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Vol. CXXIX, No. VIII

October 22, 2014

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College’s Concert enthusiasm soars Sense of loss as freshman club sports passes away oversight

By Tom Kozlowski Managing Editor

By Peter Fiorilla & Colleen Murphy News Editors

When former Director of Intramural and Club Sports Deb Simpson retired on Monday, Sept. 1, she knew her position had yet to be filled and that a professional void would persist in the program. What she didn’t realize was just how quickly the program would collapse into chaos.

“When I read the article (a report

by The Signal on the problems within Intramural and Club Sports without an acting director), I was really upset,” Simpson said. “I obviously love the College, love the students, and love the program that I built for 27 years … but when I was getting calls from club presidents and team members about the problems they were having, I could only say, ‘I don’t know what to tell you.’”

Simpson’s retirement was far from the unexpected absence that many seemed to believe. Despite planning two years in advance of her actual departure in September and notifying the College in June of 2014, Simpson’s position went long unoccupied, going nearly a month without a director of Intramurals and Club Sports and wreaking havoc on the day-to-day games, schedules, organization and advertising of student sports groups.

In spite of disorganization on the ground, however, the College was “not aware of any concerns or turmoil surrounding the retirement and subsequent hire” of Simpson’s position,” according to Gregory Pogue, vice president of Human Resources.

During “I Feel Alive,” the band filmed the crowd “sorority squatting” and flailing their arms like wacky inflatable tube men during the chorus, footage which was posted on the members’ YouTube video blogs and will be used in their upcoming music video for the track.

In an interview with The Signal, Clark discussed how the band has evolved since 2007, when it released its selftitled album filled with vibrant

Freshman mathematics major Sarah Sutherland was known as an “incredibly selfless” student at the College, “full of love for God and friends.” In what has become a campus tragedy, however, Sutherland passed away near her Scotch Plains home on Monday, Oct. 6.

Sutherland, who sometimes went by Sara, quickly became an active member of the campus community: She was in the math club, Black Student Union, New Jersey Christian Fellowship and the Leadership Development Program, along with being an involved member of her freshman floor.

“She was always a positive, friendly person, (and) she was always fun to be around,” said freshman nursing major Hannah Rose, one of Sutherland’s floormates. “We would go out together — she always made me laugh.

She was a big addition to our floor, (and) she was very positive and (outgoing).”

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Students storm the stage during a lively performance from The Front Bottoms.

By Kimberly Ilkowski & Sydney Shaw Review Editor & Opinions Editor Wacky inflatable arm-flailing tube men, vicious mosh pits and broken equipment — and that was just the opening acts.

The College Union Board’s 2014 fall concert featuring We The Kings, The Front Bottoms and New Politics cranked the volume up to 11 in Kendall Hall on Thursday, Oct. 9, for a show filled with beloved songs — old

and new­­­­­ — screaming and a hint of debauchery.

Opening the night was We The Kings, whose breezy attitude and contagious energy persisted throughout the band’s nearly hour-long set. Frontman Travis Clark, bassist Charles Trippy, guitarists Hunter Thomsen and Coley O’Toole and drummer Danny Duncan exuded effervescence as the high school friends played hits like “Skyway Avenue,” “Say You Like Me” and “We’ll Be A Dream.”

Roscoe West to undergo changes

By Andrew Grossman Nation & World Editor

Roscoe West Hall – otherwise known as the Old Library – has been a staple of see CLUB SPORTS page 5 the College since it was added initially to Ewing back in the early 1930s. With the traditional Georgian colonial style exterior, Roscoe West was the first building to begin construction on campus, and the third one completed after Kendall Hall and Green Hall in 1932. While the Old Library has a rich history, its age has finally caught up to it.

“The building needs fairly extensive renovations, but that is not taking place right now,” said David Muha, vice president for Communications, Marketing and Brand Management. “We are trying to preserve the building the best that we can so that it doesn’t deteriorate until we get to the point where we can go ahead and renovate the building.”

Photo courtesy of the Sports Information Desk At a hefty $2.4 million price tag, the Simpson retires after 27 years College is referring to the construction as at the College as the director the “Mothballing Project.” Some of the of Intramural and Club Sports. bigger renovations taking place consist

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The College keeps Roscoe West Hall renovation on the back burner. of replacing the old roof with new, synthetic slate, eliminating asbestos, fixing the bricks and windows and repairing the

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‘Second Hand Rose’ Chinese punk rock band dazzles in Kendall Hall

Mental health Is the College doing enough for students?

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US to give $350 million to Africa to curb Ebola outbreak

By Annabel Lau Web Editor The United States has pledged $350 million and 3,000 troops to fight the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, according to a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services official who spoke at the College on Wednesday, Oct. 8.

“There are about 350 military people already on the ground,” said Ambassador Jimmy Kolker, assistant secretary for global affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services. “We’ve just about completed a 25-bed facility which will be staffed by the U.S. public health service.”

Congressman Rush Holt (D–12th District), who attended the lecture, asked about the military’s plan for fighting the outbreak.

“Does this suggest an ongoing goal for a very special division of our military that deals with international disaster and crises?” Holt asked.

Responding, Kolker said “they’ve been very careful about trying to define the goal with an exit strategy.”

“The military said they will not be in patient care,” Kolker said. “After constructing these facilities, they need to be turned over to someone else … They don’t want to see this as a new mission (where) boots on the ground will be required for this to be sustained.”

Senior international studies and linguistics double major Nicolas Dolce had conflicting views about the mobilization

of Americans troops in West Africa.

“I was very interested to hear that we’re going to send 3,000 troops there,” Dolce said. “I think it’s the right thing to do … (But) there’s a gray line, because after a certain point, are we violating the state’s sovereignty? Did we get invited to help, or are we just going in there and saying we’re helping?”

In addition to military and monetary aid, an important part of curbing the Ebola outbreak is educating governments and communities about disease prevention, especially in the three hardest-hit countries of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, Kolker said.

“The cause of this was the health facilities that were not taking precautions in terms of healthcare workers,” Kolker said. “Twenty percent of infections are among healthcare workers.”

Referencing the case of Thomas Eric Duncan — an Ebola victim who was allegedly released from a Dallas hospital with a 103-degree fever and became the first person to die of the virus on American soil — Kolker also addressed the recurring problem of mistaking symptoms of Ebola for other diseases.

“The symptoms for Ebola originally are similar to those for malaria, for typhoid and other things,” Kolker said. “The diagnosis was often wrong. They’d be sent home like the Dallas patient originally was.”

According to Kolker, many people in West Africa believe in “nonscientific causes” of Ebola, such as curses and ancestor revenge,

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The US pledges to send 3,000 troops to help with Africa’s Ebola outbreak.

and many engage in traditional practices that increase the risk of contracting the virus, such as touching or embracing corpses during burial practices.

“There’s a responsibility among all of us to be sure the governments are aware and then to have that message spread to healthcare providers and communities,” Kolker said. “There was a breakdown in all of those areas.”

In response to audience concerns, Kolker also mentioned new precautions that the U.S. government is taking to prevent Ebola from entering the country.

“Just this afternoon (Wednesday, Oct.

8), President Obama announced what we are doing domestically in a dozen or more airports here to intensify screenings,” Kolker said. “So there would be mandatory screenings of anyone who has come from these three countries.”

However, according to Kolker, the risk of contracting Ebola for the vast majority of Americans is low, even for students traveling to Africa.

“You’re much more likely to be in a traffic accident than to be a victim of Ebola,” Kolker said. “Your greatest threat is traffic safety, not Ebola or terrorism or another infectious disease.”

Board of Trustees swears in a new chair to lead meetings

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Caballero, a six-year board member, is now the new chair.

By Gabrielle Beacken News Assistant

Project developments, budget overview and transfer of powers were all topics presented in the College’s Board of Trustees “Sunshine Agenda” meeting in Loser Hall on Tuesday, Oct. 7.

After the Board of Trustees discussed the agenda in a closed meeting, a public session was held in order to review all sections of the agenda.

The Sunshine Agenda included three special components: swearing in of new student trustee, shift of chair position and an extended presentation on Campus Town.

There are two student representations on the board: one alternate student trustee and one voting trustee.

The alternate student trustee serves for one year then becomes the voting trustee.

“Students participate in all deliberations of the board, as

permitted by state statute, on committees of the board and, like all trustees, represent the best interests of the citizens of the State of New Jersey,” said Chief of Staff and Secretary to the Board of Trustees Heather Fehn.

This year, new Student Trustee Kevin Kim was sworn in with a brief ceremony at the public session. Ryan Boyne currently serves as student-voting trustee.

Following the swearing-in of the new student trustee was the official transfer of the gavel: the initiation of a new chair of the board.

According to Fehn, the chair of the board holds responsibilities like publicly representing the board and working “with the President to ensure that the Board provides appropriate guidance and policy oversight for the institution.” Chair positions are typically held for two to three years, according to Fehn.

“It’s not my funeral. I’m not going anywhere,” said former Chair

of the Board Christopher Gibson.

“From the bottom of my heart, I want to thank President Gitenstein, the cabinet, faculty and staff.”

Gibson is transferring the position of Chair after a three-year term.

“We’ve achieved many things these last three years,” Gibson said. “Take a look out the window, and you see things happening here.”

Due to his commitment to education, Gibson will continue to advocate for the value of education from outside the College’s board.

“We have to find a way to provide affordable education for all citizens,” he said.

New Chair of the Board, Jorge Caballero, former secretary and six-year board member, made two promises to the public.

“One: I will always do my best,” Caballero said. “And, two: I will always have the best interest of this institution.”

Caballero detailed his educational journey to the public and board.

Coming to America at the age of 10 with his family, penniless, he has endured struggles along the way.

“Without these public institutions, I would’ve never been able to go to college and have a career,” Caballero said. By becoming the new chair, Caballero is “giving back and paying it forward.”

The Board carried all presented resolutions and reviewed alternative academic information.

An undisputed carried resolution includes the Resolution Concerning Implementation of Increase in Compensation for the President of The College of New Jersey.

“This item was taken very seriously by board and committee,” Caballero said.

This document details that the

Board of Trustees “authorizes a onetime bonus of 3.090 percent and authorizes a 6.154 percent increase for the president effective (Wednesday), July 1, 2014,” according to the official resolution document.

The document also specifies that the President’s salary has remained unchanged since Monday, July 1, 2013, her most recent increase — an increase due to the efforts and services of President Gitenstein.

“She continues to move the institution toward its mission with unwavering principles and has been instrumental in the advocacy for the College and higher education not only in New Jersey, but nationally,” the Resolution said.

An additional carried resolution, approving a revised policy in repeating courses, explains that students must receive advisement before repeating a course. A student can only repeat a course once, and the prevailing grade, except in the Engineering Department, will be counted.

“I would like to clarify — this is a requirement for us to submit to the state of New Jersey,” Gitenstein said, introducing the Resolution Concerning Submission of the FY 2016 Capitol Budget Request Totaling $18,655,000 (for fiscal year of 2016) and $219,779,000 (seven year term 2016-2022). “We never get the resources, but we always ask.”

The high-ticket items of the 2016-2022 proposed budget were the STEM Complex Phase II in 2018, $30,000; the new Nursing Building in 2019-2022, $48,900; the Roscoe West Library renovation and renewal in 2019- 2022, $20,783; and asset renewal, academic and administrative, spanning through all four years with $41,007.

According to Caballero, representing the Report of the Finance and Investments Committee, the College has been doing financially well, even resulting in slight surplus this past fiscal term. Though there are slight revisions to the College’s investment procedure, he said, their investing policy is still moderate risk.

Reporting on the Student Affairs Committee, Rosie Hymerling commented on the Committee’s collaboration with the Alumni Association to plan a fun-for-all and successful Homecoming, as well as its new health initiations, such as appointing a new Director for Counseling.

Several other faculty and staff additions were announced, including six two-year term Athletics temporary staff labeled Project Specialist.

An extended Campus Town presentation was given at the conclusion of the public session, depicting the project’s positive and beneficial publicity, construction progress, retail and residence details and overall investments. An original $65 million investment has now increased to $86 million.

Campus Town October activity will include roofing, sheathing and the primitive steps to install windows. With 376 leases already signed, Campus Town currently has 58 beds left to fill.

Closed session topics included personnel actions, such as faculty hires, retires and resignations; pending litigation, including Susan Guerrini v TCNJ; and contract negotiations related to Campus Town.

The next public meeting of the College’s Board of Trustees will be held on Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014. Time and location are to be announced.

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Student organization funded with no treble LDP goes all in on ‘Shark Tank’ TV star

By Jonathan Edmondson Arts & Entertainment Editor

The Student Finance Board meetings on Wednesday, Oct. 8, and Wednesday, Oct. 15, were filled with numerous requests from various campus organizations.

The Treblemakers, the College’s allfemale a cappella group, was picked up as an SAF funded club during the Oct. 8. meeting.

Other presenters at that meeting included The College Union Board, which was hoping to bring a Country Music Showcase — starring country band Mockingbird Sun — to campus in November. Due to low attendance at a similar event last semester, the event was zero funded.

The Leadership Development Program, along with CUB, proposed next to bring Daymond John to campus to be a keynote speaker during LDP’s LeadWeek. John is the founder, president and CEO of FUBU (For Us, By Us) — an iconic fashion brand. He has also appeared as an investor on the the reality series “Shark Tank.”

The event, which is scheduled to take

place on Tuesday, Nov. 11, in Kendall Hall, was allocated funds of $26,098.

The Black Student Union was allocated funds of $145 to help cover costs to bring Professor Jelani Cobbs to campus to speak about what the race-related conflicts occurring in Ferguson, MO. The event is scheduled to take place on Thursday, Oct. 23, in Mayo Concert Hall.

The Pre-Dental Club proposed “Keep Your Fangs Clean on Halloween,” a event in which members will be handing out goodie bags with free dental supplies and sugar-free candy to encourage the campus community to maintain proper oral hygiene.

The event, which was allocated funds of $380.68 is scheduled to take place on Friday, Oct. 31, in the Student Center.

The last event proposed during the first meeting was from Chabad, which hopes to bring a Chanukah Festival to campus. After discussion, SFB tabled the event.

During the Oct. 15 meeting, the Student Film Union was allocated funds of $263.62 to hold the finale ce-remony for their “Halloween Spooktacular Film Festival.” The screening is scheduled to take place on Thursday, Oct. 30.

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LDP is allocated $26,098 to attract ‘Shark Tank’ celebrity Daymond John.

The Financial Management Association proposed for funding to help cover the costs for bringing Training The Street to campus, who would hold a financial statement analysis and corporate valuation seminar for those interested.

After much deliberation, the event was zero funded.

The Women’s Center was allocated funds of $1,600 to bring Stephanie Filmore to campus, who is scheduled to

speak about sexual violence on college campuses. The event, which is schedule to take place on Tuesday, Nov. 18, in the Library Auditorium, is part of Redefining Sex Week.

Finally, All College Theater proposed for their interactive murder mystery dinner theater which they hold every year. The production was allocated funds of $3,850 and is scheduled to take place on Friday, Nov. 14, and Saturday, Nov. 15.

College publishes yearly security report Burglary goes up, drug violations go down

By Ellie Schuckman News Assistant The College’s Annual Campus Security and Fire Safety Report for 2013 was published on Monday, Sept. 29, with the number of various crimes committed on school grounds rising in the 2013-14 academic school year.

In compliance with the Clery Act — which is enforced by the U.S. Department of Education — the College, along with all other colleges which receive financial aid, must disclose information about crime on and surrounding the campus.

This year showed an overall increase in certain crimes compared to past safety reports.

Compared to 2012, for example,

there was a drastic rise in arrests for burglaries from four to 12, something school officials say is a false representation of the crimes actually committed.

“There was a burglary in a college-owned, off-campus house that had six rooms from which items were stolen,” said David Muha, vice president of Communications, Marketing and Brand Management. “In uniform crime reporting, this would have been one incident, but Clery requires us to report this as six incidents. This makes it seem like there was a big jump in burglaries, but the data is misleading in this instance.”

Added to the report this year were dating violence and stalking, which recorded three and one offenses, respectively.

According to Muha, the inclusion of these two categories were set by the government and the College followed the new regulations as required.

In one of the more notable spikes in crime, the report noted 108 instances in violation of the liquor law in 2013 compared to just 87 in 2012.

Though listed as “arrests” in the report, Muha noted that not everyone was in fact arrested.

“The majority were citations, not actual arrests,” he said.

Highlighting Homecoming as a cause for the increase, Muha said that the changes this year aim to curb underage drinking.

“The changes that were made to the event this year to limit the amount of alcohol that can be brought in, and the

agreement with Student Government, the Inter Greek Council and the Club Sports Advisory Council, is all aimed at curbing underage drinking,” Muha said.

After the recent debate over whether to have a separated Homecoming for those over 21, the College hopes fewer students will be found in violation of the law with the new precautions in place.

Also included in the report was a rise in the amount of sex offenses from one to four, one reported aggravated assault and a decrease in the number of those arrested for drug violations from 13 to five.

“It is the policy of TCNJ to ensure our campus community is informed of all incidents that may impact their safety

and security,” reads the report.

Last year, there was only one reported fire on campus in Travers Hall. According to Muha however, no official determination was made as to the cause of the fire.

It is rumored by many that a student threw something which caught fire in their room out a window, further spreading the fire. Damages amounted to $19,281.11, with the College paying for the repairs because insurance “did not cover the loss as the property insurance deductible was not met,” Muha said.

The 2013 Security and Fire Safety Report, as well as reports from previous years, can be found online through the College’s website or at the Information Desk in the Brower Student Center.

Introducing the Collegiatelinks database Program spreads awareness of student clubs

By Sydney Shaw Opinions Editor

Over the course of the last two weeks, Student Government introduced several new programs and initiatives to the campus community.

At the general body meeting on Wednesday, Oct. 8, Director of Planning & Administration Cecelia O’Callaghan introduced Collegiatelinks, an online database for all student organizations and events to promote student involvement. Collegiatelinks representative Andrea Palmer gave a tutorial introduction to the program via video chat.

“Students will be able to browse all clubs and organizations at the College and see all the events going on around

campus,” Palmer said.

Students will be able to access Collegiatelinks using their PAWS login information. The site features a current events board, attendance tracking and organization finance applications.

“You can go online and type in what you’re interested in — service opportunity and athletics, for example — and Collegiatelinks uses an algorithm to match students up with relevant groups,” she said.

The program will be integrated with social media outlets like Facebook and Twitter. Site administrators can embed feeds, Google calendars and more.

Collegiatelinks will be presented to the Board of Trustees in December.

After the presentation, Vice President

of Academic Affairs Casey Dowling announced that “Registration 101,” a program that advises students on how to register for classes through PAWS, will be hosted on Wednesday, Oct. 29, from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. in the Travers/Wolfe lounge.

At the General Body meeting on Wednesday, Oct. 15, the College’s new director of recreation Robert Simels discussed his plans for Recreation on campus.

Simels wants to work with students and meet their needs in a holistic manner.

Later, Vice President of Equity and Diversity Javier Nicasio announced that the first issue of Diversity University has

been published. It contains content related to Queer Awareness Month, the I Too Am TCNJ campaign and the Wage Gap Bake Sale that was held on Wednesday, Oct. 15 — women paid 66 cents for a baked goods item while men had to pay a full dollar to reflect the differences in pay in the workplace.

Vice President of Student Services Navid Radfar reminded Student Government of the T-shirt swap to be held in the Brower Student Center on Wednesday, Oct. 22, from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. Students can trade in a T-shirt from another college or a high school for a brand new Homecoming 2014 shirt.

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Campus Town construction ahead of schedule

By Mylin Batipps News Assistant Campus Town construction is ahead of schedule and will be completed by fall of next year, according to Greg Lentine, vice president of Planned Residential Communities (PRC) and director of the Campus Town project.

Lentine and the executives of the project provided updates of Campus Town to students of the College on Wednesday, Oct. 8 and 15 in the Education Building.

According to Lentine, Campus Town will span over 12 acres and have a total of nine buildings — seven of them being student apartments, one being Panera Bread and the other being a fitness center.

“There has been a lot going on behind the fence,” Lentine said. “We had to demolish 18 buildings, a lot of infrastructure had to be put in, and there was even something in the ground that no one knew was there.”

Campus Town would not be possible without the New Jersey Economic Stimulus Act of 2009, which allowed for a private company like PRC to work with the College to build on state land. According to Lentine, over 150 attorneys have worked to develop a ground lease that both the College and PRC Group would utilize as a guideline for the construction and management of Campus Town.

Although the project has been ongoing for a few years, it has really gained momentum this past spring. Between 6,000 and 10,000 jobs were created throughout the state to help work on putting up the structures for each building, Lentine said.

“For example, some panels were built in South Brunswick,” he said. “So you take the entire crew of people that are out there building them and putting them on flat-back panel trucks — and you bring

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Campus Town construction is expected to be completed by fall 2015. them over to the site. This is one of the reasons why the project is going so fast.”

Lentine described Campus Town as “off-campus housing located on campus.” In other words, although Campus Town will be a part of the College, it will be managed and operated by a private company. The PRC Group will manage the retail stores in the complex, while Capstone — a national student housing management company — will take over housing operations.

According to Lentine, it’s important to make the distinction that Campus Town is off-campus housing.

“The reason why that’s a big distinction is because if any student or parent calls the College about Campus Town, the College could say, ‘They’re off campus — give them a call directly,’ just like any other house that would be in town,” he said.

If, however, residents of Campus Town have an emergency, they will be

able to call Campus Police who will be dispatched to their location — according to Lentine.

Since the availability of leases for students in August, 376 of the 434 total beds in the student apartments have been leased. In addition, 165 out of 300 parking spots for student residents have been taken. According to Melinda Davis, general manager of the Campus Town project, students are responsible for the leases for the full academic year — unless they decide to move out early for any reason.

“If students want to go abroad … if students are graduating early … any reason they want leave before the academic year, we have a waiting list and we can replace them with the person on the waiting list,” Davis said. “If not, they can find someone to take over their lease and they will not be financially responsible.”

According to Lentine, students will

have to pay $6,544 per semester for a one-bedroom apartment, $6,003 each for a two-bedroom and $5,462 each for a four-bedroom. Equipped with security, each apartment will be fully furnished and will include a washer, dryer, common area and kitchen.

Retail stores on the ground floor of each apartment building will include Panera Bread, Yummy Sushi, Red Berry Yogurt, Mexican Mariachi, Piccolo Trattoria, Starbucks and Barnes & Noble.

Students will be able to use their Get-It points on their IDs for Barnes & Noble only. According to Lentine, negotiations are currently being made with Hair Cuttery and an electronics store. They are in talks with both Verizon and AT&T to see which store should be included.

The fitness center, Lentine added, will be 11,400 square feet and will include a Campus Police substation, along with a few IT offices. While the retail stores will be open to both the College and the public, the fitness center will only be open and free to students.

Sophomore marketing major Derek Carper is impressed with the speedy progress of Campus Town.

“The venue choices are well thought out, and the housing options are much nicer than anything else offered on campus,” Carper said. “I’m really excited to see the new places students will be able to hang out outside of the Student Center and other places (on campus), and of course the new gym is a much needed addition to our campus.”

Until Campus Town unveils its grand opening to the College community and the public next fall, Lentine advises that everyone resists his or her urge to venture behind the big green fence while construction is still taking place.

“It can be a very dangerous site, so we don’t anyone back there,” he said.

The other Wes Moore: same name, different story

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Moore says he and the other Moore both looked for positivity.

By Camellia Carbonaro Correspondent When author Wes Moore wanted to write a guide on how to raise children, his publisher rejected the idea, explaining that no one would be interested in such a book by a 30-year-old man with no kids of his own. Instead, Moore switched course and went with a different approach — telling his own story.

Moore visited Wednesday, Oct. 8, in Kendall Hall, to discuss his book, “The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates” — the required summer reading

for incoming freshman this year, following themes of socioeconomic tensions and justice.

His second attempt at a book detailed the lives of two men in Baltimore, Md. Both are named Wes Moore and happen to come from the same area, but the two never get a chance to meet until they are well into adulthood.

The first Wes, the author, loses his father at an early age from an untreated case of acute epiglottis. He is subsequently raised by his mother, who eventually sends him off to military school on account of his bad grades.

The other Wes is abandoned

by his father and gets involved in the drug trade. Both men come from financially-struggling households and are raised in dangerous neighborhoods, yet end up with different futures. The first Wes manages to clean up his act and become a Rhodes Scholar, decorated veteran, White House Fellow to Condoleezza Rice, host of the Oprah Network’s Beyond Belief and one of the top New York business leaders. The other Wes becomes one of four men involved in a $400,000 jewelry heist.

Four men entered a jewelry store on Monday, Feb. 7, 2000, armed with guns and mallets.

The customers were ordered to stay on the ground with their hands over their heads while the suspects smashed the jewelry cases and stole their contents.

As the men were attempting to flee, an off-duty police officer, Bruce Prothero, pursued them to the parking lot. The suspects proceeded to shoot the officer three times at point-blank range and drove off. Prothero was transported to a local hospital 45 minutes later where he was pronounced dead.

At the time, Prothero was moonlighting as a security guard for the robbed store to make some extra money. He died at 35

as a father of five and a highly respected sergeant. A salesclerk identified the other Wes as a suspect and the four perpetrators (including Wes’s half-brother, Richard Antonio Moore) were arrested within a few weeks and sentenced to life without parole.

Upon the release of his book, Prothero’s family did not support its publication, “fearing it would give undeserved attention to a ‘cop killer,’” according to Moore. However, Moore explained that his intention is not to kickstart a “Free Wes” campaign. Moore has known the other Wes for close to a decade now and has found that he is both articulate and not what one would expect him to be.

However, Moore does not believe in his release and states that his mission is to merely educate people on how to avoid such tragedies.

“The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine,” Moore said in his book. “The tragedy is that my story could have been his.”

According to Moore, there have been at least eight murders in his city since the start of October.

“I know the drill. We do the lantern visuals, sing songs … hold hands and then hold our breaths until the perpetrator is captured,”

he said. “Then we blow out the candles and let go of our hands and try to go back to how things were before.”

Coming from a place where this is a norm, Moore has learned that “potential in this country is universal, but opportunity is not.”

If the reader’s takeaway from the book is that there is a good and bad person who just happen to share the same name, they have missed the point. Moore would rather readers treat it as a cautionary tale.

“Both men were searching for something positive,” he said.

“One kid got it, one kid did not.”

Moore believes we must realize that “our lives are not that much different from others,” and that everyone has to undergo difficult circumstances.

Only when we are able to overcome these difficulties do we realize it is worth it. He compares this to the life of a graduating college student whose mission should not be to “walk across a graduation stage and take a piece of paper” because “the definition of a higher degree is a person who translates personal success into something that actually matters.”

“Your life doesn’t start when you receive a credential,” he said.

“It starts when you say, ‘The time is now.’”

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Club Sports / New director to make save

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Simpson, an alumna of the College in her undergrad and graduate years, served nearly three decades at the College, working to construct a streamlined intramurals program. With intensifying back problems becoming a burden several years ago, Simpson saw her retirement on the horizon. But what could’ve been a simple farewell took over two years.

For her initial preparations, Simpson began training Ed Dean, part time assistant coordinator, for her position. Dean was an “enthusiastic” contributor to the program who was well-loved by students and faculty alike, according to Simpson. In the fall of 2013, however, the College denied Dean’s rehiring. Due to the arrival of new football coach Wayne Dickens, the College gave Simpson former football coach Eric Hamilton to train instead, a hard-working assistant who nonetheless had “no experience” in club sports, Simpson said. Hamilton left for good a few months later in January, and Simpson requested to rehire Dean once again. But the College, yet again, had another agenda.

Dean was denied a second time in February. Instead, the College afforded Simpson twice-a-week help in Kevin Tylus, assistant athletic facilities coordinator. Simpson agreed to once again teach a new assistant, but she remained cognizant of the fact that her position, soon to be empty, needed a proper replacement with sufficient time to train.

“It definitely hurt the Intramural Sports Program losing Ed Dean,” Simpson said. “I was hoping someone would step in like an Ed Dean — someone young and energetic to take over the program and make it better and better for the future. But they obviously weren’t going to let Ed come back. My back issues weren’t getting any better, and now I’ve stayed two years longer than I should have. So I said, ‘I think it’s time for me to go.’”

Simpson gave her official notice to the College in June: she was leaving on July 1. But

after 26 years and 10 months at the College, she decided to complete the last leg of her time here and stay the extra two months, rounding out a full 27 years of service.

During her remaining time, Simpson pressed the College repeatedly as to when her position would be posted and a new director vetted. But the College seemed to balk.

“They still knew in June I was leaving, and I asked at least once a week when the position would be posted and kept being told, ‘we’re not sure yet, we’re not sure yet,’” Simpson said. “But I told them, ‘I really think you need to get someone in here in August so I can help them before I go.’”

The result was yet again no word. She “wasn’t told anything” and “wasn’t told they’d be posting the position,” according to Simpson. Whoever would ultimately take her place as director would require extensive training in the Intramurals and Club Sports Program that couldn’t be provided at the drop of a hat.

“Our Intramural sports programs are run very differently than from other colleges,” Simpson said. “Other colleges have separate budgets among their sports clubs. We use the state budget along with the Student Finance Board’s student activities fees, and a lot of people don’t understand that.”

Fearing for the program’s stability in her wake, Simpson began instructing students and club supervisors, preparing them to pick up the slack where professional help would lack.

“Before I left, throughout the summertime, I basically made sure that all the students and supervisors for Intramurals were all rehired, all ready to go before the school year started,” she said. “I taught students everything about sports clubs and with intramurals, how to advertise, schedule the teams, train the officials, so that when Sept. 1 comes around and no one’s there to help, the students could handle it.”

Still, her efforts wouldn’t be enough to stanch the wounds left in the program. Simpson’s position was finally posted on Aug. 12, 2014, but upon her

Club sports get back on track after an administrative faux pas.

official departure date of Sept.

1, an organizational rift was opened that would not be filled anytime soon, and the ramifications were severe.

As reported by The Signal on Sept. 17, students involved in club sports were faced with turmoil beyond their control.

Unable to properly schedule practices, reserve fields or even get the equipment they needed for games, students called Simpson for help, but at this point, the program was without an official head, and Simpson was at a loss.

“While Deb trained us very well to carry out our duties as student workers, I believe that everyone was under the assumption that someone would have been hired as a director before school started again,” said senior Gloria Han, supervisor of Intramurals and Club Sports. “There were times we struggled with balancing the demands of our academic schedules as students with the demands of managing responsibilities typically handled by the director. (And) as students, we did not have the authority to make certain decisions regarding club and intramural sports.”

The Athletics Department admitted to being equally challenged by the lack of an intramurals and club sports director, according to The Signal’s previous report.

“The timing of (Simpson’s) retirement posed challenges for us, and we are trying to work

through them as best we can,” said Sharon Beverly, assistant vice president for Student Affairs and executive director of Athletics and Recreation.

But it appears these challenges weren’t triggered on behalf of Simpson’s long-lingering retirement. Rather, the vague, administrative delay to post her position without warning provided little time or effort to prepare for the month-long lack of a director.

“Dr. Beverly is really good for athletics, and she has a great athletic background, but I’m not sure how much of a background in recreation she has,” Simpson said. “So I think the department came in thinking ‘Oh, everything’s okay with recreation and sports clubs, so everything will continue to be okay.’”

The College has maintained that nothing unusual occurred during the review process and subsequent posting of Simpson’s position. Pogue expanded upon Simpson’s case in particular.

“This search (for a new Intramurals and Club Sports director) was completed well under a typical time-frame,” Pogue said.

“We received notification of retirement during the second week of June, effective the first day of September. It is my understanding that Student Affairs and Athletics immediately began their strategic discussions and planning to determine a holistic review of NCAA Sports and Recreation on our campus, that also included the Campus

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Town Project.”

David Muha, vice president of Communications, Marketing and Brand Management, additionally said the review process takes specific steps to assess relevant “needs and budget.”

“This can take time but is ultimately important in ensuring that we continue to meet students’ needs and deliver the highest quality service,” Muha said. “We are committed to recreation and have made great strides in improving the student experience.”

But most committed to the Intramurals and Club Sports program has been and still is Simpson, so much so that she offered to continue assisting the program throughout its directorial lapse. She lives “right around the corner” and has returned to campus many times to support the College.

In response, however, Simpson said the College repeatedly told her, “enjoy your retirement.”

With fresh director Rob Simels finally in place, Intramurals and Club Sports has begun to mend the fissures made during the interim. Simpson was confident that Simels would “take the program over and do very well with it,” and since then, Han believes he’s been “a tremendous help.” But only when forgoing a program director — and carrying on without Deb Simpson — did the Athletics Department realize just how much they’d miss the organizational hand of an acting director.

Coleman presents campaign to College

By Bri Ozalas Correspondent

The College Democrats invited N.J. General Assemblywoman and Congressional candidate Bonnie Watson Coleman Friday, Oct. 17, to speak on student issues and her political platform in hopes of encouraging students to vote in the midterm elections on Tuesday, Nov. 4.

Watson Coleman (NJ-D), a Mercer County native, the first African American woman to serve as the Majority Leader of the New Jersey General Assembly and also as the chair of the New Jersey Democratic State Committee, made a pit stop at the College as part of her campaign to become the first African American woman to represent New Jersey’s 12th district. She is running

to replace long-time Democrat Rush Holt.

“We need to be clear who we are and who we stand for,” said Watson Coleman in her speech, which focused on the importance of a government that works together, listens to students and comes up with solutions for a better society.

“It’s our responsibility to go across the aisle and work with Republicans … It’s our responsibility to build relationships and work together,” Watson Coleman said.

“Blaming others is not government. It’s not democracy.”

After her speech, the College Democrats named Watson Coleman the “Honorary Chair of the TCNJ College Democrats.”

“She’s long represented N.J. at a local level, and it’s a great opportunity to have her come in,” said junior history

and urban studies double major Sam Fogelgaren, president of the College Democrats. “We wanted to have her speak to students because she represents students and their needs.”

Watson Coleman stated that she, if elected, will fight to support Pell Grants and the N.J. Stars Program, a scholarship program that covers the cost of tuition at New Jersey’s 19 community colleges.

When asked about the introducing the idea of free education like in Germany, Watson Coleman said it would be difficult and not likely, but that she will work for “making higher education more affordable.”

While she did not state whether she was for or against the legalization of marijuana, she did state that she believes in the “decriminalization” of marijuana and that we

need to “separate out the threats to society.”

Unlike many “loud-mouth, dysfunctional ultra-conservatives,” as Watson Coleman said, she believes the Affordable Care Act is the “most significant achievement since the start of Medicare,” and although she says it is not perfect, it allows for “opportunities to improve upon from patient and provider perspectives.”

Watson Coleman’s opponent in the upcoming midterm election is Republican Alieta Eck, MD. Eck, a graduate of Rutgers College of Pharmacy in N.J. and the St. Louis School of Medicine in St. Louis, M.O., is the co-founder of Zarephath Health Center is Somerset, N.J and has been in private practice with her husband since 1988.

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Library / Renovations made to preserve building continued from page 1

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The library that is used today has been used since 2005.

“When you walk past the building and just look up at the building, you will notice that the paint is peeling, there’s damage to the gutters, so that is causing water to get into the building and that is causing deterioration,” Muha said. “We are taking the steps that are needed today because we do want to preserve and restore the building.”

According to Taras Pavlovsky, the dean of the Library, this renovation is long overdue.

“I am very happy they are spending the money because (Roscoe West) had slate roofs which have a lifespan of about 75 years, so from 1930 to 2014, we are well beyond that,” he said.

In fact, Pavlovsky has even witnessed first-hand why the renovation is so badly needed.

“I saw what happened when a piece of slate fell off the roof one time during some strong wind ... and it could have taken someone’s head off,” he said. “Now just from a general responsibility point of view, thank God the College fixed it, because somebody could have gotten seriously hurt.”

While Roscoe West has only been used for storage purposes since building the current library in 2005, there are still plans to have a complete renovation done within the next few years.

“You have a historic building right at the heart of the campus, and for a college that is as tight on space as we are, it will be valuable

in terms of helping the College grow,” Muha said. “We are talking in the tens of millions of dollars to do any renovations, and right now, the focus of the college from a building standpoint is really the STEM project and the renovation of the Brower Student Center.”

In the meantime however, all that can be done is sit back and speculate what Roscoe West will become.

“It has some wonderful spaces, but personally I think it is a wonderful place for the president’s office,” Pavlovsky said.

“It has high ceilings, obviously it would have to get reconfigured and have air conditioning put in, but it has some wonderful spaces there, and (when it’s finished, it is) going to have a visual impression on people.”

How the College is readying for a safe Homecoming

By Natalie Kouba Editor-in-Chief A parking lot littered with beer cans and red Solo cups has become a familiar image at the College’s Homecoming, and the number of transports and citations reflects the out-of-control reputation that the administration will attempt to reign in this year. In sticking to the united tailgate structure, the College is also hoping to work with students to reverse this seemingly increasing trend of alcohol abuse at Homecoming.

“Drinking is the primary concern, but we are optimistic that the advance buy-in from these groups, along with the new limits on the amount of alcohol allowed into the area, will be effective,” said David Muha, vice president of Communications, Marketing and Brand Management at the College.

In the past two years, there has

been a jump in the number of alcohol related incidents — from five medical transports in 2012 to eight in 2013, and from 11 underage drinking citations in 2012 to 24 last year. This year, in lieu of having one combined tailgate instead of the original separated tailgates, extra funding had been provided to support the increase in security. According Muha, there will be 55-60 professionals assisting with security, consisting of members from Campus Police, New Jersey State Police and contracted security officers from Summit Security.

“Summit’s officers will primarily be checking ID’s, monitoring checkpoints, checking bags and providing building security,”Muha said. “Our officers and those from the State Police will be handling enforcement.”

In reuniting the tailgates, campus organizations and Greek Life agreed on pulling their efforts to make a conscious effort to curb

underage drinking.

“We basically just had fines in place and agreed to not have pre or post parties,” Inter-Greek Council President Robbie Nunes said.

“This year, there will also be additional sanctions for Greek organizations, including fines, if one of their members is cited for underage drinking,” Muha said.

“Other student organizations will also be held accountable to Student Government.“ In addition to the increase in security, the Fraternal Information and Programming Group Guidelines will limit the amount of alcohol allowed to be brought into the tailgate. Unlike previous years where garbage bins full of beer cans were stationed across the lot, each attendee of legal drinking age will be permitted to bring in only a six pack of 12-ounce beers or a four pack of six-ounce wine drinks.

“Limiting the amount of

Sutherland / College mourns

alcohol this year according to nationally recognized guidelines should help in this respect as well,” Muha said.

Through different campaigns, higher security and added events, the College is making strides in hopes of providing a safer Homecoming tailgate this year and bring overall awareness to the issue.

Some student-led campaigns are helping to raise awareness about alcohol-related issues and guide attendees to a safer Homecoming experience. Delta Zeta sorority, for example, has championed the “I Have a Choice” campaign, voicing the dangers of drinking and driving in the week leading up to Homecoming in order to support the National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week.

Drew Grapstul, a senior criminology major and Campus Police intern, is heading the HERO campaign, an effort aimed to raise

awareness of the dangers of intoxicated driving and urging students to designate sober drivers.

A few weeks ago, students had the opportunity to see the potential dangers of drunk driving when Rutgers alum Gabe Hurley came to speak on behalf of the HERO campaign. Hurley recounted to the College how his life changed after being struck by a drunk driver and the hazards therein.

“That changed his life dramatically, so we are trying to make everyone proactive about drinking and driving,” Grapstul said. “We just want to make people aware going into the football game and coming out of the football game sure there is going to be people drinking, tailgating the football game, but make them aware of the HERO campaign and when you leave the stadium, have a designated driver, or don’t drink and drive.”

Students remember selfless friend continued from page 1 Sutherland died by suicide on Monday, Oct. 6., according to an email sent to College faculty, staff and students by President R. Barbara Gitenstein on Thursday, Oct. 9.

“This tragic incident affects our campus, and we all feel a sense of loss at this time,” President R. Barbara Gitenstein wrote. “Please join me in keeping Sarah, her family, and loved ones in your thoughts and prayers during this difficult time.”

A mycentraljersey.com article published on Thursday, Oct. 9, cited police saying the 18-year-old had jumped off an overpass and into a creek, which was several hundred feet from the restaurant where she had worked. Sutherland later died at University Hospital in Newark.

Sutherland had been a warm, inclusive student who liked to make sure nobody felt left out, according to freshman psychology major Lena Chickezie.

“If you knew her, you were lucky,” Chikezie said during a prayer vigil the New Jersey Christian Fellowship held for Sutherland on Wednesday, Oct. 15, which honored Sutherland.

The vigil highlighted the psychological

options available to all College students in need of any assistance, including CAPS in 107 Eickhoff Hall, and services were made available to those who knew Sutherland.

“I think that everyone has been so great with us, talking about counseling and psychological services,” Rose said. “I think that the school does as much as they can, they make us very aware of the services available to us.”

Sutherland’s floor was heavily impacted by the loss of their friend and came together to mourn her after their community advisors and the school counseling services told them the news. “(Our floor is) pretty close … We all went to dinner the night (they told us the news), it was almost 40 of us that went to Eick that night, and it was just nice to be together,” Rose said. “We have a really close floor, which makes it hard to lose someone — but it’s also nice that we all have each other, we’re going through the same thing. If I get upset, I can just go to anyone in the hall and we’re all close. We all knew her. We’re all upset about it.”

Sutherland’s family held a memorial service for her on Friday, Oct. 10, with a prayer service on Saturday, Oct. 11.

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Nation & W rld

Bombings continue as ISIS attacks Kobani

By Roman Orsini Staff Writer

Militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) have undertaken an assault on the Syrian town of Kobani earlier this month, which lies along the Turkish border. The introduction of U.S. bombings have obstructed the militants’ progress and caused the Jihadist group heavy casualties, according to Pentagon officials.

Kobani is the latest city ISIS fighters have set in their sights. The militants control roughly a third of Iraq, including its second largest city, Mosul, according to Business Insider.

The latest offensive into Syria reflects the expansionist aims of the Islamic State, which has risen to power amidst the chaos created by the Syrian civil war and the breakdown of Iraq between its Sunni, Shia and Kurdish populations.

“The enemy has made a decision to make Kobani his main effort,” said General Lloyd Austin of U.S. Central Command, responsible for Middle East operations.

Large numbers of ISIS fighters have descended upon the town and have “created a rather target-rich environment … for American and coalition air strikes,” White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said.

ISIS continues to besiege the town in spite of ongoing airstrikes. Its advance seems to be stalled, but not reversed.

Austin has said that despite airstrikes, “it’s highly possible that Kobani may fall.”

ISIS rose to international infamy this year for its brutal mass murders and conquests in Iraq and Syria. Roughly 5,500 Iraqis have been killed since ISIS started its military campaign, according to The New York Times. The group also filmed the beheadings of several American and European journalists, using the films in its social media campaign to recruit more fighters.

On Friday, Aug. 8, the U.S. began bombing ISIS targets in Iraq and expanded to Syria this month. According to the BBC, roughly 480 strikes have been conducted against ISIS, targeting armored vehicles, weapons stocks and military installations.

U.S. bombings helped local Iraqi and Kurdish forces recapture the strategic Mosul Dam from ISIS, which is the fourth largest dam in the Middle East, and a significant generator of electricity for Iraq’s North. In the western Anbar Province, Apache helicopters were used to attack ISIS formations at low altitudes, as bombers would have posed a greater risk to allied fighters on the ground.

However, the newest battle in Syria points to the limitations

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Smoke rises following a strike in Kobani, Syria during fighting between Syrian Kurds and ISIS. of air power alone in countering ISIS. Kurdish leader Idris Nassan said that “(the) international community cannot defeat ISIS by just hitting them from the sky. They have to help the people who are fighting.”

Debate is ongoing within the U.S. government as to which parties to arm, if any, in this increasingly sectarian war and whether American soldiers should return to Iraq and fight ISIS on the ground.

Oregon scientists prepare for the next big megaquake

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Construction workers check the damage after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake in San Francisco.

By Candace Kellner Correspondent

On Oct. 17, 1989, Loma Prieta, a magnitude 6.9 earthquake, took the lives of 63 people in San Francisco. To this day, Oregon, as well as other West Coast states, are worrying whether they are prepared to face another megaquake.

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public structures, offers an incentive to encourage Oregon private sectors to advance seismic resilience and updates its public policies to increase preparedness.

Using scientific research on prehistoric earthquakes, scientists like Chris Goldfinger, a marine geologist and professor at Oregon State University, can predict the probability of another monstrous earthquake. According to Goldfinger, the south end of the fault line that Oregon sits on rattles on a 240-year quake cycle.

The collected data shows that these quakes have a magnitude between high sevens and low eights. Goldfinger told CNN that Oregon is currently “300 years into a 240-year cycle.” However, on the north end of the fault line, where the majority of Oregon’s population resides, there is an estimated 500-year cycle.

Although there is still plenty of time before the next earthquake, there is a considerable amount of work in store for Oregon. The institutions have been very cooperative in preparing their facilities. The Oregon Legislature is already preparing a task force to formulate specific recommendations for action in the 2015 state legislation.

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Iraq lawmakers approve defense ministers

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These activists protest over legalizing marijuana in Trenton.

Over 250 activists and community members gathered at the steps of the New Jersey Statehouse to show their support for legalizing marijuana on Sunday, Oct. 19.

The event culminated with many participants publicly smoking marijuana.

A handful of state troopers were monitoring the event, but it did not appear that any arrests were made.

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Chief scientist and geologist at the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries Ian Madin told CNN that Oregon is highly susceptible to experiencing earthquakes because of its location on a huge fault line that separates two of the Earth’s tectonic plates. The fault line could one day produce a massive earthquake, causing immense destruction to the Northwest region of the U.S. This large-scale earthquake, also known as a megaquake, would consist of a violent shake that lasts for several minutes.

If the quake is powerful enough, it can lead to landslides, tsunamis and floods. According to Madin, Oregon’s mountainous terrain and position near the coast makes it highly susceptible to these additional disasters.

The Oregon Resilience Plan determined that a worse-case scenario would result in approximately 10,000 deaths and power outages that could last for several months to several years. The economic losses would amount to approximately $30 billion.

Based on its findings in the Oregon Resilience Plan, the Oregon Seismic Safety Policy Advisory Commission recommends that Oregon takes a statewide inventory of its critical buildings, launches a program of capital investment to renovate Oregon’s

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi lawmakers approved Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi’s remaining Cabinet nominees on Saturday, including for the critical defense and interior portfolios, completing the formation of a government that will strive to push the Islamic State extremist group out of the sprawling territory it has seized in recent months.

Control over the two powerful security ministries has long been a source of tension among Iraq’s feuding political factions. The U.S. and other allies have been pushing for a more representative government that can reach out to Sunnis, who felt marginalized by former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Sunni discontent is widely seen as having fueled the IS group’s dramatic advances in Iraq since June, when it captured the country’s second largest city Mosul.

Khaled al-Obeidi, a Sunni lawmaker from Mosul, was selected for the post of defense minister, by a vote of 175-85. He had served as an officer in Saddam Hussein’s military and holds a PhD in political science.

Mohammed Salem al-Ghabban, a Shiite lawmaker with al-Abadi’s State of Law political bloc, was approved

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Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, left, and Arab League Secretary-General Nabil Elaraby answer questions at a news conference. as minister of interior by a 197-63 vote. He holds degrees from universities in both Tehran and London and he is currently pursuing a PhD in political science in Baghdad. He was a long-time opponent of Saddam and was detained in 1979.

Hoshyar Zebari, a Kurdish politician and Iraq’s long-serving foreign minister, was named minister of finance, having previously been voted in as deputy prime minister. Shiite lawmaker Adel Fahd al-Shirshab was named tourism

minister, and Kurdish lawmaker Bayan Nouri was appointed minister of women’s affairs.

Iraq is facing its worst crisis since the 2011 withdrawal of U.S. troops, with the Islamic State group in control of about a third of the country.

Iraq’s U.S.-trained and equipped armed forces collapsed in the face of the militants’ advance, abandoning heavy weapons that the extremist group is now using in battles across both Iraq and Syria.

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Editorial

Mindfulness campaign eats away at student comfort and choices

For the first half of the semester, food stations in Eickhoff Hall were plastered with nutritional information charts to promote the Mindfulness campaign by Dining Services. The nutritional charts listed the calorie, fat, carbohydrate, protein and other nutritional contents of food items, from a cheeseburger to an ounce of broccoli. Since then, the charts have been removed, but small tips for making meals “mindful” remain, suggesting students take it easy on the cheese, pick high-protein lean meats and load up on veggies — insisting they be mindful of what they put on their plates.

This campaign, however, is anything but mindful.

Instead, it is obsessive. It is calorie-counting to an extreme. It assumes students should be on a low-fat, low-carb, high-protein diet and is soliciting unwarranted advice. The Dining Services campaign claims to practice mindfulness during meals, but mindful eating, in fact, has nothing to do with numbers.

According to the Center for Mindful Eating, the actual concept reflects little of what the College’s campaign promotes: “Allowing yourself to become aware of the positive and nurturing opportunities that are available through food selection and preparation by respecting your own inner wisdom; using all your senses in choosing to eat food that is both satisfying to you and nourishing to your body; acknowledging responses to food (likes, dislikes or neutral) without judgment; becoming aware of physical hunger and satiety cues to guide your decisions to begin and end eating,” are just a few main principles behind this type of awareness.

If you look on the Dining Services Mindful Eating web page, you won’t find any of this. Instead, you will find the same information plastered in the eateries around campus, causing doubt in grabbing a cookie for dessert, ordering cheese for your sandwich or using regular eggs instead of egg whites in an omelette.

With October being National Mental Health Awareness Month, this campaign does little to help students suffering from serious mental health disorders which continue to grow in severity on college campuses. The onset age of eating disorders, for example, primarily settles between one’s college years of 18-21, according to the National Eating Disorders Association. With an ever-increasing rate of both young men and women developing these disorders, the obnoxious plastering of calorie-counting signs around campus and tips on how to cut calories in dining halls is absolutely unnecessary and can trigger an even more stressful eating experience for these students.

At Eickhoff Hall’s sandwich station, for example, the signs advise students to try skipping fatty dressings and instead add mustard as a topping, since “it has virtually no calories.” ­ Venture out and you will find that mindful eating has absolutely nothing to do with finding the lowest calorie/carb/fat/saturated fat/ restrictive option, but it is about eating what you enjoy, what tastes good to you.

We need to stop assuming everybody is on the same get-fitquick, anti-Freshman 15, low-calorie diet; stop assuming unsolicited health advice is actually healthy; and stop assuming everyone is trying to cut down on fat and carbs and amp up the protein. Instead, learn what real mindfulness is, if it so suits you, and keep your eyes on your own plate.

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In the article “Zeta Tau Alpha has campus thinking pink,” published on Oct. 8, 2014, The Signal reported that “all of the proceeds from the week went toward the Susan G. Komen Foundation.”

The proceeds were actually donated to the Zeta Tau Alpha Foundation, which then distributes 100 percent of the money to different breast cancer organizations.

Quote of the Week “When I read the article (a report by The Signal on the problems within Intramural and Club Sports without an acting director), I was really upset. I obviously love the College, love the students, and love the program that I built for 27 years … but when I was getting calls from club presidents and team members about the problems they were having, I could only say, ‘I don’t know what to tell you.’”

— Deb Simpson, former director of Intramurals and Club Sports

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Homecoming MainStage Saturday October 25 10:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.

GREEN LAWN / RAIN SITE: BSC 202

Performance Schedule 10:45 a.m.

11 a.m.

Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Mixed Martial Arts Club, and Kokikai Aikido Demonstrations TCNJ Taiko

11:15 a.m.

Black Out Step Team

11:30 a.m.

TCNJ Circus

11:45 a.m.

12 p.m.

12:15 p.m.

12:30 p.m.

Mixed Signals

Rock Wall Quarterback Football Challenge Game Booths & Prizes Face Painting

free Hot Apple Cider Hot Chocolate Cider Donuts Cotton Candy Popcorn

TCNJ Musical Theatre TCNJ Swing TCNJ Pep Band

$1.00 Hot Dogs Sodas Chips

Plus an appearance by the TCNJ Cheerleaders and Roscoe!

Homecoming MainStage will feature WTSR DJ’s and Emcee David Brown throughout the program.

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Opinions Mental health resources lacking at College

By Vincent Aldazabal, Shannon Kane and Hailey Marr There are times when tragedy catalyzes an urgent response that compels necessary criticism in the defense of hope and the preservation of human life. Paige Aiello, Michael Menakis and, most recently, Sarah Sutherland each committed suicide during their time at the College. Their absences are deeply felt on campus and our hearts are indeed broken.

Sutherland is the third student to have taken her life in the last two and a half years, while Paige Aiello and Michael Menakis committed suicide in the spring of 2013 and 2014, respectively. This number does not include attempts or even the number of individuals contemplating such a choice, but it does give us an insight to the abysmal state of mental health care on campus. This is a brutal reality that we cannot ignore, and we would be remiss in placating the shortcomings of our campus’s institutional leadership and the student body’s own lack of empathy. This piece is dedicated to the memories of three beautiful people and intends to initiate a campaign of hope predicated upon serious institutional reform and individual empowerment which are now both overwhelmingly essential for the very sustainability and survival of the College’s students.

If our students and administrative leaders cannot work to heal broken

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regrettable. Students are forced to look elsewhere for help. This marginalizes individuals who do not have access to transportation to and from campus or those with subpar health insurance that leaves them unable to afford treatment. There is a very clear bottom line in this situation, and it’s high time that the College’s administration adjust its priorities and put students’ mental health and safety as an immediate platform of essential reform. It will take more than rhetorical gestures and reactive measures to prevent any further tragedies.

The College should offer more resources to its students we are faced with an increasingly with mental health problems to prevent further tragedies. rigorous corporate strangling of acahearts through the mobilization of humanitarian efforts and committed economic measures for its students, just like it has for academic interests, our public education system is fundamentally broken.

The tone expressed in President Gitenstein’s email following this recent tragedy is ultimately symptomatic of the willful ignorance of systemic hindrances to student’s mental health, as it exists at the highest levels of this college. This disregard is evidenced by the critical lack in funding given to resources like Counseling and Psychological Services, or CAPS. Many students who have attempted to utilize CAPS have expressed that the work counselors tirelessly participate in is admirable, but they are obviously underfunded and, as a result, understaffed. Given

By Karen Martinez Class of 2014 This month, I have the privilege of celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month alongside 11 resilient and energetic pre-kindergarten students. This holiday represents a powerful opportunity for our tiny classroom community to expand my students’ conceptions of what it means to be Latino and to learn more about the unique culture and stories they bring to our classroom. Knowing that my students are so young and their educational journeys so new, during this month I cannot help but look to their futures, as well.

By 2040, nearly one out of every four U.S. citizens will identify as Hispanic. But as we see Latino leadership rising across the country, there’s one leadership shortage that hits home for me. Today, just 8 percent of teachers identify as Latino. This gap has real, immediate implications for Hispanic students and is a big part of what ultimately brought me to Wilmington, D.E. to teach my young learners.

Here in my new home state, the U.S. Census reports that 44.1 percent of Hispanics over the age of 25 do not have a high school diploma.

the continuous thrum of construction equipment present on all corners of campus, the message sent to students is clear. For those in charge, the outward appearance of the College is being addressed as a higher priority than that of students’ mental healthcare. The fact is, while our mental health resources are of a high quality in their limited availability, they are not as “extensive” as Gitenstein claims. They will not be extensive until they are allocated funding and resources proportional to their importance, which are now of tantamount value. That students should sometimes have to wait upwards of three weeks to speak with a mental health professional after an initial intake with CAPS, and that they are only allowed to see a professional for a very limited number of appointments, is

demic institutions by private power.

Yet our moral consciences are gravely threatened. We must cease praising the accelerated pace of constructing Campus Town if we cannot center plans to provide serious constructions — institutional and personal — that secure acceptable tools for long-term mental healthcare. In the face of overwhelming grief, we must re-evaluate how we are utilizing the precious time we have here in college. This will require leadership and student collectives to re-emerge from the loss that compels us and be propelled to move forward to build support lines, media campaigns, academic outlets and crucial longterm care for those struggling with mental health. The College must be provoked from the top administrative

corners to the brightest minds and largest hearts to form an inclusive community that prioritizes empathy in the pursuit of safety.

Perhaps of paramount importance is the need for bureaucratic interferences with care to be dismantled — most certainly limited by the political power of insurance companies — so healthcare professionals are not limited to healing voices of desperation, most poignantly when the very real expressions of suicidal ideation and feelings are conveyed.

Any voices that immediately respond to say radical change is impossible must consider the tragic Either we challenge what we’ve been told is “just how it is” or knowingly await the next heartbreaking and pitiful email from Gitenstein.

Suicide is not an inevitable occurrence of our existence, and the struggle for what is ideal must be continually pursued in the face of social injustice. The best way to honor the memories of those we have lost in the struggle with mental health is to take serious preventive measures. Institutional reform is but the beginning. How we reconstruct our hearts’ intents will only be realized if there is a consensus that three suicides are three too many. Shall we rigorously pursue the protection of our humanity, or shall we continue to adhere to the same order that the powers at be have implemented?

This is staggering, especially when compared to the overall Delaware population — only 15 percent of whom lack a college degree.

Growing up in Jersey City, N.J., I saw the

behavior and orienting himself in social situations. During his “All about me” show-andtell, he shared about his father being away and how it affects him and his family. After that

When I enrolled at the College, I knew that I wanted to use my education not to “get out” but instead to give back. It was through tutoring at a local school in Trenton with Circle K that I saw that education has the potential to be the most powerful tool in shaping our nation’s future.

Working with children of all ages and backgrounds at Kidsbridge Tolerance Museum reinforced my desire to focus on urban education, so I became an early education major. I knew that I wanted to make a difference for low-income students, but I also knew that if I wanted to really change my hometown, I would have to be part of something bigger than myself. That’s why I joined Teach For America — to be part of

as it may be for a 4 year old — I noticed a change in him and his trust for our classroom community. By bringing my full self to my classroom — as a woman, College grad and

for social justice in the classroom.

As a Latina, I treat opportunities to get to know my students with extra care. This month, our unit is centered on the theme, “All I encouraged my students and their parents to

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There is a severe lack of Hispanic teachers in American classrooms. make our classroom home, bringing in family pictures and sharing memories from their early birthdays and holidays. For some of my students this unit was a breakthrough. One young student, Ryan, had always struggled with his

privilege of being both a window and a mirror for my students.

The sharing of a common identity is powerful to my students, but it’s certainly not the only way to connect — all students, even our youngest learners, need teachers who they know believe in them. The path toward meaningful change has been taken by regular people committed to making extraordinary things possible.

Great teachers come from all backgrounds, identities and experiences, but we are united by day, I am challenged to play a role in the future I imagine and humbled to work with a group of students whose imaginations never cease to amaze. As you imagine your own future, I hope you’ll join us.

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Features

Monologues bring both laughter and tears PRISM hosts annual Coming Out Monologues

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Zach Dzierzgowski, a junior Spanish and secondary education double major, recalls coming out to his family.

By Jess Ganga Social Media Editor

It was a night filled with funny stories, emotional moments and dramatic microphone dropping during PRISM’s annual Coming Out Monologues. Students and peers filled the Library Auditorium to hear some of the club’s members and others share their own coming-out stories on Wednesday, Oct. 8, and Thursday, Oct. 9. “(I have an) immense sense of pride for TCNJ students,” said Megan Osika, senior English, secondary education and women’s and gender studies triple major and president of PRISM, about seeing her fellow members on stage.

Watching from the audience, everyone felt that same sense of

pride, witnessing poignant and powerful moments of fellow students opening up about difficult times in their lives.

Zach Dzierzgowski, a junior Spanish and secondary education double major, spoke about the difficulties of coming out to both his parents. In the end, however, Dzierzgowski knew his parents, especially his father, would “love him no matter what.” He considers his parents to be his best friends.

Many of the monologues centered on family and the emotions that came with coming-out to their parents and siblings. Verbal abuse and sexual abuse were also focal points across several stories, silencing an audience rapt in empathy.

In a monologue by junior sociology and women’s and gender

studies double major Tommi-Estefan Granados, he initially began with laughter, telling the audience the things everyone needed to know about him.

“I’m such a macho man,” Granados said to a charmed audience. But soon after, his monologue became emotional, delving into his experiences this past summer when confrontation erupted between him and his family at his brother’s wedding.

The auditorium was silent as he spoke about how he no longer lives with his family and the difficulties of leaving home, even though it was the right thing for him to do.

But even with so much hardship, Granados was able to proudly say, “I’m the happiest I’ve ever been.”

Many of the monologues, moreover, were linked by their appreciation for the home the College has provided.

Jordan Stefanski, a junior nursing major, said he knew the College was where he should attend school after visiting and seeing the giant Queer Awareness Month banner in the Student Center. He took a picture of it, then posted it to Facebook with the triumphant caption: “I’m home.”

Although emotional at times, the night was still full of good spirit and humor.

“I’m a large teddy bear of a homosexual,” Stefanski said of himself at the beginning of his monologue. He explained how in high school, he started his school’s GayStraight Alliance to give people a place to go.

“I was like the FDR of the gays,” he said.

Dzierzgowski had many laughs throughout, as well. He adores his family, emphasizing how his little sister, his “little angel,” is someone with whom he can look at couture wedding gowns.

Ryan Eldridge, the event coordinator and sophomore political science and women’s and gender studies double major, closed out the night with his own coming-out monologue.

Eldridge’s story, as he described, was not an emotional one, but one that still affected him deeply. He said that being a part of PRISM has helped him the most. “(It’s) absolutely indescribable to be able to facilitate an advocacy event, which helped me so much when I was a freshman just last year,” Eldridge said, proud to have helped put together the

event and watch his friends and fellow PRISM members speak in front of so many people.

The floor was then opened up for audience members who wanted to share their own stories, inspired by those who spoke before them. And, in response, some viewers bravely stepped up to share what they have gone through in their lives.

The monologues were mutually inspiring to those who are a part of the LGBTQ community and to those who aren’t, creating a community that supports one another and allows its members to personally grow.

“Growth is a fantastic thing,” Stefanski said, walking to the front of the stage in a pair of black pumps. “And as long as I can do it in my four inch 17W heels, I’m going to look damn good while doing it.”

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Meghan Osika, president of PRISM, introduces the evening of monologues.

By lantern light, PRISM honors those we have lost

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Students gather to listen to speakers sharing their experiences with depression and suicide.

By Chelsea LoCascio Features Assistant

Eclipsed by the blinding stadium lights and cheers of girl’s field hockey fans, students shared their darkest moments by the glow of candlelight in the

AIMM amphitheater.

What seemed like a seamless shift from laughter and smiles to self-reflection and understanding, PRISM’s Lantern Vigil on Thursday, Oct. 16, at 8:30 p.m. aimed to remind students of those in the LGBTQ community who have passed from hate crimes or suicide as part of Queer Awareness Month.

“There is hope,” said Robin Schmitz, sophomore criminology major and PRISM’s community advocacy chair, in her introduction. “We are not alone in this fight anymore.”

Functioning as a wake-up call for the community, the speakers at the event intended to prevent any more lives from being taken.

PRISM, along with the help of To Write Love on Her Arms (TWLOHA), wants everyone to “remember those who we lost (and) to prevent anymore … to keep as many names off the list,” said Mary-Elizabeth Thompson, a sophomore women’s and gender studies major and TWLOHA secretary.

Thompson reminded everyone of this past National Suicide Prevention Day on Sept. 10 where 395 flags lined Green Hall, each one representing 100 suicides that occur annually, with a quarter of them from members of the LGBTQ community.

Thompson, who has experienced depression for the past 10 years, offered

some advice.

“It isn’t always obvious that someone is hurting,” said Thompson. “(I) encourage you to let people help you … reach out for help (from) loved ones. I guarantee they will care.”

When the floor opened up, Jordan Stefanski, a junior nursing major and member of Delta Lambda Phi fraternity, took the stage and recounted a tragic yet uplifting story regarding a fellow brother in need.

Delta Lambda Phi, a fraternity for gay, bisexual and progressive men, held a ceremony where Stefanski met a fraternity brother from Los Angeles, C.A. This brother later called Stefanski and told him about his suicidal thoughts. For hours, Stefanski listened and persuaded him to acknowledge that suicide was not the answer.

“There’s always at least one person who cares … me,” Stefanski said, repeating a line that helped him during his phone conversation. “Reach out and touch … even if they’re 3,000 miles away. If someone is in distress … you can always do something. I personally believe it is a matter of reaching out.”

Next came Disha Dass, a senior psychology and women’s and gender studies double major and vice president of PRISM,

with a memory of watching her best friend perform in the “Laramie Project: Ten Years Later” at Fairleigh Dickinson University.

According to Playbill, this play is about the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard, a gay 21-year-old, in Laramie, W.Y. “There is still a lot of hate and sentiment and violence against qu eer individuals, and we need to talk about it,” Dass said.

Despite the hatred and violence that continues off campus, the LGBTQ community is grateful for the College’s increasingly accepting environment.

Megan Osika, a senior English, secondary education and women’s and gender studies triple major and president of PRISM, gave closing remarks about her appreciation for the College’s concern.

“In the wake of all the destruction (and) violence, I’m so proud of (the) TCNJ community and their support,” Osika said.

Osika let everyone know that when PRISM’s signs were knocked down during Welcome Week, the College’s students, staff, campus police and many others contacted her in hopes that this was not a hate crime.

“People are looking out for us … people have our backs,” Osiak said. “When I leave this campus, that’s a different story.”

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Community and legacy

Campus Style

By Heather Hawkes & Jordan Koziol Columnists

Just as we declared Coven as the Supreme of AHS style, the Freak Show came to town, pink and wrapped in silk. As if the show wasn’t addicting enough, we were quite literally entranced by the rich colors, the striped patterns, the furs, the glitter, and the corsets that the cast members were draped in. As the autumn weather cools down, steal inspiration from these decadently stylish characters.

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Members of the College community – past and present – come together to celebrate Community Fest and Parents’ Weekend.

By Lily Kalczewski Correspondent Two huge white tents were set up on the field in front of Kendall Hall this past Saturday, Oct. 18, hosting local organizations, groups and vendors that were all gathered to participate in the annual Ewing Township Community Fest.

Community Fest abounded with a variety of organizations and plenty of entertainment flourishes. The Ewing Green Team set up a table to promote recycling and environmental sustainability. Even the Ewing High School Robotics team made an appearance. For entertainment, there was live music, inflatable slides and bounce houses, accompanied by face painting and George the Magician. More importantly for foodies everywhere, food trucks lined the festival, providing attendees with a number of dining options.

From the College community, students and parents visited the College and Community Fest as a part of Parent’s Weekend.

Several visiting parents has once been students themselves and explored the College and reminisced about its path over the years.

The turnout at Community Fest showed that although the College has undergone many changes since it was established, it still maintains a larger sense of community. After contacting alumni who currently have children attending the school, it was clear that their favorite attribute of their alma mater was the close community feel.

As Michele Prescavage, class of ’91, observed when she was a student, the College

“always had a small town feel,” and she believes that this remains the same even now.

Having such a close community allowed the Alumni to meet lifelong friends and even spouses, as with the case of Susan and John Infosino, class of ’79 and ’77, and Michele Prescavage and her spouse, Jim, ’93.

“The enduring friendships I’ve kept up are no doubt the best thing from the past,” Ken Baumann, ’82, said.

“What my child likes most about TCNJ is the tight knit community,” Susan Duthie Warwick, ’89, said about her daughter’s experience so far at the College. “She can walk on campus at any point and see multiple friends, and the tight-knit community definitely rolls over onto the professors and staff.”

The Prescavages’ daughter agreed adding that the school offers “a very welcoming campus.”

Nonetheless, the alumni noticed that along with the name, the College has undergone many alterations, specifically to the buildings which have changed in both amount and appearance. Warwick remembered the diversity of the buildings and how some “were very old with a lot of character while others sported what was considered a more modern look.”

“Today the campus is redesigned with many new buildings in the Georgian Architecture style,” she said.

Alumni are also relieved when it comes to parking. According to both Warwick and Susan Infosino, parking has definitely become a lot easier since they’ve attended.

Furthermore, recognizing the quality education they received, many alumni agree that the education at the College has since

Elsa Mars: With her dramatic silk robes, oversized furs and omnipresent boas, it’s hard to believe that this German expatriate hasn’t reached stardom yet. To adopt some of this dream-like glamour, consider adding the following to your fall wardrobe: maroon or pink silk shirts, lacy scarves, black thigh-high socks and a faux fur vest or jacket. Take the carnival-essence a step further and invest in a candy striperesque red and white striped skirt.

Ethel Darling: Though she may be bearded, Ethel Darling is one stylish performer. In the first episode, she sported a printed-fringe kimono over a satin, rosecolored dress. Accessorizing the look, she added an embellished-gold headband and a draping knotted necklace. Steal her dress and kimono combo or her amazing color palette of rose-gold, blush pink, navy and gold.

Ma Petite: Though she be but little, she is fierce. At 2’6’’ Ma Petite can always be been enhanced. Comparing their education to their children’s now, some alumni believe that the curriculum is more challenging, and that even getting accepted to the College is harder. As the Prescavages observed, “The reputation of the College has improved since our time.” This can be attested to the recent ranking by U.S. News and World Report listing College the top public school in the northern region.

Overall, the alumni look back on their college days with happiness, gratitude and pride. Due to the education they received at the College, all the alumni have been successful in their careers. Infosino credits her time at the College for discovering her passion in life, which is “serving young children.” She says it’s where she “learned about persistence, patience and not giving up.”

The alumni have all had fantastic experiences at the College, and now, it’s

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Costumes of bold colors and textures are far from a horror story.

found rocking intricate and beautiful saris.

A garment typically worn by women of South Asia, saris are growing in popularity in the fashion world. This fall, channel in your inner Ma Petite with a draping silk shawl, or even just a silk blouse or tank in rich mauve or eggplant colors. Bonus points for detailed gold beading or embellishment.

Though Twisty the clown may be giving us nightmares, the characters from AHS Freak Show have us dreaming up elaborate ensembles. We can’t wait for next Wednesday, but until then, get your fashion freak on! their children’s turn to make some memories. Warwick and the Prescavages each currently have one daughter attending the school. The Infosinos’ son just graduated from the school, and their daughter is currently a freshman. Lastly, Baumann has two sons currently enrolled. Despite the alumni’s children having family ties to the school, it’s not the only reason they chose the College.

“TCNJ would have been on our son’s short list of schools even if both of their parents hadn’t attended here,” Baumann said.

“You cannot dispute the well-deserved national rankings the College has received.”

Furthermore, with the construction of Campus Town, the coming renovation of the Brower Student Center and the introduction of the STEM Complex, the College is continuing to change physically as well. But as both the alumni and their children would agree, the campus

The Hollyword: Goo-goo Gaga wants babies

By Johnanthony Alaimo Columnist

YAAAAASS GAGA, SLAY ME IN VITRO is probably what a Lady GaGa fan is saying right now after the Queen of Flopping commented that she wants to have lots of kids.

Gags said, “I want to have tons of kids, actually ... I think at least three. I really want to have a family, and I really want to nurture my children and inspire (them).” Well can you start off raising sea monkeys first and if you don’t eat/try to wear them, I can maybe let you do what you want with your body. Gags as a mother is an interesting concept. The child’s first words will probably be “MA-MA-MAMAMA,” it’ll learn to walk in lobster heels at 2 years old and will probably try to consume Blue Ivy at 3 years old to absorb her powers. After some thought, I welcome a Gags baby. Maybe she’ll go into a cocoon for a few years to incubate. It will serve us all well.

Get ready to never leave your room. Not because of the fear of Ebola, ISIS or Shia LeBeouf, but because “Friends” will finally be available for streaming on Netflix. No longer

do you need to steal your friends’ expansive DVD collection or watch an episode on a seedy website next to an ad that’s promoting some erectile enhancement. Soon you will be able to enjoy the entire gang in some real comfort. Watch Joey get his head stuck in a doorframe in the park. Watch Phoebe sing a nonsensical song under the table during family dinner. Watch Rachel and Ross cry over each other while you cry over a tub of ice cream in your room, you loser. You can do whatever you want! The show will debut on Netflix in 2015, the Year of our Lorde.

Want to learn a new language? Forget Spanish, French, or Italian. Throw that Rosetta Stone into the gutter. Download the “Dothraki Companion” app and learn the language only fictional characters speak on “Game of Thrones.” Amaze your friends with your ability to both speak another language and your ability to waste hours of your life learning it. Confuse your taxi driver by giving him directions in Dothraki and, when he tells you he doesn’t understand, simply say “Dracarys.” Talk about your enemies right in front of them without them knowing! They’ll think you’re having a stroke.

The possibilities are endless, or as they say in Dothraki ...

actually I don’t know because I’m not downloading the damn app. I’m too busy trying to match up with people on Binger, the new app that brings you together with people who like things in excess, like TV, food and misery.

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‘Friends’ comes to Netflix on New Year’s Day.

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Erini – perfect dinner for a special occasion

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A combination of great presentation and delicious taste make for a three-course meal at Erini without any complaints from the diners.

By Jenna Ryan Correspondent Recently, my family came to visit me: another visit, another restaurant. Where to, you ask? Well, Erini of course! The restaurant is not far from the College at all, a mere 10 minutes away. The exterior of the restaurant was really nice, lined with tiki torches and a chiminea in the center. It felt like I was on a tropical island.

Upon entering the restaurant, I immediately felt like I was in a fancier version of my dining room. Because it is October, they also had nice Halloween decorations up.

We made a reservation, and I do recommend making one if you decide to go, especially on weekends when it can get a bit crowded. My party was seated and the waitress

told us the specials. Everything on the menu sounded delicious — we decided to get the Caprese salad and corn chowder as appetizers, and baked chicken, stuffed shrimp, ribs, chicken piccata and grilled salmon for our entrees. The mozzarella cheese in the Caprese salad is made fresh in the restaurant, making it one of the best tomato and mozzarella cheese combinations I have tasted.

The corn chowder was also tasty and satisfying.

My grilled salmon was delicious, and although I did not try any of the other dishes, my family raved about them. Although I am trying to think of some displeasing aspect of Erini’s in order to balance my review, I cannot think of a single thing. Everything was beyond delicious, and I am already planning my trip back there.

With a meal so delightful, it would be insulting not to

finish it with dessert. We ordered the crème brulee and a flourless chocolate cake. The crème brulee was just exquisite, and I am dreaming about it as I write this. The service was also fantastic. Our waitress, Leni, was very accommodating and made sure everything was safe to eat due to my younger cousin’s peanut allergy.

Overall, it is a bit pricey for a college student’s budget, but if you have a special occasion coming up, I highly suggest dining at Erini. The venue exuded class and coziness, which resulted in a very interesting and pleasant combination.

Erini Restaurant 1140 River Rd, Ewing Township, NJ 08628 Phone: (609) 882-0303

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Arts & Entertainment

Chinese band ‘Rose’ gives vibrant performance

By Matthew DeFeo Staff Writer

They came in with street clothes.

They came out with make-up — well, at least one of them did.

Second Hand Rose, a Chinese band, briskly walked on stage for its performance on Thursday, Oct. 16, preparing for a chaotic display that would soon ensue on stage.

They are a self-described folk band despite being labeled mistakenly as a punk band by other listeners. And yet the misconception doesn’t seem to bother them at all.

Beginning with an apology from the percussion player Jeroen Groenewegen-Lau, the band relayed to the audience how the concert was delayed due to problems with amplifiers and microphones.

Professor Jiayan Mi introduced the band as the “hottest, biggest Chinese glam rock band.” However, he forgot to say “the loudest.”

Second Hand Rose like to play

their music loud: the suona, a traditional Chinese instrument, loud; the drums, loud; the bass, loud; the lead guitar, loud; the vocals — you guessed it — loud. And with influences like Michael Jackson, Metallica and Nirvana, how could a band not be?

Before the show began, the band’s manager Eric de Fontenay assured the audience that Second Hand Rose “was not a bunch of Chinese guys playing rock music.”

So when a man dressed in a pink jacket adorned with splashes of green and yellow polygons stood on the stage, shook his shoulder tassels, showed his lipstick and flicked his eyebrows, de Fontenay’s caveat was completely understandable.

This man, Liang Long, shrieked and moaned from falsetto to chest voice while mimetically touching the fourth wall.

In between songs, the percussion player Jeroen, due to the other members lacking proficiency

in English, would read off of a Prezi presentation to educate the audience on their music.

Long started the band because he became dissatisfied that “many bands were trying to copy western music,” Jeroen said.

The name Second Hand Rose is a jab at many bands that just want to copy western rock without any innovation. Instead, the members of Second Hand Rose wanted to combine the sounds of Michael Jackson and Metallica while also keeping the elements of Chinese opera and traditional music intact.

Although their dress might seem to be an elaborate stage gimmick, Jeroen assured the audience that the red and green garb was to symbolize the color of the Northeast region of China where the members are from, the classical mixed with the modern. This hybridity, Jeroen said, is very important to the band’s identity.

On the Prezi, the band gave the song titles in Chinese and English.

Such titles included “Is the East

Brighter than the West” and “After Basking in the Setting Sun, I’ll Wallow in Lament,” beautifully crafted song titles that resonated with periods such as the Tang Dynasty golden age of China.

The band came on for an encore, due to a gasping Professor Mi jumping on the microphone

and prodding the band to deliver.

After a resounding response, the band’s manager said he would do his best to book Second Hand Rose for next year. Professor Mi invited Second Hand Rose to showcase the best music China has to offer, and he has been teaching a class on the subject since 2010.

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Long performs vocals with eclectic and authetnic energy.

Husband-wife duo ParkeHarrison inspire with art

By Gabriel Salazar Correspondent

To start this year’s Visiting Artists Series, husband and wife Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison took the stage at Mayo Concert Hall on Wednesday, Oct. 8, to discuss themes present in their photography and sculpture, as well as the influences behind their art.

They started their first project “The Architect’s Brother” in 1995 as an exploration of the sometimes destructive relationship between man, technology and nature. Their artwork conveys the bleak and surrealistic relationship between humans and nature and how sustainability, at the same time, remains a sliver of hope.

“We made (‘The Architect’s Brother’) in the ’90s before it got real,” Shana said, speaking about the state of the environment as a global issue.

As a presentation of their different works of art were projected on a screen, the ParkeHarrisons discussed how they wish to affect the viewer of their artwork.

“We want to hit the viewer in the gut with something visceral, then rise in the body in an intellectual way,” Shana said. In addition, Robert said that the duo “(wants) to play with your sense of reality.”

They elaborated on three main themes present in their body of work: nature, humans and technology.

Describing themselves as “from the Midwest, suburban

and middle class,” the ParkeHarrisons felt the need to make art that would transcend race and be easily relatable for any viewer. From this starting point, the theme of the everyman appeared in their work. Using this artistic vehicle, the artists hoped that viewers of their work would be able to put themselves into the image and witness the despair caused by the interaction between humans and nature.

One of the main points both artists emphasized is their desire to challenge the viewer’s perception of reality through different mediums. Their artwork is not just a simple photograph, but rather different artistic techniques to enhance the experience of the viewer.

The couple also discussed challenges, particularly the

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The couple focues on themes of hope and despair.

struggle to decide what artistic medium could be most effective. The question of what will impress the viewer the most is one they constantly ask themselves.

For example, they paint over the photographs and use certain parts of other photos to achieve a multidimensional look — props that were used in their work were presented to the audience as well.

The shift they took from black and white art to color not only altered their style, but also the themes in them.

“We became too comfortable with black and white,” Shana said.

They took a couple of years off, did research and created new imagery. Their shift from black and white to color was accompanied with a different way of thinking, as well.

In their past works, the human was the focus, but in their colored works, nature has become the protagonist.

A third form of art they ventured into was sculpture.

They worked with shoemakers to create some of their pieces independently from their other artwork. Their largest sculpture to date is seven feet tall.

After an hour of speaking, the ParkeHarrisons opened the floor for questions from the audience. Many questioned the prevailing theme of despair in the work.

“There’s always a balance, but it tips toward despair,” Shana said. “There’s some amount of hope, the possibility of turning the other way as a race.”

‘Maze Runner’ film stays true to original novel

By Kayle Whittle Staff Writer

James Dashner’s “The Maze Runner” captivated audiences as a young adult novel, yet failed to make a big splash with critics in its movie adaptation. It seems to be growing even more difficult for books made into movies to please audiences. Many films either botch the transition from text to screen, but despite its flaws, “The Maze Runner” is one of the best adaptations that I’ve seen.

Thomas, played by Dylan O’Brien, enters a small glade which is surrounded on all sides by a deadly maze. He allies with

the boys already living in the clearing, though none of them have any memory of the past or why they are trapped in the maze.

They fight to unravel the mystery surrounding their presence in this deadly place. While there are antagonists such as Gally (Will Poulter), who despises Thomas for his quick rise to leadership, the real villains (prime nightmare material) are the deadly Grievers — strange creatures with poisonous stingers who lurk in the maze after dark.

“The Maze Runner” has an experienced cast, with O’Brien of “Teen Wolf” fame and Thomas Brodie-Sangster of “Game of Thrones” dominating the small

screen. Though they give strong performances, the movie fails to give each character enough time on screen, so the audience is not able to become attached to them.

The real stars of the film were the fantastic visuals and special effects that brought the maze and its creatures to life. Exciting chase scenes leave you breathless while you desperately hope Thomas and the other boys will survive.

The maze looks incredibly realistic, enormous and terrifying. The creatures that live within it are even more horribly lifelike.

Thankfully alongside those astounding effects, the movie contains as many plot twists

for which the books are known.

During the movie, the audience reacts to sudden, shocking revelations. The movie really leaves it to the imagination what could happen next. In these books, as

well as the films, anything could happen. Every clue revealed only leads to more questions for the characters and the audience.

Viewers will need to look toward the next film for answers.

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Strong acting from O’Brien drives visualy interesting film.

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Acappellooza raises money for music education

By Natalie Kouba and Jonathan Edmondson Editor-in-Chief and Arts & Entertainment Editor

Beautiful blends of passionate vocals reverberated throughout Mayo Concert Hall on Saturday Oct. 18 during the third annual “Acappellooza.” The event, which was hosted by The Trentones, featured short sets from all four a cappella groups on campus — each with their own distinctive style and sound.

The event, as Vice President of the Trentones Aly Hogan stated in the beginning of the evening, was created to help strengthen the a cappella community on campus and raise money for a cause. All of the donations collected at the free event, Hogan said, will go to the VH1` “Save The Music Foundation,” an organization that strives to bring music education to schools that can not afford to keep funding the arts.

“We are passionate about this foundation because they distribute money to rebuild music education programs in public schools,” Hogan said.

The group raised $388.40 for the foundation, according to Ali Falcone, the Trentones president.

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Trentones, iTunes, Voice of Hope and Treblemakers showcase a cappella prowess.

“Pretty much everyone in our group benefited from the musical programs in our respective high schools, so it’s great to be able to help raise funds so other students can have such a wonderful experience as well,” said Treblemakers member Courtney Johnson.

To kick off the event, the College’s all-female group the Treblemakers performed a three-song set, including “Island in the Sun,” “Rumor Has It” and

“Happy.” The group belted sweet and sassy harmonies, enticing the audience with bubbling energy.

Next up was Voice of Hope, a Christianrock group who performed “Waiting on the World to Change,” “When I’m Afraid” and “I See Fire.” The group, which includes a balanced blend of men and women, performed with persistent passion. iTunes, a group that draws from a global influence, performed next. Their set includ-

ed a song from Zambia, “Gold” from the musical “Once” and a mashup of “A Sky Full of Stars” by Coldplay, “Airplanes” by BOB and “We Found Love” by Rihanna. iTunes was the largest of the groups, and each member brought their distinct vocals to the numbers.

To close the evening, the Trentones performed a riveting three-song set that included “Please Don’t Go,” “Vibrato” by Lorde and “Rather Be.” “As a group we wanted to build an a cappella community and all the a cappella groups in campus are always doing their own things,” said Falcone. “So we wanted to have one event every year where we could all come together and share our love for a cappella with the rest of the community.”

It was evident that the packed audience received the event well. In addition to generous donations, those who attended the concert provided robust applause after every number.

“We love our a cappella community that we have created, and we hope to keep building community for years to come,” Hogan said. “We hope to keep continuing this event for years to come, and hope that as time continues, we continue to raise more money and awareness.”

‘Here’ suffers from poor acting and writing

By Chris Minitelli Staff Writer

Although the recent film “Are You Here” goes to great lengths to move audience members and teach a valuable lesson, it did not leave viewers feeling any differently than when the movie began.

Starring Owen Wilson, Zach Galifianakis and Amy Poehler, the movie follows an Annapolis weatherman named Steve Dallas, played by Wilson, who is childhood friends with Ben, a marijuanagrowing wannabe philosopher, played

by Galifianakis. Early in the film, Ben finds out that his father passed away, which leads him and Steve to return to their small hometown. During his visit,

issues arise as Ben’s sister, Terri, played

by Poehler, tries to challenge their father’s will, which left millions of dollars of land to Ben. What the audience later learns is that Ben is bipolar and struggles with coming to terms with taking his medication. Surrounded by what feels like a whirlwind of problems, Steve also goes through a number of challenges himself. In the end, each of the characters learns something about themselves and each other.

With such a dense plotline, the writers of “Are You Here” tried extremely hard to teach a lesson to the audience. The film starts off as a relatively light comedy, sprinkled with lots of pot jokes. However, it quickly turns into a darker, more serious

film, about personal struggles and mental health issues. This drastic turn in both tone and message was completely unexpected and quite frankly unwelcome. The writers seriously missed the mark with appropriately and realistically approaching this sensitive subject. Since I was caught so off guard with this drastic turn, I could not reasonably believe anything that happened in the rest of the film.

Along with the poor writing, the acting in “Are You Here” is abysmal. I felt that even the casting was poorly done.

The three leads all seemed out of place throughout the whole film. In my mind at least, Galifianakis has certainly been typecast, as he usually plays very similar characters in all of his works. While the

beginning of “Are You Here” has him in his usual role, his character eventually takes a much more serious turn, which then makes Galifianakis seem very out of place and weak. Along with this, Poehler also seems completely out of her element in a more dramatic role. I found it very difficult to take Poehler seriously.

In the end, “Are You Here” is a film that will certainly not make any waves or mentions, as it went pretty much unnoticed in theaters. The film is categorized as a comedy, but it is difficult to consider it one. At the same time, it is difficult to take it serious enough as a drama. With poor writing and acting, “Are You Here” is a movie that I would certainly recommend to skip renting.

Dads and The Moms command the Rat stage

By Kimberly Ilkowski Review Editor

It was a family affair at the Rathskeller on Friday, Oct. 10, where the musical forces of Dads combined with The Moms for an evening of indie rock.

New Jersey drunk-punk trio The Moms started off the night channeling its rough and rugged style through its music and appearance, donning torn-up T-shirts and thick facial hair.

The bands rage-filled set was led by vocalist and guitarist Joseph

Nester, bassist Jonathan Stople and drummer Donny Saraceno.

The night’s songs included “Arrest Me” off the 2013 “Viva!” EP as well as “Blow Me” and “NJ Transit Blues” off the 2014 “Blow Me” EP. With such provocative titles, it was clear from early on in the set that the band is out to make a statement. According to its Facebook page, “the genre-bending album’s socially-charged prose touches upon subjects such as prescription drug abuse, private bomb brokers, joining the navy

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Dads debut dramatic new music for students in the Rat.

and the potential for a better post-apocalyptic U.S.A.” The Moms are embarking on an extensive fall tour across the country with Everything Ever in support of it’s first full length album “Buy American,” which was released last month on Paper & Plastick Records.

In stark contrast to the night’s loud, in-your-face opening act, the indie, emo duo, Dads, were next to take the stage.

The noticeably darker set — in feeling and in lighting — began with an ambient opening track with moody bass and cricket chirps.

Following the first few slow songs, the band, comprised of John Bradley on vocals and drums and Scott Scharinger on guitar, picked up the pace with faster tracks featuring skilled instrumental solos.

The rest of the band’s set followed suit, shifting from sweet to sour, hard to soft and dark to light. The band toyed with audience members’ heart-strings with gentle melancholic guitars then smacked them in the face with pounding drums.

Dads’ engaging performance

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The Moms song lyrics highlight controversial issues. was resemblant to the indie rock band The World Is A Beautiful Place And I Am No Longer Afraid To Die, back when they played a similar style of music at the Rat in March.

Not only did Bradley impress students by seemingly effortlessly drumming and singing at the safe time, but also seemed to speak to them in a cryptic manner — often adding in an existential lament like, “there’s no explanation for life,” before smashing his cymbals and starting a new song.

The band recently released a

full-length album “I’ll Be The Tornado,” which came out last Tuesday through 6131 Records and will be touring around the country with Tiny Moving Parts, Nai Harvest and Choir Vandals this fall.

Former student at the College John Wolf stuck his claim in the front row all night, bobbing his head and yelling along.

“The Moms and Dads are two of my favorite bands, so it was awesome to see them play together,” Wolf said after the show. “My voice has never been so sore from singing lyrics so loudly.”

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CUB / Students contribute to the chaos at fall concert

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Left: A moody performance from The Front Bottoms engage the audience; Right: Boyd leads New Politics with soaring vocals and endless charisma. continued from page 1

pop hooks. Six years later, the band produced “Somewhere Somehow,” complete with electronic elements and hip-hop influences. Clark attributes the musical transition in part to an evolution in the band’s roster. Trippy and O’Toole officially joined the band during the release of 2011’s “Sunshine State of Mind” and have since contributed their own unique musical styles to the band.

We The Kings closed out the set with its 2007 bubble gum rock single “Check Yes Juliet,” a song that propelled audience members right back to their days of middle school crushes and Myspace mirror selfies. “‘Check Yes Juliet’ was one of our biggest songs ever, but I don’t want to write that same song over and over again,” Clark said. “I want that to live in the present of where it was and just be the song that people fell in love with.”

Next to take the stage was indie-rock unit The Front Bottoms, returning to the College after making its debut at the Rathskeller in February 2012.

Vocalist Brian Sella slid around the stage, acoustic guitar in hand and rainbow socks on his feet, as he belted out songs off the sophomore disc “Talon of the Hawk” such as “Skeleton” and “Tattooed Tears.” The band is also comprised of Sella, drummer Matthew Uychich and touring members Tom Warren on bass and Ciaran O’Donnell on keyboard, trumpet and guitar.

“I think in the beginning, me and Matt didn’t know so much about how it was supposed to be done,” Sella said. “We didn’t really know how to mix and how to master. We didn’t have the equipment or anything, but I remember we always felt very strongly, like, ‘These songs are good as hell. Who cares if they sound shitty … We’re not going to be famous or on the radio, so who cares? Let’s just let the people listen to it.’”

The band performed in front of its own version of wacky inflatable tube men, as well as giant “TFB” blow-up letters as they sang about inconvenient love, regretting tattoos and other emotionally charged lyrics with enough teenage angst to make your parents

roll their eyes.

During the band’s final song of the night, “Twin Size Mattress,” a female student burst onto the stage to sing along with Sella. What seemed like an isolated occurrence turned into an absolute riot as students flooded the aisles to climb onto the stage. The passionate final verse was shouted over an uncontrollable crowd. Several particularly rowdy students had to be escorted out of Kendall.

With such fiercely loyal fans, it’s no big surprise they turned out this way.

Such a dramatic finale was hard to match, but headliners New Politics managed to wrangle the crowd right back in with its set of dynamic songs and impressive break dancing skills. Vocalist David Boyd and guitarist Søren Hansen moved to New York from Denmark in 2009 after being signed to RCA Records.

Long Island native Louis Vecchio joined the band shortly after their arrival.

“When we suddenly came to America and we didn’t know what direction we should take the second album in, the only thing we knew was that if it doesn’t mean something, we

were gonna scratch the song,” Hansen said in the pre-show interview.

After trying to pen hundreds of different tracks, the trio finally settled on one that meant something: “Harlem.”

The band played other songs from its album “A Bad Girl in Harlem” including “Overcome” and “Goodbye Copenhagen,” a tribute to Boyd’s and Hansen’s hometown. The set also included two tracks that had never before been performed in front of an audience — “Everywhere I Go (Kings And Queens)” and “Loyalties.” The latter was co-written with Fall Out Boy, which the band opened for during the summer Monumentour with Paramore.

“It’s really inspiring to see where (Fall Out Boy has) taken it, if you just believe in yourself and work hard for it,” Boyd said. “They’ve been a band for what, 10 or 12 years? Sometimes we have rough days and it’s nice to see it all pays off at the end if you work for it.”

After the animated finale, “Yeah, Yeah, Yeah,” students went home with ample amounts of sweat, life-long memories and bruises — lots and lots of bruises.

Flynn, Fincher and Pike trifecta electrify ‘Gone Girl’

By Jonathan Edmondson Arts & Entertainment Editor

“I will practice believing my husband loves me, but I could be wrong,” writes Amy Dunne (Rosamund Pike), the central character of “Gone Girl,” in her journal toward the end of the first act of the film.

Pike’s voiceover is filled with sickly sincerity and enough ambiguity to make the audience squirm in their seats.

Does her husband love her? Or, better yet, does she love her husband?

These questions help frame this narrative drama based on Gillian Flynn’s novel of the same name. Flynn, who rose to literary stardom after readers everywhere could not stop talking about “Gone Girl” and its ‘you-won’tbelieve-it’ twist, also penned the screenplay.

David Fincher, an Oscar-nominee and currently one of cinema’s most popular filmmakers, directed the film, which also stars Ben Affleck as Amy’s husband Nick.

Through his modernized scope, viewers are able to watch Flynn’s expertly crafted story come alive in a fiercely captivating way.

The plot, it seems, is very straightforward.

Nick comes home from work one afternoon and Amy is missing. He calls the police, and within a matter of hours, all eyes are on him as the prime suspect. It does not help that Nick is utterly apathetic and seemingly detached from the entire situation.

The first act of the film is layered with voice-over diary entries from Amy, recounting tales of her childhood in which she grew up with famous parents. Her mother and father co-wrote a children’s book series called “Amazing Amy,” based on their daughter’s life — or, rather, what they wished her life would be.

Amy also chronicles her romance with Nick, tracing their journey from New York to Missouri, where the young couple would move after both lose their jobs in journalism and Nick’s mother grows ill.

Shortly after they move out West, his mother passes away.

The loss of his mother and his job weighs on Nick. He grows increasingly irritable with Amy. In one of her entries, she recalls a moment where he hit her during an argument.

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Bold direction from Fincher shapes a chilling narrative for Flynn’s screenplay.

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Pike delivers an Oscar-worthy performance, showcasing her acting as Amy.

As the search for Amy continues in real time, diary entries reveal that just weeks before her disappearance, Amy was afraid that Nick was going to kill her.

What happens next (spoiler alert) is what makes “Gone Girl” one of the most innovative thrillers of the 21st century. Flynn flips the plot on its head when the viewer sees a shot of Amy driving in a car, a bandage around her arm.

“Let me tell you how I did it,” her voice over says.

The rest of the film jumps between Amy and Nick’s story. Everything you originally thought has changed. Nick’s guilt is put into question in a big way.

Of course, the rest of the world does not know Amy is still alive, or that she framed her own disappearance to make her husband’s life a living hell. Part of her master plan involves cutting and dying her hair, ditching her old identity and even hitting her cheekbone with a hammer to dramatically alter her face. Her ultimate goal is to make sure Nick suffers, and Pike pulls off the role of Amy with delivilsh force.

In flashbacks, Pike plays the socialite Amy with misty allure. When she’s hiding away in a cabin after her disappearance, she has biting sarcasm and a tough outer-edge. Her acting dynamics are superb. Pike never falters in a role that is physically, emotionally and mentally demanding. She slips into the role of Amy with such ease that it’s clear why Pike beat out bigger Hollywood names for this coveted role.

Despite Amy’s psychotic nature, Nick is not exactly guilt-free. He has been having an affair with his student, Andie (played with humorous naivete by Emily Ratajkowski), and planned to ask Amy for a divorce the morning she went missing. Affleck is perfectly scummy as Nick, slipping into the role with disinterested ease.

The combined force of Flynn and Fincher help to breathe cinematic life into a novel beloved by millions across the globe.

And the ending?

It’s Pike, aided by Fincher’s stunning direction, at her absolute psychotic best.

Watch out, Oscars - Amazing Amy is coming for you.

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Sports

Ice hockey racks up points in 7-2 win First collegiate goal earns team support

By Julie Kayzerman Sports Editor The bench of the College’s ice hockey team erupted into cheers when junior forward Alex Moskal scored against the University of Pennsylvania on Saturday, Oct. 18.

They didn’t need the goal, it was the team’s final and seventh goal to cap off a 7-2 win — but it was certainly the most celebrated.

Scoring his first collegiate goal, the team rallied around Moskal — a player with a clear admiration from his team on and off the ice.

“He makes the team laugh and really lightens the mood more than anyone,” cocaptain and senior Salvatore DiBrita said.

“He’s stuck with (the team) even when the cards weren’t in his favor. So to see someone who the team genuinely respects pocket a goal, it really brought an ear-to-ear smile to everyone’s face.”

And to top it all off, it was a beautiful goal, with Moskal receiving the puck on the left side and sniping into the low right corner of the net.

Saturday night lent itself to a phenomenal showing from the College’s first offensive line, comprised of DiBrita, senior Tyler Viducic and sophomore Kevin Collins, who collectively racked up a total of eight points throughout the night. DiBrita and Viducic paired two goals each with an assist while Collins scored one and assisted.

The line’s play demonstrated an improved chemistry with more confidence and composure.

“The whole line is just starting to click and get better,” DiBrita said.

The Lions celebrate a goal against While the win gave freshman goalie Mickey Avenoso his second win in his second showing, it was the defense in front of him that stepped up tremendously.

Junior Gary L’Heureux dominated this weekend as a top defenseman, playing the man during one-on-one’s to prevent goals while adding an offensive drive from the point alongside the solid support of freshman Dylan McMurrer.

“Gary has really embraced the role as a top two defensmen,” DiBrita said. “Gary and Dylan as a pair — they’re the kind of pair that if you see them behind you, you just have a lot more confidence. You can be more free and creative with the puck because you have two solid people behind you to keep the puck in the zone.”

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Seton Hall University.

On the offensive end of the ice, the consistent goal scoring also displayed a slap shot into the net from freshman forward Nick Paranzine, who assisted junior forward Billy Regan’s goal in the third.

While co-captain and senior Alex D’Alessio found himself out after getting hurt on Friday night, junior center Matt Martin finally found his way back on the ice after a little over a month of being out on injury.

“It’s huge (to have him back),” DiBrita said. “To have someone be as patient with the puck as Matt can is very helpful for the team. He’s probably the most patient person with the puck on the team, and he always seems to have a calmness about him.

Having that veteran leadership is definitely going to lead the team.”

It was eight months ago when the Lions ice hockey team won the GNCHC Championship with the help of alumni Scott Rothlisberger and goalie coach Gary Biggs.

However, it was Friday night that reunited the team with them once again — but on opposite sides of the bench this time.

With Biggs taking a head coaching position at Seton Hall University and Rothlisberger jumping on board as an assistant coach, the Lions took on two former teammates in an intense overtime game.

The Lions led the Pirates 3-0 in the first period with goals from forwards Craig Ismaili, an unassisted snipe from freshman forward Nick Paranzine and senior co-captain Alex D’Alessio sneaking the puck through the opposing goalie’s legs — benching him after the first period.

But it was a second-period letdown that gave Seton Hall the opportunity to leave the College’s home rink with a 5-5 tie, tying the game up with 17 seconds left in the game on 6 on 5 play after the Pirates pulled their goalie.

Collins added the latter two goals for the Lions while co-captain and senior goalie David Laub made several strings of saves throughout the night.

And while Friday’s game didn’t go the team’s way, it was that vengeful, Saturdaynight drive that brought them back with a dominating win.

“We started the same way we did against Seton Hall, but I think the difference was (that) we sustained it over the course of the 60 minutes,” DiBrita said. “We just made sure to come out hard and maintain that same pressure.”

Cross Country

Two Lions take top 20 times at Princeton

By George Tatoris Staff Writer Hefty competition awaited the men’s and women’s cross country teams at the Princeton Invitational this Saturday – runners from over 50 different college teams, from all three NCAA divisions, competed at the meet at nearby West Windsor Fields.

The sheer number of runners and the talented challengers from big schools like Villanova, University of Pennsylvania and Cornell, gave the Lions some trouble.

“Because there were so many people in the race, our group ended up getting split up,” sophomore Andrew Tedeschi said.

There were 180 runners in the men’s race alone.

Despite the challenge, the men’s team took third out of 27 teams with a total of 136 points.

Top Lion of the race was sophomore Brandon Mazzarella, who took 13th with a time of 25:53, a personal record. Tedeschi was just three seconds behind in 16th place.

Freshman Dale Johnson, who has been having an impressive

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Freshman Allison Fournier is the second Lion finisher, crossing in at a time of 24:12. rookie season, took 27th with a time of 26:22. Behind Johnson, a pair of seniors rounded out the College’s top five runners – Andrew DeMaria took 39th with a time of 26:33 while Jeremy Garrell was just two seconds behind in 41st.

The women’s team placed sixth out of 29 teams with a total of 182 points. The first Lion

to cross the finish line was senior Megan Stack, who took 18th out of 187 at 23:44.

Stack ran into the same problems felt by the men’s team: There were so many runners that she “could not tell where her teammates were.”

Regardless, she used the competition to her advantage.

“I just ran my own race and

used whoever was around me to push me to run faster,” she said.

Behind Stack, freshman Allison Fournier finished 34th with a time of 24:12. Fourier is also having a strong rookie season. Just behind Fournier, sophomore Laura Straub and senior Jillian Manzo took 36th and 37th, respectively, both with times of 24:15.

Senior Liz Johnson ran a time

of 24:43 to finish 57th while junior Kayla Glynn closely followed her to finish 63rd with a time of 24:50.

The College wasn’t all at a disadvantage. The Lions had the upper hand in one instance — barring Princeton, the College is the closest school to the fields, meaning they were able to practice on the course. This greatly benefitted Fournier.

“We did two workouts on the course in the weeks leading up to the race, so I felt pretty familiar with it,” she said.

It is rare for the Lions to get a glimpse of the course they’re running until the day of the meet. The only other time this will happen this year is with the NJAC Championships, when the Lions got a sneak peek of the course they’ll run in the Championship at the Stockton-hosted Osprey Open.

The Lions, above all, are confident about the team’s performance.

“We are motivated for a very strong team performance, and we are continuing to train in order to make this happen,” Fournier said.

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AROUND THE

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Matt Bowker “The Ref”

Gabe Allen

Peter Fiorilla

Staff Writer

News Editor

Otto Gomez Staff Writer

In this week’s Around the Dorm, the “Ref,” Matt Bowker, asks our panel of experts three questions: The Cowboys have been the most surprising team in the NFL this year, are they for real; which Stanley Cup contender is most likely to get back on track after a slow start; and is it finally time for the NCAA to lighten up on their rules regarding player profitability?

1. The Cowboys have been the most surprising team in the NFL this year. Are they for real?

Peter: It’s easy to dismiss the Cowboys because of how comical they’ve been the past four seasons, and this team feels pretty similar: good on the surface, but fragile enough that no one will be surprised if they collapse down the stretch.

This is especially due to their reliance on running back DeMarco Murray, who is as injury-prone as anyone on the team. Much like how QB Tony Romo is an impressive player and a ticking time bomb at the same time, Murray is producing results now, but feels like a disaster waiting to happen. Murray is on pace to carry the ball well over 400 times, more than anyone else in league history, even though he has never carried the ball more than 217 times in a season. Throw in his habit of being sidelined — he suffered a broken ankle in 2011, a high ankle sprain in 2012 and a sprained knee in 2013 — the writing is

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on the wall here. There’s a palpable sense that Murray will be out for some extended period of time, and when that happens, the Cowboys will only go as far as Romo can take them. With that mind, I don’t think

they will contend for a championship.

Otto: They sure are. Great teams exemplify their strengths and hide their weaknesses, and that’s exactly what they’ve been doing this year. DeMarco Murray

has been a workhorse the entire season, on pace to break the single season carries record. Because of that, he keeps the defense off the field for a big part of the game, giving them ample amounts of rest.

Another big key to their success has been their recent draft picks, with first round linemen Tyron Smith, Travis Frederick and Zack Martin all becoming standout players leading the way for DeMarco Murray. Solid linemen are the foundation of a great offense.

Gabe: The Cowboys are for real, and DeMarco Murray is a flat out beast. By the time Adrian Peterson’s legal troubles are over, he gets cut from the Vikings, and a new team picks him up next year, he’ll be an afterthought in the best running back conversation. Murray’s ability to run the ball is helping the Cowboys sustain drives and opening up the offense for Tony Romo, and if Murray can cut down on his fumbles — and avoid injury — the Cowboys are a legitimate Super-Bowl contender.

Otto gets 3 points for crediting the improved offensive line. Peter gets 2 points for talking about Murray’s injury history, and Gabe gets 1 point for Murray being the best running back.

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2. Stanley Cup contender Boston Bruins, New York Rangers and Colorado Avalanche have all gotten off to slow starts.

Of the three, which team is most likely to get back on track?

Peter: The Boston Bruins have typified

consistency, having made the playoffs in each of the past seven seasons — usually as a top three seed — and will surely regain some of the form that earned them the most points in the Eastern Conference last year. World class goalie Tuukka Rask

will eventually transcend his early-season funk — not every team has his number like the Montreal Canadiens do — and the Bruins will start getting better bounces. Their roster is still stacked, and they’ll show it.

In stark contrast, the Avalanche are toast: Losing starting goalie Semyon Varlamov and backup Reto Berra so rapidly, in addition to some eye-raising problems on offense, will be too much to bear for a team that isn’t far-removed from finishing last in the West. New York hasn’t started off as poorly as the other two teams here, and I expect them to do fine, if not as well as the Bruins. They probably won’t get hot enough for another Stanley Cup run, but playing just under .500 hockey isn’t anything to panic about.

Otto: I think the Bruins will be ones that bounce back from a slow start this season.

They were very successful last year, making it to the Stanley Cup final as a 4 seed before

losing to Chicago four games to two. Carl Soderberg is an emerging star who’s playing for a contract next season and will surely put up big numbers. The Avalanche came out of nowhere last year and often with surprising teams, it’s a one year wonder. Their defense will not able to produce at last year’s level and their youth will cause them some problems. The Rangers do not have depth on their roster, and injuries will show that. Their players have not been able to be healthy this year, and it’s going to continue causing problems for them the entire year.

Gabe: The Bruins and the Rangers may very well bounce back from slow starts as well, but the Avalanche are one of the youngest teams in the league with a strong pool of prospects. They have a quick, athletic goalie, and they are only going to get better on the power play. For these reasons they are the most likely to turn things around and become legitimate title contenders.

Peter gets 3 points for picking the consistency of the Bruins. Gabe gets 2 points for risking on the Avalanche, and Otto gets 1 point for saying the Bruins made it to the Finals last year.

3. With Todd Gurley and Jameis Winston’s autograph scandals, is it finally time for the NCAA to lighten up on their rules regarding player profitability?

Peter: At this point, the answer is universally and emphatically “yes” — this should have happened decades ago, and it’s offensive to college athletes they still are not allowed to turn their skills into income of some sort. They work the hours of a full-time job, usually in lieu of receiving a genuinely valuable education, and have a microscopic chance of turning their abilities into a professional career. In particular, selling autographs is something which should always be allowed: It comes at no cost or downside to the university, which is lucky it isn’t required by law to pay its players in the first place.

Otto: I think it is time for NCAA to let players make money off themselves and loosen their current rules regarding other types of player profitability. These players make an incredible amount of money for the schools they play for, and while I don’t think they should have a salary

because of their full scholarships, they should at the very least be able to sell their jerseys with their names on the back and sell autographs or any type of merchandise. College players should learn the business aspect of professional sports while they’re in college so they can be prepared when they enter the pros in a couple of years.

Gabe: It’s absolutely time for the NCAA to lighten up on their rules regarding player profitability. The NCAA greatly enjoys the shade provided by the money trees they receive because of the studentathletes, but is extremely against them receiving anything, and it’s just not necessary. The student-athletes should be able to maximize their worth while they still can. Many of these guys will not go on to the NFL, and it just seems wrong to prohibit them from making a little bit of pocket change in exchange for what they’re providing — especially since the elite student-athletes likely lack the time and/or consistent schedule necessary to hold down a job during the sports season.

Peter gets 3 points for saying a college athlete is a full-time job. Otto gets 2 points for saying it’s a business, and Gabe gets 1 point for saying most NCAA players do not go pro.

Peter wins Around the Dorm, 8-6-4

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Crew races in world’s largest Regatta Crew

By Jess Ganga Social Media Editor

As TCNJ Crew prepared for the race of a lifetime, every practice was just as valuable as the last. All the hard work and preparation was worth it as the team competed in the largest race in the world — the Head of Charles Regatta in Boston, M.A. — this past weekend.

“We’ve put in a lot of hard work this semester, and we’re certainly excited to see it all pay off,” President Mike Baumann said about the team’s preparation for the challenging race.

According to Baumann, even though the team didn’t have a considerable change in mentality, they were fully aware of how important each practice on the water was. One change Baumann noted was the team’s shift to self-coaching when its head coach, Alison Pollini, “drastically” reduced her time coaching due to career commitments. In her place, varsity members stepped up by leading water practices and coaching the rowers.

But even with a slight change, the team was still able to perform even better on the water.

“There has certainly been a learning curve these past few months, but we’ve been able to maintain and even improve upon our abilities in spite of such an obstacle,” Baumann said, confident his team had improved after weeks of practice.

Although conscientious, the members were able to maintain their close-knit family

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The Crew team competes alongside elite and Olympic rowers.

atmosphere while becoming even closer. Baumann explained that the team came together with one common goal in mind: “to produce the best, fastest boats possible.”

But even with confidence come nerves.

The pre-race nervousness mixed with excitement Baumann described was understandable: The Head of Charles Regatta was both the longest course that the team ever rowed and boasted the toughest competitors they’ve

ever been pitted against.

The race was a three-mile-long course along the Charles River, which twists and winds between Boston and Cambridge. Beginning with a staggered start, boat after boat race neck and neck, trying to avoid being hit by an oar or hitting the sides of one of the six bridges under which they must maneuver.

Baumann, who is the coxswain for the men’s boat, said the course was “very much

a coxswains race.” Baumann and the women’s boat coxswain, sophomore Angelyn Cabrales, were responsible for motivating the rowers throughout the race while also remaining aware of their surroundings. The Charles is known for many collisions and clashes between boats, as well.

Though arduous, Baumann shared that “it was the most terrifying, intense and fun rowing event I have ever been a part of,” and that it was “thrilling to have a good, clean race.”

The team was also able to share the many amazing moments of the competition with family, friends and alumni. The support was seen not only at the race but through the many donations made by the club’s supporters.

A fundraiser was created to help pay for the trip up to Boston and for the event itself.

Since crew is a club team, they work hard to raise as much money as they can. Baumann was amazed at all the support by friends, family and rowing fans.

Unfortunately, the team was not able to qualify for next year’s event automatically, but the experience was one that will never be forgotten.

The members got a chance to see elite and Olympic rowers compete — something that Baumann believes will motivate the team.

“It was certainly humbling to see all the talent that exists out there in this sport, and it gives the team something to strive for in the coming years.” Baumann said. “Simply being able to row in this race was a privilege for us.”

Women’s Soccer

Lions pick up three solid wins on the road

By Michael Battista Staff Writer

While students were rocking out at the fall concert, the women’s soccer team was out on the field putting on a show of its own. Lead by freshman Elizabeth Thoreson, sophomore Christine Levering and freshman Jessica Goldman, the Lions were able to overpower an impressive Farmingdale Rams squad, 4-0, on Thursday, Oct. 9.

The first goal of the game came from Thoreson, taking only one minute and 25 seconds to score.

After that, the defense didn’t need to worry too much, as the offense was able to keep the ball in the Ram’s zone for a large majority of the first half.

The team had plenty of opportunities in the first half — 11 shots with five corner kicks — but the score stayed the same. Whether it be kicks soaring over the goal or taking to long to make shots, the team couldn’t finish off play after play.

During the halftime talk, Coach Joe Russo discussed what exactly needed to be done if they wanted to make sure their lead stayed.

“We talked about being more determined with our plays and having more attack,” Russo said.

That strategy showed immensely in the second half. The Rams may have started with the ball, but soon after, the Lion’s found themselves in the same situation as the first half, loaded with opportunities. This time, however, the girls took advantage.

First came Levering’s goal off

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Senior Korrie Harkins scores her fourth goal of the season.

an assist from senior Korrie Harkins late in the 57th minute. Less than three minutes later, Goldman added on another point off a Levering assist.

Then, just over a minute later, Levering shot and went off the crossbar, setting up Thoreson to score off the rebound to net her second goal of the game.

“That’s just soccer,” Thoreson said. “The first half, we had too many missed shots. We just finished in the second.”

The Rams followed those five minutes with several bursts of offense, but the Lions defense kept them at bay, not allowing a single shot on goal against goalie Kendra

Griffith. On the other side, the team was able to take a total of 16 shots in the second, making a game total of 27.

Russo was happy the team “finished (their) chances,” noting how the Lions “had them in the first, but (were) much better attacking in the second.”

In a game where the Lions controlled the ball for most of the first half, and even more effectively in the second, Thoreson brought up how the team was still trying to deal with the hard loss to Montclair last week.

“We’re still angry about Montclair. We just wanted to win and prove to everyone that we can still

win,” she said.

True to her words, the team continued to show their strength and determination on Saturday, Oct. 11, as they scored another shutout victory, beating New Jersey City University 6-0 on the road. Once again, the girls didn’t allow a single shot on goal against them while taking a game total of 41 shots.

Repeat goals came from Goldman (4:43), Thoreson (6:13) and Levering (13:38), with the other goals coming from junior Justine Larocca (36:03), freshman Hannah Richman (81:35) and Sophomore Marissa Scognamiglio (82:25).

Then, on Thursday Oct. 16,

the team gained another victory against Rutgers-Camden at home, with the Scarlet Knights putting up a hard fight.

The 4-0 final came after two back to back goals in the first from freshmen Kathryn Bednarsky (26:16) and Abigail Emmert (29:53). These were followed in the second half with a Goldman goal off a cross (65:57) and a corner kick goal from sophomore Lauren Malajian (87:31).

Finally, the team traveled up I-95 and faced a hungry Ramapo team. The Roadrunners were coming off a 2-1 victory against New Jersey University, and hoped that a win against the Lion’s would kick start a win streak to lift the team’s record.

However, the stellar defense kept them at bay, keeping Ramapo to only five shot attempts.

The Lion’s on the other hand we’re able to pick up a goal in each half, ending the game with a 2-0 shutout.

Levering picked up her ninth goal of the season (12:33) and Harkins picked up her fourth off assists from Thoreson and senior Jordan Downs (55:57).

The team is preparing for its next game on Wednesday, Oct. 22, against Steven’s Institute of Technology. The Ducks are coming off a loss against Nazareth College, bringing their overall record to 9-5, and will be looking for a morale boosting and much needed win against the Lion’s.

Russo said that the biggest factor for the Lions’ tough games to come is “imposing our will on our opponents throughout the game.”

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October 22, 2014 The Signal page 25 Swimming and Diving

Swim teams dominate at the Bradley Center Lions able to start the season swimmingly

By Joanna Shin Correspondent

This past Saturday, Oct. 18, the College’s swimming and diving team started its season off with a big victory, competing at Ramapo’s Bradley Center against Ramapo College. Both the men’s and women’s teams delivered impressive performances and began their year with a great opening.

The men’s team showed their strengths on first event, the 200-yard medley relay.

Senior Aleksander Burzynski, junior Joseph Dunn, sophomore Vince Masciandaro and sophomore Jin Roh swam to a winning time of 1:37.25. Reigning NJAC Rookie of the Year Ryan Gadjzisz and sophomore Scott Vitabile dominated in the 200-yard freestyle, swimming times of 1:44.42 and 1:46.27, respectively.

The team appeared to be driven with the two wins in the beginning events.

However, they were only getting started.

“The guys went into the meet tired, but we all raised really well, and we still won most, if all, of the events,” freshman Chris O’Sullivan said.

The swimmers continued to take over their meet as Gadjzisz took another win in the 200-yard backstroke at 2:02.33, and Roh placed first in the 100-back with a time of 54.04. Freshmen Logan Barns and Joseph Dunn also took top honors in the 200-yard butterfly at 2:04.88 and 2:07.28, respectively. In the 100-breastroke and

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The men’s and women’s swim teams dominate in the season opener.

200-breaststroke event, sophomore Andrew Nesbitt achieved the blue ribbon for both events, crossing with times of 1:00.60 and 2:16.60.

The men did not stop their wins. Four swimmers, Nesbitt, senior Brett Pedersen, Vitabile and Dunn ended with the fastest finish in the 400-yard freestyle

relay at 3:13.61.

As the men’s team conquered its first swim meet, the women’s team was also showing outstanding results.

“Our team has been training hard the last few weeks,” senior Carlyn Fallon said. “And while we’re excited to see where we are speed-wise, we’re also

just looking to bring enthusiasm onto the deck and get to the wall first.”

The women’s team opened with their first win in the 100-yard backstroke by sophomore Brenna Strolla, who finished at 1:02.06. She took on many achievements this weekend, placing first in the 200-yard backstroke at 2:13.00 and in the 200-yard IM at 2:15.43. Senior and co-captain Summer Thomas won the 500-yard freestyle at 5:33.18 as Emily Rothstein was placed runner-up in the same event at 5:44.95.

Thomas received second place in the 100yard freestyle event, finishing at 55.66.

“The meet started out closer than we anticipated,” Thomas said. “But the team stayed positive and fought to the finish to pull out a win.”

The team continued to show no mercy as senior Brennah Ross participated in the 100yard butterfly and got first place, crossing at a time of 1:00.61. Sophomore Colleen Magley, freshman Allison Huber, junior Lauren Rothstein and Thomas led another victory in the 400-yard freestyle relay at 3:49.03 Both the men’s and women’s teams will continue to strive and make improvements as the season goes on. With 12 new freshmen on the women’s team, Coach Jennifer Harnett said the team is “working on a meet lineup is going to be quite different from last year.”

“It may take a few meets to see how we are the strongest, but a win is always a great way to start the season,” she said.

Cheap Seats

Rules against paying NCAA stars ‘outdated’

By Kevin Luo Staff Writer

This past week, two of college football’s biggest stars, Jameis Winston and Todd Gurley, were in hot water for allegedly getting paid to sign autographs. Gurley has been indefinitely suspended

by Georgia, but Winston is still eligible to play for FSU. Last year, Johnny Manziel was suspended by Texas A&M last season after being investigated for similar allegations.

Obviously, accepting money for autographs is breaking an NCAA rule. I’m not condoning breaking any rules. However, I do believe this rule needs to go.

This rule has become extremely outdated now that college athletics is a multi-billion dollar industry. Today, everyone is cashing in off of these star college athletes except the players. I’ve been a proponent of all college athletes from revenue generating sports being paid, but the NCAA should at least allow for these athletes to make money off their own name, image and likeness.

I thought this issue would be resolved following the recent decision made in the Ed O’Bannon case. The judge ruled that the NCAA was “unreasonably restraining trade” by limiting what these revenue generating college athletes could receive. This lawsuit came about because a group of ex-athletes felt it was unjust

Jameis Winston is at the heart of an autograph-selling scandal. that the EA Sports NCAA sports franchises were using their likenesses in their video games while the players were unable to profit from them.

There are many situations where people and organizations are profiting off the images of these athletes. If you’re Jameis Winston and see the #5 Florida State jerseys being sold on the

NCAA website for $60, you’ve got to be thinking why you’re not getting any of that money.

If you’re Todd Gurley and go on eBay and see a piece of memorabilia you autographed being auctioned off for $30, you’re probably thinking the same thing. The athletes are getting smarter. They see everyone but them is making money off their images.

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The solution to this problem is that the NCAA needs to go to the Olympic model. This model would allow for major college athletes to make money off their own “brands.” They could sign endorsement deals or get paid to sign autographs. Olympians used to be considered amateur athletes just like these college athletes are considered, but as more money got

associated with the Olympics, the concept of amateurism went out the window. The NCAA needs to follow the Olympic lead in this case.

Critics of the Olympic model for college athletics say that this is unfair to athletes of non-revenue generating sports and this will increase the gap between the big and small schools when it comes to recruiting. I don’t think this is unfair to non-revenue generating athletes. The revenue-generating athletes bring in more money, so they should have more opportunities to make money. The star quarterback is more valuable than the third string punter or a non-revenue generating athlete. Also, nonrevenue generating athletes are allowed to utilize the same benefits.

Someone like Olympic swimmer Missy Franklin could benefit greatly from this, but it may not be the case for your average college field hockey or tennis player.

When it comes to recruiting, the gap is already wide. The bigger schools can already offer more exposure and benefits to top recruits. There just has to be stronger regulation to make sure boosters don’t go into bidding wars over players.

All in all, the NCAA needs to stop living in the past and stop hiding behind the concept of amateurism and allow these athletes to make some money off their images. The NCAA and the schools are making plenty of money off them as it stands.

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ports Week In Review The Horizon For

By Gabe Allen Staff Writer After pronouncing my team unbeatable two weeks ago, the “Tickle Monsters” delivered my “Gridiron Gang” its first loss of the fantasy season over fall break. Now, the Chris Springer-led “Tickle Monsters” team may be on the verge of handing “Prestera’s Pals” its first loss of the season as well.

Entering Monday Night Football, the “Tickle Monsters” own a six point lead, but if Pittsburgh Steelers running back LeVeon Bell and Houston Texans wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins manage to outscore Steelers wide receiver Antonio Brown by 6.1 points, “Prestera’s Pals” will improve to 7-0 heading into its matchup with my gridiron gang.

If the “Tickle Monsters” survive MNF and still hold the lead, there will be a three-way-tie for first place at 6-1, thanks to a saucy comeback victory over the “Caracappa-Michels Dream-Team” from yours truly, led by Broncos wide receivers DeMaryius Thomas and Emmanuel Sanders. A comeback loss such as the one the “Dream-Team” suffered on Sunday is sure to induce a certain level of saltiness regardless of interest level, which is why everyone should do their

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part to cheer up the “Dream-Team” when you see them on or around campus.

Make no mistake — fantasy football is a physically and mentally exhausting endeavor. It may seem glamorous — which it is­­— but it is not for the faint of heart or the laissez-faire. It’s a constant numbers battle, and over the course of the season, owners tend to suffer injuries — just as the players who are taking the field do. For example, the previous Sunday, I logged so many hours on the couch that I developed severe rear soreness and had to spend a good part of the Sunday night game standing up. Anyone who doesn’t think that watching sports isn’t a sport has not parked his or her self in front of the television set and watched NFL RedZone for an entire Sunday.

A station modeled for fantasy football fanatics, it follows whichever game features the team that is closest to scoring a touchdown, and jumps around the NFL to capture live footage and replays of every single scoring play throughout the Sunday afternoon games — and without any commercial breaks. When the final afternoon game is finished, they even provide a touchdown montage and replay every single TD from the day before signing off and reminding us to tune back in next Sunday.

Men’s Soccer October 22 vs. Muhlenburg College, 3 p.m.

October 25 at William Paterson University, 1 p.m.

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October 25 vs. William Paterson University, 11 a.m.

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Sophomore Andrew Nesbitt led the Lions to victory in their season opener at Rider with three first-place finishes. Nesbitt won the 100-breaststroke with a time of 1:00:60 and claimed the 200breaststroke race, finishing with a time of 2:16:60. Nesbitt also helped the relay team win the 400-yard freestyle relay.

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Football still struggling for a victory Lions enter Homecoming on losing streak Football

By Anthony Caruso Staff Writer

The struggles continue for the College’s football team as, the team goes into its Homecoming week with a four-game losing streak.

The team, which hasn’t won a game since Friday, Sept. 12, lost 28-7 this past weekend at Montclair State. In addition, they are 0-3 at home leading up to Homecoming against William Paterson this Saturday, Oct. 24, at 1 p.m.

The Redhawks improved to 5-1 on the season and lead the NJAC with a 3-0 mark. The Lions dropped to 1-5 and have an 0-3 conference record.

The Lions had 215 total yards with 146 in passing while MSU had a total of 235 with 162 in passing.

Lions sophomore quarterback Michael Marchesano went nine of 21 for 138 yards, while Trevor Osler came in to throw for eight yards.

Montclair junior signal-caller Ryan Davis went 13 of 20 for 156 yards. His back-up Gabe DiMasi threw for six yards.

Redhawks junior receiver Clinton Coffey had five receptions for 84 yards, while sophomore running back Denzel Nieves had three for 27 yards. Four receivers combined for the remaining 51 yards.

Senior tight end Ryan Baranowsky led the Lions with five receptions for 97 yards. Junior wide out Conor Mulholland had three receptions for 33 yards, while Jeff Mattonelli and Andrew Lachawiec each had eight yards.

Freshman rusher Khani Glover had for 68 yards, while sophomore Frank Fuccello added 12 yards and Junior Brad Young added 11 yards.

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Sophomore quarterback Michael Marchesano passes the ball forward.

Nieves led the Redhawks with 54 yards rushing, and senior Tariq Turner added 21 yards while sophomore John DiStefano contributed six yards.

The College’s Khani Glover scored the lone Lions touchdown on a 33-yard run with 1:12 left.

The four play, 56-yard drive resulted in a 28-7 score.

Redhawks freshman safety Joshua Betts scored on a fumble recovery in the end zone. This 0-gain play increased the Montclair State lead to 28-0.

With 0:32 left in the second quarter, junior running back Pat Caggiano returned a 54-yard touchdown to make it 21-0.

Sophomore running back Denzel Nieves made it 14-0 with 4:43 left

in this quarter.

Quarterback Ryan Davies hit junior wide receiver Aaron Williams for a 16-yard touchdown to make it 7-0.

On Saturday, Oct. 11, the Lions dropped their fourth game of the season — and their third straight — when SUNY Cortland defeated the College 24-14 at Lions Stadium.

SUNY Cortland, who came into the game with an 0-4 record, has defeated the Lions every season since 2007. Since its last win, SUNY Cortland has won seven straight games over its New Jersey rivals.

The College’s football team now stands at 1-4 on the year, and 0-2 within the New Jersey Athletic Conference. Following this weekend’s play, only Southern Virginia,

which is in its first full year as a member of the conference, is 0-5 overall and 0-2 in the conference.

Cortland had 334 total yards, including 243 passing yards. The Lions had 307 yards total with 238 passing yards.

Junior quarterback John Grassi went 25 of 41 for 243 yards with a touchdown and an interception in guiding the Cortland offense.

Sophomore Lions signal-caller Michael Marchesano went 22 of 43 for 238 yards with a touchdown and two interceptions.

Senior tight end Ryan Baranowsky had a game-high 96 yards on three receptions. Junior wide receiver Max Boerstoel had four receptions for 46 yards, and fellow junior receiver Conor Mulholland

had five receptions for 31 yards.

Cortland sophomore tight end Josh Riley had seven receptions for 86 yards. Sophomore receiver Jon Mannix added two receptions for 56 yards. Junior receiver Jack Delahunty contributed seven receptions for 38 yards.

Sophomore back Layton Lassiter had 23 carries for 80 yards and a touchdown. Junior back Dylan Peebles had 10 carries for 23 yards. Sophomore Lou Buschi had three carries for 11 yards and a touchdown for Cortland.

Freshman Lions back Khani Glover had six carries for 89 yards and a touchdown. Sophomore Frank Fuccello had seven carries for 14 yards.

Cortland’s running game got them out to an early lead, and the Red Dragons led 14-0 at halftime. Layton Lassiter and Lou Buschi both scored on 5-yard runs in the first half.

The Lions were within seven points when Ryan Baranowsky caught a 62-yard reception for a touchdown from Michael Marchesano. The College was down 14-7 at this point with nine minutes left in the third quarter, before the Red Dragons scored twice to put the game out of reach.

SUNY Cortland would score 10 points in the third, starting with a 35-yard field goal by sophomore kicker Shane Cronin. Less than two minutes later, Jon Mannix caught a 47-yard reception from John Grassi to go up 24-7.

With 10 minutes left in the game, Glover broke loose for an 85-yard touchdown. This run got the Lions within 10-points at 2414, but it would not be enough as the game fizzled out to yet another Lions defeat.

Field Hockey

Field hockey earns four wins in four games

By Otto Gomez Staff Writer

The field hockey team was busy in the last couple of weeks registering four victories in four games. The Lions were able to take care of business away against Eastern University by a score of 7-1 on Saturday, Oct. 11, and followed that with two close wins at Montclair State and home against Kean University, both by a score of 2-1.

Scoring early in all three games, the girls got up early and never looked back.

The two close games were in fact more lopsided than the score shows, for the team could not capitalize on great runs by the offensive players and let up goals to the opposition in the waning minutes of the game. Senior Lindsey Hatch led the way with four goals over the three games to go along with two assists, and fellow senior Erin Healy netted two for the team off of an incredible 10 shots, as well as dishing out four assists.

On Thursday, Oct. 16, the fourthranked Lions faced off against the fifthranked Ursinus College Bears at Lions Stadium. Both teams came into the game with a long-winning streak, the College

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The Lions field hockey team continues its winning streak. having won five in a row and the Bears winning eight in a row. Unlike their previous games, the Lions did not score

first. Ursinus junior Danielle Strong scored three minutes into the game off a cross from junior Samantha Macchio. It

wasn’t long until the College responded, however, as sophomore Jaclyn Douglas netted a loose ball to tie up the game six minutes later. The Lions took the lead 10 minutes later with a goal from sophomore Danielle Andreula, who was able to take advantage of a Healy shot that was off target and rebounded right to her for an easy shot.

It was over after the Lions took the lead, scoring two more goals in the second half to definitively put the game out of reach. Sophomore Lexi Smith and Hatch were the scorers of the second half, with the latter off an assist from Healy.

The Lions’ goalie, sophomore Kelly Schlupp, had a career game in the net, registering a personal best of 12 saves to keep the Bears from getting on the board more than once.

Coach Pfluger was as proud of her girls as ever, saying they “were not intimidated by the early deficit and just played their game the rest of the way. It’s worked all season and it worked tonight.”

The Lions return to face a New Jersey Athletic Conference team on Tuesday, Oct. 21, when they will host William Paterson University.

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Sports

Benefit game: club soccer vs. ice hockey Club sports join in ‘Defending the Blue Line’

By Mylin Batipps News Assistant

The women’s club soccer and club ice hockey team joined together in a benefit soccer game that raised $658, with all proceeds going to Defending the Blue Line — a nonprofit organization that looks to provide children of military members an opportunity to stay in ice hockey programs.

Junior Signal Sports Editor and Vice President of club soccer Julie Kayzerman planned the benefit game alongside junior physics major and ice hockey forward Tyler Viducic.

Although the two teams tied 1-1 in regulation time, the ice hockey team snuck out a 2-1 win in penalty kicks at the first-ever Women’s Club Soccer and Ice Hockey Benefit Game held on Sunday, Oct. 19 at 7 p.m. on the Lions Stadium.

“A lot of times their parents are on deployment and can’t play,” Viducic said. “So (Defending the Blue Line) gives kids the opportunity to get involved in sports while the parents are overseas. I’ve

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Club ice hockey and club soccer battles it out in a benefit game on the Stadium. helped with the cause in past hockey tournaments, and so I thought this game would be a great idea.”

Established in 2009, Defending the Blue Line has given children free hockey equipment and free access to hockey camps nationwide.

In 2012, the ice hockey team

faced club field hockey in a field hockey game with proceeds going toward Hurricane Sandy relief.

“We pulled out a win there, so now we’re 2-1 against the ladies,” Viducic said.

According to Alex D’Alessio, senior graphic design major and

co-captain for the ice hockey team, the club soccer team pushed the men to the limit.

“I have to honestly say that we came out hard, but they came out a lot harder,” D’Alessio said.

“They played phenomenally. All in all, it was a great time, we got

both teams together and it was just good team morale.”

Tara Porfido, senior health and exercise science major and captain of women’s club soccer, said it was her first time participating in any type of benefit game with the team and she was pleased with the results.

“We realized that a lot of other organizations on campus participate in fundraisers, and since we’re a club team, it’s not typically our area of expertise,” Porfido said. “But we gave it a try, and we made a lot of money.

It was really successful.”

Junior physics major Kyle Vermeal watched the game from the stands and was entertained all the way through. He gave both teams kudos for organizing such a successful event.

“I think it says a lot that two clubs are able to come together and work toward a common goal and really help other people out,” Vermeal said. “It shows that they really care and are trying to make a difference, and I think it brings a lot of community to (the College).”

Men’s soccer pulls out crucial 1-0 NJAC win

By Peter Fiorilla News Editor

Now in a rejuvenated form entering this season’s home stretch, the men’s soccer team rallied for its first two NJAC wins — over New Jersey City University, 3-0, and Ramapo College, 1-0 — while suffering a 3-0 setback on the road to Rutgers-Camden, improbably clawing its way back into the playoff picture.

The Lions (6-8-2, 2-5) have started clicking on both sides of the ball in time to stay in contention and now sit in seventh place with two conference games on the schedule. The top six teams qualify for the post-season.

“It was nice to pick up a pair of wins as our NJAC schedule wraps up,” said sophomore midfielder Nick Costelloe, who converted a penalty kick for the team’s second goal against NJCU. “Although it is late in the season, our team is still coming together, as we are constantly learning more about each others style of play.”

The Lions started turning their fortunes around in their home game with NJCU, as they grabbed a much-needed win at home.

Sophomore midfielder Ryan Caplan opened the scoring in style in the 39th minute, running onto a ball from junior midfielder Jordan Kayal and lobbing the Knights’ goalkeeper for his first of the year. The College

Lions’ Lineup October 22, 2014

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Ryan Sullivan’s composure in the back helps the team win.

had a chance to immediately add to the lead, but a missed penalty kick in the 42nd minute kept the game close at half-time.

A desperate NJCU side, which was also pointless in conference play at the time, pushed hard for an equalizer early when the teams came out in the second half. Yet the defense and junior goalkeeper Maciej Libucha were up to the task, as Libucha made six saves and a strong effort in the back allowed the offense to ice the game late.

“Our back line, held together by Ryan Sullivan, has been solid all year,” Costelloe said. “That being said, our attacking players

are very young and are still getting important NJAC experience with each match.”

When the College earned its second penalty in the 73rd minute on a handball which earned NJCU a red card, Costelloe coolly converted it for his team-high fourth goal this year. Sophomore midfielder Sean Etheridge rounded out the scoring four minutes from time.

The Lions’ 1-0 win over Ramapo was less emphatic in terms of the scoreboard, but another hard-earned shutout from Libucha and a penalty kick goal — this time from Etheridge in the 32nd minute — threw the Lions a lifeline in the standings.

Ramapo had come into the game with a 1-4-1 conference record, and along with NJCU, are a combined 1-11-2 this year — they were teams that the Lions needed to beat in order to move up the standings.

“All of our NJAC matches will be tough competitions. I do think that playing some young teams such as Ramapo and NJCU gave us a chance to generate offense and work on attacking,” Costelloe said. “Winning games will always give us confidence to take our game to tougher opponents.”

Sandwiched between the victories was a 3-0 defeat on the road to Rutgers-Camden, as the Lions couldn’t recover from falling behind in the 35th minute. The hosts opened the scoring with a header off a throw-in and a pair of second-half goals sealed the result.

With just two games left in the season, including a game at William Paterson on Saturday, Oct. 25., the College will need to steal a result on the road in order to return to the playoffs.

“Our match against William Patterson will not be easy, especially away from the soccer complex, but we will come out hungry knowing that snatching up two conference wins will give us a chance to make the NJAC tournament,” Costelloe said. “Although we have struggled in the conference so far this season, we are in good spirit, and we will fight for our place in the postseason.”

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