my first article for The Charger Bulletin, and now, I’m getting ready to

assume the position of Assistant Editor.

I’m incredibly honored to be The Charger Bulletin’s Assistant Editor for the upcoming academic year.

It’s crazy to think that next year, one of the desks in the Office of Student Activities will be mine, and that I’ll be able to leave my mark on the University of New Haven in bigger ways than I ever thought I could.

This past year has been a great one for The Charger Bulletin; we traveled to San Diego to attend a conference that helped us improve our layout. Now, our paper looks better than it ever has before, thanks to Editor-inChief Liana Teixeira and Assistant Editor Samantha Mathewson.

Next year will be strange

not having Liana around.

When I first met Liana, I was a timid freshman interested in writing for the paper, but scared to speak up.

Liana saw potential in me from day one, and for that I’m thankful. Over the past few years, Liana and I have grown closer, and I’m going to miss her and everything she does for The Charger Bulletin and UNH. I’d also like to congratulate Sam, who will be the Editor-in-Chief next academic year. I look forward to long hours in the office with her, and I know she’ll do a fantastic job at taking over for Liana. I just hope that I’ll do her justice as I fill in her current position. I have faith in the both of us to do wonderful things for the newspaper.

Living life as a Gilmore

By SAMANTHA MATHEWSON

INCOMING EDITOR-IN-CHIEF SMATH3@UNH.NEWHAVEN.EDU

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or the better part of my teenage years, or at least once I was aware that such an amazing TV series existed, I followed Gilmore Girls. Not out of rebellion towards my father because he hated the morals of the show, but because I simply could not get enough of the humorous anecdotes of the mother daughter duo.

As religious as TV watching gets, every Thursday night I flipped to the CW channel, and while my dad didn’t necessarily agree with what the show stood for, he extended my bedtime for that one night a week. The series ended in 2007, and

been a goal of mine since I decided I wanted to pursue a career in journalism and became a staff writer for The Charger Bulletin as a freshman at UNH. Now, Gilmore Girls has been off the air for a while, with the occasional rerun on ABC Family or SOAP Network. When there is nothing else to watch on TV, I can always count on the Gilmore girls. I can choose any episode from any season to relive the best years of my childhood, similar to how I feel about my accomplishments at UNH. I could relive any day from any of my three years here so far. Not a day has gone by that I didn’t make the most of, and more importantly, all that I have done got me to the position of Editor-inChief, which I could not be more thankful for.

I look forward to working with Elissa Sanci as the newly-elected Assistant Editor for next year, and am sad to say goodbye to the current Editor-in-Chief, Liana Teixeira, who made my experience as Assistant Editor this past year extrodinary.

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The “Brand” New Hall

By KAYLA KATT

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yes, as you’re all probably wondering, I cried.

However, in tribute, I wrote my eighth grade final poem on the series end, “the eighth season is no more, as the series comes to an end…”

For my birthday that following year, my uncle who lived with us at the time and knew my love for the series, gave me the entire series on DVD. If I haven’t expressed clearly enough my love for the series already, one of my best friends from high school signed my yearbook saying, amongst other things, to “have fun in New Haven following in Rory Gilmore’s footsteps.” And, well, I have.

Rory did not attend the University of New Haven she went to Yale; however, what the two of us have in common is being elected Editor-in-Chief of our university newspapers for our senior years. Next year I will continue my involvement in The Charger Bulletin as Editor-in-Chief. I am not only looking forward to this opportunity because I idolize Rory, but it has always

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s of right now, I have to walk all the way across campus to eat at Bartels. It’s probably the most annoying walk to take other than the walk all sophomores have to take to North Campus to get their car. It’s especially daunting when you have to walk through the wind tunnel between Soundview and Bixler.

The other thing about Bartels is that everyone and their mother goes there for dinner, and it’s so crowded, which makes it the biggest hassle ever. The set up is also terrible, especially for larger crowds; the lines can get confusing and ridiculous, and I’m sure that’s not only frustrating for students, but for faculty too.

However, next year, the new building is on the other side of campus, which makes the walk much shorter. From the rumors I hear, the eating hall is going to be “bangin’.” It’s going to be all technological and modern. Also, it will be much closer to the dorms making it less of an annoyance to get dinner.

The fact that it’s another eating hall and not just an eating location like Sandellas and the Grill, will cause

the crowd in Bartels to split, hopefully causing both facilities to run smoother and faster, making it more pleasurable for us students and faculty.

I’m also hoping that it will allow me to hopefully be able to save my dining dollars, being that I will have somewhere closer to my dorm to eat, and because of the (hopefully) smaller crowd, I will be more likely to go to the new building.

There, I’ll be able to use just a meal swipe instead of spending dining dollars somewhere else.

I’m hoping the “Brand” New Hall is all that is expected of it, considering it will benefit the campus in more ways than just housing more students.

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+Everything you need to know about the Undergraduate Student Government Association+

President’s Corner Dear Chargers, The semester will soon come to a close and my term will officially come to an end on July 1. I am profoundly grateful and humbled to be given the opportunity by you to serve as your President; it will be an experience that I will cherish for the rest of my life.

This year would not be possible without my dedicated Executive Board members; Andrew Collins, Colby Thammavongsa, Isaak Kifle, Megan Scutti and Sean McFadden. They have worked hard and devoted countless hours to serving the student body and our clubs and organizations. I also thank Dean Johnson, Greg Overend, Shelissa Newball, Andrew Mayer and Colleen Kerrigan who have always supported myself and USGA. At the end of the day it is important to remember that our time here at UNH is short and we should make the most of it. The most rewarding experience you can take from this campus is the friends you meet and the experiences you share together. When you finally leave UN, I hope you keep in mind to do good where you can, be kind and leave a positive impact on your community.

Warm regards, Zani Imetovski

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Treasurer’s Tip of the Week Thank you!

As the semester ends and final exams begin, I would like to take the opportunity to thank all of you and your organizations for a successful year. Countless great events were planned and successfully run this year, and I appreciated the opportunity to be a part of many of them. Good luck to Treasurer-Elect John Foti next year and congratulations to my fellow seniors on graduating!

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USGA in focus

This week’s USGA Meeting took place at 10 a.m. in the German Club, where the following occurred: + The USGA would like to thank Fully Charged for their performance at this week’s USGA meeting. + The Treasurer would like to remind everyone that check requests can submitted up until the last day of finals, and that items specifically for next year cannot be purchased until then. + The deadline for submitting points for your RSO is Wednesday at 11:59 p.m. + The USGA legislature also discussed and confirmed the Yearly Budget for the 2014- 2015 year. All budgets will be sent to club accounts over the summer.

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X Ambassadors Share The Reason Behind Their Music

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this past winter.

If you’ve never heard the band, their sound is unmis_____________________ takable. Their first EP, Love Songs, Drug Songs, has this darkness that digs at you with a chugging rhythm. It hen Sam Harris makes you feel like bouncwas growing up, he started ing to the beat. Their newest out like any music-obsessed EP, The Reason, has a bit kid, sneaking into college of a different vibe to it. It’s shows in his hometown of brighter but with an overIthaca. arching theme.

“You had to know some“The reason we wrote that body there to get into them, EP is that we have a lot of but yeah I remember seeing friends. We’re in our midsome of them. Usually we’d twenties right now and a lot get the big bands coming of friends we knew finished through Cornell…I saw college, went to pursue artisArcade Fire play in this tic careers and are realizing tiny cafeteria and there was how seriously difficult that like 200 people there. The is. A lot of them are finding Roots, I Saw Common, Talib that their dreams that they Kweli, De la Soul at [Ithaca dreamed of becoming are College], yeah I saw a lot of not working out, and they’re great shows and it definitely not going to work out, so had an impact on me ‘cause they’re changing paths that was the one time I really to figure out what’s next. got to see these bands that I That’s a very scary thing, idolized come through my but a very real thing that a town. To see them up close lot of people have to deal and personal, that was cool with, you know?” said Harbecause it feels very isolated ris. “When life gets in the from the rest of the world, way and changes course, it’s so when the rest of the world crazy, it’s scary, but it can kind of came to Ithaca it felt also be exciting! It can be very special.” invigorating and vitalizing, Since then, it’s been a wild and it can teach and show journey for Harris and the you things about yourself rest of X Ambassadors. Put- you didn’t know beforehand ting out two EPs in a little and allow you to do things over a year, you may have you’d never think possible. seen these guys touring with So that’s a real thing a lot the likes of Imagine Dragof people we knew were ons, Jimmy Eat World, The going through and for us.

Mowglis, and Panic! At the The reason I started writDisco on the Too Weird to ing about that was because Live, Too Rare to Die tour we’re in a position where MUSIC EDITOR AWINW1@UNH.NEWHAVEN.EDU

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the pressure is on. We’re at a big label, things are starting to build, there’s momentum and what if that momentum stops? This is all we know.

All we know is music. This is all we’ve done our entire lives. We’ve all been doing this for so long what if it all fell apart? What’s the plan?

So that’s what I wanted to explore and study,” Harris said.

The EP is about a man looking back at his life and tracing it back to where he is. He’s living a suburban life with a suit-and-tie job.

He had dreams of what he wanted to do when he was younger, and goes back in time to the beginning when he was a child. It starts on “Free and Lonely” and ends with “Unsteady.” “Shining” is a bonus track.

What I love most about this band is that no matter how big or small the venue, they bring this larger-thanlife sound, something that they learned from the music they grew up with. Harris explained, “We all came from backgrounds where we were all listening to the music that first hit us,” Harris explained. “They sounded big! U2 and Red Hot Chili Peppers and Coldplay: they all have a really big sound.

When you really get down to it though, it’s all about chord structure and simple elements. It’s really for us about experimentation and trial and error, whatever sounds best. We’ve found

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lately that you can make something sound really big with just one instrument, you just have to focus on the instrument and getting the right take. You have to get the right guitar line or piano sound or drum sound.

A single drum kit could sound so huge, look at John Bonham. You have to allow for and give moments of space too, so we approach it like that.”

Their use of saxophone also adds a unique element to their band that has been growing in music popularity lately. Harris admitted the extent of his playing.

“I played from when I was 10 or 12 [years old] to when I was a senior in high school, and then I didn’t play at all in college. It wasn’t until we graduated in 2010 that I picked it up again when we were going to lay down some horn parts

on the EP. I just whipped it out and started playing, and so I started up again. Now it’s become asignature part of our sound, which is really cool. I don’t think anyone out there is incorporating saxophone like we’re doing it right now….in a very basic and mediocre way, but it’s really cool! I’m not technically the greatest horn player out there, but looping technology allows me to build these cool chords to fill a hole in our sound, which is awesome,” he said.

With their headlining tour winding down, the boys are ready to get back into the studio. “After this tour we’re going to start preproduction on our full length [album].

We’ve been writing and recording a bunch. All of The Reason was written out on the road, so we’re constantly coming up with new stuff, we probably have an

albums worth of new stuff.

We’ve been developing, and we’ll keep developing over the next couple of months.

Hopefully in the fall we’ll be out doing another headlining run, but that’s kind of up in the air right now.” Harris said.

When asked to give the music industry and sound recording majors of the University of New Haven some advice, Harris stressed dedication to a career, not just a job. “I’d say the biggest thing about getting a career in this industry is to really treat it like a career.

You’re not really going to be making major money immediately. You’re going to be doing a lot of work for free...”

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Misterwives bring Taking Back Sunday their soulful vibes to takes on Providence Hamden

By DYLAN RUPPRECHT

STAFF WRITER DRUPP1@UNH.NEWHAVEN.EDU

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MUSIC EDITOR AWINW1@UNH.NEWHAVEN.EDU

_____________________ WNHU teamed up with local promotional group Manic Productions to put on an incredible show at the Space in Hamden featuring The Mowglis, Misterwives and Finnish Ticket. With a playful name and an even more fun demeanor, opening act Misterwives really stole the show.

“It’s a play on the Mormon term ‘Sisterwife,’ vocalist Mandy Lee explained. “I just reversed the genders, so I married all the guys and they are my misterwives.”

When asked to explain their music in just three words, the band agreed fittingly upon. “Organic, soulful, and colorful,” she said.

Just deeming them a “pop” band would be like taking the bottom out from their sound. Lee’s vocal performance is gorgeous

and is similar to Kristen Chenoweth had she taken the band route instead of Broadway. Even the stiffest of people wouldn’t be able to keep themselves from dancing because it’s just so infectious. They currently have an EP out called Reflections with very interesting cover art and a story behind it.

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aking Back Sunday surged Rhode Island crowd with a near 20-song set.

The quintuplet out of Long Island, NY, hit Providence, RI, at the Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel as part of their spring tour. The alternative rock group has been touring with The Used, Tonight Alive, and Sleepway (led by former Underoath frontman, Spencer Chamberlain) since midMarch following the release of their sixth studio album, Happiness Is. Taking Back Sunday entered the dark stage of the Lupo’s as multicolored lights randomly struck the audience. They opened with the new, stringy preface from their newest album, Happiness Is. It gave such a pristine ambient pulse on which the crowd gorged.

This was right before the preface lead to track three on the new record, “Stood

A Chance.” From this point on, nothing could be done to stop the constant swaying and moshing of the audience as Taking Back Sunday continued rocking the show.

It seems TBS fans will never fully be able to expect what changing style and feel the next new album will possess. Happiness Is however, would be the result of mashing all of the other previous albums into an alternative rock stew; the creation being a very mature, poignant record riddled with hints of TBS’s roots and a poppy new seasoning.

Frontman Adam Lazzara has matured so much over 12 years that has seen a rotation of various band mates throughout TBS’s existence.

Since the original line up got back together in 2011, the band has released two albums: their self-titled fifth album, and the brand new Happiness Is, both of which sound completely different from each other. At the show, Lazzara belted out tracks from both. Delighted fans sang along to classic TBS hits such as “A Decade

Under the Influence,” and “Cute Without the E (Cut From the Team).”

This was my third time seeing them in the past four years, and what stood out the most about this show was how personable Lazzara, as well as his co-singer John Nolan, were to the audience.

It was just a nice touch to hear Lazzara explain personal stories associated with both their old and newer tracks. The crowd was super responsive too. Towards the end of their set, Lazzara announced that they were going to skip the stereotypical “band walks out – crowd chants one more song” routine, and just play as many songs as they felt like. This was great as TBS splurged on us with a 19-song set!

Drenched in sweat and absolutely satisfied, I walked away from the concert pining to see Taking Back Sunday all over again.

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Lenny Kaye’s Positive and Optimistic Outlook for the Future of Music

By SHANNON LIVEWELL STAFF WRITER SLIVEWELL@ME.COM

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write about music all the time. Whether it is an article for the paper, a post for my blog, or a Facebook status pointing out an awesome new song, I feel the constant need to share my opinion on the music happening around us today. That is why it was enlightening for me to attend the lecture hosted by Murray Krugman of The University of New Haven music department, featuring Lenny Kaye.

Kaye has worked as a musician alongside the great Patti Smith, a songwriter, a record producer, and a music journalist.

“I’ve never been told to have a certain opinion for an album review,” he said in response to a question asked during his round table discussion this past Monday in the Seton Art Gallery on campus. “I just try to be positive. There is always a secret to an album, you just have to figure it out. I used to pin point certain songs I liked and just focus on them, because out of 12 songs an album, there’s bound to be one you can relate to. I soon realized though that it’s not about the song, it’s about the atmosphere of the album, just like it’s not about a tree,

but the forest.”

As someone who is constantly trying to be positive in my album and show reviews, I know how hard it can be to focus an entire piece around a key song; however, I have never really thought about the atmosphere.

“There are certain artists today that are Jello artists,” he said. “There are those generic, just-add-water artists who simply perform into a mold. Then there are artists like Patti.”

Kaye had nothing but great things to say about his good friend and band mate, Smith. He described her as a strong-minded woman who would hold her ground in the toughest of situations, always fighting first for creative freedom when it came to making deals with record labels.

Smith grew up down the street from me in my hometown in South Jersey.

Therefore, when he spoke of forming his strong with her over doo-wop music based on where she was from, I could really relate. Growing up right outside of Philadelphia, you are constantly influenced by Philly Soul, be it Hall & Oates or The Stylistics. I had always seen this as a disadvantage for my own career, as if I was born in the wrong decade. That is, until I heard Kaye’s perspective.

“You have to look at artists like Suzanne Vega or Lorde,” he suggested.

“When Suzanne was coming about in the 80s she was surrounded by larger-thanlife acts, the same as Lorde coming about with the likes of Katy Perry or Pink. This is a time where the audience is in need of a change, even if they don’t know it yet, and when they hear that unique difference from the musical norm at the time, they will push that artist and help them elevate to new heights.

I think that’s how Suzanne went platinum.”

It was hard to sit through Kaye’s speech and not feel inspired. He had such a positive, almost spiritual, outlook on music and it’s evolution. This makes him, as he self-proclaimed, a musical historian. He is the co-author of Waylon, The Life Story of Waylon Jennings and is currently working on an album for Waylon’s wife, Jessi Colter. Kaye proved himself in just a few hours, to be a jack-of-all-trades.

Most artists from his generation express the feeling of fear when they look at the music industry today and what it’s become, but Kaye was optimistic. “You all grew up with computers,” he said. “That’s so cool.

You have such an advantage and a myriad of technical skills. It will be amazing to see what you all do in the

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artwork in so I had to draw it myself,” Lee said. “It was just an idea I had for a while…it’s basically all of our spirit animals coming out of a gramophone. It’s a reflection of us and the gramophone symbolized old world music. It’s trying to convey that there’s no BS to our music. It’s organic, and then coming out of it are all our animals.”

Lee is the elephant, for her “Dumbo” ears she was made fun of for as a child. Drummer Etienne is the octopus because he plays the drums and has a lot of eight symbolisms in his life.

“Etienne sounds like eight, born in October, octo-, it’s all there,” Etienne mentioned.

Will’s love of dinosaurs and pre-music dream to become a paleontologist made him the T-Rex. “His mom used to bury chicken bones in the back yard so he’d go digging,” Etienne teased.

“When we went to our other two bandmates for their spirit animals, they were like ‘uhhh I don’t know.’ So the humming bird is a little bit of all of us...Then we like to say the gramophone is Jesse

because it has a horn on the end and Jesse is a trumpet player,” Lee said, finishing off her description of the drawing.

Etienne added, “I told Mark that he is the hummingbird because it is the only bird that can fly backwards because of its

“I just reversed the genders so I married all the guys and they are my misterwives.”

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fast wing speed, and he’s constantly going backwards retracing his steps because he loses everything.”

Besides playing music, the band shares a huge love of zombies, claiming they have a solid zombie apocalypse plan to survive. “So we have the Zombie Survival guide book, we watch the Walking Dead,” Lee said. “I’d be Daryl all the way.”

They also believe that living in Riverdale where they’re some of the younger people in the area gives them an advantage, “All the zombies would die of old age.”

When it comes to the very near future, they have a fairly set schedule.

“Yes, we’re going to record our full length album, we’re going to the UK and we’re playing festivals. 24 is coming back so we’re going to watch a lot of 24.”

Be on the lookout for a lot of tweets about their favorite, Jack Bauer. For comments on zombies and more, see the full interview on UNHMIC.tumblr.com and stay tuned as we’re updating the site weekly.

Thanks to Misterwives for being such an awesome group to chat with and WNHU for helping to put on such an amazing show.

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industry and how music evolves in the next fifteen years. I can go down to my basement today and make an album. That is so strange to me, but you virtually have everything at your fingertips.

I’m taking a trip to Boston today for a meeting on Colter’s album, and I don’t have to carry ten reels of tape with me to play the tracks.

It’s strange, but it’s great.”

Kaye contiuned to say, “I think Rock N’ Roll has ended and I’ll tell you why.

Everything that can be done as far as rock music has been done. Now we’re at

this new place where bands like The Black Keys are forming. Years ago it would have never been possible for a band to form with only two members unless they were folk with guitars and their voices. It’s exciting for me to see this change.”

It was clear that after Kaye’s chat with UNH students, they all left feeling positive about their futures and the future of music. This is a man who was born in 1946, and has experienced over four decades of music changes and challenges. I think if there is any opinion

I’m going to trust on the forthcoming music industry, it’s Kaye’s. With his Encyclopedia-like knowledge on the decades of music he has lived through, his empathetic personality, and portfolio of music industry involvement, Kaye is a force to be reckoned with.

“You have to look at music like writing about it would confine it. If everything you heard could be described in words, you wouldn’t have music. Chopin’s ‘Nocturne in E-flat Major’ is just a hit single of the 1800’s,” said Kaye.

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The twisted trio

By SAMANTHA MATHEWSON

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he Other Woman stars Leslie Mann as Kate King in a role that not only has the audience never seen her in before, but one that she mastered flawlessly with endless laughs. Her role as the wife of a cheating husband leads her to meeting Cameron Diaz, who plays Carly, the first of many girlfriends we are introduced to, and Kate Upton, who plays Amber, the second mistress that “brings up the group’s average.”

After Carly accidently introduces herself to Kate, she realized her boyfriend has

been cheating on her; however, this leads Kate, who had become semi-stalkerish, to confronting her. While it is not the news she wanted to receive and ultimately causes a panic attack, Kate shifts her dependence onto Carly for direction of how to figure things out, or as Carly told her to do, “get your ducks in a row.”

Kate leaches onto Carly who wants nothing to do with her after finding out that it was her husbad who she had been dating the whole time. However, somehow Kate reels her in with her pathetic need to talk to someone, and Carly is the only one she could go to. Kate also uses Boston Market as incentive, telling Carly she can have the first pick of whatever is in the

bag.

The two ironically become best friends, and after finding out that Mark has yet another girl on the side, Amber, Kate’s stalker skills rub off on Carly and they are soon in the hunt together to find the other mistress. Carly might have had everyone convinced she was calm and collected, but after seeing the “other woman” that made even her look bad, she was the first to start chasing her down the beach. The three instantly become the power team set out to get revenge on Kate’s husband, and their cheating boyfriend Mark, played by Nikolaj Coster-Waldau.

Kate wasn’t mad; she was curious, and we see her transform from a typical, dependent oblivious housewife

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to an independent, successful and confident women.

One may describe Kate’s initial reactions to finding out Mark was cheating on her as a hysteria of psychotic breaks full of blubbering sobs, but as the “Cheating Chore Calendar” is put in

place, the group of wronged women take their turns messing with Mark, including spiking his morning smoothie with estrogen, replacing his shampoo with Nair and mixing some laxatives in with his cocktails.

Paired with her newfound

friends, her untrained, oversized puppy, a lot of alcohol, and Reddi-whip straight from the can, Kate is able to turn the tables.

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 review

By SCOTT IWANIEC

FILM EDITOR SIWANI1@.UNH.NEWHAVEN.EDU

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nyone who has been reading this section since the fall already knows that Spider-Man has a very special place in my heart. Without a doubt the best part of the film is its visuals. SpiderMan looks incredible. The suit is as legit as it will ever will be, and finally someone got the eyes right!

The opening sequence of the film of one of my favorites of the entire movie because of the way they capture the essence of SpiderMan’s motion and acrobatics. The way they film the web slinging is a huge step up from the first film.

Director Mark Webb also used a very affective neon color scheme, which gives the film its own unique look and really highlights comic

book style drawings (I mean that in the absolute best way possible).

Andrew Garfield absolutely owns this role. I was always more of a fan of Toby Maguire as Spider-Man, but in this film Garfield stole my heart. He was funny, sarcastic, snobby, and heartbreakingly emotional when he needed to be. He and Emma Stone have a very sweet and genuine chemistry together.

The film really gives us the spirit of the comics by really adding humor and sarcasm to the hero, which is something I felt the first film nearly abandoned. My only critique on this is they could have taken out some humor in some very serious situations.

The film also does a great job of keeping you interested in the small talk; in many conversations you feel anxious to hear some revelations and it really does a good job captivating your

attention. The film isn’t just a fun ride, but it packs some hard emotional punches.

Those who know the comic books have already recognized certain symbols that signify a certain thing that happens in the film, but I will say this about it: it was handled so phenomenally well, that even as someone who knew exactly what was going to happen, I gasped in shock with the rest of the audience. That is the best compliment I can possibly give the director. The ending scene is another sequence that really leaves an impression and I believe it was a genuine way to conclude the movie.

Now I need to address the negatives, and there are some big ones. As far as the narratives go, the film is jumbled. Mark Webb almost falls into the Spider-Man 3 trap of too many stories and quite frankly it shows. There are four primary story lines

Future of The Amazing Spider-Man

By SCOTT IWANIEC

FILM EDITOR SIWAN1@.UNH.NEWHAVEN.EDU

––––––––––––––––––––– The Amazing Spider-Man 2 leaves a lot of loose ends open for future films. We already have confirmation by Sony that we will be seeing a third and fourth Amazing Spider-Man; a Venom movie and Sinister 6 movie. I think it’s good that we take some time to talk about what the future holds for the SpiderMan cinematic Universe.

We see in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 a set up for the Sinister 6 to arrive. In this film alone we have three Villains introduced: Electro, Green Goblin, and Rhino.

If you have already seen the film, you would have clearly noticed Doc Ock arms vulture wings in multiple scenes (this isn’t a spoiler it was in the trailer). This gives us five of the six, so who is the last one? Many speculate it to be Venom, but personally I think they should bring back the Lizard, and here’s

why: The after credit scene of The Amazing SpiderMan 2 leaves a loose end that foreshadows his return.

We see him in a cell getting a visit by a mysterious character. This mysterious character also visits Harry at the end of the film, foreshadowing his return. To me, it only makes sense The Lizard is bound to seek revenge.

I also am against the idea of Venom. Venom is an alien entity that latches on to a host and seeks control.

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in this film that Peter has to deal with, and two of them I could have done completely without. A lot of the film touches on the “untold story” that was presented in the first film regarding Peter’s parents. It felt a little unnecessary and probably would have been better off in the first film, especially since it really doesn’t tell the audience anything that adds to this film, and instead further explores the last.

Electro looked awesome and they really make him a physical threat, but there is way too much focus on his character in the beginning of the film. If you made the villain only Electro, then it would have been absolutely fine, but they put so much emphasis on the character only to come in and have a small tie in.

They could have easily told his back story and motivation in two scenes, and that still would have been

fine because the weight of him would be more proportionate to his importance at the end.

Dane Dahaan is fine as Harry/Green Goblin, and he gives us a Green Goblin much different from the first film, which I am okay with. What’s the problem then? He doesn’t get enough screen time. Why? Because it’s all given to Electro and the love story. At the end you only see the actual Green Goblin for only a few minutes and he’s defeated pretty easily. I’m not too upset with it since they make it clear he’s coming back for a much bigger impact in future films, but still. The lead up to him was great, but once you get him he just kind of comes and goes.

The marketing for this film almost killed this movie. It is one of the biggest false advertisements I’ve ever seen for a film. The “three villain” thing that they keep

lines, this character alone cannot work with a team.

He has no motivation to work with a team and has no intelligence. Of course you can just say that the person it latches on to can team up and use the venom power. I think that would be kind of stupid, because that’s so out of character of what Venom actually is.

I also think that since Venom has its own standalone film, he will be introduced there, and go on to face Spider-Man at some other point. But of course there’s evidence arguing otherwise; in The Amazing Spider-

Man 2 we see six doors in the “special projects” area.

Since Lizard is already used, what’s in the sixth one?

Some people have asked me about Mary Jane Watson.

MJ is played by Shailene Woodley, from Divergent, and was edited out of the film to give more time to the Peter/Gwen relationship.

We will be seeing her in the future.

The last big question is who is the mysterious figure that visits everyone in the cells at the end? I have a feeling its Norman. Even though he died, remember that we never saw a body.

pushing is only 1.5 villains.

The Rhino gets maybe five minutes of screen time.

Regularly that’s fine if it wasn’t for the fact he was advertised as one of the main villains. There’s also a lot of weighted trailer scenes that were cut out. The idea of Oscorp watching Peter?

Not in the film. The emphasis on the film is Peter trying to protect the people he loves, which are done really well, but the villains aren’t that great.

Over all I really liked The Amazing Spider-Man 2. I know it seems like I just bashed the whole film, but there is definitely more to like than there is not to like.

It’s a big step up from the original film, but has nothing on Captain America: The Winter Soldier. I recommend you go and see it, you will definitely enjoy it.

ELECTRO, PLAYED BY JAMIE FOXX IN THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN 2 (AP PHOTO).

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+ Summer is right around the corner! Remember to stay safe and enjoy these few months without school. Don’t spend it all wishing you were back at UNH, because that will come all too quickly.

- The workload at the end of every semester. Although we know it is coming, it is rare to plan for it. We say we won’t procrastinate, but every semester eventually brings an all-nighter (or several).

+ Congrats to the cast of Spring Awakening for putting on such an emotionladen and thought-provoking musical with maturity and grace. The set, lights, music, and acting combined to make quite a moving performance.

- People on this campus are fiends when it comes to free food, it is always gone so quickly! When organizations advertise in huge print about food at an event, they might as well include “For the first five minutes only.”

The Battery Charge What an amazing Spring Weekend! From the comedian Loni Love, to the music-themed carnival and the Krewella concert, to the drive-in movie Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, this weekend couldn’t have been better. Thank you SCOPE for putting together such a fantastic few days!

Scope it Out! Postcards from Prato

Here are this week’s SCOPE events:

Wednesday May 7, 2014: Relaxation Day in the Programming Space from 12-4 p.m. Chariot Yearbook, The Charger Bulletin and Class of 2016 is co-sponsoring the event. _____________

SCOPE would like to thank the student body for such a successful semester of events, especially Spring Weekend 2014! It was a great success!

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ell, this is it. By the time you read this we will be more than halfway through Finals Week; our journey here in Prato is coming to an end.

Last week we finished classes and reviewed for finals, students went to Venice, Genoa and Germany, and I personally took a last minute trip with friends to Cinque Terre. This last minute trip was a perfect way to celebrate the end of classes and beginning of finals for me. The view was absolutely breathtaking. The water was gorgeous and the colors of the buildings were so vivid I took as many pictures as I could, but they, like all others, do no justice to the absolute beauty of the location.

We finished Conversation Exchange this week and had a photo contest where each student was able to enter photos they have taken throughout the semester.

Categories of the contest included People, Nature, and Places. Once entered everyone came together for pizza and we all got to vote on the winners in each category. It was a great way to not only get everyone together, but to get a chance to see where everyone else has been throughout the semester.

The Food Quality class also took its last trip last week to a frozen pizza factory called Food Italia. We got to see the machinery and

Time in Prato coming to an end. the preparation process of the pizza and sandwiches, and all the care that goes into making sure there is no contamination. Each student had to wear hair nets, a jacket over their clothes and plastic on their shoes and wash their hands before entering. It was a very interesting experience!

This week we have finals and Prato Campus Week, finally. We have been hearing about it all semester. We have our last week of Soccer Monday, then Prato Campus Week begins Tuesday with events at Monash, the Australian college that is also in Prato. Events throughout the week include a “speedy” conversation exchange, an Australian Barbeque, lectures about various topics, a band that will go through the streets playing music, concerts, and Saturday there is the run/walk for everyone.

In addition to all these activities and finals, Thursday night, after finals are completed, we have our Farewell Dinner. If it is anything like the Welcome Dinner, it will be yet another amazing meal full of wonderful memories for everyone here.

Studying in Prato has been the best experience of my life. Having the opportunity to study here is a wonderful chance for everyone at UNH. After being here I think that everyone should study abroad, it doesn’t have to be here, but the things I’ve seen and done here have been amazing. The campus,

RIOMAGGIORE, ONE OF THE LITTLE TOWNS THAT MAKES UP CINQUE TERRE. (SAMANTHA HIGGINS/CHARGER BULLETIN PHOTO)

trips, meal plan, classes, and staff are all great aspects of Prato. Anyone who never considered it, or who has, but got nervous, and those who have been on the fence about it should just take the leap and hand in an application to study abroad. Don’t worry about money, classes, or anything; hand in an application then work with the staff to figure things out so it works for you. For every step of the process there are people who can help you with everything you need.

All in all, I haven’t even

left Prato yet and I already want to come back. I want to plan my next semester or trip to Italy, or maybe just Europe, but somewhere. The experiences I have had here have been more than everything I ever imagined, I took more than 1,000 pictures just to remember and try to share the experience with everyone I can. I highly encourage everyone to study abroad, go outside their comfort zones and experience another culture, language, food, and life.

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f there is one phrase that I would like to irradiate from existence it would be, “I’m not a racist but…”

Why do you ask? Well, the answer is simple. It is normally followed by some bigoted and unfounded generalization about black people, gay people or any oppressed minority in general. The phrase is normally used to cloak someone from my critique regarding their offensive view point.

Another phrase that needs to burn in the depths of hell is, “Some of my best friends’ areNope…

Nada…

Nein…

I do not want to hear it. If you have to convince me of it, it is probably not true.

In the wake of the April 2014 being the month of all things racialized and racerelated (i.e. Cliven Bundy and Donald Sterling), I would like to bring attention to these phrases because I want us to abolish old crutches and get to the root of the issue.

I have heard a lot of commentary from friends, classmates and family about the two latest issues involving race in America. So, what better way to weed through the murky weeds of this touchy subject by taking things one step at a time?

Let us begin, shall we?

Being “friends” with or “in a relationship” with a member of a historically oppressed minority does not absolve you from racism.

In light of the Donald Sterling controversy, I think it is imperative for this to be emphasized. Why? Because when the story first broke, I spoke to a few people and read commentary online that suggested somehow that Sterling may not be a racist because his former mistress is a woman of color.

First of all, deep sighs all around. Is that really a thing now? Are we so ignorant to our own history that that is a line of defense? Far before Donald Sterling became the Patron Saint of Plantation math (i.e. the profiting off black male labor+ the exploitation of black women= pray you don’t multiple), there was Thomas Jefferson and Strom Thurmond who perfected the art form.

Yes. There are many historic accounts that reveal the depths to which Jefferson viewed black people as inferior, despite fathering multiple children with his black slave, Sally Hemings.

I’m not a racist but….

DONALD STERLING, FORMER OWNER OF LOS ANGELES CLIPPERS (AP PHOTO)

The odd part of this whole arrangement was that he owned her. She was his piece of property. Does this negate the fact that he did great things like writing the Declaration of independence, no. However, by modern standards, the man was a racist and a slave owner a thousand times over.

Of course, I can understand those were different times; what can I say? Many of our great men were flawed.

Though it does illustrate the hypocrisy in the fact that a man who gave us “All men are created equal” fathered children that, in his eyes, were not his equals, either in his eyes or the eyes of the law during his lifetime.

The same can be said for Strom Thurmond, the now deceased Senator, who fathered a black woman, Essie Mae Washington out of wedlock. Mind you, Essie Mae Washington’s mother, Carrie Butler was the 16-year-old maid in the Thurmond household, but that is a different story.

Yes, the same Strom Thurmond who filibustered the 1964 Voting Rights Act for 14 hours and 13 minutes.

Interesting how that works.

That is not to compare Mr. Sterling’s relationship with his alleged mistress to these previous examples. Ms. Stiviano has autonomy over her life that Sally Hemings and Carrie Butler did not. She chose to enter a relationship with this man, even though he was sued by the Department of Justice for housing discrimination.

Nor do I mean to compare

Mr. Sterling to a slave owner. However, the cognitive dissonance between being racist and having sexual relations with the very group you discriminate against are similar.

Racism is by definition the viewing of one race to be inferior to your own.

It is a loaded term that means a lot more than merely disliking someone else because they belong to another race. It means you view them as other, subhuman or not equal to you.

There is a systematic, and there has been from the dawn of our Republic, exploitation of African Americans at the economic behest of a privileged power structure. We may play for basketball teams, make a lot of money, hell even have a Black President, however that does not mean racism is dead.

This is how Mr. Sterling can own a basketball team in a league that is 80 percent black and still be racists.

Our nation was unfortunately built this way. Who do you think built the monuments in D.C and the very White House at the epicenter of our nation’s capital? It was not paid labor, that’s for sure. Yet Cliven Bundy, the Nevada rancher, experienced when he ponders out loud if black people would have been better off as slaves.

Like slavery was a walk in the park…ok there, pal. It’s 2014. People still talk like this. Huh. So much for that “post-racial” society talks…

Reverse racism is not a thing.

There are people in power, whether it is an admissions office, the U.S Senate or corporate America that can systematically bar people from gaining opportunities in this country. The worst part is that we may not know it publically, but they may secretly harbor these views.

How many men in power with the ability to shape my destiny as a student, potential law student and lawyer think the way Mr. Sterling does? It is a frightening thought.

There are institutional facts like legacy enrollments at Ivy League institutions, a last name like Astor or Vanderbilt and generations of wealth and power that have not been accessible to oppressed minorities in any way. Oppressed minorities like gay people or women or Native Americans do not have centuries of advantages. Only recently have they gained any access to opportunities that have been afforded to others for centuries.

It is like we are all running a marathon, but some start the race a mile ahead. So while an oppressed person can be bigoted or prejudice, can they be racist? Hmm. That’s another story. Minorities are considered the inferior, while members of the dominant culture are considered the default. So calling me a racist for pointing this out speaks more to levels of your own discomfort with engrained privileges afforded by just being born than it does to my experiences or perceptions.

Just because you do not call me the N-word does not give you a pass.

You may in fact have preconceived notions of me when I walk through the door, like people have had of me before.

Yes, I listen to Bach and Mozart.

Yes, I read as a hobby and yes, I took AP courses in High School.

No, I did not grow up in the “ghetto.” Whatever that means…

Yes, my favorite band is the Beatles.

I am not a special snowflake. I am not different than “other uneducated blacks”, as I have been told growing up.

No, I did not live in a hut or swing from trees (I lived in Ghana for a time, so this was a popular question during my high school days) No, I do not sound “white” over the phone, whatever that means.

Being uncomfortable being in a room full of black people, with no consideration of what it must be like to often be the only face of color anywhere (i.e. school, my neighborhood, and clubs) is odd. Why? Being the “other” every day of my life is my existence. I cannot remove my gender or my race and pretend. Nor can I “get over” the fact that I had the cops called on me as I was canvassing for Environmental conservation last summer because I look suspicious.

Do I? A petite girl wearing a University of New Haven

t-shirt knocking on doors for donations. Okay. What is suspicious looking about me?

However, I was harassed, had my ID checked and had to wait for my field manager to pick me up and take me back to the office. Mind you, I was canvassing in a neighborhood only an hour from my own.

Have you ever been through that? Will you ever go through that? I was forced to quit volunteering for a cause I loved due to multiple incidents like this.

So the next time you feed me a line about “reverse racism” or “Some of my best friends are…” or “I dated a black guy, so I’m not racists”, ask yourself: Are our experiences and opportunities in life the same?

Do I view people as less than myself due to your race?

Take a walk in my shoes.

Oh! Wait, you can’t. So like I said; nope, nada, nein. I do not want to hear it.

The best way to combat racism is to acknowledge it exists and it always will.

Until we actually level the playing field and face what the real issues are, the Donald Sterlings and Cliven Bundys that have deluded themselves into thinking they are not racists, will always exist.

Time heals all wounds, but scars remain. In order to move to a much more harmonious future, we must make peace with our acrimonious past.

CHARGER BULLETIN STAFF DINES AT THE CHEESECAKE FACTORY FOR THEIR ANNUAL STAFF DINNER. (Left to right) SCOTT IWANIEC, NICHOLAS MCDERMOTT, ELISSA SANCI, PATRICIA OPREA, SAMANTHA SALVIO, SAMANTHA MATHEWSON, KATERINA SPERL, LIANA TEIXEIRA. (CHARGER BULLETIN PHOTO)