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Charger Bulletin The official student newspaper of the University of New Haven since 1938. Volume 94, Issue 9 | November 7, 2012
Dude, Where’s My Cart?
Will UNH’s elimination of the Matrix cart feature impede class registration?
CAMPUS
By ISAAK KIFLE
COPY EDITOR/STAFF WRITER
Nicholas Perricone, M.D., a world-renowned dermatologist and alumnus of the University of New Haven was honored as the university’s 2012 Bartels Fellow.
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Elite Step Team sponsors the Diversity Showcase: Elements of Hip Hop, with MEISA and the Audio Engineering Society. Many spectacular dancing, singing and poetry acts performed in Dodds Theater. SEE PAGE 6
SPORTS The Chargers scored the homecoming game’s final 35 points to lead the nationally ranked football team to a 48-9 victory over SCSU. They have retained the Elm City Trophy for the thirdstraight season. SEE PAGE 12
ENTERTAINMENT Staff writer Allison Ramsdell reviews Hotel Transylvania just in time for Halloween. What happens when you have Dracula, ghosts, Frankenstein and mummies all under one hotel roof? Continue reading to find out. SEE PAGE 14
The Chargers scored the game’s final 35 points to lead the nationally ranked football team to a 48-9 victory and retained the Elm City Trophy for the third-straight season. READ MORE ON PAGE 12
Sandy Strikes By ELISSA SANCI STAFF WRITER
–––––––––––––––––––––––––– She was mean. She was big. She was brutal. And she packed a punch of 90 mph winds, knocking down anything standing in her way. Hurricane Sandy wreaked havoc up the East Coast, leaving destruction in her wake. Fortunately, the main campus of the University of New Haven was left mostly unscathed. Main campus did not lose power once throughout the storm and only suffered a few broken windows and downed trees. The University opened its doors to over 500 displaced students, providing safe centers and a warm place to stay throughout the apex of the storm. The UNH Emergency Management Team kept students as safe as possible, providing them with shuttle services to and from Bartels Dining Hall. Both graduate and undergraduate classes were cancelled Monday and Tuesday to ensure the safety of the students on campus. This gave students the opportunity to go home if they felt compelled to. “Cancelling classes as early as UNH did allow a lot of students to make appropriate plans to get
home,” senior Brandy Morenau, a Bethel Hall RA, said. “UNH offered a lot of assistance to those who wanted to go home, making their trip as easy as possible.” Students were evacuated from their dorm buildings Oct. 29 at 7:30 p.m. by the E.M.T. to preserve their safety. Courtesy vans were provided to bring the students to either the Beckerman Recreation Center or Soundview Hall for the night, both of which have emergency generators. “I think UNH handled the evacuation very well,” sophomore Adam Medford, a RA in Botwinik Hall, said. “They created a safe and monitored environment and took precautions necessary to keep those residing at UNH safe and accounted for.” Many of the students who stayed on campus during the storm have nothing but good things to say about UNH. “I think UNH was extremely organized; I didn’t feel unsafe for a second,” freshman Nick Weilmann said. “They were extremely prepared for any circumstance and I was safer on campus than I would have been home in Long Island.” Freshman Dallas Newcomb added, “I felt really safe at UNH, and I know they wanted us to be as
safe as possible.” “My mom was happy that I was in a location that had guaranteed power and that I would be around people who would keep me safe and updated about what was happening,” sophomore Jennifer Harrington said. Following the storm, many of the students who went home had difficulty getting back to campus. UNH understood, giving the students an additional day of cancelled classes Wednesday, Oct. 31. UNH also offered increased courtesy van service to Union Station for all students who were not able to make it back to campus during the week. “We are proud of the way you conducted yourselves and supported our emergency efforts,” President Steven Kaplan said in an email addressed to the UNH student body. “I am especially grateful for the efforts of the various student organizations that assisted during the storm. I also very much appreciate the work performed by the Emergency Management Team, Campus Police, Student Affairs and Residential Life to ensure the safety and well-being of everyone on campus. “We are glad to have everyone back on campus and to return to normal operations. Our thoughts are with everyone who continues to recover and rebuild following the storm.”
OPINION Timothy Aaron Danforth was unable to finish his speech on the Pledge of Allegiance at a USGA meeting. To see what else he had to say on the highly contentious issue, check out the opinion page. SEE PAGE 9
Student Amy Reidy dishes on the third presidential debate, questioning whether each candidate succeeded in getting his point across to the audience. SEE PAGE 9
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Swimsuit Sprint Goes Out with a “Chiddy” Bang
By JESSICA PENA STAFF WRITER
–––––––––––––––––––––––––– What does a swimsuit sprint, Chiddy Bang and the University of New Haven have in common? Hosting the biggest event of the semester so far, while also donating money to the Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals and clothes for New Haven families through UNH’s Midnight Run program. On Oct. 26, the fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon came together with SCOPE, WNHU, The Charger Bulletin, Inter Fraternity Sorority Council (IFSC), the American Criminal Justice Association (ACJA) and the Undergraduate Student Government Association (USGA) to host the “Swimsuit Sprint.” Participants stripped out of their clothes (with a swimsuit
underneath) to give to charity, and run around campus. The sprint began at Kayo Field at 8 p.m. As students were getting to run, WNHU was playing music in the background, and SCOPE was stationed at the finish line, setting up drinks, food and shirts. A security watch was also organized, consisting of campus police and the brothers of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Students were at last given the signal to run, the ultimate prize at the end of the race being a performance by Chiddy Bang in the Botwink and Bixler Quad at 9:30 p.m. Chiddy Bang performed several of his hit songs. The first act got students and the brothers of Sigma Alpha Epsilon in a concertlike mood. “The concert was absolutely amazing,” said junior Amanda Kehoe. “The concert and everything
was very well organized, I thought. They had security, which I thought it was good. But most importantly, I think it was good to see everyone come out and support the charity.” Kehoe was not the only one who felt this way. Many students felt that this was, by far, the coolest event and very organized. The concert came to a close with students wanting an encore. The event turned out to be very successful, and talk of making it a recurring event is in the works. Kenny Hall, President of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, spoke to a delegate of MTV and several other students who said that he wishes to this event again. According to Hall’s Facebook updates after the spring, over one thousand students came out and participated in the event, which again makes this the biggest event in the semester.
As a reminder, registration begins this week. Priority registration is Thursday, Nov. 8, senior registration is Friday, Nov. 9, junior registration is Monday, Nov. 12, sophomore registration is Wednesday, Nov. 14, and freshmen registration is Friday, Nov. 16. Registration on all of those days begins at 6:01 a.m. Make sure you have met with your academic advisor beforehand to be cleared for registration. The Registrar’s Office in South Campus Hall will be open beginning at 6 a.m. on all registration dates to assist with any issues that arise. Matrix, the online system that students use to register for classes, has been known to have some issues, most notably crashing during every registration period when hundreds of students are attempting to register for classes at once. The way registration is set up, certain groups (e.g. honor students, athletes, certified notetakers) have a priority registration period, followed by a period for all seniors, then juniors, sophomores and, lastly, freshmen. The system is incapable of handling thousands of class registrations from up to a thousand people at once, so the inevitable results are server crashes. One defining feature of Matrix has always been the registration cart, where students can put into a ‘shopping cart’ all of the classes they want to register for and then select them all at once as soon as their registration period begins. However, a decision was recently made by the university administration to remove the registration cart from Matrix, essentially requiring students to register for classes one at a time. Presumably, this was done to reduce the amount of activity in the server at one moment and reduce the probability, as well as frequency, of crashes. However, student reception to the initiative is not as positive as the administration. Junior Liana Teixeira weighs in: “Matrix has a history of crashing on class registration days, so I am worried about spring semester registration since the cart feature will no longer be available. Students will have to register for each class individually, and may be spending more time attempting to register for classes. The guarantee of getting all your classes is also lowered. The cart feature made it easy to get several classes at one time.” Another issue that may arise from the removal of the registration cart is that students may attempt to circumvent the sequential registration method by keeping multiple tabs or browsers open for different classes. As senior Kelli Derleth adds, “While it’s not going to affect me for very long as I have one semester left, it’s going to be difficult to have so many See CART page 5
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