Volume XLVI, Issue 10 October 31, 2014

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President Snyder responds to racist statements made against #webelonghere movement On Oct. 22, twenty-five students gathered outside of Leutner to protest for racial equality on Case Western Reserve University’s campus. They walked throughout campus, carrying signs and chanting as they travelled through the North Residential Village. Using their student IDs, the students also went into Wade Commons and the Kelvin Smith Library, where they walked in a silent, single-file line.

The next day, university President Barbara Snyder sent out a campus wide email regarding the student response to the protest, which included racist com-

ments made on the anonymous social media app Yik Yak. “I write today to ask that you join me in condemning social media comments made last night about some of our students,” read the email.

The students, part of the #webelonghere movement, were joining the National Day of Protest against police brutality. The protest, held at 10:30 p.m., recognized the midnight protests held in St. Louis, Missouri following the fatal shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson.

The #webelonghere movement was organized by the Case Western Reserve University African American Society (AfroAm), but it includes students from various un-

derrepresented minority groups on campus.

The movement aims to promote positive racial dialogue on campus through events including a race relations forum held on Sept.

28 and flash monologues held throughout campus in the week following.

“We wanted to show our solidarity with everyone on this day of protest,” said Destinee Henton, president of AfroAm. “It was civil disobedience.”

Comments started showing up on Yik Yak almost immediately after the protest started, with many people commenting on how the protesters were disturbing their studying or sleep. However, some took it further, with one poster saying “I hope the police beat the living shit of

the people protesting outside NRV right now, it’ll be well deserved,” and another poster saying “DON’T MISS OUT! Rudyard Kipling’s ‘The Jungle Book’ is being performed by actual animals, including monkeys on North Side!!”

Henton was extremely concerned by the comments, which she took screenshots of and posted to her Instagram account. Henton said that she had family members contacting her to see if she was safe. She decided to send her screenshots onto Snyder, who had met with Henton multiple times before to discuss facilitating the goals of the movement.

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Group boycotts new University Circle restaurant after retaliation from bad Yelp review CWRU alumni allege Ninja City owner made racist remarks Jessica Yang Social Media Editor

128*)7#9-8-752):&$'()*+)* Bac Nguyen, owner of local restaurant Ninja City, allegedly threatened a customer who left a negative review of his restaurant on Yelp.

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SAGES and the CWRU Writing Programs

Congratulate the Following Students on their Outstanding Achievement in the SAGES Writing Portfolio: Emily Bentley Stefan Vladan Blagojevich Daniel Brandt Andrew Breland McKenzie Clapp Jacob Cogar Russell Engelman Oliver Ernst Jeremy Frank Ashley Howen Sidi Huang Elsa Imbimbo Nathan Kong Yewon Lee Kara Meyer Janice Moore Thomas Norton

Jessie Liyi Peng Rachel Rubenstein Reuben Sass Joshua Schwarz John Simon Theresa Smetona Miarasa Steele Rachel Steiner Evan Telford Amy Van Jason Walsh John Weibel Andrew Wek Valencia Williams Elizabeth Windham Karen Zoeller

This award recognizes some of the best writing from those SAGES Portfolios submitted in the academic year 2013-2014. All portfolios were reviewed by a committee of faculty from across the university in June 2014. For more information about the SAGES Portfolio, see http://www.case.edu/sages/SAGESWritingPortfolio.html.

To work on your own writing, please schedule an appointment with the Writing Resource Center (WRC) at wrc.case.edu or the SAGES Peer Writing Crew (tutortrac.case.edu) today!

Please note: if you completed your second University Seminar last Spring or Summer or prior to that, the deadline for submitting the Portfolio is November 1, 2014. Questions?

Contact SAGESPortfolio@case.edu.

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opinion Editorial

With great anonymity comes great responsibility By now, chances are you have read (or at least heard about) Barbara Snyder’s email in response to the racist Yik Yak posts made during the National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation protests. Without reservation, the Observer editorial staff can say that we agree with her letter and applaud her for writing it.

However, while she took a bold and admirable stance in her letter, the fact that she had to in the first place is truly just sad. Are we so immature that we lose all decency the moment we get even the smallest amount of anonymity?

The response of many of our students on Yik Yak’s open forum seems to have been much like that of a middle school boy seeing a blank bathroom stall and automatically decorating it with a Sharpied representation of a certain aspect of the male anatomy.

In response to the argument that only a small minority of students make these offensive and racist comments—

and, to the credit of our community, are quickly down-voted out of existence by the accepting majority—a recent poll on the Observer website shows that this issue is far from resolved. When asked whether they feel that people at CWRU are accepting of all races and cultures, only 23 percent of the 328 respondents said they did. 46 percent said that we are accepting but could still do more, and 31 percent said they did not think that CWRU is accepting of different races and cultures.

Clearly, the hate speech (because let’s be frank, that’s what those posts were) of a few members of our campus community is negatively affecting the experience of far too many of our students.

In our second issue of this year, Kassie Stewart addressed this misuse of an anonymous platform in a column.

At that point, with Yik Yak still a fairly new force on campus, she noted with disappointment that its primary use seemed to be as an extra-judgemental Gossip Girl copycat, full of snide remarks aiming to harm others’ reputations. A

couple of months later, students’ use of the app does not seem to have improved much, if at all.

While Stewart ended her article with a call to students to delete the app, this won’t necessarily solve the problem. Anyone can create a Twitter account without including any identifying information, meaning that many platforms could just as easily house students’ anonymous opinions. In addition to that, it’s fully possible that Yik Yak is just the first of its kind, and a decline in its use would just prompt others to create similar apps to take its place.

Hence, rather than doing away with the means without addressing the ends, let’s just solve the real problem here which is an immature and thoughtless response to the freedom of anonymity.

We are all adults here, and it’s about time we act like it. Just because you have a thought doesn’t mean it’s worthwhile; before you post something to Yik Yak, take a moment to consider whether it’s really a constructive, useful addition to our campus dialogue. If it is something

that will hurt others and alienate whole segments of our campus, do us all (yourself included—you’re a part of this community, too) a favor and hold down the backspace key. Your college years aren’t just a chance to adjust to your life’s newfound freedom before you go out into the real world and lose your security net. It’s also a chance to adjust to your freedom of expression and learn to be your own filter.

As Snyder wrote in the email that prompted this editorial, “Debates and dialogue do not inevitably translate to consensus, but they always carry the possibility that participants leave with greater appreciation of other perspectives.” Following these words, let’s use the Yik Yak to continue discussing the relevant issues on campus. Instead of venting whatever rude or thoughtless complaint comes to mind, though, let’s use it productively, as a means to engage in a discussion and make our campus a more accepting and a more open community.

My five day timeout What’s going on?

Sophomore slump Stephen Kolison Around week five of school, my patience started to wear thin. Not only was that beginning to disappear, but my sanity was pretty much nonexistent at that point. If you’d seen me on the quad, I probably looked like a deer in headlights. Freshmen would ask me how I was so calm and I would reply, “It’s easy.

I’m already dead on the inside. I let my tears choose the best answer on tests.” The last few weeks have been torture for me and probably everyone else on campus. If fall break had arrived one week later, my hair would either be gray or have fallen off of my head.

For a whole five days, I was left alone in my dorm without roommates. The minute the last person went out the door, I could feel my mind and body completely shut down. It was probably one of the greatest feelings a human being could experience. There has been nothing but running for the past few months.

Some people raced from one side of campus to the other, others raced to the library to study and then there were people like me whose thoughts raced. Luckily, I was able to get my running thoughts down to a really bad limp.

I have thought some things while being isolated that I would not have imagined would come to mind. Break has felt like a big timeout that’s meant for people who are old enough to vote and pay taxes. I never understood the purpose of timeouts, so I called my very lovely mother—who is probably reading this—and asked her why she put me in a corner for five minutes. She gave me only two reasons: “Well, it kept me from smacking you in the head but it also kept you from hurting yourself.” In her own twisted, authoritative way, it makes sense.

I was going about as crazy as any overwhelmed child. When a person’s stress levels get way too high, they end up acting out in ways they’ll later regret. Whether it is crying in your room, lashing out at your roommates

or even eating an entire pizza on your own, your behavior starts to become a little more erratic. For no good reason I was angry, tired and always hungry, bound to do something that would take a very long time to fix. This time I wouldn’t have had my parents to come in and put me in my place. Instead, the world would have come in and smacked me hard.

While parents discipline with a loving hand, the world disciplines with its pimp hand; it is not kind, and it is not forgiving. So what I loved about this break the most was that it kept me from going further than a 10 on the craziness scale and back to a three.

You can’t hurt yourself when you’re alone and trying to reflect on everything that lead up to that point. In timeouts you do absolutely nothing. It’s quite ironic that in that nothingness, you find everything. You find your sanity. You find the responsibility you should be taking for your life. I found the energy that I thought I had lost the minute I got my first syllabus. All of a sudden, it was like I knew how to come back to classes better than before I left. I am so motivated to change my behavior, that I may even make it to my morning classes on time.

During fall break, I did indeed get a break from classwork and other people. However, I never got a break from myself. There is a misconception that alone time means to sit around and do nothing, but doing nothing is actually doing something. I allowed myself the time it took to heal and in turn I can finish the semester. The best thing anyone could ask for is some alone time. At age 2, we have taken way more naps than I have of late. Maybe it is about time we start taking more timeouts as well.

Stephen Kolison is a sophomore psychology major and pre-unemployment student.

He is a jack of all trades and master of none in training, a member of IMPROVment and knits while watching Downton Abbey. He hopes to be a talk show host.

The meaning of Spartan life Jacob Martin In May 1971, Marvin Gaye released the concept album “What’s Going On.” The nine songs that comprise the album are sung from the perspective of a Vietnam combat veteran who returns to America only to find just as much hatred, struggle and chaos as when he left. The album’s title song opens as the first track, calling on mother, brother and father to talk and find out what’s going on in the country he thought he knew.

The album is a manifesto of inspiration to possibility and love. It seeks to understand before judging, consider humanity over prejudice, love before hating.

Every person who calls Case Western Reserve University home needs to listen to it straight through.

What’s going on, everybody? Why do we have blatant racism on campus? Why do some students need to feel unwelcome here? Why did President Snyder have to send out an email on Oct. 23 2014, at almost 11 p.m., addressing these very questions?

I meet regularly with Student Affairs staff members. Last Friday, I met with one of the associate Vice Presidents in that office. We were talking about President Snyder’s letter and other campus issues, and I kept referring to students as kids.

Each time I did I was reminded, “Students, not kids.”

That VP couldn’t be more right; we are not children here. In the real world, racism, harassment and any other kind of improper or offensive behavior is not tolerated in public or work spaces. In fact, at the company I work for, making comments like the ones that have been appearing on Yik-Yak over the past few weeks will get you fired.

There should be no need for a

#webelonghere movement on campus; such belonging should be an absolute given. So I ask again, what’s going on?

Despite its original Vietnam War context, Marvin Gaye’s question was in response to the very negative values CWRU is facing today.

If you do not believe wholeheartedly that every student at CWRU—regardless of race, ethnicity, gender or any other benchmark for discrimination—belongs here, then I don’t want you here.

Unless you are willing to entertain a viewpoint different from your own, I don’t want you here, because you are not willing to learn. Your ignorance, closed-mindedness and lack of empathy are what aren’t welcome on campus. The students in the #webelonghere movement unquestionably belong here. The question is, do you?

Marvin Gaye’s album seems to flow from one song to the next. The closing track loops back to the opening in theme, suggesting that it could be listened to on repeat without the listener’s awareness that he or she was back at the start. I’ve always thought this perhaps symbolized (among other things) the cyclical nature of issues like hatred, violence and suffering, that no matter how much positive progress is made, we will still be asking what’s going on.

If we accept this cycle, some might say success is not possible. Yet I think fatalistic thinking is wrong. The key to success is in the answer to my question.

When asked, “What’s going on?” I want to be able to answer, “Inspiration, understanding and love.”

Jacob Martin is a weekly opinion columnist with the Observer. “Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love.”—John Steinbeck

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Make it the community you want Guest column Lou Stark This semester began with some of the most moving moments of community that I have seen during my 35 years in higher education.

Little more than nine weeks later, we saw some of the most offensive and divisive of behaviors. Now that all are returned from fall break, you, our students, will decide what kinds of conduct will dominate your community in the semester’s final weeks.

When we lost four undergraduates so suddenly Aug. 25, those closest to them easily could have crumbled. Instead they rallied, united in their commitment to support grieving families and one another.

The strength and grace shown during those first awful days illustrated your extraordinary character, as well as your sense of mutual connection.

Sadly, we saw an entirely different reaction Oct. 22, when members of the #webelonghere movement demonstrated outside the North Residential Village as part of a national day of protest against police brutality. Critics posted mean-

spirited social media comments about the gathering, including one with racial slurs and another advocating police violence against the protesters.

These statements were so contrary to the university’s values that President Barbara Snyder sent a campus-wide email asking others to join her in condemning them. Count me among those who wholeheartedly support her position. We, as a campus community, together define our principles - not only by what we support, but also that which we reject.

The more important question, of course, is how you will respond to her call. One of the sites with posts regarding the demonstration is YikYak, a relatively new arrival on the online landscape in which all posts are anonymous. This lack of accountability emboldens some to offer crude and vulgar observations—not only on this campus, but across the country. And yet the day after the president’s message, the site included a thoughtful exchange of perspectives regarding the goals of #webelonghere and how success might be measured. In other instances, people have “voted down” negative posts so that they are less prominent on YikYak’s list.

The most defining aspect of social media is that it is open to anyone who wants to hear or be heard. As a result, the tone of those online conversations depends entirely on who talks. Some may object to taking part in a discussion among people who have shown such disregard for others. But avoidance only perpetuates the pattern, as one callous and cutting comment follows another, and another, in an unchallenged downward spiral. Case Western Reserve University is better than that. You are better than that. And you have an opportunity now to demonstrate this fact to others, and perhaps even change some minds along the way.

Posting online is only one of many ways that members of this community can express principles. People can pen columns in the school newspaper. Start discussions in dining halls. Hold their own demonstrations, sponsor resolutions and so on. How you express yourself is less important than that you do express yourself. Conversations build community: As opinions are exchanged, as you and your peers add the layers of nuance that only multiple numbers allow, we all will learn.

Learning, after all, is a central purpose of a university. You learn in your classes, on playing fields, in laboratories, volunteer efforts and in countless other places. This is the beauty of a university. It is a place that draws people together in common cause, no matter what other differences may separate them. It is a place where preconceived notions can be challenged, perspectives broadened and new bonds formed.

We know from the start of the year that you have enormous capacity for compassion. And we know from the middle that at least a few of you will succumb to the most base of instincts.

All of us in student affairs stand ready to help you explore the meanings of those experiences, and the opportunities you have to reshape the worst of them. In the end, though, the decisions are yours.

Now you are in the proverbial last quarter, the final lap, game point: How will you choose to close this term? Classes end in just 35 days. I hope you make the most of every moment between now and then.

Lou Stark is the Vice President for Student Affairs.

Speaking to whom?

The elephant in the room Andrew Breland There have been some famous faces around campus this fall. During the first few weeks of school, students were given the opportunity to hear from Gloria Steinem, the famous feminist icon. A few weeks later, Steve Wozniak and Zev Siegl, co-founders of Apple and Starbucks, respectively, spoke about entrepreneurship and building a business at separate events two days apart. This week and in the weeks to come, scholars and figures as varied as Harvard Professor Cass Sunstein, Jeopardy champion Arthur Chu and television actress and transgender advocate Laverne Cox will grace campus with their presence.

In the last few years, guests like this have been nonexistent. As recently as last year, for high-profile lectures and presentations students had to travel downtown to experience this same product. Last year, I happily attended presentations by Doris Kearns Goodwin and Bob Woodward by traversing the five miles between campus and the Ohio Theater. This year, I can merely walk to the new, yet still surprisingly disappointing, Tinkham Veale University Center to listen to acclaimed author Khaled Hosseini speak about his books.

The difference between the experiences,

it appears, is the presence of that same university center.

The same building that this paper has almost incessantly criticized as a wallless, art-less, colorless waste of money is the reason that the university has attracted such high profile and notable speakers to campus. The existence of a presentation space has saved the university from falling further into irrelevancy.

That is not to say it is all good. Last year, I wrote about my disappointment at the announcement that several speakers’ series were relocated from the Ohio Theater to Case Western Reserve University. I attacked then, and I still believe now, that these series, while important, do not attract students and are not aimed at young people.

Additionally, the Town Hall series, which was responsible for Gloria Steinem, among others, prides itself on being a forum for debate and discussion in the city. How can that forum exist when all the professionals who they are trying to reach live and work downtown or on the west side, while the presentation is more than five miles in the other direction.

These are problems to which the university has not sufficiently explained an answer, and which they may not feel require answers at all. In the end, CWRU receives acclaim for these speakers, not derision, no matter how much they pervert

the original mission statement.

I only bring this up because I caught myself the other day thinking about the events on campus this fall. It has been a marvelous experience. Personally, I will celebrate anything that makes the headline of The Daily more interesting than, “Vendor Fair takes place next week” (an actual headline from Oct. 22). But after celebrating that small victory, I was again overcome by the potential consequences of these developments.

Cleveland has been “recovering” for years. The city, most recently, has begun to build a significant service sector economy and houses offices of some of the nation’s largest service firms like Jones Day (law), Ernst and Young (accounting), and McKinsey and Company (consulting). But part of this recovery has been attracting well-educated college grads to come to a city where they can experience everything they might want: low cost of living, a social scene, intellectual development, recreation and opportunities to try new things.

Unfortunately, the largest form of nonschool intellectual development is taken from most of our young professionals when these events are moved up Euclid.

And this affects the city. People who otherwise are patrons of downtown restaurants, bars, and, yes, even parking, are now pulled toward University Circle

where the choices for the same staples are dominated by national chains and a multimillion dollar dining company which holds a monopoly on campus food. Instead of supporting Cleveland, this incidental patronage leaves the city.

More than this though, one has to question the motives behind and the future for presentations at CWRU. Are these events here only because we have a new ballroom?

Will they cease once the novelty of the place wears off? The university center includes a “nice” restaurant as an attempt to inculcate the new building into the community of people who come to University Circle solely for the Cleveland Orchestra. But now that its windows are exposed to a wall that will become the subject of student painting and graffiti, how long will the already-fleeting niceness last?

The point here is that people should not become content with the situation as it stands. There is a good chance that in the future, as the novelty of our new gray prison wears off, the programs will stop and the usefulness of the building will once again be questioned. This is something that needs to be thought about now. Not when that time comes.

Senior Andrew Breland is one of The Observer’s weekly opinion columnists.

Contact him at awb69@case.edu.

It just isn’t justice Guest column Nathan Gilbert Despite a lack of evidence for a socalled “crime,” a close friend of mine was recently punished by the Willoughby, Ohio judicial system. Since then, my friend has been severely depressed, nearly to the point of committing suicide. This person is also exhibiting symptoms of mental degeneration after suffering from the stress and torment of the courthouse, law enforcement and other individuals involved. Now, I ponder why certain people have no problem persecuting others, if such experiences are in fact quite common and, if so, how we can grow from them as a community, especially here at Case Western Reserve University.

Of course, there are plenty of examples that indicate Americans are experiencing a kind of collective suffering. The New York Times reports that almost one-third of all

Americans are arrested by age 23. Now, due to our “protective” policies, the newspaper also reports that the U.S. detains nearly 25 percent of all prisoners on Earth. Many of these, unfortunately, are convicted for controversial or petty acts. Take, for instance, the parents of children who are left in overheated cars.

Though unfortunate, the vast majority of these are accidents, so do the parents deserved to be referred to as “criminals”? Evidently, many Americans support them, sending them thousands of dollars to help fight their legal battles. While it may be difficult to support such an individual for his or her deadly mistake, perhaps these people empathize with them, recognizing personal mistakes in their lives and the difficulty of alleviating them.

I am uncertain if those in our judicial system are able to make these same recognitions, or, if they do, are willing to admit them. Unlike when others make a mistake, the judicial system’s often goes unpunished. Perhaps this is because it is difficult to fight them, given

their potential influence within the judicial system itself. This past July, a police officer was stopped in Willoughby for driving under the influence, but Willoughby police let him go quickly, without conducting a breath test.

Only 20 minutes later, the officer was arrested by a highway trooper, and a test revealed he was over twice the legal limit. Evidently, some police appear unwilling to punish their fellow officers.

Also, in a behavioral incident in 1999, during a heated debate, Ohio prosecutor Michael Germano allegedly told a councilman, “You fat little bald man! I’ll kick your ass all over the parking lot!”

Interestingly, no charges were filed. In other professions, such behavior would be deemed intolerable. Perhaps if those in the judicial system were not as above the law, they would better understand the consequences of their actions and the suffering of the masses they convict and would be less likely to attack smaller

injustices for their own financial benefit.

Over the last few months, I’m aware that debates about the Ferguson, Missouri riots are occurring on campus. Perhaps it will take years to find a solution to such a problem, but there are some things we can do right now. Given that college is a time of transition, many CWRU students are particularly stressed at this point in their lives for various reasons. If everyone could empathize with the experiences of others, however indirectly, we might come to a better understanding of them—not just of what they experience, but of how they feel. Ultimately, by these means, we would build an improved and conscious campus, avoiding the persecution of others for faulty reasons and with it, avoid damaging ourselves.

Nathan Gilbert, junior, is an active volunteer with a passion for medicine and chemistry.

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Letters to the editor To the editor, I am writing in response to the article “Hong Kong Protest Hit CWRU” published on Oct. 9, 2014. In no doubt, Aquene Kimmel’s article about my hometown is very impressive, and I am touched that it is an article expressing concern for my hometown. The article provided Case Western Reserve University students an elementary view of the current situation in Hong Kong; I appreciate that there is an increase of awareness towards Hong Kong among CWRU students. Indeed, there is a more complicated situation in Hong Kong than that which The Observer reported.

I feel obliged to share some thought on the contexts surrounding such a severe situation, which had not been addressed in Kimmel’s article.

Hong Kong, where I was born and raised until I came to study in America two years ago, is not just a normal city in China. As a child, I remember the Union Jack flying over this former crown colony and the Scottish bagpipe music, “Highland Cathedral,” was still heard every time the Royal Hong Kong police force participated in a parade. Everything changed on July 1, 1997: the sovereignty

To the editor, In the column, “It’s the system stupid” by Andrew Breland begins his article with a popular pop culture reference that has quickly turned into a classic meme: “What really grinds my gears.” Breland then goes on to state that the return of “prospies” and admissions open houses really grinds his gears. Further criticism is given to the fact that Case Western Reserve University’s admissions department has demonstrated “ineptitude in managing these open houses and campus tours by herding students in large groups around campus to see areas that are not meant to host those numbers, creating an inconvenience for current students.

However, Breland’s biggest complaint has been that the tours on campus are too positive, dole out misleading information and overall don’t provide a real account of how life at CWRU is.

I, as Breland is, am a former tour guide and have a great problem with this article. The claim that students are herded into areas not meant for students of 30 to 80 students is a warranted complaint, but also a complaint which has no real solutions. In order for

of Hong Kong was transferred to China.

Hong Kong, which is a capitalist citystate, did not gain independence like the other former British colonies and was shadowed under a regime with very different political ideology.

One may wonder why the Hong Kongese did not vigorously resist “being returned” to China. The Sino-British Joint Declaration on the Question of Hong Kong provided the answer.

In 1984, the British government and the Chinese government signed the aforementioned declaration to restore Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to China. Most importantly, the declaration indicated Hong Kong would enjoy a high degree of autonomy, except in foreign and defense affairs. In other words, Hong Kong was allowed to maintain an independent executive, legislative and judicial power (including that of final adjudication). The current social and economic systems in Hong Kong would remain unchanged, such as the lifestyle, rights and freedoms. The idea “One country, two systems” was established accordingly.

Based on the promise in the SinoBritish Joint Declaration, a quasiconstitution called The Basic Law

was introduced in 1990 to ensure the autonomy of Hong Kong. In terms of the political structure, The Basic Law Article 45 stated, “The Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region shall be selected by election or through consultations held locally and be appointed by the Central People’s Government… The ultimate aim is the selection of the Chief Executive by universal suffrage upon nomination by a broadly representative nominating committee in accordance with democratic procedures.” Unfortunately, the Chinese government ruled out a fully democratic election in 2017 by imposing tight rules on nominations of candidates and the formation of an exclusive 1,200 member nominating Committee handpicked by the Chinese government.

Earlier this June, Beijing issued a “white paper”, which was condemned as trampling the basic law and “one country, two systems.” The “white paper” angered Hong Kongese and with the rejection of universal suffrage by the Chinese government, triggered the city’s determination for a civil disobedience movement. The cultural differences that generate high tension between Hong Kong and mainland China also

contributed to the political unrest.

I am not saying Hong Kong should once again be colonized by Britain or completely disengage from China. There are indeed voices in Hong Kong saying, “We were once a British colony, now we are a Chinese colony.”

Frank Wu, the president of the Chinese Students and Scholars Association, said in Kimmel’s article, “People are omitting the potential for cooperation between Hong Kong and mainland China.”

Unfortunately, the dishonouring of the promise given to Hong Kongese forced us to lose faith towards the Chinese government. I wish Wu’s statement was true and the relationship would be forever harmonious, but in reality this is not the case. As a Hong Kong citizen, I request that the governments, both Chinese and British, honor their promise and respect our fundamental rights of pursuing true freedom and democracy.

“Hong Kong belongs to Hong Kongese.”

prospective students to get a good idea about which college to go to, they must visit the campus and see every nook and cranny that is available for them to see. CWRU, unlike many other schools, offers comprehensive tours which not only allow one to see academic buildings, but how student life and residential life is on campus as well.

These insights are incredibly valuable to incoming students and help them make their future college decisions.

Breland’s next complaint was that while following a tour he heard the tour guide state things that he believes are either false or objectionable. One such statement is that “meal plans can be used everywhere.” While this is obviously not a true statement, there are plenty of options on campus to use meal swipes: the Jolly Scholar, Leutner, Fribley, the Rough Rider Room, Denny’s, Grab-it and Bag-it. These are located all over campus and are within a five to 10 minute walk of classes on either the quad or Mather quad. Another such statement was that there are tons of meal options between classes. While obviously most options do not accept meal plans, Case Cash is widely accepted, and this is not

a false statement. There are a plethora of options to eat in-between classes from locations on Euclid to Einstein’s to Chutney Rolls to Tomlinson’s Cafe to the Tinkham Veale University Center or the Jolly Scholar.

Breland’s biggest complaint was that when asked if there was anything she disliked about CWRU, the tour guide stated that she had none. Breland then went on to assume that the tour guide was probably a sophomore engineer who is naive. To assume such a thing is not only offensive to someone who has to go through an interview process to be hired as a tour guide (as Breland is well aware of), but is also offensive to anyone who considers themselves to be serious students and future leaders.

His statement, published in The Observer, also makes it come across as if all engineers are naive and not aware, which is perhaps why there is little love between humanities and engineering.

His complaint is half warranted in that the tour guide has no complaints about CWRU, which we all know to be false; we have all found something to complain about.

Perhaps it is the fault of admissions in

their training to not tell their tour guides to always have one complaint ready to tell students. Or perhaps the tour guide actually has had no complaints and has had a perfect CWRU experience so far. Breland complains that tour guides talk up the university to make students fit into the CWRU machine and not to actually help the students, but to help themselves as if they are a business.

Now while this may be a fair complaint and in an ideal world we would help all students who want to come to CWRU, we cannot. We only have so much space and CWRU has to accept the best and brightest, not only to make CWRU look better as Breland believes is the only motive, but also to better the rest of the student population as well. The better and smarter your classmates and friends are, the more likely you will strive to be better as well. It may not seem fair and it may seem like a game of numbers, but maybe it is just the system, stupid.

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arts & entertainment “Orange is the New Black”

star to speak on Nov. 6

Jessica Yang Social Media Editor Laverne Cox, of “Orange is the New Black,” who plays an incarcerated, black, transgender woman, is coming to campus on Nov. 6 at 7 p.m. in the Tinkham Veale University Center. Although tickets are sold out, the event will be live-streamed simultaneously in the Ford Auditorium.

Liz Roccoforte, director of the LGBT center in Thwing, was a large part of the process that chose Cox. “We decided to bring Laverne Cox to campus back in February 2014. I knew that it was time for the LGBT Center to bring a higher profile speaker to campus, but I wanted to make sure that this person would have a broad appeal, as well as be able to speak to some of the important work that still needed to be done on campus around the intersection of sexuality, gender identity and race,” said Roccoforte.

“The decision to bring her was based on a series of informal conversations happening throughout the CWRU LGBT and ally communities, including conversations with student and administrative leadership in the Office of Multicultural Affairs and the Center for Women,” said Roccoforte. “Finally, she’s a gifted actress on an extremely

Courtesy orange-is-the-new-black.wikia.com Laverne Cox is a transgender actress starring on “Orange is the New Black,” a popular Netflix-original series. popular series—this helps magnify her voice and appeal to a larger audience.”

Cox is the first transgender woman of color to have a leading role in a mainstream, scripted show. She’s been awarded numerous prizes, such as Dorian Rising Star Award for her work

on “Orange is the New Black.” Also, her character on the show, Sophia Burset, was named 4th most inf luential character of 2013 by Time magazine.

In light of the recent #webelonghere movement and CWRU’s ranking as an LGBT-friendly university, Laverne

Cox’s visit and lecture has been more relevant than ever.

“It’s become abundantly clear that the campus still has work to do around race relations, marginalization and discrimination of people of color,” said Roccoforte. “As a transgender woman of color, I hope that her talk will be able to contribute to the current conversation, while also deepening the dialogue by highlighting the importance of discussing the experiences of LGBT people of color on campus.”

Although the event has been affiliated mostly with the LGBT Center, it is also sponsored by other on-campus organizations such as The Office of Multicultural Affairs, The Flora Stone Mather Center for Women, The Provost’s Office, Undergraduate Student Government, Interfraternity Congress, Panhellenic Council and the Office of Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunity as well as Skylight Financial, a corporate sponsor.

Although Cox is the first celebrity activist that the LGBT Center has brought onto campus, the Center has brought speakers such as Robyn Ochs, Kenyon Farrow and JAC Stringer in the past. It’s the LGBT Center’s hope that Cox’s impact on campus will extend far beyond the night of her lecture.

Films for your fearfest While I’m sure you’ll be on the lookout to catch ABC’s “Charlie Brown Great Pumpkin” special, “The Simpsons’ Treehouse of Horror” or your annual dose of Disney’s “Halloweentown” and “Hocus Pocus,” consider the following films to round out your Halloween Horror Movie Marathon. - Winston Eng, Staff Reporter.

All photos Courtesy IMDB “Fright Night”

“The Rocky Horror Picture Show”

“Trick ‘r Treat”

In this 2011 remake, teenager Charley suspects that his new neighbor may in fact be more sinister than he initially appears. With the sudden disappearance of his fellow high school students and accusations of a supernatural force at play, Charley decides to take matters into his own hands and resolve the vampiric situation before it gets out of control. A combination of comedy and horror, “Fright Night” is a lovely way to start off the evening with a light-hearted introduction into what should be a fearful night.

How can a Halloween be complete without a “Rocky Horror Picture Show” attendance? This 1975 cult classic follows recently engaged Brad Majors and Janet Weiss as they find themselves stranded in the nearby castle owned by the outlandish and quite f lamboyant transvestite Dr. Frank N. Furter. Part musical part comedy horror, “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” is an event well worth attending for the experience alone. Check out the Case Western Reserve Film Society’s annual production on Saturday in Strosacker Auditorium to witness a real-life bacchanal of unrivaled proportions.

Some movies use Halloween as a setting for a horror scene; “Trick ‘r Treat” takes that concept and raises it to level that really embodies the spirit of fear and anxiety we all can associate with this upcoming holiday. Split into four different Halloween-related horror stories, this anthology is designed to fill you with grinning trepidation. Full of fun scares, grizzly spooks, and Sam, a pint-sized trick-or-treater appearing whenever someone breaks a Halloween tradition, Trick ‘r Treat is perfect film to pre-game this night of fright and give your audience the right amount of scream to make it one of the most memorable of your fearfest.

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The experience of fear Alex Clarke Staff Reporter Fear Experience is an appropriate name for the haunted house in Parma, Ohio, partly owned by sophomore Max Simon. From the moment you walk in actors follow you, stare at you and block your path. Which makes even to buy tickets an act of bravery.

When you do, you’re tricked into thinking that the big scary doors are the entrance into the haunted house, but it’s really just into the room with the line.

But even there you’re being scared (as I found out there that the actors are allowed to touch you).

An actor dressed up as an alien both guided me forward with a hand on my back and surprised me by stroking my hair. So before I even went into the haunted house my adrenaline was on blast.

Another fearful experience was that no one answers your questions. I asked three people how long it takes to get through the haunted house until I realized that not telling us was part of the gimmick (it takes about 10 minutes per haunted house and there are four).

I asked the actor if he was allowed to touch me—I also told him I didn’t sign a waiver—and he responded by touching my shoulder. One nice man finally said that the actors are allowed to lightly touch you. Of course you still can’t touch them.

Courtesy Max Simon Fear Experience introduces a new type of haunted house, where actors approach and touch visitors, even while they wait in line.

The first haunted house was zombiethemed, the second an insane asylum and the third was a carnival. Rounding out the attraction was a fourth house, modeled after an industrial wasteland.

In all, the actors were completely in character. Zombies sounded and moved like zombies, actors ran around with their arms bonded to their sides in the insane asylum and the carnival actors dressed up as clowns, had animal masks and one guy looked like a scary carnie from my county fair. The costumes were great down to their contacts lenses.

I felt like some actors could have tried harder, and then some wouldn’t leave people alone. For example there was one point where two actors with

Halloween fashion tricks and trends Allison Duchin Staff Reporter Halloween trends change from year to year just like regular fashion trends do.

However, the difference is that the general public doesn’t witness these trends until that one night occurs.

There will always be the classics: witches, princesses and angels. However, last year and this year there have been specific costumes and pieces that have been flying off of the shelves.

Last year some of the biggest costume trends were from do-it-yourself masterpieces and pre-packaged looks. As always, box office hits from each year inspired popular costume ideas that often become so desired they saturate the market. Some of the biggest movies recreated for last year’s Halloween costumes included characters from “Oz: The Great and Powerful,” “Star Trek Into Darkness,” “Despicable Me 2” and “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.”

The year 2013 also saw a rise to popular Halloween costumes that included anything that utilized feathers and wings. These simple statement pieces are really easy to incorporate into an outfit to make it a costume. Some easy costumes that can be made out of simple feather and wing accents are the classic angel and devil looks as well as birds of all different species, but if you’re going for a more creative route, try being a flying monkey from “The Wizard of Oz.” Superheroes have always been a large contender for popular costumes. However, the increased number of superhero and comic book movie revivals have also caused a revival in the popularity of these costumes, and not just for men, but across gender and age groups.

Along with these classics, animal-inspired costumes also had a large presence last year, as they do every year. This past year however,

instead of individuals creating highly scandalous animal looks to wear as costumes, costume companies provided these over-sexed looks. These costumes consisted of bodycon dresses with fur patterns as well as a hood with ears and often paired with tall, heeled boots. It is likely that last year was not the last time that we will see these ensembles.

This year holds a few more new trends as well as some of the same ones. The most anticipated, recognized, and predictable of these characters will be from the new Disney movie “Frozen,” which was released at the end of last year. Costume stores such as Party City have claimed that these long blue Elsa-inspired dresses have been flying off the shelves for both young girls and adults.

“Despicable Me” minions are also predicted to be a repeat favorite of this year’s costume choices. The little characters will likely remain popular because they are an easy DIY project. Just take a yellow shirt, shorts or suspenders, which can easily be found from Avalon Exchange or one of the other vintage clothing stores in Coventry, and top it off with a cut-off cup bottom painted like an eye glued to a headband.

Additionally, the superhero trend has likely spread due to the release of the show “Marvel: Agents of Shield,” “Flash” and “Arrow.”

All of these shows are extending the trend of the superhero revival in pop culture.

Other costumes which were originally predicted, chic geek and vampires, have been replaced by another Halloween favorite: zombies. Just as blockbuster films have a major impact on Halloween costume popularity, television show hits can also have the same effect. One of the shows that helped resurrect zombie fanatics is “The Walking Dead.”

Whether or not campus takes a turn for the scary, sexy, cynical or silly this year, here’s to a horrifying and happy Halloween at Case Western Reserve University.

chainsaws blocked the path of a group of screaming girls, and the only way they got through was because me and a friend just charged through them. Another actor in the carnival house got so close to my face that I could see the stubble on his chin in the dark room.

The houses themselves were a series of rooms and hallways. The rooms mostly had actors and the hallways held a lot of the jump scares, and other gimmicks such as being in complete darkness, bags filled with air—that simulate claustrophobia—mazes (that took forever to figure out), hanging robes/body bags, and slow strobe lights. Along with the jump scares were air guns that pop at your feet and random horn sounds.

Overall I was scared because for the first time the actors didn’t just follow me, jump out or stare at me. These actors got in my personal space and pushed me to act out of survival—I sprinted a lot and had to get a little aggressive to get through the chainsaw blockade.

I was sweating after I was finished, because it really simulated fear for me.

If these types of gimmicks work for you, you will get scared, but if you’re like my friend who doesn’t get fazed easily, Fear Experience will be, at the very least, a better-than-average haunted house.

The Fear Experience is located at 10701 Brookpark Rd. in Parma, Ohio.

They’ll remain open until Nov. 1. Hours can be found on their website.

CWRU THOUGHTS

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Maria Fazal Staff Reporter The Case Western Reserve University community is known for thinking beyond the possible. Each week, this column aims to capture a slice of camous life.

Q: How has being a college student changed your perspective?

A: I think being with people who are different from you is really helpful. Having to interact with people who are different from you, living with people whose backgrounds you don’t know—and they don’t know yours—and learning other

people’s ways of thinking is good for me, I think. In a way, it’s made me more sure of my own ideas, and it’s also made me more tolerant. I’m more willing to understand other people’s opinions, but I also understand my own ideas better.

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Playlist of the Week “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” — The Flaming Lips Feat. My Morning Jacket, Fever The Ghost & J. Mascis

Teddy Eisenberg Staff Reporter

In a move of either sheer brilliance or pure blasphemy, The Flaming Lips have released a cover album of the most important record ever. With a little help from many of their musical friends, the Lips approach their take on this classic track with the same reckless, rule-breaking spirit of The Beatles. “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” is a schizophrenic work of psychedelic romp, electronic stupor and face-melting guitar (courtesy of J Mascis). Pick up this record for a journey into the eerily familiar, bewitchingly wild and truly horrifying.

“Bury Our Friends” — Sleater-Kinney A reunion few saw coming, cult-heroes SleaterKinney are back with a vicious blast of guitar pop.

Most notable in “Bury Our Friends” is the all-female group’s dual guitar attack, adding a sonic complexity to this song that shows why Sleater-Kinney are one of the most important feminist punk rock bands of all time. Look for this cut on “No Cities to Love,” due out on Sub Pop Records this coming January.

“Do It Again” — The Ting Tings Chances are you remember the obnoxiously catchy Ting Tings from their 2008 summer-smash “That’s Not My Name.” Back to make a statement in 2014, “Do It Again” proves that times have changed for the British duo. This track is a dramatic reversal of the bratty punk melodicism that defined many of the pair’s earlier songs, sporting a streamlined, club-ready brand of sophisticated pop led by a heavy disco guitar hook reminiscent of “Shut Up And Let Me Go.” Look for this tune on The Ting Tings’ latest album, “Super Critical,” which came out October 27 on Finca Records.

“Gone Gone Gone” — French For Rabbits The idea of rabbits speaking French is an utterly perfect representation of this New Zealand indie-folk duo’s sound: nonsensically twee, but also dainty and delicately beautiful. “Gone Gone Gone” is perhaps the strongest cut off French For Rabbit’s debut album, “Spirits,” conjuring up the comforting sounds of a strong cup of tea, a favorite sweater or the joy of gazing out a window on a cold autumn day. “Spirits” was released on October 28 on Lefse Records.

“In the Corners” — Francisco The Man Every note that Francisco The Man plays on “In the Corners” has been played one thousand times before in the history of rock and roll. The noisy guitar riffs, the overextended fuzz, the irresistibly strong melody; any of these elements can be copied, but to conjure like this quartet does takes a special kind of magic. There’s a lot to love on this track, and the group’s debut record, “Loose Ends,” is well worth a listen if only for that reason.

Retro Pick of the Week: “Werewolves Warren Zevon

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In honor of Halloween, Warren Zevon brings us the less-than-spooky stories of well-groomed, hungry werewolves running amuck for this week’s Retro Pick. His only major hit, “Werewolves Of London” is a pop treat that won Zevon the audience his darkly comic music always deserved while showcasing his piano-playing and lyrical talents.

Find all these tracks online with our weekly Spotify playlist at observer.case.edu Teddy Eisenberg is a third year programmer at WRUW-FM 91.1 Cleveland. He hosts The ’59 Sound, an exploration of rock music, every Thursday morning from 8-10 a.m.. and co-hosts the variety talk show Max and Teddy in the Morning at Night (Sometimes) on Mondays from 5-6 p.m. The crackle of vinyl warms him on cold Cleveland nights.

All photos courtesy wikipedia.com, consequenceofsound.net, josepvinaixa. com, stereogum.com, slyvinyl.com & lyrics007.com

Footlighters’ belated Halloween celebration

Courtesy Beth Magid Actors from Footlighters practice their fall show.

Ellie Rambo Copy Editor The Footlighters don’t want you to forget Halloween again this year.

“Everyone’s always busy with school and ends up missing it,” said student director Sam Haese. “Around Nov. 2 you look up and think: ‘Oh no, I didn’t do anything for Halloween.’”

The musical-production group hopes to remedy this with their fall show, the gory “Evil Dead: The Musical.” The musical follows five college students to a cabin in the woods, and features demons, zombies and spurts of blood.

It will run for three days next weekend.

“The adjective we are going to go for is ‘gratuitous,’” said Haese.

That should be easy to achieve with this show, which is based on the original “Evil Dead” movie franchise, a cheesy horror trilogy that established the cabin-in-the-woods cliché. The musical version is a “comic retelling” of the movies, according to Haese.

The larger-than-life characters fight evil spirits and transform into the undead, singing along the way.

“This gave us an opportunity to work with makeup and special effects, which we haven’t done before,” said Haese. “It’s very new for the club.”

Footlighters’ choice to perform “Evil Dead” falls within a Cleveland trend of horror-inspired productions; local Black Canvas Theater is now wrapping up its production of “Night of the Living Dead,” and Footlighter’s “Evil Dead” will be performed just a little over two weeks after Playhouse Square’s production of the same play.

The timing of the play was perfect in more than one way. The Footlighters have needed a comedic break, since they have done dramatic shows for a while now.

“We did three very serious shows in a row, they were a bit on the tragic side and we tended to stick to classics,” said Haese. “I wanted to venture outside of that and do something unconventional and lighthearted.”

Location: Carlton Commons Tickets: Students $5, Public $10 Show Dates & Times: Nov. 6 at 8:30 p.m.; Nov. 7 at 8 p.m.; Nov. 8 at 8 p.m. and 11:59 p.m.

Local teen publishes novel about bullying Aneeka Ayyar Staff Reporter When he was 10 years old, Brett Brown decided that he wanted to write a book.

Now, at only seventeen, he has already published his first novel, “Haley’s Comet,” a story about bullying, growing up, and finding yourself, all while trying to stop aliens from taking over the world.

“As young adults, there are too many things in the world that are depressing,” said Brown. “I wanted to write about something that would make kids feel good about themselves.”

The plot of the novel revolves around a twelve year old girl, Haley, who struggles with making friends, moving to a new neighborhood, and bullying, while also dealing with an alien takeover. The story, aimed at kids from 12 to 14 years old, is meant to give a positive message about how you can overcome any struggle.

The novel, published through 220 Publishing, is based on Brown’s personal experiences of being bullied in middle school. Raised in Chicago, Brown eventually moved to Lakewood, OH, a theme reflected early on in the book.

Brown first began work on “Haley’s Comet” in seventh grade. It was a 63-page story that his English teacher didn’t like. Still, the rejection only spurred him on, and he ended up adding another 200 pages to the text.

The title came from Brown’s seventh grade science class. He first thought of writing a space-themed story, but he thought it might be too cliche, so he chose aliens instead.

Brown’s origins in writing come from his mother’s constant push. According to Brown, when he did something wrong, instead of taking away his TV privileges, his mother would punish him by making him write it down.

Brown did most of his writing for “Haley’s Comet” in the library during Cleveland’s chilly January months. When he was finished, he began the long journey towards publication.

Brown wrote to many publishers asking them to look at his book. More than a year later, he heard back from one publisher who offered him a cash advance, but wanted him to give up the rights to his book.

“My mother and I wanted a company that would give me the rights to my book,” said Brown. “It was something that I created out of my mind.”

Eventually, they settled on the Chicago-based 220 Publishing, who did not offer him a cash advance but did give him full rights to the book.

“I was so thankful that it finally happened,” said Brown.

The novel has received a lot of encouraging feedback, with people enjoying its positive message. Brown says that he got some attention for it in middle school, but now, as a senior in high school, he hears a lot about the book.

“I’m really very modest about it,” he said with a chuckle.

Brown doesn’t plan on writing a sequel to “Haley’s Comet,” but he does want to pursue other projects. He plans on attending the University of Michigan, majoring in architecture and animation.

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Below: Representatives from the junior class square off against seniors in the Powder Puff Football Game.

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Dennis Lehane’s blood sport Nardine Taleb Contributing reporter Dennis Lehane’s talk on Thursday, Oct. 23, had the audience guffawing in their seats.

Not only is the thriller-novelist responsible for writing several adored books like “Shutter Island” and “The Given Day,” he is also a Bostonian—and a hilarious one, too.

Before diving into his comedic monologue about bars and writing, he first followed up on President Barbara Snyder and Professor Robert Spadoni’s highlighted point: Libraries are valuable. Lehane himself discussed their impact on his life, noting it as 10 out of 20 reasons why he became a writer. According to him, libraries say, “you have worth.”

Libraries are not the only reason he became a storyteller. The other 10 reasons came in sequence in a comedian-like talk. To give us context, Lehane described his hometown as the “shittiest” town in Boston, and that storytelling there was, well, a “blood sport.”

As a young kid, he sat around with his dad’s friends, usually at a bar while they told stories. There were three important factors to this sport: 1) hit the ground running, 2) be

funny because, 3) the story is probably tragic.

Coming from a working-class family, Lehane implied how hard it was to tell his parents that he would pursue a degree in writing. In fact, to this day, his dad still tells him that other job opportunities are available.

Lehane never gave up, though, because, taken verbatim, “I suck at everything else.” He explained that he had to be “hyper-focused,” committed and a hard worker. He didn’t want to be a failed writer working at a bar with his friends calling out: “Hey, Steinbeck, bring me another Bud.” All in all, Lehane’s talk was an inspirational story in itself. In the midst of all his jokes and side-laughs, there was rawness to his story. The audience appreciated his honesty, and demonstrated this with the fixed and amused smiles on everyone’s faces. Writing, he says, “is an imperfect science,” and narrative exists because it “gives meaningless, senseless events meaning.”

If that isn’t raw or honest enough for you, then, like Lehane would possibly say, you’ve been drinking.

The eye in its wild state CMA features surrealist photography

Maria Fazal Staff Reporter Surrealist photography typically conjures up images of manipulated digital masterpieces. However, the surrealist form of photography has been around for quite a long time, beginning in the early 20th century.

The Cleveland Museum of Art now highlights these early but equally effective works in their new exhibition “Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography.”

These antique pictures all dating from the ‘20s and ‘40s have a charm of their own that no one can replicate, even with today’s modern technology. In fact, it’s shocking these traditional methods were able distort and mold reality to create such startling and mind-blowing effects.

Cleveland Museum of Art curator of photography Barbara Tannenbaum is excited about the new exhibit. “It’s a fun experience to have and teaches you a lot about the history of the period through the eyes of the people who were there. It enriches our understanding of the period to see it firsthand through some of these eyes,” she said. “There are so many surprises and names that may not be known to people, and it really expands your idea of photography.”

The methods to achieve the distinctive surreal feel varied from artist to artist. Some artists chose interesting subjects—an especially successful example of this in the exhibition is a photograph of a lobster claw that bears an uncanny resemblance to a smiling face.

Furthermore, photographers were also able to transform the mundane into truly spectacular creations, and they helped turn photography from something that was used almost exclusively for the purposes of documentary to a respected art form.

Others took photography beyond the camera and assembled intricate and meaningful collages. Another technique still was utilizing something called a photogram, which creates a distinctive negative shadow image.

Visitors have the opportunity to experiment with the photogram technique firsthand. In the midst of the exhibition hall, there is a small closet-like space filled with a variety of objects and a light-sensitive screen. These objects can be arranged and ordered to form a temporary photographic piece.

Additionally, the exhibition features two books and six short films, which are displayed throughout the hall. Depending on the film, the experience can range from hypnotizing to enthralling to almost brainwashing.

As viewers wander through the sharply angled pathways and rooms, they may find themselves hopelessly lost in a dreamlike journey through the psyches of 68 artists from 14 different countries in the Americas and Europe.

Tannenbaum explained that she “tried to make it a surreal experience to walk through the gallery.”

Instead of just arbitrarily ordering photographs, Tannenbaum wanted to make the artwork viewing more of an experience.

“There was a love of the irrational, sense of discovery and surprise in it. I really wanted it to be a playful and somewhat eccentric, unbalancing experience,” she said.

The exhibition hall is also filled with gigantic blown-up posters of some of the photos, which only adds a sense of déjà vu to the already anomalous experience. One of these gigantic posters is of an intently gazing eye coated with a material that appears to be a suspicious cross between hair and ink.

This photo seems to have become the iconic picture of the exhibition, and for good reason. Tannenbaum says that the photos in the exhibition express the “idea of surrealism of the eye in its wild state, with the eye untamed by convention, morality, art history training.”

The 167 photographs and illustrated books all come from the collection of one man, David Raymond, who started as a photo dealer and has been heavily involved in several artistic endeavors. He was so enthralled by surrealist photography that, when one of his clients opted out of that market, Raymond decided to spend his own money accumulating an extensive collection.

According to the CMA website, the Raymond collection of surrealist and modernist photography is “distinguished by [its] quality, breadth and rarity of subject matter” and is “one of the most important holdings of twentieth-century surrealist photography that remained in private hands.”

Viewing this undeniably impressive collection is free. It will be displayed at the Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation Exhibition Hall at the CMA from Oct. 19, 2014 to Jan. 11, 2015.

Lehane’s tips for writing success Anne Nickoloff Arts & Entertainment Editor “I have a theory that you have 1,000 pages of crap in you,” said author Dennis Lehane, sitting at a table surrounded by students, “and you basically just write the crap out of you.”

Before speaking at the second Writer’s Center Stage event of the year, Lehane met with a group of over 20 Case Western students to talk about his experiences with writing, failure and fear management on Oct. 23.

The Q&A session led to many questions, including some about his work as a novelist, his writing for popular television show “The Wire” and his system for developing characters in his realistic novels, including “Mystic River” and “Gone, Baby, Gone.”

Lehane’s approach to writing isn’t typical; he usually goes into writing a book with only three or four plot points planned out (of course, with the exception of the mind-bending novel “Shutter Island”). After around 30 years of writing, he has a quirky sense of putting together stories.

But he was ready to call out young writers who still don’t understand the importance of simply spending time on learning writing skills. “You’re young; you don’t know shit,” he said towards the end of the session.

There was much to learn from his unique approach, and he was willing to share his invaluable instruction. Here are some of Dennis Lehane’s tips for writing success: 1. Failure is a part of the process.

“Play to your strengths, but once you’ve done that, start challenging yourself,” said Lehane. “Keep doing the things that scare you when you’re writing. You don’t know it

‘til you try it, then you try it and you fail. You are going to fail before you succeed.”

2. There are three important keys to story development.

“One: The action should not begin on a Wednesday if Thursday is when it starts. Two: What are the stakes? The audience should know something’s at stake,” Lehane said.

Lehane drew his final suggestion from a past student, and shared it with the small group. “Three: You can never exit a scene with the same energy you entered it. Reversal of expectation is key.”

3. It takes time to be a pro.

“Becoming a master at anything takes 10 years,” said Lehane. “I wrote my first book to entertain myself, and it took three weeks,” said Lehane. “But, I once took a year to write a short story.”

4. Avoid relationships until you’ve established yourself.

Lehane claims that oftentimes, marriages undergo unneeded stress when an aspiring writer or actor attempts to multitask with a relationships and work.

“Until you’re successful, don’t get married,” he said. “Don’t suck anybody else into it… unless, you know, it’s something like ‘friends with benefits.’”

5. Fear management.

Lehane believes that writing is incredibly revealing, and that can be scary. “You’re about to be as naked as you’ve ever been in front of everybody,” he said. “The final step of the process, once everything has come together… is fear management.”

Though he admits to being very afraid of universal rejection, Lehane believes this fear must be let go for a writer to become successful.

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Too weird to beat The Beatles The Flaming Lips makes “fwends” on cover album Anne Nickoloff Arts & Entertainment Editor It’s a wonder why The Flaming Lips felt the need to cover the entirety of The Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” award-winning, culture-changing shockwave of an album… but they did.

Officially released on Oct. 28, “With a Little Help From My Fwends” is a little more than strange (in typical Lips fashion).

Here’s a bit of background—it’s the 14th Flaming Lips album, all of its proceeds go towards veterinary care and it features the likes of Dr. Dog, Tegan and Sara and Moby (among other “fwends” of the psychedelic rock group). It had such a unique hype about it, but it’s ultimately a bit of a letdown.

It’s hard to begin describing how this album ultimately translates. Drawing inspiration from one of the first psychedelic rock albums of all time, it’s obvious that The Flaming Lips were going to take things to the next level. Rocketship noises, radio feedback and fuzzy vocals are to be expected.

However, so is musicality, and the bulk of the album arguably lacks this key component.

Starting off with a version of “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” (which sounds like 10-year-old VHS tape audio), the melody mixes into a big pot of superfuzz, heavy hits and headache. Yes, it’s unique. Yes, it’s psychedelic. But the wrong kind of psychedelic.

Put simply, it’s the start of a really, really bad acid trip.

Chugging on through “With a Little Help From My Friends” with its uncomfort-

Courtesy Wikipedia.com The Flaming Lips new cover album is as out-there as the album’s artwork. ably chaotic repetitions of “do you need anybody?” yelled into the mic, the out-ofkey elements blast onwards in The Flaming Lips’ bad-trip fashion. However, there is then some much-needed reprieve (after only two songs!) in “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,” featuring Miley Cyrus.

People can bash on Cyrus all they want, but she seems to be the only one who

Grog Shop goes back to the ’90s

Indie band Minus the Bear brings in retro tunes Mike Suglio Staff Reporter On Oct. 21, Minus the Bear played a sold-out concert to a crowd of dedicated fans. However, some of the openers didn’t quite fit the bill.

Opener Young Widows recently released their new full-length album, Easy Pain, which was recorded with Kevin Ratterman of My Morning Jacket. Their last album in 2011, “In and Out of Youth and Lightness,” was expressive and dynamic with lots heavy jams.

Young Widows can be summed up with one word: bass. Lots and lots and lots of bass. The band will jam for several minutes straight with little to no vocals. The heavy rock reminded me of early 2000s American rock bands.

The three-man band did very little talking and instead just played their hearts out. Some introductions to their songs would have helped someone like me who had never heard of them or their music to become more familiarized.

As the band members rocked their heads to the bass at whiplash rates the audience did not rock with them. The packed room was clearly there for Minus the Bear and talked through the set or played on their phones. I often found my attention on the bright cell phone screens in the dark venue rather than on the stage.

The issue was simple: fans of Minus the Bear were simply not the same type of fans who would come to a Young Widows concert.

The set break was the longest set break I had experienced between bands. It was nearly an hour between the final song from the Young Widows to Minus the Bear taking

the stage. For the first time in all my years of going to the Grog Shop I questioned if the headliner was actually there.

After the long, restless wait, Minus the Bear took the stage to an energetic and loud applause.

Minus the Bear formed in 2001 in Seattle, Washington. The West Coast band has had an impressive volume of work with five full-length LP’s and eight EP’s, and they also recently released their new album titled “Lost Loves.”

The band has opened and performed with a wide variety of other musicians, from Soundgarden to Jimmy Eat World to the Foo Fighters.

The mostly bearded band took the stage to a loud cheer and immediately filled the room with heavy instrumentals and classic indie rock. By the end of the first song the audience had come to life and began to rock and dance to the music.

This harmonious band emanated mesmerizing lyrics and sound, and I often found myself lost in the ’90s feeling rock, remembering my days of listening to Incubus.

Alex Rose was an excellent keyboardist, and offered exotic and electric sound.

His sound engineering background rang true through the show. Minus the Bear performed songs from their new albums but still played classics such as “Pachuca Sunrise” and “My Time.”

As with any great rock band, the guitar solos were long and complex. The band sped from slow to fast rock music, which left the audience exhausted, yet always cheering for more. Cleveland is the Rock n’ Roll capital of the country and this night at Grog Shop could not have exemplified it more.

knows how to make things a little more consistent on “With a Little Help from my Fwends.” Almost inevitably, there are a ton of feedback and alienesque sounds on this track too, yet Cyrus’ voice finds a way to cool things down and make the turbulent theme more tangible than the sounds of mish-mashed YouTube videos.

And she manages to do this once again

in “A Day in the Life,” which wraps up the album, thankfully, on a good note. But between these two songs, there are only a few other shining standouts that won’t induce migraines.

“She’s Leaving Home,” featuring Phantogram, has an electric-sounding drumset with sharp little cymbal hits, right above flowing, half-awake vocals.

The calm, whooshing song is another thankful break amidst the in-your-face shouting on most other tracks.

Tegan and Sara make an appearance on “Lovely Rita,” with a little bit more of a poppy, upbeat, less-cringing sound to it. Fighting through The Flaming Lips’ blanket of weirdness, the pop duo has just the right amount of pep to break free. Are those burp noises? It’s okay; Tegan and Sara’s pretty vocals are enough to make this song enjoyable.

But the bad-trip album isn’t worth listening to completely. Instead, it’s more enjoyable to simply pick through the track list and listen to your favorite artists. Then, see their takes (coupled, of course, with The Flaming Lips) on an old favorite from The Beatles themselves.

All in all, The Flaming Lips’ message was to have a concept album worth listening to all the way through, and that is a difficult thing to do with “A Little Help from my Fwends” without getting a headache. As a collection of covers, this album is more impressive.

But a concept album? Leave it to The Beatles.

November Spot Night preview Temi Omilabu Staff Reporter

Nov. 20—Dylan Scott (with opener Jordan Genovese)

Nov. 6—Little Daylight Straight out of Brooklyn, New York, Little Daylight is an alternative pop group that began in 2012, when the three members—Nikki Taylor, Eric Zeiler and Matt Lewkowicz—gathered to practice remixes of songs by their favorite artists.

Since then, their popularity has grown exponentially. Their first live performance was at the yearly music and arts festival, SXSW, in Austin, Texas in 2013.

Their first TV appearance was on Late Night with Seth Meyers in early 2014.

In the past year, they have also toured with Bastille and Charlie XCX, and their popular single, “Overdose,” has gained them recognition.

Nov. 13—Diarrhea Planet (with opener Sails) This six-member band for Tennessee is sure to make your Thursday night a rockin’ one. Diarrhea Planet is a rock and roll band that formed in 2009. They have been exalted for their wild shows (which often include covers of rock and roll legends like Bruce Springsteen, Jimi Hendrix and Third Eye Blind). They recently performed at Bonnaroo Music Festival, SXSW and the Governors Ball Music Festival.

Dylan Scott is a Louisiana-born country singer-songwriter who is rising in the country charts. His single “Makin’ This Boy Go Crazy” was on the Billboard Country Airplay chart for a whopping 10 weeks, and in April, it peaked at #54. His new self-titled CD is relatable, soulful and a crowd-pleaser.

Dec. 4—Generationals (with opener Midnight Slander) The arrival of this indie duo at Spot Night is highly anticipated. Generationals is composed of Ted Joyner and Grant Widmer, two New Orleans natives with a passion for writing and recording music. While recording their debut album, “Con Law,” in 2008 in Washington D.C., the duo was surrounded by news about the 2008 presidential election, and the generational issues that split the two candidates; hence, the band name “Generationals” came into existence.

Their music sounds, to me, like an alluring mix between the old-timey music that our parents enjoyed and the indie/ pop music we listen to today. This duo is sure to give an amazing performance.

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(March 21 – April 19) Eating some candy is the best thing you can do for yourself this week.

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(April 20 – May 20) Your costume will be the talk of the town, but don’t forget an umbrella: there’s an 80 percent chance of rain this weekend.

Gemini

(May 21 – June 20) Dress warmly this Halloweekend. You don’t want to end up with a cold to start off the second half of the semester.

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Sports Standings Men’s Soccer

Conference

All

Wins

Losses

Ties

Percent

Wins

Losses

Ties

Percent

Brandeis

3

1

0

0.750

15

1

0

0.938

Chicago

2

0

2

0.500

8

5

2

0.533

Carnegie Mellon

2

1

1

0.500

8

4

1

0.615

Case Western Reserve

2

1

1

0.500

8

4

3

0.533

New York U.

2

2

0

0.500

11

3

0

0.786

Rochester

1

2

1

0.250

7

4

3

0.500

Emory

1

3

0

0.250

11

3

1

0.733

Washington

0

3

1

0.000

7

5

2

0.500

Conference

All

Women’s Soccer

Wins

Losses

Ties

Percent

Wins

Losses

Ties

Percent

Carnegie Mellon

3

1

0

0.750

12

1

0

0.923

Washington

2

1

1

0.500

12

1

2

0.800

Chicago

2

1

1

0.500

11

3

1

0.733

New York U.

2

1

3

0.333

10

4

1

0.667

Brandeis

1

2

1

0.250

11

3

1

0.733

Case Western Reserve

1

2

1

0.250

8

4

3

0.533

Emory

0

1

3

0.000

9

1

5

0.600

Rochester

1

3

0

0.250

5

7

3

0.333

Volleyball

Conference

All

Wins

Losses

Percent

Wins

Losses

Percent

Washington

6

1

0.857

27

4

0.871

Emory

6

1

0.857

28

3

0.903

Carnegie Mellon

5

2

0.714

21

8

0.724

Case Western Reserve

4

3

0.571

15

10

0.600

Chicago

4

3

0.571

20

11

0.645

New York U.

2

5

0.286

18

13

0.581

Rochester

1

6

0.143

12

17

0.414

Brandeis

0

7

0.000

6

20

0.231

Football (UAA)

Conference

All

Wins

Losses

Percent

Wins

Losses

Percent

Chicago

1

0

1.000

6

1

0.857

Case Western Reserve

1

0

1.000

3

4

0.429

Carnegie Mellon

0

1

0.000

3

4

0.429

Washington

0

1

0.000

2

5

0.286

Football (PAC)

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Conference

All

Wins

Losses

Percent

Wins

Losses

Percent

Washington & Jefferson

5

0

1.000

7

0

1.000

Waynesburg

5

1

0.833

7

1

0.875

Thomas More

5

1

0.833

6

2

0.750

Bethany

4

2

0.667

5

3

0.625

St. Vincent

3

2

0.600

3

4

0.429

Carnegie Mellon

3

4

0.429

3

4

0.429

Case Western Reserve

3

4

0.429

3

4

0.429

Geneva

1

4

0.200

2

5

0.286

Thiel

1

4

0.200

2

5

0.286

Westminster

1

4

0.200

1

6

0.143

Grove City

0

5

0.000

0

7

0.000

Weekly Calendar Varsity Sport

Friday

Saturday

Football

@ Washington University in St. Louis 1:00 PM

Volleyball

Tri-Match vs Denison 12:00 PM @ Wooster 2:00 PM

Sunday

Men's Soccer

@ Carnegie Mellon 5:00 PM

@ Emory 11:00 AM

Women's Soccer

@ Carnegie Mellon 7:30 PM

@ Emory 1:30 PM

Swimming Cross Country

Wrestling

Home vs. John Carroll 1:00 PM UAA Championships @ Forest Park- St. Louis 11:30 AM (Central) CIT vs. WRU Throwback Intersquad Scrimmage 12:00 PM

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Brian or Johnny Cleveland?

Thoughts of a quarterback switch beginning to brew Joey Arko Staff Reporter Just a little over a week ago, Brian Hoyer’s jersey sales spiked from 85th to fifth in the entire NFL, according to data compiled

by Dick’s Sporting Goods. For the first time all season, Hoyer’s jersey became a hotter commodity than that of his famous backup— Johnny Manziel—whose jersey sales ranked seventh. It was just over a week ago that Hoyer led a complete and utter dismantling over the Browns’ hated rivals, the Pittsburgh Steelers. “Brian Cleveland” memorabilia, ranging from t-shirts to posters, started popping up everywhere in the Cleveland area.

But that was then, and this is now.

After the Browns received a trouncing at the hands of the lowly Jacksonville Jaguars two weeks ago (giving them their first win of the season), the trumpeting of Brian Hoyer has taken a complete 180. How fast things can change for a lifetime journeyman QB of the NFL. On Monday, head coach Mike Pettine acknowledged that there was a “brief”

discussion in the second half regarding benching Hoyer in favor of the polarizing Manziel. He then went on to say that discussion was extinguished immediately because the starting-QB job still firmly belongs to Hoyer. Pettine wanted Hoyer to finish the game and try to end things on a positive note, with the hope of carrying some momentum into next week.

Nevertheless, Hoyer’s performance on Sunday marked the second straight week in which he’s completed well below 50 percent of his passes (41 percent combined the past two games) and he seems to be pressing as the season goes on.

As a journeyman QB, Hoyer can’t afford to put up those kinds of numbers. He also can’t afford to lose games to teams that haven’t even been all that close to winning prior to playing the Browns—especially with a first-round draft pick waiting in the wings behind him.

Enter Johnny Football.

Pettine’s admission that the coaches momentarily considered putting Manziel in the game against Jacksonville opened

the door to the fact that Hoyer’s gig as the starting QB is more week-to-week than long-term. It also opened the door for Manziel mania to slowly rise once again.

Hoyer must play well to retain his grasp on the starting job. If he strings together one or two more bad games, the rumblings for Manziel will only grow louder.

But is it wise to turn to the rookie quarterback? Based on how the other rookie QB’s from Manziel’s class have played so far, it seems as if the answer would be no.

The three rookie QB’s that have had the opportunity to start this season—Blake Bortles, Teddy Bridgewater and Derek Carr— have been less than stellar, especially when compared to the play of Hoyer.

At 3-3, Hoyer’s record as a starter eclipses all three of the rookie QB’s, with Bortles being 1-3, Bridgewater being 1-2, and Carr being 0-6. Combined, the rookies have fewer wins (2) than Hoyer does by himself (3).

He also has far fewer interceptions than all three of them—Hoyer has 2, Bortles has 10, Bridgewater has 5 and so does Carr.

That’s not to say that Hoyer is more tal-

ented than any of them, but that he is better prepared to face NFL defenses at this point in his career. He’s been in the league for 6 years now and has also had the opportunity to study with the likes of the all-time great Tom Brady. Based on where they are in their careers and development, Hoyer is simply better equipped to play right now than any of those QB’s.

It’s probably safe to assume the same could be said of Hoyer vs. Manziel.

Based on the rather low success of his rookie piers, Manziel most likely isn’t as ready as Hoyer is right now to play against the faster, more complex defenses of the NFL. For the sake of his development, sitting behind Brian Hoyer for as long as possible can pay huge dividends in the future for Manziel. The added time to learn the playbook and adjust from the collegiate level to the professional level is enormously valuable. That being said, when it comes to the question of “Brian Cleveland” or “Johnny Cleveland,” the immediate answer remains Brian Hoyer.

At least for now.

Spartans unable to Spartans slip in first capitalize on UAA success meet of season Volleyball has highs and lows over

Both men’s and women’s swimming and diving squads fall to Carnegie Mellon JP. O’Hagan Sports Editor The swimming and diving teams started their competition for the year over Fall Break with their first meet against archrival Carnegie Mellon University.

It was sadly a slow start for both the men and women’s squad as the two teams lost to the Tartans. The women lost by a 183-115 point total and the men came with a 187-105 loss.

The Spartans were led by junior Rebecca Pakradooni and by newcomer freshman Mary Katherine Miller. The pair each won two events each, providing high notes for the Spartans in the loss to the Tartans.

Pakradooni won both of her individual races by placing first in the 200-yard freestyle with an impressive 1:59.67 time and climbing out of the pool victorious after the 100 butterfly with a time just under the one minute mark, finishing with a time of 59.32.

Miller started off her college career with an excellent pair of first-place finishes in the 200 fly and 200 breaststroke.

Miller beat out the field with times of 2:10.46 in the fly and of 2:34.50 in the breaststroke.

Another freshman, Inez Moore,

picked up her first win in her first collegiate event winning the 50 freestyle race with a time of 25.24.

From the springboard and into the pool for the Case Western men’s team, junior Connor Farrell gave the Spartans their best performance on the day winning both diving events, the one meter and the three meter events. Farrell posted NCAA regional qualifying scores of 291.25 and 291.75 in the two events respectively, with excellent dives.

Freshman Aaron Pang and senior Elliott Kerbel added wins for the Spartans from the starting blocks. Pang picked up his first collegiate victory with a time of 4:11.85 in the 400 yard individual medley. Kerbel won the 50-meter freestyle making it to the opposite wall and back in only 21.94 seconds.

Kerbel followed up that effort with a key hand in the Spartans final victory of the day, a first place finish in the 200 free relay. Kerbel was joined by his teammates, juniors Aaron Tam and Alec David and senior co-captain Eric Haufler in posting an excellent 1:27.44 time to win the relay.

Both squads will return to the pool on Saturday Nov. 1 versus John Carroll University at Veale Natatorium. The meet will start at 1 p.m.

past six games

JP. O’Hagan Sports Editor The Case Western Volleyball team returned from an excellent showing at second UAA round robin tournament to drop both local games, losing to Oberlin University and Heidelberg University last week.

The Spartans won three of their four matches in the UAA tournament opening with a pair of victories on the first day of play. The Case squad swept Brandeis University and defeated the University of Chicago’s volleyball team, registering a pair of victories on day one of the 2014 University Athletic Association Round Robin No. 2, defeating Brandeis University in three and the University of Chicago in four. The Spartans followed this with a loss to No. 7 in the nation Washington University in St. Louis and a win over New York University, before dropping matches to Oberlin and Heidelberg.

The Spartans kicked off the tournament with sweep of Brandeis with 25-16, 25-17 and 25-10 victories. Marian Barton led nine Spartans who recorded kills in the match with seven kills of her own, and Lauren Gurd and Jessica Justice split setting duty with nine and eight assists, respectively.

Against the University of Chicago, the Spartans needed a four sets to secure a victory winning 25-21, 20-25, 25-19 and 25-14.

Justice posted 19 assists and 10 digs, while

junior outside hitter Katie Best recorded 10 assists and 19 digs of her own. Fellow junior outside hitter Carolyn Bogart led the team with 12 kills and posted 16 digs of her own.

The Spartans managed to steal a set from the nationally ranked Washington University Bears. The Spartans fell by scores of 25-7, 25-16 and 25-16.

Against the New York University Violets, the Spartans turned things around with victories of 25-22, 25-18, 19-25 and 25-21.

Best and Bogart each posted double doubles in the New York match with 16 digs and 11 kills, and 11 digs and 11 kills, respectively. Justice and Gurd shared the setting again as they posted 23 and 17 assists respectfully.

Upon returning to Ohio, the Case squad went on the road to host Oberlin College in four sets. The Spartans dropped their sets by scores of 25-21, 16-25, 25-14 and 26-24. It was the first loss against Oberlin since 2008, having won the past eight matchups.

Against Heidelberg, the Spartans were unable to win a single match and Case lost their second straight game, to fall to 15-10 on the season. The Student Princes held back the Spartans sweeping the match by scores of 25-14, 25-14 and 25-19.

The Spartans return to the court on Saturday, Nov. 1 with matches against Denison University and The College of Wooster. The action will start at noon with both matches being played in Wooster.

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Defense based lead gives way to shootout The Case Western football team falls to undefeated Washington and Jefferson after first half lead JP. O’Hagan Sports Editor The Spartans watched their narrow 9-6 lead at halftime vanish as they fell to nationally ranked Washington & Jefferson College by a final score of 34-24.

The Spartans drop to 3-4 on the season against the first place Presidents who remained unbeaten at 7-0 and 4-0 PAC. The first half was drastically different than the second when the Spartans saw the defensively minded start of the game explode into a high stakes shootout, where the Spartans were simply unable to keep up. The Presidents put up 21 points in the third to fully swing the game in their favor.

In the game, the Presidents held the advantage in yardage 466-271 and ran a whopping 90 plays to the Spartans’ 65 plays in the game. Sophomore quarterback Pete Coughlin completed 32 of 47 passes for 329 yards. Case’s Billy Beecher manned the offense once again completed 19 of his 36 passes for only 170 yards, but did connect for two touchdowns.

Defensive junior linebacker Everett Dishong posted 13 tackles after returning from injury. Dishong’s play earned him his second UAA Defensive Player of the Week honor.

The game started slowly as the Presidents got the first possession and held onto the football for 20 plays and 6:32 minutes. The Case defense battled back however and linebacker Gavin Sandidge blocked Washington & Jefferson’s field goal attempt.

The two teams traded possessions until the Presidents pieced together a six play, 50-yard drive to get on the board first with a four yard touchdown run. The Spartans blocked their second kick of the day on the point after an attempt to keep the Presidents with six points. However, the Spartans weren’t done with merely blocking the kick and linebacker Aaron Weisberg grabbed the loose ball and returned it to the opposite endzone for two points, making the score 6-2.

The Spartans followed up with a 7:47 minute, 17 play, 59-yard touchdown drive. Beecher connected with a three-yard pass to senior running back Manny Sicre for the touchdown. The Spartans’ kicker Mitch Hopkins put the extra point kick through the uprights to bring the score to 9-6. That score would hold until the end of the half.

The Presidents would come out of the locker rooms to put together 21 unanswered points as they marched up and down the field in the third quarter.

Adam Hochman did what he could to bring the Spartans back into contention with a stellar 39-yard touchdown run to cap and 88-yard drive. However, Washington and Jefferson would answer with yet another touchdown drive and the Spartans were unable climb back into contention despite Beecher connecting with Ethan Albers for one last Spartan touchdown to bring the game to its final

Harsha Chandupatla/Observer Top: Spartans celebrate after touchdown during Homecoming game against Geneva. Bottom Left: Defensive End Tyler Doty brings down the Geneva quarterback for a big sack. Bottom Center: Case Western Quarterback Billy Beecher sets up to fire downfield. Bottom Right: Wide Receiver Brendan Lynch comes up with big catch against Geneva. of 34-24.

The Spartans will return to UAA play this weekend as they face off against Washington University in St. Louis on Saturday in St. Louis.

The Bears will have history on their side in the matchup, having won 19 of the 28 matchups with the Spartans and the last two matchups. The Spartans will be looking to salvage their rough season and bring home a victory over the struggling Bears.

The biggest threats from the Bears

are all sophomores, showing that the young team will a challenge in the coming years, if not this time around. The Washington core is made up of quarterback J.J. Tomlin, running back Austin Smestad and wide receiver Kevin Hammarlund. Tomlin has completed 114 of 182 passes with 1,165 yards with 11 TD on the season. Smestad has found the endzone three times on 319 yards and 75 carries and Hammarlund has hauled 38 passes for 462 yards and four touchdowns.

However, it is the Bears’ defense that will hold the Spartans back and The Observer is forced to predict a 24-17 loss to Washington as the Spartan offense has failed to consistently produce high powered offense, though we hope to see our prediction proven wrong. the Spartans will get to work on Saturday at 1 p.m. Eastern time.

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Stephanie Kim/Observer Left: Spartan Defender Ryan Meyer clears ball from the back line. Right: Midfielder Bairdy Hansen fights for possession against a Washington University player.

JP. O’Hagan Sports Editor It was the Chris Cvecko and Calvin Boyle show two weeks ago as the Spartans men’s soccer closed out their final home stand of the season.

The Spartans played their final two games at DiSanto field this season against Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Chicago, both top University Athletic Association rivals. Offensively, Cvecko led the Spartans while freshman keeper Boyle kept every shot out from between Case’s posts throughout the two games. On the season, the Spartans now

stand at 8-4-3 on the season and will finish up on the road.

Against the Washington University in St. Louis Bears, the Spartans were led by midfielder Cvecko who found the back of the net in the first, before setting up sophomore Jacob Grindel in the second half.

The two teams traded blows on either side of the pitch until the 30th minute, when Cvecko broke through the Bears’ defense as he collected a loose ball in the box, maneuvered past the defense and netted a powerful shot into the right corner of the net.

The teams returned to trading chances until the end of the half and into the second half when Grindel put the game firmly in the

Spartans hands. In the 67th minute, Grindel collected a strong center by Cvecko and rocketed it past the Bears keeper.

Boyle made four saves in his fourth shutout for the season, but it was the Sunday match in which Boyle shined.

Against the University of Chicago, the Spartans battled to a 0-0 tie and Boyle’s standout play kept the Spartans in the game.

Boyle made 13 saves in the match and was key in holding back the first in the conference Maroons. It was Boyle’s third straight shutout, and has not allowed a single goal in the past 311 minutes of play. Boyle has had 66 saves on the season and a fantastic 0.88 goals per match

average. Boyle’s play was capped by his second stellar penalty kick save this season to keep the match scoreless, and his play earned him UAA Defensive Player of the Week honors.

The top offensive chance for the Spartans came early in the game when Joshua Prosser’s shot went just wide in the 12th minute. The two teams had many strong chances but due to stellar defense the two teams were unable to find the back of the net.

The Spartans have had 11 days off to rest and prepare and will be returning to competition Friday night at top rival Carnegie Mellon University. Kickoff is set for 5 p.m.

“Wash”ed Up

Sabers’ senior night heroics power biggest upset in program’s history.

Taylor Fletcher Staff Reporter Any casual observer of the Case Western Reserve University women’s soccer results in past two weeks would note they posted a 1-1-1 record. Not bad, but not great. However, to overlook this record would dismiss one of the greatest wins in the program’s history. On Friday, Oct. 17, the Spartans stunned the nation with a 2-1 double-overtime victory against the No. 2 Washington University-St. Louis. It was the Bears’ first loss of the season.

Following the senior day win, the squad followed up the performance with a gritty 0-0 tie vs. No. 11 University of Chicago. The following week, they experienced what life is like to have a target on your back when they suffered a tough setback to Denison. However, that the Spartans went 1-1-1 over the past two weeks is a testament to the hard work and dedication the team has put in throughout the season.

Prior to the match on Friday, the team honored its five seniors: Cameron Casson, Caitlyn McGillis, Jessie Sabers, Abbey Smith and Christine Straka were shown appreciation for the hard work, sacrifice and leadership they have given to the squad over the past four years.

Friday night’s game was like no other in

their college career and their contributions were key to the victory.

The match was a tight and physical affair throughout, with 33 fouls committed in the game. CWRU decided to sit and challenged the Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL) to break down their defensive bunker. Smith was huge in the net, turning away the Bears again and again in the first half.

In the 54th minute, it was the Spartans who stunningly broke the deadlock. After receiving a clearance from the backline, McGillis was able to deftly control the ball at midfield. She easily turned and played a great ball through for Sabers. Sabers, who had a clear scoring opportunity and was in an one-on-one with the goalie, was taken out from behind by a trailing defender in the box. The referee awarded the penalty kick. After taking a moment to compose herself, she was able to coolly slot the ball into the bottom right corner of the goal.

The goal sent the crowd into frenzy. With renewed energy, the Spartans committed themselves to grinding out the game. Unfortunately, in the 86th minute, a WUSTL midfielder was able to wrangle free from her marker and shoot a rocket to upper left-hand corner of the goal. The most exciting game of the season was heading into overtime.

The first overtime period was a tight affair, with neither team having any legitimate chances at scoring. In the

second overtime period, the Spartans came out with renewed passion at the possibility of securing a win. Sophomore forward Alexa Williams threaded a great pass through into to the left corner into the path of freshman midfielder Madeline Harris. Harris was able to cut back onto her right fight and whipped a hopeful ball into the box. Sabers was able to dart in front of the keeper and headed the ball into the net.

The goal moved Sabers to second in all-time goals in school history with 21 and increases her school record to 11th game winning goals on the year.

It was the program’s first win against the Bears in 20 games dating back since the 1990’s.

Despite being outshot on the day 14-7 and the Bears holding the corner kick advantage 5-1, CWRU came away with a huge win on the day.

The Spartans carried that momentum into the match on Sunday morning. In a tight affair, CWRU battled University of Chicago to a scoreless draw. In the 63rd minute, Smith came up huge in net, blocking a Maroons shot off the corner. Smith effort helped to preserve the shutout against the 11th ranked team in the nation.

The Maroons lead the match in shots 13-7 and corners 8-4.

For the team’s huge results, CWRU was ranked No. 21 in the nation for their two huge results against two top 15 teams.

Also, Sabers garnered UAA Offensive Player of the Week honors for her stellar brace against the Bears.

The Spartans were back in action Saturday, Oct. 25 at Denison in their non-conference finale.

Despite the first half being scoreless, The Spartans were taking the game to Big Red with a 7-2 advantage on shots in the first half. However, after the break, Denison was able to pounce on the miscommunication on a clearance by the Spartans defense. Denison’s goal took away the spark in the attack and the Spartans were unable to respond to their goal.

Denison lead the game in shots 14-12 and corners 4-2. Williams led the team with three shot attempts. With the loss, the Spartans record drops to 8-4-3.

CWRU women’s soccer turns their attention to the final three games on the schedule. As the third ranked team in the Great Lakes region, The Spartans have put themselves in a great position to make the NCAA tournament. The Spartans must gain a result Friday Oct. 31 against the number No. 4 in the nation, the top ranked team in their region and conference rival Carnegie Mellon to solidify their place in the postseason.

They will relish their opportunity to be the hunter again as they try to regain the magic of senior night.

Kickoff is scheduled for 7:30 p.m.